Supernatural: The Anime Recap - Episode 2 "Roadkill"

Join us this week as we continue recapping the Supernatural anime as we move on to episode two: "Roadkill".

 

So this week we start off with Jared Padalecki telling us that this episode is based on the season 2 episode of the same name "Roadkill", but that this version has a surprise twist at the end. Great, let's see what happens.

We start with a young couple driving at night on a tree lined road. The man is reading a map with a flashlight and they are lost. The girl is driving and she complains that it's their anniversary and she's having a craptacular time because he can't read a map.  Since the girl is understandably mad, the man says he's going to put some tunes to loosen her up, just as they pass a creepy cabin in the woods.

She's having the time of her life.

Now I don't know about you guys, but if a guy did that to me I'd be even more pissed. Because being lost in the middle of nowhere with map reading impaired idiot on my anniversary isn't enough. Let's add music I don't want to listen to into the mix.

Regardless of his wife's feelings, he turns on the radio but there's no reception of course because we just have to make her night even more miserable. Adding lack of intelligence to annoyance, he suggests making out as they drive and even though she says she's not in the mood. He proceeds to do so while she is driving. 

Smart. Real smart, dude.

Suddenly, the girl notices a man standing in the middle of the road like a horror movie creeper and tries to dodge him, driving straight into a ravine and crashing  into a randomly placed metal tower in the woods. They scream for dear life, presumably die and we shift into the Supernatural logo.

Um. Interesting intro.

So the girl wakes up in the remains of their car seemingly fine, only to find that her idiotic map illiterate husband is missing. She walks through the woods calling out for him and ends up at the cabin she drove by earlier looking for help. When she goes to open the door to this abandoned cabin, a creepy guy hanging from the door frame surprises her and scares her off.

To his defense, maybe he was doing chin-ups on that door frame.

Mind you, he looks kind of like the guy she almost ran over and he really is hanging from the door frame.

Anyways, we switch now to the Impala, where the amazing anime Win-bros are driving down the same road Ms. Crash Girl was driving through before her idiot husband made them crash.

In the Impala, Sam is holding a bag of salt and opens the episode by stating that he has a bad feeling about something. For the sake of plot, Dean proceeds to get fed up with Sam, yells at him and explains how they have no choice because fourteen people have already died on this road and they have a job to do. 

"But Dean, This isn't coffee..."

It is immediately clear that Dean is not going to tolerate any of Sam's whiny crap in this episode.

In response to Dean's outburst, Sam proceeds to toss the bag of salt at Dean and ask if they found daddy yet. 

Wow. Nice comeback Sam.

While Dean prepares for the second round of the argument, Sam suddenly screams at him that he's about to hit a girl randomly standing in the middle of the road. Because as we learned last episode, pointing things out to Dean is what Sam does best. Dean manages to not hit her and we find out it's the car crash girl.

The girl proceeds to ask the brothers for help and they decide to go with her to her crash site, but the car has mysteriously vanished!

Obviously the girl immediately goes on to say how she isn't crazy and Sam assures her that she is perfectly sane even though she follows up her rants about the crash with an explanation of the creepy guy she saw in the cabin. To move this ridiculously clichéd plot, Dean says something about a fresh smudge and they all go to the cabin to check it out. Once there, Sam the Supernatural Google search engine  conveniently provides us with information about a ghost named Greely, who lived in the house and was killed on that same road fifteen years ago. Apparently his soul was too angry to move on and he tried to kill people, but that's irrelevant because she just doesn't believe Sam and yet she still goes along with it. She reminds them about the fact that her husband is still M.I.A., but Sam assures her everything is fine and they'll take care of her. He even smiles at her when he says it.

She's obviously never seen the live show. Sweetie, that should be a red flag right there to run away.

Dean finds an attic door and once inside said place they find a hanging corpse. Turns out it's Greely's wife, who committed suicide. Dean finds a love letter he wrote to her before she died and the only thing he deduces from it is that Greely loved his wife. Sam takes this opportunity to unleash some sass, and asks Dean if it was the "I love you forever part" that tipped him off.

You fail, Sam. Just shut up and look pretty.

Remember this corpse kids, it'll come in handy later.

Sam then proceeds to show us a photo of a tree and informs us that in a book he read,  it mentioned a custom from that town where a tree was planted as a token of love for a departed loved one. "You know, like a tombstone or something." Sure thing Sam. Anything to make this molasses paced plot move. Dean complains about how they need to salt and burn the dead guys' bones and Sam sassily tells him that there's a lot of trees out there.

What is up with Sam's attitude in this episode?

They hear an ominous clock ticking and by the time they remember that the girl is there with them, the clock sprouts two hands and try to attack the girl. Dean shoots the clock, then breaks a window and all three proceed to jump out the second floor of the house and run away.

Surprise!!

Back in the woods Sam explains that the ghost is still after them but that's ok, because apparently they know the exact tree in a forest  where the bones are buried under. They proceed to salt and burn the dude, because that's how daddy thought them. Sam ominously tells us that he thinks spirits have issues going away because they're too attached to the living world and don't realize they're supposed to die. 

You're just sunshine and lollipops today aren't you Sam?

