Sam and Dean sort of talk in the Tuesday, Oct. 28 "Supernatural" episode, 10x04, "Paper Moon," but it's really just a couple of steps in the right direction. Hey, it could be worse. They could be completely avoiding their issues. Still, both are a bit too eager to leave their R&R behind and investigate "animal attacks," which leads to a face-to-face with Kate, the werewolf they let live back in "Bitten."
The case itself is nothing spectacular, at least not by "Supernatural" standards, but it is a solid episode to bring the brothers back into the family business. It turns out that being a werewolf has too become a family business, at least for Kate, as they learn when they discover that she's not the one responsible for the murders, and the reason she's so willing to take a bullet is because her sister is and she feels responsible because she bit her to save her after a car accident. While Dean is ready to kill them both (after the false promise of a cure), Sam argues that Kate is just doing what they constantly do for each other all the time: fighting for and doing anything to save a sibling. (Oh, the parallels. At least they're better than they were in "Thinman" last season.)
While Kate has embraced yoga and meditation and eating chicken hearts to keep her hands as clean as possible as a werewolf and not turning anyone other than Tasha, her sister embraces her primal side, likening herself to a superhero and dropping bodies and turning more people just for the fun of it, to create a new family and be "scary" instead of "scared." In the end, Kate has to do what she has to do, which is kill her own sister, but she's right when she says she wasn't in her (hopefully) "goodbye" call with Dean. And so just like when she was last seen in "Bitten," Kate is on the road again, alone, and that same deal is in effect: stay clean, stay alive. It's always good when past characters return, but at the same time, it also ends up leading to a list of other characters that it would be nice to see back (andreally back, not just as characters in a musical like in episode 200).
Going into this episode, it's hard not to be a bit wary about how it would treat the brothers' relationship post-Dean being a demon, especially since "Soul Survivor" not ending in a scene between Sam and Dean was a big disappointment. As stated above, "Paper Moon" is definitely a step in the right direction, with neither of them skirting the issues at hand, even though both are willing to dive back into hunting sooner than they maybe should have. Yes, they can still do the job, but that doesn't mean they necessarily should right away. That said, is there anything stranger than seeing Sam and Dean, sitting back, relaxing and wearing sunglasses? (And it seems that the full story of what happened to Sam's arm will never be told.)
"Taking some we time, best decision we ever made," Dean says, and it is something they needed - and might need again in the future, even though they seem satisfied with the amount of R&R time they took for now. While Dean says he's "golden," he does admit that he needs to work and later, he turns the question of, "are you ready?" on Sam because of what happened with Lester. (Here's a good place to note that the flashbacks in this episode - not the ones of Kate going home and with her sister, but the ones of Kate from "Bitten" and everything involving Lester from the first three episodes of this season - are completely unnecessary.) It seems they're going to go down the same road of not talking about it when Sam says there's nothing to talk about involving Lester, and then comes the "you made him sell his soul," "you killed him," "I was a demon" and "I had to find you, even if that meant going dark" exchange. They both needed the time off, something that's clear to see from that conversation alone.
Honestly, it's hard not to be a bit surprised that they continue to talk, even with Kate sleeping in the passenger seat. Sam admits that yes, there were others, not like Lester, but hunters he got on the wrong side of and bad guys he saved his best stuff for, but he had to for Dean. "I watched you die, and I carried you," Sam explains. "I carried your corpse into your room and I put your dead body on your bed and then you just..." Dean says he had been hoping the note would fill in the blanks before confessing that it's "embarrassing" - the note, Crowley, everything. And he never even thanked Sam. "You don't ever have to say that, not to me," his brother tells him.
But they're not done yet. After Kate's made her exit, Sam reminds Dean that he still has the mark. Doesn't he want to talk about it? "I know what happened. I was there, remember? I'm not trying to get by that, that's not what this is about," Dean explains. "It's about getting back in the saddle, doing something good, not stewing in my own crap." Still, Sam can't help but wonder, "What if you're not ready?" "Maybe I'm not ready to hunt, but I am just trying to do the right thing because I'm so sick and tired of doing the wrong one," Dean admits. So, problems not solved, but they're not just forgetting it ever happened. For the Winchesters, this seems almost...healthy? Maybe there's a better word for it, but all in all, "Paper Moon" is very promising for them going forward.
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