Season One Episode Guide

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1.01 Pilot - Aired 9/13/05
1.02 Wendigo - Aired 9/20/05
1.03 Dead in the Water - Aired 9/27/05
1.04 Phantom Traveler - Aired 10/4/05
1.05 Bloody Mary - Aired 10/11/05
1.06 Skin - Aired 10/18/05
1.07 Hook Man - Aired 10/25/05
1.08 Bugs - Aired 11/8/05
1.09 Home - Aired 11/15/05
1.10 Asylum - Aired 11/22/05
1.11 Scarecrow - Aired 1/10/06
1.12 Faith - Aired 1/17/06
1.13 Route 666 - Aired 1/31/06
1.14 Nightmare - Aired 2/7/06
1.15 The Benders - Aired 2/14/06
1.16 Shadow - Aired 2/28/06
1.17 Hell House - Aired 3/30/06
1.18 Something Wicked - Aired 4/6/06
1.19 Provenance - Aired 4/13/06
1.20 Dead Man's Blood - Aired 4/20/06
1.21 Salvation - Aired 4/27/06
1.22 Devil's Trap - Aired 5/4/06



Episode One: Pilot

Lawrence, Kansas – 22 years ago

A mother and father are tucking in their two sons Dean and Sam. The mother, Mary, gets up and finds her husband John standing over Sam’s crib. Noticing a flickering light, she knocks it into place and sees the TV running downstairs. Her husband is asleep at the TV and she runs upstairs and screams. Her husband hears her and goes up to find Sam alive and well, but blood is dripping from the ceiling – Mary is dead and sticking to the ceiling, and bursts into flame. John grabs Sam and gives him to Dean and tells him to run outside – he goes to get his wife but fire consumes the house and he barely makes it out.

Stanford University – Present Day

A now college-age Sam is preparing to go to a Halloween party – Sam is set up for law school and has an interview the next Monday. Back at his apartment he spots an intruder and they fight – it turns out the intruder is Dean, his brother, who is here to talk about private family business. Dean reveals their father has disappeared during a “hunting” trip. Dean wants Sam to take off with him to find their father, who goes “hunting” for supernatural creatures – the brothers have as well in the past but Sam’s given it up. Their father John was looking into disappearances of men along a specific stretch of road. John left Dean a voice-mail message warning of danger and containing EVP. Dean’s analysis of the EVP reveals a woman saying, “I can never go home.” Dean appeals to Sam for help and he reluctantly agrees as long as they’re back by Monday.

Jericho, California

A boy, Troy, is driving along when he spots an oddly-distorted woman in white along the side of the road as his radio goes out. He offers her a ride and she asks him to take her home. She comes on to him and asks him to come home with her. Troy agrees and they drive up to an abandoned house – he turns to her and she’s vanished. He approaches the house and something leaps out at him and he drives away, unaware she’s in the back until it’s too late and he drives onto a closed bridge where he dies horribly in a flurry of blood.

Dean and Sam arrive at Jericho when they spot the police checking out the dead boy’s car on the bridge. Dean has a Federal Marshal fake ID and passes himself off as an investigator and takes to the police, who are looking for Troy. There find out have been other disappearances and they head out as the FBI arrive. They meet up with Troy’s girlfriend Amy, who reveals there’s a local legend of a girl who was murdered, and her ghost hitchhikes and the person picking her up disappears. They find a 1981 record of a woman, Constance Wells, who committed suicide off the bridge after her two children died in the bathtub. That night they go out to check the bridge and spot Constance on the railing as she jumps – then their car starts up and comes after them on its own. They dive over the side and Dean ends up in the water with Sam holding on to the side.

They check into a hotel and find their dad’s room – he used mystical wards to keep spirits out of the room. They figure out their dad found out about Constance and conclude he would have dug up the corpse. The police catch up to them and Sam escapes while Dean gets arrested. The sheriff knows about their father John and has his journal, but Dean doesn’t say anything. Sam links up with Constance’s husband Joseph. Sam reveals that there are legends of such women who take revenge on their cheating husbands, kill their children, and then kill themselves. Then they come back as ghosts to kill unfaithful men.

When the sheriff is called away for a 911 call (which Sam faked), Dean picks his handcuffs and sneaks out of the police station. Dean is sure that their father is alive and has left town – Sam’s on the phone and drives right through the Woman in White, who then appears in his back seat. When he refuses to take her home, the car doors lock and the car drives itself to the abandoned house. She comes on to Sam and plans to ensure he’s unfaithful so she can kill him. She starts to reach her hand into his chest but Dean Arrives and opens fire, driving her off. Sam drives the car into the house, “taking her home.” The two brothers confront the spirit, who slams them into the wall with a dresser. But the lights come up water starts dripping down the stairs from the two children as their ghosts appear. They embrace her and they all three disappear in a flash of light and a smear of black fluid.

The two brothers head to Colorado following the coordinates their father left behind, but Sam insists he’s has to go to his interview. Dean drops him off but when Sam gets back to his apartment, he finds his girlfriend dead and suspended from the ceiling, the same as his mother years earlier. The apartment bursts into flame but Dean comes back to rescue him. Realizing he has no choice, Sam unites with his brother to find their father and the creature that is clearly stalking their family.


Episode Two: Wendigo

Blackwater Ridge

Two kids are playing video games out in the woods at their campsite while another one sends a video message to his girlfriend. One of the kids goes out to take a nature call and is attacked. The other two hear and go to check it out – another one gets killed as animal noises fill the air. The last one has only a momentary respite before he’s attacked as well.

Palo Alto, California

Sam is visiting his dead girlfriend Jessica’s grave when a hand reaches out of the dirt…but it’s just a nightmare. They’re outside of Grand Junction at Lost Creek, Colorado looking for the thing that killed Jessica, by finding their dad. There’s nothing on the map coordinates and they notice there are grizzly bears in the woods. Claiming to be environmental study majors, a local ranger figures they’re friends of the “Haley girl.” The Haley girl was looking for her missing brother but the ranger isn’t concerned. Dean smooth-talks the Ranger into getting the girl’s location. They talk to Haley claiming to be park rangers and she expresses her concern, and shows them the last video mail he sent. Haley reveals she hired a guide and is heading out to find her brother Tommy.

Sam checks the files and finds there have been a number of disappearances every 23 years, supposedly by grizzly bears. Sam checked the video mail and spots a super-swift shadow-outline in the background. They track down one survivor, Shaw, who reveals he saw nothing but only heard its roar. It broke into their cabin and left Shaw with a huge scar on his chest. Dean concludes it’s some kind of corporeal creature, perhaps a “skinwalker” or “black dog.” The guys catch up to Haley, her younger brother, and her guide Roy, and convince them they’re going along. In a cave, the boys from the campsite are tied up and a horrendous creature approaches to feed off of one of them.

Roy shows off his expertise (and Dean’s lack) by spotting and triggering a bear trap. Dean gives Haley the true story about how they’re looking for they’re father and Haley grudgingly lets them continue with her. Deeper in the woods they spot the devastated campsite and Dean concludes it isn’t any of the creatures he thought. They hear a scream and follow the cry into the woods, but realize they’ve been distracted –when they come back their backpacks are stolen, including Roy’s GPS locator. Sam confronts Dean and checks their dad’s journal – there’s a picture of a Wendigo, a spirit creature that guns are useless against and that can imitate human voices. Sam tries to warn them to get them to leave, but Roy isn’t buying it and Haley refuses to leave without Tommy. With night coming, they decide to settle in at a defensible position.

They make a camp and Dean scribes Anasazi symbols that the Wendigo supposedly can’t step over. Sam has been getting irritable and when Dean confronts him, Sam notes that their dad isn’t here and never was, and he wants to stop wasting time and go find him. Dean suspects their dad wants them to go into the family business and is leading them into it. Dean figures they should try to help other families. They hear a cry for help from the woods before it is cut off, but figure it’s the Wendigo again. Roy apparently shoots it and goes off into the woods, and Dean and Sam follow. Roy is lifted up into the trees.

Come morning, they go over the legend of a Wendigo, and how a man turns cannibal and then becomes such a creature. They note that the Wendigo keeps its victims alive and stores them so it can feed during the winter. The only way to kill it is with fire so they rig up some Molotov cocktails and follow its clawprints before realizing it’s leading them on again. Blood drips on Haley from above as Roy’s corpse drops down on them. They run get separated, and Dean and Haley get grabbed by the Wendigo.

Sam and Haley’s brother Gary continue to look and Gary finds a trail of Dean’s M&Ms. The trail leads to an old mine shaft with a posted warning of toxic materials. Entering, they see the Wendigo leave and then plunge through some rotting wood into a lower level and find a strung-up Haley and Dean. They free them and find Tommy’s corpse…but he’s not quite dead yet. They free him and find some flare guns, then head for the exit when they hear the Wendigo. Sam gets the others out while Dean lures the creature away. Sam gets the others out and then goes back to help Dean but runs into the Wendigo. He gets off a shot that misses then catches up to the others as the Wendigo closes in on them. They get to a dead-end but as the creature closes in Dean nails it with a direct hit, incinerating it. Afterward they pass on the grizzly story as Tommy gets hauled away, and Haley thanks them for their help and wishes them luck finding their father. Dean gives Sam some assurance, and Sam basically acknowledges they’re going to be monster-hunting and people-helping.

Episode Three: Dead in the Water

Lake Manitoc, Wisconsin

Sophie Carlton goes for a morning swim in the lake near her house. Swimming for awhile, she’s a considerable distance from shore when, suddenly, she is dragged under. She never surfaces.

Lake Manitoc, Wisconsin

A week later, while searching for their father, Dean discovers a newspaper article about the young woman’s death, the third one to occur this year. They go to Lake Manitoc and talk to Sophie’s brother Will, introducing themselves as Agents Ford and Hamill of the Fish and Wildlife Service. They learn he saw…something…on the lake, but he is not sure what. The father, Bill Carlton, is a wreck and Will politely asks that he be left alone.

The sheriff’s office is their next stop. There they learn from Sheriff Jake Devins that the lake hosts no large carnivores, and that the sheriff thinks the stressful situation might have caused Will to see something that wasn’t there. But he can’t explain why dragging the lake and scanning it with sonar failed to discover Sophie’s body. Devins also reveals that the lake will shortly disappear; lack of funding to repair the dam that creates it means the floodgates have been opened full. In a few months, the lake will be gone. The also meet the sheriff’s daughter Andrea, and her young son Lucas, who is very shy.

More research reveals that this year’s strange drownings are not the first; there have been six others over the last thirty-five years. And they discover the name of another of this year’s victims: Christopher Barr, Andrea’s husband and Lucas’ father. Lucas spent two hours alone on a floating platform after his father died, and before rescuers found him.

Believing Lucas might offer them a lead, Dean and Sam visit the park, where Dean attempts to draw the child out. At first he believes he has failed, but Lucas brings him a picture of a house.

Meanwhile, Will Carlton is making dinner for himself and his father. His father is still emotionally fragile so Will is working alone when the kitchen sink fills with dirty water. Attempting to clear the clog, Will is seized, and his head is dragged under the dark water. He drowns quickly, and the sink drains.

