SCRIPT VO DE “A VERY SUPERNATURAL CHRISTMAS”, SAISON 3 EPISODE 8
PRE-TITLE CARD SAYING “A SPECIAL PRESENTATION”
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ONE YEAR AGO
INT HOUSE, ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT
The doorbell rings. A kid, STEVIE, opens the door. His GRANDFATHER enters.
STEVIE: Merry Christmas Grandpa!
GRANDFATHER: Oh, merry Christmas to you, Stevie.
He hugs his grandson, laughing, and comes in.
STEVIE: Did you bring me any presents?
GRANDFATHER: Now, why would I wanna do that?
STEVIE: Cause it’s Christmas.
GRANDFATHER: Oh. I thought Santa Claus brought the presents at Christmas. You have been a good boy this year, haven’t you?
STEVIE: I have, I swear.
GRANDFATHER: Well, then, who knows? Maybe he’ll come.
CUT TO: LATER THAT EVENING - CHRISTMAS TREE
INT. HOUSE, NIGHT
GRANDFATHER is disguising as SANTA. He puts on a fake beard, fake hair and a red hat, checks the stairwell, adjusts his beard and rattles a bell.
STEVIE, alerted by the noise, goes down the stairs and hides behind the stairs banister. He watches GRANDFATHER/SANTA take presents out of his bag and put them under the tree.
STEVIE: (whispering) Santa!
As GRANDFATHER/SANTA continues putting presents under the tree, a loud thud comes from the roof.
GRANDFATHER/SANTA and STEVIE both look up.
STEVIE: (whispering) Reindeer!
GRANDFATHER/SANTA looks a bit worried, but keeps going until another sound is heard. He notices ashes falling down the chimney into the fireplace and goes check it out. As he is looking into the fireplace, two hands grab him and drag him through the chimney. Crunching sounds are heard, while GRANDFATHER/SANTA screams.
STEVIE: (looking puzzled) Santa?
Another crunching noise. One of GRANDFATHER/SANTA’s boots falls from the fireplace. It has a big bloodstain on it.
TITLE CARD – A VERY SUPERNATURAL CHRISTMAS
YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN, PRESENT DAY
EXT HOUSE, DAY
A young girl looks through a glass door at her mother, MRS WALSH, who is being interviewed outside.
MRS WALCH: (tears in her eyes) My daughter and I were in our beds. Mike was downstairs decorating the tree. I heard a thump on the roof and then I heard Mike scream… And now I’m talking to the FBI.
DEAN: (wearing a suit and tie) You didn’t see any of it?
MRS WALCH: No, he was… He was just gone.
DEAN: The doors were locked, no forced entry?
MRS WALCH: That’s right.
DEAN: Does anybody else have a key?
MRS WALCH: My parents.
DEAN: Where do they live?
MRS WALCH: Florida.
SAM, also wearing a suit and tie, gets out of the house.
SAM: Thanks for letting me have a look around, Mrs Walch. I think we got just about everything we need. We’re all set.
DEAN: We’ll be in touch.
MRS WALCH nods. DEAN and SAM turn to leave. MRS WALCH calls them again.
MRS WALCH: Agents…
DEAN and SAM turn to face her.
MRS MALCH: The police said my husband might have been kidnapped.
DEAN: Could be.
MRS WALCH: But then, why haven’t the kidnappers called? Or… Or demanded a ransom? It’s three days until Christmas. What am I supposed to tell our daughter?
SAM: We’re very sorry.
DEAN and SAM turn again to leave while MRS WALCH goes back inside.
DEAN, to SAM: Find anything?
SAM: (sighs) Stockings, mistletoe… This. (Takes something out of his pocket and gives it to DEAN.)
DEAN: (examining SAM’s finding) A tooth? Where was this?
SAM: In the chimney.
DEAN: A chimney? No way a man fits up a chimney, it’s too narrow.
SAM: No way he fits up in one piece.
DEAN: Alright, so if Dad went up a chimney –
SAM: We need to find out what dragged him up there.
CUT TO: INT MOTEL, DAY
SAM is doing research on his laptop. DEAN enters, carrying a grocery bag.
DEAN: So, was I right? Is that the serial-killing chimney sweep?
SAM: Yup, it’s actually Dick Van Dyke.
DEAN: Who?
SAM: Mary Poppins’ –
DEAN: Who’s that?
SAM: Oh, come on – um, never mind. (waves his hand)
DEAN: Well, turn out that Walsh is the second guy grabbed out of his house this month.
SAM: Oh, yeah?
DEAN: Yeah.
SAM: Did the other guy get dragged up the chimney too?
DEAN: Don’t know. The witnesses said they heard a thump on the roof. (shrugs) So, what the hell do you think we’re dealing with?
SAM: Actually, I have an idea.
DEAN: Yeah?
SAM: Yeah, it’s uh, it’s gonna sound crazy.
DEAN: What could you possibly say that sound crazy to me?
SAM: Uh… Evil Santa.
DEAN: (pauses, then nods) Yeah, that’s crazy.
SAM: Yeah. No, I mean, I’m just saying that there’s some version of the Anti-Claus in every culture. (shows DEAN some pictures) You got Belsnickel, Krampus, Black Peter. (DEAN grabs the pictures) Whatever you wanna call it. There’s all sorts of lore.
DEAN: Saying what?
SAM: Saying, back in the day, Santa’s brother went rogue, and now he shows up around Christmas time, but instead of bringing presents, he punishes the wicked.
DEAN: By hauling their ass up chimneys?
SAM: For starters, yeah.
DEAN: So this is your theory, huh? Santa’s shady brother?
SAM: Well, I --- Just saying, that’s what the lore says.
DEAN: Santa doesn’t have a brother. There is no Santa.
