By Angela Hines
Director: John Showalter
Writers: Eric Kripke (creator), Adam Glass
Episode 6.02 Original Air Date: October 1, 2010
After the roller coaster return of last week which seen Dean Winchester(Jensen Ackles) domesticated, suburbanized, and living the "apple-pie life as his brother had wanted. It also saw, Sam Winchester(Jared Padalecki), returning back into Dean's life after a year long absent, with a whole new attitude and personality to boot. Sam was not the Sam of old but a more older, wiser and way colder person who had become all about ridding the world of all things evil.
Now working with a whole new group of hunters, including the boys back from the dead grandfather-- Samuel Campbell (Mitch Pileggi); throw in three never heard before cousins-- also from the Campbell's side of the family, and you have the makings of a true head scratcher! It was like being dropped in bizarro world where up is down and down is up. I was seriously wondering for a minute if maybe I'd bumped into a Djinn or if some Angels had secretly worked their mojo on me recently.
Suffice to say my my hopes weren't as high going into the Two and a Half Men episode, however, I must say it did not disappoint. It felt like a return to the show I come to love and remember, but of course with a twist on our regular monster of the week we've become accustomed to.
This weeks episode,Two and a Half Men, had Sam investigating a case where babies have gone missing and the parents brutally murdered. Clues eventually leads him to a house where, while there searching for any sign of survivors, he's immediately attacked by a mysterious intruder. During the ensuing fight Sam slashes the stranger and it becomes pretty clear fast, that this is no ordinary intruder-- but in fact a ShapeShifter who leaves in a hurry before Sam could do anything more to him. That was the first surprise, the second would be even more shocking as Sam finds a baby alive there!
Meanwhile, Dean's trying to get Lisa and Ben settled into the new place after moving because of the Djinn attacked from last week, he is also been trying and failing to conceal his new anxieties about the nasty things he knows are lurking just beyond the door. The use of salt for one, no longer used as just another condiment to be served on food, but as a way to seal the house from unwanted intruders of the demon kind. Another example, is Dean uncharacteristically snapping at Ben after confronting him playing with Dean's shotgun that he took from the trunk of the Impala and Ben's new found fascinations with wanting to be a hunter. It seems as if Ben knows a lot more about Dean's past than I thought. Dean fears concerning Ben and Lisa getting hurt and his ongoing pursuit of trying to pull out all stops to protect them had begun to really take a toll on them.
Giving all the tension, it probably came as a bit of relief when Sam called Dean for help on his case even though, Dean was still reluctant to leave Lisa and Ben alone he eventually caves in deciding to join Sam after Lisa suggested it would be good for him to go hunting with his brother, even resorting to threatening to shoot him if he didn't agree to go.
So Dean leaves to join Sam who introduces him to their new client I guess you can say --the now orphaned baby boy. But before they could get started on the case they'd to get some supplies first... of the baby kind. Never thought we'd see included in their hunting arsenal: diapers, bottles or eek baby ointment?
This was a great scene in the store of the boys trying to get all these baby supplies because the baby was about to do what all baby eventually do and this erupt in fits of tears. The boys acting just like any parent would, rushing to finish the shopping was hilarious to watch. As the confused brothers standing in the check out line, trying to figure out how to consul their new charge, a little old lady seeing the boys distress offers to help by holding the baby to quiet him. She asked to know what the baby names was which, Dean and Sam said in unison, "Bobby and John" and they finally settled on "Bobby John." After gaining the boys trust she offers to changed the little tyke for them, but Dean realized pretty quickly after catching the old lady's reflection, that this is not an ordinary old lady. They get the baby back and quickly high tailed it out of the store before the old lady ShapeShifter can make off with the kid and take off to the motel.
Back at the motel, the boys were failing miserably to get Bobby John asleep long enough so they can work on the case at hand. Sam not having any real experience lets Dean give it a try and Bobby John is soon fast asleep with Dean humming Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water, stunning Sam who was not used to seeing this side of Dean before at least not with a kid anyway. I had expected nothing less from Dean. Bobby John is clearly a future classic rock fan!
Going through the information gather so far, Sam discovers in one of the files he has, that both parents were not killed because the husband and wife were divorce and only the wife died. They would have to go talk to the former husband, but after quickly realizing that someone would have to watch the baby, Dean half heartily volunteers to stay behind while Sam goes to talk to the ex-husband.
While talking to the man, Sam soon discovers the ex-husband was out of town during the time of conception and he wasn't buying the wife's story, she told him, that the only man she had slept with on that night of conception was him. Since he refused to believe her they eventually got a divorce. Putting the pieces together of the ex-husband's story, Sam realizes that the wife had actually slept with and became impregnated by a ShapeShifter looking like her husband.
At the same time, Dean hearing strange noises coming from the crib, and seeing what appears to be skin on the wall looks in the crib only to find a very different baby in there.The baby is actually the offspring of the ShapeShifter!
Before Dean has time to comprehend the newly changed baby a ShapeShifter posing a the manager breaks into the motel and tells Dean to hand over the kid to which Dean of course refused.The ShapeShifter tells Dean that their father wants the baby and tries to take him before Sam shoots and kills him. Trying to figure out what the next move is they wind up at Samuel's hideout but against Dean's wishes.
Dean's mistrust of the Campbells are heighten further when Samuel makes the odd suggestion that Christian and his wife raised the baby as a hunter. But the real daddy ShapeShifter arrives looking like Grandpa Samuel, who it turns out to be the very First ShapeShifter, has other plans and demands they turn over his son!
