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Post by thesnowleopard on May 20, 2018 1:21:12 GMT -5
Well, it was better than last year. There's that. And Ackles knocked it out of the park with all the Michael stuff. I think the ability of the actors and situations to connect emotionally with the audience has a lot to do with this show's longevity. I just hope they don't squander the opportunity for this new character.
But the directing could have been better and the script was still a bit pain-by-numbers.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 20, 2018 0:43:41 GMT -5
Just as Jack is slowly, agonizingly stabbing himself to death, a bright light appears behind him. It is DeanMichael (Hunterwings, maybe?), his own archangel sword in hand, just landed and unfolding his wings.
I gotta say, this is a pretty damned awesome image that will surely be copied over and over again this summer. Too bad about the way-over-the-top <em>Ten Commandments</em> music that accompanies it.
Anyhoo, Sam calls Dean's name and Dean responds in kind, cueing us that this is Dean and not alt-Michael in charge.
Lucifer says, "You let my brother in."
Dean acknowledges this, saying they had a common goal - "we both want to gut your ass."
Lucifer charges like a bull and Dean starts off well by kicking him across the room. Unfortunately, the rest of the fight goes less well for Dean, especially once they start flying at each other, though he does quite a bit better than Sam and Jack.
Dean drops his sword and Lucifer starts beating on him in mid-air. Then he decides that stabbing's too good for Dean (Michael doesn't even get a mention; Lucifer clearly sees his true nemesis as Dean Winchester) and starts to smite him.
Sam then decides to grab the sword and toss it to Dean in one of the cheesier (and more literal) "wind beneath my wings" moments the show's produced. Dean grabs it and stabs Lucifer, then falls back to earth as Lucifer blasts light out every orifice, then literally crashes and burns.
Afterward, Lucifer lies amidst the charred and glowing remnants of his wings. Sam and Dean and Jack share a bring "It's Miller Time!" moment, made temporarily sweeter by Dean correcting Sam's "You did it!" to "We did it!"
But this is the season finale and we've got a few minutes of airtime left, so of course this does not end well.
Dean suddenly doubles over in pain and screams, "We had a deal!" (Remember when alt-Michael screamed that at Lucifer and how that worked out for Lucifer? Just saying.) Then, he straightens up, only what straightens up is no longer Dean.
Sam rather unnecessarily supplies who this new/old being is: "Michael."
Alt-Michael glances around appraisingly (some really nice acting from Ackles here), then, looking straight ahead, says in a cold and taunting tone to his vessel, "Thanks for the suit." He flies off, leaving a horrified Sam and Jack.
In the Bunker, Mary and alt-Bobby rush in to find a devastated Castiel.
Later, on a rainy street corner, we see a man walking down the street in 1920s gangster garb (as much as I didn't care for the <em>Ten Commandments</em> musical cue in the previous scene, I love the hell out of the <em>Untouchables</em> musical cue in this one), looking around him in wonder. He looks like Dean, but ... isn't. Right before the credits roll, the camera freezes on his sinister smile and glowing blue eyes. Michael.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 20, 2018 0:24:00 GMT -5
Jack slams alt-Michael into a post. Lucifer flies in after him, as Jack starts doing Very Bad Things to alt-Michael, making him bleed from his eyes and ears. But Lucifer gets outed as the villain he is by alt-Michael, who screams, "Lucifer, we had a deal!"
Awkward.
Even Jack can see this red flag. As everyone compares notes, Sam tells Jack that Maggie saw the "red, glowing eyes" of her killer. Yep, it was Lucifer. Jack forces Lucifer to tell the truth. Lucifer killed her because she saw him "scouting out the Bunker." He "crushed her skull" and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Disillusioned, Jack says, "You're not my father. You're a monster." Lucifer is too weak to do much besides roar impotently and whine (alt-Michael is still hurting too much to do more than let his head loll). At least, until Jack lets him get too close. Then Lucifer springs on him, cuts his throat (not fatally) with his archangel blade, and drains his considerable grace (which takes remarkably little time). I'm honestly not sure from the dialogue, but considering his track record, I'm guessing this was Lucifer's Plan A all along.
Lucifer then heals up the wound (there's still some grace there, but Jack looks semi-conscious, at best) and disappears with him in a flash of light. As they do, Sam and Castiel both rush forward to grab them. Castiel is tossed back, but Sam disappears with them. To where, no one knows.
Lucifer lands them in a church, where he beats up first Sam (talking about how they're going to "break up" permanently now) and then Jack, when Jack tries to stagger to Sam's aid. Lucifer informs Sam (as if Sam didn't know) that Jack has killed quite a few people. Sam says it doesn't matter. As Dean said before, Sam says that Jack is "family."
Lucifer, always disloyal to his own kin, is unimpressed. He tells Sam that "family blows." To prove it, he drops his archangel blade in front of them and tells them that one of them can walk out, but not without killing the other (it's doubtful he intends either of them to survive, but first things first). Lucifer also Evil Overlord monologues about how, if one of them lives, in the seven-to-ten days it would take him to "unravel the universe," the survivor might figure out how to stop him. Or not. Lucifer fully intends to destroy everything and recreate it in his image.
Sam picks up the archangel blade and hands it to Jack, telling Jack to kill him. Instead, Jack starts to stab himself, telling Sam "I love you. I love all of you."
Meanwhile, Michael is informing Dean that Lucifer is "juiced up" on Jack's grace and now powerful enough to destroy the universe. All of the universe ("And you thought I was bad?"). He's actually all for going to kill Lucifer, but his meatsuit is incapacitated and Lucifer is now much more powerful than before.
Dean has an idea, a horrible, no-good idea that alt-Michael may (or may not, considering he was fully willing to kill Dean before) have already been angling for. What if Michael had his Ultimate Weapon, the Michael Sword? Alt-Michael admits he knows who Dean is (which is a bit puzzling, considering he was just trying to kill Dean and was fully intent on killing Dean first, implying he saw Dean as the greatest threat in this new universe) and further admits that yes, it might be possible, the two of them together, to kill Lucifer.
Castiel starts to protest, but Dean says, "Lucifer has Sam. He has Jack. Cas, <em>I don't have a choice</em>!"
