1.02 Wendigo (transcript)

SUPERNATURAL

1.02 Wendigo

Written by: Eric Kripke (teleplay), Ron Milbauer and Terri Hughes Burton (story)

Directed by: David Nutter

Air Date: 20 Sep 2005

THEN

All scenes from 1.01 Pilot.

DEAN (voiceover)
Previously on Supernatural...

NOVEMBER 2, 1983

The Winchesters' suburban home.

WHAT HAPPENED
     THAT NIGHT

MARY runs up the stairs and into SAM's nursery.

JOHN gives baby SAM to DEAN.

JOHN
Take your brother outside as fast as you can! Now, Dean, go!

DEAN runs downstairs with SAM. JOHN looks back.

WHAT THEY
  WITNESSED

MARY burns on the ceiling.

JOHN
Mary! No!

JOHN watches the nursery burn, MARY with it.

SENT TWO
   BROTHERS

On Sylvania Bridge, DEAN and SAM turn to face the onlookers.

In SAM's apartment, DEAN speaks to SAM and JESS.

DEAN
Dad's on a hunting trip.

Outside CONSTANCE's house, DEAN fires through the Impala's window at CONSTANCE.

In SAM's bedroom, SAM pulls out his curved knife.

In SAM's apartment, DEAN speaks to SAM and JESS.

DEAN
And he hasn't been home in a few days.

SAM
Jess, excuse us.

ON A WUEST
  FOR ANSWERS
22 YEARS LATER

In the stairwell from SAM's apartment, SAM speaks to DEAN.

SAM
I swore I was done hunting.

In the Impala, CONSTANCE tries to rip SAM's heart out.

SAM
For good.

DEAN
I can't do this alone.

In SAM's bedroom, JESS speaks to SAM.

JESS
And now you're taking off in the middle of the night to spend the weekend with them?

SAM
Hey. Everything's going to be okay. I promise.

Outside, the Impala drives along a two-lane road.

SAM (voiceover)
You think Mom would have wanted this for us?

In JOHN's motel room, SAM looks at the photo JOHN left of the three Winchesters.

SAM (voiceover)
Dean, we were raised like warriors.

In SAM's apartment, SAM packs his curved knife.

On Sylvania Bridge, DEAN talks to SAM.

DEAN
You have a responsibility.

In 1983, JOHN and DEAN sit on the hood of the Impala, JOHN holding SAM.

SAM (voiceover)
To Dad? And his crusade?

On Sylvania Bridge, SAM talks to DEAN.

SAM
Even if we do find the thing that killed her, Mom's gone. And she isn't coming back.

DEAN grabs SAM by the collar and shoves him up against the railing of the bridge.

DEAN
Don't talk about her like that.

In the Jericho county sheriff's office, the SHERIFF throws down John's journal. The SHERIFF flips some of the pages.

DEAN (voiceover)
Dad's gone. I've got his journal. He left me a message.

In the Impala, SAM compares the coordinates in the journal to a map.

SAM (voiceover)
These coordinates he left us, it's weird, man.

In JOHN's motel room, SAM talks to DEAN.

SAM
Hey Dean? What I said earlier, I'm sorry.

DEAN raises a hand.

DEAN
No chick-flick moments.

SAM laughs.

In SAM's apartment, SAM lets himself in.

SAM
Jess?

In SAM's bedroom, he lies on the bed, eyes closed, and sighs. Blood drips on his forehead and he flinches, opens his eyes, and gasps in horror. JESS is pinned to the ceiling, bleeding.

SAM
No!

Outside SAM's apartment, DEAN watches the firefighters handle the situation, then goes to SAM at the Impala. SAM finishes loading a shotgun and tosses it in the trunk.

SAM
We've got work to do.

SAM shuts the trunk.

NOW

Blackwater Ridge
Lost Creek, Colorado

EXT. FOREST – NIGHT

Two tents are set up near a fire ring. Crickets chirp. Inside one tent, two YOUNG MEN, BRAD and GARY, are playing head-to-head handheld video games.

BRAD
Dude, you're cheating.

GARY
No, you just suck.

Something growls outside. In the other tent, a third YOUNG MAN, TOM COLLINS, records a video message on his cell phone.

TOM
Hey Haley, day six, we're still out near Blackwater Ridge.

