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The "Then" reminds us about Sheriff Donna and her douchey ex Doug, Sam's fear of clowns, and Sam's feeling that his visions might be coming from God, which Dean doesn't agree with, because God doesn't answer their prayers.
NOW!
THE CREEPIEST FUCKING GIANT BUNNY YOU CAN IMAGINE kills a guy named Stan who's being a jerk to his wife. By stabbing him in the neck with a beer bottle. Damn.
Jesus H. Christ that's one creepy bunny.
Cut to Sam praying in his bare little room, with the door open, and I don't know why Sam thinks he needs to kneel at his bed to pray. I mean, if that's what works for you, fine, but it also means that when Dean comes to the door, he immediately knows what's going on. (And Dean's right. Sam could have just closed the door.) Sam's asking for more guidance, to help him understand the visions, which Dean thinks is pointless, because God didn't show up for the apocalypse and he's not going to show up for this. (Although, he kinda did? When he brought Cas back to life? Remember that, Dean?)
Sidebar conversation with The Husband, who hasn't put down his phone yet:
The Husband: So, Marco Rubio said...
Me: Are you STARTING A CONVERSATION right now?
The Husband: Oh. Sorry.
(In my defense, he invoked the Supernatural Rule a few days ago when I was talking over his show. The boy knows better.)
I really like this shot of them walking through the bunker.
I don't care what all the fanfic says. I want to be in front this time.
Their discussion about Cas's research into The Darkness is interrupted by a phone call. Turns out the killer bunny is in the jurisdiction of adorable little cupcake Sheriff Donna Hanscum ("Fat sucker Donna?") and Officer Doug, who has a crush on her, but she's not interest in another cop named Doug. Once bitten twice Douged, you know. And it's kind of like watching an episode of Fargo at this point, what with the hokey little sayings and the accents. You betcha. Dean is all about the Bugs Bunny jokes but isn't amused at Sam's Roger Rabbit attempt. But after an awesome horror movie homage, where Dean turns away from Giant Creepy Bunny, and then turns back to find that he's right there, they notice two things - a college t-shirt, and a tattoo with a girl's name. Off they go to find Kylie, who explains that her boyfriend Mike put on a giant creepy bunny head at a thrift store and immediately turned weird. (Also, Dean gets holy-watered, which is always a good time.)
Back at the station, Sheriff Donna and Officer Doug are going to take Giant Creepy Bunny to the hospital to attempt to get the head off, but instead, he attacks Donna and Officer Doug has to shoot him. And then the head pops off, revealing poor dead Mike. Donna's kind of a jerk to Doug during this scene, and I'm seeing a pattern here - Giant Creepy Bunny kills people who are jerks to their partners. Right? (Spoiler alert: wrong.)
Sheriff Donna has a lot of guilt over the situation, and welcome to the world of hunting, Donna. This ties into one of the themes of this season, in that we're being more aware of the innocent people who are posessed by demons or ghosts. "No one else dies," says Sam, as they burn Giant Creepy Bunny's head. Except the next scene shows a high school coach getting whacked by someone in a court jester outfit, so, maybe not so much. (Also? Court Jesters? Kind of a weird team mascot. Just saying. I've always thought Ax Murderers would be a good team name.)
The next scene reveals the coach is actually still alive, which seems extremely unlikely given the blood splattered all of the place, and the way the jester swung that big heavy weight at him, but okay, I'm not a doctor. Officer Doug is adorably befuddled that there would be two such murders, and the other three are all, um, yeah. Copycat killer. Damn social media. The witness tells them the room got cold, so they figure it's a ghost posession. Back at the jail, they shoot the court jester with salt, dispersing the ghost. The person inside the costume is a confused teenage girl, who doesn't know what happened but tells them the costume was donated to the school.
The brothers and Sheriff Donna show up at the home of a woman named Rita, whose brother Chester was a party performer who killed himself a couple of months ago. The costumes were his, and she donated them to several places. Poor Sam is handed a picture of the creepiest clown ever - really, I can't imagine why anyone would wear such a costume for kids, or for anything other than a remake of Stephen King's It. Rita denies that her brother knew the two victims. Since Chester was cremated, there aren't any bones to burn, so they're going to round up and burn all the costumes.
Hospital. Creepiest Clown Ever enters the coach's hospital room and stabs him in the throat with a scalpel. Seriously, this clown looks like a burn victim.
Even John Winchester isn't a bad enough parent to hire this clown for a kids' party.
The clown leaves the room and goes to the elevator, still carrying a dripping scalpel, and when the elevator door opens it reveals a terrified Sam. Sam doesn't do anything at first, even when the clown presses the elevator button with the bloody scalpel and then turns around to face him, but he finally screws his courage up and attacks him, getting choked (of course) but eventually pressing a slab of iron against the clown's neck to release the ghost. And I could watch this scene all day long. Not only because it's so well-lit, and when they light Sam well, it just makes my heart go pitter patter (AND MAYBE OTHER BODY PARTS, I'M ONLY HUMAN) but also because it's SAM IN AN ELEVATOR WITH A KILLER CLOWN and the two of them standing there, the clown staring at him, Sam trying desperately to pretend this isn't happening, and ELEVATOR MUSIC. It's too perfect.
I might be just a teeny bit obsessed.
Under the clown mask is yet another person who doesn't know what's going on. More copycat killers, says Donna. And again, she's being really mean to poor Officer Doug.
Meanwhile, Dean has gone to talk to victim #1's widow, and finds that the two dead guys had been friends forever, and oh yes, they knew dead Chester with the creepy costumes. And they accused him of doing something inappropriate with their kids. Dean thinks maybe Chester's death wasn't a suicide after all, so they go back to Rita's house. Rita eventually spins a long convoluted story about not knowing if she should believe her brother or not, and letting the two now-dead guys go scare the crap out of him, except he apparently accidentally died.
But who cares, because don't the guys look nice here? Isn't Sam on the phone just too pretty for words?
Mmmm.....
They now know that Chester was wearing a deer costume the day he died. When Donna calls from the costume burn pile, they ask if she saw a deer head, but no, she didn't. Because Rita's son, who wanted to keep the costumes, must have stashed it away and is now wearing it. They get it burned, after being knocked around some, and this time Dean's the one who gets choked. Also, there's one memorable line in this scene: "I should have trusted my brother." Hmmm. Maybe someone else in this room should trust his brother.
The brothers say their goodbyes, Donna apologizes to Doug, and then, since this is kind of a silly cracky episode, I assume we're going to get the Very Important and Emotional Bit at the end, and I'm right. \o/ Sam jumps right in:
I keep praying to God because, if it is God - and I know you think it isn't, but if it is - then He's showing me something I don't know what to do with.
What?
The cage.
Lucifer's cage?
Yeah. What if He's telling me I have to go back? What if He's saying that's where the answer is to beating the Darkness?
Sam, no, no. Okay, I don't know if these visions are coming from God or PBS or what, but we've been down there. And anything having to do with that cage is, it's suicide, and you of all people know that. So no, just not gonna happen.
Okay.
Not okay.
I love the patented Dean Winchester "I reject your reality and substitute my own." I love that he's just decided this can't be true because it's too awful to think about.
Actually I loved a few things about this episode. Mostly Sam in the elevator with the killer clown. The whole thing was unexpectedly charming. And then, of course, the emotional gut punch at the end. And I'm pretty sure that Dean saying Sam can't possibly need to go back to the cage means... Sam's going back to the cage. \o/ Let's just hope they don't fuck it up like they did when Sam went back to Hell to retrieve Bobby.
I'm unspoiled for future episodes, including the previews, please help me stay that way!