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Supernatural Episode Recap: "Yellow Fever

2008-10-29T16:52:00.001-06:00

Supernatural Episode Recap: "Yellow Fever"

by Tina Charles

The brothers investigated the deaths of men who seemingly died of fear. A victim was a 44-year-old man who had a heart attack. One problem. The autopsy revealed his heart was healthy. All roads led to a ghost sickness, and guess which lucky Winchester got infected? Dean. As a result, Sam took charge of the case of the week, while his brother got scared of pretty much everything under the sun. At the end of "Yellow Fever," we were treated to an impromptu karaoke-style performance that just about stole the show.Not sure where to begin, because there were so many things to like. It wasn't as funny as I thought it was going to be. Nor was it as scary as I thought it was going to be, but all in all, it was a pretty solid episode. The brothers were together just about the entire time, which I totally loved and have been waiting for pretty much all season long. We've gotten so much of the boys separated. Even in "Monster Movie" they were apart much of the time.There was a bit of a role reversal in this one. Sam took the lead. He had to make sure Dean was all right. Much like in "Bad Day at Black Rock" when Dean had to leave Sam behind for his own good, Sam had to pretty much do the same. And just like in BDABR, Dean got in trouble anyway despite being "safe" in the confines of the hotel room. Only difference was Sam never got to burst onto the scene and utter a really cool line like "I'm Batman." Sorry, Sam.Bobby and Sam shared some scenes together. Nothing emotional like Bobby and Dean scenes are frequently. But it was nice to see the two of them work together. I'm a fan of anytime Jim Beaver's part of the action. He only got to come in at the end, but I'm not going to complain.A fearful Dean yielded some results that totally contradicted what he said in the previous episode, "Monster Movie." Back in MM, Dean told Jamie now that he was back from hell he realized that what he did for a living was a gift. That he considered it a "mission, a mission from God." Add a seriously large amount of fear to the situation and he's ready to give things up. He's questioning every facet of their lives. He brings up all the ways he has annoyed Sam, and even a way Sam has annoyed him. Who knew Sam was gassy? Too much information, if you ask me. It was funny that he was saying these things, but it was sad too. How much of it did he really mean? I kind of liked thinking that he left the doubts about what they do behind.I wish we had seen more of his hallucinations. The little bit of Yellow-Eyed Sam we got was logical and scary. Of course Dean's biggest fear was that Sam was going to go all big and bad. And as for seeing Lilith, that seemed a little more real to me than just a hallucination. Are we really to believe he remembers every single second of what happened to him while he was in hell? If he does, he's been doing a fan-freakin-tastic job of covering it up. The little demon also revealed that four months is like 40 years in hell. If that's true, I shudder to think of everything Dean went through while he was down in the pit. I'm totally surprised he's not laying in a fetal position in some white room somewhere.It was like opposite day when it came to Dean. The character we've come to know and love isn't afraid of anything. He understands the responsibility that comes with the job. He understands the kind of life he's forced to live because of it. He doesn't always like it, but he understands it. In "Yellow Fever," he questioned the use of fake names and fake badges. The boy was frightened of heights, driving fast, cats, Yorkies, everything. Poor Dean. That high-pitched scream he gave when the cat came out of the locker was hilarious.Other thoughts• Sam and Dean borrowed from Aerosmith to become Agents Tyler and Perry.• They totally showed the beginnings of an autopsy. One slice into a cadaver and I'm totally grossed out.• I liked the slow build-up of Dean's fears.• The EMF made a return. I know we caught a glimpse of one in "Are You There, God? It's me, Dean Winchester." Before that, when was the last time we saw the boys actually use one? Anytime the EMF is around I flashback to Season One. And that's a good thing in my book.• Why does this show have fascination with d—ks? They like to use that word. And they like for those type of guys to get their comeuppance. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Dean's not one. He's not.• Dean possibly dying from the ghost sickness didn't have much of an impact when you know the guy has already been resurrected from hell by an angel.• Anytime we get a little bit of Jared acting all dark side I'm all for it. More, please.• A symptom of the ghost sickness was the scratching of the arms. That was gross.• In the past we've gotten an inebriated Sam in "Playthings" and "Sin City." This time around, we got a small dose of drunken Dean at the police station. • I think Sam missed his calling. He always makes a good federal agent.• Did Bobby drive the Impala? Awesome. And the man speaks some Japanese. Wow.• The monster they chained up to the Impala and dragged until he disintegrated was originally a nice guy. It sucked that he had to relive his painful death all over again.• Sam handed Dean food and he didn't eat it. Wow. Never thought that would happen.• Dean's keeping secrets again. He didn't tell Sam what he hallucinated.• It seems to me like Dean's going to have to deal a lot with his fears this season, just not in such a less than subtle way. He's going to have to deal with what happened in hell. He's going to have to deal with what is going on with Sam and his powers. He's going to have to deal with being faced with things that will cause him to change everything he's ever believed in.Final ThoughtsUsually I sum up my feelings about this episode here, but not this time. I have to discuss the little treat Supernatural gave us at the end of the episode. The scene that aired during "Yellow Fever" had Dean air-drumming to Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger." That is, until Sam tapped on the roof of the car, thereby ending Dean's "jam session." For one take, however, Jared didn't feel the need to tap on the car and what happened was just awesome to behold. Jensen lip-synched away complete with impromptu choreography that involved sliding out of the car; getting on top of the Impala; playing air leg guitar and scratching much like Dean Winchester would in "Yellow Fever." The bonus was you could also hear Jared laughing in the background. This is reason number 600 why I love Supernatural. What other show would do something like this? Kudos to Jensen for letting the powers that be air something that usually would be saved for the DVD. It was goofy, but completely adorable and I loved every second of it.Favorite lines"Hell, we were Gamecocks. (Dean laughs) That was our softball team's name. They were majestic animals.""Am I haunted? Am I haunted??!!!!""Don't be scared of Donny, he's a sweetheart. It's Marie you gotta look out for. She smells fear.""Dude, you're going 20.""And?""That's the speed limit.""What? Safety's a crime now?""Hey, where you going? That was our hotel.""Sam, I'm not going to make a left-hand turn into oncoming traffic. I'm not suicidal. Did I just say that? That was kinda weird.""Let's do this!""I'll man the flashlight.""That was scary. What?""You're a d—k too.""Apparently I'm not.""How you feeling?""Awesome.""I don't want to be a clue.""These badges are fake! What is we get busted? We could go to jail!""Where's Dean?""Uh…home sick.""Those are real obviously. I mean, who would want to pretend to be an FBI Agent, huh? That's just nutty."

Supernatural: Preview of Episode 4.7 "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester"

2008-10-29T16:47:00.001-06:00

Supernatural: Preview of Episode 4.7 "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester" Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Last week's episode of Supernatural brought us Sam with yellow eyes, Dean screaming like a woman, a fantastic tribute to "Eye of the Tiger," and the epic "Dean is not a dick" controversy. Now that Dean's heart is in no danger of exploding, tomorrow night's installment can get back to the apocalypse. The Halloween-themed outing, brilliantly titled "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester," features the return of Castiel, who teams up with a not-so-friendly angel to smite an entire town.To get fans ready for Supernatural's holiday spectacular, we have three clips from tomorrow night's episode. The official CW episode description reads: "It's a few days before Halloween and Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean investigate two mysterious deaths in a small town. The brothers find hex bags and deduce a witch is sacrificing people to summon a dangerous demon named Samhain. Castiel arrives in town and tells Sam and Dean the freeing of Samhain is one of the Seals that will lead to freeing Lucifer, so Castiel has brought a specialist angel named Uriel (Robert Wisdom, The Wire) to smite the entire town."Who doesn't love a good smiting? In the first clip from the episode, Sam explains that the hex bag they found is far from ordinary. In fact, it contains the charred metacarpal bone of a newborn baby, which is just nasty. ..While Sam and Dean (Jensen Ackles) look for a witch named Tracy, they run into a trick-or-treater dressed as an astronaut. What kind of kid begs for candy at a motel, anyway? Dean tells him that they're fresh out of treats, then pokes fun at the kid for being chubby. Hey, maybe he actually is a dick. ..The final clip proves that Uriel isn't particularly fond of humanity. He thinks of us as "plumbing on two legs," and believes that the quickest way to deal with the problem at hand is to obliterate the entire town. ..The new episode of Supernatural airs Thursday at 9pm on the CW.

Supernatural Contemplates Free Will (And Grisly Death)

2008-10-25T12:52:00.001-06:00

Supernatural Contemplates Free Will (And Grisly Death) Another week, another fantastic episode of Supernatural. We're starting to feel like Kripke is spoiling us! We can't even begin to list all the things we loved about this episode -- but we'll try. 1) No more secrets!We were prepared for a long wait until Dean found out Sam was using his mind-mojo to expell demons. Nope: Dean found out before the first commercial break. Plus, Dean is upfront about what he learned from Castiel -- if I don't stop you, they will. Finally, Sam slips up and reveals what he knows about being fed demon blood as a baby. Right there, all the cards are on the table (we hope.) While we do love watching the boys look tortured, we weren't prepared to sit through another ocean of angst. Now the brothers can see what they're up against, deal with it, and move on. 2) Sam gets called on his decision -- and he's got a rational answer!Dean wasn't the only one to question Sam about what he thought he was doing using demon-granted powers and consorting with Ruby. The demon he originally questioned sneered that Sam was supposed to be some big hero, "and yet here you are, sluttin' around with some demon!" We have to admit, the Sam/Ruby relationship has bugged us, too, especially after ghost Meg asked how he could get it on with Ruby, who was controlling a helpless human meat suit. It's a valid question! But we finally hear Sam's answer -- not about any Ruby nookie, but about why he's using his powers. He's saving people! Yeah, but why don't you just use the knife, Dean asks. "The knife kills the victim!" Sam replies. "What I do, most of them survive! I've saved more people in the last five months than we've saved in a year!" We even see that he makes Ruby take the former meat suit to the hospital. It's hard to argue with that logic. 3) The victim/monster of the week kind of rules!Poor Jack Montgomery. He's this normal, happy guy, and all of a sudden he gets hungry. Like, really hungry. "[His] appetite's reaching Hungry Hungry Hippo level," Dean says. He's scarfing down raw, bloody mean, and he's getting weak at the sight of human blood. He's also getting strong -- strong enough to shatter a bully's arm in a bar. Plus, his bones seem to be moving and cracking. It's not good. That's because Jack is a rougarou. ("Is that made up?" Dean asks. "It sounds made up.") This nasty character starts out craving anything meaty, then develops a specialized taste for human flesh. He stays human until he takes his first bite of man-meat. After that, he's all monster. There's no going back. Jack wigs out and flees when his wife, Michelle, cuts her hand. He comes back later to apologize, but his sexual appetite is just as uncontrollable -- he comes close to raping her before she shoves him off. So when the Winchester boys show up in his back yard telling him about his condition, he's almost ready to listen -- that is, until they mention that his dad suffered from the same thing, and that someone killed him for it. He's not that interested in listening after that. Jack runs away from Michelle to protect her, but he starts getting really, really hungry. He spots a comely lass in a window, and it looks like he's about to give in to his hunger. That's sure what the boys think -- they burst into her apartment with flamethrowers at the ready. But Jack sees what he's about to become, and he turns back. He doesn't give in to his impulses. He just might beat this. 4) We see where Hunters can go wrong Early in the episode, Dean tells Sam "If I didn't know you, I would want to hunt you. And so would other hunters." We meet one of those Hunters -- Travis, an old friend of their dad's, who know the boys way back when Sam was a Mathlete (Hee!). Travis has encountered rougarou before -- he's the one who killed Jack's dad, after he'd gone on a particularly gruesome killing spree. Sam does some research and figures out that if the rougarou never takes the first bite, he stays human. Jack can fight it! Travis thinks Sam is an idiot -- no one can fight it there whole life. Jack's going to slip. He's not going to wait for Jack to become a killing machine -- if he could, he'd have killed Jack in his mom's womb. And that's where Travis goes really, really wrong. While the boys are tracking Jack, Travis breaks into Jack's house. Michelle says exactly the wrong thing-- don't hurt me, I'm pregnant! Now she has to die, too. Jack comes back to find Michelle tied up. Travis jumps him and handcuffs him to a column, but Jack's rougarou strength kicks in when he sees Travis is about to burn his pregnant wife alive. He breaks free and jumps Travis. Then... it becomes too much. He takes that first bite out of Travis's neck. Travis is so, so very dead. Jack stays in control long enough to tell Michelle to run. then he waits. The guys come back to the house and see Travis' bloody remains. Jack jumps them -- but doesn't kill them. He locks Sam in a closet and contemplates Dean's unconscious form (which we can't really blame him for.) When Sam comes to, he tries to reason with Travis -- who, by the way, is still very much in his right mind. he's despairing, he's got the outward appearance of a monster, but he's not a mindless killing machine. Sam tells him that it doesn't matter what he is, it matters what he does. Jack seems to be considering it, but when Sam breaks out of the closet, he's standing too close to Dean for comfort. He fires up his flamethrower and burns jack alive. But he looks really, really sad about it. Did Travis turn Jack into a monster? Yes! If he hadn't attacked Jack's family, Jack would have been able to keep his impulses under control. No! Jack was already a monster. It was only a matter of time before he snapped. 5) Sam and Dean talk -- for a while Not keeping secrets is one thing. Actually talking about what's going on is another. Sam finally breaks down and tells Dean what he's been feeling -- knowing he's infected with something evil, knowing it's something he can never get rid of or clean away. But that doesn't mean he doesn't know the difference between right and wrong, and he needs Dean to acknowledge that. Then, in the end, after Jack is dead and all seems lost, Sam tells Dean he's done with his mind mojo (and hopefully with Ruby.) "These powers, it's playing with fire. I'm done with them. I'm done with everything," he says. Dean thanks him, but Sam won't have it: "Don't thank me. I'm not doing it for you, for the angels or anyone. This is my choice." Because right now, that's all he has left. Is Sam doomed to turn eeeeeeevil? No! He's stronger than the demon blood. It's his choice. Yes. The Yellow-Eyed Demon put plans in place, and Sam can't derail them. On his own, maybe -- but he's got Dean to help him stay human. Favorite moment Dean confronts Sam in the hotel room, then punches him out. Sam asks if Dean's satisfied ... and Dean punches him again. "Ii guess not," Sam says.The guys break into the woman-in-peril's apartment, only to find she's not in peril. "We should go." "Yeah." Travis revealing a little more about the boys' childhoods. Sam was a Mathlete! Sam telling Jack it doesn't matter what he is -- it matters what he does. Favorite quote SO! Anything you want to tell me, Sam? Well aren't you an obedient little bitch... Well, I've seen big weird, little weird, weird with crazy on top but this guy? This guy's boring. "Long pig?" "He means human flesh." "And that is my word of the day."Sam loves research, he really does. He keeps it under his mattress right next to his KY. A little manburger helper may have crossed your mind already.

Television: Supernatural Creator Eric Kripke Clarifies A Comment Made About Dean

2008-10-25T12:47:00.002-06:00

Television: Supernatural Creator Eric Kripke Clarifies A Comment Made About Dean Winchester in Yellow Fever October 24th, 2008 · Posted by: M R Reed in Television In this past Thursday’s episode of Supernatural titled Yellow Fever, Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) was infected with something called Ghost Sickness. In an exchange between Dean and his brother Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) a comment was made by Sam that the others who had died from this were considered ‘real dicks’. Dean responds ’so I’m a dick’? Within minutes of the episode ending, the internet was filled with fans going to Supernatural forums and Live Journals to protest this apparent denigration of the character of Dean Winchester by the writers of Supernatural. Today, Supernatural Creator Eric Kripke has released the following statement to clarify the issue and assure fans that no denigration of Dean Winchester was ever truly intended. Eric Kripke: “So I’ve never before responded directly to the fandom’s comments about an episode, and I don’t plan to make a habit of it, but I couldn’t resist dropping in a thought about the episode “Yellow Fever.”Which is this: Dean is not a dick. None of the writers, or anyone on the creative team of Supernatural, think Dean’s ever been a dick, past, present, or future. He’s a hero. Dean did NOT contract the ghost sickness because he’s a dick. Victims contract the illness because they use “fear as a weapon.” Dean asks Lilith at the episode’s end, “why did I get infected?” And she cryptically responds, “you know why. Listen to your heart.” We, as the writers, probably should have emphasized this mystery more, I take responsibility for that omission. But the point is: the reason he was infected is because of a SECRET he’s keeping. A dark secret that will be revealed in Episode 10. And not at all because of any dickishness, implied or otherwise. Thanks, gang. “ Eric Kripke, Creator Supernatural

Metamorphosis

2008-10-25T12:07:00.002-06:00

Episode 4.5 SidesMetamorphosisInt. Jack’s House – Dining/Living Room –

EveningJack is sitting at the dinner table, eating like there’s no tomorrow. He finishes off his steak and looks up at his wife Michelle. Michelle stars back at her husband in amused fascination. She asks if Jack is stoned, gesturing to his empty plate.Jack says its just so good, and he’s starving, then asks for dessert. Michelle exits into the kitchen to get the dessert and while she’s gone Jack notices the half-eaten steak resting on Michelle’s plate. He asks if she plans on finishing it.Michelle says that Jack’s gotta be kidding seeing as he’s already had two steaks already. Jack says he doesn’t know, all he knows is that he’s hungry. Michelle jokingly suggests that maybe Jack just has a tapeworm.Michelle watches as Jack stuffs more steak into his mouth and finishes off the bowl of mashed potatoes. Jack says that he’s never been healthier. Int. Jack’s House – Bedroom – MorningMichelle is alone in bed, sound asleep. She stirs, opening her eyes a bit and then jerks away looking more than freaked. Jack is sitting on the bed, in his boxers and shirt, just staring at Michelle. He’s a foot or two away, but its really creeping Michelle out a bit. She fusses Jack for scaring her. Jack apologizes but says the Michelle’s just so beautiful. Michelle tells him to stop, and informs Jack that she’s still pissed at him for having to drive herself to the hospital and being there until two. Jack apologizes again and Michelle asks just what happened.Jack admits that he doesn’t know, just saw the blood and got dizzy. He had to get out. Michelle says that he could’ve called seeing as she left him a dozen messages. Jack replies that his phone died and he couldn’t find a payphone. He’s really sorry and it won’t happen again.Michelle softens and says that it better not, then comments offhand that blood’s never really bothered Jack before. Jack says that he guesses he changed then. He asks how Michelle’s finger is and Michelle says that she’ll survive. Jack kisses her and Michelle smiles, and returns the kiss. Michelle stops and says that this isn’t getting Jack off the hook, but a diamond will. The couple continues to make out and Jack grins, he’s energized in a way that’s more than just the beginnings of a promising night. Michelle asks just what got into him, and Jack admits that he doesn’t know. It’s going from slow, to fast and a bit rough as Jack slides his hand up Michelle’s leg. Michelle tells him to slow down a bit and Jack tells her no and goes right back to moving up her leg. He’s fumbling with her nightgown and presses a hard kiss to Michelle’s lips.Michelle warns Jack that she means it, but Jack doesn’t stop. Michelle starts to struggle, trying to push Jack off her, but he grips her shoulders and pushes her down. Michelle’s head cracks against the headboard and she’s way past scared by this point. She cries for Jack to stop it.It finally gets through and Jack pauses, looks at her and lets her go. Michelle scrambles frantically off the bed, crying and calling Jack a son of a bitch. Jack apologizes and when Michelle demands to know what the hell is wrong with him, Jack replies yet again that he doesn’t know. Jack turns away and exits the room.Int. Motel Room – NightSam and Dean enter to find Travis, 50’s infectious grin and rumpled, making himself completely at home, beer in his good hand seeing as the other is in a plaster cast. Sam and Dean are sporting grins and Dean greets Travis saying that he told Sam they should’ve hit the beer. Travis calls Dean a smartass and Sam says its good to see him. Travis can’t believe how tall Sam’s got and ask how long’s it’s been and Sam replies at least ten years. Travis asks if Sam’s still a math-lete and Sam grimaces at the teasing, especially when Dean says that yep, Sam still is.Travis takes a second to really study Sam and Dean. He says that its been too long, and they men now. He’s almost wistful as he admits that John would be damn proud for sticking together like they did.Travis takes a drink of his beer and apologizes for being late, but thanks the boys for helping him out seeing as he’s a bit shorthanded. Travis asks if they found Jack and Sam says that they did find him at his house. Dean chimes in saying that the guy had some serious munchies and even chowed down on an uncooked burger.Travis says that Jack’s it then, Jack’s the Rugaru. Dean asks if that’s made up cause it sure sounds that way. Travis says that they are mean, nasty looking things. Fangs, gross skin, the whole she-bang. Dean says that Jack ain’t that guy cause he’s more the cell phone on his belt type.Travis warns that Jack will get ugly soon enough. Rugaru’s start out human for the most part. Sam asks if this is kind of like a metamorphosis and Travis says that yeah, that’s exactly it.Int. Motel Room- Night – ContinuousTravis tells the boys that the first bit does it. The eyes, teeth, skin it all turns and there ain’t no going back. If they feed once, they’re a monster forever. He adds that Jack’s on the monster express train.Dean asks how Travis managed to find Jack in the first place if he’s a human. Travis explains that he killed Jack’s dad in ’78 after the dude managed to mangle 8 bodies. Jack’s dad used to be a dentist and have everything. Travis explains that Jack’s mom put him up for adoption and by the time he found out, the kid was gone, lost in the system. But Travis continues to say that he’s kind of thankful he lost the kid, cause he’s not sure he would’ve had the heart to hunt a kid. Despite all that, Travis is sure he’s tracked down Jack just in time. Ext. Jack’s House- Back yard- DayJack is standing over some flower beds, garden hose in hand, but isn’t so much focusing on his task as he is starting into space. Jack hears someone call his name and turns to find Sam and Dean approaching. Sam introduces himself and Dean and Jack is bit thrown and asks if he can help the brothers.Sam says that they need to talk and Jack asks what he means by that. Sam continues and says they need to talk about Jack and how he’s changing. Jack shifts to defensive and Dean takes over saying that he’s betting Jack can feel his bones moving, his indestructible skin and the beginnings of a crazed appetite. Jack looks stunned by the brother’s correct assessment and ask just who they are, exactly. Sam says that he and Dean are there to help, if Jack will just hear them out.Ext. Jack’s Backyard – Minutes LaterThe group has moved to the patio, Dean and Sam sitting at the outdoor table and Jack pacing while he tries to get just what the Winchester’s are trying to tell him. Dean repeats that even though it sounds made up, it’s a Rugaru.Jack says that he’s noticed strange things but that he must just be sick or something. Sam interjects that Jack’s father was a Rugaru, his real father, and he passed it on to Jack. Jack is all prepared to tell the Winchesters they are nuts, but Dean cuts in and asks if they can just skip that part cause he knows Jack is hungry and its just gonna get worse. Jack asks just what Dean thinks he’s hungry for and Dean replies that its Longpig, Little manburger helper and it’s already crossed Jack’s mind. Sam gives Dean a chiding glance and Dean shrugs it off while Jack tries to deny the accusation.Sam tells Jack that it doesn’t have to be like this, others have fought it out. Dean adds that its not easy and its gonna be like an alcoholic wading in whiskey but if Jack doesn’t say no it’s not gonna be good. Sam agrees and explains that if Jack feeds once, its all over. And then he and Dean are going to have to stop him.Jack asks if somebody ‘stopped’ his dad, and Sam says that yeah, someone did. Jack doesn’t like the threat one bit and orders the Winchesters off of his property, warning them if he sees them again, he’s calling the cops.Sam tries to tell Jack that his wife and family are all in danger but Jack orders them gone, and NOW.Int. Jack’s House – Living Room – Night – ContinuousThere’s pounding on the locked closet door. Jack’s a few feet away, his transforming body and overwhelming hunger really doing a number on him. Jack says that Dean can’t come to the phone, and we discover its Sam locked in the closet freaking out because Jack’s got Dean.Jack tells Sam to calm down, and looks over to an unconscious, bleeding Dean on the floor. Sam keeps banging on the door, and Jack finally informs Sam that while Dean may be alive now, he ain’t gonna be much longer if Sam doesn’t calm down. Sam stops, and opts to try a different approach. He asks Jack to open the door and they can figure it out from there, but Jack ain’t having it. Sam’s almost reach begging, and Jack says that after what Sam did, he really isn’t going to be letting Sam out. Sam asks just what Jack is talking about and Jack says that Sam sent his friend to his house and he tried to burn his wife alive. Sam asks what and why and Jack really isn’t buying that Sam doesn’t know the answer to those questions already. Sam counters that he and Dean would never go after Jack’s wife, but Jack accuses Sam of lying. Jack is to the point of shaking now with hunger and crouches down to mop up some of Dean’s blood with his fingers and licking it off. Sam yells for Jack not to do this.Jack’s got wire hangers in the closet and ain’t that just a good deal for Sam, cause he’s taking his careful time to pick at the lock. Outside in the room, Jack scratches his head, coming back with a fistful of hair. Jack’s very emotional as he blames Sam and Dean for making to where he can’t see his family again. Sam replies that no one’s making Jack kill him.Sam stops his lock-picking for a moment, thinking before telling Jack that he knows what its like to have that dark pit inside you but it doesn’t mean that Jack has to fall into it. He can choose not to be a monster. Jack scoffs at that and asks if Sam has really seen him lately. Sam says that it doesn’t matter, its still Jack’s choice.Jack’s struggling to juggle his thoughts and his insatiable hunger and turns back to Dean. Jack can hear Dean’s heart beat and is so, so hungry. Dean begins to wake a bit, and Jack leans in, it’s getting impossible for him to resist.It seems all but over but suddenly the closet door is open and there’s Sam, picking up the flamethrower off the ground. Jack charges Sam, but Sam lets loose the fire and it catches Jack resorting him to nothing more than a curled ball on the floor as he burns to his death.

