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5	'''[[Recap/{{Supernatural}} Recap]] of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''''\
6	'''Season 7, Episode 4'''
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8	!Defending Your Life
9	-->'''Osiris:''' Because I'm the judge, son. Now stop objecting, or I'll find you in contempt – that is, kill you. So I advise you to let me move it along. The prosecution calls Joanna Beth Harvelle to the stand.
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11	Written by Adam Glass.
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13	Directed by Robert Singer.
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15	Air Date: October 14, 2011.
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17	While investigating a series of very strange murders, Dean and Sam learn that the Egyptian god Osiris is responsible for the killings. A god with nothing but revenge on his mind, Osiris is putting random people on trial for any mistakes they've made in the past and then promptly killing them if they're found guilty. Upon sensing Dean's guilt, Osiris puts him on trial, with Sam becoming Dean's lawyer. But both Sam and Dean are stunned when Osiris calls a witness, someone they thought they'd never see again.
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19	!!Body Count:
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21	For this episode = 3 humans.
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23	For the series so far = At least 703 humans (of which 6 were witches), 88 demons, 55 angels, 36 Jefferson Starships, 34 ghosts, 26 vampires, 19 zombies, 14 gods, 9 hellhounds, 7 skinwalkers, 6 changelings, 5 shapeshifters, 4 ghouls, 3 djinn, 2 Arachnes, 2 dogs, 2 kitsunes, 2 werewolves, 1 crocotta, 1 dragon, 1 fairy, 1 Khan worm, 1 lamia, the Mother of All, 1 okami, 1 phoenix, 1 Purgatory creature, 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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25	!Tropes
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27	* TheAtoner: All the victims, but it doesn't save them. Turns out Osiris sentences the accused based on whether ''they'' think they're guilty.
28	%%* TheAlcoholic: Dean
29	%%* TheBartender: Mia.
30	%%* BigNo
31	* BuxomBeautyStandard: Dean eyeing Mia's chest: "Now I know why people come here."
32	* CallBack: Sam had been finishing up his pre-law studies back in...[[Recap/SupernaturalS01E01Pilot the very first episode]], actually. Wow.
33	* ClosestThingWeGot: Sam defends Dean in 'court', though he only studied pre-law.
34	* ContinuityNod: [[Recap/SupernaturalS07E03TheGirlNextDoor Amy Pond]] and [[Recap/SupernaturalS05E10AbandonAllHope Jo Harvelle]].
35	* DeadlyEuphemism: "Now, stop objecting, or I'll find you in contempt. That is, kill you."
36	* DiedHappilyEverAfter: Dean comments that Jo actually seems happier now that she's dead than he'd ever seen her in life.
37	* FightingYourFriend: Jo's spirit is forced to attack and kill Dean.
38	* {{Flashback}}: Showing Dean's memory of various events used against him at his trial.
39	* {{Forgiveness}}: At the end of the episode, when Dean asks why Osiris didn't go after Sam, Sam says that he has let go of his guilt and moved past it.
40	* GoOutWithASmile: The last we ever see of Jo on the show is her [[AffectionateGestureToTheHead tenderly cupping Dean's cheek]] and smiling at him before vanishing back into whatever afterlife Osiris pulled her out of.
41	* GuiltComplex: Dean's is why Osiris picks him to put on trial.
42	* HomicideMachines: Including VillainTeleportation when the victim runs up a stairwell to his apartment, only to find the car inside waiting for him.
43	* IKnowMortalKombat: "I learned that from ''The Good Wife''."
44	* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Notably [[AvertedTrope averted]]; although she's clearly aware of what's happening and clearly doesn't approve, Dean doesn't even bother trying to convince his old friend to fight back against her MindControl.
45	%%* ItsAllMyFault: Dean sure thinks so.
46	%%* KangarooCourt: Osiris's courtroom.
47	%%* KarmicDeath: Osiris' method of killing.
48	* JacobMarleyApparel: Jo Harvelle's ghost is wearing the same clothes she [[Recap/SupernaturalS05E10AbandonAllHope died in]]. However, she doesn't seem to still have the injuries (disembowelment via hellhound) she died from.
49	%%* JerkassGods: Osiris.
50	* LamePunReaction: Sam's reaction to Dean saying the ghost car had a [[Film/JamesBond license to kill]].
51	* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Sam thanks Dean for letting Amy go...which he didn't actually do.
52	* SadlyMythtaken: Osiris isn't the judge of the Underworld, he's the king. Anubis, as the Guardian of the Scales, is the one who runs the judging ceremony, the "weighing of the heart". He balances your heart against Ma'at ("truth"), generally represented as a feather. If your heart is heavier than the feather, Ammit the Devourer eats it.
53	* SealedEvilInACan: Osiris can't actually be killed; the only option the boys have is to seal him away for a couple hundred years.
54	* ShoutOut: To ''Series/JudgeJudy'', ''Series/AllyMcBeal'', and ''Series/TheGoodWife''. ''Film/{{Christine}}'' gets the obligatory reference with the ghost car.
55	%%* SurpriseWitness: Jo.
56	* RuleOfThrees: Osiris agrees to only call three witnesses against Dean. However Dean calls for his sentence after the second witness, fearing that Amy Pond will be the third.

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