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.
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.