Screen Actors Guild negotiators call for strike vote

2008-10-25T12:00:00.002-06:00

Screen Actors Guild negotiators call for strike vote

Remember all those worries about an actors' strike if the union didn't get the deal it wanted from the conglomerates? Well, it's far from over, folks. Yesterday, the Screen Actors Guild's negotiating committee issued a recommendation that its National Board call for a strike authorization vote from the 120,000 members. The union cannot walk the picket line until 75 percent of members who vote on the issue say it is okay. The National Board is set to meet Oct. 18. SAG is the lone holdout still negotiating a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (its previous deal expired in June). Guilds for the writers, directors, and daytime actors all signed new pacts with the major studios in the last year. Internet residuals continue represent a key sticking point in SAG's stalled talks with the AMPTP. According to the advisory motion approved by the negotiating committee, "Negotiators...have requested that the AMPTP return to the bargaining table to negotiate a fair deal, and the AMPTP...has refused to change their position and continued to refuse to meet to attempt to advance the negotiations." The AMPTP responded by questioning whether this was really the time to talk about going on strike, especially given the dire situation on Wall Street. "Not only is the business suffering from recent economic decisions, but if ever there was a time when Americans wanted the diversions of movies and TV, it is now," the AMPTP said in a statement. "The DGA, the WGA, and AFTRA reached agreements on comparable terms months ago, during far better economic times, and it is unrealistic for SAG negotiators now to expect even better terms during this grim financial climate. This is the harsh economic reality, and no strike will change that reality." Another major Hollywood strike so soon after last year's Writers Guild of America work stoppage would be devastating to the economy in Los Angeles, where one in 10 jobs is said to be in the creative sector. As it is, Bloomberg News just reported that foreclosures in L.A. have tripled, and a strike would not only affect those who directly work in the entertainment industry, but those who make a living off of the biz peripherally, like interior designers and architects, for example. TroyGould attorney and former WGA counsel Jonathan Handel, who has been blogging about the negotiations for quite some time, believes that a work stoppage now would be a risky roll of the dice by SAG. “A strike would almost certainly cause the studios to withdraw the offer on the table, and what SAG would get at the end of a long and bitter dispute is likely to be worse, or little better, than what they could get now. What SAG needs to do is close a deal promptly and live to fight -- or strike -- another day: mend the relationship with AFTRA, build closer alliances with the WGA, train its members to circumvent the studios by writing, directing, and producing their own new media productions, then come back strong in three years.”

Spoiler--Season Premiere

2008-08-13T16:05:00.001-06:00

Supernatural Season Premiere Spoiler Pics by Cynthia on August 13th, 2008 Hot off the presses and all behind the cut. Plenty spoilery! The new season approaches. Supernatural Season Premiere Photos: “Lazarus Rising” - (clockwise) Jensen Ackles as Dean, Traci Dinwiddie as Pamela Barnes, Jim Beaver as Bobby, Jared Padalecki as Sam in SUPERNATURAL on the CW. Photo credit: Sergei Bachlakov ©2008 THE CW NETWORK, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Sam looks so. . . mature (?) in this next pic. “Lazarus Rising” - Jensen Ackles as Dean, Jared Padalecki as Sam, Traci Dinwiddie as Pamela Barnes in SUPERNATURAL on the CW. Photo credit: Sergei Bachlakov ©2008 THE CW NETWORK, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The boys, together again. . . why so sad, fellas? Supernatural Season Four begins on September 18 All photos: Sergei Bachlakov ©2008 THE CW NETWORK, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

SAG, AMPTP: Are They Taalking Strike

2008-08-06T21:09:00.001-06:00

SAG, AMPTP: Are they talking?

Union, studios talking disconnect to new heights

SAG and the studios, locked in a stalemate and having held just one sidebar meeting since the guild contract ran out nearly a month ago, are taking their disconnect to new heights. Late Sunday, SAG's chief negotiator Doug Allen sent members a missive stating talks have continued within "small group meetings and exchanges with the employers, their AMPTP representatives and a core group of leaders in both organizations."He essentially told members to ignore any suggestions they might read that there is "dead silence between our sides," Allen said. "Progress doesn't have to occur directly across the table. Discussions through alternative channels are ongoing as we work toward a fair deal for actors as soon as possible."The AMPTP, however, denied any back-channel talks have taken place. The studios' bargaining arm Monday refuted SAG's claims that informal talks are being held. "No meetings, formal or informal, regarding these negotiations have taken place since the sidebar SAG requested on July 16, and no meetings are pending," the group added.Allen was traveling and could not be reached for comment on the AMPTP's response.The Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers did say that it would be open to overtures from SAG -- as long as the talks involved tweaks, rather than counterproposals, to the studios' "final offer.""The AMPTP is always interested in exploring ways to reach an agreement, and if SAG has an approach that's consistent with the parameters of our June 30 final offer, then we are open to hearing that," the AMPTP said. "SAG's negotiators have not discussed with us any plan to reach an agreement, and the only meeting the parties are attempting to schedule is one to resolve some outstanding grievance claims." It's possible that there has been communication between the sides but not real bargaining, one L.A. entertainment attorney suggested."I would suspect that there have been informal talks, in the course of business," agreed fellow labor lawyer Scott Witlin of Akin Gump in Los Angeles. "They're not negotiations, not sidebars, not subcommittees, but people meeting because they have a reason to meet. This comes up because everybody has this topic on their minds, and I think (SAG) is trying to characterize it as more than it is."Another entertainment labor attorney suggested that the AMPTP might not know every conversation that's taking place or who's calling whom."I don't think that the SAG leadership would have been so irresponsible to send out a letter to membership to say that smaller groups were having discussions if there weren't discussions taking place," the attorney said. "There are individuals within the business, probably at high levels, who are having conversations." In the meantime, SAG will announce today the candidates running for open slots for a third of the union's 69 national board seats. Among the hopefuls will be members of the Hollywood board's MembershipFirst faction and the newly formed rival group Unite for Strength.Some observers believe talks between SAG and the AMPTP won't move forward until the board elections, the results of which will be announced Sept. 19.If the majority of MembershipFirst candidates win, it will be seen as an endorsement of the current bargaining approach and thus bolster SAG's position in the negotiations. However, if Unite for Strength's candidates win the majority of the seats, SAG's hard-line stance would likely be dropped for a more moderate position. Among the options before the board would be replacing Allen, the national executive director.

Review "The Rest For The Wicked

2008-05-31T18:55:00.003-06:00

Supernatural - "No Rest For The Wicked"

Written by Alice Jester

Published May 18, 2008

DAMN YOU, KRIPKE!!!!!

There, I feel better. No actually… hold on… *rubs ears gently while humming to self in attempts to calm down*… Nope, it ain't working. This is the OMFG that the CW should have been promoting. For the record, this is my first Supernatural live season finale. I didn't get into the show until the beginning of season three, so I was able to watch the past two cliffhangers back to back via DVD. This is my first summer of agony, and dammit, the pain is deep. Dean died and went to Hell!!! Sam is more powerful than Lilith!!! Ruby is banished somewhere!!! Bobby is just plain awesome!!! You're all sick of the exclamation points!!! Okay, now that I'm calmer (breathe, breathe) I must take time to do the proverbial drop at the feet of the Kripster himself, the writer of this masterpiece, and bow down in his glory. This was better than his other scripts like "Devil's Trap", "In My Time of Dying", "All Hell Breaks Loose Part II", and "The Magnificent Seven" (okay, any script was better than that one). All season, this show harped on the "Dean's going to Hell" story line, and we fans just assumed they would come up with a way to get him out of it. So, imagine our surprise when it actually happened. Kripke went there! You magnificent bastard. Sam didn't go darkside either and even the expected shot of Sam weeping over Dean's mangled corpse blew us away. Sure, there's that whole 'Dean-hanging-on-a-hook-in-Hell-screaming-in-agony-Sam's-name' plot twist, but you wanted us to curse at you all summer, didn't you Mr. Kripke? Season finales are the toughest sells to fans. Expectations are usually sky high, so many leave disappointed. I was not one of those people. This makes up for all the crappy finales I've had to endure in recent times (yes, Heroes, I'm talking to you). Great finales can be done on a low budget. All you need is a well-paced script with great lines, two actors who can pull off the heavy emotional angst in a believable yet heartbreaking way, and a director who knows the perfect angle to capture the devastation of losing someone that you love. Bravo! Let's Start From The Beginning "Carry On My Wayward Son". All is right with the universe. I love consistency, since that song appeared in the montage opening the last two season finales. It was great to see a complete season three reel for once, reminding us that this was a pretty awesome season, all nitpicks aside. The season three DVD set is available for pre-order on Amazon and my name in on that list. Now, the fun begins. Dean is being chased through the woods by the hellhounds. Of course we all caught on that this had to be a dream, since they weren't going to off Dean in the first scene, but that still made for a great setup. I do remember from "Crossroads Blues" how the woman in the motel was seeing distorted and dead faces, so Dean seeing Sam like that was great continuity, but, could it be there's more to that? Is Dean seeing something else in Sam that he can only see now? All questions will be held until after the tour. A grinning Sam announces Lilith can be found, and I'm wondering how Bobby didn't come up with that cool demon-finding device years ago. That certainly could have helped them out of a lot of trouble. Where does he find all these books telling him this stuff? They're certainly better resources than Sam's computer. Anyway, they've found Lilith in Indiana, which sends my mind drifting, since they were in Pennsylvania last week. A '67 Impala gets what, 8 miles to the gallon? Driving from Pennsylvania, to South Dakota, back to Indiana with almost $4 a gallon gas? Ouch. Anyway, Ruby arrives and tells a not so shocked Sam what he and all of us have suspected all along, those goofy psychic and other freak powers are alive and, well, just dormant. By seeing Katie Cassidy in the opening credits we knew that Sam was going to ignore Dean's wishes and summon Ruby. Did anyone hear that Katie's Uncle Shaun has a pilot in development for FOX? Yes, he was a pinup on my wall in the late '70s, so what? Sorry, I'm drifting again. I got excited over the beginning of this scene, because nobody "latinates" better than Sam. There's just something in Jared's voice, his timber, who knows, but I'd like to see a whole episode of that. "Because of a curse, Sam can only speak Latin." Imagine all the fan girls thudding to the floor. After some stirring action in which Ruby kicks some serious Winchester ass but gets caught in a devil's trap anyway, we get the best line of the night. "Well I wish you'd shut your pie hole but we don't always get what we want." Oh Dean, you can't die. Who will say all those clever lines? Sam thinks Ruby might be right, which triggers the "I'm dying so hear my wisdom" talk. Dean wants to set things right, do it his way, go down swinging. I liked the fact that he was keeping the same attitude from "Jus In Bello" and not losing his resolve as his end drew near. Raise your hand if you knew when push came to shove though, Sam would crack and try to become that martyr. Remember Sam, your weakness for your brother will be the death of you (in the Trickster's words anyway). Now, the fun begins. Dean is being chased through the woods by the hellhounds. Of course we all caught on that this had to be a dream, since they weren't going to off Dean in the first scene, but that still made for a great setup. I do remember from "Crossroads Blues" how the woman in the motel was seeing distorted and dead faces, so Dean seeing Sam like that was great continuity, but, could it be there's more to that? Is Dean seeing something else in Sam that he can only see now? All questions will be held until after the tour. A grinning Sam announces Lilith can be found, and I'm wondering how Bobby didn't come up with that cool demon-finding device years ago. That certainly could have helped them out of a lot of trouble. Where does he find all these books telling him this stuff? They're certainly better resources than Sam's computer. Anyway, they've found Lilith in Indiana, which sends my mind drifting, since they were in Pennsylvania last week. A '67 Impala gets what, 8 miles to the gallon? Driving from Pennsylvania, to South Dakota, back to Indiana with almost $4 a gallon gas? Ouch. Anyway, Ruby arrives and tells a not so shocked Sam what he and all of us have suspected all along, those goofy psychic and other freak powers are alive and, well, just dormant. By seeing Katie Cassidy in the opening credits we knew that Sam was going to ignore Dean's wishes and summon Ruby. Did anyone hear that Katie's Uncle Shaun has a pilot in development for FOX? Yes, he was a pinup on my wall in the late '70s, so what? Sorry, I'm drifting again. I got excited over the beginning of this scene, because nobody "latinates" better than Sam. There's just something in Jared's voice, his timber, who knows, but I'd like to see a whole episode of that. "Because of a curse, Sam can only speak Latin." Imagine all the fan girls thudding to the floor. After some stirring action in which Ruby kicks some serious Winchester ass but gets caught in a devil's trap anyway, we get the best line of the night. "Well I wish you'd shut your pie hole but we don't always get what we want." Oh Dean, you can't die. Who will say all those clever lines? Sam thinks Ruby might be right, which triggers the "I'm dying so hear my wisdom" talk. Dean wants to set things right, do it his way, go down swinging. I liked the fact that he was keeping the same attitude from "Jus In Bello" and not losing his resolve as his end drew near. Raise your hand if you knew when push came to shove though, Sam would crack and try to become that martyr. Remember Sam, your weakness for your brother will be the death of you (in the Trickster's words anyway). Now, the fun begins. Dean is being chased through the woods by the hellhounds. Of course we all caught on that this had to be a dream, since they weren't going to off Dean in the first scene, but that still made for a great setup. I do remember from "Crossroads Blues" how the woman in the motel was seeing distorted and dead faces, so Dean seeing Sam like that was great continuity, but, could it be there's more to that? Is Dean seeing something else in Sam that he can only see now? All questions will be held until after the tour. A grinning Sam announces Lilith can be found, and I'm wondering how Bobby didn't come up with that cool demon-finding device years ago. That certainly could have helped them out of a lot of trouble. Where does he find all these books telling him this stuff? They're certainly better resources than Sam's computer. Anyway, they've found Lilith in Indiana, which sends my mind drifting, since they were in Pennsylvania last week. A '67 Impala gets what, 8 miles to the gallon? Driving from Pennsylvania, to South Dakota, back to Indiana with almost $4 a gallon gas? Ouch. Anyway, Ruby arrives and tells a not so shocked Sam what he and all of us have suspected all along, those goofy psychic and other freak powers are alive and, well, just dormant. By seeing Katie Cassidy in the opening credits we knew that Sam was going to ignore Dean's wishes and summon Ruby. Did anyone hear that Katie's Uncle Shaun has a pilot in development for FOX? Yes, he was a pinup on my wall in the late '70s, so what? Sorry, I'm drifting again. I got excited over the beginning of this scene, because nobody "latinates" better than Sam. There's just something in Jared's voice, his timber, who knows, but I'd like to see a whole episode of that. "Because of a curse, Sam can only speak Latin." Imagine all the fan girls thudding to the floor. After some stirring action in which Ruby kicks some serious Winchester ass but gets caught in a devil's trap anyway, we get the best line of the night. "Well I wish you'd shut your pie hole but we don't always get what we want." Oh Dean, you can't die. Who will say all those clever lines? Sam thinks Ruby might be right, which triggers the "I'm dying so hear my wisdom" talk. Dean wants to set things right, do it his way, go down swinging. I liked the fact that he was keeping the same attitude from "Jus In Bello" and not losing his resolve as his end drew near. Raise your hand if you knew when push came to shove though, Sam would crack and try to become that martyr. Remember Sam, your weakness for your brother will be the death of you (in the Trickster's words anyway). "What do demons do for fun?" I'm not going to comment much on the creepy little girl terrorizing an everyday suburban family in Indiana, except to say, once again Kripke, you're a sick bastard. I love it. Everyone knew Grandpa was going to bite it, especially since Grandma was rotting on the floor. At least they can go on in the afterlife together. I must take a pause here to pay homage to the awesomeness of Bobby Singer, just because of "Family don't end with blood." (Bites lip, tries to maintain composure). Jim Beaver has done nothing but rock ever since he first appeared in season one's "Devil's Trap". Bobby is the lone rock of stability that's been missing in these boys' lives, and I so wanted to see him standing behind Sam, weeping along with him in the end. That's certainly going to be depicted enough times in fanfic this summer. I do have one HUGE nitpick though. Bobby is driving a 1969 Chevy Chevelle SS. Come on, that car is a bigger classic than the Impala. Doesn't it deserve an awesome paint job or something? I know Bobby lives like a slob, but shouldn't he at least have a kick ass car? I'll even drive to Vancouver and do the paint job myself. Consider that an offer, Kripke! On to what will be the most talked about scene for years to come. A few months ago, in one of the fan threads asking what song you'd most like to see on this show, I put down Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive". Am I a Bon Jovi fan? No, but I do love that song. I swear I said the exact same thing as Dean, they do "rock on occasion." Dean singing loud and bad was expected, but Sam? Whoa, that was priceless. He's terrible! Most important though, I got the moment that I lamented about last week; one last memorable show of brotherly bonding in the Impala. My life feels complete again, except for the Dean dying part. Speaking of Dean dying, he sees dead people! I loved how he could look at someone gorgeous like Katie and wretch at her ugliness. I hope his ability to spot demons stays with him. Throw that together with Sam's freakish powers and they won't be stopped, all while looking pretty doing it. When confronted by the demons, the entire time I was waiting for the boys to take out the whole neighborhood. That would have been hard for "New Harmony" to explain when vying to be one of "America's Best Places to Live". Thanks to the genius of Bobby Singer, they dodged that bullet. Oh Sam, you aren't too far gone. You couldn't kill an innocent little girl. Despite all hints this season that he was going dark, he still could draw a line at killing children. Of course he would have if Dean hadn't stopped him, but it was good to see that hesitation again. One minute to midnight, and I couldn't stop fidgeting like a baby duck on a hot plate (WKRP reference), watching with bated breath as Dean's time was up. Sam wanted to give in to his dark side, but Dean accepted it was his time. We got a very satisfying goodbye scene of no hugs, no sappy moments, just tears and resignation. "Take care of my wheels". Oh crap, I wanted to hold out on weeping until this was over. Too late. How did this show turn me into such a wimp? More continuity, this time using goofer dust to hold back the hounds. So they did learn something from that episode. Nope, I didn't catch on that Ruby was Lilith and Dean was able to wisecrack all the way to the end. "You all look the same to me." No time for laughter though because Lilith opens the door and, oh no, DEEEEEAAAAANNNNNN!!!! I'm screaming louder than Sam, yelling at the TV, begging for his life as his blood spurts everywhere, hellhounds ripping into him like he was tissue paper. Dean gasps his last breath and Lilith goes for Sam, and then… it's an outrageously long commercial?!? Damn you, CW! Actually, the commercials weren't too bad, because I hit the rewind on the TiVo about six times. Each viewing of Dean's graphic and horrible death was equally disturbing. I was too overcome by grief to even contemplate how Sam was getting out of this. I'm glad I didn't either, because whoa. Lilith was powerless against Sam! Ruby was right, he can defeat her. Who didn't sit with mouth hung open as the almighty Lilith pleaded for mercy while one very pissed off Sam Winchester came after her? Of course she escaped in time before Sam could use the "demon killing Ginsu" on her, but we don't care because it's time to cue the sad music and give us the heartbreaking shot of Ruby and a carved up Dean sprawled on the floor right when reality hits Sam hard. Jared nailed this scene, and he should to be very, very proud of how much his acting abilities have grown this season. This was a perfect parallel to Dean weeping over Sam's body in last year's finale, and every bit as emotional. To see Jensen's turn as a corpse, it was bittersweet and far bloodier. Sam got off easy with his death. Ah, but we're not done! Kripke must deliver the big "muhahaha" to fans, knowing that he now has to watch his back at all times while in public for the next several months. I never thought we would get a glimpse of Hell (or as many have speculated, not quite Hell) because I didn't think the budget allowed it. Dean, in chains, in peril, for all eternity, or at least for all summer. I feel it coming on again. DAMN YOU, KRIPKE! I'm Left With Incoherent Thoughts Did I mention that this episode was directed by the always fantastic Kim Manners? I noticed in the very first scene with the close-up shots of those pretty faces. What's great about his episodes is that they are consistent and each scene flows seamlessly. He manages to bring out the most emotion and tell the story effectively by just taking the right angle and bringing out the best these two actors have to offer (which is a lot). Emotional episodes are his forte and once again, he delivered in a spectacular way. I noticed one more piece of continuity, this time coming from often forgotten "Nightmare" from season one. Sam got out of the closet in that episode because he saw Dean die in a vision and "a freak adrenaline thing" took over, aka telekinesis. The same thing happened here. He saw Dean die (this time sadly for real) and those abilities kicked in, saving him from Lilith. Someday, I'd like to see what could happen if he actually controlled those powers. I suspect that control is going to be the key to getting Dean back. Ruby told Sam, "You don't like being different. You hate the way Dean looks at you sometimes, like you're some sort of sideshow freak." Notice how Sam didn't protest, not even with those brooding eyes. Dean tells him not to buy into what's she's saying, but he is. He's desperate, and imagine what's going to happen when Dean's not there to keep him in check. Kripke made it known that ever since John made the deal for Dean, it's been a bad chain of events that keeps getting them into deeper trouble. Dean wants to put an end to this madness but we know Sam is too obsessed and stubborn. He'll forget everything his brother told him once grief tears him apart. The possibilities for character tests in season four are now wide open. Here's a burning question for debate all summer. Is Sam Winchester the anti-Christ? Dean saw what Bobby calls "hell's bitches". Since he saw Sam as one, could we argue that he really saw demon Sam and not a hallucination? I'm sure a few of you are going "uh duh!" considering he was able to overcome Lilith, but what got me was how Dean didn't deny or ignore Sam's power this time, especially when Ruby brought them up. He instead warned Sam not to give into it. I'm sure this is not the last we've heard of the anti-Christ thing. Is Dean really in Hell, or some sort of purgatory? I think that answer will be resolved pretty quickly in season four, but for now, speculation is rampant. He's dead, that's enough for me. How's this going to affect Dean in the future? Easy, he's going to be one messed up dude. How will Sam get him out? Since speculation is running wild, I'm theorizing that the unleashing of Sam's abilities means they'll stay at the surface and get stronger, and his obsessed nature will come up with a way to use them. He won't give up on Dean. I think some therapy is in order this summer. My nerves are officially shot. Thank you, Mr. Kripke, and the entire cast and crew for delivering a season that while shortened by a senseless strike, still gave us the same caliber of excitement and brotherly angst that awed us from season two. But remember, expectations for season four now are even higher. It's your fault. A grade of an A+ is obvious on this one. I have a request. If you were happy with the finale, happy with season three, or just trust in Kripke in general, go the comment box below and type in those three little words, "Damn you, Kripke!!!", and hit submit, just to let him know our appreciation and love for his genius. He's earned it in spades this time. Damn, it's going to be a long summer. Time to start writing my season three thoughts. Happy hiatus everybody!