Dean is psyched that the ghost is taken care of and the boys proceed to leave, forgetting about the girl. She once again reminds them about her missing husband and since zero is the amount of crap Dean gives about it, she proceeds to ask Sam for help, who reluctantly decides to tell her about her husband, David.

The man is like a walking Wikipedia article. Apparently Sam knows everything. 

Sam begins by apologizing to her as it begins to rain, but deciding she doesn't want to hear the rest, the girl then proceeds to run away into the woods while the boys gives chase. Both brothers catch up to her as she trip and cries in the mud. Dean suggests leaving her alone for a bit. She'll have none of that crap and proceeds to call out Sam on his lies about her husband, even though she didn't let him finish earlier. Then she accuses them of using her to get to the ghost which promptly causes a ghost hand to pop up, grab her by the neck and toss her down a cliff into a raging river. Sam and Dean stand at the edge of the cliff, just looking down, when Dean suddenly says that maybe that was the ghost's wife. You know, the one with the corpse in the attic they didn't burn because they were attacked? That one.

The girl wakes up in the river to another ghost trying to drown her. Meanwhile, the bros split. Dean runs towards the house while Sam runs towards the river to save her.

At the house Dean tries to burn the corpse, complaining about having to burn two things in one night, but of course he runs out of lighter fluid. At the river, the wife's ghost who is even uglier than the shape shifter in the previous episode,  is whining to the drowning girl about losing the people she loved. Yes, the ghost is performing her token villain monologue underwater as she drowns her victim. Go with it.

"I will drown you after I'm done with my monologue!"

 The ghost begins to burn, since Dean is trying to burn the bones at the house but without any lighter fluid she's not burning fast enough. In the meantime, Sam finally reaches the girl underwater and begins to pull her up to the surface. Since Dean is doing a craptastic job of burning the spirit, it begins to try to kill Sam instead.

At the house, Dean is looking for things that may burn in his pockets. As he empties them, we see that he carries holy water and a Gengar key chain but nothing that may burn a corpse. He gets an idea and we go back to the river.

Gengar and holy water, everything a hunter needs.

The ghost successfully bursts into flames as it tries to pull Sam to a watery death. Now that it's gone, Sam swims to shore with the girl, who is ok. He assures her once again that she is going to be fine and we see that Dean burned his shirt in order to properly kill the spirit. He is now freezing in the house and using the corpse's bonfire to stay warm.

Wow. Um. Okay then.

The boys drive the girl to another house. Since Dean is freezing and apparently they don't carry any more clothes in the Impala even though they live in it, he stays inside while Sam tells her that her husband is inside the house they just drove up to.

Together they go up to the house and when they look through the window, they see the husband with another woman.  Obviously pissed, she asks Sam about it. Since Sam is the equivalent of Google in this episode, he tells that her husband remarried, that the girl inside is his wife and that she was the one who died that night they crashed, which incidentally was fifteen years ago.

Well that seems unfair. She died because he couldn't read a map and tried to make out with her while she drove? You got a bum deal, girl.

We're also treated to a flashback to the beginning of the episode, which explains the fight the boys were having. Now we know the boys were arguing because Sam wasn't comfortable with using the girl's ghost as bait to catch Greely's ghost which in turn out lured out Greely's wife's ghost. 

See? Simple!

Even after all the crap she saw, she doesn't believe Sam. He helpfully educates us in the fact that because she is a ghost, she didn't notice she'd been dead for fifteen years. To make sure she believes him this time, he walks right through her. 

Wow Sam, even for you, that's kind of harsh. But it does raise the question of how he pulled her out of the river before and covered her in his jacket.

He tells her that her husband got over her and that she needs to the same. As an added measure he adds that he knows how much it hurts to let people go and hopes that they're in a better place. The ghost hugs him and tells him he's sweet (that is kind of debatable though) and that he really understands. The poor girl starts crying and he just stands there, back turned to her, not even returning the hug. Instead he tells her she needs to go to another world. Mind you, one she knows nothing of. She thanks him and lets him go and everything goes back to normal. 

Nobody likes clingy girls. Not even Sam Winchester.

We are then treated to shirtless Dean out in the winter , because he's that kickass. While an emotionally distraught Sam gets into the Impala. Dean of course proceeds to make fun of Sam for hugging a ghost, destroying any and all emotion the previous scene may have had. Of course, full-of -sass Sam then proceeds to ask about Dean's missing shirt, who responds that he burned them, making Sam decide that he's better off not knowing. 

After the credits, we're treated to a scene of the boys in the Impala. Sam has his window down and is explaining to Dean that he believes in an afterlife when he's suddenly struck by next week's plot in the form of a vision of a screaming woman in a burning house screaming for help.

That's it. End of episode. 

What did we learn:

1. Dean keeps no additional clothing in the Impala.

2. Sam makes Google look like a sissy.

3. You can grab a ghost by the hand and jump out of buildings and rivers with them, but to prove a point you can walk right through them.

4. Do not trust Sam when he smiles.

Dean: "Ready to get rid of another clingy ghost chick? Sam: "Bring it."

Next week on Supernatural: The Anime: The boys return home  after being gone for twenty two years to follow up on Sam's vision. What will they find? Tune in to find out.