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Just had a chance to read the script sides for episode 4x17...
Ok, let's see if I can make heads or tails of these pages. :-) Let's start off with the episode title - It's a Terrible Life.
It looks like Sam and Dean are investigating some kind of haunting at an office building that causes employees to commit suicide after they've made simple errors. One worker's computer freezes and he loses a day's work, so he sticks his head in a microwave. Another accidentally files a wrong form and he jams a pencil in his jugular. And in another gross scene (why am I thinking that Sera Gamble wrote this one?) Sam is caught by a security guard and the guard gets cut in half by an elevator. Yuck!
Now here's where it gets kinda confusing. Throughout the pages are three office employees - Ian, Al and Phil. Al is the microwave dude and Ian is the jugular guy. Before the two guys kill themselves, the three of them have normal office conversations - talking about women, going on break, things like that.
And then we find out...Phil is apparently Dean.
At the end of the pages, "Phil" has a conversation with his boss, Mr. Adler. Adler offers Phil a very generous bonus, saying that he sees big things for Phil, that it's important to Adler that Phil is happy.
Phil thanks Adler but then declines the bonus and also says that he's turning in his resignation. Adler is shocked and Phil tells him that he recently realized that there's some other work he needs to do, that it's really important to him.
Adler smiles and it creeps Phil out and Adler says, "Finally."
Suddenly in a flash, "Phil" remembers, coming back to himself, realizing who he really is (and when "Phil" says he's hungry, I knew it was really Dean *g*). Adler says to him that he's Zachariah. And Dean accuses him of being a demon, saying all he needs is another one of you guys.
Zachariah says he's hardly "another one" that he's Alastair's superior.
Dean wants to know what Zachariah did to him, was it some kind of a lesson, did he make Dean hallucinate all of this?
Zachariah says no, that it was a real place, real haunting that he just put Dean here without any of his memories. Dean wants to know why and Zachariah says it was to prove to Dean that the path he's on is truly in his blood, that Dean is chosen. Not because of John or God, because it's what Dean is, and Dean loves it. That Dean will find his way to it in the dark every single time and that Dean is miserable without it.
Zachariah continues, telling Dean that he is strong enough, that Dean's good at it, that he'll succeed, that Dean will do everything that he's destined to do, all of it. He tells Dean to quit whining about it, that there are worse fates than his. Zachariah wants to know if Dean's with him, if Dean is ready to stand up and be who he is.
And then the pages end. ARGH!
Now I don't know why, but I get the feeling that Zachariah is actually an angel, and not Alastair's superior and a demon and that the pages are deliberately misleading (like when Castiel's pages were originally for a demon). I mean, why would a demon go to all this trouble to convince Dean that he's destined to be a hunter?
I mean, it's God that set Dean on "this path" by having him pulled out of Hell, that he has a job to do. Lucifer had nothing to do with it, so why would a demon be having this conversation with Dean? Plus we know that angels have the power to make people time travel, so what's a little memory manipulation?
[shrugs] That's just my initial impression about that whole interaction. What about you guys? What do you think about this episode?
Oh, forgot to add that Zachariah will be in episode 18 as well.

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Ok, let's see if I can make heads or tails of these pages. :-) Let's start off with the episode title - It's a Terrible Life.
It looks like Sam and Dean are investigating some kind of haunting at an office building that causes employees to commit suicide after they've made simple errors. One worker's computer freezes and he loses a day's work, so he sticks his head in a microwave. Another accidentally files a wrong form and he jams a pencil in his jugular. And in another gross scene (why am I thinking that Sera Gamble wrote this one?) Sam is caught by a security guard and the guard gets cut in half by an elevator. Yuck!
Now here's where it gets kinda confusing. Throughout the pages are three office employees - Ian, Al and Phil. Al is the microwave dude and Ian is the jugular guy. Before the two guys kill themselves, the three of them have normal office conversations - talking about women, going on break, things like that.
And then we find out...Phil is apparently Dean.
At the end of the pages, "Phil" has a conversation with his boss, Mr. Adler. Adler offers Phil a very generous bonus, saying that he sees big things for Phil, that it's important to Adler that Phil is happy.
Phil thanks Adler but then declines the bonus and also says that he's turning in his resignation. Adler is shocked and Phil tells him that he recently realized that there's some other work he needs to do, that it's really important to him.
Adler smiles and it creeps Phil out and Adler says, "Finally."
Suddenly in a flash, "Phil" remembers, coming back to himself, realizing who he really is (and when "Phil" says he's hungry, I knew it was really Dean *g*). Adler says to him that he's Zachariah. And Dean accuses him of being a demon, saying all he needs is another one of you guys.
Zachariah says he's hardly "another one" that he's Alastair's superior.
Dean wants to know what Zachariah did to him, was it some kind of a lesson, did he make Dean hallucinate all of this?
Zachariah says no, that it was a real place, real haunting that he just put Dean here without any of his memories. Dean wants to know why and Zachariah says it was to prove to Dean that the path he's on is truly in his blood, that Dean is chosen. Not because of John or God, because it's what Dean is, and Dean loves it. That Dean will find his way to it in the dark every single time and that Dean is miserable without it.
Zachariah continues, telling Dean that he is strong enough, that Dean's good at it, that he'll succeed, that Dean will do everything that he's destined to do, all of it. He tells Dean to quit whining about it, that there are worse fates than his. Zachariah wants to know if Dean's with him, if Dean is ready to stand up and be who he is.
And then the pages end. ARGH!
Now I don't know why, but I get the feeling that Zachariah is actually an angel, and not Alastair's superior and a demon and that the pages are deliberately misleading (like when Castiel's pages were originally for a demon). I mean, why would a demon go to all this trouble to convince Dean that he's destined to be a hunter?
I mean, it's God that set Dean on "this path" by having him pulled out of Hell, that he has a job to do. Lucifer had nothing to do with it, so why would a demon be having this conversation with Dean? Plus we know that angels have the power to make people time travel, so what's a little memory manipulation?
[shrugs] That's just my initial impression about that whole interaction. What about you guys? What do you think about this episode?
Oh, forgot to add that Zachariah will be in episode 18 as well.
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