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'This is going to be so annoying if they repeat it at the beginning of every episode.'' Dean remarked as the next episode began by recapping the previous two.

The opening scene showed a family going about their business inside their house.

'Why do I get the feeling something is going to go wrong for this family.' Mary commented with a sigh.

'There's something in the water.' Cas commented as the daughter of the family went for a swim in the lake right outside their house.

'That's not like anything I've seen before.' John questioned as the young woman was dragged under the water by something.

The scene cut to Dean flirting with a waitress in a bar until he was interrupted by Sam.

'Hey! She was pretty.' Dean said as he hit Sam across the back of the head.

'Yeah, well, we had a case to look into' Sam replied.

'Which you didn't want to take' Dean countered.

Sam and Dean then began to argue about what to about John. Sam wanted to do something to try and find him but Dean wanted to work other cases as there were no leads at that time. John continued to feel guilty about not contacting them. Mary hated the fact that they were arguing.

'Why are we arguing here? We both want the same thing, right?' Sam questioned

'I don't know.' Dean replied.

'US Wildlife service. Not bad.' Mary said as Sam and Dean pretended to be from the Wildlife Service to get the information on the case.

'He hasn't seen through it yet.' Dean with a smile.

'Your lies are so bad. Nice cover up there. Sure you knew about the dam.' Sam said as the Sherriff talked about the Dam that was draining the lake where the girl drowned and Dean pretended that he knew about it.

'You are such a flirt. You wanted her to walk you two blocks?' Mary said as Dean tried flirting with the Sherriff's daughter, Andrea, who had just come in with her little boy.

'Kids are the best?' John said with a smile as Dean attempted to make conversation with Andrea.

'She's cool. She saw right through you.' John said as Andrea told Dean 'It must be difficult with your sense of direction. Never being able to find your way to a decent pickup line.'

'Poor kid.' Mary said as Sam and Dean found out about what had happened to Lucas when they went back to where they were staying. They found that his father had been killed and that he had been stranded for hours before he was found.

'Not something you just get over?' Mary asked as Dean said that losing a parent at a young age isn't something you just get over. Mary felt guilty all over again for what she had done to her family by accepting the deal with Azazel, although she knew that her boys would not have been born if she hadn't.

Sam and Dean then went to see Andrea, who was at the playground with Lucas, and Dean tried to talk to him but he wasn't answering.

'Just talking to myself…' Dean said as Dean tried to talk to Lucas.

'You are surprisingly good with him.' Mary said and Dean smiled.

'Geek brother? Thanks a lot Dean.' Sam said as Dean drew his family for Lucas to see.

'What? You are a geek.' Dean replied and Sam sighed.

'That's a terrible thing to happen to a kid.' Mary said sympathetically.

Lucas eventually gave Dean a drawing of his house. Soon, Will Carlton drowned in the sink after some strange coloured liquid came out of it.

'Spirit, mabye?' Mary asked.

Sam and Dean then went to talk to Bill Carlton but he was too upset about losing his children to talk.

'He looks really messed up.' Mary said.

'You shouldn't be asking him questions. He's just lost his kids.' Mary continued but she got no answer.

Sam and Dean went back to Andrea's house and Dean tried to talk to Lucas again.

'That's so sweet. You know exactly what to say to him.' Mary said with a smile as Dean told him about what happened to his family and how Lucas' father and mother would want him to be brave.

Lucas gave Dean another picture. This time it was of a church with a boy riding a red bicycle. Sam and Dean found out that the boy in the drawing disappeared many years ago. They also found a picture of Peter with Bill Carlton and suspect that he may have murdered Peter.

'The kid just disappeared? I can't imagine what his parents went through.' Mary said.

Sam and Dean then went back to talk to Bill Carlton just as he went out on the lake and he was killed by the same thing. Sam and Dean tried to find out more information from the Sheriff.

'Why do you never think about them checking up on you?' Cas asked as the Sheriff revealed that he knew they were not US Wildlife and told them to leave town.

'It's something we can't really avoid.' Sam said.

Lucas then tried to get Dean's attention. Sam and Dean then left the town as they believed that it was over. The scene then cut to Andrea who was running a bath.

'Something bad is going to happen to her, isn't it?' Mary asked.

'Yeah but we save the day.' Dean replied.

Andrea almost drowned in the bath but Sam and Dean come back just in time to save her. The next day Dean found an old photo of the Sheriff with the little boy who died. He then realised that the Sheriff was also involved in the boy's murder. They went to the Sheriff's house to investigate.

'It's not going to go after the kid, is it?' Cas asked as Lucas led Sam and Dean to where the boy's red bicycle was buried.

'Not yet.' Sam replied.

Sam and Dean were interrupted by the Sheriff who threatened them with a gun.

'Can't bury the truth. You are a walking cliche.' Sam said as Dean tried to get the Sheriff to tell them what happened.

Then the group noticed that Lucas, who had been sent back to the house, was standing by the water and was pulled in. They ran to try and save him.

'So they did kill him.' Cas said, mournfully.

'Please say it doesn't kill the boy.' Mary said, as Sam and Dean dived in to try and save him.

'What's he doing?' John asked as the Sheriff went into the water and tried to persuade the spirit to take him instead of Lucas.

'He's sacrificing himself.' Dean said sadly, 'you don't save everyone.'.

Afterwards Sam and Dean say goodbye to Lucas and Andrea.

'He can talk now! That's amazing!' Mary said as Lucas speaks.

'You taught him Zeppelin rules? Really?' John said, as Dean encouraged Lucas to repeat what he had taught him.

'We should go and check on them. See if they are ok.' Sam said, and Dean nodded.

'We should eat something.' Mary said and everyone nodded. They all got some food and they settled down to watch another episode.

Dean sighed as the episode began with the recap of the previous three. It then cut to three girls at a sleepover and two of them dared the other to summon Bloody Mary which she did.

'Why would you do that? Even as a game?' Cas asked.

'Some people do it just to prove it isn't true.' Sam replied.

'That's creepy' Dean said as the Dad came downstairs to ask them to be quiet and his reflections as he went upstairs showed that he was being followed by Bloody Mary. He went into the bathroom. The girl's sister, Donna, then came home and found her dad dead in front of the bathroom mirror. The scene then cut to Sam having a nightmare about Jess' death and Sam woke up in the car and found that Dean had found them another case. They then went to the morgue to look at the corpse. Mary began to feel worried about her youngest son.

'Good use of the student disguise. Shame it didn't work.' John said as Sam and Dean posed as students but were not let in until Sam gave the guy some money.

'That bastard took all my poker money.' Dean grumbled.

'You're right it's never a freak medical thing.' John said as Sam and Dean discussed whether the case was their kind of thing and Sam suggested that it could be a freak medical thing and Dean disagreed

'I hate going to funerals.' Sam said as Sam and Dean went to the funeral of Donna's Dad.

'Yeah, they suck.' Dean replied.

Donna's little sister told them that she summoned Bloody Mary that night and Sam reassured her that it wasn't her fault.

'That was nice of you. Even if it was untrue.' Cas said.

Sam and Dean go to the bathroom to check it out and they discussed whether the Bloody Mary legend could be real.

'There is no way it could be real. There's no evidence.' John said adamantly.

'Well take it from me. It is real.' Dean replied.

Sam and Dean were then interrupted by Charlie, one of Donna's friends who forced them to tell her what they were doing as she did not believe that they worked with Donna's dad.

'You two are so bad at lying.' Cas commented.

'You've said that already. Shut up about it.' Dean retorted.

Sam and Dean then went to the library to do some research and found that all the computers were out of order.

'Believe me. You were lucky to have computers.' Mary said.

The scene then went to Charlie in her car. She was on the phone to her friend Jill.

'I didn't know she thought we were cute.' Dean said as Jill and Charlie said that Sam and Dean were cute. Sam rolled his eyes and sighed.

Charlie then mentioned her fears about what happened, prompting Jill to summon Bloody Mary to prove that it wasn't true. Nothing happened at first but then her reflection began moving independently and accused her of killing a boy.

'That's horrible.' Mary said as Jill's eyes started to bleed.

The screen then cut to another of Sam's nightmares.

'That was a super lie' Dean said as Sam claimed he dreamt about lolly-pops and candy canes.

'Still better than some of yours.' Sam countered.

Dean said that he could not find any woman called Mary who had died in front of a mirror. Soon they were in the car and Charlie called to say that Jill had been killed the same way as Donna's dad and Sam and Dean told her a bit about what was really going on. She then helped them get into Jill's bedroom to look around.

'Yeah you totally look like Paris Hilton.' Sam said when Dean made a joke as Sam held up the camera to Dean's face.

'Shut up.' Dean replied.

The episode began as usual with the recap but then it showed a team of police officers entering a house to save a girl who was tied up and beaten. She was still alive but hurt bad. They found the man who did it. It was Dean.

'What the…?' Mary asked.

'Oh. Don't worry mom. It wasn't me.' Dean replied.

'What do you mean? It sure looked like you.' Mary argued.

'You'll find out.' Dean answered.

'Boy this was a messed-up case.' Sam commented.

The scene cut to Sam and Dean in the car. Sam was on his phone and Dean tried to get his attention.

'Sam wears women's underwear? That's what you used to get my attention?' Sam asked.

'It worked, didn't it?' Dean responded.

Sam then told Dean that he was looking at messages from his college friends and Dean told him he couldn't have those connections.

'Dean's right you know.' John said.

'No he's not!' Mary replied angrily 'I have plenty of hunter friends!'

'Yeah. Mom's right. You don't need to cut yourself off or lie to people.' Dean said.

'You clearly didn't think that then.' John said as Dean told Sam that he couldn't get close to people and Sam called him anti-social.

'You are anti-social.' Sam said with a smile.

Sam then saw a message saying that one of his friends had been arrested for murder.

'What kind of friends do you have?' Cas asked.

Sam then convinced Dean to go and check it out and they left for St Louis. They then met Becky who said that Sam's friend, Zac, could only have committed murder if he'd been in two places at once but that there was CCTV footage that incriminated him.

'That definitely sounds weird.' Cas said.

'Yeah. Though Dean didn't believe me.' Sam responded.

Sam then told Becky that Dean was a cop who could help them if she took them to the crime scene.

'And you call me a bad liar.' Dean said.

They then visited the crime scene and found that Zac's clothes were stolen and that a dog became psycho around the time of the murder. Dean said they should look at the tape that incriminated Zac just to make sure but that he didn't think it was their kind of job.

'Just to make sure, right?' Sam said.

'Yeah, whatever. I was wrong.' Dean said sarcastically.

'Nice to hear you admit it.' Sam said and Dean rolled his eyes.

The scene then showed someone who looked like Zac spying on a young couple and his eyes appeared to flash.

'So, is it some kind of shapeshifter?' John asked.

'Damn right. An annoying one at that.' Dean replied.

Sam and Dean then noticed that Zac's eyes flashed in the CCTV footage that incriminated him and theorised that the murder could have been committed by some kind of dark double.

'A dark double. Really?' John asked.

'Whatever. We hadn't done many cases at this point.' Dean replied.

The scene then went back to the young couple. The man returned from work to find his girlfriend tied and up and beaten. When his girlfriend appeared to be afraid of him he turned and saw a double of himself who then knocked him out.

'Oh, was it a shapeshifter? At the beginning?' Mary asked and Dean nodded.

'That is not going to look good to the cops.' John said.

The scene then went to Sam and Dean who were outside Zac's house and had found a trail. Dean complained because it was 5.30 in the morning.

'I hate it when you make me wake up early.' Dean said.

'The trail may've disappeared if we'd have gone later.' Sam replied.

They then found out that the man had been arrested and that he had been in two places at once. They then realised that it was a shapeshifter and Dean finally decided that it was their kind of problem.

'He didn't admit that he was wrong though.' Sam said and Dean rolled his eyes.

Sam and Dean found the end of the trail and realised that the shapeshifter used the sewer system to get around.

'That is disgusting.' Mary said as they found the skin after they went down into the sewers to look for it.

Sam and Dean went back to the car when Sam got a call from Becky who had found out that Sam had lied about Dean being a cop.

'Why do they always have to check the ID. It's so annoying.' Sam said.

'They do it for exactly that reason.' Cas replied, 'To find people like you who impersonate police officers.'.

Sam and Dean went back into the sewers. Dean's shoulder was hurt by the shapeshifter who ran above ground but they split up and lost him in the crowds on the street.

'Not a good idea to split up with a shapeshifter, boys.' John commented.

When Sam and Dean met up again they see Dean's eyes flash.

'Oh God. What happened to you?' Mary asked.

'I got attacked.' Dean replied.

'Fortunately, I was quick on the update.' Sam replied as Sam realised that the shapeshifter was Dean and threatened to shoot him.

'Why didn't you shoot him?' Dean asked.

'In case I was wrong.' Sam replied.

'Could have shot it in the leg.' Dean continued.

'Didn't think of it.' Sam responded.

Sam was then knocked out and the shapeshifter talked about Dean's 'feelings' towards his family. John realised that he had never considered the fact that they might want a normal life and he blamed himself because he had brought them up in a way that meant they never could.

'Was any of that true?' Sam asked.

'Some of it. Though he exaggerated a lot. Although he was right. I would've banged Becky if I had the chance.' Dean said with a grin, and Sam rolled his eyes.

'How come it can see your memories?' Cas asked.

'That's a good question. I didn't know they had that ability.' John replied.

'What do you mean the handsome one?' Sam asked as Dean said that the shapeshifter picked the handsome brother.

'I am better looking.' Dean said and Sam rolled his eyes again.

The shapeshifter then went to Becky's house. Meanwhile, Sam and Dean escaped their bonds and got out of the sewers.

'That would be stupid.' John said when Sam suggested calling the police and putting an APV out on Dean.

'Why do I actually feel sorry for the shapeshifter?' Mary asked as the shapeshifter talked about how lonely it was.

'I never knew shapeshifters were a product of evolution.' John commented.

The shapeshifter then attacked Becky and escaped into the sewers but not before he made sure the police saw him.

'So that's what happened at the beginning.' Mary said, happy that she finally understood. For a while she was worried that Dean had become a ruthless interrogator like her father.

'That's vile.' John said as the shapeshifter shed its skin.

Sam and Dean then found out that Dean was now a wanted man as the shapeshifter had attacked Becky.

'You never told me you were a wanted man.' John said with a smile.

'Of course, you care about him driving the car more than anything else.' Mary said with a sigh as Dean was angry at the thought of the shapeshifter driving his car.

Sam and Dean then went to Becky's house to find the car and get bullets but soon enough the police arrived.

'How did you get out of this one?' Cas asked

Dean ran off and Sam shouted at him to not go into the sewers. Sam stayed behind to confront the police. Sam told Dean to meet him at Becky's house in the morning.

'I guess you didn't listen to that one.' Cas said as Dean went into the sewers alone.

Dean then found Becky in the sewers.

'Does that mean Sam is with the shapeshifter?' Cas asked and Sam nodded.

The scene cut to Sam at Becky's and he was attacked by the shapeshifter who knocked him out and turned into Dean again.

'Why does the shapeshifter think he's me? It's creepy how he has my memories.' Dean said, looking confused 'And why does it want to frame me for murder? What did I do to piss it off?'

'I don't know. I think it just likes causing mayhem.' Sam said as the shapeshifter attacked Sam.

'Still can't kick my ass even when I'm a shapeshifter.' Dean said with a satisfied grin on his face as the shapeshifter got the upper hand in the fight.

'Shut up. I almost got you.' Sam said

Dean and Becky then arrived and Dean shot the shapeshifter.

'Served it right. Pretending to be me.' Dean said.

Sam and Becky then said goodbye.

'She seemed nice.' Mary said with a smile.

'So, you technically went down for murder.' Mary said.

'Yep. Not the last time either.' Dean said, making Mary wish she hadn't said anything.

Sam and Dean then drove away.

'I wish both of you could be normal.' Mary said as Dean told Sam that he wished Sam could have a normal life and go to college. John buried his guilt that he'd got angry at Sam for leaving.

'Yeah, well. It never works out.' Dean replied, 'For either of us.'

The episode began with a girl getting ready for a date. Her friend persuaded her to wear a more revealing top, telling her that she looked nice in it. The scene then cut to the girl in the car with her date.

'Dude. Leave her alone.' Dean says as the boy, named Rich tried to remove Laurie's top.

The couple then heard a scratching sound and Rich went out to investigate.

'I wouldn't do that if I were you. They both need to get out of there.' Mary said.

Laurie then heard a bang on the roof and she left the car, finding Rich strung up above it. The scene then cut to Samand Dean at a café. Dean soon found the case online.

'You were right. I wanted you to be safe.' John said as Dean said 'Mabye Dad doesn't want to be found.'.

Sam and Dean arrived at the town and talked to one of the college kids and Sam was forced to help a guy paint his back blue. The guy told them about the eye witness, Laurie.

'Thanks a lot for that.' Sam said as Dean told the guy about how Sam was a good artist.

'You're welcome.' Dean replied.

The scene cut to the church where Rich's funeral was being held.

'That was subtle.' Mary said as Sam and Dean made a huge noise as they entered.

After the funeral Laurie's friend tried to persuade her to go out the next Sunday. Sam and Dean then came up and questioned her. Dean distracted her father when he arrived and Sam talked to Laurie to hear her story.

'It must be difficult not being believed.' Mary said as Laurie said how the police did not believe her story. Sam and Deanthen went to the library and found out that a preacher with a hook had been killed many years earlier.

'There is no way it could actually have been Hook man.' John said as Sam mentioned that it fit the legend.

'That's what I thought, but it was.' Dean replied.

The scene then cut to Laurie being dropped off back at her college halls by her father who was uneasy about letting her return.

'Over protective dad much?' John said and the others nodded.

'You can talk.' Dean said in return and John decided to shut up.

Then the scene cut to Sam and Dean preparing to hunt the ghost and they got out their rock salt guns from the car. They then saw something in the trees but it ended up being a policeman who soon arrested them.

'You guys are hilarious.' Mary said with a smile as they tried to explain themselves.

The scene then cut to Laurie waking up and she found that her friend had been killed by Hook man.

'That's so creepy.' Mary said as they saw what was written on the wall – 'I bet you're glad you didn't turn on the light.'.

The scene then showed Sam and Dean exiting the police station and Dean explained how he got them out by telling the policemen that he was a pledge whom Dean had played a joke on.

'For once that was a good lie.' Cas said.

'Yeah. But you made me look stupid.' Sam replied.

'Like you need any help with that.' Dean responded with a grin.

'Shut up.' Sam answered.

Outside the scene of the last crime, Laurie was taken home by her dad. Sam and Dean then showed up and broke in to the building to look at the crime scene.

'Naked Pillow fight? Really?' Mary asked as Dean questioned whether they would see one.

'What? I've heard stories.' Dean replied, trying to look innocent.

Sam and Dean then went to a sorority party and talked about the new research they had found surrounding the symbol that was by the bed where the last killing took place. Sam then went to protect Laurie and Dean found the unmarked grave of the man whose spirit they believed was haunting the Reverend. Dean salted and burned the body whilst Samwas found by Laurie outside her house. They all smiled as Dean complained about having to dig the grave.

'You look like a stalker.' Mary said as she saw Sam sitting outside Laurie's house.

'Oh dear' Cas said as Laurie claimed to have called the police.

'She was joking.' Sam replied.

Sam and Laurie continued to talk and ended up kissing.

'So unfair…' Dean mumbled.

Laurie's Dad then came out and was attacked by Hook man who then disappeared. The scene cuts to the hospital where Dean found Sam. They theorised that the spirit had latched on to the hook and was punishing for Laurie. They then found out that the hook had been re-forged.

'That's so annoying.' John said.

They went back to the church and Laurie's house and burnt everything silver they found. Sam then found Laurie who claimed that she deserved to be punished for what she'd done which made the Hook man appear and try to kill them.

'It's not her fault.' Mary said.

Sam was hurt and had a bookcase fall on him. They were then saved by Dean and they noticed that Laurie's necklace was also silver so they burnt it and Hook man disappeared.

'It's so annoying when the one thing left is the thing holding the spirit.' Sam said.

Sam and Dean told a version of the story to the police and Sam and Laurie said goodbye.

'You should have stayed.' Mary said as Dean offered to but Sam shook his head.

Sam and Dean then drove off.

The episode began at a construction site. There was a tremor and one of the construction workers looked puzzled. A while later, another construction worker got bitten by a bug.

'That doesn't look good.' Cas commented.

Suddenly, a construction worker fell through a hidden hole in the ground. A worker nearby ran to get a rope to help him. Down in the hole, thousands of carnivorous bugs appeared and began eating at the man's flesh. By the time the other man got there it was too late; the guy was dead.

'Oh my goodness.' Mary said as it showed what the man looked like once he had been half eaten.

The scene then cut to Sam sat on the car and Dean coming out of a nearby building, having won some money hustling pool.

John sighed and looked down as Sam said, 'How we were raised was jacked.'. His cheeks had a red tinge and he wouldn't meet anyone's eyes when they looked at him. Am I that bad a father? He thought to himself. He didn't like the answer he came to.

Sam then told Dean about the case and they decided to check it out. They talked to the guy who had found the body and he told them where it had happened. They found the hole the man had fallen down. Dean and Sam discussed who should go down the hole to have a look and Dean called Sam chicken to persuade him to do it.

'You are so annoying. You only said that because you didn't want to go down there.' Sam said.

'It worked though.' Dean replied with a grin.

Sam found some of the bugs down there but Dean didn't believe that they could've killed the construction worker. They decided to stop off at a barbecue to find out more from the locals. Mary, John and Cas laughed as Larry and the realtor assumed that Sam and Dean were gay. Sam and Dean both blushed slightly.

'Why do people assume we're gay?' Sam asked, slightly confused.

'You're two young guys who go round together, what do you expect?' John said

Sam and Dean both notice insects around the house and they found that the man's son, Matt, was into insects. After meeting the realtor, who attempted to sell them a house, Sam saw Matt's tarantula near the food and gave it back to him. Matt said that his father normally skipped him in the family introductions as he was not proud of him. Afterwards, Sam commented on the similarity between John and the boy's father.

'I was not like him!' John said angrily but then he stopped himself when Sam said that he raised his voice when he wanted to learn soccer instead of bow hunting. John looked over to Mary who looked disgusted.

'Bow hunting? You should've let him play soccer.' Mary muttered.

Sam and Dean returned to the car and found that there was another strange death before the construction began. A man had dropped dead on the survey of the land from a severe allergic reaction to a bee sting. Sam and Dean then squatted in an empty house. The scene then went to the realtor who was attacked and killed by spiders.

'Man. Bugs are horrible.' John said and Sam and Dean wholeheartedly agreed.

'Bees aren't too bad.' Cas muttered quietly.

'Really? Still with the bees?' Dean questioned.

'What? I like them!' Cas replied

The scene then cut to Sam and Dean with Dean in the shower and he appeared with a towel on his head and he said that the shower was awesome. Everyone smiled at his reaction except Mary, who scowled. A nice shower shouldn't be a luxury she thought.

When Sam and Dean found out about the death of the Realtor they broke into the house and found the spiders. Dean thought that it was Matt, due to his pet spider. They believed that he had a psychic link to the bugs and that he was using them to attack people he didn't like. They went to talk to him and he answered their questions by asking if they were serial killers.

'I like this kid. He's sensible.' John said with a smile.

Matt said that there was something strange happening with the insects and he went to show Sam and Dean something. On the way Sam and Matt talked about his father.

'He's too disappointed in his freak son.' Matt said.

'I hear ya.' Sam replied.

'You're not my freak son and I am by no means disappointed in you.' John said adamantly, his heart racing. Mary shot a worried look at Sam and then at Dean.

'I know that now.' Sam replied.

Sam told Matt to wait until college as that would give him the chance to get away from his family. John and Mary both frowned. Dean soon interrupted and told Matt that he should stick with his family. Mary was conflicted. She wanted Sam to have a normal life but she also wanted him to be safe and with his family. John looked away from the screen towards Sam. They found a field in the forest where Matt said loads of insects were congregating. On a closer inspection of a hole made by the insects, they found a skull.

'I've never seen so many insects.' Cas said, 'I normally like insects but those are creepy.'

Sam and Dean took the bones to a professor to look at and they talked about how John treated them.

'You what?' Mary glared at John as Sam mentioned how John tossed him out of the house when he wanted to go to college. How could John justify tossing him out just because he wanted to go to college?

'I wanted to protect him.' John said, 'I wanted to keep him close.'

'How was tossing him out of the house keeping him close?' Mary retorted and John didn't have an answer.

'I don't know if he's even gonna wanna see me.' Sam said.

'Of course, I would want to see you.' John replied, 'Why would you think that?'

'Mabye, because the last time we talked you kicked me out of the house and told me never to come back?' Sam replied and John was silenced.

Dean said how John went by Stanford and Sam asked why he didn't say and Dean replied that it was a two-way street and that Sam never picked up the phone. John did care after all. He was just trying to keep him safe. John relaxed slightly as Mary's tight and pained expression softened. Sam and Dean found out that the bones were native American and they were pointed in the direction of a guy who knew about the native American tribes. The guy called Dean out on his lies when he claimed to be from the university.

'He saw right through your lie.' Cas commented with a smile.

The man told them about the curse the chief of the tribe put on the valley after the tribe was destroyed by western settlers.

'You need to get that family out of there.' Mary said, concerned.

They then tried to persuade the family to leave the land. The next scene showed Matt finding some carnivorous bugs.

'Looks like it's too late. It's starting.' John commented.

Dean called Larry, the father, and pretended to be from the gas company but he knew the guy Dean had pretended to be.

'Of course, he does. I can't believe you compared me to him.' John commented. Mary couldn't help scoffing at that.

Sam then called Matt and told him to get the family out. They tried to persuade the family to leave but by the time they got through to them it was too late.

'That does not look good.' Cas commented

They all ran and barricaded themselves in the house. They found that both the power and the phone lines were dead. Dean then found some bug spray in the house.

'There is no way you could've barricaded yourself against the bugs for the entire night.' Cas commented.

The bugs then got in via the fire place and Dean turned the bug spray into a small flame thrower and tried to keep them away. They all hid in the attic but termites ate through the wood. The sun then came up and the bugs went away.

'That was a short night.' Mary mentioned.

The next morning, they found the family moving out and Matt had got rid of his bug collection.

'I would've thought so, after what you went through.' Mary commented.

Sam said that he wanted to apologise to John for the things he said and he accepted that John had done the best he could. John smiled but Mary raised her eyebrows and looked away. Dean said that within 5 mins they would be at each other's throats and Sam laughed and said that they probably would. John smiled sadly. Sam and Dean then drove away.

'I can't help feeling confused as to why God is doing this.' Cas mentioned 'He hasn't intervened this much in ages. Something doesn't feel right.'

Outside the bunker, someone grinned. Cas doesn't know how right he is. One by one, all the exits from the bunker were closed off.

For once, Mary was keen to start watching the next episode.

The episode started with a young couple being helped by some strangers. They helped them with their car and gave them food.

'Well they all seem overly friendly.' Bobby commented.

On the road, the car stopped and they found that they had no signal.

'Well that's not ominous at all.' Dean commented.

They decided to walk to a nearby house that they saw.

'That's not a good idea.' Mary said, impatiently.

They walked past a creepy scarecrow which came to life and attacked them. Neither of them survived.

'That is one ugly scarecrow.' John commented.

The scene then cut to Sam taking the phone call from John. Mary leaned forward in concentration. John told them to hunt the thing that had killed the couple but Sam refused as he wanted to help John, especially after he told him that he was hunting the demon who killed Mary and Jess. He also said that he didn't want them to look for him anymore. Mary sighed as the tension in her body dissipated. She leant back in her chair.

'I'm sorry for not letting you help.' John said, 'I just wanted to keep you safe.'

'I know. But we can look after ourselves.' Sam replied with a small smile.

'You can't just expect them to stop looking for you.' Mary said, sighing.

Dean then took the phone and wrote down the names John gave him. Mary frowned at the change in Dean when he talked to John and she didn't like it. In the car, Sam and Dean argued, ending up with them going separate ways. Both Sam and Dean winced at some of the things they said.

'You two argue like kids.' Bobby said.

'Mabye. You were being a bit of a selfish bastard.' Dean said with a half smile.

'Selfish for wanting to see if Dad was alright?' Sam replied.

'Alright, drama queen, we were both being selfish.' Dean admitted.

The others avoided looking at them. Sam went to find John in California and Dean went to work the case.

'You never told me about this.' John said, quietly, looking slightly red.

'How come you never found me?' John asked.

'I came back.' Sam replied. Mary smiled.

Dean then questioned the locals on the disappearances. Meanwhile, Sam met Meg.

'Is that Meg?' Bobby asked.

'Yeah. She was a bitch.' Sam replied.

'Whose Meg?' Mary asked.

'A demon.' Dean answered.

'She wasn't that bad.' Cas commented.

'Speak for yourself.' Dean responded.

Dean then met with the family who had helped the young couple and asked if they recognised them. They told him that they knew nothing about them until the youngest said that she recognised the guy's tattoo.

'That's a bit weird, isn't it? It wasn't that long ago. You'd have thought they would remember them.' Cas commented and Dean nodded.

Dean then went in the direction the couple left in. He soon came across the scarecrow. He found the same tattoo the guy who disappeared had on its arm.

'Well that's not creepy at all.' Cas said.

Dean returned to the family and asked the youngest, Emily, to fill up his car. She said that she was taken in by her aunt and uncle after her parents died. She told him about how the town was hardly ever affected by the things effecting the towns nearby such as crop failure and bad weather. She then mentioned that there was a couple there at the moment.

'Well that's clearly not a coincidence.' Mary commented.

At the bus station Sam ran into Meg again and they realised that they were both going to California.

'Wow. What a coincidence.' Dean said sarcastically.

Dean then talked to the couple who the family were looking after. Dean mentioned that they were taking a long time to fix a simple break line and he tried to persuade the couple to leave before dark.

'I tried.' Dean said.

Dean was then forced out of town by the sheriff.

'There is something definitely wrong there.' Cas commented.

Meanwhile, Sam and Meg talked about their family and found that they were both running away from them. Dean looked closely at Sam who looked kind of guilty.

'She really laid it on thick.' Dean said.

'Yeah. She was so annoying.' Sam replied, feeling slightly guilty about what he had said.

Next, the young couple Dean had spoken to at the gas station found that their car had stopped and were attacked by the scarecrow but they were saved by Dean who turned up at the last moment.

'It's lucky you were there.' Sam said.

Dean then called Sam about what had happened to get his thoughts on what it was. He then awkwardly apologised for their argument and Sam did as well.

'Well that was adorable.' Bobby said with a grin.

'Shut up.' Sam and Dean said simultaneously, making everyone else smile even more.

Dean then went to a local library and figured out which pagan god he was dealing with. Unfortunately, he was then knocked out by the sheriff. He woke up to find that the villagers were planning to sacrifice him and Emily to the god.

'Some humans are crazy.' Cas said and the others agreed.

Sam then found that Dean was not returning any of his calls and so he decided to go and help him. Sam still felt that he made the right decision. The scene then cut to Emily and Dean who were tied up near the scarecrow. Emily also told Dean where the tree was that controlled the god.

'It so doesn't. Not in this situation.' Mary said as the woman said that the good of the many outweighs the good of the one.

'Did you have a plan?' John asked as Dean said that he was working on a plan. Dean smiled and shook his head.

'You kidding? Course he didn't.' Bobby said, making John frown.

'I was kind of hoping Sam would show up.' Dean replied.

Sam then appeared just as the Scarecrow came to life. The three escaped but were then held at gun point by the villagers.

'Oh dear. Here comes the stupid bunch.' John said.

Soon, Emily's aunt and uncle were killed by the scarecrow.

'You can't save everybody.' Cas said as he saw the looks of guilt on Sam and Dean's faces.

'They weren't the nicest people anyway.' John said.

The next day, Sam, Dean and Emily burnt down the tree the God was attached to. Sam and Dean said goodbye to Emily who left on a bus. Sam decided to stick with Dean, saying that they are all the other has as the rest of their family had left.

'Not by choice.' Mary commented.

'We know.' Sam said.

The last scene showed Meg killing the driver, draining his blood and using it to make a call to her 'father'.

'Father?' Mary asked.

'Yeah. It was Azazel I think.' Sam replied.

'Azazel?' John questioned.

'The yellow eyed demon.' Sam explained.

'He had a name?' John questioned.

'Yeah. Course he had a name.' Dean replied.

The scene started with Sam and Dean getting ready to hunt a Rugaru with stun guns.

'100,000 volts?' Mary questioned when they mentioned how powerful they were. She had never heard of stun guns with that power before.

Sam and Dean soon found two kids in a closet. Everyone laughed when they jumped. They were then attacked by the creature they were hunting. Sam left with the kids leaving Dean to hunt the creature. Dean was hit into the water and shot the creature but was unfortunately hit by the electricity as well. Sam then ran down the stairs to find him unconscious. Mary and John both tensed up.

'Please tell me you were ok?' Mary asked. Dean's face worried her.

The scene cut to the hospital and a Doctor told Sam that Dean would die within a couple of weeks or a month.

'Oh my god…' Mary said, almost to herself. She knew that they were both still alive but she could not help but grimace when she saw Dean lying on the hospital bed.

'Really not funny Dean.' Mary said when Dean joked that he would haunt Sam if he messed with his car.

'How many times have you two died or been close to death?' Bobby questioned, not noticing the looks John and Mary gave him.

'What!' Mary questioned.

'We…might have died and come back to life a couple times.' Sam attempted to explain.

'More than a couple.' Dean said.

Mary shook her head, closed her eyes and leaned back.

'Look, Mary I…' John began but he was interrupted.

'Forget it.' Mary said and John fell silent.

Sam then promised to help Dean which made Mary smile until she saw how easily Dean accepted the fact that he was going to die. John shifted uncomfortably in his seat. The scene then cut to Sam calling John and he told him what happened over voicemail.

'Please tell me you came.' Mary implored John as she paused the television, 'Please tell me you came when you found out that our son was dying.'

The look on John's face told her everything she needed to know.

'I would only have put them in more danger…' John began but he was interrupted.

'More danger than a damaged heart that is weeks from giving out? I can't believe that you thought hunting some demon was more important than your own son!' Mary shouted.

'It was the demon that killed you.' John reminded her.

'I don't care! I was dead! Killing the demon wasn't going to bring me back! Our son was dying and you didn't do anything.' Mary argued, 'I still can't believe you even brought them up to be hunters. It was the main thing I didn't want for my children. To be brought into this life as I had.'

John was speechless. He hadn't thought about that. He'd only just found out that Mary was a hunter and that was weird enough for him. He'd forgotten how much she'd wanted to get away from her family. He'd never stopped to think about why.

'He was there when we needed him the most.' Dean said quietly, decreasing the tension in the room slightly, 'He saved my life when it mattered.'

'John may not have been perfect. But he was trying to protect them. Revenge just tipped him over the edge.' Bobby said, softly.

'I suppose so…' Mary said, quietly.

Slowly, Mary sat down and pressed play on the remote. There was silence for the next few minutes.

Dean then arrived at the motel, saying that he checked himself out. Sam told him that he found a specialist that would help him. They arrived to find that the specialist was a faith healer who worked in a tent in a field. Dean was skeptical about whether he could save him.

'Really?' Mary asked, 'a faith healer?'

Dean was then interrupted by a young woman who he flirted shamelessly with.

'You're dying and you still have time to flirt?' Mary asked with a small smile.

'Life is for living.' Dean replied, 'Might as well make the most of it.'

Dean was then chosen and healed by the preacher but he saw a strange man and later he said that it felt wrong. Despite that, Mary relaxed once she knew Dean was alright.

'It worked?' John said, surprised, as the doctor at the hospital said that there was no sign there was anything wrong with his heart. She then mentioned that another guy died of the same thing on the same day. They decided to check it out.

'That doesn't sound good.' John said, 'But I'm glad that you were healed.'.

Dean went to talk to the healer, Roy whilst Sam looked into the guy who died.

'Do you reckon it was the angels who made Roy choose Dean?' Sam asked Cas.

'Probably not, they would have wanted a reason for Dean to go to hell for later.' Cas replied.

'WHAT?' Mary asked, 'I guessing there is something you haven't told me.'

Why did John have to bring them into this life? How much has my deal put my sons through? Mary remembered Dean telling her what her deal had cost Sam, and that was bad enough, but what had it cost Dean?

Sam found out that the guy who died of a heart attack died at the same time as Dean. Dean looked down guiltily.

'You didn't know.' Mary said, quietly.

'Doesn't make me feel any better.' Dean said quietly.

Dean then ran into Layla, the woman he'd spoken to earlier, and her mom, who was angry that Dean was healed and her daughter was not. Dean shifted position in his chair.

'That's not fair. It wasn't Dean's fault!' Mary muttered.

Sam then told Dean what he had found out and the screen showed Roy healing someone whilst an old creepy man killed another woman. Dean said that it was not Roy who was doing it but that he was making a reaper do it.

'A reaper? Do they even exist?' John asked.

Sam suggested that Roy was using black magic to bind it. Dean suggested killing him but Sam was against it. Sam then suggested breaking the spell binding him.

'That's a better idea. You should avoid killing if at all possible.' Mary said.

Dean went to stall the ceremony whilst Sam looked for what Roy was using to bind the Reaper. Sam found that the reaper was after a man protesting against what Roy was doing. Layla was the one who was chosen to be healed and Dean tried to stop her but she wouldn't listen.

'You should have told her what you know.' Mary said, 'Obviously not completely but if you told her that people died at the exact same time Roy healed them she might have listened, especially if you had proof.'

'That wouldn't have been a bad idea. Shame I hadn't thought of it.' Dean said.

Dean then shouted that there was a fire and everyone left the tent. Despite that, the reaper was still coming after the protestor.

'Why didn't that stop it?' Bobby asked.

'Because it wasn't Roy who was doing it.' Sam said.

Dean noticed that it was Roy's wife Sue Ann who was summoning the reaper. He managed to stop her but was arrested. Fortunately, Sue Ann didn't press charges and Dean was let go.

'She is awful.' John said.

'Not to excuse what she did but she was doing it to try and save her husband at first.' Bobby said, 'It's not so different to what any of us have done.'

Mary looked at John. Dean had told her about his deal to save him when she came back from the dead.

'Yeah, more than once.' Cas commented.

That made Mary look around at her sons who both looked slightly guilty. What had they done to save each other? She thought.

Back at the motel, Sam and Dean discussed what they should do next, and looked at what was needed to bind a reaper.

'Oh my god.' Mary said as the items were revealed.

Sam and Dean went to Roy's house and Dean said that he felt guilty about stopping Layla being healed.

'I know it doesn't seem fair but you can't mess with the natural order.' Cas said.

They found that Layla was there to be healed in a private session.

'You were right to do so. It isn't fair but someone would die either way.' Cas reminded him.

Dean led the police away whilst Sam looked for Sue Ann's black alter, which she used to summon and control the reaper. Sam got trapped by Sue Ann in the room with the alter and Sam destroyed it but it made no difference. She sent the reaper after Dean.

'How the hell did you get out of this one?' Mary asked, incredulously.

Sam broke out just in time to stop the reaper killing Dean by breaking its binding. In revenge for binding him, the reaper then killed Sue Ann.

'I know I should but I don't feel sorry for her at all.' Cas said.

Back at the motel, Dean still felt guilty about Layla. Layla then arrived at their room. She told Dean that Sam had called her. She said that she was ok with death. She said that you can't just have faith when the miracles happen, you have to have them when they don't. She then left and Dean said that he would pray for her.

'What a brave young woman.' Mary said, smiling, 'There was nothing you could've done.'

'I know. Doesn't mean I have to like it.' Dean said.

'You're way too hard on yourself Dean.' Cas said.

'Save it. I don't need a sermon. I'm fine.' Dean replied.

The episode started with a man getting run off the road at night by a huge truck which appeared to disappear into thin air straight afterwards.

'Oh. It's this one.' Sam said with a grin. Dean groaned in response. They both knew what it was.

'Do we have to watch this one?' Dean asked. He tried to use the remote to skip it but for some reason it didn't work.

'Looks like we do.' Sam replied.

The scene then went to Sam and Dean outside the car. Dean had just received a call from an 'old friend'.

'An old friend?' John asked with a smile. Mary raised her eyes and looked at Dean in response. Dean sighed and sank deeper into his chair.

