The Girl Next Door - Recap

Dean wakes up at the hospital emergency room at Sioux Falls General Hospital as the doctors work on him. The attending physician tells him that Sam bashed his head and the doctors are giving him a MRI. When Dean wakes up later, he discovers that he’s in bed with a cast on his broken right leg. He tries to get out of bed and ends up on the floor due to the morphine. Bobby arrives, dressed in a suit, and explains that he got out of his house before the Leviathans burned it. He says that it isn’t safe and tells Dean to meet him at the ambulance while he goes to get Sam.



The Leviathans posing as Dr. Gaines and the head nurse receive a call that the Winchesters are in the hospital.

Dean sneaks out of his room and heads for the ambulance bay. Meanwhile, Bobby finds Sam strapped to a stretcher and takes him to the ambulance. Dean meets them and they drive away just as Gaines and the head nurse come out. Realizing that they’ve lost the brothers for the moment, Gaines calls his boss.

The brothers hole up in Rufus’ old cabin in Whitefish, Montana. Three weeks later, they are close to recovering. Bobby arrives with the Impala and tells them that he’s talked to hunters who have met the Leviathans. They figure that they’re like shapeshifters but eat humans, bleed black goo, and can’t be killed by any known means. Gaines and the nurse have disappeared from the hospital. Sam hesitates when he hears Lucifer’s voice in his head but then snaps out of it and insists that he’s fine. Bobby takes off to recover copies of the books that he lost with his house. Dean asks Sam to make a run for food. Once he leaves, Dean asks Bobby if he thinks Sam is doing okay. Bobby figures that he’s making progress, but Dean worries that the other shoe is going to drop eventually. Until then, Bobby says that they have to deal with the Leviathans.



At the gas station, Sam picks up food and notices a Bozeman newspaper with a headline about an ice pick killer. He plays for it with a credit card and a credit card worker, Chet, picks it up. The worker, a Leviathan, calls Edgar and tells him that they’ve spotted Sam, and Edgar tells him to track the Winchesters down and dispose of them.

Sam returns with the food and Dean asks how he’s handling the hallucinations. His brother insists that he can tell the difference but doesn’t know if he’s getting better. Once Dean dozes off, Sam reads the newspaper article again and remembers…

Lincoln, Nebraska—1998

A young Sam is doing research on a case for John and Dean, who are out in the field. He’s confirmed that a kitsune is killing people. It looks humans and kills by stabbing people in the head and feeding on their brain. Sam ends up talking to John, who tells him to get to work. The boy heads for the library.



The Present

Sam takes the Impala keys, leaves a note for Dean, and sneaks out.

In Bozeman, a drug dealer sells a junkie drugs and offers to trade her sexual favors for it. When they hear a siren, they run off in different distances. The dealer heads through a skate park a tunnel but something grabs him and pulls him down, piercing his skull from behind.

Dean wakes up and finds Sam’s note saying that he’s fine and he’ll be back in a few days. He calls Bobby and tells him what happened, and that Sam turned off his phone and took the Impala. Bobby suggests they wait until Dean gets his cast off in a couple of days. Once Dean hangs up, he gets out a saw and starts cutting off the cast.

Sam poses as a FBI agent and talks to the police in Bozeman. The officer confirms that the dealer, Mitch, sold drugs. The killer comes to town, kills one lowlife by stabbing them in the skull, and leaves. Sam says that he worked a similar case a few years ago, and the cop suggests that Sam talk to the coroner if he wants to know if there was anything else unusual about the deaths. Sam gets another call from Dean and ignores it.



Dean goes to the gas station and confirms that Sam saw a newspaper article about the ice pick killer.

Sam meets with the coroner, who shows him that the victim is missing a large chunk of his midbrain, including the pituitary gland. He remembers that in 1998, the kitsune fed on pituitary glands, and that all the victims were killed in parks just off of the same highway. The killer worked its way along the interstate, killing one victim per town, and Sam works out where the killer where strike next. He drives to the next park on the route and waits.

1998

Sam buys a coffee and goes into the Lancaster library. He notices an attractive teenage girl who catches him staring at her.

The Present

Sam sees a car pull up in the park and someone get out.

1998

Sam goes looking for books on the shelves and sees the girl in the next aisle. They make eye contact and then look away. Sam confirms that a kitsune can be killed with a knife blow to the heart and call to tell Dean and John how to kill it. He then asks Dean for advice on how to talk to girls. Sam goes over and notices that the girl is wearing a moon necklace charm. She immediately tells him to go away because her mother doesn’t want her talking to boys. As Sam goes outside, Amy leaves and two teenage boys follow her. Sam follows and sees them harassing the girl. He comes to her defense and takes them down after taking a punch or two. The girl introduces herself as Amy.

