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5	'''[[Recap/{{Supernatural}} Recap]] of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''''\
6	'''Season 6, Episode 1'''
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8	!Exile On Main St.
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10	->'''Sam:''' You finally had what you wanted, Dean.
11	->'''Dean:''' I wanted my brother, alive!
12	->'''Sam:''' You wanted a family. You have for a long time, maybe the whole time. I know you. You only gave it up because of the way we lived. But you had something, and you were building something. Had I shown up, Dean, you would have just run off. I’m sorry. But it felt like after everything, you deserve some regular life.
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14	Written by Sera Gamble.
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16	Directed by Phil Sgriccia.
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18	Air Date: September 24, 2010.
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20	After a year of the domestic life, Dean starts to see signs of monsters in the neighborhood where he is living with Lisa Braeden and her son Ben.
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22	!!Body count
23	For this episode = 3 humans and 2 djinn.
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25	For the series so far = At least 410 humans (of which 6 were witches), 73 demons, 33 ghosts, 19 zombies, 13 gods, 11 vampires, 10 angels, 9 hellhounds, 6 changelings, 3 djinn, 3 shapeshifters, 2 ghouls, 2 werewolves, 2 dogs, 1 crocotta, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 reaper, 1 rugaru, 1 shtriga, 1 siren, 1 wendigo, 1 whore of Babylon, and 1 wraith.
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27	!Tropes
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29	* AlwaysMurder: Or Always a Supernatural MonsterOfTheWeek. Dean keeps investigating, it keeps turning out to be something mundane. But, of course...
30	* AndThisIsFor: A dijiin infects Dean with a lethal poison saying, "That's for our father, you son of a bitch", presumably referring to the djinn who was in "What is and What Should Never Be."
31	* BackFromTheDead: Not that Sam was actually dead for the past year. Samuel, on the other hand... Subverted with Azazel: he was a hallucination.
32	* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive
33	* ChickMagnet: Dean's friend expresses his envy when a waitress touches him up and leaves her phone number, despite Dean being loyal to Lisa. Subverted when she turns out to be the djinn infecting him.
34	* ContrastMontage: The story opens with a montage showing Dean's life with Lisa and Ben and his life as a hunter with Sam.
35	* {{Foreshadowing}} / NotHimself: There's something a bit…off about Sam's behaviour.
36	* GuiltComplex
37	* HeroicLineage: Samuel mentions how the Campbell line has been fighting monsters since before the New World.
38	* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies
39	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: The reason Sam didn't tell Dean about him was because he wanted him to be able to live a normal life. Or so he says.
40	* LackOfEmpathy: Dean thoughtlessly risked his life in a futile attempt to save his neighbours. Dean is surprised when Sam says he wouldn't do the same.
41	* OhCrap: Sulfur.
42	* OneSteveLimit: We have two "Samuel"s in the story [[Recap/SupernaturalS04E03InTheBeginning again]], one of which (Sam Winchester) was named for the other (Samuel Campbell).
43	* ParentalSubstitute: Dean for Ben.
44	* PassingTheTorch: Dean hands Sam the keys to the Impala, and is [[NotHimself surprised when he's not interested]], having set up his own car the way he likes.
45	* ProperlyParanoid: Dean has a devil's trap hidden under the front door carpet, and keeps a shotgun and holy water [[PillowPistol under his bed]].
46	* RevealingHug: Sam hugs Dean after not having seen him for a year. [[https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/farawayeyes4/10322690/21421/21421_600.png His expression]] is the first clue that something's [[NotHimself not quite right]] with him.
47	* ShellShockedVeteran: Dean clearly hasn't adjusted well to civilian life.
48	* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: The lyrics of "Beautiful Loser" by Bob Seger [[DiegeticSwitch playing on Dean's radio alarm]] during the ContrastMontage.
49	-->He wants to dream like a young man / With the wisdom of an old man / He wants his home and security / He wants to live like a sailor at sea.\
50	Beautiful loser / Where you gonna fall? / When you realize, you just can't have it all.
51	* TenMinuteRetirement: Dean has settled down, for a while.
52	* TimeSkip: A year from the last episode.
53	* VillainOfTheWeek: Brigitta, a djinn who wants to get revenge on Dean for killing her father back in [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E20WhatIsAndWhatShouldNeverBe What Is and What Should Never Be]].

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