Dead in the Water (1x3)

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I'm Burleigh and I'm a new fan of the series.

I'm LA, and I'm here along for the ride. Now let's get tipsy. Hello, LA, hello. Barely.

So this week we are on season one, episode three, dead in the water. That was good. Thank you. I don't even know if that's the words of the song, but that's just what I heard drown in the water, is it? I

think that's the name. What's the song? Yeah,

yeah, something. That's what I heard whenever I read the title. Yeah. But before we get into episode three, we have a quick recap of last week's episode, which, when we started digging into the lore, it got a little depressing, Yeah, ooh. Well, I

mean, cannibalism is never gonna be fun, yeah?

It's not gonna be. It's not ever gonna be a good time, right? But the show was interesting. I enjoyed the episode, but, yeah, the lore, digging into the lore, was not fun. But we'll recap the show. We'll leave the lore alone. Where it was Sam and Dean followed the coordinates left in their father's journal, and they ended up in Black Ridge, Colorado, basically in the middle of nowhere, and were helping some people find their brother who had gone out on a camping trip and had

I have to say there were a couple moments, like where they the certain shots and, like the light on their faces, and everything was done really well.

That's what I was saying. Like the cinematography I really appreciated. Yeah, it

was a good one.

The cannibalism discussion just ooged me out. So this week, luckily, it's not as Oogie LA. Take us into the recap. Let's talk about the gore and what we adore from episode

three. All right. Well, if the

way to kick it off. We're off to a great start. The

opening scene of this app. Okay, the opening scene in this episode is really reminiscent of the opening scene of the 1970 jaws.

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did I say, Yeah, 1975 so 75 and I was like, one of Spielberg's first Yeah,

I just didn't realize it was, I always thought it was the 80s movie. Oh, okay, okay, so, yeah, where the girls swimming? And then,

like, she, like, it's dark in Jaws, like she's out in the ocean, right? And then she's just swimming around, and then gets pulled under. Well, this one, she is in a lake. Was a lake. We're talking about the SIS, the girl that goes missing, right? Yeah, very beginning in the opening. So, yeah, she dies into the lake and is just kind of doing her thing. She's swimming and then stops, same thing gets pulled under, right? It was, it was kind of cool to

the fantasy, horror, drama, supernatural, I'm sure that we're gonna see a lot of kind of, like at last episode, I that was definitely Carrie, like one had a you know. So it's nice to see Carrie and now jaws, and it's fun. I'm enjoying it. Homages to Yeah, other stuff, yeah. I'm excited for fans to start telling us the stuff we've missed, because I'm sure we've missed all little easter eggs and things. Yeah. Okay, so opening scene Jaws, we see a

Well, Sam and Dean, they decided to investigate this drowning of this girl that we saw in the opening scene, 18 year old, Sophie Carlton. And she's a the third drowning victim in the last year whose body wasn't recovered from Lake Manito mana talk. Now, they got this information people from a newspaper. Yeah, they, I don't know if anybody remembers those. It was they

don't have a Google search set yeah for weird shit on on their phones and whatnot,

old school, circling it in the newspaper and taking that clipping with you. Yeah. So anyway, they they go to the local sheriff's office and pose as federal wildlife. Of officers, which I love, that they keep posing as all these different like officers and people, and it's like anybody that looked at them would know you're not any type of officer, and nobody's dressed, yeah? I

mean, not since the pilot, yeah. And even then he questioned it, and they're like, Oh, well, thank you. They just kept talking and just moved right past it, yeah. Speaking of the newspapers, the other thing I noticed that I haven't mentioned yet is they're using maps, yeah, to find all these places that they're going to not map. GPS, no GPS, no printouts from map quests, like they're literally looking at maps and

so newspapers and maps people, that's where we're at,

right? And Blackberry phones, yes,

alright, so they're posing as federal wildlife officers at the local sheriff's office. Who his name is, Jake Devins. Was it Devins or Devons? Can't remember. Anyway,

I shrugged.

