4X07 IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, SAM WINCHESTER
Written by: Julie Siege
Directed by: Charles Beeson
Transcript by: OhBooth
TEASER
SUBTITLE: TWO DAYS BEFORE HALLOWEEN
EXT. WALLACE HOUSE – DAY
A kid is putting a skull in front of a headstone on the lawn in the front yard, decorating for Halloween. A woman walks up with a big candy bucket in her left hand, and a pumpkin and grocery bag in the other. The woman walks up the stairs onto the porch and in the house.
INT. WALLACE KITCHEN – DAY
A baby is being fed some orange baby food by a man. The woman walks in and sets the pumpkin on the counter along with the grocery bag.
MRS. WALLACE
Ooh-
LUKE
How was the store?
MRS. WALLACE
Oh, madness.
MRS. WALLACE kisses the man (her husband LUKE).
MRS. WALLACE
Everyone in town was stocking up.
MRS. WALLACE reaches over to the baby in the high chair.
MRS. WALLACE
Hi sweetie.
She walks over to a cupboard above the counter and opens it with the pail of candy in her hand.
LUKE
Did, uh, you get enough?
MRS. WALLACE
Oh, hey, I had to arm wrestle Norma Bleaker for these.
LUKE
Honey, she’s 74.
MRS. WALLACE
And a lot stronger than she looks.
MRS. WALLACE puts the candy in the cupboard, and LUKE reaches for it to take a piece, she swats his hand away.
MRS. WALLACE
Ah-ah-ah, remember last year? We ran out at 6:30.
LUKE
It’s just one piece.
LUKE goes to reach for a piece again, and she swats his hand away again.
MRS. WALLACE
Ah-ah-ah-ah, you can have as much as you want after Halloween.
MRS. WALLACE shuts the cupboard and turns to the baby that is making a fuss now.
MRS. WALLACE
Who needs a bath? Huh? Huh?
She lifts the baby out of the high chair.
MRS. WALLACE
Oh, there we go!
She looks at LUKE.
MRS. WALLACE
You coming?
LUKE
I’ll uh, I’ll be up in a minute.
MRS. WALLACE
Okay
As MRS. WALLACE walks away she keeps talking to the baby. After she leaves LUKE turns and opens the cupboard and gets a piece of candy. He unwraps it, puts it in his mouth and reaches for another one. But stops suddenly, puts the candy he just took out on top of the candy pail, and turns around. He reaches into his mouth and we see a camera looking from the back of his throat towards his teeth, when his fingers go in and touch something lodged in the roof of his mouth.
LUKE
Oh-
He pulls out his fingers and there is blood on them. He reaches back in, moaning in pain as he pulls a double sided razor free and takes it out of his mouth, blood coming out of the cut as he does. When he looks at it, he starts to gag, and grabs the countertop as he leans over and starts spitting blood. He spits out another razor blade and continues to spit blood and kneel over. LUKE spits another razor blade and falls down onto the floor.
MRS. WALLACE
Luke what’s taking you so long?
MRS. WALLACE walks back in holding the baby and sees him on the floor, blood starting to expand in a pool around his open mouth, and his eyes staring blanky.
MRS. WALLACE
Oh, my God. Oh, my God!
MRS. WALLACE screams.
END TEASER
INT. WALLACE KITCHEN – DAY
SAM and DEAN (both in suits) are in the kitchen talking to MRS. WALLACE, who looks upset. DEAN is walking around a bit, looking for clues while SAM talks to MRS. WALLACE.
SAM
Now how many razor blades did they find?
SUBTITLE: ONE DAY BEFORE HALLOWEEN
MRS. WALLACE sighs, and responds nearly in tears.
MRS. WALLACE
Two on the floor, one in his stomach and one was stuck in his throat. He swallowed four of them, how is that even possible?
MRS. WALLACE notices DEAN looking around the front of the stove and in the oven door.
MRS. WALLACE
The candy was never in the oven.
DEAN shuts the oven door and stands up, looking at her.
DEAN
We just have to be thorough Mrs. Wallace.
SAM
Did the police find any razors in the rest of the candy?
MRS. WALLACE
No, I mean, I don’t think so.
DEAN notices that the fridge has made a scuff mark in front of it, meaning it has been moved lately, he leans down to look at it.
MRS. WALLACE
I just- I can’t believe it. You hear urban legends about this stuff, but it actually happens?
SAM
More than you might imagine.
DEAN emerges from the floor, and shows SAM a hex bag, behind MRS. WALLACE’s back so she can’t see, and makes sure to keep it from her seeing it. SAM sighs and looks at MRS. WALLACE.
SAM
Mrs. Wallace, did Luke have any enemies?
MRS. WALLACE
Enemies?
SAM
Anyone who might have held a grudge against him?
MRS. WALLACE
What do you mean?
SAM
Co-workers? Neighbors? Maybe a woman.
MRS. WALLACE gets what SAM means and gets offended.
MRS. WALLACE
Are you suggesting an affair?
SAM
Is it possible?
MRS. WALLACE
No! No, Luke would nev-
SAM
I’m very sorry, we just have to consider all possibilities.
MRS. WALLACE
If someone wanted to kill my husband don’t you think they’d find a better way than a razor in a piece of candy he might eat?
SAM looks over at DEAN who raises his eyes at SAM.
INT. MOTEL ROOM – DAY
SAM is sitting on a couch, with his laptop and a few books on the coffee table in front of him, flipping the pages of the books. He picks up something from the hex bag that looks organic, and holds it up, having stopped flipping the pages of the book. DEAN enters the room and tosses his keys on the table under the window, and opens a piece of candy tossing it in his mouth. SAM sees him do this.
