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jadedmusingsThere's lots of reasons why this recap is late, chief amongst them is laziness, but really it's because last week, while a lot happened, was rather underwhelming once we got to the end and then the promos for next (well, tonight's episode) totally spoiled a major plot point.
Anyway, let's do this.
Episode 6x06: "You Can't Handle the Truth"
In the opening portion of the episode, some poor woman verbally expresses a desire to hear the truth, and she gets it. From everyone. She's told the "new girl" is way hotter than her, everyone thinks she's a weirdo, and one old woman at a table she's waiting on even tells her, "I ran over a homeless person once and I didn't even stop." Finally, she calls her sister who proceeds to tell her she's a burden and she should go kill herself. (Nah, this episode wasn't triggering for me at all. *sigh*)
She blows her brains out, naturally.
We switch over to Dean who is on the phone with Bobby. Dean is upset after last week's incident of Sam letting Dean get vamped and smirking about it.
Here's a reminder of that smirk:
Oh, Sammy. What's wrong with you?
Anyway, Bobby has been doing research while Dean wavers between wanting to beat the shit out of Sam and running far, far away. He tells Bobby, "If it ain't Sam, we need to know how to put him down."
Lisa still hasn't called Dean, which after last week isn't all that surprising.
Sam and Dean head to the town where the woman killed herself because more than a few strange suicides have been happening. They go to question the woman's sister about what happened and Sam just keeps pushing this woman. He isn't exactly badgering her, but he's not entirely gentle about interrogating a woman who doesn't understand why she told her sister to go kill herself.
Meanwhile, in the dentist's office someone invokes that whole honesty thing and a dentist learns his patient raped(?) his underaged(?) daughter. Said dentist finds, um, a creative way to use his drill in the patient's mouth, which in turn kills him.
Bobby calls Dean back and naturally he can't find anything. He argues that maybe it's just Sam now since, you know, he's been ridden by Lucifer and taken to Hell. Dean gives Bobby until the end of the day to find something, "And then I"m handling this." Then he tries to call Lisa, but chickens out after one ring.
Sam shows up to tell Dean about the dentist.
Sam: "A dentist, uh, drilled a guy to death."
Dean: "You mean the non-sexy drilling, right?"
The dentist hangs himself before Sam can interrogate him in prison. The brothers have figured out that people are being cursed and then being told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the brutal truth. Dean keeps coming up with excuses not to be out and about with Sam, spending his time researching Dopplegangers and other stuff with regard to Sam. Sam learns a one thousand year old horn has been stolen and it's possibly related to the first death. Dean looks up possibilites online and finds a likely candidate in Gabriel's Horn of Truth.
Cue Castiel appearing. When Dean pesters him about Sam, we get the following:
"I didn't come about Sam because I have nothing to offer about Sam."
"He's not Lucifer. If Lucifer escaped the cage, we'd feel it."
"I'm at war. Certain regrettable things are now required of me."
Finally Castiel disappears for a couple of seconds to look for the Horn of Truth.
Castiel: "It isn't the Horn of Truth."
Dean: "You were gone for two seconds. Where the hell did you look?"
Castiel: "Everywhere."
Before he disappears (after only a couple of minutes of screen time (WTF, writers? Quit dangling Castiel in front of us like this!), he tells Dean, "About your brother, I don't know what's wrong with him, but I do want to help. I'll make inquiries."
Thus ends our Castiel alottment for this episode. :(
Elsewhere, the bodies of all those suicide people? They're all disappearing. One body, classified as a car accident, disappeared a week before the first suicide.
Dean, who is drinking a bit heavily throughout this episode, is at a bar and say s the magic words. "I'd just like the freaking truth." This prompts the bartender to unload on him, including confessing to doing loads of drugs. Bewildered, she wonders why the hell she told him everything.
Random Woman at Bar: "I'm sitting like this so you'll look at my breasts. I just bought them. I need a lot of attention."
Dean: "...good luck with that." (Walks off, but steps back to admire the cleavage for a moment.)
So Dean calls Bobby and Bobby naturally confesses to some hilarious and, um, rather disturbing things. We learn Bobby loves watching Tori and Dean as in Tori Spelling's reality show. We also learn that Bobby loves getting pedicures once in a while and that apparently he gets a really great foot massage from the people he goes to. I mean, really great foot massage.
Before Dean hangs up, Bobby tells him, "Did you know my first girlfriend turned otu to be a--" And Dean just goes, "No, no, no!" and hangs up.
This is precisely the moment when Lisa decides to call. Ben apparently won't talk about the fact Dean shoved him (when he was all vamped out). Lisa tells Dean that as long as Sam is in his life he'll never be happy, and then she ends the phone call saying, "Me and Ben can't be with you in this. Sorry."
Dean was upset, of course, but he just keeps forging ahead.
Sam finds the first truth victim (the car accident victim who actually committed suicide). He finds a box in her room full of magical paraphernalia.
Anyway, Dean winds up cornering Sam and explains he's cursed.
Dean: "When that vamp attacked me, why did you just stand there?"
