[FADE IN: ROOSEVELT ASYLUM. ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS. The inside of the asylum is abandoned and desolate. The old walls bear graffiti and several “No Trespassing” signs. Discarded bottles and papers lay everywhere. A few kids are seen cutting the chains off a door and going inside a room.]
[Outside, a police car pulls up outside the building. Two officers, WALTER KELLY and DANNY GUNDERSON, get out of the car.]
DANNY: Can’t keep kids out of this place.
WALTER: What is it, anyway?
DANNY: I forgot you’re not local. You don’t know the legend.
WALTER: Legend?
DANNY: Every town’s got its stories, right? Ours is Roosevelt Asylum. They say it’s haunted with the ghosts of the patients. Spend the night –- the spirits will drive you insane. [They go inside the asylum and look around with flashlights.] Hello? Police officers! [No one responds.] Police officers!
[They hear a noise coming from a nearby room. They notice the locks and chains on the door have been undone.]
DANNY: You tellin’ me these kids brought bolt cutters? Come on. We’ll split up.
WALTER: All right.
[A few minutes later, WALTER is by himself in the boiler room.]
WALTER: Hello? [He continues to look around. In another part of the asylum, DANNY is also searching. He finds nothing at first. The scene returns to WALTER in the boiler room.] Hello? [He opens a door leading to another wing of the asylum. The scene now returns to DANNY. He enters yet another room and finds a few kids crouched behind a table.]
DANNY: All right. Come on out. [The kids exchange guilty looks. The scene returns to WALTER once again. After entering another wing of the building, his flashlight mysteriously goes out. He tries shaking it, but it does not turn back on. Suddenly, a door a few feet away opens on its own. WALTER looks at curiously.]
[A little while later, DANNY is outside, watching the kids drive away.]
DANNY: [speaking into his radio] Kelly, you copy? [He turns around and WALTER is standing in front of him.] Jeez! Where the hell you been?
WALTER: In there.
DANNY: What was it? See anything?
WALTER: [after a pause] No. [They get back into their car.]
DANNY: [into the radio] This is patrol 1-4. We are clear and returning to station.
MAN ON RADIO: Roger, patrol 1-4. Confirming clear and returning to station. [While this is happening, WALTER’S nose suddenly begins to bleed. He wipes the blood away and looks at it strangely.]
[CUT TO: INT. KELLY RESIDENCE. BEDROOM. WALTER enters the room while his wife is in bed, reading a book.]
MRS. KELLY: Hey. [WALTER says nothing and puts his gun on the dresser.] So, what? You’re still not talking to me? [He still doesn’t respond.] Walt, I said I was sorry about before. How many times do I have to say it? [All of a sudden, WALTER picks up his gun. From outside the house, two shots can be seen fired. The screen goes black.]
[FADE IN: INT. MOTEL ROOM. DEAN is on the bed, looking through their father’s journal. SAM is talking on the phone.]
SAM: No, Dad was in California last we heard from him. […] We just thought that he comes to you for munitions –- maybe you’ve seen him in the last few weeks. […] Just call us if you hear anything. […] Thanks. [He hangs up.]
DEAN: Caleb hasn’t heard from him?
SAM: Nope. Neither has Jefferson or Pastor Jim. What about the journal? Any leads in there?
DEAN: No. Same last time I looked. Nothin’ I can make out. [He chuckles.] I love the guy, but I swear, he writes like friggin’ Yoda.
SAM: You know, maybe we should call the Feds. File a missing persons.
DEAN: We talked about this. Dad’d be pissed if we put the Feds on his tail.
SAM: I don’t care anymore. [DEAN’S cell phone begins ringing, and he gets up to look for it.] After all that happened back in Kansas, I mean…he should’ve been there, Dean. You said so yourself, you tried to call him, and nothing.
DEAN: I know. Where the hell is my cell phone?
SAM: You know, he could be dead for all we know.
DEAN: Don’t say that. He’s not dead. He’s…he’s…
SAM: He’s what? He’s hiding? He’s busy? [DEAN finds his phone and looks at it. He has received a text message with the coordinates 42, -89. He looks at the phone in disbelief.]
DEAN: I don’t believe it.
SAM: What?
DEAN: It’s a text message. It’s coordinates.
[A few minutes later, DEAN is researching on the computer.]
SAM: You think Dad was texting us?
DEAN: He’s given us coordinates before.
