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(and the other half! dammit, Felicia, I'm literally posting this with the tears still drying on my cheeks.)
==ACT THREE==
'''INT BUNKER - LIBRARY - DAY'''
SAM is on the phone.
SAM
Charlie, it's Sam. Um, again. Call us. Okay? [starts coughing]
DEAN enters.
SAM
Hey.
DEAN
Any word from Charlie?
SAM
Uh, no. And there was no comic convention in Topeka. I don't know why... I mean, why would she lie to us?
DEAN
One way to find out.
DEAN pulls out his cellphone.
SAM
What are you doing?
DEAN
When I called you from her phone, I turned on her GPS.
'''INT. CHARLIE'S APARTMENT - DAY'''
The room is a mess, furniture flipped over and everything.
SAM (O.S.)
Charlie! Hey, Charlie, you in there?
SAM opens the door and enters, DEAN following right behind him.
SAM
Dean.
They quickly survey the room but find it empty. SAM spots the box of fake IDs.
SAM
The hell?
DEAN
What the hell is this place?
SAM
Whatever it is, it belongs to Charlie. [looking through the fake IDs] Or some variation of her.
DEAN
Who the hell is she, Jason Bourne? Okay, so we got no forced entry, so either it was somebody that she knew, or...
SAM
Djinn.
DEAN
[picking up Charlie's phone] Here's all our missed calls. You got anything on her laptop?
SAM
Yeah, um, she's been making donations through her aliases to Shawnee County General here in Topeka.
DEAN
What, a charity?
SAM
A patient. Gertrude Middleton.
DEAN
We need answers. I'll take Gertrude, you keep Djinn-digging.
'''INT. HOSPITAL - GERTRUDE'S ROOM - DAY'''
GERTRUDE MIDDLETON is lying in a hospital bed, comatose and on life support.
NURSE
Getrude's been in a persistent vegetative state for sixteen years. About a year ago her condition got worse. This ventilator is the only thing keeping her alive.
DEAN
How did this happen?
NURSE
She and her husband were hit by a drunk driver. He didn't make it. They were on their way to pick up their daughter from a sleepover.
DEAN
A daughter.
NURSE
She was twelve. She got into trouble after her parents' accident. Nobody's heard from her since. Folks have been donating to cover Gertrude's care over the years. It's a sweet gesture, but the truth is, she's gone.
DEAN
She ever get any visitors?
NURSE
A couple nurses said they thought they saw someone in here reading to her, but nobody's ever officially signed in to visit her. She's all alone. If you'll excuse me, I have to make my rounds.
DEAN
Thank you. [he walks over to Gertrude] You've got one hell of a daughter, Mrs Middleton. I promise you I will find her.
'''INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - DAY'''
CHARLIE is tied to a chair, struggling to try and get free.
JENNIFER
You're not going anywhere.
CHARLIE
(panicky)
Wilhelm Scream.
JENNIFER
You know what I smell on you?
CHARLIE
Deodorant? A little pee, maybe?
JENNIFER
Fear.
CHARLIE
Djinns smell fear?
JENNIFER
Well well well. If you know about Djinn, then you and your little friend are hunters, not FBI.
CHARLIE
No, I'm, I'm more hunter-in-training. Totally not worth killing.
JENNIFER
Oh, but you are worth killing, sweetheart. Yeah. You see, my kind, we prefer a more bitter taste to blood than the run of the mill Djinn. We prefer the taste of fear. And when I caught a whiff of you at that morgue, ooh, such delicious fear inside of you, I followed your scent. I knew you'd make a meal fit for two.
CHARLIE
For two?
JENNIFER grabs CHARLIE's arm.
CHARLIE
No!
Blue tattoos light up on the Djinn's arm. Her eyes light up blue as well. CHARLIE gasps.
'''INT. BUNKER - LIBRARY - DAY'''
SAM and DEAN enter.
SAM
So no chance of a recovery, huh.
