Recap of Supernatural
Season 6, Episode 1
Exile On Main St.
Sam: You finally had what you wanted, Dean.
Dean: I wanted my brother, alive!
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.
Written by Sera Gamble.
Directed by Phil Sgriccia.
Air Date: September 24, 2010.
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.
Body count
For this episode = 3 humans and 2 djinn.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.
Tropes
- Always Murder: Or Always a Supernatural Monster of the Week. Dean keeps investigating, it keeps turning out to be something mundane. But, of course...
- And This Is for...: 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."
- Back from the Dead: Not that Sam was actually dead for the past year. Samuel, on the other hand... Subverted with Azazel: he was a hallucination.
- The Call Knows Where You Live
- Chick Magnet: 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.
- Contrast Montage: The story opens with a montage showing Dean's life with Lisa and Ben and his life as a hunter with Sam.
- Foreshadowing / Not Himself: There's something a bit…off about Sam's behaviour.
- Guilt Complex
- Heroic Lineage: Samuel mentions how the Campbell line has been fighting monsters since before the New World.
- It's Not You, It's My Enemies
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: 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.
- Lack of Empathy: 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.
- Oh, Crap!: Sulfur.
- One-Steve Limit: We have two "Samuel"s in the story again, one of which (Sam Winchester) was named for the other (Samuel Campbell).
- Parental Substitute: Dean for Ben.
- Passing the Torch: Dean hands Sam the keys to the Impala, and is surprised when he's not interested, having set up his own car the way he likes.
- Properly Paranoid: Dean has a devil's trap hidden under the front door carpet, and keeps a shotgun and holy water under his bed.
- Revealing Hug: Sam hugs Dean after not having seen him for a year. His expression
◊ is the first clue that something's not quite right with him. - Shell-Shocked Veteran: Dean clearly hasn't adjusted well to civilian life.
- Suspiciously Apropos Music: The lyrics of "Beautiful Loser" by Bob Seger playing on Dean's radio alarm during the Contrast Montage.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.
Beautiful loser / Where you gonna fall? / When you realize, you just can't have it all. - 10-Minute Retirement: Dean has settled down, for a while.
- Time Skip: A year from the last episode.
- Villain of the Week: Brigitta, a djinn who wants to get revenge on Dean for killing her father back in What Is and What Should Never Be.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Dean to Sam and Bobby for not telling him Sam was alive for a year.
