- When several people kill themselves after asking for the truth, Sam and Dean investigate and realise that Veritas, an ancient goddess of truth, has been summoned. Her victims die when they hear more truth than they can stand.
- After four suspicious suicides, Dean and Sam investigate the cases and they discover that the suicidal victims have heard painful truths before their final act. Their further investigation shows another death that might have been suicide. They visit the victim's sister and they discover that she had invoked Veritas, the Goddess of Truth, who feeds of the victims of the truth. Soon Dean becomes her next victim and he uses his fate to question Sam about what has happened after his return from Hell. But when Veritas captures the Winchester brothers, they hear truths about each other.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Sam and Dean investigate a series of suicides and discover the victims were being told brutal truths that drove them crazy. They find out someone is invoking the Goddess of Truth, Veritas, forcing people to be cruelly honest against their will and Dean is the next victim. Dean is forced to tell Sam the truth about how he feels about his return from Hell.—CW Publicity
- In a diner, a waitress is on the phone with someone discussing her insecurity about a guy -- he said he'd call, but he never did. The female voice on the other end reassures her, but she isn't satisfied.
"I just need the truth, that's all," she says. She hangs up and heads to the window to grab an order. The cook suddenly tells her that he pities her and finds her pathetic. He also tells her to avoid the clam chowder, admitting that he flavored it with his own seasoning.
Confused and a bit disgusted, she heads out to the floor and is confronted by the manager, who tells her that the new girl he hired is way hotter than she is, and in fact, on a scale of one to ten, she's a three. She delivers the plate to her customer, an elderly woman, who tells her that she ran over a homeless man once and never stopped to check if he was alive.
As she passes a little girl at another table, the kid admits that she hates her mother and wants to burn her in her sleep. Another customer, a man, tells her she gives him the creeps. The waitress can't stop the flood of negative voices in her head, so she goes to a drawer in the back that contains a revolver. She calls her sister to ask her to get her, but her sister only tells her she's a freak, certifiable, and that every time her phone rings, her stomach drops.
"Why don't you just go ahead and kill yourself already?" her sister says on the phone, so the waitress puts the barrel of the gun under her chin and does as she's told, splattering blood all over the wall.
Roll the glass-shattering credits!....And we cut to Dean chatting on the phone with Bobby, reiterating that something's not right with Sam. Bobby tells him he'll hit the books hard, but in the meanwhile, he'll have to stick with Sam. "He's your case," Bobby says, and hangs up. Sam walks up behind Dean and presents him with another case to track down, a weird string of suicides in Springfield. (It's a hell of a town!)
Dressed in their Fed suits, Sam and Dean head to the home of the dead waitress, known as Jane, to chat with her sister. Dean scans the place for clues, but there's not much to see besides a largely empty calendar, a few photos, and a sticker from a local shop selling musical instruments. At first Jane's sister says that when Jane called her she tried to cheer her up because she was having a bad day. But Sam notices the woman has a tell -- she pulled a lock of hair behind her ear as she spoke -- and coldly accuses her of lying.
Dean is shocked to see Sam act so callously, but as it turns out, Sam's right. The woman guiltily confesses to telling Jane, essentially, that she was a burden and should kill herself. The boys leave, Dean looking askance at Sam.
Elsewhere, a man is sitting in a dentist's chair and admits that he has to be honest: he's nervous to be there. It's clear dentist and patient are friends. The dentist gives the man novocaine and invites the patient and his wife over for dinner. But the patient suddenly blurts out that he's not so into his wife anymore -- she's old and has saggy skin. The dentist is surprised...but the true shock hits when the man goes on to tell the dentist that the reason he hasn't taken him up on other invitations is because he didn't want to be around the dentist's daughter, Melissa.
The patient admits that when Melissa was over to his family's place for a slumber party, he took advantage of her because he knew he wouldn't get caught. Enraged, the dentist grabs his friend by the throat and drills him to death.
Later, Dean calls Bobby to see if he found anything, but the old hunter hasn't. Bobby asks Dean to consider the worst case scenario, other than Satan being Dean's co-pilot. "Maybe it's just Sam," Bobby says.
Dean, refusing to accept that, tells Bobby he has a day to come up with an answer, "and then I'm handling this." Dean hangs up, then dials Lisa, but hangs up before she can answer or he can leave a message.
Sam returns to the motel room to update Dean about the dentist, and Dean offers to do research, sending Sam off on his own. Sam finds this peculiar, but shrugs it off and heads out. Sam phones later to report the dentist hung himself in his cell, but before that tells Dean what the dental assistant reported about what the patient told her late boss. They begin to piece together that both the waitress and the dentist were essentially bombarded with unpleasant truths and lost their minds.
