You can't handle the truth

Season 6

Episode 6

“You Can’t Handle the Truth”

Dean is suspicious of Sam as he thinks Sam is a monster who let him get turned. After that they head to a town with four suicides. The people there have been dying by hearing all of the painful truths they never wanted to. It turns out to be the Goddess of Truth, Veritas. She had been summoned by one of the deceased’s sisters. Of course Dean becomes her next target, who else is more susceptible to the truth than the Winchesters. When she begins to make the brothers tell the truth about each other, she cuts Sam off. Saying she doesn’t believe him in a rage. The brother break loose of her bindings and kill her. Sam begins to try to explain and Dean proceeds to beating his face in, ending the episode.

The episode had a gradual progression of Dean thinking Sam was a monster but as the episode progresses to where Veritas begins to question the boys. Dean reveals that he thought Sam was a monster but in reality he thought Sam was a reflection of himself before he went to live with Lisa. Dean has saved many people over the course of the show but this shows he doesn’t really think he has saved anyone. He doesn’t believe he should have been living with Lisa, he thought he made their life worse that he was toxic. Because that is what hunters are, at least it is inside his head.

However, after he tells that to Veritas, to see his brother still lie about letting him turn, he lost it. After everything that had been said, after Dean blamed himself for Sam. To find out that all of the things he thought about his brother, all of those terrible things about him being a monster. For all of them to be true. Add onto that, that he had rectified in his head that Sam did not let him turn, he would never do that to him not to him. Wrestling the entire episode to finally believing that Sam did not let him turn and then learning that he did. How could he trust his brother again? Yes, Sam released the Devil, he drank demon blood and has done plenty of other things that Dean has not condoned. However, throughout all of those things, everything terrible thing Sam has done, at no point did he ever hurt Dean. He never wanted to use him as bait, he was ready to sell his soul for him after he was dragged to hell. He was ready to sell his soul just to stop him from going to hell. Dean knew all of that no matter what their bond would survive everything. However in this one episode, in just a few minutes, all of that shattered like glass, because for the first time, Sam legitimately used and betrayed Dean, he let Dean become a monster. When the only thing Dean is happy about is that he is human that he is “pure.” Well not completely pure anymore, and we will see how all that progresses.