Sam questioned Dean on what he meant by 'old friend' and Dean said that he'd dated a girl called Cassie for a while and that she had phoned because her father had been killed by an invisible truck. Sam replied that he didn't think it was their kind of case.

'How did she know what we do?' John asked.

After Sam asked Dean the same question, he said that he'd told her the family secret and Sam had a go at him as he hadn't told Jess anything for two years.

'Really Dean? You told her after a couple of weeks?' Bobby asked.

'She must've been special.' Mary said, smiling.

The scene then cut to Cassie at her newspaper office and she argued with the mayor of the town who wanted the newspaper she worked for to sit on certain things about her father's death. Mary smiled. Sam and Dean then turned up and Cassie told them that something must have run her dad and his friend off the road and that her dad claimed to have seen a vanishing truck before it happened.

'Well that definitely sounds weird.' John commented.

She also said that the dent in the car looked like it had been run into except that there was only one set of tracks. She said that the cops thought that they both must have lost control of their cars.

'Within days of each other? When there were no other cars on the road?' Mary questioned disbelievingly.

Cassie's mom then appeared but said that she didn't feel up to questioning. That night, another guy saw the same truck.

'That guy's in trouble.' Cas said.

The next day Cassie talked to the Mayor, as another guy had been killed on the same stretch of road, and accused him of racism.

'I like this girl.' Mary said with a smile.

He replied that he was the last person to be a racist and that she should ask her mom.

'What's that supposed to mean?' John questioned.

'You'll find out later.' Sam said.

Back at the motel, Sam mentioned that Dean and Cassie are always looking at each other when the other wasn't looking. Dean didn't answer and tried to change the subject.

'I don't understand, why are you avoiding his question?' Cas questioned.

'That's sweet. You guys totally like each other.' Bobby said with a smile.

'Shut up.' Dean replied. He was beginning to feel very uncomfortable.

Sam and Dean then questioned the latest victim's friends. One of them talked about a string of deaths of black men in the sixties, committed by a large truck. Sam then went to find out more about the old case and Dean went to talk to Cassie and her family. Sam told Dean to talk to Cassie and Dean unintentionally told him that it was Cassie who ended the relationship, not him.

'So Dean has been dumped by a girl.' Cas remarked with a smile.

'Shut up.' Dean replied.

Dean turned up at Cassie's house and told her that he was looking into the connections between the victims. Cassie asked where Sam was and later Dean asked her why. Dean hung his head back and closed his eyes.

'Because otherwise it's just you two obviously.' Sam said.

She began to answer but Dean said that they should keep it strictly business. Cassie mentioned that she forgot that he kept trying to change the subject whenever things got emotional.

'She got you there. I never realised you did that.' Sam said.

Dean then reminded her that she ended the relationship. Cassie then told her that she believed that he was looking for a reason to dump her and he said that he was not and they kiss and have sex.

'Come on, we don't need to see this.' Dean said as everyone turned slightly red and turned away. Dean, who was bright red, hurriedly tried to skip it but for some reason it didn't work. He then sank as deeply as possible into his chair. There was an awkward silence before it finally ended.

'Thank god.' Dean said.

The scene cut to the next morning and the Mayor had been found dead, having been run over.

'That's weird. It doesn't fit the pattern.' John said.

Dean and Cassie then talked and Dean said that he didn't know why he told her and said that he couldn't lie to her. She said that maybe she was looking for a reason to walk away. Dean said that he was scared to work things out with her and she said that things work out if you really want them to.

'She's right you know.' Mary said.

'We should go and visit her some time.' Sam suggested.

'What makes you think it would end any differently to how it did last time either of us tried to have a normal life.' Dean asked.

'True.' Sam said.

'Dean, when did you quit hunting?' John asked. He was really surprised. He thought Dean loved hunting.

Cassie told him no more excuses. Dean was then interrupted by a phone call from Sam.

'Sam! You interrupted the moment.' Mary chastised.

It cut to the crime scene of the Mayor and Sam and Dean mentioned that it didn't fit the pattern. They then found out that the property where the mayor was killed used to belong to the Dorian family and they found that one of the Dorians, named Cyrus, disappeared. Sam then found out that the Mayor bulldozed the place the day before the first killing.

'Well that's clearly not a coincidence.' Bobby commented.

That evening Cassie saw the truck and she called Dean in a panic. She said that the truck appeared to be driving itself.

'Definitely sounds like Cyrus' spirit.' Cas commented.

Cassie's mom admitted that her husband did see the truck and he thought that it belonged to Cyrus. She mentioned that he died more than 40 years ago. Dean then asked how she knew he died as the paper said he was missing.

'Good question. I hadn't picked up on that.' John said.

She said that she used to go out with Cyrus but she left him for Martin, Cassie's dad. She planned to marry him at the local church but the night before the wedding someone set fire to the church which had a children's choir inside. Cyrus then attacked Martin who killed him in self-defence. Martin and his friends rolled the body and the truck into the swamp. She then said that the Mayor was a deputy then and he figured it out and let them go.

'So that explains what he said to Cassie.' Cas realised.

Sam then said that he missed normal things, including conversations that didn't start with 'This killer truck.'

'It's funny. I don't actually miss it as much now.' Sam said.

They theorised that Cyrus' spirit was awoken by the destruction his house. They then decided to drag the truck and body out the swamp. Cassie came out and asked to come with and forced Dean to ask her to stay inside.

'I've never seen Dean be forced to ask someone to do something before.' John said with a smile.

They then kissed and Sam cleared his throat.

'Man, why are you so awkward?' Dean asked.

'You've done the same thing to me!' Sam replied, making Dean go quiet.

Sam and Dean dragged the truck out of the swamp and burn and salt it but the truck appeared.

'Now it's really pissed.'

'Well done boys. All you did was piss it off.' John said sarcastically.

Dean led the truck away in his car.

'I don't think that's a good idea. That's how the others died.' John said.

'It would've run me over if I'd stayed.' Dean reminded him.

Sam then got Dean to tell him exactly where he was and he led him to where the church was because that was hallowed ground and so when the truck tried to enter it got destroyed.

'That was very clever Sam.' John said approvingly.

Once Dean found out Sam's plan he had a go at him as he did not know for sure it would work.

'Thanks a lot.' Dean said when Sam told him that it had not occurred to him that he could be wrong.

Dean and Cassie then say goodbye. Cassie said that she didn't see much hope for them and Dean told her that he had seen much stranger things happen.

'Man, I was so naïve back then.' Dean realised, making Mary frown.

Sam and Dean then drove away. Sam then said that he liked her and that it was people like her who made him question whether what they did was worth it. Dean didn't answer and asked Sam to wake him up when it was his turn to drive.

The recap went over Sam talking about his powers. The episode began with a man driving into a garage and his car appeared to lock him inside it, turn the radio on by itself and emit a toxic gas, choking him to death. He attempted to break the gas and cried out for help but failed to attract anyone's attention.

'Is that a spirit?' John asked and Sam shook his head.

The scene changed and it was revealed that Sam had dreamt it.

'So you dreamt that?' Mary questioned.

'Is that one of those visions you told me about before...' John said, glancing at Mary who was looking between them, confused.

Sam then woke up Dean who complained that it was the middle of the night.

'Why do you always wake me up early?' Dean asked.

'Because if I didn't we would never solve a single case because you wouldn't get your ass out of bed till lunchtime.' Sam replied.

Sam said that they had to go. The scene cut to Sam and Dean in the car and Sam tracked the owner of the car via the licence plate. Dean said it was just a nightmare but Sam said it felt different, like when he'd dreamt about Jess and their old house.

'I don't understand the connection.' John said.

'You'll see.' Sam replied.

Dean mentioned that they both had a connection to him but this didn't. Sam then got the address of the owner as the licence plate checked out. Sam asked Dean how far away they were and when Dean said a couple hours Sam told him to drive faster. They arrived at the house and found the police there. They had found the body in the garage just as Samhad seen.

'I'm sure there was nothing you could have done.' Mary said, looking at Sam's guilty face.

They asked a woman watching what had happened and she said that it was suicide and Sam asked if she knew the family and she said she did and that they seemed so normal. She then said that you never know what goes on behind closed doors and Dean agreed. Sam asked how he'd died and she said that he locked himself in the car with the engine running in the garage.

'It happened exactly as you saw it? How?' Mary asked.

'Stop asking and you'll see!' Sam said. It came out harsher than he'd meant it to. His guilt and anger turned to embarrassment and he quickly apologised. Mary studied him cautiously, trying to figure out what it was that had gotten Sam so upset.

Sam asked what time it was and she said it was a few hours ago. Sam looked distressed and walked away. Deanfollowed and tried to persuade him that there was nothing he could've done. Sam believed that something trapped him in the car but Dean didn't. Sam told Dean to stop looking at him like that and Dean replied that he wasn't looking at him in any way.

'You totally were.' Sam muttered.

'Sorry.' Dean said in a genuine voice.

They then decided to pick up the case in the morning. The scene cut to them arriving at the family's house as junior priests. Everyone except Sam and Dean stifled laughs. Sam mentioned that it was a new low for them.

'I'd think I'd agree with that.' Bobby said.

Sam and Dean looked at each other and then hastily looked away, trying not to think of a certain archangel who managed to embarrass them a lot more.

Sam told Dean to tone down the god stuff after he'd gone a little overboard and glared at him as he was eating the except Dean laughed at his foolishness. Dean asked the man's wife if he had a history of depression and she said that they were happy and that she didn't understand why he would commit suicide.

'It definitely wasn't suicide.' Mary said.

She also said that it was her son, Max, who'd found him and Sam offered to go and talk to him. After some questioning she said that she hadn't heard any strange noises since they moved in five years ago.

'Not a spirit then.' John said, looking confused.

The scene cut to Sam talking to Max who also said he didn't understand why his dad had committed suicide. The scene then cut to Dean using an EMF meter to search the house. He was interrupted by Sam and said that he hadn't found anything. Back at the motel, they realised that there was no strange history in the house and Dean hadn't found anything inside the house. Sam said mabye it was connected in some other way. Sam then got a severe headache and he got another vision.

'Was that the first time it happened during the daytime?' John asked and Sam nodded.

The father, Roger Miller was in the kitchen getting a drink and a shadow passed. He closed the window which then opened again by itself. He went over, stuck his head out and it fell on him, killing him. Sam told Dean what he saw. In the car Sam got the guys address and voiced his concern about the visions and that they were freaking him out. Dean offered to pull the car over if he was going to be sick as he didn't want to ruin the upholstery.

'Why are you caring about that when I'm sick.' Sam said.

'Once sick gets into the upholstery it never comes out. You will recover.' Dean replied with a smirk.

After talking about it some more, Sam said he was scared and that the visions freaked him out. Dean said they didn't freak him out but it was clear he was lying.

'You are such a liar.' Sam said.

'Alright it did freak me out just a little bit.' Dean admitted. Sam sighed.

They found Roger but he wouldn't listen to them.

'Idiot.' Dean muttered.

He went inside and Sam and Dean ran up the stairs to try and stop him but they were too late. Dean gave Sam something to wipe his fingerprints. Dean didn't find anything in the house and Sam said that there was a dark shape in the vision and that something had been stalking Roger. They then decided that it could be a vengeful spirit latched onto the family and was killing all the men. They theorise that Max may be in danger and go to pick him up. Sam said that the one thing he had in common with the Millers is that their family was cursed. Dean said that they weren't cursed, they just had dark spots. Sam said their dark spots were pretty dark and Dean told him he was dark and drove away.

'We aren't cursed are we?' Mary asked, trying to get some reassurance but no one looked at her.

'Considering that both of you have been to...' Cas began but he was interrupted by Bobby, Sam and Dean who wanted to prevent John and Mary finding out about hell for as long as possible. Both Mary and John looked at them all suspiciously.

'Is there something we should know?' Mary asked.

'And you will. I'm sure this will explain things and if it doesn't we will. Just, not now.' Sam said, looking at Dean who nodded.

'I don't understand...' Cas began but Dean interrupted with 'Cas, don't' and he went quiet.

The scene cut to Sam and Dean talking to Max. He said that they were close and that they used to be neighbours. Samasked if it was good when they were small and Max kept asking why they were asking questions. He said that things were normal and happy. Outside, they agreed that Max wasn't telling them everything.

'I'd agree there. I wonder what he's hiding.' John said and Sam frowned.

They talked to another guy who lived nearby who said that Max had been badly beaten by his father and uncle and that his stepmother hadn't done anything to stop it. He said that Max's real mom had died in an accident.

'An accident?' Mary questioned.

Sam then got another vision of Max making a knife float in the air towards his stepmother, accusing her of not doing anything and pretending it wasn't happening. He then made the knife run through her. In the car, Sam realised that Max had committed all the murders. Sam said that they were similar in that they both had psychic powers and wanted revenge on people. Dean wanted to kill him but Sam refused and made him promise not to kill him.

'What do you mean? You should at least get him arrested.' John said.

'You can't justify what he's done but he doesn't deserve to die.' Mary said.

Sam and Dean enter just in time and asked to talk to Max outside. Max then saw Dean's gun in the mirror and locked them in, taking Dean's gun from him and throwing his mother across the floor.

'You should've hidden your gun better.' John said.

Sam explained about his visions and offered to talk to him alone but Dean refused. Sam persuaded Dean to go and he took Max's stepmother with him.

'I'm not sure that's a good idea.' Bobby said.

Sam tried to persuade Max to let his stepmother go. Max explained that they were still beating him in places they couldn't see. Max said that his father blamed him for everything, including his mothers death. Max explained that his mother had died the same way as Mary.

'What? You never told me about this.' Mary said, looking at her sons.

'Its complicated.' Dean said.

'Well, explain.' Mary said.

'It will show it on here anyway. I'm sure it will explain it better than we can.' Sam cut in quickly.

Sam tried to explain that the same thing happened to Mary. Sam theorised that they were connected and that their abilities began at around the same time. Sam said they were chosen for something but he didn't know what it was. Sam said that he and Dean could help but he had to let his stepmother go. Max refused and Sam said that it wouldn't help and that it would make him as bad as them. Max then trapped Sam in a cupboard and went upstairs. He threw Dean against the wall and made the gun hover in the air towards his stepmother. He told Dean to stay back and he replied that he would have to go to him to get through to his stepmother. Max then shot Dean.

'Oh my god!' Mary said, looking at Dean. Dean was looking kind of white as well.

It was then revealed to be a vision.

'Thank god! I'm assuming you stopped this one?' Mary asked and Sam nodded.

Sam used his distress to telekinetically free himself. There was silence.

'What the hell?' Mary questioned.

'I promise it will be explained soon.' Sam said.

'When?' Mary asked.

'I think it's soon. I don't know.' Sam replied.

Sam arrived at the scene just in time and said that he isn't going to help anything by killing his stepmother. Max then agreed and made the gun shoot himself. The scene cut to Max's stepmother giving the police a believable story. Sam blamed himself for not saying the right thing to stop Max killing himself.

'There's nothing you could've done, boy.' Bobby said but it didn't help.

Sam said that they were lucky they had John and that he hadn't turned to drink after Mary died. Dean said he never though he'd hear him say that.

'Neither did I.' John said, pleasantly surprised.

Later on, Sam questioned why the demon had gone after Mary, Jess and Max's mom and whether it was after him and Max. Dean said that it wasn't about that. Sam then told Dean about moving the closet and Dean said he was sure it wouldn't happen again. Sam asked if he was worried that he would turn into Max and Dean said that he wouldn't let it.

'Well that went well.' Dean said with a smile and despite himself, Sam laughed alongside Bobby. Mary and John just looked at each other in confusion and annoyance.

Dean then suggested going to Vegas. Sam rolled his eyes.

'What? It was a good idea.' Dean protested.

They left the motel and drove off.

The episode began with a little boy witnessing a man being dragged underneath his car.

'This case was weird.' Dean said, looking disgusted. Sam nodded. Everyone else frowned.

The scene cut to Sam and Dean posing as State police officers and they heard the boy's story first-hand. They all smiled as Dean bonded with the kid over Godzilla and made fun of Sam for preferring a different version to them.

'I still prefer the remake.'' Sam said and Dean rolled his eyes.

'I thought I'd educated you but obviously not.' Dean said with a sigh.

The boy said that he heard a whining growl just before the guy disappeared.

'That's weird. Definitely sounds like something to look into.' John said. Sam and Dean glanced at each other.

The scene cut to a bar and Dean questioned if it was their kind of case but Sam said that John had marked it out and that the town had more missing persons per capita than anywhere else in the state. Sam then said that they should find a motel and Dean complained and called him a grandma. Sam rolled his eyes.

'What? You were!' Dean commented.

Dean went to the toilet and Sam went outside and he looked underneath a car when he heard a whining noise and he jumped as a cat came out.

'Look at you scared by a cat.' Dean said.

'You can talk!' Sam retorted and Dean decided to shut up. A vague memory of him screaming at the top of his lungs came to mind. This is stupid. He thought.

The scene then cut to Dean coming out and Sam was nowhere to be seen. He looked everywhere and called out his name and asked people if they had seen him.

'Aww, you actually look worried.' Sam said with a smile.

'You just disappeared on me.' Dean replied.

Dean then went to the police and said that Sam was his cousin. The officer asked if Sam had a drinking problem and Dean replied that after two beers Sam was doing karaoke.

'No I don't!' Sam retorted indignantly.

'How would you know though if you were drunk?' Dean replied with a grin.

The officer then looked him up and mentioned that Sam's brother, Dean, was suspected of murder.

'Oh dear, I forgot about that.' Mary said, looking worried. She had a feeling that eventually someone would realise that he wasn't dead and they would catch up with him.

Everyone smiled when Dean said that he was the black sheep of the family but that he was handsome. Dean then mentioned that the traffic cam would've picked up what took him.

'So nice and easy when that happens.' John commented.

Dean persuaded her to take him with her to look at it by saying that Sam was his responsibility and that he had to find him.

'I don't get it. Why do u always have to look after me?' Sam asked.

'Cuz you're the little one who always needs protecting.' Dean said with a smirk and Sam slapped the back of his head. Dean hadn't meant that of course. He'd known for a while that Sam could protect himself.

Meanwhile, Sam woke up in a cell with what looked like a dead body in the next one. Mary felt a flicker of panic but she realised that they were still here so they can't have died.

The officer came out with the traffic cam photos which showed a white van there just as Sam left the bar. They then see a van that looked like the other one just painted brown.

'That's very coincidental.' Cas commented.

'Yeah. I never realised that till now. That's weird that we saw it just as we were talking about it.' Dean replied.

The scene then cut to Sam who found that the guy in the next cell was alive. He told the guy that he came to rescue him as he was the guy who disappeared.

'That won't have filled him with confidence.' John said.

The guy replied that it was a piss poor rescue. He then found out that the things that took them were human.

'I never knew how messed up humans were until then.' Dean said and the others agreed.

They gave the other guy some food. Sam then tried to pull on the cables.

'I doubt that will work.' Cas said.

Dean and Kathleen, the cop, then drove down the road as the van hadn't passed the next traffic cam. Kathleen then revealed that the badge Dean had was stolen and that the man who owned it was black. Dean tried to convince her that he'd lost weight and had the Michael Jackson skin disease.

'Really? The Michael Jackson skin disease? That's what you went' for?' Bobby asked.

'Like you would've come up with a better lie under pressure.' Dean replied.

Dean persuaded her to not arrest him. He said that he felt responsible for him ever since he pulled him from the fire when they were small. Sam suddenly realised why Dean always tried to protect him. It was something he's railed against for years. He could protect himself now.

The scene then cut to Sam who told the other guy not to call him Sammy.

'Why does everyone call me that?' Sam asked.

'Cuz you look like a kid.' Dean joked.

Sam pulled a bracket off the pipe. Sam warned him to go back, saying that it was too easy and that it was a trap. Jenkins escaped and found a knife but is hurt and killed by the people who appeared to be hunting him. The scene then cut to Sam hearing the guy's scream.

'That family is sick.' John commented.

The scene then cut to Dean and Kathleen who told Dean that her brother had disappeared a few years' earlier. Kathleen then handcuffed Dean to her car after tricking him by offering to shake on him not getting involved. Dean said that he should start carrying paper clips.

'Should've been better prepared.' John said with a smile.

Kathleen went up to the house and saw a creepy little girl who she began talking to.

'Poor kid.' Mary said.

'What do you mean? She's really creepy.' John said.

She was then knocked out by a larger guy who came up behind her. Dean then used part of the car to escape his handcuffs just in time before the other guys came around the corner.

'I never actually realised how close that was.' Dean said.

Kathleen woke up in a cell next to Sam and she worked out who he was. She then remembered that she'd cuffed Deanto her car.

'At least she realised how stupid she was.' Mary said.

Dean then eventually found them and he told Kathleen that he knows a trick or two when she asked how he escaped the handcuffs. When Sam told him that they were human, he said that Sam was rusty for letting them jump him.

'I agree with that.' John added.

'He was out of practise.' Dean responded.

Dean said that they took the cars of the people they took and Kathleen asked if he'd seen her brother's car and he said he had.

'Poor woman.' Cas sympathised.

Dean then left to find the keys. Dean found out what the guys did.

'Demons I get, people are crazy.'

'I agree with you there.' Cas said.

Dean then got jumped after the little girl gave him away as he was sneaking up on the head of the family. He had been distracted by a jar of teeth.

'And you had a go at me for getting jumped.' Sam said.

'There were four of them!' Dean protested.

Dean became conscious and found out that he was tied to a chair. They asked him if he'd killed before.

'I sure have.' Dean said, grimly.

The head of the family told him that he hunted most things but that the best hunt was human. They asked him if he was a cop. They asked if anyone else was coming and Dean replied with 'Eat me. No, no,no wait you actually might.'

'Not quite the time for a joke, Dean.' John reminded him.

'Whatever. It keeps the atmosphere light.' Dean replied.

Then then threaten to blind him with a hot poker. John and Mary looked at each other.

'Man, that was not nice.' Dean said.

They offer him the choice of Sam or Kathleen for them to hunt. Dean choose Sam.

'Thanks a lot.' Sam said.

'I knew you would be able to get away easier.' Dean replied.

The guy told the other to shoot him in the cage and shoot Kathleen.

'What the hell? He said he'd give him a chance!' Mary protested.

Sam used the bracket to knock out the guy and he took his gun but it was out of bullets. The others went after Sam and left the girl to watch Dean.

'Watched by a child?' Bobby said with a grin. Dean sighed.

Kathleen and Sam knocked one out and tricked the other into shooting the third guy in the leg and put them in the cage. The one who was shot taunted Kathleen into shooting him. She told Sam and Dean he'd tried to escape.

'So that's what happened' Sam said. He had felt very sorry for Kathleen.

Kathleen called for backup. She told them to start walking. She said that she thought it would be easier knowing what happened to her brother but she said that it wasn't.

'I like her so much.' Mary said with a smile.

Sam and Dean start walking and Dean told Sam to never go missing again. He said that he wouldn't look for him if he went missing again and Sam reminded him that he was held prisoner by a thirteen-year-old girl.

'You aren't going to let me forget that are you.' Dean said.

'Nope.' Sam said with a grin.

The episode began with young woman hearing creepy voices when she was walking alone at night. She ran to her apartment but she ends up being killed by what looked like shadows.

'What did she do to deserve that I wonder?' Mary questioned.

'Nothing. Absolutely nothing.' Sam replied.

The scene then cut to Sam and Dean one week later. Dean complained about the maintenance costumes they were wearing. They said that they were from the alarm company.

'Not a bad disguise.' John admitted.

There was no sign of a break in. The cleaner said that if she didn't know any better she would've said it was a wild animal that had done it. Dean then said that her heart was missing. Sam suggested that it was a spirit. Dean then asked him for masking tape.

'Masking tape?' John asked.

He then connected the blood splatter to create a symbol which neither of them had seen before.

'I hadn't seen that.' John admitted.

In the car, outside a bar, Sam asked if he got the number of the waitress and after while he admitted he had. Sam then said that there was another similar murder. Sam then noticed Meg sitting at another table.

'Well that's a coincidence?' John asked.

Sam introduced him to Dean and they argued as Meg had a go at Dean for how he treated Sam. Dean then awkwardly exits.

'Why does she care? She's a demon!' Mary questioned.

'You are actually almost as awkward as Cas here.' Bobby said.

'What do you mean? I don't understand.' Cas said, looking confused.

Afterwards Dean has a go at Sam for talking about him behind his back. Sam said that he thought it was too much of a coincidence that Meg was there and told Dean to look her up and to look up the symbol.

'I'd agree there. That's a huge coincidence.' Cas said.

Dean said that the symbol was for a deva, a demon of darkness. After Sam is surprised Dean said that he was clever and Sam asked him to name the last book he read and Dean replied that he found out from one of John's friends.

'I am clever!' Dean said and the others agreed, even Sam eventually.

Sam then watched Meg change and was called a pervert by a woman who noticed him.

'Sam!' Mary protested, shocked at her sons behaviour.

'If I'd looked away she would've gotten away.' Sam replied, red-faced.

He followed Meg to an abandoned building and he saw that she was summoning the deva. He witnessed her making a call. She told the person she was talking to not to come and that the brothers were in town and she said that she would be waiting for him. She then left and Sam came out from where he was hiding and saw the alter.

'At least now you know that she's evil.' Mary said.

Sam went back and told Dean what he saw and said that she was talking to someone who was coming later that evening. Dean said that he found out that both victims were from Lawrence, Kansas.

'So that's why they were killed.' Cas said with a grimace.

Dean then phoned John about what happened but it went to voicemail. Sam and Dean loaded their weapons and Samasked Dean if he was nervous and he said no.

'Sure you weren't' Sam said, rolling his eyes.

Dean then asked Sam the same thing. Sam then said that he would go back to school afterwards. Dean said that he didn't want Sam to leave after it was over. Dean said that he didn't want to hunt alone. Dean said that he wanted them to be a family again and Sam said that they were and that things would never be the same as they were before. Deansaid that it could be and Sam said that he didn't want it to be. Sam told Dean that he had to let him go his own way. John looked guilty and shifted in his seat. Mary sighed and looked at John angrily.

'Did you ever go back to school?' Mary asked and Sam shook his head.

Sam and Dean attempted to sneak up on Meg but she knew they were there. Sam asked Meg who she was waiting for and she replied. 'You'. Mary gasped as she realised what that meant. The deva then knocked them out and tied them up. They laughed as Dean told Sam that his girlfriend was a bitch.

'She wasn't even my girlfriend.' Sam muttered.

Meg told them that the trap was not for them but that it was for John. Dean said that John would not be stupid enough to walk into a trap and Meg replied that although he was good, he let his emotions guard his judgement around his sons.

'That's true.' John said with a small smile.

Sam asked why she was doing it and she replied that she was doing it for love and loyalty. Meg then began kissing Samand she said she knew that he watched her changing. Sam shifted in his seat and Mary looked disgusted. She was then distracted by Dean who tried to cut himself free with his knife. When she went back to Sam he revealed that he had a knife as well and he head butted her. Sam then knocked over the table and the deva threw Meg out the window. Deantold Sam to find a less crazy girlfriend.

'That was clever.' John admitted as Sam sighed.

They went back to their motel room and found someone there. It was John. He reunited with his sons. Dean told him it was a trap. He said that he was close to the demon and that he was working on how to kill it. Sam wanted to hunt it with him but John wouldnt allow it. John then gave Sam a hug. Mary smiled. They were then attacked by the deva and it was revealed that Meg was still alive.

'Why are demons so difficult to kill? They're so annoying!' Dean complained.

'Because they are very powerful creatures created by Lucifer himself.' Cas explained and Dean rolled his eyes.

The deva almost kill them until Sam used a flare and they only barely escaped. John and Dean then persuaded Sam that they were vulnerable together and that they were better apart.

'How wrong we were.' John said sadly, glancing at Mary.

John then left without them. Sam and Dean then drive off with Meg watching them from a distance.

The episode began with some kids going into a creepy house. They saw a load of strange symbols on the walls. They then talked about some ghost that lived in the basement of the house that strung up girls. They went to the cellar and found a girl strung up.

'They must've been traumatised.' Mary said sadly. Sam and Dean looked at each other and smiled.

'What're you smiling at?' Mary asked.

'It was a trick.' Sam explained, 'It wasn't real.'

The scene then cut to Sam and Dean in the car. Sam was asleep and Dean put a spoon in his mouth and took a photo.

'You're such a Jerk.' Sam said.

Dean then turned up the music which woke Sam up and Sam warned him not to start the prank war up again.

'Oh man. You didn't start that up again did you?' John said.

Sam told them about the legend of the ghost who strung up girls and about the kids visit. He then said that the police didn't find the body the kids saw. Sam then said that he found it on a paranormal website which made Dean very skeptical.

'A paranormal website? Seriously?' John questioned.

They then talked the kids and they had slightly different stories. One said she was hot.

'He's strange.' Cas commented.

They then talked to the guy who told them about the hell house. He told them the story about Mortaci. He said that he got it from his cousin. He said that it wasn't a prank.

'Liar.' Dean said.

Sam and Dean checked out the hell house. Sam took photos of the symbols and Dean recognised one but he didn't know where from. Sam said the paint was fresh and Dean said maybe the cops were right. They then see the Ghostfacers and they told Sam and Dean about EMF. They all laughed.

'As if we didn't know that.' Dean said with a smirk.

Dean asked if they had actually seen a ghost.

'Probably not.' John remarked.

Sam then conducted research and couldn't find any trace of Mortaci or the girl who was killed. Dean turned on the engine of his car and upbeat music came on really loud. Sam laughed as he was the one who put it there. Everyone else laughed as well at Dean's reaction.

'That was a good trick.' John said with a grin.

That night another group of kids dare a girl to get a jar from the cellar to get out of making out with one of the guys. She went down there and heard strange noises but carried on regardless. She grabbed a jar but a noise made her jump and she dropped it. Mortaci then attacked her and hanged her.

'That was a stupid thing to do.' Mary said, sadly. The next day the police were at the house. They believed the girl committed suicide but she had no reason to. That night the Sam and Dean came back but the cops were still there. The Ghostfacers turned up and Dean used them to distract the police and got inside.

'That was clever.' John said as he saw the Ghostfacers being turned away by the police.

Once inside they went to the cellar but not before Dean said that he knew one of the symbols but he couldn't remember what it was. Once in the cellar Dean dared Sam to take a swig from one of the jars.

'You're disgusting.' Mary said with a smile.

They then got scared of the sound made by some rats in a cupboard.

'You two are such scaredy cats' John said.

They were then attacked by Mortaci but he was immune to rock salt so they leave and find the Ghostfacers who ran straight into the police.

'Why didn't the rock salt work?' Cas asked.

'It wasn't a spirit.' Dean replied.

Back in the motel, Sam and Dean noticed that the legend appeared to have changed. They checked the website and saw that someone posted a new post which fitted what they saw. Dean then remembered the symbol and saw that it was from a symbol from a band on an album in Craig's store. Craig then admitted that it was a fake and that he and his cousin made the whole thing up.

'That's an awful thing to do. Those kids would be scarred for the rest of their lives.' Mary said.

Back at the motel, Sam was in the shower and Dean put itching powder in his trousers (pants).

'So that's when you did it' Sam realised.

Sam said that it was a tulpa. Dean is confused and said why did Santa not exist.

'Because you're an awful person.' Sam said jokingly.

Sam then said that the sigil painted on the wall was what brought it to life. Sam then figured out what Dean had done earlier.

'That must've been painful.' Cas said.

Meanwhile, Ed was trying to persuade Harry to go back to the house. Sam and Dean asked them to shut the website down. They then pretend that they knew something about Mortaci and they agreed to shut the website down if Sam and Dean told them. Sam and Dean gave them a death certificate which suggested a new cause of death meaning that iron rounds would work on Mortaci.

'That was a good idea.' John said approvingly.

Sam then glued Dean's beer to his hand.

'Your face was a picture.' Sam said, laughing.

Sam and Dean then led the police away so that they could get back to the house. However, iron rounds still don't work on Mortaci and Ed and Harry said that although they posted the new story, their website crashed before people read it. Sam saved Ed and Harry from Mortaci and Dean then burnt the house down as the only way to get rid of him.

'That was a bit over the top but I guess it worked.' John said.

Sam and Dean then ran into Ed and Harry and they tell them that they got a call from a Hollywood producer who wanted them to make a movie about Mortaci. As they drove off Sam admitted to Dean that he was the one who called and Dean also said that he put the dead fish in their backseat. They called a truce and drove off.

'You guys are so mean to those two.' Mary said, trying not to laugh.

'Hello? Is anybody there?' came a voice from outside the room.

'Looks like someone else has come to join the party.' Dean commented. They all got up and went to see who it was.

Standing in the corridor was Jo.

'Sam, Dean, Castiel. What the hell is going on?' She asked as she recognised them.

They soon caught her up on the basics of what was going on although she kept interrupting with her questions.

'So God exists? Alright...that's going to take some time to process.' She said.

Jo soon went quiet when she realised that her mum wasn't there.

'Let's keep watching.' Mary suggested. They got some food and were soon sat watching the next episode.

The episode began with a couple in their house having just bought a creepy painting of a family. When the wife goes upstairs and the man looks away and the father figure in the painting appears to move. Later on the razor on the table also disappears.

'Is that spirit?' Jo asked and Dean nodded.

The wife, now in bed, turns off the lights and when the man enters he turns on the lights and finds her with her throat slit.

'That's why you should never buy creepy paintings.' Dean said, grimly.

The scene cuts to Dean at a bar getting a number from a girl.

'I can see that you and women are a common theme.' Mary said, frowning.

'What? I like to have fun alright?' Dean said, looking uncomfortable. Jo smiled.

Sam calls him over and says he's found a case and Dean says that the girl he's with has a friend who he could hook up with. Sam replies that he can get his own dates and Dean says that he can but he doesn't.

'I don't blame him to be honest.' Mary said, quietly.

Sam tells Dean about the couple. Sam noticed more murders in the area with the same MO. After affirming that they can't start till morning, Dean goes over the girls. Sam rolled his eyes.

In the morning Sam wakes Dean, who is asleep in the car, by beeping the horn, making him jump.

'You are so cruel.' Dean said, shaking his head.

'It worked though.' Sam replied.

Sam says that he checked the house for EMF and checked its history and there was nothing. Dean mentions that it could be a cursed object and Sam says that the house was empty. Sam shifts uncomfortably and Dean grins, earning him a frown from his brother.

'Why was it empty?' Cas asked.

'Because their things had already been taken to auction.' Sam replied.

The scene cuts to the auction house and they pretend to be art dealers. Dean gets some champagne and they look around the objects. They are then introduced to Sarah Blake the daughter of the art dealer and Sam is embarrassed by Dean stuffing his face. Everyone smiled.

'Why do you always seem to be eating?' Jo asked.

'What? Can a guy not enjoy good food?' Dean replied.

Sam impresses Sarah with his art knowledge. She mentions that they are selling some of the dead couples stuff. Then they are asked to leave by Sarah's father and they do. Sarah tells him that he is rude.

'He is' Dean agreed.

Outside the motel Dean asks Sam how he knew that stuff about art and he replies that art history courses are good for meeting girls.

'Is that how you met Jess?' Mary asked and Sam nodded.

They get inside the motel room and see that it is better than they thought.

'How did you get such a nice room?' Jo asked.

'I guess we were just lucky for once.' Dean replied.

Dean then suggests getting information about the objects for sale from Sarah and suggests that Sam asks her out but Sam says pickups are more his thing but Dean says that it was Sam she was into. Dean tells Sam to call her and passes her his phone.

'Sam Winchester on a date now that is something new.' Bobby remarked.

'Shut up' Sam replied, slightly red.

At a restaurant Sam and Sarah are slightly awkward and Sarah remarks that Sam had difficulty saying would you like to have dinner.

'You're adorable.' Bobby said.

'Shut up.' Sam replied.

Sam replies that he hasn't been on a date for a while. Mary frowned. While talking about why neither of them were dating Sarah says that her mother died and she stopped dating until recently when she realised that her mother wouldn't want that for her. Sam doesn't tell her why he hasn't dated for a while.

'Why didn't you tell her?' Mary asked.

'I didn't want to.' Sam replied curtly, making Mary raise her eyebrows.

The next day Sam reveals that nothing happened and tells Dean to get his mind out of the gutter but he got the papers he needed. Everyone smiled. Dean suggests sticking around as its obvious Sam is into her. Sam interrupts and reveals that this one painting had a string of deaths attached to it.

'Why are you always interrupting me when I'm trying to get you to talk about your emotions?' Dean asked.

'You can talk!' Sam replied and Dean rolled his eyes.

'I think you both are rubbish at talking about your emotions.' Mary said with a smirk. Both Winchester boys protested.

They break in to salt and burn it. It then reappears on the frame.

'That wasn't annoying at all.' Dean sighed.

Dean says that he left his wallet at the art warehouse so they go back and are met by Sarah. When Sam tells her that they are leaving Dean says that they are staying for a few more days and reveals that he had his wallet the entire time and gives Sam some money.

'You are so annoying.' Sam sighed, shaking his head.

Dean then makes excuses to leave and Sarah suggests that she would like to go on another date. Sam replies that Deanwas joking and that they were leaving.

'Sam! Why did you say that!' Jo said with a smile. Sam sighed.

Sam then notices the painting again and when Sarah questions him he replies that it is good and she is confused. Everyone laughed. Sarah said that she was trying to persuade her dad has not to sell it and Sam told her to stop him selling it. He then says that he will call her and that they are staying for a few more days.

'So that's what made you change your mind?' Bobby questioned.

'Yeah. People were in danger.' Sam replied.

Deciding in the car to find out more about the family in the painting they go to the library. The librarian tells them about the family and that the father killed the whole family and himself with a razor when he thought his wife was going to leave with the kids. He also said that they were all cremated. They also see a photo of the painting and Sam noticed something and asks for a copy.

'What was it?' John asked.

The scene cuts to Sarah having a go at her father for selling the painting.

'Oh dear.' Cas commented.

Sam then said that the father in the painting is looking in a different direction.

'Oh right. That's definitely a spirit.' John said.

Dean wants to go back to the auction house and mentions that Sam can see Sarah again. Sam tells him to back off and that there was no point as they were just going to leave. Dean tells Sam that Jess would want him to have some fun. Jo frowned and looked at Sam. Sam said that isn't the main part. Sam rings Sarah who tells him that the painting has been sold and they get the address.

'That was quick.' Jo commented.

At the address an old woman is killed by what looks like the father in the painting. Sarah, Sam and Dean arrive and Sarah questions them as to why they are there as they break in and then they find Evelyn dead. Sarah also sees the painting move.

'That is why you shouldn't involve people whilst hunting.' John said.

'It's not that bad.' Mary said, raising an eyebrow.

At the motel Sarah demands an explanation and they tell her the truth.

'Well that didn't take much persuasion.' Mary said with a smile.

Sarah wants to come with them and Sam tries to persuade her not but she refuses. Dean tells Sam to marry her.

'She's brave. I'll give her that.' Mary said with a smile.

Back at Evelyn's house they realise that the razor moved and they notice a painting in the painting of a mausoleum for the family. They find it and break in and find no obvious human remains. They see the girl's toy doll. They also see that there are only four runs so the fathers body wasn't there. Dean goes and checks the county records and Sam tells Sarah that he doesn't want her to get hurt and he tells her about Jess and Mary and that he feels cursed.

'You're not cursed Sam.' Bobby said, adamantly. Sam smiled disbelievingly.

Sarah says that's what life is and that she can take care of herself. Dean interrupts and says that the father was buried.

'Dean! Why did you interrupt?' Mary protested. Dean shrugged.

They salt and burn the bones with Sarah commenting that they seem uncomfortably comfortable its digging up graves.

'She's right. That is not normal for humans.' Cas said.

'Just like our entire job.' Dean responded.

Sam and Sarah enter the house after Sam told Dean to turn off the music. They notice that the girl and the razor are missing and are trapped in the house. Sam calls Dean and he tries to break in but they can't. Sam can't find any salt but they find iron and try to hold off the ghost.

'What kind of household doesn't have salt?' Jo asked.

'Weirdos' Sam added.

Sarah tells Sam that they used the kid's real hair when making the dolls in the kids image so Dean goes to the mausoleum to get the doll whilst Sam and Sarah held off the ghost. Dean tries to smash the glass and ends up using his gun. Dean burns the doll just in time.

'Good riddance. It was creepy anyway.' Dean commented.

Sarah then gets the painting burnt and Dean leaves Sam and Sarah alone. He walks off saying that he saved them and not to thank him. Everyone smiled. Sarah tries to convince Sam that he isn't cursed and tells Sam to come back and see her. Sam walks away and then comes back and kisses her. The brothers then drive off.

