"You have your job, I have mine."
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llywelaSupernatural rocked this week. So, so much love for this episode. Fantastic.
I started listing all the things I loved about this episode...and the list got kinda long! Hehe.
1. The Previouslies. Seriously. All those aliases and false identities. Awesome.
2. Dean handcuffed to the table. Um. Yes.
3. Sam's sullen, pissed off face while Officer Diana tells him what a terrible person his murderer brother is. That expression used to be reserved for John, or for when Dean followed John's orders without question. Oh, and the way he's casually checking out the view from the window in that first scene in custody while looking sullen – ties in with the act, but he's also casing his exit route…
4. Sam's snarking while in custody. The snark does not belong to Dean alone. Nuh-uh. For all that Sam is usually stuck playing the straight man. "We saw the second largest ball of twine in the continental US. Awesome." And that he turns his chair around to sit on it backwards.
5. Confirmation that John's death is not official. How could it be? He was using a false identity at the time, and officially remains a missing person.
6. Possible fingerprint matches. Well, yeah – they habitually break into crime scenes and rarely if ever wear gloves. As demonstrated in this episode, in fact.
7. Both boys lying with absolute fluency, twisting the truth just enough to make their activities seem harmless and innocent.
8. Dean calling Sam 'Scully'.
9. The wearing of v-neck t-shirts
10. Sam
11. Dean
12. The chick playing Karen Giles used to be in Jake 2.0, I believe, and it took me half the episode to pin her down.
13. The 'insurance agents' suits again. Dean so eagerly and enthusiastically asking the grieving widow the most bizarre questions imaginable. Because those questions are supremely relevant to his investigation…but from her point of view are just weird. And Sam so effortlessly switching from glaring at Dean to his best sympathy face for Karen, and back again.
14. The whole danashulps anagram thing, with the extra letters being such a conundrum right up to the last. Sam breathing on the glass table to reveal the writing there, and his face on doing so. The two boys both working the problem out simultaneously while in police custody, instead of wasting time worrying about their predicament. The case comes first.
15. Dean's utter boredom as Sam continues to work on hacking Giles' computer and Dean's run out of jobs to do himself poking around the office. Dean really isn't a sit around doing nothing kind of guy. Calling Sam 'Sparky'.
16. Seeing how close the boys have become again, after their shared grief had threatened to drive them apart earlier in the season. The bond they have shines through throughout this episode, even though they're barely together in it (again)
17. The fuzzy-vision when Karen Giles takes off her glasses, because – yes.
18. The sheer bad luck and bad timing that leads to Dean's arrest at the crime scene and thus the events of the entire episode. I mean, honestly, their luck had to run out sooner or later. And the fact that his investigative instinct overrides common sense, stopping to examine the body instead of hotfooting it out of there on discovering a fresh corpse. After all, he has no way of knowing she'd already called the police before she died…
19. Dean picking all the locks in this episode instead of Sam. Job demarcation is becoming less and less.
20. Dean and Sam each independently calling the defence lawyer 'Matlock'. "You two really are brothers, aren't you?" And the lawyer's bemusement at Dean's disinterest in his own case, sitting there working on that anagram rather than paying attention.
21. 'Hilts' and 'McQueen' as pseudonyms for covert communication while separated at the police station. Great Escape, huh. And the fact that they have an established protocol for if they are separated and need to find each other, that fact so casually tossed in there and just so believable.
22. Sam taking the first opportunity to escape on receiving Dean's note about the street name. Case comes first, and Dean's a little tied up right now – over to you, kiddo. Out the window, and the cops totally perplexed as to how he managed it.
23. Dean's 'confession'. It's just...so Dean. Deadly serious beneath the bravado. If the lies don't work, go with the truth and see where that gets you. Nothing left to lose, and a case still to work, so it's the perfect diversion to aid Sam's escape. Telling the truth on camera has all the cops thinking he's nuts, but it works. Diana has got the information when she needs it, and is bright enough to put the pieces together and go to him – a prisoner, a suspected murderer – for help.
24. The fact that the case comes first, and saving lives comes first. Dean taking a leap of faith and sending Diana to Sam, giving up his safe hideout, in order to save her life. Just does the right thing, without hesitation. And her reciprocating that leap of faith.
