[FADE IN: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. INT. APARTMENT BUILDING. NIGHT. A young woman is on the phone with someone while the lights flicker in her apartment.]
WOMAN: I checked the fuses. They’re fine. It’s the wiring! Look, you promised this place would be ready when I moved in. […] No! You come up now! Please. […] Thank you. [She hangs up and notices a gooey black substance, ectoplasm, splattered on the table.] Gross.
[More ectoplasm drips onto her shirt. She looks up at the ceiling but sees nothing. At the other side of the room, she hears banging coming from the wall. She walks over to a light switch outlet and sees a large amount of ectoplasm seeping out of it.]
WOMAN: What the hell?
[As she continues watching, she sees the eye of a man appear in the outlet. She screams and the screen goes black.]
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[FADE IN: EXT. HARVELLE’S ROADHOUSE. DEAN and SAM are talking at the Impala.]
DEAN: Los Angeles, California.
SAM: What’s in L.A.?
DEAN: A young girl has been kidnapped by an evil cult.
SAM: Yeah? [DEAN nods.] Girl got a name?
DEAN: Katie Holmes. [SAM laughs.]
SAM: That’s funny. And for you, so bitchy. [They hear arguing coming from inside the Roadhouse.]
DEAN: Of course, on the other hand –- catfight.
[Inside the Roadhouse, ELLEN and JO are in the middle of a fight.]
ELLEN: I am your mother, I don’t have to be reasonable!
JO: You can’t keep me here!
ELLEN: Don’t you bet on that, sweetie!
JO: What are you gonna do? Are you gonna chain me up in the basement?
ELLEN: You know what? You’ve had worse ideas than that recently! Hey, if you don’t wanna stay, don’t stay. Go back to school!
JO: I didn’t belong there! I was a freak with a knife collection!
ELLEN: Yeah, but getting yourself killed in some dusty backroad, that’s where you belong? [They notice SAM and DEAN enter.] Guys, bad time.
SAM: Yes, ma’am.
DEAN: Yeah, we rarely drink before ten, anyway.
JO: Wait. I wanna know what they think about this.
ELLEN: I don’t care what they think. [A family of four enters the Roadhouse, all wearing shirts that say, “Nebraska is for Lovers”.]
FATHER: Are you guys open? [ELLEN and JO answer at the same time.]
JO: No!
ELLEN: Yes! [The family looks around, confused.]
FATHER: We’ll just check out the Arby’s down the road. [They leave. The phone rings, and JO gestures for ELLEN to answer it.]
ELLEN: Harvelle’s. […] Yeah. [While she is talking, JO approaches the boys.]
JO: [handing Dean a file] Three weeks ago, a young girl disappears from a Philadelphia apartment. [DEAN looks at her strangely.] Take it, it won’t bite.
DEAN: No, but your mom might. [JO looks at him, annoyed. He reluctantly takes the file and looks through it.]
JO: And this girl wasn’t the first. Over the past eighty years, six women have vanished –- all from the same building, all young blondes. Only happens every decade or two, so cops never eyeball the pattern. So, we’re either dealing with one very old serial killer, or—
DEAN: Who put this together? Ash?
JO: I did it myself.
DEAN: Hm…
SAM: I’ve got to admit, we’ve hit the road for a lot less.
ELLEN: [hanging up the phone] Good. If you like the case so much, you take it.
JO: Mom!
ELLEN: Joanna Beth, this family has lost enough. I won’t lose you, too. I just won’t.
[CUT TO: INT. APARTMENT. SAM and DEAN pick the lock and enter. They start looking around with EMF meters.]
SAM: I feel kind of bad, snaking Jo’s case.
DEAN: Yeah, maybe she put together a good file. But could you see her out here, working one of these things? I don’t think so. [pause] Getting anything?
SAM: No, not yet. [He turns and sees dried ectoplasm on the light switch outlet.] What’s that?
DEAN: What? [SAM wipes some of it off with his finger.]
SAM: Holy crap. [DEAN touches it also.]
