#when you get trapped in the prison of regret. I keep winning/losing that's *awful*!!!

[vaguely-concerned]

during the last solas regret memory, when you choose the sad option (he loved her and blamed her) and rook says: "when the other gods struck her down, he destroyed the elven empire to avenge her," they seem to be looking right at lucanis. (who is also the next person to speak and seems to be meeting their gaze during that). there are some times when the staging of a scene makes me feel slightly unfairly rewarded for being a lucanis romancer haha. (or rather unfairly rewarded for having the kind of unhinged brain I do while being a lucanis romancer, maybe.) guess who pretty consistently gets to sit at rook's right hand in most of the scenes where everyone is at the dinner table too :) just little lucanis privileges

[shirtlesssammy]

Bad Day at Black Rock: 3x03 Recap

Then:

Dean gets the shittiest demon deal ever.

Now:

Michael Massee visits our old friend Gordon Walker in prison (Completely off the map note: Michael Massee fired the gun that killed Brandon Lee. All these years, I had no clue. He was also a victim of 2016. Truly Sad.)

He let’s Gordon know that the Devil’s Gate was opened in Wyoming, unknown amounts of demons roam the Earth now. He confirms that the Winchesters were there, but through a friend of a friend of a friend of Bobby Singer’s: they’re good. Sam Winchester is a good bean. Gordon dismisses Kubrick’s assertion. Gordon tells Kubrick to track Sam down. “Sam Winchester must die.” Dun-dun-DUN.

(Season 3’s title card is kinda pretty. It’s been awhile since I’ve visited these episodes.)

The brothers are cruising down the road and Dean is reaming Sam out for trusting the demon, Ruby. She can help them out! (And Boris believed that straight through season 4, such regrets. Always trust Dean’s intuition!) In Sam’s defense, he’s desperate to find a way to help Dean out of his crossroads deal. The Brodependency is strong this season. Sam feels justified in taking the risk of using Ruby for help.

A phone rings, interrupting this heated BM scene. It’s one of John’s phones --someone broke into a storage place of John’s.

Meanwhile, Kubrick and his hunter buddy, Creedy, are cleaning guns and talking shop about the whereabouts of one Sam Winchester. Also, Kubrick has a lot of Jesus goodies around.

Once at the storage place, Dean laments their lack of really knowing who their father was. <Hugs that boy so tight> They find a demon trap and blood and a trip wire. While looking around they also find an old soccer trophy of Sam’s and Dean’s first sawed-off shotgun. He made it in the sixth grade. <Hugs that boy so tight> They also find that the only thing missing is a cursed object box. Dean hopes they didn’t open it.

Cut to our friendly thieves: Grossman and Wayne. Wayne is BLEEDING TO DEATH, and Grossman just really wants to open the box. It seems that they were hired by “her” to steal the item, but Grossman believes that they can sell it themselves for a lot more money. They crack the box open and find a rabbit’s foot. A RABBIT’S FOOT, GROSSMAN. “I’m gonna die for a damn rabbit’s foot,” Wayne prophesizes.

There’s a pounding at their door, and Grossman answers it to find a fellow apartment dweller upset about their noise. However, when he sees the state of Wayne’s bleeding shoulder, he tells Grossman to get his medic’s kit. He can fix Wayne right up. “I guess this is your lucky day.”

Outside, the brothers have tracked down the thieves. As they stealthily enter the apartment, Wayne keeps kicking Grossman’s ass in cards. He can’t lose! Just then Sam and Dean burst in, guns drawn. In a heated exchange, the boys ask about the box, and realize they already opened it. And since Wayne can’t lose, he knocks Dean’s gun out of his hand, causing the gun to fire, sending the bullet to ricochet off of Sam’s gun, causing him to drop it. Wayne and Grossman tackle the brothers, the rabbit’s foot goes flying. All’s going their way until Sam grabs onto the rabbit’s foot. Wayne tries shooting Sam, but Dean’s gun jams (Dean’s gun don’t jam). Wayne trips, and knocks himself out. Then Grossman falls and knocks himself out, while Sam ends up with his gun. This was all a beautifully funny bit of physical comedy.

With that bit of luck, Dean buys lotto! Sam does research. He knows it has to be cursed. Dean’s just pleased with the $1200 Sam just scratched to win.

Wayne and Grossman come to --with some very bad luck trailing them. Or Wayne at least since he ends up with a steak knife in the head.

Sam checks in with Bobby, who gives him the lowdown on the rabbit’s foot --it’s cursed.

“See, you touch it, you own it. You own it, sure, you get a run of good luck to beat the Devil. But, you lose it, that luck turns. It turns so bad that you're dead inside a week,” Bobby informs Sam. (Meanwhile Dean is counting with his hands again <hugs that boy so tight>) Bobby also lets Sam know that everyone loses the foot. Sam needs to find a way to break the curse (and then stupidly puts the foot in his unzipped coat pocket.)

They then head into the nearest Biggerson’s for some grub.

Dean enjoys a nice brain freeze courtesy of his free ice cream sundae. Sam stresses about his looming doom. The waitress refills Sam’s coffee, spilling it in the process, and uh, makes a show of the cleanup. Sam is confused, if not a bit flattered. The waitress keeps their attention as she saunters away. 

Dean encourages Sam down that path, but he spills his coffee everywhere, and a platter of food from a passing waiter. “How is that good?” Dean wonders.

The waitress heads outside, whips off her wig, and tosses it in a dumpster. She tucks the rabbit’s foot, carefully folded in a napkin, into her apron pocket and walks away. Sam and Dean race from the restaurant only to have Sam trip and fall flat on his face almost immediately. So now it’s time for Sam’s bad luck. “I wonder how bad?” Dean says.

