Jump the Shark - Recap

A nurse runs through her own home as something chases her. She gets to an upstairs bedroom and locks and barricades herself in. Something pounds on the door and then seemingly goes away. The woman sits on the bed in relief, but something grabs her from underneath and pulls her beneath the bed. As she struggles, a photo falls off of the nightstand: a photo of John Winchester.

Sam and Dean have parked for the night. In the morning, Dean wakes up and looks for food. A cell phone in the glove compartment rings. Dean digs it out and realizes that it’s John’s old cell phone. He takes the call and the boy at the other end introduces himself as Adam Milligan of Windom, MN. Adam asks where John is and Dean explains that John died two years ago. He asks why Adam wants to know and Adam says that he’s John’s son.

The brothers drive to Windom and prepare to meet with Adam at a diner. Sam has checked up on Adam and determined that there’s nothing suspicious in his background. His mother is Kate Milligan, but there’s no father listed on his birth certificate. As they sit at the table, Dean puts silverware on the table for shapechangers, and holy water in a water glass for demons. Sam goes through John’s journal and discovers that he was in Minnesota nine months before Adam was born. There are several pages relating to that time frame torn out of the journal.

Adam arrives and the brothers explain that John died in an accident. Since Adam thought John was a mechanic, he’s suspicious of their claim. As they talk, Adam drinks from the glass of holy water and handles the silverware without any noticeable harm. Adam explains that he called John because his mother Kate disappeared. John met Kate, a nurse, when he was admitted to the ER with injuries nine months before Adam was born. Adam finally convinced Kate to tell him who his father was. After that, John visited occasionally, bought him his first beer, and taught him how to drive. During the conversation, Dean keeps a gun secretly trained on him in case he tries to attack them. Finally Adam offers proof of his claim. He takes them to his home and shows him a photo of he and John together at a baseball game.

Adam explains that his mother disappeared and nobody has seen her since. Dean checks the house and Adam asks for the truth about what’s going on. Dean warns him that he doesn’t want to know. Sam does some research and discovers that when John first visited Windom, there were a series of grave robberies. They stopped shortly thereafter, but recently there has been a new series of crimes. Also, one other person has gone missing; Joe Barton, a local bartender that Adam doesn’t know. Dean finds an air vent beneath Kate’s bed and ends up going down to investigate. Crawling through the ducts, he finds a mass of blood and hair.

Later, Adam barges goes to the Winchesters’ hotel room and demands answers. Going against Dean’s opinion, Sam tells Adam that they’re Hunters. They’re surprised when Adam immediately accepts they’re claim: he says simply that they’re family. The brothers have to admit the chances of Kate still being alive are slim. Adam asks to help but Dean refuses. He insists that John wanted to protect Adam, and they should respect his wishes. However, once he leaves, Sam starts to show Adam how to use a gun.

Dean goes to the cemetery where the most recent grave robbery occurred and checks out the mausoleum. He finds goes to the bar where Joe Barton worked. He talks to the owner, Lisa, who is Joe’s widow. She figure Dean for an FBI agent (since he’s impersonating one), and Dean notices several photos on the wall of Joe in a policeman uniform. Lisa explains that her husband used to be a cop, and worked the grave-robbing case in 1990. Lisa admits that her husband said that a “specialist” helped him, but never said his name. All Joe ever said was that he and the specialist took care of the grave-robber, who disappeared without a trace.

At the hotel, Sam is explaining to Adam how John died when the power goes out. Something starts moving in the vents and Sam gets Adam out to Adam’s truck in the parking lot. When Sam gets in the car, something grabs him from below the truck. Dean arrives and drives it off, and they discover that it fled into the sewers through a manhole. The brothers conclude that the creature is going after everyone responsible for the death of the grave-robber in 1990, or their loved ones: Joe Barton, Adam’s mother, and finally Adam.

The brothers take Adam back to his house to pack his stuff. However, once he goes upstairs, Dean and Sam argue about what to do. Dean thinks they should get Adam out of town to stay with Bobby while they deal with the killer. Sam thinks they should train Adam in the family business, since there may be other monster out for revenge. Adam, coming back downstairs, insists on training. The next day, Sam starts training Adam on monster lore and shooting techniques. When Adam comments about it being a job, Sam warns that it’s a life, and the only thing they can count on is each other: their family. Dean, overhearing, talks privately to Sam and notes that John used to say the same thing to Sam, who hated hearing it. Sam admits that John was right. Dean disagrees, figuring that Adam can have the normal life they never had a chance to achieve. Sam believes there is no such thing as a normal life.

Dean goes back to the mausoleum and finds a secret tunnel. He climbs through and finds a large chamber filled with bones and coffins. However, before he can leave the creature seals up the tunnel behind him. Dean’s phone doesn’t work so far underground and he realizes he’s trapped.

Sam and Adam seal the entire house except for one air vent, and then wait for the creature to return. They’re interrupted when Kate, or something looking like Kate, comes in. Sam doesn’t believe she could be alive and points the gun at her, telling Adam to back away. Adam yanks the gun away from him, and Sam tells him to shoot. Adam admits that he knows it isn’t his mother, and then knocks Sam unconscious.

Dean, looking through the chamber, finds two fresh corpses: Kate, and Adam. Using a metal strut from a coffin, he breaks through a stained glass window in the ceiling and escapes.

Sam wakes up to find himself strapped to a table. “Kate” and “Adam” are ghouls. They can take on the forms and obtain the memories of the last person they eat. They start to bleed Sam and drink his blood, but notice that it’s different. When Sam calls them monsters, the ghouls insist that it was John who killed their relative. They sought revenge against him so tracked down Adam and his mother, killed, and then ate them. They then called John, hoping to lure him in. When they discovered he was dead, they decided to go after Sam and Dean. Dean bursts in and shoots the Adam-ghoul. Sam warns him that their ghouls and Dean blows the head off of the Kate-ghoul. The Adam-ghoul recovers enough to attack Dean and the two struggle back and forth. Dean finally gets the upper hand and smashes in the Adam-ghoul’s head.

Later, Dean and Sam take Adam’s body into the woods and make a funeral pyre. Sam wonders if they should contact Castiel and see if they can resurrect Adam, but Dean figures that their half-brother is better off dead. As they watch the flames, Dean says that he always sought to emulate John, but Sam is more similar to him than Dean could ever be. Sam chooses to take it as a compliment, and Dean tells him to take it however he wants.

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