From MadCap's Couch - "Supernatural: All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1"

Worst. Little House on the Prairie. Remake. EVER!

No need to get into a joke intro here, let's get into it.

We get a looooooooooooooooooong montage of. . .basically every bit of arc from the show literally from the jump, an emphasis on the Yellow Eyed Demon and the Psychic Kids he has created for his own purposes.

After the montage set to Boston's "Foreplay", we go right into the second half of it "Long Time", as Sam and Dean pull up to a café in the middle of nowhere. Dean sends Sam in to get the food, fiddling with the radio. . .the signal getting static-y and unreliable. When Dean looks up again, the diner is abandoned. Heading in, Dean finds the residents of the diner dead with throats slit and Sam nowhere in sight. He is, needless to say, very panicked indeed. . .more so when he finds sulfur on a door frame.

As Dean cries out for him, we dissolve to Sam who is. . .in the Old West?! Not quite (that's in a few seasons), but Sam is in a ghost town as we'll find out later. With no cell service, he begins looking around and eventually finds. . .Andy! Andy is as panicked as Sam is about his situation, having been snatched up after his fourth bong load and smelling a lot of sulfur. Hearing a scream, the two rush to it and find. . .Ava! She's alive! For her, it's apparently been two days, but Sam tells her that she's been missing for five months. . .and narrowly avoids having to tell her Brady is dead.

They soon find two new people - a soldier named Jake and Lily who were kidnapped from Afghanistan and San Diego, respectively. They work out that they're all 23 and all have abilities - all the psychic kids are here. Here, Andy notes that he's been developing his abilities and can now transmit images as well as thoughts. . .doing it by mentioning that he streams gay porn into the head of some guy he doesn't like.

Oof. . .

After that little bit of early 2000's cringe, we learn that Lily apparently the ability to stop people's hearts with a touch and Jake has super strength.

Fredric Lehne comes back for the second of his four episodes as Yellow Eyes. 

Sam gives them the lowdown on what's going on, namely the story of the Yellow-Eyed Demon as he presently knows it.

Back with Dean, he's caught up with Bobby and who has found no signs of demonic activity over the last few months. Ash calls Dean, telling him that he has something big that he can't talk over the phone and says to come to the Roadhouse. Whatever it is won't just help him find Sam, but is also big, bigger than they know. As he hangs up, Ash checks his watch that I'm about 75% sure he's never worn before this very scene.

Back at the ranch, the other Psychic Kids aren't taking this well. At all. Sam fails a few Diplomacy rolls and Jake decides to go off on his own, coming face to face with a ghostly figure and - because he's an idiot - entering one of the many abandoned houses when he's lured into it. When it attacks, Sam takes it out with an iron poker, revealing it to be a demon. . .that for some reason just turns into the black smoke and leaves no body. Sam calls it an "acheri" demon, which apparently can disguise itself, but I don't think this is ever touched upon again in the show.

Seriously, it honestly bugs me a bit.

Finding the iconic bell at the town center, Sam has worked out where they are: Cold Oak, South Dakota, one of the most famous ghost towns in all of North America. Lily decides to aggressively nope herself out of here, having accidentally touched her girlfriend and that power having killed her and not wanting to have anything to do with her powers or this insanity. Her grief and her panic being way, way too intense is getting to her and even Sam giving his dewey-eyed "We're all in this together" speech doesn't seem to sway her, though she does seemingly relent. . .only to leave once everyone's back is turned while they're looking for iron and salt. Certainly, this will end well for her.

Dean and Bobby up to the Roadhouse and finds that it's been burned to the ground. In the wreckage, they find an arm wearing Ash's watch, but are unable to find any sign of Ellen.

Lily gets out into the woods and starts hearing creepy whispers and if you can see what's about to happen then congratulations, you don't need glasses.

Ava and Sam talk a bit, Ava apparently having some stress headaches from the situation. Andy has found the salt and it's then that they realize that Lily isn't with them. When they go outside, they find a grizzly scene of her hanging from the windmill by a rope. It seems that the Demon doesn't want them to leave. . .

Andy proposes to use his power to try and get in touch with Dean, even if he's never used it at distance. Sam has a receipt that Dean signed, which Andy attempts to use.

A weird wrinkle in the demonic canon that I don't think ever gets addressed again.

At the Roadhouse, Dean is not in the best of moods and then gets an overwhelming headache in which he sees the bell from Cold Oak as well as Sam, able to describe it enough for Bobby to work out where they need to go.

Because Bobby is awesome, in case you haven't been keeping up.

