"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.