10.18 Book of the Damned (transcript)
Written by: Robbie Thompson
Directed by: P.J. Pesce
Air Date: April 15, 2015A dark, smoky alleyway [We see a hooded figure with a sword sticking out of their backpack enter the alleyway and duck behind a dumpster. Then two men enter looking for the hooded person. We see it’s Charlie when she slides off her hood. One of the men takes out a special compass. After it points to the direction, he puts it away, takes out his gun and points in the direction to the other man who already has his gun out. They go further into the alley and one man begins to look into the dumpsters. When he lifts the 2nd dumpster lid, Charlie stands up and stabs him in the neck with her sword. She jumps out of the dumpster and kicks him out of the way and slashes the gun hand of the first man (Jacob Styne) causing him to drop his gun. He laughs. Charlie points the sword at his chest.]
CHARLIE
Who the hell are you? And why are you following me?
JACOB
I ain’t following you. I’m following what you got in your bag there. That don’t belong to you, girl. Belongs to my family.
CHARLIE
Yeah? Well, sorry Gambit. Finders keepers.
JACOB
It’s beyond your understanding. Hell, you can’t even read it.
CHARLIE
Are you always so condescending when someone’s pointing a blade at you?
JACOB
Now you look here. You can cut me down, but my people will never stop. [He raises his hands.] And you can tiptoe through the tulips like you did in Russia, or you can stow away on the back of a train like you did in Alaska, but soon enough my kin will find you. [Charlie notices his tattoo on his wrist.] This ends with you being dead. [Jacob grabs the sword away from Charlie. As she runs away, he picks up his gun and shoots at her back.]
CHARLIE
Aah! [She’s hit in the back but climbs through a hole in the fence and runs.]
JACOB
[He runs to the fence and keeps shooting.] You can’t run forever little girl.
SUPERNATURAL TITLE CARD
ACT ONE
[Interior of Castiel’s car. Castiel is driving and Metatron is sitting in the passenger seat.]
RADIO VOICE
Our flashback playback continues with a song that climbed all the way to number four on the charts. Here’s Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic.” [Castiel turns off the radio.]
METATRON
Really? That song is a classic. Yeah I hear you. I do. And you’re right. Inclement weather on the day of your nuptials and the wrong cutlery at inopportune times is hardly ironic. But it sure is catchy. Yeah, fair point. Can’t argue taste. But since I became human, it’s just so….strange. All these feelings, you know? I mean, I can feel music. Like that last song, “Sussudio.” I don’t even know what it’s about and I love it. I always enjoyed lyrics, words, stories. Gives me goose bumps. And Goosebumps – don’t even get me started on those. Creepy! And yet….arousing. [Castiel pulls out his cell phone and makes a call.]
[Interior of the Men of Letter’s Library. Sam is at a laptop and answers his cell phone]
SAM
Cas?
CASTIEL [in his car]
Can I just kill him now?
METATRON
You know I can hear you, right?
SAM
No, we need him alive for now. Look, after he gives you your Grace back, you can do whatever you want with him.
CASTIEL
Well, I’d like to kill him slowly.
METATRON
I am like two feet from you.
CASTIEL
Anything on the Mark of Cain?
METATRON
Every word – crystal clear.
SAM
No. I mean, I’ve been digging for something, for anything, but… I don’t know Cas.
CASTIEL
There is an answer out there. We will find a cure for Dean.
METATRON
I don’t know why you’d want to cure that little firecracker now. He’s finally interest…[Castiel punches Metatron in the face] Ooh!
CASTIEL
Well, just keep digging.
SAM
[Sam looks up and Dean is entering the library.] Yeah, uh, no one here by that name. Sorry. [Sam hangs up.]
CASTIEL
Sam?
METATRON
Lose reception? Or did he hang up on you? [Castiel turns and looks at Metatron. Metatron begins laughing.] He hung up on you, didn’t he? [Castiel punches Metatron in the face again.] Ooh!
[Interior Men of Letters Library]
SAM
So, I’ve been checking through everything again, double-checking and triple-checking, and…
DEAN
The Mark is a curse.
SAM
Yeah, tell me about it.
DEAN
No, Sam, it’s a… it’s an actual curse.
SAM
What are you talking about?
DEAN
Crowley told me. Or rather, Rowena told him after she tried and failed to kill me.
SAM
What the hell happened?