Ah, but it's Dean, so Dean has conditions. And before we protest that alt-Michael doesn't have to honor these conditions, remember Death's ongoing grumpiness about broken deals. Deals for a major supernaturally powerful being are a big deal in the SPNverse and breaking them has major consequences. So, when Dean calls it "a one-time deal" and flat-out says he will be in charge, with alt-Michael having no say and only providing the power, somewhere, someone with more power than alt-Michael is taking notes.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 19, 2018 23:51:02 GMT -5
At the quickie mart, the kid in question is just putting stuff away, minding his own business, when Jack comes in and slams him into one of the freezer shelves. He starts choking the kid, demanding to know why he killed Maggie. The kid has no idea what he's talking about. Castiel shows up and tries to stop him, but Jack slams him into some shelves. Sam and Dean come in, and an exasperated Dean shoots Jack to snap him out of it. They quickly show him that the kid didn't kill Maggie, especially when he looks devastated at finding out she's dead.
Jack runs back out into the woods and starts hitting himself, crying and wondering why he always hurts people. Then he hears angel wings and Lucifer appears behind him. Jack asks if he's real and Lucifer hedges about how he got there. Lucifer claims that Sam left him behind and lied when he said alt-Michael killed him. Lucifer is all sweetness and light to Jack, but Jack cuts to the chase and asks how Lucifer got through the closed rift. Lucifer dances around this, too, and tries to tell Jack he's not really human, that they have a lot in common. Ewww. Jack, I know you're a baby, but jeez. It's sad when Lucifer is so obvious that he can only fool an infant.
Lucifer suggests they go to some other planet. Jack compares it to Star Wars, but isn't so sure about leaving Sam, Dean and Castiel behind.
Back in the quickie mart, the Brothers and Castiel try to cover up what happened with the kid by calling the incident "a training exercise" and saying they're FBI. This is working pretty well until they hear the whine of an angel. A very, very powerful angel. An archangel, in fact. They tell the kid to run (hate to break this to you, kid, but I think your job's about to go belly up) and he does.
The whining increases and then they see the impossible. Dean tells them to run outside, just as the windows on the quickie mart blow out. Alt-Michael stalks after them, smug as ever. Dean is already pulling some holy oil out of the trunk, lighting it, and tossing out at Michael's feet. This makes Castiel's incipient suicide run at alt-Michael unnecessary, since it temporarily stops the archangel, and they flee in the Impala.
Mary and alt-Bobby are discussing who could have killed Maggie when Jack walks in with Lucifer. It's not a happy reunion, to put it mildly. Lucifer calls alt-Bobby "Longmire." Lucifer tries to shmooze everyone by healing Maggie and bringing her back from the dead (while continuing to insult Sam to Jack and in front of Mary), his eyes glowing. Jack is impressed by this, enough to leave with Lucifer. Meanwhile, Mary has sent alt-Bobby to call the Brothers. How does alt-Bobby know how to use a cell phone if he's been living in an Apocalypse World most of his life?
The Brothers come in, but Jack and Lucifer are already gone. Dean goes to call Jody and the other Hunters (alt-Bobby is impressed that Dean has an entire network of Hunters on speed-dial), while Castiel goes to see if there's any angel chatter, even though they're almost all locked up in Heaven now. Castiel later reports that it's all silent on that front, which is unnerving.
Sam talks to Maggie, who is reluctant to talk at first. Then she says she didn't see her killer's face, only his eyes. Cut rather obviously to Lucifer and Jack, ostensibly getting ready to leave on their cosmic voyage.
In the Bunker, things go rapidly downhill as someone "knocks" on the door with an enormous boom. Dean insists Mary and alt-Bobby take Maggie and escape through the garage (overriding Mary's protests), then he and Sam pull out their guns, as they and Castiel turn to confront alt-Michael busting the door down (dammit, gonna have to fix that door again).
Bullets and attempted angel-blade stabbings have no effect. Alt-Michael tosses Sam and Castiel aside, and focuses on Dean, saying that Dean will be the first soul he purges in his great crusade (this seems like rather a large plothole, considering "our" Michael was well aware of who Dean would be as his chosen vessel long before Dean was born). Dean insults him back, even as alt-Michael chokes him slowly, enjoying it. In the process, alt-Michael admits he made a deal (in flashback, we see it's with Lucifer) to come through the doorway.
On the floor, Sam desperately prays to Jack, hoping Jack can hear him. Jack is temporarily distracted by Lucifer's star-trekkin' BS, though a sour note creeps in when Lucifer slips up and mentions wanting to make some "improvements." But then Jack hears Sam's prayer and comes back, just in time to stop alt-Michael from fully choking Dean to death.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 19, 2018 23:10:35 GMT -5
Yeah, yeah. I skipped ahead. Don't worry; I'll do the others. It's just that this one is a-buzzin' and I want to watch/live recap it all the way through.
<em>Laissez les bons temps rouler.</em>
Recap of the season so far with, of course, "Carry On, Wayward Son," which begins with a quick voiceover by Dean (and segues into a quick request from Rowena for music). 'Cause that's never ominous in a season finale, or anything. The recap ends with alt-Michael and Lucifer being left in the alt-SPNverse.
Cut to Now, with Sam in the Bunker explaining to the alt-SPNverse refugees how our world sucks so much more normally than theirs. There's a joke about Trump and alt-Bobby gets to deliver it.
Sam gets a call from Dean, who is with Castiel and Jack near a harbor. It seems to they are celebrating getting everyone (they care about) back from the alt-SPNverse by Hunting some dockside werewolves because ... reasons. As you do. Just roll with it, I guess.
Castiel starts off the carnage by stabbing one werewolf who's outside on a smoking break. The Brothers and Jack then bust into the shack, where two other werewolves are discussing the Kardashians. Jack freezes the werewolves, while Dean and Sam fill them full of silver.
Meanwhile, alt-Bobby (now dressed just like "our" Bobby) is taking a nice walk in the rain with Mary. They infodump that Ketch has taken off, while Rowena and alt-Charlie are on a road trip (as long as anything involving Charlie stays off my screen, I'm good, but I sure hope this doesn't mean the writers are now going to ruin Rowena to make alt-Charlie Sue look fabulous). Anyhoo, alt-Bobby admits that while they can't go back home without an archangel, he's not sure he even wants to. It's nice here (he says as he makes cow eyes at Mary, who looks flattered).
Sadly, this is Supernatural, so the mood is immediately shattered by their discovering Maggie (remember her? The refugee the Brothers helped through a tunnel a few episodes back?) in the path with her head smashed on a rock.
Cue title cards.
