Summaries: Supernatural, "Lazarus Rising," "Metamorphasis"

A couple friends asked for summaries of two different Supernatural eps, and I obliged. But, I figure, other people might also want these summaries, so I'm posting them here, too. The two episodes are the season four premiere, Lazarus Rising, and the fourth episode of the fourth season, Metamorphasis.

Lazarus Rising

Okay, so at the end of S3, Dean was sent to Hell. We open S4 with flashes of Dean in Hell (well, his eyes) until he wakes up, coughing in a coffin. He finds out he's essentially buried alive and digs his way out. He literally climbs out of his grave to find that the clearing around him looks like it was flattened.

Dean walks to a local gas station where he breaks in to steal necessities like water, food, and money (and good ol' nudie mags ;D). Dean finds out it's September, and all his wounds are healed, except for a burn of a mysterious handprint on his left shoulder. Suddenly, the TV and radio turns on, and the air is filled with a loud screech, loud enough to blow out all the windows in the store. But then the sound disappears too.

Dean escapes and goes to the pay phone to call Sam, but his phone is disconnected. Dean then calls Bobby, who doesn't believe him when he tells him who he is. So, Dean goes to Bobby's house. Bobby still doesn't believe it and attacks him. Dean tries to prove it to him by talking, but eventually resorts to cutting himself with a silver knife. Still, Bobby plays it safe by throwing holy water in his face. Dean's all human.

Dean asks about Sam. Bobby confirms he's still alive, but the last four months weren't great. Sam all but dropped off the grid. Dean wonders why he was buried, and not burned, and Bobby tells him that Sam said "You'd need a body when he brought you back," before taking off. Dean tells Bobby about the grave site, the presence at the gas station and the hand print.

Their next goal is to find Sam. Dean calls a cell phone company pretending to be Sam, to get them to turn on Sam's phone's GPS. They find out he's in Pontiac, Illinois, near where Dean was buried. When they get there, a girl answers the door, and they think they have the wrong room until Sam walks by. Dean walks in with a smile on his face, but Sam also begins to attack him, thinking Dean is a demon or a shapeshifter, but Bobby holds him back. "It's him! It's him, Sam, I've been through this already, it's really him."

They hug! The girl leaves.

Dean wants to know how much it cost to bring him back, but Sam says that it wasn't him who did it. Sam says he tried everything, but no demon would bargain. Dean believes him, but then they all wonder who did pull him out.

Sam says that after he realized he couldn't save Dean, he went after Lilith for payback. He was following demons in Tennessee, until they came to Illinois, around the same time Dean got out of Hell. Bobby asks if Dean's feeling 'himself' and Dean repeats that it's really him.

Sam suggests they go for help, because while they have a lot of good questions, they don't have anyway to get answers. Bobby says that he knows a psychic near them, and he goes to call her. Sam gives Dean his necklace back, and asks what Hell was like. Dean says he must've blacked it out, because he doesn't remember, which they're both thankful for.

They go to their separate cars, where Sam gives Dean back the keys to his Impala. (Dean's annoyed that Sam installed an iPod jack, to which Sam replies, "I thought it was my car.") On the way to the psychic's house, the brothers talk about how Sam got out. Sam says "Well, she tried [to kill me]; she couldn't. She fired this, like, burning light at me, and... didn't leave a scratch. Like I was immune or something. I don't know who was more surprised, her or me." Sam tells him that Ruby's probably dead, and that he hasn't used his psychic powers, since it was practically Dean's dying wish.

At Pamela's (the psychic's), Bobby asks if she's heard anything, but Pamela said no one seems to know who broke him out or why. She suggests a seance.

There was an hilarious scene where they're setting up for the seance when Dean spots Pamela's "tramp stamp" which said "Jesse forever":

Dean: Who's Jesse?
Pamela: (laughs) Well, it wasn't forever.
Dean: His loss.
Pamela: Might be your gain.
(Dean turns to Sam)
Dean: Dude, I am so in!
Sam: Yeah, she's gonna eat you alive.
Dean: Hey, I just got out of jail. Bring it!
Pamela: (to Sam) You're invited too, Grumpy.
Dean (points a finger at Sam) You are not invited!
Sam: (laughs)

SO AWESOME. I'm really glad they got over the awkward "you were dead for four months and now you're alive?" stage and right back on the brotherly bickering I love so much.

Pamela's done with the setting up, and says she needs to touch something the demon touched. Dean lifts up his sleeve and it's clear Sam didn't know about the handprint. The seance begins, and she starts invoking the demon. She learns his name: Castiel. He's warning her to turn back, but she's pushing forward to make him show her his face. Suddenly, the candles flame up, and Pamela's eyes glow. She screams, and collapses. Bobby yells for Sam to call 911, and Dean helps Bobby check if Pamela's okay. She's alive, but her eyes are burned and gone.

