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TV.com: In the Beginning - Dean gets transported back in time and ends up in Lawrence, Kansas, where he crosses path with a young version of his parents, who have just fallen in love.

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Review: At the start of this week’s episode of Supernatural, we see Sam leave Dean behind just before Dean’s angel stops in for a visit. Moments after this, Dean wakes up on a bench, and we soon figure out he has gone back in time thirty years. He is in Lawrence, Kansas, and he even talks to a man that turns out to be his father. Of course, we all figure this out before Dean does. He’s always a bit slow on these things.

He once again sees his angel, and he is told he needs to stop something from happening. He isn’t told what though. He talks to his dad again, talking him into buying the Impala that will end up belonging to him in the future, and he also sees his mother. Following the two captures her attention, and she goes to Dean and beats him up. He does stop her, but something catches her eye. It appears Mama Winchester was a hunter long before John and her sons. Apparently, his mother came from a family of hunters. This is something we are never told.

While he has dinner with them, he learns they are working on a case. Dean decides to jump into on his own. He’s there when Mary and her father arrives on site. Dean figures out that the demon that ends up killing his mother and his father eventually is in Lawrence. He thinks he is being given the chance to kill it in the past. He also takes the opportunity to save his mother by telling her not to get out of bed on the night she is supposed to die.

If Dean goes through with killing this demon, he will alter all of history. He will never be a hunter, and all the things in the future that happen to him and Sam won’t. However, all the people they saved will die because of this. When Mary finds out where Dean went. She grabs her dad to try and stop him because the demon has gone after a friend of hers. The demon sees Mary, and this might be the moment his interest in the Winchesters begins. Dean makes plans to kill the demon, and he tries to enlist his grandfather’s help. He tells him everything. However, it turns out it is no longer his grandfather, but the demon in disguise.

The demon ends up going after Mary, and he kills John. However, he offers to bring him back to life in exchange for permission in ten years. She gives it to him, and her father dies when the demon leaves his body when Dean appears on his scene. Once John is revived, Dean’s angel arrives and takes him back to his own time. When he arrives there, Dean finds that Sam is gone. The angel wants to know what the demon wants to do with Sam and the others like him. That is why he took Dean back. He wanted Dean to know the reason he is needed.

When I first read what this episode was about, I thought this series might be jumping the shark, but instead this episode worked. We learned more about the Winchester history, why things happen the way they do in the future, and we learn more about why Dean was brought back from hell. All in all, these are all things I think are good to know. What did you think of this week’s episode?

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