Supernatural: Jump the Shark recap
May 5th 2009 23:51
Sam and Dean get a call on their dad’s cell phone by 19-year-old Adam Milligan in Minnesota. Adam claims to be looking for his dad, John Winchester. The boys go to meet this kid, and Dean is immediately suspicious, thinking this is a trap. Sam, on the other hand, believes Adam is telling the truth, that he really is their half-brother. Adam says was calling his dad because his mother disappeared, and he can’t find her.
After putting Adam through the usual silver and holy water test, Sam and Dean go with the boy to his house, where they find pictures of Adam’s normal upbringing with their father. This infuriates Dean, and when Sam wants to teach Adam about hunting for his own good, Dean argues that their dad kept all this away from Adam to protect him, to give him the life they could never have.
Doing some research, Sam and Dean find out that their dad was investigating a series of grave diggings in 1990. Last month the same thing started happening again. After finding a vent under Adam’s mother’s bed, Sam and Dean ‘rock, paper, scissors’ to decide who’s going to go crawling through it. As usual, Dean loses, and climbs into the duct. He finds a bloody mess at the end. No way someone could survive that.
Adam eventually figures out that Sam and Dean are definitely not mechanics, and when he demands to know what’s going on, Sam tells him the truth. He and Dean argue over whether or not to let Adam help them hunt down the thing that killed his mother. Dean storms out to go check on where the bodies were stolen from and talk to the missing man’s wife, and Sam stays behind to teach Adam some tricks of the trade, despite Dean’s argument that they’re going to keep their father’s wishes to keep Adam out of the family business.
As Dean finds out that the missing bartender used to be a deputy that worked the same grave robbery case as his dad, Sam and Adam hear something crawling around in the vent at the hotel. They rush out to Adam’s car, but aren’t able to get inside before the thing, whatever it is, grabs Sam and starts pulling him under the truck. Adam grabs on to Sam and shouts for Dean’s help as Dean drives up in the Impala. Dean jumps out, grabbing both his brother and his gun. He helps pull Sam free and shoots under the truck. Whatever it was, it’s gone now. Adam falls back on the road, trying to catch his breath. So much for keeping him out of the family business.
They move the car and find a sewer grate. Whatever it was, Dean winged it. He asks Sam if he saw anything, but he didn’t. They might not know what it is, but they now know who it’s going after: anyone connected with the case their father worked all those years ago. The thing wants revenge.
Dean thinks they need to get Adam packed up, take him to Bobby’s, and then come back to finish what their dad started. Sam, on the other hand, argues that there’s always going to be something or someone out to get revenge on them and/or their dad. What if it finds Adam instead? He argues that Adam’s not ready, that they need to show him how to defend himself.
Although he doesn’t think this is a good idea, Dean sits by, shaking his head as Sam teaches Adam how to shoot a gun and gives him a crash course in hunter mythology. He reminds Adam that “being a hunter isn’t a job, it’s life.” Dean pulls his brother aside, asking Sam what’s up with the quoting Dad speech. He reminds Sam that he hated their dad for telling him that, that he left for Stanford just afterwards. Sam admits that he did hate their dad for a long time, but now he sees that he was right. Dean still argues that Adam can have a normal life, that he doesn’t have to be cursed like them, but Sam just answers, “He’s a Winchester. He’s already cursed.”
Unable to accept this, Dean sets out to look harder for whatever it is trying to kill Adam, and winds up trapped underground in the thing’s lair. Not good. Definitely not good.
~*~*~
Meanwhile, Sam and Adam are trying to demon-proof the house. Sam lays down the rocksalt as Adam boards up all the vents but one. Suddenly they hear a noise from downstairs.
“Mom?”
Adam runs down to hug his mother before Sam can stop him. Gun pointed, he tries to talk Adam into stepping away from what he knows is not Adam’s mother.
~*~*~
Dean comes upon an old coffin and lifts the lid. Both Adam and his mother are inside, both dead.
~*~*~
As Sam tries to convince Adam that that is not his mother, Adam grabs the rifle away from Sam.
“Shoot it!” Sam shouts, but Adam hesitates, he turns the gun back and forth, and when Sam shouts, “Shoot it! It’s not human!” Adam smiles. “I know.” He knocks Sam out.
~*~*~
Dean looks around for another way out, and finds an angel stained glass window in the roof. It’s his only chance.
~*~*~
Sam wakes up tied to the table, and realizes that Adam and his mother are ghouls. The fresh kills are what threw him off, ghouls don’t normally go after the living. Adam reminds him that ghouls are able to take over the last corpse they ate in both body and memories. “Like Adam for instance.” “We are what we eat,” Kate quips as Adam slices Sam’s arm. Kate begins feeding on Sam, then looks up. “His blood, it tastes different.” They continue to cut and torture Sam slowly.