SAM: Yeah, I know. You’re the one who told me that in the first place, remember? (DEAN is looking through papers and does not answer, SAM sighs) Yeah, you know what, I could be wrong, I – (sighs and closes laptop) Gotta be wrong.
DEAN: (thinking) Maybe, maybe not.
SAM: What?
DEAN: I did a little digging. Turns out both victims visited the same place before they got snatched.
SAM: Where?
CUT TO: SANTA’S VILLAGE, DAY
Christmas music is playing in the background, children are playing and laughing, and some people are wearing Christmas-themed costumes. The décor is filled with cliché Christmas decorations, but the lack of snow makes it look cheap and filthy.
SAM and DEAN are walking.
DEAN: It does kind of lend credence to the theory, don’t it?
SAM: Yeah, but the Anti-Claus? Couldn’t be.
DEAN: It’s a Christmas miracle. Hey, speaking of, we should have one this year.
SAM: Have one what?
DEAN: A Christmas.
SAM: Ha. No, thanks.
DEAN: No, we’ll get a tree, a little Boston Market, just like when we were little.
SAM: Dean, those weren’t exactly Hallmark memories for me, you know.
DEAN: What are you talking about? We had some great Christmases.
SAM: Whose childhood are you talking about?
DEAN: Oh, come on, Sam!
SAM: No. Just … No.
DEAN: (looking surprised) All right, Grinch.
DEAN walks away. SAM looks at him a bit sadly, then finds himself looking at some reindeer statue’s eyes, thinking about one of his past Christmases and looking uncomfortable.
CUT TO: FLASHBACK – BROKEN BOW, NEBRASKA, CHRISTMAS EVE 1991
INT. MOTEL, NIGHT
Some Christmas cartoon is playing on TV, to the tune of “Jingle Bells”. YOUNG SAM glances at the TV, then back at the gift he is wrapping in a newspaper page.
YOUNG DEAN: (turning from the window he has been staring through) What is that?
YOUNG SAM: Present for dad.
YOUNG DEAN: (chuckles) Yeah, right. Where did you get the money? Steal it?
YOUNG SAM: No. Uncle Bobby gave it to me to give to him. Said it was real special.
YOUNG DEAN: What is it?
YOUNG SAM: A pony.
YOUNG DEAN: (scoffs) Very funny. (sighs)
YOUNG DEAN sits on the sofa next to YOUNG SAM, who is still wrapping the present, and picks up a magazine, begins to read.
YOUNG SAM: Dad’s gonna be here, right?
YOUNG DEAN: He’ll be here.
YOUNG SAM: But it’s Christmas.
YOUNG DEAN: He knows. And he’ll be here. Promise.
YOUNG SAM: Where is he anyway?
YOUNG DEAN: On business.
YOUNG SAM: What kind of business?
YOUNG DEAN: You know that. He sells stuff.
YOUNG SAM: What kind of stuff?
YOUNG DEAN: (getting annoyed) Stuff!
YOUNG SAM: Nobody ever tells me anything.
YOUNG DEAN: (rolls his eyes) Then quit asking. (gets up, sighs, goes to the bed, swipes all the mess scattered on it and sits to continue reading)
YOUNG SAM: (very serious) Is Dad a spy?
YOUNG DEAN: (without stopping reading) Mm-hm. (raises his eyes to look at YOUNG SAM) He’s James Bond.
YOUNG SAM: Why do we move around so much?
YOUNG DEAN: (more annoyed) Cause everywhere we go, they get sick of your face.
YOUNG SAM: (goes closer to YOUNG DEAN) I’m old enough Dean. You can tell me the truth.
YOUNG DEAN: You don’t wanna know the truth. Believe me.
YOUNG SAM: Is that why we never talk about… Mom?
YOUNG DEAN: (throws his magazine and stands up, shouts) Shut up! Don’t you ever talk about Mom, ever! (looks at YOUNG SAM angrily and goes to the door)
YOUNG SAM: Wait! Where are you going?
YOUNG DEAN: (opens the door) Out! (leaves and slams the door, leaving YOUNG SAM alone in the room)
YOUNG SAM looks at the door sadly.
CUT TO: BACK TO THE PRESENT – SANTA’S VILLAGE
EXT. DAY
SAM is still lost in his thoughts. DEAN comes back.
DEAN: You’d think for the ten bucks it cost to get in this place Santa could scrounge up a little snow.
SAM: (coming back to reality) What?
DEAN: Nothing. What are we looking for again?
SAM: (looks around) Um… “Lore” says that the Anti-Claus will walk with a limp and smell like sweets.
DEAN: Great, so we’re looking for a pimp Santa. Why the sweets?
SAM: Think about it, Dean. If you smell like candy, the kids will come closer, you know?
DEAN: That’s creepy. (SAM scoffs) How does this thing know who’s been naughty and who’s been nice?
SAM: I don’t know.
A somehow creepy man wearing a SANTA costume is sitting in front of a fake toy factory and takes a boy on his lap.
SANTA: So, Ronny, come sit on Santa’s knee. Arr. There you go. You’ve been a good boy this year?
RONNY: Yeah.
SANTA: Good. Santa’s got a special gift for you. (snickers, RONNY looks uncomfortable)
DEAN: (looking at Santa) Maybe we do.
RONNY’S MUM: Come on honey. Let’s go.
A woman in an ELF costume appears and greets SAM and DEAN.
ELF: Welcome to Santa’s Court. Can I escort your child to Santa?
SAM: U ---
DEAN: No, no. Uh, but actually, my brother here, it’s been a lifelong dream of his. (pats SAM’s shoulder)
The ELF looks puzzled and SAM looks embarrassed.
ELF: Uh, sorry, no kids over 12…
SAM: No, he’s just kidding. We only came here to watch.
