Last Holiday
Written by: Jeremy Adams
Directed by: Eduardo Sanchez
Air date: October 8, 2020
While doing a check-up on the Men of Letters' bunker, Sam and Dean accidentally release a wood nymph who reveals that she used to oversee the bunker's upkeep years ago. The nymph is determined to protect her family at all costs.
Tropes
- Ambiguous Situation: The two vampires Sam and Dean kill weren't shown hurting anybody, one of them even drinking bagged blood. So, it isn't clear whether the boys were putting down dangerous predators or murdering (relatively) innocent people because "monsters."
- Anti-Villain: Mrs. Butters is a Type III. She genuinely cares for Sam and Dean but she is so protective that she reacts violently to anyone who is a potential threat, even if they are not anymore. Ultimately, she comes around to their POV.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Mrs. Butters seems like a sweet, doting grandmother who watches over everyone's wellbeing, and then Jack discovers a video revealing that she was formerly kept by the Thule Society and when she was released by the Men of Letters, she killed over two hundred Nazis, including one she decapitated onscreen. Mrs. Butters really is sweet, but only to people she considers her family. Because Jack told her how he killed the brothers' mom, she thinks that he is a threat to Sam and Dean, whom she already considered her family, and wants him dead to keep her family safe.
- Continuity Nod:
- The brothers tell Mrs. Butters how Abaddon killed all of the Men of Letters in 1958, hence why they "never returned" to reset the bunker.
- The brothers still have Mjolnir in their arsenal.
- Decapitation Presentation: In the old film Mrs. Butters holds up the Thule officer's head after pulling it off his body with her bare hands.
- Easily Forgiven: Team Free Will forgives Mrs. Butters for trying to kill them.
- Fingore: Sam has his fingernails removed by Mrs. Butters when the latter finds out that he only played her along.
- Heel Realization: Mrs. Butters stops trying to kill Jack when Sam reminds her that he and Dean love him and about Mrs. Butters's behavior being the result of Cuthbert Sinclair's brainwashing.
- Holiday Episode: Exaggerated. Sam, Dean, and Jack celebrate Halloween, Thanksgiving, and even Sam and Jack's birthdays, all in the same episode.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Because the Men of Letters never left any notes behind on Mrs. Butters, Dean and Sam were unaware that all these years, the Bunker has been running on what amounts to half-power. With a literal snap of her fingers, Butters powers it up to the point of the brothers discovering there's a monster radar system to help their hunts.
- Secret Test of Character: Mrs. Butters left a trail of breadcrumbs for Jack to find an old film wherein she decapitates a Thule nazi occultist to see if he would enjoy it. When he doesn't, she makes an Appeal to Inherent Nature to lock him up anyway.
- Shout-Out:
- When Sam and Dean try to fix the pipes, Dean says they should call Mario and Luigi to fix their plumbing.
- Dean calls a berserk Mrs. Butters both "Nurse Ratched" and "evil Mary Poppins".
- Those Wacky Nazis: The video that Jack found revealed that Mrs. Butters was property of the Thule Society.
- Too Good to Be True: Sam feels this way about Mrs. Butters and shock of all shocks, he's right to.
- Written-In Absence: It is revealed that Eileen still keeps in touch with the brothers and is currently around, though she doesn't visit the bunker. To make up for all she's been through, Sam decides that he owes her a date.
