"Shadow" Season 1 Ep. 16

Chicago, Illinois

A girl walks down the street listening to her iPod (or something like that). She turns down a dark alleyway and continues home. Her iPod starts skipping then dies (foreshadowing?). The wind kicks up and she hears her name being whispered. No one is there. The smooth voice calls her name again. She starts walking away as the wind follows her. When she turns the corner out of the alley she notices a shadow behind her. She starts running. She makes her way to her apartment, bolts the door behind her, and turns on the alarm. She relaxes and walks to the kitchen to get a beer. As she sips her beer a shadow forms on the wall behind her. The shadow shoves its hand through her shadow. She screams as blood splatters the wall.

One week later.
Sam and Dean pull up outside the dead girls building wearing blue jumpsuits. Sam looks at a newspaper. The headline reads,"Manhunt continues for stealth". Sam gets out of the car and tells Dean, who has pulled a toolbox out of the trunk, that they are in the right spot. Dean complains about the jump suits saying he feels like a drama dork. Sam asks him if he wants to go through with the plan. Dean says that the suits cost them hard earned money. Sam wants to know who's money. Dean counters, "Ours. Do you think credit card fraud is easy?" The landlady lets them in to the girl's apartment. Seems the boys are posing as employees of the alarm company and are there to see what went wrong with the alarms. Dean asks if there were any signs of a break in. Landlady says that everything was in perfect condition, except for the girl. Sam asks about her condition. Landlady says that she was in pieces, like a wild animal got her. They ask for some time alone so they can check things out. After the landlady leaves, Dean whips out the EMF reader, which goes off the scale. Dean tells Sam that he talked to a cop who told him that the girls heart was missing. He suggests a werewolf but Sam says the lunar cycle is off. Dean notices something on the floor and asks for masking tape. He plays connect the dots with the pools of dried blood and wouldn't you know it, they form a symbol. Kinda like a Z with a circle in the middle of it. Neither of them has seen such a symbol before. Dean chats up the bartender of a local bar as Sam walks in. Sam finds a table and pulls out their dad's 'Journal O'Weird Stuff'. He wants to know if Dean got any other info besides the girls number. Dean acts offended, saying he's a professional then holds up the number. Oh Dean. He asks if Sam found out what the symbol is. Sam says that he hasn't and that they need to keep digging. Dean asks about the first victim, a man who was killed in the exact same way and under the same circumstances. There is no connection between them. Sam notices someone across the room. He walks up to a girl and taps her on the shoulder. It's Evil Murdering hitchhiker Meg.

She's just as surprised (or so it seems) to see Sam as he is to see her. They chat as Dean walks up unnoticed. Sam asks why she's not in California. She got bored. Dean clears his throat. She wonders what the odds are (slim to none) that they'd meet there. Sam agrees saying he thought that he'd never see her again. Dean clears his throat loudly. She looks at him and tells him to cover his mouth. Sam introduces her to Dean and she proceeds to berate him about the way he treats Sam. Dean, sensing the awkwardness of it all, excuses himself and heads to the bar. Meg apologizes. Sam tells her not to worry. She tells Sam that they should meet up sometime. He agrees, takes down her number, and promises that he'll call. As Sam and Dean walk out of the bar, Dean wants to know who she is. Sam isn't sure since he only met her once. He's suspicious about her suddenly showing up. Dean wants to know why he told her that he was a jerk. Sam apologizes saying that he met her after they'd had the fight in Indiana and that he was just venting. He thinks something is going on. Dean says it could be a coincidence, but Sam says that there is something strange about her. Dean thinks that he has a thing for her. Sam tells him to run a check on her and to find out about the symbol they found. Sam's going to keep an eye on Meg.

Back in their hotel room, Dean calls Sam, who's sitting in the car outside Meg's apartment. He tells Sam that she checks out and suggest that he invite her to a poetry reading. Sam's not amused and asks about the symbol. Dean tells him that it's Zoroastrian, a sigil for a deava, a savage demon of darkness that must be summoned by the person that is controlling it. He likens them to demonic pitbulls. Sam wants to know what it looks like, but Dean tells him that nobody has seen one in a couple of millennia. He says that whoever summoned the deava must be a major player. Dean once again suggest to Sam that he make a move on Meg and is met with silence as Sam has hung up on him. Meg's light comes on and she begins getting dressed. She emerges from her apartment and cross the street in front of Sam, who's ducked down in the front seat to hide. After she passes he gets out of the car to follow her on foot. She ducks into an old building. Sam follows but can't find her when he enters. He can't open the door to the stairwell so he climbs up the elevator shaft. He makes it to the top as she enters and walks past him towards an alter. She picks up a gold chalice filled with blood, chants in an ancient language, and then begins to talk at the chalice. Meg tells someone not to come since the brothers are in town, then nods her head and tells the someone that she will be waiting. She blows out the candles ont he alter and leaves. Sam crawls through the shaft door and goes to the alter. He sees the blood filled chalice and next to it a mirror with the deava symbol on it written in blood.

