- Landlady: You guys said you're with the alarm company?
- Dean Winchester: That's right.
- Landlady: Well no offense, but, your alarm's about as useful as boobs on a man.
- Dean Winchester: [On the phone] Now why don't you give that girl a private stripper-gram.
- Sam Winchester: Bite me.
- Dean Winchester: Bite her! Don't leave teeth marks though, just enough to...
- [Sam disconnects phone]
- Dean Winchester: Sam? Ye...
- [hangs up]
- Sam Winchester: [on cell] Hey.
- Dean Winchester: Let me guess, you're lurking outside that poor girl's apartment, aren't you?
- Sam Winchester: No.
- [pause]
- Sam Winchester: Yes...
- Dean Winchester: You got a funny way of showing your affection.
- Dean Winchester: I talked to the bartender.
- Sam Winchester: You get anything? Besides her number?
- Dean Winchester: Dude. I'm a professional. I'm offended that you would think that.
- [pause, Sam gives Dean a look]
- Dean Winchester: All right, yeah.
- [he holds up a napkin with the number]
- Sam Winchester: You mind doin' a little bit of thinkin' with your upstairs brain, Dean?
- Dean Winchester: Hey Sam? Next time you wanna get laid, find a girl that's not so buckets of crazy, huh?
- Sam Winchester: I mean, what are you gonna do when it's all over?
- Dean Winchester: It's never gonna *be* over. There's gonna be others. There's always gonna be somethin' to hunt.
- Sam Winchester: But there's gotta be somethin' that you want for yourself...
- Dean Winchester: Yeah, I don't want you to leave the second this thing's over, Sam.
- [turns his back to Sam]
- Sam Winchester: Dude, what's your problem?
- [pause; Dean turns back to Sam]
- Dean Winchester: Why do you think I drag you everywhere? Huh? I mean, why do you think I came and got you at Stanford in the first place?
- Sam Winchester: 'Cause Dad was in trouble. 'Cause you wanted to find the thing that killed Mom.
- Dean Winchester: Yes, that, but it's more than that, man. You and me and Dad, I mean, I want us to... I want us to be together again. I want us to be a family again.
- Sam Winchester: [gently] Dean, we *are* a family. I'd do anything for you. But things will never be the way they were before.
- [Dean looks heartbroken]
- Dean Winchester: Could be.
- Sam Winchester: I don't want them to be. I'm not gonna live this life forever. Dean, when this is all over, you're gonna have to let me go my own way.
- [they share a look]
- Meg: Guys. Hiding is a little bit childish, don't you think?
- Dean Winchester: [to Sam] Well that didn't work out like I'd planned.
- [Dean and Sam see someone standing in shadow at their window]
- Dean Winchester: Hey!
- [the figure turns around and comes into the light]
- Dean Winchester: Dad...
- John Winchester: [smiling] Hey, boys.
- Sam Winchester: [about Meg] Look, I could be wrong; I'm just sayin', that there's something about this girl that I can't quite put my finger on.
- Dean Winchester: But I bet you'd like to. Maybe she's not a suspect, maybe you got a thing for her, huh? Maybe you're thinkin' a little too much with your upstairs brain, huh?
- Dean Winchester: Why don't you knock on her door and invite her to a poetry reading or whatever it is you do.
- Sam Winchester: Why're you doin' this Meg? What kinda deal you got worked out here, huh? And with who?
- Meg: I'm doing this for the same reasons you do what you do. Loyalty. Love. Like the love you had for mommy, and Jess.
- Sam Winchester: Go to hell.
- Meg: Baby I'm already there.
- [Dean and Sam are dressed as alarm company technicians]
- Dean Winchester: You know I gotta say, Dad and me did just fine without these *stupid* costumes. I feel like a high school drama dork. What was that play that you did, that, what was it, uh, Our Town. Yeah, you were good. It was cute.
- Sam Winchester: Look, you wanna pull this off or not?
