This marks the second consecutive episode Supernatural has had a stand-alone that has been very poorly linked to the overall seasons arc. Sam and Dean travel to Montana to investigate a man who was seen lying dead on the side of the road by a state trooper only to resussertate and walk away. While Sam and Dean talk to the state trooper, a fax comes through identifying the man he saw, who now dead and in the morgue. Sam and Dean go to the morgue and the man revives again. They take him back to the motel and he's attacked by Artemis, who we later learn is Zeus's daughter, sent to punish Shane, who is actually Prometheus who stopped Zeus from stealing power from all humans. When Hayley, a past lover of Shane's shows up with their son Oliver, she tells them he suffers the same ailment as Shane and wants Sam and Dean to help her cure it. They summon Zeus to do so, but Artemis stops them and takes Sam and Dean away while he tortures Shane in front of Hayley and Oliver. Sam ridicoulously figures out that Artemis and Shane had a fling and he convinces her to help them. In the battle against Zeus Shane sacrifices himself pushing an arrow Artemis shoots through to Zeus and they both die, curing Oliver of Zeus's curse. The villians were unusually large-scale for such a low-key episode, giving it a disjointed feeling. Sam's connection to Shane/ Prometheus though, that he too could die to save the world in his attempt to shut the gates of hell for good, was a weak attempt to make the episode relate back to the overall arc of the season.
Rating: 2/5
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