Reveiw: Supernatural "The Kids Are alright

2008-05-31T18:17:00.001-06:00

Supernatural - "The Kids Are Alright"

Written by Alice Jeste

Published May 30, 2008 Reviewing episodes after seeing the rest of the season creates an interesting challenge. I try to judge the episode on its merits alone, as if I was watching for the first time, but I can't avoid recalling post-episode subplots that cleanly tie into the one up for review. "The Kids Are Alright" is one of those episodes. It sets the framework for Dean's season three character development, yet also carries over the sentiments first revealed in "What Is and What Should Never Be". So, forgive me, but this episode is going to be judged on how it bridges the gap between that stellar season two episode and the latter part of season three. It's a key piece to Dean's intense personal struggle, the one he tries to hide from the surface, but one that also defines him. Before I start plowing through this better than average episode (a huge improvement over the season premiere), I would like to take time to honor this episode's writer, Sera Gamble. I like profiling writers as many of you have noticed from my previous reviews and somehow I've overlooked the show's head writer. As a writer myself I've learned throughout the years how to appreciate the precision and careful crafting that goes into creating a work of art such as a script. There's way more to it than meets the eye, and with a television script in particular, every word counts. There are only 40 minutes to tell the story, thus so much needs to be said with so little. Sera Gamble is a master of her craft, and has consistently provided one gem after another that upon deconstruction gives us so much to ponder. Her strengths lie in the character development and bringing out the raw emotional elements of the relationship between the brothers. She wrote the tear-jerkers like "Faith" and "Heart", stories that exposed deep inner layers like this episode, "Houses of The Holy" and "Dream A Little Dream of Me", and explored deep character dilemmas in "Salvation", "Bloodlust" and "Time Is On My Side". Remember though, this is also the evil woman who killed Sam Winchester and made him kill his lover after his first hot night of passion in a while, so torture and despair isn't lost on her, either. Come to think of it, she came up with the melon baller to the eye socket, too. Seems like she relishes in putting Sam through the wringer. It's all done in love though, I'm sure. In this episode, she exposes that fragile heart of Dean Winchester, and we love it, too. Of course, no Supernatural episode is complete without the standard GOTW (gore of the week) and yep, a gruesome accident with a table saw ought to do it. Luckily, as soon as the metal teeth of the saw blade started grinding, I looked away. I still to this day, even after watching the episode a few times, refuse to watch that horrific accident. I somehow have issues with human flesh and table saws. Dean wants to go to Cicero, Indiana. Sera always manages to work in some kinky references, but Gumby and Pokey? That earns a "boo" and a "hiss" from me. It's a good thing Lisa is a really hot chick, because Cicero isn't exactly a vacation paradise. I'm surprised that she would recognize Dean after eight plus years, so he must have really left an impression. Lucky girl. The birthday party surprisingly ended up being one of my favorite scenes of the season. Dean watches Ben, sees him get excited over the AC/DC CD, watches the way he eats his sandwich, notices the race car cake, and witnesses first hand Ben's wandering eye with the chicks. He does the math in his head and is off to talk to Lisa. Jensen's facial expressions in that entire scene were priceless. It's always wonderful to see an actor exceed the intended outcome on paper. He tries to ask Lisa in a roundabout way if Ben is his, but then just blurts it out. So well done, and so Dean. He's back in character, and I'm happy again. Since Sam wasn't core to the story, I must admit that for casting him off to the side he was given a good subplot to work with. I liked Ruby from day one, and she won me over even more here. We could tell Sam was shaken by all that she said, but he played it tough anyway. It's too bad the whole "Mary's friends are dead" reveal wasn't picked back up this season. We all know the writers' strike was to blame for that, so we must eagerly wait for the answer in season four (hear that, writers, season four). Also, I can't recall an episode that spent so much time focusing on the character-in-supernatural-distress than the terror we witnessed from a frantic woman only known as "Katie's mom". The anguish was so gripping and Katie was so skin-crawling creepy that I didn't mind that they took time away from the Winchesters. It was critical to the story, and showed us the strange things that can happen in happy suburbia behind closed doors. This show does love targeting suburbanites! They always make great fodder for horror. In this episode, she exposes that fragile heart of Dean Winchester, and we love it, too. Of course, no Supernatural episode is complete without the standard GOTW (gore of the week) and yep, a gruesome accident with a table saw ought to do it. Luckily, as soon as the metal teeth of the saw blade started grinding, I looked away. I still to this day, even after watching the episode a few times, refuse to watch that horrific accident. I somehow have issues with human flesh and table saws. Dean wants to go to Cicero, Indiana. Sera always manages to work in some kinky references, but Gumby and Pokey? That earns a "boo" and a "hiss" from me. It's a good thing Lisa is a really hot chick, because Cicero isn't exactly a vacation paradise. I'm surprised that she would recognize Dean after eight plus years, so he must have really left an impression. Lucky girl. The birthday party surprisingly ended up being one of my favorite scenes of the season. Dean watches Ben, sees him get excited over the AC/DC CD, watches the way he eats his sandwich, notices the race car cake, and witnesses first hand Ben's wandering eye with the chicks. He does the math in his head and is off to talk to Lisa. Jensen's facial expressions in that entire scene were priceless. It's always wonderful to see an actor exceed the intended outcome on paper. He tries to ask Lisa in a roundabout way if Ben is his, but then just blurts it out. So well done, and so Dean. He's back in character, and I'm happy again. Since Sam wasn't core to the story, I must admit that for casting him off to the side he was given a good subplot to work with. I liked Ruby from day one, and she won me over even more here. We could tell Sam was shaken by all that she said, but he played it tough anyway. It's too bad the whole "Mary's friends are dead" reveal wasn't picked back up this season. We all know the writers' strike was to blame for that, so we must eagerly wait for the answer in season four (hear that, writers, season four). Also, I can't recall an episode that spent so much time focusing on the character-in-supernatural-distress than the terror we witnessed from a frantic woman only known as "Katie's mom". The anguish was so gripping and Katie was so skin-crawling creepy that I didn't mind that they took time away from the Winchesters. It was critical to the story, and showed us the strange things that can happen in happy suburbia behind closed doors. This show does love targeting suburbanites! They always make great fodder for horror. We got some continuity in the next scene with season one's "Dead In The Water". Dean connected with the troubled boy in that one, and after seeing him and Ben bond so well in the park, it made me wonder why we haven't had more episodes with Dean and kids. He's a natural! Despite encouraging Ben to kick a bully where the sun don't shine, he's teaching the boy something about self-defense that a single mom would never encourage. This is where I really, really wished Ben was his kid and that there would be periodic visits. Ben would grow up with Dean showing him the ropes about hunting. Throw in some influence from Uncle Sam (yeah, that does sound weird, doesn't it?) and we have a future hero in training who will one day carry on the family business. Of course it wasn't to be, which is okay, because Ben would probably have a hard time living down that whole "my uncle is the Antichrist" thing. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm still bothered by a sopping wet Katie, whom her mother just tried to drown, sitting in the kitchen with a chilling grin on her face asking "Can I have that ice cream now?" I just saw the episode for the first time on HD, and her face is way scarier on my plasma TV than the iTunes window I've previously viewed it on. This episode followed yet another primary rule of great horror — children are scary. Ah, but Sam's done his homework and it's a changeling! I don't know how he managed to research changeling lore in between all those calls finding out about his mother's friends, but Sam must have great time management skills. He probably cut out the porn. I didn't buy into creepy Ben. Katie was much better at it. Still, it rattled Dean enough, which sets up the tense rescue in a nearby under construction house. Sam Winchester with a flamethrower. Insert your incoherent babbling here. Dean was so wonderful with his concern over those kids. It was appropriate that he be the one to get them out and he even let Ben play hero by leading the other kids to safety. Okay, Ben can take over the family business anyway. After what he just saw, there's no more innocence to protect. The weaving of this scene with Not!Ben and Not!Katie terrorizing their mothers was brilliant editing. Alone none of these scenes would have had suspense, but piece them together in that way and I was on the edge dying to see how it would all play out. While the end result was predictable, who didn't love watching Dean smack down that mother changeling right before Sam torches her? The Winchester one-two punch makes for all kinds of awesome. Now we get to the scene that skillfully breaks through that rough Dean exterior and reveals for us his deep vulnerability. Dean wants so much for Ben to be his kid. Lisa at first thinks she's reassuring him by telling him he's not, and then sees what we all see, the painful disappointment in his eyes. He doesn't have to tell her he's dying, or describe the horror he faces every day, she somehow knows. She tries to comfort him by saying that Ben wouldn't be alive if it weren't for him, but that's empty solace for Dean. That's the very reason he can't have a family — he has people to save, people that in the end don't matter to him except Sam. The chemistry between Dean and Lisa made us believe that Dean could indeed have this life, even more so than in "What Is and What Should Never Be" because this was real. In his lifetime this was the closest he'd been to being part of a real family since the fire. Sure, the moment was brief, but to him, it was all too genuine. We saw his deep agony and heartache when he forced himself to leave, proclaiming "this isn't my life." Walking away this time had to be much harder than when he woke himself from the fantasy forced by the Djinn, because now he's living on borrowed time. Did Dean leave because he believed he didn't deserve this life, or he shouldn't have this life because he has to save others? Did the decision to go back in "What Is and What Should Never Be" result in the same decision here? He has a year to live, why not settle down with Lisa and experience the life he's always wanted? Is this the low self-worth talking again? We saw by Lisa's presence in "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" that he still clings onto this wish, this desire, this dream tightly and can't let go. Yet, he faces impending doom in hell and has people like Rufus Turner tell him that in the long run "there ain't no happy ending". To see Dean walk away this time, knowing the heartache sticks with him all the way to the end, it's even more crushing to watch. It's my opinion that at this time he doesn't feel he deserves this life and after all he's been through since then, if he gets another chance he won't let it pass. Now we get to the scene that skillfully breaks through that rough Dean exterior and reveals for us his deep vulnerability. Dean wants so much for Ben to be his kid. Lisa at first thinks she's reassuring him by telling him he's not, and then sees what we all see, the painful disappointment in his eyes. He doesn't have to tell her he's dying, or describe the horror he faces every day, she somehow knows. She tries to comfort him by saying that Ben wouldn't be alive if it weren't for him, but that's empty solace for Dean. That's the very reason he can't have a family — he has people to save, people that in the end don't matter to him except Sam. The chemistry between Dean and Lisa made us believe that Dean could indeed have this life, even more so than in "What Is and What Should Never Be" because this was real. In his lifetime this was the closest he'd been to being part of a real family since the fire. Sure, the moment was brief, but to him, it was all too genuine. We saw his deep agony and heartache when he forced himself to leave, proclaiming "this isn't my life." Walking away this time had to be much harder than when he woke himself from the fantasy forced by the Djinn, because now he's living on borrowed time. Did Dean leave because he believed he didn't deserve this life, or he shouldn't have this life because he has to save others? Did the decision to go back in "What Is and What Should Never Be" result in the same decision here? He has a year to live, why not settle down with Lisa and experience the life he's always wanted? Is this the low self-worth talking again? We saw by Lisa's presence in "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" that he still clings onto this wish, this desire, this dream tightly and can't let go. Yet, he faces impending doom in hell and has people like Rufus Turner tell him that in the long run "there ain't no happy ending". To see Dean walk away this time, knowing the heartache sticks with him all the way to the end, it's even more crushing to watch. It's my opinion that at this time he doesn't feel he deserves this life and after all he's been through since then, if he gets another chance he won't let it pass.

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2008-05-23T16:30:00.001-06:00

2008-04-27T17:03:00.002-06:00

Supernatural Season Four News From Eric Kripke Eric Kripke recently answered fan questions about Supernatural at TVGuide.com. Among them, he revealed a few things about season 4. Due to the writer's strike, Supernatural will have only sixteen episodes this season. There had been some speculation from the showrunners on the different ways season 4 might compensate for it. Sadly, Kripke revealed that The CW only ordered the usual 22 episodes for next season. The studio has also cut the show's budget -- which may not necessarily be bad news. As a result, Kripke says, "We'll be employing all kinds of tricks next year — the war will be smaller, more contained, underground, more guerrilla-style. I actually think it'll improve the show. Looking back over Season 3, the spectacle and size is never as interesting as the episodes that focus on the brothers."Also, when it comes to scares, Supernatural often follows the principle that what you don't see is scarier than what you do. Against the backdrop of demons, ghosts, and scary places, it's the small moments between Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) -- such as Dean teaching Sam how to fix the Impala at the end of "Fresh Blood" -- that's the engine of the show. "There will still be the [demon] war," Kripke adds, "but we'll be presenting it in our scruffy, angsty, Supernatural way, and we'll return to concentrating on the relationships and the characters." TV Guide also delivered the scoop that with the reduced budget, the character of Bela, the mercenary without-a-heart-of-gold, will be gone next season. At Creation Entertainment's Salute to Supernatural in Los Angeles at the end of March, Kripke talked about what he thought went wrong with the character. "She made the boys look stupid maybe once or twice too many, and she was never tied into the mythology."Kripke told TV Guide that the show is and always has been intended to be "the saga of the Winchester clan...an epic, emotional family story. Beyond that, story elements come and go, some are introduced, and others discarded." He said the writers consider various factors in what characters and stories stay and which get cut: actor availability, their own judgment, and, he adds, "Yes, at times, the opinions of the fans." He warns that this applies only for non-core characters and story arcs and that fan response "never alters the core story and central mythology. "In an interview with Firefox News, producer and writer Sera Gamble indicated that Ellen Harvelle (Samantha Ferris) would be returning for the season finale. However, it seems negotiations fell through, as the actress subsequently reported on her blog, so fans probably won't see more of Ellen anytime soon. The show has a mixed track record with its supporting characters. At the Creation Convention, Eric Kripke also mentioned Jo Harvelle, Ellen's daughter, whose character, like Bela, didn't play out the way they'd hoped. Ava, Andy, Jake, and Lily, Sam's fellow psychic-kids, were all killed in season two's finale "All Hell Breaks Loose." Ellen and Jo happily haven't been killed off, they have simply faded from the show, and haven't been mentioned. The quirky computer genius Ash died when the Roadhouse burned down. Agent Henriksen, a very popular character, fell victim to the demon Lilith at the end of "Jus in Belo." Ruby the demon for the moment seems to have some staying power -- at Creation, Eric Kripke joked "if you don't like Ruby, tough." The reliable, caustic, and much beloved Bobby (Jim Beaver) also seems to be sticking around as far as we know.So, Supernatural fans, are you glad that the budget cuts will lead to a return to a tighter focus on the brother interaction? It's true the show is best when it's about Sam and Dean. However, supporting characters add a new perspective on the Winchesters, and can be fun characters in their own right (I love Sam and Dean, but I confess, I have a weakness for the supporting characters). There are some it seems hard to imagine Supernatural without.Who would you like to see return? Anyone you think should stay or the show should do more with, even while the main focus next season stays on the brothers?Samantha Ferris had this to say in tribute to Ellen: "She is unlike any character I have played and I am proud of her. She was tough love, fiercely loving, and loyal to the death. I don't think that more Ellen's out there would be a bad thing. Someone that I could throw a beer back with. I loved the cast and crew, the producers and writers, and my connection to all of them...Thank you for digging her and understanding her as much as I did."

Tall Tales

2007-03-27T14:09:00.000-06:00

Supernatural

February 15, 2007: Tall Tales

So, at first it was kinda weird that we got such a fun episode after wading knee-deep in drama and angst during last week's "Born Under a Bad Sign," but then I dismissed that idiotic notion. After all, "Tall Tales" gave us a chance to see Sam and Dean get on each other's nerves for something other than one of the brother's being possessed or a shapeshifter; we got another Bobby appearance; and, there was some WWE going on — that is, Winchester Wrestling Entertainment. That smackdown needed to last just a little bit longer if you ask me. Anyway, it all added up to some seriously hilarious moments in what was a fluffy, 99-percent angst-free episode. I just loved that the petty conflicts between the boys were simply because of a trickster. Their different POVs were also funny since we got a glimpse of how Sam and Dean really see each other. And you know what? It isn't pretty. And then, after all the hilarity ensued, there was that cute little moment at the Impala where the brothers Winchester wanted to say sorry to each other without actually having to say the words. So they let their considerable powers of avoidance and non-verbal communication do their talking. Oh, boys.We knew "Tall Tales" wasn't going to be all soap opera and melodrama right from the "previously." Comedy from "Playthings", "Hell House", "Bloodlust", "Hunted" and the pilot were on display. I do have one issue: Where was all the comedy from "Phantom Traveler?" I still think PT is one of the funniest episodes — even funnier than "Hell House." The "Weekly World News" angle was cool — never thought we'd see an alien abduction on this show. That all just sounds so X-Files. There were little moments that made "Tall Tales" a little more adult than your average episode. Some things I can't even print in this blog because it's a little too off-color for your average Friday-morning review. Something I never thought I'd hear on this show: Barry White. Loved that. Seeing Bobby again for the second week in a row was just great because he totally rocks. It seems like he's the who can develop into the father figure Sam and Dean need as they continue this journey towards killing the Demon; so, here's to hoping they continue to utilize Jim Beaver. I love how Bobby cut through all the crap to pinpoint the monster of the week . Plus, he gets bonus points for having to listen to exaggerated versions of Sam and Dean's recaps of the case. That's two weeks in a row Dean was on the business end of a beatdown. Instead of Sam, this time it was the trickster's femmebots that did the deed. And how cool is it that Sam and Dean think the trickster is dead and gone, but another one just popped up in his place, after they made their exit. That's kind of scary. How funny would it be if the trickster were now seeking revenge on Sam and Dean? They could add them to the list that's growing just about every week.

Funny Moments: —

Dean turning the music up when Sam asked him to turn it down.

Purple Nurples.

According to Sam, he's the one that's all business, meanwhile Dean's burping, downing shots and hitting on "classy" chicks. Dean also can't help but stuff his mouth with food and then interrogate the janitor/trickster at the same time.

In Dean's P.O.V., Sammy's super uptight and Dean can't even be bothered to hear what he's saying. Meanwhile, the graduate student he's hitting on can't think about anything but his good looks: "Sorry, I can't even concentrate. It's like staring into the sun."

Sam's computer froze on a porn site.

The jerk frat boy told Sam and Dean about his alien abduction: "They made me slow dance!" Cut to frat boy dancing with alien set to Chris De Burgh's "Lady in Red."

Dean envisions Sam as an "overly sensitive, touchy-feely hugging strangers Mr. Perfect" kind of guy: "You're too precious for this world."'

Favorite Lines:

"What are you drinking?" "I don't know man, I think they're called Purple Nurples.""Starla, hey. This is my shuttle/co-pilot Major Tom. Major Tom, Starla." "Enchanté.""I don't say things like feisty little wildcat. And her name wasn't Starla.""

You oughta give those Purple Nurples a shot.""I don't sound like that, Dean." "That's what you sound like to me.

"You're bickering like an old married couple.

"They probed you?" "Yeah, they probed me. Again. And again. And again. (drinks shot) And again. And again. And then one more time."

"How can it get any worse? Some alien made you his bitch.""Looks like you lost it, Poindexter."

"Dude, you know something? I put up with a lot from you." "What are you talking about? I'm a joy to be around."

"How would you feel if I screwed with the Impala?" "It'd be the last thing you ever did."

"Consider it reparations for emotional trauma."

"If you two bothered to pull your heads out of your asses, it all would have been pretty clear.""You guys are breaking my heart, can we please just leave?"

Other thoughts:

That Sam carries a lot of cash on him. Where'd he get it?

I still wish we had gotten something more than "Good to see you so soon" from Bobby. Last time Bobby saw Sammy he had just been possessed. I think something could have been mentioned about what both Sam and Dean went through in BUABS.

The jerk frat boy was played by David Tom — daytime TV fans will know him from his stint on The Young and the Restless. His sisters are ex-soap star Heather Tom and The Nanny's Nicholle Tom.

Well, I can't believe we're hitting another hiatus. Next week, I'll probably create another thread to take us to March 15 the next new episode.

Does anybody else notice that this season is going ridiculously fast?

Boy's Toy's

2007-01-03T15:56:00.000-06:00

Hunted

2007-01-01T17:49:00.000-06:00

Coming On Januray 11, 2007 Hunted As Sam learns the turth about himself he decide to leave . Which leaving Dean behind. When Dean finds out that Gordon is out hunting for Sam he goes to fine Sam or Goron before Sam is killed or hurt. As for the secert Daddy Dearest told Dean. I don't think we will actually know what Sam is till maybe the end of the eppy. If even then.

