Last time, we took our first step into a world where the events of Devil's Trap played out very differently for the Winchester family. Namely, rather than hesitate and then shoot John in the leg, Sam shot John Winchester in the heart - killing both John and the Yellow-Eyed Demon in one blow, avenging the death of Mary twenty-two years prior.
Unfortunately, this led to more harm than good between the two remaining Winchesters. Despite Bobby's attempt to mend fences between the boys, they eventually went their separate ways. Heading off with Bobby, Sam eventually met Ellen and Jo Harvelle and hunted down an evil clown. Dean ended up taking on a nest of vampires and making a very poor choice in role models with Gordon Walker. In this universe, having not Ellen to warn him away from him, Gordon's words and overall attitude appeal to Dean. This resulted in the death of Leanore's vampires... but not Leanore herself. More on that later.
When we last left off, Sam and Jo (who was becoming increasingly smitten with Sam, being that Dean wasn't there for her to fawn over) have formed a hunting team and ended up in Rivergrove, Oregon. Dealing with a demonic virus that Sam is apparently completely immune to (as in the actual broadcasted episode), Sam and Jo are left with more questions than answers and the entire town is wiped out afterward, leaving no trace.
Soon enough, Ava Wilson comes into Sam's life with a portent of doom. Given that Yellow Eyes is dead, the abilities of the psychic kids were presumably left dormant (as we'll see with Sam in Season 3). The night before John Winchester died, she had a vision of Sam being blown up. However, when it never happened again she just chalked it up to being a dream... until she saw him working a case with Jo. Sam is more skeptical than in the original timeline, seeing that his own psychic abilities seem to have tapered off, but Ava is adamant.
Rather than calling Ellen, Sam calls Bobby for assistance. Bobby calls Dean, who is hesitant, but heads out to help Sam.
As in that episode, Gordon Walker makes himself known and is trying to kill Sam and Ava. Dean is more conflicted than he was in the original, and Gordon is more willing to have Dean alongside him and doesn't take him down as he does in the original episode. Gordon explains what he learned from "interrogating" some demons, that even with the death of Yellow Eyes, the demons are still up to something and the psychic kids like Sam and Ava are still a part of it.
Unfortunately for Gordon, there's another individual involved in this - Jo. With Jo providing a distraction, Dean is able to subdue Gordon. They take Gordon to the address from Ava's vision. There is an awkward reunion between Sam and Dean, where it's clear that things are still ice cold between the two. Ava ends up leaving, confident that things are okay and that her vision will not come to pass. However, she does tell Sam to call her when all is said and done, just to be sure. He assures her that he will.
Sam and Dean end up getting into an argument about what to do with Gordon. Gordon uses the opportunity to get loose while Jo is guarding him and capture her instead, using her as a hostage. When he attempts to use a grenade to kill Sam, luring him into the trap, Sam is once again able to use his foreknowledge from Ava's vision to fool him as he does in the original timeline. A short fight later, and Sam has Gordon at gunpoint.
Gordon demands that "Sammy" kill him to show Dean that he's really the killer that Gordon claims he is.
He is then shot in the head by... Dean. He echoes Sam's line from the original, saying that his name is Sam. Dean tells Sam that, despite their issues, Sam is still family. While he doesn't want (or says he doesn't want) to hunt alongside Sam again, he tells him that he'll be there when Sam calls. Sam and Jo depart after Dean does, everything a bit more melancholy.
Between revelations on a previous hunt and now how easily Gordon got the jump on her, Jo is starting to question her decision to become a hunter - something that has been a point of great contention with her mother as in the original timeline. Sam, meanwhile, is still a bit shell-shocked that Dean just killed Gordon no issue. However, he does remember to call Ava and does so... getting her voicemail. He and Jo head over to Peoria and find Ava's apartment wrecked, her fiancé dead, and her missing.
They're too late.
A few more weeks and a few more hunts go by. Sam and Jo deal with a ghost in a bed and breakfast while Dean makes another go at his stellar history with shapeshifters and finds himself on the radar of FBI Agent Victor Henriksen. Being that Sam isn't with him, Sam remains just a person of interest in the crimes heaped up on Dean's record, not an actual convict himself. As in the episode, Dean manages to escape by the skin of his teeth by stealing a SWAT uniform.
Meanwhile, Sam and Jo take on an "angel" before one morning where Sam... disappears. Jo has no idea where he's gone and naturally panics. She calls up Dean first, the two linking up to go after him... only for Sam to call them. As in the broadcasted episode, Sam is covered in blood and seemingly has no memory of where he's been or what he's done. As in the episode, the three follow the clues and eventually find the home of Steve Windell and the fact that he's been brutally murdered. Sam laments that, even with Yellow Eyes dead, he's becoming exactly what the Demon wanted him to be. He begs Dean to kill him and, like in the broadcasted episode, Dean refuses.
Sam then pistol whips him to knock him out cold. When Jo attempts to attack him, grabs her by the throat and chokes her out, shooting her in the gut before leaving her to bleed out and Dean still unconscious. His eyes flash demonic black just when he's out of view of the pair of them.
And...that's where we're going to leave off with Part 2! A few radical changes have taken place, but things seem to be progressing mostly along the same path... for now. Will that hold as we get into Part 3? Watch this space and, when the time comes, you'll find out.
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