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'''[[Recap/{{Supernatural}} Recap]] of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''''\\
'''Season 4, Episode 15'''

!Death Takes A Holiday
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[[caption-width-right:350:Moon's in the right spot. The board is set. Let's get started, shall we?]]

->'''Pamela:''' I know what you did to that demon, Sam. I can feel what's inside of you. If you think you have good intentions, think again.

Written by Jeremy Carver.

Directed by Steve Boyum.

Air Date: March 12, 2009.

When people stop dying in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greybull,_Wyoming Greybull, Wyoming,]] Sam and Dean need the help of [[Characters/SupernaturalMediumsAndPsychics Pamela Barnes]] to break the veil, defend one of the 66 seals, and protect the [[Characters/SupernaturalReapers Reapers]].

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Sam and Dean investigate and discover that the local [[Characters/SupernaturalReapers Reaper]] is missing. They figure out that killing two Reapers is one of the 66 seals, and get [[Characters/SupernaturalMediumsAndPsychics Pamela]]--the blind seer--to turn them into ghosts, so they can try warn the Reapers and stop them being killed.

As ghosts, they meet [[Characters/SupernaturalGhosts Cole Griffith]], a kid who was meant to be taken by the Reaper but got left behind when it was kidnapped. He teaches them how to fight and disappear in a quick {{training montage}}.

[[Characters/SupernaturalReapers Tessa]], Dean's Reaper from [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E01InMyTimeOfDying season two]], reappears.

Finally the boys track down the demons. It was [[Characters/SupernaturalDemons Alastair]], and he manages to kill one of the Reapers, but the boys save Tessa.

In the real world, Pamela gets attacked by a demon, who stabs her. She manages to bring Sam back, and he deals with the demon. Pamela can't die yet, however, because Tessa still isn't reaping.

Castiel appears to Dean, and tells him they finally had a victory. Cole moves on to the afterlife, and because Tessa is reaping again, Pam just has time to bring Dean back before she dies.

!!Body count
For this episode = 3 humans, 1 ghost, and 1 reaper.

For the series so far = At least 298 humans (of which 5 were witches), 27 ghosts, 21 demons, 10 vampires, 6 changelings, 3 gods, 3 shapeshifters, 3 zombies, 2 werewolves, 2 dogs, 1 crocotta, 1 djinn, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 reaper, 1 rugaru, 1 shtriga, 1 siren, and 1 wendigo.

!Tropes

* AmbiguousSituation: Tessa states that with her return, the people in Greybull will start dying again, but she doesn't outright state whether this means that she'll reap Jim Jenkins and the cancer patient, the two men who would have died but ended up surviving due to her absence.
*** Since Pamela does die, it's obvious they will too.
* AstralProjection: Because living humans can't see Reapers, the brothers use this to transform themselves into spirits.
* AttackOnTheHeart: Jim Jenkins was shot in the heart by the mugger.
-->'''Dean:''' And he's not a doughnut?
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Castiel capturing Alastair.
-->'''Dean:''' What the hell?
-->'''Castiel:''' [[ObligatoryJoke Guess again]].
* CallBack: [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E01InMyTimeOfDying Dean's met Tessa before]].
* ContinuityNod: Dean is still upset by what Sam said to him [[Recap/SupernaturalS04E14SexAndViolence while under the poison of the siren]].
* CovertPervert: Pamela whispers the return code in Sam's ear: "You have got a great ass."
* DeathSeeker: Dean has been missing Tessa/Death throughout seasons 2 and 3.
* DeathTakesAHoliday
* FallingChandelierOfDoom: Used a bit less dramatically than usual, but has the same effect.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "If you think you have good intentions, think again."
** "You know, he doesn't ride a pale horse, but he does have [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse three amigos]]."
* GoIntoTheLight: Cole Griffith is persuaded to move on.
* GoodIsNotNice
* HidingBehindReligion: Sam and Dean pretend to be writing for a Christian Blog.
-->'''Jim Jenkins:''' Now, you two said you were bloggers?
-->'''Sam:''' Yes, sir. Floored by the Lord dot com.
-->'''Dean:''' All of God's glory fit to blog.
* HomoeroticSubtext: Dean tests his new intangibility by shoving a hand into Sam's chest.
-->'''Dean:''' Am I making you uncomfortable?
-->'''Sam:''' Get out of me.
-->'''Dean:''' ''[pulls out his hand]'' You're such a prude.
* IfIHadANickel
-->'''Reaper:''' You don't remember me.
-->'''Dean:''' [[HandsomeLech Honestly, if I had a nickel for every woman who said that...]]
* ImmortalityField: Greybull, Wyoming became one because the Reaper in charge is missing.
* {{Intangibility}}: Due to being a spirit.
* KilledOffForReal: Pamela.
* MindOverMatter: Ghosts can move objects and touch people and other ghosts by concentrating and willing it to happen.
* NotWhatItLooksLike
* PowerPerversionPotential: Dean suggests spying on women in Victoria's Secret.
* QuietingTheUnquietDead: The Winchesters convince Cole's ghost to leave with a friendly [[{{Psychopomp}} Reaper]] by showing him that he's making both his mother and himself unhappy by haunting her.
* RemoteYetVulnerable: Demons attack the Winchesters' bodies while they are occupied with stopping Alastair.
* ShootTheDog
* ShoutOut:
** Dean's quip of "All of God's glory fit to blog" is a reference to the motto of the ''New York Times''.
** When Sam suggests Dean should take an aspirin, Dean calls Sam Series/{{House}}.
** Sam asks if they are going to just swing in and save the [[ComicBook/SpiderMan friendly neighborhood]] reaper?
** Pamela calls Dean [[Series/HappyDays Chachi]].
** Dean tells Pamela he would love to be kicking back with a cold one, watching ''Series/JudgeJudy''.
** Cole calls Sam [[Creator/HaleyJoelOsment Haley Joel]], referencing his role in ''Film/TheSixthSense''.
* SinisterScythe: Death's Scythe is used to kill Reapers. In a subversion, it's a gardening handtool.
* SeeYouInHell
-->'''Sam:''' Go to Hell.
-->'''Alastair:''' Oh, if only I could. But they just keep sending me up to this Arctic craphole.
* SummoningRitual: Sam attempts to summon the ghost of Cole Griffith, but is interrupted.
* TakeThat: "Yeah, well, Joe the Plumber was a douche."
* TookALevelInBadass: Sam can now see off Alastair.
* UhOhEyes: That roll over in his head. Completely.
* TheWildWest: Sam and Dean stay in the Broken Saddle Motel.
* YouCanSeeMe
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