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Supernatural 3.06 Red Sky at Morning

Original Air Date: November 8, 2007

A young woman, Sheila, is running. She stops, and sees a three-mast clipper off the shore. It disappears suddenly, and she turns around and runs back the way she came.

Sheila is showering. Suddenly, a silhouette appears outside the shower door. The man puts his hand against the shower door glass. He appears in the shower and reaches around her from behind. She collapses, dragging her hand down the shower stall door.

In the Impala, Dean is questioning Sam about the bullet missing from the Colt. [He, of course, had unloaded one of them in Episode 3.05.] Dean confronts Sam about going after the Crossroads demon on his own, and for shooting her. Sam tells Dean about the other who holds the actual contract on Dean’s soul.

Sam and Dean, posing as police detectives, visit Gert, Sheila’s aunt. When they ask about Sheila’s “drowning”, she says that’s what the coroner had said. She realizes that they must be working with someone named Alex. Dean ad libs a “yes” with a little extra personal affirmation. She tells them that Sheila had mentioned seeing a boat that disappeared before her eyes, asking if it could be a ghost ship. She says Alex believes it’s a ghost ship.

Walking down the street, Dean teases Sam about his “girlfriend”, and they discuss who “Alex” might be –another player in town. Sam tells him of stories of sightings of a vanishing three-mast clipper in the bay, and mysterious, dry land drownings, that occur every 37 years. Sam mentions worldwide ghost ship sightings, almost all of which are death omens. As for IDing the ship, there have been over 150 clipper wrecks off the coast.

At the street, the Impala is missing. Dean freaks out, when, suddenly, Bela appears, claiming to have had the car towed. Sam realizes that she’s “Alex”. She says she sells lots of trinkets to the scores of old women like Gert, up and down the eastern seaboard. She “thanks” them for letting Gert know that the case wasn’t solved –now, Bela’s forced to find real answers for the woman, before she’ll pay her. She excuses herself, telling them they must hurry to their car, before their arsenal in the trunk is discovered.

In a nice residence, the spirit appears in the bathroom of a man brushing his teeth. He turns to discover his bath is very full, and a bit dark. As he pulls the plug without effect, a hand reaches from the water and grabs his throat. The scene ends, leaving us to believe that he’s dead.

Bela, posing as a reporter, is interviewing Peter Warren, the man in the bathroom’s brother. The boys arrive and chase her off. The man tells them the ship his brother saw resembled an old Yankee Clipper, a smuggling ship, rakish topsail, angel figure on the bow. When asked about the amount of detail, he explains that they were night diving, and that he saw it, as well. Bela is in the distance, pointing out the boys to a couple of patrolmen.

The boys are loading shotguns in preparation. Bela shows up and challenges them. Scoffing at their plan to save Mr. Warren, since he saw the ship, he claims he can’t be saved. She plans to find the ship to put an end to the killings. Dean asks how she got so jaded, quipping about whether her “daddy” hadn’t hugged her enough. She counters by asking if their daddy had. She challenges Dean’s looking down on her, and his claim that they help people. She says they’re actually in it for vengeance and obsession’s sake; “a stone’s throw from being a serial killer.”

The boys sit in the Impala in front of Peter Warren’s house. Sam recounts his uncovered facts about the Warren brothers: Duke University grads, no criminal records. They inherited their father’s real estate fortune, $112M, six years before. Sam wonders what they had in common with Sheila. Dean thinks it’s maybe nothing. Peter Warren comes out, yelling at the boys, asking if they’re watching him. He is incredulous of their claim that he’s in danger. He gets in his car and starts to drive off, but the car stalls, as if “flooded”. The boys know it’s bad, and run for the salt guns. The spirit is in the car and touches the man. Suddenly, he begins choking up large amounts of water, and slumps over the steering wheel. Dean and Sam rush over, and Dean shoots the salt at the spirit. He reaches in the now broken passenger window, and unlocks the car. Sam opens the driver door and checks on Peter, but he’s dead.

The radio in the Impala airs a report of stormy weather heading to shore. Sam is brooding, and Dean challenges his worry about saving “everybody”. Sam says he feels like, lately, he can’t save anybody

The boys are sitting in their hideout. Bela shows up, well dressed, insulting the “charm” of the house they’re squatting in. She asks how things went with Peter. They’re not amused. She tells them about the ship –the Espirito Santo, a merchant sailing vessel. In 1859, a sailor was hanged for treason. He was 37. She shows them photos. Dean recognizes the face of the spirit they encountered, the night before, but the spirit was missing his right hand. She knew about the hand, because the sailor’s body was cremated, but his right hand was cut off first, and used in a Hand of Glory ritual; apparently, a powerfully magical occult object. She says to find the hand and burn it, and knows where it is. It’s in the local museum, as a macabre bit of Maritime History.