DEAN
The Mark protected me. Rowena doesn’t really have a beef with me. She was pissed at Crowley because she thinks he’s going soft.
SAM
She’s not wrong.
DEAN
Yeah, well, after he and Mommy Dearest got into a fight…
SAM
Mommy Dearest?
DEAN
Rowena is Crowley’s mother. (SAM looks surprised.) More about that later. So, then he came and told me what she had said. The Mark is an actual curse. So, anyway, I’m sorry. I probably should’ve told you that.
SAM
Yeah.
Dean
Yeah. [Sam’s cell phone rings. Dean takes the phone and answers.] Winchester Accounting. How may I help you?
CHARLIE’S VOICE ON CELLPHONE
Dean?
DEAN
Charlie? What’s going on? Where are you?
[Charlie is in a phone booth.]
CHARLIE
Uh, uh, I’m exhausted and….and I’m bleeding. And I’m in a phone booth. A phone booth. I didn’t know these things existed outside of Bill and Ted’s…
DEAN
[He turns the phone on speaker.] Okay. Hey, hey. Take a deep breath, kiddo. Uh, we’re both sitting here. Tell me what happened. Why are you bleeding?
CHARLIE
I, uh – I got shot. Did you know dental floss works great on stitches? I only passed out twice, and I’m pretty sure my wound is now minty fresh.
SAM
Charlie, you probably need to go to a hospital.
CHARLIE
No, no, I-I’m fine. I just got to get someplace safe. These guys are still after me.
SAM
What guys? Who?
CHARLIE
Some southern fried d-bags. They’ve been after me since I dug up “The Book of the Damned.”
SAM
You found it? Where?
CHARLIE
After some near misses and some broken into museums, I found historical documents that led to a monastery in Spain. It burned down years ago, left for dead, but, uh, I had this hunch about it. Turned out I was right.
DEAN
Okay, Charlie, what does it say about the Mark?
CHARLIE
I have no fracking idea. The language it’s written in, I’ve never seen anything like it. I, uh, I found some research notes in the monastery crypt, though, by the Friar that buried it. “The Book of the Damned” is a spell book for creating or undoing any kind of damnation there is. We translate this thing, I think we can get the Mark of Cain off you, Dean.
DEAN
Charlie, you’re a genius.
CHARLIE
A genius fugitive. I – these dudes following me, they are well trained. One of them keeps talking about his family.
DEAN
Family? Did you get a name?
CHARLIE
No clue. I-I-I spotted a tattoo on one of them. Might be a family crest. It seemed occulty. Soon as the book was out of the ground, they were all over me. I, uh….I don’t know how much more running I got left in me. T-they’re tracking the book somehow.
SAM
Alright, then we need to get you off the grid, Charlie. Where are you right now?
CHARLIE
Uh, just south of Des Moines.
DEAN
Uh, okay, you know what? Our -- our friend, Bobby, has a whole bunch of cabins scattered all around, places for hunters to crash. You know, it’s not much, but there’s some gear and lore books, stuff to keep you busy til we get there.
CHARLIE
Okay, bring snacks. And every Men of Letters decoder ring there is. This book is old and scary, and I’ve never seen anything like it.
ACT TWO
[Sam is packing files in a file box in the Library. Dean walks in carrying a box.]
Hey, check it out. I found this in the storage room. It’s lead-lined and warded. If those guys are tracking this book, pretty sure this bad boy will take it off the radar. You ready?
[The Impala is driving down a road at night. “The Boys are Back in Town” by Thin Lizzy is playing. It cuts to the interior of the Impala.]
DEAN
What?
SAM
Nothing. [He shuts off the radio.] Nothing, I just haven’t seen you like this in a while, that’s all.
DEAN
It’s a good song, man. Shut up.
SAM
Yeah, it’s….
DEAN
Look, man, it has been one crap sandwich after another for the past few weeks, okay? You heard Charlie. We got a shot at fixing this thing, so if that don’t put gas in your tank, well…
SAM
If by “shot” you mean a spell in a book that we can’t read that’s currently being tracked…
DEAN
We’re due for a win, okay? Overdue. I’ll tell you another thing, if this actually does work, we’re gonna take some time off.
SAM
What, like a vacation?
