Episode Report Card Demian: A+ | 5 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Last Temptation Of The Hardy Boys
By Demian | Season 2 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.02.2007
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.While in Joliet on the trail of a djinn responsible for the disappearance of dozens of people over the years, El Deano has the great misfortune of getting his tantalizing ass trapped by the thing in an abandoned warehouse, and after the creature unloads a little sparkly blue mojo on the dear boy's head, Dean wakes up in an unfamiliar Lawrence, Kansas apartment in bed next to a saucy brunette he's never seen before who's entirely devoted to him and his insouciant ways, and on top of all that, he's got bills to pay and a regular 9-to-5 job at an auto-body shop with which to do so, a mother who's still alive and comfortably ensconced back at their cozily appointed and never-burned home from the series premiere, a sassy future sister-in-law who never found herself nailed to a ceiling out in California with a foot-wide gash through her torso right before she burst into flame, and a solemnly responsible nerd of brother who hates Dean's guts for a variety of entirely understandable reasons. And while they never specifically address these issues, I'm sure Al Gore won the electoral vote -- twice -- and all of the Ramones are still happily kicking around the planet, as well. Of course, it's all simply a djinn-concocted fantasy in Dean's head, through which the cracks begin to show when an eerily silent young woman clad in a White Nightgown Of Doom starts dropping in on Our Intrepid Hero at the most inopportune moments. See, the djinn hurls people into their deepest wishes so it can then slowly suck the life from their veins, and both Dean and the mystery woman are actually strung up in that abandoned Joliet warehouse, hooked to blood bags. And despite the achingly palpable temptation to remain in this dream world of his, Dean forces himself awake and, with the help of a conveniently arriving Sam, manages to destroy the monster and save the girl. But oh, my. The ANGST involved in that decision? Is going to kill me dead. Damn you, Kripke! Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Crackle, Crackle THEN! Way back in 1983, the Winchester family's bête noire nailed Mary Winchester to the ceiling with a foot-wide gash through her torso before burning her alive, thereby effectively scarring Wee El Deano for the rest of his life. Twenty-two years later, The Ceiling Demon returned to give Jessica Moore a little of the same, thereby effectively scarring Darling Sammy for the rest of the series. And finally, after The Ceiling Demon dragged Shut Up Daddy down to Hell in exchange for El Deano's life, Dean decided that the family business just wasn't worth all of the agita and angst that came along with it, as Our Intrepid Heroes receive neither appropriate remuneration nor appropriate amounts of gratitude for their efforts, instead having to make do with nothing more than copious amounts of bad luck. El Deano's such a friggin' downer.
Crackle, Crackle NOW, and heresy! The Impala's sporting a new license plate! "And it's from Ohio, of all the ghastly places on the planet!" Raoul The Big Gay Supernatural Dragon notes with distaste. Raoul has issues with Ohio. "Don't get me started!" Up behind the wheel, Dean answers his chirping cell phone to find a tense Sam on the other end of the line. "There's a cop car outside," Sam whispers, eyeing the prowler in question from behind the curtains of their room at the Joliet Motel. "You think it's for us?" Dean wonders. "I mean, I don't see how," he continues. "We ditched the plates and the credit cards." Barely have those words left his mouth when the cop car rolls off harmlessly into the night, and Sam's forced to admit it was all a false alarm. "See?" Dean smirks. "Nothing to worry about." "Yeah, being fugitives," Sam sarcastically agrees, mindful of their newly won place atop the FBI's most wanted list. "It's a frigging dance party." During all that, the camera's passed across the various volumes of research material Sam has open on the motel room's table, one of them featuring an engraving of a four-armed, serpent-tongued figure from Hindu mythology opposite an entry entitled "DJINN." "So, you got anything yet?" Sam asks. As Dean's apparently been tasked this evening with canvassing the fifty square miles of Illinois real estate in which "all the victims disappeared," the answer would be no. Sam's research has, of course, proved more fruitful, as he's now certain they're hunting -- as Dean puts it -- "a friggin' genie." "You think that these suckers can really grant wishes?" Dean scoffs. Sam notes that genies are perhaps powerful enough to do so, but warns, "They're not exactly Barbara Eden in harem pants." Shudder. "I mean," Darling Sammy elaborates, "djinn have been feeding off people for centuries -- they're all over the Koran." Unfortunately for Sam, he lost Dean's attention at the Barbara Eden reference, for his cheerfully louche reprobate of a brother now gazes wistfully into the middle distance and croons, "Barbara Eden was hot, wasn't she? Way hotter than that Bewitched chick." The episode ends abruptly when ravening hordes of Elizabeth Montgomery fans descend upon the Impala to rip El Deano limb from limb. That's a wrap! See you next week, gang!