Both Winchester brothers unintentionally cross paths when they come across each other in Garth’s hospital room. Garth had been hit by a car after fleeing a farm he had trespassed on to kill a cow. Garth runs to the bathroom to vomit but then escapes out the bathroom window. The boys split up; Sam talks to the farmer while Dean checks out the hospital’s surveillance cameras. Dean tells Sam the cameras didn’t catch anything – a straight up lie – but Sam figures it out. They both look at the photos from the cameras that show Garth getting in a car and they track him down to his apartment.

They enter Garth’s apartment but Garth begs them to leave him. They refuse because he has been missing for too long. Suddenly a female werewolf comes out of the closet and a small scuffle occurs before Garth breaks it up. Finally he comes clean about his actions over the past few months. Garth was hunting werewolves when he was suddenly bitten. He was aiming a gun at his brain when Bess found him and stopped him. Bess is a second generation werewolf, meaning she was born from werewolf parents; something Dean and Sam didn’t think was possible. The boys also find out Garth has been married to Bess for four months now.

Bess’ family is a very quiet and modest mid west family. They all go to church and Bess’ father is the reverend. The family also only eats livestock and wants to live peacefully among humans. Dean thinks the whole thing is just a cover up for something deeper going on so he spends the day with the family while Sam questions the sheriff.

Dean has lunch with the family; they eat raw steak but are nice enough to cook his. He asks about the silver bullets they all wear around their necks. They tell him it is a reminder of their vulnerability. Everything seems alright but Dean is put off by Russ and Josiah who can’t wait for Dean to leave town.

Later that night Sam gets a call from the sheriff about a mauled deer. The boys discover the deer was killed after the boys got the call from the sheriff. They discover the sheriff is a werewolf who doesn’t like the boys snooping around. Dean kills him before the sheriff can shoot either of them and notices the same silver bullet around his neck that Bess’ family had. Oddly though this bullet has the word “Ragnarok” engraved in it. Sam and Dean split up again. Sam goes to find Garth and Dean goes to the church to snoop around.

While searching the church, Dean finds a book on werewolves where it mention “Ragnarok.” Through an internet search on the term which leads him to Norse mythology and the end of days. Dean calls Sam and tells him that a cult of werewolves worship a god named Pheneras who believes that werewolves will overthrow humans. Once Dean and Sam disconnect, Sam is knocked out by Ross and Josiah. Meanwhile, Reverend Jim arrives at church and finds Dean. When confronted about “Ragnarok” he tells Dean he has erased the anger from the church already but apparently not from every member of his congregation.

Sam is taken to a barn where werewolf step-mommy Joy has already chained up Garth and Bess. Joy’s father was a strong believer is “Ragnarok” while he was reverend of the church. But Jim was not born werewolf, he was bitten so he still held on to some of his humanity and Joy wanted to be like him. That was until a hunter killed her younger brother and she went back to worshiping Pheneras. Just as Joy is about to kill Bess, Sam kicks the gun out of her hand and Dean kills both Russ and Josiah. Dean and Joy both reach for their guns at the same time, but Dean is the quicker draw and kills her.

Garth wants to return to hunting to avenge Kevin’s death but Dean tells him he should stay with Bess and Jim. They have a heart to heart and hug it out before Sam and Dean leave the three werewolves.

Dean and Sam look like they’re about to go their separate ways when Dean stops him and apologizes for the night they split. Sam agrees to hunt together again but Sam says something is “still broken here.” Sam says he can’t trust Dean yet and that being family is not a “cure all.” He’s agreeing to work with him but not to being brothers. Sounds like there will be some awkward moments in the Impala for the next few episodes.

Supernatural airs Tuesday nights on The CW.
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