Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer Helps Make Best Supernatural Episode Yet

Summary: On a deserted back country road, demon hunters Sam and Dean Winchester come across a desperate wife searching for her husband after a car accident left her unconscious and him missing. Pursuing her is the vengeful spirit of a man killed ten years prior in a hit and run on that very same road, and as Sam and Dean try to save her, she's haunted by the chilling premonition there's something more the Winchester boys aren't telling her.

The popular CW series "Supernatural" hits another high point in Episode 16, "Road Kill", once again showing a depth that makes it much more than a "monster and demon" show. Padelicki and Ackles put in skilled performances as usual; not so much as grizzled demon hunters, but rather as bickering but loyal, loving brothers. Their chemistry is so natural; it's not hard to imagine them as tight-knit siblings rather than actors. Also putting in a powerful performance is guest star Tricia Helfer; she of the slinky-red dress and peroxide-blond hair fame from the Sci Fi Channel's original series "Battlestar Galactica", and she proves to be more than just pretty Cylon-eye-candy, but a skilled actress needing work worthy of flexing her thespian muscles. Backing up that assertion is the fact that "Supernatural" garnered its largest audience with this episode - 3.5million viewers - since Oct. 26, 2006

Initially, the plot's pretty standard of the series so far: Molly McNamara, played by Tricia Helfer, is traveling a deserted back-woods interstate with her husband David, (Dan Gauthier, Son-in-Law), when she swerves to avoid a ghostly figure alongside the road. They careen into a tree downhill, and when she awakens in their wrecked car, her husband is gone. Wandering through the rain in a dark forest, desperately searching for David, she runs into a farmer whom she asks for help: woe it is to find he's this episode's demonic villain as his face rots into skeletal ruins and he pursues her through the woods.