Sam walks into the hotel room and finds Dean. They both say that they need to talk. Dean is surprised that Meg is the one controlling the deava. Sam tells him that she's using the black alter to do it. He also tells him that she was talking to someone through the chalice. Dean informs Sam that they missed something about the two victims. Both of them were from Lawrence, Kansas. Sam tells him that he thinks Meg is tied to the demon that killed their mom but doesn't know why she picked people from Lawrence. Dean suggests going back to the warehouse and trashing the alter. Sam says that they should wait to see who or what shows up. Dean agrees but says that they shouldn't go alone. Dean calls their dad and leaves a message on his voicemail as Sam returns from the car stocked with guns, ammo and other demon killing tools. Sam asks if he's nervous. Dean says no then asks him the same question. Sam wonders if they will find the demon that killed their mom and says that if everything was over then he'd go back to school. Dean's surprised then says that it will never be over, that there will always be something to hunt. Dean shows his softer side and tells Sam that he doesn't want him to leave when it's over. He wants them to be a family again. Sam tells him that they are a family but things will never be like they used to. Dean says it could be but Sam says that he doesn't want it to be. He doesn't want to chase demons for the rest of his life. He tells Dean that when it's over, he's going to have to let him go his own way. I begin to tear up a bit. At the warehouse, Dean and Sam watch from the elevator shaft as Meg, with her back turned, speaks in another language. The boys quietly make their way to the back of the room to a hiding place behind some crates. Meg stops chanting and tells them to stop hiding. They begin to walk toward her, Dean wants to know where the deava is. She tells them that it's around and that the shotguns won't work. He says the shotguns aren't for the deava. Sam asks who she's waiting for. She's been waiting for them. The shadow demon comes up behind them. It slashes at Sam's face (not the face!) and knocks him down. It then goes after Dean, throwing him back into the crates.

Sam comes to and finds himself and Dean tied up. Dean tells Sam that Meg is a bitch. I agree with him. She confirms that everything was a set up and explains that the trap wasn't for them. Sam realizes that it was set for their dad. Dean tells her that even if their dad was in town, he's too smart to walk into her trap. She says maybe so but that he IS in town and he will come for his boys, his only weakness, and when he does show the deava's will kill him. Dean tells her that it would take more than a shadow demon to kill good old dad. She tells him that the deava's are invisible, that the only thing you can see are their shadows. Sam asks why she did it. She explains that it was for the same reasons they do what they do: loyalty and love. She saunters over to Sam and tries to seduce him, all the while Dean is trying to get free. She hears a noise and goes to Dean to take away the knife he was using to cut himself free. Dean shows her his sexy smile. She walks back over to Sam and asks if he was trying to distract her while Dean tried to get free. He says no, he has his own knife. Sam head butts her, then destroys the alter. The deava's grab Meg and toss her out the window. Woo-Hoo. Sam frees Dean and they walk to the window to make sure the bitch is dead. The boys arrive back at the hotel to find their dad, John, waiting for them. Dean and John hug, while Sam just says hi. Dean tells him that it was a trap and apologizes. John tells them that he thought as much and got there just as Meg took a header out the window.He tells the boys that he wasn't surprised since "it" has tried to stop him before because "it" know he's going to kill "it". Sam tells him that he and Dean will help him, but John refuses saying he doesn't want them to get hurt. He then tells Sam that he's glad to see him. Sam says it's been too long. They hug. Awww. I'm tearing up again.Suddenly, they're attacked by the shadow demons. Outside, Meg looks up at the window, her fingers touching a pendant that's controlling the deava's.

The deava's slash at John, Dean, and Sam. Sam goes to one of their bags and grabs a flare. It's bright light chases away the shadows. As the room fills with smoke, Dean grabs John and the three of them make their way to the street. Sam tells them to get in the car, but Dean stops and tells John that he can't go with them. Sam says they should stick together. Dean points out that they almost got John killed and that he is vulnerable whe he's around them. Sam looks to John, who agrees with Dean. He tells Sam that he has to let him go. As Sam shakes his head, John looks at them and tells them to be careful. He walks away, climbs in his truck and drives off. Sam and Dean get in their car and watch as their dad drives away. They exchange looks then head off in the opposite direction. Meg steps out of the shadows unnoticed and glares at them as their lights fade in the distance.