The ELF looks scared, DEAN shakes his head disapprovingly.
ELF: Ew. (leaves)
SAM: (understands) I--- I didn’t mean that we came here to w--- Y--- (grunts)
DEAN smiles mockingly.
SAM: Thanks a lot, Dean. Thanks for that.
DEAN: (chuckles before noticing something) Check it out.
They look at SANTA who stood up and is now walking with a limp and groaning, then they look at each other. DEAN looks suspicious while SAM is still unsure.
DEAN: Are you seeing this?
SAM: A lot of people walk with limps, right?
DEAN: Don’t tell me you didn’t smell that. That was candy, man.
SAM: That was ripple. I think. Had to be. (begins to get suspicious too)
DEAN: Maybe. We’re willing to take that chance?
CUT TO: OUTSIDE, NIGHT
The Impala is parked next to a mobile home with Christmas decorations on it.
DEAN: (sighs and yawns) What time is it?
SAM: Same as last time you asked. Here (grabs a thermos). Caffeinate.
DEAN takes the thermos and tries to pour himself a cup of coffee, but the thermos is already empty. He puts the lid back and puts the thermos away with an annoyed look to his brother.
DEAN: Wonderful. (pause, then scoffs) Hey Sam?
SAM: Yeah?
DEAN: Why are you the Boy that Hates Christmas?
SAM: Dean…
DEAN: I mean, I admit it --- you know, we had a few bumpy holidays when we were kids ---
SAM: Bumpy?
DEAN: But that was then. We’ll do it right this year.
SAM: Look Dean, if you wanna have Christmas, knock yourself out. Just don’t involve me.
DEAN: (sarcastic) Oh yeah, that’d be great. Me and myself making cranberry molds.
SAM looks away and catches sight of SANTA peeking outside carefully and closing the curtains.
DEAN looks too.
DEAN: What’s up with Saint Nicotine?
They hear a woman screaming from inside the house.
They jump out of the car simultaneously, guns ready and rush to the door. DEAN peeks inside.
SAM: Ha.
DEAN: What?
SAM: Nothing. It’s just that… Uh… Well, you know, Mr. Gung-Ho Christmas might have to blow away Santa.
DEAN shakes his head and rolls his eyes, then opens the door. SAM and DEAN rush inside, guns in their hands.
SANTA is sitting on the couch, with a bottle of alcohol in one of his hands and a bong in the other, watching Christmas-themed porn. He stands up as quickly as he can and almost loses his balance.
SAM and DEAN quickly hide their guns.
SANTA: The hell you doing here, huh?
DEAN takes a look at the TV and looks surprised.
SAM: I--- Uh ---
DEAN: (clears his throat then sings very badly) Siiilent niiiight… (clears throat again) Hooooly niiiight…
SAM joins in, and SANTA laughs before starting to sing as well.
SAM, DEAN : All is well, all is dry ---
SANTA: Bright…
SAM: Bright… (in between lyrics, grabs DEAN and sings) Rooound and rooound let’s goooo… (They leave)
CUT TO: INT. HOUSE, NIGHT
A very lyrical version of “Silent Night” plays over the image of a well-decorated suburban house, then of the inside of the house, which has Christmas decoration everywhere. Suddenly something thumps loudly on the roof. A BOY, alerted by the sound, comes to the top of the stairs and peeks at the living room fireplace where ashes are falling. (The music becomes more frightening.) He goes down the stairs and to the chimney, where creaking and thumping sounds are still heard.
BOY: (talking to the chimney) Santa, you’re early!
The iron protection in front of the fireplace falls loudly on the floor. Something crashes in the middle of the fireplace and growls. The BOY looks a bit worried. He looks up to the FIGURE in bloody red clothes and is shocked by something the audience can’t see. The FIGURE goes upstairs and enters one of the rooms. We hear a woman screaming, then a loud punching noise. The BOY is startled Seconds later, the FIGURES gets out of the room, dragging a big leather bag behind it, which obviously contains the BOY’s father, as the moaning coming from the bag shows. The BOY watches everything with huge scared eyes. At the bottom of the stairs, the FIGURE crashes the bag on the floor to make the moaning stop, then stops in front of the petrified BOY, only to take a cookie in the plate behind him. The FIGURE eats the cookie, then goes away with its bag.
FADE TO BLACK
CUT TO: INT. HOUSE, DAY
SAM and DEAN are talking to the victim’s wife, MRS. CALDWELL.
DEAN: So, that’s how your son described the attack? “Santa took Daddy up the chimney”?
MRS. CALDWELL: (looking really shaken) That’s what he says, yes.
DEAN: And where were you?
MRS. CALDWELL: I was asleep. And all of a sudden, Al was being dragged out of bed, screaming.
SAM: Did you see the attacker?
MRS. CALDWELL: (shakes her head) It was dark and he hit me. He knocked me out.
DEAN: (nods sympathetically) I’m sorry. I know this is hard.
SAM: Yeah. Uh--- Mrs. Caldwell, where did you get that wreath above the fireplace?
DEAN turns to look at it, while MRS. CALDWELL looks confused.
MRS. CALDWELL: Excuse me?
SAM: Just… Curious, you know.
CUT TO: EXT. HOUSE, DAY
SAM and DEAN are leaving the Caldwell’s house.
DEAN: Wreaths, huh? Sure you didn’t wanna ask her about her shoes? I saw some nice handbags in the foyer.
SAM: (scoffs) We’ve seen that wreath before, Dean.
DEAN: Where?
SAM: The Walsh’s. Yesterday.
DEAN: I know, I was just testing you.
SAM and DEAN get into the car and leave.
CUT TO: INT. MOTEL, DAY
SAM is talking on his phone.
SAM: Yeah. All right. Well, keep looking, would you? … Thanks Bobby. (hangs up, then to DEAN) Well, we’re not dealing with the Anti-Claus.