SAM
Really? After that guy choked down all those razor blades?
DEAN
It’s Halloween, man.
SAM
Yeah, for us every day is Halloween.
DEAN sits down on the arm of the couch and looks at SAM’s research.
DEAN
Don’t be a downer, anything interesting?
SAM
Well, we’re on a witch hunt, that’s for sure, but this isn’t your typical hex bag.
SAM indicates the hex bag that is laid out cloth now on the table. There is a silver piece, the size of a coin, and something small and charred in addition to the organic thing (looks like a dried up flower).
DEAN
Hmm, no?
SAM picks up the dried up flower looking piece.
SAM
Goldthread, an herb that’s been extinct for two hundred years. And this-
SAM picks up the silver piece.
SAM
Is celtic, and I don’t mean some new age knock off. It looks like the real deal, like 600 years old real.
DEAN has picked up the small charred thing and smells it.
SAM
And um…that is the charred metacarpal bone of a newborn baby.
DEAN
Ugh-
He puts the bone down, and looks disgusted.
DEAN
Gross
SAM picks up the bone.
SAM
Relax man, it’s like, at least a hundred years old.
DEAN
Oh, right, like that makes it better? Witches man, they’re so friggin’ skeevy.
DEAN moves over to the chair next to the couch and sits down.
SAM
Yeah, well it takes a pretty powerful one to put a bag like this together. More juice than we’ve ever dealt with, that’s for sure. What about you? Find anything on the victim?
DEAN
This Luke Wallace? He was so vanilla that he made vanilla seem spicy.
SAM scoffs at their lack of leads.
DEAN
I can’t find any reason why somebody would want this guy dead.
INT. BASEMENT – NIGHT
There is a party going on of high school aged kids. Two girls (the one dressed in a nurse outfit is JENNY and the one dressed in a cheerleader outfit is TRACY) walk through the party, and a guy dressed in full costume walks between them, bumping into them.
GUY
Hey.
JENNY scoffs.
JENNY
This party blows. We should just go TP somebody.
TRACY looks at her, but turns around and sees someone and walks over.
TRACY
Uh- hey Justin.
JUSTIN
Yo-
JUSTIN, dressed in bloody clothes with a tire tread print on the front of his t-shirt, stands up from where he was bending over behind a bar.
TRACY
You break into the booze yet?
JUSTIN
Uh- it’s triple locked. So, you guys going to that mausoleum party tomorrow night?
JENNY
Are you gonna be there?
JUSTIN
It’s gonna be rad, I’m gonna get so baked!
He laughs and JENNY, trying to be flirty, laughs along with him.
JENNY
Well, it’s gotta be better than this G-rated assfest.
TRACY
Oh, come on, it’s not that bad.
TRACY turns and notices a tub with water and apples in it.
TRACY
Oh, check it out.
TRACY starts to go over to the tub.
JUSTIN
Okay, bobbing for apples is lame.
TRACY
Oh, come on, it’s Halloween.
JUSTIN
Mmm…lame.
TRACY gives him a look, and turns back around, kneeling down in front of the tub, and holds her hair as she bobs for an apple and gets one on the first try, her short cheerleader skirt coming up in the process. TRACY turns around in victory, and takes a bit out of the apple.
JUSTIN
I stand corrected.
JENNY notices him checking out TRACY and decides to try for his affections.
JENNY
Well, I wanna try.
TRACY goes back and stands next to JUSTIN and JENNY goes to the tub, and kneels down, and tries, but can’t get an apple. She tries again, and misses. The third time she tries, her face gets stuck under the water.
JUSTIN
Wow, she can really hold her breath.
TRACY laughs at him, but JENNY still doesn’t come up, and starts to struggle, her heels scraping across the floor trying to get some leverage. TRACY and JUSTIN finally realize something is wrong, and TRACY goes over to the tub and kneels beside JENNY.
TRACY
Jenny?
JENNY continues to struggle to no avail, and TRACY turns around to JUSTIN.
TRACY
Help me!
JUSTIN goes to help TRACY.
TRACY
Jenny what’s wrong?
TRACY and JUSTIN continue to pull of JENNY, but she doesn’t manage to get her head above the water.
TRACY
Help!
JUSTIN tries to pry her hand off the side of the tub, but can’t get that loose either.
JUSTIN
Come on, let go.
The water in the tub starts to bubble and steam rises off the surface.
JUSTIN
What is happening?
TRACY
Jenny, come on!
JENNY screams under the water and her face turns red as she struggles.
TRACY
Help! Jenny! Jenny!
JENNY stops struggling, TRACY looks horrified.
TRACY
Jenny.
JUSTIN pulls JENNY up out of the water, and her face is boiled.
JUSTIN
Oh, oh my God-
TRACY holds her mouth and stares at JENNY.
INT. BASEMENT – NIGHT
SAM and DEAN come down the stairs to the scene of the crime, where JENNY was killed. There is a guy with a ‘Forensic’ jacket on taking pictures of the bobbing for apples tub, and a police officer talking to TRACY.
POLICE OFFICER
Have you been drinking?
TRACY
Yes.
SAM goes to join the questioning and DEAN puts his hand up stopping him.
DEAN
I got this one.
DEAN licks his lips, and SAM sighs.
SAM
Two words: jail bait.
DEAN
I would never-
SAM just rolls his eyes at DEAN and walks over to the couch and starts lifting the cushions, looking for a hex bag. DEAN smirks behind SAM’s back, making in a ‘he just might’ sort of way but heads over to TRACY, who is talking to the officer.
TRACY
It’s just so weird, the water in the tub it wasn’t hot, I had just been in there myself.