Samuel orders Sam and Dean to take the baby down to the the panic room while the rest of the Campbells deal with the situation. The Campbell's fighting against the First ShapeShifter, using some of their specialized darts thought they had the fight at hand but the ShapeShifter in the process kills Mark Campbell instead.
It seems that whatever is in these darts are no match for this particular ShapeShifter who seems immune to it!
Still hearing the commotion up stairs and sensing they might be trouble, Sam decides to go help but as he goes to open the door he sees the ShapeShifter morphed into him standing on the other side of the door. Sam backs away from the door as the ShapeShifter breaks the door off of its hinges and enter the panic room and throws Sam out of the
room knocking him unconscious. He then shapeshifts into Dean next and over powers him as well taking the baby and casually walks away. Upstairs Samuel and Sam are
conversing privately and agree that the legend of killing the the first ShapeShifter by means of the same tools used to kill the other ShapeShifters does not work on the very first ShapeShifter which they tell a stunned Dean. Outside by the car, Dean begins to wonder is Sam had used him and the baby in order to lure the First ShapeShifter to the Campbell hideout. Sam weakly denies it but I not sure Dean believed him!
Inside, Samuel is taking a phone call from a mysterious stranger. Samuel had informed the caller about the events that transpired at the hideout, but the caller seemed
even more disappointed that Samuel hadn't captured the First ShapeShifter. What? First the Gjinn and now the ShapeShifter, what is Samuel and the mysterious
caller up to? And why are they now capturing them instead of just killing them like before? Very strange!
Back at with Lisa, Dean and her talk and he apologies for treating them the same way that his father had treated he and Sam growing up. She accepts his apology but tells him he should be on the road hunting with his brother because that is where he really wants to be and she can't continue to have the same conversation with him and that she and Ben would be there when he comes back.
After Dean and Lisa talk, Dean goes into the garage and as he yanks the tarp off the Impala once again Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water is playing, as we see several angles shots of the car. Dean standing there smiling as he gives the Impala a final once over before heading out into the open road.
To me this felt like a return to old show that I remember. And while Dean and Sam are no where at the place I hoped their relationship to be, I am hopeful that we will
get a true reunion befitting seasons past. I still think Sam has something to hide and sorry Sammy I wasn't buying your whole denial about not using Dean or Bobby John to trap the First ShapeShifter. By the way, the First ShapeShifter and he didn't even need to shed his old skin he just transformed. Now that was creepy! The scenes of Winchester Boys and the baby at the motel were priceless. But I can also tell that when Dean was drinking in that scene that Sam was trying to bite his tongue. Maybe he didn't want to get into a fight with Dean but I know this fight will eventually come.
A problem I had also in that same scene at the motel, is Sam telling Dean that he should have left Lisa and Ben, now that Sam is back in his life, rather than continue to stay in their lives because it puts them in danger. In the premiere of Exile on Main Street from last week, he said something similar to Dean. And I remember thinking too bad you told Dean to go there in the first place. But he
was sacrificing himself for the world in order to stop the Apocalypse so I'll let that slide.
What I don't get is for a whole year Sam could had come to Dean and told him and they could be back on the road again. Even their grandfather wanted to go to Dean a while ago to tell him he and Sam was back from the dead, but Sam said no. And it seems like now that Sam has finally told Dean he's alive he expected him to get back on the road and start fighting again! In this episode he seems to be pushing even harder for it, even going so far as telling Dean that in his quest to protect Lisa and Ben from harm, he is acting like John was in raising them.
Grandfather Samuel seems to want Dean to trust him and the rest of the Campbell clan, but once a hunter always a hunter and Dean has been burned one too many
times in the past to ever put his trust in them. But family or not they still can't be trusted. Taking calls from mysterious strangers probably doesn't help his cause either
since it makes me trust him less. Poor cousin Mark Campbell, a man of few words snuffed out before we could learn anything more about him. Plus he and Dean got along so well, a couple more episodes and they could have be pen pals!
Good to finally see Dean's Baby. I think that is the happiest I've seen Dean in a very lonngg time! It was like Christmas came early when Dean finally took the tarp off the Impala. Just like you 'don't put baby in a corner', you don't put Dean's baby under a tarp. It will be good to see her out on the road again. Sorry Sam but your car just wasn't doing it for me.
I'm giving Two and a Half Men a B+ because it was a good episode and a return to what I love about Supernatural; hot guys, a slamming car, great rock tunes and good mysterious that needs solving what else could a fan want? Maybe some Pie!
So what did you think of the Two and a Half Men episode? Have you changed your mind about the Campbells yet or has this made you trust the them even less? Who do you think the mysterious caller is? Got any theories about the MOTW and why they are all acting the way they are? What about Sam, can he still be trusted? Did he really lure Dean and Bobby John into a trap like Dean thinks or is Dean wrong? Should Dean had stayed with Lisa and Ben a little longer or should he have taken off sooner? Or not have went there in the first place. All questions and theories are welcome! What moment in this episode had you laughing? I want to hear it all so post below!
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I loved that episode it made me laugh and that felt good, it felt like the old days when they were Fun and the show was not so bogged down in the whole Heaven-Hell Politics, I enjoyed the scenes with Sam and Dean and
BobbyJohn, watching Dean hold that baby made me feel all warm inside.
I don't know what Grandpa Samuel and Sammy are hiding but it is going to cost Sam the trust of his brother and we don't want that, get Sam and Dean back in The Impala and on the road alone, because they need to talk over a lot of things, and Dean punch Christian in his face the guy is just asking for it( What a Douchebag!!!).
I am just wonderinf what is the Big
Bad the boys will have to do battle with next??
Welcome back Castiel!!!!
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