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5	'''[[Recap/{{Supernatural}} Recap]] of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''''\
6	'''Season 3, Episode 15:'''
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8	!Time Is On My Side
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10	->'''Bela:''' Dean, listen, I need help.
11	->'''Dean:''' Sweetheart, we are weeks past help.
12	->'''Bela:''' I know I don't deserve it.
13	->'''Dean:''' You know what, you're right, you don't. But you know what the bitch of the bunch is? If you would have just come to us sooner and asked for help we probably could have taken the Colt and saved you.
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15	Written by Sera Gamble.
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17	Directed by Charles Beeson.
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19	Air Date: May 8, 2008.
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21	After failing to get the name of the demon who holds Dean's contract, Sam gets a call about a man whose kidney was stolen in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie,_Pennsylvania Erie, Pennsylvania]]. Believing they have a zombie, they go to investigate. When they get there, however, they find that the kidney was surgically removed, not torn out. Turns out, they're chasing a doctor who is using the body parts to keep himself alive. While investigating, Dean gets a call from Bobby, who tells them that Bela has resurfaced. Dean wants to go after her, but Sam insists that they stay and investigate. As it turns out, Sam planned this in advance; Dr. Benton holds the secret of immortality, and Sam wants to use it on Dean. If he can't die, he can't go to Hell. Dean doesn't like the idea as much as Sam, and takes off after Bela.
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23	Dean manages to dig up some information on Bela's past and tracks her down in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan%2C_Vermont Canaan, Vermont]]. Unfortunately, she doesn't have the Colt anymore. Sam finds Benton's hideout, saves a victim, and runs over the good doctor. It doesn't take. He does, however, find Benton's book, complete with his secret to immortality. Unfortunately, before Sam can tell Dean his plan, he's jumped by Benton, tied up in the basement, and starts getting his eyes pulled out. Dean make a very well-timed entrance, and they regain the upper hand.
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25	Bela tracks down Sam and Dean and tries to kill them; turns out that she made her own deal with a demon, and her time is up. She stole the Colt to get out of it, but the demon who holds her contract, Lilith, changed the deal and demanded that she also kill Sam. The brothers had figured this out beforehand and got away, leaving Bela defenseless in their empty motel room as she hears hellhounds approaching.
26
27	!!Body count
28	For this episode = 4 humans.
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30	For the series so far = At least 254 humans (of which 3 were witches), 9 demons, 19 ghosts, 10 vampires, 6 changelings, 3 gods, 2 shapeshifters, 2 werewolves, 1 crocotta, 1 djinn, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 shtriga, 1 wendigo, 1 zombie.
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32	!Tropes
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35	* AlasPoorVillain: Loathsome though she was, Bela's horrific backstory and even more horrific fate was heart-breaking.
36	* AlchemyIsMagic: Dr. Benton's secret to immortality.
37	* AnachronismStew: Dr. Benton uses 19th century medical technology.
38	* AndIMustScream: Dean and Sam face the immortal Dr. Benton. Unable to kill him, they bury him alive to be trapped underground forever.
39	* AndShowItToYou: Heart Guy lives long enough to see his heart being pulled out of his chest before dying.
40	* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering:
41	-->'''Sam:''' Remember that thing in the paper the other day?
42	-->'''Dean:''' Stripper suffocates dude with thighs?
43	-->'''Sam:''' The other thing.
44	* AutopsySnackTime: Dean is chowing down on a burger while Sam is talking about maggots.
45	-->'''Sam:''' Lost your appetite yet?
46	-->'''Dean:''' ''[looks a bit sick, then says to burger]'' Oh, baby, I can't stay mad at you.
47	* BigDamnHeroes: Dean saving Sam from getting his eyeballs pulled out by Dr. Benton.
48	* BlackEyesOfEvil: The demon at the beginning of the episode.
49	* BlatantLies: This won't hurt a bit.
50	* BuriedAlive: Have fun with that immortality, doc...
51	* CarFu: When Sam runs Benton over. It doesn't kill him, but it does make him need more "parts"...
52	* ConsummateLiar: Right after we see a flashback showing that Bela killed her parents because she was a sexual abuse victim, adult Bela just smiles in the face of Dean's pistol and says her parents were wonderful and she just killed them for the money.
53	* ContinuityNod: Sam and Dean trick Bela into their motel room and call the room phone to gloat about it over the phone, just as Bela had done to them in [[Recap/SupernaturalS03E12JusInBello "Jus in Bello" (S03, E12)]].
54	* CoolOldGuy: Rufus.
55	* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Dean points out that if Bela had only asked for their help instead of stealing the Colt, they'd both have a chance of surviving.
56	* CreepyBasement: Where Doc Benton brings his kidnap victims, putting them in restraints, removing their body parts, and messily patching them up.
57	* CruelMercy: Rather than shoot her dead himself, Dean leaves Bela alive, knowing [[DraggedOffToHell what will happen to her]].
58	* DealWithTheDevil: Bela made one ten years ago that got her parents killed in a car "accident". She made another one to get out of her first, by agreeing to steal the Colt, but the demons double-cross her once she does that and make her try to kill Sam. She doesn't succeed.
59	* DownerEnding: Bela's fate is horrific, and it's looking more and more like Dean will share that fate.
60	* DraggedOffToHell: It is very strongly implied that, right after the episode ends, Bela is torn apart by hellhounds and her soul is dragged off to {{Hell}}.
61	* EveryoneHasStandards: Dean might be desperate to find a way out of his deal but he isn't so desperate that he will willingly turn himself into a monster like Dr. Benton to save his own skin. And while he hates Bela, if she had been honest with them and asked for help, he would have tried to save her.
