Last night ’s Supernatural sequence , “ beat Men Do n’t Wear Plaid , ” gave us a batch of charitable zombi who just want to return to their small town lives . And it show us Bobby ’s horrific back tale – which may be his undoing .
This was a good post - haitus episode : It was monster - of - the - week enough to make sentience to people who keep an eye on the show irregularly ( or who are tune up in for the first time ) . But we fix some Armageddon Arc in there too .
zombi are your friends
Five miles from Bobby ’s South Dakota junkyard , the dead have begin to climb . At first it seems like they ’re out for stemma , because Sam and Dean are called in on a job related to one living dead who killed somebody as before long as he dragged himself out of the grave accent . But when the Winchester brothers sample to eliminate the baddie by trail him down to his old sign , they happen a sweet guy with a married woman and kid who await just a little gray around the gills . He concede like a shot to the murder , and says in his Defense Department that the guy rope he pour down really killed him first – and can he just kiss his kids goodnight before turning himself over to the authorities and buy the farm to jail ?
dainty zombies who endeavor to integrate themselves into small - town life are a staple of neozombie pop culture , but they ’re novel to Sam and Dean . Even more cryptical is why Bobby , just five geographical mile away , seems to have vanish just as his town is being occupy by deadened mass .
Bobby ’s dismal secret
After a mickle of mischief-making where we rule out that Bobby is known to everybody ( and specially the sheriff ) as the township drunk , we discover what ’s really go on . Among the dead who have risen is Bobby ’s own long - dead wife , a sweet , old - fashioned lady who believes it is “ her line ” to make Bobby happy and broil a spate of pies . Plus , the sheriff ’s idle small fry has also come back , so she ’s in no hurry to question the situation .
The only multitude who are suspicious , of course , are Sam and Dean , who cursorily see out that this is a tight trick pulled by Death , one of the Horsemen roaming the countryside as Armageddon kick into in high spirits power train . on the face of it when Death zooms through , people can rise from their graves in his wake . There ’s just one snap . After a few days , the risen go into a more distinctive zombie style , with the drool and the tooth and the eat multitude .
Though Bobby is a take - no - shit Hunter , and knows things are going wrong , he ca n’t birth to pour down the ogre that his dead wife is becoming . And we bump out why . old age ago , before Bobby went badass , he had to kill his married woman because she had been possessed by a demon . She forgive him , but he just ca n’t carry to kill her again after finally getting her back . Finally she commence pass away all drooly and point - toothed , and she beg him to shoot her . But first she evidence him that “ a weedy man ” gave her a message for Bobby right after she crawled out of her tomb .
We never hear the substance , and at that point everybody become into total down - the - zombies manner because all those friendly undead mass have sour 28 Days subsequently and must be shot .
Death ’s plan for the sidekick
Once the peril has passed , and the expired zombies are being ritually burned , the Winchesters encounter up with Bobby again . He ’s stare moodily into the brilliance that was his doubly - dead dear ’s soundbox , and explains that he now knows the whole office was Death trying to “ get at him . ”
But why is Death after Bobby in fussy ?
“ I ’m one of the reasons you have n’t sound out yes to Lucifer yet , ” he severalise Sam , whose torso is supposedly destined to be Satan ’s vessel once that hombre from helpless rots forth .
It seems that Death was less interested in kill Bobby than he was in split his feel . The boys ’ surrogate father seems even more broken than ever , and resist to respond when Dean proclaims that they ’ll all keep fight to weigh what .
look like the Horsemen are getting tricky with their handling . or else of mess up like a shot with Sam and Dean , they ’re run after the brothers ’ on-key sources of metier : Their friends , and particularly Bobby , who is already struggling to deal with an combat injury he got protect the comrade . ( If you recall , Bobby was possessed by a devil in the season opener . Demon Meg orders him to kill Dean , but Bobby manages to regain control long enough to stab himself and exorcize the devil – but it allow him paralytic from the waist down . )
Also : We still do n’t know on the nose what Death say to Bobby . I have a feeling it was more complicated than “ I ’m comin ’ to getcha . ”
So as we get deeper into the Armageddon Arc , the enquiry is not so much whether the brothers can stay strong . It ’s whether their friends can remain solid with them . Tune in next week when Sam and Dean go to the scariest place in the multiverse : Heaven Itself .
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