Episode Review - Sex and Violence
Supernatural Episode 414
Though a horror show at its core, Supernatural finds its dramatic heart in the often tumultuous relationship between the show's protagonists, Sam and Dean Winchester. In "Sex and Violence" that relationship is stretched to its limit and Sam's true feelings about Dean's new role as Earth's savior are revealed.
Supernatural - "Sex and Violence" starring Jared Padalecki
The brothers, posing as FBI agents, set off to investigate a small town with a string of murders in which happily married husbands murder their wives. When the talk to the most recent murderer, he claims to have fallen in love with a stripper who told him they could be together if his wife was out of the picture.
Sam talks to the local doctor who performed the toxicology exams on the men (an attractive woman who takes a shine to Sam), and she comes up with an interesting fact: all men had high levels of oxytocin, a chemical produced during sex that creates a heightened level of attraction.
After the usual off-screen call to Bobby for information, they have their culprit: a siren, capable of reading a man's mind and becoming whatever they desire most. They head to the strip joint where the siren supposedly works, but since it can look like anyone, they have no chance of finding it. As they search, another man is led out of the club by a beautiful woman, who has sex with him before telling him to kill his mother.
Sam and Dean learn from Bobby (this time on-screen) that the man must be infected by the Siren, and tells them he's working out a way to kill it. They head back to talk to the doctor, and run into an FBI agent. He challenges their credentials, but they give him Bobby's number and he gets chewed out for wasting the "assistant director"'s time. Though Dean wants to ditch the agent, Sam suggests that Dean and the agent work together while he and the hot doctor work things out on their end. Dean and the agent head to the strip club, where Dean learns the agent is actually a cool guy.
Sam and the doctor have sex, and Dean leans via the FBI agent that the same flowers on her desk have been found at each crime scene. Dean looks into the doctor and finds she's new in town and has a dead ex-husband. Sam says he's fine, but Dean calls Bobby for help before calling the FBI agent to help him hunt down the siren. In a surprise twist, the agent turns out to be the siren, and after sharing a flask with Dean, tells him the drug is transmitted via saliva. Back at the motel, Dean holds Sam while the siren infects him before turning the brothers loose on other another. Before they can kill each other, Bobby shows up, stabs Dean, then throws the knife at the siren, killing it by infecting it with its own poison.
The Last Word on "Sex and Violence" Starring Jensen Ackles
This was a classic "red herring" episode, where the audience is led to assume the wrong person is the villain, and just like so many "Scooby-Doo" episodes, only two possible villains are presented. To actually see Bobby is nice, and viewers get a hint as to where the season is going with Sam telling Dean he is too weak to save mankind, and that he, not Dean, can stop Lilith, but only if he does it alone. A fairly middle-of-the-road episode, but the look on Dean's face when he realizes he finally gets to work a job that entails strippers is priceless.
Sam and Dean Winchester
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