Something dark flicks behind the tent wall behind TOM, too fast to be identifiable as more than 'something dark'; the screen on TOM's phone, displaying the video as TOM records it, caught it.

TOM
We're fine, keeping safe, so don't worry, okay? Talk to you tomorrow.

TOM stops recording and sends the message.

BRAD closes his game system and tosses it aside. GARY stares at his system for a moment, then turns to look at BRAD, who is getting up and unzipping the tent.

GARY
Hey, where ya goin? My moment of victory.

BRAD
Nature calls.

BRAD goes outside and zips up the tent behind him. He goes to stand against the tree to relieve himself. The fire crackles. Something snaps a stick. BRAD looks towards the sound and sees the trees rustling. BRAD shakes his head and returns his attention downward, then looks up sharply. Something growls.

Inside TOM's tent, TOM, who is reading Joseph Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces, hears BRAD scream. Inside GARY's tent, GARY hears the same and rolls over.

GARY
Brad?

TOM sits up.

TOM
Gary, what's goin on?

GARY opens the tent and sticks his head out to look around. He sees nothing. Growling. He looks up. Something pulls GARY out of the tent. He screams.

TOM turns out the lantern he had on. Shadows move very quickly around the outside of TOM's tent. TOM looks around, his eyes following the shadows and growling. Silence falls. Something slashes open TOM's tent. TOM screams.

ACT ONE

CEMETERY

Palo Alto, California

EXT. CEMETERY – DAY

Birds chirp. SAM, wearing a suit and tie and carrying a bouquet of various flowers excluding roses, walks through an otherwise deserted cemetery.

Starring
JARED PADALECKI

JENSEN ACKLES

SAM sighs and stops next to a gravestone. It reads "JESSICA LEE MOORE", "Beloved Daughter", "January 24th 1984 – November 2nd 2005". There is a small picture of a grinning JESS set into the stone above her name, a black-and-white picture of her leaning against the stone between a white teddy bear and a wooden box with a crucifix leaning on the picture, a small American flag next to the box, and three candles standing on the gravestone; one is of the Virgin de Guadalupe.

Guest Starring
CALLUM KEITH RENNIE

SAM looks between the gravestone and the flowers.

SAM
I, uh...

GINA HOLDEN

SAM laughs.

SAM
You always said roses were, were lame, so I brought you, uh...

ALDEN EHRENREICH

SAM looks at the picture set into the gravestone, then looks away, choking back tears. He steps closer to the gravestone.

SAM
Jess...oh God...

SAM kneels to set down the flowers.

Supervising Producer
PHIL SGRICCIA

SAM
I should have protected you. I should have told you the truth.

SAM leans the flowers in front of the crucifix. An arm covered in dirt shoots out of the ground and grabs SAM by the wrist.

IMPALA

INT. IMPALA – DAY

SAM jerks awake. It is 10 Nov 2005, he is riding shotgun next to DEAN, Foreigner's "Hot-Blooded" is playing, and the cemetery visit is days behind them if it ever occurred.

MUSIC
I'm hot-blooded, check it and see
I got a fever of a hundred and three
Come on, baby, do you do more than dance?

SAM blinks and rubs his eyes. DEAN looks over, concerned.

DEAN
You okay?

MUSIC
I'm hot-blooded

Producer
PETER JOHNSON

SAM glances over and away.

MUSIC
I'm hot-blooded

SAM
Yeah, I'm fine.

Co-Executive Producer
RICHARD HATEM

DEAN nods.

DEAN
Another nightmare?

SAM clears his throat.

MUSIC
You don't have to read my mind

Co-Executive Producer
JOHN SHIBAN

DEAN
You wanna drive for a while?

MUSIC
To know what I have in mind

Executive Producer
McG

SAM laughs.

MUSIC
Honey, you oughta know

SAM
Dean, your whole life you never once asked me that.

DEAN
Just thought you might want to. Never mind.

MUSIC
Now you move so fine

SAM
Look, man, you're worried about me.

MUSIC
Let me lay it on the line

SAM
I get it, and thank you, but I'm perfectly okay.

MUSIC
I wanna know

DEAN
Mm-hm.

MUSIC
What you're doing after the show

SAM grabs a map.

Produced by
CYRUS YAVNEH

SAM
All right, where are we?

Created by
ERIC KRIPKE

MUSIC
Now it's up to you

DEAN
We are just outside of Grand Junction.