Written by Kat- Posted by E-Beth on her behalf.

"The Benders" Season 1 Ep. 15

The episode opens on a boy watching a monster movie on tv. How appropriate. He hears a noise outside and goes to the window to investigate. He sees a man get dragged away by an unknown force. The boy and his mother are talking to two state troopers. Wait, those aren't state troopers. It's our intrepid heroes Sam and Dean Winchester playing dress up again. Last week it was priests now it's troopers. Those crazy boys. Anyway the mother doesn't seem to believe her son, thinking it's the monster movies he's been watching (Godzilla vs. Mothra, Dean's favorite). The boy is insistent that he's telling the truth explaining that when the man got dragged away he heard a whining growl. Sam and Dean definitely believe him. The boys now sit in a seedy bar discussing the case. Well, I say discussing. Dean's more interested in the darts and the beer than anything else. Sam tells him that the police haven't ruled out foul play while Dean thinks it could just be a simple, demon free kidnapping. The one thing they agree on is that it might not be their kind of problem. They decide to look around the abduction site more the next morning. Sam wants to go to bed early while Dean wants to go drinking. They decide to call it a night with Dean heading to the bathroom and Sam heading outside to the car. As Sam's walking toward the car he hears a weird noise. A whining growl. Dean comes out to find Sam gone. He checks around the parking lot, even asking people if they've seen Sam. Nothing. He walks toward the street, spying a traffic camera, and comes to a bad conclusion. Sam's disappeared.

Dean walks into the local sheriff's department and shows his 'badge' to the officer at the desk. Wait a minute. It's Paula Cassidy from NCIS. I guess she needed to find work after Ziva took her job. Dean or 'Officer Washington' tells Paula that he's working on a missing person's case and needs some info. The case: his 'cousin' Sam has gone missing. Paula goes to a computer and enters in Sam's name and up pops his info. She asks if 'Officer Washington' knew that Sam's brother Dean died in St. Louis and was suspected of murder (Whole other episode). He replies yes, that Dean was the handsome, black sheep of the family. Oh that Dean. He tells Paula that his only lead is the traffic camera he saw. She tells him that she will go look at the camera, but Dean is insistent on going with her saying that he won't come back without Sam. Sam, meanwhile, awakens to find himself trapped in a big cage. Back at the station, Paula brings Dean the traffic cam pictures. They show a truck pulling out of the lot at the same time Sam was taken. Dean notices that the truck is old, but it's license plate is brand new. Paula thinks that's their truck and Dean agrees. Back to Sam, whose is trying to bust out of his cage. In the cage next to his, a man awakens. It's Jenkins, the man who was abducted front he motel. Sam reassures him that Dean is looking for them, but Jenkins is too worried about this becoming Deliverance, and so am I. Sam asks if he saw who or what abducted him. The man begins to answer as the door to the barn opens. Two men in dark jackets come in to give Jenkins his food, then leave. Sam can't believe their human. As Jenkins devours his food, Sam turns his attention back to opening the cage door.

Dean and Paula are driving along the highway. She explains that since the next traffic camera after the bar is 50 miles away and the truck didn't pass it, then somewhere along that 50 mile stretch of road they should find the truck. Paula's computer beeps. Apparently she ran Officer Washington's badge number. Seems the badge was stolen and Dean looks nothing like the picture that just popped up on her terminal. She wants to arrest Dean, but all he cares about is finding Sam. He gives her his best puppy dog eyes and tells her that Sam is his responsibility and that he's afraid of what might happen to him if they don't find him soon. Paula finally relents after looking up at a picture of herself with another man saying that she'll arrest Dean, after they find Sam. Back at the cages, Sam tugs on a thick power cord hoping it will disengage the lock. Jenkins tells him to give it up just as the cord comes loose and a bracket goes flying at Sam. It doesn't seem to have worked until the door to Jenkins' cage opens. Sam tells him that it's a trap and to stay in the cage, but Jenkins decided to make a run for it. After Jenkins exits the barn the door to the cage closes and locks. Outside Jenkins, or Stupid Idiot who should have listened to the Hot Boy in the cage next to him, slinks around, finds a rusty knife, and takes off for the trees, hearing laughter behind him. He gets tackled by one of men but manages to fend him off and takes off farther through the trees. He stops to catch his breath when he gets an arrow through the thigh. Ouch! Two men with long metal rods approach. Jenkins manages to run a few feet but is knocked down by a tripwire. The men laughing before stabbing him to death. Back in his cage all Sam can hear is screaming.

