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Season 4, Episode 17:

It's A Terrible Life

Dean and Sam are living very normal and separate lives. Dean awakens to find himself in an alternate reality in which he is a Wall Street tycoon who enjoys health drinks and listens to news radio instead of rock stations. He works at a company called Sandover Bridge & Iron Company alongside Sam who is in Tech Support. It seems as if the two do not know each other. Neither has memories of their previous lives.

However, after co-workers start committing suicide at an alarming rate, the two find themselves working side by side to solve the murders.

Tropes

• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite not knowing anything about their real pasts or each other, Sam and Dean dispatch the ghost handily.
• Foreshadowing: "Angel or not, I will stab you in your face." Should've been listening, Zachariah...
• Identity Amnesia: Induced by the angel Zachariah.
  • Specifically, they Forgot the Call.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Dean wears tailored suits and suspenders for the entirety of the episode, including while he's ghostbusting.