SAM: The man can barely work a toaster, Dean.
DEAN: Sam, this is good news. It means he’s okay. Or alive, at least.
SAM: Well, was there a number on the caller ID?
DEAN: No, it said “unknown”.
SAM: Okay, well, where do the coordinates point?
DEAN: That’s the interesting part –- Rockford, Illinois.
SAM: Okay, and that’s interesting how?
DEAN: I checked the local Rockford paper. Take a look at this. [He turns the computer to SAM and brings up a picture of Walter Kelly.] This cop, Walter Kelly, comes home from his shift, shoots his wife, puts the gun in his mouth, blows his brains out. And earlier that night, Kelly and his partner responded to a call at the Roosevelt Asylum.
SAM: Okay, I’m not following. What does this have to do with us?
DEAN: Dad earmarked the same asylum in the journal. [He opens the journal and starts looking through it, eventually finding a newspaper clipping about the asylum.] Here. Seven unconfirmed sightings, two deaths –- ‘til last week, at least. I think this is where he wants us to go.
SAM: [standing up and pacing] This is a job. Dad wants us to work a job.
DEAN: I mean, maybe we’ll meet up with him, maybe he’s there.
SAM: Maybe he’s not. I mean, he could be sending us there by ourselves to hunt this thing.
DEAN: Who cares? If he wants us there, that’s good enough for me.
SAM: This doesn’t strike you as weird? The texting? The coordinates?
DEAN: Sam, Dad’s tellin’ us to go somewhere –- we’re going. [SAM sighs as DEAN leaves the room.]
[CUT TO: INT. – PUB. DEAN approaches DANNY, who is sitting at a table.]
DEAN: You’re Daniel Gunderson, right? You’re a cop?
DANNY: Yeah.
DEAN: [sitting down across from him] Heh. I’m, uh, Nigel Tufnel, with The Chicago Tribune. You mind if I ask you a couple questions about your partner?
DANNY: Yeah, I do. I’m just tryin’ to have a beer here.
DEAN: It’s okay, it won’t take that long. I just wanna hear the story in your words.
DANNY: A week ago, my partner was sitting in that chair. Now he’s dead. You gonna ambush me here?
DEAN: Sorry. But I need to know what happened.
SAM: [approaching them] Hey, buddy, how ‘bout leavin’ the poor guy alone, huh? [He grabs DEAN and pushes him into a table.] The man’s an officer. Why don’t you show a little respect? [DEAN stares at him for a moment before walking out of the pub.]
DANNY: You didn’t have to do that.
SAM: Yeah, of course I did. That guy’s a serious jerk. Let me buy you a beer, huh? [He turns to the bartender.] Two? [The bartender nods, and SAM sits down across from DANNY.]
DANNY: Thanks. [SAM smiles.]
[A while later, SAM exits the pub and joins DEAN by the car.]
DEAN: You shoved me kind of hard in there, buddy boy.
SAM: I had to sell it, didn’t I? It’s method acting.
DEAN: Huh?
SAM: Never mind.
DEAN: What’d you find out from Gunderson?
SAM: So, Walter Kelly was a good cop. Head of his class, even-keeled. He had a bright future ahead of him.
DEAN: What about at home?
SAM: He and his wife had a few fights, like everybody, but it was mostly smooth sailing. They were even talking about having kids.
DEAN: All right, so, either Kelly had some deep-seated crazy way to bust out, or somethin’ else did it to him.
SAM: Right.
DEAN: What’d Gunderson tell you about the asylum?
SAM: A lot.
[CUT TO: EXT. ROOSEVELT ASYLUM. SAM and DEAN hop the fence and go inside.]
[Inside the building, DEAN and SAM begin looking around.]
SAM: So apparently, the cops chased the kids here –- into the south wing.
DEAN: The south wing, huh? Wait a second. [He takes out John’s journal and looks through it until he finds something. He begins reading.] “In 1972, three kids broke into the south wing. Only one survived.” The way he tells it, one of his friends went nuts and started lightin’ up the place.
SAM: So, whatever’s goin’ on, south wing seems like the heart of it.
DEAN: Yeah, but if kids are spelunking the asylum, why aren’t there a ton more deaths? [They notice the chains on the door.]
SAM: Looks like the doors are usually chained. Could have been chained up for years.
