History Recap / SupernaturalS09E19AlexAnnieAlexisAnn

* StockholmSyndrome: The episode starts shortly after Alex finally escapes from her vampire "family", and she's clearly terrified at the prospect of being caught and dragged back home. She's just as terrified of disappointing "Mama", the vamp who kidnapped her almost nine years before. Celia encourages it by telling Alex that no one outside the family can be trusted, especially not someone like Jody.

* NotSoDifferent: Jody acknowledges that she and Celia were each using Alex to fill a hole in their lives, but Jody still observes that motherhood shouldn't be about making the child be explicitly what the parent wants them to be.

* ShoutOut: To ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' when Mills mentions a deputy having nightmares after watching the barn scene.

* WhatTheHellHero: Sam gives Dean a brief one over his overly-gleeful, quippy ("Look at me, bitch!") slaying of the vampires.

* PaedoHunt: Played with, as the vampire nest uses Alex to lure out bait and, due to her youth, most of their victims are would-be pedophiles/rapists. They don't do this altruistically, but because they hope that the men who go after Alex won't be missed.

* ContinuityNod: One of the vamps disposes of the evidence by [[Recap/SupernaturalS06E04WeekendAtBobbys feeding a victim's remains through a woodchipper]].

* PaedoHunt: Played with, as the vampire nest uses Alex to lure out bait, and due to her youth most of their victims are would-be pedophiles/rapists. They don't do this altruistically, but because they hope that the men who go after Alex won't be missed.

* ShoutOut: To ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' when Mills mentioned a deputy having nightmares after watching the barn scene.

* AffablyEvil: Celia, the EvilMatriarch of the nest, acts kind and caring toward Alex. Doesn't stop her from emotionally manipulating the girl — or from killing people.

* DoNotTauntCthulhu: "Did I help your shut-in kid sister get away from her weird, scary-ass squatter family? Answer's still no." Even if they ''weren't'' vamps, [[TooDumbToLive that's a terrible answer to give when said scary-ass family has you surrounded.]]

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In keeping with the past few episodes, Dean's becoming even more drawn to violence due to the Mark of Cain's influence. The man who had put "saving people" above "hunting things" now tells Jody that raiding the nest comes first, rescuing Alex comes second — unless Dean decides to kill her first. Sam raises the point that he seems to be enjoying the killing a little ''too'' much.

* PreMortemOneLiner: '''''"LOOK AT ME, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCH!]]"'''''
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] a couple of scenes later. "Well hey, you got another snappy one-liner, I'm all ears."
* ReplacementGoldfish: The reason why Alex got her name. Jody correctly guesses that Celia renamed Annie and refused to turn her because she had lost a daughter named Alex. Jody later admits to Sam and Dean that her judgment about Alex had been clouded due to similar feelings.
* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: Alex's modus operandi for luring her family's dinner back to the nest. Not that the one guy shown in the flashback looked like an utter slob, but his lecherous behaviour reinforces the trope.

** The title is one to MarthaMarcyMayMarlene, complete with a girl having escaped from a cult and struggling with the after-effects.

* UnwantedRescue: Alex is ungrateful to Jody because the guy who was about to kill her was her brother.
* WhatTheHellHero: Sam gives Dean a brief one over his overly gleeful, quippy ("Look at me, bitch!") slaying of the vampires.

* BechdelTest: Unusually for the show, it passes with flying colours.

* ShoutOut: To TheWalkingDead when Mills mentioned a deputy having nightmares after watching the barn scene.

* PreMortemOneLiner: '''''"LOOK AT ME, BITCH!"'''''

* EvilCounterpart: Celia to Sheriff Mills. [[spoiler:Both have lost their children and consider Alex a substitute for the child.]]

* ReplacementGoldfish: The reason why Alex got her name. [[spoiler:Jody correctly guesses that Celia renamed Annie and refused to turn her because she had lost a daughter named Alex.]] Jody later admits to Sam and Dean that her judgment about Alex had been clouded due to similar feelings.
* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: Alex's modus operandi for [[spoiler:luring her family's dinner back to the nest]]. Not that the one guy shown in the flashback looked like an utter slob, but his lecherous behaviour reinforces the trope.

* StockholmSyndrome: The episode starts shortly after Alex finally escapes from her vampire "family", and she's clearly terrified at the prospect of being caught and dragged back home. She's just as terrified of disappointing "Mama", the vamp who kidnapped her almost nine years before. Celia encourages it by telling Alex that no one outside the family can be trusted, especially not someone like Jody.

* StockholmSyndrome: The episode starts shortly after Alex finally escapes from her vampire "family", and she's clearly terrified at the prospect of being caught and dragged back home. She's just as terrified of disappointing "Mama", the vamp who kidnapped her almost nine years before.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In keeping with the past few episodes, Dean's becoming even more drawn to violence. The man who had put "saving people" above "hunting things" now tells Jody that raiding the nest comes first, rescuing Alex comes second — unless Dean decides to kill her first. Sam raises the point that he seems to be enjoying the killing a little ''too'' much.

* SanitySlippage: Dean is shown to be further going unhinged due to the Mark of Cain with him enjoying beheading a vampire.

** The title is to MarthaMarcyMayMarlene, complete with a girl having escaped from a cult and struggling with the after-effects.

Sam and Dean help Sheriff Mills protect a girl who has escaped from a vampire's nest.

* AffablyEvil: The EvilMatriarch of the Vampire's nest is kind and caring towards Alexis and doesn't even hurt her when she has escaped treating her like her own daughter but is equally ruthless towards hurting Sheriff Mills and ultimately is a cold-blooded killer.
* ADayInTheLimelight: For Sheriff Mills. Sam and Dean are not in this episode as much as usual.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Alexis ultimately warms upto Sheriff Mills who adopts her in the end.
* EvilCounterpart: The EvilMatriarch of the Vampire's nest is this to Sheriff Mills. Both care genuinely for Alexis and will never hurt her. Both have lost their children and consider Alexis as the substitute for the child.

** The title is to MarthaMarcyMayMarlene complete with a girl having escaped from a group and struggling with the after-effects of that.

* SanitySlippage: Dean is shown to be further going unhinged due to the Mark of Cain with him enjoying beheading a vampire.