The Kansas song "Carry on my Wayward son" seemed that it was specially meant for "Supernatural". It's considered throughout the series to be its unofficial soundtrack. The recap takes us through the highlights of the past 20 episodes in great harmony with the magnificent track.
After the Winchesters get their grip on the daemon killing Colt, Meg murders Caleb and Pastor Jim (the Winchesters strongest allies, and probably the most stable characters the boys had known growing up) and she threatens John that she will keep on killing all their acquaintances if they don't hand her the gun.
Meanwhile John shares the information he gathered the past year with the boys. He is able to find a pattern of omens that take place before THE Daemon attacks. John reveals that THE Daemon goes after families with six month old infants just like Sam was when THE Daemon attacked their family. Sam is devastated to know that his mother's and Jessica's death was all because of him, only for Dean to comfort him saying that he can't think that it was his fault. According to John THE Daemon is attacking a town called "Salvation" next, so they have to gather information about all the families with six month infants. However, Sam gets another premonition and is able to locate the family. When they get Meg's threatening call, John decides to hand her a fake colt to buy time for the boys to use the real one on THE Daemon. But Meg and her escort find out that the Colt John gave to them is a fake and John ends up being captured by them. At the same time, Sam misses the shot trying to kill THE Daemon, but they arrive just in time to save the family with Dean carrying the baby out of the fire just like he did 22 years ago with Sam.
There are some important parts in this episode:
1- It was nice to see Sam respecting John's grieve over Pastor Jim and quietly following his orders.
2- When John was angry at Dean for not telling him about Sam's nightmares, Dean gets furious at John, expressing his anger that John continued to ignore their calls. Which is interesting, John's reaction to Sam's defying attitude is very different from his attitude towards Dean's same action. Dean has never defied John before but now John can see that his sons are adults now and that Dean proved to be very reliable for the past year more than he ever expected, so as surprised as he towards Dean's new challenging nature, he is more willing to confess being wrong.
3- When Sam was trying to give Dean a farewell speech just in case anything goes wrong, He tells Dean how much he means to him and that he could always count on him no matter what. But Dean refuses to listen to that saying that nobody is going to die except THE Daemon.
4- When Sam tries to go into the burning house to kill THE Daemon, Dean stops him from getting himself killed. Dean is more concerned about the safety of Sam than just getting revenge. He is more willing to let THE Daemon go than let his brother sacrifice himself. He is the one that could make the right decision to keep his family safe especially when John and Sam are caught in their vengeful dilemma.
"Salvation" is a solid episode which leaves the viewer carving for the finale.
After the Winchesters get their grip on the daemon killing Colt, Meg murders Caleb and Pastor Jim (the Winchesters strongest allies, and probably the most stable characters the boys had known growing up) and she threatens John that she will keep on killing all their acquaintances if they don't hand her the gun.
Meanwhile John shares the information he gathered the past year with the boys. He is able to find a pattern of omens that take place before THE Daemon attacks. John reveals that THE Daemon goes after families with six month old infants just like Sam was when THE Daemon attacked their family. Sam is devastated to know that his mother's and Jessica's death was all because of him, only for Dean to comfort him saying that he can't think that it was his fault. According to John THE Daemon is attacking a town called "Salvation" next, so they have to gather information about all the families with six month infants. However, Sam gets another premonition and is able to locate the family. When they get Meg's threatening call, John decides to hand her a fake colt to buy time for the boys to use the real one on THE Daemon. But Meg and her escort find out that the Colt John gave to them is a fake and John ends up being captured by them. At the same time, Sam misses the shot trying to kill THE Daemon, but they arrive just in time to save the family with Dean carrying the baby out of the fire just like he did 22 years ago with Sam.
There are some important parts in this episode:
1- It was nice to see Sam respecting John's grieve over Pastor Jim and quietly following his orders.
2- When John was angry at Dean for not telling him about Sam's nightmares, Dean gets furious at John, expressing his anger that John continued to ignore their calls. Which is interesting, John's reaction to Sam's defying attitude is very different from his attitude towards Dean's same action. Dean has never defied John before but now John can see that his sons are adults now and that Dean proved to be very reliable for the past year more than he ever expected, so as surprised as he towards Dean's new challenging nature, he is more willing to confess being wrong.
3- When Sam was trying to give Dean a farewell speech just in case anything goes wrong, He tells Dean how much he means to him and that he could always count on him no matter what. But Dean refuses to listen to that saying that nobody is going to die except THE Daemon.
4- When Sam tries to go into the burning house to kill THE Daemon, Dean stops him from getting himself killed. Dean is more concerned about the safety of Sam than just getting revenge. He is more willing to let THE Daemon go than let his brother sacrifice himself. He is the one that could make the right decision to keep his family safe especially when John and Sam are caught in their vengeful dilemma.
"Salvation" is a solid episode which leaves the viewer carving for the finale.