by Kimmie Chameleon:
Supernatural Recap: “Of Grave Importance”
Original Air Date: Friday April 20, 2012
Season 7, Episode 19
You would think that living day in and day out with demons, angels, monsters, ghosts and etc….that you would come to expect a dearly departed loved one to visit you…especially one that dealt with the supernatural as well. The Winchester boys have failed to pick up on the most obvious signs that Bobby has been creating for them to let them know he is with them. Maybe years of combating the undead has left them numb and they can’t trust their natural instincts. And maybe those instincts have been betrayed one too many times for them to accept anything as truth. This week’s episode finally reconnects Sam and Dean with Bobby…finally.
A Lust Triangle
Out of the blue, Dean gets a call from Annie, a fellow hunter that somehow managed to bed Bobby, Dean, AND Sam in the past. She tells Dean to meet her in Bodega Bay because she needs their help on a case she suspects is of the supernatural kind. When Sam and Dean arrive to meet up with her she never shows up. The guys decide to rummage through her motel room for some clues to her whereabouts.
After Annie had called Dean, she went ahead and began investigating the old Van Ness house. She had researched that reports of various people had gone missing after being last seen at the house. No bodies were ever found. As Annie enters the house a large man attacks her in the dark.
Sam and Dean sift through Annie’s papers and find that she has been researching the Van Ness house. It had recently been named “One of the Most Haunted Houses in America.” Sam and Dean decide that they need to check out this haunted house.
Bobby has been tagging along with the guys but they haven’t acknowledged him. The flask that Dean carries belonged to Bobby and now wherever the flask goes…Bobby goes. He is becoming frustrated by their lack of intuition. It takes a lot of energy for Bobby to manifest a physical action. When Sam and Dean enter the Van Ness house Bobby immediately sees what the boys don’t see…ghosts…everywhere. It doesn’t take long for Annie to find Bobby. The two are ecstatic to see each other, but Bobby must break it to her that if she can see him then she must be dead, too. Bobby admits to her that he ran away from his reaper. Annie hasn’t seen her reaper yet.
Clear Curtain Call
While Annie and Bobby continue to chat they observe a ghost able to move objects with the greatest of ease. They introduce themselves to Haskel Crane. Annie persuades him to teach them how to move physical objects. Haskel tells them that they must not angst at the object, but rather “calmly tell the thing what to do.” Bobby tries his hand at it, but fails miserably. They then notice that a fancy female ghost is checking them out. Annie approaches her and recognizes her voice as being the ghost that left her a voice mail on her phone saying, “Free me.”
The guys search the house but come up empty handed. Dean calls Annie’s cell phone and they hear her phone ringing in the next room. Dean listens to some of her voicemail messages and is particularly interested in one that has a spectral voice saying, “Free me.” They decide that they will ask the local historical society some questions regarding the home’s past inhabitants. As they zoom off, Bobby goes along with them and leaves Annie…but he has no choice…Dean has the flask.
Quentin at the historical society informs the boys that the house was built in the mid nineteenth century. The heir to the home and fortune, Whitman Van Ness, was plagued by tragedy all of his life. Van Ness had taken pity on a convict named Dexter and employed him as his groundskeeper. On the eve of Van Ness’s wedding, Dexter murdered the bride. What confuses Sam and Dean is that Quentin tells them that after the murder Dexter ran off but returned to the house. Of course, Bobby is shouting at Sam and Dean that he recognizes Whitman and Dexter because they still reside in the house as ghosts…but they can’t hear him.
The guys return to their motel room and Dean takes a steamy shower (why couldn’t it be a clear shower curtain? Throw me a bone!). Bobby is able to write “Annie trapped in house” on the bathroom mirror. Dean calls Sam over to see the mirror. Dean asks who wrote the message and the name “Bobby” appears. Sam and Dean are stunned but rush back to the Van Ness house.
Body Snatcher
Two curious teenagers arrive at the Van Ness house to videotape themselves doing their own investigation. Their friends, Debbie and Dudley, recently went missing and the last place they were known to be was at this house. As they enter the house, Dexter rushes at them…but only to warn them to get out, but it is too late. Whitman kills them. Dexter is angered by Whitman’s callous slaying. Annie is hidden and spies on Whitman and Dexter. She watches as Dexter pleads for Whitman to stop killing people. Whitman annihilates Dexter. Victoria tells Annie that Whitman trapped people’s souls in the house so that he can feed off of their energy. All along the real murderer had been Whitman, not Dexter. The only way that the souls trapped in the house can be free is to find their earthly bodies and burn them. They just gotta find those bodies.
Dean, Sam, and Bobby arrive back at the house and have the video camera that the recently murdered kids filmed with fly out in front of them. They play back the footage and catch a glimpse of Annie’s ghostly image. Victoria then materializes in front of Sam and Dean and tells them that Annie is in the house along with many other trapped spirits. She informs them that Whitman is to blame. Just then Whitman annihilates Victoria in front of the guys. They now know exactly who’s body to salt and burn. Whitman then sneaks in the house key into Sam’s pocket so that he can tag along with them. Much to Bobby’s disappointment, he remains back at the house because he hid the flask. Oh well, Annie busies him up with the hard task of finding the bodies. They locate a secret room and find the bodies in various stages of decay. Unfortunately Whitman shows back up in the house because Sam and Dean fought back at him while they were near his mausoleum. Whitman attacks Bobby but gets annihilated just in time. The Winchesters burned Whitman’s body. They return to the house and are shocked when they are finally able to see Bobby. They reluctantly burn the bodies, including Annie’s.
Sam and Dean aren’t exactly too thrilled to see Bobby. They had hoped that he was in Heaven. Bobby tells them that he wants to help them. The whole thing doesn’t sit right with any of them. This may not be the natural order of things, but they will cross that bridge when they get there. Bobby is back and hopefully for good. Carry on my wayward sons.
Quotable Quotes:
Bobby to himself: “Balls, this is exhausting.”
Bobby to Annie: “I’m a doornail. Bad news here…If you can see me, you are, too.”
Bobby to Haskel: “For the record, I hated that Swayze flick. Romantic bull crap.”
Bobby to himself: “I can kill werewolves, fix a pinto and bake cornbread. I will be damned if I can’t get Zen.”
Bobby to Swayze: “Suck on that, Swayze.”
Dean to Sam: “It ain’t the natural order of things. Everything is supposed to end.”
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