- Investigating two mysterious deaths in a small town, Sam and Dean discover a witch is sacrificing people to summon an ancient powerful and extremely dangerous demon.
- As Halloween approaches, Sam and Dean investigate mysterious deaths linked to an ancient witchcraft order bent on raising a powerful demon on Halloween, named Samahain, who can raise every evil being, and they are forced to call upon the angel Castiel for help.—Anonymous
- Two days before Halloween, Luke Wallace swallows four razor blades after eating a Halloween candy and dies. Sam and Dean use their fake identity of FBI agents to investigate the mysterious murder case; then the teenager Jenny also dies and the Winchester brothers conclude that a witch is behind the bizarre crimes. Castiel and the aggressive Uriel visit them and disclose that the witch Tracy Davis is summoning the demon Samahain, breaking another seal to release Lucifer. The angels tell that they will withdraw Sam and Dean from the doomed town that they will destroy, but the brothers do not accept the proposal and decide to destroy the evil witch.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- THEN!
We see all the various monsters Sam and Dean have faced on Halloween -- which, for them, is practically every day -- and it really is an impressive amount. Better yet! We get a remind of Castiel's mission to stop Lilith from breaking the 66 seals, and Sam using his demonic psychic abilities.
NOW!
It's two days before Halloween. Kids are setting up lawn decorations, and a young wife heads into her house with grocery bags full of candy. Her husband is watching their baby and, moments after wifey arrives with the loot, hubby starts angling to sneak a sweet or seven. She bats his hand away a couple of times, reminding him that they ran out early last time. Then she takes over baby watching duties, walking out of the room to give the kid a bath.
As soon as she leaves husband sneaks to the cupboard and swipes a piece of candy, greedily savoring it. He grabs another, chews away and...suddenly something stops him as he cringes in pain. He reaches into his mouth and from his soft palate dislodges... a razor blade. Before he can process this, he begins to choke and vomit blood...and another razor blade! He collapses to the floor and convulses for a moment, then stops moving. His wife comes in with the baby and, upon seeing his body, starts screaming.
One day before Halloween, and Sam and Dean are on the scene and in costume. As FBI Agents, naturally.
How many razor blades did they find? Sam asks the wife, who we find out is named Mrs. Wallace. Two on the floor, one in his stomach, one stuck in his throat. The police didn't find any razors in the rest of the candy. Dean checks the oven, which confuses Mrs. Wallace, since the candy was never near here. She turns her attention back to the subject at hand. This is the kind of thing she thought was an urban legend, she says.
Yes, sometimes urban legends end up being real. Dean walks over to the fridge and notices by a skid mark on the floor, indicating that it has recently been moved. That's when he finds what he's looking for: a hex bag.
Sam asks if her hubby, Luke Wallace, might have gotten on someone's bad side. Perhaps an affair? Is there a woman who might want to off him?
Mrs. Wallace is incensed at the thought. "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 that he might eat?"
Well, maybe. Except for the fact that lady, this is "Supernatural."
Back at the hotel, Sam opens the pouch and examines its contents, and is shocked by what he sees. This is no ordinary hex bag, he tells Dean. Inside is an herb that's been extinct for 200 years. A Celtic coin, the real deal. And a charred metacarpal bone from a newborn baby, which grosses Dean out, even though it's a hundred years old.
Sam asks Dean what he found out about Luke Wallace, Dean's impressed with how squeaky clean he is. "He's so vanilla he made vanilla seem spicy," he tells Sam. "I can find any reason that anyone would want this guy dead.
Cut to a teenager's party, and two girls dressed as two Halloween classics, the cheerleader and the naughty nurse, are talking about how lame the party is with a guy (who, for the record, is dressed as a zombie). No booze, nothing. Then they see an apple bobbing tub. The cheerleader gives it a whirl and gets her apple on the first try. Then naughty nurse gives it a go...but can't get her head out of the water. Her pals think she's just showing off by holding her breath...but then it become apparent that she's struggling. The nurse and the zombie go over to assist her, but they can't pull her free. Then the water begins to boil, with no heat source nearby! The naughty nurse becomes a screaming hottie nurse for a moment before she stops moving. When he pull her out, her face is red and covered in blisters. Another one bites the dust, but not the apples.