Flash forward. Sam and Dean are at a local diner. Sam gets off the phone with Bobby, who says that Pamela's stable and out of the ICU, but Dean says that she's blind because of them. He wants to summon the demon and "work him over," but Sam says that's a bad idea, because Pamela only got a glimpse and her eyes burned out of her skull. Sam wants to find the demons he followed to town, because someone's gotta know something. The waitress of the diner brings them their food, but instead of leaving sits down. Dean asks if she's looking for a tip, and she responds, "I'm sorry, I thought you were looking for us," before her eyes turn black, revealing that her and everyone else in the diner are demons.

The waitress!demon wants to know what makes Dean so special, to think that he can just walk out of hell. He says "I like to think it's because of my perky nipples."

BEST. LINE. EVER.

Dean goes on to say he doesn't know, and that he's also looking for answers. The waitress!demon threatens him, but Dean says that if she wanted to, she'd have attacked already. "The fact is, you don't know who cut me loose, and you're just as spooked as we are. You're looking for answers. Well, maybe it was some turbo charged spirit, hm? Or, uh, Godzilla. Or some big, bad boss demon. But I'm guessing, at your pay grade, that they don't tell you squat. 'Cause who ever it was - they want me out. And they're a lot stronger than you. So go ahead. Send me back. Don't come crawling to me when they show up on your front door with some vaseline and a fire hose." Still, the demon's not scared, and threatens him again. Dean responds by slapping her twice, but she still makes no move. This just reaffirms Dean's theory, and both Sam and Dean walk out unharmed.

Once they're outside, Sam says they need to go back and kill them, but Dean says they can't, because they only have one knife between them. They have to focus on one job: finding out who Castiel is.

That night, thought, Sam sneaks out of the hotel room while Dean's asleep and takes the car. Dean is woken up by the TV turning on. Dean realizes the presence is coming back, and grabs the shotgun. But the ear piercing screech is also back, and Dean has to drop the shotgun to cover his ears. He doubles over and rolls around, to prevent glass falling on him, when the door pops open and Bobby rushes to his help.

Dean's in Bobby's car. Dean calls Sam to ask where he is; Sam says he's couldn't sleep and went to get a burger. But he's really back at the diner they were at earlier in the day. Sam asks why Dean's up; Dean says Bobby's back, and that they're off to go get a beer. Bobby looks at him surprised, but Dean says not to say anything. Dean says he didn't tell Sam, because he would just try to stop them from summoning it. Bobby says it's a bad idea summoning it, because it could be anything, but Dean wants to face it head on.

Sam breaks into the diner, and finds most of the demons dead with their eyes burned out. The waitress!demon attacks him, but her eyes are also burned out. She saw it, and Sam wants to know what it was, but she just laughs and tells him to go to hell. He then exorcises the demon, seemingly with only his mind. After the demon is sent back to hell, he checks the pulse of the woman, but she's dead.

Another woman, the same woman who was with Sam in the hotel room before, walks in from the kitchen. Sam calls her Ruby and asks her what's going on, but she doesn't know either. Whatever it is, though, it's no demon. She says "it's cosmic."

Back to Dean and Bobby, Bobby has just finished drawing every trap and talisman from every culture on the walls and the floor of a barn. Dean has all the weapons they could need, too: Stakes, iron, silver, salt, and The Knife. Bobby goes to summon the demon.

Back at the diner, Ruby asks if Sam's going to tell Dean about what they're doing. Sam says he will, he just needs time, and a way to tell him. Sam says, "I don't know what I'm doing is right. Hell, I don't even know if I trust you. What I do know is I'm saving people and stopping demons, and that feels good. I want to keep going."

Back at the barn, Dean and Bobby are sitting around, waiting for the demon. Suddenly, the barn roof starts flapping, and the light bulbs burst, the door is forced open by a really hot guy in a trench coat. He walks to them, looking at the symbols as if looking at art in an art gallery. They shoot at him, but he keeps walking as if nothing happened.

Dean asks who he is, and he says "I'm the one that gripped you right and raised you from perdition." Dean slams the knife in his heart, but the guy just simply pulls it out. Dean looks at Bobby, who attacks him, but the guy grabs the crowbar, and places two fingers to Bobby's forehead. Bobby slumps down instantly. The guy says "We need to talk, Dean. Alone."

The guy says that Bobby's alive, and his name is Castiel. Dean says he knows that much, but he wants to know what he is. Castiel says he's an angel of The Lord, but Dean says there's no such thing. Castiel says that Dean has no faith, and lightning strikes to show Castiel's wings in the shadows.