DEAN: That’s ectoplasm. Well, Sam, I think I know what we’re dealing with here. [beat] It’s the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. [SAM rolls his eyes.]
SAM: Dean, I’ve only seen this stuff, like, twice. I mean, to make this stuff, you have to be one majorly pissed off spirit.
DEAN: All right, let’s find this badass before he snags anymore girls.
[CUT TO: HALLWAY. DEAN and SAM are leaving when they hear voices. JO turns the corner, talking to the superintendent, ED.]
ED: All the apartments have been furnished, too.
JO: It’s so spacious. You know, my friend told me that I absolutely had to come and check it out, and I have to admit that she was right. You did a really good job with this place.
DEAN: What the hell are you doing here?
JO: There you are, honey. [She walks over to him and puts her arm around his waist.] This is my boyfriend, Dean, and his buddy, Sam.
ED: [shaking their hands] Good to meet you. Quite a gal you’ve got here.
DEAN: Oh, yeah, she’s a pistol. [He chuckles.]
JO: So, did you already check out the apartment? [He doesn’t answer.] The one for rent?
DEAN: Y-yeah, yes. Loved it. Great flow.
ED: How’d you get in?
DEAN: It was open.
JO: Now, Ed, when did the last tenant move out?
ED: Oh, about a month ago. Cut and run, too. Stiffed me for the rent.
JO: [laughing] Well, her loss, our gain. ‘Cause if Dean-o loves it, that’s good enough for me.
DEAN: Oh, sweetie. [He hits her on the back.]
JO: [handing Ed a wad of cash] We’ll take it.
ED: [stunned] Okay.
[CUT TO: INT. APARTMENT. DEAN and SAM are loading guns while JO looks at research.]
JO: I’ll flip you for the sofa.
DEAN: Does your mother even know you’re here?
JO: I told her I was going to Vegas.
DEAN: You think she’s gonna buy that?
JO: I’m not an idiot. I got Ash to lay a credit card trail all the way to the casinos.
DEAN: [shaking his head] You know, you shouldn’t lie to your mom. You shouldn’t be here, either.
JO: Well, I am. So untwist your boxers and deal with it.
SAM: Where’d you get all that money from, anyways?
JO: Working at the Roadhouse.
DEAN: Hunters don’t tip that well.
JO: Well, they aren’t that good at poker, either. [DEAN answers his ringing cell phone.]
DEAN: Yeah?
ELLEN: [at the Roadhouse] Is she with you?
DEAN: Oh, hi, Ellen.
ELLEN: She left a note she’s in Vegas. I don’t believe it for a second. [JO and DEAN quietly argue for a second, through clenched teeth.] Dean?
DEAN: I haven’t seen her.
ELLEN: You sure about that?
DEAN: Yeah, I’m sure.
ELLEN Well, please, if she shows up, you’ll drag her butt right back here, won’t you?
DEAN: Absolutely.
ELLEN: Okay. Thanks, hon. [They hang up. JO gives DEAN a big smile.]
[Later, the three of them are still looking at research. JO is twirling a small knife in her hands as she talks.]
JO: This place was built in 1924. It was originally a warehouse, converted into apartments a few months ago.
DEAN: [pacing] Yeah? What was here before 1924?
JO: Nothing. Empty field.
SAM: So, most likely scenario –- someone died bloody in the building, and now he’s back and raising hell.
JO: I already checked. In the past eighty-two years, zero violent deaths, unless you count a janitor who slipped on a wet floor. [to Dean] Would you sit down, please? [DEAN exchanges a glance with SAM before sitting.]
DEAN: So, have you checked the police reports? County death records?
JO: Obituaries, mortuary reports, and seven other sources. I know what I’m doing.
DEAN: I think the jury’s still out on that one. [pause] Could you put the knife down? [She does, slightly annoyed.]
SAM: Okay. So, it’s something else, then. Maybe some kind of cursed object that brought the spirit with it.
JO: We’ve gotta scan the whole building. Whatever we can get to, right?
