What Is and What Should Never Beby Rachel
Night. Dean is driving when Sam calls to report from their hotel that the police are cruising by; luckily they haven’t spotted him. Dean is checking out a series of disappearances and Sam has figured out that it’s a Djinn hiding out in ruins.
Dean goes back to check out an abandoned place. The Djinn attacks him and then prepares to “feed” on him by touching his forehead and he passes out.
He wakes up in bed with a naked woman next to him. The television is still on, showing a film. He looks around to finds himself in a strange house. He calls Sam and starts talking about the Djinn, but Sam appears to have no idea what he’s talking about and dismisses it as drunk-dialling. When Sam hangs up Dean talks briefly to the woman, Carmen, who clearly knows who he is.
He then discovers he’s in Lawrence, Kansas, and goes to their house to see… his mother Mary. He quickly confirms it’s really her and asks if there was ever a fire in the house, but there never was. Dean spots a photo of his father, holding a softball bat. Mary reveals John died in his sleep of a stroke.
He insists on staying with her at the house, he falls asleep, when he wakes up everything is still there.
Dean goes to the college to get information about Djinns from a professor. He reveals that they have godlike power and Dean wonders why they’re evil. The professor asks if he's been drinking as he is rambling on as though Djinns are real.
As he goes out to his car he spots a woman in a white dress who is watching him intently. He approaches her but after a car almost hits him, she disappears into thin air.
Dean goes back to “home” to eat and Mary wonders why he isn’t working at the garage. He quickly covers, saying he has the day off, then something catches his eye. He asks his mom if he wants her to mow the lawn, she tells him to carry on if that's what he wants to do. He mows the lawn for the first time ever, waves cheerily at the neighbour then when he's done settles on the step with a beer.
Sam arrives in a stylish car with his now-living girlfriend Jessica. Sam’s still going to law school and then reveals that it’s Mary’s birthday.
They go out that evening to a fancy restaurant and while Dean reacquaints himself with Carmen, Sam announces he and Jessica are engaged. Dean notices the same woman earlier but when he approaches her she vanishes. The rest of his family watch him curiously.
Back at the house, Dean shrugs off Sam’s concerns about what happened in the restaurant, then suggests they go off to celebrate. Sam talks to him in private and asks what’s going on with him why is he calling him “Sammy” all of a sudden. He tells Dean they haven’t talked in years and Dean’s been a jerk to him the last few years. Sam leaves but is clearly uncomfortable with the “new” Dean.
Later Dean and Carmen talk and Dean resolves to make up with everyone, he tries to explain that he’s been given a second chance. He kisses her and things become somewhat heated but then Carmen says she has to go to work, she's a nurse. Carmen heads out to work so Dean watches TV and sees on the news that the crash he and Sam stopped now took place. With more research he discovers all the other killings he and Sam stopped over the years actually occurred.
He spots the mysterious woman again in his bedroom, follows her in, and finds corpses hanging in the closet. The woman, now bleeding, briefly confronts him and then disappears.
Dean goes to John’s grave and wonders why he has to sacrifice his newfound happiness, Sam’s marriage, Mary’s life, to be a hero. He doesn’t get an answer and leaves. He goes to their house and in a scene similar to "Pilot", Sam catches him going after the silver in the china cabinet. Dean gives him a story about owing a bookie money then apologies, he says lives are at stake, and leaves with the silver.
He is about to drive away when Sam climbs in, he insists on going with him and they take off. En-route, Sam spots a brown paper bag and asks what is in it, Dean tells him he doesn't want to know but Sam opens it anyway. It's a jar of lamb’s blood. Dean needs the blood and the silver knife to kill the Djinn.
He tries to explain to Sam the whole supernatural background of the world. When Sam tries to call for help, Dean tosses the cell phone out the window and tells him to sit tight.
They arrive at the ruins where he encountered the Djinn and they go inside. They find the Djinn’s victims strung up, just like the ones in the closet, in various states of decomposition and hooked up to IV bags. The woman Dean saw earlier is one of the victims, still barely alive.
The Djinn comes in and they hide as it confronts the woman. It puts her back to sleep then feeds on her blood. Sam makes a noise and it goes to investigate but doesn’t find them.
Dean realises it just makes people think it’s granted their wishes, but they’re actually in a coma. Dean then realises he’s in a coma as well.
Sam tries to get him to leave and Dean realizes he’s not real either. Dean works out that if he kills himself it’ll bring him out of it; Sam tries to talk him out of it. When that doesn’t work, Mary, Carmen , and Jessica appear as well and try to convince him to stop and enjoy the fantasy. Dean considers it… then stabs himself.
Dean wakes up in the ruins, strung up, with Sam trying to free him. The Djinn comes after Sam and knocks him over, then prepares to knock him out as well. Dean manages to get loose and kill the Djinn just in time. The girl is still alive and they free her.
Later at their hotel room, they confirm the girl is in good condition. Dean is reading a magazine and spots "Carmen" in an advert for beer. Dean talks about what he saw in his fantasy. Sam admits he’s glad they get along in real life, and Dean admits he wanted to stay and wonders if it’s all worth it. Sam tells him that it is.
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