Swap Meat

Swap Meat
Season	5
Episode	12
Overall	94
Series	Supernatural
Airdate	January 28, 2010
Written by	Julie Siege Rebecca Dessertine (story) Harvey Fedor (story)
Directed by	Robert Singer
Guests	Colton James Sarah Drew Patricia Harras Eileen Pedde Greg Kean Alex Arsenault
Episode list	Season 5
← Previous	Sam, Interrupted
Next →	The Song Remains the Same

Swap Meat is the 12th episode of Season 5. It aired on January 28th, 2010. <place lat="42.252222" lon="-73.3675" width="300" height="200" zoom="6"></place>

Synopsis

A banana daiquiri in a real bar, sex with a real woman, and ghost hunting. A teenager goofus uses a spell to switch bodies with Sam and was thrilled with the results. But Sam, trapped in the kid's body, isn't having such a great time revisiting adolescent angst.

Plot

When nerdy teenager Gary and his two friends Trevor and Nora are playing with black magic, they come in contact with demons and are informed of a bounty out on Dean Winchester's head. When Dean and Sam arrive in town to exorcise a poltergeist, Maggie Briggs, haunting the home of their old babysitter and her family, Gary casts a spell which has him and Sam swapping bodies intending to hand Dean over to the demons.

Gary gets rid of all Dean's cell phones so Sam can't contact him and poses as him to accompany Dean on the case, where thanks to Maggie Briggs, he misses an opportunity to kill him. Later he celebrates the ghosts' vanquish, enjoying getting drunk with Dean, and later getting picked up by and going home with a woman from the bar. When he comes back to the motel, set on killing Dean, Dean has worked out he is not Sam and confronts him.

As Sam struggles to work out what has happened, and deal with Gary's overbearing parents, he discovers Gary's spell book and his involvement in witchcraft. Trevor and Nora drug and capture Sam at school, knowing that it's him in Gary's body, and against his warning, Trevor summons a demon to hand over the brothers and claim their reward. The demon possesses Nora, kills Trevor and then takes off to claim Dean.

Dean is in the middle of interrogating Gary, when the demon arrives and knocks him out. The demon tells Gary he will get his reward but he must meet with Lucifer first and say 'yes' to his question, intending to hand over Sam's body to be used as Lucifer's Vessel. Gary, regretting everything tries to exorcise the demon but it attacks him. Speaking Latin, Gary and Dean team up and exorcise the demon together. Gary then reverses the spell allowing him and Sam to regain their former bodies. Sam leaves him with a stern warning to stop using magic and that his life really isn't that bad.

Major Characters

• Dean Winchester
• Sam Winchester

Minor Characters

• Gary Frankle
• Trevor
• Nora
• Maggie Briggs

Featured Supernatural Beings

• Demon
• Witches
• Poltergeist (Ghost)

Featured Music

"Rock And Roll Never Forgets" by Bob Seger

"Got My Wings" by Hazy Malaze

"I Got More Bills Than I Got Pay" by Black Toast Music

Continuity

• Busty Asian Beauties makes another appearance in magazine form.
• We see that Dean has finally memorized an exorcism. (see Sin City)

Notes

• The demon possessing Nora grabs Gary by the neck and lifts him up when he starts to exorcize her. However, if he were actually in Sam's body, she couldn't have done this--not because she wasn't strong enough, but because he towered over her.
• When Dean finally listens to Sam's voicemails, we hear them read out in Sam's voice; as Sam is in Gary's body, we should hear Gary reciting them.
• Also, when Dean looks at "Sam" (Gary), he looks down. The actual Sam is taller than Dean.