"Supernatural" Recap: "Plush"

Written by Shae

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Oh my Moose! For once I actually got John to watch the show with me. Yeah, we spent the episode texting, and it was mostly me yelling. I have two problems with this episode. 1. Flashbacks of when the Clowns were attacking Sam in that Chuck-E-Cheese knock off. And 2. Actual horrifying clown mask. Seriously, I've just decided that I'm leaving earth and going to spend my days where the horrible things that go bump in the night don't exist. Mostly, whoever thought clowns were cute or a good idea should just be fired from a cannon into the sun.

A new case has our brothers heading off to Minnesota where they meet our beloved Sheriff Donna. She's got a deputy and he might just be crushing hard core on her. Yes, Doug, has it bad for the short blonde. The case is an odd one. A guy wearing an Easter Bunny head breaks into a home and murders a man with a beer bottle. He's arrested and that's when our "FBI agents" come in. The guy doesn't talk or say a word, but he grabs Dean and attempts to crush him. Holy water proves he's not a demon. While the boys leave to talk to the widow, Donna and Doug sedate the kid and take attempt to take him to the hospital. Except, he tackles Doug and is about to kill Donna when the deputy shoots and kills him. The bunny head that would come off finally falls off, revealing a teen.

Sam and Dean find out that the guy had bought the mascot head from a thrift store for Halloween, and then just abandoned his girlfriend at the store after putting it on. Later they find out who donated it and talk to the woman. It had belonged to her brother, he was a children's performer and owned all kinds of costumes. The eccentric man spent his time doing magic tricks and parties for kids, she'd donated his stuff after his suicide....while this is going on, a coach of a high school is assaulted by the new Mascot. The creepy jester clad person beats the man with a ball weight. He survives, but is in a coma. The Jester is arrested and isn't talking. One salt pellet shot to the mask sends the mask and a ghostly figure flying. Dean worked it out that it was a vengeful spirit. The girl has no memory of what happened, at all, and is let go.

At the hospital, the comatose coach gets his throat slit by the creepiest looking clown I have ever seen. They clown even attacks and attempts to kill Sam in the hospital elevator. Iron saves the day, and the clown is really an old guy who had been playing dress up with his grandson. With no memory of how he got there, or what he had done, he was also let go. Donna and Doug round up all the remaining costumes and have them burned, but there's a lot left unanswered. Back to the sister of the suicide victim's house. It seems that the coach and first dead guy suspected the performer to be molesting their children. Ironically, his name was Chester. But Chester claimed innocence and his sister believed him, until she started to wonder. Her brother and son were close, so she ended up talking about her concerns to the coach and dead beat guy, instead of confronting her brother like an adult. The two men took matters into their own hands, and while dangling Chester over the bridge was supposedly just to scare him, they end up dropping him. A wrongful death creates a vengeful spirit.  Max, the woman's son, appears after she tells this sad story wearing a deer mascot head. He attempts to hurt them all, but again iron to the rescue. Sam takes the head and gets tossed around by the ghost outside before Chester comes inside to get ride of Dean so he can kill his sister. Sammy recovers and gets the thing burned and the spirit vanishes angrily.

This was so reminiscent of the earlier seasons in so many ways. Only, Sam has been praying to God for answers on his visions, and Dean is busy thinking he's an idiot. They're no closer to finding Amara and a way to kill her, but Cas has dug up some interestingly unhelpful pre-Bible stuff....now we must wait a bit as Supernatural isn't back until December 2nd.

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