in my time of dying

• sam prepared to shoot demon for family
• dean finds own body in hospital
• "you look good...considering"
• "and his two loving sons"
• "find some hoodoo priest and lay some mojo on him" (dean said earlier!)
• sam now cares more about dean than hunting the demon
• "if there's only one working part, that's enough. we're not just going to give up on..."
• john can never seem to give dean what he needs
• "i've given everything i've ever had"
• even as a ghost dean tries to mediate his family
• "dude, i full on swayze-d that mother"
• sam watching his brother die
• "don't worry, sammy, i'm not going anywhere"
• sam buys oujia board
• "god, i feel like i'm at a slumber party"
• "it hasn't been the same without you, dean"
• even dead, dean keeps hunting
• "thanks for not giving up on me, sammy"
• "dean, you gotta hold on. you can't go man, not now. we were just starting to be brothers again"
• "today's your lucky day, kid!"
• dean wakes up!
• john's farewell speech
• john's words and love for dean
• how young and helpless dean manages to look in this scene
• coffee cup slow-motion splash

everybody loves a clown

• burning john's body; sam crying, dean lets one tear fall
• fixing impala
• "i wanna lay my head gently on your shoulder. we can cry, and hug, and maybe even slow dance"
• sam mad at dean for not being hurt
• "feel like a frigging soccer mom"
• ROADHOUSE
• ASH!
• "you've gotta be kidding me, this guy's no genius. he's a lynyrd skynyrd roadie"
• "all business up front, party in the back"
• meaningful glances
• oh dean and social awkwardness
• "we don't want regular"
• dean doesn't want sam to be dad's solider
• "i can't believe we keep talking about clowns"
• heart to heart while walking
• "i swear the next person who asks me if i'm okay, i'm gonna start throwing punches"
• flying knives
• "uh, i've gotta go. over there. right now"
• "m.i.t. before i got bounced for...fighting"
• sam's speech over his grief for john
• DEAN SMASH IMPALA
• dean is broken

bloodlust

• driving, in general
• "got my car, got a case. things are looking up"
• "i'm new"
• think on your feet, dean
• silence of the lambs reference
• fighting over who looks in the mouth
• "well this changes things" ... "you think?"
• sam and dean both attack gordon
• decapitation with power tools
• sam and dean gaze
• "he's the only one who gets to call me that"
• moral sammy
• dean talks to/about sam like they're married
• at age sixteen, dean became a solider
• "can't talk about this to sammy, gotta keep my game face on. but, truth is, i'm not handling it very well"
• dean keeps saying "sammy"
• sam understands dean
• PUNCH
• genius memory, sam
• "you're good. you're a monster pain in the ass, but you're good"
• dean trusts sam
• dean could never imagine killing sam, even if he became evil - FORESHADOWING
• hair-trigger dean for sam
• dean fight scenes
• slams gordon's head into wall
• "okay, i'm good now. we can go"
• "sam? clock me one"
• dean considers morals
• "guess i might have to stick around to be a pain in the ass, then" ... "thanks"
• and dean looks off into the sunrise

children shouldn't play with dead things

• dean feels more comfortable in the presence of sam
• how sam and dean deal with grief differently
• double talk; bitchface
• it's like an episode of foreshadowing, foreshadowing everywhere
• sam just wants to help dean
• how sam watches porn
• "working my imaginary case"
• dean defensive over his hunting abilities
• dean steals girl's diary
• "burn the bones"
• "since when are you afraid to get dirty, huh?"
• "there are people i would do anything to bring back...what's dead should stay dead" (then throw it all out the window in 2x21, dean)
• sam is so concerned about dean
• "and now i'm gonna lose you, too?"
• "our lives are weird, man"
• "...feeding their hearts to wild dogs - that's my favourite"
• "nah, i think she went out to rent beaches"
• dean's burning anger to think people have been brought back to life
• stabby stabby
• no words need be spoken
• "i'm sorry"
• heart to heart
• "i mean, he was your dad, too, and it's my fault he's gone...sam, you and dad, you're the most important people in my life. and now, i never shoulda come back, sam, it wasn't natural, and now look what's come of it. i was dead. and i should've stayed dead. you wanted to know how i was feeling. well, that's it. so tell me. what could you possibly say to make that alright?"
• crying