Sam: "I didn't. I froze."
Dean: "You froze? You've been Terminator since you got back."
Sam: "I don't know. Shock. And then it was too late. I feel terrible about it, believe me. Dean, I can't lie here. Do you really think I'd let something like that happen on purpose?"
Dean doesn't totally accept that explanation, but he figures that Sam can't lie to him (no one can) so he just accepts it.
With the magic box in hand, Sam is able to ascertain just what that first desperate victim was trying to do. She summoned Veritas, goddess of truth. (Another woman who needs to be killed. Color me shocked.) Anyone in town who asks for the truth gets it and then some. Veritas, we find out after some investigative work, is hiding out as a television news anchor.
The brothers find her apartment and break in. At first everything seems pretty normal, until they head downstairs and find lots of cats and the missing bodies, which have been nibbled on by both the cats and presumably Veritas herself. Veritas appears and uses her godly powers to knock the boys out and then tie them up.
While she dines on a tongue of the dentist (EW!), she tells the boys they're the best liars. "I mean, I've seen liars before, but you two? Gold standard."
Veritas makes Dean tell the truth and asks Dean how he feels about Sam. "Better now. As of yesterday, I wanted to kill him in his sleep. I thought he was a monster, but now I think...he's just acting like me. It's the gig. You're covered in blood until you're covered in your own blood." "...but what I'm good at is slicing throats. I'm not a father. I'm a killer."
Veritas naturally turns around to coax the truth out of Sam. Sam says, "Look, what we do is hard, but we watch out for each other." In response, Veritas freaks the fuck out. Sam is lying to her, which is impossible.
Veritas: (To Dean) "What is he?" (To Sam) "You're not human!"
Sam manages to get free of his bonds, tosses a knife to Dean. A scuffle ensues and at the end of it, Dean gets free and manages to help distract Veritas so Sam can kill her.
Dean picks up a knife and tells Sam that, pretty much, it's confession time.
Sam: "Dean, it's me."
Dean: "You are NOT my brother!"
Finally, Sam opens up. "Ever since I came back, nothing scares me anymore because I can't feel it. I don't know what's wrong with me. I think I need help."
Dean says nothing, calmly puts the knife down, and then...he just opens up a can of whup ass on Sammy. He just beats his face in a la Fight Club. He destroyed something beautiful.
And then....that's the end of the episode. What followed was a spoilerfific promo for next week's (tonight's) episode. Castiel can be seen giving Sam the same treatment as that child from "The Third Man," and then he says that Sam has no soul. THANKS, GUYS FOR TOTALLY SPOILING IT.
All I have to say about tonight is there damn well better be more to it than what the promo is telling us. :(
Anyway, let's do this.
Episode 6x06: "You Can't Handle the Truth"
In the opening portion of the episode, some poor woman verbally expresses a desire to hear the truth, and she gets it. From everyone. She's told the "new girl" is way hotter than her, everyone thinks she's a weirdo, and one old woman at a table she's waiting on even tells her, "I ran over a homeless person once and I didn't even stop." Finally, she calls her sister who proceeds to tell her she's a burden and she should go kill herself. (Nah, this episode wasn't triggering for me at all. *sigh*)
She blows her brains out, naturally.
We switch over to Dean who is on the phone with Bobby. Dean is upset after last week's incident of Sam letting Dean get vamped and smirking about it.
Here's a reminder of that smirk:
Oh, Sammy. What's wrong with you?
Anyway, Bobby has been doing research while Dean wavers between wanting to beat the shit out of Sam and running far, far away. He tells Bobby, "If it ain't Sam, we need to know how to put him down."
Lisa still hasn't called Dean, which after last week isn't all that surprising.
Sam and Dean head to the town where the woman killed herself because more than a few strange suicides have been happening. They go to question the woman's sister about what happened and Sam just keeps pushing this woman. He isn't exactly badgering her, but he's not entirely gentle about interrogating a woman who doesn't understand why she told her sister to go kill herself.
Meanwhile, in the dentist's office someone invokes that whole honesty thing and a dentist learns his patient raped(?) his underaged(?) daughter. Said dentist finds, um, a creative way to use his drill in the patient's mouth, which in turn kills him.
Bobby calls Dean back and naturally he can't find anything. He argues that maybe it's just Sam now since, you know, he's been ridden by Lucifer and taken to Hell. Dean gives Bobby until the end of the day to find something, "And then I"m handling this." Then he tries to call Lisa, but chickens out after one ring.
Sam shows up to tell Dean about the dentist.
Sam: "A dentist, uh, drilled a guy to death."
Dean: "You mean the non-sexy drilling, right?"
The dentist hangs himself before Sam can interrogate him in prison. The brothers have figured out that people are being cursed and then being told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the brutal truth. Dean keeps coming up with excuses not to be out and about with Sam, spending his time researching Dopplegangers and other stuff with regard to Sam. Sam learns a one thousand year old horn has been stolen and it's possibly related to the first death. Dean looks up possibilites online and finds a likely candidate in Gabriel's Horn of Truth.