Cut to the sneak peek where the Brothers talking about retiring. Sam is surprised that Dean would want to retire. Dean says that if he knew people were safe from monsters, he'd do it, happily, then go live on a beach with Sam and Castiel, and some umbrella drinks. Yeah, that sort of conversation never ends well.
After Sam goes off to do whatever, Dean hears Jack in his room, having a nightmare. Apparently, this is one of the rare times when Jack sleeps. It turns out Jack has nightmares about people he couldn't save in the alt-SPNverse. Dean wakes him up (Jack wakes up in a less scary mood than Dean does) and reassures him that he has those dreams, too. Jack said he promised to save those people, but wasn't "strong enough." Dean tells him it's not about being strong. If Jack weren't strong, he wouldn't have made it back. You just have to keep going and understand you'll make mistakes some times. But Jack's family and that's all that matters.
Hmm. This is getting a bit worrisome. These are the kinds of conversations main characters have right before they get written off.
Sam comes in with a phone call. It's about Maggie, whose dead body we see next, still on the ground in the rain. Jack is upset, saying he couldn't protect her. Everyone tries to figure out what's going on, since all the usual suspects are back in alt-SPNverse. They interview her friend who came over with her from the alt-SPNverse. The friend is shocked to hear she's dead, saying she expected they would be safe here. She says Maggie had snuck out the night before to see a boy at a local quickie mart she was sweet on (so, I guess a fair bit of time has passed, then). As soon as Jack hears this, he flies off to the quickie mart. Uh-oh.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 16, 2018 1:03:47 GMT -5
Zooming back to alt-SPNverse, Dean and Ketch have found the angel camp, at a surprisingly intact old farmhouse with a silo, where, for who knows what reason, wood fires are burning (I don't see why the angels would bother to let the prisoners burn fires to keep warm). A small band of prisoners is led out into the courtyard. Again, why would the angels keep prisoners?
Anyhoo, the head torturer angel goes off on a speech about how the Resistance is being broken, blah-blah-blah, and they bring out Charlie to be executed. Instead of the usual smiting, they tie her to a post and (I swear to Chuck I am not joking), out comes a dude in goggles to behead her with a scimitar. 'Cause let's add a little dash of Islamophobia to this tonedeaf and rushed crap sandwich of an episode.
Sadly, Dean and Ketch figure out a plan and come in, guns blazing (after Dean tosses in a grenade) before this can happen. They shoot down most of the angels with their angel-killing bullets, except for the dastardly head torturer dude, who ducks into an outhouse and flies away (okay, it's probably not an outhouse, but it looks like one).
Then Dean rescues Charlie, who appears to be the only human left alive besides him and Ketch. Nice rescue. Go team.
Back at the Bunker (weee! Everybody down a shot!), Gabriel is freaking out as Asmodeus is sending him bad-touch vibes, while Castiel watches him, concerned (remember when Castiel could do angel stuff? I miss that). Or something. Sam comes in and says he's "warded" the rest of the Bunker, but is unsure it "will be enough." Suddenly, the emergency lights and klaxons go on. Pretty sure it wasn't enough, Sam.
[Sorry, needed a brief kitten break from this nonsense. These babies are three weeks old and freakin' adorable. Been watching them on YouTube since they were born.]
Okay, back we go. Sam and Castiel go to investigate (which is dumb, leaving Gabriel alone), Castiel with an angel sword and Sam with a ... machete? Really, Sam? Okay.
Anyhoo, the sigils Sam painted are glowing and fritzing. Then they start to go out one by one. Gotta say that's a cool effect.
Sam and Castiel get attacked by demons with angel blades. Stabbing and smiting ensues, and they win the fight. But it's a diversion for Asmodeus to come in and disarm/disable them, while two other demons drag out Gabriel. Asmodeus monologues a bit about how powerful he is, which is nonsense, of course. The archangel grace he shouldn't be able to survive that's in his body is what's powerful, not him. Think Asmodeus is a tad high on his own methane.
But as the demons drag a struggling Gabriel up the stairs, and Asmodeus tortures Sam and Castiel with more monologuing and vaguely shown internal damage, Gabriel rallies. He tosses the demons over the stairs (apparently killing them, though that's now how you kill demons), insta-cleans himself up, and shows his wings.
Asmodeus rather desperately tries to regain control of the situation by declaring "You're too weak!" Gabriel responds with a cutting comment (that the entire fandom, plus Dean, has been thinking since Day One) about Asmodeus' "dumbass suit," then torches him from the inside.
And there was much rejoicing [yaaaayyyyy].
Unfortunately, after Sam and Castiel bring him up to speed and welcome him to TFW 2.0, Gabriel decides that's not for him and bails on them (he still has wings, remember). Oops.
Meanwhile, in the alt-SPNverse, Dean is bringing alt-Charlie (who is every bit as obnoxious as "our" Charlie) up to speed on their side of the rift and how he wants to find Jack and his mother. The thing alt-Charlie actually balks at is the idea that Mary is his mother. Umm ... odd thing to have issues with, but okay. Nevertheless, when they arrive at the rift, she becomes a believer. Well, that was quick.
But when Dean wants to take her through the rift, she and Ketch balk. Charlie wants to stay and fight for her world and Ketch does, too, because reasons. Dean hands Charlie a gun and goes back. Meanwhile, the evil torturer angel shows up with reinforcements (who walk into the fight because why use their wings, right?).
When Dean gets back, he has to explain why he's alone. Then Sam and Castiel have to explain all that happened with Gabriel and how he bailed on them. Dean is ... displeased.
Jensen Ackles has had to do this type of scene before, but it's pretty cool (and unsettling) how he manages to wring some new subtext from Dean's anger this time, and introduce some different body language. And how Sam and Castiel look like frightened lieutenants who have failed their leader rather than equal members of the team.
So, when Dean freaks out, it only seems initially like a repeat of, say, how he freaked out when Kevin died. Then he gets cold. Really cold. And when Castiel promises Dean they will find Gabriel, and Dean looks directly at the camera while saying, "We'd better," I swear I saw ice crystals forming on the screen.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 15, 2018 23:42:30 GMT -5
Ketch makes up an antidote out of some paste on the fly. As you do. It seems the symptoms are much like a poison the LoL used to incapacitate monsters and if you don't get the antidote, you die a nasty death. Yay. Oh, and the cure's painful, too. Of course.
Back at the Bunker, Castiel is trying to angel-talk to Gabriel or read his mind or something. I dunno. Oh, I see. He's saying he can't heal Gabriel. He's just trying to reach his older brother. Gabriel remains catatonic. Sam then tries to give Gabriel a pep-talk about how they're both "different" from the rest of their family. Oh, Sam. Still banging away at that crap.
