3x12: Jus in Bello
Then:
Demons are everywhere, Bella stole the Colt, and Dean’s still going to Hell.
Now:
The boys are on the hunt for the Colt and Bella. They find her hotel room in Colorado.
The phone rings and Dean answers. It’s Bella, calling from her car two states away. She has the Colt still (just casually sitting in her passenger seat, like what?) and just to keep the boys safely away from her, she called the cops on them. And who happens to show up with the cops? Agent Victor Henriksen! Dean is not impressed.
At the sheriff’s station, Henriksen realizes that they are understaffed and unprepared to handle the two dangerous monsters they’re about to house. He tries warning the local sheriff, and scares a cross-wearing secretary in the process.
The brothers are hauled into the station in chains, and then placed in a cell together. Hmm, I think I’d keep them seperate maybe. (Although their chain maneuvering hijinks is mildly entertaining.)
Side note:
His eyes are hazel (not fanfiction green?!?) and one of his aliases reminds me that once upon a time we didn’t completely live in a nightmarish hellscape here in the US.
The FBI can’t risk losing these two again, so they’re sending a helicopter. In the meantime, Henriksen shouldn’t take his eyes off the two wanted criminals. He decides to taunt them.
Henriksen’s boss, Deputy Director Steven Groves, shows up in the helicopter and hands Henriksen a pile of paperwork while he wanders off to find the fugitives. He finds them and after a quick greeting, starts shooting them! Dean gets hit in the shoulder before Sam and Dean hold the guy back. It’s then that Sam sees his eyes turn ---he’s a demon. Sam starts chanting the exorcism and the demon bolts, leaving Henriksen and the local PD to find the Deputy Director dead on the ground and Sam holding a gun. The boys insist that they didn’t shoot him and, indeed, there is no bullet wound. Sam informs them that the man was possessed. They try contacting officers outside the jail cell, but only hear static.
Once outside, Henriksen’s partner finds out why.
They’re all dead. The helicopter then explodes and the agent meets his own demise.
Inside, things are a tad chaotic. There’s no phone, internet, or cell coverage. Then the lights go out. Henriksen orders the station on lock down. He then goes to berate Sam and Dean for their latest plan of escape.
They assure him that whatever is out there, isn’t going to help them. Henriksen refuses to hear the word “demons.” He leaves and Nancy the secretary peeks in on them. They plead for help --or a towel for Dean’s wound, but she runs away silently --but comes back almost instantly with a towel. She hands over the towel but Sam grabs her arm and she screams, alerting an officer who helps escape. Dean wants to know Sam’s angle: San grabbed Nancy’s rosary.
Later, the brothers discuss why the demons are coming for them Dean wonders if they have a contract out on them “Think it’s because we’re so awesome? I think it’s ‘cause we’re so awesome.” Sam is not amused.
An officer comes in to move the boys, but then Henriksen comes in and shoots him. Sam grabs Henriksen and gives him a very holy swirly, expelling the demon. The deputy and Nancy look on. Henriksen comes to and admits, “I shot the sheriff.” Dean, MY HERO, replies, “But you didn’t shoot the deputy.” They then tell him he was possessed. His brain clearly does a little rainbow wheel moment to process, but then releases the brothers from their chains.
Sam breaks out his mad spray painting skills and wards the joint. Dean gets patched up and tells them to gather the salt, and then asks where is car is.
Dean races out to his car in the jail’s impound lot and weapons up.
Meanwhile, lights flicker nearby and the smoke monster - I mean, demons - blaze their way towards the jail. Dean looks back at the maelstrom growing behind him and races for the building.
Smoke streams towards the police station, buffeting it and rattling at the doors and windows. But the building holds fast. They’ve put enough salt around the borders to keep the barriers strong. The first assault over, Dean hands out anti-possession medallions for everyone to wear.
Outside the townspeople gather. It’s their friends, their loved ones. And they’re all possessed.
Victor gets the monster-hunting 101 treatment from Dean as they load up shotgun shells with salt. Victor handles this all incredibly well...which is why we love him.
“My job is boring. It’s frustrating,” Victor tells him. “I’ve been busting my ass for 15 years to nail a handful of guys and all this while, there’s something off in the corner so big...” He kind of regrets spending his whole life on the long slow fight against normal, human criminals, when he could have been fighting the wider world of monsters.