DEAN
Your friend didn’t happen to know a man named Luke Wallace?
TRACY turns to DEAN, and he holds up a badge.
DEAN
Agent Seger, F.B.I.
The POLICE OFFICER nods at DEAN and walks away.
TRACY
Um, who’s Luke Wallace?
DEAN
He died yesterday.
TRACY
I don’t know who that is.
SAM holds up the hex bag to DEAN that he has found in the couch cushions, DEAN nods at him and looks down at TRACY.
INT. MOTEL ROOM – NIGHT
DEAN is on the computer at the table, with the hex bag and coffee next to him. SAM is lying on the bed looking through books. SAM sits up, looking intently at a book he is reading.
DEAN
I’m telling you, both these vic’s are squeaky clean. There is no reason for a wicked bitch payback.
SAM
Maybe cause it’s not about that.
DEAN looks at him questioningly, but says sarcastically.
DEAN
Wow, insightful.
SAM
Maybe this witch isn’t working the grudge, maybe they’re working a spell. Check this out.
SAM reads from the book.
SAM
Three blood sacrifices over three days, the last before midnight on the final day of the final harvest. Celtic Calendar, the final day of the final harvest is October 31st.
SAM hands DEAN the book.
DEAN
Halloween.
SAM
Exactly.
DEAN
What exactly are the uh, blood sacrifices for?
SAM
Uh, if I’m right, this witch is summoning a demon, and not just any demon, Samhain.
DEAN
Am I supposed to be impressed?
SAM
Dean, Samhain is the damn origin of Halloween. The Celts believe that October 31st was the one night of the year when the veil was the thinnest between the living and the dead, and it was Samhain’s night. I mean, masks were put on to hide from him, sweets left on doorsteps to appease him, faces carved into pumpkins to worship him. He was exorcised centuries ago.
DEAN
So even though Samhain took a trip downstairs the tradition stuck.
SAM
Exactly, only now instead of demons and blood orgy’s Halloween is all about kids, candy and costumes.
DEAN seems skeptical.
DEAN
Okay, so some witch wants to raise Samhain and take back the night?
SAM
Dean, this is serious.
DEAN
I am serious.
SAM
We’re talking heavyweight witchcraft. This ritual can only be performed every six hundred years.
DEAN
And the six hundred year marker rolls around…?
SAM
Tomorrow night.
DEAN
Naturally.
DEAN looks down at the book he has flipped to a page showing a demon on a heap of bodies holding a head in his hand.
DEAN
Well it sure is a lot of death and destruction for one demon.
SAM
That’s because he likes company. Once he's raised, Samhain can do some raising of his own.
DEAN
Raising what, exactly?
SAM
Dark, evil crap and lots of it, I mean, they follow him around like the friggin' Pied Piper.
DEAN
So we're talking ghosts.
SAM
Yeah.
DEAN
Zombies.
SAM
Mm-hmm.
DEAN
Leprechauns?
SAM
Dean-
DEAN
Those little dudes are scary. Small hands.
SAM
Look, it just starts with ghosts and ghouls, this sucker keeps on going, by nights end we are talking every awful thing we have ever seen. Everything we fight, all in one place.
DEAN
It’s gonna be a slaughterhouse.
SAM nods his head slightly, looking worried.
EXT. WALLACE HOUSE – DAY
DEAN is sitting in the Impala outside of the house watching and eating candy. He throws a wrapper on the seat into a huge pile of candy wrappers and grabs his stomach for a second in discomfort. His cell phone starts to ring, and he pulls it out, flipping it open and looking at the caller ID before he answers.
DEAN
Hey.
SAM is in the motel room, and has called DEAN, the shots switch between SAM in the MOTEL and DEAN in the Impala.
SAM
How’s it going?
DEAN V.O.
Awesome, yeah, I talked with Mrs. Razor Blade again.
The camera shows DEAN again.
DEAN
I’ve been sitting out in front of her house for hours and I’ve got a big steamy pile of nothing.
Back on SAM in the motel room.
SAM
Look Dean, someone planted those hex bags, someone with access to both houses, there’s gotta be some connection.
The camera shows DEAN in the Impala again.
DEAN
Yeah, well I hope we find ‘em soon cause I’m starting to cramp like a-
DEAN stops suddenly as he sees something.
DEAN
Son of a bitch.
Across the street, TRACY is walking up to the WALLACE house.
SAM V.O.
Quit whining.
DEAN
No, Sam, I mean, son of a bitch.
DEAN watches as TRACY walks up to the door, knocks, and MRS. WALLACE opens it with the baby in her arms.
TRACY
Hey.
MRS. WALLACE
Hi.
TRACY touches the baby and goes to take him from MRS. WALLACE, and speaks to the baby.
TRACY
Hi!
INT. MOTEL ROOM – DAY
DEAN throws the motel room key, with a ‘MOONLIGHT MOTEL 126’ keychain on it, onto the table, and SAM is lying on the bed with his laptop open.
SAM
So, our apple bobbing cheerleader?
DEAN
Tracy?
SAM nods.
SAM
Mm-hmm?
DEAN
The Wallace’s babysitter, told me she never even heard of Luke Wallace.
SAM
Huh, interesting look for a centuries old witch.
DEAN
Yeah, well, if you were a six-hundred-year hag and you could pick any costume to come back in, wouldn't you go for a hot cheerleader? I would, hmm…
DEAN sits down on the other bed and gets lost in thought about that, and SAM looks at him furrowing his brow. DEAN notices and raises his eyebrows at Sam innocently.
SAM
Well, Tracy’s not as wholesome as she looks. Did some digging, apparently she got into a violent altercation with one of her teachers, got suspended from school.
