• Two words: Bon, Jovi. Nice, weird touch, Mr. Kripke.
• I’ve wished all season that Dean would have given Sam more credit, and trust that Ruby really did want to help them. You had to question her motives, yes, but they’ve had to compromise to get what they wanted before.
• How about that Dean vs. Ruby fight in the opening of the episode? It was quick, but exciting, no?
• This whole episode was so incredibly tense. I should have put a piece of leather between my teeth.
• Where did Lilith go? I’m sure they’ll have her regrouping somewhere to rear her head again.
• New Harmony, Indiana has a strong, and interesting, spiritual background. It was created by a German communal sect (The Harmonists), and was later sold to an early social reformer, who, early on, held a strong disregard for religion, and later a strong affinity for spiritualism.
• Those darn Winchester boys and Ruby’s knife. It was her knife, after all.
• Given just a second more, could Sam have used the knife successfully on Lilith?
• Obviously, Lilith’s seemingly strongest weapon had no effect on Sam, at all. Is there more, though, that scared her about Sam? Did she then see something like what Dean saw in Sam’s face, at the beginning of the episode?

What did you think of No Rest for the Wicked? How are you going to spend your Supernatural vacation?

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As expected, tonight’s Supernatural was very tense and exciting. Of course, the time is here, and Dean has the Lilith to pay.

With 30 hours to go, Dean dreams of running from hellhounds. Sam tells him that Bobby has a way to find Lilith. Dean sees Sam’s face in some kind of demonic form.

Bobby and the boys divine that Lilith is in New Harmony, Indiana. Dean doesn’t want to go, and risk getting Sam killed, until they have a real plan to defeat her. Sam and Bobby want to summon Ruby for help, but Dean resists. Sam summons her, and confronts her about not telling them that Lilith holds the contract for Dean. Sam wants Ruby’s knife.

Ruby looks Sam up and down, and tells him that he’s ready to take Lilith out. She’s on “shore leave”, so her guard is down. She tells Sam that he has the power –the “demonic” power- to take out Lilith. Dean shows up and berates Ruby, telling Sam that she’s a liar who’s trying to trick him.

Dean: So, that’s you, huh? Our slutty, little Yoda.

Dean punches Ruby, and she wails on Dean and Sam both. Dean, though, has tricked her into a demon trap, and lifted her demon knife. Dean and Sam take off, leaving Ruby stuck under the trap.

Sam questions Dean about whether Ruby is right. Dean is tired of the pattern where one of them is “up a creek”, and another of the Winchesters has to sell his soul. Dean believes that Sam’s using his “powers” would be like selling his soul.

In a nice suburban home, the family is terrorized by their little girl. This girl is blonde, not the Lilith “body” we saw, before, though.

Dean can’t start the Impala. Bobby has tampered with it to keep them from leaving without him. They take off with Bobby following. Dean and Sam sing along with Bon Jovi’s Dead or Alive. They get pulled over for a busted taillight. Dean freaks out and kills the officer with Ruby’s knife. When Bobby catches up and asks how he knew it was a demon, Dean explains that he just knew. Somehow, he could see his real face underneath.

Bobby and the boys hide the patrol car. Bobby tells Dean that he can detect demons, because he’s so close to going to Hell. He’s “Hell’s bitch”, so he can see “Hell’s other bitches.”

In the suburban house, the little girl confronts the granddad about passing a note asking for help to the neighbor. She kills him from across the table, merely flicking her wrist.

The boys have made it to the house with the little girl. Dean can see that the “late night” mailman, and neighbors are all demons. They kill two of the demons with the knife. Ruby catches up with them. “What you don’t know about me could fill a book.” The neighbors come after them, but Bobby has blessed the water supply, and turned on the lawn sprinkler. They escape, and break into the house where Lilith is terrorizing the family, and check the rooms. Sam finds the little girl and her mother, lying in the girl’s bed. As he’s about the kill the girl, Dean stops him. She’s no longer Lilith.

They lead the family downstairs. Sam begs Ruby to help him do “the thing” to save Dean. She says they can’t do it. They need time. At midnight, hellhounds come for Dean. Sam, Dean, and Ruby escape to the dining room, and seal the doors against them. Ruby asks for the knife, saying she can keep them back, while they take off. Dean realizes that Ruby isn’t Ruby anymore. She displays Lilith’s little girl talk and demeanor, throwing Dean onto the table, and kissing Sam. She lets the hellhounds in. As they tear Dean apart, Lilith turns to Sam. She hold out her hand, and uses her “big flash” trick, similar to when we first saw her. It doesn’t work, though. Sam stands up, and Lilith’s face looks very afraid. Sam raises the knife to strike her, but she escapes, black smoke into a ceiling vent. [Don't see a lot of dining room ceiling vents.]

We see Dean suspended in a vaguely Hellraiser trap of chains and hooks.

September can’t come fast enough.

Image: Newscom.

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