As Paula and Dean walk back to the squad car, Dean asks her why she's helping him. She tells him that her brother disappeared 3 years ago and they never found him. Down the road they come to a turn off. Dean wants to check it out but Paula won't have it and Dean won't relent. She makes Dean promise that if he goes with her that he will let her take care of it. He agrees and they shake on it. Sucker. She slaps handcuffs on him and cuffs him to the car door. Paula walks up to the dilapidated house. At the front door she meets a young girl. Paula asks for the girls name. It's Missy. Missy wants to know who Paula is. She says she's a cop and shows the girl a picture. The girl smiles and replies, "That's gonna hurt" as Paula takes a shovel to the noggin. The older man tells Missy to get her brothers. Back at the car, Dean hears the men approaching and frantically goes after the antenna on top of the cruiser. The two brothers head Dean's way and he grabs, then drops the antenna. He finally manages to get out of the cuffs as the brothers get to the car door. Paula awakens to find herself in a cage next to Sam. She tells him that his 'cousin' is looking for him but that she cuffed him to the cruiser. Sam curses her stupidity under his breath, or so I hope since I am. The door behind them opens and in walks..........Dean. Paula wants to know how he got out of the cuffs. He's Dean. Dean can do anything. Sam tells him that the people who took him were human and not monsters like they first thought. Dean, searching for a way to open the cages, tells Sam that these people must have been doing this for awhile because he found a junkyard full of cars. Paula wants to know if he saw a 10 year old black mustang in the junkyard. Dean says yes and Paula is sad. Dean wants to know where the key to open the control panel is. Sam tells him that he doesn't know, so Dean goes off in search of it. Inside the basement, Dean finds jars filled with human organs and pictures of the family posing with their kill. Unafraid, Dean continues upstairs where he sees Dad in the kitchen sawing.....something. Ewwww. Dean looks around the living room and finds the key. He also finds Missy who yells for her Daddy after pining Dean to the wall with her handy knife. Missy's brothers come a running. Dean scuffles with the brothers, telling them in which order he will kick their asses, only to take a frying pan to the head courtesy of Dad.

Dean awakens tied to a chair. Seems the boys want to hunt him. Daddy doesn't argue but goes on and on about the thrill of hunting but all I can focus on are his nasty teeth. Dude, it's called a dentist. Find one. Daddy wants to know if the cops will come looking for them. Dean says no, that no one will come after them. Daddy then makes Dean choose which person the family should hunt, Sam or Paula. Dean picks Sam, knowing that he can take care of himself, but Daddy has a different idea. He tells the boys to kill Sam and Paula in their cages. Brother 1 (the brothers will now be known by numbers since I didn't bother to learn their names) heads to the barn to unlock Sam's cage. Paula tries to distract 1, but it doesn't work. Sam remembers the bracket that flew at him earlier and picks it up. Back in the house, Dean hears gun shots. He tells Daddy that he will kill all of them if anything happens to Sam. Sam wrestles the gun from 1 and knocks him out. Daddy sends 2 to check on 1, only to find Sam and Paula gone and 1 in Sam's cage. Daddy comes out and helps 2 search the barn. Paula jumps on 2's back, which proves futile as she thrown to the ground. 2 takes aim at her only to be surprised by Sam, who runs into the barn with Daddy in hot pursuit. 2 turns and fires, just as Sam ducks, hitting Daddy in the process. 2 is beyond pissed now, but Sam gets the upper hand and knocks him out. Sam drags 2 to the other empty cage and locks him up. Paula stands over Daddy with the shot gun trained on him. She tells Sam to go get Dean and that she will keep an eye on Daddy. Sam is hesitant, but he heads to the house anyway. Paula wants to know why they killed her brother. He replies because it was fun. Wrong answer. BLAM. Sam and Dean come out of the house as Paula exits the barn. She tells them that Dad tried to escape, but they know better. Paula tells Sam and Dean that the state police and the FBI are on the way and that they should be gone before the fuzz arrives. Dean asks is she will give them a ride, but she tells them to start walking. Sam's okay with that. Walking away from the house, Dean tells Sam not to go missing ever again. Sam asks if he was worried, but in true Dean fashion he tells him that if it does happen again he won't come looking for him. Sam gets back by making fun of Dean for getting sidelined by a 13 year old girl.

Written by Kat posted by E-Beth on her behalf.