What makes him happy? Sam does his best at the end here to convince Dean that the sacrifices the Winchesters have made in the name of ridding the world of evil are worth it. Skip to content. About Mark Oshiro Perpetually unprepared since ' This entry was posted in Supernatural and tagged mark watches supernatural.
Bookmark the permalink. Search for:. Donate to help keep Mark Does Stuff running! Buy a print or ebook copy here! Buy all of the Mark Reads Harry Potter books right here! All four Mark Reads Twilight books are available for purchase as well! She walks into the living room, saying that Carmen called, worried because he had just run out of the house.
Dean, being Dean, asks his mom to prove she is who he hopes she is by asking what she told him before she put him to bed when he was a kid. With a small smile, Mary replies that she told him angels were watching over him, passing the test.
Dean gathers her up in a hug and almost gleefully roams the room looking at the pictures. He discovers that not only had John once belonged to a softball team, but that he'd died in his sleep of a stroke earlier that year. His mother thinks he's been drinking, and says she's going to call Carmen to get him. Dean assures her that he's as sober as a judge and says he just wants to stay there. He sits on the couch and, as Mary touches his cheek and kisses his forehead, his face relaxes for the first time since Dead Man's Blood.
He sleeps on the couch, waking up the next morning with a start. The first thing on his mind is Sam. Calling him, he reaches his cell phone. KU: Sans trusty geekboy-sidekick, Dean heads to the University of Kansas and manages to talk his way into the anthropology professor's office to gather more clues on the djinn. When he asks the professor if the djinn can really grant wishes, the professor assumes he's been drinking.
Ruefully, Dean confesses that everyone has been asking him that, but the answer is no. Finding out that mythology states the djinn could grant wishes, and wondering what, if that is true, is in it for the djinn, Dean heads back out to a rainy campus street.
He looks in the Impala's trunk, which is empty except for a few trivial bits and pieces, and murmurs a bemused "who'd have thought it, baby, we're civilians" before shutting the trunk and catching sight of a decidedly out-of-place young girl in a white dress. He starts to cross to her and nearly gets creamed by a red car, breaking his focus on the girl.
When he looks back up, she's gone. Winchester House: Dean is happily inhaling what he declares to be the "best sandwich ever" one assumes, because it was made by his mom , and talking to Mary, who, for her part, is wondering why he wasn't at work Covering easily, Dean says he had the day off, and getting up to look out of the window, offers to mow the lawn.
More than a little amused by her son's apparently recent desire to hang around her house and do chores, Mary teases that he's acting as if he hasn't mowed a lawn a day in his life. Obviously unsure as to the proper handling and steering of a lawn mower, Dean is undeterred as he treks back and forth in front of the yard gnome, waving to the neighbors and very nearly whistling with actual, genuine happiness as Joey Ramone's Wonderful World accompanies him.
Lawn manicured, Dean sits on the front steps relaxing with a beer when Sam and Jess pull up. He is so happy to see them — Jess in particular as she is alive as well - that he practically runs up to greet them. He wraps Jessica in a fierce hug until she gasps that she can't breathe. Dean is overjoyed to see Sam, and to see Sam with Jess. Sam speculates aloud that Dean's been drinking and this time, it's hard to deny as he has beer in hand , and Dean is puzzled by Sam's apparent standoffishness.
He wonders why they are there, and Sam asks with obvious exasperation born of several years of dealing with a wayward brother if Dean has forgotten Mom's birthday. Fancy Restaurant probably in Kansas City : The family is gussied and gathered to celebrate Mary's birthday. Dinner is served and Carmen proves how very well she knows Dean when she leans over and asks him if he wants to go for cheeseburgers later as he stares in horror at a dinner that is better dressed than he is.
Mary's birthday joy is made complete as Sam and Jessica announce they are engaged. Everyone congratulates them, and Dean's smile is genuine as he tells Sam he is "really glad he's happy". His joy is short-lived, however when he catches sight of the girl in white that he'd seen on campus. He pushes past Sam and crosses the restaurant, but by the time he gets to her, she's gone. He's left with his whole family staring at him confusedly. Winchester Home: When the group returns home, Mary goes to bed and Sam suggest that he and Jessica do the same thing.
