Season 2, Episode 13: Houses of the Holy

"You're just one person, Dean.  And I need to think that there was something else, watching too, you know?  Some higher power.  Some greater good.  And that maybe . . . maybe I could be saved."

I wonder if when this episode was written and aired, if Kripke and Co knew that Season 4 would introduce angels.  It's kind of funny - that these people were being driven to kill by so-called angels, that Dean didn't believe in them - again, an instance of "knowing what I know now..."

• Of course Dean would be enjoying the magic fingers in a seedy motel.  Do motels really have those?  I've never stayed in a place even remotely as seedy as Sam and Dean do.
• I knew the first time I watched this episode that Castiel was an angel, so when Dean said he didn't believe in angels because "I've never seen one", I knew he'd be proven wrong.  But man, if only he knew.  "Don't you think that if they existed, we would have crossed paths with one?"  Oh Dean.  If you only knew.
• Sometimes when I watch this show and see how easily Sam and Dean break into houses, it freaks me out and makes me nervous about living alone.  Because something tells me if someone were to break into my house, they wouldn't look like Sam or Dean and they wouldn't be there to help me out.
• I also love the fact that Sam pointed out that the archangel Michael was in the church - again, if only the boys knew quite how significant Michael would be.
• Sam telling Dean about how he does pray every day, and how he has for a long time - it just made me sad, more than anything, remembering how let down he was by the real angels.
• "She used to tell me when she tucked me in that angels were watching over us.  In fact, that was the last thing she ever said to me."  Mary was right, even if he didn't know it yet.
• Father Gregory was Tobey on Dawson's Creek - I knew he looked familiar the first time I watched this, but couldn't place him.  Also, I kind of want to rewatch Dawson's Creek at some point - would love to see Jensen Ackles in a role other than Dean Winchester now that I know him as Dean. I remember that I always liked CJ.
• He also called upon the archangel Raphael - once again, funny how he would come to play such a huge role in the show just a few seasons later.
• The last scene with Sam and Dean talking about how Sam wanted to believe, with Dylan's Knockin' on Heaven's Door in the background - it moved me to tears this time around.  
• "The way he died - if I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes, I wouldn't have believed it.  I don't know what to call it."  "Dean, what did you see?"  "Maybe - God's will."