Agent Seeger (Dean) and Agent Lee (Sam) stop by to ask some questions and chat with the cheerleader. For Dean it's mostly because she's tempting jail bait. She recounts the story of the boiling apple vat. The boys ask her if she knows a guy named Luke Wallace. The cheerleader says she has no idea who that is.
The boys head back to motel without much of a lead. Dean can't get over how innocent the victims are, and can't figure out who would want to do them harm.
After a bit of research, Sam figures out what's going on. Nobody's trying to get payback, he realizes. Someone's trying to work a spell. Specifically, a spell to raise Samhain. Doing so requires three blood sacrifices over three days, the last before the end of the final day of the final harvest, the day we know as Halloween.
Dean cracks a few jokes, but Sam is all business, laying out a history lesson to imbue everything that's going to happen over the next 30 minutes or so with some special context. Settle in for a spell kids. Time to learn something!
Samhain is the demon who is the origin of Halloween. The Celts believed that on Halloween, the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. People wore masks to hide from Samhain. They also put candy on their doorsteps to appease him. He was exorcised centuries ago. Years after the old ways died away, the innocent aspects of Halloween-- kids, candy and costumes -- remained intact.
Sam points out that raising Samhain requires the sort of heavy duty witchcraft that can only be carried out every 600 years. And when is the next 600 year opportunity? Oh...only tomorrow night
It gets better! Samhain likes company, Sam says. Once he's raised, he can do some raising of his own. He'll call up every little dark nasty the boys ever thought of, and they'll follow him around, wreaking havoc.
Ghosts? Yes. Demons? Check. Zombies? Uh-huh. Leprechauns? Those little hands are scary, Dean argues. But Sam throws some water on his goofing off by making the stakes clear: If Samhain is raised, every evil they've ever fought will come back for round two, right there in that spot. Bad news.Time for a plan!
Later, Dean is staking out the Wallace house in the Metallicar, eating way too much candy. At first he thinks he's got absolutely nothing, but then Tracy walks up to the door and Mrs. Wallace answers, greeting Tracy warmly and handing over the baby. Tracy is the Wallace's babysitter!
So why, oh why, did she lie? Sam does a little background check on Tracy and finds out which school she goes to -- or rather, went to. Seems she was tossed out following a violent altercation with one of her teachers.
So the Agents head over to the school's art room where one kid is pulling a bong from the kiln, and the recent class project seems to have been masks. Dean stares at one of the more menacing looking ones and suddenly hears Hell screams in his head. Sam asks what's wrong, and Dean pretends to shrug it off.
The teacher, Mr. Hardy -- Don -- introduces himself and tells the tale of Tracy's altercation. She's a great kid, he tells them. Loads of talent. But one day she suddenly exploded at the art teacher. He had noticed her weird behavior, including covering pages weird symbols. Then there were the drawings -- gory murders, with her in the center of them. The art teacher directs the boys to Tracy's apartment, explaining she arrived a year ago as an emancipated minor.
"God only knows what her parents were like," he says with a chuckle.
Kill the cheerleader, save the world? Big fun.
The guys head back to home base and encounter a fat kid in an astronaut suit, demanding candy. "This is a motel," Dean points out.
"So?" the kid says.
"So we don't have any candy," Dean tells him. Sam disagrees, beginning to say they had a bunch in the car, but Dean tells him it's gone. Because he ate it all.
"I want candy," the kid whines.
"I think you've had enough," Dean snarls, being a meanie to a poor chubby kid, who walks away defeated. (Mmm...smell the comic relief in the air? You know that punch line's gonna be awesome!)
The boys head into their room and find Castiel is waiting for them with another guy, one not given to conversation. Mystery Man stares out of the window and refuses to acknowledge the Winchesters.