MUSIC
We can make a secret rendezvous

SAM folds down the map, which is of Colorado and has a large red X labeled 35-111.

SAM
You know what?

MUSIC
Just me and you

SAM
Maybe we shouldn't have left Stanford so soon.

MUSIC
I'll show you lovin' like you never knew

DEAN
Sam, we dug around there for a week. We came up with nothing. If you wanna find the thing that killed Jessica—

SAM
We gotta find Dad first.

MUSIC
That's why I'm hot-blooded
Check it and see

DEAN
Dad disappearing—

Teleplay by
ERIC KRIPKE

MUSIC
I got a fever of a hundred and three

DEAN
—and this thing showing up again after twenty years, it's no coincidence.

Story by
RON MILBAUER
&
TERRI HUGHES BURTON

MUSIC
Come on, baby, do you do more than dance?

DEAN
Dad will have answers. He'll know what to do.

SAM
It's weird, man.

MUSIC
I'm hot-blooded

SAM
These coordinates he left us.

MUSIC
Hot-blooded

SAM
This Blackwater Ridge.

DEAN
What about it?

SAM
There's nothing there. It's just woods.

SAM puts down the map.

SAM
Why is he sending us to the middle of nowhere?

They drive past the National Forest sign that says, "Welcome to LOST CREEK COLORADO National Forest".

RANGER STATION

EXT. RANGER STATION – DAY

The Impala is parked next to a sign that says "RANGER STATION Lost Creek Trail, Lost Creek National Forest".

SAM (voiceover)
So Blackwater Ridge is pretty remote.

INT. RANGER STATION – DAY

SAM looks at a 3D map of the national forest, paying particular attention to the ridge labeled "BLACKWATER RIDGE". DEAN looks at the decorations.

SAM
It's cut off by these canyons here, rough terrain, dense forest, abandoned silver and gold mines all over the place.

DEAN
Dude, check out the size of this freaking bear.

SAM looks over. DEAN is looking at a framed photo of a man standing behind a much larger bear. SAM comes to stand next to DEAN.

SAM
And a dozen or more grizzlies in the area. It's no nature hike, that's for sure.

A forest ranger, RANGER WILKINSON, walks up behind them; when he speaks, DEAN and SAM whip around, startled.

RANGER
You boys aren't planning on going out near Blackwater Ridge by any chance?

SAM
Oh, no, sir, we're environmental study majors from UC Boulder, just working on a paper.

SAM laughs a little. DEAN grins and raises a fist.

DEAN
Recycle, man.

RANGER
Bull.

SAM's eyes flick to DEAN, who doesn't move.

RANGER
You're friends with that Haley girl, right?

DEAN considers.

DEAN
Yes. Yes, we are, Ranger—

DEAN checks the RANGER's nametag.

DEAN
Wilkinson.

RANGER
Well I will tell you exactly what we told her. Her brother filled out a backcountry permit saying he wouldn't be back from Blackwater until the twenty-fourth, so it's not exactly a missing persons now, is it?

DEAN shakes his head.

RANGER
You tell that girl to quit worrying, I'm sure her brother's just fine.

DEAN
We will. Well that Haley girl's quite a pistol, huh?

RANGER
That is putting it mildly.

DEAN
Actually you know what would help is if I could show her a copy of that backcountry permit. You know, so she could see her brother's return date.

The RANGER eyes DEAN. DEAN raises his eyebrows.

EXT. RANGER STATION – DAY

DEAN and SAM leave the ranger station. DEAN is holding a piece of paper and laughing.

SAM
What, are you cruising for a hookup or something?

DEAN
What do you mean?

SAM
The coordinates point to Blackwater Ridge, so what are we waiting for? Let's just go find Dad. I mean, why even talk to this girl?

DEAN and SAM stop on opposite sides of the Impala.

DEAN
I don't know, maybe we should know what we're walking into before we actually walk into it?

A pause.

SAM
What?

DEAN
Since when are you all shoot first ask questions later, anyway?

SAM
Since now.

SAM turns away; the sound of the car door opening is heard.

DEAN
Really?

DEAN goes around the car.

COLLINS HOUSE

EXT. COLLINS HOUSE – DAY

DEAN and SAM are standing at the door to a house. The door opens to reveal HALEY COLLINS.