~*~*~
Dean escapes through the window and rushes back to find Sam bleeding to death. The two ghouls attack him, and Sam manages to shout to his brother what they really are. Dean shoots Kate in the head, but Adam continues to fight him. Still tied down, Sam is losing a lot of blood very fast.
Dean finally manages to beat the last ghoul to death, and rushes over to help his brother. He slices through the binds and helps Sam sit up. “Alright, here we go, here we go.” Dean quickly wrapping towels around Sam’s cut arms.
“Thank you,” Sam gasps weakly, and Dean holds pressure on the wounds. “That’s what family’s for, right?”
~*~*~
Sam and Dean burn the bodies, and Dean tells Sam that he finally gets why he and their dad butted heads so much. “You two are practically the same person. I mean, I worshiped the guy, you know?” he continues. “I dressed like him, I acted like him, I listened to the same music. But you are more like him than I will ever be. And I see that now.”
Sam thinks about this a moment, then answers, “I’ll take that as a compliment.”
“You take it any way you want.”
SAM: Hey! How’d you sleep?
DEAN: (grunting and stumbling out of the Impala): How do you think? I’m starving, let’s get breakfast.
SAM: Where? We’re like two hours from anything.
DEAN: But I’m hungry now.
SAM: There’s probably still a sandwich in the backseat.
DEAN: (pulls out a paper bag from the backseat, gasps in disgust) It’s tuna.
~*~*~
DEAN: (on phone) Sorry to be the one to break this to you pal, but John died more than two years ago. (at the shocked pause) Who is this?
ADAM: I’m his son.
~*~*~
DEAN: This is a trap.
~*~*~
SAM: Dean, I’m telling you, the kid checks out.
DEAN: Great, so he’s an actual person on the planet earth. It sucks he’s got a demon in him.
~*~*~
SAM: And what if he’s not possessed?
DEAN: Then he is a shapeshifter.
SAM: Hence the silver.
DEAN: Look, either way, this thing is gonna bleed. I mean, using Dad as bait? That’s the last mistake of its short pitiful life.
~*~*~
DEAN: You’re not actually buying this, are you?
SAM: Look man, I don’t want to believe it either, I’m just saying it’s possible. I mean, Dad would be gone for weeks at a time, and he wasn’t exactly a monk. I mean, a hunter rolls into town, kills the monster, saves the girl. Sometimes the girl’s thankful.
DEAN: Great, now I’m thinking about Dad sex, stop talking.
SAM: Maybe he slipped one past the goalie.
DEAN: Dude!
~*~*~
ADAM: How did he die?
SAM: On the job.
ADAM: He’s a mechanic, right?
DEAN: A car fell on him.
~*~*~
ADAM: He had this beautiful ’67 Impala—
DEAN: Oh this is crap, you know what? You’re lying.
ADAM: No I’m not.
DEAN: Uh, yeah you are.
ADAM: I’m sorry, but who the hell are you to call me a liar?
DEAN: We’re John Winchester’s sons, that’s who. WE are his sons.
ADAM: …I’ve got brothers?
~*~*~
DEAN: (looking at picture of Adam and his dad) He took you to a baseball game?
ADAM: Yeah, when I turned 14. Dad was around for a few of my birthdays.
SAM: (reading journal) September 29, 2004, one word: Minnesota.
DEAN: He took you to a freakin’ baseball game?
ADAM: Yeah, why, what’d Dad do with you on your birthday?
~*~*~
ADAM: What, you think the cops missed something?
DEAN: Maybe. They don’t have my eyes.
ADAM: You’re a mechanic…
DEAN: Yeah, that’s right.
~*~*~
(Sam and Dean take one look at the vent under the bed, ‘rock, paper, scissors’, and Dean loses)
DEAN: Every time!
~*~*~
ADAM: So who are you really?
~*~*~
ADAM: You are not mechanics.
~*~*~
ADAM: So basically you’re saying that every movie monster, every nightmare that I’ve ever had, that’s all real?
DEAN: Godzilla’s just a movie.
~*~*~
ADAM: So how can I help?
DEAN: You can’t.
ADAM: This thing killed my mom, if you’re hunting it I want in.
DEAN: No.
SAM: Dean, look, maybe—
DEAN: Maybe what?
SAM: He lost his mother, maybe we can understand what it feels like.
DEAN: Why do you think Dad never told us about this kid, Sam, huh? Why do you think he ripped out the pages?
SAM: Because—
DEAN: Because he was protecting him!
SAM: Dad’s dead, Dean…
DEAN: It doesn’t matter! He didn’t want Adam to have our lives, okay? And we’re gonna respect his wishes.
ADAM: Do I get a say in this?
