- Castiel sends Dean back in time to 1973 where he encounters younger versions of his parents and for the first time meets his grandfather Samuel Campbell who holds a secret that sheds a light on the Winchester Family's connection to the hunter community.
- Sam sneaks out of the motel room with Ruby leaving Dean alone. Dean wakes up with Castiel in the room that sends him back to Lawrence, Kansas, on 30 April 1973, where he meets the young John Winchester in a bar. He follows the youngster and meets his mother Mary Campbell, his grandfather Samuel and his grandmother Deanna. Sooner he discovers that the Campbell is a family of hunters; further, he finds that the yellow-eyed demon Azazel is in Lawrence.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Castiel appears again to Dean, insisting God has a mission for him, but won't elaborate. He supernaturally transports Dean, with the task 'no to let it happen', to parental hometown Lawrence, Kansas, in 1973, just when dad John is to propose to ma Mary Campbell. Dean discovers John is still ignorant, but Mary a hunter, like her grim father, Mary Campbell. Teaming up with him, Dean discovers a yellow-eyed demon is trucking ignorant locals to permissions in ten years. later he finds it's not to collect their souls, but an elaborate long-term plan, and his true identity, Azazel, is a scary as his human one. Castiel brings a grim conclusion.—KGF Vissers
- THEN! We see how the Winchesters came to hunt -- the yellow-eyed demon dripping blood into baby Sam's mouth, Sam's mother coming in to witness the act and saying, with recognition, "You." Mom in flames on the ceiling. Dad telling his kids about hunting. Dean killing the yellow-eyed demon with the Colt...and finally, Castiel raising Dean from Hell, saying God has work for him to do. What work, you ask? So glad you did.
NOW!
While Dean lies sleeping in bed, Sam sneaks out to meet Ruby, who's driving a sweet little sportscar of her own.
"Ready?" she asks. "Definitely," he responds.
Dean slumbers unaware of this...but his dreams of Hell wake him. "Hello, Dean," Castiel says from his perch on the edge of the bed. Dean asks if he gets his freak on by watching other people sleep, but Castiel ignores his crack.
"Listen to me," he says, insistent. "You have to stop it."
"Stop what?" asks Dean. Castiel touches his fingers to Dean's forehead...and suddenly Dean finds himself waking up on a strange bench as a cop is telling him he can't sleep there. He looks around at the clean Pleasantville setting, pulls out his cell phone, and sees he has no reception. He gets up, revealing a freshly painted advertisement for "Sugar-Free Tab" right where he was sitting.
Dean heads into a diner and bellies up to the counter next to a nice looking guy. He asks the guy where he is, and he tells him it's Lawrence, Kansas -- the place he was born! He asks Dean if he's OK, and Dean tells him he's had a tough night. The guy orders up a cup of coffee for Dean.
Dean pulls out his phone and asks him is there's a place where he can get decent reception and the young man laughs and says, "The USS Enterprise"? He calls to the guy behind the counter, who is dressed like the stereotypical hippie, and asks him to pour a cup of coffee for Dean. Dean makes a crack about his wardrobe, informing the guy that Sonny and Cher have broken up.
John looks confused: "Sonny and Cher broke up?" Dean notices the guy behind the counter looks flummoxed too. Dean looks around with the growing realization that something isn't right. He notices a newspaper, takes in a headline about Nixon's resignation, and spies the date: April 30, 1973. Holy crap, he's time-travelled.
While he comes to grip with that notion, a man walks into the diner and calls out, "Winchester!" Dean turns to acknowledge the man...but so does the guy next to him. Turns out the young man is actually young John Winchester -- Dean and Sam's dad. He listens in on the conversation as the guy handily drops a little exposition about John being back from the war. They shake hands, and after a moment, John asks Dean if they know each others. "I guess not," Dean replies. John tells him to take it easy, and heads out.
Dean tails his dad, only to be waylaid by Castiel. Dean asks the angel if what he's seeing is real, and Castiel assures him that it is. "What, the angels got their hands on some Deloreans? What he hell is going on here?" (Hellooo! McFlyyyy!) Castiel explains that time is fluid and angels can bend it - with difficulty, but it's possible. Dean asks why, and Castiel says, "I told you -- you have to stop it." Dean gets distracted by a car horn, and Castiel vanishes.
"Oh, come on. You allergic to straight answers, you sonofabitch?"
Later Dean sees his dad on a car lot about to purchase a toaster on wheels, better known as a VW Van, and counsels him against it. Parked right next to it? A'67 Chevy Impala, the Metallicar in the early days! When it was at its cherry-est! Dean tells him that's the car he wants. "This is the car of a lifetime. Trust me, this thing's still going to be badass when it's forty."
