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Supernatural Season 2, Episode 6, No Exit recap ⚰️ Jo Harvelle goes on her very first hunt, and the ghost of H.H. Holmes, America's first serial killer, is snatching petite blondes from an apartment building in Philadelphia on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast. Ellen is NOT happy about it.

Jo (Alona Tal) is desperate to hunt, Ellen is desperate to stop her, and when the boys take over Jo's case file, Jo shows up anyway with fake IDs courtesy of Ash. (Ellen does not know she's there. Yet.) The trio investigates a building where blonde tenants keep vanishing, the halls smell like chloroform, and there's ectoplasm oozing from the walls. It all leads back to H.H. Holmes, the infamous killer behind the Chicago Murder Castle, and the old Moyamensing Prison grounds where the building now stands. Fun fact: The title also shares its name with Jean-Paul Sartre's 1944 play No Exit, which fits an episode about being trapped.

Episode Highlights:

• Jo funding the hunt with her hot-ass-waitress tips
• A chunk of scalp with blonde hair. Super gross.
• Jo inching between Dean and the wall, and Dean wishing these pipes were clean
• Jo's knife with her dad's initials, which turns out to be pure iron
• The weird little sewer chambers (we doubt any sewer actually looks like that)
• Jo volunteering as bait, because of course she does
• SO. MUCH. SALT.
• The most awkward ride back to the Roadhouse in Impala history
• A peek at what happened between John and Jo's dad, Bill

In the lore segment, we ask whether ectoplasm is real: the real biological kind (it helps amoebas move!) and the supernatural kind, a term coined by Nobel Prize winner Charles Richet, plus ideoplasm and teleplasm, the gauzy (not slimy) ectoplasm of 1900s séances, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle claiming ectoplasm felt alive (Sherlock, no), and the mediums exposed as frauds.

"Well, Sam, I think I know what we're dealing with here... It's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man." – Dean Winchester

Your turn, hunters: Team Jo or Team Ellen? And would YOU have used yourself as bait? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (it's how new hunters find us), or send us fan mail. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed.

Sources:

• https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/No_Exit
• https://www.thoughtco.com/is-ectoplasm-real-or-fake-4105379

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