Season Two Episode Guide

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2.01 In My Time of Dying - Aired 9/28/06
2.02 Everybody Loves a Clown - Aired 10/5/06
2.03 Bloodlust - Aired 10/12/06
2.04 Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things - Aired 10/19/06
2.05 Simon Said - Aired 10/26/06
2.06 No Exit - Aired 11/2/06
2.07 The Usual Suspects - Aired 11/9/06
2.08 Crossroad Blues - Aired 11/16/06
2.09 Croatoan - Aired 12/7/06
2.10 Hunted - Aired 1/11/07
2.11 Playthings - Aired 1/18/07
2.12 Night Shifter - Aired 1/25/07
2.13 Houses of the Holy - Aired 2/1/07
2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign - Aired 2/8/07
2.15 Tall Tales - Aired 2/15/07
2.16 Roadkill - Aired 2/22/07
2.17 Heart
2.18 Hollywood Babylon
2.19 Folsom Prison Blues
2.20 What is and What Should
2.21 All Hell Breaks Loose, Pt. 1
2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose, Pt. 2

Episode 2.01: In My Time of Dying

After ramming the Winchesters’ car, the demon-possessed truck driver gets out and opens the car. Sam confronts him with the Colt but the demon is confident Sam won’t waste the bullet. Sam bluffs the demon into leaving the possessed truck, then realizes John and Dean are out of it.

A medic team evacuates them and Dean wakes up at the hospital. He gets up and goes to the curiously empty hospital. When he finally finds a nurse at the desk, she’s unable to see or hear him. Dean looks around and finds his own body… in a coma.

Dean finds Sam talking to Dean’s comatose body. John is also okay and Sam updates him on what is going on. John is more intent on the Colt. Sam assures him it’s safe and John gives him a list of protective spell components to find. John denies that he knows anything about the demon’s plans for the children, but Dean, looking on, doesn’t believe him.

The Impala has been trashed but Sam vows they wont’ give up on it. Their friend Bobby looks over the list and notices something odd. At the hospital, Dean rails at his seemingly dispassionate father when a ghost passes by him in the hall. Dean goes after it and finds a woman choking on the floor while the hospital staff are oblivious.

Sam confronts John and reveals he’s figured out the spell components are for summoning a demon. Dean, watching them fight, gets angry and manages to move a glass with his mind. Then Dean starts to flicker as his physical body temporarily “dies.” The ghostly figure from earlier hovers over Dean’s physical body and repels his spirit form when he tries to grab it. The figure then departs and Dean follows it as his body revives.

Dean hears another woman yelling and goes to talk to her. It’s Tessa and they talk as he explains what happened to them. and she takes it pretty well. Sam talks to John about what he “felt” of Dean and goes to check things out. Dean hears the hospital call another emergency and goes to see a patient die as another one of the ghost-figures hovers over the girl as she dies.

Sam brings in an Ouija board to contact Dean, who makes contact and tries to communicate that the ghost-creatures are “Reapers” that take people when they die. Sam goes to get advice from John… but he’s left his bed and is down in the boiler room. John prepares the summoning spell while Sam goes through John’s journal and finds an entry on Reapers. He figures out that Tessa is a Reaper and confronts her, and she reveals she took a more reassuring form so they could talk and she could let him know he has nothing to fear.

John completes the summoning ritual but nothing apparently happens. A janitor appears but John quickly figures out it’s the demon, along with several others. They spar back and forth verbally a bit until John says that he wants to make a deal.

While Sam stands over Dean’s body, Dean asks for more time for Tessa but she tells him it’s still time. She says she can’t take him and he can stay, but he can’t get into his body and he’ll eventually become an angry spirit.

John agrees to give the demon the Colt and the last bullet if he’ll bring Dean back. The demon considers it and talks about the truth about Sam and the other children. The demon considers it, but warns there’s something else he wants even more then the Colt.

Tessa gives Dean a final choice, but before he can decide the power flickers. A black demon cloud comes into the room and enters Tessa, who is now possessed. She leaves, and Dean recovers. Later the doctor assures Dean he’s okay but he doesn’t remember anything. John talks to Dean and apologizes for the life he’s put him through, then tells him to take care of Sam before leaving. Then he leaves to confront the demon, gives him the gun, and says “Okay.”

Sam comes back and finds John lying in his bedroom. The doctors try to revive John without success, and the brothers look on as he dies.

Episode 2.02: Everybody Loves a Clown

Medford, Wisconsin

A couple and their daughter are visiting the circus, although the husband Norm isn’t impressed. Their daughter spots a clown and points him out to her parents, but he’s nowhere to be found. Later as they’re driving home, the girl spots the clown by the side of the road as they drive home. Later after she’s tucked in bed, she gets up and sees the clown on the lawn. She goes down and lets him in.

At Bobby’s, Dean and Sam are burning their father’s body and Dean denies that John said anything to him before he died.

One Week Later

Dean is working on the Impala and Sam is overly attentive toward him. Sam is angry at Dean for not doing anything, but Dean points out they’ve got nothing and all he can do is work on the car. Sam reveals he cracked John’s voice mail code and reveals a four-month old message from Ellen. Sam has an address and suggests they go check it out. They end up a roadhouse and find a dead body. Two women get the drop on them and one of them, Ellen, recognizes them. She introduces them to Jo, her daughter.

Ellen says she offered to help and knows about the demons from John when he passes through. They can’t offer help but offer the services of Ash, the “dead man” on the bar. Ash is impressed by John’s diary entries and is on the ball himself, and says he can figure out the demon’s location from John’s research. He’ll need time, and Sam notices a folder on some murders. Jo explains their father was a hunter who passed away, and she and Dean exchange condolences. Sam says they should check out the murders, apparently committed by a clown

It turns out the clown killed the parents and spread the girl, and all the circus employees have alibis. They wonder how the clown can move when typically spirits are bound to one place. Dean is also curious why Sam took the case. Meanwhile, at the circus in a funhouse, a parent is taking his son Alex through a fun house when the kid sees a clown. Later that night, Alex wakes up his dad to show him he’s brought the clown into the house.

Dean and Sam go to the circus and find out about the parents’ murders. Sam has a thing about clowns but figures if the clown is attached to a cursed item, they’ll have trouble finding it. They follow up on a “Help Wanted” add and after Dean manages to antagonize a couple of the circus performers, they find the owner, Barry Cooper. He quickly figures out they haven’t done circus work but Sam manages to convince him. Sam admits that he plans to stick with the “family business” since John’s death, but Dean is clearly upset.

Later Sam checks out the funhouse with the EMF sensor and reports to Sam, who is confronted by one of the circus performers, a blind knife thrower. Dean claims they’re writing a book on ghosts and then overhear a girl talking about seeing a clown. The brothers don’t see anything, and later that night they follow the girl and her parents home. Dean reveals Cooper was a lot manager on a previous circus with a “killer clown” problem and the problem may have followed him.