DEAN
Mm-hmm. And I’m not talking just like a weekend in Vegas or sitting in some crap motel watching pay-per-porn. No, I’m talking about a beach. Drinking cervezas, go for a swim, mingle with the local wildlife. When was the last time either one of us was on a beach?
SAM
Never.
DEAN
Sand between our toes, Sammy. Sand between our toes. [Dean turns the radio back on and “Boys are Back in Town” is still playing. We then see the Impala heading down the road]
[Interior of a diner. Castiel and Metatron are at a table. Metatron is eating waffles with whipped cream, strawberries, and blueberries on top.]
METATRON
Mmmmmm! O…M…Me! Oh. Food. Glorious Food. Mmm. All the countless descriptions in so many books, but those are just words. Oh, the taste, the – the actual taste…. I had no idea. Oh. And the process. Goes in here [he points to his mouth]…comes out here [points toward his rear]. Sorcery. I mean, you used to be human. Don’t you miss all this?
CASTIEL
No. I don’t miss digestion. I don’t miss indigestion.
METATRON
No, no, no. Not that. I mean, don’t you miss the feeling of all this? Like the taste of these waffles. The sound of a child’s laughter. Look at us. We’re a couple of angels who’ve touched not only the divine, but the mundane. You and I have a lot in common.
CASTIEL
Don’t.
METATRON
What? I thought we were having a moment. Can’t we be besties?
CASTIEL
No. Because you killed my friend.
METATRON
Oh pfhht. Dean is fine, mostly. Can’t you get past that?
CASTIEL
Never. Now we’ve hit three of your so-called safe houses, and all of them are empty. So either you’ve lost my Grace or you’re stalling.
METATRON
Can you blame me? The minute I hand over your Grace, I’m dead.
CASTIEL
You have made your bed, Metatron, and nothing is going to get you out of it. [Loud digestive noises are coming from Metatron.] What are you doing?
METATRON
I think I need to use the little boys’ room. [He holds up his handcuffed hands in front of him.] Little help. [Castiel helps him get up and leads him to the bathroom. A man who looks like a trucker is sitting at the counter. He watches them go past, then opens his denim jacket to reveal an angel blade.]
[The Impala pulls up in front of a cabin by a lake. Sam and Dean enter the Cabin.]
DEAN
Charlie?
CHARLIE
[She was sleeping at a table and bolts up with a post-it note on her face.] Merry Christmas!
DEAN
Hey
CHARLIE
Were you followed?
DEAN
No, no.
SAM
How are you feeling?
CHARLIE
Um….I may have just passed out, but better.
DEAN
Where’s the book?
CHARLIE
Okay, here’s what I’ve learned so far. About 700 years ago, a nun locked herself away after having visions of darkness. After a few decades squirrelled away by herself, she emerged with this. [Charlie pulls the book out of her backpack.] Each page is made out of slices of her own skin written in her blood. I told you, it’s eekish. [She hands the book to Sam. He begins flipping the pages and Dean seems to be strangely affected by it.] According to the notes I found, it’s been owned and used by cults, covens, and the Vatican had it for a while. There’s a spell inside that thing for everything. Talking some black mass, dark magic, end-of-times nastiness. As far as what language it’s written in, I’m thinking it’s some kind of…uh…
SAM
Dean? Dean!
DEAN
[He’s across the room and looks up from the book suddenly in his hands.] What? [Sam and Charlie exchange concerned glances.] I don’t think it’s a good idea that I touch this. [Dean closes the book and hands it back to Charlie.] I’ll go get the rest of our crap.
SAM
Right. [Dean exits the cabin.]
CHARLIE
What the hell was that?
SAM
He’s not getting better. He’s trying to cover, but… We need to find that cure, fast. [Sam takes the book from Charlie.]
[Exterior of the Diner. Castiel and Metatron exit the Diner.]
METATRON
Sorry about the mess. I guess I’m lactose intolerant.
CASTIEL
Let’s never speak of it again. [The man from the Diner is leaning on Castiel’s car.]
ANGRY CUPID
Metatron and Castiel. This really must be my lucky day. Two birds, one blade. [He pulls his angel blade out from his denim jacket. Castiel pulls his angel blade out from his trench coat.]
CASTIEL
Who are you?
ANGRY CUPID
Just a cupid. Just an angry, angry cupid.
CASTIEL
I understand you’re upset.
