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1.13 Route 666

Sam: "You mean you dated someone. For more than one night."
Dean: "Am I speaking a language you're not getting here?"

A ghost truck going after guys who ran a car dealership. Sounds like supernatural road rage.

Actually, the A plot about the Flying Dutchman truck was very good. It included an excellent performance by the actress who played Cassie's mother, Mrs. Robinson (Kathleen Noone), when she told the story about the murders back in the sixties that started the whole thing. And I liked that the hick mayor turned out to be a good guy instead of a racist because in stories like this, the mayor is almost always a bad guy.

My favorite scenes were Sam's consistent amusement at Dean's attempts to be nonchalant about Cassie. She was smart and beautiful and gutsy, but I didn't think she and Dean had chemistry, even in that long, sexy love scene. (This was the first significant sex scene in the series, right? I didn't miss one, did I?) At least we got a lot of Dean with his shirt off, and that can't be bad.

And a terrific car chase. (I knew we were going to have a car chase.) The end of it, with the truck going through the Impala and dissolving, was quite cool.

Bits and pieces:

-- The evil spirit was of a man named Cyrus Dorian, which made me think of the "Picture of Dorian Gray." The killer truck with no visible driver also reminded me of the classic Spielberg movie, "Duel."

-- This week, we went to Cape Girardeau, Missouri on Route 6.

-- Dean and Sam masqueraded as insurance agents from All National Mutual. They were wearing their Blues Brothers black suits, white shirts and black ties.

Quotes:

Sam: "You told her. You told her the Secret. Our big family rule number one, we do what we do and we shut up about it. For a year and half, I do nothing but lie to Jessica, and you go out with this chick in Ohio a couple of times, and you tell her everything? (silence) Dean!"
Dean: "Yeah. Looks like."

Sam: "Just an interesting observation in a, you know, observationally interesting way."

Dean: "I told you who I really was. It was a big first for me."

Sam: "Occasionally, I miss boring."
Dean: "Yeah. So, this killer truck..."
Sam: "I miss conversations that didn't start with 'this killer truck'."

Sam: "So burning the body had no effect on that thing?"
Dean: "Sure it did. Now it's really pissed."

Good one. Three out of four stars,

Billie





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