'Well that was sweet' Bobby commented.

The episode began in a bar and a man named Mr Elkins was looking through a book that looked a lot like John's journal. A group of young men and women then enter and Mr Elkins looks at them warily and soon disappeared. The scene cut to him arriving home, looking scared and he turned around to see one of the young women. She says that it had been a while and that he's gotten old. He tries to stab her but it didn't work. He runs to another room and barricades himself in it. He opens a safe and withdraws the colt and puts bullets in it.

'Is that the Colt?' Mary asked and Dean nodded.

The vampires broke in and took it off him before killing him.

'Poor Mr Elkins' John said 'He was a good man.'

The scene cuts to Sam and Dean in a café, searching for cases. Dean tries to persuade Sam to visit Sarah but Samrefuses and finds out about Mr Elkins' death. Dean recognises the name from John's journal so they decide to visit. They break into the house and find salt.

'Obviously a hunter.' Mary said.

They find his journal and realise that he was a hunter. Sam says that he thought there was more than one attacker. They find the empty box the colt was in. They also find scratches on the floor which turns out to be a message. The message leads to a mail box where they find a letter addressed to John. John then knocks on their car.

'I made you jump so much.' John said with a smile.

He says he came straight away for Elkins.

'So you go for his death but not for when one of your boys is dying?' Mary asked, grumpily.

'I didn't want to put them in more danger than I had to.' John said.

'So many excuses.' Mary said with a sigh.

John reads the letter and realises that Elkins had the Colt but he wouldn't tell them why it was important.

'Obviously.' Dean said, rolling his eyes. Jo frowned.

'I didn't really want to involve you guys. At the time I didn't think it was your fault.' John replied.

'Yeah well you thought wrong.' Sam replied. Jo raised her eyebrows.

He also says that Elkins had been killed by vampires. It then shows a young couple being attacked by vampires. Then it cut to a motel room and Sam and Dean were asleep when John picked up a police call on the scanner. Sam and Johnbutted heads as John didn't explain how he knew it was the vampires. Sam sighed. Dean commented that he still found the idea of vampires funny.

'I wish vampires were still funny.' Dean commented.

In the car, Dean commented John and Sam were already starting to argue. John complained against the state of the car. Jo smiled. Sam complained about John not telling them things and treating them like children.

'Could've just spoken to me instead of bitching behind my back.' John commented, shifting uncomfortably.

The scene then cut to the vampires taunting the couple in their nest. The girl took some beer and spat it in the guys face.

'She's brave.' Mary commented.

The lead vampire then arrives and orders them to kill the young man. The female vampire then shows the gun to the head vamp who tells her off for killing Elkins, saying that revenge isn't worth much if you end up dead.

'I never thought I'd agree with a vampire but I do on this one.' John said. Mary smiled.

The scene then cut to Sam and Dean in the car. Sam and Dean argue about John not telling them stuff. Sam says that was why he left. Sam and John argue but Dean manages to break it up and they all get back in the car. Jo and Bobby frowned and looked surprised. The scene cut to the vampires who turned the girl into one.

'We were too late to save her.' Sam said, looking down guiltily. He hated being reminded of the people he hadn't saved.

Sam, Dean and John find the vampires nest. John then tells them what the Colt is.

'So is that how you killed Azazel?' Mary asked and the others nodded.

The Winchesters crept into the vampire's nest as they were all asleep. Dean knocks into something and almost wakes one up.

'You're such an idgit.' Bobby said with a smile.

They find the girl tied up and they wake her up, not realising she had become a vampire.

'That's not a good idea.' Bobby said.

She then wakes up everyone and Sam and Dean ran outside but waited for John who was right behind. John says that they should find the nearest funeral home.

'Well that was super positive.' Dean said.

'I hope you were all careful.' Mary said, looking worried.

John says that he created a college fund for Sam and that he didn't want them in this life. He wanted to keep them alive and he says he stopped being their father. He didn't want Sam to go to school because he would be vulnerable. Sam smiled. He says he didn't accept the fact they were different. Sam replies that because of what happened to Jess they have more in common than anyone. Sam asks what happened to the college fund and John says he spend it on ammunition.

'Of course you did.' Mary said and despite herself she laughed.

Dean then came back with deadman's blood. They then set a trap for the vampires and Dean almost gets attacked. Two of them get poisoned by deadman's blood by Sam and John. John tells them to get out of town once they took care of the vampires. Mary frowned. Sam realises that he was leaving and says that they wanted to fight with him. Dean says that he can't be that worried about keeping them safe as they sent them on other hunts. Jo glanced towards John. Johnsays that he couldn't make the same moves with them as he would be worried. He then says that he didn't expect to make it out in one piece. He says that Mary's death killed him and that he won't let it happen to them. Mary then was hit by how much her death had affected her husband. She glanced towards John and smiled.

'I never wanted any of you to get hurt avenging my death.' Mary said.

'I know. I got a little crazy.' John said.

Dean says that they are stronger as a family.

'Yeah we are.' Sam agreed.

The vampires find out about Kate and caught up with the John in his truck whilst Sam and Dean clears out those who stayed behind in the nest. John wants to trade Kate for the colt. Luther puts the Colt down and John picks it up but he was attacked and knocked out. Sam and Dean then comes and shoots them all with arrows soaked in deadman's blood. Luther then catches Sam and Dean puts his blade down when asked. John then shoots Luther. The other vampires run away.

'The colt is so useful.' Mary commented.

Back at the motel John realises that they are stronger as a family and agrees to let them join the hunt for the demon.

'Good thing you did or we would never have killed Azazel.' Dean said.

'I still find it weird that he has a name.' John commented.

Dean smiled as the recap began with Carry on my Wayward Son.

'Such a good song.' He said and John nodded.

'It fits well with the story.' Cas said.

The scene cut to a church where Pastor Jim is approached by Meg who asks to confess.

'She is such a bitch.' Dean said.

She then reveals herself as a demon and she threatens Pastor Jim who attempts to fight back. He asks her what she wanted and she says the Winchesters and he replies that he didn't know where they were and if he did he wouldn't say.

'I can't believe she killed him. There was no need to.' Sam said.

'She's a demon. They don't care.' John reminded him.

The scene cut to the motel room with John, Sam and Dean. John shows them the trail of the demon and says that it was going after kids the same way he went after Sam.

'Wow! That's very detailed.' Cas said, looking impressed. John smiled.

Sam blames himself for Mary and Jess' deaths. Sam sighs and looks down. Jo frowns. John says that he was always one step behind it. He says that there were signs before it happened, including before Jess and Mary. They then go to Salvation, Iowa as there were signs there. John then finds out about Jim's death.

'He was a good man.' John said.

He says that every second counts. John sends them to the hospitals to find out which kids are going to be six months old in the next week. John says that he was going to end it and he didn't care what it took.

'Not if it takes your life' Mary said, staring at John.

Dean flirts with the hospital staff and Sam gets a vision of a mother and baby dying the same way as Mary and Jess.

'What was that?' Mary asked.

'A vision.' Sam said.

He finds the family he saw as they lived near a train track. He introduces himself to the woman and says that he has just moved in and finds out that her daughter was six months that day. He tells her to take care of herself.

'It was lucky that you managed to find them so quickly.' Cas said and everyone agreed.

Sam then sees a complete vision of the demon's attack on the child. Sam then tells John and Dean about it. John asks why they hadn't told him about Sam's visions. Dean says that he tried but that John hadn't been around. John looks down. Sam says that they needed to stop them going through the same hell that they went through.

'Please tell me you succeeded.' Mary said.

'We did.' Dean confirmed with a small smile.

Meg then phones and asks to speak to John. She says that she'd killed Jim and she was about to kill Caleb. She says that they knew he had the colt but John said that he didn't. She then kills Caleb and says that she would kill all his friends if he didn't give her the Colt. He agrees to give it to her.

'Why would you do that? That's your only weapon?' Mary asked.

'You'll see.' John replied.

She gives him an impossible deadline.

'That is impossible to make!' Cas said.

'I made it.' John said with a grin.

John says that he was going to give her a fake gun to buy a few hours whilst Sam and Dean dealt with the demon.

'That's not going to work.' Bobby said.

'You're right about that.' John replied.

He says that he wanted Sam to go to school and for Dean to have a home and for Mary to be alive. Mary smiled He says he wanted it to be over.

'You weren't the only one.' Dean added.

Before he left, Dean makes him promise not to get himself killed and that the same went for them. John tells them that there were four bullets left and that they had to make very shot count. He then leaves, promising to see them soon.

'I hope you did.' Mary said, questioning.

'Yeah. For a bit at least.' John replied.

John arrives in Lincoln while the boys stay outside the house of the family. Sam suggests telling them there was a gas leak or telling them the truth but Dean shoots down both options by asking how many time that has worked in the past.

'I hope you didn't try that. Never works.' John said and everyone agreed.

'I love how easily humans refuse to believe things even with overwhelming evidence.' Cas said.

They wonder what John was doing and said they would feel a lot better with him there or then backing him up.

'I wish I could've been there to back you up as well.' John said.

In Lincoln, John prepares to meet Meg by making the sewers holy water.

'Clever.' Bobby said.

Sam says that it didn't feel real that they were hunting the demon. Sam thanks Dean for always having his back in case they didn't make it out and Dean replies that no one was dying that night except the demon.

'I wish.' Dean said.

Meg and John meet and he gives Meg and her friend the fake gun. The other demon shoots Meg with it and finds that it was not the colt. She has a go at him for shooting her. John runs and escapes down the sewers. He escapes by using the holy water he made earlier as a blockade.

'It worked for a while.' John said with a sigh.

Sam and Dean phones John but got no answer. The demon then arrives at the house and they run inside. They are then attacked by the father of the kid who tells the mother to go into the nursery. Mary stiffened. Sam and Dean arrives and Sam shoots and misses the demon who disappeared. They ran out the house with the baby and the nursery burnt into flames.

'At least you got everybody out.' Jo said

Meanwhile, John is caught by the demons. Sam sees the demon in the house and wants to go in but is stopped by Deanwho says it is suicide to do that. Sam says that he didn't care and Dean replies that he did. Jo and Bobby smiled. Samgets annoyed at Dean for stopping him and Dean says that Mary won't come back and Sam shoves him.

'Sam. My and Jessica's death does not warrant your suicide.' Mary said.

'I know that now.' Sam said.

Dean says that three of them are all they have. Jo frowns. Dean says sometimes he is barely holding it together and that without Sam or John…

'Thanks for stopping me.' Sam said.

'Don't mention it.' Dean replied.

They call John again and Meg picks up and she says that they were never going to see their dad again.

'Oh god…' Mary said.

Dean tells Sam that Meg had John and Dean persuades Sam to leave the motel they were at as they were not ready to face the demon. In the car, Dean says that they would trade him for the gun.

'I doubt that would've worked.' John said.

'Says the guy who thought giving them a fake gun would work.' Dean shot back.

Sam believes John is dead because Meg hadn't mentioned a trade. He says that everything stopped until they found him. Dean says that they would go to Lincoln and find a trail but Sam says there wouldn't be one. They decide to go see Bobby. Bobby says that John has that effect on people when asked why he threatened him last time they met.

'I didn't realise that I would be in this.' Bobby commented.

'Nice to know that's what people thought of me.' John said, making the others look down.

Bobby tells them about devils traps.

'Thanks for that. You have no idea how many times you have saved us by telling us about them.' Sam said, making Bobby smile and John frown.

He tells them that more demons were around and that a war was brewing and that they were in the middle of it. Mary frowned. Meg then arrives and shoves Dean away. She asks for the Colt and Sam says that they buried it. She calls them chuckleheads. Sam and Dean both frowned. Jo smiled. Meg walks forward and finds herself in a devils trap.

'She's stupid.' Mary said with a smile.

They tie her up and Dean asks where John was. When he calls her a bitch for not answering she says 'You kiss your mother with that mouth? Oh wait…'

'Bitch.' Mary said with an angry scowl. She hated that they were using her death to get to her boys.

Meg then says that John died screaming and that she killed him. Dean slaps her. Bobby reminds him that there was a girl trapped in the body and that she was possessed. Dean refuses to believe John was dead. They try to exorcise her but realise that they would kill the girl. Meg then says that she slit John's throat. John frowned.

'She's so cruel. I never truly realised that when I met her.' Cas commented.

'Of course. She's a demon.' Dean replied.

Sam begins to exorcise her. She maintains that John is dead. She screams and then says that he wasn't dead. She reminds him that they don't know if she's telling them the truth.

'For once she actually told the truth.' Sam said, feeling surprised.

She says that he was in a building in Jefferson City but that she didn't know where or where the demon was they were looking for. Sam wants to see if she knew where the demon was but Dean wants to save the girl. Bobby then tells them that the girl wouldn't survive due to the fall from the building.

'How long had she been possessed I wonder?' Cas questioned.

'A long time.' Dean replied.

Dean then says that they would put her out of her misery. Sam then exorcises her but they weren't able to save the girl.

'You can't save everyone.' Mary said.

'We could've saved her if she hadn't fallen out of that window.' Sam said, feeling guilty.

She says that she'd been possessed for a year.

'That poor girl. Imagine being possessed for a year.' Mary said sympathetically.

She says 'sunrise' then died. Sam and Dean leave. Bobby says that he would lie to the cops and told them to bring John to see him.

'I never did get to apologise to you.' John said, sadly 'I promise I'll make it up to you once this is over. I have a lot of people to apologise to.' John looked around.

'That's alright. Grief does crazy things to people.' Bobby commented.

Sam tells Dean that John would be fine. Dean has a go at Sam for drawing a devils trap on the trunk but Sam says it made it into a lockbox so Dean was ok with it. He says that they could hide the colt there. Dean wants to bring the gun with them but Sam wants to save it to kill the demon but Dean says that John was more important. Dean says both of the. couldn't wait to sacrifice themselves. He calls Sam selfish but Sam says that it was their only leverage. Dean leaves the colt.

'Sure you left the colt.' Sam said, sarcastically. Jo raised her eyebrows.

They find the sunrise hotel which was full of people. They pull the fire alarm. John and Mary smile. The camera went into the hotel room with John tied up. Mary frowned. Dean tries to get in by claiming he had a Yorkie upstairs.

'That's an awful lie.' Cas said.

They pretend to be firemen to get into the building and Dean says that he always wanted to be a fireman.

'I never knew that.' John said, sadly. Jo and Mary frown.

They use holy water and lock the demons in the closet using salt. They find John unconscious but still breathing. Samthrows holy water on him to check he wasn't possessed.

'It's a shame the holy water didn't work.' Sam said.

'What do you mean?' Jo asked.

'I was possessed.' John explained.

John wakes up and praises them for keeping the colt safe. Outside, more people were possessed. They lock themselves in the bedroom and escape via the window. Once outside, the demons caught up with them and Sam was almost killed until Dean shoots the demon with the colt, showing that he had brought it with him.

'Still don't get why you brought the colt.' Sam said, shaking his head.

'Saved your ass didn't I?' Dean replied with a grin.

Dean looks guilty for killing the person possessed. Mary looks at him sympathetically. They drive off to an abandoned house and they salt the doors and windows. Sam asks if they were followed and Dean says they weren't. Sam says that Dean saved his life and Dean replies by asking if Sam was glad he'd brought the gun. Dean talks about the guy he shot and how he felt guilty. Dean questions the things he would do for his family.

'That's not always a bad thing you know.' John said.

'Most of the time it is though.' Dean replied.

John says that he was proud that he used a bullet and that he watched out for the family. Bobby and Mary frowned. The lights flicker and John got Sam to check the salt. John wants Dean to give him the gun but Dean turns it on John.

'How did you know?' Jo asked but Dean didn't answer and John shifted uncomfortably in his chair.

Dean says that John would be angry at him for wasting a bullet. John looked down. Sam came in the room and Deantells Sam what had happened. John tries to convince Sam it was him. John tells them to go ahead and kill him if they thought it wasn't him.

'It wasn't you, right?' Mary asked. John shook his head.

John lowers his head and shows his yellow eyes. Sam is slammed against the wall and Azazel takes the colt from Dean. Azazel says the holy water didn't work. He says that John was in there and he said hey. Mary frowned. He says that he was getting justice for his son and daughter who Dean had killed.

'I don't get how demons have families.' John commented.

'Me neither.' Dean agreed.

He asked how they would feel if he killed their family then said he forgot he did. Mary frowned. Sam asks why he did it. Azazel replies that Sam was going to marry Jess. He says they got in the way of his plan for Sam and children like him. Sam sighed.

'What plans? What children like him?' Mary asked but there was silence. She frowned.

'I guess I'll find out later then.' She continued

He tells Dean that they don't need him and that Sam was John's favourite as he showed more concern for him.

'That is so not true.' John said with a frown.

Dean reminds him that he killed his kids. Mary and Jo smiled. Azazel then tries to kill Dean but John manages to take control and Sam gets the colt but he shoots John in the leg not the heart. Dean tells Sam to check on John. John tried to convince him to shoot him in the heart. Sam didn't and the demon escapes. Mary smiled. Sam takes them both to the hospital and John says that he was surprised and that killing the demon came before everything but Sam says that it didn't. They were then slammed into by a huge truck with a man possessed by a demon inside. Mary, Jo and Bobby all jumped as they hadn't been expecting it.

'Wow. You guys have the worst luck.' Jo said.

'Next episode.' Mary said, curtly, looking slightly pale.

Dean set up the next episode and pressed play.

The episode began just after the crash. Sam, who was the only one still consciouspoints the gun at the demon and it says he wont shoot him because he is saving the bullet for someone else. Mary frowned. They are airlifted off and Samasks if the other two were still alive but gets no answer. Dean wakes up in pyjamas in hospital. He calls out.

'You woke up!' Sam asked.

'Yeah. I was a spirit.' Dean replied.

'I thought you didn't remember anything about what happened?' Sam questioned.

'I didn't until Tessa brought it back.' Dean explained. The others looked super confused.

Dean speaks to a receptionist but she didn't respond.

'Rude of her.' Dean joked.

He looks freaked out and finds his body lying unconscious.

'Oh my god!' Mary said, quietly, looking worried.

Sam appears and Dean says he looked good considering.

'You're literally lying there unconscious and you were worried about me?' Sam said incredulously. Mary sighed.

Dean tries to get him to listen to him and asks how John was. Dean says that he's the psychic and asks for some ghost whispering or something. Mary smiled.

'You know there is no way that was going to work if you have only been a spirit for that long.' Sam said, smiling.

A doctor comes and says that John was awake. Sam asks about Dean. The doctor says that he might not wake up and Dean replies with 'screw you doc I'm waking up.' Dean tells Sam to find some hoodoo priest and lay some mojo on him.

'That's exactly what I said later on.' Sam said, confused.

'It must be your psychic abilities.' Dean said.

The scene cut to John and Sam talking and Sam suggests finding a hoodoo priest. John says he would look for someone but that he didn't knowing they would be able to find anyone.

'You said exactly the same thing.' Cas said, looking confused.

John asks where the Colt was and Sam gets annoyed at him. Sam says it was in the truck and John tells him to get it and Sam says that Bobby had it. John tells him to get the Colt and bring it. John asks him to get a list of things. Johnsays it was for protection.

'Well that's a clear lie.' Bobby said, with raised eyebrows. John looked down.

'Well I think you know why I wanted it and how it wasn't for the reason you thought.' John said, looking down.

Sam asks what the demons plans were for him and John says that he didn't know. The scene cuts to Dean saying that he clearly did know something. Mary and Jo frowned.

'You are such a creep, hiding and watching us like that.' Sam said.

The scene cuts to Sam at Bobby's. Sam says that Dean was going to be pissed about the car.

'Damn right! I had to rebuild it from scratch!' Dean said bitterly.

Bobby wants to scrap it but Sam refused. Dean scowled at Bobby who jokingly pretended to be ashamed. Bobby tells Sam what the ingredients were really for when Sam mentions what they were.

'Summoning a demon? Our son is dying and that is what you were thinking about!' Mary protested.

'You'll see why.' John said, quietly.

The scene cuts to John in front of Dean's lifeless body. Dean begs him to do something but he doesn't hear. Dean questions why John hadn't called anyone. Mary frowned. Dean says that he'd done everything he'd ever asked and that he'd given everything. Dean asked what kind of father he was. John looked down, ashamed. John realised how horrible he must have seemed at this point. He had been planning to do the deal but hadn't told anyone. That was why he hadn't done anything. Dean is then distracted by a ghostly figure which he follows. He watches it kill a nurse but he couldn't do anything.

'Was that Tessa?' Sam asked, and Dean nodded. Jo and Mary frown.

Dean tried to talk to Sam about the ghostly figure but he couldn't hear. Sam has a go at John for trying to summon the demon. Sam says that John cared more about killing the demon than saving Dean. John sighed. Dean begs them to stop as John blames Sam for not killing him.

'I'm sorry, that was unfair.' John said quietly and Sam smiled in reassurance.

Dean breaks a glass trying to stop them arguing. 'Dude I full on Swayzed that mother' he says, surprised at his sudden ability. Despite everything, they all laughed. Dean then almost dies as the reaper attacks his body but he manages to drag it away. Mary looked very worried. Dean tells Sam not to worry and that he would kill the spirit. Sam smiled. Deanthen finds Tessa, pretending to be another coma patient. She says she'd just come in for an epindectomy and Dean says he thought there had been some complications. Sam sighed. Dean told her that she was having an out of body experience.

'That must have been really strange.' Jo commented and Dean replied that it was.

Sam then told John that he felt like Dean was still there. Sam then leaves to get something and makes John promise not to hunt the demon until Dean got better. Dean comments on how well Tessa was taking her experience. She replies that whatever was going to happen would happen. Dean says that was crap and that they had a choice. Dean then sees the reaper take the soul of a little girl but he was unable to save her.

Sam comes back with a Ouija board and Dean says 'You've got to be kidding me.'

'I thought I told you not to make fun of me.' Sam said, shaking his head.

'Sorry. Couldn't resist.' Dean replied with a smile.

Dean says that he felt like he was at a slumber party and says that he didn't think it would work. Sam sighed. Sam asks if he was there and Dean replied using the board that he was. Sam says that he was glad to see him and that it hadn't been the same without him and Dean says 'damn straight'. Sam smiled. Dean says that he was hunting and Sam asks lots of questions and Dean says 'one question at a time dude.' Sam smiled. Dean tells Sam that it was a reaper. Samcomments that there was no way of stopping it if it was there naturally. Mary shifted uncomfortably. Dean says that you can't kill Death and that he was screwed.

'Well that's clearly not true.' Sam said with a grin.

'That sounds like an interesting story.' Mary said, looking slightly worried.

Sam goes to talk to John but he was gone.

'Where did you go?' Jo asked, looking confused. John hung his head and she understood.

The scene cuts to John going to the boiler room with the stuff he got from Bobby. Sam tells Dean that he wasn't in his room. Sam looked in the journal. Dean thanks Sam for not giving up on him as he looks up reapers in John's journal. Dean leaves to talk to Tessa as he'd figured out that she was a reaper. She says that it hurt a girls feelings when he flipped out when he saw her true form. She says that it was his time to go and that he was living on borrowed time.

'Who says it's his time? Why does he have to die?' Mary asked with a frown.

The scene cuts to John summoning the demon. Mary frowns. He meets the caretaker and realises that he was possessed. He asks how stupid Azazel thought he was and Azazel asks whether he wanted an honest answer to that. John says that he could always shoot him and Azazel replies that he could always miss. Bobby frowned. John then says that he wanted to make a deal.

'I guess you did care after all.' Mary said, quietly. John smiled, sadly.

Sam says that he couldn't find anything in the book but that he would keep trying if Dean kept fighting. He says that he and John would kill each other if Dean died.

'That's true. You've already started.' Dean said with a smile.

He also says that they were just beginning to be brothers.

'Well that's adorable.' Dean said with a grin.

'Shut up.' Sam said.

Dean asks Tessa for a break and she replies by saying 'stage three, bargaining'. He says that his family needed him. Tessa replied that he was not the first soldier plucked from the field. He says that his family would die without him.

'Not necessarily.' Sam retorted. Dean smiled.

Tessa says that maybe he will, maybe he won't. She says Dean had an honourable death. Dean says there was no such thing and that he wasn't going with her. Mary smiled at his stubbornness. Tessa says that he was going to become a violent spirit if he stayed. The same thing he hunted.

'I never knew that.' Mary said, quietly.

Back in the boiler room, Azazel says that it is unseemly to make a deals with demons. John offers to trade the colt and the bullet for Dean. Azazel calls him a sentimentalist and says that if only his boys knew how much their daddy loved them. Sam and Dean frowned. Azazel says that Dean was not much of a threat and that neither was Sam.

'Sure we weren't much of a threat. We're only the ones that killed him in the end.' Dean said with a grin.

John says that he knew the truth about Sam and Azazel replies that Sam didn't and that he was playing dumb. John looked down, avoiding looking at Sam. John says that he had known for a while. John says that he wanted to see that Dean was ok. Azazel says that there was something else he wanted, even more than the colt. Jo opened her mouth to say something but thought better of it. Dean asks Tessa where he was going and she said she couldn't give away the big punchline.

'Obviously not. Because life can't be that simple.' Bobby said, frowning.

'Well I suppose God has his reasons.' Cas said.

The lights flicker and Dean was brought back to life. The doctor says that Dean was fine and Dean appeared not to have remembered anything. John comes back and Sam asks where he had gone and Sam gets annoyed because he thought he'd gone after the demon. John begs him not to fight with him and says that he knows that he'd made some mistakes.

'We shouldn't have fought.' Sam said quietly, a silent apology in his eyes as he looked at John who smiled.

Sam asks if he was alright and he replies that he was tired. John asks Sam to get him some coffee. John apologised to Dean for having to help him when he was wreaked after a hunt. He says that he'd put too much on his shoulders and made him grow up too fast. He says that he never complained and that he was proud of him. Mary smiled. John tells him to watch out for Sam and Dean says that he would. John whispers something to Dean and it was clear from his expression that it wasn't good. John leaves and gave the colt to Azazel. Sam came back with a coffee and finds John dead.

Silence. Mary was crying silent tears and the others were on the verge.

'Next episode?' Dean suggested.

The episode opens at a theme park with clowns and a little girl waves at a creepy clown who then seemed to disappear. Dean grinned and Sam sighed in response. In the car on their way home she sees it waving at her again. That night she sees it outside her house and she goes down the stairs to see it in front of the door. She opens it and lets it in.

'Someone should've really taught that girl not to talk to strangers.' Dean said, sadly.

The scene cuts to Sam and Dean burning their John's body. They both look upset. Sam asks if he'd said anything and Dean says he hadn't. Dean cries a single tear.

'Liar' Sam said, glaring at Dean.

The scene cuts to Dean fixing the car. Sam asks if he could help and Dean says no. Dean tells Sam to stop asking if he was ok and says that he was. Sam says that he hadn't brought dad up once and was acting like nothing happened. Dean says they had nothing so the car was the only thing he could do. Sam says he'd found a voicemail from a woman called Ellen. They find an address and visit her. Dean complains about the car they borrowed from Bobby.

'Of course you would.' Jo said with a smile.

'Any car is better than no car.' Cas said and Dean rolled his eyes.

'You just don't understand.' He replied.

The break into Ellen's house and find Ash asleep on the pool table. Jo arrives and puts a rifle on Dean. He takes the rifle off her but she takes it back.

'Hey, I forgot that I actually got the upper hand once.' Jo said, smiling.

Ellen puts a gun on Sam until she realised who they were. Ellen tells them about the saloon she ran and that they were friends. They ask why John never mentioned him and she says they'd have to ask him. They tell her that he was dead and askedm her for help. They wake up Ash and give him John's work on the demon. Ash says no one could track a demon like that. John smiled. He says that he could track it in 51 hours.

'That's impressive.' John commented.

Ellen lets Sam look at the clown case she'd found. While they were waiting, Dean began to hit on Jo but decided against it. Jo and Dean shifted uncomfortably and Sam just rolled his eyes. Sam says that they should check out the murders. Sam says that the parents of the girl were killed. Dean remembers that Sam was afraid of clowns.

'I'd forgotten about that.' John said with a grin

Sam says that the hunt was what John would've wanted.

'That would've been true then. Now, I'm not so sure.' John commented.

The scene cut to a boy at the carnival and he saw the clown appear and disappear. That night the boy woke up his dad and said the clown was his friend and he looked up to see the clown in the room with him. Sam and Dean find out about the murder and decide to join the circus as workers so that they could scan for the cursed object. Dean then annoys the blind knife thrower and the small man by insulting their impairments.

'Empathy Dean. Just take a second to think about what you're saying.' Bobby said.

Dean makes Sam sit in the clown chair when they talk to the boss. Everyone except Sam laughed.

'You are so annoying.' Sam said.

The boss tries to persuade them to go back to school and Sam says that they didn't want to. Later Sam says he was having second thoughts about going back to school. Mary frowned. Sam and Dean scan for EMF around the carnival. Sam gets scared by a skeleton.

'Oh dear Sam.' John said, grinning.

'Shut up.' Sam said, his face glowing red.

The blind man asks Dean what they were doing there and Dean says that they were writing a book about ghosts. They then hear a girl talking about a clown and her mother couldn't see it.

'That was lucky.' Jo said, eyebrows raised.

They then followed them home. Dean says that Cooper, the boss, worked at another carnival where bad stuff happened and they theorise that he brought a cursed object with him. The little girl then invited the clown inside the house. The parents then came and Sam and Dean somehow escaped so they hid in the truck. They realise that it wasn't a spirit. Sam wonders if John and Ellen ever had a thing.

'Definitely not!' John said, surprised and looking uncomfortable.

Dean says maybe they fell out and Sam says he fell out with everybody.

'Hey! Not everybody!' John protested.

Sam has a go at Dean for not talking about John. Dean says that Sam's sudden obedience to John was too little too late and Sam says that he would call Ellen. Mary frowned. Sam figures out what creature it was and says that they needed to be invited in. They realise that Cooper worked both shows. Sam says that brass would kill him. Sam says that they should make sure. The creature lived on bugs so Sam checks that out and Dean went to get a knife.

Dean goes to the blind guy to get the knife and sees the clown costume in his trunk. He realises that it was him and is attacked by him. After running out, he sees Sam who said that Cooper thought he was a peeping Tom. Everyone laughs. They go to the maze to get a brass knife but get separated.

'Idgits.' Bobby said.

'How else were we going to get a brass know?' Dean protested.

They meet back up and Dean gets pinned down with knives. Sam then manages to kill it. Dean says that he hated fun houses.

'Not as much as Sam.' John joked.

Back at the roadhouse, Sam left Jo and Dean to talk after a lot of hinting. Jo says that she wouldn't hate it if she saw Dean again. Dean says he would hit on her but it was wrong place wrong time. Jo frowned. Ash comes and says he couldn't find anything on the demon but as soon as the signals appeared he would know. Sam and Dean go back to Bobby's and Dean continues fixing the car. Sam says he felt guilty that he spent most of his life angry at John and that he missed him. John smiled. Sam says that he wasn't alright but that Dean wasn't either. Sam leaves and Dean takes out his anger on the car by attacking it. Mary frowned.

'Clearly not alright.' Sam said.

'I cannot believe I did that.' Dean said, looking slightly pale.

The episode began with a woman running away from a creature with a hook, eventually being killed by it. The scene cuts to Sam and Dean in the car. Dean is in a good mood because the car was fixed. Sam asks Dean to let them know if they needed a room. They also have a case of cattle mutilations and two murders which they were on the way to look into.

Sam and Dean talk to the sherif in charge and get ridiculed by him for suggesting it was satanists who were behind the killings.

They then go to the hospital and look at the body. Dean gets one of the doctors out the room by saying that his superior was pissed and was asking for him, having come back from holiday.

'That was actually a good excuse for once.' Bobby said, with a smile.

'Hey! Come on, I'm not that bad.' Dean protested.

At the morgue, Dean called Sam a wuss for not wanting to open the box of remains. Sam then calls Dean a wuss for not wanting to put his finger down the corpse's mouth. They realise that the woman is a vampire as they find her retractable fangs. They ask a local bartender for info on the vampires and are followed by Gordon.

'Oh man. You didn't start working with Gordon did you?' John said.

'We did but we soon realised he was a jackass.' Dean replied.

'Man I hate him so much.' Sam said with gritted teeth.

They realise they are being followed and make Gordon prove he isn't a vampire. Gordon says he'd met John. He tells them that it is his case and that they should leave it to him. He then leaves in his car.

'Please tell me you didn't just leave him.' John said.

'We're not that stupid.' Dean replied.

The scene then cut to Gordon attacking a vampire who almost killed him. Sam and Dean arrive and Dean kills it for him.

'You actually look like a psychopath there.' Jo commented and Dean smiled.

They go for a drink and Dean and Gordon bond their love over hunting. Sam decides to head back to the motel. Deantalks about how he'd embraced the life of hunting. Gordon says that his sister had been killed by a vampire and that he'd left home after that to track and kill it. Dean talks about John and how the beatings had just kept coming for him.

'That's so true. You did have a lot of bad luck.' Bobby commented.

He says that he couldn't talk to Sam as he had to keep his game face on. Sam sighed and rolled his eyes and Dean frowned. He says that he wasn't handling John's death very well and that there was a big hole inside him. Gordon tells him to use that anger to kill evil things.

'Because that's super healthy.' Jo commented.

Sam phones Ellen to ask about Gordon. Ellen tells him to leave because Gordon was dangerous.

'At least someone is listening to good advice.' Bobby commented.

Gordon says that he liked that there was no black and white in hunting.

'That's stupid. Hunting has a huge grey area.' Sam said, frowning.

He says that hunting was in their blood but not Sam's. Sam is then knocked out and tied up by the vampires. The vampires says that they just wanted to talk. She says that they don't kill humans they then said that they eat cattle blood. John frowned. She asks him not to follow them and that they were leaving the town. She then lets him go without a mark to prove that they were trustworthy and that Sam could believe them.

'I've never met good vampires before.' John said, uncertainly.

The scene cuts to Sam and Gordon at the motel and Sam comes back and tells Dean what happened. Dean doesn't believe that they don't kill people. Sam says that Dean was substituting Gordon for John.

'Dear god I was an idiot.' Dean said, shaking his head.

Dean then punches Sam and Sam says that it didn't change anything. Dean then walks away. They find that Gordon had left and taken the keys to the impala. They hot-wire the car and Sam led them to the farm.

'Impressive.' Jo said.

Eli, one of the vampires, tells Lenore, the other vampire, that they should kill the hunters but Lenore tells him otherwise. Lenore is then attacked by Gordon. He ties her up and tortures her to get her to tell him where the others in the nest were.

'He's horrible.' Mary said, disgusted.

Sam and Dean arrive and he threatens Sam when he wants to let her go. Gordon then says that the vampire turned his sister and that he then killed her. Gordon then cuts Sam's arm and taunts Lenore with his blood to prove that all vampires were the same. She manages to retract her fangs.

'Wow. That's amazing control.' John said.

Dean and Gordon fight and Gordon tries to persuade him to help but he doesn't listen. Dean knocks him out and ties him up and says that he wasn't like him. In the morning Sam comes back and says that the vampires had escaped. They then leave Gordon in his own mess for three days. Dean then says that they could go. Dean asks Sam to punch him. Sam says that he would take a rain check. Dean then wonders if they'd killed things that didn't deserve it.

'Honestly I wouldn't know.' John said, looking away

Dean thanks Sam for sticking around to be a pain in the ass. Mary smiled. They then drive off.

The episode begins with a Guy called Neil trying to comfort a girl called Angela, who is crying because her boyfriend cheated on her. Her boyfriend then comes to try and talk to her.

'Dick. Don't listen to him girl.' Jo said, angrily.

The scene cuts to Angela in the car crying and she picks up the phone to her boyfriend and gets upset and she crashes the car. Mary and Jo frowned. The scene then cuts to Sam and Dean in the car. Dean tries to persuade Sam not to visit Mary's grave but Sam persuades him otherwise. Mary smiled. Sam buries John's dog tags with it. John smiled.

'Nice to know you didn't forget me.' Mary said.

'Course not.' John said.

Dean then finds that Angela's grave has a perfect circle of dead ground around it. The groundskeeper hadn't put any pesticides on it. Sam asks whether it was about something other than a hunt. Sam agrees to check it out even though Sam doesn't think there is a hunt.

'It's worth checking out.' John said.

'Exactly.' Dean smirked. Sam rolled his eyes.

They go to see Angela's father, a professor. Dean notices that he has an old Ancient Greek book. Her father says that she was only a mile away from home when she crashed.

'That's so sad.' Mary commented.

Dean says that when you lose someone it's like you still sense their presence. Sam says that was perfectly normal when he says that he felt something like that. Dean still thinks there is a case. Sam says that it was more about Mary's grave as he wouldn't step within a hundred yards of it. Sam says that he was imagining a hunt. Sam tells Dean to take another swing at him if it made him feel better.

'You know. Normal people don't invite other people to take a swing at them.' Dean says with a smile.

'Well I had to do something. You were acting weird.' Sam replied.

Dean then leaves to have a drink by himself. Mary frowned. That night, Angela's boyfriend is killed. The next day, Deanbreaks into Angela's house and is found by her roommate and he tells her that he was her cousin.

'That was close. You could've gotten into serious trouble there.' Bobby said.

She seems really upset about Angela's boyfriend's death. Dean finds out that Matt, Angela's boyfriend, had killed himself and that he'd said that he'd seen her everywhere after she'd died. Dean asks if they were a happy couple and she says that they were. Dean comes back and catches Sam watching casa erotica and he hurriedly turns it off. Samshifted uncomfortably. John cleared his throat. Dean tells Sam about what happened. Dean says he'd visited Matt's house and found dead plants and a dead goldfish. Dean also says he'd stolen Angela's diary. They visit her friend and he tells them that the night of the accident Matt had cheated on Angela and she'd found out which is why she crashed the car. Dean then says that they should salt and burn the bones and Sam reminds him that there would be a proper body as she'd died recently.

'I bet that wasn't fun.' John said, grimacing.

They open the grave but there is nothing there. Jo frowned. The scene cuts to Matt closing the door and he sees Angela and they kiss.

'Is he really kissing a zombie?' Dean said, grimacing.

Dean sees some symbols in the coffin and goes to Angela's father to confront him as they recognises it from the book. It is a spell that brings corpses back to life. Dean tells her father that what's dead should stay dead.

'You can talk.' Sam said, a small smile on his face.

Sam forces him to leave once they saw that the plants in his office are still living.

'You missed a pretty big clue there Dean.' Jo said with a smile. Dean gives a small smile and shifts uncomfortably.

Sam says that Dean was tail spinning and begs Dean to let him help. He says that he didn't want to lose Dean as well as John. Dean apologises for being an ass and says that they needed to find out how to kill the zombie. Mary raised her eyebrows.

'Changing the subject, as per usual.' Sam said, rolling his eyes.

'Well you got an apology out of him. That's something I guess.' Bobby said with a grin.

Neil tries to talk to Angela about Matt but she says that she didn't kill him. She says that she seemed different because she'd realised that he was the only one who truly loved her.

'Well that is obviously true.' Dean said, sarcastically.

Sam says that there was too much law on how to kill zombies but they decided to use silver. Dean finds out from Angela's diary that Neil loved Angela and that he was her father's teaching assistant. They visit his house and Dean says that they were his grief councillors and that they'd come to hug.

'You two are adorable.' Bobby said, sarcastically.

They find where he kept Angela and find out how she escaped. Dean realises that Angela was going after her roommate, Lindsey, as she was the one Matt cheated on her with. The scene cuts to Angela attacking Lindsey. Lindsey makes Angela trip and fall on the scissors she was attacking her with but it didn't work and Angela almost kills her until Samand Dean shoot at her and she escapes. They then decide on nailing her back into her grave bed as a way that might work.

'I guess that might work.' John commented.

'Yeah it did.' Dean replied.

Sam and Dean talk to Neil and tell him that they knew what he did. Dean says that when someone's gone they should stay gone. Sam grins and Dean glares at him. They tell him that Angela had gone after Lindsey. He tells them that she was at his house but they didn't believe him. They tell him that they were going to do a ritual over her grave and that she would be dead again in a couple of hours.

'I thought you said that you were going to nail her to her grave bed?' John questioned.

'We did.' Sam replied with a smile. John frowned.

They try to persuade him to come with them but he refuses.