ANGRY CUPID
You both corrupted Heaven. It’s never gonna be the same! [He tries to strike Castiel with his angel blade. They fight. He goes to stab Metatron with his blade and Castiel knocks him down and he drops his angel blade and they both fall. The Angry Cupid gets Castiel’s blade away from him and is about to stab Castiel. Metatron stabs him in the back with the angel blade he had dropped. Castiel picks up his angel blade and Metatron hands Castiel the Angry Cupid’s blade.]
METATRON
I owed you that one, anyway.
CASTIEL
[This changes nothing. [Castiel gets up and walks toward his car with both angel blades.]
METATRON
You’re welcome.
ACT THREE
[Interior of the cabin.]
CHARLIE
Okay, I got a pretty good look at his tattoo. It’s something like this. [Charlie hands Dean a piece of paper with a drawing of the tattoo. He’s opening the box with the files.]
DEAN
The douche clan. Got it. Well this is everything the Men of Letters had on occult families, so there should be something in here.
CHARLIE
Sam, got anything?
SAM
Maybe. Uh, yeah, it’s all in an obscure Sumerian dialect. Actually found a rough match for it in this book.
CHARLIE
Great.
SAM
I thought so, too. But I’ve been translating, but none of the translated words make any sense. It’s all just gibberish. I mean, maybe it’s in a different dialect?
CHARLIE
No, no, no. You’re right, but I-I-I think….I think this is in code.
SAM
An entire book of unreadable text that’s also in code. Great.
DEAN
And you call yourselves nerds. Come on. You got this.
CHARLIE
He’s right. Let’s get our Alan Turing on. Decript this bitch. [Sam notices Dean staring at the book.]
SAM
You know what, Charlie? Why, uh… Um, why don’t we stick with my notes for a little bit? This book is literally making my eyes hurt. [Sam puts the book in the lockbox.]
[A truck pulls into a gas station parking lot. Jacob and a man get out. Jacob is looking around.]
MAN
What is it?
JACOB
Shh. [Jacob takes out his compass, but it just spins. He closes the compass.] Damn it. She found a way to hide the book. It was here. It was on this road. She was on this road. Send the boys up and down the way. See if anybody saw her.
[Castiel and Metatron are entering a dark library.]
CASTIEL
Oh, come on. You expect me to believe that you hid my Grace in a library?
METATRON
Nobody goes to libraries anymore. It’s the safest place in the world.
CASTIEL
[Castiel turns on the lights.] I can feel my Grace. It’s here but you’ve hidden it somehow. Where is it?
METATRON
Honestly, I have no idea. [Castiel pushes Metatron into a chair and squeezes the wound from the shot on his injured leg.] Aah! Aah!
CASTIEL
Where is it?
METATRON
Oh! Gah! I don’t know, I swear! I had another angel hide it, even from me. [Castiel squeezes the leg even harder.] Aah! You know, in case someone tries to torture the information out of me! Case in point!
CASTIEL
Where is my Grace?
METATRON
I told the angel to hide some clues in some of my favorite books. [He holds up his handcuffed wrists.] Mother, may I? [He limps over to a shelf and pulls out a book. Castiel takes the book and opens it and removes a note.]
CASTIEL
“What is the maddest thing a man can do?” It’s a riddle? What – what’s the answer?
METATRON
Beats me. I’ve only been a man a day. Um, the – the answer to the riddle will lead to another book. And inside that book, you’ll find your Grace. We’re gonna work this out together, okay? Teamwork.
[Interior of the cabin.]
CHARLIE
Okay, even the Bletchley Circle couldn’t crack this thing. I’ve tried every cryptographic algorithm there is. Goose egg. [Dean is looking through the files.]
DEAN
Well maybe that’s not such a bad thing. Those people following you… Hmm? All kinds of wrong. Talking multi-generational, centuries old wrong. The Styne family. Men of Letters’ files have them dated back to the early 1800s. They used spells to create disease, to destabilize markets. Hell, they even helped the Nazis before they came into power, and they profited from all of it.
CHARLIE
So, they’re like the supernatural Du Ponts?
DEAN
Basically. All the spells they used came from a book of “unspeakable evil” which they lost nearly a hundred years ago.
SAM
Okay, so they’re bad. So what. We faced worse.
DEAN
Sam, read the file. The way the book works, is when you use it, there is a negative reaction. I’m talking biblical negative. Dark magic always comes with a price. We know that. We’ve been down that road before.