DEAN: Yeah, to keep people out –- or to keep somethin’ in. [SAM goes to the door and it swings open easily. They exchange a look.]
[A few minutes later, the two of them are walking the halls of the south wing. DEAN is using the EMF detector.]
DEAN: Let me know if you see any dead people, Haley Joel.
SAM: Dude, enough. [DEAN chuckles.]
DEAN: No, I’m serious, you’ve gotta be careful, all right? Ghosts are attracted to that whole ESP thing you’ve got goin’ on.
SAM: I told you, it’s not ESP. I just have strange vibes sometimes, weird dreams.
DEAN: Yeah, whatever. Don’t ask, don’t tell.
SAM: You gettin’ a reading on that thing or not?
DEAN: Nope. Of course, it doesn’t mean nobody’s home.
SAM: Spirits can appear during certain hours of the day.
DEAN: And the freaks come out at night.
SAM: Yeah.
DEAN: Hey, Sam, who do you think is a hotter psychic –- Patricia Arquette, Jennifer Love Hewitt, or you? [SAM hits him on the arm, and DEAN cracks up.]
[The boys enter another room in the south wing. On several tables stand jars preserving body parts. Several other tools used in the asylum are scattered around the room.]
DEAN: Man. Electroshock, lobotomies –- they did some twisted stuff to these people. Kind of like my man, Jack in Cuckoo’s Nest. [He grins wickedly, but SAM rolls his eyes. DEAN’S smile fades.] So, what do you think? Ghosts are possessing people?
SAM: Maybe. Or maybe it’s more like, uh, like Amityville or the Smurl haunting.
DEAN: Yeah, spirits drivin’ ‘em insane. Kind of like my man Jack in The Shining. [SAM still doesn’t lighten up.]
SAM: Dean…when are we gonna talk about it?
DEAN: Talk about what?
SAM: About the fact that Dad’s not here.
DEAN: Oh, uh, let’s see, never.
SAM: I’m being serious, man.
DEAN: So am I, Sam. Look, he sent us here, he obviously wants us here. We’ll just have to pick up the search later.
SAM: It doesn’t matter what he wants.
DEAN: See, that attitude right there? That is why I always get the extra cookie.
SAM: Dad could be in trouble. We should be looking for him. We deserve some answers, Dean, I mean, this is our family we’re talkin’ about.
DEAN: I understand that, Sam. But he’s given us an order.
SAM: So, what? We’ve got to always follow Dad’s orders?
DEAN: Of course we do. [SAM gives him an annoyed look, but they continue looking around. DEAN finds a plaque that reads, “Chief of Staff. Sanford Ellicott, M.D.”] Sanford Ellicott. You know what we’ve got to do? We’ve gotta find out more about the south wing, and see if somethin’ happened here. [He hands the plaque to SAM and leaves the room.]
[CUT TO: INT. CREEKVIEW MEDICAL CENTER. SAM is in the waiting room of an office. A psychiatrist, DR. JAMES ELLICOTT, comes out to get him.]
DR. J. ELLICOTT: Sam Winchester?
SAM: That’s me.
DR. J. ELLICOTT: Come on in. [He and SAM go into his office and sit down.]
SAM: Thanks again for seeing me last minute. [On ELLICOTT’S desk, he notices a picture of ELLICOTT as a child with another older man. A plaque on the wall reads, “Presented to Dr. James Ellicott for 15 Years of Service to the Rockford Chamber of Commerce.”] Dr. Ellicott…Ellicott, that name –- wasn’t there a Dr. Sanford Ellicott? Yeah, he was a chief psychiatrist somewhere.
DR. J. ELLICOTT: My father was Chief of Staff at the old Roosevelt Asylum. How did you know?
SAM: Uh, well, I’m sort of a local history buff. Hey, wasn’t there, uh, an incident or somethin’ in the hospital, I guess, in the south wing, right?
DR. J. ELLICOTT: We’re on your dollar, Sam. We’re here to talk about you.
SAM: Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, sure.
DR. J. ELLICOTT: So.
SAM: So.
DR. J. ELLICOTT: How’s things?
SAM: Uh…things are good, Doctor.
DR. J. ELLICOTT: Good. Whatcha been doing?
SAM: Uh…same old. I’ve just been on a road trip with my brother.
DR. J. ELLICOTT: Was that fun?
