Supernatural season 10, episode 13, “Halt & Catch Fire,” aired tonight. Read our recap and discuss the episode with fellow fans.
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While Cas is off searching for Cain, Sam and Dean catch a hunt at a college campus where a girl claimed that a possessed truck killed her boyfriend. It turns out the boyfriend was driving his late brother’s truck; they’d had a strained relationship at the time the brother had been killed in Afghanistan, so the Winchesters assume he’s their ghost. They head to the impound lot and find ectoplasm in the truck. Quick salt and burn.
But things are never that easy.
When a stereotypical sorority girl is killed, choked by her laptop’s power cord, the brothers get back on the case. Delilah, the victim’s roommate, is clearly holding back from the brothers when they talk to her, but they leave her be for the time being. While Dean enjoys the college cafeteria, Sam looks through the latest victim’s computer and finds an instant message from around the time of death mentioning “810.”
Sam finds three addresses in town with 810 in them. At one of them, they see a woman come out of the house and walk down the street to a telephone pole, where flowers have been left. She begins putting them in a trash bag.
It turns out she’s a widow; her husband had been killed at the pole, and a girl from the college in Greek letters has been bringing flowers. However, the widow feels like the flowers are taunting her whenever she looks out the window, so she’s throwing them away.
Meanwhile, Delilah talks to a boy, saying she thinks the Feds are close to finding out the truth. She wants to come clean, but he threatens her. She storms off, and at 8:10 p.m. he is killed when the volume of his wireless speakers goes loud enough to liquefy his brains. It looks as gross as it sounds.
It’s at this point Delilah comes clean to Sam and Dean: The three victims and she had been in the car that caused the accident that killed Andrew, the widow’s husband. They’d been texting, selfie-ing, tweeting, etc. while driving and drifted into oncoming traffic. Andrew had to swerve to miss them and ended up crashing into the pole.
Delilah wanted to call 911, but her friends stopped her because the driver had a suspended license. One of the cords from the pole snapped and electrocuted Andrew, and the kids drove off, though Delilah was incredibly upset about it.
Dean stays with Delilah, putting her in salt circle, while Sam goes back to the accident site. He realizes that there is a wi-fi tower across the street from the accident site, and because human bodies are made of electrical pulses, his spirit must’ve jumped into the wi-fi. That explains the truck — the kids had been using a navigation app on a phone — the computer, and the speaker deaths.
When the ghost appears in Delilah’s electronics, she and Dean flee to the basement where there is bad service. However, someone left a phone in the couch, and that lets Andrew in despite salt barriers. Dean tries to distract him, but Andrew prepares to kill him.
Meanwhile, Sam goes to visit the widow. But before he can get out his explanation, she reveals she knows. Andrew’s spirit had been communicating with her online, and it had been comforting. However, she noticed that he started to change and become obsessed with revenge, and that’s when kids started dying. She didn’t know what to do then, since no one was likely to believe her. Plus, she was afraid of losing her husband for good.
But through video chat, she appeals to Andrew to let go, and he eventually does. Apparently the veil is no longer an issue?
The next day, Delilah goes to make peace with the widow. Meanwhile, Dean tells Sam that he’s done looking for a cure for the Mark. He’s going to find peace by making things good by hunting for as long as he can, and he’s going to go down swinging when the time comes.
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