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Tonight Supernatural started in a not unusual way - someone being chased by something. However, when it catches her and drags her under the bed, she manages to knock over a bedside table. And a picture of John Winchester.
The boys get a phone call on their dad's old cell phone from someone claiming to be his son. Of course they go to investigate. At least, Sam goes to investigate. Dean goes to kill whatever monster it is the dares use their dad against them. However, Adam Milligan checks out and about 9 months before his birthday, the pages are torn out from John's journal. They pose as their dad's co-worker but when Adam tells them his mom disappeared, they begin to look around. At her house, they find claw marks leading under the bed and when Dean goes to take a look he finds chucks of person. Adam demands to know who they really are which is when the truth all comes out. It also comes out that their dad was in town after a grave robbing baddie and it appears to be back and targeting everyone he knew.
What happens next is interesting. Dean is of the mindset that they should leave Adam out of everything, just as their dad was trying to do. He's pre-med and has a chance at life. Not unlike Sam did when he was a student in college. Sam, on the other hand, wants to indoctrinate and train him in how to protect himself right away. This occurs through most of the show, with each brother becoming more sure his way is the right way. In fact, Sam even gives Adam the same speech their dad gave him, about hunting being their lives and how outside connections were only a weakness. Dean hears just enough to decide to hunt down whatever is after them.
And Dean does most of the actual hunting on his own while Sam goes about teaching Adam about guns, shooting and the hunter lifestyle. The investigation, on the other hand, seems to go nowhere. So when Sam suggests they use Adam as bait, Adam is all for it. Mostly because he wants the same revenge Sam is always after. Dean is less thrilled with this and he heads to the graveyard to take the fight to it's source. Unfortunately, he ends up trapped in a crypt while Adam's mom comes home. Sam yells that it's not really him mom and for him to shoot her but Adam only smiles. He knows it's not her and he knocks Sam unconscious instead. Right around the time Dean comes across the bodies of the real Adam and his mom in the crypt.
It seems the boys have some ghouls on their hands. Brother and sister ghouls who's father was killed by their father and they want some revenge on their own. The twist being that a ghoul takes on the form of the last meal it had, as well as that person's memories. So Adam really was the third Winchester son, before they killed him. All this is revealed to Sam as they start to bleed him to death. However, Dean has spent this time breaking out of the crypt and arrives just in time to finish off the ghouls and save Sam. The show ends with them giving the body of their brother a proper hunter's burial and Dean noting that Sam is more like their father than he will ever be.
This season has been a real role reversal between the brothers and tonight it really felt very organic as Dean tried to keep Adam out of hunting and Sam tried to pull him in. And Sam's darkness seems more in tune with who we know him to be than ever, especially when he suggested they call in a favor to bring Adam back to life. However, it seemed to me that he wasn't really suggesting that out of any personal feelings over Adam's death. In fact, it was Dean's idea that they give him the burial they did.
So why do you think Sam suggested bringing Adam back? Why didn't Sam seem to feel any emotion about their new found brother's demise? In what ways do you suppose Sam is most like their father? And is Dean the new Sam?
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I think Sam was hoping Adam could be their third partner and help them find all the bad guys faster. I think Dean was respecting their father's wishes that Adam be allowed a normal life and death.
Dean will never be Sam. Sam is still Sam in this episode, just more suicidal because even if he survive finale ( apocalypse) he never wants to live hunting life, he just want to die.
Physically, Dean can NEVER be as sexy as Sam.
Ima, get your eyes checked.
So happy to have Supernatural back! :o)
I thought this was a perfectly good ep of SN. And seeing how jealous Dean was, well that was funny and sad at the same time. And that's an attribute to how good of an actor Jensen Ackles is.
Next week brings back the angels, so that looks to toss us right back into the main story arc! Yay!
While I agree that Sam has become colder why should he show much emotion about Adam ? He had only known him for two days or so.
This ep kinda made me dislike John because it showed he actually was capable of being a normal dad. Before this I always thought he obsession with hunting and training his boys so they could defend themselves and hunt could not be helped. That he couldn't not be that way. But this ep showed very clearly that John understood what Sam and Dean were missing in life - and how hard would it have been for John to give them a break and take them to a ball game once in a while ! Very sad.
Good point Mary. There was something about this new side of John that had been bothering me as well and I think you just hit it on the head. At first, I thought it was the secrecy thing, but that wasn't ringing true - but the moment where Dean was floored by the fact that their dad took Adam to a ball game for his 14th birthday was a big part of what was itching at me. Thanks for pointing that out!
I thought this was an awesome episode - it was so poignant and sad - it didn't bother me at all that John had this secret life and the big difference between the cir***stances with Adam and with Sam/Dean was that Adam's mother was still alive - it is heartbreaking for Sam/Dean to see what could have been under different cir***stances - but look at the different cir***stances and the different outcomes - John thought he could do better with Adam and his mother by staying out of their lives mostly and keep them out of his hunting life and they ended up dead - Sam/Dean are still alive (for now) but at what cost to how they had to be raised and prepared in order to survive - just such a fantastic aspect of the storyline to explore - also, loved the title - "Jump the Shark" - kept thinking back to when Buffy got a sister and everyone was howling that the show was going to do exactly that (but it didn't!)
I'm team Sam whether he's good or evil he gets my love. Loved this episode and Sam going this route is AMAZING to watch he was both big brother to Adam and then WHAM John Winchester version 2.0 fascinating to watch.
I adore the boy.
I really enjoyed this episode. For some odd reason, I've been in and out of this season of Supernatural - missing a episode here and there - but I agree that this episode was both poignant and sad.
I felt Sam did suggest bringing Adam back because of feeling for him (it's just telling that he'd want to use supernatural powers - that always come with strings attached).
After all, both brothers were played by the fake Adam/ghoul, neither was su****ious (of his identity maybe, but not his humanity).
I too was a little sad, because unlike Buffy, I think I might have liked a new sibling for the Winchesters.
Kind of sucks for that young actor: Here's the good news, you get to be the younger brother of Sam and Dean Winchester. The bad news is you die in your first appearance.
I also have to say, and I feel this way everytime I watch this show: Jensen Ackles is one of the prettiest men I've ever seen (he's a good actor too).
The irony here is that, had John taught Adam about things that go bump in the night, when the ghouls came to kill him, he might have been able to save himself, and his mother. Instead, he and his mother became victims of the next generation of what John and Sheriff Joe had gotten rid of. Sam and Dean met ghoul/Adam, not the real thing, which was actually pretty depressing. As for the brothers Winchester, they are father apart than ever, and something tells me Dean is about to learn about Sam's addiction to demon blood. THEN all hell is really going to bust loose!