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5'''[[Recap/{{Supernatural}} Recap]] of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''''\
6'''Season 5, Episode 3'''
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8!Free To Be You And Me
9
10->'''Dean:''' We're humans. And when humans want something, really really bad...we lie.
11->'''Castiel:''' Why?
12->'''Dean:''' Because...that's how you become president.
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14Written by Jeremy Carver.
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16Directed by J. Miller Tobin.
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18Air Date: September 24, 2009.
19
20Not sure he trusts himself anymore, Sam decides to give up hunting and live a "normal" life. At night, a vision of his dead girlfriend Jessica visits him and tells him that people can never change despite their efforts.
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22A week earlier, Sam arrives at the Great Plains Motel gets a job as a busboy in a bar and catches the eye of a young waitress. While in Pennsylvania, Dean, intent on stopping the Apocalypse, continues hunting on his own. Castiel appears to him in his motel, [[HoYay startling him]]. Castiel asks him to help find the archangel Raphael, as Castiel believes Raphael knows God's location. Castiel argues that no angel will harm Michael’s vessel, and so Dean is the only one who can help him.
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24Meanwhile, after wondering why a busboy can finish a New York Times Crossword, the waitress Lindsey challenges Sam to a dart game for his life story. Sam wins, and they are distracted by apocalyptic events on the news.
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26Although Cas doesn’t understand the need for deception, Cas and Dean masquerade as FBI agents to question local authorities about a gas station destroyed in blinding white light. Cas keeps telling the truth to the officer who witnessed the event, to Dean’s chagrin. Later, Cas retrieves some holy oil from Jerusalem and tells Dean how difficult the impending confrontation with Raphael will be. Anticipating Cas’s death and realizing that he’s a virgin, Dean declares Cas is not going to ‘’die’’ a virgin.
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28Sam calls Bobby to give him intel on supernatural activity, and Bobby chides him for not working as a hunter as he is the best in the area. A group of hunters arrives at the bar and outs Sam as a hunter, trying to recruit him for a fight. Sam refuses, to their anger. Lindsey, the waitress is intrigued.
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30Dean and Cas visit a brothel and Dean fixes an uncomfortable Cas up with a blond calling herself Chastity. Offscreen, Chastity screams and smacks Cas before anything happens. Cas explains he told the young woman her father did not leave because of her but rather than he hated his job. Dean is amused as they make a run for it.
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32Lindsey talks to Sam, who tells her about leaving hunting. She recognizes he’s a recovering addict and she declares herself three years sober. She says he can be forgiven and change, although she knows nothing about the supernatural elements.
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34Dean and Cas find Raphael's vessel and lure the archangel out with a spell, but are no closer to finding God, as Raphael believes God is dead.
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36After fighting off fellow hunters who wanted him to drink demon blood in order to exorcise some demons, Sam gets another late-night visit from Jessica, who turns out to be Lucifer manipulating him. He says that Nick's body was just Plan B, and that his True Vessel is Sam. He is convinced that, eventually, without any trickery or lies, Sam will agree to be his vessel, although Sam adamantly disagrees.
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38
39!!Body count
40For this episode = 1 human and 1 vampire.
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42For the series so far = At least 326 humans (of which 5 were witches),39 demons, 28 ghosts, 11 vampires, 6 changelings, 4 angels, 3 gods, 3 shapeshifters, 3 zombies, 2 ghouls, 2 werewolves, 2 dogs, 1 crocotta, 1 djinn, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 reaper, 1 rugaru, 1 shtriga, 1 siren, and 1 wendigo.
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44!Tropes
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46* AchillesInHisTent: Sam, for this and the next episode.
47* BadassInANiceSuit: Cas and Dean in their FBI clothes.
48* BigBad: ArchangelRaphael, the archangel who killed Cas in the season 4 finale. Cas wants to find Raphael in order to get whereabouts on God.
49* BigBlackout
50-->'''Dean:''' I thought you were supposed to be impressive. All you do is black out the room?
51-->'''Raphael:''' ''And'' the Eastern Seaboard. ''[DramaticThunder]''
52* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Sam retires to work at some no-name bar and is tracked down by hunters and Lucifer.
53* CannotTellALie: Despite Dean's best efforts, Cas doesn't lie to the police officer. It causes some problems when he starts talking about angels and demons.
54* ContrastMontage: Sam burns his fake [=IDs=] and Dean still uses his; Sam slices up a lemon and Dean slices up a vampire; Sam washes down the bar after work and Dean washes the blood off his car after work.