DEAN: What did Bobby say?
SAM: Uh… That we’re morons. He also said that it was probably meadowsweet in those wreaths. (goes to his laptop to do some research)
DEAN: Wow, amazing. What the hell is meadowsweet?
SAM: It’s pretty rare and it’s the most powerful plant in pagan lore.
DEAN: Pagan lore?
SAM: Yeah. See, they’d use meadowsweet for human sacrifices. It was kind of like a… Chum for their gods. Gods were drawn to it, and they’d stop by and snack on whatever was the nearest human.
DEAN: Why would somebody be using that for Christmas wreaths?
SAM: It’s not as crazy as it sounds, Dean. I mean, pretty much every Christmas tradition is pagan.
DEAN: Christmas is Jesus’ birthday.
SAM: No, Jesus’ birthday was probably in the fall. It was actually the Winter Solstice Festival that was co-opted by the Church and renamed Christmas. But the Yule log, the tree, even Santa’s red suit, that’s all remnants of pagan worship.
DEAN: How do you know that? What will you tell me next? Easter Bunny’s Jewish? (SAM doesn’t answer) So you think we’re dealing with a pagan god?
SAM: Yeah, probably Hold Nickar, god of the winter solstice.
DEAN: And all these Martha Stewart wannabes buying these fancy wreaths ---
SAM: Yup, it’s pretty much like putting a neon sign on your front door saying: “Come kill us”.
DEAN: Great.
SAM: (reading from an old book) Huh. When you sacrifice to Holdenacar, guess what it gives you in return?
DEAN: Lap dances, hopefully.
SAM: Mild weather.
DEAN: (pointing to their window) Kinda like no snow in the middle of December in the middle of Michigan.
SAM: For instance.
DEAN: Do we know how to kill it yet?
SAM: No, Bobby’s working on that right now. But we gotta figure out where they’re selling those wreaths.
DEAN: You think they’re selling them on purpose? Feeding the victims to this thing?
SAM: (sighs) Let’s find out.
CUT TO: INT. CHRISTMAS SHOP, DAY.
SAM and DEAN enter a small shop covered in Christmas decorations, with Christmas music playing. They go to the counter to talk to the owner.
OWNER: Can I help you boys?
DEAN: Uh, hope so. Uh… We were playing Jenga over at the Walsh’s the other night and… Uh, well, he hasn’t shut up since about this Christmas wreath, uh, I don’t know. You tell him.
SAM: (looking angrily at his brother) Sure. (looking back at the owner) It was yummy.
OWNER: (looks at them for a while) I sell a lot of wreaths, guys.
SAM: Right, right, but you see, this one would have been really special. It had uh --- It had uh, green leaves, white buds on it. Might have been made of uh --- Meadowsweet?
OWNER: Well, aren’t you a fussy one?
SAM: N---
DEAN: He is. (chuckles)
OWNER: Anyway, I know the one you’re talking about. I’m all out. (SAM exhales)
DEAN: Huh. Seems like this meadowsweet stuff’s rare and expensive. Why make wreaths out of it?
OWNER: Beats me. I didn’t make them.
DEAN: Who did?
OWNER: Madge Carrigan, a local lady. Said the wreaths were so special, she gave them to me for free.
SAM: She didn’t charge you?
OWNER: Nope.
DEAN: Did you sell them for free?
OWNER: Hell no! It’s Christmas, people pay a butt-load for this crap.
DEAN: That’s the spirit.
CUT TO: INT. MOTEL, NIGHT
SAM and DEAN come back to their motel room.
DEAN: How much do you think a meadowsweet wreath would cost?
SAM: Couple hundred dollars, at least.
DEAN: This lady’s giving them away for free? What do you think about that?
SAM: Well, I’d say it’s pretty suspicious.
SAM and DEAN take off their jackets and sit on their beds.
DEAN: Remember that wreath Dad brought home that one year?
SAM: You mean the one he stole from, like, a liquor store?
DEAN: Yeah, it was a bunch of empty beer cans. (smiles) That thing was great. (SAM looks away in disbelief) You know, I bet if I looked around hard enough, I could probably find one just like it.
SAM: (shaking his head) Alright… Dude, what’s going on with you?
DEAN: What?
SAM: I mean, since when are you Bing Crosby all of the sudden? Why do you wanna do Christmas so bad?
DEAN: (shakes his head) Why are you so against it? Were your childhood memories that traumatic?
SAM: No, that has nothing to do with it.
DEAN: Then what?
SAM: I--- I mean, I just --- I don’t get it. I --- You haven’t talked about Christmas in years.
DEAN: (looking suddenly very sad) Well, yeah. This is my last year.
SAM: (sighs) I know. That’s why I can’t.
DEAN: What do you mean?
SAM: I mean, I can’t just sit around drinking eggnog, pretending everything is okay… When I know next Christmas you’ll be dead. (DEAN nods) I just can’t.
DEAN nods again, and they both remain silent.
CUT TO: BACK TO FLASHBACK
INT. MOTEL, NIGHT
YOUNG SAM is sitting on the couch, reading comics. YOUNG DEAN comes inside the room, carrying a brown paper bag.
YOUNG SAM: Thought you went out?
YOUNG DEAN: Yeah, to get you dinner. (He throws a bag of cookies to YOUNG SAM, then throws a bag of chips) Don’t forget your vegetables.
YOUNG DEAN goes to the bed and sits. YOUNG SAM gets up of the couch to go sit next to YOUNG DEAN, who takes off his jacket and takes a can out of the paper bag and opens it.
YOUNG SAM: I know why you keep a gun under your pillow.
YOUNG DEAN: (lifts the pillow to look at the gun, then looks at YOUNG SAM disapprovingly) No, you don’t. Stay out of my stuff.