Theorizing the two drownings are connected, the brothers speculate they may be dealing with a water wraith or some kind of demon, and that its ability to go anywhere the lake water goes makes it very dangerous indeed. Then they discover two things that point the finger at Bill Carlton: the picture Lucas gave them is his house, and Christopher Barr, who drowned earlier this year, is his godson. But even with this evidence, they cannot get answers from Bill Carlton.

Returning to Lucas’ house, Dean coaxes another drawing from the boy: another house, tucked behind a church, with a fence, a boy, and a bicycle in front. Some legwork discovers the house. Living there is an old woman, but no boy has lived there for a very long time. Many years ago, Peter Sweeney disappeared on his way home from school one day, and was never found. Lucas’ traumatic experience may have “connected” him to whatever is drowning people in some strange way.

Now certain Bill Carlton knows what’s going on, and probably what happened to Peter, the two brothers race back to his house. There, Bill is sitting by the lake, musing out loud: he “knows what he wants”. The brothers arrive seconds after Bill pulls away from the dock in a small boat; he makes it a few hundred feet from shore before the boat is hurled bow upwards and flipped. Bill sinks beneath the waves.

They go back to the sheriff’s office where Lucas has a reaction to the news and their presence. Sheriff Devins is skeptical of their story and his attitude has worsened from indifference to hostility with his discovery that the Winchesters aren’t from Fish and Wildlife at all. He offers them the choice of being arrested, or putting Lake Manitoc in their rearview mirror and keeping it there. They elect to leave town rather then get arrested, but Dean decides to turn around: Lucas was still afraid, and if he is connected to this, that might mean he is still in danger.

Meanwhile, Lucas’ mother Andrea is taking a bath when the running water from the spigot turns dark, and she begins to struggle. She is pulled under, as Lucas, sensing the problem, is pounding on the door. Fortunately, the Winchesters appear at the house in time to wrench her from the water and save her life. She claims to have heard a voice saying “come play with me”. It seems that whatever is drowning people wasn’t satisfied with the death of Bill Carlton. It seems that the sheriff may also be involved.

Lucas must have some sort of connection, for he takes Sam and Dean straight to where Peter Sweeney’s bicycle was buried so many years ago. After unearthing it, Sheriff Devins confronts them and demands to know how they knew it was there. That Devins knew it was there seems to confirm his involvement in whatever happened to Peter Sweeney thirty-five years ago. The Winchesters demand answers. To put Sweeney’s ghost to rest, they must find the remains, salt them, and burn them completely.

The story finally comes out: as children, Devins and Carlton used to bully and torment Sweeney. One day, they were playing a “game,” holding his head underwater at the lake. But the game went too far, and Sweeney drowned. And there are no remains to be found; they let go of the body, and it sank into the lake. The alternative, then, is to get the people related to the sheriff away from town, where hopefully the ghost cannot reach them. It is then that they notice Lucas has been drawn to the edge of the lake…

Screaming at him to back away, the brothers, his mother, and his grandfather race to the lake, but not in time to prevent him from being pulled in. Sam and Dean dive in after him but cannot find him. Then his grandfather wades into the lake and entreats the ghost to take him but release the little boy. And the ghost does; rising from the depths, pale and ghastly, it seizes the sheriff and pulls him to his death. And Sam rises to the surface with Lucas in his arms.

Despite his brush with death, Lucas finally begins speaking. Slowly at first, but speaking. His fear is gone, which suggests the ghost is finally at rest.

Episode 1.04: Phantom Traveler

A nervous airplane passenger at an airport goes into the restroom, unaware a shadowy form is oozing out of a nearby air vent. He finally notices it as it enters his eyes. On the plane, the passenger boards and is much more relaxed…and has solid black eyes. A stewardess notices but dismisses it. Later on the flight, the passenger gets up and goes to the boarding hatch and as a teenager looks on, opens it and is sucked outside as the airplane goes into a nosedive

Dean wakes up Sam and they discuss their dreams. They’re interrupted by Dean getting a call from Jerry, someone he and his dad helped out who has a new problem, and asks for a personal meeting. Jerry is an airplane inspector who plays back the cockpit recorder of the crashed plane. Only seven people survived the crash, including the pilot, and they haven’t been able to account for the crash cause. Dean forges them some Homeland Security ID and they go over the recording – they find voices on the tape saying, “No survivors.”

They talk to the one of the survivors, a local named Max Jaffee, who was the one who saw the man open the hatch. After some prodding he reveals he saw the passenger with the black eyes, but he checked and there was no way he could have opened the hatch against the pressure. They go to the house of the passenger, George Phelps, and talk to the widow, but she doesn’t tell them anything suspicious. After buying some suits, they go into the warehouse with the wreckage. Dean uses an EM meter to track signals and find the emergency door handle covered in some black powder. Unfortunately the real homeland security team inspectors show up and the brothers are forced to make a run for it and just get ahead.

The brothers’ contact figure the powder is a sulphur residue and concludes demonic possession is involved. The surviving pilot of the first crash, Chuck Lambert, is possessed by the same black force and takes his plane into a sky dive.

Sam figures that in many legends demons are responsible for disasters, but Dean is reluctant to investigate as it’s outside their usual gig. They here about the crash from their contact and go to investigate, and find traces of sulphur again. They also determine both flights went down 40 minutes into the flight, and there have been six other flights over the last decade. The brothers figure the demon is killing the remaining survivors and they track down the flight attendant, Amanda Walker. They can’t get hold of her and she’s planning on taking a new flight up. After a long drive they get to the airport with 30 minutes to spare and call Amanda. Dean claims to be a doctor calling for her mother Karen but she catches on and thinks Dean is calling on behalf of her old boyfriend. She buys it but still goes on the flight while the demon hovers in the background. Sam figures they have no choice but to go on the flight and exercise the demon, but Dean has a fear of flying. He reluctantly goes along and the plane takes off with them on-board.

They figure the demon’s victim will be someone with an emotional weakness or addiction, and that the demon will flinch at the name of God. Dean talks to Amanda about her nervousness and his but she doesn’t react when he sends “Cristo” (Latin for “God”). Sam is concerned that the panicky Dean is leaving himself open to possession and he manages to calm down. Sam comes up with a two-part ritual that will first force the demon out of the body and then second send it away. Dean uses an EM meter to check the passengers. The meter goes wild as the co-pilot runs by and when Dean says “Cristo” the co-pilot’s eyes turns black before he locks himself in the cockpit.

With 12 minutes remaining into the first 40 minutes, the brothers go to Amanda and they manage to convince her something is going on and that she needs to bring the co-pilot back with some excuse. She agrees and manages to bring him back, where they knock him down, gag him, douse him with holy water that causes him to burn, then ask her to keep people out while they begin the ritual. The demon boasts he knows what happened to Sam’s girlfriend but they continue with the ritual and the black force spews out of him and into the vents. The plane plunges down and they manage to grab the book to perform the second part of the ritual. The plane is hit by lightning and then it stabilizes as the demon is ejected once and for all.

The co-pilot has no memory of what happened and the FBI interrogates everyone – Amanda whispers a thanks to them but Sam is concerned about the demon’s knowledge of his dead girlfriend Jessica. Jerry thanks them and reveals their dad left him a message to call them. They check the number which was previously disconnected, but now has Dean’s number and a recommendation to call him for help.

1.05: Bloody Mary

Toledo, Ohio

Three girls are playing Truth or Dare and one is dared to say “Bloody Mary” three times in front of the bathroom mirror. The girl accepts the dare and goes into the bathroom, and on the third statement, the other girls bang on the door. Their father goes down to investigate, unaware of a ghostly female figure reflected in the mirrors. He goes into the upstairs bathroom and sees veins beneath his eyes. His older daughter Donna comes home and sees a pool of blood beneath the bathroom door. She goes in and finds him dead.

Sam is dreaming of his girlfriend’s death when Dean wakes him up. They’re at the home of the dead father, Mr. Shoemaker, and go in to the morgue pretending to be med students. When fast talking doesn’t work, bribery does, and they see that the corpse’s eyes were practically liquefied. Another bribe gets them a look at the police report and then they talk with Donna at the funeral. The younger daughter, Lily, insists it was Bloody Mary but Dean reassures her. The brothers sneak into the upstairs but can’t account for why the father died instead of the daughter, the one who said it. Donna’s friend Charlie interrupts them but they talk their way out of it. Later Charlie is driving home and talking to her friend Jill, who says “Bloody Mary” three times in front of her mirror, then pretends to get attacked. After Jill hangs up, the same figure appears in the reflections around her. As she undresses for bed, her reflection takes on a life of its own and starts bleeding from the eyes. Jill’s eyes start bleeding for real. Her reflection accuses her of killing a boy as Jill dies.

Charlie gets hold of them and after agreeing to help, let them into Jill’s bedroom. Using first heat-sensitive cameras and then a black light, they find a handprint and the words “Gary Bryman.” They check it and figure how Bryman was an eight-year old boy who was killed two years ago and was hit by a car Charlie identifies as Jill’s. Another black light trace says, “Linda Shoemaker,” the dead man’s wife who committed suicide. Dean runs a nationwide check of Mary’s that committed suicide but Sam wonders if Bloody Mary is punishing people who had secrets involving murder. They find an unsolved murder of a Mary Worthington in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with a similar handprint and whose eyes were cut out.

Fort Wayne, Indiana

The brothers talk to the detective who investigated the case, who reveals the letters “TRE” were written at the crime scene. A local surgeon named Trevor was the primary suspect and Mary was going to tell his wife they were having an affair. Mary’s body was cremated and the mirror given to the family, so they go to investigate.

Meanwhile, Charlie tries to convince Donna of what’s going on while they’re in a school bathroom. A skeptical Donna says “Bloody Mary” three times and nothing happens, but as Charlie leaves the ghostly figure appears in nearby reflections. Later in her classroom, she sees Mary in her compact and freaks out, smashing windows. The brothers have no luck getting the mirror from the brother – he sold it to a store in Toledo. They figure Mary’s soul is trapped in the mirror and they have to smash it. Charlie calls them and they take her to their hotel room after covering all the reflective surfaces. They confront Charlie with the secret she’s holding back, and she reveals she had a boyfriend she broke up with killed himself over her. The brothers figure it’s enough to draw Mary’s ire and Sam wonders if smashing the original mirror is enough. Dean confronts Sam over the fact that he believes he was responsible for his girlfriend’s death, and Sam reveals the secret he had over it – but he’s not going to tell so that they can lure Mary to him.

Dean reluctantly agrees and they break into the store where the mirror is – problem is the story is filled with mirrors. They start looking, unaware they’ve set off a silent alarm. Sam finds the mirror and then says, “Bloody Mary” three times as he prepares to break the mirror.

The police arrive outside and Dean goes to delay them while Mary starts appearing in the mirror. Sam starts shattering each mirror she appears in but his eyes start to bleed out as his reflection blames him for killing Jessica. Dean punches out the police and runs back inside while his reflection accuses him of dreaming Jessica would die in fire before she died. Dean gets there just in time to shatter the mirror with Sam’s reflection, but Mary crawls out of the shattered mirror and comes at them, causing both their eyes to start bleeding. Dean manages to grab a mirror and show her her own reflection – her own image accuses her of her many murders and she disintegrates, then Dean shatters the final mirror.