'Stupid kid.' Dean said, sadly.

Dean warns him not to make Angela mad. They leaves and it is revealed that Angela is hiding in the cupboard. He realises that she is planning on killing them. She begs him to run away with her and he goes to get the car. Outside, it is clear that he is freaking out and planning to leave. Angela then appears and realised this. She then breaks his neck.

'If only he'd listened.' Sam said, frowning. He shifted uncomfortably.

Angela comes to the cemetery.

'Nice plan.' Cas commented.

Angela tries to persuade Sam that she was still human but he shoots her and she runs after him. They manage to nail her back into her coffin and she stayed dead. Sam compliments Dean on the plan but asks why he had to be bait. Deanreplies that he would be more her type as she had crappy taste in guys.

'Why are you always so rude?' Sam asked with a smile.

'I'm not rude. I just say the truth.' Dean replied with an innocent smile.

The then drive off but Dean pulls up not long after and sits on the hood. He then apologises for the way he'd been acting. He then says that he thought John had made a deal with Azazel and so he thinks that John was dead because of him. He says that he should've stayed dead. He asks what Sam could possibly say to make that right.

'You don't deserve to be dead. None of you do.' Mary said. Dean just looked away.

The recap goes over some of Sam's visions and of John's message to Dean. It also goes over Sam worrying about his abilities. Sam looked vaguely uncomfortable and both John and Mary noticed and frowned. The episode begins with a man getting a phone call and then acting strange. He then walks into a gun store. The owners gives him one.

'I don't think that's a good idea.' Castiel commented.

'Obviously.' Dean said, sighing.

He asks about what shells are used and the owner shows him some and loads it. He then shoots the owner and keeps repeating that everything is going to be ok.

'I've never heard of anything that has done that before.' Mary said, surprised.

The scene is revealed to be one of Sam's nightmares. Dean enters and asks what is wrong until he realises. In the car, Sam wants to go to the roadhouse and find out the location of the murder from Ash as he thinks it is connected to the demon as all his visions are. Dean says that the hunters in the bar might react badly to him announcing that he has powers connected to a demon.

'We weren't going to judge.' Jo said, frowning.

'It wasn't you guys we were worrying about. It was the other hunters.' Sam replied.

Sam asks if he is a freak. Dean replies that he always has been. Sam frowned.

'Sorry. You aren't a freak.' Dean said, wincing as he saw Sam's face.

The scene cuts to the roadhouse and Jo wins a guys room money. Sam and Dean turn up and Sam asks where Ash is and Dean apologises and says that they were on a timetable. They knock on Ash's room and asks for his help but he opens the door without any pants.

'I guess we didn't warn you about that.' Jo said, laughing.

They don't tell Ash about Sam's visions and Sam asks him to look for a house fire in a nursery on a kids 6 month birthday after having no luck with demon signs in the area he thought the vision was in. Ash asks what connection that had. Ash asks for fifteen minutes after Sam offers a bribe. Jo smiled. The scene cuts to Dean alone at the bar and Joputs on a romantic song. Jo went slightly red and sank into her chair. Dean questions her about the music and Jo says that she knows that their mother died the same way and she asks if she could help but Dean says no because he is scared of Ellen's reaction.

'I didn't think you were afraid of anything.?' Sam said with a grin.

'What? She was scary.' Dean replied.

'She sure was.' Jo added with a small smile.

Sam comes back with Ash's information. In the car, Dean is singing the song Jo put on and Dean says that he can't get it out of his head. Jo grins. Sam tells him about Andy Gallager and how he was allowed to walk after running up lots of debt. They go to the address where he was last employed. One of the workers says that debt collectors never come back after Andy talked to him.

'I wish I could do that. That's amazing.' Bobby commented.

One of her male co-workers arrives and says that Andy can get into anything. The girl tells them where he lives and they arrive there and Dean compliments him on his van.

'It is pretty cool.' John agreed.

Sam says that this is the second person with powers like him that they've met and that they've both been killing people and he worries that he is going to become a killer like them. Sam sighed and looked down. Dean tells him that he is not a murderer and that he does not kill anything that isn't asking for it. Andy comes out of his house and talks to a random guy who just gives him his coffee. John and Mary frowned. They then see him talk to the shooter Sam saw. Sam follows the shooter while Dean follows Andy. Andy stops and asks Dean if he can have his car and that it is really cool and Deanlets him. Dean looks down.

'I cannot believe you just gave away the car.' John said, looking shocked.

'I was under mind control!' Dean protested.

Sam sees the man get the phone call and pulls the fire alarm in the store which appears to stop him. Sam then sees Andy driving the car. The shooter then gets another phone call. Sam calls Dean about the car and Dean says that Andy is using mind control. The shooter then walks in front of the bus. Sam says that he should've stayed with him.

'I'm sure he would've killed him another way.' Mary said.

Andy then tells his female co worker, Tracey, that Dr Jennings (the shooter) was dead and that he wanted to see her and she tells him about Sam and Dean. Mary frowned. Sam and Dean find the impala with the keys. Sam realises that he did the mind control via the phone. Dean says that he is not sure if it is him but Sam says that he is. John frowned.

'It definitely seems like him.' John said.

They then look inside his trunk in order to track him down and find loads of books and strange things in there. They say that he doesn't seem like a serial killer.

'He still has the ability used to kill those people.' John said, frowning.

In the car, Dean complains about his burger and Sam asks about Andy's motive and Dean says that it might not be Andy. John frowned. Andy then appears and asks why they are following him. Dean says the truth and says that he is scared of Sam's powers but Sam seems immune to it. John except Sam and Dean laugh. Andy tells them to leave him alone. Sam gets out the car and questions Andy and says that he has powers and that the same thing that happened to Andy had happened to him. Sam then gets another vision and asks Andy why he killed the doctor. The scene cuts to Sam's vision of a blonde woman an getting a phone call at a petrol station. She pours petrol on herself and sets light to it. They then see a fire engine and Dean follows it and finds out that it has already happened so they realise that Andy isn't the culprit. Sam looks guilty. Sam asks Andy why he doesn't get more via his gifts and he says that he has all he needs.

'He is such a good person. Most people would take advantage.' Bobby commented.

'He was.' Sam said, looking guilty. Bobby frowned.

Dean arrives and says that the woman who was killed was Andy's mother and that he was adopted. They get the birth records from the county office via Andy's gifts.

'That would be so useful.' John said, sighing.

They find out that the doctor who was killed had handled his adoption. Sam also says that Andy was a twin. They print off a photo of him annd they realise that it is Andy's male co-worker, Ansen.

'That makes sense. So he has the same powers.' John said, smiling.

The scene cuts to Ansen questioning Tracey about her relationship with Andy and how she feels about him. The scene cuts to Sam, Dean and Andy in the car and he gets a vision of Tracey jumping off a bridge. The scene cuts to Andy's brother tormenting Tracey and says that she isn't going to have him or anything. Everyone frowned.

'He is a despicable human being.' Mary said, frowning.

Once at the bridge, Dean stays behind as he doesn't want to get mind controlled again.

'Good idea.' Jo said.

Andy refuses to stay behind and goes with Sam. Ansen tells Tracey to walk to the bridge and believe that she can fly. Sam and Andy arrive and Andy tries to beat him up but Sam stops him. Ansen non-verbally makes Tracey attack Samand Andy tries to make her stop and she does. Andy asks why he didn't have to use his words to mind control people and he replies that it is just practise. Ansen makes Tracey walk towards the edge of the bridge. Ansen says that Tracey is trying to come between them.

'He is crazy.' John said, looking confused

He says that the man with the yellow eyes stopped him from telling Andy who he was and said that he had plans for them. Ansen says that he killed the people who split them up. Dean gets out of the car and tries to shoot Ansen but he sees him and makes Dean shoot himself but Andy shoots him first.

'That was so close.' Mary said, looking slightly white.

The scene cuts to Andy telling the police what happened and Sam comments that he is getting better at it. Andy laments that Tracey is scared of him but he admits that he never used his mind control on her. Jo smiled. Sam gives him his phone number and says that they have to leave. Dean tells him to be good or they will be back. Sam comments that all the special kids they've met have become killers but Dean says not to worry. Sam frowns. Sam mentions that Deansaid he was scared under Andy's mind control but Dean's says that it doesn't count and that he is calling do over. Mary smiles. Sam asks if he is seven years old.

'You still act seven years old.' Sam muttered.

'Hey!' Dean protested.

The phone rings and it's Ellen. She asks them to come to the roadhouse. She asks about their last hunt but they refuse to tell her about it until she reveals that she has seen what Ash had researched and she tells Dean that the demons plans will effect everyone. Sam tells her the truth about his abilities and the demon's plans. Sam says that Ansen's adopted mother didn't die in a house fire and so they don't know how many are out there.

The episode begins with a pretty blonde girl on the phone complaining about the flickering lights in the apartment. Once off the phone she sees black goo coming out of an air vent. Then she sees an eye and she screams. Sam sighed and frowned. The scene cuts to Sam and Dean. Dean pretends to have found a case where a girl called Katie Holmes had been kidnapped by an evil cult and Sam says that it was funny, and for him he was being bitchy. Dean grinned.

'You are so annoying.' Sam commented.

'You're the one calling me a bitch.' Dean responded.

'What call people bitch all the time! You can't talk.' Sam responded.

They then hear Jo and Ellen arguing. Jo wants to go on a hunt that she had found but Ellen refused. Ellen tells Sam and Dean to go but Jo wanted their opinion. They are then interrupted by a family entering and Jo and Ellen shout at them.

'Well I guess they never came back.' Dean said, with a grin.

'Nope. I think we scared them.' Jo replied.

The phone then rings and as Ellen answers it, Jo tells them about young blondes disappearing every decade or two from an apartment building in Philadelphia. Ellen tells Sam and Dean to take the case and says that their family had lost enough and that she didn't want to lose Jo too. John looked away, looking uncomfortable. Mary noticed and frowned.

Sam and Dean break into the apartment. Sam says that he felt bad snaking Jo's case. Dean says that he couldn't see her working a case.

'Rude.' Jo said.

'I guess you proved me wrong.' Dean said with a smile.

Sam finds some ectoplasm and they realise that they were dealing with a spirit. Then then find that Jo had sneaked out and she pretends to be Dean's girlfriend. Jo grinned. She then pays to rent the apartment. She says that she'd got Ash to lay a credit card trail to Vegas which is where she'd told Ellen she'd gone. Ellen then rings Dean and Jo persuades Dean to tell her that Jo wasn't there.

'I bet Ellen was pissed when she found out.' John said.

'Oh she sure was.' Sam replied.

They finds that there weren't any violent deaths in the building. They then theorise that it was a cursed object which brought a spirit with it. They then look for EMF and Dean insists Jo goes with rolled her eyes. She has a go at him for being a chauvinist but he says that women can do the job fine but that amateurs can't. He says that she fit the spirits type and she replies that she knew and that it was the quickest way of drawing it out.

'So you wanted to be bait?' Mary said, looking confused.

'Yeah. It worked didn't it?' Jo said with a grin. Dean sighed and shook his head.

Dean says that he regretted letting her stay. He tells her that he wished he could do something else and says that she should try and that she shouldn't let her chance of a normal life go away. John sighed. She then sees a hand come out of the vent to grab her.

'How come you didn't think to mention that a hand had just tried to grab you?' Dean asked.

'Well I did. I said I found EMF.' Jo replied.

'Yeah but if we'd've known that the spirit was after you then we would've been more on out guard.' Dean said, frowning.

'Exactly. I didn't want to give you anymore reason for babying me.' Jo replied.

'You could've gotten yourself killed.' Dean said.

She finds EMF there and Dean congratulates her for finding her first spirit. Dean says that he smelt something. They then pull out some blonde hair out of there.

'That's gross.' Mary commented.

The scene cuts to another young blonde entering her apartment and reading a letter. Ectoplasm drops onto it and she throws the letter away. The lights flicker, and a crack appears across the ceiling. It slowly grows, and the woman tries the phone and then the door but neither works. A hand then comes out of the vent and drags her in. The scene cuts to Dean asleep on the sofa in an uncomfortable position. Jo says, 'morning princess' and Dean asks her how the soft bed was. She says that she hadn't slept. Dean offers her a large knife in place of her smaller one until he realises that it was from her dad. Jo asks what Dean remembers about John. He says that it was when he went shooting for the first time when he was 6 or 7 and he bulls-eye every one and John had smiled. John smiled. Jo says that she remembers her dad coming home and picking her up. She says that she wanted to do the job for him as a way of being close to him. She asks what was wrong with that and Dean said 'nothing'.

'There is if it gets you killed.' Sam said, frowning.

Sam comes back and says that another girl had disappeared. Jo then realises that there used to be a prison next to the building and that they executed people in the field next door where the apartment block was built. They contact Ash and find that H.H Holmes was killed there, and his MO fitted as well.

'You hunted the spirit of H.H Holmes? I'm actually kind of jealous!' John said.

Dean recognises the smell that he'd smelt by the vent as chloroform. They find that his coffin was buried in concrete and Sam says that he used to lock his victims in the wall and that although he would suffocate some he would let others starve to death. They then use sledgehammers to search inside the walls. Dean goes with Jo, but they reach a place that was too thin for Dean but not for Jo and she persuades Dean to let her go in there alone.

'I'm such an idiot.' Dean commented.

'Yep. You are.' Sam replied with a grin, earning him a glare from Dean.

Jo is then captured after seeing ectoplasm and going down an air duct. Dean hears her scream and runs downstairs. He begins attacking the wall where she was and finds her phone. Jo suppressed a smile.

'Stop smiling! You actually scared me so much when you disappeared.' Dean said, 'I mean it's not like you would've died if we hadn't found you.'

Dean then meets with Sam and tells him what happened. Sam says that they will find her. Ellen phones and said that she knows Jo is there. Dean says that she was taking care of feminine business, but Ellen doesn't believe him.

'You could've literally used any other excuse.' Jo said with her head in her hands.

Dean ends up telling her what happened and promised that he would find her. Jo sighed. Ellen says that wasn't the first time she'd heard that from a Winchester. Mary frowned and was about to question it until she saw John's face. Ellen says that she would be on the first flight out.

'I bet that was fun.' John said, with a smile. Dean sighed and shook his head.

Sam realises that Holmes used the basement as well, so they decided to check the old sewage system under the building. Jo wakes up and finds that she was inside an enclosed space. She almost begins to cry but she then gets control of herself.

'Yeah. You totally had the situation under control.' Dean said and Jo went slightly red.

She speaks to Theresa and says that she was there to rescue her. Dean grinned. She tells her that Sam and Dean were looking for them. The ghost of Holmes then comes and pulls some of Jo's hair out and she screams.

'Shut up.' Jo said, as Dean looked like he was going to speak.

'I wasn't going to say anything!' Dean protested.

Sam and Dean uses a metal detector to find the entrance to the sewer and they climb down. Jo bangs the cell she was in to try and escape, but it was futile. Holmes appears and touches her arm, but she uses her knife to repel him. Samand Dean frowned.

'Finally! Using your common sense!' Dean said, sarcastically.

'Shut up! I couldn't reach it before!' Jo protested.

Sam and Dean crawl along the sewer. Jo has her knife taken off her and Holmes tries to smother her until Sam and Dean appear and shoot him. They break open the cells and let Jo and Theresa out. Dean then says that Jo being bait was now the only plan they had.

'You've changed your tune.' John commented.

'Well. We needed a plan and it was the only plan we had.' Dean replied.

The scene cuts to Jo alone in the room with the cells. Holmes appears and walks forward and Sam and Dean traps him with salt. Once outside, Jo says that it was scary but that it was worth it. Jo asks what happens if someone finds the sewer or a storm washes the salt away. Dean then appears with a cement truck and they filled the sewer with cement. John and Bobby smile.

'Always so dramatic.' Sam said with a grin.

The scene then cuts to Jo, Sam, Dean and Ellen in the car. There is a very awkward silence until Dean said 'You weren't kidding about flying out were ya?' He then puts on some music but Ellen turns it off. Dean comments that it was going to be a long drive. Jo, Sam and Dean smiled.

'I bet it was.' John commented.

Back at the roadhouse, Dean apologises to Ellen and says that Jo did good and that her dad would be proud. Ellen replies by saying 'don't you dare say that'. Ellen has a go at Jo for trusting her life to the Winchesters and Ellen tells her the truth about why John hadn't told them about her and Jo. Jo then tells Sam and Dean that John had gotten her father killed on a hunt and tells them to leave so they do.

The episode begins in a police station and the police are talking about the fake ID's of a suspect they had just arrested. Sam and Dean sighed, and the others just looked confused. The police question an unseen person about grave desecrations and a murder in St Louis where they supposedly died.

'It's you Dean, isn't it?' Mary said, with a sigh.

'Can't wait to find out how you got out of this one. How on earth did you get caught in the first place?' John added.

'I'm sure you'll see later.' Sam replied.

It cuts between the police officer's questions and a team of police officers breaking in to a motel room and arresting Sam. It then reveals that Dean was the person they were questioning.

'Wait, so they caught both of you? I thought you were good at avoiding the police!' John questioned.

'Well it's difficult when you didn't even realise that they were after you.' Dean muttered in response.

A female officer, called Diana, comes in to question Sam and offers him a drink. Sam comments that she was clearly the good cop and asks where the bad cop was.

'You'd have thought that the police would stop using that technique now that everyone knows about it.' Bobby commented.

Diana replies that he was with Dean. Sam asks what they were being held for and she replies that they were being held for murder. Mary frowned. She says that he sounded very surprised but questions whether he was that good of an actor.

'Well she got something right.' John commented.

'I'm not that bad.' Sam replied, with a frown.

She says that she knew all about him.

'I doubt that.' Bobby said.

Sam refuses to answer. He says that he was taking a road trip with Dean. Diana says that they got lots of possible hits when they ran Dean's prints. She says that Dean's life was over but that Sam's didn't have to be. Mary, John and Bobby frowned. They just needed him to fill in some missing pieces.

'She doesn't know you at all if she thinks you'd betray your brother like that.' Bobby said with a small smile.

The scene cuts back in time to Dean finding a possible case. Dean calls Sam the Scully to his Mulder. Sam sighed and Dean grinned. Dean says that Tony Giles had his throat slit in his office, even though the security cameras did not show anyone entering or leaving around that time. They question his wife who says that he hadn't seen anything strange before his death. She says that he'd had a nightmare before he died and that he'd seen a woman standing at the edge of the bed.

'Just sounds like a standard ghost haunting to me. Still confused as to how you get caught.' John commented.

It cuts back to Sam telling Diana what happened. He says that he knew the woman whose husband had been killed. The scene then cuts to Sam and Dean breaking into the crime scene and they deduce that it was a vengeful spirit. They find paper with the words Dana Shulps written on it over and over.

'Dana Shulps? What is that?' Jo asked.

'You'll see.' Sam said.

They look but they can't find any trace of the name Dana Shulps in local records. Sam breaks into the victim's computer and says that he would get the password to it in 30 mins. Dean messes around for a bit then leaves to talk to Karen. The others smiled. The officer continues to question Sam over why they separated. The scene cuts to Karen, the victim's wife, thinking that there was someone in the house. She makes a 911 call. The line cuts out and the lights flicker. The fax machine runs and prints out some paper with the same thing written on it continuously. She turns and sees a woman with her throat slit. The scene cuts to Dean breaking in to the house and finding Karen dead. He sees the paper with Dana Shulps written on it. He is then found by the police and arrested.

'Well that makes a little more sense. You were caught red-handed.' Mary commented, looking slightly less confused.

Back in the present, Diana asks the other male cop, Pete, what he got from Dean and he says that he just got a load of wise ass remarks.

'Well I wasn't going to tell him anything so I needed something to fill the time.' Dean said with a grin.

Diana adds that their stories matched to the last detail. Pete replies that they were good.

'Well thank you very much, we are.' Dean replied with a smug grinned. Sam grinned as well.

'Will you two stop showing off?' Jo commented.

'Nope.' Dean replied.

Diana says that there was reasonable doubt and that they only had circumstantial evidence is Sam didn't talk. It then became clear that they were a couple. The scene cuts to Sam and Dean trying to work out who or what Dana Shulps was and they realise that it wasn't a name.

'Love how we both realised that it was an anagram at the same time.' Dean said with a grin.

'What was it? A place or something?' Jo asked, rolling her eyes.

'It was a street.' Dean replied.

Back at the police station, Dean's lawyer arrives to talk to him and he says it didn't look good. Mary frowned. Dean asks the lawyer to humour him. Dean rearranges the letters in Dana Shulps a few different ways and persuades the lawyer to see if he recognises any of them, commenting that he thought it was an anagram. The lawyer asks whether he realised how serious the charges were. Dean replies that he was handcuffed to a table and that he understood but he asks the lawyer to humour him. He says that one of them was the name of a street not far away.

'That was fortunate. Most lawyers are not that useful.' Bobby commented.

Dean asks if he could get a note to Sam. The lawyer agrees but he reminds him that he could face the death penalty. Dean thanks him sarcastically and calls him Matlock. Meanwhile, Diana sees Dana Shulps come up multiple times on her screen.

'Was she the next victim?' Mary asked, and Dean nodded.

The lawyer goes in to see Sam who calls him Matlock and the lawyer says that they really were brothers.

'Sam if you copy my jokes again I swear…' Dean began but he was interrupted.

'I didn't copy you. I didn't even hear you say it.' Sam protested.

'Whatever. Just because I'm funnier than you does not mean you can copy me.' Dean replied and Sam rolled his eyes.

The lawyer is then called away as Dean has decided to confess.

'What the hell! Why did you do that?' Jo asked, looking confused.

'It was a distraction so that Sam could escape. Plus, it was funny because it annoyed the police officer.' Dean replied.

'Of course you would do that.' Bobby sighed.

Dean tells the officers the truth about what he and Sam did but they didn't believe it. Pete calls him arrogant bastard.

'Couldn't agree more.' Sam said with a grin.

'It's what makes me so likeable.' Dean replied.

Pete then attacks him and gets him locked up after being held back by some other officers. They then find that Sam has escaped. He finds the note Sam had got from Dean which told him about the street and mention two characters from the Great Escape. John laughed. Diana goes to the bathroom and sees the spirit and the words Dana Shulps appear in the mirror. She then notices that she has bruises on her arm and she asks Dean about it. Dean says that he thinks that she is going to be the spirits next victim. Dean tells her how to find Sam by looking for the first motel listed in the yellow pages and he gives her the name he used.

'That was a bit risky wasn't it? She could've had him arrested again.' John commented.

'Not if she wanted to live she wouldn't.' Sam replied.

Diana finds Sam and tells him what happened. She says that it was like the spirit was trying to talk to her but she couldn't because her throats was slit. Sam tells her to look through the pictures of missing women from the street the lawyer had recognised. She recognises one of the women and they find out that she was picked up for narcotics before she disappeared. They then go to look for a body so that they could salt and burn her bones. They check out the building where she disappeared. The ghost, Claire, appeared and led them to her corpse.

'That's weird. Why would a ghost want to get killed?' Jo asked.

Sam comments that no vengeful spirit had ever led them to their remains and that it was weird. They then find a necklace on the corpse that was identical to one Diana had. She says that she had been given it by Pete. Sam says that the spirit is a death omen and that Pete had killed her and she was trying to get revenge.

'That makes more sense. I hate it when humans turn out to be the killers.' John comments.

'Same.' Dean adds.

Diana says that a year ago a police officer working in narcotics took some heroin from an evidence bag and they would've needed someone to fence their product. The scene cuts to Pete transferring Dean at 2 in the morning. Samand the officer find that out and that he wasn't answering his radio. Sam then works out how to track his car. Meanwhile, Pete stopped and takes Dean out. He tells Dean that he was going to die trying to escape. He takes out a gun and Dean tries to stall him unsuccessfully.

'You are not as good at stalling as you think you are.' Jo commented.

'Shut up.' Dean replied.

Diana and Sam then appear. Pete then confesses and says that he was going to pin in on Dean. 'One more dead scumbag' Pete says and Dean replies indignantly with 'Hey!'. Diana pretends to put her gun down but then shoots him in the leg. He tries to escape and holds a gun to Diana. He is then distracted by Claire who suddenly appears and Diana shoots him properly. She then lets Sam and Dean escape. She says that she could get their cases dismissed but not the St Louis murders. Dean asks where his car is and she tells him and says to not even think about trying to get it back. They then leave, with the car of course.

'I was gonna say. If you'd have left the car I would've been pissed.' John commented.

The episode begins with Dean killing a seemingly innocent man. Mary frowned.

'What the hell Dean?' What had he done?' John asked.

'This is going to be difficult to explain.' Dean muttered, 'You'll see.'

Sam and Dean looked at each other and sighed. Sam shifted uncomfortably.

It then cuts to Sam waking up, showing that it was a vision.

'Oh good it was just a vision.

He tells Dean about it and Dean says that he wouldn't kill an innocent man. Mary smiled. They agree to find the man and see what was happening. They saw one of the guys Sam saw in his dream. They ask him if they'd seen the guy Dean shot and he tells them where he lived. On the way they see a tree with Croatoan carved into it. Sam recognises it from the Lost Colony in Roanoke and Dean says he didn't remember. Sam asks if Dean paid any attention in history class and Dean talks about School House Rock. John smiled.

'I do know stuff about history!' Dean protested and Sam rolled his eyes.

Sam tells him that the people there disappeared, leaving only a single word carved into a tree. They then find out that they had no signal and neither did any of the other phones. Dean says that would be his first step in massacring a town.

'It worries me that that was your first thought.' Bobby said.

'Well, you know me. I'm a complete psychopath.' Dean said with a wide grin.

'Well that's definitely true.' Bobby replied with a grin equally as wide.

They arrive at the guy who Dean had killed in Sam's vision, Dwayne's, house and his brother says that he was away. His father comes out and says that the mother wasn't at home despite the brother saying that she was earlier. The brother then denies saying it.

'Well that's weird.' Bobby commented.

'Tell me about it.' Sam replied.

They look into the window and see the man and his son attacking his wife and mother.

'What the hell? What kind of creatures were they?' John asked.

'They're humans. You'll see what happens.' Sam replied.

They shoot the father but Sam hesitates and the kid escapes. They take the woman to the hospital. Dean comes in with the father's body and says that he was a U.S Marshall. The woman says that her son and husband just randomly attacked her out of the blue. Sam and Dean suggest that they were possessed. When Dean has a go at Sam for not shooting the kid, Sam says that he let the kid go because he didn't want to kill him.

'He's a kid!' Mary protested.

'He just attacked his Mom. I don't think he's the nicest person in the world.' Bobby commented.

Dean then begins to drive off to the next town to get some help. Dean finds a car with blood on it and windows smashed in.

'Well that doesn't look ominous at all.' Bobby commented.

'I think that probably does count as ominous.' Cas said, looking confused.

The doctor examins the blood of the dead guy and said that it was fighting off a virus which left sulphuric residue.

'A demon virus? Now that's something I've never seen before.' John commented.

Dean then meets some townsfolk who are creating a roadblock. He notices that the kid is there and they tell him that they were doing it because there was a quarantine. Dean then quickly drives off and is shot at. They then realise that the woman, Beverly, may have the virus and she suddenly goes crazy and attacks them.

'That took effect quickly. How on earth do you get out of this one?' Jo asked.

They then manage to knock her out. Dean then meets the guy they spoke to earlier who now has a gun and they argue over whether they were lying about not having the virus. He says that he was attacked by his neighbour. They drive off but kept their guns on each other.

'What is your problem with trusting people?' Sam questioned with a smile.

'Well, you know, you trust someone and then the next thing you know you start the apocalypse.' Dean said with a grin.

'Or they go and kill a good friend of yours and then lie to you about it.' Sam says in return, also with a grin.

One of the young nurses, Pam, tries to leave but is persuaded not to by Sam. Dean and the other guy then arrive. They tell each other what they know. Sam says that he had looked in John's journal and realised that Croatoan was a demon of pestilence. They then decide to shoot Beverly. As they went in she tries to convince Mark, the guy Dean picked up, that she wasn't infected and that the others were. He shoots her.

'Wait is that the flashback you saw at the beginning?' Jo asked and Sam shakes his head.

Pam cuts herself and gets some of the blood on her but it looks like she doesn't.

'Does that mean she's infected?' Mary asked and Sam nodded.

They realise that the only way to get out is to use explosives. The guy Sam saw in his vision then arrived and Dean tells the doctor to check his blood. He says that he was fishing and he'd been hiding in the woods. He asks if anyone had seen his parents. They realise that he was bleeding and he says that he tripped.

'He's definitely infected.' John said.

'Thats what I said.' Dean said with a smug grin.

'Except that you were wrong.' Sam reminded him

He swears that he hadn't been infected. They decide to tie him up to be make sure. The doctor says that there was no way to check until he turned. Sam tries to persuade Dean to wait and see. Sam says that Dean wasn't acting like himself. Dean then locks Sam in the room and Sam shouts for him not to kill the kid.

'You shouldn't shoot the kid until you are sure. What if you're wrong?' Jo questioned.

'I know that now.' Dean said, glumly.

'Why are you two always arguing?' Cas commented.

'Because Sam sometimes get strange ideas.' Dean said with a grin.

The boy begs Dean not to kill him and Dean said he had no choice. Jo frowned. The vision played out except Deanchanges his mind and lets Sam go. Four hours later, the guys blood was still clean so they untie him.

'Well that was dramatic.' Bobby commented with a grin.

'Its good you didn't shoot him then.' Jo said with a smile.

Sam asks Dean why he didn't shoot the guy but Dean didn't answer. He then asks for more alcohol. Sam leaves and Pam locks him in the room with her and attacks him, saying that she'd waited for this the whole time.

'Please tell me you weren't infected.' Mary said, and Sam didn't answer. Mary frowned and looked worried.

Sam is then infected and Dean shoots Pam. They realise that he has the virus. Dean refuses to let anyone shoot Sam.Mary gasped.

'You had better find a cure for this and not shoot your brother.' Mary said with her teeth clenched.

'We're fine. We've been in worse situations. Believe me.' Sam said with a smile.

'Not helping!' Mary protested.

Sam offers to do it himself. They argue about what to do. Everyone but Dean wants to shoot him. Dean tells them to take the explosives and take his car and get out. The guy tries to persuade Dean to go with them. As they leave, Deantells the doctor that they weren't Marshalls.

'Its funny how she just doesn't care at this point.' Bobby said with a smile. Mary frowns.

Sam begs Dean to leave but he refuses. Sam says that it was the dumbest thing he'd ever done.

'It may have been stupid but I wasn't going to leave you.' Dean said and Sam rolled his eyes then looked down.

Sam says it was over for him but that it didn't have to be for him. Dean says he didn't want to keep going. Mary frowned.

'Why?' John asked, clearly upset.

'You'll see why.' Dean replied.

Dean says he was tired of the job and his life. John looked down guiltily.

'You can't just give up. You have to keep fighting. Why are you giving up so easily?' Mary asked.

'It's not that I really wanted to die I just preferred it to what I thought was coming.' Dean replied, making Mary confused.

When asked Dean says it wasn't all because of John and Sam asks what it was about. They were interrupted by the doctor who says that everyone had disappeared. Sam is then revealed not to have the virus. Mary and John relax. Everyone leaves except the Doctor. Sam and Dean then leave. Dean says that he was going to lose sleep over it. Samasks why he was immune.

'Mabye because of your powers?' Jo questioned.

'Yeah, probably.' Sam replied.

The scene cuts to the boy and the guy. Sam and Dean frowned. The boy is then revealed to be a demon and he cut the guy's throat to make a call and says that Sam was immune as expected. Sam and Dean hung their heads. He then says 'nothing left behind'.

'So we didn't save anyone? Those people all died because of some kind of demon in experiment?' Sam questioned, blaming himself as always.

'There was nothing you could have done, even the angels have no cure for that virus, and we can't control every demon.' Cas said, sympathetically.

The scene cuts to Sam and Dean drinking beer. Sam asks what Dean had been talking about earlier about being tired of the job. Dean tells him to forget about it but Sam persists.

'You guys are awful at telling each other how you're feeling about stuff.' Job said with a grin.

'Tell me about it.' Sam said with a small laugh.

Dean then tries to persuade Sam to take a break from hunting but Sam persists and asks what was bothering him. Dean says that he promised John he wouldn't say. Dean then says that John had told him something about Sam before he died.

The episode begins with a young man telling a doctor about his abilities.

'Why can't it go back to where he previous episode ended?' Mary said, impatiently.

He says that he can electrocute things. He says that he had killed the neighbour's cat.

'What did the cat do to deserve that?' Dean asked, frowning.

Scotty comments that the doctor doesn't believe in him. He offers to shake on it when the man says that he believed that Scotty believed it. Scotty says that a yellow-eyed-man visited him in his dreams and wanted him to do awful things.

'Is that the demon?' Jo asked, and Sam nodded.

He says that he had plans for him. Afterwards, Scotty is stabbed by an unseen figure.

'Poor kid. He didn't deserve that.' Cas said, frowning.

The scene cuts back to the end of the previous episode. Dean says that John had told him to watch out for him and save him if he could and that if he couldn't he had to kill him.

'You said what?!' Mary said, turning to face John.

'Well I assumed that Sam would turn bad at some point.' John said, hanging his head.

'Based on what?' Mary asked angrily.

'On the fact that he had demon blood in him and that the demon planned to recruit him into some kind of army!' John replied.

'That is not enough to tell his older brother that he might have to kill him? Did you have any idea what effect that would have on him?' Mary fired back.

'No. I'm sorry, I should have handled it better than I did. At least you didn't turn bad right? Or Dean saved you at any rate?' John questioned.

'Well...I did go bad for a while. But Dean soon got me to snap out of it.' Sam said, shifting in his seat.

'Not really. You thought you were doing it for the right reasons and you were lied to. There's a difference.' Dean said, and Bobby nodded.

'Sure. I guess so. Sam replied, not entirely convinced. Dean frowned.

Sam asks what else he said and Dean says that there was nothing else. Sam gets angry at Dean for not telling him. Sam says that they had to figure out what was going on but Dean says they should lay low. Dean asked for time but later Sam steals a car and leaves.

'Did you have to go of without telling me? I thought you'd been kidnapped or something.' Dean said with a scowl.

'Yeah. Like you would have let me go off by myself like I wanted to.' Sam replied with a grin.

The scene cuts to Sam breaking into an old house and getting blown up after setting off a trip wire. Mary and John jumped and looked at Sam in alarm.

'I don't remember that happening?' Bobby asked in confusion.

It is then revealed that it was a dream by another young woman who was around Sam's age.

'Is that another kid with special powers?' Mary asked, and Sam nodded.

She tells her fiancée that it was just a nightmare but she looks troubled. Sam then arrives at Ellen's and she says that Dean had called and was looking for him.

'Of course.' Jo said with a smile.

Sam didn't answer and asks how Jo was. Ellen replies that she had left to go hunting after Ellen refused to let her hunt and live at the roadhouse. Jo frowned and looked guilty. Ellen says that she wished she could blame them but that it wasn't their fault. She said that she forgave John a long time ago but that John hadn't forgiven himself. John looked away from the screen guiltily. Sam then says that he was looking for more psychics. Ash says that he found four people whose mothers died in a nursery fire on their six month birthday. One was Sam, the others were Andy, Max and Scotty. Ash said that he had been killed. Sam then leaves to find out more about Scotty. He then tries to persuade her not to phone Dean.

'Well I guess that didn't work.' Sam said, sighing.

Sam talks to Scotty's father and he tells Sam about the headaches and nightmares he'd had. Sam looks in his room and sees Scotty's drawings of Azazel.

'So he's another kid with special powers. Looks like someone is after them? Are you sure it's good for you to be alone right now?' Mary questioned.

'Probably not to be fair. I was fine though.' Sam replied, with a small smile.

Sam leaves and finds a motel. He then sees Ava following him and she tells him about her vision. She also says that she saw Scotty die before it happened and that she saw it in the newspaper. Sam tells her about the demon and the other psychic kids but she doesn't believe him.

'Of course. Why does no one ever believe me?' Sam complained.

'Mabye cuz you explain it wrong?' Dean commented with a smirk.

She tries to persuade him to leave but he says that he wants to find out what happened. The scene cuts to Deanphoning Ellen and he persuades her to tell him where Sam was and she does.

'So much for not telling you.' Sam sighed.

She then decides to leave but Sam persuaded her to stay, saying that she would never know the truth.

The scene cut to Ava at the psychiatrist's office and Sam steals Scotty's files. They listen to it and Scotty talked about his abilities.

Dean then turns up and watches Sam through the window and says 'thank god you're ok'. He then sees Ava and says 'Oh, you're better than ok. Sam, you sly dog.'

'First of all, that's creepy. Second, why do you have to make everything dirty?' Sam complained.

'Shut up. I wanted to make sure you were ok.' Dean replied.

On the recording, Scotty says that Azazel told him that the children were soldiers for an army in a coming war. Sam and Ava are then shot at by Gordon. Dean tries to stop him but is knocked out and taken away. Sam and Ava go to investigate and Sam decides to call Dean.

'Finally! Bit late now though.' John said.

Sam tells him where he was and Dean says that he was there and that it was a funky town. John smiled. They agree to meet and it is revealed that Dean is tied up and that it is Gordon holding the phone. Sam realises because funky town is a code word they use when someone has a gun on them.

'Clever.' Jo said with a grin.

'I told you it would come in use one day.' Dean said with a grin.

'I never had a problem with the idea it's just the word. It's obviously going to gain attention.' Sam replied with a grin.

Dean asks Gordon why he was trying to kill Sam and he says that it was because he is hunting Sam as he is now fair game.

'No he's not!' Mary said, angrily.

Sam persuades Ava to leave and promises to call her when he gets Dean back. Gordon explains that he found this out while torturing a young girl possessed by a demon. Dean asks if the girl made it and he says no. Dean calls him a son of bitch and Gordon slaps him and says 'that's my mom you're talking about'. Dean laughed.

'He is so strange.' Bobby commented.

Gordon explains that he forced the demon to tell him about Azazel's psychic children and that Sam was one of them. He says that he'd killed Scotty. He says that he guessed that Dean had warned Sam and so he'd set a trap at the back door.

'He was right about me warning you.' Dean said with a smug grin.

Gordon says that he'd set two trip wires that would set off explosives. He apologises and says that he wished he didn't have to do it but that it would be quick.

'Well thanks a lot.' Dean said.

Dean says that it wasn't like Sam to go bad and that he felt guilty searching for porn.

'No I don't!' Sam protested, his face slightly red.

He says that John would've done what he was doing.

'No I wouldn't!' John said adamantly. Dean raised his eyebrows.

'Really?' Mary questioned.

'What? I told Dean to try and save him first didn't I?' John said.

Sam then arrives and it appears that he'd set both trip wires off and was dead. Dean obviously believes that he is dead and looks upset. Mary and John tensed up.

'I'm offended that you believe I would be killed that easily.' Sam said.

'I didn't really think you were dead. A bit of me thought you would have found a way to survive.' Dean said with a grin but Sam didn't really believe him.

Gordon goes to see if Sam is dead and is attacked by Sam who had set off the trip wires with his shoes as Ava had told him what was coming because of her vision.

'Thank god.' Mary said, relaxing along with John.

Sam puts a gun on Gordon and Gordon taunts him to shoot him and prove that he is a murderer. Sam then knocks him out and sets Dean free. Dean wants to kill him but Sam calls the cops on Gordon and he is arrested as Sam and Deanescape. Back at the roadhouse, Dean accuses Ellen of talking to someone and tells her what happened. Ellen says that someone else must have told him.

'Hey! My mother would never have done that!' Jo protested.

Dean wants to run away but Sam persuades him otherwise and Dean says, 'if you ever run off like that again…' 'What? You'll kill me?'. Sam laughed. Sam keeps calling Ava and Dean asks if he was sweet on her. Sam replies that she was engaged and Dean says 'so?'.

'Dean!' Mary said in indignation and Dean apologised.

Sam persuades Dean to check on her and they find her fiancée dead and Ava missing. They also find sulphur on the windowsill.

'Oh no! She seemed so nice!' Mary said. Sam and Dean looked at each other.

The episode begins at an old creepy house. Two little girls sit watching as a man comes down the stairs with a box of her toys. Her mother explains that they are being sold along with the house. One girl calls the man a 'son of a bitch' and the other girl copies, protesting that Maggie said it first when her mother calls her out on it.

'Those girls need to watch their mouths.' John said, frowning.

'They are so creepy.' Jo commented.