Later the brothers spot the girl taking the clown into the house and sneak in and blast it down with rock salt. It doesn’t work and the clown leaps through a window as it turns invisible. They run and ditch the van, and Sam hits on Dean about how he’s not dealing with it. Dean confronts Sam about how he’s trying to make things right, but it’s too late.

Sam calls Ellen, who has figured the clown is a rakshasa, which has to feed every 20-30 years, can turn invisible, and lives in squalor while sleeping on a bed of dead insects. They also remember that Cooper looks just like a picture of his father. The legend claims that they need a dagger of pure brass to kill the rakshasa.

Dean goes to the knife thrower while Sam sneaks into Cooper’s trailer but Cooper gets the drop on him. Dean goes throw the man’s trunk and finds a clown outfit—the knife thrower is the rakshasa. It turns invisible and starts throwing knives at him. He runs outside and runs into Sam, who has an idea. They go into the funhouse but are separated. Sam goes for a pipe organ with brass pipes while Dean finds him just in time to get pinned to the wall by more invisibly-thrown knives. dean turns on a smoke machine and the mist outlines the creature enough for Sam to stab it. Dean pulls himself free and they find the creature, dead.

Back at Ellen’s roadhouse, Sam gives Dean some time with Jo but he doesn’t want to get with her. Ash reveals he hasn’t found anything but he’s rigged a device to go off when it picks up any of the signs, and he’ll call them when he’s got something. Ellen offers them a place to stay but they Dean declines because there’s something he has to finish.

Back at Bobby’s, Sam apologizes for picking a last fight with John and that he’s trying to make up for it, but he’s not all right. After he leaves, Dean takes out his frustration on the Impala.

Episode 2.03: Bloodlust
Red Lodge, Montana

A girl is running through the woods, being chased by... something. She takes refuge behind a tree but someone come up from behind and decapitates her with a sickle.

Sam and Dean are cruising in the Impala and heading for Red Lodge with a case. Passing as reporters, they talk to the sheriff about the rash of decapitations, and the connection to recent cattle mutilations. He dismisses their concerns and tells them to get out. Posing as doctors, they get into the hospital morgue and check out the decapitated head, determining it was a vampire.

Later they head to a bar and talk to the bartender trying to find some rowdy night owl types that moved in recently. He points them in the right direction while a man watches them from a table then leaves when they do. Outside, he follows them down an alleyway where they get the drop on him but he says he’s a vampire killer, not a vampire. He proves he doesn’t have fangs and it turns out the man, Gordon, knew their father and has heard of them. Gordon reveals he’s been there two weeks and killed two vampires. He turns down their help and heads out.

At a pier, a man hears a name and goes outside, and Gordon attacks him. The guy is a vampire and takes down Gordon, but Dean and Sam show up and save him. Gordon buys them drinks and bonds with Dean, but Sam heads back to their hotel room. Gordon talks about how he lost his sister to a vampire. Dean admits he’s not handling John’s death too well, and Gordon says there’s plenty of vampires to attack.

Sam calls Ellen about Gordon and she says they should stay well away from him. Sam goes outside to get a can of pop, unaware someone’s watching him. Once he goes inside, a guy grabs Sam, knocks him out, and hauls him to a dock where he reveals he’s a vampire, Eli. He moves in on Sam but another vampire, Lenore calls him off and tells Sam they don’t feed on human blood, and just want to be left alone. She has her other vampires blindfold him and take him back to the hotel.

Gordon and Dean are going over a map to figure out where the vampires might be when Sam arrives and tries to talk to Dean. Dean would rather just kill them, assuming they’re monsters. Sam figures Dean is looking for a substitute for John and Dean slugs him then insists he’ll go after the vampires without him. They go back to find Gordon’s gone and taken the Impala. They hotwire another car and try to follow along the route as far as Sam can recall.

Lenore and her others are preparing to move out, although Eli would rather stand and fight. Gordon arrives and gets the drop on Amber, stabbing her with a knife covered in dead man’s blood. He proceeds to torture her to find out where the other vampires are and Sam and Dean arrive. They try to get him to back down and he prepares to kill Lenore, and holds the knife on Sam when he gets close. Gordon reveals the vampires didn’t kill his sister but turned her into a vampire, and he hunted her down and killed her himself. Gordon knew about the “reformed” vampires but didn’t care.

Gordon grabs Sam, cuts him, and feeds some of his blood to Lenore, who reverts to her animal nature but manages to get back under control. Gordon backs down and Sam gets Lenore out while Dean holds the vampire hunter at gun point. Dean refuses to let him by so they fight and Gordon tries to convince Dean they’re both alike. Dean manages to take out Gordon and tie him up, then waits until morning when Sam returns and reveals the vampires escaped to safety. Dean promises to call someone to untie Gordon eventually, then slugs him.

Outside, Dean wants Sam to hit him as payback for earlier but Sam passes. Dean wonders how many other innocent “monsters” they may have killed and Sam promises to stay around to help him out.

Episode 2.04: Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

Neil is talking to his friend Angela Mason, who is recovering from a break up with her boyfriend Matt. They’re interrupted when Matt shows up and Neil tries to turn him away. Matt barges in but Angela has slipped out the back. She’s driving down the street when Matt calls to apologize. Distracted, she goes off the road and is killed.

Sam and Dean go to visit their mom’s head stone on Sam’s insistence, but Dean refuses to go directly there. While Sam leaves John’s dog tags at his mother’s headstone, Dean notices a grave belonging to Angela with everything dead around it in a perfect circle. Sam doesn’t think much of it, but Dean thinks it indicates unholy ground and insists they go to visit Angela’s father. They offer their condolences and notice a book in ancient Greek. Dean still thinks something is going on although Sam thinks Dean is overcompensating for their dead mother. Dean goes out to get a drink… alone.

Matt is watching a video of him and Angela when the plants nearby spontaneously wither. He stops the tape and sees a reflection on the screen--he turns to face it and something kills him.

Dean breaks into Angela’s house and finds her roommate Lindsey inside. Dean introduces himself as a friend of the family sent to get Angela’s stuff and he gets Lindsey to talk about Angela. Lindsey reveals that Matt apparently killed himself the previous night, and claimed he had seen Angela several times since her funeral. He checks in at Matt’s house and finds the dead plants, then updates Sam, who accepts something might be happening. Dean has stolen Angela’s diary and finds out the name of her friend Neil.

Sam and Dean go to visit Neil, passing themselves off as grief councilors. Neil claims Matt was responsible for Angela’s death, was having an affair with another woman, and killed himself out of guilt. Dean suggests they burn the bones and they go dig up the body, but find the coffin empty. At his house, Neil goes down to the cellar and finds Angela waiting for him. She kisses him.

In the coffin, the Winchesters find a board with Greek symbols on it. They go to Dr. Mason’s house and ask him to identify the symbols, and he says they’re used for necromancy--speaking with the dead and even raising them. Dean suspect Angela’s father is involved but Sam points out he has living plants. They leave and Sam believes Dean is still overreacting over their family deaths.