Dean looks at it intensely. John Winchester introduces himself, and Dean shakes his hand, calling himself Dean Van Halen. Dean says he was getting cold spots in the diner and it smelled like rotten eggs. He asks John if he noticed any of those things, and John says no. When Dean moves on to asking about cow mutilation, John tells him to stop. Dean tells John to watch out for himself, and moves on. The car salesman comes back, and Dean buys the Impala.
Dean tails John over to visit his girlfriend -- it's Mary, Sam and Dean's mother! Later, he's watching his future parents through the window of a diner, and Dean mutters to himself,
"Sammy wherever you are, Mom is a babe. I'm going to Hell. Again."
Dean and Mary sweet talk over milkshakes, then Mary excuses herself from the table. After she leaves, John pulls a red ring box from his pocket. Dean is watching this so intently that he doesn't notice Mary sneaking up on him from behind. "Why are you following us?" She grabs Dean and starts punching him -- turns out she's a skilled fighter. Dean tries to subdue her, asking if they can't just talk it out. That's when he notice the charm bracelet on her hand, filled with magical charms.
Dean backs up with surprise. "Are you a hunter?" Wow -- looks like dad wasn't the only ass-kicker in the family!
After a commercial break, we see John kissing Mary goodnight in front of Mary's house as Dean watches from a distance. Mary knows he's there, and once John is away, Dean walks up.
"I'm not sure you should come in," Mary tells Dean. Dean replies that since they're all hunters, it's like their practically family! (Except for the fact that they're actually family.) Mary warns Dean that her dad can be tough, and Dean insists on meeting him. "So you're heard of him?" she says?
"Clearly not enough," Dean replies.
Inside, Dean gets tested on his hunter skilled by Samuel Campbell (oh, grandpapa!!!) and Dean passes. Samuel then tells him to get out of his house, saying he doesn't trust other hunters, but grandma will have none of it -- she invites Dean to dinner, and introduces herself. Name's Deana. Samuel, and Deana. Nice.
Three generations of Campbells make light dinner conversation about the profession, and Samuel reveals he's working a job on a nearby farm, the Whitshires. The father got tangled in a combine pretty badly, which is pretty unusual since his crops were all dead and there was no reason for him to be on it. Dean asks them if they've found any other info on the Web...of information they've assembled (har har) and Deana says something about electrical storms. Dean says he thinks he and Samuel are hunting the same thing, and offers to join forces. Samuel asks him what part of "we work alone" does he not understand.
The next day, Samuel dresses up as a priest bearing sympathy baked goods and shows up at the Whitshires. Mary desperately would rather be doing anything else, but she tags along, chatting up a kid leaning against a tree and looking lonesome. Samuel heads up to the front door and is met by...Dean, also dressed as a priest! Mrs. Whitshire told Dean and Samuel that Tom, her departed husband, seemed perfectly normal the day of the tragedy. As Samuel continues his conversation with Mrs. Whitshire, Dean joins Mary and the Whitshire boy. Mary asks the kid to tell Dean what he just told him, and the kid reveals that Papa Whitshire used to drink and beat up on his mom. Then about a week ago a stranger showed up at the door, and asked him if he wanted the beatings to stop. Next thing he knew, his dad was dead.
Dean asked if the stranger wanted anything in return for the deed and the kid said nothing, only that the stranger said he come back in about ten years. Mary pulls Dean aside and asks what he thinks, and Dean said he believe the kid just sold his soul to a demon without knowing it.
Mary goes back and asked the kid what the guy looked like and he said he looked completely normal except for one thing: his eyes.
Guess what color they were? You got it -- yellow.
Back at the Campbells, Dean tries to persuade Grandma and Grandpa that they're all in danger and they need to leave, but they don't believe him. So Dean announces he's going to kill the yellow-eyed demon himself. With what? says Grandpa Samuel. Dean tells him there's a hunter in Colorado named Daniel Elkins who has the Colt. Grandpa Campbell doesn't believe that either, saying the Colt is legend...and besides, even if it were real, how would he know where to find the demon? Dean busts out his father's journal, which includes a list of anyone he thought had ever come in contact with the yellow-eyed demon. He shows Samuel Tom Whitshire's name. Samuel wonders why the Whitshires are on the list since the murders happened only a few days ago. Dean explains that his dad is psychic, then finds the next name on the list, Liddy Walsh, who lives barely three miles up the road in a nearby town. Dean vows to stop the demon, and heads out, stopping to say goodbye to Mary before he goes.