The guys drop off Charlie and Sam advises she let go of her guilt, and Dean suggests Sam do so as well. As they leave, Dean asks what the secret was but Sam refuses. As they leave, he briefly sees a ghostly figure of Jessica but she disappears.

1.06: Skin

St. Louis, MO

A man is preparing to torture a bound woman with a knife as police assault officers burst in. The man slips by them as they move in and find the woman, still alive. She directs them to the departing torturer and they give pursuit. They catch him with the knife as he escapes, and it’s…Dean.

One Week Earlier

Sam and Dean pull into town and Sam is checking e-mails from his friends at Stanford. He gets word from Rebecca, who says his brother Zach is under arrest for killing a girl but both she and Sam believe Zach is innocent. Sam insists they go to St. Louis to help and Dean reluctantly agrees. They go to Rebecca, who is at her parent’s house – they’re in Paris. Rebecca reveals Zach came home and found Emily tied to the chair, beaten up and bloody. He called the police but they arrested him – they have a video from a security tape showing Zach coming into his home at 10:30, but he was with Rebecca until midnight. Sam claims Dean is a cop and his brother plays along with it.

They go to Zach’s house and Rebecca reveals someone had broken in and stole clothes a week earlier. The family dog is now extremely vicious and Rebecca confirms it turned violent around the time of the murder. Rebecca already got the tape and as they go to review it, elsewhere “Zach” is watching a businessman and his wife and doing a sketch of the man – “Zach’s” eyes briefly turn yellow.

The tape confirms what the police claim, that Zach is the murderer. After getting Rebecca out of the room for a moment, Sam point out that “Zach’s” eyes flashed yellow and that some kind of doppelganger is responsible. The businessman, Alex, returns home but his wife Lindsay doesn’t respond. Alex spots a bloody handprint and finds her tied up and bloody, and begging him not to hurt her any more. He runs out of the room but his counterpart hits him with a baseball bat, knocking him out.

At 5:30 a.m. Dean and Sam go back to Zach’s house and look for a trail, since the killer never went out the front door and the police didn’t bother to check the back. They find a blood print then spot an ambulance going by. They check it out and hear about how Alex, a nice guy, killed his wife. Sam looks around for evidence while Dean decides it’s “their kind of problem” – Alex’s story is the same as Zach’s. Sam picks up a trail but it suddenly ends just like at Zach’s house – Dean thinks the monster went down.

In the sewers they find a mess of discarded flesh, skin, and goo, and Dean wonders if the creature sheds its skin. They head back to the car to get silver bullets, and Rebecca calls to tell them she knows Dean isn’t a police officer. Dean advises Sam to get used to not having any friends. They head back into the sewer and close in on the creature, finding another pile of discarded skin. The creature (as “Alex”) attacks them from surprise, wounding Dean, and Sam chases off after it as it makes for the surface. They split up but no luck – the two join up but as they head back for the car, Dean’s eyes glow yellow.

Sam has a few doubts about Dean but “Dean” is able to answer his implied questions about their father and their past history. But then Sam draws a gun on him anyway, noting the wounded arm is no longer wounded and Dean took the keys with the wrong hand. “Dean” tries to bluff his way through but when it doesn’t work, he knocks Sam out. Sam wakes up and “Dean” slaps him around for a bit, then reveals that he was able to probe Dean’s memories, and that Dean resents Sam for going off to college. “Dean” goes on about Dean’s issues, then heads off to hit on Rebecca.

Dean wakes up in the creature’s lair while “Dean” talks his way into Rebecca’s house and explains the shapeshifter situation. “Dean” talks about how the creature was a hideous genetic freak, scorned by society, until it found a way to take on the shapes of others. Dean manages to scrape through his ropes and free Sam, while Rebecca gets angry when “Dean” starts to hit on her. When she tries to call the police he takes her captive but before he can go to work, we’re back at the beginning of the episode

Then “Dean” takes out one policeman with the knife and kicks around the others long enough to escape, but not before he takes a wound. In the sewers, the shapeshifter discards Dean’s form in a long painful process.

Sam and Dean catch a newscast broadcasting Dean’s appearance and go into hiding – they’re out of weapons so need to get to Rebecca’s to get the car. They make it but the police close in and Sam gets arrested while Dean makes a break for it. Against Sam’s advice, Dean goes into the sewers alone and finds…Rebecca.

Meanwhile Sam is out of jail and goes back to meet with Rebecca…who is the shapeshifter. The shifter takes on Dean’s appearance again after tying up Sam, and plans to kill him so that Dean will have to be on the run for the rest of his life. “Dean” expresses his admiration for Dean and prepares to start cutting with the knife. Sam knocks him away long enough to grab the knife and free himself, and the two of them fight. “Dean” finally gets the upper hand and is strangling Sam when the real Dean arrives and puts two silver bullets into the shifter’s chest.

Sam reveals what he does to Rebecca, who is more then willing to believe after seeing the shapeshifter at work. Rebecca asks Sam to call some time and he promises he will…but not for a while. Zach is cleared – the police believe a “Dean Winchester” is responsible and the tape was tampered with. The brothers head out and Dean apologies but recognizes that they’re both freaks, and they’re in it together.

1.07: Hook Man

Theta Sorority – Eastern Iowa University

A girl, Lori, is preparing for a date and her roommate helps her pick out a blouse. Later Lori and her date Rich park beneath a bridge on their way to a party as a figure with a hook on his right hand lurks in the shadows. As they kiss, her cell phone rings – it’s Lori’s father. She ignores it but as he tries to put some moves on her, a horrible scratching noise as the figure drags his hook along nearby signs. The boy goes out to investigate and sees scratches appear alongside the side of his car with no one making them. Rich disappears and Lori locks the car doors and closes the windows. Something crashes on the roof and she decides to make a break for it. She turns around and sees a dead, bloody Rich hanging suspended above the car, dangling from the bridge.

Sam is trying to find their dad through records when Dean comes up with a news article on Rich’s death, caused by an “invisible man.” They head off to the college and pretend to be fraternity brothers to get in at a fraternity. They get information on Rich, who was a fraternity member, and they find out Lori was the witness and a reverend’s daughter. They go to the church and approach Lori and Sam reassures Lori. She also tells him what she was, which leads them to conclude the killer may be part of the “Hook Man” legend. They do some research and find that in 1862 an insane reverend, Jacob Carnes, had a silver hook-hand and killed 13 prostitutes at the same location where Rich was killed.

Loris’ father Reverend Sorenson drives her home and it’s clear he doesn’t agree with her living in a fraternity, and has concerns about her roommate Taylor. At the murder site, the brothers arm up with shotguns armed with rock salt to handle a spirit. They draw a gun on a figure…who turns out to be a local policeman who arrests them. In her room, Lori goes to bed without turning on the lamps, unaware that a figure is lurking behind the door. The next morning she wakes up and finds Taylor dead, cut to death and covered in blood. On the wall is a message saying “Aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the lights?” written in blood.

Dean and Sam get out of jail when Dean explains it was a pledge, and spot the police heading for the fraternity. They follow and see the Reverend take his daughter home, then sneak into the sorority to check out the crime scene. Sam spots a symbol on the wall, the same symbol that was on the 1862 hook-hand. Dean figure the killings are directly related to Lori. Back at the fraternity, there’s a party goes on and Sam reveals that there has been a pattern of local religious men arrested for killings they claimed were committed by an invisible man, and the spirit may be drawn to Reverend Sorenson. Sam goes to watch Lori while Dean goes to look for Carnes’ unmarked grave.

Dean finds a grave with the same symbol and starts digging, while Lori sees Sam and goes out to talk with him. Dean incinerates the corpse while Lori confesses her frustration and she and Sam kiss. Reverend Sorenson calls them in but he’s grabbed by the hook-hand figure who yanks him into the house. Sam runs up to investigate and Sam shoots the figure, forcing it to fade away.

The sheriff talks to Sam who can’t give the full story, and Dean arrives. Sam thinks the spirit has latched on to Lori, who believed her father had an affair. Dean claims he disposed of the body, but didn’t get the hook. They conclude they get the hook and they stop the Hook Man. They do some more research and track the hook to the church where Sorenson preaches, and concludes it may have been melted down into something else. They go to the basement and use the furnace to melt down anything that is made out of silver but then here footsteps upstairs. They investigate and find Lori praying for forgiveness, as she’s determined she’s the one responsible. The figure appears in the church and the candles blow out, plunging the chapel into darkness.

Sam and Lori head for the door but the Hook Man appears outside and they flee back into the church. He’s right behind them and keeps teleporting ahead of them, wounding Sam. The figures closes in and sends Sam flying, then advances on Lori. Dean opens fire and the figure teleports away, and Sam notices Lori is wearing a silver cross. Sam rips it off of her as the invisible Hook Man drags scratches down the wall toward them.

Dean takes the cross and heads for the furnace while Sam opens fire on where he thinks the figure is. When he stops to reload the Hook Man disarms him, but the cross melts in the furnace and the Hook Man’s hook melts and then he disintegrates into ashes.

Sam and Dean give a fake story to the sheriff, who tells them to get out of town. Lori thanks Sam and they head out of town, although Sam is clearly tempted to stick around for Lori.

1.08: Bugs

Oasis Plaines, Oklahoma

At a construction site for new suburban upscale homes, one of the workers notices ground tremors and when he feels the ground, falls through a sinkhole. The worker, Dustin, breaks his ankle and when his friend Travis goes for a rope, Dustin sees thousands of bugs which begin to cover him. When Travis comes back, Dustin is dead.

The brothers are at a bar and Dean is raising money by hustling pool when Sam spots a newspaper article about a worker dying of mad cow disease. Sam realizes the guy, Dustin, died far too quickly and thinks something is up. They pretend to be Dustin’s nephews and talk to Travis, who tells them what he saw and points them to where it happened. Sam goes down into the hole and finds some beetles, but no tunnels or tracks. Dean spots a realtor’s BBQ and they go in and meet with the realtor, Larry Pike, while claiming to be looking for a house for their father.

While seeing the house they notice Larry’s son Matt is big on bugs and Sam meets with him over a pet spider he’s using for a practical joke, while Dean learns a surveyor died a year earlier from an allergic reaction to a bee sting. Dean thinks the son might be involved and then they break into a house to stay the night. Larry’s sales manager, Lynda, is at home taking a shower when spiders swarm out of the shower head and she panics and falls through the shower glass, then dies covered in bugs.

The next morning Sam picks up the call on the radio scanner and go to the house. Larry is there to identify the body, They sneak into the house and find the spiders, and connect it to Larry’s son. They catch up to him getting off the school bus and follow him into the woods where he’s observing a praying mantis. They confront him and Matt reveals something is going on with the bugs but his dad won’t listen to him. He takes them deeper into the woods where the insects are congregating, and find a worm-covered mound with a skull inside.

They find more skeletons in what is clearly an unmarked grave, and go to the local college for an appointment while discussing their issues about how their father wasn’t happy with Sam and his life choices. Dean reveals their father used to check up on Sam without his knowledge. They meet with an anthropology professor who have him look at the bones – he reveals there weren’t any records of graveyards but local Indians were often relocated. The professor directs them to a nearby tribe and a Joe Whitetree, who immediately spots they’re not students. He reveals that the cavalry raided their village and on the sixth day the chief laid a curse that no Pike man would come on their land and nature would rise up against them. Further, that on the night of sixth day, none would survive.