Neil wants to talk to Angela about Matt but she’d rather be with him, and claims she’s been there the entire time before embracing him. Sam and Dean can’t find a specific way to eliminate the walking dead but Dean suspects Neil, based on Angela’s diary and the fact he’s Dr. Mason’s TA. They go to Neil’s house and down to the cellar where they find the ventilation shaft she’s escaping through. Dean figures out that Matt was having an affair with Lindsey and they head for her house.

Lindsey hears a noise on her door and opens it… and Angela grabs her from behind. Lindsey breaks free and Angela tries to stab her with a pair of scissors, but Lindsey knocks her down, where she falls on the scissors. Angela is still “alive” and tries to kill Lindsey, but Dean and Sam arrive in time to shoot her, driving her off. They head for Neil’s while trying to figure out what might stop her. Sam suggests nailing Angela into her coffin back at the cemetery. They tell Neil what happened and after some initial denials, he lies about where Angela is. Dean insists Neil come with them to perform a ritual at the ceremony, but he refuses, and Dean warns that Neil should make sure not to make Angela dead. After they leave for the cemetery, Neil goes down to the basement and confronts Angela, who wants him to help her kill Sam and Dean at the cemetery. Neil agrees and goes outside to get the car, but Angela is waiting for him and thinks he was going to leave her. She kills him in a fit of fury, then goes to the cemetery where Sam and Dean are performing their (fake) ritual.

Sam and Dean check out the woods around the cemetery where Angela approaches Sam and tries to gain his sympathy. He shoots her, which doesn’t do much good, and she chases him back to her grave. Dean drives her off and shoots her enough to knock her back into the coffin. He stakes her down and “kills” her for good.

The brothers rebury Angela for good and Dean still doesn’t want to see their mother’s headstone. They drive off but once out of town, Dean pulls over and apologizes for how he’s been acting, and admits that he shouldn’t have come back from the dead, that it wasn’t natural, and somehow it led to John’s death at the hands of the demon. There’s nothing Sam can say to answer that.

Episode 2.05: Simon Said

A doctor, Jennings, gets a call on his cell phone and has visions of shooting someone with a shotgun. Smiling, he goes into a sporting goods store and examines a shotgun, loads it, shoots the owner and then himself. Elsewhere, Sam has a vision of the shooting in the future and picks up the name of the town from his vision.

Sam insists they go to the road house and talk to Ash, since he figures his vision is tied to the demon. Dean is reluctant since the hunters there might suspect Sam’s supernatural vision abilities. Ash doesn’t turn up anything until Sam suggests he check for house fires in 1983. Jo flirts briefly with Dean while he waits, but they’re interrupted when Ash gets a lead on an Andrew Gallagher. Dean notices that despite the fact Andrew is behind on his bills, no collection agency is trying to track him down.

Dean and Sam pass themselves off as lawyers and track Andrew down, and a diner owner and old friend of Andy, Tracy, tells them they won’t have any luck getting anything from him. She sends him to Andy’s house and while they watch Sam wonders what plans the demon has for him and the other children. They see Andy come out and meet with the shooter from Sam’s vision, Dr. Jennings. Dean follows Andy who stops, gets out, and asks for the Impala… which Dean cheerfully gives to him. Sam sees Doc take the call from his vision and go into the sporting goods store ahead of Doc and sets off the security alarm. Sam sees Andy go by in the Impala making a call to Jennings, while Dean calls to explain that Andy has mind control powers. Before Sam can do anything, Andy tells Jennings to walk into a bus where he’s killed.

Andy goes to the diner to get comfort from Tracy and she mentions that Dean and Sam were looking for him. Sam and Dean find the Impala and figure out Andy has to use verbal commands. They break into Andy’s van while Dean questions Andy’s guilt, much to Sam’s surprise. Andy confronts them and while Sam is immune to his powers, Dean tells him everything. Sam goes after Andy and explains that they’re connected. Sam gets another future vision of someone setting themselves on fire at a gas station, and elsewhere a woman gets a call on her cell phone and is told to cover herself in gasoline and set herself on fire.

Sam collapses from the vision and thinks it’s happening in the future, but then they spot a fire engine and Dean goes to check it out while Sam stays with Andy. Dean says it can’t be Andy due to the timing and it becomes clear that Andy isn’t too ambitious. Dean checks out on the dead woman and finds out Andy was adopted and using his powers, they get hard copies of the birth records. They find out Holly Beckett was Andy’s birth mother and Dr. Jennings was her doctor. Further, Holly had twins, and Andy’s brother Anson Williams went to another family. They find a photo… and recognize it.

At the diner, the bus boy Webber talks to Tracy about she and Andy dated, then demands she tell him the truth. Andy reveals that Webber showed up eight months ago and acted like his friend, but they head for the diner and Sam gets another death vision of Tracy falling to her death after involuntarily jumping off of a dam.

Webber drives Tracy to a make out spot and says that he won’t let her come between him and Andy. He has her start to undress and then go to the edge of the dam and jump. He’s interrupted when Sam breaks his window and drags him out thanks to his immunity. They tape Webber’s mouth shut but while Sam and Andy struggle over what to do, Webber reveals that through practice he can control her without speaking. He overrides Andy’s command for her to stop and sends her to the edge of the dam, Webber talks about a man with yellow eyes who came to him and told him he was special. At a distance, Dean sets up with a rifle while Webber talks about how he killed Jennings and Beckett because they split the brothers up. Webber senses Dean and commands him to shoot himself, but Andy shoots and kills him first.

Later, Webber is taken away and Andy uses his powers to convince the police that Webber shot himself. Tracy doesn’t’ want anything to do with him and Sam and Dean have to head out, although they give him their number so he can get hold of them if he needs to. They head out but Sam is worried the demon could drive any of the “children” to become murderers. As they leave, Dean gets a call from Ellen. Back at the road house, Ellen wants to know what’s going on but they say it’s family. She reveals she got the info from Ash and wants to know everything they know for the coming “war.” But Sam notes that Webber wasn’t involved in a house fire and there may be others out there that don’t fit the pattern.

Episode 2.06: No Exit

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

In an apartment, a woman calls her landlord to check out the wiring in her new apartment, which is causing the lights to flicker. After she hangs up, she looks up to see some black substance dripping down from the ceiling. Looking up she sees it coming through a hole in the door… and then a man stares in at her as she screams.

Dean and Sam check out Ellen and Jo fighting at the bar. The guys interrupt and while Ellen takes a call, Jo tells them that six women have vanished from the same building over the last 80 years. Jo put together the file herself but Ellen doesn’t want her investigating.

The guy drive to Philadelphia and check out the apartment, and Sam spots a bit of the black substance--ectoplasm. It’s the sign of a powerful angry spirit and they go out to find that Jo is talking to the landlord about getting the apartment. She claims Dean is her boyfriend and pays in cash for the apartment, and later explains she lied to Ellen. Ellen calls and Dean and Sam cover for her, then she comes up with a plan to check out the place. Dean takes Jo with her and tells her she’s got options, options he didn’t because his dad got him into the “business” so young. They split up and a figure reaches through a grille behind her… then disappears as she turns. Dean smells something he can’t identify, and they open the grille and Dean reaches in, finding a tuft of blonde human hair.

