So, as I was saying, while Dashing El Deano runs his gloved fingers through the unfortunate gentleman's entrails -- "EEEEEEEEEEEEE!" -- Darling Sammy arrives from points elsewhere to note the general lack of EMF and sulphur in the immediate vicinity. Fortunately, Dean's managed to dig out a claw from the unfortunate gentleman's vivid innards -- "EEEEEEEEEEEEE!" -- so he whips out his cell to call Bobby for a consult. Even though, you know, this looks a hell of a lot like a werewolf's M.O., but then again, what do I know? I've only been watching this show for five years. In any event, Bobby's landline rather uncharacteristically rings and rings and rings before he finally picks it up, leading Dean to snot, "What happened? You fall and can't get up?" Bobby basically tells the mouthy bow-legged midget to cram it sideways, then wonders what's up. Dean fills him in on the relevant details: Wisconsin, six corpses, all with their "chests cracked wide open," and the only thing they have to go on is the claw they just found in the latest victim's violently eviscerated torso. "EEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Dean e-mails Bobby a JPEG of the claw in question and orders him to get back to them with some pertinent information, pronto. "Dean," Bobby protests, "I'm a little busy." "Then kick Bo Derek out of your bathtub," Dean rudely snorts, "'cause we got a case, here." Poor, put-upon Bobby sighs, promises to call them back as quickly as possible, and...

...MONTAGE! I do so love a good montage. This one's research-related, of course, and features Kenny Rogers's "The Gambler" on the soundtrack, though it saddens me to note Bobby encounters exactly zero cigarette-smoking, whiskey-drinking, creepily-fingered Muppets during the course of what follows. He starts out by rummaging through his own considerable library but, finding nothing of relevance, he eventually grumbles, "Balls!" and hops into his beat-up Whatever-It-Is to hit the road, where he passes his blonde neighbor, "M. WARD," as she fetches her latest Oriental Trading Company catalog from the mailbox. M. WARD, by the way, is being played by Jennifer Aspen, whom I know best as crazy Terri Schuester's insanely trashy sister Kendra on Glee, so to say I'm expecting great things of her this evening would be something of an understatement. In any event, they wave merrily at each other, and Bobby continues on to the Sioux Falls University Library. Finding the front doors locked, he smashes a basement window to gain entry, as you do, and plunders the stacks until he finds an appropriate volume, which he swipes. As you do. When he returns to his beat-up Whatever-It-Is, the recalcitrant ignition refuses to turn over, so he erupts with another hearty "Balls!" and sits there until the cross-fade whisks him back to his parlor much later that evening so he can pull a NO-DOZ-enhanced all-nighter poring over that purloined manuscript.