DEAN
No. No, Gertrude seemed like a cool mom, too. Kind, strong, taken from her family way too young — remind you of anybody? (beat) Did you find anything?
SAM
I think so. A John Doe from nine years ago. The original coroner wanted the body sent to the CDC, but the coroner's new assistant "accidentally" ordered the body to be burned.
DEAN
New assistant?
SAM
Jennifer O'Brien.
DEAN
Coroner's a hell of a cover for hiding kills.
'''INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - DAY'''
JENNIFER releases CHARLIE's arm, leaving behind a blue handprint.
CHARLIE
My manly man-friend's gonna come get you, you creepy power-suit lady.
JENNIFER
Oh, let him come. He reeked of fear as well.
She grabs Charlie's arm again. CHARLIE screams, then passes out.
'''INT. BUNKER - LIBRARY - DAY'''
SAM
Now get this. CDC never heard from Jennifer this time either. She faked the reports, burned the bodies to cover her tracks.
DEAN
So why does she get sloppy again after nine years, start leaving the bodies where they can be found?
SAM
Well, let's go ask her. According to this, she owns two pieces of property in town, one two-bedroom house about ten minutes from here, and an abandoned shipping warehouse.
DEAN
Course she does.
'''INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - DAY'''
SAM and DEAN enter and make their way to the area where CHARLIE is being held. JENNIFER is nowhere to be seen. DEAN moves over to CHARLIE.
DEAN
Charlie. Charlie! Hey! [shakes her] Hey. Charlie.
SAM, meanwhile, explores the rest of the warehouse. Suddenly, JENNIFER creeps up behind him. He attempts to attack her, but she easily overpowers him. JENNIFER starts rolling up her sleeve. The tattoos and her eyes glow blue as she approaches SAM.
Suddenly, the blue light in her eyes dies out and she drops to the floor; DEAN has come up behind her and stabbed her with the silver blade.
DEAN
You okay?
SAM
Where's Charlie?
'''INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - MOMENTS LATER'''
SAM and DEAN run up to CHARLIE. SAM injects her with a syringe filled with blue liquid, but it has no effect.
DEAN
What the hell's going on?
SAM
I don't know. Different Djinn, maybe she needs a different antidote?
DEAN
Charlie? [touches CHARLIE's forehead] She's burning up, man, we're not letting her turn to jello.
SAM
Okay, okay, uh. Okay, Djinn poison puts your brain in something like a feedback loop while your blood boils, right?
DEAN
Right.
SAM
Um, if the antidote didn't break the loop, then maybe we can find a way to break it from the inside. I mean, if Djinn take you to your happy place, your happy place is like a dream —
SAM / DEAN (simultaneously)
African dream root.
'''INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - LATER'''
SAM unscrews a jar of African dream root. DEAN tips in a vial of ginger. SAM pulls out one of CHARLIE's hairs and adds it to the jar.
DEAN
Alright, let's do this. [he drinks the contents of the jar] Ugh. Okay. Alright, I'm gonna need to go sleep fast, so, punch me. [SAM gives him a look] Look, man, I know you don't want to, okay—
SAM punches him. DEAN staggers backwards a little, but isn't knocked out. SAM shakes his hand in pain.
DEAN
Well, you're a little off your game there, cause I was— that was pretty—
SAM punches him again and DEAN slumps into the unoccupied chair, unconscious.
'''INT. 1950s MILITARY HOSPITAL - NIGHT'''
DEAN wakes up.
CUT TO: DEAN picking up the newspaper.
CUT TO: DEAN being approached by the growling creature — which turn out to be two vampire soldiers.
The elevator behind DEAN opens. CHARLIE is inside it, in combat gear, carrying a shotgun. DEAN steps out of the way and CHARLIE exits the elevator, shooting both vampires.
CHARLIE
Come with me if you wanna live. (beat) I've always wanted to say that. What're you doing in my dream?
DEAN
You were attacked by a Djinn. The coroner, Jennifer, remember? Djinn usually send you to your, uh, your happy place— uh, no judgement, but, you got a really strange sense of happy, kiddo.
