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Synopsis

The brothers track Eve to Oregon and discover that she’s converted an entire town into a new breed of monsters… and has taken the form of Mary Winchester to torment Sam and Dean.

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Two students, Marshall Todd and Ed Bright, leave a bar and find Eve waiting outside for them. They don’t know who she really is, and she simply touches Ed and walks by as veins briefly spread across his face. Eve goes into the bar and locks the door behind her. One of the patrons notices blood on her dress and asks if she’s okay. Eve approaches and kisses him, and the same pattern of veins spreads on his face. As Eve walks through the bar, touching more people, the first man goes berserk. The patrons begin attacking and biting each other while Eve picks up a drink and watches in satisfaction.

Bobby and the brothers load up five shotgun shells with the phoenix ashes, and Dean reveals that he got some on him and it didn’t do anything to him. They speculate if that means it is powerless, and realize they have to find eve first. Castiel appears and admits that Eve is shielded from angels, so Sam suggests that they find a friendly monster to help them. Castiel goes out and finally locates Lenore, the “friendly” vampire that they met several years ago. They ask her about Eve, and Lenore says that she is staying far away from her. She warns them that Eve influenced the other members of her nest, causing them to go out to kill, and explains that everyone gives in eventually. Dean suggests that she tell them where Eve is, and Lenore warns that Eve can see through her. Sam appeals to her better nature, saying that Lenore can’t want the entire planet dead, and Lenore tells them that Eve is in Grants Pass, Oregon, and Eve knows that they’re coming for her. However, Lenore says that she needs something; she asks them to kill her because she’s exactly like the others, and she fed on a 16-year-old girl. Sam hesitates, but Castiel reaches forward and burns her dead with a touch,

Castiel teleports Bobby and the Winchesters arrive at Grants Pass, but find nothing amiss. They go to a diner and Bobby accesses the police department computer base, and finds nothing. Castiel tries to teleport away to search the town and realizes that he’s blocked. Bobby learns that Ed Bright’s doctor, Silver, called the CDC. Dean and Castiel go his office and discover that he’s disappeared. As Dean picks the lock of the office, they spot blood on Silver’s shed and finds Ed Bright’s corpse inside. Dean prepares to burn it.

Bobby and Sam go to Silver’s home and confirm that the house is empty, and that he had a wife and two sons. They run into the local sheriff and claim to be FBI agents, and the sheriff says that he’s there to see if Silver is sick. Bobby successfully bluffs the sheriff into putting out an APB back at the station. Dean and Castiel arrive and Castiel points out that Ed Bright is at the window of the house. Sam and Dean break in and find several Ed Brights. Most of them are dead, but one of them is dying. He says that he’s not Ed, and they check his ID and confirm that he’s Marshall, Ed’s friend. Todd asks if they all look like Ed, and they assure him that he’s hallucinating. He tells them that they were at a bar, gives them the address, and says that a girl in white was there. Todd dies before he can say anything further.

The four men go to the bar and find everyone dead. One of them has vampire teeth but a wraith spike, and they realize that Eve is creating hybrids. As the person discovering them, Dean names them Jefferson Starships. Bobby concludes that they have all burned out. As they talk, the sheriff and his deputies arrive and arrest Sam, Bobby, and Castiel, while Dean hides behind the bar.

At the sheriff’s office, Sam catches a glimpse of the officers in the surveillance monitors and realizes that they’re Starships. They start to fight back and Dean arrives in time to kill all of them except the sheriff. They capture him and take him to an interrogation room, but he refuses to answer bobby’s questions. They hear a banging noise outside and realize that more Starships are attacking. Sam and Dean go to investigate and find Silver’s two children locked up in a cell. The Winchesters free them and the brothers introduce themselves as Joe and Ryan. Ryan, the younger one, won’t talk and Joe explains that his brother can’t talk since they came for them. Dean says that they’ll free them as soon as they confirm their human.