But, Sam adds, even though he got out (or thought he did), he realized that his family needed him, and that their mission is also his. Hunting is his life now. He's chosen it. It's how he helps the world. Gabriel can help the world, too, if he wakes up. The world needs him. Sam needs him. Even if it was more fun hanging out with "hookers in Monte Carlo."
The big speech appears to have no effect. Defeated, Sam turns away toward the door. Behind him, Gabriel says, "Porn stars. They were porn stars, Sam." And his eyes glow.
Unfortunately, Asmodeus is able to sense that on his throne.
Back in alt-SPNverse, Dean is unable to go on, even after being "cured," and is forced to stop and rest. When Ketch presses him more about why Charlie is so important, Dean goes on and on and on about how Charlie was a special snowflake and he wasn't able to save her. He then asks Ketch why he's so interested. Ketch admits that he's got a lot of people who died on his watch. Problem was, he didn't even try to save them. Now he realizes that the "duty" he followed was hollow and he doesn't know how to find redemption. Dean helpfully points out that this is because Ketch sucks.
Ketch sighs and gets up, then reaches out to help Dean up. He figures that maybe if he can help save alt-Charlie, he can redeem himself a tiny bit. Meanwhile, I'm wishing he and Dean would just leave well enough alone.
Meanwhile, Charlie is getting tortured by the most inept angels ever and being all defiant and stuff. Except, remember how angels can find out whatever they want from a human by "reading" their soul (per "The Third Man")? Guess the Nep Duo forgot all about that.
Back at the Bunker (I know! It's dizzying!), Sam and Castiel have given Gabriel the remaining vial of his grace because why the hell not? Not like Dean and Ketch won't ever get stranded over in alt-SPNverse. It restores him a bit, but not completely.
Right on cue, Sam gets a call from Asmodeus, who demands Gabriel back. Sam says he's hanging up, but doesn't, allowing Asmodeus to rant and rave and give TFW a ten-minute warning. Well, alrighty-then. Gabriel, of course, looks terrified.
Up in Heaven, Lucifer is whining to Sister Jo about how nobody deserves his awesomeness, as he yanks off his coat and tie. When Sister Jo suggests he's "giving up," Lucifer says no, he's going to find Jack and use his son to remake the world in his own image, where everyone worships him.
Sister Jo's not buying it. She basically calls Lucifer a loser (which he is), saying he should "make good on your promises," like "fixing Heaven" and giving the angels back their wings (hmm, isn't there a certain archangel still in the Cage who could do that?).
Lucifer then lets the cat out of the bag - he can't do any of that. Whether he isn't powerful enough right now (his answer implies otherwise) or was never that powerful, he lied. Furious, Sister Jo berates him, saying he's not even trying that hard to find his son because Jack will probably regard him with contempt, too. Unfortunately for her, she gets too close and Lucifer grabs her. Eyes glowing red, he nearly chokes the life out of her, but releases her at the last moment.
Backing away, Sister Jo rubs her throat and says, "And now you don't have me." Then she stalks out. Oooh, could feel that burn all the way down the multiverse.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 15, 2018 22:58:31 GMT -5
Recap of Gabriel, Mary and Jack in the alt-SPNverse, and the last few minutes of the previous episode.
Cut to Now, where Dean and Ketch appear in the alt-verse and it's now winter (probably because it was winter in Vancouver when they filmed this). Dean is having trouble getting his bearings, which gives Ketch the opening to suggest he might tag along as "backup." Dean is skeptical, but lets him.
Ketch starts to realize they're not in Kansas, anymore, when they pass a charred body tied to a tree as they go under a bridge. Dean tells him to get down when some angels start to cross the bridge then stop. They have prisoners, whom they randomly proceed to execute on the bridge for crimes of rebelling against Michael.
They kill the first two, even as Ketch is restraining Dean from interfering. Then they get to the last one. After they uncover her hood, the head angel actually stops the other one, giving Dean time to get a good look at her and see it's the alt-SPNverse of Charlie.
SMITE HER. SMITE HER NOW.
Cue title cards.
Look, I get that some fans really loved and missed Charlie (though there's a good bit of evidence they were and are a minority of the fandom), but I was not one of them. And I can't say Felicia Day's acting has improved in the interim. The writing for Charlie (this is a Nepotism Duo ep, so keep your expectations low) certainly hasn't, remaining so terrible that it belongs in another show.
So, Charlie gets hit on by the head angel, who calls her "not the usual human scum." Oh, Chuck help us, please move on, Show. After some infodumping about her being in the "inner circle" of the rebellion, which is apparently now being led by Mary and Jack, so Dean can conveniently overhear and get his bearings, they decide to take her back to the "Northern Camp" and fly off with her.
Back at the Bunker, Castiel (remember him?) has returned and is extremely not-thrilled to hear that Dean has gone off to the alt-SPNverse. When Sam tries to reassure him by saying that Ketch went with Dean, Castiel snarks, "Because that's so much better!"
Sam says that Dean insisted on going alone and that they need to take care of Gabriel. Castiel becomes more subdued when they come to Gabriel's room and he sees the condition his elder brother is in.
Sam, for some reason, has brought in food (angels don't need to eat). He explains that Gabriel has suffered from years of torture and having his grace drained. It turns out he hasn't brought food, per se, but some of Gabriel's own grace to restore him. When they try to give it to Gabriel, though, he refuses to open his mouth and scrambles away from them in terror.
Up on Heaven, Lucifer is playing Solitaire (literally: He's playing a card game) when Sister Jo comes in. She is unhappy that he is sitting around, expecting to be worshiped, doing nothing to improve the angels' situation. When Duma comes in, Lucifer tries to draw her into cowing Jo, but Duma refuses to get involved. Duma also wants to know when Lucifer is going to start doing things to help Heaven, but all Lucifer is interested in is where is Jack. Duma says there are very few angels left and they can't find him. As his eyes glow threateningly, Lucifer tells her to try harder. Frightened, Duma leaves.
Less impressed, Jo also leaves, telling Lucifer that if he wants to be treated like Chuck, he needs to start acting like Him.
In his demon lair, Asmodeus is grumpy that he can't find Gabriel, or even sense him. He bullies a terrified demon, rather like Lucifer bullying Duma. Lotta pointless macho posturing in this episode.