Dean says he's not much of an angel if he burned out Pamela's eyes. Castiel says that his true form is "overwhelming to humans" and so is his true voice, which Dean has already witnessed. He's actually possessing someone who is devout enough to pray for something like this to happen.

Dean still doesn't believe him. He wants to know why an angel would rescue him from hell. Castiel simply says "Because God commanded it. Because we have work for you."

Metamorphasis

The episode opens with Sam and Ruby exorcising a demon with Sam's mind trick (also, asking where Lillith is). After they're done, they're walking the human (who is still alive) outside when Dean walks in and gets really angry. He finds out who Ruby is and tries to kill her with The Knife, but then Sam breaks the fight up and makes Ruby take the human guy to the hospital.

Dean storms off and Sam goes back to the motel.

When Dean gets back to the motel, he starts packing up, saying that Sam doesn't need him anymore, and then he punches Sam (twice). Sam tells Dean what he can do: exorcise demons and send them to Hell without killing the victim. Dean doesn't believe him (that it's all he can do). He says "If I didn't know you, I would want to hunt you."

Dean tells Sam that not even God doesn't want him doing that stuff, and tells him about what "Cas" said.

I totally laughed when Dean called Castiel "Cas," so much so, that I stopped and rewinded to play it again, just to make sure I heard it right.

Right after he says that, Sam gets a phone call from a guy named "Travis," who tells him of guy named Jack Montgomery in Missouri.

Switch to Jack. He's wolfing his (second!) steak down, and asks his wife if he can have hers. Later, he's brushing his teeth when he doubles over in pain, and we see something weird happening to his spine.

Switch back to Dean and Sam. They're in the car, and Dean has just finished telling him about the dream. They talk about their parents, and YED. Dean finds out Sam has always know about the demon blood, and they fight again.

Switch back to Jack. It's another day, and he's starving, but his wife hasn't finished cooking dinner yet. Dean and Sam are already there, watching the house, but only watching. They watch as Jack raids the fridge and eats some leftover chicken, but when he's finished that, Jack rips open the raw ground beef still and eats that too.

Sam and Dean meet Travis in a local motel. Turns out, Travis is an old friend of theirs, who's around John's age. He called them because he hurt his hand, and he needed help. Travis tells them that Jack's a rugaroo/rugaru; he says that even though Jack looks normal, rugarus will eventually crave the taste of "long pig" aka human flesh. They go through some kind of metamorphasis. Jack says that as soon as they take one bite of human, there's no going back. The transformation is complete.

The brothers want to know how Travis knows about this. Travis tells them that Jack's dad was also a rugaru, and that Travis was the one that killed him. Travis didn't know that Jack's mom was pregnant, and she put the child up for adoption, so it took a while to find Jack.

Meanwhile, Jack's wife accidentally cuts herself with a knife making dinner. Jack stares at her, feeling something he doesn't understand and leaves her by herself, even though she says she needs stitches. He goes to a local bar, where Jack has these flashes of hunger. He overhears a girl being hit on by an ass, but when he goes to her defense, he breaks the guy's wrist/arm in an incredible feat of strength. He's surprised at himself, and flees the scene.

Flashback to Dean. He's with Travis, and they're preparing flamethrowers (or something like that). Travis is saying that burning them alive is the only way he's found that can kill them. Sam comes into the motel room, and says that he's done some research on rugarus. He says that he found some stories where the people with the "rugaru gene" can overcome the "disease" by never "taking the final step" aka eating human flesh.

Travis says those are fairy tales, because all the rugaru he's seen have "taken that bite." Sam argues that while that may be true, Jack may not do the same thing. He wants to talk to Jack, to tell him what's happening to him, and to tell him to fight.

Travis says that's stupid; he says "Have you even been really hungry? I mean, haven't eaten in days, hungry? Right then, someone slaps a sirloin in front of you, you walkin' away? That's what we are to him, now. Meat on legs." He says that Jack can't stop himself now, just because they ask nice.

Still, Sam insists that they aren't going to kill him, unless Jack does something to get killed for.

Flashback to Jack. He's back at home, and he apologizes to his wife. She's still mad, because she had to drive herself to the hospital, and she couldn't reach him all day. He tells her that he saw her blood, got dizzy, and promises it will never happen again. They literally kiss and makeup, but he gets really rough (like, biting her neck vampire style rough), and she pushes her off him, angrily.

Flashback to Dean and Sam in the car. Dean wants to know, "if push comes, you're gonna shove," because they're probably going to burn the poor guy alive, because they always turn. Sam says maybe Jack can fight it off. Dean wants to know if Sam's emotions will get in the way.

