[The episode begins with a recap of “In My Time of Dying”.]
[FADE IN: MEDFORD, WISCONSIN. The scene begins at a busy carnival in the afternoon. Children and adults are walking around. There are balloons and game booths set up around the carnival. A young girl, NORA, is laughing as two clowns entertain her.]
NORA’S FATHER: God, I hate clowns. They always creep me out.
NORA’S MOTHER: Shh. She likes them. [After juggling and spinning plates, the clowns leave.] Last ride, Nora. [NORA looks around and notices a particularly creepy clown standing several feet away. He is wearing white make-up, a bright red wig, and a baggy yellow costume, complete with a yellow hat and white gloves. The clown waves at NORA, and she waves back.]
NORA: Look, Mom, another clown. [Her parents look around, but the clown is gone.]
NORA’S MOTHER: [smiling] What are you trying to do? Scare your father?
[Later that night, NORA is driving home with her parents. On the side of the road, they pass the same clown. He waves as they drive by.]
NORA: Look, Mom, the clown. [Her mother looks outside, but they have already passed the clown.] You missed him. [Her mother smiles.]
[That night, NORA is in her bed. She hears a noise outside and goes to look out her window. Standing in her front yard is the clown. She smiles and goes downstairs. The clown is waiting right outside her door, and they wave at each other. NORA opens the door, grabs his gloved hand, and leads him into the house. The screen goes black.]
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[FADE IN: WOODS. NIGHT. SAM and DEAN are watching as they burn their father’s dead body on a pyre. SAM is sobbing as he looks on. DEAN, however, is stoic. He stares, unmoving, at the body.]
SAM: Before…before he…[He stops, unable to get the words out.] Did he say anything to you? About anything?
DEAN: [after a pause] No. Nothin’. [They both go silent. As DEAN stares at the body, a single tear rolls down his cheek.]
[CUT TO: EXT. SINGER’S AUTO SHOP. ONE WEEK LATER. DEAN is underneath the Impala, working on it. SAM approaches him.]
SAM: How’s the car comin’ along?
DEAN: Slow.
SAM: Yeah? Need any help?
DEAN: What, you under a hood? I’ll pass.
SAM: Need anything else then? [DEAN slides out from under the car.]
DEAN: Stop it, Sam.
SAM: Stop what?
DEAN: Stop askin’ if I need anything, stop askin’ if I’m okay. I’m okay. Really. I promise.
SAM: All right. Dean, it’s just…we’ve been at Bobby’s for over a week now and you haven’t brought up Dad once.
DEAN: You know what, you’re right. Come here. I’m gonna lay my head gently on your shoulder. Maybe we can cry, hug –- maybe even slow dance.
SAM: Don’t patronize me, Dean, Dad is dead! The Colt is gone, and it seems pretty damn likely that the demon is behind all of this, and you’re actin’ like nothin’ happened.
DEAN: What do you want me to say?
SAM: Say something, all right? Hell, say anything! Aren’t you angry? Don’t you want revenge? But all you do is sit out here all day long, buried underneath this damn car!
DEAN: Revenge, huh?
SAM: Yeah.
DEAN: Sounds good. You got any leads on where the demon is? Are you makin’ heads or tails of any of Dad’s research? ‘Cause I sure ain’t. But you know what, when we do finally find it –- oh no, wait. Like you said, the Colt’s gone. But I’m sure you’ve figured out another way to kill it. We’ve got nothin’, Sam. Nothin’, okay? So you know what? The only thing I can do is I can work on the car.
SAM: Well, we’ve got somethin’, all right? That’s what I came out here to tell you.
[He takes a cell phone out of his pocket.] It’s one of Dad’s old phones. It took me a while, but I cracked his voicemail code. Listen to this. [He hands it to DEAN, who hears a message from a woman, ELLEN HARVELLE.]
ELLEN: John, it’s Ellen…again. Look, don’t be stubborn. You know I can help you. Call me. [DEAN hands the phone back to SAM.]
SAM: That message is four months old.
DEAN: Dad saved that chick’s message for four months?
SAM: Yeah.
DEAN: Well, who’s Ellen? Any mention of her in Dad’s journal?
SAM: No. But I ran a trace on the phone number, and I got an address.