In alt-SPNverse, Dean is trying to get to where Charlie is so he can rescue her and (ostensibly) find Mary and Jack. Ketch calls him on it, saying that Dean is making it personal for some reason. Ketch is frustrated by Dean's lack of stealth (though Dean makes a good point that they need speed over stealth right now) and this catches up to Dean when a human bounty hunter shoots him and tries to capture him to take him to a POW camp. Ketch gets into a fight with the man, but it's not until Dean gets up and shoots the man in the kneecap that the man talks. They find out where the camp is and head there.
At the Bunker, Castiel tries to talk to Gabriel, who has covered the walls of his room with symbols. It turns out to be Gabriel's story since his apparent death. He faked it by letting Lucifer stab a fake him and think it was the real him.
Gabriel then moved to Monte Carlo and shacked up with porn stars. So, you could say he took on the persona of Charlie Sheen. He was then captured and sold to Asmodeus, who fed on his grace, going from the weakest of the Princes of Hell to the strongest. When Sam wonders why Gabriel is not speaking, Castiel says that maybe he can't. Sam wonders if maybe Gabriel won't speak, because he feels it's safer.
Up in Heaven, Lucifer thinks a new suit and shades will make him Chuck (has he seen how Dad dressed? Wait - yes, he has!). He then sits back down on his throne to hear the prayers of humans. But they are all begging and he deems them pathetic, not worth his time.
The chant of an exorcism, however, piques his interest, so he goes down to earth to investigate. In a parody of The Exorcist (film, TV show, take your pick), two priests are trying to exorcise a young woman, calling the demon inside her "Satan." Lucifer points out that it's just a minor demon named "Anthony" and exorcises it out through a vent. The young woman falls back onto the bed, unconscious.
When the younger priest asks who he is, Lucifer makes the mistake of telling them his true name. They're shocked and horrified, prompting an annoyed rant from Lucifer about how Chuck made him the cosmic "fall guy."
The priests freak out and start spattering him with holy water and prayers. Annoyed, Lucifer smites them into black smoke, then is annoyed at himself for doing so.
Back in alt-SPNverse (yeah, as usual with a Nep Duo script, far too many storylines and none of them done properly or in any depth), Dean starts to feel ill, but passes it off as nothing. Considering he doesn't (and shouldn't) trust Ketch as far as he can kick him in the nuts, I think that's still pretty sensible. Unfortunately, his condition quickly deteriorates and he passes out into a tree in the middle of Ketch trying to snark an explanation about Charlie out of him. Ketch shows concern, determines that Dean has a high fever, and quickly discovers the bullet wound is a nasty black color that is spreading across Dean's shoulder.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 15, 2018 0:04:02 GMT -5
Dean wakes up on the altar. Now he's the sacrificial maiden (more or less). Sandy is beside him, preparing the goblet. When he calls her Sandy, she says that Sandy has "been dead for a long time."
Dean: Okay, I'll play. What's your name?
Sandy [eyes glowing, in an unearthly growl]: Yokoth. Star of Madness. Ravager of Galaxies. Mother of Faceless Humans.
Yes, in case y'all were wondering, we are indeed in Fake Lovecraft Mythos Land. In case the tentacles didn't clue you in.
Even if Dean were not an expert at getting villains to Evil Overlord monologue, Yokoth would be easy to get going. She says that she and her mate Glythur were supposed to both come through, but the rift shut before he could make it. She now intends to open the rift and let him through, whereupon he will possess Dean (because Yokoth has a wee crush on our hot, unstable Hunter Hero) and they will eat their way through the SPNverse. She's really looking forward to that, since they've already consumed most of the universe they come from.
She opens the rift with a concoction of what look like human hearts and the aforementioned angel grace, and a tentacle comes through. Dean manages to head-dodge it a time or two, just as Sam and the others rush in. As they fruitlessly attack Yokoth, Dean manages to pull out his pocket knife and pick his chains. Then he leans over to snatch the Seal of Solomon from Yokoth and toss it to the female cultist. She catches it and shouts a counterspell, closing the rift. As it does, Yokoth is conveniently (and unwillingly) snatched up by her mate and dragged back to the other realm. Which solves the problem of what to do with Yokoth rather neatly.
All I can say is, poor Sandy. I sure hope her soul escaped somehow after she died and wasn't consumed, or something. Or worse, trapped in the other realm inside Yokoth.
Afterward, the Brothers consult with the two cultists, who hand over the Seal of Solomon pretty willingly, albeit with cautions on its limitations (such as that you need something that was already in the realm you're seeking, that the spell only lasts for 24 hours, and that you never know quite what you'll get on the other side). Also, they need archangel grace. The Brothers know most of these limitations, already, which helps persuade the cultists that they know what they're doing.
Back at the Bunker, Sam and Dean are surprised to see Ketch and pull guns on him. Ketch brings out Gabriel, a vial of archangel grace, and the archangel blade as peace offerings. The only thing he really seeks is sanctuary from Asmodeus (which may be a tall order, the Brothers are the most likely to be able to protect him). Sam is skeptical, but Dean shrugs and agrees. Whatever it takes to get their mom and Jack back.
Later, as Sam is cutting the thread sewing Gabriel's mouth shut (but Gabriel remains silent), Dean comes in, ready to go to the alt-SPNverse. Sam is shocked, but Dean points out that time is a-wasting and they need to get on it.
He also tells Sam that he's going alone. Not even Ketch coming in, saying he's going with Dean, changes Dean's mind. Dean's reasoning is actually pretty sound. Someone needs to watch Gabriel. Also, if Dean gets trapped over there, they need someone/thing who's been over there to open the rift and come get him, which would be Sam. And as for Ketch, Dean doesn't care if Ketch dies. As a matter of fact, Dean would be pretty okay with that.
So, they open the rift and set their watches. And then Dean and Ketch go through.
Credits
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 14, 2018 23:37:04 GMT -5
Back to Ketch and Asmodeus. As Gabriel watches, Asmodeus gets out of Ketch that he knows Castiel was in Palestine, then infodumps (to remind us) that the Brothers are looking for the spell Donatello found in the Demon Tablet. Asmodeus then beats the crap out of Ketch to make him fall in line, which will almost certainly cause Ketch to rebel against him because reasons. And it's Ketch.
I'm so over Asmodeus.