SAM hands DEAN the laptop, and we see what is on the screen, next to a picture of her are these notes:
NOTE: Student was suspended for a violent act on a teacher.
STUDENT NAME Tracy Davis
ADDRESS 27 Lirewenshire Lane
PARENT NAME Jerome Walker Davis
PARENT NAME Mary Jane Kanoli Davis
STUDENT EMAIL tracydavis@kadsf.std2
PARENT EMAIL jwdavis@qerqwe.com
GRADE 11
HOME ROOM Mr. Goldwyn
COUNCELLOR Mrs. Parks
EMERGENCY CONTACT Mary Davis 555-0892
EXT. HIGH SCHOOL – DAY
We see the front entrance of the high school.
INT. HIGH SCHOOL – DAY
DEAN walks into a room full of art masks, and looks up. He sees a particular demonic looking one, and focuses on it. We hear the screams and screeching we have when DEAN is dreaming since he got back from hell, signaling maybe the mask made him think of something from his time in hell. We see someone walk up behind DEAN.
SAM V.O.
Bring back memories?
DEAN
What do you mean?
SAM
Being a teenager, all that angst.
DEAN sighs a little relieved that SAM didn’t see what was going on with DEAN staring at the mask.
DEAN
Oh.
SAM
What’d you think I meant?
DEAN
Nothing.
DEAN looks over at JUSTIN, who is putting a big bong shaped piece into a kiln.
DEAN
Now that brings back memories.
JUSTIN
Dude, I need a bigger kiln.
A teacher comes around a corner (DON HARDING) carrying a big box.
DON
You gentlemen wanna talk to me?
SAM
Ah, Mr. Harding.
DON HARDING holds out his hand to SAM.
DON
Oh, please, Don.
SAM
Okay, Don.
DON reaches for DEAN’s hand next.
DON
Even my students call me Don.
DEAN
Yeah, we get it Don.
DEAN and SAM turn around and follow DON to his desk, both pulling out their badges.
DEAN
I’m agent Getty, this is Agent Lee, we just had a few questions about uh, Tracy Davis.
DON
Uh, yeah, Tracy, uh bright kid, loads of talent, it’s a shame she got suspended.
DEAN
Uh, you two had a…uh, violent altercation.
DON laughs a little.
DON
Yeah, she exploded, if principle Murrow hadn’t walked by when he did, Tracy would have clawed my eyes out.
SAM
Why?
DON
I, uh, you know, I was only trying to rap with her about her work, it had gotten inappropriate and disturbing.
DEAN turns and indicates the angry masks hanging on the wall and the ceiling.
DEAN
More disturbing, than, uh, those guys?
DON
She would cover page after page with these bizarre cryptic symbols, and then there were the drawings.
DON sighs.
DON
Detailed images of killings, gory, primitive, and she would depict herself in the middle of them, participating.
SAM
Symbols, what kind of symbols? Uh, anything like this?
SAM shows DON a small bag with the silver Celtic coin in it.
DON
Yeah, yeah, I think that might have been one of them.
DEAN
You know where Tracy is now?
DON
I would imagine her apartment.
DEAN
Her apartment?
DON
Yeah, she got here about a year ago, alone, as I understood it, as an emancipated teen. God only knows what her parents were like.
EXT. MOONLIGHT MOTEL – DAY
DEAN drives up and parks the car and gets out as SAM walks up to the passenger side of the Impala from another direction.
DEAN
So?
SAM
Tracy was no where I could find. Any luck with her friends?
DEAN
Nah, luck is not our style, her friends don’t know where she is, it’s like the bitch popped a broomstick.
DEAN and SAM make their way toward their motel room, and a kid dressed as an ASTRONAUT starts to walk toward them.
SAM
She could be making the third sacrifice any time.
DEAN
Yes, thank you Sam.
The ASTRONAUT walks up to them and holds up a bucket of candy.
ASTRONAUT
Trick or treat.
DEAN
This is a motel.
ASTRONAUT
So?
DEAN
So we don’t have any candy.
SAM
No, we have a ton in the uh…
SAM looks back and points toward the Impala.
DEAN
We did, but it’s gone.
SAM looks at DEAN, getting his meaning.
The ASTRONAUT looks unimpressed and DEAN looks down at him.
DEAN
Sorry kid, we can’t help ya.
ASTRONAUT
I want candy.
DEAN
Well, I think you’ve had enough.
The ASTRONAUT glares at DEAN, narrowing his eyes, and DAN reels back from it, surprised, as SAM leaves. As the ASTRONAUT walks past DEAN he shoves into him and DEAN puts his hands up.
INT. MOTEL ROOM – DAY
SAM enters their motel room and immediately draws his gun, and moves forward in an offensive stance, ready to attack.
SAM
Who are you?!
The camera angle widens and we see CASTIEL there. DEAN rushes in, and tries to stop SAM.
DEAN
Sam! Sam, wait! It’s Castiel.
DEAN puts his hand on SAM’s gun and pushes it down, and SAM stands there stunned.
DEAN
The angel.
DEAN spots another figure in the room, standing by the window (URIEL).
DEAN
Him, I don’t know.
SAM looks at CASTIEL in wonder and a smile crosses his face.
CASTIEL
Hello Sam.
SAM
Oh my God- er- uh- I didn’t mean to- sorry. It’s an honor, really, I- I’ve heard a lot about you.
SAM steps forward and holds out his hand to shake CASTIEL’s. DEAN goes and closes the door to their room, and CASTIEL looks at SAM’s hand like he isn’t sure what to do with it. SAM shakes it a little, and CASTIEL finally understands and puts his right hand in SAM’s.
