Sam points to it again here when he pleads with Olivia, stating that ‘being a monster is a choice.’ Dean established that himself when Sam was attempting to cure him, pointing out that his brother’s methods to save him weren’t all that heroic. Dean turning into a demon set the tone for a recurring theme across the season, questioning the differences between heroes and monsters. When killing the shapeshifter, Dean doesn’t stop with the one bullet, emptying more rounds into the dead body without really needing to and stopping Sam dead before another heartfelt conversation. However, Ask Jeeves is not without its connection to the wider story of what’s happening with Dean since his return from the demonic brink. It’s what Dean has been wanting to get back too as well – ‘saving people, hunting things’ – and the show feels all the better for returning to that. It helps that the episode sees Dean fixing his car and ends on another classic song with Bob Seger’s Travelin’ Man. Though monsters-of-the-week have featured in the later seasons too, it’s the first time for a while that a recent episode captured the atmosphere of the early seasons when the show was more defined by those individual episodes than its mythology. A shapeshifter seemed the most obvious given the style of the murders. The opening ‘Then’ scenes of the more eclectic monsters that the boys have faced over the seasons, as well as clueing us in to the more comedic atmosphere, also allowed the audience to start guessing which one would feature. It’s easily the best moment in the episode and the supporting cast shine as Sam and Dean attempt to go about their investigation without actually telling them a shapeshifter is involved. Naturally, it wouldn’t be a complete homage without the scene where everyone gathers together and tries to suss out the killer and their motive. The script afforded them some brilliant lines and they seize it with relish, sending up the kind of WASPish families that so often appeared in programmes like Murder She Wrote (also referenced here). It also helped that the supporting cast of Bunny’s money-grabbing family were all excellent, especially Gillian Vigman and Debra McCabe as the gruesome twosome of Heddy and Beverly, keen to get their claws into Sam or Dean. Here, the score takes on the jazzy, playful stylings of murder mystery shows (particularly the clarinet of Diagnosis Murder) that works well with regards to the upper class setting as well as being suitably discordant for the presence of the Winchesters within in it. Jay Gruska has worked on just over half of Supernatural’s episodes during its time on air and he’s adept at transforming his work to fit the various styles non-mytharc episodes often embody, including fan favourite Monster Movie. However, Sam isn’t sure he even wants his soul back after everything he’s learned.The score also worked particularly well this week, given the murder mystery homage that characterised Ask Jeeves. First he needs to help the monsters in the prison cells. With everything said and done, Castiel admits that the war in Heaven isn’t going well but that he will keep finding a way to get Sam’s soul back.
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Just as he’s about to kill everyone, Castiel turns up with a bag of bones, supposedly belonging to Crowley.Īfter Crowley admits again that he can’t get Sam’s soul back, Castiel burns the bag and kills Crowley. He manages to get the knife from Ruby and scratches the devil’s trap to get out. Even if he could, the soul has been tortured for more than a century in Hell’s timeline and getting it back will destroy Sam.ĭean gives Meg the demon-killing knife so Meg can kill Crowley, but Crowley is one step ahead. This is a chance to demand Sam’s soul back, but under torture, Crowley admits that he can’t get Sam’s soul back.
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The Winchester brothers break Meg free and lure Crowley into a room, catching him in a devil’s trap.
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Dean now has the chance to sneak up behind Christian and kill him with Ruby’s knife. In all this mess, Meg has been captured and is now being tortured by Christian, who remains possessed by a demon. “Caged Heat” – Rachel Miner as Meg in SUPERNATURAL on The CW.