DEAN: [after a pause] Ask Bobby if we can use one of his cars.
[CUT TO: EXT. HARVELLE’S ROADHOUSE. DEAN and SAM pull up in an old, worn out minivan.]
DEAN: This is humiliating. I feel like a friggin’ soccer mom!
SAM: It’s the only car Bobby had running. [They get out of the minivan and look around the outside of the building.] Hello? Anybody here?
DEAN: Hey.
SAM: Yeah?
DEAN: Did you bring the, uh…
SAM: Of course. [From his jacket, he takes out a case full of lock-picking tools and tosses it to DEAN.]
[Once they have picked the lock, the two of them enter the bar. It is very empty and quiet. They notice a man sleeping on the pool table, and they move closer to him.]
SAM: Hey, buddy? [He doesn’t wake up.] I’m guessin’ that isn’t Ellen.
DEAN: Yeah. [SAM goes to look around in another room while DEAN stays by the bar. After a moment, there is a shot of someone carrying a rifle, pressing it against DEAN’S back.] Oh, God, please let that be a rifle. [The girl carrying the gun is Ellen’s daughter, JO HARVELLE, a pretty blonde.]
JO: No, I’m just real happy to see you. Don’t move.
DEAN: Not movin’, copy that. You know, you should know somethin’, Miss. When you put a rifle on someone, you don’t wanna put it right against their back. ‘Cause it makes it real easy to do –- [He wheels around and swipes the gun out of her hands.] –- that. [She punches him and grabs the gun back.] Sam! I need some help in here! I can’t see, I can’t even see. [SAM enters, with his hands on his head. He is followed by ELLEN, who is pointing a gun at him.]
SAM: Sorry, Dean. I can’t right now. I’m, uh…a little tied up. [After a moment, ELLEN seems to notice something.]
ELLEN: Sam? Dean? [She pauses.] Winchester?
SAM and DEAN: Yeah.
ELLEN: Son of a bitch.
JO: Mom, you know these guys?
ELLEN: Yeah, I think these are John Winchester’s boys. [She lowers her gun, laughing.] Hey, I’m Ellen. That’s my daughter, Jo.
JO: [lowering her rifle] Hey.
DEAN: You’re not gonna hit me again, are you?
[A few minutes later, they are sitting around, talking. ELLEN hands DEAN an ice pack to place on the area where JO punched him.]
ELLEN: Here you go.
DEAN: Thanks. You called our dad and said you could help –- help with what?
ELLEN: Well…the demon, of course. I heard he was closing in on it.
DEAN: Was there an article in The Demon Hunter’s Quarterly that I missed? I mean, who are you? How do you know about all this?
ELLEN: Hey, I just run a saloon. But hunters have been known to pass through now and again, including your dad a long time ago. John was like family once.
DEAN: Oh, yeah? How come he’s never mentioned you before?
ELLEN: You’d have to ask him that. [DEAN pauses, hurt.]
DEAN: So why exactly do we need your help?
ELLEN: Hey, don’t do me any favors. Look, if you don’t want my help, fine. Don’t let the door smack your ass on the way out. But John wouldn’t have sent you if…
[She trails off, realizing something.] He didn’t send you. [SAM and DEAN look down sadly.] He is all right, isn’t he?
SAM: No. No, he isn’t. It was the demon, we think. It, um...just got him before he got it, I guess.
ELLEN: I’m so sorry.
DEAN: It’s okay. We’re all right.
ELLEN: Really. I know how close you and your dad—
DEAN: Really, lady, I’m fine. [ELLEN doesn’t press the subject.]
SAM: So, look, if you can help…we could use all the help we can get.
ELLEN: Well, we can’t. But Ash will.
SAM: Who’s Ash?
ELLEN: Ash! [The man who was sleeping on the pool table, ASH, wakes up, startled. He speaks with a Southern accent, and his hair is fashioned in a very long mullet.]
ASH: What? Closin’ time?
SAM: That’s Ash?
JO: Mm-hmm. He’s a genius.
[A few minutes later, SAM and DEAN join ASH at the bar. They place a thick folder in front of him.]
DEAN: You’ve gotta be kiddin’ me. This guy’s no genius. He’s a Lynyrd Skynyrd roadie. [ASH chuckles.]