They tell him that they have found or he tells them that they found nothing in the lake despite like running sonar sweeps and that the lake is soon going to be drained because they're gonna have a local dam or, no, the local dam is leaking. Yeah,

they like, open the spillway or something. Yeah, there was a, it was, like, a, kind of a complicated thing, like something, something opened the spillway. There's not gonna be like, soon anyway,

so it's basically not gonna be there much longer, right? And while they're there, they also meet Jake's daughter Andrea barn, or her little son, Lucas. Lucas clearly has some issues. He doesn't speak at all. Yeah, and

Andrea is played by Amy Acker, who, if you were a fan of Buffy, the vampire and Angel series, which I think we're also on, CW, Amy Acker is she? She's a main character, later on, an angel. Oh, really, yeah, I can't remember the character. The

name sounds familiar. Think she was

in quite a few things by Joss Whedon. I think she was, like, a regular actress that he used repeatedly. But I'm drawing blank on what else she was in. Oh, okay, but I know she was an angel. Okay, yeah,

they have all these, like, pretty ladies in each episode that I like flirting with one of them. You know, mainly Dean. I'm ready to see some flirting with Sam, but I know we gotta wait for it. I do get over his grieving.

I am gonna call out LA, when we started this episode, one of the first things she said was, what are they gonna take their shirts off? No, I

said. I was like, Do they ever, do they ever take their shirts off? They like to have something to look forward to. Just it was just the question, you know, just curious

they do. I wasn't paying attention to the story whenever I watched the series originally, but I know I saw things that made me stop and be like, Oh, okay, what's happening? Cool.

I'm ready for it,

right? Let's get to it. Come on. So

anyway, so Sam and Dean researched further into the lake. So they learned that not only have six other people disappeared in Lake, Manitowoc, oh, I keep wanting to say Manitowoc,

yeah, because mana talk, we did Google. It is not real. There is not a lake. Manitowoc, yeah, but there is a what is it? Manitowoc, and that's like, is that a lake or a town? Think it's a town. Think it's a town, city, yeah.

Anyway, so six other people disappeared in Lake Manitowoc over the last 35 years, and they also find out that little Lucas witnessed his father's drowning earlier that year, and he spent like two, what would they say, like, two hours before he was right, he was just on like a little plank,

yeah, just like, floating on her little raft or something, which would be traumatizing, and explains that he's not speaking right now, right?

And doesn't Andrea, like, say he's got, like, PTSD, right? It's not, she doesn't say that, but that's basically

what it is, yeah, basically getting around to, like, he's, he's gone through a lot, is what I think she's trauma, yeah, at the end of rumor, if it's Andrea, or if it was her dad who was the sheriff. Oh, and, yeah, I

think it was the dad. I

think it was the dad. Yeah. He was like, he's been through a lot. Yeah, we've all been through a lot. Yeah, that's what he said, Yeah. Very dramatic. And telling, yeah,

yeah. So they decided to go talk to loose Lucas and see if he'll, you know, talk to them. Andrea and Lucas are at the park. Dean tells Lucas he knows what it's like to see something that most people wouldn't believe and kind of sits down, tries to be buddies with him, and tells him he's, you know, he's good at drawing, I'm gonna draw a picture with you.

And proceeds to draw stick figures. Yeah.

He tells him, this is my family. He's like, this is my mom, my dad, my brother. And then he doesn't. He's like, it's not that great, but leaves

it for like, so I'm a shitty artist. What of it? What

do you want to say? But he's just trying to get Lucas to kind of give him any kind of clue of what he saw when his dad waited he was with his dad. Yeah, and Lucas just kind of ignores him, keeps drawing, and then so they are over, off to the side, talking with Andrea, and Lucas walks up and hands Dean a picture, and it's a picture, good drawing for a little

it was really good of a house. There were sporadic, really good drawings that it was like, okay, somebody else did these drawings, and they didn't do kid drawing well enough. Yeah. Like, there were some of the, some of the drawings of the bicycle looked like a kid did it, but some of them, I was like, a kid didn't do that one, a kid didn't do that house drawing.