Sam looks happy and honored to meet Castiel and extends his hand. Castiel pauses at first, then shakes with Sam. "Sam Winchester, the boy with the demon blood. I'm glad to hear you've ceased your extracurricular activities."
"Let's keep it that way," Mystery Man snarls.
Before an introduction can be made, Castiel asks if they've killed the witch. Dean tells him no, but they know who it is. Castiel replies, "Apparently the witch knows who you are, too." He produces a hex bag they found inside the wall. If the hadn't found it, one or both of the boys would have been dead, breaking the hearts of ladies everywhere. But we digress.
Castiel asks if they know where the witch is now, and Dean says they're working on it. "That's unfortunate," Castiel says, explaining that raising of Samhain is one of the 66 seals, and the breaking of the seal must be prevented at all costs. Castiel tells them that this witch is very powerful, and that's she's cloaked even to the angels.
The boys give Castiel their assurance that they'll take care of the problem, and the Mystery Man in the corner barks, "Enough of this."
Castiel gruffly introduces the guy as Uriel, saying that he's what people might think of as "a specialist." Uh oh.
Dean asks what kind of a specialist, and gets no reply. He asks what the angels intend to do.
After a pause, Castiel says. "Both of you, you need to leave this town immediately,"
"Why?" Dean asks.
"Because we're about to destroy it." A bit beyond tossing out the baby with the bath water, wouldn't you say?
Dean can't believe that they're just going to smite the entire town, but Uriel very casual about it. There are 1214 people in the town, Uriel tells Sam, but hey -- no big! This is not the first time he's "purified" a burg. (This I know, cuz the bible tells me so!)
The Winchesters aren't having it. Castiel explains that it's the lives of 1000 versus the lives of six billion. Focus on the big picture, Dean! If Lucifer rises, all of Hell rises with him! And it won't be anything like that hidden level on Guitar Hero!
Sam tries to reason with Castiel and Uriel, but Uriel couldn't care less, castigating his partner for wasting time with "these mud monkeys." Ooh! Angel slur!
Dean is silent, and Castiel looks into his eyes. Dean asks Castiel if he's ever defied order for the sake of the greater good, and Castiel tells him, "Even if you can't understand it, have faith. The plan is just."
"How can you say that?" Sam said.
"Because it comes from heaven. That makes it just," Castiel replies.
Dean tells him the plan has changed, saying that if they're going to smite the town, the angels are going to have to smite him with it, because he's not leaving. Dean reasons that if Castiel went through the trouble of getting him out of Hell, then surely he must be worth something to the man upstairs. This makes the angels pause.
Dean assures Castiel that he and Sam will find the witch and stop the summoning. Uriel moves to protest but Castiel silences him, then turns to Dean. "I suggest you move quickly," Castiel says.
The boys head out to the car, and find it has been egged. Dean screams out angrily, "Astronaut!" Which gets the point across and makes us laugh without getting the FCC involved. Rimshot!
They get in, and Sam looks out of sorts. He's bothered by the angels.
"I thought they'd be different," Sam says. "I mean, I thought they'd be righteous."
"They are righteous. That's the problem," Dean tells him. "There's nothing more dangerous than some a-hole who thinks he's on a holy mission."
"But, this is God and Heaven?" asks Sam. "This is what I've been praying to?"
Dean calms him down, telling him not to judge God by the actions of a couple of his followers, who, for all they know, might not even be his favorite guys. "Don't give up on this stuff, is all I'm saying," Dean tells him. "I mean, Babe Ruth was a dick, but baseball's still a beautiful game."
Dean starts the car, and Sam contemplates the charred baby bone, wondering aloud how much heat it would take to get a human bone this black. Much more than what would be provided by a fire or a regular oven. Then it clicks into place for Sam. Next stop: the art teacher's classroom.