ASH: I like you.
DEAN: Thanks.
JO: Just give him a chance. [DEAN sits down and slides the folder over to ASH.]
DEAN: All right. This stuff’s about a year’s worth of our dad’s work, so, uh…let’s see what you make of it. [ASH opens the folder and begins looking through the stack of papers.]
ASH: Come on. This crap ain’t real. Ain’t nobody can track a demon like this. [SAM and DEAN exchange a look.]
SAM: Our dad could.
ASH: [after a pause] These are nonparametric statistical overviews, cross-spectrum correlations. I mean…damn. They’re signs –- omens. If you can track ‘em, you can track this demon –- you know, like crop failures, electrical storms. You ever been struck by lightning? It ain’t fun.
SAM: Can you track it or not?
ASH: Yeah, with this, I think so. But it’s gonna take time. Uh, give me…[he pauses, thinking.]…fifty-one hours. [He gathers the research and begins walking away, leaving DEAN and SAM stunned.]
DEAN: Hey, man.
ASH: Yeah?
DEAN: By the way, I, uh…I dig the haircut.
ASH: [tossing his hair] All business up front, party in the back. [Once he leaves, SAM notices a folder sitting on a counter behind ELLEN.]
SAM: Hey, Ellen, what is that? [She looks at where he is pointing.]
ELLEN: It’s a police scanner. We keep tabs on things—
SAM: No, no, no, no. The folder. [She walks over to it and picks it up.]
ELLEN: Uh…I was gonna give this to a friend of mine, but take a look if you want.
SAM: Thanks.
[At another table in the bar, DEAN joins JO and sits down.]
DEAN: How’d your mom get into this stuff, anyway?
JO: My dad. He was a hunter. He passed away.
DEAN: I’m sorry.
JO: It was a long time ago. I was just a kid. Sorry to hear about your dad.
DEAN: Yeah. [He pauses.] So, I guess I got fifty-one hours to waste. Maybe tonight, we should, uh…no, you know what, never mind.
JO: What?
DEAN: Nothin’, just, uh…wrong place, wrong time.
JO: You know, I thought you were gonna toss me some cheap pickup line. [DEAN scoffs.] Most hunters come through that door think they can get in my pants with some pizza, a six-pack, and side one of Zeppelin IV.
DEAN: [sheepish] What a bunch of scumbags.
JO: But not you?
DEAN: I guess not. [He looks away when he hears SAM calling.]
SAM: Dean, come here. Check this out.
DEAN: [walking over to him] Yeah.
SAM: A few murders not far from here that Ellen caught wind of –- looks to me like there might be a hunt.
DEAN: Yeah, so?
SAM: So, I told her we’d check it out.
[CUT TO: INT. MINIVAN. NIGHT. DEAN is driving as SAM looks through the file.]
DEAN: You’ve gotta be kiddin’ me. A killer clown?
SAM: Yeah, he left the daughter unharmed and killed the parents –- ripped them to pieces, actually.
DEAN: And this family was at some carnival that night?
SAM: Right, right. The Cooper carnival.
DEAN: So how do you know we’re not dealin’ with some psycho carnie in a clown suit?
SAM: Well, the cops have no viable leads, and all the employees were tearin’ down shop –- alibis all around. Plus, the girl said she saw a clown vanish into thin air. Cops are sayin’ trauma, of course.
DEAN: [smirking] I know what you’re thinkin’, Sam. “Why did it have to be clowns?”
SAM: Give me a break.
DEAN: You didn’t think I’d remember, did you? I mean, come on, you still bust out cryin’ whenever you see Ronald McDonald on the television.
SAM: At least I’m not afraid of flying.
DEAN: Planes crash!
SAM: And apparently clowns kill.
DEAN: [defeated] So, these types of murders –- they ever happen before?
SAM: Uh, according to the file, 1981, the Bunker Brothers circus. Same M.O. –- it happened three different times, three different locales.
DEAN: That’s weird, though. I mean, if it is a spirit, it’s usually bound to a specific locale -- a house or a town.
SAM: So how’s this one moving from city to city, carnival to carnival?
DEAN: Cursed object, maybe? Spirit attaches itself to something, and the carnival carries it around with them.