SAM: [after an awkward pause] Loads. Uh...you know, we met a lot of…interesting people. Did a lot of, uh…a lot of interesting things. Uh…you know, what was it exactly that happened in the south wing? I forget—
DR. J. ELLICOTT: Look, if you’re a local history buff, then you know all about the Roosevelt riot.
SAM: The riot? No, I know, I was just curious—
DR. J. ELLICOTT: Sam. Let’s cut the bull, shall we? You’re avoiding the subject.
SAM: What subject?
DR. J. ELLICOTT: You. Now, I’ll make you a deal. I’ll tell you all about the Roosevelt riot if you tell me something honest about yourself. Like, uh…this brother you’re road-tripping with –- how do you feel about him? [SAM raises his eyebrows.]
[A while later, DEAN is waiting outside the building, and SAM eventually comes out.]
DEAN: Dude, you were in there forever. What the hell were you talkin’ about?
SAM: Just the hospital, you know.
DEAN: And?
SAM: And the south wing? That’s where they housed the real hard cases –- the psychotics, the criminally insane.
DEAN: Sounds cozy.
SAM: Yeah, and one night in ’64, they rioted –- attacked staff, attacked each other.
DEAN: So, what, the patients took over the asylum?
SAM: Apparently.
DEAN: Any deaths?
SAM: Some patients, some staff. I guess it was pretty gory. Some of the bodies were never even recovered, including our Chief of Staff, Ellicott.
DEAN: Wait, what do you mean, “never recovered”?
SAM: Cops scoured every inch of the place, but I guess the patients must have…stuffed the bodies somewhere hidden.
DEAN: Oh, that’s grim.
SAM: Yeah. So, they transferred all the surviving patients and shut down the hospital for good.
DEAN: All right, so, to sum it up, we’ve got a bunch of violent deaths and a bunch of unrecovered bodies.
SAM: Which could mean a bunch of angry spirits.
DEAN: Oh, good times. Let’s check out the hospital tonight. [They get in the car.]
[CUT TO: INT. ROOSEVELT ASYLUM. NIGHT. Two teenagers, GAVIN, and his girlfriend, KAT, enter the building with flashlights and look around.]
GAVIN: Check this out. Creepy…yet terrifying.
KAT: I thought we were going to a movie.
GAVIN: Well, this is better. It’s like we’re in a movie. [KAT sighs.]
KAT: I can’t believe you call this a date. [He walks away to continue searching.]
GAVIN: Come on, it’ll be fun. Let’s look around. [She doesn’t move.] Come on. [Reluctantly, she follows him. They go into another room. To try and scare KAT, GAVIN whips around.] What’s that?! [KAT screams and shoves him when she realizes he’s laughing. On the other side of the room, GAVIN spots a door leading to yet another room.] Hey, look. Let’s check it out.
KAT: Uh, I don’t want to. Let’s just go.
GAVIN: Come on. [KAT sighs and doesn’t move.] Okay. Okay, you can wait here.
KAT: Gavin, no.
GAVIN: I’m just gonna be a minute. Nothing’s gonna get you. I promise. [She nervously watches him leave.]
[In the next room, GAVIN begins looking around. The door closes behind him on its own. He thinks nothing of it and keeps searching. A few moments later, his flashlight suddenly goes out. He tries shaking it, but it doesn’t work. When he turns around, he sees the outline of a girl standing on the other side of the room.]
GAVIN: Hey, sweetie. Couldn’t take it, huh? [Without saying a word, the girl comes closer to him, but he is still unable to see her face in the darkness. The girl pulls him into a kiss. Without hesitation, he begins kissing her back.]
KAT: [OS] Gavin? Where are you? [Realizing that the girl he is kissing is not KAT, GAVIN pushes the girl away, horrified. The girl moves into the light, and her face appears bloody and distorted. The screen goes black.]
[FADE IN: INT. ROOSEVELT ASYLUM. DEAN and SAM enter the building and take out flashlights, an EMF, and a video camera. They begin searching. Very soon, the EMF meter begins beeping wildly.]
SAM: Getting readings?
DEAN: Yeah, big time.
SAM: This place is orbing like crazy. [DEAN looks at the video camera. On the screen, there are several white orbs floating around the room.]
DEAN: There’s probably multiple spirits out and about.
