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== Summary ==

Dean and Sam are investigating some mysterious disappearances when Sam himself goes missing, kidnapped from a parking lot in the same manner as the other victims. Dean ends up joining up with a local police officer, [[Deputy Kathleen Hudak]], whose own brother went mysteriously missing years ago. Though she discovers Dean's true identity along with his damaging [[Dean Winchester#Police records|police record]] ([[1.06]]), she agrees to continue the search for "cousin" Sam in hopes that she will also discover what happened to her own brother. Dean and Kathleen learn that the perpetrators are not paranormal at all, but instead a backwoods hillbilly family that hunts, kills, and presumably eats human prey for sport. Both Dean and Kathleen are captured before Sam, who has been locked in a steel cage for the duration, is able to get the upperhand on the cannibalistic Benders and free the other two. Kathleen, upon learning the fate of her brother, enacts her revenge by shooting Pa Bender in the head as he laughs in her face. She allows Sam and Dean to flee the scene with her gratitude before police backup arrives.