DEAN
You must be Haley Collins. I'm Dean, this is Sam, we're, ah, we're rangers with the Park Service. Ranger Wilkinson sent us over. He wanted us to ask a few questions about your brother Tommy.

HALEY hesitates.

HALEY
Lemme see some ID.

DEAN pulls out a fake ID with the name 'Samuel Cole' and holds it up against the screen. HALEY looks at it, then at DEAN, who smiles. HALEY opens the door.

HALEY
Come on in.

DEAN
Thanks.

The door swings open; HALEY catches sight of the Impala.

HALEY
That yours?

DEAN
Yeah.

SAM is looking back at the Impala.

HALEY
Nice car.

HALEY turns to lead DEAN and SAM into the kitchen, where BEN COLLINS is sitting at the table on a laptop. DEAN turns his head to mouth something to SAM, who rolls his eyes.

INT. KITCHEN – DAY

SAM
So if Tommy's not due back for a while, how do you know something's wrong?

HALEY comes back into the room with a bowl she places on the table.

HALEY
He checks in every day by cell. He emails, photos, stupid little videos—we haven't heard anything in over three days now.

SAM
Well, maybe he can't get cell reception.

HALEY
He's got a satellite phone, too.

DEAN
Could it be he's just having fun and forgot to check in?

BEN
He wouldn't do that.

DEAN eyes BEN. BEN looks away. HALEY puts more food on the table.

HALEY
Our parents are gone. It's just my two brothers and me. We all keep pretty close tabs on each other.

SAM
Can I see the pictures he sent you?

HALEY
Yeah.

On a laptop, HALEY pulls up pictures.

HALEY
That's Tommy.

HALEY clicks twice and another picture comes up, then the still frame opening the latest video.

TOM
Hey Haley, day six, we're still out near Blackwater Ridge. We're fine, keeping safe, so don't worry, okay? Talk to you tomorrow.

SAM spots the shadow flicking past.

DEAN
Well, we'll find your brother. We're heading out to Blackwater Ridge first thing.

HALEY
Then maybe I'll see you there. Look, I can't sit around here anymore. So I hired a guy. I'm heading out in the morning, and I'm gonna find Tommy myself.

DEAN
I think I know how you feel.

SAM
Hey, do you mind forwarding these to me?

HALEY
Sure.

BAR

INT. BAR – NIGHT

Someone breaks a game of pool. A waitress goes past carrying beer. SAM and DEAN sit down at a table.

SAM
So, Blackwater Ridge doesn't get a lot of traffic. Local campers, mostly. But still, this past April, two hikers went missing out there. They were never found.

SAM opens John's journal.

DEAN
Any before that?

SAM pulls out newspaper articles to show DEAN.

SAM
Yeah, in 1982, eight different people all vanished in the same year. Authorities said it was a crizzly attack.

DEAN reads the headline in The Lost Creek Gazette.

GRIZZLY BEAR ATTACKS!
UP TO EIGHT HIKERS VANISH IN LOST CREEK AREA
HIKERS DISAPPEARANCE BAFFLE AUTHORITIES'
Families continue search and rescue efforts in spite of disappointing [...]

SAM pulls out his laptop.

SAM
And again in 1959 and again before that in 1936.

SAM opens the laptop, which already has a window open to TOM's video.

SAM
Every twenty-three years, just like clockwork. Okay. Watch this. Here's a clincher. I downloaded that guy Tommy's video to the laptop. Check this out.

SAM pulls up the video and goes through three frames of the video one at a time. A shadow crosses the screen.

DEAN
Do it again.

SAM repeats the frames.

SAM
That's three frames. That's a fraction of a second. Whatever that thing is, it can move.

DEAN hits SAM. SAM looks up.

DEAN
Told you something weird was going on.

SAM
Yeah.

SAM closes the laptop.

SAM
I got one more thing.

SAM hands over another newspaper article.

SAM
In 'fifty-nine one camper survived this supposed grizzly attack. Just a kid. Barely crawled out of the woods alive.

DEAN looks at The Lost Creek Gazette.

DEAN
Is there a name?

SHAW HOUSE

INT. HOUSE – NIGHT

An OLD MAN, MR. SHAW, talks to SAM and DEAN while leading them inside his house. SHAW has a cigarette in his mouth.

SHAW
Look, ranger, I don't know why you're asking me about this. It's public record. I was a kid. My parents got mauled by a—

SAM interrupts.