CASTIEL
And I, you. Sam Winchester-
CASTIEL puts his other hand on top of SAM’s covering it.
CASTIEL
The boy with the demon blood.
SAM jerks his head sideways a little.
CASTIEL
Glad to see you’ve ceased your extracurricular activities.
URIEL is still facing the window, but speaks.
URIEL
Let’s keep it that way.
DEAN, who has arrived back at SAM’s side, doesn’t seem thrilled about that veiled threat.
DEAN
Yeah, okay, chuckles.
DEAN looks back at CASTIEL.
DEAN
Who’s your friend?
CASTIEL is still looking at SAM.
CASTIEL
This the raising of Samhain, have you stopped it?
DEAN
Why?
CASTIEL now looks over to DEAN with urgency.
CASTIEL
Dean, have you located the witch?
DEAN
Yes, we’ve located the witch.
CASTIEL
And is the witch dead?
SAM
No, but-
DEAN
We know who it is.
CASTIEL walks over to the table by the bed.
CASTIEL
Apparently the witch knows who you are too.
CASTIEL picks up a hex bag and shows it to them.
CASTIEL
This was inside the wall of your room. If we hadn’t found it, surely one or both of you would be dead. Do you know where the witch is now?
DEAN and SAM exchange a look, knowing they are not close to finding TRACY.
DEAN
We’re working on it.
CASTIEL
That’s unfortunate.
DEAN
What do you care?
CASTIEL
The raising of Samhain is one of the 66 seals.
DEAN
So this is about your buddy Lucifer.
URIEL
Lucifer is no friend of ours.
DEAN
It’s just an expression.
CASTIEL
Lucifer cannot rise, the breaking of the seal must be prevented at all costs.
DEAN
Okay, great, well now that you’re here, why don’t you tell us where the witch is, we’ll gank her and everybody goes home.
CASTIEL
We are not omniscient, this witch is very powerful, she’s cloaked even our methods.
SAM
Okay, well we already know who she is, so if we work together-
URIEL
Enough of this.
DEAN
Okay, who are you and why should I care?
URIEL turns from the window and looks at DEAN.
CASTIEL
This is Uriel, he’s what you might call a…specialist.
URIEL walks toward them.
DEAN
What kind of specialist?
URIEL just nods at CASTIEL and exchanges a look with him that makes DEAN apprehensive.
DEAN
What are you gonna do?
CASTIEL
You- uh both of you, you need to leave this town immediately.
DEAN
Why?
CASTIEL
Because we’re about to destroy it.
SAM and DEAN exchange a worried glance.
DEAN
So this is your plan, you’re gonna smite the whole friggin’ town?
CASTIEL
We’re out of time, this witch has to die, the seal must be saved.
SAM
There are a thousand people here.
URIEL
One thousand two hundred fourteen.
SAM
And you’re willing to kill them all?
URIEL
This isn’t the first time I’ve…purified a city.
CASTIEL
Look, I understand this is regrettable.
DEAN
Regrettable?
CASTIEL
We have to hold the line; too many seals have broken already.
DEAN
So you screw the pooch on some seals and this town has to pay the price?
CASTIEL
It’s the lives of one thousand against the lives of six billion, there’s a bigger picture here.
DEAN
Right, cause you’re bigger picture kind of guys.
CASTIEL takes a step toward DEAN, emphasizing his point.
CASTIEL
Lucifer cannot rise, he does and hell rises with him. Is that something that you’re willing to risk?
SAM
We'll stop this witch before she summons anyone. Your seal won't be broken and no one has to die.
URIEL
We're wasting time with these mud monkeys.
CASTIEL turns away from DEAN to URIEL.
CASTIEL
I’m sorry, but we have our orders.
SAM
No, you can’t do this, you’re angels, I mean aren’t you supposed to-
URIEL laughs quietly.
SAM
You’re supposed to show mercy.
URIEL
Says who?
CASTIEL
We have no choice.
DEAN
Of course you have a choice, I mean, come on, what? You’ve never questioned a crap order, huh? What are you both just a couple of hammers?
CASTIEL
Look, even if you can’t understand it, have faith, the plan is just.
SAM
How can you even say that?
CASTIEL
Because it comes from heaven, that makes it just.
DEAN
Oh, it must be nice, to be so sure of yourselves.
CASTIEL
Tell me something Dean, when your father gave you an order, didn’t you obey?
DEAN looks at CASTIEL and takes a second, dodging the question.
DEAN
Well sorry boys, looks like the plans have changed.
URIEL
You think you can stop us?
DEAN starts over and stands in URIEL’s face.
DEAN
No, but if you’re gonna smite this whole town, then you’re gonna have to smite us with it, because we are not leaving. See, you went to the trouble of busting me out of hell, I figure I’m worth something to the man upstairs. So you wanna waste me, go ahead, see how he digs that.
URIEL
I will drag you out of here myself.
DEAN
Yeah, but you’ll have to kill me, then we’re back to the same problem. I mean, come on, you're gonna wipe out a whole town for one little witch. Sounds to me like you're compensating for something.
DEAN turns back and looks at CASTIEL.
DEAN
We can do this, we will find that witch and we will stop the summoning.
URIEL
Castiel! I will not let these peop-
CASTIEL holds up his hand at URIEL.
CASTIEL
Enough!
CASTIEL stares at DEAN for a second, considering.
CASTIEL
I suggest you move quickly.
EXT. MOONLIGHT MOTEL – DAY
DEAN and SAM walk up to the Impala that is now splattered with eggs. DEAN walks around to the driver’s side as SAM opens the passengers side door. DEAN looks around, very mad.