- Dean Winchester: I'm just sayin' these outfits cost hard-earned money, okay?
- Sam Winchester: Whose?
- Dean Winchester: Ours! You think credit card fraud's easy?
- Sam Winchester: All right come on. We don't have much time. Soon as the flame's out, they'll be back.
- Dean Winchester: Sam wait, wait! Sam, wait. Dad, you can't come with us.
- Sam Winchester: What? What're you talkin' about?
- John Winchester: You boys, you're beat to hell.
- Dean Winchester: We'll be all right.
- Sam Winchester: Dean! We should stick together! We'll go after this demon t...
- Dean Winchester: Sam, listen to me! We almost got Dad killed in there. Don't you understand, they're not gonna stop. They're gonna try again, they're gonna use us to get to him! I mean Meg was right! Dad's vulnerable when he's with us. He... he's stronger without us around.
- Sam Winchester: [to John] Dad. No. After everything. After all the time we spent lookin' for you, please. I gotta be a part of this fight.
- John Winchester: This fight is just starting. And we are all gonna have a part to play. For now you gotta trust me, son. Okay? You gotta let me go.
- [pause; Sam reluctantly nods]
- John Winchester: Be careful, boys.
- Dean Winchester: [about Meg] Who the hell was she?
- Sam Winchester: I don't really know. I only met her once. Meetin' up with her again... I dunno man, it's weird.
- Dean Winchester: And what was she sayin'? Huh, I treat you like luggage? What were you, bitchin' about me to some chick?
- Sam Winchester: Look I'm sorry Dean, it was when we had that huge fight, when I was at that bus stop in Indiana. But that's not important, just listen...
- Dean Winchester: [interrupting, upset] Well is there any truth to what she's sayin', I mean am I keepin' you against your will, Sam?
- Sam Winchester: No, of course not, now would you *listen*?
- Dean Winchester: What?
- Sam Winchester: I think there's something strange going on here, Dean.
- Dean Winchester: Yeah, tell me about it. She wasn't even that into me.
- Sam Winchester: No, man, I mean like *our* kind of strange.
- Dean Winchester: You trapped us. Good for you. It's Miller time. Why don't you kill us already?
- Meg: Not very quick on the uptake, are we? This trap isn't for you.
- Sam Winchester: Dad. It's a trap for Dad.
- Dean Winchester: Oh, sweetheart. You're dumber 'n you look. 'Cause even if Dad was in town, which he is not, he wouldn't walk into somethin' like this, he's too good.
- Meg: Oh and I met what's his name, something Michael Murray at a bar.
- Sam Winchester: [after a beat] Who?
- Meg: It doesn't matter.
- Sam Winchester: [on cell] What about the symbol, any luck?
- Dean Winchester: Yeah, that I did have some luck with, it's uh, turns out it's Zoroastrian. Very very old-school, like two thousand years before Christ. It's a sigil for a Deva.
- Sam Winchester: What's a Deva?
- Dean Winchester: Translates to demon of darkness. Zoroastrian demons, and they're savage, they're animalistic, you know, nasty attitudes, kinda like uh, demonic pit bulls.
- Sam Winchester: How'd you figure that out?
- Dean Winchester: Gimme some credit man. You don't have the corner on paper chasin' around here.
- Sam Winchester: Oh yeah? Name the last book you read.
- [pause]
- Dean Winchester: Yeah, I called Dad's friend Caleb, he told me, all right?
- [Dean and Sam are tied up]
- Sam Winchester: [to Meg] This, the whole thing was a trap. Running into you at the bar, following you here, hearing what you had to say. It was all a set-up, wasn't it?
- [Meg grins]
- Sam Winchester: And that the victims were from Lawrence?
- Meg: Doesn't mean anything. It was just to draw you in, that's all.
- Sam Winchester: You killed those two people for nothing.
- Meg: Baby I've killed a lot more for a lot less.
- Sam Winchester: What if this whole thing was over tonight? Man, I'd sleep for a month. Go back to school, just... be a *person* again.
