"Supernatural" Recap: "The Things They Carried"

Written by Shae

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There are rare occasions where Mattie is actually home on the night Supernatural is on. Last night, was one of those nights. Sadly she’s got that cold-of-death-thing going on, but I don’t think I could have watched this episode without her. So, Sam is mopey, and Dean is accepting of his fate. So, of course, that sets the tone for the rest of the episode. Sam is giving up hope, or coming to terms with the fact that his brother has. And Dean is all chill, because he at least knows what’s going to happen. Our newest adventure starts with a girl tied up, hanging upside down, and before long her throat is slit and she’s bleeding out into a bucket. Sadly, she dies, but what’s going on?

Sam and Dean hit the town where the murder took place, and it’s already too late. The guy who killed the girl, and drank her blood and apparently marrow, also drank some gas and lit himself on fire. Couldn’t get weirder? Just kidding it can! Kit, is a military guy who has done a few special ops missions himself. He’s drinking water like it’s going out of style, and even some blood, because he’s just that thirsty. Kit is clearly not human anymore. But Kit is also Cole's best friend. Remember Cole? The jerk who beat up my Sammy trying to get to Dean? Yeah, he’s back. Joy. But it’s cool. He’s here to help…yay. Cole says he can get info on where Kit and the other dead guy had been. He even gets his hands on some footage of where they’d been stationed and what happened.

Guess there’s a case of ‘worms’ going around, making the host thirsty and sucking them dry, or driving them insane.  Cole ditches the Winchesters, or so he thinks, and goes to find Kit himself, only to have a worm jump from his besties mouth, into his. But, unlike the worms we’ve seen before, there’s multiple ones inside a host which makes infecting other people easy for the parasite. Cole gets one in him….Dean stays to figure out how to get it out while Sam goes after Kit…

So, the last time we had crazy worms, they got into people and controlled their minds. Everyone figured out they hated electricity. So, naturally, that’s what Dean tries first. Only, this bug doesn’t seem to mind the shock. In fact, Cole nearly dies from the shocks. The next course of action is to try dehydrating it. Cole says he doesn’t mind that, and it goes just about as well as one would expect. Cole does well, and Dean drinks water in front of him, because Dean is a bastard like that. Eventually, though, it pays off, and the creepy worm gets out of Cole’s body and gets stomped on by Dean.

Sam does not fare as well. Kit goes to his wife and ends up going crazy, trying to kill her. Sam shows up, and knocks the guy out. While he’s explaining the whole world of the Supernatural to her, Kit wakes up and tries to kill her again. Then he tries to kill my Sam! Eventually, Sam wins…and has no other choice but to put a bullet in Kit. Apparently there is no saving that one. And it’s a weird parallel. Normally, Dean is the one trying to kill things while Sam tries to save them...next week, we get to see Crowley again!

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