By Sylvia Bond – And thusly the storyline picks up a little bit. This week, someone or something is killing the folks in a little town in Pennsylvania. Turns out, a small child, on behalf of his grieving father, hopes to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of three crooked cops. In order to do this most expediently, he has traded his soul for a bit of what Dean describes as “Charlton Heston’s disco stick,” otherwise known as the Staff of Moses.

By Sylvia Bond – When our intrepid heroes last left off, they were stalking some djinn. This week, they’re hunting ShapeShifters, there’s a really cute baby involved, and Sam and Dean barely talk. I mean, they talk but they’re not really saying anything to each other. But I liked this episode better than last week, because it gave me tons to think about, and, frankly, rant about. One night I even called my sister, expounding loudly over the phone to her after one too many cups of coffee, “What is Sam’s DEAL?”

By Sylvia Bond – After the summer hiatus, I watched this episode and realized that I could review it one of two ways. I could review it and determine whether or not I liked it because it did what I wanted it to do. Or, I could review it in the context of what it actually did, and whether or not that was effective.