And so, long story short, the Very Touching Moment when Darling Sammy races to Dead Dean's side to plead with whomever is listening that this wasn't supposed to happen today gets ruined by an errant blood bag, or whatever, and as the camera cranes up from the Pietà-like tableau in the parking lot below, your heartless recapper and his cold-blooded friend enter the next CHOMP!-less commercial break entirely unmoved.

Aftermath, and are you ready for a montage? I said, ARE YOU READY FOR A MONTAGE? "Absolutely not! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!" Sorry to lose you, Raoul, for yes, gentle reader, in the wake of Dim Dean's untimely and entirely preventable death, Darling Sammy With The Super-Special Puppy-Dog Eyes slowly becomes Deluxe Dead-Eyed Deadly Action Sammy through the miracle of a few short scenes spliced quickly together beneath an explanatory voice-over, the last of which in this case takes the form of a series of voicemails from Bobby, who repeatedly tries and fails to reach Deluxe Dead-Eyed Deadly Action Sammy while offering congratulations on the trail of terror Deluxe Dead-Eyed Deadly Action Sammy's supposedly leaving in his wake as he tears through the night in the Impala, alone, over a three-month period. Demons in Death Valley? Dead! Vampires in Austin? Dead! Sammy's proper use of appropriate dining utensils? Dead! And we know how hard-ass he's become because we see him eating a grilled chicken breast! Alone! In a motel room! I know! Well, actually, we know how hard-ass he's become because he makes his bed. No, seriously. No. Seriously. I wish I were kidding with that, but I'm not. Also, and in what I have to admit is a nicely done effects sequence, Deluxe Dead-Eyed Deadly Action Sammy -- Now With Super-Special Pain Suppression! -- extracts a bullet from his heretofore remarkably healthy abdominals and stitches the wound up himself. It's delightfully gruesome, and I'm certain Raoul would have something complimentary to add, but he dropped into a coma as soon as this tedious montage sequence began, so let's get to the end of it already: Finally, and at long last, Bobby drops a final voicemail to announce he's located The Trickster, so Deluxe Dead-Eyed Deadly Action Sammy heads over to...