Back in the poker room, Sam is proving more than capable, making a huge all-in bluff that stumps Man Witch.  To speed things up, Man Witch tries to put Sam on tilt by saying that Old Dean is going to die within minutes, but Sam can't leave until it's all over.  The very next hand, Sam rushes to put all his chips in, acting on pure emotion.

Man Witch calls him and reveals a full house, Aces over Fours.  Sam pulls the biggest slow roll ever until he reveals that he has the world's best poker face, because he has Quad Fours.  Sam wins, Dean turns into his young self again, and everyone is happy.

Except for She Witch.  It turns she's disillusioned with eternal life after burying her elderly daughter, so she makes Man Witch play her and win so that she will rapidly age and die.  This closing scene is frustrating because their storyline was pathetically underdeveloped, and since I didn't care at all about who these random villains of the week were, I didn't have to waste a scene giving them closure.

Also unhappy is Bobby, who's still in a wheelchair and still feels useless.  But Dean tries to cheer him up, saying that he's the only family they have left and they need him.  It's just enough to make Dean think he helped, but based on the long pause and dead glare of Bobby at the very end of the episode, I don't think his words did much good.  What an idjit.


Next week: I hope to be in a better mood with a better episode of Supernatural when the Trickster returns and traps Sam and Dean in TV parodies.  I love TV, and the Trickster episode "Mystery Spot" was my single favorite TV episode of 2008, so I'm feeling optimistic.


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