SAM
Grizzly? That's what attacked them?

SHAW takes a puff of his cigarette, takes it out, and nods.

DEAN
The other people that went missing that year, those bear attacks too?

A pause.

DEAN
What about all the people that went missing this year? Same thing?

A pause.

DEAN
We knew what we were dealing with, we might be able to stop it.

SHAW
I seriously doubt that. Anyways, I don't see what difference it would make.

SHAW sits down.

SHAW
You wouldn't believe me. Nobody ever did.

SAM sits down across from SHAW.

SAM
Mr. Shaw, what did you see?

SHAW pauses.

SHAW
Nothing. It moved too fast to see. It hid too well. I heard it, though. A roar. Like...no man or animal I ever heard.

SAM
It came at night?

SHAW nods.

SAM
Got inside your tent?

SHAW
It got inside our cabin. I was sleeping in front of the fireplace when it came in. It didn't smash a window or break the door. It unlocked it. Do you know of a bear that could do something like that? I didn't even wake up till I heard my parents screaming.

SAM
It killed them?

SHAW
Dragged them off into the night.

SHAW shakes his head.

SHAW
Why it left me alive...been asking myself that ever since.

A pause. SHAW's hands go to his collar.

SHAW
Did leave me this, though.

SHAW opens his collar to reveal three long scars. Claw marks. SAM and DEAN look at them.

SHAW
There's something evil in those woods. It was some sort of a demon.

LATER

INT. MOTEL? – NIGHT

DEAN and SAM walk the length of a corridor with rooms on either side.

DEAN
Spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. If they want inside, they just go through the walls.

SAM
So it's probably something else, something corporeal.

DEAN
Corporeal? Excuse me, professor.

SAM
Shut up. So what do you think?

DEAN
The claws, the speed that it moves...could be a skinwalker, maybe a black dog. Whatever we're talking about, we're talking about a creature, and it's corporeal. Which means we can kill it.

EXT. PARKING LOT – NIGHT

DEAN opens the trunk of the Impala, then the weapons box, and props it open with a shotgun. He puts some guns in a duffel bag. SAM leans in.

SAM
We cannot let that Haley girl go out there.

DEAN
Oh yeah? What are we gonna tell her? That she can't go into the woods because of a big scary monster?

SAM
Yeah.

DEAN looks at SAM.

DEAN
Her brother's missing, Sam. She's not gonna just sit this out. Now we go with her, we protect her, and we keep our eyes peeled for our fuzzy predator friend.

DEAN picks up the duffel.

SAM
Finding Dad's not enough?

SAM slams the weapons box shut, then the trunk.

SAM
Now we gotta babysit too?

DEAN stares at SAM.

SAM
What?

DEAN
Nothing.

He throws the duffel bag at SAM and walks off. SAM stares after him.

BLACKWATER RIDGE

EXT. FOREST – DAY

A MAN, ROY, talks to HALEY (who is wearing shorts) and BEN while checking a shotgun.

ROY
I'll tell you again, I don't think Ben should come.

HALEY
Roy—

ROY
Look, you're paying me good money to keep everybody safe. I think Ben's safest at home.

The Impala pulls up. ROY, HALEY, and BEN stare. HALEY shakes her head. SAM and DEAN get out of the car. SAM opens the back door of the Impala and pulls out the duffel bag.

DEAN
You guys got room for two more?

HALEY
Wait, you want to come with us?

ROY
Who are these guys?

HALEY
Apparently this is all the park service could muster up for the search and rescue.

SAM heads past everyone.

ROY
You're rangers?

DEAN
That's right.

HALEY
And you're hiking out in biker boots and jeans?

DEAN looks down at himself.

DEAN
Well, sweetheart, I don't do shorts.

DEAN heads past HALEY.

ROY
What, you think this is funny? It's dangerous back country out there. Her brother might be hurt.

SAM turns back.

DEAN
Believe me, I know how dangerous this could get. We just wanna help her find her brother, that's all.

DEAN heads past SAM.

MINE

INT. MINE – DAY

A mine shaft lets in light. TOM and GARY are hanging by their wrists from the ceiling. There are assorted corpses with them. Growling. GARY spots a tall skinny shape and starts yelling. TOMMY does his best to turn away and does close his eyes tightly as GARY yells.