1.02 Wendigo (transcript)
Written by: Eric Kripke (teleplay), Ron Milbauer and Terri Hughes Burton (story)
Directed by: David Nutter
Air Date: 20 Sep 2005Contents
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.