YOUNG SAM: And I know why we lay salt down everywhere we go.
YOUNG DEAN: No, you don’t! Shut up.
YOUNG SAM reaches for something under his bed. It’s JOHN’s Journal. He lays it on the table between the beds.
YOUNG DEAN: (gets up) Where did you get that? That’s Dad’s! He’s gonna kick your ass for reading that.
YOUNG SAM: (very serious) Are monsters real?
YOUNG DEAN: What? You’re crazy.
YOUNG SAM: Tell me.
YOUNG DEAN: (bites his lips and looks away before deciding to speak) I swear, if you ever tell Dad I told you any of this, I will end you.
YOUNG SAM: Promise.
YOUNG DEAN: (sits back on the bed and doesn’t really know where to start; YOUNG SAM leans closer) First thing you have to know is, we have the coolest dad in the world. He’s a superhero.
YOUNG SAM: He is?
YOUNG DEAN: Yeah. Monsters are real. Dad fights them. He’s fighting them right now.
YOUNG SAM: But --- But Dad said the monsters under my bed weren’t real.
YOUNG DEAN: (smiles) That’s cause he’d already checked under there. But yeah, they’re real. Almost everything is real.
YOUNG SAM: Is Santa real?
YOUNG DEAN: (smiles sadly and shakes his head) No. (YOUNGSAM looks slightly disappointed)
YOUNG SAM: (pause) If monsters are real, then they could get us. They could get me.
YOUNG DEAN: Dad’s not gonna let them get you.
YOUNG SAM: But what if they get him?
YOUNG DEAN: They aren’t gonna get Dad. Dad’s, like, the best.
YOUNG SAM: I read in Dad’s book that they--- They got Mom.
YOUNG DEAN: (sighs) It’s complicated, Sam.
YOUNG SAM: If they got Mom, they can get Dad. If they can get Dad, they can get us.
YOUNG DEAN: It’s not like that (he goes to sit next to YOUNG SAM). Okay? Dad’s fine. We’re fine. Trust me. (YOUNG SAM looks worried) You okay?
YOUNG SAM: (tears slowly filling his eyes) Yeah.
YOUNG DEAN: You know, Dad’s gonna be here for Christmas. Just like he always is.
YOUNG SAM: (holding back tears) I just wanna go to sleep, okay? (turns to lay in his bed)
YOUNG DEAN: (doesn’t know what to say) Yeah, okay.
YOUNG SAM lays his head on the pillow and starts to cry.
YOUNG DEAN: (turning to YOUNG SAM) It’ll all be better when you wake up. (YOUNG SAM doesn’t answer and continues to cry) You’ll see. (he turns his gaze again) Promise.
CUT TO: BACK TO THE PRESENT
EXT. HOUSE, DAY
SAM and DEAN get off the Impala and look at the big, heavily-decorated house where the Carrigans live. Christmas music is even playing in the garden.
DEAN: So this is where Mrs. Wreath lives, huh? Boy, can’t you just feel the evil, pagan vibe? (throws an annoyed look at SAM, apparently convinced that they’re wasting their time)
DEAN knocks on the door. An old, nice-looking old woman, MRS CARRIGAN opens.
MRS CARRIGAN: Yes?
DEAN: Please tell me you’re the Madge Carrigan who makes the meadowsweet wreaths.
MRS CARRIGAN: Why, yes I am!
DEAN: Ha! Bingo.
SAM: Yeah? Well we were just admiring your wreaths at Mr. Silar’s place the other day. (DEAN peeks inside the house, but he sees is normal Christmas decoration)
MRS CARRIGAN: You were? Well, isn’t that meadowsweet the finest-smelling thing you ever smelled?
SAM: It is. It sure is. (DEAN nods with a big artificial smile) But, see, the problem is that all your wreaths had sold out before we got a chance to buy one.
MRS CARRIGAN: Oh, fudge!
DEAN: You wouldn’t happen to have another one that we could buy from you, would you?
MRS CARRIGAN: Oh no, I’m afraid those were the only ones I had for this season.
SAM: (with fake disappointment) Aww.
DEAN: Tell me something, why’d you decide to make them out of meadowsweet?
MR CARRIGAN appears behind his wife, dressed in a gentleman-farmer kind of way.
MRS CARRIGAN: Why, the smell of course! I don’t think I’ve ever smelled anything finer.
SAM: Yeah, um, you mentioned that.
MR CARRIGAN: What’s going on, honey?
MRS CARRIGAN: Well, just some nice boys asking about my wreaths, dear.
MR CARRIGAN: Oh, the wreaths are fine. Fine wreaths. Oh, care for some peanut brittle? (offers them a box full of peanut brittle)
DEAN is about to get one, but SAM slaps his hand with a glare.
SAM: Um, uuh… We’re okay. (smiles to the CARRIGANS)
CUT TO: INT. MOTEL, DAY
DEAN is sharpening some wooden stakes while SAM does some more research.
SAM: I knew it! Something was way off with those two.
DEAN: What’d you find?
SAM: The Carrigans lived in Seattle last year, where two abductions took place right around Christmas. They moved here in January. All that Christmas crap at their house, it wasn’t boughs of holly, it was vervain and mint.
DEAN: Pagan stuff?
SAM: Serious pagan stuff.
DEAN: So what, Ozzie and Harriett are keeping a pagan god hidden underneath their plastic-covered couch?
SAM: I don’t know. All I know is, we gotta check them out. So, what about Bobby? He’s sure evergreen stakes will kill this thing, right?
DEAN: (looking at the sharpened end of his stake) Yeah, he’s sure.