In another apartment in the building, a young blonde woman, Teresa Ellis, is interrupted when black goo drops on her and a crack spreads across the wall and ceiling. Then the same hand from earlier passes through the grille, grabs the woman’s ankle, and pulls her toward him.

Dean wakes up in the next morning as Jo goes over the plans. they talk about their respective fathers and Jo admits she wants to do the job to be closer to her dad. Sam comes in to report the girl disappeared and the police are outside. Jo finds a photo showing that the apartment building was built next to an old prison and they hung prisoners on the apartment building’s site. Going over the files of the men executed, they find a record of H.H. Holmes, the first serial killer with a penchant for blonde women. Holmes’ corpse was buried in concrete and they realize he had a building in Chicago filled with hidden chambers and where he’d keep some of his victims alive.

They start searching the place and only Jo is able to slip through a narrower gap between the walls. She goes down an air duct while Dean takes another route to intercept her. Black goo starts to ooze out of the walls around her and she screams as her contact with Dean is cut off. He hammers through a wall only to find her cell phone.

Ellen calls and Dean tells her what happened, and she insists on coming out on the net flight. Sam goes over the Chicago building and notices it had a basement, and there’s an old sewer system below the Philadelphia apartment. They head down to investigate.

Jo wakes up in a coffin-like chamber with scratch marks on the inside of the lid where previous residents had tried to get out. She calls out to the other woman, Teresa, and tries to reassure her. Holmes returns and yanks out a tuft of her hair.

Using metal detectors, the Winchesters find a metal door leading into the sewers. Holmes whispers into Jo’s cell then caresses her, but she briefly drives him off with her father’s knife. He comes back and reaching through the walls, starts to chloroform her, but the guys show up and drive him back with rock salt. Jo wants to get out but Dean insists they have no choice but to use her as bait. They have her sit down in the middle of a chamber and Holmes comes up behind her. As he moves in, Sam and Dean shoot down bags of salt around the edge of the room, sealing him in for good. Once they get outside, Dean “borrows” a cement mixer and seals the entrance with concrete.

Later they’re driving back… with Ellen, who’s met them. She is not amused and when they get to the bar, Dean apologizes and says Jo would have made her father proud. Ellen tells them to get out and then tells Jo that John Winchester got her husband, Jo’s father, killed when they were working together. An angry Jo storms out and tells Dean that John screwed up and got her father killed, which is why John never told his sons about Jo and Ellen. Jo tells Dean to leave and storms off.

Episode 2.07: The Usual Suspects

Baltimore, Maryland

At a police station, Detective Peter Sheridan goes over a suspect with multiple aliases. As he goes in to talk to a prisoner, SWAT agents lead by Sheridan’s partner Diana Ballard close in on a hotel room. Sheridan talks to his suspect about his torture and murder of a woman in St. Louis, and warns him the woman who died in St. Louis wasn’t the only one. It turns out he’s talking to Dean, while Ballard arrests Sam in the hotel room.

Sam wants to know why Ballard is holding them and she notes that Sam disappeared for a while and reviews his background. She notes that Dean apparently faked his own death in St. Louis and they’re digging up his background and exhuming his corpse in St. Louis. She notes they caught Dean at the scene of another mother woman’s murder in Baltimore, Karen Giles. Sam finally talks about how another dead man, lawyer Tony Giles, was a friend of John’s and they came to investigate when they heard about how he died.

Dean and Sam figure out that the killer left no traces at the murder scene and visit his wife Sarah, posing as insurance investigators. She says that Tony had a vision of a woman standing at his bed. Ballard points out they were spotted at the crime scene and supposedly asked them to get something from the office. The brothers break into the office to check out the murder scene and find that he typed the name Dana Shulps repeatedly and Sam spots the name outlined in his breath on the desk. They turn up nothing on the name and Sam (slowly) breaks into Giles’ computer. Dean gets bored and goes back to Karen’s place to check up on her. Ballard points out that Dean left him to commit the murder and they got a 911 call of Karen saying someone was in the house. It turns out Karen saw the woman at her window and then her printer started printing out the name Dana Shulps. The mysterious woman confronts her while Dean arrives at the house. He comes in and finds Karen dead with her throat cut and the printer with Dana Shulps name on it. Two policemen arrive and find him over Karen’s body and they take him into custody.

Ballard meets back up with her partner Sheridan and notes that the two brothers’ stories match, and all they have is circumstantial evidence without a confession. It turns out Sheridan was a friend of Tony Giles and the two partners are having a secret romantic relationship. Separately, both Dean and Sam try to work out what “Dana Shulps” might mean, while Dean’s public defender Jeff Krause arrives. With his help Dean figures out that it spells out a street name, Ashland, near the station. He tells Krause to get hold of Sam while Ballard’s computer starts typing out the words “Dana Shulps.”

Krause starts to meet with Sam but Ballard sends him back to Dean, who has decided to confess. Krause advises him not to but Dean makes a statement and “confesses” that a vengeful spirit is responsible for the deaths and he’s not involved. He talks about what they know about Ashland but Sheridan is disgusted and accuses him of the murders and claims a shapeshifter murdered the girl in St. Louis. Sheridan has Dean taken away and then they go back to discover Sam has escaped.

Ballard goes to the rest room where all the faucets turn on by themselves and the words “Dana Shulps” form in the mist on the mirror. The ghost appears, its throat cut, and advances on Ballard before disappearing.

Ballard wants answers from Dean about the ghost and he talks about how they’re created by a violent death. He notices a bruise on her wrist, the same that he saw on Karen’s corpse. Dean sends her to the place where Sam is holding out and Ballard tells him what she saw. Sam shows her some photos he came up with and one of is the ghost woman, Claire Becker, who disappeared 8-9 months ago. She was arrested twice before her death for selling heroin and Sheridan and Ballard worked in vice. Ballard doesn’t remember her and Sam says they should go to check out her place and to salt her bones and put her spirit to rest.

At the apartment, Sam and Ballard check out the place but Becker’s ghost appears and advances on Ballard reaching for a window. Sam arrives and Becker disappears, and they check out the window which has “Ashland Sup” written on it--the full anagram of “Dana Shulpa.” Sam scans the place and finds her corpse, with bruised wrists and a cut throat. Ballard recognizes a necklace on the corpse as a custom-made piece of jewelry that she also has: Pete gave it to her.

Sam realizes that Becker was trying to warn the victims, and Pete was the one who killed the Giles couple. Ballard talks about how some heroin went missing a year ago but they never figured out who did it, but they need a fence like Becker.

Sheridan is extraditing Dean back to St. Louis himself while Ballard and Sam figure out what’s up and go to intercept him. Sheridan pulls off on a deserted road and hauls Dean out of the van, then prepares to kill him why “trying to escape.” Ballard and Sam arrive and Ballard tells Sheridan it’s over. Sheridan confesses that he killed Becker when she wanted more money, Tony was laundering the money, and Karen knew about it from her husband. Sheridan appeals to Ballard’s love for him and she appears to consider, then shoots him in the leg. He still manages to attack her and grab the gun, but Becker appears and distracts him long enough for Ballard to shoot and kill Sheridan.