He tells Mary that he likes John, that they're meant to be. "Hell, I'm depending on it," he mutters. Then he asks Mary what John's like, and she offers that he's sweet, kind, and he came back from the war still believing in happily ever after. "He's everything a Hunter isn't -- no offense," she says. Then she shares that she knows John is going to ask her to marry him. "Dad's going to explode! But I don't care. I'll run away if I have to. I love John and...I want to get out."
Mary hates being a hunter, and she wants a family. She wants to be safe. t' "You know the worst thing is I can think of, the very worst thing?" she asks Dean. "It's for my children raised into this like I was."
Dean starts to cry and make Mary promise to remember something, even if it sounds weird. She agrees.
"On November 2nd, 1983, don't get out of bed. No matter what you hear, or what you see. Promise me you won't get out of bed." Tears are pouring down his cheeks now, and Mary's confused. "Okay," she says, and Dean leaves.
As Dean's's driving off to Colorado, Castiel appears in the passengers seat. "So what, God is my co-pilot? Is that it?" Dean cracks. Then he asks why Castiel didn't bring Sam back with him on this adventure -- he'd want in on it. Castiel tells Dean that he has to do this alone. Dean wonders if Castiel cares that Sam's searching for him, and Castiel says, "Sam is not looking for you."
Dean asks whether, if he stops the demon, everything will be OK and he and Sam will grow up like normal kids.
Castiel replies, "You realize, if you do alter the future, your father, you, Sam will never become Hunters, and all those people you saved will die?"
"I realize that," Dean whispers
"And you don't care?"
"I care. I care a lot," Dean says, going on to say that these are his parents, and he's not going to let them die again. Castiel disappears.
In Colorado, Dean breaks into Daniel Elkins safe and takes the Colt. Daniel comes up behind him with a shotgun and tries to stop Dean, but Dean turns and draws on him, telling him that he needs to Colt to save his family. "If you want to stop me," he says, "then kill me." He turns the gun away from Daniel to give him the advantage and slowly turns to walk out. Daniel keeps his shotgun trained on Dean for a moment, then relents and lowers it.
"There are some hunters in Lawrence, the Campbells," Dean says.
"Never heard of 'em," Daniel said.
"That's where she'll be," Dean finishes, and walked out.
At the Campbells, Mary and Samuel are cleaning their guns, and Mary asks where Dean said he was going. Samuel tells her of Sam's plan to kill a demon, and says he's going to find him at some house in a nearby town, the Walshes. Liddy Walsh? Mary asks, and Samuel says yes. Liddy Walsh is a friend of Mary's. She tells Samuel she'll be in the car.
At Liddy Walsh's, a doctor is telling her that her parent's cancer has metastasized, and it's time to make arrangements. However, there is a cure. All he has to do is be allowed to visit in ten years. His eyes flash yellow just as Samuel Campbell and Mary come in, guns blazing. Samuel shoots the good doctor in the gut, but the Yellow-Eyed demon comes to the fore, and knocks Samuel's weapon out of his hands. Mary comes up from behind him and slashes with her knife. He smiles. "Hello," the demons says flirtatiously. Where have they been hiding you?" He tells her he likes her, even as he catches her kick and nearly kills her. Dean comes in just in time and aims The Colt at the demon, who recognizes the gun and immediately leaves the body he's been possessing, escaping into a vent.
As they leave, Dean asks Mary what the demon told her, and she worriedly repeats what he said: He likes her. Dean is angry at himself for missing the shot and pulls Samuel aside, telling him they need to talk. Alone.
Back at the Campbell household, Dean sits down with Samuel and tells him that he needs to kill the Yellow-Eyed Demon now, or Mary will die. Samuel doesn't understand, and asks Dean if he's some kind of a psychic. Dean decides to come clean to his grandfather, telling him that what he's about to say is going to sound massively, massively crazy, then spills the beans: "Mary is my mother. I am your grandson. And I know what the hell I'm talking about." He says his real name is Dean Winchester, tells him what day he was born, and tell his grandfather that Mary will be killed in 1983..and that he thinks this is the night the Yellow-Eyed Demon caught Mary's scent.
While this is happening, Mary runs to meet John and hugs him tearfully. "You promised to take me away?" Mary asks him.
"Of course I did," John says, to which she replies, "Do it now." They get into the Impala.
Samuel says that against everything that seems sane, he believes Dean and tells him he's ready to find the demon. He asks Dean if he has the Colt, and Dean pulls it out. Samuel asks to hold it, and Dean considers for a moment, then denies him. "Sorry, I don't let anybody hold it."
