Recap of Supernatural
Season 6, Episode 2
Two And A Half Men
Lisa: No offense, but if you don't leave, I will shoot you.
Written by Adam Glass.
Directed by John Showalter.
Air Date: October 1, 2010.
Sam asks Dean for help after finding a baby at the scene of its parents' murder. Dean becomes angry when he learns that his grandfather, Samuel, decided to raise the child as a hunter.
Body count
For this episode = 8 humans and 1 shapeshifter.For the series so far = At least 418 humans (of which 6 were witches), 73 demons, 33 ghosts, 19 zombies, 13 gods, 11 vampires, 10 angels, 9 hellhounds, 6 changelings, 4 shapeshifters, 3 djinn, 2 ghouls, 2 werewolves, 2 dogs, 1 crocotta, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 reaper, 1 rugaru, 1 shtriga, 1 siren, 1 wendigo, 1 whore of Babylon, and 1 wraith.
Tropes
- Bed Trick: One survivor of the shapeshifter attacks was a husband who'd moved out because his wife cheated on him, but she genuinely thought she'd been with him and the baby was his.
- Big Bad: The Alpha Shapeshifter.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The Alpha effortlessly kills three hunters.
- Gender Bender: "It's a boy. Sometimes."
- Everyone Has Standards: After an initial sweep of the crime scene, Sam finds nothing supernatural and says they should just leave it. Samuel rebuffs this by pointing out that even if it isn’t a monster, someone is kidnapping babies and doing who-knows-what to them, meaning they should investigate it anyway.
- Half-Human Hybrid
- He's Back!: The moment Dean pulls the cover off the Impala, you know he's back in the game.
- Neck Snap: How the Alpha kills Mark Campbell.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: The hunters throw all they can at the Alpha and it simply shakes it off.
- Oh, Crap!
- Parents for a Day
- Shout-Out: To the X-Men.
- Sadistic Choice: Dean has to choose between staying with Lisa and putting her and Ben in danger or abandoning them to keep them safe, but not being able to see them. Lisa suggests he continues fighting with Sam, and go home whenever he gets a chance.
- Wham Shot: The shapeshifter skin in the baby's crib followed immediately by the baby's skin going from white to black.