simon said

• just casually shooting self...
• "you've always been a freak" *pats leg*
• dr. badass
• "oh, hell then, guess i need my pants"
• "give me 15 minutes"
• dean fears ellen
• dean's singing
• barbarian queen on polar bear
• dean insistence that sam is a good person
• beautiful, beautiful cinematography
• dean hands over his car
• hit by bus - fate foreshadowing (?)
• dean's hand on sam's back
• dean's relief at seeing his baby
• "this is magnificent, that is what this is"
• "moby dick's bong"
• dean wants a home-cooked meal
• dean has fear he hides from sam
• dean holds sam through premonition
• sam's relief that anything psychic kid isn't a killer
• "i have an evil twin"
• dean holds sam through yet another premonition
• WHY IS EVERY BROTHERLY RELATIONSHIP ON SUPERNATURAL SO CO-DEPENDANT AND DYSFUNCTIONAL?!

no exit

• scientology jokes
• TOURISTS!
• "it's the stay puffed marshmallow man"
• jo's self-satisfied grin
• how sam says "okay"
• dean's sleeping position
• dean upon waking: "where's sam?"
• dean learnt shooting at age 6 or 7
• "he gave me this smile, like, i don't know..."
• real life killers!
• cement truck!
• you're as cold as ice!

the usual suspects

• 'then' montage
• smartass sam
• the idea of sam turning against dean is so bizarre to him
• how sam twists the facts of stories
• "no, i'm mulder. you're a red-headed woman"
• bitchface!
• the shining reference
• bored dean is bored
• "keep going, sparky"
• sam and dean have a set story, even without having conversed
• how sam and dean think the same
• lawyer thinks dean is crazy
• both use "matlock"
• "my name is dean winchester. im an aquarius, i enjoy sunsets, long walks on the beach, and frisky women. and i did not kill anyone"
• code words between brothers
• first motel, jim rockford
• "hey!"
• pushing each other as they walk off
• exorcist references

crossroad blues

• historical scene, blues music
• sam jealous because he's not on fed database
• "what have you got on the case there you innocent, harmless, young man, you?"
• "in fact, the authorities are a little confused as to how a wild dog could get past the doorman, take the elevator up, and start roaming to halls of the cushiest joint in town"
• " i bet they could hump the crap outta your leg..."
• hints that all successfully talented people sold their souls...
• dean doesn't know what myspace is, thinks it's porn
• dean's all anti-crossroad deals...now
• hell hounds!
• "well, we know a little about a lot of things, just enough to make us dangerous"
• those occasional times when supernatural scares the beejeebuz outta you
• oh dean, you selfish bastard...and another case of supernatural putting homoerotic subtext into everything
• trigger word: "dad"
• how much pain dean is in at the thought of someone - especially their father - sacrificing their life for him
• dean learns the truth about john
• demon knows how to get under dean's skin - family
• dean's reaction to knowing he could have his father back
• "i usually like to be warned before i'm violated with demon tongue"
• dean's reaction to knowing his father is in hell, in pain
• "he did it for you" ... "exactly, how am i supposed to live with that?"
• john's legacy, sam and dean's differing views on this
• we know dean considered making that deal, sam's reaction to also knowing

croatoan

• snark
• music
• "that's not school! that's schoolhouse rock"
• casually getting guns out in the middle of town
• synchronized eyebrow raise
• seemingly the end of "as you know, bob" - sulfur!
• dean's driving skillz
• gun standoff
• "you got a neighbour named mr. rogers?" ... "not anymore"
• "well, this oughta be a relaxing drive"
• dean turns to sam for certainty
• "awkward"
• dean struggles with the trigger
• sam outstretches arm for dean to help him up
• "nobody's shooting my brother"
• sam prepared to kill self, dean never prepared to let that happen
• "I'm gonna say this once: you make a move on him you'll be dead before you hit the ground you understand me? i mean, do i make myself clear?!"
• dean prepared to sacrifice himself for sam, sam wants his brother to live
• "no, you can keep going" ... "who says i want to?" ... "what?" ... "i'm tired sam, tired of this job, this life, this weight on my shoulders, man. i'm tired of it"
• "i dunno, man, i just think maybe we oughta go to the grand canyon...i just think we should take a break from all this"
• "you're my brother" = "you're my everything"