55* DeadPersonImpersonation: Lucifer appears in [[TalkingInYourDreams Sam's dreams]] as Jess. It's pretty much the guy's MO--he talked to Nick this way, too, [[Recap/SupernaturalS05E01SympathyForTheDevil looking like Nick's dead wife]].
56* DeathGlare: Raphael throws one at Dean after being trapped in the holy fire.
57-->'''Dean:''' Don't look at me, it was his idea.
58-->'''Castiel:''' ...
59* DenOfIniquity: As a direct result of [[UnexpectedVirgin the below]], Dean [[MustNotDieAVirgin takes Cas to a brothel]].
60* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Raphael is not to be trifled with.
61* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Castiel does this by catching and questioning Raphael, the archangel who [[Recap/SupernaturalS04E22LuciferRising previously]] killed him, and later leaving him trapped in holy fire.
62-->'''Raphael:''' Castiel. Do not leave me here. I will find you.
63-->'''Castiel:''' Maybe one day, [[BadAssBoast but today, you're my little bitch]].
64-->'''Dean:''' What he said.
65* DisappearedDad:
66** Chastity.
67-->'''Dean:''' This whole industry runs on absent fathers -- it's the natural order.
68** God probably didn’t disappear because of Castiel, but he, like Chastity, is damaged by his father’s abandonment.
69* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: Dean has no problem to bring Castiel to a brothel despite the fact that Cas is still possessing a fully conscious man. [[spoiler: However, we later learn that Jimmy is dead after Castiel/Jimmy was blown up by Raphael. Whether Dean knew that is anyone's guess.]]
70* DramaticThunder: A staple of Raphael. His presence also causes [[ThunderEqualsDownpour a massive storm]].
71* EmptyShell: Raphael's possession leaves his vessel drooling and in a wheelchair.
72* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: An InUniverse example with Dean laughing over Castiel's antics in the brothel--he admits [[StepfordSmiler he hasn't laughed that much in years]].
73* GodIsDead: [[ArchangelRaphael Raphael]] tells Cas that this is why things have been so bad in the past century.
74-->'''Raphael:''' Do you remember the twentieth century? Think the twenty-first is going any better? Do you think God would have let any of that happen if he were alive?
75* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Dean and Castiel pretend to be FBI agents. Castiel's impersonation...could use some improvement.
76* INeedAFreakingDrink: Cas downs half a glass of beer on meeting the [[ObliviousGuiltSlinging inappropriately-named Chastity]].
77* LastDayToLive: Considering that they're about to try trapping an archangel, Castiel believes that he may die in the attempt and this is his last night alive. [[HilarityEnsues Dean decides to take him to a brothel.]]
78* MirrorScare: Dean turns to wash his coat, looks up, and sees Cas.
79* NonIndicativeName: A prostitute with the entirely inappropriate name of Chastity. She herself might have been invoking this, seeing as she was wearing a virgin-white outfit.
80* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace:
81-->'''Dean:''' Cas, we've talked about this. Personal space.
82-->'''Castiel:''' My apologies. ''[steps back about three inches]''
83* ParentalAbandonment: A recurring theme.
84* ProfessionalSexEd: Dean tries to do this for Castiel, but the attempt is averted when Castiel scares away the prostitute by giving her unsettling revelations about her unhappy childhood.
85* PuppyDogEyes: Castiel's [[ParalyzingFearOfSexuality look of terror]] when facing the prospect of sleeping with a prostitute.
86* ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma: Lindsey thinks this about Sam.
87* ShoutOut: When Sam is scrolling through his phone, you can see the contact names Music/{{Adele}}, [[Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid Butcher, and Cassidy]].
88** When Dean finds out the archangel is named [[ArchangelRaphael Raphael]], he asks Castiel, "You were wasted by a [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Angel]]?"
89* RingOfFire: Rings of holy fire are used to trap angels.
90* SpitefulSpit: The antagonistic hunters force some demon blood on Sam, hoping to activate his psychic powers so he can kill demons for them. They think he's swallowed it, when Sam spits it back out at them.
91* TakeThat: "Eat it, ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''!"
92* TeleportationSickness: [[NoodleIncident Last time]] Cas teleported Dean he "didn't poop for a week".
93* TheReveal: Sam is Lucifer's True Vessel.
94* UnexpectedVirgin: Castiel turns out to be one. Dean is appalled.
95* UnusualEuphemism: "Cloud seeding".
96* WeirdAside: Dean is sure of two things, one of which is that Bert and Ernie are gay.
97* WeWillMeetAgain: Raphael warns Castiel not to leave him trapped in holy fire, as he will find him in future. Castiel's response is filed under BadassBoast.

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