...Crackle, Cra-- oh, go to Hell, Kripke. For many, many reasons, the first of which involves the tail end of that fine ROAD SO FAR sequence simply vanishing into a silent void from which emerges this year's NOW in the same dull metallic lettering that is apparently this season's signature font. That tedious and silent NOW lingers for the briefest of moments on the screen before we cross-fade to a nighttime suburban street the location card identifies as belonging to "Oak Park, Illinois." Of course, this being Supernatural, Oak Park's now high atop a bluff overlooking downtown Chicago, the skyline of which glows in the near distance beyond the end of this cul-de-sac, and: Hell, Kripke.












