Reaper: Girl Trouble
Sam learned that it’s a bad idea to make a deal with the Devil this week on Reaper. You’d think he would have figured that out a while ago – say, at the beginning of the season, when he found out about his indentured servitude? – but apparently, Sam is a little slow on the uptake. Sigh.
The problems start when Andi starts getting suspicious about Sam’s other life. She trails him to one of his bounty assignments, and sees Sam chop off the escaped soul’s head. That sort of thing can traumatize a girl, and Andi tells Sam he needs to give her an explanation or she’s going to the police. So Sam asks the Devil for permission to spill. Satan grants that permission – if, and only if, Sam will agree to do him a favor at some point in the future. Sam agrees without even thinking. Sam!
Of course, Sock and Ben think they’ve figured out how to deal with Andi – they’ll just tie her up and stash her in the trunk of the car! Great plan, but then what? Hmmm. Sam finally gets a bright idea – he’ll prove it to Andi by giving her some evidence she can’t deny.
Enter Tony. Our favorite vengeful demon confronted Sam earlier in the episode, but he quickly saw that Sam was just the Devil’s patsy. He’s starting the revolution up again (when he’s not helping Sam cook for his date with Andi), but he’s willing to help the boys. Sam and the guys bring Andi to Tony’s secluded cabin, where Andi sees him transform from mild-mannered nice guy to big old honkin’ demon badass. Andi, understandably, freaks out and flees. That wasn’t the reaction Sam was hoping for… Later, Andi tells him she believes him, but she’s waaaaaay to freaked out to have anything to do with him. Sam scares her now, even though he tells her he loves her!
But he can’t spend too much time thinking about it – the soul he thought he’d vanquished actually got away – he’s like a starfish, and any bits of him left over will generate a new body. Since Sam missed a hand last time around, the soul is back. The guys track him down to the hospital and have it out with him. His hand escapes – again – and Ben and Sock go after the animate appendage. Andi interrupts Sam’s attack on the rest of the soul, and she ends up holding the scythe that swallows him. When Sock and Ben track down the rest of the soul (who had regenerated and drops naked onto a freaked-out Sock), things are finally over.
Or are they? The Devil calls in his favor – he wants Sam to spy on Tony and the new revolution for him. Sam protests, but hey, a deal’s a deal. And that, Sam, is why you really, really need to think before making deals with the Devil!
In other news, Sock is back with Josie, and Ben has ridiculously high standards for what he wants in a woman. Sarah, a British co-worker, tells him to hold out for his dream girl… but that somehow translates into Ben and Sarah getting hitched so Sarah can get a green card. That’s fine, but Ben meets a woman who meets all his requirements – and Sarah won’t let him go. Doh!