25. Linda Blair is just sooo tiny standing next to Jared Padalecki, who is a giant.
26. "You have your job, I have mine." 'Nuff said.
27. Diana being speechless on first seeing the spirit in the derelict building, and then calling for Sam just moments after I'd yelled at my screen 'shout for Sam, you wally!'
28. Sam using his elbow to break down a brick wall – Sam, honey, you don't want to break your other arm as well, do you?! Sam is so on board with the job these days, and adorable with it.
29. The fact that the spirit turns out not to be vengeful after all, appearing instead as a death omen.
30. The case turning out to be as much about police work as it is ghost hunting – which is inevitable when the ghost is that of someone so recently deceased. Not all ghosts are of decades long gone.
31. Dean getting dragged out into the woods in the middle of the night, chained hand and foot, for impromptu execution, and knowing full well that he's in serious trouble of a non-legal variety but still keeping up the devil-may-care façade because there's not a damn thing he can do about it. We don't often see Dean so utterly helpless.
32. Sam remembering about the lo-jack on Pete's police vehicle before Diana.
33. The little glances back and forth between Sam and Dean while Pete and Diana argue out the exposition of Pete's evil actions. Sam anxious to do something, and Dean all 'no, don't try anything'. Message received and understood by both. Dean and Sam don't need words to communicate. And Dean's outrage at being called a 'scumbag' outweighing the fact of being at gunpoint just at that moment.
34. Once again, the human perpetrator dies at the hands of someone other than Sam or Dean.
35. Diana's willingness to do what she can to get the legal action against the boys dismissed – the Baltimore end, anyway – and turning her back to allow them to go. She's in a position of authority and she knows the truth, and appreciates the work they do. Fantastic. But the St Louis murder charges still aren't going to disappear, and presumably the case is open again now that Dean is suspected of faking his own death. Still…does that mean Dean is no longer legally dead? But they need to be more careful about covering their tracks in future – we'll see if that follows through on-screen in episodes still to come.
36. The banter as the boys walk away at the end, and even a little shoulder charge from Sam… So comfortable together. Love it.
Awesome.
I started listing all the things I loved about this episode...and the list got kinda long! Hehe.
1. The Previouslies. Seriously. All those aliases and false identities. Awesome.
2. Dean handcuffed to the table. Um. Yes.
3. Sam's sullen, pissed off face while Officer Diana tells him what a terrible person his murderer brother is. That expression used to be reserved for John, or for when Dean followed John's orders without question. Oh, and the way he's casually checking out the view from the window in that first scene in custody while looking sullen – ties in with the act, but he's also casing his exit route…
4. Sam's snarking while in custody. The snark does not belong to Dean alone. Nuh-uh. For all that Sam is usually stuck playing the straight man. "We saw the second largest ball of twine in the continental US. Awesome." And that he turns his chair around to sit on it backwards.
5. Confirmation that John's death is not official. How could it be? He was using a false identity at the time, and officially remains a missing person.
6. Possible fingerprint matches. Well, yeah – they habitually break into crime scenes and rarely if ever wear gloves. As demonstrated in this episode, in fact.
7. Both boys lying with absolute fluency, twisting the truth just enough to make their activities seem harmless and innocent.
8. Dean calling Sam 'Scully'.
9. The wearing of v-neck t-shirts
10. Sam
11. Dean
12. The chick playing Karen Giles used to be in Jake 2.0, I believe, and it took me half the episode to pin her down.
13. The 'insurance agents' suits again. Dean so eagerly and enthusiastically asking the grieving widow the most bizarre questions imaginable. Because those questions are supremely relevant to his investigation…but from her point of view are just weird. And Sam so effortlessly switching from glaring at Dean to his best sympathy face for Karen, and back again.
14. The whole danashulps anagram thing, with the extra letters being such a conundrum right up to the last. Sam breathing on the glass table to reveal the writing there, and his face on doing so. The two boys both working the problem out simultaneously while in police custody, instead of wasting time worrying about their predicament. The case comes first.
15. Dean's utter boredom as Sam continues to work on hacking Giles' computer and Dean's run out of jobs to do himself poking around the office. Dean really isn't a sit around doing nothing kind of guy. Calling Sam 'Sparky'.
