Episode Details

Supernatural Season 3, Episode 7, Fresh Blood recap 🩸 Gordon Walker (Sterling K. Brown) is out of prison and gunning for Sam, Bela sells the boys out (again), and a nest of brand-new vampires is roaming the city, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast.

The episode opens with Bela and Gordon, together again, and Bella giving up the boys' location like it's nothing. Meanwhile, Sam and Dean track a vampire named Lucy (Mercedes McNab, Harmony from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a young woman who was turned by a creep named Dixon (Matthew Humphreys) and has no idea what's happening to her. With Gordon and Kubrick closing in, Dixon on the loose, and Sam finally telling Dean exactly what he sees in his big brother, this one is a fight to the finish.

Episode Highlights:

• Bela vs. Gordon, and Bella NOT flinching with a gun to her head (badass)
• Gordon's line in the sand about vampires (it's about to get complicated)
• Sam to Dean: "I've followed you my whole life. This is how you act when you're terrified."
• Bela's tip, and her warning: pack up and run
• Gordon's best vampire moment (better than Dixon's whole run)
• 11th blood splooge of the Supernatural series
• Sam and Gordon's brutal final fight, so well shot
• Kim Manners' direction and Sera Gamble's writing, the duo behind some of our favorite episodes

In the lore segment, we dig into real-life vampire crimes: Countess Elizabeth Bathory, the Hungarian noblewoman rumored to have bathed in blood, Fritz Haarmann, the Vampire of Hanover, and James P. Riva and Roderick Farrell, modern criminals who claimed to be vampires, and Josephine Smith, whose 2011 Florida attack outside a shuttered Hooters is as wild as it sounds.

"What do you want me to do, Sam, huh? Sit around all day writing sad poems about how I'm gonna die? You know what? I got one. Let's see, what rhymes with 'shut up, Sam'?" – Dean Winchester

Your turn, hunters: Is Gordon Supernatural's best villain so far? And did you recognize Harmony right away too? 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/Fresh_Blood
• https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51204/8-real-life-vampire-crimes

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