Dean wants to go out and celebrate more, and Sam excuses them from the ladies, pulling Dean aside and revealing what had been obvious to everyone but Dean up to this point: the brothers don't get along. Not only that, they aren't close. Sam reveals that Dean not only once stole his ATM card, he stole his girlfriend and slept with her.
On prom night. Sam's not mad about it anymore — and he doesn't expect Dean to change — he just doesn't really want to have anything to do with his brother. Barker Avenue House: Dean is in comfy clothes: flannel shirt and jeans.
Carmen brings him his favorite brand of beer El Sol and he confides in her that he is upset he and Sam don't get along. Carmen says that they just don't know each other is all. Dean replies that he feels like he's been given a second chance — and he's not going to waste it.
He's going to fix this thing with Sammy. Wooed by Carmen's concern, care, and the fact that she knows him so well, Dean falls into a very easy, very comfortable, very hot kiss. Carmen pulls away after a bit saying that he can't do that to her; she has to go to work. She appears shortly afterwards in scrubs. Somewhat impressed with himself that he is respectable enough to date a nurse, Dean bids her adieu and slouches back down on the couch to veg for the night.
A report about the anniversary of the crash of United Britannia Flight comes on the news. Sitting forward in shock, Dean mutters "we stopped that crash". This realization draws him to the computer where he discovers to his increasing horror that everyone he, Sam, and John had saved from evil had died. All of them. Glancing up quickly from the devastating information facing him from the computer screen, Dean sees the girl in white out of the corner of his eyes and jumps up to follow her. He ends up back in his bedroom where he is very shaken by the sight of two decaying, emaciated skeletons hanging by their wrists in his closet.
He sees the girl once more before both she and the skeletons vanish, leaving Dean trembling. Lawrence Cemetery: Dean stands staring down at his father's tombstone.
He's working to keep the tears at bay, but too much has happened. His throat working convulsively, he begins speaking:. And there's this woman that's haunting me. I don't know why. I don't know what the connection is It's like my old life is coming after me or something, like it doesn't want me to be happy.
Of course, I know what you'd say. Well, not the you that played softball, but you'd say, Go hunt the djinn. It put you here. It can put you back. Your happiness or all those people's lives But why? Why is it my job to save these people? Why do I have to be some kind of hero? What about us, huh?
Those, along with Sera shame on you for Bobby gave me my ration of emotional feels entirely without overdoing any. And what are you doing right now anyway Kripke? Jensen was superb, especially knowing how much a fish out of water he felt without his usual Sammy by his side.
He got it so right and beautifully so. His love for his mom needed no words and his confusion with Sam also. His face conveys his emotions with no needs to speak. How does he do it? It is something wondrous. I can never watch this without shedding tears in complete empathy. I love this one and never tire of watching it again and again. One of perfect episodes that deserved many rewards and that are continually overlooked by the PTB!
Shame on them! So glad you love this episode too! Funny you should ask regarding my top I think when it is finally done, there will be 10 episodes with 2 honorable mentions. I'll have a rationale for why I made a top ten and then how the two honorable mentions fit in -- they do make sense when they are seen, or revealed.
Interestingly enough, many of then are alternate reality type episodes. They just speak to me! I like to crunch the episodes into various criteria, such as the Comfort Food eps, the Top Ten, and there are some others that will get explored during the upcoming time that shall not be spoken of twice in this post. I love reading your thoughts on this episode. It is a great episode. I would love all the writers you've mentioned to return, even Sera -- although that Bobby killing is a major ding against her, but her writing is superb!
Barbara Maake I agree with your list of writers but I would also add Carver. I am not happy with him as show runner but I love his writing.
He writes both brothers really well, and his best episodes are some of my favorites- like Mystery Spot and A Very Sup Xmas. Although I have to admit that, like you, so many episodes are "one of my favorites" that the phrase is in danger of losing all meaning.
It would be hard to narrow it down to 10 because comparing the funny and meta episodes to the ones that pack the biggest emotional punch is like comparing apples and oranges.
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