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Sam: "I have these nightmares."
Dean: "I've noticed."
Sam: "And sometimes they come true."
Dean: "Come again?"

Rehash of Poltergeist, with a touch of Amityville Horror and a Supernatural twist.

Single mother Jenny and her two children victimized in the same house where Mary died was a transparent parallel to Mary, Dean and Sam twenty-two years ago. I thought the end, with Mary as the flaming monster in the closet sacrificing herself for her sons, was moving. At least they got to see her one more time. Or in Sam's case, for the first time.

Going back to Lawrence was outright painful for Dean, but turned out to be more of a voyage of discovery for Sam. Sam never knew that Dean carried him out of the house that night, never saw the room where his mother died. And Sam was delighted with Missouri, the psychic. (Dean was less impressed.) At least Sam began taking his psychic gift seriously, and used it to help others. Maybe being around Missouri and her matter-of-fact acceptance of her gift had a beneficial effect on him.

John showed up at the end, and told Missouri that he couldn't see his sons until he knew the truth. The truth about what? Is John protecting them, somehow? I'm sort of losing patience with this whole "trying to find Dad" thing, because it just feels like a plot device to keep the boys on the road fighting evil. (Yes, I do want the boys on the road fighting evil, though, that's not the point.)

Bits and pieces:

-- Sam getting thrown around by the poltergeist was convincing and scary, well done.

-- Poltergeist, yes, I get it, but did they have to do the hand in the garbage disposal thing? I hate the hand in the garbage disposal thing.

-- This week, the boys went home to Lawrence, Kansas. And they mostly didn't masquerade as anything, because Sam told Jenny the truth. The lack of subterfuge sort of went with the going home again plot.

-- Well, they did masquerade as cops when asking questions at a local garage. That was where John worked, right?

-- Note from season four: While rewatching the series, something really struck me about the scene where Mary materialized and saw her two sons. She walked right up to Sam and said, "I'm sorry."

Quotes:

Dean: "First you tell me that you got the shining, and then you tell me I've got to go back home, especially when ... when I swore to myself that I'd never go back there."

Missouri: "That an EMF?"
Dean: "Yeah."
Missouri: "Amateur."

Dean: "Missouri did her whole Zelda Rubenstein thing. The house should be clean."
Missouri even sounded like Zelda Rubenstein.

Sam: "'I went to Missouri and I learned the truth'."
Dean: "I always thought he meant the state."

Three stars,

Billie