I'm still pissed about last week, so I had a really hard time getting into this episode. It's like the writers are unwilling to take Dean to a such dark place, while they have had no problem taking Sam to such lengths. Sam has spent the whole of season 4 and half of season 6 doing a lot of shady stuff, and even Cas has done some bad things and almost became a big problem, though that did not last long and we never saw most of it. But Dean.. He's a different story. Okay, he has done some shady crap in the past (erasing Lisa and Ben's memories, allowing angel inside Sam) and he reacts violently to grief (season 2 and 7) and became generally more violent after Purgatory and after receiving the Mark, but becoming a demon is the first time Dean is properly evil and they give us 3 fucking episodes of it?! Even Soulless Sam got half a season! I promised myself I wouldn't rant anymore, but oh well... Why is it so hard for the writers to give Dean a proper storyline and follow through with it? While the show is from Dean's point of view, the story is almost always about Sam. Sam has powers, Sam does not want Dean to go to Hell, Sam is soulless, Sam is hallucinating, Sam is doing the trials, Sam almost dies, Sam is pissed at Dean etc. I know there have been some great storylines involving Dean, but the major ones seem to be mostly about Sam. Why would you not go further with this storyline? This better pay off in the future... Because I'm still fucking pissed about this.
Okay, the episode. It's not a bad one, once you get over the disappointmet that Dean is just Dean now. I was spoiled on Twitter that Kate would be back so of course the cold open made me think she was behind the killings.
Sam and Dean are chilling by some lake. And to take a moment to be completely superficial; damn those shades look hot on the boys. Especially Dean. Daaamn.. Okay, moment over. The boys are supposed to be on Cas-ordered vacation, but of course Dean is getting restless and has found a case. Sam is a lot more reluctant to go, but Dean insists that he needs to get back to normal. At least his big brother moment to tease Sam about the sling was very normal for Dean.
And the hilarious Winchester logic is back when they are speaking with a local police about the killings. Seriously boys, how are you still so bad at your covers and at lying? In the end Sam saves Dean from rambling too much and directs the cop back to business.
A witness to one of the killings directs the boys to a barn, where they find Kate. Who is surprisingly willing to die. Yeah, that's not suspicious at all... But before Dean can kill her, Sam interferes, thinking Dean is not ready for killing and Kate escapes.
Sam says that the whole point of taking a break was because Dean was not ready to hunt yet. But Dean argues that Sam might not be ready either and I think Dean has a point. Dean is not the only one that went to the deep end in the last few months, so following Sam's own logic, Sam would need a break too, though Sam rejects this. They have been back together for like a day and they are back to arguing. Like the boys said, this is good...
They find Kate's motel and see "Kate" leaving, so they follow her. But it is not Kate. The girl tries to talk her way out of this, but when Dean tries to test her, she attacks. The boys are close to losing when Kate arrives and stops the girl, who is apparently her sister.
Kate has some explaining to do, so they find a diner. She tells the boys that she is not a killer and the only reason she turned her sister was to save her life. She thought they could live in peace together, but Tasha was not strong enough to resist the urge to kill. So now Kate is protecting her, trying to get her back on the right path, willing to die for her.
Dean tricks Kate into believing that they can cure her and Tasha, if they can find her. Not surprisingly, it is a lie to just find Tasha and to kill her. Sam argues that they cannot do this, at least, not to Kate, she was just trying to save her sister, and compared to Sam and Dean, Kate and Tasha are in the minor leagues. However, it seems Dean has finally understood that the lenghts they would go for each other is not healthy and never works perfectly, so maybe it is not worth it. He seems to understand that natural order should not be messed with.
With Kate sleeping in the car, the boys have a chance to have a heart to heart. Sam confesses that he knows what he did was messed up, but hearing his side of what happened after Dean died, yeah, that would mess anyone up. Dean says he is embarassed by the things he did when he was a demon and I have to say, that is a weird fucking way to express it. Guilty? Yes. Ashamed? That works. But embarassed? That seems like a wrong word to use. But at least it is a nice bro moment.
So Kate leads the boys into her parents' cabin and Dean handcuffs her to the car, so he and Sam can go inside to get Tasha. Dean tells Kate that "Tasha's in way too deep. You don't ever come back from that. Not ever. " He's talking about himself, isn't he? Ugh, way to punch me in the heart, Supernatural. Poor Dean.
Once inside, the boys run into trouble. Sam finds Tasha but she has turned two guys and they have Dean at gun point. Tasha tells Sam to drop his gun or they will shoot Dean. And I have to wonder, if Dean dies again, now that he still has the Mark, would he turn into demon again? I mean, I still refuse to believe that Dean is really human again, but while the show is dead set on Dean being back to normal, I have to find other ways to bring the demon back. So yeah, I kinda wanted them to kill Dean to see what would happen. I'm horrible, I know.
However, Kate saves them again and Tasha tells her to prove her loyalty to her sister and her pack by eating Sam's heart. While Kate is ready to die for her sister, she will not kill for her and refuses. Tasha orders the two guys to kill Sam and Dean, while she deals with Kate. Tasha tries to get Kate see her side, but all it does is make Kate see that there is no saving her sister. So she does what she promised to do; she kills Tasha. Now that's a resolve not even Sam and Dean have ever been capable of and I can admire her for that. Meanwhile, Sam kills the two guys, who really didn't seem to have a clue of what kinda people they were dealing with. Come on, in what world would a hunter, especially Sam and Dean, carry just one weapon. Kate escapes again before the boys can get to her, which was a surprise. People, let alone monsters, that return to the show don't usually get to live.
Sam finally admits that they both needed the vacation and tells Dean that he needs to take time off to deal with everything. Dean, on the other hand, argues that that is the last thing he needs. He needs to be out there, doing some good and not think about all the bad things he has done. He admits that maybe he's not ready, but he is tired of making bad choices (those have really beed piling up lately) and needs to make some good ones. Finally the boys seem to be on the same page about the issue.
So there is no new episode next week (which sucks), but if I have the energy and inspiration I'll try to come up with some other Supernatural related things (no rants though, I promise that).
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