"Anytime you start off in the woods, especially in Supernatural, you know something bad is about to go down. In this week, it's Ramsey, a rogue hellhound on the loose, doing what it does best: mauling people to death. It doesn't take long for the Winchesters to get involved and, before they know it, the pair and the target they're trying to save—Gwen—are paired up with Crowley.
On the whole hellhound bit, nothing much really happens. Sure, Gwen's boyfriend is mauled, we get an oral history of the genus hellhound from Crowley and that invisible monstrosity does some damage to the Impala but, other than that, it's another one of those monster-of-the-week story bumps. That doesn't mean "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell" doesn't jumpstart things for the back half of the season (if only Grimm had taken a few pages out of the Supernatural playbook on ‘How to Make One-Shot Episodes Useful to the Season Story Arc').
To start things off, Crowley is in a near perpetual state of glee now that he has Lucifer trussed up. Prior to getting a call from Dean on the loose hellhound, the King of Hell has really taken to the taunting of his former boss. We all know Lucifer's only biding his time, knowing that, sooner or later, he'll get out. Crowley doesn't even bat as much as an eyelash to that prospect, gloating that he's at least ten steps ahead of Lucifer. But we've heard Crowley and other baddies throughout television history spout the same overconfident spiel only to be dragged down by their sinful pride. So when Lucifer does get out—thanks to Thomas and Victor, two Hell Court flunkies—and comes face to face with Crowley, I was waiting for a biblical smack down on Supernatural's king of one-liners. No way was Crowley expecting that…"
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