SAM: If these unrecovered bodies are causing the haunting…
DEAN: We’ve gotta find ‘em and burn ‘em. Just be careful, though. The only thing that makes me more nervous than a pissed-off spirit is the pissed-off spirit of a psycho killer. [As they continue walking, a spirit walks behind them. They are able to hear it and turn around. They don’t see anything, so they continue with their search. After they leave the room, the camera pans over to another part of it. Sitting in a chair, wearing a straitjacket, is the spirit of a patient. Its eyes are bloodshot and its head is jerking and twitching violently.]
[In another area of the asylum, DEAN and SAM are still looking around. SAM wanders around the room for a bit but sees nothing. Suddenly, when he turns, he sees another spirit standing before him. Her face is also distorted, and she slowly begins to walk towards him.]
SAM: Dean. Dean! Salt gun! [DEAN rushes over to them.]
DEAN: Sam, get down! [SAM ducks as DEAN shoots the spirit. It vanishes.]
SAM: [panting] That was weird.
DEAN: Yeah. You’re tellin’ me. [He walks away.]
SAM: [following him] No, Dean, I mean it was weird that she didn’t attack me.
DEAN: Looked pretty aggro from where I was standing.
SAM: She didn’t hurt me. She didn’t even try. So if she didn’t wanna hurt me, then what did she want? [As they are walking down the hall, they hear a noise. They stop and, while they are looking inside the room, they see someone crouching behind a table. They move the table and see KAT jump. She is crying and panting. DEAN and SAM lower their guns.]
DEAN: It’s all right. We're not gonna hurt you. It’s okay. [She stands up.] What’s your name?
KAT: Katherine –- Kat.
DEAN: Okay. I’m Dean, this is Sam.
SAM: What are you doing here?
KAT: Um…my boyfriend, Gavin—
DEAN: Is he here?
KAT: Somewhere. [DEAN and SAM exchange a look.] He thought it would be fun to try and see some ghosts. I thought it was all just, you know…pretend. I’ve seen things. I heard Gavin scream and—
DEAN: Okay, Kat. Come on, Sam’s gonna get you out of here, and then we’re gonna find your boyfriend.
KAT: No, no. I’m not gonna leave without Gavin. I’m coming with you.
DEAN: It’s no joke around here, okay? It’s dangerous.
KAT: That’s why I’ve gotta find him. [SAM gives DEAN a knowing look.]
DEAN: All right, I guess we’re gonna split up then. Let’s go. [He leaves with KAT.]
[A few minutes later, SAM is searching by himself.]
SAM: Gavin?
[In another hallway, DEAN and KAT are also searching.]
KAT: Gavin? Gavin!
DEAN: Hey, I’ve got a question for you. You’ve seen a lot of horror movies, yeah?
KAT: I guess so.
DEAN: Do me a favor. The next time you see one, pay attention. When someone says a place is haunted, don’t go in. [He turns around and keeps walking.]
[The scene returns to SAM. He is searching a room when he finds GAVIN on the floor, eyes closed.]
SAM: [kneeling down next to him] Gavin. Hey, Gavin. [He shakes GAVIN, and he wakes up. He jumps when he sees SAM.] Hey, it’s okay, it’s okay. I’m here to help.
GAVIN: Who are you?
SAM: My name is Sam. [He helps GAVIN stand up.] Uh, we found your girlfriend.
GAVIN: Kat?
SAM: Yeah.
GAVIN: Is she all right?
SAM: She’s worried about you. Are you okay?
GAVIN: I was running. I…I think I fell.
SAM: You were running from what?
GAVIN: There was -- there was this girl. H-h-her face –- it was all messed up.
SAM: Okay, okay, listen, listen. This girl, did she try to hurt you?
GAVIN: What? No. She, uh…
SAM: She what?
GAVIN: She kissed me.
SAM: But –- but she didn’t hurt you physically?
GAVIN: Dude. She kissed me. I’m scarred for life.
SAM: [scoffs] Well, trust me, it could’ve been worse. Now, do you remember anything else?
GAVIN: She…actually, she tried to whisper something in my ear.
SAM: What?
GAVIN: I don’t know, I ran like hell.
[The scene returns to DEAN and KAT. They are still searching around one of the hallways. After a few moments, DEAN’S flashlight goes out.]
DEAN: You son of a bitch. [sighs] It’s all right. I’ve got a lighter. [He takes a lighter out and flicks it on.]
KAT: Ow, you’re hurting my arm.