CHARLIE
Well, let’s at least translate it, see what it says.
DEAN
You guys don’t understand. The book’s been calling out to me ever since I laid eyes on it, okay? Calling out to the Mark. I can hear it like it’s alive. It wants me to use it, but not for good. Look, I wanted it to be the answer too, okay? I really did. But we have got to get rid of that. Burn it, bury it, I don’t give a damn. We’ll just have to find another way to fix the Mark.
SAM
Like what?
DEAN
I don’t know.
CHARLIE
So you’re giving up?
DEAN
No, I’m not giving up. Charlie, I don’t have a death wish. Okay, even if I did, I can’t die, not with this thing on my arm. What I can do is I can fight it as long as I can until….
SAM
Until what? Tell me. Until what, Dean? Until I watch you become a demon again? Until then? I can’t do that. I won’t do that.
DEAN
Well, then you’ll just have to lock me up. Bind me to the bunker like you did last time.
CHARLIE
That doesn’t solve anything.
SAM
Look, just let us translate the book, okay? If there’s a cure, we’ll do it and deal with the consequences later. I can’t lose you.
DEAN
Really?
SAM
Yeah, really.
DEAN
You change your mind on that, cause that’s not what you said last time.
SAM
Oh, come on, man. You know I didn’t mean that.
DEAN
This is my cross to bear, Sam! Mine! And that book is not the answer! Now we got to destroy it before it falls into the wrong hands, and that includes me! I’m gonna go for a drive. Uh, Charlie, we forgot to pick up your snacks.
SAM
Dean, look…
DEAN
We’ll figure out another way. And Sam, I’ll get my vacation. But not today. Not like this. [Dean leaves the cabin.]
CHARLIE
Sam, maybe he’s right.
SAM
No, there’s a way to fix it. There has to be.
[Interior of the library]
METATRON
You know, we really do make a good team. Kind of like a buddy comedy, without the comedy.
CASTIEL
Or the buddies.
METATRON
Oh now, come on. Back at the diner, that was some pretty awesome dynamic-duo action.
CASTIEL
What we did back there was unfortunate. No more of our brothers and sisters should die.
METATRON
Brothers and sisters? Listen to you. Still spitting out the company line like anyone cares. Like we’re actually a family? When what we really are – are a bunch of glowing lights filled with self-loathing or delusions of grandeur. Or both.
CASTIEL
You shut up!
METATRON
No! If I’m gonna die, I want answers. Like, who are you now? Like, you’re obviously not an angel of the Lord. And what about all of this walking the earth like Caine from “Kung Fu” crap? Cleaning up Heaven’s messes. How many more rogue angels are there out there? And, what are you gonna do once you’re done with all that? Go back to Heaven? Please. The angel formerly known as Hannah has restored order up top. Smoothest it’s run since God cut the ribbon on the pearly gates. So tell me, Castiel, truly, what is your mission now?
CASTIEL
You shut up and keep looking. [Castiel walks away.]
METATRON
Well…[Metatron touches books on the shelf with his finger and then gets blood on his finger from his wound. We then see that he’s drawn blood sigils on the books.] Cannot say I didn’t try. [He activates the sigils and walks toward Castiel in the next row. Castiel is coughing and collapses.] Poor Castiel. Swam so far just to drown in shallow waters. Isn’t it ironic? Don’t ya think?
[Interior of Cabin]
CHARLIE
What did Dean mean? When he said you changed your mind?
SAM
So, awhile back, we had a chance to, um…close the gates of Hell. And in order to do that, I would’ve had to die. And, I was okay with that, and I am okay with that, but Dean was not. And so, he uh…
CHARLIE
He saved you.
SAM
Yeah, he saved me.
CHARLIE
And let me guess, in doing so, he did something you didn’t want, and that pissed you off. And you said something that hurt him?
SAM
Yeah, that sounds about right.
CHARLIE
Brothers. You know, I haven’t been a hunter for very long, but it feels like this is the life. Mostly ends in Sophie’s choices, death, or tears. Usually, all of the above, huh? How did this become my life? I mean, I was gonna own my own start-up, marry ScarJo, invent something cool. Now I’m just….I’m just happy to be alive.