The Present


Sam follows the killer through the park to where a drunk is trying to get into his car. He grabs her and spins her around, sees the moon necklace she’s wearing, and says hello to Amy. Amy admits she thought she’d never see him and tries to make small talk. Sam holds a knife to her chest and drags her away, and Amy explains that she has a normal life now.



1998

Amy takes Sam to her apartment and treats his injuries. She asks how he beat the boys up and Sam claims he’s watched Bruce Lee movies. She goes to the refrigerator and gets a beer out from between some jars filled with human brains. Sam explains that he travels around with his dad a lot and Amy says that her mother is the same way. He complains that you’re always treated as the new kid and a freak, but Amy says that all of the coolest people are freaks, and so are the two of them. Sam hesitates and then leans forward and kisses her.



The Present

Amy says that she’s managing her hunger and says that he had to kill her three victims. She doesn’t explain further and Sam says he can’t trust her. When he goes for his knife, she attacks him and knocks him out as he grabs for her jacket.

Dean visits the Bozeman morgue and confirms that the pituitary glands are missing, and remembers the case from 1998. He calls Bobby and brings him up to speed, and says that he has a few ideas about what to do when he catches up with his brother.

Amy is packing to leave when Sam catches up to her, having found the address on the note he grabbed from her coat pocket. He sees fresh blood on her hand and realizes that she’s killed again, and threatens to kill her unless she gives him an explanation. Amy insists that he knows the kind of person she is.

1998

As Sam breaks off the kiss, he spills the beer. Amy cleans it up, warning that her mother has a temper. She admits that her mother isn’t a good person and wonders if she is a bad person as well. Sam takes her hand and says that he knows good when he sees it, and Amy is good. Amy says that she doesn’t want to be like her mother and Sam says that he doesn’t want to be like his dad.



The Present

Sam repeats his question and Amy finally shows him her son Amy. He’s in bed, sick, and Amy explains that he was dying. She works as a mortician and took the pituitary glands of the dead to feed his son and cure his illness. Amy gives her word that she won’t kill anymore and says that they can both walk away from it. When Sam hesitates, Amy reminds him of what she did for him.

1998

Amy’s mother pulls up to the house and Amy hides Sam in the closet. As he watches, the mother comes in and says that two men in a crappy Impala have caught up to them. She tells Amy that they have to leave and threatens to let Amy starve if she doesn’t agree. As her mother goes toward the closet and Sam draws his knife, Amy agrees and her surprised mother goes to get gas. Once she leaves, Amy apologizes to Sam. He stares at her and then says he has to go, but notices a brain in a jar. He takes his knife out and explains that his dad and brother are in the Impala. He accuses Amy of being a monster and she wonders if they’re supposed to kill each other. She insists that she’s never killed anyone and she doesn’t want to hurt anyone, and asks if he wants to hurt her. Sam says that he doesn’t and Amy tells him to run before her mother finds him. Sam puts his knife away and heads for the door.

The Present

Sam returns to his hotel room and Dean greets him with a punch. When Sam wakes up, Dean demands to know what he was up to. Sam insists that he’s fine and had a job that he wanted to take care of himself. Dean asks to see the body and Sam admits that he let Amy go.



1998

Amy’s mother is waiting for Sam outside the door, having realized that her daughter gave in too easily. She tells Amy that she’s stupid for trying to have a friend and slaps her down, then bares her claws and prepares to kill Sam. Amy stabs her in the heart from behind with a kitchen knife, killing her.

The Present

Sam admits that he never told John or Dean because he knew how they would react. Dean understands but says that Amy is killing people now and they have to drop her. When he says that it’s that simple, Sam points out that nothing in their lives is simple.

1998

Sam tells Amy that she has to get out of town and assures her that he’ll take care of the body. Amy asks him to come with her and they can be freaks together, but Sam says that he can’t.

The Present

Dean calls Amy a freak and Sam figures that his brother figures him as a freak. He insists that he may be a freak but he’s not dangerous, and that no matter what he does he’ll never be normal. Sam says that Amy is the same way and they’re both handling it, and asks Dean to trust him. Dean considers for a moment and then says that he will.

The brothers leave town and head for Spokane to meet up with Bobby. When they arrive they check into a motel and Dean tells Sam that he’s going out to get some painkillers for his leg. However he goes to the motel where Amy is, having tracked her license plates. Dean tells her that he knows about her son, but figures that she’ll kill again. Amy insists that she won’t, but Dean tells her that the other shoe will eventually drop. He stabs her in the heart and lowers her to the bed, and then turns to find Jacob in the doorway. Dean confirms that he has someone to go to and then asks if Jacob has killed anyone. The boy shakes his head but then says that the only person he plans to kill is Dean. Dean tells the boy to look him up in a few years, assuming Dean lives that long, and then walks out.



Chet goes to the gas station and calls to tell his boss that Sam was there and he’s only a couple of days behind. He hangs up and then pours hot cheese on the clerk prior to eating him.

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