Croatoan Review

2006-12-21T18:38:00.000-06:00

December 7, 2006: Croatoan I was hoping we'd get the answer to what John told Dean in the hospital, but we didn't. We got that killer cliff-hanger instead — the one we're going to have to live with for who knows how long. Stupid hiatus. My thoughts were kind of everywhere with "Croatoan" — hence, my column's pretty much going to be the same way. How great was the "previously"? The whole "special" Sam montage that led into the whole scary Dean section? Very cool. How great were Sam and Dean in this episode? Brotherly love abounded. It's always at the core, even when the two are making each other angry. All it takes is a scene like the one wherein a possibly infected Sammy tells Dean to leave and keep going. Dean states: "Who says I want to?" Yeah, I was pretty much done right there. There were so many good moments between the Winchester boys. That's what I want to keep seeing as the season continues. Never veer too far from that, and I'll be a happy camper. How about when Dean threw Sarge the keys to the Impala and decided to stay with his brother? For some reason, I really liked the part where Dean locked the door. It just seemed to me that if Sam was going out, Dean wanted to as well. Did you hear the music playing underneath this scene? That was the music that played in "Devil's Trap" when they first got to the cabin, and Dean opened up to Sammy about how it scared him what he was willing to do for his family. Well, here's Dean again, and he's got this "If he goes, I go" mentality. He's even willing to give up the life he loves in order to keep Sammy safe. I think Dean's suggesting a break or his saying that he's tired of this life is more for Sammy's benefit. I think he just wants to hide Sammy from what's out there and what's after him. Maybe there's some truth to what he was telling Sam about wanting to see the Grand Canyon; but to me, it was all for Sammy's sake. Yeah, Dean can get very scary. At times it's really painful to watch. I kept thinking that when he shot the wife. Of course, that's after he shot and killed her husband first. I know, they were infected, but he does tend to switch into robot-mode often. Sammy's needling Dean with questions and trying to get him to open up has been a consistent thing this season. I love how Sammy jokes about it, but in a serious way, as if he were saying: "I'm gonna get to the bottom of this sooner or later, so might as well tell me now and save us all some unnecessary pain." My sister e-mailed me immediately after she watched "Croatoan" to tell me that she's convinced Sammy's part demon. It got me thinking. Look at some of the evidence: 1) He's immune to this demonic virus; 2) He's not susceptible to mind control; 3) In a very extreme case, he's exhibited some telekinesis tendencies; and 4) He's got those "weirdo visions," as Dean affectionately likes to call them. Makes you wonder. Has the last year been one big test? Maybe that's what killing Jessica was all about, to see how he'd react. If he didn't have Dean, he probably would have reacted in a different way, in a way the Demon would have preferred. However, the brothers ground each other; why do you think Dean didn't end up shooting male Meg? Although, he'll probably shoot himself if he ever finds out how close they were to another one of the Demon's henchmen. At one point during the episode, Sam asked Dean to give him a gun so he could off himself: "Dean, I'm not going to become one of those things." Me thinks Sammy may not have any choice in the matter, what do you think? How great was the twist that this whole demonic germ warfare stuff pretty much seemed all set up to test Sammy? Will he be immune to this demonic virus? The answer is yes, he's immune, and now the yellow-eyed Demon knows, thanks to the male Meg. Speaking of the late demoness... How great is it that John Shiban wrote the episode? It's fitting. After all, he did write "Scarecrow" — the one where we first met Meg. And what did she do at the end just before credits popped up? She speared a trucker's neck, let the blood pour into the chalice or whatever it was, and "spoke" to the Demon. Again, consider me slow, but I did not see that guy being under the influence like that. The blood-swirling was a lot more believable this time around, but I gotta say, I'm upset he took out poor Bobby Hosea like that. Speaking of the former Pensacola Wings of Gold actor... How great were his scenes with Jensen? They had some good comic timing between them. The scene where they had the guns trained on each other was hilarious. They just seemed comfortable in their scenes, and I really wanted Hosea to become a recurring character. Of course, all those hopes were dashed! How great was all the gunplay we got? They were all over the place — in Sammy's visions, in the clinic, in the Impala, at the Tanner house. But better than all the gunplay? The Impala in action. I felt like I was watching the Turino from Starsky & Hutch make a quick getaway from the bad guys. I also liked how Sammy flashed back to his vision after Dean asked him how sure he was that the town they were looking for was in Oregon.

CW Goes Digital With itunes

2006-12-18T20:16:00.000-06:00

CW goes digital with iTunes

'Supernatural,' 'Veronica Mars' make debut online By JOSEF ADALIAN, BEN FRITZ

Three months after its launch, the CW is finally embracing digital distribution. In the past week, two of the net's signature dramas -- "Supernatural" and "Veronica Mars" -- made their debut on iTunes, marking the first time CW skeins have been available for sale via the Internet. Other skeins from the netlet are expected to follow soon.

Season three of "Mars" is already an online hit, ranking ahead of season one of NBC's red-hot "Heroes" late last week on iTunes.

Creation of a CW page on iTunes means all five broadcast nets now are offering their wares on Apple's site. Rick Haskins, exec VP of marketing and brand strategy for the CW, said the iTunes launch is the beginning of a major digital push.

Later this month, Web site CWTV.com will begin beta-testing a new videoplayer that will stream full-length episodes of CW skeins, with commercials. Player officially launches in January.

Net is still finalizing which skeins will be streamed, but it's a safe bet "Supernatural" and "Veronica Mars" -- both produced by CW co-owner Warner Bros. TV -- will be among the offerings. Studio is letting CW stream its fare in exchange for the right to sell downloads of episodes.

"Everybody Hates Chris" and "America's Next Model" also might end up on CWTV.com. While the CW is still tweaking its videoplayer, Haskins said the net's goal is to give users maximum flexibility.

In addition to streaming full episodes, users will be able to take out one- or two-minute clips to email to friends. CW also will offer the ability to "tear away" episodes so Web surfers can watch while leaving the net's Web site to engage in other activities, like email or instant messaging. The CW now offers behind-the-scenes footage and short clips on its Web site and lets users mix clips to make their own promotions for its programs.

"We want to be where our viewers are, and they're everywhere," Haskins said. CBS, NBC and ABC already stream a handful of shows on their own Web sites for free, while Fox does the same on News Corp.-owned MySpace and through some of its affils.

Super Natural Creator Share's More Of Season 2

2006-12-16T12:51:00.000-06:00

Supernatural's Creator Shares More Season 2 Secrets by Angel Cohn Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, Supernatural And you thought last Thursday's "Burning Questions" feature had satisfied your thirst for Superscoop.... When last we tuned in to CW's Supernatural (Thursdays at 9 pm/ET), Sam and Dean were still reeling from the death of their father and trying to figure out what to do about the demon that killed him. But along the way they'll be fighting some other otherworldly evildoers. TVGuide.com caught up with Eric Kripke, aka one of the coolest show creators around, who was more than excited to preview what to expect this season. TVGuide.com: Loving the show this season. It seems like you are keeping with more of a steady story line, rather than with standalone episodes.Eric Kripke: We're actually going to be doing a little bit of everything. We're still planning on doing more of what we did the second half of last season, where we sort of caught our stride and figured out what the hell we were doing. It’s a mix of standalones with ongoing mythology. Right now, coming off of the dad's death, there are such major emotional story lines to play that it will be emotionally continuous. In terms of the mythology and hunting down the demon and what the demon's plans are as far as Sam [goes], those are things we'll be touching on every three or four episodes. But there is a lot to play with the boys and how they are so wildly dysfunctional and dealing with their dad's death in the most unhealthy way possible. TVGuide.com: They were more physical about their emotions in last Thursday's episode. Kripke: I am so proud of that episode. When we first started working on this story line, the first image that popped in my head was, "I can't wait to see angry Dean." In "Bloodlust" we really see him unleash his fury. From the pilot, what was always so great about Dean was that he shows up and he's a little dangerous and a little unpredictable and you don't quite know what he's capable of. We always liked that, but we got away from it a little bit, because the more you learn about the guy, the more you understand him. [We're] trying to return a little danger to the character. You still love him, but every so often he just does something that you are like, "Whoa, that guys hard-core." We're not interested in him hand-wringing or dressing in black and listening to Morrissey. If the character acts hard-core now and then... I mean, hell, they do it with Jack Bauer. Why can't we do it with Dean? TVGuide.com: I'm so glad to see the car back.Kripke: No one needed to worry about the car. Coming off the season finale, hilariously, some people were concerned about whether the Winchesters survived and everybody was concerned about whether the car survived. I'm a bigger fan of that car than anybody. I'd never let anything happen to it, not really, not forever. TVGuide.com: The people may not be safe....Kripke: But if anything, that car is going to outlive us all. I just love that car. It was always the plan that after an acceptable amount of time for Dean to rebuild it that it would come back bigger, stronger, faster, and it did. TVGuide.com: A lot of fans are upset that John is dead. But since this is Supernatural, we see him again in some form?Kripke: In some form or another. No one stays dead on Supernatural. For now he's dead — we couldn't have made it more clear with them burning his body — and for a lot of reasons he needs to stay dead because the boys need to deal with the issues that come out of it. For the show it is good drama because they are alone and scared and outgunned, and the odds are stacked against them. This is not the last we've heard from John Winchester, but for now he's gone. TVGuide.com: Am I right in guessing that the whispered words between Dean and John were about Sam and the others like him? Kripke: Yes. TVGuide.com: Will we ever find out what those words are? Kripke: Yes! I'm rewriting that script [now]. It comes out mid-season. We don’t even leave that hanging until the end of the year. TVGuide.com: Are you happy with how your show is doing, considering that you are up against a lot of big shows? Kripke: Um... I'm happy, but I wish I was happier. We're hanging in there, and that's a testament to the fans. Under extreme competition from the No. 1 [Grey's Anatomy] and 2 [CSI] shows on television, we're sticking in there with comparative numbers to what we had last year. And that's in a much more brutal time slot and on a new network with not nearly the level of marketing that we had last year. All things considered, we're doing well. For the show to be the six-/seven-year player that I want it to be, we need to do better. We need to say to the fans and to the converted, "Spread the word." People catch on by word-of-mouth, so the best thing I could ask from the fans, as a personal favor to me, is to tell people about it. TVGuide.com: Besides, they can TiVo those other shows. Kripke: They can always TiVo Grey's Anatomy. All they are going to do on that show is have sex in a hospital. TVGuide.com: And CSI is just about another dead person. Kripke: Right. What do you want? Forensic fingernails, sex in a hospital, or good ol' red-blooded, classic-rock demon fighting? TVGuide.com: Are Ellen, Jo and Ash recurring characters? Kripke: Yeah. We're excited about fleshing out the world of the show. We've always thought this was such an interesting universe of hunters who live just beneath the surface of America. We started expanding that world and bringing characters in, which we started to do last season with Bobby. TVGuide.com: What good, creepy creatures do you have up your sleeve this season? The clown was terrifying. Kripke: [This week] we're doing Pet Sematary-style zombies, and in Episode 9 we're doing a big 28 Days Later sort of town overrun by zombies, which is really, really fun because we've got our own unique twist on it. We've got more demons of course, and we're bringing back the shape-shifter from "Skin." Every so often we figure out a way to do a philosophical episode. We had "Faith" last year, about who deserves to live and who deserves to die. We have an episode coming up where the boys are hunting something of supernatural origin, but then come to believe that it may or may not be an angel. They have to decide whether they are supposed to hunt it or let it be. Sam thinks it might be an angel and Dean, who doesn't believe in those sorts of things, says "absolutely not." I'm excited about that one. I like to do a classy episode about Dean — he believes in evil, but does he believe in good? TVGuide.com: Do you have a stockpile of urban legends? Kripke: If you came to the writers' room, we've got a whole board. "Unnecessary surgery," different monsters and spirits, the urban legend called "The Licked Hand," and all sorts of creepy words that signify a potential episode that one of these days we'll get around to. This year we get into the Robert Johnson legend, selling your soul to the devil at the crossroads, into the lost colony of Roanoke, into H.H. Homes, the serial killer from Devil in the White City, America's first serial killer and his spirit.... Not only do we get to delve into urban legends, but we're starting to get into American history and classic folklore. At the end of the day, damn it, I want this show taught in schools. TVGuide.com: With a warning for the faint of heart. Kripke: Right. Watch out for the hand getting ground up in the disposal, but otherwise it is very educational. TVGuide.com: Speaking of the scenes that make me cover my eyes, how do you know when to pull away from the action?Kripke: When the lawyers make us. [Chuckles] We have no interest in making a splatter film, we're always trying to search for a way to do it elegantly, but the fact is that what you don't see is worse than what you do. It is just scarier. What we care about is being as scary as possible, that having been said, when it is time to see something, we try not to shy away from it. I can only think of one occasion when the lawyers said absolutely not. I'm kind of amazed at what we do get away with. Last year in "Home," when they put the hand in the disposal, we had this shot where it was the bottom pipe of the disposal where you saw all the blood and goo coming out. We were like, "Never in a million years are they going to let us use this shot," and we put it in as a joke, and no one ever said anything. TVGuide.com: How are you coping with Jared Padalecki's injury and working that into the story? Kripke: Ah, Jared. We're making it work. Luckily, he gets in fights every episode so it is easy for him to break his hand. It turns out the zombie breaks his hand. I'm glad he's OK, and I'm glad it all worked out, but I do have to say there is a part of me that wished he broke his hand a little earlier because it would have made so much more sense to come out of the car crash with the broken arm. He survived getting T-boned by a semi going full speed, but a zombie broke his hand? We do what we always do — we made a joke out of it and we had Dean give a funny reaction. Not once does it get in the way of the story.

2006-10-27T21:10:00.000-06:00

Salvation Original air date: April 27, 2006 The mysteryA young blond woman tells a priest in his church that she needs forgiveness. The priest says everyone can be forgiven... but then the blond brings up her throat-slitting habit, and her eyes go all demonic and dark. Yep, it's Meg, the bane of the Winchester family. The priest runs to his holy weapons locker, but Meg follows. She kills him.The signsJohn has detected a pattern around the demon that killed their mother. It's going after families with six-month-old infants. The week before it strikes, there are cattle deaths, temperature fluctuations, electrical storms. He's pinpointed where the next attack will be – Salvation, Iowa. John wants to go there and check up on every family with a child who is about to turn six months old.VisionsJohn pulls off the road on the way to Salvation – he's just gotten word that Pastor Jim was killed, his throat slashed in his own church. The guys split up check hospital records. Sam gets a vision of a child's nursery and hears a train outside the window. He follows the tracks and gets more visions, of the house and the doomed mother. He sees the woman from his vision walking with a baby carriage. The mother, Monica, tells him her daughter, Rosie, is such a good baby – sometime it seems like she's reading your mind! When Monica walks away, Sam gets more visions of the impending death and destruction – he sees Monica confront a figure in the nursery, then get pinned to the ceiling and start bleeding.Phone callsSam tells John and Dean what he saw. John is shocked that Sam is having visions, and enraged that Dean didn't call him about them. Dean confronts him – don't you remember me calling you when we went to Lawrence, and Sam calling you when I was, oh, I dunno, dying? Oh yeah, that. John apologizes. The phone rings. It's Meg, demanding to talk to John. Meg tells John she'll go on slaughtering everyone he's ever known and cared for unless he hands over the magic gun. He's got until midnight tonight to bring the gun to Lincoln, Nebraska. Come alone. John agrees. The guys are appalled, until John tells them he's going to try to bluff – he'll take a fake gun, and the guys will use the real one to protect Monica and her daughter – and kill the demon.PreparationsThe Winchesters prepare to go their separate ways. John warns the guys that there are only four magic bullets left – make them count. Dean begs John to be careful, and tells him to run like hell if things go south. Ditto for you, John says. Now go finish what I started.Lincoln, NebraskaJohn goes to the creepy abandoned warehouse Meg specified. Before meeting her, he does some prep work, chanting over a water cistern and dropping a rosary in it. He meets Meg and her demonic partner. John hands over the gun, and Meg's partner examines it – then shoots Meg in the chest. Meg is pissed, but not dead. Now they know John was bluffing. John runs away and turns on the water. Meg and her partner sneer, but when they try to walk into the water, they start to sizzle – John's chanting and rosary turned the building's water supply into holy water. John escapes – for the moment. But his tires are slashes, so he can't escape. Meg and her partner eventually catch up with him, and they're not happy. They hoist John up against the building.Salvation, IowaThe guys stake out Monica's house, waiting for the demon. Sam thanks Dean for always being there for him – you know, just in case. Dean doesn't want to hear that speech – they're both going to come out of this alive! The radio goes fuzzy, and the guys know the demon is making its move. They storm the house, and Monica's husband thinks they're thugs. While Dean restrains him, Sam runs up to the nursery. Monica is being dragged up the wall when Sam bursts in. He sees the demon with orange eyes and shoots, but the demon disappears before the bullet hits him. Dean grabs the baby and Sam drags Monica out of the house as the crib bursts into flames. Everyone makes it out, but Sam sees that the demon is still in there. Sam wants to go back in, but Dean stops him – it's suicide! The demon disappears.The aftermathBack at the hotel room, Dean frantically tries to contact John. Sam is nearly catatonic – why didn't Dean let him go back in house, he could have ended everything! Dean won't let him throw his life way, and if Sam living means they never kill the demon, so be it. Sam throws Dean against the wall – this is the thing that killed their mom, and Jess! Yeah, and they're gone – they're never coming back, Dean replies. You're still here, and you and dad are all I have. Sam comes to his senses. The guys try to call John again. Meg picks up the phone and tells them they'll never see their father again.

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Devil's Trap Season Finale Original air date: May 4, 2006 The trapMeg has John! Sam wants to stay and wait for the demon, but Dean wants to trade the gun for their dad. Sam notes that their dad may be dead, but Dean refuses to believe it. He does acknowledge that they need help. They go to Bobby, another hunter, who tells them the Winchesters are obviously stirring something up – demonic possessions have skyrocketed. Before they can ponder that, Meg busts down the door. She flings Dean to the side and starts advancing on Sam and Bobby. But it was a trap! The guys have inscribed a protective circle on the ceiling, which Bobby describes as a "Satanic roach motel." Meg is powerless. Dean interrogates Meg, indulging in a little violence when she gets lippy. Bobby warns him to be careful – Meg's possessed. There's a human being in there. Dean has Sam perform an exorcism as he pumps Demon Meg for more information about their dad. The demon is obviously in pain, and finally admits that John is still alive – for now. Dean tells Sam to complete the exorcism – even though the demon is the only thing keeping the human Meg alive after falling out of a window and being shot. The demon is vanquished. The human Meg thanks the guys for exorcizing the demon, and gives the guys some clues to John's location, then dies.To the rescueSam inscribes a mystical symbol on the car's trunk – with that, demons won't be able to get to the gun. Dean is appalled – they're trading the gun for their dad! Sam convinces him that they can't bring the gun with them. They find where the demon is keeping John – it's an apartment building, full of innocent civilians, and any one of them could be possessed by a demon. The guys decide to trip the fire alarm to get the humans out. They do, and everyone pours out of the building – except for one couple. The guys steal protective equipment and sneak into the building disguised as firefighters. They trap the possessed people in the closet, then find John tied to the bed. He's bloody, but alive. Sam insists on sprinkling him with holy water, just so they can be sure he's not possessed. John passes the test, and the guys drag him out of the building. They're ambushed by a couple more possessed people, including the demon who was with Meg at the warehouse. He jumps Sam and is beating him to a pulp when Dean shoots him with the gun. Dean took it inside despite what he agreed to with Sam. The demon – and his human host – dies.FlightThe guys take their dad to a secluded cabin in the middle of nowhere. Sam wards off demons by pouring salt around the perimeter. He thanks Dean for saving his life. Dean admits that he's a little freaked out by how wiling he was to kill even human beings when his family is on the line. John wakes up. Dean asks if John is pissed at him for wasting a bullet, but John tells him he's proud of him. Sam and John get obsessed, John says, but Dean watches out for the family. The lights start to go wonky – the demon is here! John sends Sam out to check the lines of salt, and asks Dean for the gun. Dean starts to hand it over, then hesitates. His real father would be furious that he wasted a bullet, Dean says as he aims the gun at John. You're not my dad.The demonSam runs into the room and asks what the hell is going on. John says Dean has gone nuts – if Sam wants to kill the demon that killed their mom and Jess, Sam needs to trust him. Sam sides with Dean. John tells Dean to shoot him if he's so convinced he's the demon. Dean can't. John laughs, and his eyes go orange. He pins the guys against opposite walls, and the gun goes flying. He sneers that holy water doesn't work on something like him. Sam fumes that he'll kill the demon, but possessed John scoffs "make the gun float to you there, psychic boy!" Sam can't. Possessed John gloats that trapping them this way is loads of fun, and that human John is in there with him, "trapped inside his own meat suit." The demons possessing Meg and the man Dean killed were this demon's children, and he wants revenge. Sam asks why the demon killed their mom and Jess. They got in the way of my plans for you and all the children like you, the demon replies. Dean snarks to get the demon's attention, and possessed John turns on him – that tough-guy act is just there to mask the pain you feel because your family doesn't need you the way you need them! Sam is John's favorite; he's never cared about you! The demon uses his powers to attack Dean, and Dean starts bleeding copiously. "Dad, don't you let it kill me! Daddy, please!" Dean begs. He passes out. The demon lets John resurface so he can see what's happened. This releases Sam, who grabs the gun. The demon comes back: "You kill me; you kill daddy," the demon says. "I know," Sam replies – and shoots him in the leg. John falls, and the demon is wounded. John yells that he demon is still alive inside him, and demands that Sam shoot him in the heart right now to kill it. Dean begs him not to do it. Sam doesn't shoot. The demon leaves John.The cliffhangerSam pulls John and Dean into the car and drives to the hospital. John is furious that Sam didn't kill the demon (and John himself) when he had the chance – killing this demon comes before everything! Sam looks at Dean, pale and bloody, in the rearview mirror and disagrees. We still have the gun and one bullet left. We can start over! Before John can respond, a huge truck slams into the passenger side of the car. The driver has the block eyes of one possessed by demons. All the Winchesters are unconscious and bloody in the car.

About Super Natural

2006-10-27T21:06:00.000-06:00

About Supernatural

Supernatural Takes The CW on a Thrill Ride Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki, “Gilmore Girls”) has done his best to escape his family's eerie history. Unlike his older brother Dean (Jensen Ackles, “Smallville”), Sam rejected their father's obsessive quest to uncover the evil forces that claimed the life of the boys' mother, Mary (guest star Samantha Smith). Putting as much distance as possible between himself and his family, Sam left home right after high school and went away to college. His new life includes a beautiful and loving girlfriend, Jessica (guest star Adrianne Palicki), and plans to enter law school. Dean, however, took a very different path, following their father, John (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, “Weeds”), into the “family business.” When Dean arrives on Sam's doorstep with the news that their father has vanished, Sam has no choice but to put his personal plans on hold and join Dean on the road. After four years apart, the reunited brothers are getting to know one another again, and their familiar sibling rivalries are never far from the surface. Despite the strange childhood they shared, these boys turned out to have very different views of the world. Dean still idolizes John and, although he often appears cocky and fearless, in reality he is haunted by memories of his mother's violent death. Sam was too young to remember the awful night that Mary died and has never fully accepted the frightening path his father and brother have followed. A mysterious phone message from their father leads the Winchester brothers to a California town plagued by a series of unexplained deaths. They soon come face-to-face with the local legend of a Lady in White – a ghostly and beautiful hitchhiker who wanders country roads by night, luring young men to their doom. Though they don't find their father, Dean and Sam discover his journal and try to decipher his writings for clues that will help them destroy the spirit. Once the job is done, Sam tries to return to college life and his girlfriend but finds the malevolent force that claimed his mother has now taken Jessica in the same unthinkable way. Fueled by rage, sorrow and guilt, Sam suddenly understands his father's obsession. Like Dean, Sam is now totally committed to the hunt for answers and, ultimately, for revenge. Bound by tragedy and blood to their dangerous, other-worldly mission, the brothers travel from the Colorado wilderness to Nebraska farmlands and on to isolated Wisconsin lakes, encountering creatures that most people believe only exist in folklore, superstition and nightmares – the terrifying Bloody Mary, the brutal Native American beast known as the Wendigo, the man with a hook who haunts Lovers' Lanes and the dark Phantom Travelers who portend a violent plane crash. As they follow the clues in their father's journal, the brothers realize that he has passed on to them all the knowledge he accumulated during the past 20 years. What they can't understand is why he has vanished and left them to carry on without him. Taking up the mantle of their father's crusade, Dean and Sam hunt down the evil that preys upon the innocent in the darkest corners of America. From Warner Bros. Television Production Inc. in association with Wonderland Sound and Vision, with executive producers McG (“Charlie's Angels,” “The O.C.”), writer/executive producer Eric Kripke (“Boogeyman”) and Robert Singer (“Midnight Caller”). Supernatural: from Warner Bros. Television Production Inc. in association with Wonderland Sound and Vision, with executive producers McG, writer/executive producer Eric Kripke and Robert Singer.