"I'm your grandfather," Samuel says. Dean tells him, "It's nothing personal."
"Sure it is. Especially when it's me you're trying to kill." Grandpa's eyes flash yellow as he knocks the Colt out of reach -- and pins Dean to the wall! Dean looks at him in a helpless rage. The demon, in Samuel's body, realizes that Dean must have the help of angels in order to time travel from the future...but he didn't realize that he was going to kill Dean's mother! He asks if Mary is his mother, then perhaps Dean is one of his psychic kids? He sniffs Dean...no. Must be a sis? Or a bro? Dean flinches angrily. The Yellow-Eyed Demon is pleased. That means it all worked out, he says, "After all, that's why I'm here."
He explains to Dean that he's not there to harvest souls, he's there to choose the perfect parents, like Dean's mother. And why would he choose kids from a small Midwestern town? "Because they're strong. They're pure. They eat their Wheaties! My own little master race. They're idea breeders."
He calms Dean's mind -- nobody's breeding with him...although he offers to make an exception for Mary. Dean notices his grandmother, Deana, hiding behind them in the kitchen and keeps the demon's attention on him by continuing the interview. Why make the deals now? Oh, because he has to be invited in. Some sort of cosmic rule. But, he says, in 10 years it'll all be worth it. He's going to bleed into Sammy's mouth, he says, and make him strong. For what, Dean asks? The Yellow-Eyed Demon doesn't tell him, saying that his endgame is a lot bigger than that. "I'm gonna cover my track good!" he whispers gleefully. Deana quietly creeps across the room to get The Colt.
Dean assures him that he's going to kill him, and the demon laughs. "Maybe not today," Dean says, "but you look into my eyes, you sonofbitch, because I'm the one who kills you."
The Yellow-Eyed Demon laughs at him, and tells him there's one person he won't save: His grandpappy. The demon pulls out a knife and stabs himself in the gut. Deana screams, and the demon turns on her, throwing her across the room. He walks over to her as she's crawling across the floor and grabs her head, snapping her neck. Dean gets free in just enough time to grab the Colt, but he realizes the demon is going after Mary.
Cut to John and Mary parked by a river. John pulls out the engagement ring and asks for her hand, but she tells him that there are things he doesn't know about her. "So?" John says, showing the ring. "I will always love you for exactly who you are."
That's when the Yellow-Eyed Demon shows up, only Mary still thinks it's her dad. He roughly pulls Mary out of the car, and as John gets out to help her, the demon throws Mary aside and in a quick motion, breaks his neck as well. Mary stoops to the ground and cradles him. "You killed him," she sobs.
The demon tells Mary that he didn't just kill John, he killed her parents too! The demon pulls back his jacket to show Mary the seeping wound in Samuel's gut. He tells Mary that she can go through life being desperate and alone, or he can bring John back. Not her parents, though. All she has to do is...well, you know the agreement. She asks if he wants her soul, and he assures her that she can keep that. All he wants is permission...he'll swing by her house in about 10 years for something.
"For what?" she asks. He doesn't say, but he tells her that as long as he's not interrupted, nobody will get hurt. He promises. Now, about that kiss...Mary stares down at John and cries. No, Mary, no!
But, oh the sadness...as Dean drives up with the Colt at the ready, he sees his mother kissing his grandfather -- which is bad enough, except it's actually the Yellow-Eyed Demon. As he gets out, the smoke comes out of Samuel's mouth, and the demon's gone. Mary looks mournfully at Dean, then looks down just as John wakes up.
Castiel appears, lays his hand on Dean's shoulder...and transports him back to his motel room bed.
Dean sits up panting, and Castiel is sitting there, staring out. Dean realizes he's failed -- he couldn't stop Mary. She made the deal, and she still died in the nursery.
Castiel calmly says, "Don't be too hard on yourself. You couldn't have stopped it. Destiny can't be changed, Dean. All roads lead to the same desination."
"So why did you send me back?" Dean says angrily
"For the truth," Castiel explains. "Now you know everything we do."
Castiel gazes at Sam's bed, and Dean looks too, noticing it's empty.
"Where's Sam?" he says with worry.
"We know what Azazael did to your brother. What don't know is why. We don't know what Azazael's endgame is." He went to great lengths to cover his tracks, Castiel adds.
"Where's Sam?" Dean asks again, and Castiel gives him the address: 425 Waterman. Dean moves to pack up and head out. "Your brother is headed down a dangerous road, Dean," warns Castiel."And we don't know where it leads. So stop it...or we will."
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