Come dawn, Sam assures Ballard that Becker is now at rest and she says she can get the Baltimore charges dismissed. She can’t do anything about the St. Louis charges but agrees to let them conveniently escape and they go to get the car, wondering why Ballard looks so familiar…

Episode 2.08: Crossroad Blues

Green Wood, Mississippi – August 1938

Blues player Robert Johnson is performing in a bar when dogs start barking and their shadows appear outside on the windows. The blues player runs outside and takes refuge in an old cabin. The creatures pound at the doors… and several of the people from the bar come in to find the man in convulsions. Robert chokes on his own blood and dies.

Present Day

Sam is going over Dean’s public record as a criminal and then talks about how an architect fell off of a high-rise he built, after being chased by a black dog. Black dogs are known supernatural creatures, possible death omens. Dean and Sam pose as magazine reports to talk to the man’s partner, who says the dead man Sean was a genius with a charmed life. He was a former bartender ten years ago at a place called Lloyd’s and then rocketed to success overnight. Then the brothers check out the Animal Protection Agency and see there have been reports of black dogs throughout town.

They get the address of a doctor who reported a black dog and then disappeared several days ago. The doctor was also an overnight success ten years ago and has the address of Lloyd’s bar written down. Elsewhere in a hotel, the doctor is pacing nervously when someone knocks on the door… the hotel owner. When she goes to get money, the man’s face hideously distorts and she slams the door I his face.

Dean and Sam go to Lloyd’s and they see flowers that are used for summoning rituals, and note the place is at a crossroads. They dig at the center of the crossroads and find a box filled with graveyard dirt and a black cat’s bones. They’re a part of a ritual to summon a demon and make a pact with it. The black dogs are hell hounds and they figure the doctor is trying to get away. At the hotel, something pounds on the doctor’s door. It stops for a few minutes… then some creature bursts through the window and rips at her leg, hauling her out.

Rosedale, Mississippi – 1930

Robert Johnson is performing the ritual at a crossroads and summons a demon. He asks to be the best blues man ever and the demon agrees.

The Present

Dean and Sam discuss Johnson’s legend and Dean isn’t too sympathetic toward the victims. They go to track down another man who was at Lloyd’s, painter George Darrow, and find a pepper-like substance on his threshold. Darrow denies knowing anything but lets them in and admits he’s using voodoo to try to keep the hellhounds out, and gives them his mojo bag. Darrow admits the demon stuck around after he summoned it at Lloyd’s, making more deals. George identifies one more man, Evan Hudson, who made a pact. All Darrow wants to do is finish his last picture and doesn’t want their help, and tells them to get out.

Hudson is at his office when he hears the hellhounds outside. His wife interrupts and Hudson is trying to get her out of the house to see her sister. As she leaves she distorts briefly in Hudson’s eyes, then returns to normal and leaves.

Dean and Sam show up at Hudson’s place and he tries to lock them out without success. Hudson admits he made a pact to save his dying wife. Dean decides that Sam should watch over Hudson using Darrow’s hoodoo bag while Dean goes to the crossroads to summon the demon and bind it, but Sam wonders if Dean is edgy because he thinks John made a pact. Dean denies it and goes to the crossroads where he performs the ritual. A female demon appears and knows who he is. They get into the Impala to discuss things in private.

Sam spreads the dust around Hudson’s study to seal out the hellhounds then makes a smaller circle for Hudson, while Dean tries to strike a deal to get Hudson out of his pact. He offers himself and the demon is intrigued, and confirms that John made the deal to save Dean. He invites her into the car but she sees the devil’s trap he’s drawn underneath. At Hudson’s apartment, the hellhounds start pounding at the doors.

Dean’s demon relents from killing him, saying that would make it too easy putting him out of his misery. She says she could have brought John back for him and walks off, and Dean calls her back.

At Hudson’s apartment, the hellhounds suddenly stop barking but then burst in invisibly through the vents. At the crossroads, the demon offers John with a long natural life, and gives Dean ten years with him. Dean considers the matter, but lures her under a water tower where he’s drawn another devil’s trap. The demon says it can’t break a contract and Dean prepares to cast a ritual. As the invisible hellhounds close in on Hudson within his circle and start blowing away the powder, Dean starts the ritual to send her back Sam and Hudson flee through the house… and the demon tells Dean to wait. They kiss to seal the deal, and Hudson’s life and his wife are spared. Dean considers whether to let her go or not… and finally releases her. Before she leaves, the demon warns that Dean would have agreed t bring back John if he’d known where he was and how he was suffering. The demon then emerges from the body, leaving its human host with no memory of what happened.

Later on the road, Sam and Dean discuss what happened and wonder f the demon was lying. Dean wonders how he can live with what John did for him. Sam wonders if Dean ever considered making an actual deal… and Dean doesn’t answer.

Episode 2.09: Croatoan

Dean walks down a corridor with a gun, then goes into a room with a sign mentioning River Grove on the wall. Several people are there and a man says it’s not in him. A doctor is present and says she can’t tell for sure. Dean aims the gun, and fires… and Sam wakes up from his vision-dream.

Dean and Sam drive to River Grove while Dean wonders how the dream relates to the yellow-eyed demon. They roll into town and ask an ex-military man, the Sarge, about the man Dean saw in his vision. They get directions to the man, Duane Tanner, and Dean notices the word “Croatoan” carved on a board. Dean notes how a similar word was found at the Roanoke colony in America and it was wiped out overnight. They try to call out but can’t get a cell signal and the pay phone is dead.

They go to the Tanner house and talk to Duane’s brother Jake and his father, but Duane is on a trip. The two act strange and after Dean and Sam leave, they double back and see Mrs. Tanner tied up in the kitchen as her son and father prepare to cut her and mingle their blood with hers. Mr. Tanner comes at them and they’re forced to shoot, and when Sam hesitates, Duane runs into the woods.

The brothers take Mrs. Tanner to the local doctor, Lee, and she tries to explain how her son and husband “had the devil in them.” The Winchesters wonder if demon possession is involved, but there was no black smoke. Dean drives to go get help but finds a car with a bullet through the windshield. It’s filled with blood and there’s a knife nearby, but no bodies.

Dr. Lee examines Mr. Tanner’s body and determines he was fighting off some kind of infection. There are also traces of sulphur. On the road, Dean keeps driving and comes to an improvised blockade lead by Jake Tanner. They tell Dean there’s a quarantine in place and ask him to get out of the car, and Dean drives off as they open fire.

Dr. Lee tries to take a sample of Mrs. Tanner’s blood, but she goes berserk and attacks them, and Sam is forced to knock her out with a fire extinguisher. Dean drives through town and runs into the Sarge from easier. After a tense standoff, they determine they’re both unpossessed and head for Dr. Lee’s office. Her nurse, Pam insists on going out to find her boyfriend but Sam convinces her to stay. Dean and the Sarge arrive and Sam tells his brother that their father suspected “Croatoan” was the name of a plague-demon. Sarge warns that his neighbors got stronger the longer they were infected, and they have to kill Mrs. Tanner. Dr. Lee doesn’t know of any way to cure her and they go in, but Mrs. Tanner is apparently normal. She doesn’t’ fool the brothers and Dean shoots and kills her.