Childern Shouldn't Play With Dean Things

2006-10-22T17:26:00.000-06:00

Pilot Transcripit Aired September 13, 2005

2006-10-19T20:39:00.000-06:00

Monday, July 10, 2006 Episode 1.01 Transcript Supernatural: Episode 1.01 - "Pilot" TranscriptOriginally aired September 13, 2005 List of Characters (in order of appearance):Mary WinchesterYoung Dean WinchesterBaby Sam WinchesterJohn WinchesterMysterious ManFiremanFireman 2Police OfficerJessica MooreSam WinchesterFriendDean WinchesterTroyWoman in White (Constance Welch)PolicemanDiver PolicemanPoliceman Investigating Troys CarSheriffAmyGirlMan at the DeskJoseph WelchPoliceman 2Constances Children Transcript:[On the black screen.] "Lawrence Kansas 22 Years Ago" [The episode opens at night to a house with some scary music.] Mary: [Shes carrying Dean into Sams room.] Come on, lets say goodnight to your brother. Dean: [Kisses Sam on the forehead.] Good night, Sam. Mary: Good night, love. [Kisses Sam on the forehead.] John: [Walks into room.] Hey dean. Dean: Daddy! [Runs and jumps into Johns arms.] John: Hey buddy! What do ya think? You think Sammys ready to toss around a football yet? Dean: No, daddy. John: No? Mary: You got him? John: I got him. [Looks at Sam.] Sweet dreams, Sam. [Turns off the light and leaves the room.] [Sam looks up at the mobile above his head, which starts turning on its own. The clock on his wall stops, and his nightlight flickers. In his parents room, where his mom is sleeping, the baby monitor is on and we hear a lot of static and faint crying.] Mary: [Turns on the light] John? [She looks over to see her husband is not next to her in bed. She walks across the hall to Sams room where a man is standing over Sams crib.] John, is he hungry? Man: Shh. Mary: Okay. [She starts heading back to her room, but notices the light down the hall is flickering, so she goes to tap on it to try to get it to stop.] Hmm. [She hears the television on, so she walks down the stairs and sees John asleep in front of the television.] Oh my god. [She runs back up the stairs, heading towards Sams room.] Sammy! Sammy! [Once in Sams room she stops, screams, and the camera cuts back downstairs to John, who jumps up.] John: Mary? Mary! Mary! Mary! [He runs up to Sams room, throws open the door, and looks around. He walks up to Sams crib and looks down at him.] Hey Sammy. Okay? [Something red drips onto the sheet in the crib by Sams head. John sticks his finger in it. The red continues to drip on his hand, and as he looks up he sees Mary on the ceiling.] No! Mary! [Mary bursts into flames and Sam starts crying, so John picks him up and begins to run down the hall when he is met by Dean.] Dean: Daddy! John: [Hands Sam to Dean.] Take your brother outside as fast as you can! Dont look back! Now Dean, go! [Dean runs downstairs with Sam as John runs back into Sams room.] John: Mary! No! [The whole room erupts into flames.] Dean: [Runs out the front door with Sam and looks back up to Sams window.] Its okay, Sammy. John: [Runs up from behind Dean, who is still holding Sam, and grabs them, still running.] I gotcha. [The windows explode outwards from the fire.] [Ambulances and fire trucks pull up to their house.] Fireman: Its all right. I got it. Fireman 2: Here. [Hands a fireman a hose, and he walks over to the still flaming house where there are already a few firemen trying to extinguish it.] [Indistinct yelling from the firemen, and a police comes on scene pushing back onlookers.] Police Officer: Stay back! Stay back. [John is holding Sam in his arms with Dean next to him, and the screen goes black.] [On the black screen.] "Supernatural" [On the black screen] "Stanford University Present Day" Jess: [Comes out of a room putting on earrings.] Sam! Get a move on would ya? We were supposed to be there like fifteen minutes ago. Sam! Ya comin or what? Sam: [Pokes his head around the corner.] Do I have to? Jess: Yes. Itll be fun. And wheres your costume? Sam: [Scoffs.] You know how I feel about Halloween. [Cut scene to a bar where there is a Halloween party.] Jess: [Raises up a glass.] So heres to Sam and his awesome LSAT victory. Sam: Alright, alright its not that big a deal. Jess: He acts all humble, but he scored a 174. Friend: Mmm. [Puts down his shot glass.] Is that good? Jess: Scary good. Friend: See, there you go, you are first-round draft pick. You can go to any law school you want. Sam: Actually I got an interview here, Monday. If it goes ok I think I got a shot at a full ride next year. Jess: Hey its gonna go great. Sam: It better. Friend: How does it feel to be the golden boy in your family? Sam: Ah, they dont know. Friend: Dont know? I would be gloating! Why not? Sam: Cause were not exactly the Bradys. Friend: And Im not exactly the Huxtables. More shots. [Starts to walk away to get himself another drink.] Sam: No, no. Jess: No. [To Sam.] Seriously. Im proud of you and your gonna knock em dead on Monday and youre gonna get that full ride. I know it. Sam: What would I do without you? Jess: Crash and burn. [Sam and Jess kiss.] [Later that night back in Sams house, where Sam and Jess are sleeping, there is a crash in the other room, and Sam wakes up. He walks slowly into the other room and hears the floorboards creaking, and sees a mans shadow go into the other room. He grabs the man and they fight each other for a few minutes before the other man pins Sam on the ground and we can see his face in the light.] Dean: Whoa easy, tiger. Sam: Dean? [Dean laughs.] Sam: [Breathing heavily.] You scared the crap out of me. Dean: Thats cause youre out of practice. [Sam does a move that winds up pinning him on top of Dean.] Dean: [Laughs.] Or not. Get off me. [Sam stands up and pulls Dean up.] Sam: Dean what the hell are you doing here? Dean: Well, I was looking for a beer. Sam: What the hell are you doing here? Dean: Okay, all right, we gotta talk. Sam: Uh, the phone? Dean: If Id have called, would you have picked up? Jess: [Turns on the light in the room.] Sam? Sam: Jess hey. Dean, this is my girlfriend, Jessica. Jess: Wait your brother, Dean? Dean: [Acknowledging the nightshirt Jess is wearing.] I love the Smurfs. You know, I gotta tell you you are completely out of my brothers league. Jess: Just let me put something on. Dean: No, no, no, I wouldnt dream of it...seriously. Anyway, I gotta borrow your boyfriend here talk about some private family business, but, uh, nice meeting you. Sam: No. No. Whatever you wanna say you can say it in front of her. Dean: Okay. Um...dad hasnt been home in a few days. Sam: So hes working over-time on a "Miller Time" shift. Hell stumble back in sooner or later. Dean: Dads on a hunting trip and he hasnt been home in a few days. Sam: Jess, excuse us. We have to go outside. [On the way downstairs.] Sam: I mean come on. You cant just break in, in the middle of the night, and expect me to hit the road with you. Dean: Youre not hearing me Sammy. Dads missing. I need you to help me find him. Sam: You remember the poltergeist in Amherst? Or the devils gates in Clifton? He was missing then too hes always missing and hes always fine. Dean: Not for this long. Now you gonna come with me or not? Sam: Im not Dean: Why not? Sam: I swore I was done hunting for good. Dean: Come on, it wasnt easy, but it wasnt that bad. Sam: Yeah? When I told dad when I was scared of the thing in my closet he gave me a .45. Dean: Well what was he supposed to do? Sam: I was nine years old. He was supposed to say "Dont be afraid of the dark." Dean: Dont be afraid of the dark? What, are you kidding me? Of course you should be afraid of the dark! You know whats out there! Sam: Yeah I know but still the way we grew up after mom was killed, and dads obsession to find the thing that killed her. But we still havent found the damn thing, so we kill everything we can find. Dean: Save a lot of people doing it, too. Sam: You think mom would have wanted this for us? [Dean walks outside and Sam follows.] The weapon training and melting the silver into bullets? Man, Dean, we were raised like warriors. Dean: So, what are you gonna do? You just gonna live some normal, apple-pie life? Is that it? Sam: No. Not normal. Safe. Dean: And thats why you ran away? [Scoffs.] Sam: I was just going to college. It was dad who said if I was gonna go, I should stay gone. And thats what Im doing. Dean: Yeah, well dads in real trouble if hes not dead already I can feel it. I cant do this alone. Sam: Yes you can. Dean: Yeah. Well, I dont want to. Sam: [Sighs.] What was he hunting? Dean: [Opens the trunk of his car and opens a case of guns and knives.] Alright, lets see. Where the hell did I put that thing? Sam: So when dad left, why didnt you go with him? Dean: I was working my own gig. This voodoo thing down in New Orleans. Sam: Dad let you go on a hunting trip by yourself? Dean: Im twenty-six, dude. [Finds a book and pulls out a paper.] Alright, here we go. So dad was checking out this two-lane blacktop just outside of Jericho, California. About a month ago this guy [Pulls out a newspaper clipping and hands it to Sam.] they found his car but hed vanished completely MIA. Sam: So maybe he was kidnapped. Dean: Yeah well, heres another one in April. [Keeps handing Sam articles.] Another one in December 04, 03, 98, 92. Ten of them over the past twenty years. All men, all same five mile stretch of road. Started happening more and more so dad went to go dig around. That was about three weeks ago. I hadnt heard from him since, which is bad enough. [Takes out a recorder.] Then I get this voicemail yesterday. [Plays voicemail.] John: [On the recording through much static.] Dean, something is starting to happen, I think its serious. I need to try to figure out whats going on. [The rest is inaudible, as the static has taken over.] Be very careful Dean, were all in danger. Sam: You know theres EVP on that? Dean: Not bad, Sammy. Kind of like riding a bike isnt it? Alright. I slowed the message down, and ran it through a Gold Wave, took out the hiss, and this is what I got. [Replays voicemail.] Woman: [On the recording.] I can never go home. Sam: Never go home. Dean: [Dean throws the recorder back into the trunk of his car and shuts it.] You know in almost two years Ive never bothered you. Never asked you for a thing. Sam: [Sighs.] Alright. Ill go. Ill help you find him. But I have to get back first thing Monday. Just wait here. [He starts to go back inside.] Dean: Whats first thing Monday? Sam: I have this...I have an interview. Dean: What, a job interview? Skip it. Sam: Its a law-school interview, and its my whole future on a plate. Dean: Law school? Sam: So we got a deal or not? [Back inside Sam is packing a duffel bag. He grabs a sharp hook and puts it in the bag. Jess comes into the room.] Jess: Wait youre taking off? Is this about your dad? Is he all right? Sam: Yeah, you know, just a little family drama. Jess: But your brother said he was on some kind of a hunting trip. Sam: Aw yeah, hes just deer hunting up at the cabin and hes probably got Jim, Jack, and Jose along with him. Were just gonna go bring him back. Jess: What about the interview? Sam: Ill make the interview. This is only for a couple of days. [He starts walking out the door.] Jess: Sam, I mean, please, just stop for a second. You sure youre okay? Sam: Im fine. Jess: Its justyou wont even talk about your family and now youre taking off in the middle of the night to spend the weekend with them? And with Monday coming up which is kind of a huge deal. Sam: Hey, everythings gonna be okay. I will be back in time I promise. [He kisses her and walks out the door.] Jess: [Shouting after him.] At least tell me where youre going. [Cut scene to a guy driving down the road talking on his cell phone.] [On the screen] "Jericho, California" Troy: Amy I cant come over tonight. Because I got work in the morning, thats why. Okay, I miss it, my dads gonna have my ass. [He notices a lady in white by the side of the road up ahead.] HeyuhAmy, let me call you back. [He hangs up and the radio in the car starts flickering on and off. He stops in front of the lady.] Car trouble or something? Woman in White: Take me home? Troy: Sure, get in. [The woman gets into his car, and as we see the car from the back, the lady is not sitting in the passenger seat where she just got in, and as if her hand were going out for the door to shut it, we cannot see it, but the door still shuts.] Troy: [Seems to be more interested in the ladys chest area.] So, where do you live? Woman in White: At the end of Breckenridge Road. Troy: You coming from a Halloween party or something? You know, um, a girl like you really shouldnt be alone out here. [He watches as the lady pulls up her skirt to show some of her leg, then turns to look out the window.] Woman in White: Im with you. [She reaches her hand over and grabs him by the chin to turn his head towards her.] Do you think Im pretty? Troy: Uh-huh. Woman in White: Will you come home with me? Troy: Um...hell yeah. [Peels out towards her house.] [Cut scene to the end of Breckenridge Road, where the boy is pulling up to a boarded-up house.] Troy: Come on, you dont live here. Woman in White: I can never go home. Troy: What? What are you talking about? Nobody even lives here. Where do you live? [When the boy turns back to the lady, she is gone. He steps out of the car.] That was good. Jokes over, okay? You want me to leave? [He walks up to the front door of the deserted house.] Hello? Hello? [Some bats fly out of the house, he screams and runs back to his car. He puts the car in reverse and starts to speed backwards. Once he turns the car around and starts driving away, he looks into his rearview mirror and sees the woman in white in the back seat. He screams and slams on the break, going through a "Road Closed" sign, and stopping on a bridge. He screams more, and we see blood splatter onto the windshield and windows.] [COMMECIAL] [We come back to Dean and Sam at a gas station.] Dean: [Waving some breakfast bars and juice at Sam, who is sitting in the car still, flipping through a box of cassette tapes Dean has.] Hey, you want breakfast? Sam: No thanks. So howd you pay for that stuff? You and dad still running credit card scams? Dean: Yeah wellhunting aint exactly a pro-ball career. Besides, all we do is apply its not our fault they send us the cards. Sam: Yeah and what names did you write on the application this time? Dean: [Gets back in the car.] Uh...Bert Aframian and his son, Hector. Scored two cards out of the deal. Sam: Sounds about right. I swear man you gotta update your cassette-tape collection. Dean: Why? Sam: Well for one, theyre cassette tapes. And two [Pulls out a few cassette tapes.] Black Sabbath? Motorhead? Metallica? Its the greatest hits of mullet rock. Dean: [Grabs a cassette from Sam and pops it in the player.] Well, house rules, Sammy. Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cake hole. Sam: You know Sammy is a chubby 12-year-old. Its Sam, okay? Dean: Im sorry I cant hear you. The musics too loud. [They pull out of the gas station, and cut scene to them passing a sign that says Jericho in seven miles.] Sam: [Hangs up his cell phone.] Alright, so theres no one matching dad at the hospital or morgue, so thats something, I guess. [They approach the bridge where the accident happened the night before, so there are police cars around the accident.] Dean: Check it out. [They pull up and Dean pulls out a box of fake IDs. He grabs one.] Lets go. [They start walking up to the accident.] Policeman: [Yelling off the bridge to two other policemen coming out of the river below.] Did you guys find anything? Diver Policeman: No, nothing! Policeman Investigating Troys Car: No sign of struggle, no footprints, no fingerprints. Spotless its almost too clean. Policeman: So this kid Troy hes dating your daughter isnt he? Policeman investigating Troys car: Yeah Policeman: Hows Amy doing? Policeman investigating Troys car: Shes putting up missing posters downtown. Dean: You fellas had another one like this just last month, didnt ya? Policeman: Who are you? Dean: [Flips open a wallet with his fake ID and a US Marshall badge.] Federal Marshals. Policeman: You two are a little young for Marshals, arent you? Dean: Heh...thanks, thats awfully kind of you. You did have another one just like this correct? Policeman: Yeah, thats right. About a mile up the road. There have been others before that. Sam: So this victim...you knew him? Policeman: [Nods.] In a town like this, everybody knows everybody. Dean: [Starts circling the car.] Any connection between the victims besides that theyre all men? Policemen: No, not so far as we can tell. Sam: So whats the theory? [Goes over by Dean, who is standing behind the car.] Policeman: Honestly? We dont know. Serial murder? Kidnapping ring? Dean: Well that is exactly the kind of crack police work that Id expect out of you guys. [Sam stomps on Deans foot.] Sam: Thank you for your time. [Looks around at other policemen.] Gentlemen. [He and Dean start walking away, as the policeman watches them leave. Once out of hearing distance, Dean smacks Sam on the back of the head.] Ow! What was that for? Dean: Why do you have to step on my foot? Sam: Why do you have to talk to police like that? Dean: Come on. They dont really know whats going on. Were all alone on this. I mean if were gonna find dad weve gotta get to the bottom of this thing ourselves. [Sam clears his throat and nods his head towards the back of dean. Dean turns around and sees the sheriff and two FBI agents.] Sheriff: Can I help you boys? Dean: No sir, we were just leaving. [To the two FBI agents who are walking past them.] Agent Mulder, Agent Scully. [He and Sam continue to their car as the sheriff watches them leave.] [Cut scene to the towns theater, where under the marquee a girl is hanging up posters.] Dean: Ill bet you thats her. Sam: Yeah. [They approach the girl.] Dean: You must be Amy. Amy: Yeah. Dean: Troy told us about you. Were his uncles. Im Dean, this is Sammy. Amy: He never mentioned you to me Dean: Well thats Troy, I guess. Were not around much were up in Modesto. So were looking for him too, and were kind of asking around. Girl: [A girl comes up to Amy.] Hey, are you okay? Amy: Yeah. Sam: Do you mind if we ask you a couple questions? [They all walk away, and the camera shows the "missing" posters Amy was putting up. They wind up in a restaurant, sitting at a booth.] Amy: I was on the phone with Troy. He was driving home. He said he would call me right back, and uh, he never did. Sam: He didnt say anything strange or out of the ordinary? Amy: No, nothing I can remember. Sam: [Indicating the star necklace Amy is wearing.] I like your necklace. Amy: [Pulls it all the way out of her shirt and smiles.] Troy gave it to me. Mostly to scare my parents with all that devil stuff. Sam: Actually, it means just the opposite. A pentagram is protection against evil really powerful. I mean, if you believe in that kind of thing. Dean: Okay, thank you "Unsolved Mysteries". Heres the deal ladies the way Troy disappeared somethings not right. So if youve heard anything [Amy and her friend exchange a glance.] Dean: What is it? Girl: Well, its just...with all these guys going missing, people talk. Sam and Dean: What do they talk about? Girl: Its kind of this local legend. This one girl, she got murdered out on Centennial like...decades ago. Well supposedly shes still out there. She hitchhikes, and whoever picks her up well, they disappear forever. [Sam and Dean exchange glances, and cut scene to Dean on a computer on the "Jericho Herald" web page. In the Search bar Dean types in "Female Murder Hitchhiking". The page comes back saying, "No results found." He tries typing in "Female Murder Centennial Highway." Again, "No results found."] Sam: [Sticks his hand out to grab the mouse.] Let me try. Dean: [Smacks Sams hand.] I got it. [Sam pushes Dean on the rolling chair out of the way.] Dude. [Punches Sam in the arm and rolls back over.] Youre such a control freak. Sam: So angry spirits are born out of violent death, right? Dean: Yeah Sam: Then maybe its not murder. [He types in "Female Suicide Centennial Highway" and a result comes up.] [Reading from the article.] This was 1981. Constance Welch, 24 years old. Jumps off Sylvania Bridge, drowns in the river. Dean: Does it say why she did it? Sam: Yeah. Dean: What? Sam: An hour before they found her, she calls 911. Her two little kids are in the bathtub. She leaves them alone for a minute, and when she comes back, they arent breathing. Both die. Dean: Hmm Sam: [Reading an interview with Constances husband.] "Our babies were gone and Constance just couldnt bear it," said husband, Joseph Welch. Dean: [On the computer screen is a picture of policemen at the same bridge that Troy was found on, carrying away Constances body in a bag.] That bridge look familiar to you? [Cut scene to later that night. Sam and Dean have driven to the same bridge, and have left the car and are exploring the bridge.] Dean: So this is where Constance took the swan dive. Sam: So you think dad would have been here? Dean: Well hes chasing the same story and were chasing him. Sam: Okay so now what? Dean: Now we keep digging til we find him. It might take a while. Sam: Dean, I told you, Ive gotta get back by Dean: Monday. Right, the interview. Sam: Yeah. Dean: Yeah, I forgot. Youre really serious about this arent you? You think youre just gonna become some lawyer? Marry your girl? Sam: Maybe. Why not? Dean: Does Jessica know the truth about you? I mean, does she know about the things youve done? Sam: No and shes not ever going to know. Dean: Well thats healthy. You can pretend all you want, Sammy. But sooner or later youre going to have to face up to who you really are. [Starts walking down bridge.] Sam: [Follows him.] And whos that? Dean: One of us. Sam: No, Im not like you. This is not going to be my life. Dean: Well youve got a responsibility. Sam: To dad and his crusade? If it werent for pictures I wouldnt even know what mom looks like. What difference would it make? Even if we do find the thing that killed her, moms gone, and she isnt coming back. Dean: [Grabs Sam by the shirt and shoves him up against a rail on the bridge.] Dont talk about her like that. [Dean lets Sam go, and turns around to see a woman in white on the side of the bridge.] Sam. [Sam turns to see her too, and she looks towards them before she lets go of the rail she was holding on to and falls off the bridge. They both run over to where they saw her drop, but there was no sign of movement in the water, or sound of her going into the water.] Dean: Whered she go? Sam: I dont know. [In the background, Deans car starts up.] Dean: What the Sam: Whos driving your car? [Dean reaches into his pocket and pulls out his keys to show that no one could be driving the car. The car starts driving down the bridge towards them. Sam and Dean start running down the bridge.] Sam: Come on Dean. Lets go! Go! [As the car gets closer, Sam and Dean both run towards the side of the bridge and jump over the side.] [COMMERCIAL] [When we come back from the commercial we see that Sam was able to hold on to the outside of the railing on the bridge. He struggles to pull himself up.] Sam: [Looking down into the water.] Dean! Dean! Dean: [Crawls out of the water below covered in mud.] What? Sam: Hey, are you all right? Dean: [Dean collapses on the bank and looks up at Sam, giving him an okay sign.] Im super. [Sam laughs, and then cut scene to back on top of the bridge where the car is.] Sam: Car alright? Dean: Yeah whatever she did to it, it seems all right now. That Constance chick what a bitch! Sam: Well she doesnt want us digging around, thats for sure. [He and Dean sit on the hood of the car.] So wheres the trail go from here, genius? [Dean throws up his hands in defeat, then shakes the mud off them.] Sam: You smell like a toilet. [Dean looks down at himself, then back up again. Cut scene to a hotel, where Dean throws down a credit card at the front desk..] Dean: One room please. Man at the Desk: [Inspects the credit card.] You guys having a reunion or something? Sam: What do you mean? Man at the Desk: That other guy, Bert Aframian. He came in and bought out a room for the whole month. [Dean and Sam look glance at each other. Cut scene to the inside of a hotel room at the door. It opens because Sam has picked the lock from the other side. Once Sam walks inside, we see Dean from the outside get jerked in the room by Sams hand. They look around at the messy room. The bed is unmade and there are pictures and newspaper articles covering the wall.] Sam: Whoa. [Dean turns on a light, and under the lamp is a half-eaten hamburger. Sam is walking around a table that has a circle of salt around it on the floor.] Dean: [After sniffing the hamburger.] I dont think hes been here for a couple days, at least. Sam: [Picking up some salt.] Salt, cats-eye shells? He was worried. Trying to keep something from coming in. [He notices Dean is inspecting an article on the wall.] What do you got here? Dean: Centennial Highway victims. I dont get it. I mean different men, [Sam starts to walk to the other side of the room.] different jobs, ages, ethnicities. Theres always a connection, right? What do these guys have in common? [Sams gaze stops on a paper that says "Woman in White". He turns on a light to see it better and laughs to himself.] Sam: Dad figured it out. Dean: What do you mean? Sam: He found the same article we did. Constance Welch, shes a woman in white. Dean: [Looks around at the pictures on the wall of the men who have been victims.] You sly dogs. Alright, so if were dealing with a woman in white, dad would have found the corpse and destroyed it. Sam: She might have another weakness. Dean: No, dad would want to make sure hed dig her up. Does it say where shes buried? Sam: No, not that I can tell. If I were dad though, Id go ask her husband. If hes still alive. Dean: Hmm. Alright, why dont you see if you can find an address. Im gonna get cleaned up. Sam: Hey Dean what I said earlier, about mom and dad, Im sorry. Dean: [Holds hand up to stop him from going further.] No chick-flick moments. Sam: Alright...jerk. Dean: Bitch. [Sam laughs as Dean leaves the room. Sam then goes over to the dresser, where there is a picture on the mirror of Dean and Sam when they were younger, with their father. A little later Sam is checking his voicemail on his cell phone.] Jess: Hey, its me. Its about 10:20 Saturday night...[The rest is inaudible, as Dean comes out of the bathroom, much cleaner.] Dean: Hey man, Im starving. Im gonna grab a little something to eat at that diner down the street. You want anything? Sam: No. Dean: Aframians buying. [He walks out of the hotel room and begins to walk to his car, when he looks down the parking lot and sees two policemen talking to the man who was at the hotel check-in desk. He cannot hear what they are saying, but the check-in man points towards him, so Dean pulls out his cell phone to call Sam. At the same time, Sam is just finishing his voicemail from Jess.] Jess: So come home soon, okay? I love you. [Sams phone beeps to indicate an incoming call, so he clicks over to the other line.] Sam: What? Dean: Dude, five-o take off. Sam: What about you? Dean: Uh, they kind of spotted me. Go find dad. [Dean hangs up and turns to face the two policemen who have reached him.] Problem officers? Policeman: Wheres your partner? Dean: Partner? What what partner? [One policeman signals to the other to go check the hotel room. From inside the hotel room, Sam can see the policeman coming up to the door, so he starts to escape.] Policeman: So, fake US Marshal, fake credit cards. You got anything thats real? Dean: My boobs. [Smiles.] [The cops shove Dean down onto the hood of the police car.] Policeman: You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court-of-law. [COMMERCIAL] [We come back to Dean sitting in an office in the police station.] Sheriff: So you want to give us your real name? Dean: I told you, its Nugent. Ted Nugent. Sheriff: Im not sure you realize just how much trouble youre in here. Dean: We talking like misdemeanor kind of trouble? Or uh..."squeal like a pig" trouble? Sheriff: You got the faces of ten missing persons taped to your wall. Along with a whole lot of satanic mumbo jumbo. Boy, you are officially a suspect. Dean: That makes sense. Cause when the first one went missing in 82, I was three. Sheriff: I know you got partners one of thems an older guy. Maybe he started the whole thing. So tell me...Dean. [Reaches into a box on his desk and pulls out a journal.] This his? [Dean stares at the journal.] I thought that might be your name. See, I leafed through this, what little I could make out. I mean, its nine kinds of crazy. But I found this, too. [The sheriff opens the journal to a page that says "Dean 35-111"] Now, youre staying right here til you tell me exactly what the hell that means. [Dean continues to stare at the journal.] [Cut scene to Sam knocking on a door. A man opens the door.] Sam: Hi, uh, are you Joseph Welch? Joseph: Yeah [Cut scene to Mr. Welch and Sam walking outside Mr. Welchs yard. Mr. Welch is looking at the picture Sam had found on the dresser mirror in the hotel room. We suspect Sam has asked him to ID his father.] Joseph: Yeah, he was older, but thats him. He came by three or four days ago. Said he was a reporter. Sam: Thats right. Were working on a story together. Joseph: Well I dont know what the hell kind of story youre working on. The questions he asked me. Sam: About your late wife, Constance? Joseph: He asked me where she was buried. Sam: And where is that again? Joseph: What, I got to go through these twice? Sam: Its fact checking. If you dont mind. Joseph: In a plot behind my old place over on Breckenridge. Sam: And why did you move? Joseph: Im not gonna live in the house where my children died. Sam: Mr. Welch, did you ever marry again? Joseph: No way. Constance she was the love of my life. Prettiest woman I ever known. Sam: So you had a happy marriage? Joseph: [Hesitates briefly.] Definitely. Sam: Well that should do it. Thanks for your time. [Starts to walk back towards the car, but then turns back towards Mr. Welch.] Mr. Welch, you ever hear of a woman in white? Joseph: A what? Sam: A woman in white, or sometimes a weeping woman. Its a ghost story. Well its more of a phenomenon really. Um, theyre spirits. Theyve been sited for hundreds of years. Dozens of places in Hawaii and Mexico. Lately in Arizona and Indiana. All these are different women, you understand. But all share the same story. Joseph: Boy, I dont care much for nonsense. Sam: You see, when they were alive, their husbands were unfaithful to them. And these women, basically suffering from temporary insanity, murdered their children. Then once they realized what they had done, they took their own lives. So now their spirits are cursed. Walking back roads, waterways, and if they find an unfaithful man, they kill him, and that man is never seen again. Joseph: You think you think that has something to do with Constance? You smartass. Sam: You tell me. Joseph: I mean maybe maybe I made some mistakes, but no matter what I did, Constance, she would never have killed her own children. Now you get the hell out of here, and you dont come back. [Cut scene back in the police office.] Dean: I dont know how many times I gotta tell you. Its my high-school locker combo. Sheriff: Are we gonna do this all night long? Policeman 2: [Pokes his head in the office.] We just got a 911 shots fired over at Whiteford Road. Sheriff: [To Dean.] Do you have to go to the bathroom? Dean: No. Sheriff: Good. [Handcuffs Deans left arm to the table.] [The sheriff leaves the room and shuts the door behind him. Dean sees a paper clip sticking out of his dads journal, pulls it out and picks the handcuff lock. He escapes from the station by climbing out the window onto the fire escape with his dads journal. Meanwhile, Sam is driving around when his cell phone rings. He answers it.] Dean: [From a phone booth.] Fake 911 phone call, Sammy? I dont know, thats pretty illegal. Sam: Youre welcome. Dean: Listen, we gotta talk Sam: Tell me about it. So the husband was unfaithful, we are dealing with a woman in white. And shes buried behind her old house. So that should have been dads next stop. Dean: Sammy would you shut up for a second. Sam: I just cant figure out why he hasnt destroyed the corpse yet. Dean: Well thats what Im trying to tell you. Hes gone. Dad left Jericho. Sam: What? How do you know? Dean: Ive got his journal. Sam: He doesnt go anywhere without that thing. Dean: Yeah, well he did this time. Sam: Whats it say? Dean: Same old ex-marine crap when he wants to let us know where hes going. Sam: Coordinates. Where to? Dean: Im not sure yet. Sam: I dont understand, I mean what could be so important that dad would just skip out in the middle of a job? Dean, what the hell is going on? Whoa! [Sam drops his cell phone and slams on the breaks to avoid the woman in white standing in the middle of the road in front of the car.] Dean: Sam? Sam! Constance: [In the backseat of the car.] Take me home. [Sam jerks to look in the rearview mirror.] [COMMERCIAL] Constance: Take me home. Sam: No. [The doors lock and Sam tries to unlock them to escape. The car is put in gear and the gas pedal is pressed. He tries to control the steering wheel but Constance is controlling it, so he lets go and tries to push the door out. Constances image flickers in the back seat as the car pulls up to the house at the end of Breckenridge Road. The car shuts off with the doors still locked.] Sam: Dont do this. Constance: I can never go home. Sam: Youre scared to go home. [He turns back to view her face to face, but shes gone. He looks around for her, and sees her when his gaze comes back to the passenger seat. She jumps on top of him and pushes him down on the seat.] Constance: Hold me. Im so cold. Sam: You cant kill me. Im not unfaithful. Ive never been. Constance: You will be. Just hold me. [She starts kissing Sam as he tries to reach for the car keys, which are still in the ignition. Constance turns into more of a monster than a pretty lady, and disappears, until her claws start trying to reach through Sams chest. Sam screams and rips open his jacket and we can see five finger holes going through his shirt. Finally gunshots come through the window, as Dean is on the other side shooting the spirit. Deans gunshots are distracting enough for Sam to turn the engine over, and put the car into gear.] Sam: Im taking you home. [Floors it, going through the wall of the house.] Dean: Sam! [Dean runs into the crashed, open house, gun at ready.] Sam! You okay? Sam: I think. Dean: Can you move? Sam: Yeah. Help me. [Dean reaches for Sam to help pull him out, as Constance picks up a picture of her and her children, that was lying on the floor.] Dean: There ya go. [Dean has helped Sam out of the car, and they are now standing in front of it. Constance throws the picture on the ground, and steps aside, controlling the dresser she had been standing in front of (with her mind), to go forward and pin Dean and Sam against the side of the car. They both struggle to try to push it away. The lights flicker on, and Constance turns around to see the stairs leaking water. She looks to the top of the stairs and sees her two children standing there. Her children join hands.] Constances Children: Youve come home to us mommy. [Sam and Dean watch as suddenly Constances children are behind her. They grab her, and she screams as she and her children melt into the floor. Finally Sam and Dean are able to push the dresser off of them. They walk over to the to where they melted into the floor.] Dean: So this is where she drowned her kids. Sam: Thats why she could never go home. She was too scared to face them. Dean: You found her weak spot. Nice work Sammy. [Dean slaps Sam in the chest.] Sam: [Starts laughing.] Yeah, I wish I could say the same for you. What were you thinking shooting Casper in the face, you freak? Dean: Hey, saved your ass. Ill tell you another thing. If you screwed up my car, Ill kill you. [Starts to move wood from the wall off the car as Sam laughs.] [Cut scene to Dean and Sam driving down the road. The car has one headlight out. Sam is looking on the map to find where "35-11" is.] Sam: Okay heres where dad went. Its called Blackwater Ridge, Colorado. Dean: Sounds charming. How far? Sam: About 600 miles. Dean: If we shag ass we can make it by morning. Sam: Dean, um... Dean: Youre not going. Sam: The interviews in like, ten hours, I gotta be there. Dean: [Nods.] Yeah. Yeah, whatever. Ill take you home. [Cut scene to Dean pulling up to Sams apartment. Sam grabs his bag and gets out of the car.] Sam: Youll call me if you find him? [Dean nods.] Sam: Maybe I can meet up with you later, huh? Dean: Yeah, all right. [Sam starts to walk towards the apartment.] Dean: Sam. [Sam turns around.] You know we made a hell of a team back there. Sam: Yeah. [Dean drives away slowly, then cut scene to inside Sams apartment. He opens the front door, and walks in.] Sam: Jess! You home? [He walks through the kitchen. On the counter is a plate of chocolate chip cookies, with a note in front of them that says, "Missed you! Love you!" He takes a cookie, and eats it as he walks in the bedroom. He hears the shower running, so he sits on the bed, closes his eyes to relax, and falls backwards onto the pillow. One drop of something red drips on his forehead, which makes him squeeze his eyes shut tighter, then a couple more red dots. He opens his eyes and gasps, seeing Jess on the ceiling.] No! [Jess bursts into flames, and Dean kicks in the door.] Dean: Sam! Sam: Jess! [Sam is still on the bed as Dean runs in the bedroom to get him out of the apartment.] Dean: Sam! Sam! Jess: No! No! Dean: [Grabs Sam off the bed and tries to run him out of the room.] We gotta get out of here. Sam: Jess! No! [The room erupts into fire and then cut scene to outside where firemen have arrived. They have extinguished the fire. Dean walks down the street a little ways where Sam is over by Deans car, loading a rifle by the trunk of the car. Dean and Sam look at each other for a moment and Sam sighs and nods his head. He throws the loaded rifle into the trunk.] Sam: We got work to do. [Shuts the trunk, we see it from the inside so the screen turns black.] [End Credits]

