And in the end, as the early-morning sunshine streams through his parlor windows, Bobby blearily rings up Dean to announce, "You're hunting a Lamia." "A what?" Dean mumbles around a mouthful of his breakfast bacon double cheeseburger, and you could at least click the link I provided, you lazy little shit. Bobby wearily explains what Lamias are, and it's pretty much what you'd expect given the earlier victim's violently eviscerated torso -- "EEEEEEEEEEEEE!" -- but it is important to note that Bobby found no references to indicate the creature ever travelled beyond its homeland of Greece. "How do we gank it?" Dean immediately demands. With a jaw-cracking yawn, Bobby begins to explain the various known ways to kill the things, but Thoroughly Thoughtless El Deano abruptly cuts him off after hearing the simplest -- silver knife, blessed by a priest -- and snaps shut his cell. "You're welcome," Beleaguered Bobby sighs at the instantly appearing dial tone, and you'd think he'd finally sack out for some much-deserved shut-eye right about now, but you'd be oh, so very wrong. "Hey!" calls a voice from the basement. "I'm still he-e-e-e-re!" the voice obnoxiously sings, so Bobby trudges down the creaky wooden steps to confront...

...the sassy crossroads demonette currently lashed to a chair! "Hey, cranky!" she tauntingly coos. "You were gone so long, I just assumed 'alcoholic coma'!" As bone-weary as he might be at this moment, Bobby still manages to put on his game face and growl something threatening. He wants Crowley's real name -- "his human name, back when he was flesh and blood" -- but the crimson-eyed miss of course remains loath to provide him with same, so he crosses to retrieve a burlap sack from an even darker corner of the basement and proceeds to shove the thing's contents into her face. "What's that?" Sassy dismissively pffts. "You don't recognize them?" Bobby eyebrows. "They're yours." I should point out that not once does the audience see what Bobby's holding during this scene. Of course, everyone who actually watched the episode knows what's in that bag by now (unless certain segments of Supernatural's audience are even stupider than they appear to be, in which case stick a "nearly" in front of that "everyone"), but I'll keep the mystery going in the recap until the big reveal at the end of the hour, because it really was a nicely executed and wholly unexpected surprise, and God knows we haven't had one of those on this show in years.