The little girl puts her dolls to bed and finds one with its neck twisted at the bottom of the stairs in the doll's house which was a copy of the house they were in. The man is then found the same way.

'How does that work? Some kind of curse?' Bobby questioned.

'A ghost.' Sam replied.

The scene cuts to Sam and Dean. Sam has come off the phone to Ellen. He says that she doesn't have anything on Ava but she has found another case. Dean comments that it isn't like him to want to find another case when Ava is still missing. Sam says that he feels guilty. He says that he wants to save as many people as he can. Dean agrees to take the case. Sam and Dean arrive at the house and Dean comments on how it's a typical haunted house.

'That actually looks like quite a fun case.' John said.

'Well, it was quite fun.' Dean said, with a grin.

On the doorstep, Sam comments on a fivespot he sees which is used for hoodoo spellwork. He says that maybe it isn't a haunting. They get a room and the woman running the place thinks that they are gay, saying that they look the type.

'I don't get why everyone think we're gay.' Sam said, with a slightly red face. The others, except Dean, just laughed.

They realise that both people who died are connected with shutting the hotel down. They think that someone is practising hoodoo to stop them. They find more hoodoo and talk to Sue, the owner. They persuade her to let them see her dolls, saying that Sam has a collection.

'She must have thought that I'm such a weirdo.' Sam said

Sam finds the doll with its neck twisted and when he asks Tyler, the other little girl from the first scene, she says that she found it like that. She says that her Grandma Rose would get mad if she broke them. Sue refuses to let them talk to Grandma Rose because she is sick. They then theorise that Rose is the hoodoo witch and do some research. A man arrives to do something about selling the house and reveals that they are going to demolish it. He is then killed by hanging and Tyler sees the same scene in the dolls house.

'That is so creepy. I hate dolls.' Jo said with a shudder.

Sue offers to let them check out but Dean says he didn't scare that easy. Dean comes back to find Sam drunk. He calls Dean short and annoying. Everyone laughs. He says that he wishes he could've saved the guy who hung himself.

'There was nothing you could've done. You didn't know.' Cas said.

Sam says that he wants to change his destiny and not become evil. Mary frowned. Sam makes Dean promise to kill him if he became evil. Dean calls John an ass for telling him to kill Sam.

'I'm sorry. I really am.' John said, earnestly.

Sam says that everyone around him died and Dean says that he isn't going to die. Dean promises and Sam goes to sleep. John looked guilty. Dean goes downstairs and talks to the guy at the bar who offers him a drink. He asks to hear some stories. He tells Dean about Rose and how it was the only home she knew. Dean says he wouldn't know.

'And that's another thing I need to apologise for.' John said, looking downwards.

He then finds out about Rose's nurse who may have taught her about hoodoo as she has a hoodoo necklace in a photo. That morning Sam is sick and Dean makes fun of him and tells him to eat a greasy pork sandwich. Mary grinned. They go to talk to Rose and find that she has had a stroke so would be unable to practise hoodoo. They are found by Susan who tells them to leave. The scene cuts to Maggie and Tyler playing and Susan asks Tyler if she has packed and she says no and that Maggie said they couldn't leave. Susan tells her that she is too old to have an imaginary friend. Maggie says that she didn't like her.

'That's not good. I'm guessing that second girl is the ghost?' Bobby asked and Sam nodded.

Susan is then attacked by the car when she goes outside but are saved by Sam and Dean. She then believes them about the ghost after calling them crazy. They asks Susan when Rose had the stroke and she says it was a month ago. Sam says that Rose is stopping the spirit with her hoodoo. They tell her to gather everyone and they realise that Maggie is imaginary.

'Finally, you figure it out!' John said, with a smile.

'Like you could've figured it our faster.' Dean replied, with a grin.

In the attic, Maggie tells Rose that Tyler is going to stay for ever. Susan says that Rose had a sister who died in the pool so they run down there. The scene cuts to Maggie and Tyler in the pool. She is persuading Tyler to jump in so that she would die and be with her forever. She begs and says that she didn't want to be alone.

'I actually feel a little sorry for her. Doesn't excuse trying to drown a little girl though.' Jo said.

Maggie pushes Tyler in and Sam and Dean try to break in. Maggie holds Tyler under the water until she is called away. Sam breaks in and saves Tyler. They think she is dead but then she coughs and began breathing. It is then revealed that Rose has called Maggie and offers to kill herself to be with her sister in return for letting Tyler and Susan go.

'So that's what happened.' Sam said, frowning. He looked down.

'You gonna blame yourself for that too? You gotta stop doing that at some point.' Mary said, with a smile.

Tyler and Susan then find Rose dead. Outside, Sam and Dean tells Susan that Margaret could've had something to do with Rose's death. Tyler says that she couldn't see Maggie anymore so they believe that it is over. Dean jokes that he could've saved the girl but that he didn't want Sam to feel useless.

'Well that was just mean.' Sam said with a small smile.'Oh come on. I was only joking.' Dean replied.

Sam then reminds Dean of his promise, revealing that he did remember. They then leave. The scene cuts back to the two girls playing with a skipping rope in the house.

'That is creepy. When this is over we ought to go back and deal with them. They might kill again when someone else tries to destroy the house.' Dean said.

'They may already have.' Sam reminded him.

'They ought to be put to rest and go to heaven anyway.' Cas commented.

The episode opens with a breaking news story. A bank in downtown Milwaukee is being held up. Police squad cars are surrounding the building, paramedics are on the scene, helicopters flying overhead, as this is now the third hour of the hold up.

'What the hell is going on? What's this got to do with the supernatural?' John asked. Sam and Dean looked at each other, confused.

The SWAT team is ready to enter, as we see the front door of the bank open up and we see a man being escorted out of the building by Dean, looking frantically at all of the cameras and police cars outside. He appears to be holding a security guard captive.

'What the...?' Mary questioned but she was interrupted.

'This was an interesting case.' Dean comments, sighing.

'Can I ask why you were holding someone hostage? There was a legitimate reason right?' Mary questioned.

'Obviously. I'm sure you'll find out soon.' Dean replied.

One day earlier, Sam and Dean, disguised as FBI agents, question two employees at the local jewelry shop about the most recent robbery. The robber, Helena, had been an employee for years and the previous night she had cleaned out all the display cases and the safe. Edgar, the night watchman, had caught her in the act, but she had managed to grab his gun and shoot him in the face. She had then gone home and killed herself by throwing a hairdryer in the bathtub. The employees say that there was no motive as to why she would commit suicide.

'Ok, that sounds like something supernatural. What was it?' John asked, but Sam didn't answer.

The cops had got a hold of the security camera before any of the employees could take a look at them. Franny, one of the employees Sam and Dean interview, tries to hit on Dean and he manages to get her phone number.

'Of course. You hit on any pretty girl you come across.' Jo said, with a grin.

Later that night, Sam and Dean pay a visit to Ronald Reznick's house. He's a security guard at the Milwaukee National Trust. About a month ago, a similar incident to the one at the jewelry store occurred at the bank. Same M.O. (long term employee, inside job, never in a million years-type). The guy robs the bank and then goes home and apparently commits suicide. Ron asks to see the boys' IDs. Looking at their badges and still a little suspicious, he invites them in to tell them what really happened that night at the bank.

'Oh dear. I think he's on to you. He seems like one of those conspiracy theory types.' Bobby commented.

Ron starts right off by saying Juan Morales never robbed the bank. He says that the thing he let in the bank wasn't Juan. However, it had his exact physical features.

'Oh right, it's a shapeshifter.' Mary realised.

Ron continues on ranting about how this is the work of a man-droid living in the sewer system, and shows them a magazine cover featuring one (actually an image of a Cyberman from Doctor Who).

'He's ridiculous! That's from Doctor Who!' Jo said.

'You watch Doctor Who?' Dean questioned.

He shows Sam and Dean the copies of the security tapes at the bank and Juan is seen with his eyes flaring into the camera (aka "laser eyes" as Ron calls it).

'Definitely a shapeshifter.' John confirmed.

Trying to steer Ron away from this case, Sam gives Ron a reality check saying there's no such thing as man-droids and that the "laser eyes" is just a camera flare. Dean looks uncomfortable at flat-out lying to Ron, as he's done a lot of the leg-work for them.

'We really should have told him then.' Dean said, with a sigh.

Back in the motel, Sam and Dean manage to grab hold of the tapes at Ron's house and clearly recognize that they are hunting another shape-shifter just like in St. Louis by the creature's retinal reaction to the video. Dean questions Samabout why he threw Ron off the case and Sam's replies that Ron is not a hunter and that he's just a person who stumbled across something real. If he were to go up against the shapeshifter, he'd get himself killed.

'That's true. You need to stop him from getting into anymore trouble.' Mary commented. Sam and Dean looked down, slightly ashamed. Mary frowned.

Looking at a map of the sewer main, Dean points out that there's one more bank on that line that the shapeshifter might target next.

'Clever. I hope you get there on time.' Jo said, looking worried.

At the City Bank of Milwaukee, Sam and Dean disguise themselves as workers from the security system company in order to gain access to the surveillance camera, so they can find the shapeshifter. Several hours pass and still no sign of the shifter until they get a close-up shot of the bank manager and see his eyes flare at the camera. They also happen to capture Ron locking up the front door to the bank with a chain. He then runs into the lobby, pulls out his rifle and orders everyone to the ground.

'Well that was unexpected. Was he the shapeshifter?' John asked. Sam and Dean shook their heads, making John frown.

'So he really is just a madman?' Mary questioned. Sam and Dean nodded.

Sam and Dean walk into the lobby and try to negotiate with Ron. Realizing they aren't FBI agents, Ron orders the two of them to the ground. Finding no other option, Dean tells Ron the truth about this case, that there really is something in this bank but it's not a man-droid.

'A man-droid? Really?' Jo said, laughing.

'We literally have guns to our heads and you're laughing?' Dean said with a smile.

'Well I'm guessing

Dean says they need to find the bank manager because the shapeshifter is in him. Ron allows Dean to come with him, but locks everyone else in the vault.

'At least he believes you.' Bobby commented.

A few minutes later, in the bank manager's office, Dean and Ron burst into the bank manager's office only to find a layer of shed skin behind the desk. Dean explains to Ron that when a shapeshifter changes its form, it sheds the skin and now it could be anybody.

'Oh dear, everything is going to be so much more difficult now.' Jo commented.

Outside the bank, squad cars are surrounding the building, helicopters are flying overhead, and the SWAT team is ready to enter at any minute. The police cut off power to the bank. Sam and Dean are discussing what their next move will be. Since the cops cut the power off, they have no access to the cameras, so there's no way to tell who the shapeshifter is. It could be in the halls or the vault. But either way, they've got to find a way out of the building because Dean is wanted by the cops.

'Oh man, I forgot about that. You guys are in so much trouble.' John said, looking worried.

Dean decides to take a sweep of the building to try and find the shapeshifter. Back in the vault, one of the security guards is apparently having a heart attack. Sam sees no other option but to phone the cops and ask for a paramedic.

'You can't let him die but I hope you were careful.' Mary said.

In one of the offices in the bank, Dean notices a crack in the ceiling. He breaks it open with the coat rack in the room and a dead body falls to the floor. Turning the body over, Dean realizes that the shapeshifter is the African American guy in the vault. Dean rushes back to the vault and he and Sam bring the security guard out to lure the shapeshifter into a trap. However, the shapeshifter manages to escape with Ron running after it. Ron unknowingly falls right into the sniper trap the cops outside have set up and is shot in the back, falling to the ground dead.

'He may have been slightly crazy but he didn't deserve to die.' Sam said looking guilty.

'It wasn't your fault. Don't go blaming yourself.' Jo said. Sam smiled.

Dean escorts the security guard out of the building while Sam goes after the shapeshifter. Sam discovers more shed skin and phones Dean saying it could be anyone again. Dean heads back to the vault to round up all the employees. Outside the building, the FEDS arrive on the scene. After getting everyone back in the vault, the phone rings. Deanpicks it up and it's Special Agent Henriksen, who immediately recognizes Dean's voice on the phone.

'So now the FBI are after you? That's just brilliant.' John said, shaking his head.

He demands for him and Sam to come out of the building immediately. He says it's become his job to know about the Winchesters and that he's been tracking the two of them for weeks. He knows about the murders in St. Louis and the slip up in Baltimore, and about the cheap motels and thefts.

'How does he know about that?' Cas asked.

'No idea' Dean replied.

He gives Dean one hour to make a decision or the SWAT team will storm in full force. Inside one of the offices, Samfinds Sheri's (one of the hostages) dead body in the closet. Sam and Dean bring Sheri out of the vault and show her the dead body. When she sees it, she starts screaming and faints. Trying to decide which one is the shape-shifter, they hear glass shatter out front.

'Obviously the one who's alive is surely?' John questioned.

'Not necessarily.' Dean replied.

The SWAT team has entered. As Dean turns around, the shapeshifter, who had been posing as the dead body, grabs him by the throat. The shapeshifter then headbutts him twice and escapes. Dean manages to catch up with it and rams it up against the walls stabbing a silver knife right through its heart.

'Now how the hell did you escape the swat team?' Bobby asked. Dean grinned.

'One of my genius ideas.' Dean replied.

Now Sam and Dean need to find a way out of the bank without being arrested. Two SWAT team members order Sam to freeze in the hall, but he throws them a couple rounds of punches knocking them out. Sam and Dean get into their uniforms and leave the building.

'Clever' John comments.

By the time Agent Henriksen arrives, all that remains are the tied-up SWAT team members. They walk down a back alley to a parking garage a couple blocks down the road where the Impala is parked. As soon as they get in the Impala, Dean admits "We are so screwed". Sam agrees, and they drive off.

'Yep. You are' Cas said with a smile.

A woman named Gloria is sitting watching TV in her house, and smoking. There are statues of angels on the desk next to her.

'Is this something to do with the angels?' Cas asked, looking confused.

'No. It was a spirit.' Dean replied. Sam smirked and looked down.

She comes across a program with a man talking about God, and she turns off the TV. The lights start to flicker, and then suddenly the TV turns back on, and the man keeps talking about angels and God. She tries to turn it off, but it won't turn off. Everything suddenly starts shaking.

'That doesn't look like a normal spirit?' John questioned.

'It was a strange one.' Sam said, with a smile.

She stands up and she sees a bright light behind her. She turns around and she can almost see a shape in the middle.

'Why is the spirit glowing?' Mary questioned.

'It was weird. He thought he was an angel.' Dean explained. Everyone else frowned.

Some time later, Sam, disguised as an orderly, interviews Gloria who is now in a psychiatric facility after murdering a man named Carl Gulley. Gloria claims that an angel told her to do it, and is completely at peace.

'That's so weird. Did the ghost possess her?' John asked.

Sam returns to a motel room, where Dean is keeping a low profile after his media exposure during the bank siege in Milwaukee. He relates her story, and Dean scoffs at the idea of angels. Cas frowned.

'It not such an outlandish idea that angels exist.' Cas protested.

'I'm sorry. It's not like we had met any of you guys before.' Dean said with a grin.

They proceed to investigate Carl Gulley's house, where they find a woman's skeleton buried. Sam later finds out after visiting the library that three people went missing, proving him to be a serial killer.

'So was the ghost one of his victims? Why would it get someone else to kill him?' John questioned.

'You'll see. It wasn't one of his victims.' Dean replied, making John more confused.

Overnight another murder takes place – a man kills a stranger and says an angel told him who to kill.

'So the spirit is pretending to be an angel?' Mary questioned. Sam nodded.

Investigating the victim's house, they find evidence on his computer that he was stalking a young girl over the internet. Dean discovers that both victims attended the same church - Our Lady of the Angels.

'So I'm guessing the spirit is using church goers to go after people who've committed crimes that they've gotten away with?' Mary asked. Dean nodded.

The boys visit the church and speak to Father Reynolds, who has nothing helpful for them, until he mentions his fellow clergyman Father Gregory was shot on the steps of the church. Dean thinks it may be Father Gregory, a vengeful spirit making people kill parishioners whose guilty secrets he knew. Sam is skeptical - he thinks it may be God at work, and reveals to a startled Dean that he prays regularly.

'I didn't know that.' John said, looking down. Mary glanced at him.

The boys return to investigate the church's crypt where Father Gregory is buried. Whilst they are in different rooms, an angel appears to Sam, and tells him he will be given a sign of someone to kill, someone about to do evil.

'Why did it go after you?' Bobby questioned.

'Mabye it knew I believed or Mabye it was completely random. I don't know.' Sam replied.

Sam and Dean get into an argument again, and Dean finally admits the reason why he doesn't believe in angels is because their mother also believed in angels, but that didn't stop her from being killed.

'It wasn't your fault.' Dean said, as Mary looked guiltily at him.

'I still made that deal.' Mary said, looking down.

Dean still thinks it is the spirit of Father Gregory, and suggests that they summon his spirit. If Father Gregory appears after being summoned, they'll know he is a spirit and not an angel. As they buy the supplies necessary for the summoning, Sam sees the man he says the "angel" wants him to kill, identified by a bright light around him.

'Please tell me you didn't kill him.' Cas said.

'Im offended you even thought that.' Dean replied and Cas put his hands in mock surrender.

Dean takes off after the man and tells Sam to go and perform the séance. Sam is interrupted by Father Reynolds, just as the spirit of Father Gregory appears. Sam is crestfallen, knowing that this means he is just a spirit. Dean stifled a laugh at the look on his face.

'At least I found out you were real in the end.' Sam said with a small smile.

Father Gregory is not malevolent - he genuinely thinks he is an angel. Father Reynolds argues with him, and manages to convince him of the reality. He finally puts Father Gregory's soul to rest by saying the Last Rites. Meanwhile, Dean is following the man Sam had identified, and stops him as he is attacking a young woman.

'She's damn lucky you followed him.' Jo said.

Dean chases him in his car, until the man's car nearly collides with a truck. Very coincidentally, a metal pipe from the truck perfectly impales the man, killing him. Back at the motel, Sam explains to Dean why his faith is important to him. Dean describes how the man died, and, against his better instincts, admits he thinks it may have been the hand of God at work.

'I doubt that. He was still hiding at this time.' Cas commented, completely ruining the moment.

'Thanks Cas. Thanks a lot.' Dean replied, rolling his eyes.

The episode begins with Dean calling Ellen, revealing that Sam had disappeared.

'What happened?' Mary asked, looking concerned. Jo shifted uncomfortably.

'It's a long story.' Sam replied, slightly red-faced.

Dean then gets a call from Sam and Dean meets him in a motel. Sam has blood on his shirt and says that he can't remember anything.

'What the hell?' John asked, looking at Sam warily.

Dean finds out that he checked in two days ago and makes fun of Sam for the name he came up with.

'You just found him and already you're insulting him?' Jo asked with a smile.

Sam says that he thought he'd hurt someone and questions whether it was what John had warned Dean about. Deansuggests retracing his steps.

'That's a good idea.' Bobby commented.

They then find an open window. Out on the street Sam recognises one of the lock ups and Dean picks the lock and they find a car with a bloody knife, blood and cigarettes.

'Since when did you smoke? And blood?' John asked, concerned.

They find a receipt and drive to the shop it was from which was two towns over. The owner tells Sam to leave and says that he stole and drank some beer before throwing it at his head. He also says that he'd smoked the cigarettes.

'That definitely doesn't sound like something you'd do.' John said, looking confused. Sam sighed.

Dean asks which way he went afterwards. Dean pays him for what Sam took. They drive off in the direction and Samrecognises a road and they went down it to a house where they found a guy dead. Sam immediately says that he did it but Dean refuses to believe that he did it for no reason. They then find out that he was a hunter when they find his weapons store.

'Oh dear. Now the other hunters are going to be after you.' Mary said, looking concerned.

On the computer, they find camera footage of Sam killing him.

'No way you just killed someone for no reason. There is definitely something else going on.' Mary commented with certainty. Sam smiled.

Dean smashes the computer to get rid of the evidence. Sam is haunted by what he's done. Back at the motel, Deandecides that they should leave after getting some sleep. Dean is adamant that it wasn't him. Sam says that he'd been feeling angry recently and that he couldn't stop it. John frowned. Sam tries to persuade Dean to kill him as he believes that he is turning evil and he doesn't want to hurt anyone.

'I'm sorry. I had no idea how much it would affect you.' John said, looking guilty. Sam smiled back.

Sam says he can't fight it. Dean says that he'd rather die than shoot him and puts the gun down. Sam begins to pick it up and knocks out Dean and then leaves.

'What the hell?' Mary said, looking at Sam in shock.

'I swear that wasn't me. I was possessed.' Sam explained and both John and Mary relaxed. Sam looked down guiltily.

Dean is woken up by a guy wanting him to pay for the room. He bribes him to let him use the computer and he makes up a load of lies to find out where Sam had gone.

'Really? A Justin Beiber concert?' Sam said, with a smile.

'What? It worked.' Dean replied with a shrug and Sam sighed.

The scene cuts to Sam meeting Jo in a bar where she is working. Jo squirmed in her seat and looked uncomfortable. Jogets him a beer and she asks why he is there and he replies that he wants to square things. He says that he doesn't blame her for hating John as he was obsessed.

'Well that's a nice thing to say.' John said with a small smile.

'It wasn't me It was the demon possessing me.' Sam replied.

'Its phrases like that that remind me how messed up our family is.' Dean said with a smile.

He reminds her that he isn't John and she asks about Dean and he says that he was more like John than he was.

'I'm not sure that's true.' Mary said, looking at Sam.

He then realises that she likes Dean. Dean frowned. Jo flushed red.

'This is so embarrassing.' Jo muttered.

Sam says that she is just like a little sister to Dean. Sam then suggests that he liked her and she suggests that he left. Now it was Sam's turn to flush slightly, although he was mostly confused because he didn't remember this part clearly. Sam then grabs her and knocks her out. Jo woke up and finds that she is tied up. Sam asks her about her father's death and tells her that John shot Bill after he was mortally injured after being bait.

'That wasn't true. He died almost instantly.' John confirmed, making Jo relax a little.

Sam then says that she was bait. Dean then arrives and Sam begs Dean to kill him again but he doesn't. He then throws holy water at him and it is revealed that he is a demon.

'I can't believe it took you that long to figure it out.' Bobby said with a smile.

Sam runs off and Dean releases Jo and goes after him. Dean asks Sam who it is possessing him but he doesn't say. Sam replies that he should've seen his face when he thought Sam murdered that guy. Sam reminds him that he can't hurt him without hurting Sam. Sam reveals that it was a test to see if he would waste Sam. Sam then says that he is going to kill every hunter she can find. Sam eventually shoots Dean.

'How did you survive that?' Cas asked, looking confused.

Dean is then found by Jo who patches up his wound. She asks if demons ever told the truth. Dean replies that they did if they knew it would mess with your head.

'I'm so sorry Jo.' Dean said, wincing as he realised what his words meant.

'I'd kinda figured it was true by then anyway.' Jo replies, slightly red.

Jo wants to come with him but Dean refuses. Jo gave him some pills and Dean thanks her and says he would call. Once he's gone Jo says 'No you won't'. Jo laughed.

'Crap. I'm sorry again.' Dean said, hanging his head.

Dean calls Bobby but Sam cuts the line. Sam appears at Bobby's house. He says that Dean was with a girl and a 12 pack and says that he was in way over his head.

'That's rude.' Dean muttered. Sam suppressed a grin.

Bobby gives him a drink which turns out to have holy water in. Bobby knocks him out and ties him up.

'How did you know?' Sam asked with a smile.

'You weren't yourself.' Bobby replied.

Sam wakes up and reminds Dean that he can't hurt him without hurting Sam. Bobby begins to exorcise him and Deansays that he would kill every demon before they got Sam. Sam smiled. They continue the exorcism but it is revealed that Sam has a binding link which locks the demon into his body.

'How did you get it out of him?' John asked but no one answered.

Sam escapes his bonds and knocks Bobby out and beats up Dean. Sam also reveals that he is possessed by Meg. Samtaunts him about the real Meg and says that whatever he does wasn't anything compared to what he already did to himself. Mary frowned. Sam says that he couldn't save his dad or brother and that he is worthless.

'That's not true.' Sam said with more than a hint of anger in his voice.

Bobby then wakes up and burns off the link and Meg leaves. Sam asks what he missed and Dean punched him in response.

'I think I deserved that.' San said with a smile.

Bobby tells them not to say anything about the hunter Sam killed. They then leave and Bobby gives them charms to fend off possession. In the car, Sam says that he was awake for some of it and has a go at Dean for not killing him whatever he did. Dean says that he would save him if it was the last thing he did. Sam looked at Dean and realised how stupid he had been not to have picked up on that comment. John and Mary smiled, not realising what it meant. Deanthen laughs and comments that Sam had a girl inside him for a week.

'Trust Dean to make everything dirty.' John said with a smile.

The recap goes over all the tricks Sam and Dean had played on each other throughout the previous episodes. The episode begins with a college professor being approached by a girl who claims to be in his class. She looks at one of his books and says that he is handsome.

'That's kind of weird.' Jo commented, and the others agreed.

She then confesses that she isn't one of his students. Everyone looked confused. He says that he understands how she feels once she says that she should go. He said it would be wrong of him to take advantage.

'Yeah it would. But I feel like that won't stop him' Mary added.

They kiss and she then changes to look slightly undead. The scene cuts to Gabriel walking out of the building and the professor falls out of the window.

'Oh no. This was a weird case.' Dean said, looking at Sam who looked concerned.

One week later, Sam and Dean are at a motel and Sam asks Dean not to eat on his bed. Mary smiles. Dean asks how research is going and Sam replies with 'slow' because he doesn't have his laptop. John frowned. Sam asks Dean to turn the music down but Dean only turns it up. Sam then suggests Dean goes out for a while and Dean says that he would if his car wasn't screwed to hell.

'Who messed with the car?' John asked, immediately annoyed.

Sam says that he didn't have anything to do with it but is interrupted by a knock at the door. It is Bobby, and they begin to tell him what happened.

Sam says that they'd found out about the professor and that they'd gone to check it out because there was a legend about the building being haunted. In a flashback, Sam talks to some university kids and they tell him about a girl who'd had an affair with her professor and had killed herself when he broke it off. Sam then goes to find Dean who is drinking shots and Sam says that they should go and check out the professor's office. Dean says no because he has a chance with a girl and he mentions that she has a sister.

'That's how he made you see it? Really? I'm not that bad.' Dean said with a smile.

Back at the motel, Dean says that wasn't how it happened and says that she was a grad student. It then replayed the scene and Dean and his posh date are talking about an urban legend and they kiss until they are interrupted by Samwho says they didn't have time for his 'blah,blah,blah'. Everyone laughed.

'I'm not that bad.' Sam complained.

'You are sometimes.' Dean replied with a grin.

Back at the motel, Sam says that isn't how it happened. Bobby notices that they are at each other's throats a lot. They then say that they looked at the scene of the crime. They are let in by Gabriel, disguised as a janitor, who tells them that the professor wasn't alone when he died but that the girl he was with didn't come out. He also says that he went to his office with girls a lot. Sam and Dean argue over how much Dean was eating during the questioning. Back at the motel, still in a flashback, Sam has a go at Dean for going on his computer when he went on it to look at the buildings history. They then show Sam and Dean interviewing the college kid they talked to before who claims he'd been probed and made to slow dance with an alien.

'What the hell?' John questioned.

'I warned you this was a weird case.' Dean replied.

They then talk to one of his friends and show Sam being completely over sentimental which Sam, back in the motel with Bobby, says never happened.

'That's hilarious.' John said, laughing.

'That really doesn't sound like you.' Cas said, confused.

His friend then says that the college kid wasn't very nice and hazed people. Dean comments that the deaths were both very poetic. Sam then has a go at Dean for taking his laptop and they have a go at each other. Dean says that he didn't take his computer. They then talk about the next murder of a researcher and animal tester who got eaten by an alligator in the sewer. Sam and Dean go to the mortuary to check it out and find that there isn't much of him left. They find a belly scale in the remains. They then decide to call Bobby.

'A very good idea. The only one it appears you had during this case.' Bobby remarks and the boys both protest.

They search the sewer but don't find anything. Dean comes back to find out that someone has messed with his car and he finds Sam's money by it so he accuses him of doing it. John frowned. Sam says that he didn't do it and accuses Deanof taking his money but Dean didn't. They then fight over it like children.

'You guys still fight like kids after all this time.' John says with a small smile.

Bobby says he'd heard enough and says that they hadn't done any of the things they thought the other had done. Bobby says they were dealing with a trickster. Bobby realises that it is turning them against each other to create mischief.

'That makes so much sense!' John realised, mentally kicking himself for not getting it sooner.

They realise that the Janitor has been at ground 0 the whole time. The scene cuts to the trickster eating and creating ladies to eat and drink with. Sam and Dean both gave a small smiles.

'He was an idiot.' Dean commented.

'Was?' Mary questioned with her eyebrows raised.

Sam and Dean look into the trickster but they don't find anything. Sam tells Dean to wait until he has found more proof before killing him. It then shows the trickster watching from the window. After waiting ages, Dean goes inside to confront the janitor without Sam. He finds a steak and goes into the theatre where he finds two women in underwear on a bed with romantic music playing. Dean looked tempted but he passes. The trickster appears and says they were a peace offering and they both laugh at his tricks.

'Obviously that is what he would create as a peace offering.' Jo said, rolling her eyes.

Dean refuses and the trickster replies that he shouldn't have come alone. Dean says that he didn't and Sam and Bobbyappeared, revealing that their argument before was fake. The trickster then makes his creations attack them, including the strippers. Dean then manages to stake him in the chest and he appeared to die. Dean says he had style. They then decide to leave before someone finds the body. Sam and Dean apologise for getting annoyed at each other and they leave. It is then revealed that the trickster isn't dead and that they had only killed an illusion created by him.

'I'm assuming you've taken care of him.' John questioned.

'He's dead. Yeah. We didn't kill him. He wasn't so bad in the end.' Sam replied, making John and Mary frown.

A young couple, called Molly and David, are driving down a dark, deserted highway, appearing to be lost. The two of them have been on this road for over an hour and haven't seen a single car. Looking at the map, David insists that they are not lost and that they are on Highway 99. A few seconds later, they pass a sign which reads Highway 41. David corrects himself by saying they're just taking the scenic route. But Molly is none too amused to be spending their anniversary in a car.

'That doesn't look fun.' Mary said, wincing.

David, trying to make up for their current situation, starts acting playfully, causing Molly to take her eyes off the road. After David sees something in the road and screams, she focuses and immediately jerks on the brake when she sees a man standing in the middle of the road, causing her to drive off the highway, down the hill, into a ditch. Molly awakens without a scratch on her, although she still struggles to get out of the car. David is nowhere to be found.

'How has he just disappeared?' Cas questioned, looking confused.

She screams his name frantically, but no answer. Molly starts walking further into the woods, calling David's name several times. In the distance she sees a farmhouse slightly lit. She proceeds towards the house and enters through the front door. When she walks in, she sees the man from the road standing in the corner. He turns around and is gushing blood from his stomach. He transforms into a skeleton and vanishes.

'Well that was creepy. A ghost, I'm guessing?' John said, and Sam nodded.

On the highway, Molly bolts out of the house in a flash and runs back through the woods and up the hill to the road. In the distance, she sees the headlights of a car and darts out in front of it screaming for it to stop. It's Sam and Dean in the Impala and a very shocked Dean jerks the car to a stop. The Sam and Dean hop out of the car and Molly explains to them that she ran off the road and crashed the car and when she came to, her husband David was missing and the man from the road started chasing her. Sam and Dean ask Molly to come with them so they can get her somewhere safe, but she refuses to co-operate and asks them to take her back to her car. Upon arriving at the site of the crash, Molly is stunned to find her car gone as if no accident occurred.

'That's so weird. Did they both just disappear?' Jo questioned, and Dean nodded.

Molly can't understand what could've happened to it and walks down the hill. Sam tells Dean they need to get her out of there because the man could show up any minute. Dean says if they tell her the truth, she'll take off running in the other direction. However, they do convince Molly to come with them. As they're driving down the road, Molly tells them that she and David were supposed to be in Lake Tahoe for their five-year anniversary. All of a sudden, the radio dial moves back and fourth and then stops on a song which plays. Molly recognises the song. The song was playing in the car when the crash took place. In the background of the music a small voice hisses in a low tone, "She's mine". Looking down the road, Dean sees the man standing out in front of the car, but doesn't hesitate at all and drives right through him, blowing him to dust. As they look in back of them, nothing remains. A few seconds later, they are halted along the side of the road, as the car dies. Sam and Dean get out of the car and open the trunk. Molly is officially freaked out after seeing the trunk loaded with weapons and starts walking off.

'I don't get why she freaked out so much.' Dean said, with a slight grin.

'Of course she's freaked out. Most people don't have military grade weapons in their trunk.' Bobby replied.

Dean yells out to Molly that it wasn't a coincidence that they were out here. He continues that they are tracking down this man they saw on the road, whom they believe is Jonah Greely. He died fifteen years ago on this road. Every year on the anniversary of his death he haunts this road. At the hunting cabin, Molly takes Sam and Dean back to the farmhouse where she saw Greely. The room contains several surgical tables covered in stale blood, leading Dean to believe that this farmhouse was his hunting cabin. They look around trying to find Greely's body so they can salt and burn it. However, when Greely died, his wife claimed the body and that was the last anyone ever saw of her. Most likely she brought the body back, but the property is one-thousand acres and it could be anywhere.

'That's going to take a long time.' Bobby said with a grin.

Sam and Dean waste no time as they have till sunrise to finish the job. Searching the outside premises, they head down a brick path to Greely's house, which contains no headstones outside. Sam and Molly check the upstairs of the house in search of any papers or records showing where Greely is buried. One of the rooms holds about every piece of mail and receipt they ever had. Molly picks up a photo album containing pictures of Greely and his wife. Molly asks Sam how such people can turn so evil. Sam's response is that there's usually some unfinished business keeping them here, something along the lines of revenge, love, or hate. There's a part of them that just can't let go. Dean walks in and reports that there's nothing downstairs giving any lead on the whereabouts of Greely's body. Pulling the dresser out from the wall, Dean finds a small door leading to the attic. After breaking the door open with his foot, they find the remains of Greely's wife. She apparently hung herself, most likely because she couldn't bear to be alone. Outside, Sam and Dean carefully carry her body downstairs and outside and bury her remains beside the front step because they feel she deserves to be put to rest. Molly is curious as to what happens to spirits after they're put to rest. Truthfully, Sam and Dean tell her that don't know what happens, but hopefully they go somewhere better.

'Well, I guess they were right. Most people do at least.' Sam said, with a small smile.

Back inside the Greeley's house, Molly is in the kitchen looking through the photos in the album. Sam tells Dean that they should tell Molly the truth about David. Dean objects, saying that he feels sorry for her too, but that they need to stick to the plan and get her out and then they'll tell her.

'What didn't you tell her?' Mary asked.

'You'll see.' Sam replied.

Suddenly, they hear the same song from the car playing in the house. Dean walks slowly into the other room and finds the music coming from a jukebox which is unplugged. Molly, standing by the window, starts screaming as Greely smashes the window open and grabs her out of the house. But as fast as Sam and Dean can respond, Greely and Molly have disappeared. Back inside the house, Sam and Dean search for any leads on the whereabouts of Greely's body. Samlooks at one of the photos in the album that was taken outside the hunting cabin on February 6th, 1992, about two weeks before the accident. However a tree appears to be missing. It suddenly dawns on Sam that it's an old country custom to plant a tree as a grave marker. Dean's a little freaked out by Sam's level of knowledge and makes the comment, "You're like a walking encyclopedia of weirdness".

'You're so rude.' Sam said with a grin.

'You do have a weird level of knowledge.' Dean replies.

At the hunting cabin, Sam and Dean rush to the hunting cabin, where they see Molly hanging by her hands from the ceiling. Greely circles around her several times and uses his fingernail to dig marks through her face and her stomach. Dean bolts through the door, firing a round of rock salt at him. He vanishes, but only fools Dean and he reappears right behind him throwing him against the wall. Greely grabs a knife from the wall and comes up to him, attempting to stab Dean in the heart. Sam comes to the rescue as he salts and burns Greely's remains outside the cabin. As his bones burn, Greely is engulfed in the flames disintegrating to dust. Back on the highway, Sam, Dean, and Molly head back up the road to the Impala. But Molly is persistent and demands to know what happened to David. Sam tells her that David is alive and that they'll take her to see him. The Impala pulls up outside of David's house. Molly gets out and walks up to the door, but stops as she looks through the window and sees David kissing another woman.

'What?' Jo said, looking confused.

The boys explain to her that the woman inside is David's wife. Fifteen years ago, Molly and David hit Jonah Greely with her car, and David survived. Every year on the anniversary of his death, Jonah Greely decides to punish someone for what happened to him. That someone is always Molly. She's been appearing on that road every year. Several flashback scenes are shown at this point. The first scene goes back to the Impala before they run into Molly. Sam and Dean are discussing the case and point out that there have been twelve accidents over the past fifteen years, five of them fatal, all happening on the same night. The next flashback shows Sam and Dean at the library looking up a news article on the accident as well as them talking with David. They also show the scene in the Impala right before Molly darts out in front of them. That's when Molly realises that she's really dead and that she's here in spirit form.

'Oh my god. That poor woman.' Jo said.

Molly is in shock to realise the truth about what happened. She still feels the need to go talk to David. Sam and Deantell her that if she wants to go inside, they're not going to stop her, but they warn her that she's going to freak him right out for life. They feel that if she lets go of everything that's happened, she'll move on to a better place. As much as Molly wants to see David, she understands that the Sam and Dean are right, and agrees to let go. She walks into the glare of the sunrise and is taken away with the light. As Sam and Dean head back to the Impala, they look back at the sunrise and hope she's going to a better place.

'She did.' Cas said, with a smile.

After the episode they decided to take a break. Everyone left to have food or go to the loo until it was just Mary left.

'Was there ever anyone else after I died?' Mary asked, 'I promise not be upset if their was. From this I'm guessing there was never anything permenant.'

'No. There was another woman but it didn't last. We had a kid who I visited when I could.' John replied, with a slightly red face, shocked at how honest he had been.

'I'm glad that you were happy. I wouldn't want anything else.' Mary said, with a smile.

Their conversation was then interrupted by the arrival of Sam and Dean back into the room. Soon enough everyone was back and they started the next episode.

Sam and Dean travel to San Francisco to investigate violent deaths that they suspect are due to a werewolf. They visit Madison, a lawyer's assistant, whose boss was the latest victim. Dean looked over at Sam with a frown.

'Is that…?' Dean questioned, glancing at Sam with a worried look.

'Madison' Sam finished. He suddenly felt really uncomfortable. He did not want to watch this.

'This is going to be fun.' Dean said with a sigh. Everyone else just looked confused.

Madison admits that he would hit on her occasionally, and that on the night of his death she spotted her violent ex-boyfriend Kurt watching them at a bar.

'Well that's really creepy.' Jo said, with a frown.

Sam and Dean find signs of werewolf activity near Kurt's apartment and discover the body of a dead police officer in a nearby alley. Fearing for Madison's safety, they decide she needs protection - a job for which each brother is keen to volunteer.

'Obviously.' Mary said, rolling her eyes with a smile.

'What? She was pretty.' Dean replied. Sam looked at him and sighed before looking away.

A game of Rock, Paper, Scissors results in Sam being left to guard Madison while Dean is out investigating Kurt.

'You still losing Rock, Paper, Scissors?' John asked with a grin.

'Yeah. No need to make a big deal of it.' Dean said, trying to act like he didn't care.

There is an obvious attraction between Sam and Madison, and while Madison flirts, Sam is shy and they spend the evening watching TV until Madison goes to bed.

'I'd forgotten how awkward you were when you were younger.' Bobby said with a smile.

'I wasn't that bad.' Sam protested.

'Yes you were.' Dean confirmed and Sam just shook his head with a small smile. He didn't really feel like laughing.

Dean phones Sam and says that he had found Kurt and that he's definitely got his eyes glued. However, he's at a strip club at the front of the stage watching a dancer go down and paying her off.

'I don't think that counts as following your suspect?' Cas questioned.

'Me neither.' Sam said, looking at Dean.

'What so I cant enjoy myself on the job? He was in the strip club.' Dean protested.