Interview With Eric Kripke From T.V Guide

2006-10-19T20:34:00.000-06:00

Supernatural's Creator Shares More Season 2 Secrets by Angel Cohn

Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, Supernatural And you thought last Thursday's "Burning Questions" feature had satisfied your thirst for Superscoop.... When last we tuned in to CW's Supernatural (Thursdays at 9 pm/ET), Sam and Dean were still reeling from the death of their father and trying to figure out what to do about the demon that killed him. But along the way they'll be fighting some other otherworldly evildoers. TVGuide.com caught up with Eric Kripke, aka one of the coolest show creators around, who was more than excited to preview what to expect this season. TVGuide.com: Loving the show this season. It seems like you are keeping with more of a steady story line, rather than with standalone episodes.Eric Kripke: We're actually going to be doing a little bit of everything. We're still planning on doing more of what we did the second half of last season, where we sort of caught our stride and figured out what the hell we were doing. It’s a mix of standalones with ongoing mythology. Right now, coming off of the dad's death, there are such major emotional story lines to play that it will be emotionally continuous. In terms of the mythology and hunting down the demon and what the demon's plans are as far as Sam [goes], those are things we'll be touching on every three or four episodes. But there is a lot to play with the boys and how they are so wildly dysfunctional and dealing with their dad's death in the most unhealthy way possible. TVGuide.com: They were more physical about their emotions in last Thursday's episode. Kripke: I am so proud of that episode. When we first started working on this story line, the first image that popped in my head was, "I can't wait to see angry Dean." In "Bloodlust" we really see him unleash his fury. From the pilot, what was always so great about Dean was that he shows up and he's a little dangerous and a little unpredictable and you don't quite know what he's capable of. We always liked that, but we got away from it a little bit, because the more you learn about the guy, the more you understand him. [We're] trying to return a little danger to the character. You still love him, but every so often he just does something that you are like, "Whoa, that guys hard-core." We're not interested in him hand-wringing or dressing in black and listening to Morrissey. If the character acts hard-core now and then... I mean, hell, they do it with Jack Bauer. Why can't we do it with Dean? TVGuide.com: I'm so glad to see the car back.Kripke: No one needed to worry about the car. Coming off the season finale, hilariously, some people were concerned about whether the Winchesters survived and everybody was concerned about whether the car survived. I'm a bigger fan of that car than anybody. I'd never let anything happen to it, not really, not forever. TVGuide.com: The people may not be safe....Kripke: But if anything, that car is going to outlive us all. I just love that car. It was always the plan that after an acceptable amount of time for Dean to rebuild it that it would come back bigger, stronger, faster, and it did. TVGuide.com: A lot of fans are upset that John is dead. But since this is Supernatural, we see him again in some form?Kripke: In some form or another. No one stays dead on Supernatural. For now he's dead — we couldn't have made it more clear with them burning his body — and for a lot of reasons he needs to stay dead because the boys need to deal with the issues that come out of it. For the show it is good drama because they are alone and scared and outgunned, and the odds are stacked against them. This is not the last we've heard from John Winchester, but for now he's gone. TVGuide.com: Am I right in guessing that the whispered words between Dean and John were about Sam and the others like him? Kripke: Yes. TVGuide.com: Will we ever find out what those words are? Kripke: Yes! I'm rewriting that script [now]. It comes out mid-season. We don’t even leave that hanging until the end of the year. TVGuide.com: Are you happy with how your show is doing, considering that you are up against a lot of big shows? Kripke: Um... I'm happy, but I wish I was happier. We're hanging in there, and that's a testament to the fans. Under extreme competition from the No. 1 [Grey's Anatomy] and 2 [CSI] shows on television, we're sticking in there with comparative numbers to what we had last year. And that's in a much more brutal time slot and on a new network with not nearly the level of marketing that we had last year. All things considered, we're doing well. For the show to be the six-/seven-year player that I want it to be, we need to do better. We need to say to the fans and to the converted, "Spread the word." People catch on by word-of-mouth, so the best thing I could ask from the fans, as a personal favor to me, is to tell people about it. TVGuide.com: Besides, they can TiVo those other shows. Kripke: They can always TiVo Grey's Anatomy. All they are going to do on that show is have sex in a hospital. TVGuide.com: And CSI is just about another dead person. Kripke: Right. What do you want? Forensic fingernails, sex in a hospital, or good ol' red-blooded, classic-rock demon fighting? TVGuide.com: Are Ellen, Jo and Ash recurring characters? Kripke: Yeah. We're excited about fleshing out the world of the show. We've always thought this was such an interesting universe of hunters who live just beneath the surface of America. We started expanding that world and bringing characters in, which we started to do last season with Bobby. TVGuide.com: What good, creepy creatures do you have up your sleeve this season? The clown was terrifying. Kripke: [This week] we're doing Pet Sematary-style zombies, and in Episode 9 we're doing a big 28 Days Later sort of town overrun by zombies, which is really, really fun because we've got our own unique twist on it. We've got more demons of course, and we're bringing back the shape-shifter from "Skin." Every so often we figure out a way to do a philosophical episode. We had "Faith" last year, about who deserves to live and who deserves to die. We have an episode coming up where the boys are hunting something of supernatural origin, but then come to believe that it may or may not be an angel. They have to decide whether they are supposed to hunt it or let it be. Sam thinks it might be an angel and Dean, who doesn't believe in those sorts of things, says "absolutely not." I'm excited about that one. I like to do a classy episode about Dean — he believes in evil, but does he believe in good? TVGuide.com: Do you have a stockpile of urban legends? Kripke: If you came to the writers' room, we've got a whole board. "Unnecessary surgery," different monsters and spirits, the urban legend called "The Licked Hand," and all sorts of creepy words that signify a potential episode that one of these days we'll get around to. This year we get into the Robert Johnson legend, selling your soul to the devil at the crossroads, into the lost colony of Roanoke, into H.H. Homes, the serial killer from Devil in the White City, America's first serial killer and his spirit.... Not only do we get to delve into urban legends, but we're starting to get into American history and classic folklore. At the end of the day, damn it, I want this show taught in schools. TVGuide.com: With a warning for the faint of heart. Kripke: Right. Watch out for the hand getting ground up in the disposal, but otherwise it is very educational. TVGuide.com: Speaking of the scenes that make me cover my eyes, how do you know when to pull away from the action?Kripke: When the lawyers make us. [Chuckles] We have no interest in making a splatter film, we're always trying to search for a way to do it elegantly, but the fact is that what you don't see is worse than what you do. It is just scarier. What we care about is being as scary as possible, that having been said, when it is time to see something, we try not to shy away from it. I can only think of one occasion when the lawyers said absolutely not. I'm kind of amazed at what we do get away with. Last year in "Home," when they put the hand in the disposal, we had this shot where it was the bottom pipe of the disposal where you saw all the blood and goo coming out. We were like, "Never in a million years are they going to let us use this shot," and we put it in as a joke, and no one ever said anything. TVGuide.com: How are you coping with Jared Padalecki's injury and working that into the story? Kripke: Ah, Jared. We're making it work. Luckily, he gets in fights every episode so it is easy for him to break his hand. It turns out the zombie breaks his hand. I'm glad he's OK, and I'm glad it all worked out, but I do have to say there is a part of me that wished he broke his hand a little earlier because it would have made so much more sense to come out of the car crash with the broken arm. He survived getting T-boned by a semi going full speed, but a zombie broke his hand? We do what we always do — we made a joke out of it and we had Dean give a funny reaction. Not once does it get in the way of the story.