SAM: Great. A paranormal scavenger hunt.
DEAN: This case was your idea. By the way, why is that? You were awfully quick to jump on this job.
SAM: So?
DEAN: It’s just not like you, that’s all. I thought you were hell-bent for leather on the demon hunt.
SAM: I don’t know. I just think takin’ this job –- it’s what Dad would have wanted us to do.
DEAN: What Dad would have wanted?
SAM: Yeah. So? [DEAN says nothing for a moment.]
DEAN: Nothin’.
[CUT TO: INT. FUNHOUSE. COOPER CARNIVAL. A young boy, EVAN, is walking around the funhouse with his father. EVAN is very focused on the handheld game he is playing.]
EVAN’S FATHER: Hey, Evan, look. Scary.
EVAN: Yeah, Dad. Scary.
EVAN’S FATHER: What’s over here? [He goes to look at something else in the funhouse.] Wow. You know, when I was your age, this would have scared the pants off me. [EVAN reaches a display of disgusting items that are preserved in jars. The jars are resting on a table, which is behind a window of glass. EVAN looks up from his game for a moment and, in the reflection of the glass window, sees the very creepy clown. The clown is smiling and waving, but when EVAN turns around, he is not there.] Evan. Hey. What is it?
EVAN: I…I saw a clown.
EVAN’S FATHER: Don’t be afraid of clowns. They’re nice. They’re your friends. Okay? Come on. [He leads his son out of the funhouse.]
[The next morning, EVAN is standing by his parents’ bed, shaking his father awake.]
EVAN: Dad. Dad. [His father wakes up, rubbing his eyes.]
EVAN’S FATHER: [groggy] Evan. What is it?
EVAN: You were right. He is my friend. [His dad sees that EVAN is holding hands with the clown from the carnival. The older man sits up in bed and screams. The screen goes black.]
[FADE IN: COOPER CARNIVAL. DAY. SAM and DEAN pull up in the minivan and look around. They spot two clowns a few yards away.]
DEAN: Check it out –- five-o.
[A few minutes later, they have gotten out of the car, and SAM is waiting by himself. A small person dressed in a colorful outfit approaches him and stares at him strangely before walking away. DEAN meets up with him.]
DEAN: Did you get her number? [SAM ignores his comment.]
SAM: More murders?
DEAN: Two more last night. Apparently, they were ripped to shreds, and they had a little boy with them.
SAM: Who fingered a clown. [DEAN looks at him strangely after hearing SAM’S weird comment.] What?
DEAN: Yes, a clown, who apparently vanished into thin air.
SAM: Dean, you know, looking for a cursed object –- it’s like tryin’ to find a needle in a stack of needles. It could be anything.
DEAN: Well, it’s bound to give off EMF, so we’ll just have to scan everything.
SAM: Oh, good. That’s nice and inconspicuous.
DEAN: [noticing a Help Wanted sign] I guess we’ll just have to blend in.
[While trying to find the employer mentioned on the sign, DEAN and SAM enter a tent. A man, BARRY, also called the Amazing Papazian, is wearing sunglasses, throwing knives against the wall.]
DEAN: Excuse me. [BARRY stops.] We’re lookin’ for a Mr. Cooper. Have you seen him around?
BARRY: What is that –- some kind of joke? [He takes off his glasses, revealing that he is blind.]
DEAN: Oh, God, I’m sorry, I-I didn’t—
BARRY: You think I wouldn’t give my eyeteeth to see Mr. Cooper or a sunset or anything at all?
DEAN: [to Sam] Wanna give me a little help here?
SAM: Not really.
MAN: Hey, Barry, is there a problem? [They turn to see another small person who has entered the tent. He is dressed in a very flamboyant outfit, complete with a sequined cape.]
BARRY: Yeah, this guy hates blind people.
DEAN: No, I don’t.
MAN: Hey, buddy, what’s your problem?
DEAN: Nothing, it’s just a little misunderstanding.
MAN: Little? You son of a bitch!
DEAN: No, no, no! Could somebody tell me where Mr. Cooper is? [SAM cracks up as he watches them gang up on DEAN.] Please?
[CUT TO: INT. COOPER’S OFFICE. COOPER enters with SAM and DEAN.]