Back at the diner, the Brothers are trying to figure out what Sandy has become. They don't appear to believe she could still be human (trapped in a time spell like Dorothy from the Oz ep, for example), while Dean is skeptical that this is the MoL's doing, since it doesn't seem to be there style. That's so sweet and naive after last year's Psycho LoL storyline, especially with Ketch being in the B plot this week. Personally, I think the MoL are quite capable of engaging in human sacrifice.
Anyhoo, Sam gets his food first and ends up drugged. Meanwhile, a young man who was hitting on one of the other waitresses sees some red-robed cultists outside. He warns the whole diner before Dean eats his food and then Sam passes out. Dean has to fight a diner full of cultists, while Sam is kidnapped. Sandy stabs the last one from behind, "saving" Dean. As soon as he realizes Sam is kidnapped, Dean makes some Molotov cocktails on the fly (as you do), while the cultists cut off all outside contact for the diner.
Meanwhile, the two lead cultists (the cook and the woman he was talking to) take Sam off into the woods and have a talk. In a rather unconvincing (but obviously telegraphed) twist, they turn out to be "good guys." At any rate, they don't want to kill Sam. They want to stop Sandy.
It seems that the sacrifice did go through as planned. Their ancestor, an MoL named Diego Rivera, went insane after serving in WWI, went rogue, and formed a cult. He decided to "cleanse" the world by summoning two Chucks, Yokoth and his mate, from another dimension to bring a new paradise. Instead, after Sandy got possessed, she ate most of the cultists and the survivors managed to trap the Chuck, then put the capitulum on lockdown. The MoL "disavowed" the entire incident.
Meanwhile, Asmodeus is pontificating to Ketch that he wants to be redeemed, but never can be. Even when Ketch points out that he has a soul, Asmodeus is unimpressed, saying that just makes Ketch weak. Predictably, as soon as Asmodeus leaves, Ketch grabs frightened Gabriel and the archangel blade and bails, killing the demon who mocked him at the beginning of the episode, along the way. Yeah, I totally didn't see that coming, either.
At the diner (while Dean is in back, preparing to rescue Sam), the two waitresses send the young man to find out why the cultists have suddenly disappeared. He finds the dead in the parking lot. Then he's attacked by Sandy, who finishes eating him just as Dean comes out. This is right after the two cultists with Sam tell him that as long as they've been starving the Chuckdess, she's been kept weak. But if she feeds, well, they're pretty screwed. Oops. They also say that "when she's not feeding, she's breeding." She kidnaps Dean and the female cultist realizes that when Dean is not among the dead, he must have been taken for the other option. Double oops.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 14, 2018 22:51:28 GMT -5
Recap of the MoL and of Asmodeus showing Ketch the captured Gabriel, which reminds us how the writers screwed up those storylines.
Cut to Portsmouth, RI in 1925. Some guys in robes are sacrificing a young blonde flapper on an altar, chanting "Insanidox Koth Munto," using a cup of angel grace and a crystal amulet. A doorway of purple light appears overhead, triggered by the glow from the grace through the amulet. The girl screams as a tentacle reaches down from the doorway, the cultists chanting, "Yokoth! Yokoth!"
Cue title cards.
Sam is asleep on top of his research in the MoL library. Since Sam is asleep, this is a perfect time for Dean to stick prank Post-It notes on Sam's back.
Sam wakes up without noticing his new accessories (or Dean's guilty look) and they start infodumping about the Seal of Solomon. Apparently, it's "unearthly." They go back down to the archives ("I LOVE BOOKS!" Dean declares sarcastically) and go at it.
Later, Sam discovers the notes in the mirror, but at that moment, Dean walks in with a metal box, which contains a story about the Seal, which the MoL found in Israel in 1917. It was later brought to Portsmouth. Dean makes a "jinkies!" comment that irritates Sam. It seems Dean's been quoting Scooby-Doo a lot lately. Gee, wonder why.
Sam then brings up a new bit of MoL lore. Seems they had "capitula" (which Sam translates as "chapter houses") all over the U.S., including one in Jamestown (implying they've been in North America since the beginning of English colonization). Off the Brothers go on a road trip, where they find a surprisingly intact, square brick building and a rotting car covered in vines. The entrance to the capitulum turns out to be a manhole cover with a lock that readily accepts the Bunker's key (just roll with it, y'all). Dean goes in first.
Inside, they find very familiar corridors (except for a triangular sign with an eye that Dean points out) and a much-smaller version of the Bunker library, also in surprisingly good condition. This does not thrill Dean, but he does find the first clue. As Sam is saying he's not sure where to begin (but quickly and conveniently discovers a folder about the Seal), Dean finds some old photographs. One of them, of a Sandy Porter, is of Doomed Teaser Gal.
Sam accidentally knocks some objects off the shelf as he picks up the Seal folder. Shortly afterward, the Brothers hear a woman cry for help from deep inside the capitulum. They go running to help. Me, I'd saunter slowly while trying to figure out if it's a real person or a trap, but that's just me.
The Brothers bust through a door, only to discover the same room from the teaser and DTG still chained to the altar, alive and apparently quite well. Still young, too. Dean, recalling the photo, asks her if she's Sandy Porter, born in 1903, and she says yes. To her, mere moments have passed.
Meanwhile, Ketch is at Demon Central, being blocked by a henchdemon because, even though Asmodeus summoned him, Asmodeus doesn't really want to see him right now.
Ugh. I know I was just dying to see more of this storyline. Weren't you? Yes, it should lead to whatever's going on with Gabriel, but you just know they're gonna drag this out. Painfully.
Stuck reading children's books, Ketch is able to sneak past the demon guards while they're watching kitten video. Inside, Asmodeus is extracting archangel grace from a helpless Gabriel and ... injecting it into himself.
Now, I call bullshit on this. I really do. Just a regular angel's grace like Anna's disintegrated the host body of a WED. Even if Asmodeus could survive such an injection, canon has stated over and over again that his host could not.
Anyhoo.
After some back-and-forth banter about how Asmodeus owns Ketch, even as Ketch protests too much, Ketch is sent back to the waiting room. I'm not kidding. Told you they'd drag this out.
Meanwhile, the Brothers explain things to Sandy (mostly offscreen) and then take her to a diner, where Dean puts Jay Ramsey's "Better Luck Next Time" for her on the table jukebox. She's fascinated by all the weird technology around her (as one would be), and surprised to be still alive, but what's especially interesting is that the cook behind the grill appears to recognize her. Hmm. Sporting a rather obvious tat on his wrist like the symbol in the capitulum, he makes a call to a woman who is standing near the altar there. She calls him "Marco" and it seems they "have a problem."