2006-10-18T14:37:00.000-06:00

Originally aired: 12/10/2006 Writer: Sera GambleDirector: Robert Singer Guest Stars: Sterling K. Brown as Gordon, Amber Benson as Lenore Official CW Description"BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER'S" AMBER BENSON GUEST STARS AS A VAMPIRE - Sam and Dean meet Gordon, a fellow demon hunter who has been systematically killing vampires in a small town, and Dean immediately bonds with the older man. However, after Sam meets with the lead vampire and discovers they are actually peaceful creatures who survive on cattle blood, he decides not all supernatural beings are evil and forces Dean to choose whether he will side with Sam or Gordon. Full Synopsis In the woodsA girl is running through the woods, apparently being chased by something. She trips once but gets back up and keeps going. She then hides behind a tree. She doesn’t hear anything, so she starts to come out from behind it. There’s nothing there. Suddenly, she turns around and there’s someone standing behind her, holding a long curved knife. They chop off her head, and she falls down. In the ImpalaDean and Sam are driving down the road in the Impala - Dean whoops and comments on how the engine sounds so sweet. Sam says, “You know, if you two want to get a room, just let me know, Dean.” Dean tells his car not to listen, as Sam doesn’t understand them. Sam then says that Dean’s in a good mood. Dean asks “Why shouldn’t I be? I got my car, got a case, things are looking up.” Sam comments that you give Dean a couple of severed heads and a pile of dead cows and he’s Mr. Sunshine. Dean laughs and asks him how far it is to Red Lodge. Sam answers that’s it’s about another 300 miles. In the Sheriff’s officeThe sheriff is telling the boys that the murder investigation is still happening, and that’s all he can share with them. Dean and Sam are in suits again, pretending to be working for a paper. Sam asks him if he found the last severed head last week, and the sheriff nods. The other one was found two days ago. A girl comes in and taps her watch, and the sheriff says the time’s up, they’re done. Dean quickly jumps in with one more question. He asks about the cattle that were split open, drained, and apparently there were over a dozen cases. Sam asks him if he thinks there’s a connection. He says that the cattle mutilations and severed heads sound like ritual stuff. “Like satanic cult ritual stuff?” Dean puts in. The sheriff looks at them, then laughs, then realizes they’re serious. He tells them the cattle aren’t being mutilated. He says that if a cow drops dead and it stays in the sun for 48 hours, it splits open itself, and it looks so clean it could be surgical. He asks them what paper they work for again, and Dean stumbles over the name and gets it wrong, while Sam corrects him. Dean quickly says he’s new, but the sheriff doesn’t believe them and tells them to get out of his office. The morgueDean and Sam are in a morgue, dressed in white lab coats. They go into a room and there’s another guy there. Dean tells him that the doctor needs to see him in his office right away. The guy says that the doctor’s on vacation, but Dean says, “Well he’s back, and he’s pissed, and he’s screaming for you, man. So if I were you I’d -” The guy quickly leaves, looking worried. Dean then asks Sam if the satanists in Florida marked their victims. Sam replies yes, on the forehead. They pull out a box, and Dean tells Sam to open it. Sam won’t though, and Dean calls him a wuss. He opens it himself. They don’t find any mark on the head in the box, and Dean suggests they look in her mouth to see if the murderer stuffed anything down her throat. Sam tells him go ahead, and Dean replies he can, and Sam says, “I’m the wuss?” Sam starts to reach into the mouth and he says, “Dean, get me a bucket?” Dean asks him if he’s found something but he says no, he’s going to puke. Sam pulls his hand out but then Dean says he thinks he saw something. He reaches back in and sees a hole in the girl’s gums. Dean presses near it and a fang comes out. “A retractable set of vampire fangs, you’ve got to be kidding me,” he says. Sam says, “This changes things,” and Dean replies sarcastically, “Do you think?” At the barSam and Dean go into a bar, and head up to the counter. They order a couple of beers, and Sam tells him they’re looking for someone. They hand him some money and they tell him that these people would have moved here about six months ago, and would sleep all day, party all night. Meanwhile we see a man in a corner watching them. The bartender tells them he has seen some people like that, noisy drinkers, and they’ve come in once or twice. Dean and Sam thank him and leave, and as they do we see that the man in the corner is gone. Outside the barThe boys walk out and behind the bar. We see the man from the bar follow them. He goes around the back of the bar after them, but they’re gone. He turns around, and nothing. He turns back around, and Dean and Sam are right there, and Dean has a knife to his throat. They ask him to show them his teeth, and the guy replies he’s not a vampire. He says he heard them talking inside, and he knows how to kill vampires. When they don’t move back, he shows them his teeth and then they let him go. Then he asks them who they are. “Sam and Dean Winchester,” the man, whos name is Gordon, says while pulling out a big rack of weapons from his car. “I can’t believe it. You know I met your old man once? Hell of a guy. Great hunter. I heard he passed. I’m sorry.” He seems to know a lot about their family, and he tells them that word travels fast. “You know how hunters talk,” he says, and Dean says they actually don’t. Gordon says he guesses there was a lot their dad never told them. Sam asks him if the two vampires that were killed were his. He replies yes. Dean asks him where the nest is, and he tells them that he has this one covered. He tells them he’s been there for two weeks. He found a vampire in Austin and tracked it all the way here and found the nest. He says he’ll finish it himself. Dean says they can help, but he declines, saying he’d rather do it alone. Dean tells him he’s been itching for a hunt, but still Gordon says no. He tells them about a Chupacabra they can take care of, and then gets in his car. “It was real good meeting you though. I’ll buy you a drink on the flip side.” He drives away. The millA man is sitting in a mill, and suddenly he hears something. He gets up and walks outside. He looks around cautiously, and suddenly Gordon is behind him, and they start to fight. The man’s teeth come out - he’s a vampire. Gordon is soon overpowered and the vampire puts his head under a saw he turned on and starts to pull it down. Suddenly Gordon is pulled out from under it by Sam, and Dean starts to attack the vampire. He stabs it in the chest and then brings the saw down on it’s neck, killing it. Gordon says, “So, I guess I gotta buy you that drink.” The barSam, Dean, and Gordon are all sitting around. Dean and Gordon are drinking, but Sam is just sitting there. Gordon compliments Dean on how he killed the vampire, and Dean thanks him. Then he asks Sam if he’s all right. Sam says he’s fine. “Have another one, Sammy,” says Gordon, and Sam replies that Dean is the only one who’s allowed to call him that. Gordon says he didn’t mean any offense, he was just celebrating. Sam says that decapitations aren’t his idea of a good time, and Gordon says it’s not as if it was human. He tells Sam he’s got to have some more fun with the job. Dean says he’s been trying to tell him that, and he could learn a thing or two from Gordon. “Yeah, I bet I could,” says Sam, and he says he’s going back to the motel. Dean tosses him the keys. Gordon asks if it was something he said, but Dean replies that Sam just gets that way sometimes. At the motelSam goes to the motel and puts the keys on the desk. At the barDean is telling Gordon about something he killed when he was only sixteen. “So I pick up this crossbow. And I hit that ugly sucker with a silver-tipped arrow, right in his heart. Sammy’s waiting in the car. Me and my dad, we take that thing into the woods, burn it to a crisp. I’m sitting there looking into the fire and I’m thinking to myself, ‘I’m sixteen years old. Kids my age are worried about pimples, prom dates. I’m seein’ things they’ll never even know. Never even dream of.’ I guess that’s when I sort of...” “Embraced the life?” puts in Gordon, and Dean nods, then asks him how he got started. Gordon tells him that he saw his first vampire when he was eighteen. He says he was home alone with his sister, and it came into her room. He says he got his dad’s gun and ran in and tried to get it off her. “Too late. So I shoot the damn thing. Which is of course just about as useful as snapping it with a rubber band.” He says that it flung him across the room, and knocked him out cold. He says when he woke up, the vampire was gone, and his sister was gone. He says he left home, looked around for information about how to kill them, and then he found the vampire. “It was my first kill,” he says. Dean says he’s sorry about Gordon’s sister. Gordon says it was a long time ago, and then says, “Your dad - it’s gotta be rough.” Dean replies, “Yeah. He was one of those guys - took some terrible beatings. But he never gave up. So you’re always saying to yourself, ‘He’s indestructible. He’ll always be around, nothing can kill my dad.’ And then just like that -” Dean snaps his fingers - “he’s gone.” He looks at Gordon. “I can’t say this to Sammy - gotta keep my game face on. But - uh - the truth is, I’m not handling it very well. I feel I have this...” “Hole inside you?” Gordon says. “And it just gets bigger and bigger and darker and darker? Good. You can use it. Trust me. There’s plenty out there that needs killing and this’ll help you do it. Dean - it’s not a crime to need your job.” The motelSam calls Ellen. She says it’s good to hear from him and asks if everything’s okay. He says everything’s fine and asks her if she knows a man named Gordon Walker. She says she does, and he’s a good hunter. She asks him why he’s asking. He tells her they ran into him on a job and they’re kind of working together. She tells him not to do that, as Gordon is dangerous to everyone and everything around him. She says if he’s working on a job then they’d better just let him handle it and move on. The barGordon and Dean are still talking. Gordon says he loves this life because it’s all black and white. There’s no maybe. You find the bad thing, you kill it. He says most people spend their lives in shades of grey, but not them. Dean says he’s not sure Sam would agree with him. Gordon says he doesn’t think Sam is much like them. Dean looks at him and Gordon says, “I’m not saying he’s wrong. Just different. But you and me? We were born to do this. It’s in our blood.” Dean looks unsure. Outside the motelSam is outside at a drink machine. He hears something in the bushes and quickly goes back to the motel. He gets inside and then laughs at himself a bit. He puts down his drink and suddenly someone attacks him from behind. He’s defending himself pretty well until suddenly he’s hit over the head with a phone from behind. He’s knocked out. The nestSam wakes up with a bag over his head, tied up and gagged. The bag is pulled off and he recognizes the bartender from the bar they were in. His fangs come out, he’s a vampire. He starts to come at Sam when suddenly a girl’s voice says, “Wait.” The vampire pulls back and there’s a girl standing at the doorway. She comes over and takes the gag off Sam, saying “My name’s Lenore. I’m not going to hurt you. I just want to talk to you.” Sam says he might have trouble paying attention to anything but Eli’s teeth. She says he won’t hurt him either, he has her word. Sam doesn’t believe her, as she’s not the first vampire he’s met. She tells him they’re not like the others. They don’t kill humans, and they don’t drink their blood. They haven’t for a long time. Sam asks if it’s some sort of joke, and she says, “Notice you’re still alive.” Lenore tells him that they’ve found other ways to eat, cattle blood. She says it’s disgusting, but it allows them to get by. She says if there’s no deaths, no missing locals, then there’s no reason for people like Sam to come looking for them. Eli starts getting mad, saying that tonight they murdred Conrad, and they’re celebrating. She tells him that’s enough, what’s done is done. Sam asks why she’s talking to him and she says she’d rather not, but she knows his kind. They’ll just keep tracking the vampires. She wants them to stop following them. She says they have a right to live, they’re not hurting anyone. Sam asks her why he should believe her, and she says fine, she’s going to let him go. Sam is taken back out of the house blindfolded and they drive him back to the motel. The motelDean and Gordon are looking at a map, Gordon is showing him where he thinks the nest is. Dean checks his watch and wonders where Sam is. Gordon says he probably went out for a walk, as he seems like that type of guy. Dean says he is. Suddenly Sam walks in the door. Dean asks him where he’s been, and Sam asks to talk to him alone. Dean goes outside with him, leaving Gordon inside. Outside the motelSam tells Dean they have to rethink the hunt. He tells him that he was at the nest. Dean asks him how many he killed, and Sam says none. Dean says, “They didn’t just let you go!” “That’s exactly what they did,” replies Sam. He tells Dean he doesn’t know where it is though, as he was blindfolded. He does know that they went over the bridge outside of town, though. He tells Dean that he doesn’t think they’re like other vampires. He tells him that the vampires are the ones doing the cattle mutilations, that’s how they live. Dean doesn’t believe him. He says they have to find them and kill them. Sam says no. Gordon is standing just outside the door and listening, but they don’t see him. Dean tells him if it’s supernatural, they kill it, it’s their job. Sam says no, they’re job is hunting evil, and these things aren’t evil. Dean replies that Gordon has been on the vampires for a year, he knows. Sam tells him that Ellen says he’s bad news. Dean says he’s not listening to Ellen, they barely know her. Sam says, “Right, ‘cause Gordon’s such an old friend. You don’t think I know what this is?” “What’re you talking about?” asks Dean. “He’s a substitute for Dad, isn’t he? A poor one.” Dean starts to walk away but Sam follows him. “You know, you slap on this big fake smile, but I can see right through it. ‘Cause I know how you feel, Dean! Dad’s dead! And he left a hole, and it hurts so bad you can’t take it, but you can’t just fill up that hole with whoever you want! It’s an insult to his memory.” Dean starts to turn away and then he punches Sam in the face. Sam tells him he can hit him all he wants, but it’s not going to change anything. Dean tells him he’s going to the nest, he’ll find it himself. The motelThey go back in, and find that the keys to Dean’s car, and Gordon are gone. They go after him by hotwiring the Impala. Sam says the bridge was four and half minutes from their farm, he counted. He knows all the directions. Dean tells him he’s good. A pain in the ass, but good. The nestLenore is packing. Eli says they have to stay and fight, but Lenore says no. She says there’s more where those three came from. She says she’s not giving up hope. She says if they can change, then the hunters can change. She tells him to gather the others, they’re leaving before sunrise. On the roadGordon is driving to the nest. Sam and Dean are close behind him. Outside the nestLenore is packing the truck. She hears something, and looks around. Gordon is behind her. He stabs her in the chest with a knife. “Dead man’s blood,” he says. The nestGordon has tied Lenore up, and he is cutting her with the knife, dipped in dead man’s blood. Dean and Sam come in. Gordon says he’s going to get Lenore to tell him where the rest of them are. He tells them they can help, just grab a knife. Dean says they should just chill out. Sam tells Gordon to put the knife down, and Gordon says it sounds like it’s Sam who needs to chill. Sam tells him to stop. Gordon says Sam’s right, he’s wasting his time. She’ll never talk. He might as well put her out of her misery. He pulls out a long knife. Sam comes forward and Gordon points the knife at Sam. Dean tells him stop. He says that the vampire that killed his sister deserved to die, but - Gordon tells Dean that the vampire didn’t kill his sister, it changed her. And he hunted her down and killed her. Dean is shocked. Sam realizes that Gordon knew all along that the vampires weren’t killing anyone. Gordon says that vampires don’t change. He says he can prove it, and grabs Sam’s arm and cuts it. Dean aims a gun at Gordon, but Gordon says he isn’t going to kill Sam. He just wants to make a point. He puts Sam’s arm over Lenore’s mouth and his blood drips onto her. Her vampire fangs come out, and she is growling and hissing. Gordon says they’re all the same, evil, blood thirsty. Lenore’s fangs retract and she says, “No, no...” Sam pushes Gordon away. “You hear her?” He unties Lenore and takes her out. Dean says that he thinks Gordon and he have some things to talk about. Dean says if he wants the vampires, he has to go through him. Gordon puts down his knife, and Dean puts away his gun. They start to fist-fight. Gordon grabs his knife again anyway and comes at Dean, but Dean manages to knock it out of his hand. Gordon says that Dean’s not like his brother, he’s a killer, like him. They’re still fighting, and Dean gets the upper hand. He ties up Gordon and says, “You know, I might be like you, and I might not. But you’re the one tied up right now.” It’s morning now. Sam comes back in. Dean is still standing with Gordon. Sam asks if he missed anything, and Dean replies nothing much. He says that he’ll call someone in a couple of days to come and untie him. Sam asks if he’s ready to go, and Dean says not yet. He punches Gordon one more time, and then says he’s ready to go. Outside the nestThe boys leave the nest, and Dean says to Sam that he can hit him. He says Sam can have a freebie. Sam says Dean looks as if he just went twelve rounds with a block of cement, and he’ll take a raincheck. Dean says he wishes they never took this job. Sam asks him why, and Dean says he wonders how many things they have killed that didn’t deserve it. “I mean, the way Dad raised us...” Sam says that after Mom died, Dad did the best he could. Dean says he knows, but the man wasn’t perfect. “He raised us to hate those things, and man, I hate them. I do. When I killed that vampire at the mill I didn’t even think about it. Hell, I even enjoyed it.” “You didn’t kill Lenore,” says Sam. “Yeah but every instinct told me to. I was gonna kill her, I was gonna kill them all.” “Yeah but Dean you didn’t. That’s what matters,” says Sam. “Yeah,” says Dean. “‘Cause you’re a pain in my ass.” Sam smiles. “Guess I might have to stick around and be a pain in the ass then,” says Sam. He starts to get in the car. “Thanks,” says Dean. “Don’t mention it,” says Sam. Dean looks back at the house for a few seconds, and then he gets in the car. They drive away.

Everybody Loves A Clown

2006-10-18T14:32:00.000-06:00

2.02 Everybody Loves A Clown Originally aired: 05/10/2006 Writer: John ShibanDirector: Phil Sgriccia Guest Stars: Samantha Ferris as Ellen, Alona Tal as Jo, Chad Lindberg as Ash Official CW DescriptionSAM AND DEAN DISCOVER A SECRET HUNTER'S LAIR - Samand Dean listen to a message on John's cell phone from a woman named Ellen (guest star Samantha Ferris) and decide to track her down. They are shocked to discover Ellen runs a road house that also serves as a gathering place for hunters like themselves. Meanwhile, at a small town carnival, a clown is persuading children to let them into their home so he can murder their parents. Full Synopsis Medford, Wisconsin (At Cooper's Circus)This episode opens at Cooper Circus. The place is crowded with families, rides, and freak shows. One little girl in particular sticks out of the crowd, notices a clown behind one of the booths waving to her. “Mommy look look, it’s another clown” But by the time she gets her parents attention, the clown vanished. As they’re driving home from the circus, the little girls sees the clown again off the side of the road in the shadows, waving at her. Later that evening as the girl is tucked in her bed, she notices a strange shadow on her ceiling coming from the window. She gets out of bed and walks over to the window and sees the clown waving at her from the front lawn. The girl walks downstairs, unlocks the front door, and invites the clown into the house. The clown takes her by the hand as he steps inside, shutting the door behind him. Location UnknownSam and Dean stand beside each other very emotionally as they watch the dads remains burn into ashes. Sam asks Dean if dad said anything to him before he died. Struggling to give a response, Dean, with a lump in his throat, replies, “no”. Bobby’s (one week later)Dean’s working hard on repairing the Impala. It’s been a slow process, but work is being accomplished. Dean’s getting very frustrated with Sam because he keeps asking Dean if he’s all right. Sam’s a bit surprised that Dean hasn’t shown the least interest in trying to hunt this demon since their dad died. Dean says they can’t hunt this demon because they’ve got no lead on where it is and they’ve lost the only leverage they had on killing this damn thing, the colt. Sam tells Dean that he retrieved a voicemail message on one of their dad’s old cells phones that’s four months old, from a woman named Ellen saying, “Hey John it’s Ellen, look don’t be stubborn, you know I can help you. Call me.” RoadhouseSam was able to trace an address from the number, which leads them to what appears to be an abandoned roadhouse in the middle of nowhere. Sam and Dean are temporarily driving a minivan, which was the only running vehicle Bobby had. “God this is humiliating. FEEL LIKE A FRICKIN SOCCER MOM!” The boys enter the roadhouse, and the only person present appears to be knocked out cold. As they continue to explore the roadhouse, Ellen and her daughter Jo approach them with rifles. Sam and Dean discover that this roadhouse is a meeting place for other Supernatural hunters like themselves. They tell Ellen about their dad’s death and she tells them that Ash can help track the demon. While Dean talks to Ellen's daughter Jo, (and for once doesn't try to chat a gal up) Sam notices a folder behind the bar and asks Ellen if he could look at it. The folder contains an unsolved police case that occurred not far from the roadhouse. Sam and Dean agree to go check out this case. On the roadSam looking over the details of this case explains to Dean that there have several murders over the past month in this small town, with the most recent murder occurring last week. The suspect is said to be disguised as a clown from Cooper’s Circus. He left the daughter unharmed and murdered the parents (ripping them to shreds). The cops have no viable lead. All the employees at the circus were tearing down equipment at the time of the murder, and the girl claims to have seen a clown vanish into thin air. However, the cops are saying that it’s trauma. Similar murders occurred back in 1981 at Bunker Brothers Circus (same deal). Usually spirits are settled in a particular location. Sam and Dean believe that a cursed object could be leading this spirit to move from city to city. Funhouse (at Cooper’s Circus)Evan and his dad walk through the fun house. Evan is playing a videogame, not showing any interest in the funhouse. As Evan continues to walk through the funhouse, he notices a clown in one of the mirrors waving to him. Evan runs to his dad and says that he saw a scary clown. His dad tries to calm him down by telling him that clowns are his friends and that there’s nothing to be scared of. The next morning at Evan’s house, Evan walks into his parents’ room, waking his dad up. “Dad, you were right, he is my friend.” Looking at up Evan, his dad sees the evil clown standing at his bedside holding Evan’s hand and starts screaming. Cooper’s CircusIf a cursed object is dragging the clown from place to place, they’re going to have to EMF scan the entire carnival, but Sam says, “That’s like trying to find a needle in a stack of needles. It could be anything.” Sam and Dean decide to get jobs at the circus so they will blend in with the crowd. While looking for Mr. Cooper, Sam and Dean encounter a blind man throwing knives. After leaving Mr. Cooper’s office, Dean asks Sam whether he really meant what he told Cooper about not wanting to go back to school. Sam tells Dean that he’s been having second thoughts, thinking that their dad would want him and Dean to stick together and like Dean said once, “it will never be over. There will always something to hunt.” Later, while litter picking (their job for Cooper) the boys split up and start scanning around the carnival with their EMF’s, but find nothing. When they meet up again by the funhouse, they notice a little girl telling her mom, “Mommy look at the clown!” But Sam and Dean see nothing. They believe that this little girl is the spirit’s next victim. They decide to stake out her house that night, to make sure she’s all right. While watching the house, they see the girl open the front door and take someone invisible to them by the hand and they walk upstairs, heading for her parents’ room. They manage to break into the house in time to stop the clown and fire a few rounds of rock salt into the clown, but the clown still manages to escape. On the roadSam and Dean ditch the minivan off the side of an empty road, fearing that the girl’s parents saw their license plates. Sam confronts Dean about his strong silence towards their dad’s death. Dean, very pissed off again tells Sam that he fine and that the next person who asks him if he’s ok, he’s going to start “throwing punches”. Dean finds it weird that Sam spent his entire life fighting with him, and now he wants to do what he would’ve wanted. Dean says it’s too late. Sam calls Ellen and asks her opinion on this killer clown. She says her best guess would be that it’s a rakshasa. It’s a race of Hindu creatures that take on human form and feed on human flesh. They can make themselves look invisible and they can’t enter home without first being invited. Rakshasas live in squalor, sleeping on a bed of dead insects. They have to feed a few times every 20 to 30 years, which would explain the murders at Bunker Brothers Circus back in 81. Ellen also tells Sam that the one sure way to kill it is by using a dagger of pure brass. They think that Cooper is the spirit because he did work at both shows. Cooper’s CircusDean visits the blind man they met earlier thinking, he might have a dagger of brass. Meanwhile, Sam sneaks into Cooper’s office looking for “bed bugs” and is caught by Cooper at gunpoint. The blind man invites Dean into his office and asks him to open the trunk in the corner. When Dean opens it, he finds the clown suit, realizing that it’s the blind man. Looking back, Dean watches as the blind man vanishes into thin air and starts throwing knives at Dean, but he bursts out of his office, without getting hit. FunhouseSam and Dean head into the funhouse to try and trap the blind man. However, the blind man made himself invisible to them and starts throwing knives once again at Dean. Sam breaks a brass piece of the organ off and when he sneaks up behind Sam, he spikes the brass metal into the blind man. In the midst of all the steam in the room, we hear the blind man screaming as he decomposes into a pill of dust. RoadhouseBack at the roadhouse, Ellen is very pleased with the boys work on this case. “Your dad would be proud of ya.” Meanwhile Ash, who’s been tracking the demon for the past 51 hours, tells Sam and Dean that the demon is nowhere to be found. However, if any of the signs (cattle mutilations and electrical storms) pop up in another city, he will know about it. He said he’ll call them when he hears anything. Jo also tells Dean she'd like to see him again, even after he confesses normally he'd be hitting on her but this is the 'wrong time, wrong place.' Bobby’s PlaceDean is once again working on repairing the Impala. Sam approaches him to apologize for trying to pick a fight with their dad the last time he saw him. For all he knows, their dad died thinking that Sam hated him. He also realizes that what he’s doing is too little, and that it’s too late to make up for the things in the past. Sam says that he feels “guilty as hell” and that he’s not all right. But also tells Dean that neither is he. After Sam walks away, in the midst of the silence, Dean takes a crow bar and smashes the glass of the door of one of the scrap cars, then the Impala’s trunk, with all his strength, finally releasing all the anger and emotion that was built up inside of him.