COOPER: You boys picked a hell of a time to join up. Take a seat. We got all kinds of local trouble. [He has two chairs for them to sit in; one is a regular chair, and the other was built to look like a clown. DEAN races to sit in the regular chair, forcing SAM to sit in the clown chair, looking very uncomfortable.]
DEAN: What do you mean?
COOPER: A couple of folks got themselves murdered. Cops always seem to start here first. So, you two ever work the circuit before?
SAM: Uh, yes, sir –- last year through Texas and Arkansas.
COOPER: Doing what? Ride jockeys? Pull shoot? A-and-S men?
SAM: Yeah, a little bit of everything, I guess.
COOPER: [after a pause] You two have never worked a show in your lives before, have you?
DEAN: Nope. But we really need the work. And Sam here’s got a thing for the bearded lady. [He laughs as SAM glares at him.]
COOPER: You see that picture? [He points to a framed photo next to him.] That’s my Daddy.
SAM: You look just like him.
COOPER: He was in the business –- ran a freak show till they outlawed ‘em most places. Apparently, displaying the deformed isn’t dignified. So, most of the performers went from honest work to rotting in hospitals and asylums. That’s progress, I guess. You see, this place is a refuge for outcasts, always has been, for folks that don’t fit in nowhere else. But you two…you should go to school, find a couple of girls, have 2.5 kids –- live regular.
SAM: Sir…we don’t want to go to school. And we don’t want regular. We want this. [DEAN looks at him curiously.]
[A few minutes later, DEAN and SAM are walking back to the car.]
DEAN: Huh.
SAM: What?
DEAN: That whole, uh, “I don’t wanna go back to school” thing –- you just sayin’ that to Cooper, or were you…you know, sayin’ it? [SAM doesn’t say anything.] Sam?
SAM: I don’t know.
DEAN: You don’t know? I thought that once the demon was dead and the fat lady sings that you were gonna take off, head back to Wussy State.
SAM: I’m havin’ second thoughts.
DEAN: Really?
SAM: Yeah, I think…Dad would have wanted me to stick with the job.
DEAN: Since when do you give a damn what Dad wanted? You spent half your life doin’ exactly what he didn’t want, Sam.
SAM: Since he died. Okay? You have a problem with that?
DEAN: [after a pause] No, I don’t have a problem at all. [He walks away.]
[The next day at the carnival, DEAN and SAM are dressed in their carnie jackets. SAM is picking up trash while he has the EMF detector hidden in his jacket. Finding nothing outside, he decides to go inside the funhouse and look around. He passes many different displays of monsters and ghouls, but the EMF detector does not find anything. He keeps looking, and suddenly, a skeleton drops from the ceiling with a noose around its neck. He holds up the EMF detector, which still doesn’t make any noise.]
[At another area of the carnival, DEAN is putting trash into a dumpster. His cell phone rings, and he answers it.]
DEAN: Hello?
SAM: Hey, man.
DEAN: What’s the matter? You sound like you just saw a clown.
SAM: Very funny. [beat] Skeleton, actually.
DEAN: Like a real human skeleton?
SAM: In the funhouse. Listen, I was thinking what if the spirit isn’t attached to a cursed object? What if it’s attached to its own remains?
DEAN: Did the bones give off EMF?
SAM: Well, no, but—
DEAN: We should check it out anyway. I’m headin’ to you. [He hangs up and gets stopped by BARRY.]
BARRY: What are you doin’ here, kid?
DEAN: I’m just sweepin’.
BARRY: Bull. And what were you talkin’ about? Skeletons? What’s EMF?
DEAN: Dude, your blind-man hearing is out of control.
BARRY: Hey, we’re a tight-knit group. We don’t like outsiders. We take care of our own problems.
DEAN: We got a problem?
BARRY: You tell me. You’re the one talkin’ about human bones.
DEAN: [leaning in close to him] Do you believe in ghosts?
BARRY: What?
DEAN: My brother and me, um…we’re writin’ a book about ‘em. [He smiles.]
[A few minutes later, DEAN finally meets up with SAM.]
SAM: What took you so long?
DEAN: Long story.
GIRL: Mommy, look at the clown. [They see a girl pointing to something a few feet away.]