hunted

• "he said that i might have to kill you, sammy"
• dean's torn duty between father and brother
• dean thinking he has to kill his brother tears him up completely
• "truth is, it's not your fault. sam, none of it is"
• ash drinks sam's beer
• oh sam, you sound so crazy
• dean is so worried about sam
• spidersam, spidersam...
• "thank god you're okay...oh, you're better than okay. sam, you sly dog"
• "you do that to my brother? i'll kill you!"
• code words between brothers
• learning the reasons behind yed
• dean's face at the thought of sam being killed
• "i know sam, okay? better than anyone"
• gordan plays the dad card
• dean thinks he's lost sam
• sam won't shoot him, almost certainly because of dean
• "it's sam"
• sam unties dean, dean's first reaction is to tend to sam
• neck hold
• sam pulling dean gently to leave
• gordon under arrest - "anonymous tip"
• gazes
• "dude, if you ever take off like that again..."
• dean prepared to quit the job to save sam, doesn't believe in sam's destiny
• "you can't run from this, and you can't protect me" ... "i can try" ... "thanks for that"
• "bitch" ... "jerk"
• "what's the point in saving the world if you can't get a little nookie once in a while, huh?"

playthings

• sometimes dean just likes the old, wants-to-be-normal sam
• confused as gay couple...again
• dean, tip the man!
• "of course the most troubling question is, why do these people assume we're gay?"
• "this one, he's got a major doll collection back home"
• double bitchface!
• "don't go surfing porn, that's not the kinda whacking i mean"
• DRUNK SAM!
• sam has such a deep desire to change his destiny
• sam begs dean to kill him if the time comes, dean is so pissed/afraid to know this
• sam doesn't at all look like he's about to kiss dean, no...
• "i promise"
• contemplative dean
• dean is so, so relieved when he thinks sam doesn't remember the night before
• "you know there's a really good hangover remedy: a greasy pork sandwich served up in a dirty ashtray"
• "dude, you're not gonna poke her with a stick!"
• "well, i guess it did, but--"
• sam saves the little girl
• every sibling relationship on supernatural is dysfunctional...
• sam remembers last night

nightshifter

• dean hits on girl while on case
• synchronised badge showing
• alien conspirator
• sam breaks ron's heart
• sam wears the hoodie dean wore in faith :3
• "i like him, he says ookey-dookey"
• ron takes the bank hostage
• "i'm not talking to you! i don't like you!" *smug dean*
• "once we get everyone together we gotta play a little game of find the freak"
• bitchface
• "hi, roanld"
• sam in charge
• close standing
• "and yes, i know about sam too, bonnie to your clyde" ... "yeah, well that part's true"
• henrikson pulls the dad card
• dean still thinks his father was a hero
• sam takes out swat
• sam and dean in swat uniform
• "we are so screwed"

houses of the holy

• magic fingers
• "in fact, i hear they ride on silver moonbeams and shoot rainbows out of their ass" ... "wait, there's no such thing as unicorns?"
• dean pining over magic fingers
• "dude, i'm not enabling your sick habit...you're like one of those lab rats that pushes the pleasure button instead of the food button until it dies"
• sammy's computer hacking skillz
• michael foreshadowing
• sam prays every day
• sam sees an angel
• dean helps collapsed sam, steadies him for a long while
• "i don't want a drink" so dean drinks
• "okay, ecstasy boy. maybe we'll get you some glow sticks, and a nice dr. seuss hat"
• "you're supposed to be bad, too, sam, maybe i should stop you, too"
• "she used to tell me when she tucked me in that angels were watching over us. in fact, that's the last thing she told me"
• "there's no higher power, there's no god. i mean, there's just chaos and violence, random, unpredictable evil that comes outta nowhere, rips you to shreds"
• "we'll just put it spongebob-side down"
• dean locks sam out of car
• seance in a church
• sam's disappointment at knowing it was a spirit, not an angel
• sam supposedly in need of redemption
• dean's driving skillz
• pole through body
• how defeated sam is at thinking angels aren't real, drinks booze
• "i wanted to believe, so badly i'd...it's so damn hard to do this, what we do. all alone, you know, and there's so much evil out in the world, dean, i feel like i could drown in it, and when i think about my destiny, when i think about how i could end up --" ... "yeah, well, don't worry about that, all right? i'm watching out for you" ... "yeah, i know you are" ... "and i needed to think there was something else watching too, you know? some higher power, some greater good...and then maybe...maybe i could be saved"
• "i dunno...maybe god's will"
• dean's starting to believe, sam's starting to disbelieve