CUT TO: EXT. HOUSE, NIGHT
SAM and DEAN are moving quickly across the Carrigans yard. DEAN carries a duffel bag on his shoulder. DEAN looks around cautiously, and when he’s sure nobody is watching them, SAM takes two stakes from the bag while DEAN picks the lock.
SAM and DEAN enter the house discreetly. DEAN grabs a stake and looks at the Carrigans’ couch.
DEAN: (whispering) See? Plastic.
SAM and DEAN both look around the house, DEAN taking the living room, checks some Christmas ornaments, while SAM goes down the hall. DEAN looks at a gingerbread house and shakes his head in disbelief. SAM is now in the dining room, where various cookies and pastries cover the table. Then he notices a door.
SAM: (takes his flashlight) Hey, Dean.
CUT TO: CREEPY BASEMENT, NIGHT
SAM and DEAN go down the stairs, looking around with their flashlights. DEAN quickly finds some bloody human arm bones. He gives a look to SAM, and they split. SAM sees more bones on the floor, blood on the banister of the stairs. DEAN finds other bones, the bloody boots the FIGURE was wearing when it kidnapped Mr. Caldwell, bloody tools, and a red coat.
SAM sees an electric saw with human remains scattered over it, and examines it with disgust. DEAN looks at the coat more closely and notices an eye on the floor next to it.
SAM finds a bloody leather bag. He sighs, then approaches the bag. When he touches it, the bag starts to shake, and mumbled groaning come out of it. Startled, SAM turns around and MRS CARRIGAN grabs him by the throat and pins him against the wall.
DEAN: Sam! (runs towards MRS CARRIGAN with his stake but is stopped by MR CARRIGAN who slams him against a wall)
MR CARRIGAN smiles and goes next to MRS CARRIGAN, who is still choking a grunting SAM.
MRS CARRIGAN: Gosh, I wish you boys hadn’t come down here.
In the light of SAM’s flashlight, the audience can see their real, decaying face. Then MRS CARRIGAN slams SAM’s head against the wall and looks at her husband.
FADE TO BLACK
CUT TO: INT. HOUSE, DAY – THE CARRIGANS’ DINING ROOM
Christmas music is playing, while SAM and DEAN are tied back to back on two chairs. The table is now covered with ritualistic items: stone bowls, knives, candles …
SAM regains consciousness first.
SAM: Dean? You okay?
DEAN: Yeah, I think so.
SAM: (sighs) So I guess we’re dealing with Mr. and Mrs. God. Nice to know.
DEAN: Yeah.
MRS CARRIGAN and MR CARRIGAN enter the room. They changed clothes and are now wearing Christmas-themed sweaters. MR CARRIGAN smokes a pipe.
MRS CARRIGAN: Oh, and here we thought you two lazybones were gonna sleep straight through all the fun stuff. (giggles)
DEAN: And miss all this? Nah, we’re partiers.
MR CARRIGAN: Isn’t he a kick in the pants, honey? You’re hunters, is what you are.
DEAN: Yeah, and you’re pagan gods. So why don’t we call it even and go our separate ways?
MR CARRIGAN: What, so you can bring back more hunters and kill us? (short laugh) I don’t think so. (MRS CARRIGAN is putting on an apron)
SAM: Maybe you should’ve thought about that before you went snacking on humans.
MR CARRIGAN: Oh now, don’t get all wet.
MRS CARRIGAN: Ooh, why, we used to take over a hundred tributes a year. And that’s a fact. Now, what do we take, what, two, three? (putting napkins on SAM and DEAN’s laps while she speaks)
MR CARRIGAN: Hardy Boys here make five.
MRS CARRIGAN: (looks up) Now, that’s not so bad, is it?
DEAN: Wow, you say it like that, I guess you guys are the Cunninghams.
MR CARRIGAN: You, mister, better show us a little respect.
SAM: Or what? You’ll eat us?
MR CARRIGAN: Not so fast. There is… Rituals to be followed first.
MRS CARRIGAN: (really excited and smiling) Oh, we’re just sticklers for ritual.
MR CARRIGAN: And you know what kicks off the whole shebang?
DEAN: Let me guess – meadowsweet. (MRS CARRIGAN is fetching something under the table) Oh, shucks, you’re all out of wreaths. I guess we’ll just have to cancel the sacrifice, uh?
MRS CARRIGAN: (finding meadowsweet wreaths under the table) Oh, don’t be such a gloomy Gus. There. Ooh (puts the wreaths around SAM and DEAN’s necks) Don’t they just look darling?
MR CARRIGAN: Good enough to eat. (makes a kissing sound) Alrighty-roo, step number two. (takes a big knife, a stone bowl and goes to SAM, puts the bowl under SAM’s arm)
DEAN: Sammy?
SAM: No!
DEAN: Sammy?
SAM: No, no don’t, don’t! (MR CARRIGAN begins slicing his arm to collect his blood in the bowl, SAM screams)
DEAN: Leave him alone, you son of a bitch!
MRS CARRIGAN takes the bowl and the knife and puts it back on the table.
MR CARRIGAN: You hear how they talk to us? Haha, to gods? Listen, pal, back in the day, we were worshipped by millions.
DEAN: Times have changed!
MR CARRIGAN: Ha. Tell me about it. All of a sudden, this Jesus character’s the hot, new thing in town. All of a sudden, our --- our altars are being burned down and we’re being hunted down like common monsters.
MRS CARRIGAN: But did we say peep? Oh no, no, no, we did not. (MR CARRIGAN is adding something to SAM’s blood) Two millennium. (MR CARRIGAN picks pliers) We kept a low profile, we got jobs, a mortgage. We --- What was that word, dear?
MR CARRIGAN: (eating something) We assimilated.
MRS CARRIGAN: Yeah, we assimilated. Why, we play bridge on Tuesdays and Fridays, we’re just like everybody else. (takes her knife)
DEAN: You’re not blending in as smooth as you think, lady.