SAM
You know, when Dean came to get me at school, I-I told myself… one last job, you know? One more job. And then when – when I, um…. When I lost Jess, I, again, told myself one more job. There’s always one more job, you know? And one more job, and one more job, and then I was gonna go back to law and – and to my life.
CHARLIE
You were the Dread Pirate Roberts of hunting.
SAM
Yeah. I guess I really understand now that….this is my life. I love it. But I can’t do it without my brother. I don’t want to do it without my brother. And if he’s gone, then I don’t….
CHARLIE
I got it. I-I do.
ACT FOUR
[Interior of the library. Castiel is on the ground and Metatron is taking a book from the shelf.]
METATRON
All right…First things first – find what I really came here for. [He takes a note out of the book and reads it.] “What two things do you need to succeed in life?” Ignorance and confidence. [Castiel looks at the note from the first book.]
CASTIEL
They’re quotes.
METATRON
So, uh…did you and samateur hour really think I wouldn’t have a back-up plan? [Metatron locates a book and opens it to reveal a tablet. Castiel is crawling down another aisle looking for a book.] Ah. Hello Demon Tablet. [Castiel grabs at “Don Quixote” by Miguel Cervantes and knocks it off the shelf. The container with his Grace falls out of the book.] The places I’ll go with this. [METATRON limps to the row Castiel is in and sees Castiel has the container with his Grace.] And your Grace. Well, one out of two ain’t bad. [Metatron hurries away.]
CASTIEL
[Opens the container with his Grace.] What’s the maddest thing a man can do? Let himself die. [Castiel inhales his Grace. He stands up and has his full power back.]
[Interior of a “gas & sip.” Behind the counter, Jacob is standing next to the body of the clerk he killed. He’s wiping off his knife.]
JACOB
God just don’t build to last, does he?
[The door rings as Dean enters.]
JACOB
Afternoon, sir.
DEAN
Howdy. [Dean grabs some snacks and puts them on the counter.] There we go.
JACOB
That’ll be it for you?
DEAN
Uh, yeah, that’s it.
JACOB
Okay then, that’ll be $15.75. [Dean takes out a twenty and hands it to him. He sees Jacob’s tattoo on his wrist.] You heading home or you just passing through?
DEAN
Just passing through. [Jacob puts the money in the cash register. Dean looks at the store mirror and sees the dead clerk behind the counter next to Jacob.] Must get awful lonely out here all by yourself.
JACOB
Oh, I get by. [Dean pulls out his gun and points it at Jacob.]
DEAN
Don’t move. Hands where I can see them.
JACOB
Don’t you want your change? [He throws the change in Dean’s face and another man with him grabs Dean from behind.]
JACOB
[Jacob points his knife at Dean.] Now…who might you be? [He notices the Mark on Dean.] Well, hello there. Where’d a back-road nothing like you get their hands on something like that?
DEAN
What’s it to you, Mr. Styne?
JACOB
My friends call me Jacob.
DEAN
Well, I ain’t your friend.
JACOB
Those wouldn’t happen to be treats for a redheaded little gal, now, would they? Y’all hid the book, didn’t you? Lead-lined little number, I’m betting.
DEAN
I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
JACOB
You don’t? See that? That man back there, well he said the same thing as all the others at truck stops and gas stations up and down the way. Nobody had seen that redheaded girl. And then a man bearing that Mark comes in here, to me. Well, there’s coincidence, and then there’s just providence. See, “The Book of the Damnded,” it wants to be found. It wants to come home. Let me guess. You want to use it to get that gift off your arm, don’t you? Power is wasted on the weak. Now the book….can remove that Mark. But you mess around with that, you’re gonna do far more harm than good. So, why don’t you do the right thing here, boy, and tell me where that book is.
DEAN
Yeah, sure, I’ll tell you. [Dean mumbles something.]
JACOB
One more time. I didn’t hear you. [He leans in closer to Dean.]
DEAN
I said…[Dean headbutts Jacob and knocks the man holding him off. He dives to the ground to grab his gun. He’s on the ground pointing the gun up at the man coming at him. He shoots as he pushes himself along the floor away from the man, but the man keeps coming. The man finally falls after Dean empties his clip into him. Dean reloads and stands up. Jacob is gone and Dean’s cell phone is broken.]
[Interior of the cabin – Charlie is stoking the fire as Dean comes in the door.]
CHARLIE
What’s going on?