MOTHER: What clown? [She doesn’t see anything.] Come on, sweetie. Come on. [She leads her daughter away. SAM and DEAN exchange a look.]
[Later that night, SAM and DEAN pull up outside the girl’s home.]
SAM: Dean, I cannot believe you told Papazian about the homicidal phantom clown.
DEAN: I told him an urban legend about a homicidal phantom clown. I never said it was real. [He picks up a shotgun.]
SAM: [grabbing the gun] Put that down.
DEAN: Oh, and get this. I mentioned the Bunker Brothers Circus in ’81 and their evil clown apocalypse. Guess what?
SAM: What?
DEAN: Before Mr. Cooper owned Cooper Carnival, he worked for Bunker Brothers. He was their lot manager.
SAM: So you think whatever the spirit is attached to, Cooper just brought it with him?
DEAN: Somethin’ like that. [pause] I can’t believe we keep talkin’ about clowns.
[A few hours later, the girl’s house is dark. DEAN is asleep in the minivan while SAM watches the house. Suddenly, the light in the girl’s living room turns on.]
SAM: [shaking Dean awake] Dean. [DEAN wakes up and watches the girl. She passes through the living room and goes to open her front door. The clown from the carnival is standing there.]
GIRL: [smiling] Wanna come in and play? [The clown nods, and she leads him into the house. The screen goes black.]
[FADE IN: INT. GIRL’S HOUSE. She is holding the clown’s hand as she leads him through the house.]
GIRL: Wanna see Mommy and Daddy? [The clown nods.] They’re upstairs. [When they round the corner, SAM and DEAN are there. SAM grabs the girl and shields her.]
DEAN: Hey! [The clown turns to DEAN, who shoots him with rock salt. The clown collapses on the floor while the girl screams. The clown gets up.] Sam, watch out! [Before DEAN can shoot it, the clown disappears and crashes through the glass door. The girl’s parents enter the room.]
FATHER: What’s going on here?
MOTHER: Oh my God! What are you doing to my daughter?!
FATHER: Who the hell are you?
MOTHER: Get out! Get out of my house! [DEAN and SAM run out of the house.]
GIRL: Mommy! Daddy! They shot my clown!
[CUT TO: ROAD. DAY. DEAN and SAM have parked the car near the woods. They remove the license plates and pack them in their bags.]
SAM: You really think they saw our plates?
DEAN: I’ll take the chance. Besides, I hate this freakin’ thing anyway. [They grab their bags and begin walking down a very long stretch of road.] Well, one thing’s for sure.
SAM: What’s that?
DEAN: We’re not dealin’ with a spirit. That rock salt hit somethin’ solid.
SAM: Yeah, a person? Or maybe a creature that can make itself invisible?
DEAN: Yeah, and dresses up like a clown for kicks? Did it say anything in Dad’s journal?
SAM: Nope. [He begins dialing a number on his cell phone.]
DEAN: Who you callin’?
SAM: Maybe Ellen or that guy Ash will know somethin’. Hey, you think, uh…you think Dad and Ellen ever had a thing?
DEAN: No way.
SAM: Then why didn’t he tell us about her?
DEAN: I don’t know. Maybe they had some sort of fallin’ out.
SAM: Yeah. You ever notice Dad had a fallin' out with just about everybody? [DEAN doesn’t say anything.] Don’t get all maudlin on me, man.
DEAN: What do you mean?
SAM: I mean this strong, silent thing of yours. It’s crap. I’m over it. This isn’t just anyone we’re talkin’ about. This is Dad. I know how you felt about the man.
DEAN: You know what, back off, all right? Just because I’m not caring and sharing like you want me to—
SAM: No, no, no. That’s not what this is about, Dean. I don’t care how you deal with this, but you have to deal with it, man. Listen, I’m your brother, all right? I just want to make sure you’re okay.
DEAN: Dude, I’m okay. I’m okay! I swear, the next person who asks me if I’m okay, I’m gonna start throwin’ punches. These are your issues. Quit dumpin’ ‘em on me. [They stop walking.]
SAM: What are you talkin’ about?
