Supernatural: Trial and Terror

The episode opens with a black sedan chasing a terrified man down a deserted street. Honestly, he makes for a pretty easy target just running straight ahead like that. I mean, he passed a dozen street lamp poles he might have ducked behind. Oh well, he eventually leaps into his apartment building doorway, races up to the 12 floor, and locks himself behind his steel reinforced apartment door. Safe!

Vroom vrom. Okay, who left the Buick LeSabre in the living room? The guy gets squashed against the wall.

Cut to Sam and Dean. With Leviathans and Lucifer off their backs, for now at least, the Winchester brothers are back on their day job, which means pulling out their fake FBI badges and investigating weird, possibly supernatural crime scenes. They've read about the 12th floor apartment hit and run. Sure enough, it sets off their ectoplasm Geiger counter.

The brothers assume it's just a standard aggrieved ghost haunting, so they go burn some bones in a cemetery like they usually do. (Honestly, their job sucks!)

But the next night a reformed dog-fight promoter is mauled to death by a ghost dog. In this case, like Dean, I too think the bastard deserved it. (Look out Michael Vick, ghost dog on the prowl.)

The brothers conveniently find some red dirt at each of the crime scenes and somehow that's enough to send them out to one specific Apple orchard farm just out of town. Must be some pretty damn special dirt!

On the way, they almost run over a terrified old guy, a parolee who killed some people in an armed robbery 30 years ago. He claims he was kidnapped from a local bar and put on trial at some barn where he was sentenced to death by a bald guy wearing guyliner.

While Sam checks out the barn, Dean visits the tavern (a bit too obvious) where all the other vicitims were abducted. Like a typical guy he pours his heart out to the hot female bartender (like I said, a typical guy). And before you can say habeas corpus he is transported to the barn, all chained up like "Cyrus the damn Virus"of ConAir.

I don't know, this whole barn thing seems very low rent to me. Maybe they couldn't afford to rent out a courthouse and the had the barn set left over from Smallville? That's about the only way to explain it.

The Judge, the Jury and the Executioner

Apparently Osiris (Faran Tahir), the Egyptian God of Agriculture Justice, suffering from a Law and Order marathon overdose, has taken it into his head to cleanse the world of the guilty.

He stalks local bars and eavesdrops on people crying to their bartenders. Once he zeros in on someone wracked with guilt, he abducts them to this barn and subjects them to Vigilante Justice. And Dean is his new accused. I really think Osiris needs a new hobby, surely a powerful Egyptian God can find better things to do.

The Lawyer

Those who have been following the series since its advent know that Sam was a pre-law student before he joined Dean in the Family Business. So when Dean’s life is on trial, he steps in as defense counsel. And like a good wannabe lawyer who’s watched Boston Legal one too many times, he does everything in his power to save his client, including quoting from The Good Wife.

"'Objection to witnesses being called without prior notice.' I saw that on The Good Wife."