Bela is in the hideout, calling out for Dean, saying Sam is already there with his date. Dean comes down, dressed in a tuxedo –Bond; James Bond, anyone? Her breath taken away, she says they should have angry sex, when the deal is over. He looks uncomfortable, tells her not to objectify him, and they take off.

At the Sea Pines Maritime Museum, Bela and Dean arrive, then Gert and Sam arrive. [Bela had just said that they were already there.] Gert is still exceedingly flirty with him. Sam excuses himself, and confronts Dean about how long he has to entertain her. Dean explains that they needed her invitation to crash the affair. Sam says they have always been able to crash anything. Dean admits that he finds it far more entertaining to be there on Gert’s invitation, than to have come in their usual way. Dean, of course, teases Sam about his “date”. When Sam returns, Gert is giddy at watching Sam slam down his Champagne.

Dean and Bela scope out possible ways to get to the hand, which is upstairs, and the party is heavily guarded. Bela “faints”, drawing a security guard over. Dean asks for a place to lay her down. The security guard escorts them upstairs, and leaves them alone in an office.

Bela sits up, and Dean complains about her not alerting him to her impromptu plan. She returns that she didn’t want him thinking, “You’re not very good at that.” He’s caught flat-footed, and she chides him for his failed attampt at finding a “witty rejoinder”. Bela tells Dean to go to room 235, and look for a locked, glass case with an alarm.

Sam and Gert are dancing. She is stroking his back and squeezing his butt. She says he reminds her of her late husband; he was shy, too.

Dean finds the hand atop a locked pillar display. He picks the lock.

Bela, looking around the office, is drawn to a small ship in a bottle. The guard knocks on the door. Bela answers and requests a few more minutes, implying that something “interesting” is going on. The guard meets Dean at the top of the stairs, and assures him that his wife is being looked after. [wink. wink.].

Bela asks for the hand, but Dean insists on taking care of it himself, wrapping it up in his handkerchief. He claims not to need her “kind of help.” Bela smiles devilishly.

Dancing, Gert asks Sam if Sheila’s death was in any way related to the Warren brothers’ deaths. She says she thinks the Warrens had it coming. She tells Sam that the Warner brothers were rumored to have killed their father. He asks about Sheila having any tragedy. Sheila had a car accident in her teens. Her cousin Brian was killed. She asks if that’s important. Dean and Bela arrive on the dance floor. Bela excuses herself with Gert, saying she’ll meet them at the cemetary.

Sam and Dean get in the Impala. Dean pulls out his handkerchief, but finds the ship in the bottle, not the hand. They, of course, express their anger and dismay.

Bela, in her car looking at a wad of cash that she obviously must have acquired illicitly, sees the clipper ship appear and disappear in the bay.

At the house, Dean is fuming about Bela. Sam is trying to calm him. Bela shows up. She has sold the hand, and it’s already halfway across the ocean. So, they were just her cover at the ball. She tells them about having seen the ship.

Sam tells what they figured out about the spirit. The Captain of the ship was the spirit’s brother, so the spirit is after people who were responsible for a family member’s death, even if an accident. Dean isn’t sympathetic about her fate. She asks for their help. Dean asks why she would ask a pair of serial killers. Bela won’t spill about what she did to open her up to the spirit. Sam says the hand may not have been the only way to save her life.

In the cemetary, under the full moon, Sam is lighting candles on a pentagram. Dean is waiting with the salt-shotgun. Sam begins reading a Latin text, apparently invoking something.

Rain and wind stir up. The spirit arrives, and throws Dean out of the say. The spirit touches Bela, and she begins choking up water. Suddenly, her choking stops, the rain settles down. The spirit’s brother is there, apologizing for hanging him. The apirit thrusts his hand into his brother’s chest, and in a slow motions splash of water, they both disappear. Sam, Dean, and Bela look in disbelief. I guess his apology was NOT accepted, but now he has what he really wanted.

At the house, Sam and Dean are packing up. Bela walks in, and tells Sam she’s impressed by his giving the spirit what he wanted. She pays them $10,000 in wads of cash. Dean ridicules her for finding it easier to pay them than a simple thank-you, saying she is so damaged. She argues it takes one to know one. She exits.

The boys are in the Impala, off to Atlantic City. Dean says he understands why Sam went after the Crossroads demon. He says he would do the same thing in his position. He says he’ll live his life, and move on. Sam explodes, saying that he doesn’t want an apology. He doesn’t want Dean to worry about him. He wants Dean to worry about Dean.

All Dean has to say, “I think maybe I’ll play craps.” Sam huffs.

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