DEAN: I just think it’s really interesting, this sudden obedience you have to Dad. It’s like, “Oh, what would Dad want me to do?” Sam, you spent your entire life sluggin’ it out with that man. I mean, hell, you picked a fight with him the last time you ever saw him, and now that he’s dead, now you want to make it right? Well, I’m sorry, Sam, but you can’t. It’s too little, too late.
SAM: Why are you sayin’ this to me?
DEAN: Because I want you to be honest with yourself about this! I’m dealin’ with Dad’s death! Are you?
SAM: [after a long pause] I’m gonna call Ellen. [DEAN watches him walk away and hangs his head.]
[A few minutes later, SAM rejoins DEAN before he gets off the phone.]
SAM: Thanks a lot. [He hangs up.] Rakshasa.
DEAN: What’s that?
SAM: Ellen’s best guess. It’s a race of ancient Hindu creatures. They appear in human form, they feed on human flesh, they can make themselves invisible, and they cannot enter a home without first being invited to.
DEAN: They dress up like clowns, and children invite ‘em in.
SAM: Yeah.
DEAN: Why don’t they just munch on the kids?
SAM: No idea. Not enough meat on the bones, maybe?
DEAN: What else you find out?
SAM: Well, apparently, rakshasas live in squalor. They sleep on a bed of dead insects.
DEAN: Nice.
SAM: Yeah, and they have to feed a few times every twenty to thirty years –- slow metabolism, I guess.
DEAN: That makes sense –- the carnival today, the Bunker Brothers in ’81.
SAM: Right. Probably more before that.
DEAN: Sam, who do we know that worked both shows?
SAM: Cooper?
DEAN: Cooper.
SAM: You know, that picture of his father –- that looked just like him.
DEAN: You think maybe it was him?
SAM: Well, who knows how old he is?
DEAN: Ellen say how to kill him?
SAM: Legend goes a dagger made of pure brass.
DEAN: I think I know where to get one of those.
SAM: Well, before we go stabbin’ things into Cooper, we’re gonna wanna make damn sure it’s him.
DEAN: Oh, you’re such a stickler for details, Sammy. [SAM smiles.] All right, I’ll round up the blade. You go check if Cooper’s got bedbugs.
[CUT TO: COOPER CARNIVAL. NIGHT. Once the carnival has cleared out, SAM goes to COOPER’S trailer and picks the lock on the door.]
[At another area in the carnival, BARRY is taking DEAN to his office.]
BARRY: Well, I got all kinds of knives. I don’t know if I got a brass one, though.
[Once SAM is inside COOPER’S trailer, he walks over to the bed and begins checking the sheets and between the mattresses. When he hears the sound of a rifle being cocked, he turns and sees COOPER.]
COOPER: What do you think you’re doin’?
[In BARRY’S office, he and DEAN enter. He gestures to a large trunk on the floor.]
BARRY: Check the trunk. [DEAN opens it. When he moves some clothes on the top, he is shocked to see the clown costume and wig in the trunk as well. He turns to BARRY, stunned.]
DEAN: You?
BARRY: Me. [He takes his glasses off and DEAN watches his face morph into a very creepy expression. BARRY suddenly disappears, and the screen goes black.]
[FADE IN: BARRY’S OFFICE. DEAN is trying to leave, but the door won’t budge. Suddenly, a knife comes flying out of nowhere and narrowly misses DEAN’S head. Another knife follows soon after.]
DEAN: All right! [He is eventually able to barrel through the door and run outside. SAM catches up with him.]
SAM: Hey!
DEAN: [stopping in his tracks] Hey.
SAM: So, Cooper thinks I’m a peeping Tom, but it’s not him.
DEAN: Yeah, so I gathered. It’s the blind guy. He’s here somewhere.
SAM: Well, did you get the...
DEAN: The brass blades? No. It’s just been one of those days.
SAM: I got an idea. Come on. [The two of them run to the funhouse and go inside. While they are searching, a set of elevator doors closes and separates the two of them.]
DEAN: Sam!
SAM: Dean! Dean, find the maze, okay? [Both of them go in separate directions. SAM reaches a pipe organ from which music is playing. While he is trying to remove one of the brass pipes, DEAN meets up with him.]
DEAN: Hey.
SAM: Hey. Where is it?