During the night, unnoticed by Sam, Madison transforms into a werewolf and sneaks out to kill Kurt. Dean bursts in on her and manages to nick her with a silver blade before she knocks him out. Sam interrogates Madison and figures out that Madison was infected when she was bitten during what she thought was a mugging a month previously. Sam finds lore in John's journal that suggests that if the "sire" of someone who is a werewolf is killed, they will be released from the curse.

'That cure was experimental. It didn't work all the time.' John warned.

'Yeah. We know.' Sam said with a grim face.

While Sam guards Madison, Dean visits the area of town where the previous victims were attacked. He saves a young woman from an attack by a werewolf, which he kills. As it dies it reverts to human form and is revealed as Madison's neighbour Glen.

'Well I guess that explains why Madison was attacked because he knew her.' Bobby commented.

'She seems nice. I hope the cure worked.' Jo said, but then she saw the look that passed between Sam and Dean and realised that it didn't. Then she realised why Sam and Dean had been acting so weird.

Sam and Dean stay with Madison through the next night after she spots them from her window; she doesn't transform, and they assume she has been cured. Buoyant at this outcome, Sam and Madison consummate their attraction with a session of passionate lovemaking.

'Aha! Now it's your turn to be embarrassed!' Dean said, trying to break the awkwardness of The situation as everyone was trying not to watch.

'Come on! There must be a way to turn this off!' Sam said, trying every button on the remote.

'It must almost be over now.' Jo whined.

'You think this is bad. Wait till it shows him having sex with a demon.' Dean commented. He then froze and winced as he realised what he had said.

'What?' Said John, Mary, Bobby and Jo, pretty much in unison. Sam gave Dean a death glare.

'He...was joking. Obviously.' Sam stammered. He put on a really fake grin.

'Yeah. Obviously.' Dean replied, with a smirk.

As they realised that the scene was over they went back to their previous positions. Sam gave Dean and incredulous stare. 'Sorry' Dean mouthed in return as everyone else's attention was on the screen.

But that night, as the full moon rises, Sam witnesses Madison become a werewolf again before she flees the apartment.

'So the cure didn't work.' Mary said, sadly, as she realised what they were going to have to do.

The next day, Madison calls Sam, scared and confused. When Dean confirms that they have no way to cure her, Madison begs Sam to kill her, because she doesn't want to live as a monster. While distraught and reluctant, when there appears no alternative, Sam, despite Dean's offer to do it instead, kills Madison. Dean sheds a tear in sympathy and flinches when he hears the gunshot. Sam blinked away tears, slightly surprised by Dean's reaction.

'She seemed so nice.' Mary said, sadly.

'That's it. I'm not watching anymore of this..' Sam said, getting up and attempting to turn the television off.

'I agree. This is stupid.' Dean agreed and they both got up.

'We can't. We are locked in here.' Cas commented.

'Right. I hate this so much.' Sam commented.

'Lets have a break.' Mary suggested.

They all broke off and left. Sam caught up woth Dean in a corridor.

'What the hell was that, Dean? Telling them about Ruby.' Sam said, annoyed.

'It was a joke. Besides they are going to find out later if we continue to watch this.' Dean replied.

'Oh god.' Sam said, looking down.

'It'll be ok. They'll understand.' Dean said with a smile. 'Besides. We'll find a way out of here before then.'

After a while, they all head back to the kitchen and watch the next episode.

The episode begins with a young actress pretending to be attacked by a ghost, ending with a really awful fake scream.

'Oh my goodness! I thought that was real for a second.' Mary said.

On the set of the movie Hell Hazers II: The Reckoning, directed by McG, a stagehand is killed and the star of the movie, Tara Benchley, reports seeing an apparition near the body. Dean has convinced Sam to come to Los Angeles for a break after the death of Madison, but Sam wants to throw himself into work.

'Because throwing yourself into work and not dealing with your feelings is super healthy.' Bobby commented sarcastically.

Sam and Dean go on a Hollywood studio tour and Dean tells a kid sitting next to him that this was where they filmed 'Creepshow'.

'He looks so bored.' Jo said with a smile, as they see the boys reaction.

'It was a good movie!' Dean protested.

Sam and Dean get away from the tour and Dean comments that he thinks he can see Matt Damon but Sam replies that it was just a janitor.

'You are such a nerd.' Bobby replied with a smile.

'What? Matt Damon is cool.' Dean replied.

Dean becomes enthusiastic when he discovers the movie is a horror movie starring one of his favourite actresses, Tara. Dean poses as a P.A. and makes use of the free food.

'Of course that's what you are interested in.' Mary said with a smile.

It doesn't take the boys long on the set to discover that the stagehand's death was faked by the studio executives to promote interest in the movie.

'That is such a horrible thing to do! Why would they want to do that?' Cas said, looking horrified.

But then a studio executive, Brad Redding, dies in the middle of the set after encountering a ghost. The boys discover that a young actress killed herself in the 1920s after being wooed and then dumped and fired by a studio executive. They find her buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where they salt and burn her bones.

'Somehow I feel like this isn't the end of this case?' Mary questioned.

'Yeah. It was more complicated than we thought.' Sam commented.

After another producer, Jay Wiley, is killed, Sam notices that the Latin in the movie script is a real summoning ritual.

'Weird. How would they get that?' John questioned.

'It was the writer. The original one.' Dean replied.

They confront the writer, Martin Flagg, who admits that any authentic rituals in the script are all that remained from the original script by writer Walter Dixon. Dixon lures Flagg onto the set to kill him, but Sam and Dean arrive in time to save him. Walter admits that he was conjuring real ghosts and forcing them to kill those he saw as responsible for ruining his script.

'Jeez. He's crazy.' Bobby commented.

Before they can stop him, Walter destroys the talisman he was using. This frees the spirits who, enraged at being used, turn on Walter and kill him.

'As horrible as that is. I'm finding it difficult to feel sorry for him.' John says.

The production of the movie continues, with Martin incorporating his experiences with the ghosts into the script.

'Typical stupid producer.' Jo commented.

Sam finds Dean emerging dishevelled and with a post-coital glow from Tara's trailer.

'Of course.' Jo said, rolling his eyes.

Sam and Dean walk off into the sunset together – until it is wheeled away and revealed as just another Hollywood prop.

Deacon, an old marine buddy of John Winchester, asks Sam and Dean for help. Not long after a disused cell block was re-opened, something supernatural started killing people in the Green River County Detention Center, where Deacon is the warden.

'That one is going to be difficult to investigate' Cas commented, looking confused.

'Yeah. It was.' Sam said, with a smile on his face. This was an interesting case.

Sam and Dean get themselves arrested so as to get inside the jail.

'That was such a stupid plan! Why the hell did you do that? How did you escape?' John questioned.

'It's fine. We had a guy on the inside.' Dean said, with a shrug.

'You really shouldn't joke in that situation.' Mary said, as Dean did blue steel for his mug shot.

Their arrest is complicated, however, by the arrival of FBI Special Agent Victor Henriksen, who has continued tracking them since the bank heist they were involved with in Milwaukee. He questions Dean and remarks that they were screwed and had no case for defence. Dean only replies with snide remarks.

'Is your plan to piss off every single officer in the station until they let you go in order to be rid of you?' Bobby asked, sarcastically.

'That's actually a good idea.' Dean said, with a grin.

Henriksen gets another officer to read out the charges against him.

'Jesus. They have really got a lot on you.' Jo said.

John smiled as Henriksen mentions that he had taught them well. Henrikson then says that it was strange that they ended up being caught by tripping a motion detector.

'So that was how you got them to find you?' Bobby questioned and Dean nodded.

'If we had just turned ourselves in they would have been too suspicious' Sam replied.

Mara Daniels, the public defender appointed to the brothers, arrives and demands to speak to them alone.

'At least there is someone on your side.' Mary said, looking concerned.

Sam questions Dean about the plan and it is revealed that they have a plan to escape but that Dean was not expecting Henriksen to be there. Dean says that they have to pay off their debt to Deacon.

'At least you were not stupid enough to go in there without any escape plan.' Mary said, relaxing a little.

Inside the prison, Dean fits right in, drawing on his extensive knowledge of prison life from movies such as The Great Escape. Dean gets into a fight after defending Sam as he accidentally bumps into another prisoner.

'You two just can't get a lucky break can you.' Jo said, with a smile.

He gets to witness the supernatural killer firsthand when it kills another prisoner. The scene cuts to Mara Daniels talking to Henriksen and mentions that there are many inconsistencies and says that they may not be cut and dry guilty.

'At least someone noticed. Mabye the police are not as stupid as they look.' Bobby commented.

Sam begins a discussion with one of the prisoners who witnessed the last death. When asked why he was inside, Samreplies that it was because he had an idiot for a brother.

'Come on! It worked didn't it?' Dean replied.

Upon further questioning Sam discovers that a notorious killer, Mark Moody, was killed in the old cell block and traces of his blood may be tying the spirit to the prison. After winning cigarettes playing cards, Dean trades them for lighter fluid. Combined with the salt supplied with their meals they have the means to banish the spirit.

'That's smart. At least now you can protect yourself.' Mary commented.

Dean picks a fight with a con called Tiny.

'What did you do that for?' John asked.

Sam slips away to the old cell block and torches a blood-soaked mattress.

'Oh right.' John realised.

Recovering from their wounds in the prison infirmary, Dean is attacked by the apparition of a nurse. He manages to ward it off with some salt, but the ghost kills Tiny who admits to having the self-esteem issues Dean accused him of having when trying to get into a fight.

'Poor guy. He wasn't so bad.' Dean commented.

Sam and Dean finds out that the ghost belongs to Nurse Glockner, who used to kill prisoners in the infirmary and who was later killed herself during a riot. Sam asks Dean if it bothered him how well he fit in to prison life.

'You do fit in there very well.' Mary says, worriedly.

He is also adamant that they stick to their escape plan even though it only leaves them with five hours left.

'That's not very long.' John said, with a worried frown.

Dean tries to get Mara Daniels to find out where Nurse Glockner is buried, assuring her of his innocence and insisting that this would be the best use of her time, but she refuses.

'Damn. I thought she would help.' Bobby commented.

'She did in the end.' Sam said.

Dean argues with Sam that they must stay in the prison until they get the information and finish the job, but Saminsists they follow through with their pre-planned escape. They start fighting and one of the guards hauls them away.

'Jesus. I never knew you guys to actually fight properly before.' Jo commented.

Its called acting sweetheart.' Dean replied.

The guard turns out to be Deacon.

'Oh right.' Jo realised.

Mara did the research as Dean requested after all, and Deacon hands over the information on where she is buried.

'You two are so lucky.' Bobby commented.

As arranged, Deacon helps them escape to the Impala which is waiting outside the jail. After the escape, Henricksen interrogates Deacon and finds out that Daniels passed information to the boys, which she reluctantly reveals.

'So she turned us in!' Sam said, feeling annoyed.

Meanwhile Sam and Dean are in a cemetery salting and burning Nurse Glockner's remains. The FBI arrive, only to find they have been sent to the wrong cemetery.

'No she didn't.' Dean replied, with a smile.

The episode starts with Dean driving the impala whilst on the phone with Sam (who is back at their motel room). Sam peers out through the motel curtains nervously, telling Dean that there is a cop car out front. Dean reassures Sam that there's "nothing to worry about" since they ditched the Impala's license plates and all of the credit cards. Sam's not so sure the life of a fugitive is what he'd had in mind, but shifts to the current hunt asking Dean if he's found anything.

'You guys were still being hunted?' Mary asked, looking concerned. Dean nodded.

Dean scoffs, saying that Sam has him sifting through 50 miles of real estate. Sam tells Dean that he's figured out that they're hunting a djinn. Dean's wry grin echoes through his voice as he asks Sam if he thinks the "freakin' genie" can actually grant wishes.

'I hate Djinns' Dean muttered, darkly.

'Wait. Is this the one where the Djinn put you in that weird alternate reality where mom never died?' Sam asked and Dean nodded.

While Sam goes to the Quran, Dean muses about Jeannie (as in I Dream of…) being hotter than Samantha (from Bewitched).  Trying to keep Dean focused, Sam tells him that djinns usually "flare up" in ruins – "bigger the better." Dean remembers a likely place a few miles back and ignoring Sam's request to pick him up first, he hangs up, a suddenly serious expression on his face.

'See, if you hadn't just gone off by yourself then this would never have happened.' Sam said, shaking his head.

'Yeah. Or mabye he gets both of us.' Dean replied.

'What? Two on one?' Sam replied, and Dean sighed.

The scene cuts to Dean walking through what looks like an abandoned warehouse. He has a flashlight in one hand and blood-tipped knife in the other. Dean slowly shifts his grip on the knife, then turns suddenly as if he heard someone or something behind him. Nothing. As he continues to walk through the warehouse, we see the figure of the djinn hiding in the shadows. Getting the jump on Dean, the djinn slams him against the wall, one hand on his throat, causing him to drop the knife. As Dean struggles against the djinn's grip, the djinn raises its free hand, electric blue light bouncing and crackling along its palm and fingers. It presses its hand on Dean's forehead. Dean gasps, his eyes roll up, and the screen goes black.

'Idiot' John said with a small smile.

'Whatever, it wasn't a fair fight.' Dean replied.

Dean suddenly sits up, shirtless, confused, blinking with honest shock at the scantily-clad, naked dark-hair woman sleeping next to him.

'Who is that?' Cas questioned.

'Her name is Carmen. I saw her picture in a magazine.' Dean replied

He stumbles out (fully-dressed) into a comfortable-looking living room, digs out his cell phone and calls his brother.

'Rude' Dean commented, with a grin.

Sam is surprised to hear from him. Dean misses that in his confused state and tells Sam that he doesn't know where he is – the djinn attacked him. Sam asks him if he's been drinking and Dean, frustrated, reminds him of the hunt, says it puts its hand on him and he woke up next to some hot chick. Sam asks him if he means Carmen and Dean is appropriately baffled. Sam tells Dean it's late, go back to sleep, he'll see him in the morning and hangs up on Dean's spluttering.

Everyone laughed, except Sam who looked confused.

Setting the phone down, Sam returns to the books he had been poring over when his brother called: Criminal Law and Procedure.  Now thoroughly confused and more than a little freaked out, Dean begins to recon the room. He sees a stack of mail on a nearby table and with a muttered "What the hell?" sees that they are addressed to both this Carmen that Sam mentioned as well as himself – with a Lawrence, KS, address. Just then, Carmen herself emerges from the bedroom, sleepy and wondering why he's up. Dean makes up an excuse and promises to join her in just a minute. She buys it, kisses him, and returns to the bedroom.

'You had a proper girlfriend?' Sam questioned, with a small smile.

Dean begins to look around the living room at all the pictures of the two of them together. Glancing across the room, he sees another picture and a look of horrified disbelief crosses his face. He crosses the room, picks up and examines the picture, drops it, and tears out of the room.

'What did you see?' Mary questioned.

'A photo of you.' Dean replied.

Dean immediately drives to their old home and runs up to the door and rings the bell. The door opens and Mary Winchester is standing there looking sleepy and wrapping her robe around herself.

Mary gasped at her figure on the screen. John smiled as he realised that she was living a normal life.

Dean's face is a display of shock, hurt, and hope. He says "Mom" and she asks him if he's okay. With a very honest "I don't know", he allows Mary to pull him inside.  She walks into the living room, saying that Carmen called, worried because he had just run out of the house. Dean, being Dean, asks his mom to prove she is who he hopes she is by asking what she told him before she put him to bed when he was a kid. With a small smile, Mary replies that she told him angels were watching over him, passing the test.

'Of course you wouldn't trust me, even though you just found out that I was alive.' Mary said, with a sigh.

'I was so freaked out. I had to check.' Dean replied.

Dean gathers her up in a hug and almost gleefully roams the room looking at the pictures. He discovers that not only had John once belonged to a softball team, but that he'd died in his sleep of a stroke earlier that year.

John frowned and sighed. Nothing ever worked out for them. Still, dying in his sleep was a lot more peaceful.

'You Winchesters get zero luck.' Bobby said, sadly.

His mother thinks he's been drinking, and says she's going to call Carmen to get him. Dean assures her that he's as sober as a judge and says he just wants to stay there. He sits on the couch and, as Mary touches his cheek and kisses his forehead, his face relaxes for the first time since Dead Man's Blood. He sleeps on the couch, waking up the next morning with a start. The first thing on his mind is Sam. Calling him, he reaches his voicemail.  Dean heads to the University of Kansas and manages to talk his way into the anthropology professor's office to gather more clues on the djinn.

'You're getting better at lying I guess.' Jo said with a smile.

'Shut up' Dean retorted.

When he asks the professor if the djinn can really grant wishes, the professor assumes he's been drinking. Ruefully, Dean confesses that everyone has been asking him that, but the answer is no.

Sam smirked.

'To be fair it would have been plausible.' Bobby commented with a grin.

Finding out that mythology states the djinn could grant wishes, and wondering what, if that is true, is in it for the djinn.  Dean looks in the Impala's trunk, which is empty except for a few trivial bits and pieces, and murmurs a bemused "who'd have thought it, baby, we're civilians".

'It's so strange seeing us as civilians.' Mary commented, and the others agreed.

He the trunk and catching sight of a decidedly out-of-place young girl in a white dress. He starts to cross to her and nearly gets creamed by a red car, breaking his focus on the girl. When he looks back up, she's gone.

'Who was she?' Bobby asked.

'One of the other victims.' Dean replied.

Back at home, Dean is happily inhaling what he declares to be the "best sandwich ever" (one assumes, because it was made by his mom), and talking to Mary.

Mary looked down, slightly embarrassed as she remembered Dean's reaction when she said that she couldn't cook.

'I was never taught how to cook, whilst I was growing up.' Mary admitted.

Mary asks why he wasn't at work at the garage.

John smiled, happy that Dean appeared to be making an honest living.

Covering easily, Dean says he had the day off, and offers to mow the lawn. More than a little amused by her son's apparently recent desire to hang around her house and do chores, Mary teases that he's acting as if he hasn't mowed a lawn a day in his life.

'I actually haven't' Dean said.

'Why would you want to mow the lawn?' Jo asked.

'I don't know. It looked fun.' Dean replied.

Obviously unsure as to the proper handling and steering of a lawn mower, Dean is undeterred as he treks back and forth in front of the yard gnome, waving to the neighbors and very nearly whistling with actual, genuine happiness as Joey Ramone's Wonderful World accompanies him.

Everyone smiled at Dean looking so happy.

Lawn manicured, Dean sits on the front steps relaxing with a beer when Sam and Jess pull up. He practically runs up to greet them. He wraps Jessica in a fierce hug until she gasps that she can't breathe. Dean is overjoyed to see Sam, and to see Sam with Jess. Sam speculates aloud that Dean's been drinking (and this time, it's hard to deny as he has beer in hand), and Dean is puzzled by Sam's apparent standoffishness. He wonders why they are there, and Sam asks with obvious exasperation born of several years of dealing with a wayward brother if Dean has forgotten Mom's birthday. Again.

'Man. I know you said we didn't get along but I never realised how much.' Sam commented. John and Mary frowned.

At a restaurant, the family is gathered to celebrate Mary's birthday. Dinner is served and Carmen proves how very well she knows Dean when she leans over and asks him if he wants to go for cheeseburgers later as he stares in horror at a dinner that is better dressed than he is.

'Wow. She knows you well.' Sam said, with a smile.

"Oh, God, yes", he replies and she smiles. Mary's birthday joy is made complete as Sam and Jessica announce they are engaged. Everyone congratulates them, and Dean's smile is genuine as he tells Sam he is "really glad he's happy".

Sam sighed and looked away, remembering Jessica.

His joy is short-lived, however when he catches sight of the girl in white that he'd seen on campus. He pushes past Sam and crosses the restaurant, but by the time he gets to her, she's gone. He's left with his whole family staring at him confusedly.

'We look so confused.' Mary commented, with a smile.

When the group returns home, Mary goes to bed and Sam suggest that he and Jessica do the same thing. Dean wants to go out and celebrate more, and Sam excuses them from the ladies, pulling Dean aside and revealing what had been obvious to everyone but Dean up to this point: the brothers don't get along. Not only that, they aren't close. Sam reveals that Dean not only once stole his ATM card, he stole his girlfriend and slept with her. On prom night.

'To be fair. I could so see you doing that.' Sam said with a grin.

'No I wouldn't!' Dean protested.

Sam's not mad about it anymore – and he doesn't expect Dean to change – he just doesn't really want to have anything to do with his brother.  Sam is gone before he can see the heartbroken look that flashes across Dean's face.

'Dick move, Sam' Dean said, with a grin.

'Yeah. Kinda glad we became close.' Sam replied.

Back at their house, Carmen brings him his favourite brand of beer and he confides in her that he is upset he and Sam don't get along. Carmen says that they just don't know each other is all. Dean replies that he feels like he's been given a second chance – and he's not going to waste it. He's going to fix this thing with Sammy. Wooed by Carmen's concern, care, and the fact that she knows him so well, Dean falls into a kiss.  Carmen pulls away after a bit saying that he can't do that to her; she has to go to work. She appears shortly afterwards in scrubs. Somewhat impressed with himself that he is respectable enough to date a nurse, Dean bids her adieu and slouches back down on the couch to veg for the night.

'You dated a nurse?' Jo said, almost laughing.

A report about the anniversary of the crash of United Britannia Flight 424 comes on the news. Sitting forward in shock, Dean mutters "we stopped that crash". This realisation draws him to the computer where he discovers to his increasing horror that everyone he, Sam, and John had saved from evil had died. All of them.

'Wow. I hadn't realised how many people you'd saved.' Jo commented.

Glancing up quickly from the devastating information facing him from the computer screen, Dean sees the girl in white out of the corner of his eyes and jumps up to follow her. He ends up back in his bedroom where he is very shaken by the sight of two decaying, emaciated skeletons hanging by their wrists in his closet. He sees the girl once more before both she and the skeletons vanish, leaving Dean trembling.

'That is so creepy.' Jo added.

At a cemetery, Dean stands staring down at his father's tombstone. He's working to keep the tears at bay, but too much has happened. His throat working convulsively, he begins speaking:  "All of them... everyone that you saved, everyone Sammy and I saved… they're all dead. And there's this woman that's haunting me. I don't know why. I don't know what the connection is… not yet, anyway. It's like my old life is coming after me or something, like it doesn't want me to be happy. Of course, I know what you'd say. Well, not the you that played softball, but you'd say, Go hunt the djinn. It put you here. It can put you back. Your happiness or all those people's lives... no contest. Right?'

'No I wouldn't!' John protested.

'Yeah you would.' Sam replied.

'But why? Why is it my job to save these people? Why do I have to be some kind of hero? What about us, huh? What? Mom's not supposed to live her life? Sammy's not supposed to get married?  Why do we have to sacrifice everything, Dad?"  Thunder crashes. "It's... yeah."  Wiping the tears from his face, Dean swallows, nods, and turns to walk out of the cemetery.

Everyone was in silence, reeling in shock at the pure emotion that Dean had just shown. They all wished that their family could just live a normal life. But it wasn't possible.

Back at the Winchester family home, Sam wakes in the dark next to Jessica, tensing at a sound. Grabbing a bat, he creeps down the stairs and confronts the crouching figure bent over Mary's china cabinet. The figure barely needs to move before it disarms Sam, sweeps him off his feet, and plants him firmly on the floor, one hand on his chest. Sam blinks up with an astonished "Dean?!".

'That was just like that first episode.' Cas commented.

'Except that Sam clearly doesn't know how to fight.' Dean said, smirking.

'Yeah, you weren't exaggerating when you said that.' Sam realised.

Sam demands to know what Dean's doing skulking around in the dark, and Dean makes up a story (believable to this Sam) that he owes money to a bookie and was going to pawn some of Mary's silver.

'Neat excuse' John commented.

After taking one knife and slipping it into his pocket, Dean apologies to Sam for everything that happened between them over the years, asks his brother to tell their mother that he loves her, and then starts to leave. Dean pauses at the front door for one last, wistful look around before walking away from his deepest wish forever, leaving Sam alone to gasp and flail about the living room in confusion.  Back in the Impala, Dean is sitting at the wheel, apparently gathering his will, when Sam drops neatly in the passenger seat.

'Oh good. I'm not a complete asshole then.' Sam commented.

Not at all happy about this turn of events, Dean demands that Sam "Get out of the car!" Sam's having none of it, insisting, "Whatever stupid thing you're about to do, you're not doing it alone, and that's that". With that, Sam raises eyebrows that clearly say, so there. "I don't understand," Dean protests. "Why are you doing this?". Sam sighs and primly admits, "Because you're still my brother". Dean's eyes hood themselves a little bit and he mutters, "Bitch". Sam is baffled when he replies, "What're you calling me a bitch for?" Dean, says, "You're, uh, supposed to say, 'Jerk.'" "What?" Sam shoots back. "Never mind," Dean mumbles, throwing the car into gear.

Both Sam and Dean laugh.

'There is definitely something wrong if we don't even have that.' Sam realised.

Whilst Dean is driving, Sam demands answers. Dean is reluctant to provide them for obvious reasons. Sam's knack for digging to the bottom of things persists when he discovers a plastic cup full of lamb's blood. He pales, swallows, and pulls out his cell phone and Dean calmly removes the phone from Sam's fingers and tosses it out of the window. He tells his brother that he's not crazy, that there are bad guys out there, and it's their job to get rid of them. Sam face is a canvas of doubt and not a little fear.

'It's so weird seeing you give me the talk.' Sam commented.

Outside the abandoned warehouse, Sam is sleeping and jerks awake when Dean stops the Impala in front of the djinn's lair. He demands to know where they are and Dean quips that they're not in Kansas anymore. Sam follows his brother through the abandoned warehouse, trekking nearly the same path that Dean followed earlier. Dean has the silver knife soaked in lamb's blood and is on high alert. Sam is freaked out. Dean demands in a low, careful voice that Sam stay behind him and stay quiet. Sam's reaction is to slide his eyes around as if he expects the boogeyman to jump them at any moment.

'I am actually embarrassed at the way that version of me is acting right now.' Sam commented, shaking his head.

The boys turn a corner off the corridor in which Dean was initially attacked to find the two dangling skeletons from Dean's closet. As they stare in horror, Dean sees the empty hospital blood bag still hooked up to the neck of one of the skeletons. Next Dean sees the girl in white that he's been seeing all around town. She moans and asks in a weak voice for her father. Before he can do anything, though, the djinn appears.  The djinn uses its electric blue light of wish-granting and sleep on the girl, subduing her, then drinks some of the blood from the bag attached to her jugular. Dean has managed to get Sam behind some stairs, but when Sam sees this, he is unable to keep his gasp silent.

'Wow, Sam, you just gave away our position. Good job' Dean commented, grinning and shaking his head.

'It wasn't me it was the wussy, alternate reality me.' Sam protested.

The djinn turns at the sound, and approaches, but Dean gets them out of danger. The djinn leaves, and Dean approaches the girl, realising that she hadn't known where she was – she thought she was with her father.  Sam is practically begging that they leave, but Dean is starting to get it. He's slammed by a disorienting, dizzying flash of himself, hanging in that very room by his wrists, pale, dying, with his blood being slowly drained from him to provide sustenance to the djinn. Sam, frantic now, promises Dean that he believes – he will believe anything if they can just go.

'I hope you weren't tempted to listen to

Lifting the knife, he scares his already terrified brother further by raising it toward his own chest declaring "die in your dreams, you wake up, right?".

'That might work but it's risky.' John said, looking worried.

Sam bellows "Wait!" but his plea is ineffectual. Dean is prepared to plunge the knife forward when Mary's voice stops him.

'You weren't thinking of staying were you?' Cas asked, looking confused.

'No' Dean replied, too quickly. Sam looked at him worriedly.

Trembling, Dean looks slowly to the side and sees his mother walking toward him. Not the mother from the birthday dinner, but the Mary from his memory, with the unlined face, flowing hair, and white nightgown.  "Why'd you have to keep digging?" Sam asks, a bit sorrowfully, and no longer freaked out. Dean's eyes shoot to him, not in shock, more in disappointed realisation. Carmen steps up behind Sam. "Why couldn't you have left well enough alone?" Sam continues. Jessica appears, and Sam gently argues, "You were happy". Dean counters that none of it was real, but he is slowly buffeted by the gentle waves of argument from Jess ("You wouldn't have to worry about Sam anymore..."), Carmen ("We could have a family of our own..."), and his mom ("Get some rest...").

'Why are we all acting so creepy?' Mary asked.

'They're figments of his imagination I think.' Jo replied. Sam looked at Dean worriedly, having seen in his face how close he was to staying.

Dean knows that if he chooses to stay, he'll be dead in a matter of days, even though it will feel like years to him. Listening to them, wanting the rest, wanting the happiness, but knowing that he had to do what is right, Dean looks directly at Sam, whispers, "I'm sorry," and plunges the knife into his chest.

John and Mary gasp and look worried.

"DEAN!" Sam bellows when he sees his brother hanging, pale and still, by his wrists. He launches himself over to Dean, apparently unsure where to touch that won't cause more harm. Repeatedly begging Dean to wake up, Sam is finally able to rouse his brother who bleats a weak "Auntie Em" followed by "there's no place like home." Sam carefully removes the needle from his brother's neck confessing that he thought he'd lost him there for a sec. Dean replies "You almost did."

'I never realised how close I was.' Sam said, looking at Dean worriedly.

Sam begins to cut Dean down when Dean catches sight of the djinn lunging at his brother from behind. Calling out a warning, Dean begins to haul on his still-bound wrists while Sam struggles with the djinn, getting knocked around in the process. Sam is pinned to the stairs with the djinn's electric blue hand hovering above his forehead when the djinn suddenly arches back in pain and shock.  Sam darts his eyes over to see Dean standing behind the djinn, twisting the knife in its back to finish the job. With a nonverbal check to make sure they were each okay, they head back to the girl in white, where Dean discovers that she is still alive and whispers for Sam's help to cut her down. Catching the girl in his trembling arms, Dean whispers to her that they are going to get her out of there, get her safe.

'Thank god she's ok.' Jo whispered.

Back in the motel, Sam is on the phone with the hospital and turns to Dean to assure him that the girl they rescued from the warehouse is going to be okay. Dean is looking through a magazine that features an ad for El Sol, in which "Carmen" is smiling up at him. Sam sits on the other bed and asks gently if Dean's okay. Dean recounts briefly what he'd seen, what he'd wished for, but what he hadn't had. He had Mom alive, but he and Sam had never gone hunting, so they'd never learned how to be brothers.  Sam watches Dean closely and says, "Yeah. Well, I'm glad we do. And I'm glad you dug yourself out, Dean. Most people wouldn't have had the strength. They would've just stayed". Dean's unconvinced of the wisdom of his actions. "Yeah, lucky me. I got to tell you, though, man... you had Jessica. Mom was gonna have grandkids".

'It wasn't real.' Mary said, confidently.

'I know.' Dean replied, sharply.

Sam argues that it wasn't real.  "I know," Dean says before confessing, "But I wanted to stay. I wanted to stay so bad. I mean, ever since Dad… all I can think about is how much this job's cost us. We've lost so much. And we've sacrificed so much." The raw emotion on Dean's face is too much for Sam who argues, "But people are alive because of you. It's worth it, Dean. It is. It's not fair, and, you know, it hurts like hell, but it's worth it."  Dean lifts doubtful eyes and rests them on his brother. And the screen fades to black.

'You're right. It's worth it.' Dean commented, 'I know that now.' he adds as the others look unsure.

Sam and Dean pull up to a cafe off the road to grab a bite to eat. Dean waits in the car with the music cranked up and makes a sarcastic comment, "Don't forget the extra onions this time…see if they've got any pie."

'Typical...' Sam said, rolling his eyes. He then stiffened as he suddenly remembered what happened afterwards. He and Dean shared a glance.

'You still like pie?' John asked, and Dean nodded.

Dean looks through the window and sees several people inside. Suddenly the radio becomes staticy and fades out.  When Dean looks back into the window, he sees an empty diner.

'What happened?' Mary said, looking concerned.

Dean rushes in and finds one guy covered in blood dead with his head on the table. Looking over the counter, he finds two more dead on the floor.

'Where's Sam?' Cas asked, looking confused.

Dean goes to the back door, but Sam's nowhere to be found. Dean, however, notices traces of sulphur on the window sill, realising the demon's been there. He rushes back out the front door and shouts "SAM... SAMMY!" at the top of his lungs.

'So sweet that you're worried.' Sam said, in an attempt to lighten the mood but his smile was uncertain.

'No I wasn't. I just wanted my pie.' Dean replied.

Sam awakens to find himself in a deserted pioneer town, where there appears to be no one else around. He quickly reaches into his pocket for his cell phone, but gets no signal.

'Typical horror story trope of no signal.' Sam said.

Sam walks around to some of the buildings nearby, but nobody is in sight. Sam suddenly hears footsteps coming from the side of the building. Grabbing a block of wood, he creeps closer to the corner and prepares to strike. The approaching threat turns out to be Andy, who is freaking out over the whole situation.

'I'd forgotten that he got dragged into this as well.' Dean said, clearly upset.

He immediately asks Sam several times where they are, but Sam can give no reply. Sam asks Andy what's the last thing he remembers and he replies, "honestly, my fourth bong load" and an intense smell like sulphur.

'Demons' Bobby commented.

Suddenly they hear screaming. They run following the screams down the street to a locked shack. Sam breaks the padlock, and Ava runs and hugs him. She's freaked out, and asks where they are. Giving her no answer, Sam asks her how long she's been there. She says she doesn't know; she only woke up about a half hour ago.

'But I thought you had been looking for her for ages.' Mary questioned.

'We had.' Sam replied.

Sam tells her that he and Dean have been looking for her for months. She immediately becomes exasperated about her fiancée, but Sam doesn't tell her the truth about him.

'Why didn't you tell her?' Cas questioned.

'I thought it would be too much for her to deal with at that moment.' Sam replied.

However, he now realises what the three of them have in common.

'Oh yeah. I'd not realised that. This is definitely bad.' John commented. Sam and Dean looked at each other. John had no idea.

At that moment they hear a voice coming from across the street.  The three of them find a man in an army uniform and a young girl who appears to be goth. Sam introduces himself, as does Jake and Lily. Lily questions where they are because a minute ago she was in San Diego and Jake says that he was in Afghanistan.

'That must have been weird.' John commented, having been there during his time in the military.

Sam takes a wild guess and asks if they're both 23 and goes on to say that they all have abilities. Sam says that he has visions, as in sees things before they happen. Ava replies, "me too". Andy adds that he can put thoughts in people's heads and make them do stuff. Lily, officially freaked out, says that whenever she touches someone, their heart stops. Sam says the point is that they are all here and have to deal with what's ahead of them. Andy inquires as to who brought them here. Taking a beat, knowing that this one will be hard to explain, Sam says it more of a what than a who. It's a demon.

'That's going to be difficult to persuade them of.' Bobby commented.

Dean and Bobby are at a dead end in their hunt to find Sam. Bobby says that things have been quiet in all areas of the country and that if a demon was here, it left no trace. Dean's phone rings, it's Ash. He's got info that is bigger than anything he's ever seen and that it will most certainly help him find Sam. Ash tells Dean to get to the roadhouse as quickly as possible.

'Poor Ash.' Dean said, looking guilty.

'There was nothing we could have done.' Bobby replied.

Dean and Bobby waste no time and take off in the Impala.  Sam explains to the group that they're all soldiers fighting in a demon war to bring on the Apocalypse. With everyone in disbelief, Jake says he's better off on his own and takes off.

'He's really not.' Mary commented.

He walks around the corner and sees a girl in the window of the schoolhouse.

'That's what I was talking about.' Mary added.

Jake walks in and finds the phrase "I will not kill" written all over the chalkboard. He turns around and sees the girl who proceeds to attack him. But before she can make her mark on him, Sam stabs her with a cast iron rod and it dissipates into black smoke. Sam lets everyone know that was a demon.  The five of them walk outside in shock. Sam tells them that he's not sure but he thinks that was an acheri, a demon who disguises itself as a girl. Sam glances over at the bell in the town square. After studying it for a few seconds he knows where they are, in Cold Oak, South Dakota, a town so haunted that every single resident fled.

'Well that doesn't sound ominous at all.' Bobby commented.

Lily says that they should just get the hell out, but the only way out is through miles of woods. Sam says the best thing to do is to stick together.  Sam, Andy, Ava, and Jake enter a ramshackle house in search of iron, salt, or anything that can be used as a weapon. But Lily breaks away from the group, heading into the woods attempting to escape. As she tries to escape in the woods she keeps hearing noises but keeps on moving.

'Why did she leave?' Sam questioned, sounding guilty.

Dean and Bobby arrive at the roadhouse to find it burnt down in ruins. They look through the rubble for a trace of Ash or Ellen. Dean finds Ash's watch attached to a charred arm. In the woods, Lily hears a little girl laughing in the distance, but she continues on.  Sam finds a chest with a hunting knife inside and collects it. He turns around to find Ava rubbing her temples as though she's in pain. He asks if she's okay, she says she's just freaked out and hungry.

'Sure she is.' Sam said sarcastically. Everyone except Dean frowned.

Andy rushes in; he's found two bags of salt that they can line against the house to protect themselves. At that moment Sam notices that Lily is missing. The group hears laughing coming from outside and head towards the front door. As they walk outside, they find Lily dead and hanging from the windmill.

'Poor girl.' Cas commented.

Sam realises that Lily was trying to leave and that the demon is not going to let them get away that easily. They must stay and gear up for the next attack.  Sam is walking alongside Andy and he tells him how much he wishes he could get in touch with Dean because they could use his help. Andy says that it might be a possibility and asks if he has anything that Dean's touched. Sam hands him a receipt bearing Dean's (D. Hasselhoff) signature and Andy begins to use his psychic ability to put visions of the town in Dean's head.

'Man that hurt so much.' Dean said, rubbing his forehead.

Dean and Bobby walk back to the Impala back to square one, with no idea where Ellen is or if she's even alive still, what Ash knew, or where Sam is. At that moment Dean has a migraine headache and starts losing balance. He has a vision where he sees Sam and a large bell with an oak tree engraved in it. Bobby realises that Cold Oak is where Sam is and they take off.

'At least now you know where he is.' Mary commented, perking up a bit.

Sam and Jake are making cast iron weapons. Jake reveals that his abilities started with headaches, but that after he witnessed a man flip a truck on a bad road and become pinned underneath it, he lifted it off of him like it was nothing. He says he thought it was a fluke adrenaline thing at first, but then discovered he could bench press 800 pounds with little effort. Jake thanks Sam for being the voice of calm and reason for everyone, even though he recognises from experience the look of terror that Sam is trying to conceal. Sam tells him that his brother Dean always says things to calm him, that he'll watch over him and that everything will be okay, but he doesn't know if he believes it this time.

'Aw, Sam. That is just adorable.' Dean commented sarcastically.

Later that evening Sam and Ava are lining the doors and windows with the salt. Ava tells Sam her horoscope told her not to get out of bed. She then asks him about her fiancé, Brady. As much as he hates to, he tells Ava that when the demon took her, Brady didn't make it. Distraught from this news, she buries her head in Sam's arms.

'Aw, sweet.' Mary cooed.

'Really not.' Sam replied. Mary frowned

Everyone has wound down a bit and Sam's trying to stay awake to keep watch. He closes his eyes for a second and opens them to see the Yellow-Eyed Demon standing by the front door. He realises he's dreaming when Jake doesn't hear his warning that the demon is right behind him. The demon invites Sam to take a walk with him outside. Much to our surprise, he goes with it.

'Why did you go with him!?' John questioned.

'He would have killed me already if he wanted to so I decided to try and get some information.' Sam replied.

As they're walking outside, the demon recognises that Sam's very quiet and Sam responds, "I'm gonna tear you to shreds, I swear." The demon replies that when he wakes, he can give it his best shot. T he demon tells Sam that he and the others are all in a competition to prove who's the strongest, but that Sam's the one he's rooting for. Only one of them will survive and be the soldier from his generation, the leader in this upcoming war. Sam wants to know who this soldier is supposed to lead, and the demon replies that it will be an army that he almost has assembled.

'Sam would never help them.' John protested. Sam and Dean looked at each other.

'Yeah. Right.' Sam said, ignoring Dean's snickers.

Sam tells the demon that he's ruined his life, killed almost everyone he loves. The demon mockingly replies that it was "the cost of doing business." Jessica had to die because Sam was all set to marry her and become some tax lawyer with two kids and a little McMansion in the suburbs. He had to remove her in order to keep Sam focused on his fighting skills. Sam asks him why he killed his mom. The demon says that was just bad luck; she just happened walk in on the two of them 22 years ago. It wasn't about her, it was all about Sam.