Dean heads over to the dentist's office, now a crime scene, and searches the place. He doesn't find much beyond a lovingly mounted saxophone and a receipt for reeds from, yes, the same shop where the waitress got her musical supplies. That's his next stop. Upon seeing photos, the shopkeeper recognizes the victims as customers but does not have much to offer beyond that.
As Dean turns to leave, the shopkeeper asks him whether the police have made progress on finding his stolen horn. Dean blithely blows him off, telling him they're working on the case as he opens the front door. The shopkeeper reiterates that he hopes they find it because: "It's one in a billion."
That gets Dean's attention. He asks the man to tell him, um, what makes it so unique, and the man tells him it's thousands of years old, a museum piece. No one knows where it's from, but it got swiped two weeks ago, around the time that the waitress died.
Back at the motel, Dean dives into research mode. The first thing he happens upon is lore about Gabriel's horn. Fearing that another stolen Heavenly weapon has surfaced, Dean prays to Castiel, who appears. Dean is enraged, at first, that Cas is only answering his prayers about holy nukes, not Sam. But Cas is unmoved. He says he has nothing to offer about Sam, but he knows he's not Lucifer. "If Lucifer escaped the cage, I would feel it," Cas says.
Dean asks Cas why he's so unfeeling, and Cas reminds Dean that he's at war, and certain regrettable things are required of him. Dean tells him about his suspicions about Gabriel's Horn of Truth, and Cas disappears for a moment, only to reappear a moment later and tell him the missing piece wreaking havoc in Springfield is not Gabriel's horn. Dean spitefully says goodbye, and Cas softly offers to help out about Sam by making inquiries. Then he disappears.
Meanwhile, Sam is at the morgue and requests to inspect the bodies, only to be told by the coroner that they've disappeared.
Dean heads out to the local watering home to drown his sorrows. On the TV above the bar an attractive female reporter, Ashley Frank, seems to be pontificating about something. The bartender asks if he wants another one and he declines, explaining that he's working. Sam calls in with a new lead: One of the deceased (and disappeared) died a week before everyone else. So Sam has headed to her place to see if he can find some clues. Dean casually tells him he'll join him in ten minutes, and hangs up.
Clearly not excited at the prospect of being in close proximity to Sam again, he tells the bartender that he's changed his mind and would like another drink after all. She smiles and grabs a bottle, pouring him a shot. She tells him it's on the house. She asks Dean if there's anything else she can get him, and he says, "I'd just like the freaking truth..." before he downs the shot she poured for him. " He adds, "But I'll settle for another one."
The bartender blurts out that she thinks God is punishing her by preventing her from getting pregnant because her marriage is a sham, throwing in the detail that she's been snorting Oxycontin all day.
"Why did I say that?" she asks Dean.
Dean, realizing what he's done, replies somewhat miserably, "I think I know."
As he passes a busty woman on his way out of the bar she tells him that she needs a lot of attention and she's hoping he'll look at her breasts, which she just bought. "Good luck with that," Dean growls, but then doubles back to get a good eyeful. She smiles and giggles.
Dean then calls Bobby and asks if there's anything the old hunter wants to share. At first Bobby says no, but then admits that he's watching "Tori & Dean." He also tells Dean that he enjoys getting a pedicure once in a while. Dean is now satisfied that the spell works over the phone. Bobby has no idea why he's telling Dean all this, then adds that Dean is his favorite, although Sam has been a better hunter lately.
Dean reveals to Bobby that he's managed to get himself cursed by the truth spell. Then Dean realizes that this may be the best thing that's happened to him in a while before saying goodbye to Bobby. He hangs up before Bobby can reveal that his first girlfriend turned out to be something other than he thought.
In the Impala, Dean calls and leaves a message for Sam, telling him that he has things he wants to ask him. Sam, in the meantime, is chatting with the first victim's roommate, who isn't surprised that she committed suicide. She said she'd been going through a hard time at school, and her cat Mittens had disappeared. More than that, she was sure that her boyfriend was cheating on her. The woman became obsessed with finding out the truth. Sam asks if he can check out the room.
As Dean pulls up to the first victim's apartment, his phone rings -- it's Lisa. She said that she saw he called and wanted to talk about the last time they saw each other, when Dean was a vampire and shoved Ben into the wall. Dean tells her that it's the worst time to talk, and that they should do it later, but Lisa insists they talk now.
Oh dear. Brutal honesty time.
Lisa tells him that she thinks he has too much dark emotion buried inside of him, and that she isn't surprised that he freaked out. But, she says, from the minute Sam walked back into their lives, she knew it was over.
"You two have the most unhealthy, tangled up, crazy thing I've ever seen. And as long as he's in your life, you're never going to be happy," she says. Lisa apologizes, saying that it came out much harsher than she intended. But then she deals the coup de grace: "Me and Ben can't be in this with you. Sorry."
