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DEAN: <br />All right. So, what's happening?

DEAN: <br />Yeah. The, uh, tough, old leatherneck.

SONNY: <br />Mm-hmm. Well, somehow, that ancient, rusty, broken-down tractor just roared to life and ran him over the other night.

SAM: <br />Maybe -- – maybe it just, uh, slipped out of park or something.

SONNY: <br />Couldn't have. (Shakes his head.) You know, I never -- – I never believed any of this mumbo-jumbo stuff you boys are into, but... something ain't right.

SAM: <br />What do you mean?

SONNY: <br />Well, just … things started happening -- – you know, lights flickering on and off, strange scratching sounds coming from inside the walls, windows and doors slamming.

DEAN: <br />All right. You think you can round up the boys while we take a look around?

SONNY: <br />Well, that shouldn't be a problem. Most are home on break -- – well, except those with no home worth going to.

DEAN: <br />Mm.

DEAN (to SAM): <br />All right. Why don't you take the house? I'll check out the barn.

SAM: <br />Yeah.

SAM: <br />Hey. I am so sorry. I-I-I thought I... saw something in, uh --–

RUTH <br />Like a ghost? (sounding She sounds more human and pleasant for the first time, and looking looks at the window.): Like a ghost?

RUTH: <br />Sonny told me you were old friends, but … I know why you're really here. That's why I was praying for us.

SAM: <br />Praying for what?

RUTH (smils smiles slightly): <br />For the ghost that haunts this farm to leave.

DEAN opens and shuts the barn door. Pigeon sounds. He walks through the shadowy light and whips out his old EMF detector which makes a "wheee--oooowheee–oooo" chattering sound. DEAN<br />All right, Casper... Where're you at?

DEAN: All right, Casper... Where're you at? (puts the EMF back in his pocket) . (He hears a noise … a kid's voice … and walks and opens toward it, opening another door … it's to a dim in hereroom.)

DEAN calls out: <br />Hello? (stills He reaches out to still a swinging lightbulb.) Anybody here? (whirls around)

DEAN: whirls around to a sound. HeyIt's the third kid, kidwith glasses, what are you doing seen earlier in here by yourself?the barn scene.

DEAN: What kind of Kid<br />Fighting monsters?.

TIMMY: All sorts with Bruce the monster smasher. (holds up dollDEAN<br /action figure)>What kind of monsters?

DEAN: HmKID<br />All sorts, with Bruce the monster smasher. Is that a cape? Little impractical for smashing monsters, huh? You know, you could choke --(holds up doll/action figure)

TIMMY activates DOLL which says: <i>I clobber evil!DEAN<br /i>Hm. Is that a cape? Little impractical for smashing monsters, huh? You know, you could choke --

DEAN: (chuckles slightly) The KID activates DOLL which says<br /><i>I bet you do.clobber evil!</i>

DEAN: <br />(chuckles slightly)<br />I bet you do.<br />(pauses)<br />I'm Dean. <br />(holds out his hand)

KID (TIMMY): <br />Timmy. (shakes hand)

DEAN: <br />Let's try that again. If you're gonna be a man, you got to learn how to shake like one, okay? So give me your best Kung Fu grip. Good. (They shake again.) Now look me straight in the eye. Let me know that you mean business. Shake as hard as you can. (Shake again.) That's it. You shake like that, you'll be all right. (TIMMY smiles.) Hey, Timmy, did you know Jack who worked here?

TIMMY nods: <br />MM-hmmm (he says, very quietly)

DEAN: <br />What can you tell me about him?

TIMMY: <br />He yelled a lot. He was yelling when he had his accident.

DEAN: <br />How do you know that?

TIMMY: <br />'Cause me and the other boys were playing here when it happened.

DEAN: <br />Did you see anything? (TIMMY shakes his head no.) Is there anything else about that night that you can remember, anything at all?

TIMMY: <br />It suddenly … got really cold. (DEAN looks thoughtful.) Can I go? I have to finish my chores before Miss Ruth gets mad.

DEAN: <br />That Ruth -- – she runs a tight ship, huh? Yeah, you better roll.

RUTH (to SAM): <br />I grew up in this town. I used to come up here as a little girl. The Wasserlaufs, Howard and Doreen -- they used to own this farm back then. (View from above, as if someone is watching them.) My co-worker, Jack, may he rest in peace, he worked here as a farmhand. Howard was a nice man, but... Well, he'd get into that corn liquor, and … one night he got it into his thick skull that Jack and his wife, Doreen, were rolling around in the hay. It wasn't true, but -- but Howard's paranoia got the better of him. He tried to kill them both. Jack got away, but Doreen...

SAM: <br />He killed her?

RUTH: <br />With a meat cleaver. Got life in jail. Which for Howard ended a year ago. He always swore he'd get his revenge on poor old Jack, and ... looks like he finally got it.

SAM: <br />Is Howard buried here in town?

SAM: <br />So … Dad didn't want you to tell me. How come? Was this place really so bad?

DEAN: <br />I don't really remember. I mean, look, nobody bad touched me. Nobody burned me with their smokes, or beat me with a metal hanger. I call that a win.

DEAN hits something hard with his shovel.  DEAN: (hitting the coffin) <br />Hey. (they open up the coffin, pour salt)

SAM and DEAN open up the coffin to reveal a corpse. They pour salt over it, liberally. DEAN (sighs): <br />All right. Let's barbecue old MacDonald here, get the hell out of Dodge.

It's daytime, and the IMPALA is on the road -- – driving, we presume, away from SONNY's.

RUTH: <br />Help! Help!

SONNY: <br />Ruth, you okay? What's wrong?

SONNY: <br />Open up!

SONNY: <br />Ruth!