Night falls on Cold Oak and Sam and Jake are working to pry iron off of the old farm equipment and they exchange stories about how absolutely crazy things are getting, the two seeming to strike up a good rapport, bonding over their shared adversity.

I certainly hope nothing bad happens that would ruin this wonderful, wonderful moment. . .

Sam confides in Jake, telling him that he doesn't know if he's going to make it out of this this time. Jake tells him that it doesn't matter if they believe it, it just matters that Ava and Andy do.

In the house, Andy and Ava lay out salt lines. Sam and Ava conversate, Ava wondering what they all did to deserve this. When she mentions wanting to just curl up with Brady and watch bad TV, Sam's guilt overcomes him and he has to tell her the truth. She collapses into him, weeping.

That night, as Andy sleeps and Ava stares into the middle distance, Sam and Jake are keeping watch. . .and Sam gets visited by the Yellow-Eyed Demon. He realizes, when no one reacts to him, that he's dreaming. Yellow Eyes invites him on a little walk, laughing off his death threats and telling him that Sam is the one he's rooting for in this twisted little Miss America pageant. Sam brings up the whole psychic soldiers for a future war thing, but Yellow Eyes corrects him: he only needs a soldier. One. One to lead his armies.

Which is kind of confusing when we consider what all of this is for, but we'll get into that when we get to Season 5.

He's looking for the best and the brightest of Sam's generation. Sam is the favorite to win, having been trained by John. He claims that killing Jessica was necessary, but he wasn't intending to kill Mary. He demonstrates this by showing Sam a memory of that night and reveals something terrible - the figure of the Demon looming over Sam's crib, bleeding into baby Sam's mouth.

Sam has had demon blood in him the whole time.

Mary returns and, upon seeing Yellow Eyes, proclaims "It's you!" Sam getting the shock realization that Mary knew Yellow Eyes.

Given this and her apology to Sam back in Home, what could have happened between Mary and the Yellow Eyed Demon? Something to keep in the back of your head for a while. . .

Mary is cast up the wall toward the ceiling via telekinesis and Yellow Eyes mercifully ends the vision before that terrible moment, Sam awakening to hear that Ava is missing. The two split up to go and find her and we see Ava stalking around in the dark and watching them as they leave. Andy, looking very worried, comes up and sees Ava destroying the salt barrier. . .and bringing in the Acheri Demon, which she can apparently control with her mind. As Ava watches, smirking, Andy dies horrifically. As soon as his blood splatters against the window, her demeanor changes and she screams bloody murder.

Didn't realize "Ava" means "wolf in sleep's clothing".

Sam busts in, finding the broken salt barrier. Sam questions Ava about it, saying that Andy wouldn't have broken the line. He's worked out that Ava has been lying. She's the only one of them with missing time and she got the headache right before Lily was murdered and now this.

Ava admits to this, and to having been killing quite a few Psychic Kids over the past few months. . .she's the undefeated heavyweight champion. She insists that, once they give in to what they are, they can do so much more. It's not just dreams, but controlling demons, telekinesis, and so much more. . .so much more.

She summons up a demon. . .and Jake comes up behind her, snapping her neck. The personification of "useless ass psychic powers" if ever there was one outside of the brilliant scientist Bardock.

The Impala drives up, coming to Cold Oak at the speed of the plot and arm up for demon stomping.

Sam tries to convince Jake to leave, but Jake apparently got the same vision from Yellow Eyes and has become convinced that one of them has to leave, that the demon will kill them both if they try to leave, and he's convinced that he can get close to and kill Yellow Eyes. Sam tries to convince him otherwise, dropping his knife as a show of good faith that he isn't going to turn on him, encouraging him to not give the demon what it wants. Jake seems to buy it. . .and then rabbit punches Sam through a wooden fence with super strength.

There is a brutal fight as Sam and Jake exchange blows, eventually with Sam kicking Jake through another part of the fence and then seemingly knocking him out with a bit of wood. Just before Sam would kill him, however, he stops short. Sam adamantly refuses to play the Demon's game. He hears Dean call him, finding Dean and Bobby rushing toward him. He's relieved. . .and Dean shouts a warning all too late for Sam to look out as Jake picks up the knife and thrusts it into Sam's spinal cord. Dean tries to encourage him to keep going, to stay awake and that he's going to save him. . .

Oscar Clip

Sam Winchester is dead. No final words. No sounds, no nothing. His body merely slumps against a completely broken, destroyed Dean, who holds the lifeless body of his brother. . .in rage and in grief calling out his name one last time before we cut to credits.

. . .and that's Part 1. The Hell has not yet broken loose, but it's been a Hell of a ride getting there!

It's pretty good and gives some good set up for Part 2. Get ready for it!