CHARLIE
Wait wait wait, no, no, no. Jennifer said that her kind feeds off fear. This isn't my happy place. It's a recurring nightmare of mine.
DEAN
What is this?
CHARLIE
It's a videogame.
DEAN
Wait a second, you're telling me that this whole thing is a videogame?
CHARLIE
It was called The Red Scare. A first person shooter against super-soldier vampires. I copied it off a game company's server before it was finished, reprogrammed it to reflect my flamingly liberal politics and then I released it. For free. Then they tracked me down and had me arrested. I was twelve.
DEAN
And you've been on the run ever since.
'''INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - NIGHT'''
SAM coughs, checks for blood, then glances over at CHARLIE and DEAN. There's a sound in the distance.
'''INT. 1950s MILITARY HOSPITAL - NIGHT'''
CHARLIE
So how do we get out of here?
DEAN
I don't know. We gave you the Djinn antidote, it didn't take. And I killed the Djinn.
CHARLIE
Both of them?
'''INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - NIGHT'''
SAM looks around the warehouse and sighs. The younger DJINN (JENNIFER's son) steps out from behind a corner.
DJINN
You killed my mom.
He approaches SAM and his eyes glow blue.
==ACT FOUR==
'''INT. 1950s MILITARY HOSPITAL - NIGHT'''
DEAN and CHARLIE are walking down a corridor.
DEAN
We gotta get back and help Sammy. Tell me about this game, maybe if we can win, we—
Several more vampire soldiers approach. DEAN and CHARLIE take them all out.
CHARLIE
Look, I don't know how long I've been out, but I've been through this level a thousand times already.
DEAN
What?!
CHARLIE
Every time I beat the level and save the patients, I get reset back to the beginning, only there's less weapons and the vampires are faster. [they kill two more vampires] It's an infinite loop. Like, Pac-Man without level 256.
DEAN
Level what?
CHARLIE
Nothing.
DEAN
Wait, what patients?
'''INT. 1950s MILITARY HOSPITAL - MOMENTS LATER'''
DEAN and CHARLIE lock themselves inside the patients' room. DEAN slides back the curtain around one of the beds to reveal GERTRUDE.
DEAN
Charlie? I know who this is.
CHARLIE comes over to have a look.
CHARLIE
What are you talking about?
DEAN
When you went missing, me and Sam found your little crash pad. We saw the payments that you make for her. So I went and visited your mom, looking for you.
CHARLIE
She's why I'm in Kansas. I sneak into the hospital whenever I can, and I just... I read to her. She used to read me to sleep at night when I was a kid. Sh— she'd read me The Hobbit. [blinks back tears] She's the reason I love the stuff I love.
DEAN
I'm sorry for your loss.
CHARLIE
(insulted)
She's not gone.
CHARLIE yanks the curtains closed and paces away. DEAN opens another curtain.
DEAN
Sam?
CHARLIE walks over.
CHARLIE
Is this my nightmare or yours?
The vampires start breaking down the doors to the patients' room.
'''INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - NIGHT'''
SAM is thrown to the ground by the DJINN, but crawls back up.
SAM
So, it wasn't your mom who messed up, it was you.
DJINN
Shut up!
He punches SAM, who drops to the ground again.
DJINN
I just came of age, I had to feed. I screwed up.
SAM reclaims the dropped silver blade as the DJINN looks over to JENNIFER's body.
DJINN
Mom knew how to cover her tracks. She always told me not to play with my food.
SAM comes up behind the DJINN and stabs him as he turns around.
SAM
Yeah, well, you should have listened to your mom.
The DJINN drops to the floor.
'''INT. 1950s MILITARY HOSPITAL - NIGHT'''
CHARLIE
This is it, the boss battle. Come on, we gotta save the patients.
DEAN
Wait wait wait. You said that we're stuck in a loop, right? But out there in the real world, you're dying. And I might be too. We gotta find a way to break this loop.
