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Supernatural Recap: 3.15 - Time is on My Side

by Jonathan on May 8th, 2008

Episode 3.15 - Time is on My Side
Air Date: 8 May 2008

This is an exciting Supernatural episode with some really good twists.

Erie, Pennsylvania: A plastic surgeon and his friend are leaving the racquet club. At his car, the doctor is surprised, and thrown into the trunk of his car. He shows up at a hospital, in a robe, struggling to walk to the nurses’ station. A nurse meets him and helps him open the robe. Something falls from his abdomen.

Dean and Sam are torturing a demon with holy water, demanding the name of the demon holding Dean’s contract. The demon tells Dean that he’s not afraid of their holy water. He says it’s like a flea bite compared to what’s coming. He’s only afraid of the demon that holds Dean’s contract. He tells Dean he’ll be waiting in Hell, with a few pals, for when Dean arrives. Sam exorcizes him.

At the motel, Sam is talking on the phone about lab results. The guy in the opening was missing his liver. Bloody fingerprints on the body match a man who died years ago. They consider a possible zombie invasion. Dead guys leaving fingerprints and stealing livers would seem to indicate so.

The medical examiner tells the boys –posing as police- that the liver was not “ripped out”, but was surgically removed. So much for the zombie theory, this is organ theft.

The boys interview a man whose kidney was stolen. He says he woke up, strapped to a table, then felt excruciating pain. He passed out, then awoke in a hotel bathtub full of ice.

Sam says the victims’ were sewed back up with silk, as in the 19th century. They also had maggots in their wounds, much like what was once done, after 19th century surgeries. Dean asks why this sounds familiar. Sam says it’s because their Dad had killed a man named Dr. Benton, when they were kids. Benton was into alchemy, especially living forever. He disappeared in 1816, then people started disappearing. He was harvesting organs for his practice. John Winchester had removed Benton’s heart to kill him. Apparently, he got a new one, somehow. Sam says that Benton works near a stream to dump body parts.

A runner finishes his run. Then, he’s chloroformed from behind. The man wakes, strapped to a table. Benton comes in, and, while the man is watching, he opens his chest and removes the man’s beating heart.

The boys find a group of cabins near water, in the area. Bobby calls Dean with information from his old “friend”, Rufus. Bela is in Canaan, Vermont, looking to buy occult artifacts. He tells Dean to take a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue with him. Dean tells Sam they’re off to Vermont to find Bela. Sam thinks they should stay. He thinks they can use Benton’s techniques to keep Dean alive. They argue. Dean doesn’t want to “welch” on the contract, because Sam will die. Dean leaves Sam there, and takes off for Vermont.

Dean knocks on Rufus’ door. Rufus is belligerent. He is not especially helpful. Then, Dean whips out the scotch, and Rufus invites him in. He tells Dean that Bela came looking to buy a couple of things that will take a while to round up. Rufus warns Dean that, if he gets out of this deal, there’ll just be another one down the road. Rufus gives Dean a folder full of Bela’s records.

Sam scopes out a cabin. He finds Benton’s journal. In the cellar, he finds bodies. One woman, though, is still alive, with maggots eating infected flesh from her arm. She wakes, and panics. Benton returns to the cabin, and looks around, knowing that someone has broken in. Sam helps the woman escape, but Benton catches them at Sam’s rental. Sam drives off, then drives over Benton. When they speed off, Benton rises and straightens his head. His right eye is damaged and bleeding a little.

In Vermont, Bela enters her motel room, where Dean is waiting for her. He asks for the Colt, but she says it’s sold, already, to a Persian, “Speak Farsi?” He looks for the Colt, then confronts her about her killing her parents, and inheriting their millions. We see a flashback of teenage Bela’s father entering her bedroom. She’s crying as he quietly closes the door. To Dean, she covers, though, “They were lovely people.” She shuts her eyes as Dean prepares to shoot her in the forehead. He lowers the weapon, “You’re not worth it.” He leaves, and Bela reveals a receipt for The Erie, where Sam and Dean are staying in Pennsylvania. She calls someone, saying that it worked, and she knows where they are.

As Dean is driving back, Sam tells him on the phone that he has Benton’s journal. He found out how he stays alive, and it’s not magic, just science. Benton nabs Sam. Sam wakes in Benton’s lab. As he’s about to take Sam’s eye out with a melon baller, Dean arrives and shoots Benton. Benton, however, doesn’t appear even slightly injured by the shots. After Benton throws Dean across the room, Dean sticks a knife into his heart. As Benton is gloating about his immortality, Dean shows him that he has his chloroform. He had dipped the knife in it, so it’s going through his body.

Benton wakes. The boys have strapped him to a table. He tries to deal with Dean, saying that he can help him. He can help him not die, so he won’t go to Hell. Dean tells Sam he’d rather go to Hell than be a monster like Benton. Dean chloroforms him again. Benton wakes again, inside a chained shut refrigerator. The boys bury him alive in the fridge.

Bela breaks into the boys’ motel room, and shoots them in their beds. She discovers, though, that the beds are occupied by inflated dolls. The room phone rings, and Bela answers. It’s Dean. He felt her take the receipt from his pocket. He also says he saw the herbs over the door of her room, meant to keep hellhounds out. He tells her he knows that she didn’t kill her parents. She made a deal with a demon, ten years ago today. The demon gave her a chance to get out of it, if she delivered the Colt. She said the demon changed the deal –kill Sam, instead. She tells Dean that the same demon holds all soul contracts, including hers and Dean’s –Lilith. He says this information won’t help her. She says that she knows that Dean can kill Lilith.

After the clock turns over to midnight, we hear dogs howling.

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