16. Seeing how close the boys have become again, after their shared grief had threatened to drive them apart earlier in the season. The bond they have shines through throughout this episode, even though they're barely together in it (again)
17. The fuzzy-vision when Karen Giles takes off her glasses, because – yes.
18. The sheer bad luck and bad timing that leads to Dean's arrest at the crime scene and thus the events of the entire episode. I mean, honestly, their luck had to run out sooner or later. And the fact that his investigative instinct overrides common sense, stopping to examine the body instead of hotfooting it out of there on discovering a fresh corpse. After all, he has no way of knowing she'd already called the police before she died…
19. Dean picking all the locks in this episode instead of Sam. Job demarcation is becoming less and less.
20. Dean and Sam each independently calling the defence lawyer 'Matlock'. "You two really are brothers, aren't you?" And the lawyer's bemusement at Dean's disinterest in his own case, sitting there working on that anagram rather than paying attention.
21. 'Hilts' and 'McQueen' as pseudonyms for covert communication while separated at the police station. Great Escape, huh. And the fact that they have an established protocol for if they are separated and need to find each other, that fact so casually tossed in there and just so believable.
22. Sam taking the first opportunity to escape on receiving Dean's note about the street name. Case comes first, and Dean's a little tied up right now – over to you, kiddo. Out the window, and the cops totally perplexed as to how he managed it.
23. Dean's 'confession'. It's just...so Dean. Deadly serious beneath the bravado. If the lies don't work, go with the truth and see where that gets you. Nothing left to lose, and a case still to work, so it's the perfect diversion to aid Sam's escape. Telling the truth on camera has all the cops thinking he's nuts, but it works. Diana has got the information when she needs it, and is bright enough to put the pieces together and go to him – a prisoner, a suspected murderer – for help.
24. The fact that the case comes first, and saving lives comes first. Dean taking a leap of faith and sending Diana to Sam, giving up his safe hideout, in order to save her life. Just does the right thing, without hesitation. And her reciprocating that leap of faith.
25. Linda Blair is just sooo tiny standing next to Jared Padalecki, who is a giant.
26. "You have your job, I have mine." 'Nuff said.
27. Diana being speechless on first seeing the spirit in the derelict building, and then calling for Sam just moments after I'd yelled at my screen 'shout for Sam, you wally!'
28. Sam using his elbow to break down a brick wall – Sam, honey, you don't want to break your other arm as well, do you?! Sam is so on board with the job these days, and adorable with it.
29. The fact that the spirit turns out not to be vengeful after all, appearing instead as a death omen.
30. The case turning out to be as much about police work as it is ghost hunting – which is inevitable when the ghost is that of someone so recently deceased. Not all ghosts are of decades long gone.
31. Dean getting dragged out into the woods in the middle of the night, chained hand and foot, for impromptu execution, and knowing full well that he's in serious trouble of a non-legal variety but still keeping up the devil-may-care façade because there's not a damn thing he can do about it. We don't often see Dean so utterly helpless.
32. Sam remembering about the lo-jack on Pete's police vehicle before Diana.
33. The little glances back and forth between Sam and Dean while Pete and Diana argue out the exposition of Pete's evil actions. Sam anxious to do something, and Dean all 'no, don't try anything'. Message received and understood by both. Dean and Sam don't need words to communicate. And Dean's outrage at being called a 'scumbag' outweighing the fact of being at gunpoint just at that moment.
34. Once again, the human perpetrator dies at the hands of someone other than Sam or Dean.
35. Diana's willingness to do what she can to get the legal action against the boys dismissed – the Baltimore end, anyway – and turning her back to allow them to go. She's in a position of authority and she knows the truth, and appreciates the work they do. Fantastic. But the St Louis murder charges still aren't going to disappear, and presumably the case is open again now that Dean is suspected of faking his own death. Still…does that mean Dean is no longer legally dead? But they need to be more careful about covering their tracks in future – we'll see if that follows through on-screen in episodes still to come.
36. The banter as the boys walk away at the end, and even a little shoulder charge from Sam… So comfortable together. Love it.
Awesome.
