See, the thing about the Amy episode that makes Dean’s actions so reprehensible is not only the part where he doesn’t trust Sam and goes behind his back to kill Amy or even the hypocrisy of Dean ‘you can’t change what you are so you’re going to kill someone eventually’ Winchester sparing the kid right after stabbing his mom, it’s that Amy is very explicitly supposed to be a Sam parallel. There is no other way about it, from the they’re both freaks part of it to Dean dropping the line about ‘the other shoe’ right before he kills her, she is Sam, how Dean reacts to her is supposed to give us insight into how he feels about Sam. And Dean. kills her.
The not very subtle subtext being that Dean is ready to off Sam if he goes too far off the deep end? He’s aggressive and mistrustful of Sam at every turn in the episode, lays the feet of it all at Sam’s hallucinations maybe leading him astray, but end of the day, Sam’s crimes here are A) was tortured in Hell and B) is traumatized by that in a way that makes Dean’s life more difficult.
And it is hard to watch. To spend this whole episode with Sam being completely functional on his own, making a rational decision based on past experience and on all the information about Amy he has available, and for the episode to end with, ‘but yeah, if dean thinks sam goes too far, he’s probably gonna kill him. because sam can’t change or be fixed, so it’s for the good of everyone that he be put down.’
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So I had a Thought™️ today, specifically about this scene
Because here’s my thing.
I don’t think that’s Marc.
Up until this moment, and even after, Marc has ALWAYS done his best to stay out of Steven’s life and maintain this very fragile reality that he’s built for Steven—he sends postcards and signs them as Steven’s mother, he bought Steven a new fish when Gus died, we can presume he calls into work for Steven when Khonshu’s work takes longer than planned, and Marc keeps all his shit in a storage unit. He doesn’t leave anything of his in the flat except for the phone and keys to the unit, and even then he HID those.
Marc Spector has always stayed out of Steven’s life and kept everything Khonshu related out of it. Hell, part of Marc’s deal with Khonshu was that Steven WOULDN’T get involved.
That was half the point of the whole conversation they had here (sorry I’m doing this on my lunch break I don’t have time to do captions). “You said he wouldn’t interfere” is what Khonshu said and Marc was very quick to say “I’ve got it under control”. And Marc has, for the most part, stuck to that. He keeps Steven out of it until he physically can’t anymore. Hell, he won’t even give up the truth of their mother until it’s, quite literally, dragged out of him.
So my point here is this.
Why would Marc, whose quite literally moved Heaven and Earth to keep Steven in the dark about ALL of this, completely shatter that fragile reality he’s worked so hard to build by ripping it all away like that, by making it obvious that he was there at the museum that night. Why would Marc, whose done everything he could to make sure Steven didn’t know about him, make a very avoidable mistake like that?
The simple answer is that he wouldn’t.
But someone else might, whose not completely aware of the intricacies of all the lies Marc’s built for Steven.
Someone else who was there that night, right behind Marc. Our second man in the mirror, if you will.
So long story short.
While we know it was Marc who was in the bathroom with Steven, who took over and got rid of the jackal, I don’t think it was Marc who walked out of the bathroom.
This, I’m pretty sure, was Jake, who was doing what he always does.
Making sure Steven and Marc are physically safe.
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