They figure when the deaths first occurred, at the spring equinox, and that that night is the sixth night. They head back to get Larry and his family out, while at his house Matt notices a hole in the backyard and cockroaches start to pour out.

Dean tries to fool Larry into believing there’s a gas leak but he isn’t fooled so they call Matt. Dean tells him to lie and fake some pains so his parents will take him to the hospital. The brothers get there and the Pikes are still there- Matt told him the truth and he thinks they’re nuts. Before they can convince him, they hear the sound of a huge swarm of bugs and then see them heading for the house. They get into the house for refuge and start to seal the place up. They have no choice but to wait it out, as the curse is supposed to end at sunrise.

Dean grabs a can of bug spray as the bugs start to come in through the fireplace flue – it bursts open as the bugs swarm in and Dean improvises a flamethrower out of the spray can. They take refuge in the attic but the termites start chewing through the wood then pour through the resulting hole. They manage to seal it up with a board and bracing but the termites create another hole and then break through the first one. All looks hopeless but just in time the sunrises and the bugs swarm out through the hole, going back to wherever they came.

Later the brothers meet with Pike who announces the development project has been put on hold, and who will make sure no one lives there again. But Larry and White have bonded, much to Sam’s satisfaction. Matt is dumping his bug collection and Sam resolves to find their father so he can apologize.

1.09: Home

Lawrence, Kansas

A woman is unpacking and going through old wedding photos when her daughter interrupts and says there’s something in her closet. The mother goes to check it out and finds nothing, then puts her daughter to bed while talking about how they’ll be happy in their new home. The daughter asks her mother to brace the closet door shut with a chair before she leaves. The mother goes downstairs to unpack and thinks she hears rats in the basement. Going downstairs, she finds the lights are out while upstairs, the chair moves itself away from the door as the daughter looks on in horror. The mother finds an old chest with a photos of the Winchester family, while upstairs the closet door opens and a glowing flame emerges and the daughter screams.

In a hotel room Sam wakes up from a dream of a woman in the window of their old house, and he draws a sketch of the tree he saw there, and connects it to the one at their house and thinks the family there is in danger. Sam reveals that sometimes his nightmares come true. Dean reveals he swore never to go back there but eventually agrees they need to go back there.

The brothers arrive at the house and they introduce themselves to the mother, Jenny, as…themselves for once. She recognizes their name from the pictures and lets them in, introducing them to her daughter Sarry and her son Richie. Jenny mentions there are rats in the basement and Sarry talks about the creature in her closet and it was on fire. After they leave Sam is determined to get her out of the house but Dean advises a more measured approach and they check out the history of the house. They review their memories of the night their mother died but know very little now then in the past. Dean steps away to go to the bathroom but calls their father and tells him on the answering machine that they’re at the old house and they need his help.

Jenny calls in a plumber for the backed up sink and when he’s working on it a wind-up monkey starts up on its own. He tests the garbage disposal after making sure it’s powered off, but it starts up as the monkey claps on.

Dean meets with a garage owner, Guenther who knew their dad and talks about how stubborn he was and hated to lose. Their dad claimed it was just a short circuit that caused the fire, then got obsessed with the supernatural and visited a palm reader. They check the phone book and find one psychic, Missouri Mosely, who is on the first page of their dad’s journal. They visit her and she recognizes them, and clearly has authentic psychic abilities. Missouri reveals that after the fire she introduced him to the supernatural and went to the house, but couldn’t pick up anything. Missouri reveals she’s been keeping an eye on the place and it’s been quiet, but wonders why now it’s active again. Sam wonders if something’s starting up.

At the house, Jenny is on the phone with the plumber’s lawyer when she hears noises upstairs and goes to investigate. At the house, Richie’s crib mysteriously opens up as does the sealed refrigerator where his juice is kept. Richie wanders over and crawls in for his juice when the door slams shut and locks on him. The mother returns and finds her son missing, and spots milk leaking out of the refrigerator. She opens it and finds him still alive but scared.

Sam and Dean show back up a few minutes later with Missouri and she talks her way in by getting Jenny to trust them. She senses a dark energy in Sam’s nursery but concludes it’s something different then what took their mother. Missouri looks in the closet as she senses two spirits, drawn to the “infection” left by the psychic wounds of the original monster. Now the house has a poltergeist that is determined to kill Jenny, although Missouri can’t identify the second spirit. She has some mystic powders that they can put in the walls and destroy the poltergeist. Missouri persuades Jenny and her kids to leave the house since she anticipates the spirits will get angry once they know what is happening.

As they prepare to place the powders, a lamp cord strangles Sam, knives hurl themselves at Dean, and a bureau rams into Missouri in the basement. Dean manages to rescue Sam by knocking a hole in the wall and placing the powder to drive it out of the house. They join up with Missouri and Sam wonders if they’ve succeeded. Jenny returns and finds the house in disarray, and the brothers clean up before leaving. Jenny goes to bed but wakes up later as her bed shakes wildly. Sam insists they stay outside in the car to watch, and he sees a panicking Jenny at the window just as he did in his dream.

The flame spirit appears in Sarry’s closet while Dean bursts in to get Jenny out and Sam grabs Richie. He comes into Sarry’s room and gets around the flame spirit to grab the daughter. He heads downstairs and tells Sarry to get her brother out before he’s grabbed by the poltergeist and pulled back inside, and the door slams shut with Dean outside.

Dean grabs a shotgun from the trunk and starts to break in while the poltergeist throws Sam around then holds him immobile while the flame spirit moves in. Sam realizes the flame spirit is…their mother, who appears in her natural form. She smiles and briefly acknowledges her sons, then apologizes as she commands the spirit to get out of the house before disappearing in a burst of flame.

Jenny gives Dean their photos while Missouri assures Sam all the spirits are gone. She explains their mother destroyed herself to eliminate the poltergeist. Sam acknowledges that he sensed something, but Missouri can’t explain what he’s going through. After they leave, Missouri goes back to her house…where John Winchester is waiting for her. John refuses to talk to his sons but says he can’t see them until he “knows the truth.”

1.10: Asylum

Roosevelt Asylum
Rockford, Illinois

Someone uses bolt-cutters to cut his way past the chains barring an old asylum, while two policemen pull up to the place, the Roosevelt Asylum. The place has a legend that if you stay there for the night you’re driven insane. The two cops split up and the rookie, Kelly, goes into a bio-hazard storage chamber while the older one finds the three kids who snuck in. The rookie’s flashlight goes out and a door swing opens. Kelly appears outside and says he didn’t’ see anything, but when they get in the car Kelly starts bleeding from the nos. Later at home Kelly comes to bed with his wife who apologies for a past incident, and he takes his gun and shoots her then kills himself.

Sam is trying to track down their father through various old friends and wonder why he’s out of contact, or why he might be dead. Dean gets a message from an unidentified caller, with coordinates to Rockford. Dean looks up an article on Kelly’s murder/suicide and notices the asylum was in their dad’s journal. Sam has his doubts but Dean insists on going.

Dean tracks down the other cop, Gunderson, and talks to him pretending to be a reporter. Sam busts in throwing off Dean as a set-up to get in good with Gunderson. Gunderson tells him that Kelly wasn’t the type to shoot his wife, and gave him more info on the asylum and how Kelly was in the south wing, where teenagers died there in 1972 after a fire when one of them went nuts. As they check out the place, Sam wants to discuss what their father is up to but Dean isn’t hearing anything about it.

Sam makes an appointment with Dr. James Ellicott, a psychiatrist and the son of the doctor who ran the place, Dr. Sanford Ellicott. Sam prods him for info but has to talk about himself and his brother. James reveals that the hard-core patients were in the south wing and they rioted, and some bodies were never recovered…including Sanford Ellicott’s. They plan to go tonight, while a boy, Gavin, and his date break in. They get briefly separated and the boy’s light goes out, and then he sees his girlfriend in the shadows and she starts to kiss him. He hears her voice in the distance and realizes the woman kissing him is horribly disfigured.

Sam and Dean come in and pick up multiple spirit readings, unaware they’re lurking unseen behind them. Sam uses a camera to try and locate the spirits and finds one deformed female one, which Dean blasts apart with a shotgun. Sam wonders why it didn’t attack him, but then they spot an overturned bed and find the girl, Kat. She tells them how she got there and that she heard Gavin scream. She insists on going with them to find Gavin and she and Dean head off one way while Sam goes the other. Sam finds an unconscious Gavin and wakes him up – he says he was running from a disfigured girl who tried to whisper something but he couldn’t make it out.

Dean’s flashlight goes out when Kat says her arm is hurt and they see a disembodied hand on it. She flees into a room that locks behind her, and while Dean tries to bust in a disfigured figure approaches behind her, but disappears when she spins around. The figure appears again and Sam tries to tell her to face it as he believes the spirits are trying to communicate. She faces her spirit, a man, and he leans forward to whisper something in her ear. A minute later the door opens and Kat steps out, unharmed. She reveals the spirit said “137” and Dean heads off to check that room while Sam gets the kids out.

Dean finds the room, an office, and starts going through the files while Sam finds the door but it’s locked. He thinks that there’s something else, someone other then the patients, who doesn’t want them to get out. Dean finds a secret panel with a briefcase that contains a patients’ journal belonging to Dr. Sanford Ellicott. Ellicott was conducting radical torture-experiments on his patients. Dean calls Sam to call him down to the basement and he goes after leaving Kat with the shotgun to repel the spirits. Sam goes down to the basement and the bio-hazard storage room and doesn’t find Dean, but his flashlight goes out. A door opens to a chamber holding research equipment and Sam pokes around until the spirit of Sanford grabs him by the head as blue spiritual energy flows from his hands.

Dean catches up to the kids and he reveals he didn’t try to call Sam and the call was faked. Dean takes off after him and finds him in the basement. Sam says he’s fine and Dean reveals the contents of the journal and how the patients rioted against Sanford’s rage treatment. They need to torch the bones to free the spirits and there’s a hidden chamber in the basement, but Sam is skeptical. Dean finds the room and a hidden door, but Sam points his shotgun at his brother and tells Dean to step back. As Sam starts to bleed at the nose, he shoots Dean in the chest with the rock salt, blasting him back through the door.

Sam is clearly worked up over his issues that he has with Dean and how he obeys his father without question. Dean gives Sam his gun, loaded with real bullets, and taunts him into shooting. Sam does it…but the gun is unloaded and Dean knocks him down then punches him unconscious. Dean goes back into the hidden chamber and spots a cabinet with hair sticking out. Opening it, he finds Sanford’s corpse and prepares to torch it. But Dean’s flashlight flickers, a trolley slams into him, and Sanford’s spirit grabs him by the head. Dean manages to grab a lighter and set Sanford’s corpse on fire, and he petrifies before shattering into pieces.

Come morning, they get the kids out and Sam apologies for his actions, claiming he didn’t mean what he said. Dean accepts his apology and they head out. Later, Dean’s cell phone rings and Sam takes the call, and says, “Dad?”