DEAN: Right. So, you and me –- we’ll take the top two floors.
JO: We’d move faster if we split up.
DEAN: Oh, this isn’t negotiable.
[CUT TO: HALLWAY. DEAN and JO are walking with EMF meters.]
JO: So, are you gonna buy me dinner?
DEAN: What are you talking about?
JO: It’s just, if you’re gonna ride me this close, it’s only decent if you buy me dinner.
DEAN: Oh, that’s hilarious. You know, it’s bad enough I lied to your mom, but if you think I’m letting you out of my sight –- I don’t know if you noticed, but you’re kind of the spirit’s type.
JO: Exactly.
DEAN: You wanna be bait?
JO: Quickest way to draw it out, and you know it. [DEAN scoffs.] What?
DEAN: I’m so regretting this. [She stops walking.]
JO: You know, I’ve had it up to here with your crap. [He stops also.]
DEAN: Excuse me?
JO: Your chauvinist crap. You think women can’t do the job.
DEAN: Sweetheart, this ain’t gender studies. Women can do the job fine. Amateurs can’t. You’ve got no experience. What you do have is a bunch of half-baked romantic notions that some barfly has put in your head.
JO: And now, you sound like my mother.
DEAN: Oh, and that’s a bad thing? ‘Cause let me tell you—
JO: What?
DEAN: [after a pause] Forget it.
JO: No, you started this.
DEAN: Jo, you’ve got options. No one in their right mind chooses this life. My dad started me on this when I was so young, I wish I could do something else.
JO: You love the job.
DEAN: Yeah, but I’m a little twisted.
JO: You don’t think I’m a little twisted, too?
DEAN: Jo, you’ve got a mother that worries about you, who wants something more for you. Those are good things. You don’t throw things like that away. They might be hard to find later.
[He continues walking down the hall, ahead of JO. She stays behind and reaches an air vent. While she stands next to it, a hand begins to come out of the vent. She gasps and turns around, but the hand is gone.]
DEAN: What?
JO: I’m not sure.
DEAN: [sniffing the air] You smell that?
JO: What is that? A gas leak?
DEAN: No. It’s something else. [He keeps sniffing.] I know it. I just can’t put my finger on it. [JO bends down next to the vent, and her EMF detector starts beeping.] Mazel Tov! You just found your first spirit.
JO: It’s inside the vent. [He crouches down also and hands JO his flashlight. He uses a screwdriver to take off the vent panel. He takes the flashlight and looks inside.]
DEAN: There’s something in there. Here.
[He hands the flashlight back to JO and reaches his arm inside the vent. He feels around for a minute before pulling something out. It is a clump of long blonde hair, with a section of scalp attached to it.]
DEAN: [disgusted] Somebody’s keeping souvenirs.
[CUT TO: INT. APARTMENT. A blonde woman, TERESA ELLIS, enters her apartment that night. She begins looking through her mail and pulls out a flyer. As she is reading, ectoplasm begins to drip onto the paper. She looks at the ceiling but sees nothing. She throws the paper away, and the lights begin to flicker. A crack also forms in the ceiling.]
TERESA: This building, I swear to God. [The crack begins to get longer, covering the ceiling and the walls. She goes over to the phone, but the signal is full of static.] I am so out of here.
[She goes over to the door, but she can’t get it open. She notices the crack in the wall reach the vent. She walks over to the vent and sees a hand begin to extend out of it. She screams as the hand grabs her leg and causes her to fall. She continues screaming as the screen goes black.]
[FADE IN: INT. APARTMENT. MORNING. DEAN is sleeping in an armchair, in a very uncomfortable position. He wakes up, groaning, and sees JO sitting at the kitchen table, still twirling her knife.]
JO: Morning, princess.
DEAN: Where’s Sam?
JO: Went to get coffee. [He gets up.]
DEAN: Ugh, my back. How’d you sleep on that big, soft bed?
JO: I didn’t. Just been going over everything. [DEAN doesn’t answer. He gets his duffel bag and takes out a much larger knife.]
