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Definitely creepy, and they did make me jump a couple of times. I don't know necessarily if it was so much the writing/directing/whatever, or more to do with the fact that I read The Devil in the White City. Knowing in intimate detail exactly what HH Holmes did to what most experts presume are at least a hundred people, most of them women? Yeah, it definitely ups the scariness.

Man, I really liked Jo this episode. I actually empathized with her a great deal, especially the whys behind her need to be a hunter. I know what it's like to lose a father suddenly. I know how it spins you out, leaving you struggling for something to grab onto. As far as the guilt goes, though, I identify more with Dean. There's always that what-if tickling at the back of my mind, even after all these years.

My issues aside, I liked the episode. I liked seeing more of Ellen. I love the kind of pull she holds over the boys (Ash included) because let's face it. For all their big-dicked bravado, they recognize that Ellen could break them in half should the inclination strike. Also, that scene was pure comedy at the end, with Jo and Sam stuck in the backseat as Dean tried valiantly to engage Ellen in small talk only to give in to the inevitable AWKWARDNESS.

The humor was pretty muted this go-round. I LOVED (ADORED, CHEERED, DID A HAPPY DANCE OF JOY) the Katie Holmes joke. (I can't remember since that was a season of MASSIVE SUCK, but did JA and KH have any scenes together? No matter. I’m sure they saw each other around, so it just adds to the humor for me.) Dean and Jo butting heads and finally showing some sparks. "Should've cleaned the pipes." Hee. He really is a perv ALLTHETIME sometimes, even in the most inappropriate instances, like say, when you're crawling around in the walls of a building looking for the homicidal spirit of America's first serial killer.

But again, Jo really sold the episode for me. I liked that she refused to completely give into the terror. I liked that she played the bait. I loved how they trapped Holmes, both with the salt and the cement (oh, now that was fucking poetic, that). I wouldn't mind seeing the three of them going out on more cases in the future.

Of course, they had to go the predictable route. Just as Jo and Dean start to get along, to see each other in some new light - whatever, that's when Ellen finally reveals Papa H. (what is their last name, again? I can't recall.) was killed while out on a job with John. Now Jo wants nothing to do with either of them. Gag.

And we were so close.