Episode 1.11 - Scarecrow

Burkitsville, Indiana – One Year Ago

A newlywed couple is leaving after the locals have helped them out when they get lost. The guy has a tattoo that the daughter notices as they make their farewells and leave. Down the road the car and the cell phone both die and they notice a nearby house. They go to check it out and on the way see an ominous-looking scarecrow suspended from a pole. The scarecrow seems to move as they head off into the woods – as they proceed they hear noises behind them and run for their car. The guy disappears and she turns and stumbles over the corpse of her boyfriend. Then a shadowy figure closes in on her.

The Present

In their hotel, the cell phone rings and Sam takes the call – it’s their dad. He assures Sam they’re okay but that they have to trust him – he can’t reveal where he is. He reveals he’s after the thing that killed their mom – a demon. He tells them to stop looking for him and write down a list of names, warning it’s not safe. Dean takes the names, which are of three couples who disappeared over a three year-period on the same day in April. They head to the town where they disappeared, Burkitsville, but Sam decides they’re going to California where their dad is. Dean accuses him of being selfish and takes off without him when Sam insists he go.

Dean pulls into Burkitsville and thinks about calling Sam, but decides against it. He meets with a local man, Scotty, but the man claims not to recognize them. Dean comes across a young hitchhiker, who gets picked up by a guy in a van who refuses to take Sam. Dean isn’t having any luck with the Jorgesons, the couple that the newlyweds met earlier. Their niece Emily recognizes the newlywed husband, Vince, from the tattoo, and her parents then remember them. Dean leaves town but his electro-detector goes off as he passes by an orchard. He investigates and spots the scarecrow, holding a sickle. He climbs up and finds the scarecrow has a tattoo on its arm just like Vince’s.

Dean pulls back into town and talks to the daughter, Emily. She reveals that the Jorgesons are her aunt and uncle who took her in when her parents died, and that the town is seemingly “blessed.” He also notices a car belonging to another stranded couple. Sam is unable to get a bus out and meets back up with the female hitchhiker, Meg, and they bond. Dean goes into the café and chats up the couple, despite Scotty’s efforts to keep him away from them. Dean offers to help them fix their brake line, which won’t be fixed until sunset, but they decline. He gives them an ominous warning but they ignore him and Dean contemplates how Sam could have convinced them. Scotty calls the sheriff, who escorts Dean out of town.

Sam and Meg chat over a meal about her background and her issues with her family, and Sam’s similar problem with Dean. Come nightfall, Dean returns into town while the newest couple wanders through the orchard and are stalked by the scarecrow. They run for it and Dean gets in front o them and sends them to their car. He opens up on the scarecrow with a shotgun to no effect but they all get safely back to the car as the scarecrow disappears.

Dean checks in with Sam and they conclude that the scarecrow is a manifestation of a pagan god and takes the couple (fattened up by the locals) as a fertility sacrifice. The two of them kind of apologize and Dean admits Sam has to do his own thing and he admires him for standing up to their dad. Dean meets with a local professor who provides information on a Norse god, the Vanir, which the locals of Scandinavian descent imported with them. According to the books its energy springs from a sacred tree. Dean thanks him for his help and goes out…where the sheriff knocks him out.

The townsfolk are discussing what to do with Dean and how the Vanir is angry with them and the sacrifice must be made. It becomes clear that the Jorgesons are going to use Emily for the female sacrifice, and they toss her down into the cellar with Dean.

The bus arrives but Sam decides to go to Burkitsville when he can’t get hold of Dean. Meg tries to get him to come with her but he refuses and heads off. Emily has been ignorant of what’s been going on there and Dean figures they have to destroy the old tree the Vanir is tied to. She knows what tree he means but doesn’t know where the “First Tree” is. Then the locals show up to take them to the orchard and tie them up to trees near the scarecrow/Vanir. Come sunset, Sam arrives and frees them but the scarecrow has disappeared.

The three of them run off through the orchard, planning to come back in the morning, but the locals intercept them. Emily begs her aunt and uncle to let them go but they’re interrupted when the scarecrow kills them both. The townspeople run off and the brothers and Emily get clear. The next morning they find the First Tree, inscribed with runes, and the brothers prepare to torch it. Emily insists on setting it on fire herself and it goes up in flames.

Emily takes off on a bus and Sam says he’ll be staying on and they’re going to finish it…together. Later at night, Meg is driving off with some guy in a van and asks him to pull to the side. She pulls out a silver goblet, cuts his throat with a knife, and catches the blood in the cup. She then recites an incantation and questions why she was ordered to let them go. She receives a silent explanation and responds, “Yes – yes, father.”

Episode 1.12: Faith

Dean and Sam pull up to a house and, armed with tasers, go in after a monster. Going down to the basement, they find two children in a closet and lead them out. They head up the stairs when the creature garbs Sam through the stairs and Dean fires at the creature. Dean sends Sam out with the children while he goes after the monster, managing to taser it. But it’s standing in water along with Dean and the conducted electricity injures him as well.

Sam is at the hospital trying to handle insurance and covering with the police. The doctor reveals Dean suffered a major heart attack and is clearly concerned they can’t continue on. Sam calls their dad’s answering machine and asks for help. Dean checks himself out and they reunite, but Sam’s had no luck finding a way to help him. They do track down a friend of their dad’s, Joshua, in Nebraska and head there. The place is a faith healer belonging to Roy Le Grange, and Dean is skeptical. A woman, Layla, talks with them briefly and then they get an up-front seat.

Dean catches Le Grange’s attention during his sermon and is called up front. Dean reluctantly goes up and everyone prays as Le Grange lays hands upon Dean. After a minute Dean collapses but when he wakes up he see the image of an old man standing behind Le Grange.

At the hospital the doctor confirms that Dean is healed, but notes that another young man had a heart attack that day and died. Dean is skeptical and feels it wasn’t “right,” and goes to talk to Le Grange and his wife Sue Ann. Le Grange woke up one day blind and with cancer, prayed, and went into a coma. When he awoke he was cured and could heal people. Le Grange says he picked Dean because he saw he had a purpose and a future. Sam checks out the dead man, Marshall, and notices a clock that stopped at the exact time Dean was healed…and Marshall died.

Dean runs into Layla and her mother coming to visit Le Grange and it becomes clear Layla needs healing from a brain tumor and she has six months to live. Layla is resolved but her mother is upset and angry at Dean for being chosen. Sam checks and determines that every time Le Grange has healed someone, another person has died of the exact same symptoms. As they speak, Le Grange is healing another person…and a jogger in the woods is attacked by the same old man and dies of the same symptoms when it touches her – which Dean recognizes from the description as a Reaper.

Dean determines the Reaper can only be seen when they come from someone, and Sam remembers the cross at the revival show – a clock he recognizes from the Death card of the Tarot. Dean resolves to kill Le Grange but Sam proposes they break the spell. Sam looks for the spell book while Dean tries to stall him before his next healing. Sam finds newspaper clippings mentioning those who have died, which Le Grange apparently believed were “immoral.” They believe his next victim will be a protestor in the parking lot that they’ve met. Meanwhile Le Grange calls up…Layla. Dean tries to stop her without success, while in the parking lot Sam hears the protestor cry out and tries to get him away from the Reaper that he can’t see. Sam calls out a fire before Le Grange can finish the healing, but the protestor collapses.

Sam is puzzled, but Dean sees Sue Ann using a Coptic cross and interrupts her. The Reaper withdraws as the police take Dean away. Sue Ann denies everything but doesn’t press charges. Dean tries to explain to Layla but can’t, while Le Grange and Sue Ann promise Layla will get a private session that night. It becomes clear Le Grange doesn’t know what his wife is up to, and Sam finds a book from Le Grange’s library identifying how to bind the Reaper with a dark altar and keep it away from her husband then take out immoral people. They need to destroy the altar and the Coptic cross, while Dean wonders if they should wait until Layla is healed. Sam points out they can’t play god and Sam tries to find Sue Ann while Dean draws the police off. Sam breaks into the Le Grange basement and fines the black shrine, compelte with a marked picture of Dean. Sue Ann confronts him and then locks him in the cellar, warnign that Dean as one of the wicked is to be killed. Le Grange begins his healing of Layla, while near Dean the lights go out and the Reaper appears before him.

Sue Ann prays over her Coptic cross while the Reaper grabs Dean. Both Layla and Dean collapse but Sam manages to break out and destroy the cross. The healing fails as the Reaper, freed, goes ater Sue Ann and inflicts Layla's illness on her Sam and Dean go back to their hotel where Dean wonders if they did the right thing. Layla visits and tells Dean of how she wasn't healed, and that you have to have faith even with the miracles don't happen. Dean promises he'll pray for her.



Episode Thirteen - Route 666

Cape Girardeau, Missouri

A man is driving along when his radio starts to break up. A black truck pulls up behind him and starts ramming him. Then it disappears and the radio clears. But the truck suddenly appears ahead of him – the driver turns around and the truck gives chase, ramming him off the road. The truck pulls up to the wreck for a moment, then vanishes.

The brothers are heading for Pennsylvania when Dean gets a call from an old friend needing help – her father died the previous night. The girl, Cassie, was an old friend of Dean’s and Sam is surprised and upset that Dean told her what they do. When they arrive, Cassie and her father’s friend Jimmy both work for the paper, and are meeting with the mayor about the death of her father and another black man. The mayor isn’t helpful. Cassie reports that there were only one set of tracks at each site, and no signs of a collision. Cassie’s mother arrives but is clearly upset. And out in the night, the black truck has run Jimmy off the road, killing him.

The Winchesters look into the accident the next day and Mayor Todd is still less than helpful and hints that Cassie’s (white) mother can say why he isn’t a racist. Later the brothers go to meet with a friend of Jimmy’s, claiming to be insurance investigators, and ask about the black truck. One of the workers knows about a truck involved in the death of black men in the 60s, and hints that the townsfolk are bigoted. Dean wonders if the truck is some kind of Flying Dutchman-type ghost connected to the Robinsons, and Sam suggests Dean and Cassie resolve their unfinished business. Sam guesses that Cassie dumped Dean after he revealed their secret.

That night, Dean meets with Cassie and they argue over their old relationship, and then start kissing and making out. The next morning time Mayor Todd is out in a field checking plans when the black train pulls up. He runs and it runs him down. Cassie and Dean discuss how she was frightened by his history and shoved him away. Dean starts to make excuses and she asks him to stop…but then they’re interrupted by news of Todd’s murder. He was killed on the property of the Dorian family, who owned the newspaper and who one member Cyrus disappeared 40 years ago. Todd had the house bulldozed, and the first murder took place the next day.

That night Cassie is at home when the lights flicker and the black truck pulls up outside. She closes the shutters but the truck keeps lunging at the house. She calls Dean and they show up after the truck leaves. Dean believes whoever is driving the truck wants them scared, and they confront Mrs. Robinson. She confirms her husband Martin knew who the truck belonged to – Cyrus Dorian. She mentions he “died” and Dean catches the slip. She dated Cyrus and was seeing Martin secretly because of their interracial relationship. She broke up with Cyrus and he found out, going insane with rage. Then the murders started and she and Martin prepared to get married, and someone set their church on fire, killing the children’s choir. Later Cyrus caught Martin and beat him on their wedding night. But Martin got loose and beat Cyrus to death. Martin and his two friends disposed of Cyrus and his truck and kept the secret, and now all three are dead. She reveals that Todd was a deputy back then and figured out what they were up to, but covered for them.