Sam and Dean bring Joe and Ryan back to the office, give them food, and ask them what they know. Joe explains that the creatures were holding them for food. Dean promises that he’ll take the boys to their uncle, fifteen miles away, but Castiel calls him aside and says that they have to worry about the greater purpose. Dean refuses and tells him to wait while he and Sam get the Silver brothers to safety. As they drive, Joe watches over his little brother as Dean looks on.

At the sheriff’s office, Castiel tells Bobby that it was a bad idea letting Sam and Dean go. Bobby warns him that no one lets the Winchesters do anything, and suggests they interrogate the sheriff again.

Sam and Dean drop the Silver brothers off with their uncle and then leave.

The sheriff warns Bobby that Eve can see them through him. Castiel asks for five minutes alone with the creature and Bobby reluctantly agrees. Bobby then waits in the office and hears the sheriff screaming. Castiel comes out and tells Bobby where Eve is holed up, and tells him to call Sam and Dean with the information.

Dean and Sam return and discover that Castiel has decapitated the sheriff. They each take on shotgun shell and go to the diner where they were earlier. Dean says that he and Sam will go in to draw Eve out, and Castiel and Bobby will back them up. The brothers go inside, walk past the customers, and sit down. Sam uses his camera and confirms that everyone in the diner is a Starship. Eve, dressed as a waitress, offers them food and they realize who she is. The Starships lock the doors, draw the blinds, and relieve Sam and Dean of their guns. She realizes that they have phoenix ash and tells her minions to destroy the guns, and then explains that she’s not there to fight. When they ask what she wants, Eve explains that she preferred the original arrangement, where hunters and monsters had a balance. But then Samuel and his people started abducting her children, and she pushed back.

When Dean and Sam don’t believe her, Eve takes on the form of Mary Winchester to emphasize her point about a mother’s love. Dean tells her to kill them and be done with it, but Eve says that she wants Crowley, and he’s not dead. He’s still abducting her children, and he’s using their souls as power, siphoning off her supply. If she can’t stop Crowley, then she’ll convert everyone on Earth to bolster her forces. Grants Pass is her laboratory to build the perfect monster. Eve admits that there were a few failures, but she’s perfected the process. Smiling, she tells them that she used the brothers as the ultimate test: Ryan is one of the creatures.

The uncle finds Joe dead on the floor, his neck ripped out. Ryan comes out, covered in blood, and Joe comes back to life. The two creatures attack the uncle, killing him.

The brothers are less than thrilled that Eve has played them. She offers them a proposal: they bring her Crowley and she lets them leave. Dean immediately refuses, and Eve points out that he has no other options. Her creatures bring in Castiel and Bobby, and Eve explains that she’s far older than any angel and she knows how to negate his powers. She repeats her offer, but Dean insists that they don’t work with monsters and dares her to kill them. Eve says that she’ll turn them instead and Dean still refuses. She grabs him and says not to test her, and Dean tells her to bite him. She does, but then falls back, gagging, as Dean explains that he drank the ash down with whiskey. They watch as Eve burns up from the inside and collapses to the ground. The creatures start to attack and Castiel, his powers restored, destroys them all and then heals Dean’s neck wound.

Dean immediately insists on going to save Ryan and Joe. Disgusted, Castiel agrees and teleports them to the house, and they find the uncle, dead. Joe and Ryan are in the basement, also dead, and Sam finds traces of sulphur, indicating that demons are responsible. Dean and Sam tell Castiel what Eve told them about Crowley, and the angel says that he’ll look into it immediately and teleports away. Once he’s gone, Bobby wonders how Castiel screwed up, and suggests that Castiel let Crowley get away. Dean doesn’t believe it, but Sam isn’t so sure.

Castiel goes to the diner and finds Crowley waiting for him. Crowley says he’s tired of cleaning up after his messes.

