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After a three week break Supernatural returned with a strong guest star (Battlestar Galactica’s Six aka the sublime Tricia Helfer) and a simple story. On a stretch of deserted highway there is a damsel in distress on the run from Mr Creepy, or are things not as they first appear? This episode was a good example of the opposing attitudes the brothers have to their “job”. Sam with his empathy for anything with or without a pulse and we got to witness him being referred to as Jennifer Love Hewitt and Haley Joel in the one episode - classic Supernatural banter.

Molly (Helfer) and her husband are driving and arguing about being lost when they slam into a man and crash their car. She wakes up, finds her husband is missing, heads over towards the creepy shack and finds the “man” she hit. Except he is no longer human (Dean eloquently describes him as “Farmer Roadkill”), she runs back to the road and into the path of the on coming Impala. The brothers tell her that the farmer was killed 15 yrs ago and on the anniversary of his death haunts the road for a victim and this year it is Molly.

Experience has taught me that I was missing something, especially since when they returned to the scene of the crash and the car was missing plus Dean was uncharacteristically indifferent to the hot Molly (in her retro sports jacket). Needless to say it is of course no accident that the Winchester boys were on that stretch of road on that night.

I thought it poignant that the brothers only had until sunrise to salt and burn the spirit’s bones and that ‘House of the Rising Sun’ was Farmer Roadkill’s entrance music. Classic Dean remarks were that the hidden room smelt like “old woman”, that knowing what went on in the afterlife was “way beyond his pay grade” and greeting his Impala with the words “Oh, baby it has been a long night”. Then there was Sam’s sweet 101 for Molly about spirits being stuck in the same loop, and then my heart breaking when they told Molly her husband survived the crash because it confirmed my suspicions.

I loved this episode and I bang my head on my desk in frustration that more people aren’t watching the show. It is so good.

The CW, Supernatural, Tricia Helfer, House of the Rising Sun