2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign
Title | Born Under a Bad Sign |
Episode # | Season 2, Episode 14 |
First aired | February 8, 2007 |
Directed by | J. Miller Tobin |
Written by | Cathryn Humphris |
On IMDB | http://imdb.com/title/tt0940441/ |
Outline | After receiving a frantic call from Sam, who has been missing for over a week, Dean races to his brother's side. |
Monster | Meg!Demon |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Twin Lakes, Wisconsin Otter Creek, Iowa Duluth, Minnesota Sioux Falls, South Dakota |
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Contents
Synopsis
The teaser starts with Dean, speaking on the phone with Ellen. Sam has been gone for a week now. Suddenly, he gets a call from Sam. Dean hurries off to him, who is dazed, and covered in blood. Sam tells him the blood isn't his, and that he doesn't remember a thing.
Together, Sam and Dean follow a string of clues to try and discover what happened to Sam during their missing days. They happen upon a storage unit that Sam has the key of. When they open it, they find a stolen car and inside the car, a bloody knife on the floor. Clues lead them onwards to a gas station where a startled worker demands Sam leave after Sam apparently began chain smoking and downing beer, even throwing the bottles at the worker's, head much to Dean's confusion.
Along the way, they find themselves at a house and inside they find the corpse of a hunter, Steve Wandell. They watch the security videos in silent horror, seeing Sam grapple with Wandell before slitting his throat.
Dean is thrown off by what has happened, and they worry that Sam might be turning evil. Back at the motel, Sam asks Dean to make good his promise to kill Sam should he turn evil. Dean cannot bring himself to kill his brother, saying, "I'd rather die." To which Sam says, "You'll live to regret it," before knocking his brother unconscious.
Dean rouses in the morning when the hotel staff kicks him out. He traces Sam's phone to Duluth, Minnesota. Sam has found Jo, in her own equivalent of a road-house. He starts to come onto her and she resists. He knocks her out.
When she awakes, she is bound to the pillar. Sam tells her that, "My daddy shot your daddy in the head," in a sing-song voice that ups the freaky-Sam factor, revealing that John killed Bill to put him out of his misery.
Just before Sam can do anymore, Dean bursts in, and Sam pleads again for Dean to kill him, or else Sam will kill Jo. Dean is unable to go through with it, turning away from an angry Sam who shouts that Dean would rather let innocents die than face life without his brother. Dean suddenly turns around, splashing the contents of his flask on Sam.
It is holy water and it sears Sam, who is revealed to have been possessed by a demon. Demon-Sam escapes through the window and Dean gives chase. The demon taunts Dean that its plan all along was to push Dean far enough that he'd kill Sam and that it'll use Sam's body to find and kill every hunter it can. The chase finally ends on a dock, where demon-Sam shoots Dean, who falls into the water. Thinking him dead, demon-Sam leaves.
Jo frantically tries Dean's cell, before finding him wounded but alive. She fixes him, taking the bullet out of his shoulder. Jo quietly asks if demons ever tell the truth to which Dean replies that they can occasionally if they know it will get to a person but Jo refuses to reveal anything more than that. She offers to help, but Dean forbids her to follow.
Demon-Sam turns up at another hunter's home, Bobby Singer. Bobby joyfully lets Sam in and offers him a beer, toasting to John Winchester. As demon-Sam drinks up, he suddenly collapses, smoke coming out of his mouth. Bobby reveals that he mixed the beer with holy water and tells him, "Don't try to con a con man" before knocking him unconscious.
Demon-Sam wakes hours later to find himself in the center of the Key of Solomon. Dean is already there, and Bobby starts the exorcism. The demon inside Sam snarls viciously at the chant and Dean tells it that no matter what kind of plans that the Yellow Eyed Demon has in store, Dean will not let anything happen to Sam. The demon laughs at him and says that it being there has nothing to do with the "Master Plan". It is revealed that the incantation doesn't work and the demon gleefully begins its own incantations. Bobby finds a binding link on Sam's wrist, which effectively locks the demon inside of Sam and neither he nor Dean know what to do now. Meanwhile, Demon-Sam's incantations affect the Key of Solomon on the roof, cracking it to pieces and finally allowing the demon access to its powers again.
Sam turns back to Dean, eyes now black, and flings both him and Bobby using telekinesis. He pulls himself free from the chair and starts to give Dean a beating, punching him terribly and squeezing his injured shoulder. The demon reveals itself to be the same one that possessed Meg, who has crawled out of hell, bent on getting her revenge. Meg tells Dean that no matter how much she tortures him, it's nothing compared to the way Dean tortures himself; over losing their father and over potentially losing Sam. Before she can strike Dean again, Bobby grabs demon-Sam's arm and burns the mark on Sam's wrist with a hot iron rod, destroying the link. Sam screams as the demon exits him and escapes by the fireplace.
Later, the two are sitting at Bobby's place nursing their wounds when Bobby informs them that Steve Wandell has been murdered and that his hunter comrades are out looking for blood so he tells the boys to keep their mouths shut about it. Bobby also gives the brothers charm amulets to prevent future possessions before Sam and Dean hit the road again.
Along the road, Sam reveals to Dean he was awake for some of the things that Meg did in his body, he was even awake to watch Steve Wandell being murdered by his own two hands. He also rebukes Dean for not taking action and killing him when asked as this could have been the moment their father warned Dean about before his death. Dean tells him that John told him he'd either have to save Sam or kill him and he will definitely find a way to save Sam in the end.
Characters
Definitions
- Richard (Richie) Sambora PoD
- Devil's Gate Reservoir PoD
- Hellspawn PoD
- Charm Amulet PoD
- Devil's trap (symbol)
- Holy Water
Music
- Crystal Ship - The Doors (played when Evil Sam is questioning Jo in the bar about their fathers)
- Back on the Road Again - REO Speedwagon (played during the final scene as Sam and Dean are in the car)
Quotes
Trivia & References
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- Justin Timberlake: Renaissance man who is quite the triple threat e.g.sings, dances, acts. The phrase orignated in football where it refers to a player who excels at running, passing, and kicking.
Bon Jovi are a rock band from New Jersey, led by Jon Bon Jovi.