That night Sam and Dean are outside the Robinson home and figure Cyrus lay in the swamp until Todd’s renovation plan awoke him, and they must dredge the swamp for the body. They pull up the truck and yank out the corpse, then prepare to torch it. Everything goes smoothly but then the black truck appears across the field – their plan has failed.

Dean figures the burning didn’t destroy Cyrus’ spirit bound within the truck, so Dean drives off to lure the truck away and tells Sam to figure out a way to burn the original truck. A chase ensues while Sam figures out something and calls Cassie. Dean is barely ahead of the black truck and Sam calls him to coordinate his location. He gives Dean directions to go to a very specific spot on a particular road, then stop. Dean brakes precisely and turns the car as the truck stops for a few seconds, then ramps up. The truck heads right for him…and shatters apart only a few feet away. Dean is at the church that Cyrus burned down – Sam figured if the ghost crossed hallowed ground it would be destroyed.

Later Cassie and Dean make their farewells, and while Cassie isn’t sure they’ll meet again Dean is confident they’ll be together. Back on the road, Sam questions if Dean has ever considered giving it up and Dean just smiles…


Episode 1.14 - Nightmare

In Saginaw, Michigan, a man pulls into a garage but the garage door closes behind him by itself, the car doors lock, and the car starts pumping out exhaust fumes and the man can’t turn it off. The man dies of monoxide poisoning…and Sam wakes up from the dream he’s been having of the man’s death. He wakes up Dean and insists they have to head to Michigan. Going from the license plate he saw in his dream, he sends the police to the owner, Jim Miller, and gets the address. Two hours later they arrive…and find Dean’s warning was too late – Jim Miller is dead.

Sam is convinced something, some spirit, murdered Jim Miller, even though everyone thinks he committed suicide. . The next day they visit the house pretending to be priests and meet his brother, Roger. They talk to the dead man’s wife, Alice, who reveals their son Max found him. While Dean checks out the house for possible spirit manifestations, Sam talks to a stoic Max. Dean finds nothing and the house’s history shows nothing either. At the hotel that night Sam begins to have excruciating head pains and gets a vision of Roger Miller at his apartment. He “sees” a window open, Roger closes it, and then it reopens by itself. Roger tries to close it without success, and when he sticks his head underneath it the window comes down, decapitating him.

The brothers head for Roger’s address and intercept him outside his apartment, but he ignores them and goes into his security apartment. They break in to the side door and run up the fire escape…but get there just too late. Again, there’s no signs or traces of ghostly activity and Dean suspects the family itself is cursed. They visit Max who has nothing to add except something at their old house. They talk to a neighbor at the old house who reveals Joe and Roger both beat Max regularly while the stepmother did nothing. The neighbor reveals Max’s mother died in a car accident, and then Sam is overwhelmed by another vision of Max confronting his stepmother about how she didn’t stop them.” Max levitates a knife and kills her with it.

Sam partially sympathizes with Max because of what he went through and their shared psychic abilities. He asks Dean to let him handle it since he’s not comfortable with killing Max, even though dean is okay with it. They arrive at the house as Sam’s vision starts to come true, and they bust into the kitchen, interrupting Max. They ask Max outside to talk with him but he notices Dean’s gun and, catching on, seals the house and pulls away the gun. Sam tries to get through to him and get Max to let Dean and Alice to leave, and Max agrees they can talk alone. Dean takes an injured Alice out while Sam tries to convince Max not to kill his stepmother and Max reveals his dad was still beating him just a week earlier. Max talks about his mother died in the nursery with a baby Max…pinned to the ceiling and burned to death.

Sam reveals that’s how his mother died and that they must be connected in some way. Their psychic abilities manifested at the same time but Max’s are further along. Max refuses to let it go and shuts Sam into a closet. Then he goes after Dean and Alice, drawing his gun on Dean. When Dean blocks Max from shooting his stepmother, Max shoots him through the head…and it becomes clear it’s another of Sam’s visions. He concentrates and telekinetically opens the closet to see the same scene play out. Sam busts in and appeals to Max, who realizes he can’t fix anything…and shoots himself.

Later Alice provides a cover story to explain what happened before breaking down at the loss of her entire family. Sam realizes it was their father that helped stabilize them both, and wonders if the demon is after Sam and Max both. Sam reveals he used his own telekinesis to get out of the closet. Sam wonders if Dean is concerned about him getting out of control like Max, but Dean assures him that as long as he’s around, nothing bad will happen.


Episode 1.15 - The Benders

Hibbing, Minnesota

A young boy, Evan, is at his apartment and sees a man take out the garbage. On the way back the man hears something strange, kneels to look under a car…and gets yanked back under. Later Sam and Dean, disguised as state policemen, interview the boy and his mother but don’t get anything. The brothers head to a bar to regroup and discuss that their dad marked the area as having a “phantom abductor,” and the county has a higher-than-average disappearance rate.

Sam goes outside and hears a strange noise – it’s only a cat. But when he gets in his car something approaches him from underneath. When Dean goes out a minute or so later there’s no sign of Sam. He spots a video camera but otherwise no clue. Meeting with the deputy the next day, Dean passes himself off as an officer and tries to get a lead, but the deputy refuses to take him along – Dean insists.

Sam wakes up in a cage while the local deputy gives Dean an image of a trailer pulling out of the parking lot just after Sam left the bar. An old truck passes by and gives off an odd noise that matches what the boy Evan described. Sam finds a prisoner in the next cell, the missing man. They’re in a barn and two hooded figures come in and give them food. Sam quickly figures out they’re just people, not monsters.

The deputy quickly sees through Dean’s impersonation as they track down the truck. The deputy considers taking him in but reconsiders after Dean’s desperate plea. Meanwhile Sam has ripped free the electrical cable and Jenkins’ cell door opens. Sam suspects something is up but Jenkins ignores him – after he leaves, the cell doors swing shut again and lock by remote. Outside in the rain, Jenkins finds a knife and runs, but is ambushed by a guy. He keeps going but another man takes him down but then the two men drive him on…into a tripwire. Finally satisfied with their game, the men kill Jenkins as Sam hears his screams.

Dean asks the deputy, Kathleen, why she’s helping and she reveals her brother Riley disappeared the same way. They track down the truck and Kathleen handcuffs dean to the squad car before going to the house to investigate. She knocks on the door and a pregnant teenager, Missy, answers. The girl acts strange and just smiles at her…as her father sneaks up and knocks Kathleen out. Dean tries to grab the car antenna to pull free as the family truck approaches. He manages to get it loose and gets the cuffs off as the two men, brothers, arrive and spot the car and take it away.

Kathleen wakes up in a cell with Sam and Dean sneaks in. He reassures them then goes looking for the key. In the basement he finds jars filled with the brothers’ “trophies” as well as photographs of them with their victims. Going upstairs he finds a man cutting…something while music plays on an old Victrola. He stumbles across the girl, Missy, who stabs him and yells for her dad. He show sup and the two fight it out until another family member clubs him over the head.

They wake up Dean and Pa Bender boasts about how his favorite hunt is human, and how they’ve been doing it for generations. They want to know if Dean’s disappearance will bring more cops and give Dean the choice of selecting Kathleen or Sam. When Pa threatens to put out his eye, Dean picks Sam but Pa simply tells one of his sons to shoot first Sam then Kathleen.

The brother Lee lets Sam out, but he has the bracket from the cable he pulled down early and throws it at the guy. That buys him enough time to take the guy out and get his rifle, but it’s busted. Pa and his other son Jared go out to investigate and find Lee, unconscious, and the power cut off. They search the barn for Sam and Kathleen jumps Jared but Sam manages to distract him and then ducks, shooting his father. Sam then knocks Jared out and goes to find Dean while Kathleen covers Pa Bender. When he laughs about killing her brother, she shoots him and walks out. She meets up with Dean and Sam, who have locked up the girl, and claims she shoot Pa trying to escape. Kathleen tells the brothers to hit the road before the cops arrive and they go strolling down the road, arguing.


Episode 1.16 - Shadow

Chicago, Illinois

A young girl, Meredith, is walking through the streets and enters a deserted alley – her IPod goes dead and a wind kicks up. A shadowy figure appears behind her as she starts to run in a panic. She manages to get to her apartment and locks herself in, triggering the security system. She starts to make herself comfortable when the shadow enters the house, comes up behind her, and rips through her chest.

One Week Later

Dean and Sam show up dressed as security alarm repairmen to investigate the murder, the second one in two months. A landlady provides some information on how the place was locked up and the alarm was still on, and how Meredith was cut up into pieces. Sam thinks it’s “their kind of gig” and Dean picks up radiation. Dean has also checked with the police and found out Meredith’s heart was missing. They suspect a spirit and Dean manages to lay out a symbol with masking tape from the carpet – a symbol they don’t recognize.

Later at the bar where Meredith worked, Dean and Sam compare notes. The two victims have nothing in common as far as they can tell. They’re interrupted when Sam spots Meg, the girl he met (in “Scarecrow”). She talks about how she didn’t make it to California and ended up in Chicago. She’s not impressed with Dean, berating him for dragging Sam around the country, but Sam covers. Sam gets her number and they agree to meet later. But after they leave, Sam is suspicious and Dean is upset. Sam insists there’s something up with her and he watches her while Dean goes to check up on her and research the symbol.

Later they touch base and Dean determines it’s a Zoroastrian symbol, representing a Demon of Darkness, a deva, which has to be conjured by an experienced sorcerer. However, Meg’s history shows she’s clean. After Meg leaves her apartment, Sam sneaks in by climbing up the freight elevator. He gets to the top just as she returns, and sees her conduct a ceremony with a golden goblet. She speaks to someone warning that the brothers are in town, and is told to wait for the entity at the other end. After she leaves, Sam comes in and finds the Zoroastrian symbol.

Sam compares notes with Dean and brings him up to speed. Dean reveals there was a connection between the two victims – they were both from Lawrence, Kansas. Dean figures they need help and leaves a message for their father. As they prepare to head out, they discuss what they might do after destroying the demon responsible for their history, and Dean insists Sam needs to go off after it’s over, but for him it’ll never be over. Dean confesses that he wants them all three to be together as a family. Sam warns that when it’s over, Dean will have to let him go his own way.

At Meg’s apartment, the brothers climb up the elevator again as Meg prepares her ceremony. They sneak in but she cheerfully calls out to them and invites them in. She says she was waiting for Sam, and then the deva strikes, knocking them both unconscious.

They wake up bound and Sam concludes the whole thing was a trap to lure them in, but Meg reveals it was a trap to bring in their father. She knows he’ll come to rescue his boys and that the room is filled with devas. She comes on to Sam who starts to respond, but Meg catches on that it’s a distraction for Dean to free himself. But that’s a distraction for Sam to cut himself free with his own knife. He knocks Meg flying and destroys the altar, and the devas appear and haul Meg out a window where she falls to her death. They go back to their hotel room…where their father is waiting for them.

They have a brief reunion and John reveals he knows about the demon and that it knows he’ll kill it, but he has to do it alone for now. They share a hug, but then the devas strike, attacking them all. Meg has recovered from death and has an amulet she uses to control the devas.