Pretty bad as it turns out. Our hunter-hunting duo Kubrick and Creedy are surfing the internet looking at restaurant options when they see the latest photo of Sam and Dean with their Biggerson’s coupon.

Back at the Grossman’s house he pours one out for his dearly departed companion in crime when Dean and Sam burst in. Dean looms threateningly, asking about the woman who hired him to steal the rabbit’s foot. Meanwhile, Sam has...issues.

Dean tells Grossman that the rabbit’s foot is cursed and the luck turns on people and kills them. That foot could kill his brother and a whole lot of other innocent people. Dean leans in and uses his beautiful eyes - I mean words - to convince Grossman to help. “I can read people. And I get it. You’re a thief and a scumbag. That’s fine. But you’re not a killer, are you?” Grossman slowly shakes his head. 

Back with Kubrick, he’s exultant in his own faith. Even though the restaurant turned up no clues as to the current Winchester whereabouts, God’s looking out for his hunt.

Sam and Dean, utterly unaware that they’re being hunted, get a call from Bobby. Bobby’s got a lead on how to destroy the rabbit’s foot. While Dean talks over the case with Bobby, Sam devotes all his concentration to trying to scrape bubblegum off of his shoe, the precious angel. Sam uses the bars of an old sewer grate as a scraper mat, eventually knocking his shoe into the sewer. Meanwhile, Bobby guesses at the identity of their mystery waitress who was going by the name of Bela Lugosi. (Har) Bela Talbot is her real name and she’s in the supernatural game, but not a hunter. Bobby tells Dean that he needs to be careful and, “look out for your brother, ya idjit.” Aw, Bobby. They love you, too.

Bobby gives them a lead on Bela’s whereabouts so Dean parks Sam in a motel room while he drives a few hours out to Queens to steal back the rabbit’s foot. Sam should just sit in a chair and not move until Dean returns. “Don’t even scratch your nose,” Dean orders.

In Queens, in a lavish apartment, Bela bargains with someone over the phone over a sale. She picks up the rabbit’s foot with serving tongs and places it on the counter then, sensing an intruder, she grabs a gun. The door is open and the security system is disarmed with a sticky note on it that reads “turn around.” It’s Dean, motherfucker.

At the hotel, Sam sits quietly in his chair when the air conditioner starts to malfunction, spewing  smoke into the air. It bursts into flames and Sam tries to put it out with the bedspread. Only to realize he’s on fire.

He pulls the curtains down in an attempt to put out his flaming arm, falls down, and knocks himself out. Outside Kubrick and Creedy, just happening to stroll past, stop and smile at his prone body, Kubrick silently thanking God for his intervention.

Bela and Dean enjoy a sexual  standoff while Bela tells Dean he wastes his time hunting when he could be getting rich, bee-yotch. “You know the truth about what’s really going on out there and this is what you decide to do with it? You become a thief?” Dean asks.

Bela says fuck yeah, I’m a friggin’ great thief. Dean tells her that his brother’s life is in danger. She says that he can have the foot for 1.5 million. When she refuses to help him, Dean drops his gun and lifts up the rabbit’s foot which he managed to purloin. “Looks like you’re not the only one with sticky fingers.” Bela fires at him and he dodges her wild bullets.

Back in Sam’s motel room, Kubrick tells Sam that Gordon told him to shoot him but that now he’s on a mission from God. He’s convinced that Sam is colluding with demons. “This is destiny,” Kubrick says gleefully, preparing to kill Sam.

“No destiny. Just a rabbit’s foot,” Dean says, bursting in. Kubrick warns him to put down the gun and, emboldened by luck, Dean does so. He casually grabs a pen from the table. “See, there’s something you don’t know about me.” He tosses the pen and it lands in the barrel of Kubrick’s gun. Creedy takes himself out by rushing at Dean, missing, and bashing his head against the wall. Dean whips a remote at Kubrick’s head and the hunter goes down. “I’m Batman.”

In a cemetery, Sam finishes preparing the bespelled fire to destroy the foot while Dean happily scratches lotto tickets. Bela shows up and trains her gun at them. Dean gives her a variant on the same speech he gave to Grossman. He happens to be able to read people, you see, and he knows she won’t shoot... Bela shoots Sam in the shoulder.

Dean moves to put the rabbit’s foot on the ground then tosses it at her. Surprised, she catches it. Bela knows she’s toast and she helps them destroy the foot then saunters away. Until next time, boys! Dean and Sam stump back towards the car when Dean remembers they’re up $46,000 from scratch tickets. Bela peels off in her car and...ah, yes. Bela “Sticky Fingers” Talbot just made out with the winning tickets.

Back at the prison, Kubrick chats with Gordon over the prison phone. He’s determined that Sam Winchester is The Adversary. Gordon doesn’t care what motivates Kubrick as long as he’s got an ally to help break him out of prison and destroy the Winchesters.

I Lost My Quotes:

Sam Winchester must die.

Don't play with my Jesus.

I guess this is your lucky day.

I’m on a mission from God.

Being a hunter is so much more noble? A bunch of obsessed, revenge driven sociopaths trying to save a world that can’t be saved.

We’re all going to Hell, Dean. Might as well enjoy the ride.

What the hell is wrong with you? You don’t just go around shootin’ people like that!

Oh, don’t go away angry. Just go away.

I mean the second you find out this Ruby chick is a Demon you go for the holy water! You don't chat!

Just Dad. You know him and his secrets. Spend all this time with the guy and it's like we barely even know the man.

Oh, was that is, huh? It was wasn't it? What is that thing?

Until then I say we hit Vegas, pull a little Rain Man. You can be Rain Man.