To Bobby's dismay, Sam (Jared Padalecki) has been traveling on his own for the past few months.  Bobby wanted to salt and burn Dean's body, but Sam told him that he planned to get his brother out of Hell.  Dean thinks he's been messing with some bad mojo.  Not only does he have the demonic hand print on his shoulder, but the forest around his grave site looked completely nuked.  Something powerful rode Dean right out of Hades, and not in a fun, kinky way either.

Dean hunts Sam down in Illinois by tracking his GPS, then shows up at the door of his seedy motel room.  A girl named Kristy answers, but Sam soon appears and immediately starts brawling with his brother, thinking he's a demon.  Bobby assures him that Dean is Dean, so they share a hug while Kristy flees the scene.  Is it just me, or is Jared Padalecki getting really buff?  Sam must have been working out while his brother was six feet under.

Dean wants to know what Sammy did to get him out of Hell, but it actually wasn't his doing.  He tried to open the Devil's Gate and played Let's Make a Deal with every demon in town, but no one could help him save his brother.  I'm relieved that this isn't another situation where one Winchester sacrifices himself for another.  Been there, seen that.  Twice.

If Sam didn't pull Dean out of Hell, then who, or what, did?  Maybe Lilith has the answers.  Sam has been hunting her down for the past four months, and he arrived in Illinois on the trail of some demons who might have answers.  Bobby also knows a psychic who might be able to help.  After a touching scene where Sam gives Dean his necklace back, the trio head out to visit sexy psychic Pamela Barnes.

Dean hops into the Impala for the first time since his resurrection and is horrified to find that Sam has plugged an iPod into the radio.  "You were supposed to take care of her, not douche her up," he tells him.  The brothers take to the road, and Sam reminds us that he was immune to Lilith's burning light in the season 3 finale.  He also promises Dean that he hasn't been using any wacky mind powers, but for some reason I don't believe him.

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