The group tries to plan a defense when an apparently uninfected Duane arrives. He claims he fought off the other infected people but Dean notices he has a cut and they tie him up. Dr. Lee notices there’s no way to determine if he’s infected until after he is possessed. Sam warns Dean that his vision is coming true and that his brother is acting increasingly violent. Dean locks Sam up and then goes to shoot Duane. Dean considers it but in the end can’t bring himself to do it. He lets Sam out and they prepare explosives from the medical supplies. Dr. Lee has had enough time to determine Duane is clean and they untie him. Pamela manages to get Sam alone for a minute… and attacks him, mixing her blood with his through a cut. Dean shoots and kills her, but Sam is now infected.

Dean refuses to shoot Sam but Sam offers to kill himself. Dean still refuses and gives them the Impala keys so they can escape. After they leave, Dean admits he’s tired of the job and starts to talk about John, but Dr. Lee returns and interrupts them. It’s night outside and everyone has vanished. Five hours pass and Dr. Lee determines that Sam’s blood is clear. Lee checks the Tanner samples and determines there’s no trace of the virus. Duane and Sarge head south while Sam wonders why he was immune. Later on the road, Duane asks the Sarge to pull over to make a call, then cuts the Sarge’s throat and collects his blood in a familiar goblet. Duane reports that no further tests are necessary and Sam is immune as they suspected.

Later Sam and Dean take a break and Sam insists that Dean tell him what he was going to say before he was interrupted. Dean says that he promised John not to say anything but says that John told him something about Sam…

Episode 2.10: Hunted

A teen, Scott Carey, is seeing a psychiatrist and relates how a year ago he learned he could electrocute things with a touch. Scott talks about the yellow-eyed man and his “plans” for him. Afterward, Scott is walking home and apparently hears someone. He reaches his car and sees a reflection of someone behind him, who stabs him while keeping Scott from touching him.

Dean is talking to Sam about what John told him before he died, that he had to “save” Sam from something… or kill him. Sam is not too thrilled at Dean keeping it secret and doesn’t want to listen to him. Dean asks for more time and Sam reluctantly grants it, and they check in to a hotel. Later Sam slips out, steals a car, and drives to an abandoned building. He goes into the room, sets off a charge, and… a woman wakes up from her dream-vision of seeing Sam killed.

Sam goes to the Roadhouse and meets with Ellen, who’s expecting him from Dean’s calls. He discovers that Jo has gone off on to her to go demon-hunting, and Ellen is okay with John’s supposed involvement in her husband’s death. Sam then asks Ash to look up other people with “special abilities.” He comes up with four people that match the profile, including Scott Carey who died a month ago in Indiana. Sam insists on going alone, asking Ellen not to call Dean.

Sam goes to Indiana and gets into Scott’s house, and finds pills prescribed by Dr. Waxler. He also finds a cut-out mural Scott made of eyes. Sam then goes to the hotel and finds a woman following him: Ava Wilson, the woman who dreamed of him. She’s been having dreams for a year and then she had a dream of Scott being stabbed. Sam figures she’s one of the psychics but Ava’s mother is still alive. Meanwhile, Dean calls Ellen and she gives him Sam’s location.

Ava doesn’t want to get involved but Sam convinces her to stick around to learn the truth. Then he has her go to see Dr. Waxler while Sam sneaks into the office and steals Waxler’s files on Scott. Later, they listen to the tape of how the yellow-eyed man needs them for his “war.” Dean pulls up outside just as someone opens fire on Sam: Gordon the vampire hunter. Dean grabs Gordon and starts hitting him, but Gordon manages to knock him out.

By the time Sam and Ava get up there, Dean is gone as well. Sam calls Dean, who Gordon has tied up. Gordon has Dean lure him in, unaware Dean slipped in a code word to let him know he’s hostage. Meanwhile, Gordon tells Dean that he’s a hunter… and Sam is now fair game.

Sam prepares to go get Dean and sends Ava home where she’ll be safe. Gordon reveals to Dean that when he was doing an exorcism, the demon mentioned something about a coming war, and the demons will use human psychics. Dean isn’t impressed even though Gordon has confirmed it through his “Roadhouse sources.” Gordon has figured Dean warned Sam but he’s rigged a tripwire on the back door set with a grenade, and a second grenade as back-up.

As Gordon plants his explosives, Dean tries to convince him Sam won’t turn evil but the hunter isn’t buying it. Meanwhile, Sam goes through the steps that Ava saw in her dream. He spots Dean inside and goes around to the back, then slips inside. The grenade goes off but Gordon waits… and then the second grenade goes off. Gordon goes to confirm the kill and finds Sam’s smoking boot. However, Sam gets the drop on him but Gordon resists and they fight it out. Gordon kicks him through a wall and prepares to stab him but Sam gets his breath back and knocks Gordon down and prepares to shoot him. Sam settles for knocking him out with the rifle butt.

Sam unties Dean and tells him to leave Gordon alive, and they head out. Gordon comes after them, guns blazing, but the police arrive thanks to Sam’s anonymous call and take the hunter into custody, finding all the guns in his car.

Dean calls Ellen and accuses her or Ash or Jo about talking about Sam and his abilities. Ellen notes that it could have been anyone at the Roadhouse. Sam calls Ava but doesn’t get an answer. Dean suggests they just head out and drop the job but Sam says there’s no way they can run away. Sam tries to call Ava again without success and suggests they drive to Peoria where she lives. They get to Ava’s house and find her fiancé dead, his throat cut. There’s sulphur on the window and Sam finds Ava’s engagement ring on the floor.

Episode 2.11 Playthings

At the Pierpont Inn, the owner Susan Thompson is closing it and preparing to move. Her two daughters, Tyler and Maggie, complain about the move. Tyler goes up to put her dolls away but notices that one has had its head twisted around. She hears a scream and goes to see that the mover has fallen down the stairs… his head twisted around and an antique doll lying next to him.

In Peoria, IL, Sam is trying to track down the missing Ava with Ellen’s help. She hasn’t had much luck but reports two mysterious deaths at a hotel. Sam wants to investigate to save who they can and go to the hotel. As they go in, Sam notices a hoodoo mark on an urn. They get a room then go to check things, while noticing more hoodoo marks. They talk to Susan and notice she has a number of antique dolls. She also has a dollhouse which is an identical replica of the hotel. Sam notices the doll with the twisted head and Tyler comes in and mentions their Grandma Rose. Susan refuses to let them talk to her, saying she’s ill.

While Sam and Dean split up to check out the hotel, the buyer’s agent talks to Susan and reveals that they plan on demolishing the hotel. Tyler is playing with the dolls and there’s a doll sitting in a room just like the agent is. In his room, the agent sits on his bed as the door behind him opens. Tyler turns to see the doll hanging by its neck… while the agent is hung in the same way.