Sam makes Dean stop the car. They get out, and Sam tells him that the reason he didn't tell Dean about what he was doing with his powers, is because of the way Dean acts around him, like he's a freak or an idiot. Dean wonders if Sam knows the difference between right and wrong, "because you've kinda been going down a dark road, lately." Sam repeats that Dean has no idea what he's going through, because this is a disease that he has, not something that he can wipe away or scrub clean. He wants to make something good out of it, because that's all he can do.

Dean suggests they just go talk to Jack, so they find Jack in his backyard. Flash foward, and they've told Jack what he's turning into. Jack doesn't believe them, and tells him that's he's just sick. Sam tells him that his real father was one of these things, so he passed it on to him. Dean says that eventually, he'll want to eat human flesh. Sam says that he could fight it off, but if he feeds once, it's all over, and they'll have to stop him. Jack tells them to get out of his yard.

Jack ends up on a bench that night, listening to his messages on his phone. It's his wife, telling him to come home so they "can talk." From the bench, Jack sees a woman undressing from her window across the street, and he gets that hungry feeling again. He crosses the street and climbs up the fire escape.

Sam and Dean are watching him, and Sam curses Jack as he crosses the street. They grab the torches and go to the girl's apartment.

However, Jack just watches from the fire escape and doesn't actually go inside to kill the woman. When she turns off the light, Jack sees his reflection in the mirror, and says "No, no, no" repeatedly. He stops himself from attacking.

But! Sam and Dean don't know that he hasn't broken in, so when they break down the girl's door to save her, she isn't actually in trouble. They...make a hasty retreat while the girl calls the cops.

Jack returns home and calls for his wife, only to find her tied to a chair in the living room. He's swiftly knocked out, and when he comes to, he's handcuffed to a column in the living room.

It's Travis. Jack tells Travis to take anything and go, but Travis just says "I'm sorry, Jack, I truly am." Travis tells Jack he's friends with "the two brothers," and Jack pleads with him. He tells Travis that he hasn't hurt anybody. Travis says, "Not yet."

Jack pleads to let his wife go, but Travis said he can't. Michelle, Jack's wife, reveals that she's pregnant, and Travis says he won't let the same mistake happen again. Travis starts setting up the house to burn.

In Jack's rage, he breaks free and attacks Travis. And Jack (finally?) takes that first bite. Jack's now fully transformed: black eyes and pale, rotting skin. Jack turns around, and frees his wife, who runs fleeing from the scene. Jack eyes Travis, and finishes him off.

Sam and Dean arrive at the house and spot Travis' truck. Sam calls Travis a "stupid son of a bitch" for coming here, and they go inside with flamethrowers ready. There's barely anything left of Travis, and Sam admits that Dean was right about Jack.

Suddenly, Jack knocks both the brothers out before they could burn him. When Sam wakes up, he's inside the closet. He calls out for Dean, but Jack answers. Jack tells Sam that Dean's not dead, but he's not letting Sam out of the closet yet either. Jack blames them for what Travis tried to pull (specifically, burning his wife alive), even though Sam insists that they didn't know about what Travis was planning. Sam says that they (being Dean and him) never would have hurt her, while getting a coathanger to pick the lock on the closet door.

Jack also blames the three of them for turning him into "this," but Sam says that no one's making him kill them. He relates Jack by saying "Listen to me, you've got this dark pit inside you. I know. Believe me, I know. But that doesn't mean you have to fall into it. You don't have to be a monster...It doesn't matter what you are. It only matters what you do. It's your choice."

But Jack's really hungry, and Dean's already knocked out, and bleeding. Dean starts walking up, right as Jack's about to feed, but Sam picked the lock and has the flamethrower ready before he can take a chomp out of Dean's neck. Jack attacks Sam, and Sam burns him in self-defense.

Back in the car, Dean tells Sam that he did the right thing, because Jack was a monster and there's no going back. Dean also tries to apologize for being a hard on him lately, but Sam doesn't want to talk about it, because he can't make Dean understand what he's going through. Sam says, "It's not in you the way it's in me. It's just something I gotta deal with."

But he continues on with, "Anyway, it doesn't matter. These powers... It's playing with fire. I'm done with them. I'm done with everything." Dean thanks him, but Sam says he's not doing it for Dean or for the angels, or for anyone. It's his choice.

I kinda felt bad for everyone, plus I feel a little evil for wanting the wife dead. I also felt bad for thinking Travis (Trevor?) was a dick, because I kinda figured he was going to die the moment I saw him. Also, when Sam said "sonofaBITCH," I was like "You have no idea" because Jack was right; he wouldn't have turned into the monster he did if Jack didn't tie them up.