CHARLIE
Okay. How?
DEAN
I think the only way to stop this is to... not play.
CHARLIE
What?! No, no. We gotta save them. Not up, Winchester.
A vampire punches in through the door. DEAN shoots him
CHARLIE
See? You can't stop either.
DEAN
Listen to me. This poison, it designed to put your mind into an endless cycle, while your insides turn to mush, okay, and its fuel is fear. Now call me crazy, but I think the only way to break the cycle is to let go of the fear and stop playing the game.
CHARLIE
You don't know that. [shoots another vampire]
DEAN
I know that your fear is creating all of this. You're not afraid of those super-soldier vamps out there, you're not afraid of this game, and you're not afraid of what it did to you. [CHARLIE reloads, tearful] Hey! Look at me. You're afraid of losing her. (beat) Charlie, she's already gone.
CHARLIE
No. No, you don't understand. You don't understand! I was at a sleepover, and I got scared. So... [she starts tearing up] I called my parents to come and get me. They should never have been driving that night.
DEAN
It wasn't your fault.
CHARLIE
(crying)
I just wanna tell her that I'm sorry and that I love her. And just have her hear it again. I just need her to hear that one more time. But she can't. She can't.
DEAN
I know. Believe me, I know. But you gotta let it go. (beat) Game over, kiddo.
CHARLIE takes aim at the vampires near the door again, hesitates, then drops the shotgun. The vampires disappear.
DEAN walks over and opens what is left of the door; the hallway is empty. CHARLIE walks over to GERTRUDE's bed and slides open the curtain. The bed is empty as well.
CHARLIE
Mom?
'''INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - NIGHT'''
DEAN starts to wake up.
SAM
Dean? Dean. Hey. Hey! C'mere. You okay? What happened? [helps him out of the chair] What happened?
DEAN
I'm okay. [looks over to CHARLIE] Charlie?
CHARLIE wakes up, looks over at DEAN, and lets out a tearful gasp.
DEAN
I'm sorry. I had to.
CHARLIE starts sobbing again as DEAN pulls her into a hug.
==ACT FIVE==
'''EXT. BUNKER - DAY'''
CHARLIE, SAM and DEAN all exit the bunker. SAM hands CHARLIE her bag.
CHARLIE
So... thanks for saving our bacon.
SAM
Any time, your Highness.
CHARLIE
You know you're gonna be okay, right? Those books portray you as like, one tough customer. If anyone can get through the trials, Sam, it's you.
SAM
Thanks. You know, you really should come back and dig through our archives. You are definitely a Woman of Letters.
CHARLIE
I like the sound of that.
SAM hugs her and retreats to the bunker.
DEAN
Well, thanks for stopping by, Charlie. Always wanted to get Tron'ed. What's next for you?
CHARLIE
Gonna go by the hospital. (beat) Gotta let go, right? [DEAN nods] What about you, you're gonna let it go?
DEAN
Never.
CHARLIE
That's my boys. (beat) I love you.
DEAN
I know.
DEAN pulls CHARLIE into another hug and kisses her temple. CHARLIE waves and walks away.
'''INT. BUNKER - LIBRARY - DAY'''
DEAN enters.
SAM
Okay, look, you were right, I-I should've laid low, I— I know, I should've hung back, but I'm glad I was able to—
DEAN pulls him into a hug.
DEAN
What d'you say we find our prophet?
DEAN exits, leaving SAM standing there slightly bewildered.
'''INT. HOSPITAL - GERTRUDE'S ROOM - DAY'''
CHARLIE signs in and hands the NURSE back her clipboard.
NURSE
Take all the time you need with your mom, okay?
The NURSE exits. CHARLIE goes to sit by her mom's bedside. She brushes a lock of hair off GERTRUDE's face, then pulls a tattered book out of her bag.
CHARLIE
(tearful)
One last time, okay? [she turns the first page] "In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on, or to eat. It was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
'''END'''