Our Clue-esque episode kicks off with the death of a rich old woman named Bunny. While picking out an outfit for Bunny’s funeral, the maid Colette tries on one of the woman’s pearl necklaces. Apparently the deceased Bunny isn’t too fond of this, because her ghost comes and scares poor Colette right over the balcony railing where she falls to her death. Even weirder? The butler’s reaction to seeing the ghost. “What have you done?” he asks of it as he looks at Colette’s dead body.
The Winchesters find out about Bunny through one of Bobby’s old cell phones. Apparently Bobby is a beneficiary in the old woman’s will so the Winchesters head to Connecticut to hopefully collect some money. In Connecticut, they’re introduced to the family who are all staying the weekend until the will is read. The older women would love to get their hands on the Winchesters (and who can blame them?) but one is distracted long enough to ask what happened to that maid from the beginning of the episode. Phillip the butler has no plans on telling the family what really happened to Colette though, instead telling them she quit and went off to clown college.
With all the formalities over with, Phillip pulls the brothers aside and tells them he doesn’t want them to have to be stuck with the family all weekend. So he hands them the package with a necklace in it. Dean immediately heads to the pawn shop to check out how much it’s worth but it turns out the darn thing is fake, and it’s a key.
By the time the boys get back to the mansion to figure out what the key goes to, someone else has been murdered, this time by the ghost of Bunny’s husband, Lance. There’s already a police investigation going on, so Dean and Sam are forced to stay at the house until the killer is caught.
So Sam tries to pry some information from the remaining family members and Dean goes off to find the ghost, instead finding the secret door that the key unlocks. In the secret attic is the dead maid’s body, as well as the other maid Olivia. According to her, Phillip locked her in there because she wouldn’t lie to the cops about what happened to Colette. So now Phillip is our prime suspect.
Now the boys have to find Phillip and question him about what exactly is going on in the house. But when Dean finds an alive and well Phillip, Sam finds a dead one. Turns out they aren’t dealing with ghosts, but instead a shifter. So the boys turn to Olivia to find them silver to test on the family members to see which one is the culprit. We even notice the silver slipped up Sam’s sleeves, more focused on his charming good looks. Meanwhile Dean finds the other two surviving family members getting hot and heavy in the closet. He makes them touch the silver, and they both pass.
Suddenly they hear Olivia scream and everyone comes running to see the detective that was investigating the murder drowned in the toilet (gross). So Dash does what only seems logical and grabs the detective’s gun and accuses the Winchesters of being the murderers before leading them to an office and locking them inside until the cops can arrive.
Once locked inside, Dean wonders why no one reacted to the silver, only to realize they had been using stainless steel the entire time, leading them to the conclusion that Olivia is the culprit. And sure enough as they realize this, she pulls a gun on the family. Luckily for us and the boys, there are security cameras in the house, and the boys happen to be in the room with the monitors so they can see everything that is going on.
It turns out that Olivia isn’t really a maid, but Bunny’s daughter, and has been locked in the attic her whole life. The brothers escape in time to interrupt the story and while Sam chases after the maid, Dean heads to the car for silver bullets.
Sam then gets to hear the end of Olivia’s story. Apparently her mother had an affair with a shifter, but she lied and told her husband the baby was his. Of course, after Olivia was born, the shifter came to collect his child. Bobby however, killed the shifter and agreed to let Olivia live as long as she was kept locked away, for the safety of herself as well as everyone else. Bobby had even agreed to take care of Olivia if something should happen to Bunny, but Olivia would much rather have him dead.
In fact she is about to shoot Sam instead, since Bobby is already dead, but Dean beats her to the punch, shooting her with a silver bullet. In fact, he shoots her about 6 times, probably something to do with the Mark of Cain, something that Sam brings up the second they were on the road. Dean just claims he was anxious because it was first kill since coming back from being a demon, but we’re not buying it at all.
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