DEAN
The Styne’s, they found me. [The Styne car races to the cabin.] Those douches are all jacked up, too.
SAM
What are you talking about?
DEAN
[He throws a cup of liquid into the fire.] I emptied a full clip into one of them before the son of a bitch went down.
SAM
Dean, what are you doing with the holy oil?
DEAN
[The Stynes are outside the cabin.] There is a cure for the Mark in the book. But it comes at a price. We got to destroy it.
SAM
Are you sure about this?
DEAN
It’s calling to me, Sam, okay? I can hear it. It’s calling to the Mark. It wants me to take the book and run away with it. Burn it now. [They hear the Styne’s outside. Dean and Charlie pull their guns.] Sam, burn it now.
[One Styne crashes through the window grabbing Dean while another crashes through the other window and grabs Charlie. Sam takes the lockbox with the book to the fireplace. Dean and Charlie are fighting off the Stynes as Sam takes the wrapped book out of the lockbox. Jacob breaks the front door of the cabin and enters. Dean shoots Jacob who keeps heading toward Sam at the fireplace. Sam throws the wrapped book in the fire.]
JACOB
You silly boy. [Dean keeps shooting Jacob. Jacob grabs Sam’s throat. Sam stabs him until Jacob finally collapses. The book is burning in the fireplace.]
[Interior of the Men of Letter’s Bunker. Castiel and Sam are sitting at the map table in the war room.]
ACT FIVE
CASTIEL
I was foolish, selfish. Should’ve just killed him. Who knows what he’ll do with that tablet.
SAM
Well, you know what, Cas? You got your Grace back. You’re back. You did the right thing.
CASTIEL
You did the right thing. That book needed to be destroyed. We will find another way, Sam. [The door opens and Charlie enters carrying two plastic bags. She heads down the stairs.
CHARLIE
We’re back, bitches! [She suddenly sees Castiel.] Whoa! Is that who I think it is?
SAM
Charlie, Cas. Cas, Charlie. [Charlie hugs Cas.]
CHARLIE
I thought you’d be shorter. [She puts the bags on the table. Sam grabs the bags.]
SAM
I’m gonna get these to the fridge.
CHARLIE
Heard you got your mojo back.
CASTIEL
Yes, my – my Grace, it’s – it’s been restored.
CHARLIE
So, can’t you just – you know… cure Dean?
CASTIEL
Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.
CHARLIE
Oh. Never is, is it? Do you think you could do anything about my carpal tunnel? [Castiel places two fingers on Charlie’s forehead.] Is that it?
CASTIEL
Your carpal tunnel and your bullet wound are now healed. You may want to continue wearing your wrist brace at night, though.
CHARLIE
Did we just become best friends? [Dean comes in the front door carrying pizza boxes.]
DEAN
Hey, look who decided to show. So? You’re back? 100%? How did that happen? [As Dean puts the food on the table, Sam enters the room.]
CASTIEL
Um, it was Hannah. She managed to get the location of the remainder of my Grace out of Metatron.
DEAN
Awesome. I told you we were due for a win. Good to have you back, pal.
[“Behind Blue Eyes” by The Who is playing. Dean is opening the beer bottles and they are sitting at the table eating pizza. Dean is laughing and Sam is trying to smile, but looks uncomfortable.]
SAM VOICEOVER
I don’t trust you and… I never will. But I need help [Cut to Sam sitting at a table in a restaurant.] and this is right in your wheelhouse. [He opens the lockbox and The Book of the Damned is in it.]
[Flashback to the cabin when the Styne’s were crashing through the windows.]
DEAN
Sam, burn it now! [While Dean and Charlie are fighting the Styne family members, Sam removes The Book of the Damned from the lockbox and unwraps it. Jacob Stein breaks through the door and Dean shoots him. Sam puts it back in the lockbox and grabs another book off the table. He wraps it in the cloth and throws that on the fire.
JACOB
You silly boy. [Dean continues to shoot Jacob, but Jacob reaches Sam at the fireplace and grabs his throat.
JACOB
My family will never stop looking for that book. [Sam looks at the other book burning in the fire.]
[Cut to interior of the restaurant. Sam is sitting at a table.]
SAM
I need the Mark of Cain off my brother. Something tells me you can crack this book and find that cure. The only question is…will you help me? [We see the person Sam is sitting across from is Rowena.]
ROWENA
Shall we discuss terms?