'Well thanks a lot.' Mary commented.

The demon pauses and says that since he is in a charitable mood, he will show Sam what happened the night his mom died.  The demon takes Sam into the past to replay the scene of Mary's death. Sam sees the demon standing beside Sam's crib slitting open his own wrist and dripping blood into baby Sam's mouth.

'What the hell?' Jo questioned.

Sam is mortified by the fact that he's consumed demon blood. A drowsy Mary approaches the darkened nursery to tend to fussy baby Sam, but thinks it's John already standing next to the crib, so she proceeds back down the hall. Sam tries to call out to Mary, but the demon reminds him that it's only High Def instant replay, not real, and that she cannot hear him. When Mary hears the TV and finds John actually sleeping in front of it on the couch downstairs, she runs back upstairs into Sam's nursery. The demon turns around, revealing his yellow eyes, and she gasps, "It's you".

'You recognised him!' John questioned.

'I...I'm sure it will explain later.' Mary replied.

Sam realises that his mom apparently knew the demon already. The replay goes on to show Mary being forced up the wall toward the ceiling, to Sam's horror.

There was silence, and John turned away.

But, the demon awakens Sam before can see the consuming fire ignite.  Jake is shaking Sam out of the dream, alerting him that Ava's missing. Sam and Jake head outside and split up to find her. They don't notice her lurking behind a nearby building.

'Why's she hiding?' Mary questioned.

Andy walks around inside the house and finds Ava, as she breaks the line of salt on the windowsill.

'What is she doing?' Mary protested.

He is surprised to find her and asks if she heard them calling for her. She says yes, she did. She looks at Andy coldly and then places her hands against her temples, as if she has a headache. Black demon smoke seeps in through the window and manifests as the same acheri that threatened Jake earlier. The demon then attacks Andy and tears him to shreds.

'She's the one controlling them isn't she.' Jo realised.

Ava then generates tears and screams to draw the guys back. Sam runs back inside, sees Andy's body and asks her what happened and where has she been. Ava tells him she went to get a drink from the well and when she came back she found him like this. However, Sam notices the deliberate break in the line of salt on the windowsill and knows that Andy wouldn't have done it. All the pieces about Ava begin falling together for him. She's been gone for five months and is the only one with all that time who can't account for it. He believes that Ava has gained the ability to control demons and is using that ability against them, noting that the last time she got a sudden headache was exactly when the demon got Lily.

'At least now you know.' Mary commented.

Realising Sam has figured her out, she comes out and admits that she's been in this town the whole time. More and more "children" like her and Sam have appeared, usually three or four at a time, and she's killed them all. She's declared herself the "undefeated heavyweight champ." Sam is horrified and asks her how she could do such things, she tells him that she had no choice; it was them or her. She says that after a while it became easy, even fun, once she stopped fighting "who we are". She puts it to Sam that if he would just quit his "hand-wringing" and open himself up, he'd realise all the things he's capable of.

'Because that would be an amazing idea.' Dean said, sarcastically.

She mock-sadly says, "Sorry, Sam, but it's over," then attempts to summon a demon to attack him. Jake arrives and breaks her neck from behind and she falls to the ground. The demon smoke dissipates back out of the window before it reaches Sam.  Sam and Jake head outside and start walking towards the woods. Sam says that since Ava was controlling the demons, they should be able to make it out of this town now that she's dead. However, Jake is not feeling the same way. He says the demon has come to him in a vision and told him that only one of them is getting out alive. He says he likes Sam, but it makes no sense for them to let it kill them both, and so, regrettably, he's prepared to take Sam out.

'That's exactly what he wants. Don't fight and take him down together!' John said, exasperatedly.

Sam pleads with him that together, they can kill the demon and live. Both of them have weapons; Sam a knife, Jake, an iron rod. As a gesture of trust, Sam lays down his knife on the ground between them asking Jake again not to do it. Jake reluctantly lays the rod down as well. But, Jake turns on Sam and lands a punch packing all of his super-human ability. Jake attempts to hit Sam again, but Sam manages to dodge his punch and Jake punches his hand through the wooden fence. Jake rebounds and delivers a crunching blow to Sam's shoulder. Sam then lands a few punches and eventually knocks him out with a strike of the cast iron rod. Sam considers but decides not to use the chance to slay Jake as he lay unconscious. He drops the rod to the ground.

'You really shouldn't have dropped that.' Dean said, looking down.

He then hears a familiar voice call his name. He turns around and sees Dean and Bobby down the road. He calls out to Dean while stumbling toward them. Jake gets up and grabs the knife, runs up behind Sam and twists it into his spine.

'What the hell!' Mary said, really concerned.

Dean runs to save Sam, and he drops to his knees into Dean's arms as Bobby sprints after Jake. Dean tries to will Sam back to consciousness as he fades, but it is too late. Sam dies in Dean's arms.

There was silence.

'Explain...now.' Mary said.

Sam and Dean looked at each other. Sam took a deep breath.

'Let's just watch the next episode. I'm sure it will explain.' he replied.

The scene opens up to Sam laid out on a bed. Dean is watching him, but it's obvious Sam is dead.

'So did Chuck bring you back from the dead as well?' Mary asked, tears in her eyes.

Bobby walks in, telling Dean he needs to eat. Bobby also suggests it's time they bury Sam. Dean refuses.

John frowned. Why didn't Dean want to bury Sam? A thought occurred to him and he suddenly felt cold.

'You're not going to do anything stupid are you?' John asked.

'Mabye. It happened though so there's nothing you can do to change it if I did.' Dean replied, with a smirk that was slightly forced. This confirmed John's suspicions.

When Bobby asks Dean to go with him because something "End-of-the-world big is going down", Dean refuses, saying "Then let it end!".

Sam looked at Dean, very surprised. He knew what had happened but seeing it firsthand shocked him.

Bobby says he doesn't mean it, and that he thinks he shouldn't be left alone. Dean tells Bobby to leave – which he does.

'I'm sorry for having a go at you.' Dean said, looking at Bobby.

'That's alright.' Bobby said, with a smile.

Jake has escaped Cold Oak and is camping out. The yellow-eyed demon appears to him and says "Congratulations, Jake, last man standing. The American Idol". Jake wants to know what the demon wants him for and threatens to kill him. The demon thinks this is funny and threatens Jake's family. Jake has no choice but to say he'll do the demon's bidding.

'So he was only doing it to protect his family.' Sam said, feeling guilty.

Dean sits alone, looking at Sam's body. "You know, when we were little, you couldn't have been more than 5. You had just started asking questions. 'How come we didn't have a mom?', 'Why do we always have to move around?', 'Where did Dad go?' when he'd take off for days at a time. I remember I begged you, 'quit asking, Sammy. You don't want to know.' I just wanted you to be a kid. Just for a little while longer. I always tried to protect you. Keep you safe. Dad didn't even have to tell me. It's just always been my responsibility, you know?'

'It's not you're responsibility.' Sam said, with a smile.

'I know.' Dean said, his smile now very forced. He was becoming more and more uncomfortable.

'It's like I had one job. I had one job, and I screwed it up. I blew it, and for that, I'm sorry. I guess that's what I do. I let down the people I love. You know, I let Dad down, and now I guess, I'm just supposed to let you down, too.'

'What are you talking about? You never let me down.' John said.

'How can I? How am I supposed to live with that? What am I supposed to do? Sammy? What am I supposed to do? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?!"'

There was silence as they took in the scene. Mary, John and Bobby had tears in their eyes.

'Don't do anything stupid.' Mary muttered, knowing it wouldn't make a difference.

Dean drives like a maniac to the nearest crossroads.

Jo gasped, finally putting things together. She looked at Dean, tears beginning to form in her eyes.

Dean puts a box with his picture and other items at the center of the intersection, wanting to summon the Crossroads Demon.  Eventually, she appears. Dean tells her he wants to make a deal for Sam's life. The demon is sarcastic; she knows he's hurting, and she's enjoying it.

'Why are demons always so sarcastic. It's so annoying.' John commented, attempting to lighten the mood.

'Sarcasm is annoying so it's in their programming as demons to torment people as much as possible.' Cas informed them.

Dean offers his soul for Sam back and ten years of life. The demon says no way. He offers 9 then 8 years of life, but the demon says Sam back and just one year to live.

'Please tell me you didn't. That's a completely unfair deal.' John commented.

'Like yours was a fair deal. You didn't get any time.' Dean replied, sarcastically.

For his brother, Dean has no choice but to accept. The demon makes a clause, though, saying if Dean tries to ever get out of the deal Sam will die again. Dean kisses the demon, sealing the pact.

'Gross.' Jo commented. Dean looked at her and rolled his eyes.

Sam wakes up and he's confused. He goes to the nearest mirror and tries to look at his back where he was stabbed.

'I knew something was wrong.' Sam said, woth a sigh.

Dean walks in and is relieved to see his brother back among the living. He can't help but give Sam a hug.

Despite what had happened, Mary couldn't help but smile.

Sam asks what happened, and Dean lies saying Sam was stabbed in the back but Bobby patched him up.

'Can't believe I believed that.' Sam said, with a sigh.

'I know I'm good but I'm not that good.' Bobby said, with a smile.

Dean asks who the kid was anyway and Sam says "his name's Jake". Sam asks if Dean got Jake, but Dean says no, he got away.  Sam and Dean get something to eat, and Sam tells his brother everything that happened in Cold Oak, and that the demon only wants one special kid. He can't understand why he and Jake are both still alive as that's two kids.  Dean brushes this aside and says Sam was left for dead.

'Left for dead. Sure.' Sam said, sarcastically.

'You can't say that it's a bad lie if you believed it.' Dean replied. Sam sighed.

Sam has to accept this, but says they have to figure out what the demon wanted the special kid for, and stop him. Dean wants Sam to rest first, but Sam refuses and says they should call the Roadhouse.

Jo sighed and looked away.

'I'm sorry. It was my fault for giving that stuff to Ash. They would never have targeted him if it wasn't for that.' Dean said, looking guilty.

Dean has to tell him the roadhouse has burned down because of something Ash found out and that Bobby is trying to find out just what that something was. Sam insists they go to Bobby's despite Dean's protests that he needs to take care of himself a little more.

'Not like you'd just come back from the dead or anything.' Dean commented, sarcastically.

'Well someone decided not to share that information.' Sam shot back, with a grin.

Bobby is shocked when he opens the door to see Sam alive. He doesn't say anything, but Sam notices the strange reaction.

'Your reaction was priceless.' Dean said, with a grin.

'Shut up ya idgit.' Bobby replied, 'I bet it confused you a lot.'

'Sure did. That was part of what made me realise what had happened.' Sam replied.

The brothers go inside and Bobby shows them what he's found. He doesn't know what it means, but demonic omens have skyrocketed in a certain area, all except for one place in the center. He shows them on a map. One place in Southern Wyoming is totally clean, as if demons are surrounding it, but can't get in. Bobby asks Sam to take a look for clues to why while he and Dean go outside and get more research books.

'Sure. To get more research books.' Sam said, with a smile.

Bobby confronts Dean about what he's done for Sam. Bobby is furious, but it's obvious it's because he thinks a lot of the young hunter, seeing him like he was his own son. Dean confesses that he made a deal, but asks why it matters (because he shouldn't have been alive after the crash). After a short exchange, Dean asks Bobby not to tell Sam.

'Thanks a lot Bobby.' Sam said, shaking his head.

'I would have made him tell you eventually.' Bobby replied, with a small smile.

Then the pair are distracted by a noise in the yard. They sneak up to find Ellen.

'Thank god she was still alive.' Bobby commented.

Bobby asks Ellen to drink some holy water to prove she's not a demon or possessed. She knocks back the water then asks for whiskey. Dean asks what happened at the roadhouse and Ellen explains she had to go out for supplies. Ash called her and told her to look in the safe, but by the time she got back the place was on fire and everyone was dead.

Jo sighed and looked away.

Ellen did get to the safe, though, as it was in the basement. Inside the safe was another map of Wyoming.

'Is that what Ash found out?' John said, leaning forward in anticipation. Bobby nodded.

Bobby figures out that marks on the map are all abandoned frontier churches all built by Sam Colt. Private railway lines connect each church and when the lines are drawn out they make a huge, iron Devil's Trap.

'How did no one notice that?' John queried.

'To be fair. It's only obvious once you know it's there.' Bobby replied.

In the middle of the Devil's Trap is an old cowboy cemetery. Sam wonders what Sam Colt was trying to protect there and Dean suggests Colt was maybe actually trying to keep something asks Bobby if the demons could get inside the trap and Bobby says no full blood demon could. It's then Sam realizes what the demon wanted the gifted kid for – to get inside the Devil's Trap in Wyoming.

'That can't be it. Why would he go to so much trouble?' John questioned.

'I wish one of us had thought of that at the time.' Dean commented.

Jake drives up to the edge of the railroad and is met by the demon. The demon tells Jake 15 miles in is a cemetery, and a crypt. Jake has to open the crypt because he can't go in there yet himself. Jake gets confrontational and says no, but the demon gives him The Colt and even explains it's the only gun that can kill him.

'What the hell? That's so stupid. Why would he do that?' Mary questioned.

Jake points the gun at the demon, but the demon laughs and offers Jake and his family "money and honey" forever. He offers a better world, where Jake will be royalty. It's too tempting and Jake caves in.

'I suppose it's tempting.' Mary said, her head to one side.

'Not if it meant letting that thing live.' John replied, angrily.

Jake walks in among the graves towards the crypt. Dean, Sam, Ellen and Bobby appear from hiding places and pull guns on him. Jake looks at Sam shocked, saying Sam was dead, he cut through his spinal cord.

'That's when things finally clicked and I realised what had happened.' Sam commented.

'Figured.' Dean replied.

Sam is obviously surprised and unnerved. Jake laughs and makes Ellen put her own gun to her temple just by suggesting it.

'How is he able to do that? I swear his thing was just that he was strong.' John questioned.

'Turns out that once you give in to using your powers they suddenly grow stronger.' Sam informed them.

His pupils briefly flash yellow as he does this. He tells the others that once you give into the abilities there are lots of Jedi mind tricks they can do. He says they all should put their guns down and then he turns, placing the Colt in a strange rotating lock on the crypt.  Sam gets his gun back and repeatedly shoots Jake, almost cold-heartedly.

Sam looked away guiltily, not wanting to see the cold look on his face.

Behind them the lock is opening, and Bobby explains it's a Hellgate. Dean tugs the Colt from the spinning lock and they take cover. The iron train lines are broken by the force and the demons can finally enter and leave the cemetery.  Bobby, Ellen and Sam try to close the gate but Dean spots the yellow-eyed demon and tries to shoot him.

'You're such an idiot. Why did you go by yourself?' Jo commented.

'Didn't want anyone else getting hurt.' Dean replied.

'That doesn't make sense. If the demon killed you then he would have just gone on hurting more people.' Jo replied.

'Whatever.' Dean retorted.

The demon takes the gun away using his powers and it flies into his hand. He then tosses Dean into a headstone and pins him there. Sam sees what's happening and runs for his brother, but the demon pins him to a tree.

John looked at Dean, worriedly.

The demon proceeds to thank Dean for bringing Sam back, because Sam was his favorite. He explains that demons can't resurrect someone unless a deal was made - "I know. Red tape. It'll make you nuts". He also warns Dean that the deal may not have been as good as it seemed; he mentions how cold-blooded Sam was when he shot Jake.

'He was just messing with me. He didn't mean it.' Dean said, looking at Sam's guilty face.

'I know.' Sam said, looking away.

The demon mocks Dean one more time, then draws the Colt to shoot him. Suddenly, John's spirit appears from behind and grabs the demon from his body.

'I don't remember that.' John said, looking confused but glad that he helped in some way.

The demon quickly overpowers John and returns to his body only to find Dean has gotten his hands on the Colt. Dean shoots the stunned demon in the heart, finally killing him and avenging his mother and father.

'You actually did it.' John said with a smile.

'You make it sound like you didn't expect us to do it.' Dean queried with a frown.

The demon drops to the floor and behind them Bobby and Ellen finally manage to close the devil's gate. John's spirit walks forward and places a hand on Dean's shoulder. He also nods to Sam with tears in his eyes, but a smile on his face, and then he vanishes in a bright light.

John smiled at the fact that he managed to help them, even from beyond the grave.

The brothers look over the demon's body. Sam asks Dean if he thinks their dad really climbed out of Hell, and Dean says the door was open, and he was stubborn enough. Sam says he can't believe it's over, he doesn't know what to say. Dean says that he does and kneels, addressing the demon's corpse; "That was for our mom, you son of a bitch".

'That's just adorable.' Mary said, with a smile.

Sam confronts Dean about what really happened, mentioning how Jake looked like he had seen a ghost when he saw Sam. He asks if he died and Dean made a deal. Eventually, Dean's silence is as good as a confession.

'You should have told me earlier' Sam said, looking upset.

'I know but...it's over now.' Dean said, with a grim smile.

Sam tells Dean he shouldn't have, but Dean insists he had to; it's his job. Sam says his own job is to protect Dean too. Dean smiles and offers a quiet response.  Bobby and Ellen walk up and Ellen says lots of demons escaped through the gate. Sam says it's an army. Bobby nods, saying he hopes the boys are ready, because the war has just begun. Dean tosses in the Colt and says, "We got work to do".

'You sure do.' John commented.

The episode opens in a residential neighbourhood just west of Chicago in Oak Park, giving a pan shot of the skyline in the background. A male resident is taking out a bag of trash.

'Not good to be out alone.' Mary questioned.

He pauses for a second as he approaches the sidewalk. A slight breathing sound is heard in the distance. He glances back at his car and continues walking to the curb. After placing the trash in the can, he starts walking back towards the house, when he hears the trash cans rattling. He turns around and walks slowly towards them. The closer he approaches the cans, they faster and louder they rattle. Then the street lights starts to flicker and as he looks up into the sky, a cloud of black demonic smoke starts to form alongside the moonlight.

'That doesn't look good.' John questioned.

As the clouds inch closer to him, several strands of the smoke break away from the cloud and shoot towards him. One of the strands knocks him on the ground and enters through his mouth. After swallowing all the smoke, the black demonic eyes appear inside the man. He gets up and looks up into the sky, as the smoke makes its way over the Chicago skyline and dissipates.

'Is that one of the demons from the hell gate?' Jo asked. Dean nodded.

A week later, Sam's sitting inside the parked Impala, outside a motel, reading through ritual books on demons trying to find any lead on breaking Dean free of the deal he made at the crossroads. Meanwhile, Dean himself is inside the motel getting laid with two hot chicks.

'Really Dean?' Mary said, looking at Dean critically.

'Give me a break. I thought I only had a year to live.' Dean replied.

'I can't wait to hear how you got out of that one.' Jo said, with a smile. She didn't see Dean's grimace.

Bobby calls the boys and tells them about a possible lead on a demonic omen outside of Lincoln, Nebraska. Only signs are crop failure and a cicada swarm, but it's their only lead.

'Worth following I guess.' John commented.

'You gone further for less.' Dean replied.

Without further hesitation, the boys hit the road.  Just outside Lincoln, Nebraska, the boys meet up with Bobby at the house of one of the latest victims, hoping to find more leads on the demon. They are surprised to find three dead rotting bodies in the middle of the living room when they enter the door. There are no traces of sulphur or any other signs of a demonic attack. If it is one, it's nothing like they've ever seen.

'That's so strange. I've never seen anything like it.' John commented, looking confused.

'It was an unusual demon.' Sam replied.

Whilst at the house, they run into a couple of longtime hunter friends of Bobby's, Isaac and Tamara, who are working this case as well.

Bobby looked away, guiltily.

Later at Isaac and Tamara's house, Dean gets in touch with coroner who tells him that the cause of death for the whole family was dehydration and starvation, which doesn't make any sense being that there was a fully stocked kitchen a few feet away. Isaac refuses to team up with the boys since they were the ones that let the Devil's gate open up in the first place.

'Come on! It's not like I meant to.' Dean commented.

Outside the house a young female blonde suddenly appears out of the dense fog, looking suspiciously at the house, but she doesn't enter.

'Ruby.' Sam muttered, bitterly.

In a department store, the demon-possessed man from Oak Park walks into a local department store and approaches a random girl inside. He lays his hand on her and says, "Say, those are nice shoes", gesturing towards a woman examining a green pair of heels.

'No they're not.' Jo commented.

The girl turns around, eyeing the heels, and agrees with him. She glances back and walks over to the woman with the shoes and says she wants them. When the woman refuses to give them to her, she makes a second attempt outside by her car. When the woman refuses to give up the shoes again, the girl grabs her by the woman and slams her face against the car windshield several times causing her right eye to gouge out with blood, leaving her dead on the sidewalk. The girl then grabs the pair of shoes and takes off.

'That demon must be very powerful. Those shoes are so not worth killing for.' Jo commented, sarcastically.

Later, after the cops arrive on the scene, Bobby and the boys show up, looking for signs of a demonic possession. They find no traces of sulphur at all. It seems as if that girl really just wanted those shoes. Taking a look at the surveillance tape, they see the possessed man approach the girl and decide to follow him as their next move. Outside the department store, the blonde girl who appeared outside Isaac and Tamara's house last night appears across the street behind a tree. She seems to be taking a high interest in Sam. She follows Sam as he's walking down the block but makes herself scarce before he turns around.

'She is such a creeper.' Dean commented, Sam agreed.

That evening, Bobby and the boys are parked outside a local bar where Walter Rosen, the demon-possessed man from Oak Park, likes to hang out. Rosen does indeed show up, but the boys are not ready to make a move yet, given that they don't know what these demons are capable of. However, they run into an obstacle when Isaac and Tamara show up and walk inside.

'Why did they have to show up right then?' Bobby questioned, sighing.

The two of them sit down at a table near the demon. A few minutes later, Rosen walks into the bathroom. As Isaac heads towards the bathroom, he is halted by another demon and the two of them soon discover they are trapped in the bar by seven demons.

'Idiot.' Bobby commented, sighing.

One of the demons lays his hand on Isaac with a bottle of drain cleaner and insists that he take a drink. Under the influence of the demon, he chugs the whole bottle and immediately falls to the floor coughing up chunks of blood. He soon dies.

'Poor Isaac.' Bobby commented, feeling guilty.

Bobby and the boys take the car and drive through the door to the bar. Inside, they immediately start lashing the demons with batches of holy water. Sam gets Tamara into the car and Dean manages to get Rosen trapped inside the devil's trap in the trunk and they drive off.

Back at the house, with Rosen tied in a chair under another Devil's Trap, Bobby, Tamara and the boys are trying to figure out what their next move is. Looking at one of the books, Bobby soon realises that they're up against the Seven Deadly Sins, who were discovered to be actual demons back in 1580 by Peter Binsfeld.

'Seriously? You two are so unlucky.' John commented.

Tamara wants to go back to the bar, but the boys convince her that's not a good move because they don't know what these demons are capable of.  The four of them approach the demon in the next room, but don't manage to get much out of him. Without further hesitation, they send this demon straight back to hell, with Tamara doing the honors of exorcising him. Then there were six. They realise that there's no way out of this and that the demons will be coming for them. They must fight and exorcise them all one by one.

'No way you did that.' John said, very surprised. He couldn't even kill one demon.

'We did.' Dean said, with a smile.

With the four of them ready to hunt down the rest of the Sins, they suddenly hear Isaac's voice calling out for Tamara from the distance outside. He approaches closer and closer to the house. Bobby keep her calm by telling her it's not Isaac, that one of the demons is possessing his corpse.

'Demons have no respect for the dead.' Cas said, frowning.

'Says the guy literally wearing a dead man's skin.' Dean replied.

When Isaac approaches the door, Tamara can't take it anymore and bursts through the door throwing Isaac to the ground. She stabs him with a wooden spike and then proceeds to exorcise the demon from Isaac's body.  The five remaining demons enter the house. The demon of Sloth makes his way towards Bobby but falls immediately into another Devil's Trap. Bobby wastes no time exorcising it. Now down to just four demons, the demon of Lust takes on Dean, while the remaining three work on Sam. Dean manages to lure the demon of Lust into a bathtub full of holy water, knocking her out cold.

'That was a good plan, especially since you came up with it on the spot.' John commented, approvingly.

Sam, however, has his hands full when he fails to traps the other three inside a devil's trap. Luckily for him, the blonde girl comes to his rescue slicing the three of them dead with a special knife. When Sam asks who she is, she replies "I'm the girl that just saved your ass" and walks out of the room.

'Who is she?' Mary asked, instantly suspicious.

'A bitch.' Sam replied, and Dean agreed.

The big questions on his mind are who is this girl and why is she helping him. Also on everyone's mind is what kind of knife she's using, because for the past two years, the boys haven't found any kind of knife that could stab a demon dead.  The next morning, the boys lay all the dead demons' hosts in a hole, salt them and burn them.

Mary smiled, glad that they were giving the victims respect.

The troubling question on everyone's mind is that is if they let out the seven deadly sins, what else did they let out? Tamara and Bobby take off. Sam suggests heading down to Louisiana to visit this hoodoo priest Tamara told him about that might be able to help Dean get out of his demon deal. Dean refuses to go because if they try to trap the crossroads demon in anyway, Sam drops dead.

'I'd forgotten about that.' How did you get out of the deal?' Mary questioned.

'You'll find out.' Sam replied.

Sam's about had it and accuses Dean of being a hypocrite. After how torn apart Dean was when he found out that John sold his soul for him, Sam can't believe that Dean would even think of doing the same thing for him. Dean explains to Sam that's he's tired and sick of the job.

John looked away, guiltily.

"Sam, I've got a year left to live. So what's say we kill some evil sons of bitches, and we raise a little hell?". On that note, the boys drive off in Impala on their next hunt.

The episode begins in Cicero, Indiana. A woman greets her daughter, who has been brought home by her ex-husband. The girl, Katie, claims that she hates it at her dad's house because there are monsters there.

'Monsters?' John questioned, frowning as he tried to work out what the monster could be.

Sam and Dean looked at other with confused face as they tried to figure out which hunt this was.

The dad is seen next working in his wood shop when the saw mysteriously turns on. He switches it off, and it comes back on and kills him.

'Is it a ghost?' John questioned.

'I'm not sure. I don't recognise this hunt yet.' Sam replied, looking confused.

Sam is in a diner, on the phone with Bobby, trying to crack a translation on the laptop in relation to Dean's deal. Dean enters and mentions the gruesome power saw death, then reveals that he really only wants to go to Cicero to hook up with Lisa Braeden, an ex-yoga instructor who gave him "the bendiest weekend of his life" over eight years ago.

'Oh. It's this one.' Dean said, with a hollow voice. He shifts uncomfortably in his seat. Mary frowned but decided not to ask after seeing the look on Dean's face. Sam's eyes also flicker towards Dean's in sympathy.

Dean dumps Sam off at the Cicero Pines Motel and drives to cookie-cutter suburbia, arriving at Lisa's house. She's surprised to see him, and he discovers that he's arrived on the day of her eight-year-old son's birthday party.

'Wait. You never told me this.' Sam said, looking at Dean with a distressed face.

'You have a son?' John questioned, feeling very unsure about suddenly being a grandfather.

'He's not my kid.' Dean replied.

Dean meets the boy and sees a striking resemblance, especially noticing his joy for his new AC/DC CD, the way he eats his sandwich, and the race-car birthday cake.

'Are you sure he's not you kid?' Jo asked, with a smirk.

Two women (one a local Realtor) ogle Dean; they both heard that Dean gave Lisa "the best night of her life."

Dean smirked, before looking down and looking away.

Dean goes over to talk to Ben, and finds he has an eye for the ladies. He gives Ben a long stare as the boy runs off to play with some "chicks," does the math in his head, and rushes off to talk to Lisa.

'So you at least thought that he might be your kid.' John commented.

'I swear I thought I was gonna have a heart attack.' Dean commented.

'Having kids isn't that bad.' Mary replied.

Lisa talks to Katie's mother, Annette Doolittle, who claims her daughter Katie isn't right. Dean shows up after she leaves to ask Lisa in a roundabout way if Ben is his. She denies the relation.

'Are you sure she's telling the truth?' Mary questioned, and Dean nods before rolling his eyes.

She then talks about the saw accident while they watch Katie and her mother behave strangely in the yard.

'That's odd.' John questioned.

Sam is in a diner when the mysterious woman who saved him in the last episode takes a seat across from him. She tells Sam she's interested in him, knows all about how he's got the "Antichrist" thing going for him and is the sole survivor of the psychic kids.

'Well that's not creepy at all.' Mary commented, frowning as she tried to figure out what was going on.

Sam is surprised to hear that she knows this and claims that his psychic abilities died with Yellow Eyes. She surprises him again by mentioning that something happened to his mother's friends.

'What?' John said, looking at Mary confused.

'I'm sure it will be explained soon.' Mary said, shifting in her seat.

She tells him to look into it and to call her when he's done, writing her phone number on the palm of his hand. Just before she leaves, she says there's a job in town, and then Dean calls to reveal that same fact: there have been four other accidents in that neighbourhood that never made the paper.

'Well, that's definitely not a coincidence.' Bobby commented.

Annette wakes up to find her daughter staring eerily at her, and then sees the girl's mottled and gray skin in her reflection in the mirror. Sam, disguised as an insurance agent, visits the wife of an accident victim and examines the scene where her husband fell off the ladder. He notices a red spot outside the window, a little girl giving him an eerie glare through the window, and a mark on the back of the woman's neck.

'That's so creepy.' Jo commented.

Back at the other house, Annette goes into the bathroom very rattled by her daughter's behaviour and freaks out when the girl tries to force her way in through the locked door.

'Oh, right. Is it a changeling?' John realised, and Dean nodded.

Dean sees Ben at the park looking sad because a bully has taken his video game. Dean encourages him to get it back by kicking the bigger boy in the groin, upsetting Lisa but earning him a huge hug from Ben in thanks.

'Not sure that's the best thing to teach a kid.' Mary said.

'He needs to be able to defend himself.' Dean protested.

Dean notices a set of creepy children staring him down as Lisa and Ben leave. Annette straps Katie into the car, and again sees her distorted face in the mirror. Instead of taking her for ice cream, she drives up to the edge of a lake, gets out, and releases the brake, letting her car and daughter sink into the water. She gets home extremely upset, only to find her daughter soaking wet but alive and well, asking for ice cream.

'That is the creepiest thing I have ever seen.' Jo said, shuddering.

Dean meets Sam back at the motel room, where Sam reveals all his research about changeling lore. It seems a changeling has replaced the kids, killed the fathers, and is feeding on the mothers. They realise any kid is at risk, and Dean insists they go check out Ben.

'That's just adorable.' Bobby said, earning roll of the eyes from Dean.

They arrive at Lisa's house to find that Ben has indeed been taken and replaced by a changeling. Dean finds the same red spot that Sam did at the other house, but realizes it's not blood, but red sand.

'I love it when the bag guys leave clues.' Bobby commented, sarcastically.

They pull into a vacant house in the neighborhood with a pile of red sand in the front and go in equipped with makeshift flamethrowers. Dean goes in the basement and finds Ben, the other kids, and the local Realtor from the party, all in cages. The fake Realtor confronts Sam, who misses her with his flamethrower.

'How did you miss?' Dean commented.

"'I was under a lot of pressure.' Sam said, with a sigh.

In the meantime, changeling-Ben starts freaking out Lisa. Jo shuddered again. Dean frees the kids and gets them out through the basement window while Sam arrives with the warning that there's a mother changeling. The fake Realtor shows up and tosses Sam and Dean around for a bit while Lisa and Katie's mum freak out over their changeling children. Dean takes down the Realtor and Sam torches her, causing the Ben and Katie changelings go up in flames in front of their horrified parents.

'That can't have looked good to the police.' Mary said, looking at Sam and Dean worriedly.

'It was fine. The real kids got back home.' Sam replied.

The Impala pulls into Lisa's driveway and Ben gets out to greet a relieved Lisa. Dean goes inside and explains the changelings to her and why he never mentioned his job before. She confirms for Dean, once and for all, that Ben is not his son. Dean is very disappointed.

'He seems like a good kid. I'd be happy to call him my grandson.' John commented, and Mary agreed. Dean smiled.

Lisa tries to help by reminding him Ben wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for him, and she kisses him after Dean declares he'd be proud to be Ben's dad. Lisa invites him to stay, but Dean reluctantly leaves, declaring this isn't his life.

'I wish you didn't have to leave.' Mary said, wistfully.

'Me too.' Dean replied, quietly.

Sam, back at the motel room, finds out through a series of phone calls that his mother's friends and everyone who ever knew her have been "systematically wiped off the map one at a time."

Mary looks down, sadly.

He tells the mystery woman this, and demands to know who she is. She reveals she's a demon, and tells him that she doesn't know what happened to his mother and her friends, just that it was all about him. She claims she wants to help Sam figure it out, and if he lets her, she can help him save Dean.

'Please tell me you didn't listen to her.' Mary said, Sam and Dean looked at each other, worriedly.

Sam tells Dean about his encounter with Ruby, without sharing the information she gave him about the deaths of Mary's friends.

'Why didn't you tell me about mom's friends?' Dean asked.

'I'm sorry. I didn't want to worry you and I kinda wanted to deal with it myself.' Sam replied, and Dean sighed.

Dean is angry that Sam didn't kill the demon, while Sam insists that they can use her to get information about the demons they are battling, as well Dean's deal with the crossroads demon.

'I've seen enough demon deals to know that they are never a good idea. No matter what form they take.' Bobby said. Sam looked at him annoyed.

With a sigh, Sam looked at the DVD's that were left, and tried to work out if they went right up to the present day. For obvious reasons he hoped they didn't. Unfortunately, looking at the amount of DVD's there were it was obvious that they went close. Sam shifted uncomfortably. He wished he could be anywhere else.

A hunter called Kubrick visits Gordon Walker in prison.

'Wait. What? I don't remember him having anything to do with this?' Dean questioned.

'I guess we'll see.' Sam replied.

He informs Gordon of his discovery that, contrary to Gordon's belief, Sam was trying to keep the Devil's Gate in Wyoming from opening. Gordon states that he doesn't believe Sam is even human, and he must be killed.

'Well that's nice of him.' John commented with a frown.

'Yeah. He's a jerk.' Sam commented.

A phone call on John's cell phone alerts Sam and Dean to a break-in at a secret lock-up their father kept.

'Why would anyone want to break in there?' John questioned, before remembering about some of the cursed boxes.

Upon investigating they find a weapons cache, memorabilia from their childhood, and curse boxes, one of which is missing.

'Oh no. Which one did they take?' John asked.

'The rabbit's foot' Dean replied. John smiled, This was going to be interesting. There was a reason that rabbit's foot was locked away.

They use security footage to track the thieves, Wayne and Grossman, who have opened the box and found a rabbit's foot inside.

'Ew, that's disgusting' Jo commented.

'It's powers are pretty cool.' Dean replied.

Wayne was shot when he tripped a booby trap John had rigged in the lock-up.

'Someone's paranoid.' Dean commented.

'Well some of that stuff could cause serious harm in the wrong hands. Case in point.' John added, pointing at the screen.

His luck changes for the better after he touches the rabbit's foot: his neighbour turns out to be an ex-Army medic who can tend his wound, and he wins at cards.

'That's so cool. I've never seen anything like that.' Jo commented.

After Sam and Dean take the rabbit's foot, Wayne's luck changes again - this time for the worse - and he is killed when he slips on a bottle and is impaled on a BBQ fork.

'Ooh. Mabye not so cool.' Jo realised.

'Really not.' Sam agreed.

Sam calls Bobby and tells him about the foot. Bobby reveals that the rabbit's foot brings the person who has it good luck but when it is lost, the person will die within a week.

'That's not good.' John commented, looking worried.

Bobby promises to research a way to destroy the curse. Sam starts getting lucky – a set of scratch and win cards yields thousands of dollars, and he finds a gold watch.

'Wow. I still don't get how it works. How does it bring luck?' Mary questioned.

When he and Dean enter a restaurant, they win a year's worth of free food. However, when a waitress spills coffee on Sam, she uses the opportunity to steal the foot.

'Oh dear, that's not good.' John commented.

'This is going to be hilarious.' Dean commented, as Sam groaned when he realised what was going to happen.

Sam's bad luck starts immediately, and he slips and falls outside the restaurant.

Everyone except Sam stifled a laugh.

'Don't say a word.' Sam said.

They return to the thieves' apartment and interrogate Grossman about who hired them to steal the rabbit's foot; he gives them the name "Bela Lugosi."

'I know that name from somewhere.' John commented, trying to remember where he had heard it.

Dean phones Bobby who tells them that Bela is Bela Talbot, a woman who knows much about the world of the supernatural and steals supernatural items for wealthy clients.

'Bella Talbot? I've had a few run-ins with her.' John commented, 'She's bad news.'

'Tell me about it.' Sam muttered.

Meanwhile, Sam's bad luck continues as he steps in gum and then loses his shoe down a drain.

At this point everyone burst out laughing, except for Sam, who sank further into his chair.

'I'm never going to live this down.' Sam muttered.

'Nope. It's even funnier watching this back than actually being there.' Dean said, laughing.

With a lead on where to find Bela, Dean leaves Sam at a motel with strict instructions not to move. Sam scratches his nose and a series of unlucky events leads to him knocking himself out.

This made everyone laugh even more.

'Now this is gold. I can't believe I missed this.' Dean said, laughing.

In Queens, Dean breaks into Bela's flat and manages to steal the rabbit's foot from her. A series of coincidences have helped Kubrick and Creedy track Sam down and they capture him, but just as Kubrick prepares to shoot him they are foiled by Dean who then claims to be batman.

'Really, Dean?' Mary said, with a smirk on her face.

'I don't understand the connection.' Cas remarked, looking confused. Dean rolled his eyes.

Bobby has supplied the boys with a ritual to destroy the rabbit's foot and its curse. Dean scratches a few more winning tickets, and then just as they prepare to burn the foot, Bela arrives.

'Why does she always ruin everything?' Dean grumbled, thinking about the money he lost.

She demonstrates she is not only a thief but also ruthless and a good shot, when she first threatens Dean and then shoots Sam in the shoulder.

'I wasn't actually expecting her to shoot' Bobby said, surprised.

Dean distracts her and then tosses the foot to her. Bela catches it, and becomes cursed. Resigned, she hands the foot over to be destroyed. She leaves, but not before stealing Dean's winnings.

'Can't believe she did that.' Dean grumbled.

Returning to Gordon, Kubrick now believes that he is on a mission from God to kill Sam. Even though Gordon obviously disbelieves this, he enlists Kubrick's help in planning his escape.

'Of all the people he had to get to help.' Sam mumbled.

'Well at least we know that it wasn't a mission from Chuck.' Cas added.

The episode opens in a church and the priest, Father Gil, witnesses a young man commit suicide. While Dean helps Bobby work on the Colt, Sam finds some demonic omens and two unusual deaths in Elizabethville, Ohio.

'More demons.' John said, glowering.

Dean comments that there must be some demons in South Beach. They decide to investigate and Dean jokingly asks Bobby if the gun would be ready for that afternoon and Bobby replies that it would be ready to kill him.

'That's nice, Bobby.' John said, jokingly.

'What? He was being annoying.' Bobby replied with a grin.

As they leave, Bobby tells them to call him if they find anything.

'For once you actually listened to me.' Bobby realised.

The brothers investigate, posing as insurance agents as they speak to Father Gil. They find the town full of people partying and gambling.

'I swear that Elizabethville is supposed to be a really respectable place?' Mary said, looking slightly confused.

'It was.' Dean said, with a sigh. Mary frowned.

As they check into a hotel, they run into Richie, a hunter Dean has worked with before.

'Poor Richie. He was a great guy.' Dean commented.

A hooker comes out of his room and he tries to pretend that she is his sister but they don't believe him.

Dean snickered. Sam looked at him and rolled his eyes.

On a tip from him, they go to check out a bar owned by Trotter, a local businessman. On the way there, Dean gets distracted by the many beautiful women walking around the town.

Sam rolled his eyes. Dean smirked.

'Really Dean?' Mary questioned, with a sigh.

While in the bar, one man shoots another for sleeping with his wife, but he is not possessed. After the kerfuffle dies down, they are asked for mug shots by the police.

'That's not a good idea.' John said, looking worried.

Once the police officer goes to find the photographer, they decide to disappear.

'Good idea.' John commented.

They then discover Richie has disappeared. Casey, a bartender at Trotter's, has taken Richie to the basement in a home owned by her parents, where she kills him. She is possessed.