DEAN
Astronaut!
INT. IMPALA – DAY
DEAN takes a seat next to SAM in the Impala, and sees that SAM looks upset.
DEAN
What?
SAM
Nothing.
SAM is holding the hex bag in his hands and takes a breath.
SAM
I thought they’d be different.
DEAN
Who the angels?
SAM
Yeah
DEAN
Well, I tried to tell ya.
SAM
I just…I mean, I thought they’d be righteous.
DEAN
Well, they are righteous, I mean, that’s kinda the problem. Of course there’s nothing more dangerous than some a-hole who thinks he’s on a holy mission.
SAM
But, I mean, this is God? And Heaven? This is what I’ve been praying to?
DEAN
Look man, I know you’re into the whole God thing, you know, Jesus on a tortilla and stuff like that. But just because there’s a couple of bad apples doesn’t mean the whole barrel’s rotten. I mean, for all we know, God hates these jerks…don’t give up on this stuff is all I’m saying. Babe Ruth was a dick but baseball’s still a beautiful game.
SAM looks at him, but still looks disappointed, he starts to go through the contents of the hex bag in his hand, and picks up the bone.
DEAN
Well, are you gonna figure out a way to find this witch, or are you just gonna sit there fingering your bone?
DEAN starts the Impala.
SAM
You know how much heat it would take to char a bone like this Dean?
DEAN
No.
SAM
A lot, I mean, more than a fire or some kitchen oven.
DEAN
Okay Betty Crocker, what does that mean?
SAM
It means we make a stop.
INT. HIGHSCHOOL – DAY
DEAN walks over to a kiln in DON HARDING’s classroom at the school. SAM goes over to DON’s desk.
DEAN
So Tracy used the kiln to char the bone, what’s the big deal?
SAM is rifling through the stuff on DON’s desk as DEAN walks over.
SAM
Dean, that hex bag turned up in our room, not after we talked to Tracy-
DEAN
After we talked to the teacher.
SAM notices a bottom drawer of DON’s desk is locked with a latch.
SAM
Hey-
DEAN sees it too, and SAM gets a hammer off the table behind them and kneels down to hit the lock until it breaks free, and then opens the drawer where there are bones in a bowl, one charred, the others not, SAM straightens up.
SAM
My God, those are all from children.
DEAN
And I’m guessing he’s not saving them for the dog.
EXT. PARK – DUSK
CASTIEL is standing and URIEL is sitting on a park bench, as some children skip by in Halloween costumes.
CASTIEL
The decision’s been made.
URIEL laughs.
URIEL
By a mud monkey.
CASTIEL
You shouldn’t call them that.
URIEL
Ah, it’s what they are, savages, just plumbing on two legs.
CASTIEL
You’re close to blasphemy.
URIEL sighs at him and leans forward on his knees.
CASTIEL
There’s a reason we were sent to save him, he has potential, he may succeed here.
CASTIEL sits down on the bench next to URIEL with a sigh.
CASTIEL
And any rate, it’s out of our hands.
URIEL
It doesn’t have to be.
CASTIEL
And what would you suggest?
URIEL
That we drag Dean Winchester out of here and then we blow this insignificant pinprick off the map.
CASTIEL
You know our true orders, are you prepared to disobey?
URIEL just looks at him.
EXT. STREET – NIGHT
Kids are walking down the street in Halloween costumes with their parents. One small group walks up to a house and looks at the door, which is dark, and the mother dressed as a witch shakes her head at the little girl’s hand she is holding.
MOTHER
No, no we won’t, let’s try this one.
As they walk off the camera goes to a window that is almost underground on the front of the house, and it is lit with flickering light, the basement of the house, and the curtains are drawn on the window.
EXT. BASEMENT – NIGHT
DON starts an incantation and we see a rope, the camera pans down the rope and we see TRACY tied up with the rope and a rag wrapped around her mouth, stifling her cries as she struggles to get free. The camera swings around and shows the dark altar that DON is standing at. He takes a knife and a chalice from the table and walks over to TRACY, he runs the tip of the knife down her neck, not drawing blood, but staring at her. DON raises the knife above his head to stab her, and gets shot from behind three times. DEAN and SAM have come, and DEAN goes over to TRACY to untie her as SAM checks DON’S body. DEAN cuts TRACY down and she rips of the gag.
TRACY
Thank you, he was gonna kill me! Ugh, that sick son of a bitch. I mean, did you see what he was doing? Did you hear him? How sloppy his incantation was?
DEAN and SAM look up.
TRACY
My brother-
DEAN and SAM both go to draw their guns again.
TRACY
Always was a little dim.
TRACY throws up her hand and yells an incantation and DEAN and SAM fly back hitting the ground, and writhing around in pain.
TRACY
He was gonna make me the final sacrifice, his idea, but now, that honor goes to him. Our master’s return? The spellwork’s a two man job you understand, so for six hundred years I had to deal with that pompous son of a bitch. Planning, preparing, unbearable.
TRACY kneels down by DON and picks up the knife and the chalice
TRACY
The whole time I wanted to rip his face off.
TRACY starts digging the knife into his bullet wound, and puts the chalice up to catch the blood flow, and looks back over to DEAN and SAM still writhing in pain on the floor clutching their stomachs.
TRACY
And you get him with a gun, uh, love that.
TRACY gets up and goes back to the altar on the table.
TRACY
You know, back in the day, this was the one day you kept your children inside. Well tonight you’ll all see what Halloween really is.
TRACY starts another incantation and SAM, still clutching his stomach in pain, makes his way to Don’s body, putting his hand in blood and smearing it on his face, DEAN sees him and whispers.
DEAN
What are you doing?
