4.19 Jump the Shark (transcript)
Written by: Andrew Dabb and Daniel Loflin
Directed by: Phil Sgriccia
Air Date: 23 Apr 2009THEN
From 4.09 I Know What You Did Last Summer, SAM and DEAN run at the church window and jump out of it, through the glass.
From 1.20 Dead Man's Blood, JOHN talks to SAM.
JOHN
You left. Your brother and me, we needed you. You walked away, Sam. You walked away!
SAM
You're the one who said "don't come back", Dad. You're the one who closed that door, not me!
From 1.18 Something Wicked, SAM and DEAN shoot the striga.
From 1.20 Dead Man's Blood, JOHN talks to SAM.
JOHN
Sammy, I just couldn't accept the fact that you and me—we're just different.
SAM
We're not different. Not anymore.
From 2.02 Everybody Loves a Clown, DEAN shoots the RAKSHASHA.
From 3.02 The Kids Are Alright, SAM lights a flamethrower. The ADULT CHANGELING screams and burns.
From 4.16 On The Head Of A Pin, SAM talks to RUBY.
SAM
Ruby, it's been weeks. I need it.
RUBY cuts her arm, smirking.
DEAN (voiceover from 4.04 Metamorphosis)
Do you even know how far off the reservation you've gone?
SAM drinks RUBY's blood.
From 4.04 Metamorphosis, DEAN talks to SAM.
DEAN
How far from normal? From human?
From 4.03 In The Beginning, CASTIEL talks to DEAN.
CASTIEL
Your brother is headed down a dangerous road, Dean.
From 4.16 On The Head Of A Pin, SAM drives.
From 4.04 Metamorphosis, DEAN smashes things and talks to SAM.
DEAN
It's already gone too far, Sam. If I didn't know you, I would want to hunt you.
NOW
INT. HALLWAY – NIGHT
The camera approaches a window. Next to the window is a table with a lamp and two photographs; one is of a young man and a woman, ADAM and KATE MILLIGAN. KATE herself runs into the table, looking back fearfully. She shrieks and runs down the hallway. She looks back and keeps running.
KATE
No! Go away!
KATE gets into her bedroom and locks the door behind her.
INT. BEDROOM – NIGHT
KATE, who is wearing a coat over blue scrubs, leans against the door as SOMEONE pounds on it.
The pounding abruptly stops.
KATE waits a moment, breathing hard, and shoves the dresser in front of the door. She relaxes a bit, walking backward towards her bed. SOMEONE ELSE is under the bed.
KATE sits on the bed, still breathing hard.
KATE
Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, god. It's okay. It's okay.
KATE yells: the SOMEONE ELSE has grabbed her by the ankle and pulled, dragging her onto the floor. The SOMEONE ELSE drags KATE under the bed. KATE screams, grabbing at the floor. KATE grabs the nightstand right before she goes under, knocking it over and knocking a picture onto the floor: it's of JOHN WINCHESTER.
ACT ONE
MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
EXT. LAKESIDE – DAY
"JUMP THE SHARK"
The Impala is parked next to a lake. SAM is leaning against the hood, brushing his teeth. DEAN is lying across the front seat, head and shoulders up against the door. DEAN twists around, getting SAM's attention, and opens the door, which nearly dumps him on the ground.
SAM
Hey. How'd you sleep?
DEAN climbs out of the car.
DEAN
How do you think? I'm starving. Let's get breakfast.
SAM
Where? We're like two hours from anything.
DEAN
But I'm hungry now.
DEAN comes around to the front of the car.
SAM
There's probably still a sandwich in the back seat.
DEAN turns around, rubbing a hand over his face, and reaches in through the open back window, pulling out a paper bag. He opens the bag and sniffs, then leans his head back and inhales.
DEAN
It's tuna.
A phone rings inside the car. DEAN tosses the bag back into the back seat and puts his hands to his jeans pockets. SAM spits out toothpaste foam. DEAN leans in through the front window and rummages in the glove compartment, pulling out the ringing phone. DEAN hits his head on the roof as he tries to get out. DEAN looks at the phone.
SAM
Isn't that Dad's phone?
DEAN flips the phone open, presses a button, and puts it to his ear.
DEAN
Hello?
A YOUNG MAN, ADAM MILLIGAN, answers.
ADAM
Uh, is this John?
DEAN
He can't come to the phone. Can I help you?
ADAM
No no no—I really—I need to talk to John. This is Adam Milligan. He knows me.
DEAN
Well, sorry to be the one to break this to you, pal, but John died more than two years ago.
A shocked sound.
DEAN
Who is this?
ADAM
I'm his son.
DEAN stares.
WINDOM
The Impala parks next to Cousin Oliver's Hilltop Cafe.
Windom, Minnesota
A van goes past.
Dean and Sam get out of the car.
