History Recap / SupernaturalS04E09IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer

* RealityEnsues: To escape Alastair in the church's attic, Dean and Sam [[SuperWindowJump jump through the stained glass window]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95s1EqJar3c The next scene?]] Sam stitching up a gash in his arm back at the hotel, Dean coughing up blood in the bathroom sink, and Sam relocating Dean's dislocated shoulder.

** And the results... [[RealityEnsues aren't pretty]].

%%* HealItWithBooze[=/=]SelfStitching

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The flashback which clarifies that Ruby's current body is not occupied by another soul was written in when after fans noticed the troubling implications of Sam having sex with Ruby while the soul of her host is trapped inside and unable to consent.

* ProphetEyes: When Sam tries to exorcize Alastair, it just makes the demon cough politely and his eyes turn white like [[BigBad Lilith]]'s, instantly marking him as a huge threat.

* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Ruby when Sam takes off her shirt when they star having sex.

* {{Flashback}}

* HealItWithBooze[=/=]SelfStitching

* OneHandedShotgunPump

* ProphetEyes: When Sam tries to exorcise Alastair, it just makes the demon cough politely and his eyes turn white like [[BigBad Lilith]]'s, instantly marking him as a huge threat.

* PsychicPowers: Anna is {{telepath|y}}ic (she hears angels talking in her head) and [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]]. {{Flashback}}s reveal how Sam worked with Ruby on his own powers to get strong enough to psychically exorcise demons.

* SexyBack: Sam and Ruby provide equal-opportunity {{fanservice}}.

* YouCanSeeMe

* {{Foreshadowing}}: For the finale and also Season 5. [[spoiler:Uriel claims Anna is worse than Ruby. By the end of the season, it turns out that both Uriel and Ruby were Moles and actually had the same endgoal and loyalty to the same entity (Lucifer), even if they weren't working together. Ruby also uses the brothers but doesn't attack them and is dispatched quickly when her betrayal comes out; Anna tries to kill Sam, then erase the entire Winchester family, and defeating her takes up an entire episode that ends in them having to SummonBiggerFish, making her pose a more powerful and direct threat to the brothers than Ruby did.]]

For this episode = 6 humans and 3 demons.

For the series so far = At least 284 humans (of which 5 were witches), 18 demons, 25 ghosts, 10 vampires, 6 changelings, 3 gods, 3 shapeshifters, 2 werewolves, 1 crocotta, 1 djinn, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 shtriga, 1 wendigo, 3 zombies, 1 rugaru, and 1 dog.

For this episode = 6 humans and 5 demons.

For the series so far = At least 275 humans (of which 5 were witches), 58 demons, 25 ghosts, 10 vampires, 6 changelings, 3 gods, 3 shapeshifters, 3 zombies, 2 werewolves, 1 cat, 1 crocotta, 1 djinn, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 rugaru, 1 shtriga, and 1 wendigo.

-->'''Demon:''' I know. [[SarcasmMode I'm downright kissable]].

* AuthorsSavingThrow: A good chunk of the episode is spent clearing up the moral issues of Sam and Ruby having sex with questionable consent from Ruby's host body.

Ruby tells Sam and Dean that a powerful demon named Alastair is searching for an escaped mental patient named Anna Milton who can hear the angels' conversations. Dean still doesn't trust Ruby, and asks Sam to explain why he trusts her. Sam asks Dean what he remembers from hell. Neither will tell.

When they find her, all it takes is saying that they're Dean and Sam. She knows all about them. Turns out she tunes into the angel's conversations, and has heard all about the brothers. Sam isn't too popular upstairs. The first words she heard, clear as a bell, were "Dean Winchester has been saved."

Ruby arrives in a panic. Alastair is coming. A statue of an angel starts weeping blood, marking his arrival. He attacks the Winchester's as Ruby and Anna escape. The boys lose Ruby's knife in the ensuing fight, and only make it out by jumping through a church window, and then only because Alastair wanted them to lead him to Anna.

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* AtTheCrossroads: Sam attempted to make a [[DealWithTheDevil crossroads deal]] but fails because the demons ''want'' Dean in Hell.

* DrowningMySorrows[=/=]TheAlcoholic: Sam after Dean's death. Ruby makes him promise her sobriety if he wants her help in killing Lilith.

* HearingVoices: Anna, which gets her locked up for schizophrenia when she's really just tuning in to "angel radio", as Dean oh-so-eloquently puts it.

* NoSell: Neither Sam's powers nor Ruby's knife works on Alastair. Played with in Sam's case as his powers do work eventually, he's currently not powerful enough.

* ProphetEyes: When Sam tries to exorcise Alastair, it just makes the demon cough politely and his eyes turn white like [[BigBad Lilith's]], instantly marking him as a huge threat.
* PsychicPowers: Anna is [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] (she hears angels talking in her head) and [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]]. {{Flashback}}s reveal how Sam worked with Ruby on his own powers to get strong enough to psychically exorcise demons.