Sandy explains to them that she met a man who told her he was part of "a secret club ... the Men of Letters." This basically confirms the MoL were willing to engage in human sacrifice, oh, yay. As Sam gets the story out of her in flashbacks, Dean reassures that she is safe. Little, of course, do they know that even the short-order cooks are cultists in this town.
Sandy's recollection extends a bit past the teaser, to show the tentacle wrapping around her. She insists the MoL were "feeding" her to the "monster." As the waitress comes in to offer her coffee, Sandy leaves the diner in tears.
Meanwhile, the cook is drugging/poisoning the food and pulling out a short scimitar from the oven.
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Post by thesnowleopard on Apr 5, 2018 22:57:59 GMT -5
The trap doesn't quite work as planned. When Scooby, Shaggy and Castiel act as bait, they get the ghost after them, but accidentally get stuck in the trap. But Dean has a Plan B ("Fred's plans never work"), which involves the ghost chasing the other Scoobies before being distracted by a book-pelting Scooby, who weighs the ghost down with some books and sends it down the trap door.
The ghost finds itself trapped inside a line of salt (there's a neat effect of the barrier as it thrashes around inside it that the show usually can't afford to do). After the Brothers and Castiel inform it that it's trapped, it finally reveals its true form and identity. It's a little boy. His soul was attached to a pocketknife, which the creepy neighbor guy of the pawn shop owner got hold of. The guy has been using it to force everyone in the area to sell their shops to him for cheap. That's why he owns almost everything there. It's why he compelled the ghost to attack Alan, the pawn shop owner, with the green Barney dinosaur plushie.
The ghost is happy to send them back to the real world after they promise to release it once they get there. But first, Dean asks a favor of it. The Scooby Gang is totally freaked out, so the ghost pretends to be Cosgood and the Scooby Gang reveal him. Castiel heals Shaggy on the sly, Velma acts all smug and then kisses Sam, and Dean says a goodbye to Daphne that she promptly forgets as she runs after Fred and the others leave. Then the ghost reappears, and the Brothers and Castiel are sent back to the real world.
At this point, even Sam is willing to admit that they just had a "cool" experience. Dean agrees, though much more enthusiastically, but quickly gets back down to business. He goes out and returns with a blowtorch and a sledgehammer. Smashing the TV, he finds the pocketknife. The little boy ghost reappears and asks if he will be with his beloved father now. The Brothers are gentle with him as Sam torches the pocketknife. The little boy's ghost disappears in a puff of white light and smoke up to Heaven.
At the shop, Alan is about to sign away his business to Creepy Real Estate Guy (Jay). Fortunately, the Brothers show up with Castiel, Dean wearing an ascot. Sam and Castiel lay out the plan - he used the ghost to scare off all the local business people so he could buy up their property cheap. CREG tries to claim they can't prove anything about a ghost. Sam agrees, which is why they hacked his accounts and found out he doesn't pay his taxes.
As they watch him get put into the car, Sam realizes, "Velma was right. It was a shady real estate developer, after all."
CREG [as he's being put in the car]: It's not fair! I'd have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids! [since when are Dean and Sam still kids? Let alone Castiel?]
Dean: [gasp!] He said it! He said the line! [looks straight at the camera] Scooby-Dooby-Doooooooo! [Sam and Castiel walk away in disgust]
Castiel: Dean, you're not a talking dog.
Credits are in a different font this week and there's a new theme song.
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Post by thesnowleopard on Apr 5, 2018 22:29:44 GMT -5
[Back. Sorry, but I just got 12 trees from the Arbor Day Foundation and the only time I have to plant them as they merrily sprout from twigs is after I get home at dusk. It's been kind of a busy week.]
Anyhoo, in the library, Dean is hitting on Daphne again and asking her what she likes in a man. She says the usual and then adds "an ascot," which leaves Dean rather taken aback. Not lovin' this subplot at all, but I do like when Dean notices a book standing out from the bookshelf (all the other books are painted on the background) and calls this to the attention of Daphne and Fred, who are dismissive about it, at least until a trapdoor appears underneath them and throws them down a long, twisty shaft to a cellar. There, in the dark, Dean thinks he's talking to Daphne, but it turns out to be the ghost, who chases them.
But then, the ghost is also stalking Scooby, Shaggy and Castiel upstairs. And while I don't mind at all that Castiel is in this story, why have Scooby and Shaggy been relegated to comic relief with Castiel when Scooby's the actual star of the show? Why all the focus on Fred, Daphne and Velma, who are boring twits because they are the straight-man supporting characters? There's not enough Scooby and Shaggy in this episode.
Scooby and Shaggy are frightened by the ghost and run from him. Castiel isn't, at first, but when Scooby and Shaggy grab him, he's suddenly telling them to run (cartoon logic, I tell ya).
Cue the classic Scooby-Doo theme song (finally), which involves lots of the old running-around gag (Scrappy-Doo even pops up during a run down the hallway through different doors, though the gag is mercifully brief), and Dean alternately protecting and hitting on a clueless Daphne. Think she's more in danger from him than from the ghost, though she's kinda into it toward the end of the montage.
The song ends with their boarding up all the doors and tumbling back into the drawing room. But the ghost busts through and tosses the Scooby Gang all over the place. Poor Shaggy even gets defenestrated, though Scooby goes after him and Castiel saves them both. Sam grabs some iron candlesticks, and he and Dean drive off the ghost.
Fred gets a bloody nose and Shaggy breaks his arm, which shocks the Scoobies to no end. Sam's suggestion to Dean that they give the Scoobies The Talk backfires as the Scoobies totally freak out and turn on each other (Shaggy is especially bitter). Dean is forced to give them a rousing pep talk about how they are "heroes" and have beaten many a bad guy before. They can do this.
They're game, but Velma points out that the Scoobies know nothing about real ghosts. Sam says that's okay. And he and Dean show them the Impala's trunk. Dean is a little horrified, saying giving salt guns and other such weapons to the Scoobies is a "Scooby-don't." But Fred finally wins Dean's admiration when he says that "we have to do something" and that they can help.
Putting a hand on Fred's shoulder and swearing for only the second time in the episode (at least in the cartoon world," Dean says, "You're fucking right you can."
Cue Fred setting an elaborate, Goldbergian trap in the drawing room.
