Supernatural season 9, episode 4 “Slumber Party” aired tonight, featuring a uniquely Supernatural spin on The Wizard of Oz.
So what happened in the episode? Hold onto your ruby slippers, people. It was a busy one.
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- We open the episode with a black and white flashback to 1935: The very first Men of Letters turn on the lights in the bunker. Six months later, a hunter named Dorothy arrives with the Wicked Witch in tow. She cut the Wicked Witch’s tongue out, but none of the traditional ways of killing have worked. We like this girl already.
- In the technicolor present day, Sam visits Crowley in the dungeon, where the King of Hell’s been hanging out when he’s not blackmailing Neal Caffrey on White Collar. Crowley refuses to give up any more names of demons without getting something in return, so Sam leaves.
- Later, Dean explains why Kevin’s not in the bunker — plot convenience! Or that he’s taking a break in a warded motel room since translating the angel tablet’s frying his brain. Dean suggests he and Sam take their own break and watch the first season of Game of Thrones. Good call.
- Sam still doesn’t know why Cas left. Dean obfuscates and the audience groans. Sam’s looking less and less convinced by each of Dean’s flimsy lies, but he lets it slide. He wants to hotwire the computer that Kevin said lit up when the angels fell in order to track angels. Dean questions whether that was Sam’s idea, and we question whether Dean remembers that Sam went to Stanford on a full ride.
- Sam and Dean find their way back to a control room with a 1950s-era computer. In the process of opening it up, they knock over a bottle of ooze. It’s not Pandora’s box, but it’s close.
- Sam and Dean call Charlie for help. She admits that she’s been hunting on her own then sets to work on the computer, though they have to wait for decades worth of Windows Updates to download. Sam and Dean return to the topic of Charlie hunting solo, but Charlie deflects by bringing up the Supernatural books, which are available online. Thanks BeckyWinchester176!
- While Windows updates, Sam, Dean and Charlie watch Game of Thrones in Sam’s sparsely decorated room. Dean wants to know why he hasn’t bothered settling into their new home, but Sam’s not hanging any boy band posters because he only sees the bunker as a workplace.
- Charlie and Sam have a moment where Sam asks her about hunting. Charlie admits that she wants some White Walkers and magic Tolkien volcanoes where rings go to die. She wants a quest, but Sam tries to discourage her. After all, he’s got an “I saved the world and went to Hell and all I got was a damaged soul and this shirt” souvenir t-shirt in his closet.
- Back in 1935, the Wicked Witch takes over one of the Men of Letters in her search for something in the bunker. His partner stabs him, though, and his dying words are, “There’s nothing worse than adventure.” That doesn’t bode well for our intrepid present day heroes.
- In 2013, the Winchesters and Charlie discover that a wall in the control room has decayed. Dean cuts it open and out falls Dorothy in living, breathing, snarking color. She’d cast a spell in 1935 to bind her soul with the Wicked Witch’s. Her being awake now means the witch is too. And she’s loose in the bunker.
- So naturally, she finds Crowley — who is a big fan and offers his help.
- Fun fact: Dorothy’s father was a Man of Letters and he wrote the Oz books, of which Charlie is naturally a big fan. Realizing that poppy from Oz can stun a witch, Charlie plans to make some poppy bullets. Color Dorothy impressed with this Woman of Letters.
- Sam and Dean head to the dungeon. After some negotiating, Crowley reveals that the Wicked Witch is looking for a key, and we can’t help flashing back to this:
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- Sam, Dean, Charlie, and Dorothy reconvene and everyone gets one poppy bullet. Dorothy also knows what key the Wicked Witch wants: The key into Oz. Dean has it in his room, so Sam and Dorothy are on witch duty while Dean and Charlie retrieve the key. Dean wants to protect Charlie, but there’s no stopping her when this is the quest she’s been waiting for.
- Sam and Dorothy bond over not having any luck with homes. It’s nice seeing Sam make friends, so of course the Wicked Witch interrupts. Dorothy wings her, but she gets away and makes her way into Dean’s room, where Dean uncovered the key.
- The Wicked Witch grabs the key and is about to take out a felled Dean, but Charlie jumps in front of him and takes the curse meant for him. Activate self-sacrifice. Noooo!
- Sam comes running, but Dean calls for Zeke. Zeke’s barely at half strength since reviving Cas, though, so recurrecting Charlie means he’ll have to stay in Sam longer. But Dean knows Charlie’s a fan favorite, so tells him to save her. Zeke does so but loses consciousness. When Sam comes to, Dean, the lying liar who lies, tells him the witch got the drop on him.
- Dorothy offers to stay with the recovering Charlie and tells her new BFF that she died. Dorothy then drops some backstory: She ended up stranded in Oz as a child after stowing away on one of her father’s cases. The Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion had been freedom fighters who took her in. The Wicked Witch turned them into those forms and killed Dorothy, so Dorothy’s up on death and resurrection. Meanwhile, Charlie realizes that the Oz books are guidebooks for hunting the Wicked Witch.
- While searching for the witch, Sam asks Dean who Zeke is. Busted, big brother. But the conversation turns back to why Sam hasn’t settled into the bunker. Sam replies that none of the homes he’s ever had have worked out. His mother and girlfriend ended up burned alive on the ceiling, so that’s fair. But the broment is interrupted by the Wicked Witch, who possesses the Winchesters and orders them to kill Dorothy and Charlie.
- In the Men of Letters garage, which is filled with awesome vintage cars, Dorothy finds her motorcycle — as if she couldn’t get any cooler — the Tin Man’s helmet, and her ruby slippers. Dorothy says the heels have “sharp magic” from Oz. Girl power.
- Sam and Dean arrive, complete with a “My pretty!” Dean attacks Charlie while Sam takes Dorothy, and the Wicked Witch stirs up a spell to bring her flying monkeys to this world. Charlie kicks Dean in the “nards” and goes after the witch.
- Charlie is in fine punning form as she uses the ruby pumps to stab the Wicked Witch, quipping, “Now heel!” She also manages to close the door to Oz. And when freed Sam and Dean find her, she greets them with possibly our favorite Charlie line ever: “Ding dong, bitches.”
- Baby finds a home in the garage, and Charlie asks Dean about coming back to life — including whether she’s a zombie and needs to eat brains now. Of course, she should know from the Supernatural books that she can’t be a Winchester until she’s died, so welcome to the club! Dean, in an attempt to keep his Ezekiel-related lies straight, asks her to keep her death and resurrection between them. She agrees, but this is going to blow up in his face soon.
- Dorothy plans to finish her rebellion in Oz, and she wants Charlie to come with her. Charlie is thrilled at the prospect of adventure, so she and Dorothy head into Oz. Can these two awesome ladies saving Oz be the Supernatural spin-off? Please?
- Will Charlie be back? “Of course,” Sam says. “There’s no place like home.”
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