MRS CARRIGAN: (going to DEAN with her knife) This might pinch a bit, dear. (begins to cut him)
DEAN: (screams, and then) You bitch!
MRS CARRIGAN: Oh, my goodness, me! Somebody owes a nickel to the swear jar. Oh, do you know what I say when I feel like swearing? Fudge.
DEAN: (face still twisted in pain) I’ll try and remember that.
MR CARRIGAN: (examining the pliers) You boys have no idea how lucky you are. There was a time when kids came from miles around just to be sitting where you are.
SAM: (looking at the pliers, panicking) What do you think you’re doing with those?
MR CARRIGAN just smiles.
DEAN: (to MRS CARRIGAN) You fudging touch me again, I’ll fudging kill you!
MRS CARRIGAN: Very good! (cuts DEAN’s arm again. DEAN screams)
MR CARRIGAN takes SAM’s index finger.
SAM: No! No, don’t! (grunts)
MR CARRIGAN pulls the nail and SAM screams.
MR CARRIGAN: Oh-ho! (showing the nail) We’ve got a winner! (SAM’s groaning)
MR CARRIGAN and MRS CARRIGAN pour all the ingredients in a wooden bowl and stir. SAM and DEAN are breathing heavily in pain.
MRS CARRIGAN: What else, dear?
MR CARRIGAN: Well, let’s see… Fingernail, blood --- Oh! Sweet Peter on a Popsicle stick. Heh, I forgot the tooth. (laughs and takes his pliers again)
MRS CARRIGAN: Oh, dear.
DEAN: (turning to SAM) Merry Christmas, Sam. (SAM groans)
MR CARRIGAN walks to DEAN and grabs his chin.
MR CARRIGAN: Open wide, and say “Aah”. (DEAN groans)
MR CARRIGAN puts the pliers in DEAN’s mouth and is about to pull a teeth when the doorbell rings. MR CARRIGAN and MRS CARRIGAN look at each other.
DEAN: (muffled voice) Somebody’s gonna get that? (doorbell rings again) You should get that.
MR CARRIGAN: (sighs) Come on.
MR CARRIGAN and MRS CARRIGAN sigh, but they go to the door anyway. DEAN passes his tongue on his teeth.
CUT TO: INT HOUSE, NIGHT - THE CARRIGANS’ FRONT DOOR
A NEIGHBOR wearing a Christmas-themed sweater as well greets them.
NEIGHBOR: Merry Christmas! (gives fruitcake to MRS CARRIGAN)
MR CARRIGAN: (cheerfully) I told you I smelled fruitcake.
MRS CARRIGAN: (gratefully) You shouldn’t have.
NEIGHBOR: Oh, bite your tongue, it’s my pleasure.
MR CARRIGAN: It looks scrumptious!
NEIGHBOR: See, Neil and I are going caroling. You care to join?
MRS CARRIGAN: You know we would ---
MR CARRIGAN: But it’s my back. Darn thing is giving me fits.
NEIGHBOR: Oh, that’s a shame! Oh well, merry Christmas.
MRS CARRIGAN: And to you too, dear.
NEIGHBOR: Hey, are we still on for bridge tomorrow?
MR CARRIGAN: With bells on!
NEIGHBOR: Yes! Okay, bye. (waves and turns to leave)
MR CARRIGAN: Bye-bye.
MR CARRIGAN and MRS CARRIGAN both smile and wave. As soon as they closed the door, they sigh in an annoyed way and shake their heads. MR CARRIGAN drops the fruitcake, and steps on it as they go back to the dining room.
MRS CARRIGAN: (opening the door) Ah, where were we?
MR CARRIGAN and MRS CARRIGAN stop as they see that the chairs are empty. They turn to a door, which closes, and to the one they just went through, which closes too.
SAM and DEAN are both holding a door closed. MR CARRIGAN and MRS CARRIGAN bang on the doors, groaning. DEAN blocks the door with a drawer and goes to help SAM.
DEAN: (screaming, to SAM) What do we do now? The evergreen stake’s in the basement.
SAM: Well, we need more evergreen, Dean! (turns to look at the Christmas tree in the middle of the room) I think I just found us some more. (turns to a heavy wooden cabinet next to the door) Help me get this.
DEAN pushes the cabinet in front of the door.
DEAN: Come on!
SAM and DEAN run to the Christmas tree and make it fall, while MR CARRIGAN and MRS CARRIGAN are still banging at the door to get out. SAM and DEAN each take one big branch of the tree. They rush back to the door, where the banging has stopped. They look at each other in confusion for a second, then MR CARRIGAN jumps at DEAN, screaming, and manages to put DEAN to the ground. They fight and punch each other. SAM looks at them, then MRS CARRIGAN comes to him.
MRS CARRIGAN: You little thing. (her face is distorted horribly for a second) I loved that tree. (punches SAM who falls)
DEAN is still on the floor and MR CARRIGAN punches him. MRS CARRIGAN goes to punch SAM again, but SAM hits her with the branch. She rushes at him, but SAM takes the branch and stabs her with it. MRS CARRIGAN grunts.
MR CARRIGAN: (noticing his wife being killed, screams) Madge!
SAM pushes the stake further. DEAN takes advantage of MR CARRIGAN’s distraction and hits him with the branch to make him fall. MRS CARRIGAN, after a last grunt, hits the floor, dead. DEAN takes his branch and stabs MR CARRIGAN, who screams. DEAN stabs him again and blood spurts as MR CARRIGAN groans once more, gasps, then dies next to his wife. SAM and DEAN are panting. They look at the dead bodies on the floor.
SAM: Merry Christmas.
DEAN nods and sighs. He looks at the Christmas ornament that is still on the branch stuck in MR CARRIGAN’s body.