She hangs up.
Inside the apartment, Sam looks under the victim's bed and finds a box filled with items that look like spell casting ingredients, including a cat's skull. "Sorry, Mittens," Sam quips.
Dean catches Sam heading down the stairs and stops him, invoking the truth spell. He asks Sam why he let a vampire attack and turn him (as happened in a recent case). Sam does his best to feign guilt and tells Dean he froze up. Dean doesn't buy it, but Sam insists that he was in shock and was too late. He says he feels terrible about it, but nothing coming out of Sam's mouth seems remotely convincing.
Dean, perplexed, apologizes. But something is still off, and he knows it. Sam assures Dean he has his back, and as he turns to head out, Sam's facial expression turns stony.
Back at the motel, Sam tells Dean that based on his recent discovery, what they're looking for is a goddess named Veritas. She has a habit of slamming those who invoke her with the truth until they kill themselves. Then she claims the body as a tribute, which means that if they don't get to her first, Dean is next on her menu. Veritas also happens to be a hands-on goddess, so odds are she's nearby and preaching to the masses. Oh, and she hates dogs.
So, what is the modern equivalent of sermonizing on the mount? Television. Dean and Sam head down to the local station and grab a box full of B-roll from one intrepid reporter, Ashley Frank. They head back to the motel to scour hours and hours of footage, until Dean falls asleep.
Sam, on the other hand, does not even emit a yawn and keeps watching. Eventually he stumbles upon a shot outside where Ashley is putting together a stand-up and keeps getting interrupted by a dog in a nearby yard, barking and growling. Not only does Ashley look annoyed, but her eyes flash an unnatural, glowing green. They have their goddess.
Later, Dean and Sam stake out the station until Ashley emerges and gets into an expensive sports car. They tail her home to her equally sleek and very expensive modern mansion. Once she has repaired to an unseen room the Winchesters break in, hoping to find evidence of creepiness. Dean pulls out a pair of knives and Sam produces...ick...a jar of dog blood, into which they dip the blades.
At first the only thing they notice are a number of cats milling around, but then they eventually find the jackpot -- a kill room in the basement. Or rather, a prep room for the already-dead and, it seems, recently chopped up and devoured. Satisfied they've found the right target, not to mention thoroughly disgusted, Sam and Dean prepare to dispense with Veritas.
Before they can hunt her, however, she discovers them and quickly overwhelms the pair with a wave of her hand, disarming them and knocking them out.
When Dean and Sam come to, they are tied up and Veritas is decked out in divine finery, holding the knife with which she intends to kill and eat Dean. Their blades are discarded on the floor. But before she starts carving, she munches on a tongue from the dead dentist.
She decides that she wants Dean and Sam to tell one another the truth about each other, explaining that the fact that they've lied to one another so much will make their tongues extra tasty. While she monologues, Sam slips a blade out of his sleeve and starts working to slice his bonds.
Veritas asks Dean how he really feels about Sam, and Dean, deflated, admits he feels better now, but that yesterday he wanted to kill him in his sleep. He shares that he thought he wanted out, that he wanted a family, but on a basic level he knows he's a killer and isn't good for anything but slitting throats. Veritas smiles at the painful expression on Dean's face.
Veritas then asks the same of Sam, who tells her that what they do is hard. But, he adds, "We watch out for each other. And that's what's important. And that's it. That's the truth."
But Veritas looks at Sam, shocked. "No. It's not."
She tells him she knows he's lying, an impossible feat for a mere human to do in her presence. She doubts everything coming out of his mouth.
Which means...Sam isn't truly human.
Veritas rears back to attack just as Sam breaks the ropes that are holding him back, slides the blade across the floor to Dean so he can cut his ropes, and starts fighting with her. But Sam is no match for the goddess, and she tosses him around the room, finally overpowering him again.
Jumping on top of him, Veritas moves in for the kill just as Dean springs up behind her and stabs her in the back. Enraged, she shows her true, feline face just as Sam plunges his dagger into her heart.
Once she's dead, an angry Dean confronts Sam about what Veritas said, holding a blade on him. "You are not my brother," Dean growls.
Sam admits that yes, he allowed Dean to be turned by the vampires, but only because they needed to find the Alpha and he knew Dean could handle himself in the nest. He also tells Dean that since he's been back, he's known something wasn't right. He says he's a better hunter than he's ever been, but because nothing scares him. He doesn't feel anything. Sam finishes by matter-of-factly telling Dean that he needs help.
Dean responds by cold-cocking Sam, knocking him to the ground. But he doesn't stop there. Dean jumps on top of his brother and punches him in the face over and over again until Sam is reduced to a bloody, unconscious mess on the floor.
The screen goes black, and the end credits appear.
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