DEAN: [handing it to her] Here. [She takes it.]
JO: What’s this for?
DEAN: It’ll work a hell of a lot better than that little pigstick you’ve been twirling around. [She hands him her small knife. He looks at it and sees the initials W.A.H. engraved on the side.]
JO: [sadly] William Anthony Harvelle.
DEAN: I’m sorry. My mistake. [He gives the knife back to her.]
JO: What do you…what do you remember about your dad? I mean, what’s the first thing that pops into your head? [He shakes his head.] Come on, tell me.
DEAN: [after a long pause] I was six or seven. And, uh…he took me shooting for the first time. Bottles on a fence –- that kind of thing. I bull’s-eyed every one of ‘em. And he gave me this smile, like…I don’t know.
JO: He must have been proud.
DEAN: What about your dad?
JO: I was still in pigtails when my dad died, but…I remember him coming home from a hunt. And he’d burst through that door like…like Steve McQueen or something. And he’d sweep me up in his arms, and I’d breathe in that old leather jacket of his. And my mom, who was sour and pissed from the minute he left –- she started smiling again. And we were…we were a family. [pause] You wanna know why I wanna do the job? For him. It’s my way of being close to him. Now, tell me, what’s wrong with that?
DEAN: Nothing. [They sit in silence until SAM opens the door.] Where’s the coffee?
SAM: There are cops outside. Another girl disappeared.
[Later, SAM and JO are continuing their research. DEAN enters.]
DEAN: Teresa Ellis –- apartment 2-F. Her boyfriend reported her missing around dawn.
JO: And her apartment?
DEAN: Cracks all over the plaster –- walls, ceiling. There’s ectoplasm, too.
SAM: Between that and that tuft of hair, I’d say this sucker’s coming from the walls.
DEAN: Yeah, but who is it? The building’s history is totally clean.
JO: [looking at a photo] Maybe we’re looking in the wrong place.
DEAN: What do you mean?
JO: Check this out. [She hands them the photo.]
SAM: An empty field?
JO: It’s where this building was built. Take a look at the one next door. [The other building in the picture looks very dilapidated.] The windows. [The windows on the building are barred.]
SAM: Bars.
DEAN: We’re next door to a prison?
[Later still, JO is on the phone with ASH.]
JO: Thanks, Ash. And if you breathe a word of this to my mom –- […] That’s right. I will. With pliers. [She hangs up.] Okay. Moyamensing Prison –- built in 1835, torn down in 1963. And get this –- they used to execute people by hanging them in the empty field next door.
SAM: Well, then we need a list of all the people executed there.
JO: Ash is already on it.
[A few minutes later, they are scrolling through a long list of names on the computer.]
SAM: 157 names?
DEAN: We’ve got to narrow that down.
SAM: Yeah.
DEAN: Or else we’re gonna be digging up a hell of a lot of stiffs. [As SAM looks at the list, he sees the name “Herman Webster Mudgett”.]
SAM: Herman Webster Mudgett?
JO: Yeah?
SAM: Wasn’t that H.H. Holmes’ real name?
DEAN: You’ve gotta be kidding me.
[Soon after, DEAN has looked up a newspaper article online, discussing the death of H.H. Holmes.]
DEAN: Yup. Holmes was executed at Moyamensing May 7, 1896.
SAM: H.H. Holmes himself. Come on, I mean, what are the odds?
JO: Who is this guy?
DEAN: The term “multi-murderer” –- they coined it to describe Holmes. He was America’s first serial killer before anybody knew what a serial killer was.
SAM: Yeah, he confessed to twenty-seven murders, but some put the death toll at over a hundred.
DEAN: And his victim flavor of choice? Pretty, petite blondes. [JO smiles half-heartedly.] He used chloroform to kill ‘em…which is what I smelled in the hallway last night. At his place, cops found human remains –- bone fragments and long locks of bloody, blonde hair. Boy, he sure knew how to pick ‘em.