There, Dean wonders if Tracy used the kiln to blacken the bone, and Sam lays it out for him. The hex bag didn't show up in their room after they had a talk with Tracy. It showed up after they chatted up the teacher. They look around and Sam finds a drawer with a lock on it. He uses a hammer to bust it open and finds a bunch children's bones inside.
While the Winchesters are doing recon, Uriel and Castiel sit outside on a park bench, watching kids in costumes parade by. Castiel tells Uriel the decision has been made.
Uriel laughs. "By a mud monkey," he sniffs. Castiel tells his partner that he shouldn't call them that, warning Uriel that he's flirting with blasphemy.
"There's a reason we were sent to save him. He has potential. He may succeed here," Castiel says. "At any rate, it's out of our hands."
Uriel insinuates that doesn't have to be the case, that they could just drag Dean away and blast the town off of the map.
"You know our true orders," Castiel forcefully responds. "Are you prepared to disobey?"
Halloween night. The kids are out trick-or-treating, and in the basement of a darkened house, the art teacher is performing an incantation...as the cheerleader, who is gagged and has her wrists bound with a rope hanging from a ceiling beam, wriggles and cries with fright behind him. He picks up a knife and walks over to her, toying with the blade before he goes to stab her in the chest -- and is cut down by three bullets as Dean and Sam shoot her.
The boys slice the girl's bonds, and the cheerleader cries, shakily blurting that the art teacher was going to kill her. Well, duh.
"I mean, did you see him? Did you hear what he was saying?" she says, still crying for a moment...before dropping her act! "Did you hear how sloppy those incantations were?" Ohmigod -- they were in cahoots!!
With a wave of her hand, the witch sends Sam and Dean flying across the room and holds them down with a spell that makes them writhe with pain. Time for a monologue! The spell required two witches, she explains, and the art teacher was her brother. She couldn't stand having him around for six hundred years and was wondering how she was going to kill him. And here Sam and Dean do it for her, providing the final blood sacrifice with a gun! Ain't that a B.
She squirts blood from her dead brother's wound into the ceremonial goblet and informs Sam and Dean that they're about to see what Halloween's really about.
As she finishes the incantation, Sam pulls herself close to the dead guy and puts his hand in the puddle of blood, rubbing some on his face and Dean's. "Just follow my lead," Sam tells the grossed out Dean, and they go back to playing dead.
The ground cracks, black smoke emerges and seeps into the art teacher, whose eyes open and go milky white. He stands and walks over to the witch, who greets him with, "My love."
"You've aged," Samhain says to the dewy teenager. The one place crueler to aging women than Hollywood? Hell.
"This face," she says. "I can't fool you."
"Your beauty is beyond time," he says, gently taking her face into his hands. As she coyly smiles, he cracks her neck. Samhain got no time for the hoes, baby!
Turning around, he sees Sam and Dean playing dead on the floor, looks at them for a moment, then walks out. Once they're clear, Dean asks what the hell happened, and Sam reminds him that people used to wear masks to hide from Samhain. Apparently the blood worked, although Dean was a touch miffed that Sam's move was his way of "giving it a shot."
Samhain walks past gaggles of costumed kids, apparently not seeing any of them. Sam and Dean run to the car and, guessing that Mr. Halloween's next move is to raise some pals, gun it to the cemetery. On the way there, Sam tells Dean that stopping Samhain might take more than the "usual" weapons, but Dean shoots his brother down -- no way he's going to give him permission to use that psychic devil hoodoo! The angels told him to stick with Ruby's knife, and that's what they're supposed to do.
"You said so yourself, that these powers are like playing with fire," Dean reminds Sam. Sam glares at Dean, who hands him the knife and says, "Please." He takes little brother's silence to mean he agrees.
In a mausoleum at the cemetery, the teenagers -- including our zombie from earlier -- are having a party, because as we all know, the best place to get down is with the dead. Samhain descends the stairs and the kids recognize him as Mr. Hardy, saying, "Hey, Don."
