Synopsis of 11×06: Donna is back, and her Midwestern town is experiencing a rash of murders. When the police’s number one suspect is found incommunicado with a bunny mask stuck on his head, Donna calls in the Winchesters.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Killer clowns? Check. Sheriff Donna? Check. A dark backstory that was entirely unexpected? You betcha.
Not every monster that goes bump in the night is of the Supernatural variety. Some are criminals, plain and simple. Chester, however, managed to (allegedly) tick both boxes during “Plush.”
Without further delay, lets dive into episode 7.
The Front Seat
The Men of Letters’ library is wide, varied, and still partially drenched in gasoline, but references to the Darkness are few and far between. Those tomes that do seem promising are frustratingly out of the Winchesters’ reach unless they’re planning on learning Aramaic real quick.
Thank Chuck Donna chose this moment to ring the Ghostbuster’s hot line. It seems the Midwest is having a little problem with killer bunnies. Two murders later and the Winchesters have diagnosed the problem as one of the world’s most creepy examples of ghost possession. The culprit? The spirit of Chester, a children’s performer who committed suicide. Now, it seems his costumes are channeling his vengeful spirit and killing people that he… didn’t even know?
It seems both the vics had children who reported that Chester was inappropriate with them, and it’s a charge their parents did not take lightly, and rightly so. Without any hard evidence, the two men couldn’t go to the cops. Instead, they confronted the sister who, along with her young son (played by Logan Williams, AKA The Flash’s young Barry Allen), sent the accusers packing. Their message, however, continued to echo in Rita’s head.
What if she had unwittingly turned a blind eye to Chester’s behaviors? To think he lived in her house? To remember that he was close pals with young Max? Rita phoned up the duo and asked them to put the fear into her deviant brother, which resulted in the pair inadvertently dropping Chester, dressed as a headless deer, off a bridge and to his watery demise.
The entire affair makes us wonder if his name was dragged through the mud for no reason or if he really was a deviant creep. Whatever the answer, nothing changes the fact that the Winchester bros. seriously needed to gank that sucker – and not merely for the ghost’s murderous tendencies, but for the fact that the spirit was turning poor unsuspecting innocents into mindless killers.
When Chester possesses Max via the missing deer head, it’s game over. A little iron, a little salt, and one burnt costume later and that ghost is just another story.
![Oh, Max, why did you have to put on the deer head? [Source: Liane Hentscher/The CW]](http://www.nerdophiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/j-470x314.jpg)
The Backseat
This section is usually reserved for Cas and Crowley’s shenanigans, but the angel and the demon were MIA for “Plush.” Donna, however, took over in their stead.
The Sheriff is really coming into her own as a hunter. Unfortunately, there is still one aspect of the job she’s still having a little difficulty with – saving the innocent from the justice system. Ghost possession can make a murderer out the even the gentlest souls, and there’s really no way to explain that to a jury. Instead, the cop needs to bite the bullet and let them “escape.”
Find out what’s next for the Winchester bros. when Supernatural returns to The CW this Wednesday with “Just My Imagination.”