JO: So, we’ll just find the bones, salt them, and burn them, right?
SAM: Well, it’s not that easy. His body is buried in town, but it’s encased in a couple tons of concrete.
JO: What? Why?
DEAN: Story goes that he didn’t want anybody mutilating his corpse, ‘cause, you know, that’s what he used to do.
SAM: You know something? [scoffs] We might have an even bigger problem than that.
JO: How does this get bigger?
SAM: Holmes built an apartment building in Chicago. They called it The Murder Castle. The whole place was a death factory. They had trapdoors, acid vats, quicklime pits. He built these secret chambers…inside the walls. He’d lock his victims in, keep them alive for days. Some he’d suffocate, others he’d let starve to death.
JO: So, Teresa could still be alive. She could be inside these walls.
DEAN: We need sledgehammers, crowbars –- we’ve gotta smash these walls anywhere thick enough to hide a girl.
[CUT TO: APARTMENT WALL. DEAN and JO are inside the wall, searching with flashlights. JO is on the phone with SAM.]
JO: Okay. Call us after you check the southeast wall. [She hangs up.] Sam’s almost done with the first floor. He hasn’t found jack squat either. [They turn a corner and stop.] What is it?
DEAN: It’s too narrow. We can’t go any further.
JO: Let me see. [She begins to squeeze past him, pressing right up against him in such a tiny space.]
DEAN: Should’ve cleaned the pipes.
JO: What?
DEAN: I just…wish the pipes were clean.
JO: Shut up! I can fit in there.
DEAN: You’re going in there by yourself?
JO: You got a better idea? [She moves past him and keeps searching.]
DEAN: [on the phone with her] Where are you?
JO: By the north wall. [She keeps looking around and finds a passageway to go down.] I’m heading down some kind of air duct.
DEAN: No, no, no, stay up here.
JO: Dean, we’ve gotta find this girl, don’t we? I’m okay.
DEAN: All right, I’m heading to you. [He leaves the walls and begins walking through the building. While JO is searching, she reaches an extremely narrow space that she can’t get past. She shines her flashlight on the wall, and sees ectoplasm seeping out of it.]
JO: Oh, God.
DEAN: What is it? [She doesn’t answer.] Jo? Jo! [He hears her scream and he runs to find her. In another hallway, he smashes through the walls and looks inside. He sees her cell phone lying on the ground.] Jo?! Jo! [The screen goes black.]
[FADE IN: HALLWAY. DEAN is walking when he runs into SAM.]
SAM: Whoa!
DEAN: He’s got Jo.
SAM: What? How’d that happen?
DEAN: I wasn’t with her, I left her alone. Damn it!
SAM: Okay, look, we’ll find her, all right?
DEAN: Where?
SAM: Inside the walls.
DEAN: We’ve been inside the walls all night. If none of the other girls are there, she won’t be, either. [They enter their apartment.]
SAM: Look, try to take a beat and think about this. Maybe we got Holmes’ M.O. wrong.
DEAN: We better freakin’ think fast. [He answers his ringing cell phone.] Yeah?
ELLEN: [at the Roadhouse] You lied to me. She’s there.
DEAN: Ellen.
ELLEN: No, Ash told me everything. The man’s a genius, but he folds like a cheap suit. Now, you put my damn daughter on the phone.
DEAN: She’s gonna have to call you back. She’s taking care of feminine business.
ELLEN: Yeah, right. Where is she? [He doesn’t answer.] Where is she?!
DEAN: Look, we’ll get her back.
ELLEN: Get her back? Back from what?
DEAN: The spirit we’re hunting, it took her.
ELLEN: Oh, my God.
DEAN: She’ll be okay, I promise.
ELLEN: You promise? That is not the first time I’ve heard that from a Winchester.
DEAN: What?
ELLEN: If anything happens to her…
DEAN: It won’t. I won’t let it. Ellen, I’m sorry. I really am.
ELLEN: I’m taking the first flight out. I’ll be there in a few hours. [They hang up.]