The family is seconds from death when Sam manages to grab a flare and dispel the devas. They stagger out into the street where Dean insists that John leave them because he’s vulnerable with them around. John and finally Sam reluctantly agree and they part. As they leave, Meg sees them go.


1.17 - Hell House

Richardson, Texas – Two Months Earlier

Four teenagers are checking out a local haunted house and find various symbols inscribed on the walls inside. They go down to the root cellar to look for the house’s legendary ghost. One of the boys starts goofing around and the others look at something behind him – a girl hanging by her neck from the rafters.

Interstate 35 – Present Day

Dean and Sam head to Richardson to check out the story about the teenagers, who went for the cops but the body disappeared by the time they returned. They go to the local restaurant and talk to the teenagers, who all tell the same basic story. They direct the brothers to Craig Thurston, who took the teens there and works in a record store. Passing as reporters, they get Craig to tell them the story of the haunted house – a farmer named Mordecai lived there with six daughters during the Depression, and he killed his children rather then watch them starve to death then killed himself.

The brothers check out the house and get erratic readings. They check out the symbols and notice they’re fresh, and Dean thinks he recognizes one of the symbols. They barge in and confront two teenagers who identify themselves as Harry and Ed. They’re paranormal investigators and run the website Sam used to locate the place. The bemused Westchesters leave and have no luck tracking down leads. Dean proposes they head for a bar.

That night, two teenagers get a third to go into the house and get a jar from the root cellar. The girl, Jill, makes her way through the house to the cellar. An overall-clad figure grabs her and strings her up with a noose.

The next day Dean and Sam check up and talk to the police, who claim Jill committed suicide. That night they prepare to sneak in but the police have the place locked down. Harry and Ed show up and Dena uses them as a distraction so they can sneak in. They go down to the root cellar and the ghost comes at them. It’s immune to rock salt and begins tearing the place up. They barge out and run into Ed and Harry, and the police take them all into custody.

Back at their hotel, Dean works on the symbol while Sam tries to figure out the ghost’s pattern. While Sam sees that the guy’s website has updated, Dean figures out something with the symbol. They go to confront Craig Thursten, as Dean recognizes the symbol from Blue Oyster Cult. Craig reveals he and two of the teens rigged up the house to fool the other one. But once Ed and Harry published the fake story as real, it took on a life of its own.

Dean and Sam head to a diner and Sam speculates the mass generated belief created a Mordecai spirit. One of the fake symbols Craig inscribed was a Tibetan sigil that focuses the energy to create a tulpa, which takes on a life of its own. They go to talk to Ed and Harry who don’t want to shoot down their site. Sam dangles a secret bit of info about Mordecai to get them to shut down the site. Sam lets slip that Mordecai’s spirit can be killed by a revolved filled with wrought-iron bullets. It’s a set up – they figure the channeled belief will make the tulpa vulnerable to their guns.

That night Dean and Sam sneak into the house and meet Ed and Harry. The tulpa comes charging out and they blast away but it’s unharmed. Mordecai attacks Harry and Ed as they flee, but Sam lures the tulpa toward him. While Sam distracts the spirit by being choked, Dean rigs up a flamethrower to drive it off and spreads gasoline around. Since Mordecai can’t leave the house, they set it on fire and run out.

Sam and Dean say farewell to Harry and Ed, who reveal they’ve got an offer from a Hollywood producer for motion picture rights. They’re off to Hollywood, unaware Sam made the (fake) call.

1.18 - Something Wicked

Fitchburg, Wisconsin

A young girl, Bethany, is saying her prayers as her father looks on. Her mother is at the hospital with her sister. After he leaves, the girl is kept awake by branches rattling on the window. She closes the drapes but sees a thin, twisted hand. The window opens and a figure creeps in, rolls her over, and hisses as the girl screams.

Sam and Dean are on the trail of coordinates leading to Fitchburg but Sam turns up nothing on a net search. They arrive in town in the late afternoon, but there is only a solitary child at the local playground. Dean talks to the mother who mentions there has been a recent outbreak of child illness. They bluff their way into the pediatrics ward as CDC doctors and en route Dean sees an elderly woman in a room by herself with an upside-down cross on the wall.

They meet with Dr. Hydecker who reveals the disease works its way through the siblings in a family, and none of the children are conscious. They talk to the father of the girl Bethany, who reveals his older daughter Mary got the “disease” first. With the father at the hospital, the Winchesters go to Bethany’s house and find a semi-human handprint on the windowsill. Dean remembers an instance as a child when his father went out on a “hunting trip” and saw a photo of a similar handprint. Dean tells Sam their dad has faced the creature before and wants them to finish the job.

Dean reveals the creature they’re after is a Shtriga and their dad hunted one about 17 years ago, but it got away. They check into a hotel run by a woman and two young boys, and Sam gets a lead on the Shtriga and how it feeds on the “breath of life.” They’re supposedly invulnerable but Dean remembers from their dad they can be killed with consecrated wrought iron when it’s feeding. They take on an innocuous human disguise as an old woman when they’re not feeding. Dean determines that the hospital is dead center among the victims’ houses and figures the old woman he saw earlier is involved.

They go to the hospital and approach the woman, who jerks away and accuses them of stealing her stuff. The cross is merely loose on the wall and the woman is innocent. Back at the hotel, the Shtriga enters the boys’ bedroom…

The next morning the brothers return to the hotel with Sam giving Dean a hard time. Dean notices the older boy Michael outside, and he tells them his younger brother got ill. Dean reassures him as his mother heads to the hospital and Dean vows to kill the Shtriga. Dean goes to the hospital while Sam tracks the creature through the newspaper reports across the country, hitting a new town every 15 years and killing kids for months. Sam finds a photo from 1893 with a picture of Dr. Hydecker.

Back at the hotel, they figure it’ll go for Michael so Dean plans to use him as bait. Sam is reluctant and Dean says he’s to blame – when he, his dad, and Sam were on the trail of the Shtriga when they were kids, Dad left them alone and Dean stepped out of the hotel to get some air and play video games. When he came back he saw the Shtriga feeding on Sam. He grabbed a gun and got ready to fire, but he was in the way and when his dad opened fire it had enough time to get away. He figures their dad sent him to finish the creature off and make up for his mistake.

They talk to Michael who remembers seeing the Shtriga, but he doesn’t agree at first. Finally he comes around and they rig up a camera in his room and have him get under the covers. They spot the Shtriga at the window and it enters the room. It approaches Michael and prepares to feed off of him, and the Winchesters barge in and open fire as Michael dives out of the way. They approach the inert creature but it leaps up and grabs and throws the Winchesters aside and starts feeding off of Sam. Dean gets there just in time and blows it away, releasing all the energy contained within.

The next morning Dean and Sam pack up. Michael’s mom Joanna arrives to reveal her son and the other children are recovering and Dr. Hydecker has disappeared. Sam wishes he could get back the innocence he’s lost, and Dean admits he wishes Sam could have it back too.

1.19 - Provenance

A couple has bought a family portrait at a charity auction. As they go upstairs, the father in the painting comes to life. The husband activates the security alarms and locks up the place, and his wife is in bed as her door opens. The husband comes in and finds her dead, covered in blood. Then something approaches and kills him.

Dean and Sam are at a bar and Dean is collecting phone numbers. Sam notices a story in a paper about the murder, in upstate New York, and it matches a pattern their dad knew about. They drive there and check out the place but the house is clean – literally. The couple’s property is at an estate sale and the Winchesters go there passing themselves off as art dealers. The art house owner’s daughter, Sarah, comes down and she and Sam hit it off, but then her father chases them out. Dean has Sam call Sarah to have dinner and pump her for information. He gets the provenances, the papers on the items, from Sarah, and matches up one item – the painting – to the murdered victims.

Dean and Sam break into the art house warehouse to burn the picture. They remove it from the frame and take it outside and set it on fire. Back at the warehouse, the picture reassembles itself in its frame. The next morning Dean realizes he left his wallet at the warehouse. They go back to get it and Sarah spots them, while Dean finds his wallet and leave them together. Sam spots the painting and he and Dean go to a researcher to get background on the murders, and how the father Isaiah killed his family by cutting their throats with a razor. They get a photo of the painting and notice the father has moved. Sarah confronts her father who is selling the painting despite her reluctance.

Dean is pushing Sam to keep on seeing Sarah and get over his dead girlfriend Jessica. Sam gives in and calls Sarah and finds out they’ve sold the picture. Sam gets the address from her and they head for the house of the woman Evelyn who bought it. She’s reading a book when Isaiah comes out of the picture and attacks her.

Dean and Sam arrive and Sarah shows up as well, and they break into the house to find her dead, her head nearly severed from her neck. Sarah lies that she was the only one there and Sam explains to her what’s going on. She insists on going with them, feeling responsible for selling the picture. They break back into the house and examine the painting, and Dean notices the position of the razor has changed. There’s also a different painting in the background, of a mausoleum that says Merchant.

They check out several cemeteries until they find the mausoleum and a doll inside a glass case next to the child’s crypt. The father’s urn is missing and while Dean checks the records, Sam and Sarah talk about Sam’s track record of people getting hurt around him and how he lost Jessica. Dean interrupts to reveal Isaiah was buried separately, and buried rather than cremated so there are bones to burn. They dig up the coffin and burn the body, then go back to Evelyn’s house to burn the painting. Sam and Sarah go in and notice that the little girl has disappeared from the painting along with the razor…and the door swings shut.

They figure the girl is the killer and try to find something to repel the ghost with while Dean tries to get in. The girl shows up, carrying her doll from the mausoleum. Dean grabs an iron poker and manages to drive it off. Sarah figures the doll is the key as it has some of the girl’s real hair. Dean heads for the mausoleum while the ghost girl manifests again and slams a desk into Sam, disarming and trapping him. The ghost closes on Sarah as Sam manages to ignore the doll, and the girl disappears.

Later Dean puts it together that the girl was adopted and killed her original family, then Isaiah took her in and she killed his family as well. The Winchesters are ready to leave and Sarah points out that since she’s alive, maybe he’s not cursed. Sam says he’ll come back. He leaves…then returns for one goodbye kiss.

1.20 - Dead Man's Blood

Manning, Colorado

In a nondescript bar, Daniel Elkins flips through a notebook, much like John Winchester's. The doors open and a group of twenty-somethings come in, looking dangerous. He glances over at them and a look of recognition crosses his face. Elkins slips out of the bar and heads back to his nearby cabin, where the girl follows him and confronts him. He throws a knife at her, embedding it in her chest and giving him a chance to run into the next room and barricade himself in while she pulls the knife out, looking none the worse for wear. He frantically opens a safe, and pulls out an antique handgun, while two guys come in through the skylight, knocking him to the ground, and the girl gets through the barricaded door. The last thing we hear is Elkins screaming through the night.
Sam and Dean are sitting in a diner, looking through the paper and online for leads. Sam runs across a mention of Elkins' death online, and Dean recognizes the name. He pulls out the notebook, and there is Elkins' name and phone number on one of the pages inside. They head to Elkins' cabin where they find a scene of destruction awaiting them. Dean finds Elkins' notebook which looks like their dad’s. As they continue through the house, they notice the broken skylights and evidence of a struggle. Sam sees the empty gun case on the desk while Dean finds some scratches on the floor, which turn out to be the location and combination of a post office box. Inside they find a letter addressed to their father. While sitting in the car debating whether or not to open it, John knocks on the window and scares both of them. Dean gives the letter to John, who opens it and reads, "If you're reading this, I'm already dead..." John asks the guys if when they were searching the cabin, did they find a gun, an antique gun, and when Dean says that they saw the case, John notes that “they” have it and “they” are…vampires. He notes that most of the old vampire mythology is wrong but vampires do need blood to survive.