CUT TO: BACK TO FLASHBACK
INT. MOTEL, NIGHT
YOUNG SAM is asleep in his bed. YOUNG DEAN turns the light on and shakes YOUNG SAM’s shoulder.
YOUNG DEAN: Sam, wake up. (YOUNG SAM rises slowly) Dad was here. Look what he brought. (shows a small Christmas tree with some lights on)
YOUNG SAM: Dad was here?
YOUNG DEAN: Yeah. Look at this, we made a killing.
YOUNG SAM: (yawning) Why didn’t he try to wake me up?
YOUNG DEAN: He tried to, like a thousand times.
YOUNG SAM: He did?
YOUNG DEAN: (nods) Yeah. Did I tell you he would give us Christmas or what? Go on, dive in.
YOUNG SAM gets up and takes the two presents which are under the tree and goes sit on the couch. He unwraps the first gift.
YOUNG DEAN: What is it?
YOUNG SAM: (showing it to YOUNG DEAN) Sapphire Barbie?
YOUNG DEAN: (his smile freezing) Heh. Dad probably thinks you’re a girl.
YOUNG SAM: (tosses the Barbie away) Shut up.
YOUNG DEAN: Open that one.
YOUNG SAM grabs the second gift and unwraps it. He looks at the shiny cheer stick that was inside and guesses what YOUNG DEAN, who looks embarrassed, has done.
YOUNG SAM: Dad never showed, did he?
YOUNG DEAN: (too fast) Yeah, he did, I swear.
YOUNG SAM: Dean, where did you get all this stuff?
YOUNG DEAN: (licks his lips and sighs) Nice house up the block. (YOUNG SAM shakes his head) I swear, I didn’t know they were chick presents. (YOUNG SAM looks away) Look, I’m sure Dad would have been here if he could.
YOUNG SAM: If he’s alive.
YOUNG DEAN: Don’t say that. Of course he’s alive. He’s Dad.
YOUNG SAM nods, but doesn’t look totally convinced. He takes the present that he intended to give to JOHN from his jacket pocket and holds it out to YOUNG DEAN.
YOUNG SAM: Here. Take this.
YOUNG DEAN: (shakes his head) No. No, it’s for Dad.
YOUNG SAM: Dad lied to me. I want you to have it. (gives the present to YOUNG DEAN)
YOUNG DEAN: Are you sure?
YOUNG SAM: I’m sure.
YOUNG DEAN takes it and unwraps it. It’s a gold amulet on a black leather string, DEAN’s necklace.
YOUNG DEAN: Thank you, Sam. I--- I love it. (puts the necklace on and smiles)
YOUNG SAM nods.
CUT TO: BACK TO PRESENT
INT. MOTEL, NIGHT
“Have yourself a merry little Christmas” is playing.
SAM is sitting on the couch, thinking about those past memories, when the door opens and DEAN enters, still wearing the necklace SAM gave him all those years ago. DEAN looks at the Christmas decoration SAM put in place while DEAN was out. There is a garland saying “Merry Christmas” on the wall, and a Christmas tree decorated with lights, scented-cardboard pine trees, other car deodorants, and a few fishing line floaters.
SAM: (holding a plastic glass containing eggnog) Hey, you get the beer?
DEAN: (smiling) What’s all this?
SAM: What do you think it is? It’s Christmas. (shrugs)
DEAN: (speechless for a moment, then nods) What made you change your mind?
SAM: (doesn’t answer the question, bends to pick up a second plastic glass) Here, try the eggnog. (holds out the glass to DEAN and takes a whisky bottle) Let me know if it needs some more kick.
DEAN: (tastes it and coughs) No, we’re good.
SAM: Yeah?
DEAN: Yeah.
SAM: Good. (looks happy) Well, have a seat. Let’s do Christmas st--- stuff or… Whatever.
DEAN: (nods, looks at the tree and smiles) Alright, first things first. (sighs, sits on the couch and pulls out two presents wrapped in brown paper bags) Merry Christmas, Sam.
SAM: (smiles, looks at the presents and takes them) Where did you get these?
DEAN: (taking off his jacket) Someplace special. (SAM looks at him) Gas mart down the street. (SAM laughs) Open them up.
SAM: Yeah. Great minds think alike, Dean. (fetches for DEAN’s gifts)
DEAN: Really? (takes his present, which is wrapped in newspaper pages)
SAM: There you go.
DEAN: Come on.
SAM opens the first present and finds porn magazines.
SAM: (laughing) Yeah! (looks at them) Skin mags! (DEAN nods) And… (opens the second gift) Shaving cream!
DEAN: You like?
SAM: (smiling) Yeah. (nods) Yeah.
DEAN smiles too and opens his, which contains motor oil and an energy bar. He laughs.
DEAN: Well, look at this. Fuel for me and fuel for my baby. (SAM nods, DEAN smiles) These are awesome, thanks.
SAM: Good.
DEAN: (raises his glass of eggnog to SAM) Merry Christmas, bro.
SAM: Yeah. Yeah. (takes his glass as well and makes a toss with DEAN’s) Here, merry Christmas.
SAM and DEAN drink and they both wince slightly at the taste of it. DEAN coughs again. They are silent for a while, and look a bit sad.
SAM: Hey Dean --- (DEAN looks at him, SAM doesn’t know what to say and just nods, then sighs) Do you feel like watching the game?
DEAN: (looking relieved that the awkward moment is over) Absolutely.
SAM: (chuckles) Alright.
SAM rises to switch the TV on, and sits back to watch the football winter game. SAM and DEAN look at each other briefly. DEAN smiles and drinks some more eggnog. It’s snowing outside, as they watch the game and drink eggnog.
FADE TO BLACK – END CREDITS
Ecrit par Daeva02.