Dean finds out about the death and goes back to the room where he finds Sam drunk. Sam is depressed over the fact he couldn’t save the agent or Ava and change his destiny. He asks Dean to kill him if he turns evil and says John was right to ask Dean to do it. When Sam pushes it, Dean reluctantly agrees to do it if he has to, then puts Sam to bed. He goes downstairs to the bar where he talks to the elderly bellboy, Sherwin. He talks about the hotel’s history and how it was once the Thompson family estate. Sherwin says Rose isn’t thrilled to be leaving but doesn’t want to discuss her illness. In one of the photos, Rose’s nanny Marie has a necklace with the hoodoo mark.

The next morning Sam wakes up with a massive hangover and claims he doesn’t remember Dean’s promise of the other night. After Dean briefs Sam on the situation, they go up to the attic to talk to Grandma Rose. They find her in a wheelchair, having suffered a stroke a while ago. Hoodoo requires hands-on ceremonies so they figure someone else is involved. Susan finds them intruding and demands that they leave. She then talks to Tyler, who is playing with Maggie, and when the daughter says that Maggie insists they can’t leave, Susan says Maggie is Tyler’s imaginary friend. As she leaves, Maggie says she doesn’t like Susan.

Susan is loading up the car as a swing stirs into motion nearby… as the swing on the dollhouse moves as well. Susan notices as all the playground equipment starts to move. A car comes to life on its own and tries to run Susan down, but Sam intervenes and rescues her. The brothers believe a spirit is responsible and determine Rose had her stroke just before the killing started, and she was working to suppress an evil spirit. They mention Tyler’s sister and when Susan says she doesn’t have one, they realize something’s up. Maggie is up in the attic confronting a helpless Rose when Tyler comes in. They go off to play, and Maggie assures Tyler that they will be able to play “forever.”

Susan, Dean, and Sam go upstairs where they find the antique dolls destroyed and Tyler gone. Susan reveals Rose had a sister named Margaret who drowned in a pool when she was young. Tyler and Maggie are leaning over the balcony above the pool and Maggie encourages Tyler to jump so they can be together forever. The adults are just outside but find the door locked, and Maggie throws Tyler into the pool where she starts to drown. Sam uses the urn marked with the hoodoo mark to break the supernaturally-sealed doors, while Maggie holds Tyler down. But a voice calls out Margaret’s name and she disappears, and Sam jumps into the pool and manages to get Tyler out just in time.

Upstairs, Rose confronts Maggie’s spirit and Maggie agrees to let them go if Rose does something for her. Maggie can’t understand why Rose kept her away, thinking she didn’t love her. Maggie accepts Rose’s offer and approaches her. Susan goes to get Rose and screams—Dean and Sam go up to find Rose dead.

Later Rose is taken away by the paramedics and Tyler assures them she can’t see Maggie. The brothers don’t know what happened but help Susan and Tyler leave. Sam agrees with Dean that it’s good to be back in action, but holds Dean to his promise to take care of him if he turns evil. As they leave and the police clear out the hotel, the spirits of two girls can be seen in the attic playing together: Rose and Maggie.

Episode 2.12: Night Shifter

In Milwaukee, police team move in on a bank where robbers have taken the staff hostage. Sam comes out.

One Day Ago

Dean and Sam are at a jewelry store investigating a woman who shot a guard, robbed the place, then killed herself. They are on the trail of a series of similar robberies and deaths and go to the home of a man, Resnick, who worked at a bank that was robbed. Resnick says that the man who committed the robbery, Juan, wasn’t the real Juan and shows them a tape of “Juan” with glowing eyes. He’s pinpointed where the shapeshifter is and plans to hunt it down, and Sam convinces him to drop it.

Dean figures that it’s a shapeshifter like they one they fought in St. Louis, it’s holed up in the sewers, and there’s one bank in the vicinity that it’ll hit. They go in as security guards and gain access to the video tapes. They notice one person with glowing eyes, the manager, but before they can move, Resnick arrives, locks up the bank doors, and comes in to force everyone on the floor.

Dean and Sam go down to confront him and he forces them down on the floor with the others, after throwing away Dean’s silver knife. Dean tries to convince Resnick they believe him and the shapeshifter is in the bank, and Resnick has him go with him while having everyone else in the bank. They go into the office and find the molted remains of the shapeshifter’s last disguise. Now it’s taken on another form and could be in another shape. Dean finds a silver letter opener and he and Resnick go to find it. Meanwhile, the police have got the alarm and have arrived outside. They shut down the power and they don’t have the cameras to detect the shapeshifter.

Dean lets Sam out of the vault then goes hunting for the shapeshifter while Resnick takes a call from the police and Sam tries to reassure the other bank patrons. The guard starts to have a heart attack and Sam calls in a paramedic. Dean finds a loose ceiling panel and after prodding it, a body falls down: that of one of the hostages, his throat cut. Dean secretly briefs Sam and they take the guard out, while Dean talks to the man the shapeshfiter supposedly is. The shapeshifter attacks Dean and takes his gun, then makes a run for it. When Resnick goes after him, a sniper kills him.

Sam goes after the shapeshifter and finds that it’s shed its skin-disguise again. Meanwhile a Federal agent, Henrickson, arrives and takes command of the situation, saying there’s a monster in the bank. He calls in and talks to Dean, and knows all about the Winchesters. He gives them five minutes to come out before ordering an assault.

Sam finds the corpse of another woman: a bank worker Sherry who was pretending she was attracted to Sam. they insists she come out and it notices Sam has the silver letter opener. She reluctantly goes out and they show her the corpse, whereupon she faints. Dean prepares to kill her but Dean points out the shapeshifter fainting doesn’t help it. The “corpse” comes to life and Dean fights with it and it escapes, while the SWAT teams enter the bank. They find Sherry and get her to safety, then try to capture Sam who knocks them out. Dean finds the shapeshifter by the power box and they fight, and he’s distracted when he pulls off some of its skin. Dean finally manages to kill it… just as a SWAT member comes up to him.

Henrickson comes in and they find the shapeshfiter corpse, and he orders they tear the place apart. But they quickly figure out what happened when they discover two guards with no uniforms: the Winchesters slipped out in the SWAT team uniforms. They get to their car and take off, but Dean admits that they’re screwed.

Episode 3.13: Houses of the Holy

Providence, Rhode Island

A woman, Gloria, is watching TV in her apartment and is clearly in poor shape. She switches over the TV to a televangelist who starts to preach. She turns the TV off, but it comes back on of its own accord and the televangelist seems to speak directly to Gloria, speaking of angels. The apartment begins to shake and a glowing white light bursts through the door. A shadowy figure approaches out of the light as Gloria looks on in shock.

Later the woman is in a psychiatric hospital and Sam has slipped in dressed as an orderly. Gloria is now in much better shape but as Sam talks to her, it becomes clear that she believes that an angel visited her, and told her to stab a churchgoing man, Carl, through the heart, and that he was evil. She believes that by killing the man she gained redemption.