born under a bad sign

• sam missing, dean so worried
• chest touching
• how innocent and pained and afraid sam seems to be
• "i think the scariest part about this whole thing is that you're a bon jovi fan"
• dean unable to believe sam would be violent to a man
• dean having known sam killed someone, hides it by smashing computer
• dean has so much faith that sam is a good person
• "i don't wanna hurt you" ... "you won't"
• sam puts the gun in dean's hand
• "you know, i've tried so hard to keep you safe"
• dean can't kill sam - "i can't...i'd rather die"
• dean has no idea about latest trends
• demon!sam
• "my daddy shot your daddy in the head"
• even when another is at risk, dean can't kill sam - "no, sammy. come on"
• dean saves jo, runs after sam immediately
• "where's sam?"
• "i didn't, i just knew it couldn't have been him"
• "don't try to con a con man"
• "back from the dead again.that's becoming a regular thing for you, isn't it? like a cockroach"
• how angry dean is at knowing sam's possessed
• "see, whatever bitch-boy master plan you demons are cooking up, you're not getting sam. you understand me? because i'm gonna kill every one of you first"
• even early on meg didn't follow the rules of hell
• "you couldn't save your dad and, deep down, you know you can't save your brother"
• dean punches sam, then collapses with pain
• "but no matter what i did, you wouldn't shoot"
• "sam, when dad told me that i might have to kill you, it was only if i couldn't save you. now, if it's the last thing i do, i'm gonna save you"
• "dude, you like full-on had a girl inside you for a week...that's pretty naughty"

tall tales

• "no, i don't mind"
• sibling arguments
• turns music up
• bobby!
• purple nurples!
• different views on dean's girl
• "blah blah blah blah blah blah"
• "you're bickering like an old married couple"
• dean eats ...the janitor's... food
• computer froze on porn
• aliens
• slow dancing aliens
• synchronized "no"
• "you're always saying pansy stuff like that"
• "looks like you lost it, pointdexter"
• "it's not food anymore, dean, it's darwanism!"
• alligators in the sewers
• hair flick
• gets out of sewer in middle of street, all casual like
• "consider it reparations for emotional trauma"
• bed wrestling
• "what? no you didn't"
• trickster
• mr. perfect
• bitchfaces
• love nest for dean, reluctance to turn down women
• dean has admiration for trickster's work
• dean and sam always have a plan
• flying dean
• "dean, i just wanna say that i'm..." ... "hey, me too"
• the trickster lives!

roadkill

• meaningful glance
• sam and dean argue like married couple
• farmer roadkill
• little tidbit foreshadows ("help both of you", dean being a dick to the woman)
• "hey, are you alright?" seems to be directed totally at dean
• "follow the creepy brick road"
• sam is sympathetic to ghosts, dean totally isn't
• dean really doesn't understand why they should bother taking hung woman down
• sam references john
• "you're like a walking encyclopedia of weirdness"
• "call me dean"
• twist ending
• flashbacks
• ghost walks into light
• contemplating heaven
• "doesn't really matter, dean, hope is kinda the whole point"

heart

• badass werewolves
• "okay, sparky, and you know what? after we kill it, we can go to disneyland"
• "you know the type" *looks at dean*
• "because i'm older"
• paper scissors rock, "dean, always with the scissors" - does scissors again!
• women's underwear
• dean knows exactly what sam's doing
• soap opera! and sam gets really involved
• "you've seen my entire underwear collection, go ahead"
• strong, independent woman don't need no man
• how awkwardly cute sam is around women
• dean at strip club
• late night television
• she is the werewolf!
• "you the dog whisperer now?"
• "maybe i understand her"
• "are you thinking what i think you're thinking?"
• "hey, don't mention it!"
• they're lurking
• third wheeling dean
• fist-pump
• sex
• "so me you won't kill, but her you'll just blow away?"
• "i'm gonna save you"
• sam crying, dean crying at seeing his brother cry
• "sammy, i got this one, i'll do it...you don't have to"
• sam shoots her, dean flinches

hollywood babylon

• fake scream is fake
• on hollywood set tour
• gilmore girls reference, forth wall break
• dean wanted vacation, to look around hollywood
• dean fangirls
• "what's a pa?" ... "i think they're kinda like slaves"
• dean and food
• kripke insults own work, forth wall break
• dean recognizes obscure actors
• cheesy, horrible horror movie
• dean getting really involved in showbiz
• "bite your tongue, heathen"
• salt n' burn
• fan kill
• hell hazers 2: the reckoning trailer!
• "maybe the ghosts are trying to shut down the movie because they think it sucks. because, it kinda does..."
• "serious" guy
• "you are one hell of a pa"
• dean calls to sam, dean runs to sam
• "come to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs"
• tracking ghosts with phone
• exploitation of afterlife knowledge
• dean gets laid
• walking off into (fake) sunset

