Sadly, we are not privy to what sorts of road trip games may have transpired, because the next scene has us arriving at the morgue in Oklahoma City. A detective fills them in on Gary's case: "Coroner said his heart was ejected from his body. Got some air, too -- found it in a sandbox." She says they suspect an "assload of drugs" was involved. Castiel whispers to Dean that there are no narcotics in Gary's system. (He can see things on a molecular level, apparently.) The detective shows them the heart-shaped hole in Gary's chest. It's fairly small and tidy, considering how much goop exploded out of him and onto his lady friend. It was Olivia who called the police after Gary exploded. As the detective heads out, Dean asks her to call them if she sees anything else weird.
Castiel has the sense to wait until the detective is gone before he starts sniffing the corpse. He's not picking up any unusual EMF or traces of sulfur. He leans over to take a few more sniffs. "He did recently suffer from a mild -- what is that? -- bladder infection," he says. "Cass, stop smelling the dead guy," Dean says. Sam, going over Olivia's report, realizes that she and Gary were having an affair. Her account of how they met every Thursday for lunch sounds a little too rehearsed. Dean and Sam think they spent their time at a motel near the park. Castiel listens in befuddlement as the Winchesters pick apart the details of the case and come to the conclusion that Gary's wife probably found out about the affair and decided to get her revenge. "Sounds witchy," Sam says. Dean agrees. "Guy was living a lie and it came back to bite him in the ticker," he says. "But nice job on that bladder infection," he says to Castiel.
For some reason, the words "bladder infection" lead Sam into a flashback about Amelia. There's a hazy, gauzy filter in these scenes that's probably supposed to invoke a dreamlike quality, but looks more like the director thinks he's shooting a White Diamonds commercial. He and Amelia have apparently just moved into their house and Sam is unpacking all her things. He comes across her wedding album. "Amelia and Don Forever," says the cover. The dog, sitting next to him, is avidly paying attention to something or someone behind the camera because even he is already bored with this flashback. Amelia walks into the room before Sam can take a look inside the album. "He said he'd be here by five," she says. Maybe he -- whoever he is -- can't find the house amid all the copious haze. "Deep breath," Sam tells her. "It's gonna be okay." Amelia seems nervous or annoyed. It's hard to tell, because she's kind of always the same. "He's gonna think we're moving too fast," she says. "Are we moving too fast?" Sam takes a deep breath and decides to say, "We're making up for lost time." He bends way, way down to give her a kiss.













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