DEAN IS TURNED INTO HIS 14 YEAR OLD SELF - Looking to get Dean (Jensen Ackles) out of the bunker, Sam (Jared Padalecki) finds a case for him and Dean to investigate - people are disappearing into thin air with only their clothes left behind. Sam and Dean suspect fairies or angels, but the truth turns out to be much more shocking - Hansel (guest star Mark Acheson), from Hansel and Gretel lore, is kidnapping people and turning them into their younger selves to placate the evil witch (guest star Lesley Nicol). Unfortunately, Dean finds this information out the hard way after he becomes Hansel's next victim and reverts to his 14 year old self. Serge Ladouceur directed this episode written by Adam Glass.
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Recap:
Pendleton, Oregon. A bar. Guy gets tossed out. Homeless man is a witness. Drunk guy gets attacked. Leaves a smoking pile of clothes.
MoL HQ. Cain and Mark research. Music montage. Dean trying to figure out any option. Sam knocks on his bedroom door. Got a case. Something is taking people and leaving their clothes. Okay, go check it out. Sam says you haven't left the bunker in a week. You can't live the rest of your life locked up in this room. Charlie forgave you! how about you forgive yourself? This isn't helping you. You need to get back into the game for your own good. You can beat this, Dean. You really believe that? Damn right I do. You also believed in the Easter Bunny until you were 12. Eleven. Eleven and a half. Okay.
They talk to the homeless guy. He smelled flowers. What kind? flowery flowers. He says it's aliens. So, no ghosts, no demons, so, what....little green dudes with a bucket of lube? LOL. They agree to split up. Dean goes in the bar to talk to the locals. Orders something dark and strong at the bar. Asks the bartender about the missing man. He says he had to kick JP out for stealing my tips. Dean drinks the shot. Then rubs his arm. A woman says JP wasn't that bad. Wouldn't buy a car from him, but... I'm Dean. Tina.
Dean and Tina chat over drinks. Share childhood stories about bad parenting and raising themselves. Here's to crappy childhoods. Dean's phone rings. It's Sam. Tina says she should go. Dean answers the phone. JP was 3 days from getting evicted. You got anything? Jack squat. Dean says he's got something. He follows the man following Tina. Hears a scream and sees a flash of light. Finds her clothes. And then behind him....
Dean wakes up as a teenager in a cell. Finds a mirror. Son of a bitch!
Girl in the next room asks his name. It's Tina! Please tell me you know what's going on! This can't be real... He tells her to stay calm. Says he won't let anything happen to her...anything else happen. How are you so calm? Practice. There's another boy there. JP? Yup. Man comes downstairs and unlocks the cell and takes JP away.
Sam goes to the bar. Calls Dean.
Food is delivered. It's a piece of birthday cake.
Bartender has Dean's phone and jacket. Sam slams his face on the bar. Found it by the dumpster!
Dean eats the cake. Tina says it's probably poisoned. Oh, right. Obviously. What do you think they're doing to JP? Nothing good. He looks around in the cell. Beats in the bed frame to get a piece of metal out. He works on the window. She asks what are you? That is a long ass story.
Sam goes outside and looks by the dumpster. Dean's boot. His pistol. There's goo on it. Flowers.
Dean gets one bar off the window. Yahtzee. Man coming! Tina tells him to get out and get help. She'll keep the guy busy. She starts screaming and the man opens the door. Dean gets out.
Sam reading about yarrow. Knock on the door. It's Dean. Hiya, Sammy.
Sam is shocked. Dean grabs stuff. How? No clue. Scarred dude, bright light, and now I look like Bieber. We got any grenades? He's not in a chatty mood. Dean picks up keys a woman drops. She tells Sam your son is so polite, LOL. Dean gets in to drive and moves the seat up, smooshing Sam. So Sam drives. How do you feel being 14? Well, I'm me, but I'm a kid, and it's freaking weird, dude. And I liked a Taylor Swift song. A lot. My voice is weird and I have 9 zits and I have zero control over this - it's up, it's down, it's up, it's-- Sam says I found yarrow, so it's probably a witch. We'll get you changed back and light this up. Dean says the Mark is gone. If we reverse the spell, it'll come back. So, maybe we don't. So you want to stay like this? No, but.... Sam, this is problem solved. Sam says he has a point, kind of, but dude! I know. Dean says he's got a virgin liver, so let's take it for a test drive. Sure. So you can drink again in, like, 7 years. That's not funny. Yes it is.
They get to the house. Dean says let's get Tina first.
Man downstairs. He unlocks a cell.
Dean finds the window still open. Tina? She's not in the cell now. Dean goes in the hole and Sam has to go another way. Dean wanders the basement. Finds an old skull. Behind you! And not there anymore. He grabs Dean. Sam saves him. Dean asks, Where's the girl? Upstairs, alive. Dean asks, What did you do to us? Nothing. I just work for a witch. She is the worst person in the world. Been with her for centuries. Things I've seen her do! She made us hurt people, my sister and I. Tortured me and made me eat poor Gretel's heart. It's Hansel and Gretel. Based on a true story. You can't kill her. You're just men. Sam says we're more than that. We're hunters. Hansel wants to help. Sam says tell me how to turn him back. Hansel says, The hex bag I'm wearing will reverse the spell. Squeeze it and return to your proper age. We waste the witch and I give you the cure. Deal?
Upstairs in the kitchen. The witch says JP didn't have much meat on his bones. Tina's tied up on a chair. Witch says you're too good for soup. Roast you in the oven with a nice apple in your mouth. Hansel and Dean and Sam come in. She says she never made Hansel do anything. Hansel attacks Sam. And now they're weaponless. Now, who's hungry? EWWWWW.
Witch calls Dean scrawny. We need to fatten you up. Children are so delicious. Sam asks why not go after kids? Witch says it's too hard to grab kids. So she takes adults no one will miss. Only way I can eat in piece. Dean asks is it worth it? American children taste like heaven. this is my first visit to your country. Rowena is causing trouble and the Grand Coven asked me to take care of her. Dean and Sam attack. Witch tosses Sam. Hansel beating up Dean. Witch tells Hansel to turn Sam. But Dean has the hex bag. He reverses the spell and knifes Hansel, then goes after the witch and pushes her in the oven. She screams for a long time.
Sam and Dean with Tina outside. Can you turn me back? Dean says the hex bag went up in flames. Sam says we may still reverse it with another spell, though. She says, maybe you don't. I've got 3 ex husbands, $50,000 in debt, and not much else. Maybe I'll do better this time. This is my second chance. Dean asks sure you're going to be alright? She says yes. Sam offers a ride. Dean says give me the keys.
They give her cash and put her on a bus. We'll always have the Royale Hotel, right? LOL. Dean and Sam discuss the Grand Coven. Sam asks is it back? Dean shows his arm. Yep. You saved me and Tina and pulled a Dean Winchester. Thank you. Any time. Sam wishes the Mark was gone, but I wanted you back and you didn't Hulk out, so I'll take the win. As for the rest, we'll figure it out. We always do. Damn right. Let's get out of here. Back in the car. Dean turns on the radio and Taylor Swift plays. He leaves it! LOL. Sam's expression. Shake it off, shake it off....
Next week - A possessed computer. Ghost in the machine?
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