DEAN: What are you talkin’ about? [He shines the flame from the lighter on her arm. There is a hand grabbing her. As she screams, the spirit snatches her and brings her into a room, slamming the door. DEAN tries to open the door, but it won’t budge.] Kat! [KAT screams and bangs on the door.]
KAT: Get me out! Please! [DEAN tries desperately to open the door, but he fails.]
DEAN: Kat, hang on! [He begins to use a crowbar to try and open the door, but again, nothing works. While KAT is inside, another spirit begins to approach her. She screams and tries to get away from it. SAM and GAVIN come running down the hall towards DEAN.]
SAM: What’s going on?
DEAN: She’s inside with one of them.
KAT: Help me!
GAVIN: Kat!
KAT: Get me out of here!
SAM: Kat, it’s not gonna hurt you. Listen to me! You have to face it. You have to calm down.
DEAN: She’s gotta what?
KAT: I have to what?!
SAM: The spirits –- they’re not trying to hurt us, they’re trying to communicate. You’ve gotta listen to it, you've gotta face it.
KAT: You face it!
SAM: No, it’s the only way you're gonna get out of there.
KAT: No!
SAM: Just look at it, that's all. Come on, you can do it. [Inside the small room, the spirit approaches KAT. She eventually turns to look at it. The spirit leans down to whisper in her ear. Outside the room, the three men wait nervously.]
GAVIN: Kat?
DEAN: [to SAM] Man, I hope you’re right about this.
SAM: Yeah, me too. [They hear the door unlock, and it opens.]
GAVIN: Kat. [She rushes over to him, looking shocked.]
KAT: One thirty-seven.
DEAN: Sorry?
KAT: It whispered in my ear, “137.” [DEAN and SAM look at each other.]
DEAN and SAM: Room number. [They crouch down on the floor and get some weapons out of their duffel bag.]
SAM: All right, so if these spirits aren’t trying to hurt anyone—
DEAN: Then what are they tryin’ to do?
SAM: Maybe that’s what they’ve been tryin’ to tell us.
DEAN: I guess we’ll find out. [They stand up.] So…now, are you guys ready to leave this place?
KAT: That’s an understatement.
DEAN: Okay. [to SAM] You get ‘em outta here. I’m gonna go find room 137. [He leaves. SAM walks in the other direction with KAT and GAVIN.]
KAT: So, how do you guys know about all this ghost stuff?
SAM: It’s kind of our job.
KAT: Why would anyone want a job like that? [SAM chuckles.]
SAM: I had a crappy guidance counselor.
KAT: And Dean? He’s your boss?
SAM: [after a pause] No.
[The scene returns to DEAN. He finally finds Room 137 and opens the door. Inside, furniture, papers, and other odds and ends are strewn everywhere.]
[Back in the hallway, SAM, KAT and GAVIN reach the exit, but the doors won’t open.]
SAM: All right. I think we have a small problem.
GAVIN: Let’s break it down.
SAM: I don’t think that’s gonna work.
GAVIN: Then a window.
KAT: They’re barred.
GAVIN: Well, how are we supposed to get out? [SAM thinks for a second.]
SAM: That’s the point –- we’re not. There’s something in here. It doesn’t want us to leave.
KAT: Those patients?
SAM: No. Something else.
[In Room 137, DEAN is still looking around. He comes across an old cabinet, which he opens. Inside, he finds a leather case full of papers.]
DEAN: This is why I get paid the big bucks. [He looks through the papers, one of which has “Patients’ Journal” written on it.] “Patients’ Journal”…[He leafs through the journal and sees horrifying pictures of ways to torture people. DEAN looks disgusted.] All work and no play makes Dr. Ellicott a very dull boy.
[The scene returns to the hallway, where SAM finds KAT and GAVIN.]
SAM: All right, I’ve looked everywhere. There’s no other way out.
GAVIN: So what the hell are we gonna do?
SAM: For starters, we’re not gonna panic.
GAVIN: Why the hell not? [SAM’S cell phone rings, and he answers it.]
SAM: Hey.
DEAN: [OS] Sam, it’s me. I see it. It’s comin’ at me.
SAM: Where are you?
DEAN: I’m in the basement. Hurry up!
SAM: I’m on my way. [He hangs up.] All right. Can either of you handle a shotgun?
GAVIN: What? No!
KAT: I can. [GAVIN looks at her strangely.] My dad took me skeet shooting a couple times.