DEAN: I don’t know. I mean, shouldn’t we see his clothes walkin’ around?
[Suddenly, another pair of knives comes flying toward DEAN, pinning him to the wall.] Sam! [SAM finally removes the brass pipe and looks around, dodging another airborne knife.]
SAM: Dean, where is it?
DEAN: I don’t know! [He sees a lever above his head, which he pulls. Steam begins hissing out of the air vents. The steam is able to vaguely outline the creature that they are looking for. DEAN spots its outline standing behind SAM.] Sam, behind you! Behind you! [SAM sticks the brass pipe into the creature, causing it to fall to the ground. When it is dead, DEAN is able to take the knives out of the wall. He joins SAM, and they see only a pile of clothing and the brass pipe on the floor.] I hate funhouses. [The screen goes black.]
[FADE IN: INT. ROADHOUSE. A few hunters are seated at a table, cleaning their weapons. SAM and DEAN are at the bar.]
ELLEN: You boys did a hell of a job. Your dad would be proud.
SAM: Thanks. [JO joins them. SAM smiles at her, but she and DEAN stare at him, giving him the hint to leave.] Oh, yeah. I’ve got to, uh…I’ve got to go…over there…right now. [He leaves.]
JO: So.
DEAN: So.
JO: Am I gonna see you again?
DEAN: Do you want to?
JO: I wouldn’t hate it.
DEAN: Can I be honest with you? See, normally, I’d be hittin’ on you so fast, it’d make your head spin. But, uh...these days…I don’t know.
JO: Wrong place, wrong time? [She smiles.] It’s okay, I get it. [ASH enters with his laptop.]
ASH: Where you guys been? I been waitin’ for you.
SAM: We were workin’ a job, Ash. [ASH stares at him.] Clowns?
ASH: Clowns? What the—
DEAN: You got somethin’ for us, Ash? [ASH sets down his laptop next to SAM and DEAN.]
SAM: Did you find the demon?
ASH: It’s nowhere around, at least nowhere I can find. But if this fugly bastard raises its head, I’ll know. I mean, I’m on it like divine on dog dookie.
SAM: What do you mean?
ASH: I mean any of those signs or omens appear anywhere in the world, my rig will go off like a fire alarm. [On his laptop, he has several different programs open, such as a weather tracker, among other things.]
DEAN: You mind? [He goes to touch the laptop, but stops when he sees ASH glaring. He moves his hand away, smirking.]
ASH: What’s up, man?
SAM: Ash, where did you learn to do all this?
ASH: M.I.T., before I got bounced…for fighting.
SAM: M.I.T.?
ASH: It’s a school in Boston.
DEAN: Okay. Give us a call as soon as you know somethin’?
ASH: Si, si, compadre. [DEAN takes one last swig of his beer before setting it down. ASH takes a swig of it as SAM and DEAN walk to the door.]
ELLEN: Hey, listen. If you boys need a place to stay, I got a couple beds out back.
DEAN: Thanks, but no. There’s somethin’ I gotta finish.
ELLEN: Okay. [They leave.]
[CUT TO: EXT. SINGER’S AUTOS. SAM goes to talk to DEAN, who has returned to working on the Impala.]
SAM: You were right.
DEAN: About what?
SAM: About me and Dad. I’m sorry that the last time I was with him, I tried to pick a fight. I’m sorry that I spent most of my life angry at him. I mean, for all I know, he died thinkin’ that I hate him. So, you’re right. What I’m doin’ right now -- it is too little. It’s too late. [pause] I miss him, man. And I feel guilty as hell. [He is on the verge of tears.] And I’m not all right. Not at all. [pause] But neither are you. That much I know. I’ll let you get back to work. [He leaves.]
[After SAM leaves, DEAN doesn’t say anything. He calmly picks up a tire iron from the ground. A second passes, and then he breaks. He turns to the car next to him and smashes its window. It’s obviously not enough. He moves over to the Impala and swings the tire iron, bringing it crashing down to the trunk. He does this again and again, with each blow to the trunk getting more forceful, eventually creating a large dent. He smashes the trunk seventeen times, than drops the tire iron to the ground. He stares out at nothing, his expression stone-cold. The screen fades to black.]
END OF EPISODE
Ecrit par kaylia.