Co-Executive Producer
PHIL SGRICCIA
SAM
Dean, look, best I can tell, Adam Milligan is real.
DEAN unlocks and opens the trunk, then the weapons box. SAM reads from a paper in an open folder.
SAM
Um, born September twenty-ninth, 1990 to Kate Milligan. No father listed on the birth certificate. He's an Eagle Scout.
DEAN pulls assorted weapons out of the trunk, including Ruby's knife.
SAM
Graduated from high school with honors and currently goes to the University of Wisconsin—biology major, pre-med.
DEAN closes the weapons box.
SAM
Dean? You listening?
DEAN
This is a trap.
DEAN closes the trunk and heads past SAM. SAM closes the folder.
DINER
INT. DINER – DAY
Executive Producer
McG
DEAN and SAM enter the diner with a bell ringing at the door. There's a MAN at the counter, a WAITRESS serving a burger, a couple other customers.
Executive Producer
KIM MANNERS
DEAN and SAM scan opposite halves of the diner; DEAN sees an empty table in a corner with four chairs. He pulls one of the chairs away from the table and next to the potted plant.
Produced by
VLADIMIR STEFOFF
DEAN and SAM sit in the two chairs on the other side of the table, ensuring that ADAM will sit in the last chair. SAM thumps John's journal and the folder on the table.
SAM
Dean, I'm telling you, the kid checks out.
Created by
ERIC KRIPKE
DEAN
Great, so he's an actual person on the planet Earth. Sucks he's got a demon in him.
Another WAITRESS, DENISE, approaches the table with menus and glasses of water; she gives them each a glass.
DENISE
Hi. Welcome to Cousin Oliver's.
SAM
Thanks.
DENISE
Can I—
DEAN
We're actually waiting on somebody.
DENISE, annoyed, slaps down a menu in front of each of them.
SAM
Thank you—
SAM picks up his menu long enough to slap it down. DEAN takes his glass and pours it into the potted plant behind him.
SAM
What are you—
DEAN puts the glass between his knees and pulls out a flask, unscrewing the top.
Written by
ANDREW DABB &
DANIEL LOFLIN
SAM
Holy water?
DEAN
Yup.
Under the table, DEAN fills the glass with water from the flask.
DEAN
One sip of Jesus juice, this evil bitch is gonna be in a world of hurt.
DENISE walks past; when she is out of sight, DEAN puts the glass in front of the third place at the table. DEAN pulls out a felt-wrapped package and undoes it.
SAM
And what if he's not possessed?
Directed by
PHIL SGRICCIA
DEAN
Then he is a shapeshifter.
DEAN's package contains silver cutlery, which he sets at the third place at the table, removing the silverware already there and dropping it on the floor.
SAM
Hence the silver.
SAM moves the journal on top of the menu.
DEAN
Look, either way, this thing is gonna bleed. I mean, using Dad as bait? That's the last mistake of its short, pitiful life.
SAM frowns, watching DEAN, who looks over.
DEAN
What?
SAM looks away.
DEAN
What?
SAM
Dean...listen. There's an entry in Dad's journal.
SAM flips through same.
SAM
From January of 1990, saying he's headed to Minnesota to check out a case. That's, roughly, oh, about nine months before the kid was born.
DEAN
Coincidence.
SAM
Coincidence. Next two pages of the journal—torn out.
SAM indicates the remains of the pages; these must have been deliberately left, because the journal is clearly a three-ring add-and-remove-pages type.
DEAN
You're not actually buying this, are you?
SAM
Look, man, I don't want to believe it either, I'm just saying it's possible.
SAM closes the journal and picks it up, waving it.
SAM
I mean, Dad would be gone for weeks at a time, and he wasn't exactly a monk.
SAM puts the journal away.
SAM
I mean, a hunter rolls into town, kills a monster, saves the girl...sometimes the girl's grateful.
DEAN
Well, now I’m thinking about Dad sex. Stop talking.
SAM
Maybe he slipped one past the goalie.
DEAN
Dude!
The door chimes. A YOUNG MAN has just come in: this is ADAM MILLIGAN. SAM looks up, then DEAN. ADAM looks around, looking for the unfamiliar faces.
SAM
Adam?
ADAM looks over. SAM raises a hand. ADAM comes over.
ADAM
You Sam?
SAM
Yeah. Uh, this is Dean.
ADAM
Hey.
ADAM sets his backpack on the floor next to the empty chair and takes that chair. The door chimes again.
ADAM
So, um...how did you know my dad?
SAM
Uh, we worked together.
ADAM's facial expressions indicate confusion.
ADAM
How did he die?
SAM
On the job.
ADAM
He was a mechanic, right?
DEAN
A car fell on him.
DENISE comes up to the table, much friendlier.
DENISE
Hey, Adam. How you doing?