SAM
Just follow my lead.
SAM spreads blood on DEAN’s face as well, and moves back away from DON. As TRACY finishes the incantation the ground cracks and black smoke pours out of it, and into the body of DON (who is now SAMHAIN), DEAN and SAM were not able to stop his rising, and another seal has been broken. As he opens his eyes, we see that DON’s eyes have turned white with the pupil staying black, and DEAN and SAM lay still on the floor, their torture finished. SAMHAIN rises off the floor, and looks at TRACY’s back that is turned to him, and his vision is blurry. He walks over to her and she turns around smiling at him. SAMHAIN kisses her.
TRACY
My love.
SAMHAIN
You’ve aged.
TRACY
This face…I can’t fool you.
SAMHAIN
Your beauty is beyond time.
SAMHAIN leans in and their foreheads rest together before he suddenly snaps her neck sideways and she falls to the floor.
SAMHAIN
Whore.
SAMHAIN turns around as he sniffs the air and sees DEAN and SAM lying on the floor, walks over and looks at them for a second, and we see with his blurry vision them lying there with their eyes closed, and after a second SAMHAIN walks past them and leaves, shutting the door behind him. DEAN opens his eyes and leans over to SAM, whispering still being cautious that SAMHAIN doesn’t hear them.
DEAN
What the hell was that?
SAM
Halloween lore, people used to wear masks to hide from him, so I gave it a shot.
DEAN
You gave it a shot?!
DEAN looks at him not believing that they took a chance like that on an idea SAM had from reading lore.
EXT. STREET – NIGHT
SAMHAIN is walking down the street, covered in blood, but not being noticed because it is Halloween, and everyone is in costume. Little kids pass him but he doesn’t hurt them, they are all in masks too.
EXT. STREET – NIGHT
DEAN and SAM walk across the street toward the Impala, wiping the blood off their faces.
DEAN
Where the hell are we gonna find this mook?
SAM
Where would you go to raise other dark forces of the night?
DEAN
The cemetery.
SAM
Yeah.
They get in the Impala and drive off.
INT. IMPALA – NIGHT
DEAN is driving while SAM sits in the passenger seat.
SAM
So, this demon’s Pretty powerful.
DEAN
Yeah.
SAM
Might take more than the usual weapons.
SAM glances at DEAN out of the corner of his eye, and DEAN gets what he is suggesting.
DEAN
Sam, no, you’re not using your psychic whatever.
SAM
Don’t even think about it, Ruby’s knife is enough.
SAM
Why?
DEAN
Well because the angels said so for one-
SAM
I thought you said they were a bunch of fanatics.
DEAN
Well they happen to be right about this one.
SAM
I don’t know Dean, it doesn’t seem like they’re right about much.
DEAN
Well then forget the angels okay? You said yourself, these powers, it’s like playing with fire.
DEAN picks up the knife and holds out the handle to SAM.
DEAN
Please
SAM takes the knife from DEAN but doesn’t say anything.
INT. MASOLEUM – NIGHT
There is rap music coming out from a room in the mausoleum, and teenagers are walking around in costume. JUSTIN is standing there looking around.
JUSTIN
Dude, I’m tripping balls!
Someone starts to walk down the stairs and JUSTIN notices.
JUSTIN
Yo, shh, be quiet, it’s the cops.
The teens all try to hide out of sight, and SAMHAIN walks down the stairs and toward the room they are partying in, JUSTIN sees him.
JUSTIN
Mr. Harding? I mean, Don?
SAMHAIN closes the gate to the room, and locks it. As he walks away he runs his hand across the gate. JUSTIN tries the gate, but it doesn’t budge.
JUSTIN
Don, you uh, you locked us in.
JUSTIN tries the door again, and it stays locked, but the doors to the crypts in the room start to shake. The teenagers back away into corners, but JUSTIN looks to one side, and begins to back to the other side. A door comes open, and hands reach out and grab his ankles. JUSTIN screams as a zombie drags him off his feet and into the crypt, a second later blood splatters out of the crypt, squirting out and covering the ground in front of the crypt The teens start to freak out and try to get the gate open. SAM and DEAN come down the stairs. SAM looks at DEAN and the people locked in the room.
SAM
Help them.
DEAN
Dude, you’re not going off alone.
SAM
Do it!
SAM runs after SAMHAIN and DEAN looks after him for a second, but looks back at the teens motioning for them to move.
DEAN
Stand back! Stand back!
The teens move away from the gate and DEAN shots the lock, and kicks the door open to let them all out.
DEAN
Go on, come on, get out, move!
After the teens all rush past him, DEAN watches as a door of a grave in the mausoleum room crashes to the ground and breaks. A zombie crawls out of it, and stands up as another grave door crashes to the ground and the zombie in the next grave over starts to crawl out as well. DEAN pulls out a weapon as the second zombie gets up and holds up what looks like a silver stake.
DEAN
Bring it on stinky.
INT. MASOLEUM – NIGHT
SAM is walking through the mausoleum looking for SAMHAIN. He turns a corner and sees SAMHAIN in a room facing the far wall. SAM tries to walk up to him silently, narrowing his eyes at the demon. SAMHAIN turns around suddenly and throws up his arm, and a bright white light comes out of it. It dims, however and SAM keeps walking toward SAMHAIN.
SAM
Yeah, that demon ray gun stuff? It doesn’t work on me.
SAMHAIN runs at SAM, and SAM throws an uppercut punch and they fight. SAMHAIN finally pushes SAM against a wall by his neck, getting the upperhand.
