Supernatural Reca S9E07: Bad Boys

A little game of hide and seek seems harmless enough, but when the young boys hide out in a barn, hiding from another boy, their caretaker gets skewered.

Sammy looks for Kevin with no luck, but finds a buzzing cell phone. A call for D-Dogg gets Dean on the move. Looks like Dean has been hiding secrets from Sammy for a long time. As a teen he was in a boys home for awhile, and though it’s not a big deal their pops felt the need to hide it from Sammy anyways. Something tells me that it was more than just Dean losing some cash that prompted dear old Dad to hide the truth from Sam. Can we finally get Jeffrey Dean Morgan back? For a day, and arc, whatever, I’m ready to see the Senior Winchester back any way possible.

The boys head to the boys home, and Dean has a little flashback. Dean stole some groceries, and Dad decided not to bail him out, and he ended up at Coleman’s house, my favorite General Hospital bartender, I mean Sonny. Young Dean managed to get a good hit on the deputy, but he was caught none the less. Sonny wonders about all of the bruises on Dean, but although Dean tells him the truth, Sonny doesn’t quite believe him. The boy is spouting off about werewolves, he’s lucky that Sonny doesn’t have him committed. The man seems nice enough, but he’s in need of help.

Sonny’s never been a believer in the Supernatural, but too many strange occurrences have happened, and Dean is the only one he thought of for help. The boys split up to give the place a once over. Sam gets to see a glimpse into the past, and gets a little ghostly disturbance. He finds a lady praying, Ruth, praying for the ghost who haunts the farm to leave.

In the barn, Dean hunts for Casper, and finds a kid fighting monsters. It’s harmless, Timmy is playing with his toys, and Dean instantly connects with Timmy. That is totally Jensen, he’ s really good at getting on level with kids, they adore him. Timmy tells him that Jack was angry when he died, and it was cold.

The woman opens up to Sam about another incident that happened. Howard killed his wife, and swore revenge on Jack. She thinks that he finally got it. Sounds like Sam and Dean have some salting and burning to do.

The Boys do a little digging, some salting, and burning. Out of dodge they get, but they should know by now no case is ever that easy. Someone else is about to bite the dust. And this time, it’s Ruth. She gets suffocated in the bath and Sonny is powerless to save her.

Dean is trying to eye sex the waitress, but its pancakes that they’re really after. Sonny brought him there long ago. Seems that Dean was quite a good kid, even though he was in a bit of trouble. Sonny wonders just what type of lifestyle Dean was involved in, from devil worshipping to gangs, and tries to help him out. But it isn’t the type of life that he could walk away from. Seems the waitress is also a blast from Dean’s past, she doesn’t quite remember him, but he definitely remembers her. She scurries away from the table after crushing Dean’s heart, and he’s ready to run without his pancakes.

Sonny calls the boys back, and they get the bad news. Dean goes to find the kids and see what happened, and finds two of the boys picking on Timmy. The bullies tell him that they weren’t at the house when Ruth died, but that she was a hard ass and bible thumper. Hmmm, everyone involved was not so nice to someone, my guess is Timmy is the reason somehow. Dean scares the two boys off, and tells Timmy to stick up for himself and the bullies will leave him alone.

Sam gets to see the “hall of fame,” and another puzzle piece of Dean’s past falls into place. Robin comes with her guitar while the two bully boys do a little yard work, my guess is something is about to happen to one of them. And right on cue, the lawn mower starts making a weird sound. One starts poking around in the blades as Timmy watches from a window, and surprise, surprise he gets his hand chopped off, while some old lady hand gently grabs Timmy’s shoulder. I’m not even a little surprised.

The boy will live, but he’ll need a bunch of stitches. Sam concludes that Timmy is the reason for the attacks. He was found abandoned, and they have no leads on where he came from, but they think he’s the one that is haunted. The boys split up to figure out how to rid him of his ghosts. How Insidious! Is it just protecting him, or does it want in him? Sam searches for clues in the barn, and Dean takes the house, finding himself in another flashback as he watches Robin strum the guitar.

Young Dean doesn’t want the life his father leads, and he and Robin share their woes of obligations. She want to be a photographer, and Dean, a mechanic. He gets his first kiss, the first of many. In the present, Robin holds a grudge. She did remember him. Between kisses, promises of staying, he broke her heart, but it doesn’t matter now. Dean tries to get her out, but it’s too late. Timmy apologizes, telling them that he cannot stop it. It gets a little crazy, and Dean puts Robin in a salt circle. Sam arrives, and Timmy tells them of his mother’s death. She died in a fire, saving him, but she got him out in time, and when he cried for her, she came. And she’s protected her since, whether he’s wanted her to or not. Sam tries for the action figure that Timmy carries, but the ghost throws him. Dean manages to get it, and set it on fire, but that’s not the object that is anchoring her, its Timmy.

Dean and Sammy don’t want to hurt Timmy, but they may not have a choice. Robin makes a run for it, and Dean goes after her, the ghost goes after Dean, but leaves him when she hears Sam talking to Timmy. Its all up to Timmy, he has to let her go. Dean tells him, that sometimes you have to let go of the ones you love to save them, that keeping her there is making her crazy. Timmy mans up to save his mother’s spirit. He tells her he’ll be okay, and she goes in peace. Timmy loses his mother a second time, and takes comfort in Dean’s arms.

Robin finally finds out what the “family business” was. They've both embraced their family legacies, and it looks good on them. Sonny says goodbye to Dean, sad to see him go, and the boys have a little heart to heart. Dean admits that they got lucky with the ghost and Sam asks Dean why he left, when clearly it was the best time of his life. Dean claims that it never felt right, that it wasn't him.

Young Dean prepared to take Robin to the dance, when his dad came for him with a job. Sonny offered to stick his neck out for him, to fight for him to stay knowing how much of a change it had been for Dean, but Dean seeing Sammy in the car, decides to leave it all behind. Poor Dean, if only Sam knew how much he’d sacrificed for him. And maybe he does, Sam thanks Dean for always having his back, and Dean brushes it off as they drive up, while I brush away that little tear that may or may not have fallen.