Dean tells Victor with his usual bravado that he thinks the “world’s gonna end bloody. But it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fight. We do have choices. I choose to go down swingin’.” Put that on a t-shirt. Dean Winchester, resistance hero <3
Victor and Dean’s bromance is interrupted by a crash. It’s Ruby! She got in through a broken salt line on the window. She grouchily informs them that there’s a new player in town: Lilith. Dean’s pissed that Sam didn’t tell him about her.
And Ruby’s pissed once she learns that they lost the Colt. Wherps. She offers a demon super bomb spell so strong it’ll even kill her. All she needs is a virgin.
Dean I’ll-pretend-to-be-a-virgin Winchester tries to sacrifice himself, but Ruby isn’t falling for it (because she’s not a babbling idiot, come on guys). It turns out there IS a virgin in the station, though. It’s Nancy!
Great! It’s a plan. Ruby gets ready to move forward with...ripping Nancy’s heart out of her chest. Yeesh. Let’s just...take that all back. Everyone argues over Nancy’s fate until Nancy interrupts. She’ll sacrifice herself to save her friends outside.
Victor cuts in when the argument starts getting out of hand. Nobody gets sacrificed, damn it. He and Dean share a best buddies look of friendship over this!!!
Sam, meanwhile, hasn’t picked a side yet. Should he kill Nancy or save her. If he saves her then he’s potentially endangering all the possessed townspeople by not bombing out the demons. Classic demon trolley problem. Dean’s extremely concerned about Sam’s moral fog and pulls Sam aside. They can’t “throw away the rule book and stop acting like humans.” They’ve got people with them now that they can save...so they’re gonna do it. Besides. Dean has a plan. It’s a good one.
Wait for it…
“Open the doors, let them all in and we fight.”
Dean. Bean.
Ruby tells Sam she’s done with him and they let her out of the police station. She brazens her way through the demon crowd and exits, stage parking lot.
Inside, Dean’s plan begins. They all remove the salt lines and scratch away the devils traps. Then, armed with salt shotguns, they wait...
One by one the demons invade and the fight quickly gets dirty. Dean and Victor end up back to back, helping each other out and I’m singing BEEEEST FRIENDS FOREEEEEVER.
Nancy and the other cop wait on the roof. “When this is over, I’m gonna have so much sex,” Nancy vows (but not with that dude). Then they scatter salt at all the doors and windows...on the outside of the building. The demons are all trapped inside. The battle rages on.
It’s looking bad for Sam and Dean when Victor breaks free from the demons attacking him and triggers a tape deck. Sam’s voice sounds over the loudspeaker and an exorcism begins!
Outside, a big bad demon runs past Nancy and spares her. I’m glad to see that she’s going to survive this!
All the demons smoke out of all the people, swirl up into a cloud and, trapped, explode into flame. Which is kind of badass.
They’re left with a station full of recovering ex-demons. Victor bids the Winchesters farewell. He’s going to fake their death. Dean looks at Victor. BEST BUDS.
The Winchesters skedaddle.
A little later, a small girl enters the station. She tells Nancy that she’s looking for two brothers. “One’s really tall, and one’s really cute.” (Oh you’re not wrong, honey.) She introduces herself as Lilith and her eyes turn white. Eeesh. She destroys the folks in the station. So much for Victor’s and Nancy’s survival.
Ruby bursts into the Winchesters’ hotel room and tells them to turn on the news (I love that demons are just seemingly tuned to TV signals). They see footage of the charred remains of the police station. Everyone was killed including Victor and Nancy.
(I didn’t see Victor die. Did you? I definitely did not. Dean and Victor: best friends forever!)
For Science
Ruby blames them for this disaster. If they’d done it her way, the townspeople AND the station folks would have survived. But since they didn’t pull a big demon nuke, the blood’s on them. Sam listens intently to Ruby…
Oh, Sam, your first (second, third, fifty-fourth?) mistake.
Best Quotes Forever:
Why all the sourpusses?
You kinky sonofabitch...we don’t swing that way
Let me tell you, something. You should be a lot more scared of me
Would it kill these cops to bring us a snack
It’s like we got a contract on us. Think it’s because we’re so awesome? I think it’s ‘cause we’re so awesome
“I shot the sheriff.” “But you didn’t shoot the deputy.”
If it makes you feel better, Bigfoot’s a hoax.
I’m sorry, I must have blood in my ear. I thought I just heard you say that you were stupid enough to let the Colt get grabbed out of your thick, clumsy, idiotic hands
Nobody kill any virgins!
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