Supernatural: Repo Man

"This is what you do? Find postal workers, make them go postal?"

I knew it would get serious again pretty quickly. Just not this serious. Come on! Did they really just kill a puppy?

Sam has been so sane and together, ignoring his Lucifer hallucinations and running the team while Dean has been falling apart in slow motion. And now, he's let Lucifer back in. Is this even fixable? We still don't know if it's post traumatic stress disorder or if Lucifer himself is somehow visiting long distance from the cage. I think it's really Lucifer. Okay, I have no idea, because they've been very careful that everything Lucifer said could have come from Sam's subconscious. But this plotline is apparently heating up again, pun intended. Poor Sam.

I liked that they addressed the fallout of possession, because the Winchesters so rarely return to the scene of the crime. I remember the Jesse the Antichrist's mother Julia was still freaked out ten years later, and her demon really did want back in. Jeffrey's didn't. He, or It, seemed to be on a Hellfire Recruiting Drive. Here, Jeffrey, I'll show you how to satisfy your deepest homicidal longings, and then, babe, you're on your own.

It's a shame, too. I initially felt so bad for the guy. Although I did realize that present-day not-possessed Jeffrey had to be the one doing the killings a bit before Dean did. Why did he tell Dean and Sam to go ahead and torture the demon out of him four years ago? Because he'd been caught and wanted to live, and there was nothing else he could do, I suppose.

Does Lucifer want to ride Sam again? I'm sure he does, since he had a special relationship with Sam. Why else would he continue to flirt with him and torment him? If he is indeed tormenting him. I'd really like an answer to this one.

This episode made me realize how much I've missed the heaven and hell, angels and demons, apocalypse Supernatural. The flashback to four years ago just felt so familiar, like the good old days. It's not that I think they should return to the sort of stuff they were doing a couple of years ago -- it's done -- but maybe leviathans and purgatory just aren't close enough to their roots. Roots are important.

Was anyone else expecting Crowley to show up? Hey, we got Mark Pellegrino. We should have gotten Mark Sheppard, too.

Bits and pieces:

-- Miss Havelock had a lot of knowledge and was also this week's Bobby substitute. And of course, we got Frank on the phone. Wiccansweb.com goes nowhere. I bet they bought the domain name.

-- What good is a devil's trap at the door if you can walk around it while it's drying?

-- The Impala was back briefly, during the flashback. I missed that stupid car.

-- Jeffrey was killing big women, a la Silence of the Lambs. Although not for the same reason. At least the librarian with the active sex life made it. I love it when they don't do librarian stereotypes.

-- Four years ago, the demon gave up Merrick in New Orleans. Did we ever see that? I sure don't remember that.

-- Forked tongue. Ick.

-- Apparently, you can't get Cinemax in a halfway house.

-- Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: present day and four years ago. The motel room (113, which does not correspond to the episode number) had sickly green walls and fluorescent green bedspreads. A cop remembered that Dean and Sam were "drummer boys" Bonham and Watts.

-- There's a wait until the next episode, which airs March 9.

Quotes:

Lucifer: "It's nice. Kind of like a men's room with beds. (tastes the wall) Avocado grime. Takes years to build up a patina like this."

Dean's phone: "Leave your name, number and nightmare at the tone."

Lucifer: "Big brother's probably dead."
Sam: "Shut up."
Lucifer: (delighted) "He said 'shut up' to me."
It was fear of losing Dean that made Sam lose control. Not a surprise.

Sam: "Do you want the ear or the kid?"
Lucifer: "You're giving me the chills."

Sam: "You going to sleep?"
Dean: "Damn straight. Screw consciousness, that's what I say."

Three out of four much missed devil's traps,

Billie