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MUSIC

You Sexy Thing” by Hot Chocolate
(plays in the bar at the beginning)

“Miracles” by Jefferson Starship

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(plays when Cas and Crowley meet up at the end)

QUOTES

Castiel: I’ll search the town. Give me a moment.
Dean: Cas, we can still see you.
Castiel: Yeah, I’m still here.
Dean: Okay, well you don’t have to wait on us, you-
Castiel: …
Dean: Well now it just looks like you’re pooping.

Dean: Yeah, the question is why. I mean what does she want with the – what do you call these?
Bobby: Well, congrats. You discovered, you get to name it.
Dean: Jefferson Starships. Because, they’re horrible and hard to kill.

Dean: Well, that’s great, because without your power, you’re basically just a baby in a trenchcoat.
Sam: I think you hurt his feelings.

Sam: Alright, Dean and me are gonna go in. You two stay here and watch the door. If something comes out, shoot it.
Dean: Yeah. Best guess – silver bullets.
Castiel: I’m fairly unpracticed with firearms.
Dean: You know who whines? Babies.

Bobby: They won’t take long.
Castiel: You don’t know that. They may find more wayward orphans along the way.
Bobby: Oh, don’t get cute.
Castiel: Right. Pardon me for highlighting their crippling and dangerous empathetic response with “sarcasm”. It was a bad idea – letting them go.

Dean: He wants Purgatory, right? Location, location, location.
Eve: Is that what he told you? It’s about the souls.
Sam: What about ’em?
Eve: Their power, you simple little monkey. Fuel. Each soul a beautiful little nuclear reactor. Put ’em together, you have the sun. Now think what the king of hell could do with that vast, untapped oil well. How powerful he’d be. Now Crowley wants to siphon off my supply, and torture my children to do it? Okay fine. I’ll quite playing nice. I’ll turn you all. Every soul, mine. Let’s see how hot his hell burns when everyone comes to me. He asked for it.

Sam: Hey Cass, um, Dean’s bleeding pretty good.
Dean: Yeah, I think she turned me into a Jefferson Starship. Could you clear that up too?

TRIVIA

Mommy Dearest is the name of a tell-all autobiography by Christina Crawford, who details an abusive childhood at the hands of her mother, actress Joan Crawford. The film of the book starring Faye Dunaway has become a camp classic, particularly for the scene where Crawford rails hysterically at Christina for using wire coat hangers: “I told you – no wire hangers EVER!”
Dean references this when he says to Eve: “Beat me with a wire hanger, the answer’s still no.”

 
Marshall: Okay, Fabio, let’s go.

This is a reference to iconic Italian model Fabio Lanzoni.
Fabio was also referenced in 4.18 The Monster at the End of This Book when the illustration on the cover of one of the Supernatural books looked remarkably like him.

Lenore: Don’t look so impressed. I was hiding in a basement. Not exactly Club Med. You don’t know how hard it is – not to give in. Everyone gives in.

Club Méditerranée SA, more commonly known as Club Med, is a French company that specializes in “vacation villages” around the world.

Dean: Well, I was expecting more Zombieland, less Pleasantville.

Zombieland is a move about a post-zombie apocalyptic world.
Pleasantville is a movie that features a ‘perfect’ 1950s sitcom town.

Bobby: Alright. I finally got the police database, no thanks to this. I asked for a computer.
Sam: It is a computer.
Bobby: No, a computer has buttons.

Bobby is using an iPad.

Bobby: Oh, nickel and dime stuff, nothing weird. Basically dead end. You think Vampira was lying?

Maila Nurmi portrayed Vampira who hosted horror movies on TV in the 1950s and also starred in the Ed Wood cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Dean: What the hell’s going on here? Does every monster in this town have the motaba virus?

The motaba virus is a fictional Ebola-like virus that featured in the 1995 movie Outbreak.

Dean: Yeah, the question is why. I mean what does she want with the – what do you call these?
Bobby: Well, congrats. You discovered, you get to name it.
Dean: Jefferson Starships. Because, they’re horrible and hard to kill.

