Shadow - Recap

In Chicago, a young woman, Meredith Allen, walks down the street, unaware that someone is following her. The music on her iPod suddenly goes dead and a wind springs up. She walks quickly away but notices the shadows of her pursuer on the walls behind her. Running, Meredith bursts out onto the street, gets to her apartment, and fumbles with her keys. She finally unlocks the door and gets inside, and then activates the security system. Meredith gets a beer and checks her answering machine, unaware that a shadow has appeared on the wall behind her. It rams its claws through her back, killing her.



A week later, Dean and Sam arrive at Meredith's apartment, posing as alarm company repairmen. Meredith's death is the second one in two months. The landlady lets them inside and explains that she found Meredith's body a few days after she died, and the alarm was still on. There were no signs of a struggle, but Meredith was diced up into pieces. The landlady suggests that a wild animal might have been responsible. Once she leaves, the Winchesters check for EMP and infrared readings, Dean has checked with a policewoman, and confirmed that Meredith's heart was missing. He notices the blood patterns and uses masking tape to connect them together, showing that they form a unique symbol that neither one of them recognize.



Dean goes to the bar where Meredith worked and chats up the bartender, and Sam meets him there. Sam hasn't found anything on the symbol, and Dean hasn't discovered anyone who hated Meredith enough to kill her. The first victim was found mutilated in his home a month earlier, and there's no connection between him and Meredith. As they compare notes, Sam notices a woman nearby: Meg, the hitchhiker that he met a few weeks earlier. She hugs him and asks why he's doing there, and then claims she made it to California but decided to move to Chicago. Dean asks for an introduction, and she complains that he treats Sam like luggage. He slips away and Meg suggests they get together, and gives Sam her number. She tells her that she hopes to see him around.



Outside, Sam admits to Dean that he only met Meg once, and the odds of them meeting again are unusual. Dean isn't convinced but Sam figures there's something going on and asks Dean to check on Meg's background while he watches Sam. Dean figures that Sam has an ulterior motive but agrees. Back at the motel, he checks the Internet and then calls Sam, who admits he's lurking outside Meg's apartment. Dean confirms that Meg's background checks out, and the symbol is Zoroastrian, and it represents a deva, a savage Zoroastrian demon of darkness. They have to be conjured, and often turn against the one summoning them. No one knows what they look like, and whoever was capable of summoning them would have to be a major player.

After Dean hangs up, Sam notices the light in Meg's apartment comes on. He watches, sheepish, as she changes her clothing. A pedestrian comes by and chastises him. Meg comes out and walks down the street, and Sam follows her. She enters a condemned warehouse and goes upstairs, and Sam climbs up the elevator shaft to avoid being spotted. On the upper floor, Meg is casting an invocation over an ancient chalice, and then uses it as a communication device to warn her master that the Winchesters are in town and he shouldn't come. Her master disagrees, and Meg says that she'll be there waiting for him. Once she severs the communication, Meg blows out the candles and leaves. Sam climbs in and examines the components on the black altar, including the symbol drawn in blood.



Sam returns to the motel room and tells Dean what he's learned. Dean explains that he checked with his contact in the police department, and discovered that both victims were born in Lawrence, Kansas. They don't know how Meg and the devas tie into their mother's death in Lawrence, but Sam thinks they should stake out the warehouse and see who Meg's master is. Dean figures that they need help and leaves a message on John's answering machine saying they have a major lead. As they check their weapons, Sam contemplates what could happen if they find the demon and solve their mother's mystery once and for all. He figures that he can go back to school and start over his normal life, However, Dean says that there'll always be something to hunt, and he doesn't want Sam to leave. When Sam wonders what the issue is, Dean explains that he's brought Sam along because he wants them all to be together again. Sam insists that they are a family, but things won't be the way they were before, and he doesn't want them to be. When they've found their mother's killer, Dean will have to let him go his own way.



The brothers go to the abandoned warehouse and climb up the elevator shaft. Meg is performing another invocation, and they try to sneak up on her. However, she knows that they're there and invites them out. She warns them that the shotgun won't do any good against the deva, and says that the whole thing is a trap to catch them. The deva attacks them and knocks them out.



Meg ties up the brothers and wakes them up. Sam figures the whole thing was a setup, and Meg says that the fact the victims were from Lawrence had no significance besides an attempt to catch the brothers' attention. Dean asks why she hasn't killed them, and Meg explains that the trap is to catch John. In response, Dean says that John is too good to walk into that blatant a trap. However, Meg figures he'll let his guard down when his sons are involved, and when he comes to rescue them, the devas will kill all three Winchesters. She explains that she's doing what she does out of loyalty and love, and then tries to seduce Sam He seesm to give in, but she realizes that he's distracting her while Dean tries to cut himself free. She takes away his knife and returns to Sam, who reveals Dean was the distraction and he had a knife of his own. He head-butts her and knocks over the altar, and the devas grab Meg and throw her out the window to her apparent death.



The brothers return to their motel room and find someone waiting for them: John Winchester. After they hug, he explains that Meg's master knows that he's getting close, and that he can kill the demon. John doesn't tell them how, and refuses to take them with him for their own protection. He admits it's good to see Sam after so long, and they both agree it's been too long. Suddenly a deva smashes them all down. On the street below, Meg watches, holding a necklace with the Zoroastrian symbol


The devas starts to rip John apart, and Sam lights a flare to drive them away. The Winchesters get downstairs and out on the street to the Impala, but Dean says that they have to split up so that the demon can't get to John without them. Sam refuses to leave his father, but John says that they all have a part to play, and Sam has to let him go for now. Sam reluctantly agrees, and John leaves in his own truck while the brothers get into the Impala. As they leave, Meg emerges from the shadows and watches them go.



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