SAM and DEAN: NO!
~*~*~
ADAM: Is he always like that?
SAM: (laughs) Welcome to the family.
~*~*~
SAM: (pulls out his gun) Here, I’m gonna teach you a few things.
ADAM: Uh, Dean said…
SAM: I know what Dean said. (hands him gun) And I know what it’s like to want revenge.
~*~*~
MORTUARY MAN: Tell me, Agent Nugent, have you thought about where you’d like to spend eternity?
DEAN: All the damn time.
~*~*~
ADAM: Sam, how did Dad really die?
SAM: A demon.
ADAM: You hunted it down, got revenge?
SAM: Dean killed it.
ADAM: So it’s over for you.
SAM: It’s never over.
~*~*~
SAM: It’s in the vents—go!
~*~*~
SAM: We shouldn’t leave.
DEAN: Yeah, stay here where the kid’s mom got ganked. Good one.
SAM: I’m serious.
DEAN: No Sam, we’re gonna take the kid, we’re gonna drop him off at Bobby’s, and then you and me are gonna come back here and finish what dad started.
~*~*~
DEAN: You wanna use the kid as bait? That’s why you want to stay here?
SAM: Maybe this thing will come back. We could train Adam. Get him ready.
DEAN: He could DIE, Sam.
SAM: We could all die, Dean. Even if we do kill this thing, there are tons of other freaks that want revenge. On Dad, on us. What if they find the kid instead? He’s not ready.
ADAM: I’ll do it. Whatever it takes, I’ll do it. I want to do it.
~*~*~
SAM: Being a hunter isn’t a job, Adam. It’s life. You’re pre-med, you’ve got a girlfriend, friends? Not anymore, you don’t. If you’re really gonna do this, you can’t have those kinds of connections. Ever. They’re weaknesses. You’ll just put those people in danger, get them killed. It’s the price we pay. You cut ‘em out and you don’t look back. There’s only one thing we can count on. Family.
DEAN: Sam, can I talk to you a second?
(they go into the other room)
DEAN: What the hell was that?
SAM: What?
DEAN: Hunting is life? You can’t have connections? Dad gave you that exact same speech, remember? It was just before you ditched us for Stanford. You hated Dad for saying that stuff, and now you’re quoting him?
SAM: Yeah, well, turns out Dad was right.
DEAN: Since when?
SAM: Since always. Dean, when I look at Adam, you know what I see?
DEAN: A normal kid.
SAM: No, meat. Because to the demons and monsters out there that’s all he is. I hated Dad for a long time, I did. But now I think I understand. So we didn’t have a dog and a white picket fence, so what? Dad did right by us, he taught us how to protect ourselves. Adam deserves the same.
DEAN: Listen to yourself, man.
SAM: You think I’m wrong?
DEAN: I think it’s too late for us. This is our life, this is who we are, okay? And it’s fine, I accept that. But Adam? He’s still got a chance, man. He can go to school, he can be a doctor.
SAM: What makes Adam so special?
DEAN: What, are you jealous of the kid?
SAM: Are you?
(beat)
SAM: Dean…all this? It’s not real. The Dad Adam knew? He wasn’t real. The things out there in the shadows? THEY are real. The world is coming to an end, that’s real. Everything else is just part of the crap people tell themselves to get through the day.
DEAN: Dad didn’t have a choice with us, okay? But with Adam he did. Adam doesn’t have to be cursed.
SAM: He’s a Winchester. He’s already cursed.
DEAN: No, no whatever’s hunting Adam, I’m gonna find it.
SAM: You already looked everywhere, Dean.
DEAN: Well then I’ll look again.
~*~*~
SAM: No wonder none of the tests worked. You’re not shapeshifers. You’re ghouls.
KATE: You know, I find that term racist.
~*~*~
KATE: We are what we eat.
~*~*~
KATE: (about Sam) His blood, it tastes different.
~*~*~
SAM: Dean they’re ghouls!
*BAM!*
DEAN: Which means head shots.
~*~*~
(as Dean’s wrapping up his brother’s cut arms)
SAM: Thank you.
DEAN: That’s what family’s for, right?
~*~*~
DEAN: Adam was our brother. He died like a hunter, he deserves to go out like one.
~*~*~
DEAN: You know, I finally get why you and Dad butted heads so much. You two are practically the same person. I mean, I worshiped the guy, you know? I dressed like him, I acted like him, I listened to the same music. But you are more like him than I will ever be. And I see that now.
SAM: I’ll take that as a compliment.
DEAN: You take it any way you want.
I was initially a little worried about this episode, but from now on I'll trust Kripke and co. wihtout doubt. Despite the name of the episode, the show did not "jump the shark" at all. In fact, I loved this episode just as much as all the others. This season just keeps getting better and better!
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