In My Time Of Dying

2006-10-18T14:28:00.000-06:00

Originally aired: 28/09/2006 Writer: Eric Kripke Director: Kim Manners Guest Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan (John Winchester), Lindsey McKeon (Tessa), Jim Beaver (Bobby) Official CW Description THE WINCHESTER MEN BATTLE THE DEMON AFTER A LIFE-THREATENING ACCIDENT - Sam , Dean and John were left for dead after the Demon plowed a semi into the Impala. Now, one of the Winchesters hovers between life and death as the surviving family must face an old and powerful adversary. Full Synopsis At the Impala The possessed truck driver climbs out of his truck and walks over to the Impala. Sam wakes up inside just as the possessed man pulls the door right off the car. “Get back,” says Sam, “Or I’ll kill you, I swear to God.” “No you won’t,” says the demon. “You’re saving that bullet for someone else.” Sam loads the gun. “You wanna bet?” The demon smiles, but a couple of seconds later, it leaves the man’s body. Sam tries to talk to his dad, but he doesn’t answer. He then calls Dean, but he doesn’t respond either. Paramedics arrive in a helicopter to bring them to the hospital. Sam wants to know if Dean and his dad are okay, but the paramedic tells him he has to stay still. He asks if they’re even alive. The hospital Dean wakes up. He gets out of bed and walks into the hallway. He calls Sam and John, but there’s no answer. The hospital seems to be deserted. He walks down the stairs to where a nurse is sitting at a desk. He tries to talk to her, but she appears to not even see him. He snaps his fingers in front of her face but she does nothing. He runs back down the hall to his room and sees his own body laying on the bed still, attached to many tubes and machines. Dean’s room Dean is standing inside his room. Sam comes in, and Dean tries to talk to him. Sam doesn’t answer him, he just mutters, “Oh no.” And walks over to Dean’s body on the bed. Dean continues to try and talk to him, asking how his dad is, but Sam doesn’t know he’s there. Just then a doctor walks in and tells Sam John is awake, and he can go see him if he wants. Sam asks about Dean, and the doctor replies that he has suffered many injuries but it’s the head trauma he’s worried about. He says that they won’t know his full condition until he wakes up, and then adds “if he wakes up”. Sam starts to get upset but the doctor replies that even though Dean is fighting very hard, he has to be realistic about his expectations. John’s room John gives Sam his insurance and tells him to give it to the hospital. Sam finds the name on the card amusing. John asks about Dean, but apparently Sam’s already told him everything the doctor said. Sam says that it doesn’t matter if the hospital can’t do anything, he’ll find someone to help Dean. John agrees that they’ll look for someone, but says he doesn’t know if they’ll find anything. Sam reminds him about the faith healer before, and John answers that it was one in a million. He says he’ll check under every stone though. A second later John asks where the colt is. Sam is disgusted. “Your son is dying and you’re worried about the colt?” John replies that they are hunting this demon and they need the gun. Sam says it’s in the trunk of the Impala. John tells him that he has to clean out the trunk before somebody else finds their stuff. Sam replies that he already called Bobby, and he’s going to tow the Impala back to his place. John sends him to get the colt and bring it back. He also gives him a list of stuff he wants Bobby to pick up for him, and tells Sam it’s for protection. Before Sam leaves he asks if John knows what the demon meant when he said he had plans for him and the children like him. John says he doesn’t. Bobby’s place Sam and Bobby take a look at the Impala and Bobby says there’s no way they can fix it. Sam gets upset and says that if there’s even one part of the car that’s still working, it’s good enough. He says they can’t just give up. Bobby agrees. Sam gives him the list of stuff John wanted, and when Sam tells him it’s for protection against the demon, Bobby gives him a funny look. Sam demands he tell him what he knows. Dean’s room Back in Dean’s room, John is sitting by his son’s bed. Dean walks up behind and says, “Come on, Dad. You’ve gotta help me. I gotta get better, I gotta get back in there. You haven’t called a soul for help. Aren’t you gonna do anything? Aren’t you even gonna say anything?” John doesn’t say anything of course. “I’ve done everything you’ve ever asked me. Everything. I’ve given everything I’ve ever had! Now you’re just gonna sit there and watch me die? I mean what the hell kinda father are you?” John just sits there. Suddenly, Dean hears something in the hall. The hall He goes out and something white runs by him. John hasn’t seen it. He runs down the hall after it and it goes into a woman’s room. She is lying on the floor and gasping for air. She manages to say she can’t breathe. Dean calls for help but no one hears him. The woman dies. John’s room Sam walks in and Dean tries to talk to him, telling him there’s something in the hospital and they have to hunt it. John starts to talk to Sam and notices that Sam is angry. Sam asks him if he thought he wouldn’t find out. It turns out he found out from Bobby that the stuff John wanted wasn’t for protection, it was for summoning the demon. He tells John he cares more about the demon than helping Dean. John gets mad as well. Dean tries to stop them but they don’t hear him. John tells Sam he’s trying to help Dean. Sam asks him how revenge is going to help Dean. They continue to argue and Dean gets so upset he knocks a glass of water off the table. Sam and John stare at it in surprise. Suddenly, Dean starts to flicker and he falls to his knees, he’s obviously in pain. Dean’s room Dean’s heart has stopped and they’re trying to get him back. Sam watches from the doorway with tears in his eyes. Dean walks up behind him. He sees the same white shape he saw in the hallway hovering over his body. He goes forward and grabs the thing, and even though he is thrown away from it, it moves away from his body and his heart starts again. The hall Dean runs out into the hall and looks for the white thing, but it’s gone. He goes back and stands next to Sam. “Don’t worry, Sammy,” he says. “I’m not going anywhere. I’m getting that thing before it gets me.” He tells Sam that it’s some sort of spirit and if he can grab it, he can kill it. Sam turns and almost looks right at Dean. Suddenly Dean hears a woman’s voice yelling, “Can’t you see me? Why won’t you look at me?” He finds a girl on the stairs and asks her if she can see him. She says she can, and when he introduces himself she says her name is Tessa. She asks him if she’s dead. She shows him her room where her body is lying on the bed and her mother is sitting beside her. She says it must be a dream. He says it’s not, and asks her if she’s ever heard of an out-of-body experience. She asks him if he’s some sort of New Age guy and he says, “You see me messing with crystals or listening to Yanni? It’s actually a very old idea.” He tells her he thinks it’s happening to them, and if it is, it means that they’re spirits of a body very close to death. She asks him if they’re going to die and he says no. John’s room Sam is telling John that it felt as if Dean was there, just out of eyeshot or something. He asks if that’s possible, and John replies that anything’s possible. Sam says there’s one way to find out and starts to leave. John tells him that he won’t hunt the demon – not until he knows Dean’s okay. The hall Dean and Tessa are walking together. He says he’s impressed with how well she’s taking this – he says she’s taking it better than he did. She tells him that she was freaked out at first but now she knows whatever’s going to happen will happen – it’s fate. He tells her that’s crap. He says that you always have a choice – you can either roll over and die or keep fighting. He is interrupted by doctors running by behind him. He runs after them and comes to a room where the doctors are trying to save a woman. The white shape is over her again. It touches her on the face, and even though he tries to get it away, it disappears and the woman dies. Dean’s room Sam goes into Dean’s room, holding a paper bag. He says to Dean that he thinks he’s around, and if he is, there’s one way to communicate. He pulls out an Ouija board and sits down on the floor. He asks Dean if he’s there. Dean is skeptical but he sits down too and puts his hands on the board. It moves to yes. They’re both shocked. Dean spells out ‘hunt’ on the board. Sam asks him if he’s hunting, and it moves to yes. Sam asks him if he knows what it is. Dean spells out ‘reap’ on the board. Sam guesses reaper, and asks him if it’s after him. It moves to yes. Sam says if it’s there naturally, there’s no way to stop it. But then he says there has to be a way, and he goes to find his dad. But John’s bed is empty. Boiler room John goes downstairs to the boiler room. He starts to draw a symbol on the floor in chalk. Dean’s room Sam goes back to Dean’s room and tells him he has Dad’s journal. Dean thanks him for not giving up on him. Sam goes to the page on reapers and they both read it. Dean suddenly leaves. Tessa’s room Dean goes down the hall and comes to Tessa’s room. It is empty except for her, leaning on an empty bed, watching him. “Hello, Dean,” she says. Dean tells her he figured out that she’s a reaper, because reapers can alter human perception. He says they can make themselves appear however they want. She says she was wondering when he’d figure it out. Dean asks her how she made him see her body and her mother. She says she can make him see whatever she wants. He asks her why she’s toying with him and she says he didn’t give her much choice, as he saw her true form and flipped out. She says this was the only way she could get him to talk to her. He replies what the hell does she want to talk about. She tells him that death is nothing to fear and it’s his time to go. Boiler room John is chanting in Latin. He performs a ritual to summon the demon. He finishes it and stands up, looking around. The demon comes, possessing a worker. John aims the colt at him. Two other possessed doctors come as well. The demon says it’s surprised John summoned him, as he didn’t take John as suicidal. He asks John if he really thought he could trap him. John lowers the gun and tells him he doesn’t want to trap him, he wants to make a deal. Dean’s room Sam is talking to Dean in his room. He tells him he couldn’t find anything in the book and he doesn’t know how to help him. He says he’ll keep trying as long as he keeps fighting. He says Dean has to hold on, he can’t go now, they were just starting to be brothers again. Tessa’s room Dean is asking Tessa to make an exception for him. He tells her his family is in danger. He says they need him. She tells him that he’s not the first soldier she’s plucked from the field. She says they all say they can’t leave, victory hangs in the balance – but the fight goes on without them. Dean tells her his brother might die without him. She says maybe he will, and maybe he won’t. There’s nothing he can do about it. She says it’s an honourable death – a warrior’s death. He tells her there’s no such thing as an honourable death. He says no, he’s not going with her, no matter what she does. She tells him he was right, there’s always a choice. She says he can’t get back in his body, though. She says staying here will drive him mad, and he might even get violent. She asks him how he thinks angry spirits are born. They can’t let go, and they can’t move on. She tells him he is about to become the same thing he hunts. Boiler room John and the demon are still talking. John says he will give the demon the colt and the bullet, but he has to help Dean. The demon asks him if he knows the truth, about the other children. John says yes, he’s known for a while. He asks if the demon can bring Dean back or not. The demon replies he can’t, but he knows someone who can. John says that before he gives him the gun, he’s going to want to make sure Dean’s okay, with his own two eyes. The demon says they don’t have a deal yet. He still wants something else, something that he wants as much as the gun – maybe more. Tessa’s room Tessa is telling Dean that it’s time to put the pain behind him. Dean asks her where he’ll go, but she says she can’t give it away. She tells him it’s time for him to choose. The lights start to flicker. Dean asks why she’s doing that. She says it’s not her. Suddenly black smoke comes out of a vent and goes into her mouth. She turns around and her eyes are yellow. “Today’s your lucky day, kid,” she says, and puts her hand on Dean’s forehead. Suddenly, in Dean’s room, he wakes up, choking on the oxygen tube down his throat. Sam yells for help. Dean’s room Dean is sitting up in bed. The doctor tells him that everything’s healed. He says he has some kind of angel watching over him. Dean asks Sam what happened, as he doesn’t remember anything. Except, he says, this pit in his stomach. He says something’s wrong. John comes to the door and asks him how he feels. Sam starts to ask him where he was last night, and John replies he had some things to do. Sam asks if he went after the demon, and even though John says no, Sam says he doesn’t believe him. Suddenly John asks “Can we not fight?” Sam looks shocked. John says half the time he doesn’t even know what they’re fighting about. Sam asks him if he’s all right, and John replies that he’s just a little tired. He asks Sam if he can get him some coffee. Sam leaves. John starts to talk to Dean, telling him about when he was a kid and how Dean used to tell John it was okay, after he’d come back from a hunt. He says he’s sorry. He says he shouldn’t have had to say that, it should have been John saying that to him. He says he made Dean grow up too fast. He says he is so proud of Dean. Dean asks him if it’s really him talking, and John says yes. Dean asks him why he’s saying this stuff. John asks him to watch out for Sam, and Dean says he will. He says John is scaring him. John tells him not be scared. He leans down and whispers something in Dean’s ear. Then he leaves the room. The hall John puts the colt down and says “Okay.” Sam is walking down the hall. Suddenly he sees his father lying on the floor in his room. He runs in and calls for help. The doctors try to get John back as his sons watch, but they can’t. “Time of death, 10:41 am.” Synopsis by Deanandhisimpala Episode Music Stranglehold - Ted Nugent Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Back On The Road

2006-10-15T16:10:00.000-06:00

DVD photo slide show at onetruemedia.com

The Car Is Back!

2006-10-14T20:43:00.000-06:00

Blood Lust

2006-10-14T20:29:00.000-06:00

Does Dean Know The Secret

2006-10-14T20:27:00.000-06:00

Letter To God

2006-10-13T19:44:00.001-06:00

Jensen Ackles aka Dean Winchester

2006-10-12T12:26:00.000-06:00

Jared Padalecki aka Sam Winchester

2006-10-12T12:14:00.000-06:00

Holding Out For A Hero

2006-10-11T17:37:00.001-06:00

Here With Me

2006-10-11T17:33:00.000-06:00

2006-10-09T20:41:00.000-06:00

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Jensen And Jared Interview

2006-10-09T14:19:00.000-06:00

Star T.V Interview

2006-10-08T21:16:00.001-06:00

Renegade

2006-10-08T20:54:00.002-06:00

Salvation

2006-10-08T20:54:00.001-06:00

If Your Going Through Hell

2006-10-08T20:48:00.000-06:00

Super Natural News Brief

2006-10-08T15:40:00.000-06:00

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Everybody Loves A Clown-Pt. 2

2006-10-08T08:59:00.000-06:00

Super Natural Pranks

2006-10-07T11:00:00.000-06:00

Everyone Loves A Clown-1

2006-10-07T10:58:00.000-06:00

Super Natural--Pilot

2006-10-07T10:57:00.000-06:00

Sam And Dean Making Fun Of Each Other

2006-10-07T10:51:00.000-06:00

If Your Going Through Hell

2006-10-07T10:48:00.000-06:00

What A Wounderful World

2006-10-04T22:45:00.001-06:00

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Same Set?

2006-10-02T12:58:00.000-06:00

Most show's have a standard set you see each week. As I was going through some picture's from last season I found a picture where the stairs looked the same as when Dean walked down In My Time Of Dying.

So I went back to see both of them together. The other picture is from a episode from last season.

It's just a little thing I found and wanted to share you you.

Is Daddy Really Dead?

2006-10-02T12:13:00.000-06:00

When last we saw John he died. But does anyone on T.V really die? After watching In My Time To Die there was all talk about John really being dead.

If you think about it, I think no. On a show like Super Natural anything can happen and as we saw last season it can.

The next day after watching it I ran across a T.V Guide that I had saved. It is the issue in Returning Favorites. I went to look at it to see if there was anything about Super Natural and there was.

There is a piece about what the show might do this season. T.V Guide sometime is right and sometime is wrong. I hope in this is true.

I am telling you what T.V Guide wrote. So I giving a disclaimer here. I do not own any rights to T.V Guide.

It states that: All the Wincheasters will be back fighting the good fight--including Daddy Dearest.

So will Daddy show up later in the season. I hope so. If you are a Dallas fan then you know no body can reaaly die, as in Babby Ewing. HUM!! They had him dead a whole season and then came back the next season. For the people who have not seen Dallas before or ever. They had the whole season as a dream that Bobby wife had. Can you believe that.

But I hope that they don't keep us hanging that long. Having John in the show really brings out more of the brothers problems bout relationship with him, and it fits right in.

So let's hope Daddy comes back and we don't have to wait a year. Besides I kind of like John being on Super Natural.

Super Natural September 26, 2006

2006-10-01T13:18:00.000-06:00

In My Time Of Dying

2006-09-30T18:16:00.000-06:00

After waiting for about 4 monthes the waiting is finaling over. It was full of surprises. Where to start. One thing I was very surprise is that they open with not missing one beat from last season car wreak to when the guy walked up to the car who the monster was useing to do his dirty jobs. Sam holding the gun in his lap. I thought that was the best opening for a show that left you with any questions. Dean who was in a coma, and who as between life and death walking around the hospital trying to figure everything out so that he could get back to to his own body. The scene where Sam and the Dad were fighting and Dean standing there getting mad at them was able to hit the glass of water to the floor, got them to stop. The Swayse comment was a good one. We all know that they use fake credit cards using names that have a jab at real people, but the one they use this episode was classic. The I Love Lucy show useing Lucy maidian name from I Love Lucy. The scene that had Sam useing a spirit board to contact Dean. I'll have to admit with Dean on the slumper party part. But it worked. You had to know that Sam would adventuraly happen. Sam and Dean had been though hell and back with each other that their brotherly love showed in this episode. For their Dad to say that "No one comes between evil no one". I'm with Sam on this. "No not everyone". Sam had grown thorugh the year that he could finally stand up to his Dad. To let him know that in the end family always came first. That made him grow. This Reaper was much better looking then the one in last season. The fact that Dean would give into the Reaper would not of set good with him. He is to stronge emontionally and body then anyone of the three. But I guess for now we'll just have to come to your own conclusion on that. John going to the basemeant of the hospital was a little self serving when Sam accused him of trying to do bring the demoan to the hospital. But with John going ahead with his plan to comfront the demon face to face in order to save Dean was a very emontional scene for me. The fact that he knew about Sam and others like him and just recentaly found out for himself. When John entered the room where Sam and Dean were talking I thought for sure that the demoan had gotten to him again. For John to ask Sam to get him some coffe was just a little off. As John continue to talk to Dean I was thinking it got him again. Then I realized what was really going on. John showing his love for him and Sam was so emotional that we have ever seen him do. When he leaned over into Dean's ear to whisper something and the look on Dean's face left us with more questions then answers. As John left the room and entered another room where the demoan was and setting the colt on the table was the last thing John ever done. For Sam to find his father on the floor of the room. He dropped the cup of coffee and went runing in to his father was so emotional. John died at the end of the show. But I have read where people are woundering if he will stay dead or not. I do have to add one other item here. The Impala. Will it get fix or not. I'm sure it will and next week their be back in it getting the next demaon. John's truck was left in Salvation but had they really left the town. Did they just go to a cabin in Salvation. So we have John's truck just sitting in the middle of no where.

Day In The Life Of Jensen And Jared-2

2006-09-28T14:21:00.000-06:00

Day In The Life Of Jensen And Jared-1

2006-09-28T14:06:00.000-06:00

2006-09-28T14:05:00.000-06:00

Season 2 First Episode

2006-09-26T20:30:00.000-06:00

Season 2 Startes Thursday 9-28-06

2006-09-26T19:58:00.000-06:00

Two days away from the second season of Super Natural startes. Will we find out more about the Demon or will the father die or walk out on Sam and Dean again. In this weeks T.V Guide for the U.S calls Super Natural The X-Files Jr. With it being in the same time period of Grey's Anatomy can it stand up on the new CW? I guess we'll just have to wait and find out for ourselves. Personally I think it will. But what are they going to let us know in the first episode. Let's just watch and see.

Season One Titles

2006-09-03T20:02:00.000-06:00

1. Pilot

2. Wendigo

4. Dead In The Water

5. Phantom Traveler

6. Bloody Mary

7. Skin

8. Hookman

9. Bugs

10. Home

11. Asylum

12. Scarecrow

13. Faith

14. Route 666

15. Nightmare

16. The Benders

17. Shadow

18. Hell House

19. Something Wicked

20.Provenance

21. Deadman's Blood

22. Salvation

23. Devil's Trap

In season one which episode was your favorite?

All Jared

2006-09-01T20:30:00.000-06:00

Jared Padalecki Bio

2006-09-01T19:39:00.000-06:00

Jared Tristan Padalecki Born: July 19, 1982 San Antonio, TX U.S.A

Super Natural-2005-2006--Sam Winchester Cry Wolf-2005--Tom House Of Wax--2005--Wade Gilmore Girls--200-2004--Dean Flight Of The Phoenix--2004--Davis New York Minute--2004--Trey Lipton Cheaper By The Dozon--2003--Bully (uncredited) Young MacGyver--2003--Clay MacGyver A Ring Of Endless Light--2002--Zachery Gray ER--2001--Paul Harris Close To Home--2001 Silent Witness--2000--Sam A Little Inside--1999--Matt Nelson As Himself---- The 11 Annual Critic's Choice Award--2006 Ellen--The Ellen DeGeneres Show Total Request Live--2005 Movie Life: House Of Wax--2005 The Teen Choice Awards 2004 I Love The 90-s--2004 The Teen Choice Awards 2003

Coming Season 1 On DVD

2006-08-28T20:51:00.000-06:00

Coming September5, 2006 The first season of Super Natural on DVD.

Little Stuff You Might Of Missed On Season 1

2006-08-16T19:08:00.000-06:00

Trivia---- Early on in the series, Dean's cell number is given, and for a while the studio had it set up so thay anyone dialing the number would hear Jensen Ackles reading the message. "This is Dean Winchester. If this is a emergency, leave a message. If you are calling about 11-2-83, page me with your coordinates." The number is 1-866-907-3235. The car Sam and Dean drives is a 1967 Chevrolet Impala. The show has five black Impala that they use. The only known source of income for the Winchesters are credit card scams and playing pool. Dean's car has a registeration number: KAZ 2Y5. Goofs-- The episode "Hook Man" is set in Iwoa. Yet in an overhead view as they pull into town, you see Palm Trees. Both the Winchester's vehicles have Kansas plates on the front. The state of Kansas does not issue front license plates. Also the county stickers are not pink. Crazy Credits-- The opening credits are shown during an early scene. Quotos-- Dean Winchester: You can't rush perfection! [Dean fall on top of Sam as they sneak through a half open window] Dean Winchester: Oh, sorry! Sam Winchester: O.K, be quiet.

Jensen Ackles Bio

2006-08-09T21:54:00.000-06:00

Jensen Jensen Ross Ackles Born March 1, 1978 Dallas Taxas Ten Inch Hero--2007 Devor--2005--Jake Gray Super Natrual--2005-2006--25 Episodes Season 1-Dean Winchester Smallville 2004-2005--20Episodes-Jason Teague Dawnson Creek 2002-2003--12 Episodes-C.J Dark Angel 2001-2002--19 Episodes-Alec/X5-494 Cybill--1997-Guest Spot-The Wedding- April 21, 1997-David Sweet Valley High-1 Episode-AKA California Collage: les jumelles de Sweet Vally (France: dubbed version) AKA Francine Pascal's "Sweet Valley High All Along The Water Tower--December16, 1996-Brad Still Life--2003-2004--6 Episodes- Max Morgen Awards Soap Opera Digest-1998 Nominated--Outstanding Male Newcomer for Days Of Our Lives---Won Daytime Emmy-1998 Nominatred--Outstanding Younger Actor In A Drama Series Days If Our Lives Daytime Emmy-2000 Nominated--Outstanding Younger Actor In A Drama Series Days Of Our Lives Daytime Emmy-1999 Nominated--Outstanding Younger Actor In A Drama Series Daytime Emmy Films The Plight of Clownana--2004 Actor, Producer and First Assistant Director

GuestBook

2006-08-02T14:46:00.000-06:00

I placed a guest book on my Blog for visiters to sign. But it got a little messed up. Sorry for the mess up. But please feel free to sign in it. Janice

For A Free Picture Of Jensen

2006-08-02T14:39:00.000-06:00

If you would like a free picture of Jensen. I found this e-mail address. All you do is seen in a e-mail with YOUR home address and they will send you a free picture sign my Jensen. http://studiofanmail.com Janice DO NOT FOR GET TO SEND YOU HOME ADDRESS.

2006-08-01T23:55:00.000-06:00

Which Guy Do You Like The Best

2006-07-31T23:39:00.000-06:00

2006-07-31T23:36:00.000-06:00

Don't Fear the Reaper [Supernatural]

2006-07-31T23:15:00.000-06:00

Supernatural...Chipmunk Style

2006-07-31T22:35:00.000-06:00

2006-07-31T22:13:00.000-06:00