Supernatural Recap: 4.04 Metamorphosis

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4.04 Metamorphosis
Original Air Date: 02 October 2008

Sam works his mojo on a demon, who taunts Sam and refuses to give up Lilith. Dean is hiding in the shadows, and Ruby looks on –with disturbing approval. Dean walks in on Sam and Ruby. Ruby greets Dean, and he attacks her, pulling her own knife on her. After the fight, Ruby helps the injured and newly exorcised man out of the room. Dean walks off, angry.

Back in their motel room, Dean walks in, and grabs his stuff. Sam, who is already settled into the room, tries to get Dean to talk to him. Dean just punches him –twice. Sam is unable to convince Dean that he’s doing a good thing by saving possessd people. Considering the hundreds they’ve lost over the years, this is good. Even with Ruby’s knife, the human dies. Sam argues that his way merely sends the demon back to Hell. Dean is unimpressed, especially with how far Sam has gone “off the reservation.” He tells Sam that, if he didn’t know him, he’d hunt him. Dean questions his brother, asking, if everything is so great, why did Sam lie. He also asks why an angel told him to stop Sam.

A man is eating ravenously, as his wife asks, “Jack, are you stoned?” She questions his non-stop eating, but he dismisses it. As Jack brushes his teeth, bone cracking noises come from his back, while he reels in understandable pain.

When Dean talks about the Azazel’s demon-blood-baby-food, he is shocked and angry to find out that Sam has known about this for a year. As they argue, Sam receives a call from their dad’s old hunting ally Travis. He tells Sam to look for a man named Jack Montgomery in Carthage, Missouri.

Jack is again crazy for his dinner. Sam and Dean watch from the Impala, as Jack restlessly gives in to his urge for food. He grotesquely raids the fridge, grotesquely enough that Dean is finally convinced that something weird is going on. When Michelle, Jack’s wife, cuts herself, Jack finds himself drawn to the blood. He resists, though, and runs off, leaving her there with a nasty cut.

The boys find Travis in their motel room. They tell Travis about what they saw. It was ask he had feared, so Travis tells them that Jack is a Rugaru. He says he’ll start out human-looking, but he’ll get ugly soon enough. At some point, affected people get a taste for human blood. Once they indulge for the first time, though, they quickly turn into the monster. Travis says it’s genetic. He’d hunted Jack’s father, when he turned –and Jack was a little boy. Hunting down a boy, though, didn’t sit well with him, so he waited until he knew that Jack would be turning.

Jack tries to satisfy his hunger and thirst with alcohol and bar peanuts at a corner pub. Jack interrupts a large man who won’t leave a woman alone. Jack easily catches the man’s punch, and hyperextends his wrist, sending him down in pain. Scared by himself, Jack runs off again.

Travis tells the boys that fire is the only way to kill a Rugaru. Travis and Dean prepare torches, when Sam comes in with new info from the internet. Contrary to Travis’ belief that Rugaru always taste the human blood and turn, Sam has found stories indicating that some people confront their issue, and manage to avoid eating any human flesh. Travis doesn’t believe there’s any way around killing Jack. Sam insists that others have managed to subsist on raw (non-human) flesh and never turned into monsters. So, he believes that they can help Jack.

Jack startles his wife, Michelle, when he finally returns home. She’s angry that he left her to drive herself to the hospital. He is very apologetic. She questions what’s changed since he’s never had such an issue with the sight of blood. As he tries to show her some affection, and his remorse, his advances become too aggressive. After he makes a few aggressive, sexual moves on her, he gets too rough, and she tears herself away from him. He seems just as disturbed by his behavior as she is.

Dean questions Sam about his being able to take Jack out. he asks if he a nice guy, who just happens to have something evil inside him. Sam insists that Dean pull over, and gets angry with Dean for treating him this way. He says this is why he lied to Dean.

The boys find Jack. They tell him that they know what’s happening to him. He thinks he’s sick –or something. Sam tells him about his father’s being a Rugaru. They encourage him to fight it off, and try not to eat human blood. Sam warns Jack that he needs to avoid that first taste, so they won’t have to “stop” him.

Jack listens to his wife’s voice on his phone messages. He sees a woman through a window, and appears to feel a strong urge. Seeing him, the boys get out of the car, grabbing their torches. jack watches the woman undress. When she shuts off the lights, though, he is moved –and disturbed- by the sight of his own scary, dark eyes in the window. When he returns home, more relaxed, he finds his wife tied up. As he walks in toward her, Travis chloroforms him.

Jack wakes to find himself tied up. Jack says he hasn’t hurt anyone. Travis tells him to tell his wife about his “problem”. Michelle begs him to tell her what this is all about. Travis tells her to tell Jack what she said, when he threatened her. “I said, ‘Don’t hurt me, because I’m pregnant.’” Travis says he can’t make the same mistake again. He pulls out a gas can. They beg, as Travis douses the area with gasoline.

Jack fights to get free. As he struggles, the “monster within” grows in strength, and he breaks free from his handcuffs. He struggles with Travis. Michelle watches on, frightened, as Jack takes a bite out of Travis, killing him. Jack unties his wife, but she runs off. As she speeds away in her car, Jack seems to metamorphosize. The boys show up and find the aftermath, including a trail of Travis’ blood, leading to what’s left of his body. Suddenly, Jack attacks Dean. Sam tries to get his torch ready, but Jack gets it away from him. He bludgeons Sam with the torch.

Sam wakes inside a locked closet, and yells to be let free. Jack tells him that Dean’s still alive, but won’t stay that way if Sam doesn’t calm down. He complains that Sam sent his friend here, and he tried to burn his wife alive. He doesn’t tell Sam why Travis was going to kill Michelle, though. Sam tells Jack that it doesn’t matter what he is. It only matters what he does. Jack struggles to resist eating Dean. Dean rises, just as Sam torches Jack.

In the Metallicar, Dean tells Sam that he did the right thing. He apologizes for giving him such a hard time, lately. Sam says the demon blood inside himself is just something he has to deal with. He admits that using his powers is playing with fire. He says he’s done with anything. He says, though, that it’s not for Dean, nor for any angels –it’s “my” choice.

• Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester
• Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester
• Genevieve Cortese as Ruby
• Dameon Clarke as Jack Montgomery
• Joanne Kelly as Michelle Montgomery

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