Somewhere else, Metallicar grumbles through the night as Dean's cell phone chirps. "It's Ellen," she announces when he answers. "Have you heard from Sam?" Dean asks immediately. "Yes, I have," she admits, "but he made me promise not to tell you where he is." "Come on!" Dean protests. "Please! I mean, something bad could be going on, here, and I swore I'd look after that kid!" "Now, Dean," she begins, launching herself into a little down-home lecturing. "They say you can't protect your loved ones forever." On his end of the line, Dean looks pissed, but remains silent. Ellen, for her part, realizes how asinine that sentiment sounds coming from her after that nasty kafuffle over Jo in Philadelphia, and nearly rolls her eyes at herself before continuing, "Well, I say screw that -- what else is family for? He's in Lafayette, Indiana." Ellen is awesome. Dean issues a gruff thanks and snaps shut his phone.

Back at The Blue Rose Motel, Ava's quite reasonably wondering, "Why can't you just leave town? Please? Before you blow up?" Hee. They've perched themselves on the edge of one of the beds for this portion of the tête-à-tête, by the way. "I can't," Sam insists. "There's something going on here, Ava, with you, with me -- there are others like us out there, and we're all a part of something, and I gotta figure out what." He gazes with aching sincerity at her through those heart-melting Super-Special Puppy-Dog Eyes of his. They don't work. In fact, they fail spectacularly -- perhaps for the very first time in his life -- which might just be yet another reason to like Ava. "You know what?" Ava begins, having had more than enough of Sam's gibbering whacko voodoo talk. "Screw you, buddy, because I'm a secretary from Peoria --" "Poor thing," Raoul interjects. "-- and I'm not a part of anything!" "You see this?" she demands, hopping to her feet to flash her antique engagement ring in Sammy's face. "I am getting married in eight weeks." "I am supposed to be at home addressing invitations," she exasperates, "but instead, I drove out here to save your weirdo ass, but if you just wanna stay here and die, fine!" "Me?" she snaps, snatching up her purse. "I'm due back on Planet Earth." And with that, Ava stomps towards the motel room's door. "Don't you want to know why this is happening?" Sam calls out at her retreating form. "I mean, don't these visions scare the hell out of you?" This gets her to stop. We can see her take a deep breath and tensely dart her eyes around as Sam continues, "'Cause if you walk out that door right now, you might never know the truth." This gets her, period, and Ava turns back to face him, all the defensive hostility and sarcasm gone from her face. "I need your help," Sammy pleads.