SAM: All right, here. [He hands her the shotgun.] It’s loaded with rock salt. Now, it might not kill a spirit, but it’ll repel it. So if you see something, shoot.
KAT: Okay.
SAM: Okay. [He leaves, and KAT cocks the gun.]
[In the basement of the asylum, SAM begins looking for DEAN.]
SAM: Dean? [Hearing no response from DEAN, he enters another room.] Dean? [In this room, he continues looking. After a few moments, his flashlight mysteriously goes out. He tries tapping it against his hand, but nothing seems to work. Suddenly, a door behind him opens on its own, leading to yet another strange room. SAM enters, gun raised, and searches.] Dean? [Behind a transparent curtain, he sees the shadow of someone walking by. He moves toward the curtain and pushes it aside, but he sees no one there. Confused, SAM turns around. The spirit of DR. SANFORD ELLICOTT is suddenly standing before him. DR. ELLICOTT grabs the sides of SAM’S face, sending electrical shocks through his body.]
DR. ELLICOTT: Don’t be afraid. I’m going to make you all better. [The screen goes black.]
[FADE IN: ASYLUM HALLWAY. KAT is sitting on the floor while GAVIN paces.]
KAT: Hey, Gavin? [He crouches down next to her.]
GAVIN: Yeah?
KAT: If we make it out of here alive…we are so breaking up. [GAVIN looks like he is about to speak, but they hear a noise, startling them.] Did you hear that?
GAVIN: Something’s coming. [They stand up, and just as the person turns the corner, KAT shoots. She narrowly misses the person –- DEAN. He falls to the floor, grabbing his foot.]
DEAN: Damn it, damn it. Don’t shoot, it’s me!
KAT: Sorry! Sorry. [He stands up and approaches them.]
DEAN: What are you still doin’ here? Where’s Sam?
GAVIN: He went to the basement. You called him.
DEAN: I didn’t call him.
KAT: His cell phone rang. He said it was you.
DEAN: Basement, huh? [GAVIN nods.] All right. Watch yourselves. [He picks up a gun from off the floor and puts it in his jeans pocket.] And watch out for me. [He leaves them.]
[Down in the basement, DEAN begins looking for SAM.]
DEAN: Sammy? Sam, you down here? Sam? Sam! [He turns and sees SAM standing in front of him. DEAN jumps, startled.] Man! Answer me when I’m callin’ you. You all right?
SAM: Yeah, I’m fine.
DEAN: You know that wasn’t me who called your cell, right?
SAM: Yeah, I know. I think somethin’ lured me down here.
DEAN: I think I know who –- Dr. Ellicott. That’s what the spirits have been tryin’ to tell us. You haven’t seen him, have you?
SAM: No. How do you know it was him?
DEAN: 'Cause I found his log book. Apparently, he was experimenting on his patients –- some awful stuff. It makes lobotomies look like a couple aspirin.
SAM: But it was the patients who rioted.
DEAN: Yeah, they were rioting against Dr. Ellicott. Dr. Feelgood was workin’ on some sort of, like, extreme rage therapy. He thought that if he could get his patients to vent their anger, then they’d be cured of it. Instead, it only made ‘em worse and worse, and angrier and angrier. So I’m thinkin’, what if his spirit is doin’ the same thing? To the cop, to the kids in the seventies –- making them so angry they become homicidal. Come on. We gotta find his bones and torch ‘em.
SAM: How? The police never found his body.
DEAN: The log book said he had some sort of hidden procedure room down here somewhere, where he’d work on his patients. So if I was a patient, I’d drag his ass down here, do a little work on him myself.
SAM: I don’t know. It sounds kind of—
DEAN: Crazy?
SAM: Yeah.
DEAN: Yeah, exactly. [He leaves to find the hidden procedure room, and SAM follows.]
SAM: I told you, I looked everywhere. I didn’t find a hidden room.
DEAN: Well, that’s why they call it hidden. [He pauses.] You hear that?
SAM: What? [DEAN crouches down. He puts his hand by the space between the wall and the floor.]
DEAN: There’s a door here. [While DEAN is examining the door, SAM slowly raises his shotgun, suddenly looking extremely angry.]
SAM: Dean. [DEAN turns to look at him, confused. SAM’S nose begins to bleed.] Step back from the door. [DEAN stands up.]
DEAN: Sam, put the gun down.