A couple are driving through the night when they spot someone lying in the road ahead of them. They break to a stop and the man gets out to check it out – the “corpse” comes to life and bares its fangs.

Back at the motel, the guys are sleeping while John is listening to the police band. He gets up and grabs his coat, wakes the guys, and tells them he just heard a call come in that could be the vampires work. John scouts the scene, and comes back to the car saying that it was the vampires, and they're going to have to move to get on their trail. Sam questions John, wanting to know why he's so sure it's them, and John pulls out a tooth he found and dismisses Sam’s curiosity. In the car, Dean fills Sam in on the habits of vampires. Sam comments that it would be nice if John would explain things instead of barking orders at them and expecting them to be followed without question. Dean’s okay with it.

At the vampire's nest, we see a beer-swilling vamp tormenting the terrified couple from the 911 call. A new vamp and the clear leader, Luthor, walks in and Kate greets him enthusiastically, showing him the tied-up couple. She then shows him some items laid out on a table that belonged to Elkins. Luther is immediately worried, because he knows there will be others who will recognize what has happened and they will be looking for the vampires. He picks up the antique gun lying on the table, saying that he's seen this gun before – it’s no ordinary gun.

In the car, Dean hangs up the phone, and tells Sam to get off at the next exit - they're getting close. Sam questions the order, pulling up and around John's truck, cutting him off to make him stop. He gets out of the car to confront John, angrily asking him what's going on. Dean winds up playing peacemaker, but it's an uneasy peace at best. Meanwhile, at the nest, Luther and Kate begin the process of turning their female captive into a vampire.

Early in the morning, the three of them watch the barn the vamps are using for their hideout. When Luthor comes out they go back to their vehicles to grab some weapons, where Dean has a wicked case of weapon envy when he sees John's setup. John asks if they really want to know about the Colt, and when Sam says yes, they do, he tells them the legend of the gun. Samuel Colt had made this gun for a hunter, a man like them, and made thirteen bullets for the gun. The hunter used the gun a half dozen times before disappearing, along with the gun, then Daniel got his hands on it. Sam realizes the gun can kill the demon but first they have to get past the vampires.

They go into the barn through a window, and find all the vamps sleeping in hammocks. Moving carefully through the barn, they start looking for the Colt. Sam finds the captive, and calls Dean over, while John locates the gun in the bedroom where Luther and Kate are sleeping. Sam unties the girl while Dean tries to free the female captive, and when she starts to wake she lets out an unearthly scream, waking all the vamps, and causing all three of them to run for it. John realizes the vampires are letting them go because they can track them down by scent any time they want.

At the motel, Sam is pacing and waiting for Dean to return, and John tells Sam about the college fund he started for both brothers, trying to explain how he never wanted this life for the two of them, that somewhere along the way after their mother died, he stopped being their father, and became their drill sergeant. Dean walks in the door with a jar full of dead man's blood, which it turns out is like poison to a vampire. They stage a scene to draw out the vamps, capturing Kate, and killing another.

Out in the woods, they tie Kate to a tree and John directs Dean to toss something on the fire to block their scent and Kate's. Vampires mate for life, he says, and she means more to Luther than the gun, so he'll show up. He then orders the guys out of the area, to keep them safe when he goes after the demon afterward over Sam’s and Dean’s objections.

Luther scents Kate in John's truck, and he and most of the vampires go after him, while Sam and Dean go back to the barn to take care of the rest of the vamps and release the captive. John runs into a roadblock of four vamps, including Luther. He bargains Kate for the Colt, and almost has the gun when Kate frees herself and backhands John into the truck. A fight ensues, and just as John is looking to lose, bolts fly out of the darkness wounding two of the vamps. Luther grabs Sam as a hostage but John gets behind him and shoots him with the Colt. As they watch in fascination, they see that the gun does live up to its hype as Luther falls to the ground dead. Kate and the other girl jump in their car and race off, rather than confront the guys any further.

As the guys are packing back at the motel, John comes in to confront them about ignoring his orders to leave. He tells them that they are all he has, but they are stronger as a family, and so will go after the demon together.

Episode 1.21 - Salvation

Blue Earth, Minnesota

Pastor Jim Murphy is going through a Bible in his church when a breeze stirs the room and Meg walks in. She “confesses” to brutally slaughtering a man and the pastor recognizes her. He runs for the basement and his storehouse of weapons but Meg easily overpowers him. When he says he won’t tell her anything about the Winchesters, she kills him.

Manning, Colorado

Dean, Sam, and John are comparing notes and John reveals a pattern of houses that have burned down, starting in Arizona and always striking at a house with a six-month old infant. Sam thinks he’s responsible since that was his age but sets it aside and John reveals there’s a series of signs that can be seen and they’re starting again in Salvation, Iowa. They head for the town but John pulls over and takes a call about Pastor Jim’s death. They split up to check hospitals for birth records of recently-born infants but not before John vows to end it no matter what.

While working, Sam gets a vision of a mother and her infant daughter, sees a clock on the wall and hears a train nearby. Then he sees the house nearby and the mother out walking her baby. He approaches the woman, Monica, who introduces her daughter Rose. After she goes to meet her husband Sam gets a vision of flames and a coat-wearing figure levitate Monica against the ceiling and cause her to first bleed then burst into flame.

Sam describes his vision to John and Dean and is interrupted by Meg calling him on his cell phone. Meg demands to talk to John and taunts him with the fact she killed Pastor Jim. She says she’s in Lincoln with his friend Caleb. She knows he has the Colt and kills Caleb when John plays ignorant. She vows to kill everyone he knows until he gives the Colt and he reluctantly agrees. He has to meet with her by midnight in Lincoln. John plans to give her a fake gun while the brothers use the real gun on the demon.

John gets to Lincoln and sneaks up on Meg while Dean and Sam watch Monica’s house. John goes to a water tank, utters a blessing, then drops a cross into it. He goes to confront Meg who taunts him to shoot her. A guy working for Meg show sup and John hands her the gun. She gives it to the new arrival who cocks it and…shoots Meg. John makes a run for it with the two in hot pursuit. He goes into the tunnels and turns on the water pipe to block the tunnel – Meg orders the demon to step into the water, which is blessed holy water. He burns and John makes his escape.

In Salvation, the wind picks up, the boys’ car radio starts giving off static, and the lights flicker. They run for the house while John gets to his truck to find it’s been disabled. Dean and Sam sneak into the house when the husband attacks them. When Monica goes to the nursery to get Rosie, she sees the demon who repeats the actions from Sam’s vision. He shoots and fire at it but it disappears. Dean gets the baby out of the cradle just as it bursts into flame.

John is running for his life and prepares to call the boys when the male demon mentally throws John up against a wall.

Sam and Dean get Monica and her family out – Sam looks back and sees the demon in the window, but Dean wont’ let him go back in. Back at the hotel, they try to call their father without success. Dean points out that their mother and Jess are gone and the three of them only have each other and nothing is worth them losing each other. They call again and Meg answers, telling them they’ll never see their father again…

(To Be Continued...)

Episode 1.22 - Devil's Trap

Dean calls his father and gets Meg, who warns they won’t see their father instead. Dean grabs the Colt and the three remaining bullets and tells Sam they’re heading out because they’re not ready to take on the demon. Sam is worried that Meg isn’t offering a trade and is concerned John is dead. Dean agrees they need help and they go to an auto junkyard and get holy water from a family friend, Bobby. Sam sees Bobby has a book on drawing circles to contain demons. Bobby warns that demonic possessions are up and trouble is brewing.

They’re interrupted by Bobby’s dog barking. They look outside to see the dog is gone, and the Meg barges in. She tosses Dean aside and demands the gun, but he gets up and points out she’s now standing beneath a demon-containment circle on the ceiling.

Meg refuses to give up information on John and Bobby warns that she’s a possessed girl and they can’t harm Meg for fear of harming the host. The brothers prepare an exorcism and Meg starts to flinch and a wind blows through the room. Meg insists that John is dead but Dean doesn’t believe her. Meg finally breaks and directs them to a building in Jefferson City. Dean orders Sam to finish it but Sam is reluctant and Bobby warns that if the demon is withdrawn, the possessed girl dies from the injuries when she fell from a building (in “Shadows”).

Dean orders Sam to finish the exorcism and a black essence pours from her mouth. The badly injured girl is still barely alive but thanks them, telling them she’s been possessed for a year. She assures them the demon was telling the truth and there are other demons holding their dad. She says “sunrise” and then dies.

The brothers head out for Jefferson City, leaving Bobby to clean up. Sam takes the book on demon-trapping spells and draws a “devil’s trap” on the Impala’s trunk so they can hide the Colt. Dean insists they take the Colt to save John and Sam argues they can’t bring the gun, and Dean reluctantly agrees.

They get into Jefferson City and find “Sunrise Apartments,” filled with innocents. They decide to pull the fire alarm, giving them seven minutes until the fire department arrives. As Sam goes in, a demon couple contemplates John tied to a bed. Sam breaks into the fire truck and they go in disguised as firefighters. They find the apartment and break in, spraying the demons with holy water. They toss the demons out then salt the door to keep them out. They find John, barely alive, and use holy water to test him for possession.

John checks out but outside demons possess a firefighter and a bystander and the two barge in, locking the door behind them. As the demons hack through the door the Winchesters head out the back but another demon, the one with Meg when she captured John, gets the drop on them and proceeds to beat Sam. It turns out Dean brought the gun and he shoots the demon with one of the three remaining bullets, killing him.

Later at a hideout, Dean considers the fact he isn’t hesitating at shooting possessed people. John thanks Dean, pointing out he’s always watched out for the family and he did the right thing. A storm whips up and they realize the demon is coming. They use salt to block the doors and John demands the gun, but Dean realizes John is lying as he’d never thank him for wasting a bullet.

Dean holds the Colt on John and Sam comes in and questions what’s going on. Sam sides with Dean and John insists Dean should shoot him. When they don’t, “John” reveals he’s the demon and telekinetically shoves them into the walls, and then takes the Colt. The demon boasts it’s immune to holy water and taunts Sam with the fact he can’t telekinetically summon the Colt to him. Then he boasts that John aware inside of his possessed body. The demon points out that the exorcised demon was his daughter and the other one Dean shot was his boy.

When Sam demands to know why the demon has targeted their family, it says they got in the way of its plans for Sam and all the children like him. When Dean mocks him, the demon tortures Dean but seeing him in pain lets John gain control long enough for Sam to get free and grab the gun, then shot “John” in the leg.

John tells Sam to shoot him in the heart, but then Dean says not to. Sam hesitates and the black cloud emerges from John and passes through the floorboards. They head for the hospital and Sam explains how they can start over and they still have a Colt. But then…a semi broadsides them and runs them off the road. A possessed driver sits behind the wheel of the semi as the Winchesters lay apparently dead.


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