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Supernatural Season 3, Episode 4, Sin City recap 🫦 A small factory town in Ohio has gone full sin city (gambling, booze, and ladies of the night), and the Winchesters find out that demons have a lot more faith than they expected, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast.

The episode opens with Bobby and Dean tinkering with the broken Colt, bickering like father and son. Sam finds omens in Elizabethville, Ohio, where a priest's prayer for help is followed by... a suicide. The boys head to the local bar, which is the only place in town that's hopping, meet the hot bartender Casey (Sasha Barrese) and a regular named Trotter (Don S. Davis), and soon track down a demon (Robert Curtis Brown). While Sam works the case topside, Dean ends up trapped in a basement with Casey, and the two of them have a surprisingly deep conversation about God, Lucifer, and what demons actually believe.

Episode Highlights:

• Bobby and Dean's playful father-son banter over the Colt
• Richie (Martin Papazian), Dean's hunter buddy, who made us laugh WAY too much (uh oh)
• The Horrible Bosses moment we couldn't stop thinking about
• Ruby is back, offering reluctant help (and Berly is still not a fan)
• Dean and Casey's theology debate in a devil's trap, which gave us a LOT to think about
• Bobby going flying (leave Bobby ALONE)
• Demon lovers, centuries in the making
• Sam's cold expression at the end, which has Dean worried

In the lore segment, we dig into succubi and incubi: demons that seduce sleepers, how sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations may explain the legend, Lilith's story as Adam's first wife in the Alphabet of Ben Sira and the Zohar, and the four queens of the demons (great band names, honestly). Plus, the pope who allegedly owed his career to a succubus, and our moment of silence for Brandon Boyd.

"You could fit that ass on a nickel." – Dean Winchester

Your turn, hunters: Did Dean's conversation with Casey change how you see the show's demons? And is Ruby growing on you yet? 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/Sin_City
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succubus
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6198602/

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Denim-wrapped Nightmares is a Supernatural rewatch podcast hosted by Berly and LA, breaking down every episode of the Winchester saga with lore deep-dives plus cast and crew interviews. Special thanks to David Fesliyan and Fesliyan Studios.

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