I was rewatching Hibbing 911, and the scene between Dean and the Deputy is even more eroticized than I remembered. It’s difficult to believe it actually exists. There’s not a part of that scene that isn’t intentional. The deputy is into dudes, and Dean went there with the express purpose of flirting the information out of him.
The contrast between the scene, and the deputy’s scene with Jody on the one hand, and the scene with the Deputy and Dean with Sam present, makes it even more obvious.
Like Dean, Jody quickly realizes the Deputy is lying. He has his hands folded against his chest, but he does the same thing he does with Dean: he looks down and up at her, twice. But he does it idly, his hands crossed the whole time. He unfolds his hands as he and the Sheriff leave, giving her a longer glance, checking her out. Compared to what happens with Dean, this is academic. But there’s a clear parallel, there’s a clear contrast. The Deputy is curious here, but he’s also self-contained. He’s unperturbed. He’s in possession of all his faculties.
In the scene with Sam present, Dean is aggressive, although he does not begin that way. Notice that the Deputy has his hand suggestively on his belt the whole time, and Dean not once glances down at it where glancing would be the natural impulse because the man’s hand is close to his gun – his actual gun. In fact, he seems noticeably uncomfortable with the line of sight, his eyes trying to focus on everything else. But this doesn’t stop Dean from cold-reading the Deputy. He can tell from their short exchange that he’s thinks the Sheriff is lying. Not that the Deputy is lying, but that he thinks someone else is lying. And Dean, a keen observer of people, can probably tell a host of other things about the Deputy, as well.
Dean starts out cordial enough, answering the Deputy’s disbelief with “Well, we go where the FBI tells us to go.” This is accompanied with a small, fake smile. It’s not until the Deputy gives him the flirty line about it being cute to watch them try that Dean suddenly shifts gear, going from 1 to 80 in a second flat. The Deputy’s jibe about the bobcat had no effect on him, so it’s not about him making fun of them or the FBI. They were the butt-end of his joke on the bobcat, and Dean lets it roll off his back. It was the flirty gaze and the word ‘cute’, used in front of his brother, that set him off.
Unlike with Jody, the Deputy is even in this scene smiling with his teeth. His pupils are blown wide.
The Sheriff points out the bear claws with the Deputy’s hand still suggestively at his belt. He gives Dean a look before he walks away without a word.
Dean describes him as ‘Deputy Douche’ to Sam, but offers to go crack him immediately. Dean clearly felt that the conversation was not over, yet felt the need to contextualize his behaviour for Sam. Their next scene could not be more different from the initial encounter.
First of all, Dean gives him an honest smile at his teeny-weeny hand-cuffs remark, the corners of his eyes crinkling. Clearly, he thinks the Deputy is hilarious. The whole cadence of his voice is different. The way his emphasizes words double-communicates. When he says “The investigation my partner and I are here on,” he doesn’t emphasize investigation, which would be natural, nor the word partner. He emphasizes ‘here on’. While he avoided looking directly at the Deputy before, he now looks him firmly in the eye, and his gaze holds the Deputy’s. It’s a gentle, friendly domination.
Then there’s the really clever way in which Dean works the man over. He uses the word ’big’ twice, to counter the Deputy’s ‘teeny-weeny’ suggestion. The investigation is big. The boys back in DC are big. Dean is making innuendo on his huge dick for the Deputy. And the Deputy most certainly gets it, because on both uses of the word ‘big’, he checks out Dean’s crotch. First shyly, but the second time? He is so ready for it.
“You think that might be something you’d be interested in?” Dean asks. “Might be,” he says, bashfully. They’re not talking about the fucking case, there.
Then Dean tells him that he needs him, first of all, to be totally straight with him. But he says this while touching his tongue to his lower lip. Suggestively. I’m having a difficult time even imagining how he could have made the exchange more erotic. They could have played the scene as a gag, and instead it’s a straight up seduction. Dean Winchester is seducing the information out of a man. And the man was willingly being seduced.
While the Deputy had been unperturbed while Jody had been interrogating him, with Dean he’s putty. He looks away and bears his neck to Dean, and draws even further attention to his bared neck by scratching it nervously. Where with Jody his hands had been folded, with Dean they are not only open, but he actually reaches over for Dean at the end, using the word ‘straight shooter’ to describe his superior, repeating Dean’s choice of word. He’s swallowing noticeably.
At the end, Dean tells him, “When I need you, I’ll come find you, okay?” Not if I need you, when I need you.
So the question is, did he? One can only surmise that Dean would have needed to find him after the Sheriff was killed. If not sooner.
This happened. This really, truly happened. On the actual show. Last season. Dean Winchester seduced a man for information.
JODY TALKING ABOUT ALEX, ABOUT HOW MANY GOOD THINGS THERE ARE INSIDE HER
TWO ADULT WOMEN TALKING WITH KINDNESS AND SYMPATHY ABOUT A TEENAGE GIRL, ABOUT HOW THEY WERE ONCE ANGRY AND CONFUSED YOUNG GIRLS, RESPECTING THAT JOURNEY
I think what I liked most about this episode was that it treated Jody like a part of the main cast of the show. Like she just happens to be off doing other things most of the time, and doesn’t have much to do with the myth-arc stuff, but that she is every bit as important a…
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