Very talented kid. Really good. Yeah, okay, so the same night, that same night, will Carlton, who is Sophie's father, yeah,

the dad of the daughter that we saw in the open, that they came

to investigate about, right? Yeah. Oh, no, this, that's her brother or the brother? Yeah, sorry. So will Bill, Bill, Bill

Carlton is the father. Is the dad. Will is the brother,

yeah, so will Carlton is, I think he doing dishes or something, and in the kitchen sink, he starts running the water. It turns to black water, gross, right? And even though he pulls up the drain, the plug, the plug, like this, whole sink is filled with water. It's one of those big countries, yeah, and something pulls him under his head, below the surface, and drowns him. I mean, if you don't see anything, it just looks like something invisible is pulling

he's like, I've answered too many questions. Yeah, I'm sad, baby alone. You're not supposed to watch your children die, which is true. I have, I have heard that's like the most terrible experiences ever. When

they're leaving, Dean looks over at the front of the house, and then pulls out the drawing that Lucas gave him, gave to him, and he realizes it's the same house. And so they go to visit Lucas again, and then dean ends up telling him about what happened with his mother, not details, of course, because that would terrify the child, right? He was like

she was stuck on the ceiling, bleeding on my baby brother, and then she burst into flames. Like he didn't go into detail, yeah, he just said he saw something scary, right? That he he knew he had to be brave. Basically, yes,

yes. And Lucas provides Dean with a second drawing that is another house, but it's next to next to a white church with a boy wearing a red cap on his red bicycle. Yes,

which we've seen the bicycle a couple of times. Yeah, so we already know there's something important about that. Yes.

So Sam and Dean go and find the church and the house that's nearby, and there's a woman living there, and they discover that her son, Peter Sweeney vanished 35 years ago on his bicycle, red bicycle. So bicycle,

I want to ride my bicycle.

Okay, so while they're there, talking with um, Oh, Miss Sweeney, I guess Mrs. Sweeney

Todd. Oh, my God, no, no more cannibalism. We're over the cannibalism. Why did I go back to cannibalism? Oh, Dean

spots a photo of Peter and with Bill Carlton. And they start to think that bill may have had, may have killed Peter, and the thing in the lake is Peter's Vengeful Spirit coming after them, after their families, so they go back to Bill, but as they arrive, Bill is motoring out on his little boat on the lake.

Oh, yeah, this shot scared us. Oh, my God. We're like, what? It's just got

his little motor going. He's trucking along, and then out of out of nowhere, some it looks like an explosion happened. Yeah? Like, there's nothing there. It's just like, it comes up from under his boat. It blasts him out of the boat and just like, obliterates the boat, yeah,

just flips the boat up, like, just like a giant cat swatting something up. Just like, flipped it. So Peter got Bill, yeah. Bill, like, went flying out, yeah, and he vanished under. Water.

So after that, the sheriff tries to run Sam and Dean out of town because he realizes they're not real federal wildlife officers, which

I think he had a hint, like he had an inkling about that from the very beginning. You could tell he suspected, as

they all should, when they try to save somebody, so they're leaving town. But of course, Dean thinks the Hunt's not over, and doesn't turn off to could leave town, turns back into town, and they go to Andrea's house. Lucas answers the door panicked, leads them to the bathroom, where Andrea had started taking a bath. But of course, the black water snuck in, and same thing that happened to will she's being pulled under by seemingly something invisible. I

remember that scene really disturbed us when she's in the tub and you see like the dirty water, like she's sitting there with her eyes closed, just trying to relax, and you see this dirty water starting to engulf around her, like decolletage and all that. It's just like, oh.

So the boys bust in, Sam heroically pulls her out of the water, right? And

like she's naked because she's in a tub. And so like Sam Winchester, reaching in there, grabbing you like big old hands and pulling you out the tub. I would have been real tempted to just roll over. I

would have been like Sam or Dean and Lucas, please give me a minute. Just

step away, Sam,

you shut the door.