62	* EyeScream: Benton tries to pop Sam's eyes out ([[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon with a serrated melon baller]]) to replace his own. [[{{Squick}} UGH.]] Thank ''God'' Dean shows up [[JustInTime when he does]]!
63	* FateWorseThanDeath: For both Dr. Benton and Bela. Since they can't just kill him and finish him off for good like John tried, Sam and Dean decide that the only way to keep Dr. Benton from just coming back is to bury him underground in a chained-up refrigerator. Forever. For the latter, her deal with Lilith is up, and as the episode ends, hellhounds are approaching her position....
64	* {{Flashback}}: Bela gets a couple that give us a [[AbusiveParents fleeting]] [[RapeAsBackstory impression]] [[ParentalIncest of]] [[FreudianExcuse why]] she made her {{deal\|WithTheDevil}}.
65	* GoryDiscretionShot: Viewers get front-row seats to Dr. Benton removing a jogger's heart. The sounds of him cutting and breaking ribs leading up to it are just as hard on the ears.
66	%%* HandOfDeath
67	* ImmortalityImmorality: Serial organ thief Dr. Benton.
68	%%* ImmuneToBullets
69	%%* InstantSedation
70	* KilledOffForReal: Bela, most likely.
71	* LoopholeAbuse: Sam's reasoning behind using Benton's research to make Dean immortal. Dean needs to die in order for his soul to go to Hell, if he can never die then he'll never go to Hell. When Dean points out that Sam will die if Dean tries to screw with the deal then he says that he'll make himself immortal too. At the very least Sam thinks that the procedure will give them time to think of a better solution. [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Dean is having none of it.]]
72	* MadDoctor: Now with 30% more immortality!
73	* MadScientistLaboratory: The {{zeerust}} look is justified given the Doctor's preference for his own era's technology.
74	* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Bela's parents died in a car crash, suspected to be caused by a severed brake-line.
75	* MortalityPhobia: A Mad Scientist/Alchemist went to length to take others' organs to prolong his own life. Though a subversion in that it was more to be comfortable than immortal, but Sam and Dean provide him a FateWorseThanDeath to truly punish him.
76	* MovingTheGoalposts: Lilith told Bela to steal the Colt from the Winchesters and give it to her if she wanted to save herself from her deal. Bela did, so she did. Lilith then changed the exact terms of their deal so that Bela also had to kill Sam if she wanted to save herself from her deal. Bela did, so she tried, but the boys got away and Bela died instead.
77	* NecessarilyEvil: Benton claims this, saying he only kills people to survive.
78	* NotQuiteDead: John Winchester previously tangled with the good doctor and cut out his heart, thinking that'd kill him. It didn't.
79	* NothingIsScarier: Bela's trip to Hell isn't shown on-screen; she's in the motel room alone, talks to Dean before he hangs up on her, sobs...then the clock strikes midnight and she hears howling...she gets up, stares out the window, we hear a dog snarling...and she's never seen again.
80	* NotWorthKilling: Dean can't bring himself to shoot Bela in cold blood. Subverted when it's revealed he knows she's doomed anyway.
81	* OrganTheft: When pieces wear out, they have to be replaced...
82	* OverNineThousand: Kidney Guy describes his organ removal as "the worst pain you could possibly imagine, only worse."
83	%%* PunkInTheTrunk
84	* RedEyesTakeWarning: The [[CreepyChild little girl]] in Bela's flashback, meaning she's actually a crossroads demon.
85	* RevengeByProxy: Dr. Benton's monologue to Sam reeks of this, with regards to Papa Winchester.
86	* SarcasmMode: The coroner and the missing-kidney victim aren't very impressed by Sam and Dean's questions.
87	-->'''Kidney Guy:''' Yeah...there is one thing...you know what I remember? ''Getting my kidney cut out of my body!''
88	* SeeYouInHell: Dean's last words to Bela.
89	** Likewise, the demon Sam and Dean torture at the start of the episode, who knows Dean's time is running out.
90	-->'''Demon:''' Go ahead. Send me back to Hell. Because when you do, I'll be waiting for ya. With a few pals who are dying for a meet-and-greet with Dean Winchester.
91	* ShoutOut:
92	** "My man [[Series/CSIMiami Dave Caruso]] will be stoked to hear it."
93	** [[ComicBook/TheWalkingDead The Walking Dead]]
94	** [[Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman Dr. Quinn, Zombie Woman]]
95	* SleepingDummy: Instead of pillows, Sam and Dean use blow-up sex dolls!
96	* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Doc Benton's victims-to-be.
97	* TakingYouWithMe: Attempted. Bela tells Dean that Lilith has his contract so that he'll go try to kill Lilith.
98	* TemptingFate: Nurse: "Don't you worry, there's nothing I haven't seen." Patient's insides fall out.
99	* TitledAfterTheSong: By Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}.
100	* TortureAlwaysWorks: {{Subverted\|Trope}}; Sam and Dean threaten their captive demon with torture and go through with it, but he doesn't care because he's more afraid of the torture the demon holding Dean's contract would put him through if he did talk.
101	* TraumaSwing: Teenage Bela.
102	* VillainsDyingGrace: One way of looking at Bela giving Dean Lilith's name is that she's hoping that he'll be able to use the information to kill Lilith and save himself.
103	* VillainousBreakdown: Both Doc Benton and Bela get one.
104	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Dean's response to Sam's plan has shades of this.
105	* YourMom: Dean is torturing a demon with holy water.
106	-->'''Dean:''' I'M GONNA ASK YOU ONE LAST TIME! WHO HOLDS MY CONTRACT?
107	-->''[Demon suddenly has BlackEyesOfEvil and a nasty smile]''
108	-->'''Demon:''' Your mother. Yeah, she showed it to me right before I bent her over.

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