folsom prison blues

• sam and dean arrested
• mugshots
• "i call this one the blue steel"
• "shut up"
• dean is smartass
• "i think i'm adorable"
• "he near went nuts"
• dean's smirk
• winchesters wanted in five states
• prison
• "don't worry, sam, i promise i won't trade you for smokes"
• sam is making new friends
• "this is without a doubt the dumbest, craziest thing we've ever done, and that's in a long, storied career of dumb and crazy"
• dean is against capital punishment
• dean actually likes the food
• "really pretty sure"
• uber-protective!dean
• "great, another guy who's seen taxi driver one too many times"
• dean gets into fight
• sam's a dead man
• "well, i wish i had a bat, so i could bash your fricking head in"
• "why are you inside, kid?" ... "cause i got an idiot for a brother"
• dean hustling poker
• hair flick
• "that's the sammy i know"
• "hey fellas, who's ready to deal?"
• "really pretty sure"
• dean gets bashed
• sam completes hunt
• bitchface
• "you heard in the yard?...dean, does it both you at all how easy you seem to fit in here?" ... "no, not really"
• dean gives sam a look
• brotherly fights
• synchronized "what"
• "would you look at that. man, i am frigging velvety smooth" ... "you wanna maybe open that up? after you're done, you know, patting yourself on the back?"
• sam and dean escape
• lawyer lady is awesome
• "yeah, we gotta go deep this time" ... "deep, dean? we should go to yemen" ... "oh, i'm not sure i'm ready to go that deep"

what is and what should never be

• ditched the licence-plates :(
• old-school hollywood horror flick
• dean's 'wtf?' face
• MARY!
• dean's heartbroken, gorgeous reaction to seeing his mom
• dean tears-up on mary's shoulder
• family photos
• john was on a softball team
• dad died: "that's great" (interesting to note dean's wish still included a dead john)
• dean reverts back, like he'd rather be with family than any possible girlfriend
• "i love your classes, you--you make learning fun"
• "son, have you been drinking?" ... "everybody keeps asking me that but, uh, no"
• impala has no arsenal
• "this is the best sandwich ever"
• dean still followed in daddy's footsteps
• dean mows the lawn
• dean hugs jess, even though he'd only met her once
• restaurant food confuses dean
• noooo sam and dean aren't best friends AND THERE IS NO "SAMMY"
• "snaked my atm card, or when you bailed on my graduation, or when you hooked up with rachel nave...my prom date, on prom night"
• dean is so lost to think him and sam aren't close
• "i'm dating a nurse. that is so...respectable"
• dean watches cooking show
• all the people they saved, no longer saved
• dean visits john's grave
• "sammy and i saved"
• "why is it my job to save these people? why do i have to be some kind of hero? what about us, huh? what, mom's not supposed to live her life? sammy's not supposed to get married? why do we have to sacrifice everything, dad?"
• dean cries
• pilot episode homage!
• "sam, i'm sorry...i'm sorry we don't get along"
• "hey, tell mom i love her"
• "because you're still my brother"
• NO BITCH AND JERK!
• dean throws phone out window
• sam wants to protect dean
• dean realises the world is fake
• dean's anger toward fake sam
• "why did you have to keep giving? why couldn't you have left well enough alone? you were happy"
• dean cries...again
• "no more pain or fear, just love and comfort and safety"
• "you don't have to worry about sam anymore, you get to watch him live a full life"
• "why is our job to save everyone? haven't we done enough? i'm begging you"
• the only reason dean seems to leave that world is for sam
• sam's fear at possibly having lost dean, relief when he wakes up - "oh thank god...thought i lost your for a second"
• dean breaks ropes to save sam
• girlfriend was beer advertisement model
• "...so you and me just never, you know..." ... "...well, i'm glad we do"
• "yeah, but i wanted to stay. i wanted to stay so bad. i mean, ever since dad...al i can think about is how much this job's cost us. we've lost so much, we've sacrifice so much"