DEAN: Damn it!
SAM: Don’t beat yourself up, Dean. There’s nothing you could have done.
DEAN: Tell me you’ve got something.
SAM: [looking at research] Maybe. Look. If you look at the layout of the Holmes Murder Castle, there’s other torture chambers inside the walls, right?
DEAN: Right.
SAM: But there’s one we haven’t considered yet –- the one in his basement.
DEAN: This building doesn’t have a basement.
SAM: You’re right. It doesn’t. But I just noticed this –- beneath the foundation, it looks like part of an old sewer system. It hasn’t been used for—
DEAN: Let’s go. [They grab their things and leave.]
[CUT TO: SEWER SYSTEM. JO wakes up in something resembling a coffin. She reaches for her flashlight and looks around. She is lying in a narrow metal cubicle, only able to move her arms and legs a small bit. There is a tiny opening in the metal case for her to look through. She hears a noise.]
JO: Hello? [In another metal cubicle, TERESA ELLIS looks through her own small opening, crying.]
TERESA: Is anybody there?
JO: Your name’s Teresa?
TERESA: [nodding] Yeah.
JO: This won’t make you feel better, but…I’m here to rescue you.
TERESA: Oh, God. He’s out there, he’s gonna kill us!
JO: No, he won’t! We’re getting out. My friends are looking for us, they’ll find us. [They hear footsteps approaching.]
TERESA: Oh, God, it’s him!
JO: Shh! Just be quiet! [They are both silent, waiting. Suddenly, H.H. HOLMES reaches his hand inside JO’S cubicle. She screams as he rips out a chunk of her hair. The screen goes black.]
[FADE IN: STREET. DAY. SAM and DEAN are walking with a metal detector and a shovel. They walk into a field and reach a patch of grass where the detector starts beeping rapidly.]
SAM: Here. [DEAN takes his shovel and begins digging.]
[A few minutes later, they have dug a hole deep enough to uncover a trapdoor. They open the door to see a ladder, leading down into the sewer system. They grab their guns and head down the steps.]
[CUT TO: SEWER SYSTEM. JO is trying to open the door of the cubicle with her leg, but it doesn’t work. After a moment, H.H. HOLMES appears at the opening to the metal case.]
H.H. HOLMES: You’re so pretty…so beautiful.
JO: Go to hell. [H.H. HOLMES sticks his hand inside the cubicle again and begins touching JO. He runs his hand down her neck and arm. Suddenly, she jerks her arm away and stabs him with a knife. He vanishes.] How do you like that? Pure iron, you creepy-ass son of a bitch!
[At another part of the sewer system, SAM and DEAN are crawling through the extremely narrow pipes.]
[CUT TO: SEWER SYSTEM. H.H. HOLMES appears to have vanished.]
TERESA: [after a long silence] Is he gone?
JO: I don’t know. I—
[Suddenly, H.H. HOLMES appears again and reaches his arms into JO’S cubicle. He wrestles the knife out of her hands and then covers her mouth and nose, trying to stifle her screams.]
DEAN: Hey! [H.H. HOLMES turns and the brothers shoot him from behind a small doorway. He vanishes. SAM and DEAN open the gate and approach the metal cases.] Jo?
JO: I’m here! [DEAN uses a tool to get her cubicle open. SAM walks over to TERESA’S case.]
SAM: We’re gonna get you out of here, all right? [She nods.]
DEAN: Sam! [He hands SAM the tool, and SAM opens TERESA’S case.] Hang on. [He finishes opening JO’S cubicle, and she gets out.] You all right?
JO: Been better. Let’s get the hell out of here before he comes back.
DEAN: Actually, I don’t think you’re leaving here just yet.
JO: What?
DEAN: Remember when I said you being bait was a bad plan? Now it’s kind of the only one we’ve got. [He looks over at SAM, who is holding TERESA in his arms.]
[Later, JO is sitting in the middle of the room, waiting. H.H. HOLMES suddenly appears behind her. He slowly begins approaching her.]