INT. CRYPT ROOM – NIGHT
There is a zombie with a silver stake coming out of it’s chest lying on the floor and DEAN stabs another zombie to the ground with another silver stake right next to the first one. A pair of shoes walks up behind DEAN with a pair of womens’ frail feet in them, DEAN hears it and grabs a stake before he turns around to stab her, but she flickers and disappears, and is behind him as he stands up fully. He turns around and she motions both her hands at him and he flies across the room, sliding down the wall.
DEAN
Zombie ghost orgy huh? Well, that’s it, I’m torching everybody.
INT. MASOLEUM ROOM – NIGHT
SAM manages to get the knife out, and tries to stab SAMHAIN, and when it starts to cut into his skin, it sizzles and SAMHAIN pushes it out of SAM’s hand, and whips SAM around and throws him into the wall across the room. SAM gets up and SAMHAIN looks at him, ready to attack, goes to run at SAM, but SAM puts up his hand, and uses his psychic power to stop him. SAMHAIN struggles against SAM, but SAM manages to keep him from advancing too much. DEAN comes running around the corner and sees SAM using his powers, his face falls, and SAM sees DEAN over the shoulder of SAMHAIN, but continues. SAM has to use a lot more concentration than we’ve seen before, and his nose starts to bleed as blood pounds in his head and he grabs his head with his other hand not holding SAMHAIN at bay. Finally, SAM exorcizes SAMHAIN as his nose continues to bleed and the blood pounding in his head starts to slow down. Once SAMHAIN is out of the body, DON’s eyes turn back to color and SAM can barely raise his eyes to meet DEAN’s stare, this is the first time that SAM was aware of DEAN being there to see him use his powers while he was doing it. Last time, DEAN was watching, but SAM didn’t know he was there until after. DEAN looks at him sadly, and with a little bit of fear in his eyes.
INT. MOONLIGHT MOTEL – DAY
SUBTITLE: ONE DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN
SAM is packing clothes into his duffel bag.
URIEL
Tomorrow
SAM jumps at the sound of someone else in the room and turns to URIEL.
URIEL
November 2nd, it’s an anniversary for you.
SAM
What are you doing here?
URIEL
It’s the day Azazel killed your mother, and 22 years later your girlfriend too. It must be difficult to bear, yet you so brazenly use the power he gave you. His profane blood pumping through your veins.
SAM
Excuse me?
URIEL
You were told not to use your abilities.
SAM
And what was I supposed to do? That demon would have killed me, and my brother and everyone.
URIEL
You were told not to.
SAM
If Samhain had gotten loose in this town-
URIEL
You’ve been warned, twice now.
SAM
You know? My brother was right about you, you are dicks.
URIEL looks at him, and the camera goes back to SAM’s face. We hear wings flutter, and SAM’s eyesight shifts and his hair ruffles with a breeze, URIEL is right in front of him now, instantly.
URIEL
The only reason you’re still alive Sam Winchester is because is because you’ve been useful. But the moment that ceases to be true, the second you become more trouble than you’re worth, one word. One, and I will turn you to dust.
SAM’s glare loses some force, and he nods his head curtly. URIEL backs off, but keeps talking.
URIEL
As for your brother, tell him that maybe he should climb off that high horse of his, ask Dean what he remembers from hell.
We hear another flutter of wings as the camera is focused on SAM, his eyes go wide, and the camera pans out, but URIEL is gone, and SAM turns around looking for him, but he has left. SAM looks upset and confused.
EXT. PARK – DAY
DEAN is sitting on a park bench watching kids play. The camera pans around to show CASTIEL on the park bench next to him, and he is looking the other way, but senses the angel’s arrival.
DEAN
Let me guess you’re here for the, I told you so.
CASTIEL
No
DEAN
Well, good cause I’m really not that interested.
CASTIEL
I am not here to judge you Dean.
DEAN
Then why are you here?
CASTIEL
Our orders-
DEAN
Yeah, you know, I’ve had about enough of these orders of yours-
CASTIEL
Our orders were not to stop the summoning of Samhain, they were to do whatever you told us to do.
DEAN looks stunned and leans forward putting his elbows on his knees and looking at CASTIEL.
DEAN
Your orders were to follow my orders?
CASTIEL
It was a test, to see how you would perform under, battlefield conditions, you might say.
DEAN
It was a witch, not the Tet Offensive.
CASTIEL chuckles at DEAN, even if it was only a witch, it was still a seal, and now they are one step closer to hell on earth.
DEAN
So I uh- failed your test huh? I get it.But you know what? If you would have waved that magic time travelling wand of yours and we had to do it all over again, I’d make the same call. Cause see, I don’t know what’s gonna happen when these seals are broken, hell I don’t even know what’s gonna happen tomorrow. But what I do know is, that this, here? These kids, the swings, the trees, all of it is still here because of my brother and me.
CASTIEL nods slightly and looks at DEAN.
CASTIEL
You misunderstand me Dean, I’m not like you think, I was praying that you would choose to save the town.
DEAN
You were?
CASTIEL
These people, they’re all my father’s creations. They’re works of art, and yet, even though you stopped Samhain, the seal was broken and we are one step closer to hell on earth, for all creation. Now that’s not an expression Dean, its literal. You of all people should appreciate what that means.
DEAN looks at him a little pained, and sad.
CASTIEL
Can I tell you something if you promise not to tell another soul?
DEAN
Okay.
CASTIEL
I’m not a…hammer as you say, I have questions, I have doubts. I don’t know what is right and what is wrong anymore, whether you passed or failed here. But in the coming months you will have more decisions to make, I don’t envy the weight that’s on your shoulders Dean. I truly don’t.
They share a look, and DEAN looks out to the kids again, but when he looks back, CASTIEL is gone.