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Post by thesnowleopard on Apr 4, 2018 22:20:12 GMT -5
Fred utters the classic Scooby phrase: "Well, gang, it looks like we got another mystery on our hands." The Brothers are flabbergasted at how cold-blooded the Scooby Gang is about the murder, as the Scoobies stroll off to look for clues, utterly unconcerned by what they've just seen.
Dean is confused, saying that nobody ever dies in Scooby-Doo. Sam worries that if the rules have changed so much that a character has died, they can, too. Dean is more worried about Scooby dying: "I'd take a bullet for that dog."
In the drawing room, Shaggy and Scooby are frightened by the possibility that ghosts really exist, while Fred and Velma pooh-pooh the idea. But as Velma is taking a page from Sherlock Holmes, a creepy figure creeps past the window behind her. The Brothers get into position to ambush it as it opens the window, but Fred grabs it first, throwing it to the ground wrapped in a curtain. When Dean yanks off the curtain, it's ... Castiel.
Startled, the Brothers help him up and Dean introduces him to the Scooby-Gang. Shaggy and Scooby come right up to welcome him, prompting Castiel to note that Scooby talks. Apparently, the show writers forgot that Castiel can talk to animals and doesn't find it strange in the least.
Dean asks Castiel how he got into the cartoon. There's a flashback of Castiel returning from Syria with "fruit from the tree of life." He recounts an amusing tale of killing most of the djinn who were guarding it, before striking up a bargain with the survivors and accidentally marrying their queen.
He entered the room where the cursed TV was, saw the Brothers starting their drag race with the Mystery Machine, saw pink and purple sparks, and was dragged into the cartoon. There's previously been a creepy figure as the Impala roared away in the drag race. It turns out that was Castiel.
As the Brothers bring Castiel up to speed, Velma listens in, then mocks Sam for his belief in ghosts. Gotta say that even for simplistic cartoon characters, the Scooby Gang are annoyingly broad here, with the exception of Shaggy and Scooby, who are criminally underused so far. The voicework for them is great, though.
Suddenly, there's a distant roar, the lights flicker, and the room turns cold, scaring Shaggy and Scooby. Cue a montage of lit lamps and flashlights, and ghost hands on window glass, as everyone investigates. The Brothers hear a side character getting sliced and diced inside a room, and investigate. But all the doors in the very long hallway slam shut and when Sam reaches for a doorknob, a ghostly hand slaps his flashlight aside.
Then the ghost makes its appearance. Shaggy and Scooby jump into each other's and then Castiel's arms. Fred tackles the ghost twice, which doesn't help when the ghost disappears into the wall. The Brothers duck. There's some discussion from Velma about how this couldn't possibly be a ghost, then they all open the door to the room and find a side character ripped apart inside, with half of him tied to the ceiling. Dean nearly throws up. The Scooby Gang walks off, totally unfazed.
Sam asks Dean if the Scooby Gang is always this cold-blooded about dead bodies, but Dean is more concerned about the obvious signs of a real haunting. He thinks the cartoon itself is haunted.
Back downstairs, Fred's plan is for everyone to split up and "go looking for clues." The Brothers and Castiel think this is a terrible idea and Sam tries to tell the Scooby Gang that he and Dean can't protect them if they do that. Velma calls Sam "chicken."
They compromise on Dean going with Daphne (and, unwillingly, Fred), Velma off with Sam, and Castiel guarding Shaggy and Scooby. Up in the attic, Velma both insults and hits on Sam something heavy. Sam tries to give her The Talk, but Velma will have none of it, not even when they find a chest of possessed toys, covered with ectoplasm, that attack them and drive them out of the attic.
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Post by thesnowleopard on Apr 4, 2018 21:52:19 GMT -5
Sam complains that the conditions are ridiculous and can't possibly be legal, causing Velma to tell him that ghosts don't exist and these kinds of situations happen all the time. Sam starts to blurt out that sure, they happen inside a cartoon, but Dean stops him. Dean tells Sam that the Scooby Gang are "pure and good," and the Brothers aren't going to blow that for them by messing with their minds by telling them they're inside a cartoon.
Sam grumbles that Dean just wants to get with Daphne. He has a point (Dean's obsession with Daphne is pretty messed up), but so does Dean. There really isn't any positive or beneficial point to destroying the Scooby Gang's sense of their own reality, any more than Sam and Dean can just skip to the end of the story. After all the fantasy worlds they've been in, Sam should know that by now, but maybe Dean's just more of a veteran of this multiple-worlds deal.
The lawyer, Cosgood, tells them he'll be back in the morning and leaves with a creepy laugh. Dean tells Sam Cosgood is the bad guy of the episode. Sam rolls his eyes. If they watched Scooby-Doo their entire childhoods, shouldn't Sam have a good chance of remembering this episode, too?
Anyhoo, one of the side characters (an heir) suggests they all turn in at 10pm, which gives Dean the chance to creep on Daphne some more. Sadly, she notes that "girls and boys don't sleep together" and goes off to sleep with Velma. In the same bed. Oh, the possibilities. But since it's written by two straight guys who totally didn't see the #Metoo movement coming, that doesn't go anywhere.
Dean and Sam have to sleep in the same room as Fred and Scooby (not sure where Shaggy is). As usual, Dean finds perks to their current situation. He loves wearing a nightshirt. Sam is in pajamas. So is Fred.
Meanwhile, the girls are talking about the Brothers. Daphne likes them and Velma thinks Dean is okay, but thinks Sam is an idjit for believing in ghosts. Daphne calls her on this, pointing out that Sam is just Velma's type, and Velma blushes.
Meanwhile, what looks like a ghost is roaming the halls, cackling. One of the heirs is brushing his teeth when the lights flicker and his breath fogs up. He turns around to see the ghost, which goes after him with a knife while flaring pink light.
Meanwhile, Sam is complaining about Dean eating another sandwich while the others sleep. Dean uses his knowledge of the episode to note that in a minute or so, someone will go missing and "the Scoobies are gonna think that it's a ghost. But really, it's the lawyer, Cosgood Creeps, in disguise." At that moment, they hear a scream. "Toldja," Dean says.
Everyone runs toward the room from which emit the screams (note: The animation for this episode is better than the rather bare-bones animation of the original; Hanna-Barbera wasn't known for sparing no expense). Inside the heir's room, Daphne finds a body soaked in blood. Dean is confused, saying the "dummy bodies don't show up until later," but when Sam pulls off the blanket, the heir is really dead, stabbed to death. The Scooby Gang is shocked.
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