- Dean Winchester: [surprised] You wanna go back to school?
- Sam Winchester: Yeah. Once we're done huntin' the thing.
- Dean Winchester: Huh.
- Sam Winchester: Why, is there somethin' wrong with that?
- Dean Winchester: [unenthusiastic] No, no it's uh, it's great, good for you.
- Dean Winchester: So hot little Meg is summoning the Deva.
- Sam Winchester: Looks like she was usin' that black altar to control the thing.
- Dean Winchester: So Sammy's got a thing for the bad girl.
- [he laughs, Sam rolls his eyes]
- Dean Winchester: Now what's the deal with that bowl again?
- Sam Winchester: She was talking into it, the way witches used to scry into crystal balls or animal entrails, she was communicating with someone.
- Dean Winchester: With who, with the Deva?
- Sam Winchester: No, you said those things were savages. No, this was someone different. Someone who's givin' her orders. Someone, who's comin' to that warehouse.
- [pause, Dean goes and looks in a folder]
- Dean Winchester: Holy crap.
- Sam Winchester: What?
- Dean Winchester: What I was gonna tell you earlier. I uh, I pulled a favor with my uh, friend, Amy, over at the police department? The complete records of the two victims. We missed somethin' the first time.
- Sam Winchester: What?
- Dean Winchester: The uh, first victim, the old man? Spent his whole life in Chicago but he wasn't born here, look where he was born.
- Sam Winchester: [reading] Lawrence Kansas.
- Dean Winchester: [changing folders] Mm-hm. Meredith, second victim? Turns out she was adopted. Guess where she's from?
- [Sam reads the file; it says Lawrence Kansas]
- Sam Winchester: Holy crap.
- Dean Winchester: [about the murdered girl] Meredith's heart was missing.
- Sam Winchester: Her heart?
- Dean Winchester: Yeah, her heart.
- Sam Winchester: So what do you think did it to her?
- Dean Winchester: The landlady said it looked like an animal attack. Maybe it was. Werewolf?
- Sam Winchester: No, not a werewolf, the lunar cycle's not right. Plus if it was a creature, it would've left some kind of trace. It's probably a spirit.
- [Dean notices the pattern of blood on the floor]
- Dean Winchester: See if you can find any masking tape around.
- [Dean uses the masking tape to connect the blood spatters]
- Sam Winchester: Ever see that symbol before?
- Dean Winchester: Never.
- Sam Winchester: Me neither.
- Dean Winchester: Anyway here's the thing, these Devas, they need to be summoned. Conjured.
- Sam Winchester: So someone's controlling it.
- Dean Winchester: Yeah, that's what I'm sayin'. And uh, from what I gather it's pretty risky business too, I mean these uh, these suckers tend to bite the hand that feeds 'em. And the uh, the arms, and the torsos...
- Sam Winchester: So what do they look like?
- Dean Winchester: Well nobody knows, I mean nobody's seen 'em for a couple of millenia. And summoning a demon that ancient? Someone really knows their stuff. Think we got a major player in town.
- Dean Winchester: Dad it was a trap. I didn't know, I'm sorry.
- John Winchester: It's all right. I thought it might've been.
- Dean Winchester: Were you there?
- John Winchester: Yeah, I got there just in time to see the girl take the swan-dive. She *was* the bad guy, right?
- Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester: Yes sir.
- John Winchester: Good. Well, doesn't surprise me. It's tried to stop me before.
- Sam Winchester: The demon has?
- John Winchester: It knows I'm close. It knows I'm gonna kill it. Not just exorcise it or send it back to hell. Actually kill it.
- Dean Winchester: How?
- John Winchester: I'm workin' on that.
- [the Devas attack; Sam rummages through their weapons]
- Sam Winchester: Shut your eyes! These things are shadow demons, so let's light 'em up!
- [he lights a white phosphorus grenade; the Devas vanish]