Don Samhain closes the gates to the chamber, smiles and walks away. The zombie kid calls after him, tell him that he's locked them in. That's when the partygoers hear a loud rattling in the crypt. One of the interment niches opens near the fake zombie kid's feet as a real zombie reaches out and pulls him inside, reducing him to a red splatter. Everyone screams! At that moment, Dean and Sam rush down the stairs and rattle the gate, attempting to open it. Sam, against Dean's protests, tells Dean he's heading after Samhain. Dean tells the kids to step back and shoots the lock, freeing them without a second to lose: The chambers fly open, and the dead begin to crawl out. Dean puts his game face on and pulls out a silver blade. "Bring it on, stinky," he growls.
Sam, meanwhile, finds Samhain in a chamber and starts to walk up behind him. Samhain turns around and shoots white light out of his hand, the same trick Lilith tried in last year's season finale. Sam keeps coming, swaggering at little at unnerving Samhain with his demon raygun immunity. The fists fly!
Back in the crypt, Dean impales two of the zombies with blades, shutting them down. He turns his head in time to see a third. Standing to face her, he moves to run her through with a blade, only to have her vanish, reappear behind him, and send him flying into a wall. He looks angry as he recovers. "Zombie ghost orgy, huh? That's it. I'm torching everybody."
Back to the other battle! Samhain has Sam by the throat, and Sam pulls out Ruby's blade to deal the death blow -- but the ancient demon blocks it, and is surprised to see his skin sizzle! He tosses off the blade and throws Sam across the room, opposite the weapon. As Samhain rushes Sam Winchester, the boy with the demon blood raises his hand and stops him in his tracks, using his psychic power. Samhain manages to take another step forward, but Sam strains more forcefully, grimacing as blood gushes out of his nose. The demon smoke seeps out of the bullet holes in Don's body then, finally, out of his mouth as Sam sends Mr. Halloween back to Hell. Dean rounds the corner to catch this show, watching it in silent, slackjawed horror.
One day after Halloween, the motel. Sam is packing, and Uriel drops in unannounced and reminds him that the next day is November 2 -- the anniversary of Azazel killing Sam's mother and 22 years later, his girlfriend. "Must be difficult to bear," Uriel observes. "Yet you brazenly use the power he gave you. His profane blood pumping through your veins." Sam argues that this was a special circumstance -- and really, who isn't inclined to agree with him?
Uriel reminds Sam that he may consider this is his second reminder. (Does God adhere to the three strikes rule, too?) Sam says through clenched teeth that Dean was right: Uriel really is a dick.
That doesn't sit well with the angelic specialist, who gets all up in Sam's grill and informs him that the only reason he's still alive is that he's been useful. The moment that ceases to be true, says Uriel, "One word -- one -- and I will turn you to dust."
The shocked look on Sam's face is enough to tell us that he gets the message.
"As for your brother," Uriel adds, turning to leave, "Tell him that maybe he should climb off of that high horse of his. Ask Dean what he remembers from Hell."
With that, Heaven's surliest angel vanishes.
Dean, meanwhile, sits in a park where children are playing when Castiel appears to him. Dean thinks it was to lay his "I told you so" on him, but Castiel tells him no -- that actually, their
Dean goes on to admit that he failed the test, but if they were to go back in time, he'd do it again. Dean goes on to remind Castiel that the trees, the kids, all of it is there because of what he and Sam did.
"You misunderstand me, Dean," Castiel says. "As a matter of fact, I was praying that you'd tell me to save the town. These people, they are all my father's creations. They're why I work so hard." That said, Castiel adds, the seal was still broken, which places humanity one step further to witnessing Hell on Earth.
"That's not an expression, Dean. That's literal," Castiel tells him. "You of all people should appreciate what that means."
Castiel tells Dean that he is not God's hammer. There are times when he doesn't know what is right or wrong. And he doesn't know if Dean passed or failed this test.
What Castiel does know is that in the coming months, Dean will have more these types of decisions to make.
"I don't have any idea of the weight that's on your shoulders, Dean," Castiel admits. "I truly don't."
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