Jefferson Starship is a rock band formed under the name of Jefferson Airplane in the mid-1960s, an incarnation of which is still touring. Best known for the song “We Built This City.”
After the episode aired, Jefferson Starships trended on Twitter.

Dean: So we kill the Wicked Witch and she still wins. I mean they could’ve turned half the town by now… Don’t say it.

The Wicked Witch of the West is the main antagonist of The Wonderful World of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

Dean: She said that Crowley’s still kicking.
Castiel: But I burned his bones, how c—? Was she certain?
Dean: Sounded pretty sure. According to her, Crowley’s still waterboarding her kids, somewhere.

Waterboarding is the act of placing a cloth over an immobilized person’s face and pouring water over them, giving the simulation of drowning.

Roman Podhora, who played the sheriff, previously played a lieutenant in 2.12 Nightshifter.

 
In the “Then” segment, flashbacks are shown of the wraith, Karla from 5.11 Sam, Interrupted and Eli, a vampire from 2.03 Bloodlust. The first Jefferson Starships they come across in this episode are wraith/vampire hybrids.

 
The sports bar Marshall and Ed exit in the teaser is called 8th Street Sports Lounge. Marshall and Ed are wearing Bruisers shirts. Ed’s has the number 21 on it.

 
The Impala appears for only a single shot, outside Bobby’s house, just before Cas returns with Lenore.

 
Lenore: I remember. Your hunter friend almost killed me.
Sam: Well if it makes you feel any better, uh, he turned into a vampire and I chopped his head off.
Dean: Yeah. With razor wire. Wicked.

Sam and Dean met Lenore for the first time in 2.03 Bloodlust, where she was being pursued by hunter Gordon Walker. Gordon was killed by Sam in 3.07 Fresh Blood.

Bobby: Just because it looks quiet, don’t mean it is, especially if she’s got a clue were coming.
Dean: Yeah, well if she is here I’m glad we’ve got Smitey McSmiterton on our squad. Alright, where do we start?

In 3.02 The Kids Are Alright, Dean refers to Sam as “Weirdy McWeirderton.”

When Bobby is looking for suspicious news, he comes across an article with the headline “Meth Lab Operation Uncovered” and the sub-heading “Local Team Takes Home the Trophy.” He later searches for “suspicious events in…” The headline of the article on the CDC website about Ed is “Doctor Reports Puzzling Condition in Otherwise Healthy Patient.”

 
On Ed’s driver’s license, his full name is Edward Bright.
He is 5’10” and weighs 185 lbs.
His date of birth is 16 December, 1985.
The license expires on the 5th of June, 2014.
On Marshall Todd’s driver’s licence, his date of birth is 14 July, 1984.
Like Ed, he is 5’10” and weighs 185 lbs.

 
From the report to the CDC that Bobby finds, Dr. Silver describes Ed’s symptoms as “what seems to be the beginning of the flu. After a day his flesh became what can only be described as gooey.”

 
After meeting the sheriff outside Dr. Silver’s house, Sam & Bobby drive past a Mazda 3 with Kansas licence plates. The plates on the car they’re driving are BKN 6PS or 6P5.

 
The diner they are in is called Ervin’s Diner and is at 25 Buckley Street. Inside, the writing on the wall reads “Grants Pass, It’s The Climate”
Sam’s method of using the camera on his phone to find out if the people in the diner are monsters is the same method that was used to see ghosts invisible to the naked eye in 2.18 Hollywood Babylon.

 
The nametag on Eve’s waitress uniform reads “Angela.”

 
The liquid that comes from Eve’s face when she dies is the same liquid that comes out of Bobby’s face when the Khan worm he’s possessed by dies in 6.16 …And Then There Were None.

 
In 6.07 Family Matters, Mark Sheppard requested not to be in the opening credits as to keep his return a surprise. This was done again in this episode. During filming, some paparazzi caught a picture of him flying into Vancouver, but through his twitter he deflected, implying it wasn’t for Supernatural. After the episode he tweeted “I was photographed while filming episode 20 — trust me, NOBODY knew about 19.”

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