Folsom Prison Blues - Recap

At the Green River County Detention Facility, workers check on the reopening of an old cell block. They cut open one of the doors and enter the cell beyond, and the temperature suddenly drops. Outside in the hallway, papers fly as something sweeps through the block

In a prison cell, a prisoner, Randall, is reading when the lights flicker. He goes to the door and sees something go past. He yells at the camera for the guard, who finally notices something on the monitors and comes down to investigate. Randall insists that there's something out there, but the guard tells him to turn off his light and go to sleep. As the guard walks away, he calls for lights out and heads down the corridor. Something moves behind him and he turns for a moment, but there's nothing there. The temperature drops and a gate closes on his arm, and he turns as something approaches him. Randall goes to his cell door and listens as the guard screams in agony.



Three months later, Sam and Dean break into the Arkansas Museum of Anthropology, accidentally setting off a silent alarm. They steal a tomahawk from a case but are quickly cornered by security guards. Dean smiles triumphantly at Dean. After they're arraigned, Special Agent Victor Henricksen comes to see Dean, along with his partner, Special Agent Reidy. Dean recognizes Henricksen from Milwaukee when he and Sam dealt with the shapeshifter. They have Dean on three charges of first-degree murder, and Henricksen notes that he was surprised that Dean set off the motion detector. Public defender Mara Daniels arrives to defend the Winchesters, and tells Henricksen and Reidy to get out. Once they're alone with her, they confirm that they'll be held at the detention facility until they're extradited on their charges.



The brothers are sent to the detention facility and put in neighboring cells. Once they're back together, Sam says that it's their craziest plan ever, and Dean admits he wasn't expecting Henricksen quite so soon. However, he assures Sam that their escape plan is foolproof, and four prisoners have died. Sam asks if Dean is doing it for Deacon, and Dean admits that he is and that they're helping Deacon because he served with John in the Corps, and they owe him. The brothers eat in the mess hall and Dean figures that the killer ghost is the spirit of a psycho killer, Moody, who died of a heart attack in the old cell block. They closed the block after he died, and the killings have started up since they reopened it. As the brothers leave, Sam bumps into a prisoner, Lucas. Dean picks a fight with him, and Lucas gets a friend. Dean takes Lucas down and the guards interrupt. The head guard confirms Dean's name and sends him and Lucas to solitary, while Lucas' friend tells Sam he'll be back for him later.

In solitary, Dean tries to make conversation with Lucas. The light flickers and Dean tells Lucas to stay still. Lucas looks out his cell door and a face appears in the slot, and then the ghost appears behind him. The veins in Lucas' face explode and he screams in agony.



Mara comes to see Henricksen and says that some of the witnesses claim that Sam and Dean saved their lives. Henricksen figures that wherever the Winchesters go, people die, but Mara thinks there's more to it. Unimpressed the FBI agent sends her away.

Sam is cleaning a bathroom with Randall and realizes he was there the night that the guard died. Randall asks why Sam is there, and says it's a lot better place than the old cell block. He was there the night that the killer died, and tells Sam that the guards beat him to death and claimed it was a heart attack. Sam wonders how much blood was there.

Dean is playing poker in the prison yard and winning as Sam arrives. He tells Sam what happened, and Sam figures that they need to get into the cell to burn the blood. He doesn't know how they'll burn the blood, but Dean has an idea. In the mess room, Dean sits down with Lucas' friend, Tiny, and provokes a fight. The guards break it up and the head guard beats Dean, and then sends him and Tiny to the infirmary. Meanwhile, Sam steals some cooking oil, slips out of the mess hall and goes to the old cell block. Using a cigarette lighter and the oil, he finds the blood-soaked mattress and burns the blood.



In the infirmary, Dean apologies to Tiny, who admits he does half low self-esteem issues, Dean sees a female ghost dressed in a nurse's uniform appear and enters Dean's cell. He grabs a salt shaker from his tray and throws it at her as grabs his chest. The ghost disappears, but reappears in Tiny's cell and kills him.



Later, Sam and Dean get back together and Dean tells Sam what he saw. Sam says that he thought it was done and that he set up their escape with Dean. The brothers go to Randall and offer to pay him for information on the nurse. He recognizes the nurse from Dean's description and identifies her as Glockner. She had a reputation for killing off prisoners using a hypodermic and making it look like heart attacks. Randall was gone when she disappeared, and doesn't know where she ended up. In the mess hall, Sam and Dean try to figure out what's going on, They figure the dead guard was crooked, and Glockner is handing out vigilante justice. Sam warns that they've got five hours until Deacon gets them out, and they've got no way to find out where Glockner is buried. Dean calls in Mara and asks her to look up the info on Glockner. When she balks, Dean assures her that finding out about Glockner is the best way she can help them. When she isn't convinced, Dean tells her to look in his eyes and see if he's telling the truth.

Dean returns to tell Sam that Mara isn't helping them. Sam insists on going and Dean walks away. Sam attacks him and the head guard breaks them both up and takes them into a bathroom. Once they're alone, Dean accuses Deacon of going hard on him. They update him on Glockner, and Sam and Dean argue about whether they should stay or leave. Deacon gives them the information from Mara, which reveals that Glockner was killed in a riot. The head guard opens up a panel to reveal their escape route and tells them that they're doing John proud. Before they go, Dean punches Deacon to make it look convincing.



The brothers get outside to where the Impala is parked. The alarms go off and they quickly drive away.

Henricksen interrogates Deacon and demands to know where the Winchesters went. All he can tell the agent is that they had a visit from their lawyer. Henricksen then talks to Mara, who insists that her conversation with Dean is privileged information.

The brothers go to Green Valley Cemetery where Glockner is buried and start digging. Sam warns Dean that Mara can't invoke lawyer-client privilege.

Henricksen demands to know what Dean said, and Mara tells him where Glockner is buried, and that Dean and Sam know.

The brothers dig up Glockner's coffin.

At the prison, Deacon is washing his face in the restroom when the lights flicker and the temperature drops. He turns and finds himself face-to-face with Glockner's ghost, which throws him to the ground. She grabs his chest and prepares to kill him for letting the Winchesters go.



The brothers salt and burn Glockner's bones. At the prison, the ghost disappears in a burst of flame just in time to save Deacon.

Henricksen and his team move in on the cemetery but realize that Mara sent them to the wrong place.

As Mara leaves for the day, she smiles in triumphant.

Henricksen realizes he's been played.



As they drive away, Dean and Sam figure that they have to go deep.

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