Supernatural season 9, episode 20, “Bloodlines,” aired tonight. This was the backdoor pilot for the potential spinoff.
Another girlfriend bites the dust
The episode opens with a young man, Ennis, and his girlfriend out to dinner. Ennis’ plans to propose are cut short, though, when two men, one with a monstrous reflection in the mirror, enter and are taken to the back of the restaurant to a monster bar.
Enter Julian Duval, a hotshot werewolf, who gets into a skirmish with the two monsters. The lights then go out, and a hooded figure with Freddy Kreuger fingers enters and starts killing patrons.
Ennis and his girlfriend leave the restaurant, and Ennis proposes. She accepts, just as the shifter from earlier, Sal, stumbles out of the bar, bleeding. “David, I’m sorry,” are his dying words as the hooded figure comes out and throws Tamara into a wall, killing her instantly.
Family first
At a Chicago university, a shifter college student, David Lassiter, sneaks into his professor’s office by using his face and steals test answers. As he leaves, he gets a call from his sister, Margo, telling him to come home. Their brother, Sal, is dead.
Ennis, meanwhile, is interrogated by Freddie Costa, a cop who knew Ennis’ late father. His story about a monster sounds crazy — crazy enough for Sam and Dean to enter in their FBI duds. They listen to Ennis story, Dean tells him there’s no such thing as monsters, and the Winchesters leave.
But Ennis isn’t satisfied.
Freddie, it seems, is in the shifters’ pocket as he speaks with Margo, the new head of the Lassiter family. David then arrives, and Margo swears vengeance on Julian, their family’s archenemy. David, though, isn’t convinced Julian killed Sal. But Margo is dismissive of him, as he left for a human life. She also informs him that his ex, werewolf Violet, is getting married.
Elsewhere, Julian’s meeting with a djinn is interrupted by his sister, Violet. He denies killing Sal but doesn’t plan to tell anyone. He also tells her she has no vote in family affairs. Charming.
Monsters are real
Ennis heads home and goes through his late father’s police belongings and pulls out a gun. He also discovers a cache of silver bullets. Later, he sneaks into the monster bar, which is dark and a mess from the fight. A waiter comes in to clean the bar and smells Ennis. He flashes some fangs and Ennis shoots him, to no avail. The waiter is about to kill Ennis when Dean decapitates him.
Ennis doesn’t back down when the Winchesters tell him to leave, so Sam gives him the monsters are real speech while Dean roots through the bar. The brothers realize monsters are killing monsters. Ennis wants in, but the Winchesters are having none of it.
Ennis instead goes home and starts researching Sal Lassiter. He’s interrupted by Freddie, who Ennis quickly realizes isn’t human. It’s David, using Freddie’s face. David says Chicago is divided into five monster families — werewolves, shifters, djinn, etc. David then finds silver on Ennis’s coat, which the hooded figure cut. This means Julian didn’t kill Sal, so David leaves.
Ennis then researches Julian Duval and heads over to his place that night — and discovers the Winchesters there as well.
Romeo and Juliet
On the Duval grounds, cheesy music plays as Violet leaves the house and is confronted by David. He’s upset she didn’t run away with him some time before, but their talk is interrupted by our Freddy Krueger monster. David is attacked while Violet flees.
Ennis and the Winchesters hear David scream; Ennis shoots the figure to save David, but then Violet screams. The Winchesters run into Ennis and David, and the four head out, deciding to track Violet’s cell phone signal.
Violet, meanwhile, wakes up chained and sees a creepy murder board. The hooded figure reveals himself as a human whose son he believes was murdered by Sal and Julian. He plans to kill Violet to start a monster war.
Of monsters and men
The ragtag group tracks the signal. As the Winchesters weapon up, Ennis tells David about Sal’s last words. The four then go inside, and David is quickly captured and tied up with Violet. She snaps when our now-unhooded man starts torturing David; she transforms and starts mauling him. David breaks free of his chains and stops her before she can kill him.
The Winchesters and Ennis arrive then. The man recognizes Ennis and apologizes for killing his girlfriend, saying she was in the way. He assumes Ennis understands because he’s killing monsters. “I only see one monster here,” Ennis says before shooting him.
We get a cheesy music reprise the next day as David and Violet return to the Duval house. David ponders Sal’s last words; Violet knows they referred to Sal stopping her from running away with David, but she denies knowing anything. She kisses David then leaves.
Later, David presents Margo with the Freddy Krueger claw and says he’s coming back to the family. Margo pretends to be happy about it.
Hunter in training
Across town, Sam and Dean drop Ennis off at home. Sam empathizes with Ennis, having lost his own girlfriend. As Sam and Ennis talk, Dean gets a call from Cas, who says he has a line on Metatron. The brothers need to leave, so Sam warns Ennis not to get in too deep and says they’ll fill other hunters in on the situation.
The episode closes with Ennis deciding to become a hunter. However, in true Supernatural tradition, he gets a call from his apparently not-so-dead father warning him against hunting.
