Ellen just holds her baby girl. She knows what it's like to want to have someone just say that you're doing okay, that all the work, all the sacrifice is for the good.

After Bill died, she didn't get it. She had to find it for herself. But damn if she wouldn't have liked to hear it.

"He would have gotten bored with it. Gotta keep a man like Dean on his toes or he's gone." Ellen shrugs. She knows too many like that. "And it sounds like he was trying to tattle." Because Dean is known for his maturity at times. "Again, don't worry. I'll handle him." She has the advantage of being mom and nothing else.