Sam goes back to the Winchesters’ current hotel where is Dean holed up to avoid being spotted by the police after the events at the bank in St. Louis. It turns out Gloria is the second such murderer in Providence and Sam believes there may be some actual angelic presence involved. Dean is more skeptical. Dean finally proposes they go over to Carl’s apartment and check things out. They break into the house and check out the cellar, and find the skeleton of Carl’s victim.

In another cheap apartment, a heavy drinker named Zack is lounging around when the room shakes and the white light fills it. The shadow figure emerges again, and a few minutes later Zack crosses the street, knocks on the door, and stabs the man who answers it.

Dean and Sam hear about the murder on the police scanner and Sam has discovered that three students went missing from the college library where Carl worked. They check out the dead man’s house and discover he was instant-messaging with young girls and was supposed to meet one that day. They also discover the dead man went to the same church as Carl.

The Winchesters go to the church, Our Lady of the Angels, and talk with Father Reynolds. He mentions that Father Gregory was gunned down two months ago and was interred in the parish’s crypt. Dean grabs a photo of the dead Father Gregory and then concludes that the “angel” the killers saw was actually Gregory’s vengeful ghost. Sam doubts his theory and believes an actual angel is involved and answering Father Reynold’s prayers.

They investigate the crypt and while Dean goes ahead Sam hears a murmuring noise and then the burst of light fills the chamber he’s in. When Dean returns, he finds Sam unconscious on the floor. Sam claims he was visited by an angel but Dean is still skeptical, since angels didn’t protect their mother. Dean then shows Sam Gregory’s grave, which is covered in wormwood which is associated with the restless dead. Dean says they hold a séance. They put together an impromptu ceremony but Sam spots a burst of light on a nearby man sitting at the corner. Sam insists they have to stop him so Dean locks him out of the Impala and goes after the man on his own. Sam goes to the crypt and does the séance on his own.

The man Dean follows picks up a woman and Dean follows, while an angry Father Reynolds interrupts Sam’s séance. Father Gregory’s ghost arrives and believes it is an angel summoned by Reynolds’ prayers. They try to convince him otherwise without success.

Dean loses the man who stops with his date and starts to molest her. Dean manages to track them down, smashes in the window, and stuns him. The woman runs away while the man takes off and Dean gives pursuit in the Impala.

Sam and Reynolds finally get through to Father Gregory’s spirit and he wants them to send him on his way. Reynolds gives the prayer and Gregory’s ghost disappears. Meanwhile the would-be rapist is fleeing when a construction company pick-up swerves and as Dean looks on, a length of scaffolding slams through the windshield, killing him.

Back at the motel, Sam admits that he was wrong and Dean was right. Sam admits it’s hard to do what they do alone and he needs to believe in a higher power. In turn Dean admits that what he saw happen to the rapist has caused him to question his own skepticism, as it appeared to be a sign of… God’s will.

Episode 1.14: Born Under a Bad Sign

Dean is trying to track down Sam on the phone, as his brother has gone missing. He’s interrupted by a call from a panicked Sam and Dean goes to meet him. He finds Sam at a hotel in the town of Twin Lakes, with his hands and clothes covered in blood. Sam says he doesn’t remember anything.

Dean determines that Sam checked in three days ago and no one noticed anything unusual. Sam wonders if it’s what John warned Dean about and Dean insists on going back over what Sam does remember. The trail leads them to a storage building and Sam finds a key for it in his jacket pocket. Inside they find a Volkswagon and a bloody knife. They also find a gas receipt for a neighboring town and the clerk recognizes Sam as a drunk and smoker who wandered in the previous day. Once Dean pays for the damages, the clerk tells Dean which route he left town on. The brothers follow the highway until they come to a road Sam seems to remember. They find a house at the end with a high-tech security system. Someone’s bypassed the security system and they go inside to find a dead man: a hunter, judging by his secret stash of weapons. They check the security cameras and find a tape showing Sam attacking the man and killing him.

While Dean starts to erase the evidence so other hunters can’t find their trail Sam is guilt-stricken. He finds a letter to the hunter from the man’s daughter and then they go back to the hotel. Dean still doesn’t believe Sam is responsible and he explains that he’s been having feeling of rage and hate that got worse. He’s worried that things are getting worse and the yellow-eyed demon is involved. He insists Dean keep his promise to deal with him if necessary but Dean insists on figuring it out. Sam gives Dean the gun to shoot him with but Dean can’t bring himself to do it. Sam warns Dean’ll live to regret it, then clubs him unconscious and leaves.

Dean wakes up later when the landlord comes in, and he convinces the landlord to let him use his computer so he can get a track on Sam’s GPS, where he’s in Duluth. in Duluth, Sam arrives at a bar where Jo is working. They talk and she notices a burn on his right arm. He apologizes about John’s responsibility in her father’s death and how he’s not his father. He picks up on how she has feeling for Dean and says Dean doesn’t have romantic feelings toward her. He starts coming on to her and she tells him to leave, and then he grabs her. They struggle and he knocks her unconscious, then ties her up.

Jo quickly realizes it isn’t the real Sam who’s with her, but then answers her question of how John got her father killed. Sam says she got it wrong and that John had to kill her father after he was badly injured. Dean shows up and Sam puts a knife to Jo’s throat, then asks Dean to kill him before he kills her. Dean refuses then throws holy water on Sam, causing the demon to manifest before he leaps out the window. Dean follows him into a nearby warehouse where the demon explains he wanted to test how far he could push Dean into killing Sam. The demon boasts that if Dean doesn’t stop him, he’ll kill more hunters. Dean follows the demon out the back where Sam corners him on the pier, shoots him, and Dean falls into the water.

Jo goes out back and finds Dean where he’s climbed out of the water. She gets the bullet out of his shoulder and he figures the demon will go after the nearest hunter, Bobby Singer. Dean takes off on his own, leaving Jo behind, but the demon has already got there and cuts the wire. Bobby lets Sam in and they have a drink… but Bobby’s put holy water in the beer as a precaution.

Bobby knocks out Sam and then when Dean gets there, they tie Sam up and put him in a demon trap. They pour holy water on him but the demon refuses to talk. Bobby begins an exorcism and Dean demands the demon talk about the plan for Dean, but the demon says it’s not about the plan. He then is unaffected by the exorcism and they realize the demon burned a binding link, locking itself in Sam’s body. The building begins to shake and the demon trap cracks. It then throws Bobby and Dean aside and bursts its bonds. It torments Dean, who realizes the demon is the same one that was in Meg. The demon taunts Dean, saying John is in hell, but Bobby manages to burn off the binding link and the demon is cast out.

Later Bobby asks them about the dead hunter and Dean denies any knowledge. Bobby clearly knows something is up and warns that his friends are looking for the killer. He gives them charms to guard against possession and they head out. As they’re heading down the road, Sam talks about what he remembers while under the demon’s possession and how Dean wouldn’t shoot him no matter what. In return Dean taunts him about having a female (demon) inside him.