DEAN: Now!
[JO moves out of the way, and SAM and DEAN shoot. They hit two bags of salt that were perched on a ledge, and they fall to the ground. A ring of salt that was surrounding the room is now completed. JO climbs out of the ring and joins SAM and DEAN behind the gateway. Realizing that he is now trapped, H.H. HOLMES begins screaming.]
JO: Scream all you want, you dick, but there’s no way you’re stepping over that salt! [H.H. HOLMES continues screaming as the three of them leave.]
[CUT TO: FIELD. DAY. SAM and JO are standing by the door leading down to the sewer.]
SAM: So, is this job as glamorous as you thought it would be?
JO: Well, except for all the pee-your-pants terror, yeah. [They laugh.] But that Teresa girl is gonna live a life ‘cause of us. It’s worth it, isn’t it?
SAM: Yeah. Yeah, it is.
JO: Hey, what if somebody finds that sewer down there, or a storm washes the salt away?
SAM: Both very fine points. Which is why we’re waiting here.
JO: For what? [They hear beeping, and they turn to see DEAN backing up a cement truck.]
SAM: For that. [They smile, and SAM signals DEAN to stop the truck. DEAN gets out, and he lowers the slide, angling it down into the sewer.]
JO: You ripped off a cement truck? [DEAN shrugs.]
DEAN: [smirking] I’ll give it back. [He pushes a lever and they watch the cement flow down the slide, into the ground.] Well, that’ll keep him down there till hell freezes over. [They all share a smile as the screen goes black.]
[FADE IN: INT. IMPALA. SAM and JO are in the backseat while ELLEN and DEAN ride in the front. It is clear that the car ride is very awkward.]
DEAN: [after a long pause] Boy, you –- you really weren’t kidding about flying out, were you? [ELLEN stares straight ahead and doesn’t answer.] How about we listen to some music? [He turns on Foreigner’s “Cold as Ice”, but ELLEN immediately shuts it off. SAM and JO exchange a look.] This is gonna be a long drive.
[CUT TO: INT. HARVELLE’S ROADHOUSE. The four of them enter.]
DEAN: Ellen? This is my fault. Okay? I lied to you, and I’m sorry. But Jo did good out there. I think her dad would be proud.
ELLEN: Don’t you dare say that. Not you. I need a moment with my daughter alone. [The boys leave.]
JO: You’re angry. I understand.
ELLEN: Angry? Angry doesn’t begin to touch it!
JO: Let’s just think about this. Everything’s okay. I’m alive.
ELLEN: Not after I’m through with you!
JO: Is this about me hunting or something else?
ELLEN: You let those boys use you as bait!
JO: They were right there, backing me up the whole time!
ELLEN: That is why you do not have the sense to do this job. You’re trusting your life to them.
JO: What are you talking about?
ELLEN: Like father, like sons, that is what I’m talking about. [She begins to cry.]
JO: John? [pause] I thought you and John were friends.
ELLEN: Yeah, we were. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean
JO: Mom…what aren’t you telling me?
[CUT TO: EXT. HARVELLE’S ROADHOUSE. SAM and DEAN are waiting by the car when JO comes outside. She walks quickly away from them. DEAN follows.]
DEAN: That bad, huh?
JO: Not right now.
DEAN: What happened? [grabbing her shoulder] Hey, talk to me.
JO: [shoving him away] Get off me!
DEAN: Sorry, see you around. [He begins walking away.]
JO: Dean…it turns out my dad had a partner on his last hunt. Funny, he usually worked alone. This guy did, too. But I guess my father figured he could trust him a mistake. Guy screwed up, got my dad killed.
DEAN: What does this have to do—
JO: It was your father, Dean.
DEAN: What?
JO: Why do you think John never came back, never told you about us? ‘Cause he couldn’t look my mom in the eye after that. That’s why.
DEAN: Jo
JO: Just…just get out of here. Please, just leave. [She walks away as the screen fades to black.]
END
Ecrit par Luinel.