Cue Castiel appearing. When Dean pesters him about Sam, we get the following:
"I didn't come about Sam because I have nothing to offer about Sam."
"He's not Lucifer. If Lucifer escaped the cage, we'd feel it."
"I'm at war. Certain regrettable things are now required of me."
Finally Castiel disappears for a couple of seconds to look for the Horn of Truth.
Castiel: "It isn't the Horn of Truth."
Dean: "You were gone for two seconds. Where the hell did you look?"
Castiel: "Everywhere."
Before he disappears (after only a couple of minutes of screen time (WTF, writers? Quit dangling Castiel in front of us like this!), he tells Dean, "About your brother, I don't know what's wrong with him, but I do want to help. I'll make inquiries."
Thus ends our Castiel alottment for this episode. :(
Elsewhere, the bodies of all those suicide people? They're all disappearing. One body, classified as a car accident, disappeared a week before the first suicide.
Dean, who is drinking a bit heavily throughout this episode, is at a bar and say s the magic words. "I'd just like the freaking truth." This prompts the bartender to unload on him, including confessing to doing loads of drugs. Bewildered, she wonders why the hell she told him everything.
Random Woman at Bar: "I'm sitting like this so you'll look at my breasts. I just bought them. I need a lot of attention."
Dean: "...good luck with that." (Walks off, but steps back to admire the cleavage for a moment.)
So Dean calls Bobby and Bobby naturally confesses to some hilarious and, um, rather disturbing things. We learn Bobby loves watching Tori and Dean as in Tori Spelling's reality show. We also learn that Bobby loves getting pedicures once in a while and that apparently he gets a really great foot massage from the people he goes to. I mean, really great foot massage.
Before Dean hangs up, Bobby tells him, "Did you know my first girlfriend turned otu to be a--" And Dean just goes, "No, no, no!" and hangs up.
This is precisely the moment when Lisa decides to call. Ben apparently won't talk about the fact Dean shoved him (when he was all vamped out). Lisa tells Dean that as long as Sam is in his life he'll never be happy, and then she ends the phone call saying, "Me and Ben can't be with you in this. Sorry."
Dean was upset, of course, but he just keeps forging ahead.
Sam finds the first truth victim (the car accident victim who actually committed suicide). He finds a box in her room full of magical paraphernalia.
Anyway, Dean winds up cornering Sam and explains he's cursed.
Dean: "When that vamp attacked me, why did you just stand there?"
Sam: "I didn't. I froze."
Dean: "You froze? You've been Terminator since you got back."
Sam: "I don't know. Shock. And then it was too late. I feel terrible about it, believe me. Dean, I can't lie here. Do you really think I'd let something like that happen on purpose?"
Dean doesn't totally accept that explanation, but he figures that Sam can't lie to him (no one can) so he just accepts it.
With the magic box in hand, Sam is able to ascertain just what that first desperate victim was trying to do. She summoned Veritas, goddess of truth. (Another woman who needs to be killed. Color me shocked.) Anyone in town who asks for the truth gets it and then some. Veritas, we find out after some investigative work, is hiding out as a television news anchor.
The brothers find her apartment and break in. At first everything seems pretty normal, until they head downstairs and find lots of cats and the missing bodies, which have been nibbled on by both the cats and presumably Veritas herself. Veritas appears and uses her godly powers to knock the boys out and then tie them up.
While she dines on a tongue of the dentist (EW!), she tells the boys they're the best liars. "I mean, I've seen liars before, but you two? Gold standard."
Veritas makes Dean tell the truth and asks Dean how he feels about Sam. "Better now. As of yesterday, I wanted to kill him in his sleep. I thought he was a monster, but now I think...he's just acting like me. It's the gig. You're covered in blood until you're covered in your own blood." "...but what I'm good at is slicing throats. I'm not a father. I'm a killer."
Veritas naturally turns around to coax the truth out of Sam. Sam says, "Look, what we do is hard, but we watch out for each other." In response, Veritas freaks the fuck out. Sam is lying to her, which is impossible.
Veritas: (To Dean) "What is he?" (To Sam) "You're not human!"
Sam manages to get free of his bonds, tosses a knife to Dean. A scuffle ensues and at the end of it, Dean gets free and manages to help distract Veritas so Sam can kill her.
Dean picks up a knife and tells Sam that, pretty much, it's confession time.
Sam: "Dean, it's me."
Dean: "You are NOT my brother!"
Finally, Sam opens up. "Ever since I came back, nothing scares me anymore because I can't feel it. I don't know what's wrong with me. I think I need help."
Dean says nothing, calmly puts the knife down, and then...he just opens up a can of whup ass on Sammy. He just beats his face in a la Fight Club. He destroyed something beautiful.
And then....that's the end of the episode. What followed was a spoilerfific promo for next week's (tonight's) episode. Castiel can be seen giving Sam the same treatment as that child from "The Third Man," and then he says that Sam has no soul. THANKS, GUYS FOR TOTALLY SPOILING IT.
All I have to say about tonight is there damn well better be more to it than what the promo is telling us. :(