* SeekingSanctuary: With the demons chasing her, Anna hides in the attic of her father's church, not realizing that [[OurDemonsAreDifferent this show's demons can enter hallowed ground]].
* SelfStitching[=/=]HealItWithBooze
* SeparateSceneStorytelling: Sam sums up [[DeathSeeker his]] [[DrowningMySorrows experiences]] while Dean was in Hell via {{Flashback}}s.
* SexForSolace: The flashback of [[{{Fanservice}} Sam and Ruby in the cabin]]. [[WordOfGod Sera Gamble says]], "We were asking ourselves, 'Where's the lowest place Sam can go in a state of despair?' That's why calling it a love scene strikes me as hilarious. It's kind of like self-mutilating and calling it getting dressed for the prom."

* ShoutOut: The ward Anna was in is 42--the answer to the [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy great question of life, the universe and everything]].
* StabTheScorpion: In flashbacks, Ruby has another demon grab Sam. She takes her knife back from Sam and, revealing that Lilith had let her out of {{Hell}} to kill him, holds it up to kill him before she uses it to kill the other demon instead.

-->'''Demon:''' I know. [[SarcasmMode I'm downright kissable]].

For this episode = [[spoiler:6 humans and 5 demons.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: Body count for this episode = [[spoiler: six humans and five demons]].

-->'''Castiel:''' [[spoiler:[[WhamLine No. She has to die]]]].

* LightIsNotGood: The angels [[spoiler:want Anna to be turned over to them, not to protect her, but to kill her]].

* NoSell: Neither Sam's powers nor Ruby's knife works on Alastair. Played with in Sam's case as [[spoiler: his powers do work eventually, he's currently not powerful enough]].

For the series so far = At least 275 humans (of which 5 were witches), 58 demons, 25 ghosts, 10 vampires, 6 changelings, 3 gods, 3 shapeshifters, 3 zombies, 2 werewolves, 1 cat, 1 crocotta, 1 djinn, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 rougarou, 1 shtriga, and 1 wendigo.

'''Season 4, Episode 9''':

Ruby arrives in a panic. Alastair is coming. A statue of an angel starts weeping blood, marking his arrival. He attacks the Winchester's as Ruby and Anna escape. The boys lose Ruby's knife in the ensuing fight, and only make it out by jumping through a church-window, and then only because Alastair wanted them to led him to Anna.

The boys were badly beaten, dislocated shoulders, self-administrated stitches, the works. Dean lashes out at Sam for trusting Ruby, believing that they were set up, that now she's gone and killed Anna. Sam reveals how she saved his life during Dean's imprisonment in Hell. She taught him how to use his powers, comforted him, hint hint, and saved his ass again and again.

Eventually the boys go to the cabin where Anna and Ruby are. The lights start flashing. They think they're done for, but it's just Castiel and Uriel, demanding to be taken to Anna, but not for the reason Dean hopes.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: A good chunk of the episode is spent clearing up the moral issues of Sam and Ruby having sex, with questionable consent from Ruby's host body.

-->'''Dean:''' Here for her like... here for her?
-->'''Uriel:''' [[SilenceYouFool Stop talking.]] Give her to us.

-->'''Castiel:''' [[spoiler:[[WhamLine No, she has to die.]]]]
* CurbStompBattle: Alastair vs. the Brothers Winchester, who are armed with Ruby's demon-killing knife. It does not end in Sam'n'Dean's favor: they end up having to jump through a window and run away to lick their wounds, and the only reason they even get away with ''that'' much is because Alastair lets them so they can lead him to Anna.

* DrowningMySorrows[=/=]TheAlcoholic: Sam after Dean's death. Ruby makes him promise to stop if he wants her help in killing Lilith.

* HearingVoices: Anna, which gets her locked up for schizophrenia when she's really just tuning in to "angel radio", as Dean oh so eloquently puts it.
* ImpaledPalm: Sam pins the Crossroads demon in place to force him to make a deal. It doesn't work.

* OnThree: Sam does the "on one" version when popping back Dean's dislocated shoulder.
* PlayingDrunk: The short con Sam and Dean are running re the pool game.

* SeekingSanctuary: With the demons chasing her, Anna hides in the attic of her father's church, not realizing that [[OurDemonsAreDifferent this show's demons can indeed enter hallowed ground]].
* SelfStitching / HealItWithBooze

* SexyDiscretionShot: The good 'ole "clothes tossed to the floor before a raging fireplace" scene.
* ShoutOut: The ward Anna was in is 42 -- the answer to the [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy great question of life, the universe and everything]].

-->'''Anna:''' ''(terrified)'' Your face--What happened to your face?!
-->'''Demon:''' I know. [[SarcasmMode I'm downright kissable.]]

* YouAreNotAlone: Ruby before making out with Dean.

* ShoutOut: The ward Anna was in is 42, the answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything.

-->'''Uriel:''' Stop talking. Give her to us.

* DestinationDefenstration: Sam and Dean jump out a stained-glass window to escape Alaister.

-->'''Demon:''' I know. [[SarcasmMode I'm downright kissable.]]
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