Welcome back to the rewatch, superfans! This week Sam has to face up to the messes he made when he was soulless and Dean has to face up to some hard truths regarding Lisa and Ben. Also, there are spider-people.
Cheers to the drama!
THE OFFICIAL FYA SUPERNATURAL DRINKING GAME:
Take a drink every time:
• There’s a corpse
• A demon possesses/de-possesses and/or makes a deal with some hapless schmuck
• Someone on the show takes a drink
• Dean crams his face full of junk food
• Anyone is tied up
• Either brother picks a lock
• Someone employs a Titan of Classic Rock as an alias
• The Glorious and Faithful Impala is damaged in the line of duty
6x13: Unforgiven
Monster of the Week: Arachne
Sam receives a set of coordinates to a town where a number of young women have goe missing. As they head to the job, Sam has flashes of the time he spent there during his soulless year. Dean wants to bail on the job, reasoning a) that someone will remember Sam from the previous job or b) these memory flashes will mess with the wall Death put up in his brain. But our gargantuan friend is determined to see it through.
Through their investigation they learn that the year before, when Sam was bereft of a soul and his soulmate, he kind of cut a wide swath through the town while on the hunt for an arachne that had been snatching men, apparently treating the witness list as his own personal Tinder search. It seems that all those special friends he made are now missing. Dean’s convinced the arachne must have survived and set a trap for him.
In flashback, we see that Sam and Grandpa told the local sheriff they were hunters and convinced him to pose as bait to lure the monster out. When the arachne took him, they followed her back to her lair, where all the missing men were alive. Yay! However, after seeing that they’d all been bit, Sam decided to shoot the whole lot and burn their corpses. DAMN. Even hard-ass Grandpa Samuels thought that was messed up.
In the present, the sheriff’s wife is confronted by her missing husband. Turns out Sam’s shot/fire didn’t kill the men because the arachne’s bite had already turned them. In a delicious bit of irony, the arachne uses Brenna as bait to lure the Winchesters out. He monster-splains that he turned all the missing girls and he’s thinking of turning Sam. But as it turns out, ensouled or not, Sam is still pretty handy with a machete. Bye bye spider-man!
Heaven and Hell of it All: Despite Death’s warning, Sam’s guilt causes him to scratch at the wall. At the end of the episode he goes catatonic while remembering a flash of Hell.
Drink Count: 12, for drinks and corpses and bondage (oh my).
The Quotable Winchesters: “So…Mel Gibson really took a turn this past year.” –Sam.
Most GIF-able moment:
Whoa-oh-oh, Sam’s on fire.
Notable Cameos:
Miranda Frigon of Heartland and Jake 2.0 plays the sheriff’s wife.
6x14: Mannequin 3: The Reckoning
Monster of the Week: Ghost, special sex-doll possessing edition
Anatomy models seemingly come to life in a school laboratory, brutally slaughtering a night custodian! The boys are on the case. They get EMF readings and whiff of sulfur, but no leads until a factory night watchman is similarly murdered. Turns out Rose, a seamstress at the factory had disappeared the year before.
Ben calls Dean from Lisa’s phone, saying something’s wrong with her. Sam says he can handle flying solo for a day, so Dean goes to check it out. Meanwhile Sam interviews Rose’s sister Isobel who also works at the factory, and discovers so had the custodian, who quit right after Rose’s disappearance. It turns out the two dead guys and one still alive played a trick on Rose, making her think she had a secret admirer in order to humiliate her, a situation which ended in her death. Sam orders the still-living jerk to stay behind a salt line while he burns her bones. But even though the skeleton’s extra-crispy, Rose’s last killer is attacked, as the ghost gets her humiliation revenge on by possessing his Real Doll.
Sam realizes Rose is still sticking around because of a part of her survives—when she was a kid, she donated a kidney to Isobel. As the brothers discuss how to destroy the link between them, Rose possesses The Glorious and Faithful Impala, chasing Dean and crashing into a brick wall! NOOOOOOOO! Broken glass impales Isobel, destroying both her and Rose’s link to the world.
Heaven and Hell of it All: Sam starts the episode still hell-catatonic, but seems to recover. He doesn’t seem interested in talking about it, probably because Dean gives him a big fat I-told-you-so speech.
When Dean gets to Lisa’s, he finds her in perfect health and dressed to the nines for a date with a doctor. He’s kind of a jerk about it, too. She tells him that every time she learns to live without him, he shows up and breaks her heart all over again. Dean takes her point and says goodbye to Ben, who doesn’t take it well, telling him he’s walking out on his family. This makes Dean so guilty we are all forced to sit through a montage of the good times they all had. But later, Sam makes him feel better by thanking him for helping to get his soul back.
Drink Count: 9 for drinks, corpses and the dents in the Impala.
The Quotable Winchesters: “You shove it down and let it come out in spurts of violence and alcoholism.” –Dean, giving life advice on what Sam should do about his negative feelings about his missing memories.
Most GIF-able moment:
It’s times like this that makes me question whether losing an entire year would be a bad thing entirely.
Notable Cameos: None
Next Week: Fan favorite episode—The French Mistake