all hell breaks loose pt 1

• "hey, see if they've got any pie. bring me some pie! love me some pie"
• sam missing, dean so worried
• "what's the last thing you remember?" ... "honestly? my fourth bong load"
• "...i went to sleep last night in afghanistan"
• "this one guy i know, total dick. i used it on him. gay porn, all hours of the day"
• dean is just so angry toward everyone when he wants to find sam
• "give me a minute, i'm still working through 'demons are real'"
• sam's reaction at the prospect of dean being dead
• roadhouse burnt down
• ash is dead! no!
• sam doesn't know what to do, immediately wants dean's help
• "that was about as fun as getting kicked in the jewels"
• "i got this brother, right, and he's always telling me how he's gonna watch out for me, how everything's gonna be okay, kinda like how i'm telling them. i dunno if i believe him this time"
• yed appears to sam in dream
• "where's my brother?"
• oh crap, there's more demon soldiers
• "you ruined my life. you killed everyone i loved"
• sam thinks he got his mother killed
• sam has demon blood in him
• foreshadowing mary's deal
• andy's death :(
• ava killed people
• sam and dean's relief at seeing each other
• "no! sam. sam. sam. sam, hey. hey, come here. you're okay, champ. hey, look. look at me. it's not even that bad. it's not even that bad alright? sammy? sam. hey, listen to me. we're gonna patch you up, okay? you’re gonna be good as new. i’m gonna take care of you. i’m gonna take you care of you. i’ve got you. that’s my job, right? watch out for my pain-in-the-ass little brother? sam? sam! sammy!"
• sam dies in dean's arms
• "SAM!"

all hell breaks loose pt 2

• CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON!
• sam is dead, dean is completely broken
• beginnings of dean's alcoholism showing
• dean won't bury sam, definitely won't cremate him, and he won't even leave him
• dean prepared to let the world end, because sam's gone
• "don't you think i've given enough?"
• "i'm sorry, i'm sorry"
• dean crying
• "you know, when we were little-- you couldn't been more than 5-- you just started asking questions. how come we didn't have a mom? why do we always have to move around? where'd dad go when he'd take off for days at a time? i remember i begged you-- 'quit asking, sammy. man, you don't want to know.' i just wanted you to be a kid...just for a little while longer. i always tried to protect you...keep you safe...dad didn't even have to tell me. it was just always my responsibility, you know? it's like i had one job... i had one job... and i screwed it up. i blew it. and for that, i'm sorry. i guess that's what i do. i let down the people i love. i let Dad down. and now i guess i'm just supposed to let you down, too. how can i? how am i supposed to live with that?...what am i supposed to do? sammy. god...what am i supposed to do?...what am i supposed to do?!"
• dean is just so broken
• dean will give anything for sam
• dean made a deal with a demon
• sam awakes
• (fell on pie)
• HUG!
• sam keeping things about the demon from sam
• bigbrother!dean, makes sam rest
• "i mean, what would i have--"
• bobby sees sam alive
• bobby so angry and hurt at dean
• dean's main goal before dying is to kill yellow eyes
• dean feels that life only means something with sam alive and yed dead
• dean is so fucking broken
• "i couldn't let him die, bobby. i couldn't. he's my brother"
• dean is guilty for his father's death, for being alive when he had died
• "you can't tell him. you take a shot at me, whatever you gotta do. but please don't tell him" *voicebreaks*
• ellen is alive
• ellen's scenario is similar to how sam's will be, dean realises
• samuel colt references
• "oh, my. i'm shocked at this unforeseen turn of events"
• "attababy"
• sam starts questioning his life
• "what are you smiling at, you little bitch?"
• sam shoots jake
• dean jumps over gravestone
• DEMONS EVERYWHERE!!!
• sam goes to save dean
• "how certain are you that what you brought back is 100%, pure sam?"
• spirit john! saves his sons
• DEAN KILLS YELLOW EYES!
• heartfelt family bonding between john, dean, and sammy
• exchanged look between sam and dean
• "that was for our mom, you son of a bitch"
• sam knows
• "did i die? did you sell your soul for me like dad did for you?" ... "oh, come on, no" ... "tell me the truth. dean, tell me the truth" ... "sam..." ... "how long d'you get?" ... "one year. i got one year." ... "you shouldn't have done that. how could you do that?" ... "don't get mad at me, don't you do that. i had to. i had to look out for you. that's my job." ... "and what do you think my job is?" ... "what?" ... "you save my life over and over. i mean, you sacrifice everything for me. don't you think i wouldn't do the same for you? you're my big brother, there's nothing i wouldn't do for you. and i don't care what it takes, i'm gonna get you outta this. guess i gotta save your ass for a change" ... "yeah"
• "hope to hell you boys are ready, because war's just begun"
• pilot trunk scene homage
• "(well then...) we got work to do"

favourites: the usual suspects, croatoan, nightshifter, houses of the holy, tall tales, folsom prison blues, what is and what should never be, all hell breaks loose pt1, all hell breaks loose pt 2,