'Poor guy

Meanwhile, Bobby is testing the Colt when Ruby arrives and offers to help him make it capable of killing demons again.

'What the hell is she up to?' John said, frowning.

Dean snickered.

'It's complicated.' Sam replied, glowering at Dean.

He shoots her with the Colt but it does not kill her.

'That's not good.' Mary commented.

While Dean searches for Richie, Sam investigates Trotter, breaking into his office. He splashes Trotter with holy water, but he appears to be just a human, leaving Sam very embarrassed.

'You never told me about this.' Dean said, laughing.

'I wonder why.' Sam replied, his face slightly red.

He then leaves to find Dean. At the bar, Dean rejects the advancement of one of the prostitutes after she tells him how much she asks for.

'Really Dean?' John said, with a small smile.

'I wasn't actually going to say yes. I knew that Richie had gone home with her so I needed to question her without raising her suspicions.' Dean replied.

'So you rejected the advances of prostitute. How does that help?' Cas asked.

When the bartender asks him why he says that he had a thing with the bartender.

'That's actually a good plan.' Cas commented.

'It's passable.' John said, with a smirk, earning an eye roll from Dean.

Eventually they end up leaving together and going to her basement.

'You know, you could tell me when your going to go off and do something dangerous you could tell me. Once in a while.' Sam said, sarcastically.

'I don't do it that often. Besides, it's fun.' Dean replied with a smirk. Sam sighed. Some things would never change.

He discovers that she killed Richie and he traps her with a devil's trap hidden under a rug.

'Smart.' Mary comments with a smile.

'I can be. Every so often.' Dean commented.

'What do you mean every so often? You are smart.' Sam said, frowning. Dean just rolled his eyes.

Dean tries to exorcise the demon from her but she destroys the exorcism book and then traps him in the basement with her by causing a cave-in at the entrance.

'That's not good.' John comments, looking worried.

'Annoying was what it was.' Dean replied.

Later on, Dean comments that all Demon have smart mouths.

'That's true actually. All the ones I have met have all been smart asses.' Sam commented, with a small smile.

'And exactly how many demons have you met?' John asked, looking incredulously at Sam.

'Way too many.' Sam replied.

He tries to exorcise her but he can't remember the phrase.

'Seriously? You know it now, right?' Sam asked.

'Obviously.' Dean replied.

When she makes fun of him he tells her that Sam is coming and he would know the phrase. She comments that everyone says he's the brains of the outfit.

'That's kinda true.' Dean admits.

'No it's not. Just cuz you make me do all the research doesn't make me any cleverer than you.' Sam replied, with a small smile. Dean smiled back.

She then reveals that she also has backup.

'More demons?' John said, incredulously.

Sam then manages to bribe the barman to find out where Casey lives, having found out that's where Dean has gone.  In the basement, Casey reveals to Dean that she only encouraged Trotter to introduce things like gambling and prostitution - the behaviour in Elizabethville is mainly due to humans' natural instincts.

'Wait. So the whole gambling thing wasn't completely her?' John asked.

'Yep.' Dean added.

She also reveals that demons believe in Lucifer as a higher power.

'Lucifer?' John questioned.

'Yeah. He's a dick.' Dean replied.

'Wait. You've met him?' John asked.

'You could say that.' Sam replied, with a sigh. Dean smirked and stifled a laugh.

Dean asks what hell is like and she says that he is not going to like it, and that he won't be getting the presidential suit. She calls it a pit of despair.

Both Sam and Dean suddenly went stony-faced, and turned away. Mary looked at them and frowned.

Sam searches the house without finding Dean, but there are traces of sulphur, indicating a demonic presence. He calls Bobby to tell him about this before returning to Trotter's bar, where he enlists the help of Father Gil to find Casey and Dean, not realising that the priest is also possessed by a demon.

'This makes it look a lot more obvious than it was.' Sam said, frowning.

'Sure.' Dean replied, with a smirk.

Later on, Casey admits that she likes Dean and Dean replies that he doesn't know how to respond to that.

'Totally. I wouldn't know how to respond either.' John agreed. Sam suddenly felt his face go slightly red and he swallowed and shifted in his seat. Dean noticed and raised his eyebrows with a smirk.

She says that a lot of demons would call him stupid for making his deal but that she doesn't. Dean comments that it is liberating as he no longer has to worry about the future.

'You can't just give up that easily.' Mary said looking worried.

'I was fine. I had Sam to do all the worrying for me.' Dean said, with a grin.

Casey asks if he is scared and after a slight hesitation he says that he isn't.

'Sure.' Sam said, rolling his eyes.

'Shut up.' Dean said, rolling his eyes.

On the way to find Dean and Casey, Father Gil asks Sam about his work and whether he likes it. Sam says that he likes what he is doing and Father Gil asks if Dean does as well and whether he often find trouble. Sam says that he does and Father Gill says that it's a good thing that Sam is there for Dean.

'Sure is.' John said, with a smile.

'Come on. I'm not that bad.' Dean protested.

As Dean and Casey continue talking, she accuses him of liking her which he denies.

'So that's why you protested when I killed her!' Sam said, with a grin. Dean was so going to pay for every joke he made about Ruby. Meanwhile, Dean's face was slightly red.

'You actually liked her? Really?' John said, a slightly revolted look on his face.

'He totally did.' Sam said, with a grin.

'Well at least I didn't start a relationship with her.' Dean replied, shutting Sam up. Bobby and Jo laughed, but fortunately the others didn't get it. Sam then decided that it would probably be best to stop talking.

She also tells him that the Yellow-eyed Demon was actually Azazel.

'What kind of name is Azazel?' John said, with a confused look.

'A stupid ass name for a stupid ass demon.' Dean replied.

Since his death, the demon hordes that escaped the Devil's Gate in Wyoming are in chaos, since Sam did not take on the role Azazel had planned for him: to lead the demon army.

'As if you would lead a demon army. Why did they even think that in the first place?' John said, scoffing.

'Exactly.' Sam said, quietly

Dean and Casey continue to talk, and she develops some respect for Dean.

'This is weirding me out.' John commented.

'This is weirding you out?' Dean asked, laughing slightly. Sam sighed.

When Sam and Father Gil arrive, Dean tries to warn Sam about him. Bobby arrives, but Father Gil attacks him and then Sam. Father Gil breaks into the basement and releases Casey, revealing they have been lovers for centuries.

'Talk about rejection.' Jo commented, with a grin.

'Shut up.' Dean replied, sarcastically.

He is about to kill Dean, despite Casey's protestations, when Sam arrives and kills him and Casey with the Colt.

'Was she actually trying to persuade him to spare your life? Not that that's a bad thing just not what I was expecting.' Cas commented.

Afterwards, the town hasn't changed much. Dean confesses to Bobby what Azazel told him – that Sam came back 'not quite right', but Bobby rejects his concerns.

'I actually don't think I came back quite right. Mabye Azazel was right.' Sam commented thoughtfully.

'To be fair. You did make some questionable decisions after you came back that time.' Dean replied.

'That time?' What does that mean? Also, what questionable decisions?' John questioned. looking thoroughly confused.

'It's a long story.' Dean replied, and Sam gave him a thankful look.

As Sam prepares to leave, Ruby appears and congratulates him on killing the demons. Sam reminds her that he killed two people in the process, and this upsets him. When he threatens her with the Colt, she again reminds him she can help with Dean's deal.

'She is definitely up to something.' John said, frowning.

Late at night on a construction site, three men argue about construction materials.

'Construction materials? How boring.' Jo commented.

Jack, Emmett and Kyle have differing opinions regarding wood and brick. Kyle wanted to use cinder blocks for a task, but Emmett held out for tinder, and they bicker.

'Wait. I remember this case. They were the three little pigs right?' Dean realised, gaining him confused looks from everyone except Sam.

'Oh yeah. They are actually talking about the materials used in the story as well. How weird.' Sam commented.

'I don't get what those men have to do with a kids story?' Cas queried.

'It's a long story.' Dean replied.

Kyle hears a suspicious growling nearby, but when he investigates, he finds nothing.

'Well that's not suspicious at all. When are people going to learn to leave creepy stuff alone?' Dean commented.

'What? Like we do?' Sam retorts.

'Well we fight this stuff for a living. We are prepared for it. There's a difference.' Dean replies.

The men prepare to leave, when Jack is attacked by an unseen creature.

'Looks like a classic werewolf case.' John commented, looking confused.

'I wish.' Sam said with a sigh.

Emmett rushes to help Jack, but Kyle runs behind a pile of bricks, terrified as screams echo around him. When it goes silent, he peers out to see the corpses of his companions.

'What did those guys do?' Bobby commented.

A low growling alerts him, and he screams as he is attacked.

'All three of them? Werewolves don't normally kill that many do they?' Bobby said, frowning.

'No they don't. It wasn't a werewolf.'

In the impala, Sam argues with Dean that they should use the Colt to kill the Crossroads Demon now that it has been repaired by Ruby, in an effort to release Dean from his deal.

'That's not a good idea.' Mary said.

Dean is in staunch opposition to the idea, as it may put Sam's life in danger. He deflects the argument by asking Sam for details of the killings, which they suspect a werewolf may be responsible for, that they are on their way to investigate.

'So you guys thought it was a werewolf as well.'

In Maple Springs, the boys visit Kyle, who has survived the attack that killed Jack and Emmett, revealed to be his two brothers. Despite prompting from Sam and Dean, he describes an ordinary man as the killer, not a werewolf as the boys suspected.

'So what was it?' John asked, confused.

'I guess technically it was a ghost.' Dean replied.

'How can something technically be a ghost?' John said, frowning.

He assumes that one of the pair is the sketch artist that he has been told to expect, and Dean drops Sam in it.

'Why did you have to do that. It was so embarrassing.' Sam commented, looking annoyed.

'It was hilarious is what it was.' Dean replied, with a smirk.

When the interview concludes, Kyle asks to see Sam's sketch, which is a poor stickman-like drawing.

Dean scoffs and Sam rolls his eyes in return.

Embarrassed, Sam leaves as Dean teases him. Sam responds by commenting that Dean couldn't have done any better.

'Sure I could.' Dean replied.

'Ok then. Prove it.' Sam said, throwing a pen at him.

'You know what? I'm not feeling at my best. Artistically, ya know?' Dean replied with a smirk.

'Sure.' Sam said, sighing.

The next victim is a woman, Julie Watson, who is attacked when she and her husband Ken get lost in the woods, come upon a small house and are offered pie by a seemingly sweet old lady.

'No way. Is that...Hansel and Gretel?' Mary said, finally picking up on the connection.

'Wait. So a ghost is acting out fairytales? Why?' Jo asked, frowning.

The old lady proceeds to drug and attack them, fatally stabbing Ken. When Sam and Dean question Julie, she reports seeing a young girl at the window of the house watching the events play out.

'Why is she just watching?' John questioned.

'You'll see.' Dean replied.

Sam and Dean check the old lady's house, and find high EMF readings, indicating a spirit of some sort was present. Sam mentions that he has a theory and says that he has been thinking about fairy tales. Dean sarcastically asks if he thinks about fairy tales often.

'I actually made an observation that helped us solve the case and you turned it into a joke.' Sam complained, with a smirk.

'Whatever. It sounded crazy.' Dean replied.

'Like none of our cases are crazy.' Sam replied.

Sam speculates that the cases resembles fairy tales - the three brothers as the Three Little Pigs, and the woman and her boyfriend as Hansel and Gretel – and that maybe a spirit is controlling the people involved in the murders.

'That makes so much sense.' John said, slowly, wondering if he would have gotten the connection.

Dean asks if they have to do research and when Sam shrugs he closes his eyes in annoyance.

'And that's why I leave all the research to you.' Dean says, with a grin. Sam sighs.

After doing some research into violent child deaths they find no children matching the description of the little girl with dark hair. Dean is sceptical, but they then see a bullfrog on the path and Dean comments that there is no way he is kissing a damn frog.

'Thank god she didn't act out that one.' Dean commented.

They then notice a pumpkin and some mice outside a house. Sam comments that it is like Cinderella and Dean asks if he could be more gay and Sam doesn't answer.

'You know. You shouldn't use being gay as an insult.' Jo protested.

'Plus. I'm not gay, you know that.' Sam added.

'I apologise.' Dean replied, holding his hand up.

As they pick the lock, Dean comments that mabye Sam will find his fairy godmother.

'That's just hilarious.' Jo commented, sarcastically.

'It sure was.' Dean replied, smirking.

Inside, just as in Cinderella, they find a young woman whose step-mother has suddenly chained and beaten her.  Dean sees the spectre of a young girl - the same girl that Julie saw at the cottage.

'That's the girl from earlier, right?' Cas asked, Dean nodded.

When he follows her she disappears, but leaves behind a red apple. Sam connects this to Snow White, whose stepmother poisoned her with the red side of an apple. Dean mentions watching the porn movie of it.

'Really, Dean? I did not need to know that.' Jo commented. Dean rolled his eyes.

The boys start trying to find a girl who may have gone missing, or been killed in the area, but to no avail. They return to the hospital to check for children there, and a nurse tells them that one of the staff, Dr. Garrison, has a daughter, Callie, who has been in a coma since she was eight.

'How did you get rid of that one? You can't exactly burn the corpse like normal ghosts.' Jo questioned.

'You'll see. It wasn't that difficult in the end.' Sam replied.

'For you mabye. You didn't have to fight the big bad wolf.' Dean replied, sarcastically.

'What?' John replied, with a smile.

They find him reading fairy tales to a young woman, who looks exactly like an older version of the spirit Dean saw.

'So she's the ghost?' Cas questioned, and Dean nodded.

They find out that she swallowed bleach which led to her condition, and speculate that she was poisoned by her step-mother, and that her spirit has become increasingly enraged, and is acting out fairy tales in an attempt to get attention. Dean comments that it makes it hard to burn her bones.

'That wasn't actually the difficult bit.' Dean comments. John frowned.

Another victim is brought to the hospital; an old woman whose granddaughter - who was wearing a red hoodie - has disappeared.

'Little Red Riding Hood. Right?' Bobby questioned, and Dean nodded.

Fearing another attack, Dean takes off to find her, saying that he is going to stop the big bad wolf and that it's the weirdest thing he's ever said.

'I have said a lot stranger things recently.' Dean said, with a smile. John looked at him in confusion.

He left Sam to explain their suspicions to Dr. Garrison. He rejects Sam's assertions at first, but does admit his daughter's spirit has appeared to him.  Meanwhile, Dean finds the young girl, but is attacked by the man who has kidnapped her.

'So that's the big bad wolf?' John asked, a slight smile on his face.

'Yep.' Dean replied.

'He's just a normal person.' John commented and Dean sighed.

Dr. Garrison is distraught by Sam's story that his wife may have poisoned his daughter, but when Callie's spirit appears and confirms it, he accepts the truth. At that moment, his daughter dies, and the spirit disappears, now at rest. The man attacking Dean returns to his normal self, confused as to what has happened.

'How did you explain that?' Mary asked, with a smile.

'It took a long time.' Dean explained.

As Sam and Dean say farewell Dr. Garrison, he regrets that he couldn't let Callie go earlier, something Dean suggests that Sam needs to do.

Sam just sighed.

'You were still alive. It's different.' Sam protested.

'Whatever.' Dean replied.

That night Sam sneaks out of the motel room, and summons the Crossroads Demon.

'I'd forgotten you'd done that.' Dean muttered.

'Done what?' Mary asked.

She taunts him, suggesting that he is tired of his broken psyche, of being bossed around and that he is stronger and better than him. She says that part of him will be relieved when Dean dies.

'Not true.' Sam clarified, when everyone looked at him.

He threatens her with the Colt, but she explains that killing her won't break Dean's deal, as the contract is held by a demon more powerful than her. Sam shoots her anyway – killing the demon and the young woman it was possessing.

'I wish you hadn't done that.' Dean muttered.

A woman, Sheila Case, is jogging when she glimpses the apparition of a ship in the harbour. Later, while she showers, a figure appears, and the woman dies of drowning.

'This case? Really?' Sam said, groaning. Mary and John frowned.

In the impala, Dean asks Sam if there is something he wants to tell him and Sam says that there is nothing.

'Sure there isn't.' Bobby commented.

'You two are awful about telling each other things.' Jo commented, with a smile.

Dean then confronts Sam about having killed the crossroads demon, a fact he deduced due to a bullet being missing from the Colt.

'Damn you for being so smart.' Sam said, smirking.

'It wasn't exactly difficult.' Dean retorted.

He is angry that Sam put himself in danger but Sam is unapologetic. The boys visit Gertrude Case, Sheila's aunt, inquiring about the circumstances of her death.

'Look, Sam, it's your girlfriend. I'd forgotten about her.' Dean said, laughing.

'What?' Mary asked, making Sam go slightly red.

'Ignore him. She's not. He's just being stupid.' Sam replied.

They are surprised when Gert, who is obviously attracted to Sam, suggests Sheila may have seen a ghost ship, and asks if they are working the case with "Alex.".

'Wow. She is so creepy.' Mary said, frowning.

Dean makes fun of Sam about this as they exit the building. Outside, Dean panics when the Impala is missing, and he begins hyper-ventilating.

'Please tell me you got it back.' John commented, as the others were laughing.

'Oh I got it back. Don't you worry.' Dean replied.

Bela then appears and admits she had it towed.

'Her again? She always causes trouble.' Bobby commented.

She tells them she scams old women by selling them fake charms and doing seances for them.

'That's awful!' Cas protested.

'Yeah. Well she's an awful person.' Dean replied.

She says that she, calling herself "Alex," had convinced Gert that she had solved her niece's murder, but since the boys showed up Gert is withholding her payment. As she leaves, Dean asks if he can stab her and Sam replies that he can't do it in public.

'Please do.' John muttered.

'John!' Mary protested, with a small smile.

'I meant, hand her in to the police.' John corrected himself.

That night, a man dies, again by drowning at home. Sam and Dean find Bela talking to the victim's brother, pretending to be a reporter.

'She's always getting in the way.' Bobby muttered.

They persuade her to leave and tell the man that reporters were cockroaches and she overhears. S am and Dean speak to his brother, Peter, and find out that they both saw a Ghost Ship while night diving.

'Wait. Does that mean that he's next?' Jo asked, and Dean nodded and sighed.

Bela meets them afterwards and Dean warns her not to come near him with a loaded gun in his hands. The boys decide to try and protect Peter but Bela claims that he is already canon fodder.

'How heartless can you be?' Mary commented, looking disgusted.

The boys try to protect Peter, by staking him out, but he sees them and leaves just as he is attacked by the Sailor's Ghost and drowned.

'There was nothing you could have done.' Mary said, having seen the looks on Sam and Dean's faces.

They then lament that they can't save everybody.

'You can't. You can only do your best.' Mary continued.

'We could have done more.' Dean muttered.

Bela turns up at the house where the Winchesters are squatting, with information – the ghost ship is the Espírito Santo, and it is a death omen.

'So was she actually being useful for once?' John questioned.

'Only to achieve her own ends.' Dean replied.

The ghost is that of a sailor who was hung for treason. His hand was removed after death to make a Hand of Glory, and Bela suggests they need to retrieve and salt and burn it in order to vanquish the spirit.

'Oh god. I'm never forgiving you for that night.' Sam muttered, with a smile.

'One day you will. It was hilarious.' Dean replied.

Gert obtains invitations for Sam, Dean, and Bela to a function at the Maritime Museum where the Hand of Glory is kept. Dean comes down the stairs in a suit and Bela looks at him appreciatively and says that they should have really angry sex.

'As if. I don't sleep with evil skanks.' Dean commented, and Sam shifted uncomfortably in his seat.

This makes Dean uncomfortable and he tells her not to objectify him.

'You can't talk!' Sam replied, grinning.

As they enter, Dean takes out his gum underneath a champagne fountain, much to Bela's disgust.

'Dean. Really? That's gross.' Mary commented.

Dean begins to think about how they would get upstairs to get the Hand of Glory. After Bela asks him to think faster, he asks her if she has any bright ideas. She responds by fainting, leading to Dean being allowed to take her upstairs to lie down.

'That was actually quite smart.' John conceded.

'She is actually quite smart.' Sam conceded.

Sam keeps Gert, and her wandering hands, busy.

'This is hilarious!' Dean commented, laughing.

'No it wasn't!' Sam protested.

'For you.' Dean replied.

Dean and Bela steal the Hand of Glory. Bela tricks Dean and leaves with the object, which she sells to a client – her goal all along.

'Every time you think she's genuinely trying to help you always find an underlying motive.' Dean commented, shaking his head.

But then she, too, sees the Ghost Ship.

'I know it's a horrible thing to say but it does seem like karma.' John commented, earning him a disapproving look from Mary.

Meanwhile, Sam and Dean have deduced that what links all the deaths is that the victims were involved in the death of a family member.

'So she's a murderer as well as thief.' Jo commented.

Bela turns to the boys for help; although she admits to having been involved in someone's death, she won't elaborate.

'Wow. She must have been desperate to come to you for help.' John said, looking surprised.

At first they don't want to help her but she ends up persuading them.

'As annoying as she is. It was the right thing to do.' Mary commented.

At the sailor's grave, Sam summons the ghost of the ship's captain who had the sailor killed – his brother. Their spirits 'merge' and disappear, and Bela is saved. She shows her thanks by giving the boys $10,000.

'That's generous of her.' John said, looking surprised.

Dean is keen to head to Atlantic City for some fun. He apologizes to Sam for the pain his bargain with the Crossroads Demon is causing, but Sam angrily counters that he doesn't want Dean to worry about him, he wants Dean to care about himself.

'You're adorable.' Dean said, rolling his eyes.

Gordon Walker has escaped from prison, and tracks down Bela after he finds out she had been working with the Winchesters. Although he threatens to shoot her, she only reveals their whereabouts when Gordon gives her a priceless mojo bag.

'Nice to know how much she values our friendship.' Dean joked.

Sam and Dean are hunting a vampire who has killed two people. They find a third victim still alive, and Dean captures the vampire by cutting his arm and lowering his weapon to draw her in.

'That's clever. Very dangerous though.' Bobby commented.

He subdues her by injecting her with dead man's blood.

'That was close. Bit risky wasn't it?' Mary questioned, looking at Dean worryingly.

'I got her in the end.' Dean said, shrugging.

Sam then comments that he left it a bit close.

'Exactly. You were being reckless.' John commented.

'Mabye a little bit.' Dean conceded.

When Sam and Dean interrogate the vampire, Lucy, they find out she was picked up in a club by a guy called Dixon who spiked her drink with vampire's blood.

'That's awful.' Jo commented.

He took her back to his place, but she escaped and started killing people to feed. She is unaware of what's happened - she thinks she is on a drug high and can't come down.

'Poor girl. She just thought she was taking drugs.' Mary commented.

Seeing no alternative, and with Sam's approval, Dean kills her.  Meanwhile, Gordon and Kubrick interview Lucy's third victim in the hospital and find out that the Winchesters were the ones who saved him.

'Why am I the short one? I'm acctually above average height.' Dean complained. The others smirked.

'Can't help it if your brother is super tall.' Mary replied.

Sam and Dean visit the club where Lucy had her drink spiked. They see a man who fits Lucy's description leaving with a woman and they intervene as the man is about to feed her vampire blood. Just as Sam and Dean start to fight Dixon, Gordon and Kubrick appear and start shooting at the boys.

'What the hell? There are vampires there and they are shooting at you?' Jo questioned, angrily.

'He's an idiot.' Dean replied.

While Dean draws their fire to give Sam a chance to escape, Dixon knocks Gordon out and kidnaps him. Dean has worked out that Bela betrayed them to Gordon and he calls her, threatening to kill her next time they meet.

'That's fair.' John agreed, with a smile.

'It's a shame we couldn't.' Sam added.

'Still not as bad as Gordon.' Dean replied.

Gordon wakes up to find himself bound to a bed frame. Nearby two young women are restrained – Dixon is turning them into vampires. Dixon explains to Gordon that hunters killed his nest, including his daughter.

'Why do I feel slightly sorry for him?' Bobby questioned.

'Your hatred for Gordon is making you feel sorry for him.' Mary replied.

Dixon had been planning on using Gordon to feed the girls he is converting, but as Gordon continues to taunt him, Dixon snaps and instead cuts Gordon and bleeds onto the wound.

'He's an idiot. Taunting the monster never works.' Dean commented.

'Says you.' Sam replied, sarcastically.

Sam and Dean agree that they should kill Gordon. In order to placate him, Bela uses a Ouija board to contact a spirit and find out where Gordon is.

'Damn. She always manages to worm her way out of stuff.' Bobby sighs.

She passes the information onto the boys, along with the spirit's warning that the boys should stay away from Gordon.

'As if we would listen to some stupid spirits.' Dean says, mockingly.

'He has almost killed us tons of times.' Sam replied.

The scene cuts to Gordon struggling to deal with becoming a vampire. Eventually he comes across a stranger and kills him.

'To be fair, the sound of the blood is hard to resist as a vampire.' Dean commented.

'You've been a vampire?' Mary asked, looking confused.

'Yeah. It didn't stick.' Dean replied.

'How do you reverse being made a vampire?' John questioned, and Sam explained.

When Sam and Dean arrive at Dixon's place, they find Gordon gone and Dixon distraught. The two young women are dead, their heads ripped off by Gordon. Gordon visits Kubrick, revealing he is now a vampire.

'That's not gonna end well.' Cas commented.

He tells Kubrick to let him live long enough to use his new improved strength and senses to kill Sam. Nevertheless, Kubrick attempts to kill him and so Gordon rips his heart out.

'And I thought that Gordon couldn't go anymore off the rails.' Jo commented.

Dean and Sam search for Gordon to no avail. Dean declares he will go after Gordon on his own but Sam protests and confronts Dean about his attitude since he made the deal with the crossroads demon.

'Why are you being so reckless? That's a stupid idea.' John questioned.

'Whatever. It went fine in the end.' Dean replied.

Dean denies he is scared but Sam persists, saying that what he really wants is to feel like Dean is his brother again.

'You were totally scared.' Sam commented, with a grin.

'Shut up.' Dean replied.

Dean agrees that he will stay, and they prepare to wait out the night.  Gordon calls the boys and tells them he has a young woman he will kill if they don't meet him.

'And I thought he couldn't get any worse.' Bobby commented.

'He's like a cockroach. Every time we get rid of him he always comes crawling back.' Dean commented.

When Sam and Dean arrive they rescue the woman, but as they are leaving, a roller door closes, separating them. Trapped in the darkness, Sam is at a disadvantage to Gordon's enhanced sight.

'Every time you are in a situation like this I wonder how you got out of it and every time you surprise me.' Mary commented, with a smile.

'What can I say. We're good.' Dean replied.

Outside Dean fails to open the door, and then has to use the Colt, as the young woman they rescued turns out to be a vampire and attacks him.  Dean locates where Sam and Gordon are fighting, but Gordon throws him aside and then starts to bite him.

John and Mary tensed.

'That was way too close.' Mary commented.

'We've come way closer to death than that.' Sam said, smiling.

Sam pulls Gordon from Dean and manages to grab some barbed wire which he wraps around Gordon's neck. Sam garrotes Gordon until he is decapitated. Dean then comments that it was reckless of Sam to charge Gordon with no weapon.

'Ha. Now who's the reckless one?' Dean commented, with a grin.

'Still you.' Sam replied.

Later, on the side of the road, the boys have a beer while Dean works on the Impala. He starts to explain to Sam what's wrong with the engine, and asks him to try fixing it.

'You let Sam mess with the car?' John questioned.

'He acctually wasn't bad. Although when I wasn't there he installed a iPod dock.' Dean commented.

'What?' John protested.

'Don't worry. I got rid of it as soon as possible.' Dean replied.

When Sam asks why, Dean replies that he is doing what a brother should do – showing his little brother the ropes.

Mary gave a small, sad smile. It was both sweet and sad at the same time.

A man visits his grandson at Christmas. As he dresses as Santa, he hears a noise on the roof. As his grandson watches in horror, he is yanked up the chimney and his bloody boot drops into the fireplace.

'That poor kid.' May said, looking concerned.

In the guise of FBI agents, Sam and Dean are in Ypsilanti, Michigan, visiting Mrs. Walsh, whose husband has disappeared. The only clue they find is a bloody tooth in the fireplace.

'That's gross.' Cas commented.

Sam finds out he is the second man in the town to disappear and speculates that they may be dealing with an evil Santa, as there are many legends, such as that of Krampus, about a being who punishes the wicked at Christmas.

'Evil Santa? Seriously?' Mary said, with a smile on her face.

'Whatever. It was a plausible theory.' Sam replied.

The boys check out "Santa's Village" which both men visited before they disappeared. Dean says that he'd like to celebrate Christmas but Sam refuses.

'Why?' Mary questioned.

'I'm sure it will explain later.' Sam replied.

The scene cuts to young Sam and Dean are in a motel room, waiting for their father to return.

Mary smiled. A part of her was excited to see a part of Sam and Dean's childhood.

Sam is wrapping a present for his Dad, which he got from Uncle Bobby, and is asking questions about John – what he does, where he goes. Dean brushes off the questions, but gets angry when Sam asks about their mother.

Mary sighed.

'So you guys didn't like to talk about me much then?' Mary said, with a sigh.

'Not then. I mean, Sam didn't even know what Dad did for a living yet.' Dean replied.

Back in the present day, Sam and Dean are in Santa's Village, observing the man who is playing Father Christmas, who walks with a limp and smells of candy just like legend says the evil Santa does.

'See, it was a plausible theory.' Sam commented.

'Yeah, that just happened to be completely wrong.' Dean replied.

When a woman comes and asks if she can escort their child to Santa, Dean replies that it was a life long dream of Sam's who replies that they were just there to watch which just makes things worse.

Everyone except Sam laughed.

'Wow. You are bad at coming up with non-creepy excuses.' Bobby commented.

'Whatever.' Sam said, sighing.

That night the boys stake out the man's trailer. Dean pushes Sam again, asking why he doesn't want to celebrate Christmas. When they hear a scream from inside the trailer they enter, armed, but find a dishevelled 'Santa' watching porn with a large bong and a bottle of liquor on hand.

'Definitely not an evil Santa.' Jo commented, sniggering.

To cover their mistake, they pretend to be carollers and sing an out-of-tune, and poorly remembered, version of "Silent Night".

Everyone except Sam and Dean laughed.

'You guys are awful at singing.' Jo commented, while laughing.

'Why don't you know the words to Silent Night?' Mary asked, looking concerned.

'We didn't exactly celebrate Christmas a lot as kids.' Dean replied.

'Why not?' Mary asked, and there was an awkward silence.

'I was often away...hunting.' John said, slowly.

'Right.' Mary said, upset.

Elsewhere the same night, another man is taken, up the chimney, in a sack. When Sam and Dean investigate the next day, Sam notices the family has the same unusual wreath over the fireplace that he saw in the Walsh house.

'That's such a random thing to notice but I assume it turned out to be useful.' John commented, and Sam nodded.

Sam identifies the plant in the wreath as meadowsweet – an herb used in pagan rites to summon gods to a human sacrifice. Sam concludes they're looking for the pagan god of the Winter Solstice, who grants clement weather.

'Evil Santa would have been much more interesting.' John commented. Sam sighed.

Back at the motel, Dean again suggests that they celebrate Christmas. When Sam asks why, given that he hasn't mentioned it for years, Dean admits that he wants to celebrate this year as it his last year. Sam responds that he can't celebrate for that very reason.

Mary looks worriedly at Dean.

'Wow. I was a lot more depressed than I remember.' Dean commented, trying to lighten the mood.

The scene cuts back to young Sam reveals to Dean that he has read John's Journal, and asks whether monsters are real. Dean reluctantly confirms that they are, but that their father is a hunter who kills them. Sam is upset and afraid that the monsters will come after them.

'That's how you found out?' John questioned, looking upset. Sam nodded.

'I'm sorry. I should have told you properly instead of letting Dean do it.' John replied.

Back in the present day, Sam and Dean visit Madge and Edward Carrigan, who appear to be the perfect suburban couple.

'They are so creepily normal.' Jo commented.

'Too normal.' Mary commented.

Further research reveals that they were in Seattle the previous year when three men disappeared. Bobby advises them that, if they are indeed the pagan gods, spears made of evergreen wood will kill them.

'Always helping you guys out.' Bobby commented, with a grin.

'Yep. You actually saved our lives here.' Sam replied.

The boys return to the Carrigan house. In the basement they find human remains and the latest victim, still in a sack. Madge and Edward attack them, knock them out, and take them captive. The boys wake up bound to chairs in the kitchen. The Carrigans confirm that they are pagan gods who, since the rise of Christianity, have been trying to blend into human society, taking only a few human victims each year.

'So they are like pagan Mr and Mrs Claus?' Jo queried.

'I guess so.' Sam replied.

'So it was evil Santa.' John replied, with a grin.

They start the ritual sacrifice, taking blood from Sam and Dean and pulling out one of Sam's fingernails.

'That's gross!' Jo said shuddering.

'You weren't the one who it actually happened to.' Sam replied.

They also tell Dean to watch his language and suggest that he uses fudge as a substitute. Just as they are about to extract one of Dean's teeth, they are interrupted by a neighbour at the front door, and when they return Sam and Dean have escaped. A fight ensues and the boys kill the Carrigans with stakes made from branches of a Christmas tree.

'You used a Christmas tree to kill Santa Claus?' Jo said, laughing.

'I guess so.' Sam replied.

The scene cuts back to young Dean who wakes Sam and explains that while he was sleeping, John returned and left a tree and presents.

'You didn't did you?' Mary asked.

'No.' John replied, quietly, refusing to meet John's eyes.

When Sam opens his presents – a Barbie and a sparkly baton – he challenges Dean, who admits he stole them from a house down the street.

'Amazing present Dean.' Jo said, sarcastically.

'I didn't realise it was for a little girl.' Dean protested.

Sam wants to give Dean the present meant for his father. Dean at first refuses, but then accepts. It is the amulet that he wears to this day.

Mary smiled, realising that it was kinda sweet.

Back in the present day, Dean returns from buying beer to find that Sam has decorated the motel room with a tree (hung with air fresheners), and made eggnog.

'You two are adorable.' Jo commented, sarcastically.

'Shut up.' Dean replied.

The boys exchange presents, all bought from the local gas station. Dean gives Sam porn magazines and shaving cream, and Sam gives Dean motor oil and a candy bar. Sam starts to say something, but is overcome with the emotion of the moment and instead suggests they watch a football game on TV.

After arriving home from a party, Janet Dutton starts brushing her teeth, only to have them start falling out.

'Witches? I'm guessing?' John questioned. Dean nodded.

'Witches are gross.' Dean commented as he shuddered.

Soon after, her husband Paul finds her dead on the bathroom floor. Posing as investigators from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Sam and Dean interview Paul and search the house.

'There is definitely something weird going on there.' Cas said, looking confused.

'Obviously.' Dean said, sarcastically.

Dean suspects Paul is lying about something, and Sam finds a hex bag hidden in the bathroom, indicating a witch was involved. Dean complains that he hates witches because they are always spewing their bodily fluids.

'They're always killing poor little innocent creatures as well.' Dean comments.

That night a woman, Amanda, casts a spell and Paul nearly dies while eating a burger that becomes infested with maggots.

'That is so gross.' Jo commented.

'Totally.' Dean replied, shuddering.

He is saved when Sam and Dean arrive and burn a hex bag they find in his car.

'I guess that's the one good thing about witches. If you can find the hex bag you can stop the spell.' Jo commented.

When the spell unexpectedly ends, Amanda panics before being attacked by a mysterious force that slashes her wrists, causing her to bleed to death.

'Why would someone kill her? Was there more than one witch?' Jo asked.

'There was a coven.' Dean replied.

'Nice. I never got to hunt a full coven of witches before.' Jo replied, wistfully.

Paul admits he had an affair with Amanda, which he had ended the previous week against her wishes.

'So that's what he was lying about.' Jo commented, looking disgusted.

When Sam and Dean arrive at her home they find her dead, surrounded by the paraphernalia of witchcraft. Dean almost runs into a dead rabbit and he wonders why rabbits always get screwed in the deal.

'I swear that so many spells need rabbits. What did they do to deserve it?' Dean commented, sadly.

Elsewhere in the town three of Amanda's neighbors, Tammi, Elizabeth, and Renee, meet under the guise of a book club. It soon becomes apparent that they are actually practicing witchcraft.

'That's a pretty good cover. Most covens aren't that careful.' John commented.

The next day Sam and Dean interview the women and while they don't learn much, their research shows that a couple of them have lately had a run of successes and windfalls.

'So they weren't just using it to kill people. Why did they randomly decide to start?' Cas questioned.

'You'll find out.' Sam replied.

Sam suggests that they should kill the women as they are using dark magic and have murdered people.

'Really? But they're human?' Jo commented, looking at Sam with a frown.

'They still killed people and it's not like we can put them in jail but mabye I was a bit harsh.' Sam replied.

In the Impala, Sam argues that they should kill the witches and Dean reminds him that they are humans and Sam replies that they are murderers. Eventually Dean agrees.

'I'm sure glad you two developed a conscience.' Jo commented, sarcastically.

'Yeah. We weren't in the best headspace.' Sam commented.

As they head back to their motel, the Impala is stopped when Ruby appears on the road.

'Why does she keep turning pestering you? You have no reason to trust her.' Mary wonders. Dean stifles a laugh and Sam glares at him.

'Please tell me you didn't trust her and then regret it.' Mary questioned, sighing.

'Not exactly.' Dean replied, smirking.

'Shut up.' Sam replied, hitting Dean on the arm.

She tells them that a demon is in town, controlling the witches, and that the demon will come after Sam. She advises him to leave immediately. Dean argues that they shouldn't listen to her and draws the Colt, but Sam stops Dean just as he tries to shoot Ruby, who vanishes.

'What! You'll kill witches but not some demon?' Jo asked.

'I thought she would be useful.' Sam mumbled.

At the motel, Dean questions Sam as to why he is no longer concerned over taking human life and they argue about what to do about Ruby. Sam reminds Dean about Cammi and how he didn't want her dead.

'You did kinda like her.' Sam said, with a smile.

'Oh don't you start...' Dean started and Sam sighed and decided to be quiet.

Sam admits he is trying to be more like Dean, to prepare himself for dealing with the demon war after Dean is dead. Suddenly Dean feels intense pain, and starts vomiting blood. They suspect it is a spell caused by the coven. Unable to find a hex bag, Sam grabs the Colt and takes off to confront the women.

'You just left him? There's no way you managed to get the witch to stop in time.' John commented.

'Ruby helped.' Sam muttered.

At the house, they deny all knowledge of what is happening to Dean, until Tammi reveals herself to be a demon, killing Renee. Back at the motel, Ruby arrives and doses Dean with a potion that saves him and she tells him not to call her bitch.

'I just don't get why she is helping you.' Jo commented.

'It's complicated.' Sam replied.

'Yeah. Very complicated.' Dean replied, with a smirk. Sam sighed.

Sam tries to shoot Tammi with the Colt but she stops the bullet in mid-air and then uses her power to pin Sam to the wall. She tells him that a new leader has arisen to lead the demons and that she wants Sam eliminated.

'Why does she want you?' Mary asked, looking concerned.

'I'm sure it will explain later.' Sam replied, sounding annoyed.

Dean arrives, but is also attacked by Tammi. When Ruby appears, she pretends she has led the Winchesters to Tammi in order to gain her favour, but then tries to kill Tammi with her knife.  Tammi overpowers Ruby and reveals that Ruby was once a witch who sold her soul to a demon – Tammi.

'So she was lying to you. I can't believe you guys trusted her.' Mary commented.

Just as Tammi is about to kill Ruby, Elizabeth starts a spell. Although Tammi kills her, she is distracted long enough for Dean to grab Ruby's knife and kill her.  Later that night, Ruby visits Dean and admits that she can't save him from Hell.

'And you trusted her? She's clearly playing you.' Mary commented again, surprised that her sons were so easily persuaded. Sam sighed again.

She tells him that all demons were human once, but that Hell strips away their identity. She also tells Dean that the same will happen to him and that there is no way to stop him from going to Hell.

Mary looked at Dean, worriedly. She could not work out how he would be able to get out of his deal.

'Obviously she didn't know how to get him out of the deal.' John said, with a sigh.

She says she wants him to help prepare Sam to fight the demons after Dean is gone. Ruby retains a memory of what it was to be human and wants to fight on the side of humanity.

'Sure she does.' Sam replied, bitterly.