SAM: Is that an order?
DEAN: No, it’s more of a friendly request.
SAM: [aiming the shotgun at DEAN] ‘Cause I’m gettin’ pretty tired of takin’ your orders.
DEAN: I knew it. Ellicott did somethin’ to you, didn’t he?
SAM: For once in your life, just shut your mouth.
DEAN: What are you gonna do, Sam? The gun’s filled with rock salt. Not gonna kill me. [Suddenly, SAM shoots DEAN in the chest, sending him crashing through the wall.]
SAM: No. But it’ll hurt like hell. [The screen goes black.]
[FADE IN: ASYLUM BASEMENT. DEAN opens his eyes, gasping for breath. SAM makes his way over to DEAN.]
DEAN: Sam! We gotta burn Ellicott’s bones, and all this’ll be over. You’ll be back to normal.
SAM: I am normal. I’m just tellin’ the truth for the first time. I mean, why are we even here? Because you’re following Dad’s orders like a good little soldier? ‘Cause you always do what he says without question? Are you that desperate for his approval?
DEAN: This isn’t you talking, Sam.
SAM: That’s the difference between you and me. I have a mind of my own. I’m not pathetic like you.
DEAN: So what are you gonna do, huh? You gonna kill me?
SAM: You know what? I am sick of doing what you tell me to do. We’re no closer to finding Dad today than we were six months ago.
DEAN: Well, then, here. Let me make it easier for you. [He takes a pistol out of his jeans pocket and hands it to SAM.] Go on. Take it. Real bullets are gonna work a hell of a lot better than rock salt. Take it! [SAM takes the gun from him and drops the shotgun on the floor. He points the gun directly at DEAN.] You hate me that much? You think you could kill your own brother? Then go ahead. Pull the trigger. [SAM waits, finger on the trigger.] Do it! [SAM pulls the trigger, but nothing happens. He tries again and again, but nothing happens. While SAM is distracted by this, DEAN grabs him and throws him to the ground. He stands, in pain.] Man, I’m not gonna give you a loaded pistol. [He knocks SAM out.] Sorry, Sammy.
[DEAN spends a minute or so searching the rest of the room, but he finds nothing. Then, he spots a white cabinet in the corner of the room. He walks over to it and opens it. Inside is DR. ELLICOTT’S rotted corpse. DEAN covers his mouth and gags.]
DEAN: Oh, that’s just gross. [He grabs his duffel bag, takes out a container of salt, and pours it over the skeleton.] Yeah, soak it up. [He then pours lighter fluid all over the corpse. His flashlight begins to flicker, and a table suddenly moves itself, crashing into DEAN and sending him across the room. DR. ELLICOTT appears next to him, grabbing the sides of face, electrocuting him.]
DR. ELLICOTT: Don’t be afraid. I’m going to help you. I’m going to make you all better. [While DEAN is getting electrocuted, he reaches for his bag and is able to grab his lighter. He clicks the lighter and throws it into the cabinet, setting ELLICOTT’S bones on fire. DR. ELLICOTT lets go of DEAN. He watches in horror as his body begins to disintegrate, until there is nothing left but a pile of clothes. A few feet away, SAM wakes up.]
DEAN: You’re not gonna try to kill me, are you?
SAM: No.
DEAN: Good. Because that would be awkward.
[CUT TO: EXT. ROOSEVELT ASYLUM. MORNING. The four of them are standing outside the building.]
KAT: Thanks, guys.
GAVIN: Yeah, thanks.
DEAN: No more haunted asylums, okay? [They nod and walk back to their car.]
SAM: Hey, Dean. I’m sorry, man. I said some awful things back there.
DEAN: You remember all that?
SAM: Yeah. It’s like I couldn’t control it. But I didn’t mean it –- any of it.
DEAN: You didn’t, huh?
SAM: No, of course not. [DEAN shrugs.] Do we need to talk about this?
DEAN: No. I’m not really in the sharing, caring kind of mood. I just wanna get some sleep. [He gets in the car.]
[CUT TO: INT. MOTEL ROOM. MORNING. While DEAN and SAM are sleeping, DEAN’S cell phone rings.]
SAM: Dean. [DEAN doesn’t wake up. SAM answers the phone.] Hello? [He sits straight up in his bed, shocked.] Dad? [The screen fades to black.]
END OF EPISODE
Ecrit par kaylia.