Sam, oh, I'm cold. Hold me tighter. Oh,

well, anyway, after she's out of the water and everything, she tells them that she heard a voice saying, Come play with me. Creepy. And Dean goes through and call back to

the shining.

Oh yeah, come

play with us. Hey, daddy. Dean

goes through Andrea's photo

grown up. Danny, can get it too. Oh yeah, you won. Mcgroger,

okay, sorry. Dean goes through Andrea's photo albums while they're there, and while she's kind of chatting with Dean. And he discovers an old photo of Andrea's dad, Jake with Peter. And he assumes that Jake was also involved in Peter's death, and that Peter's spirit is targeting both Bill and Jake's loved ones, as I said. And when we

say old, we're talking like Boy Scouts, yeah, like,

yeah. So then Lucas leads them to this spot in the woods that's near the lake, and he just stands there and like looks at Sam and Dean looks down. And so they send him back into the house and start digging. And they discover a red bicycle buried there in that spot that Lucas showed them

bicycle.

And then lo and behold, who shows up as Jake with a gun. He's not happy, pointing it at the brothers. He reveals basically that Peter was the smaller one of the group. They bullied him. They were out at the lake one day putting his head under the water, and just so happened to do to keep him under a little too long, and he drowned, yep, so they let his body go into the lake. And, you know, just never told anybody Yeah, and then buried the bike.

because Lucas heard come play with right? And went, Okay. And, like, ran over to the lake, and he dropped one of his little green army. They

had an army. That's what he's trying to reach, right, yeah. And, of course, the arm, dead arm, dead looking arm, like, comes up, pulls him in. It

looked like it was decaying. The makeup was pretty good. It was like, the ring, yeah, the makeup was really good on the vengeful spirit, yeah, well,

and even when the little face comes up out of the water, eyes, eyes up, that's it. That's all you see. It was, it

was creepy as fuck. Yeah, Sam and Dean jump in.

They keep going under, trying to find him nothing. They can't find anything. And then Jake slowly walks in, takes his jacket off, is apologizing to Peter, asking him to take him instead of Lucas. And then he goes under. Peter gets him, and then dean makes a very dramatic burst out of the water with Lucas, yeah,

and save the day. They hung on that shot a little long. It was Yeah, but it was pretty Yeah, so I won't, I won't fault them for it. Yes.

So next day, Sam and Dean are ready to leave, and Andrea Lucas and Lucas see them off, Andrea gives Dean a kiss. He gets all these kisses as he leaves these towns. And

we got a sneak peek of sammy's Tum Tum. Oh yes, there's that marquee it was, you have to blink and you'll miss it. But there's a little Marky Mark moment where his like underwear is sticking out of the top of his pants, and you get his little Tum Tum. And didn't you say you spotted his mic wire? Mike wire, yeah.

But thankfully, at this point, Lucas is over his trauma. He's talking again. Yay. And Dean tells him the most important phrase that he needs to remember, Zeppelin rules, of course, and that's it. That was that, yet again,

the Winchester save the day, of course. So I thought this was a fun episode. Yeah, I liked this one better than the Wendigo. Even though I enjoyed the Wendigo, it was just very different, yeah, and a lot they're very different from one to the next. So far, I agree, like tonally, the same, but just different. So I'm I'm enjoying that. Now, as far as the lore, as you already said, we've got a

Hola, ha, yeah,

I'm sure. Oh, o, l, a, apostrophe, a, aloha. I don't know Aloha. I'm not sure, and I don't trust Google pronunciation stuff anymore. But anyway, in 1947 while neighborhood kids were playing on the shore of a pond, one of them fell in and disappeared beneath the waves. The boy to the pond or the ocean. The said pond, okay, but it could be ocean. This isn't necessarily something that's factual. Oh, okay. This is just a story of a boy. You don't say

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