Sam, Dean, Bobby, and Castiel turn
to Lenore in efforts to find Eve, she tells them she is in a small town in
Oregon. When they get there they find locals have been transformed into
different mixes of supernatural creatures, hybrids (or as Dean decides to call
them, Jefferson Starships). Once they get to Eve, she tells them Crowley is
still alive. Bobby and Sam are suspicious of Castiel, they think he involved
with Crowley. The episode cuts off with Crowley saying to Castiel, “How many
times do I have to clean up your messes?”
This episode written by Adam Glass
and directed by John F. Showalter parallels the lives of Sam and Dean. The
similarities become obvious when the Winchesters decide to take two little boys
who are now orphans to a relative. They do everything they can for these two
little boys to get what they never got. In the car the older brother takes on a
protective and parental role telling his little brother to go to sleep and to
rest on him. This brings us back to Sam and Dean and how Dean always protected
Sam and was always like another parent to him. Castiel points out that they
have a soft spot for the boys but Sam and Dean wave away the comment. Eve
shifts shape to look like Mary Winchester, Sam and Dean’s mom, only to drive
the point home even more. When they all later found out the little brother was
a hybrid it is yet again mirroring Sam and Dean. Sam, the little brother, is
the one with supernatural abilities.
The writing in this episode was
done in such a way that it does tell a story at the same time it is interwoven
with the parallelism of the Winchester brothers’ story. To a regular audience
member these might be things they do not pick up as they are not focused on how
the camera angles shoot the orphan boys to mimic Sam and Dean at their age and
then show Sam and Dean giving each other knowing glances that they are giving these
boys a chance at a normal life just as they wish they had a normal life.
The
only definite question at the end of this episode is, why is Castiel working
with Crowley?
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