7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo (Transcript)
7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo
Written by: Robbie Thompson
Directed by: Johnny MacCarthy
Air Date: 27 April 2012
NOW
EXT. – CABIN – DAY
INT. – CABIN – DAY
SAM is talking on his cell phone. The wall behind him is covered with research.
SAM
Yeah, I hear you. All right. Well, thanks for looking. Yep. Bye.
SAM hangs up.
SAM
So, Nora didn’t see any pattern to the dig sites either.
SAM sits down on the sofa.
DEAN
Yeah, 'cause they got nothing in common.
DEAN sits on the arm of the sofa.
DEAN
And I got nothing from local lore 50 miles in every direction of all of them. I mean, it's like they're just... old dirt. What’s Dick looking for?
DEAN takes a drink from his flask. The lights flicker. SAM and DEAN both stand up and take guns out of their jeans. BOBBY appears and they point their guns at him.
BOBBY
Hey, hey, go easy, you idjits. Sorry for the jump scare.
DEAN
So how does this work, huh? I leave the cap off and you just genie your way out?
BOBBY
I wish it were that easy. The thing –
BOBBY flickers and vanishes.
SAM
Bobby?
BOBBY reappears.
BOBBY
Damn it. It’s hard to stay focused. I’m still kind of worn out.
DEAN
You’ve been pretty busy for a dead guy.
BOBBY
All right. Listen. I-I don't know how long before my next ghost nap, so let's just skip to the skinny –
those numbers I gave you.
[Flashback to BOBBY writing “45489” on SAM’s hand in 7.10 Death's Door and DEAN looking at the same numbers on a clipboard in 7.11 Adventures In Babysitting.]
DEAN
The empty lot in Cheeseville?
BOBBY
Yeah, well, it ain't gonna be empty for long.
[Flashback to BOBBY looking at DICK ROMAN’s papers in 7.09 How to Win Friends And Influence Monsters.]
BOBBY
I got a gander at Dick's big plan, right before he Lincolned me.
[Flashback to DICK ROMAN shooting at BOBBY as BOBBY tries to get into the van with SAM and DEAN in 7.09 How to Win Friends And Influence Monsters.]
BOBBY
They're breaking ground – what month is this?
SAM
Uh – uh, April.
BOBBY sighs.
BOBBY
Ground’s broke.
[Flashback to DICK ROMAN’s employees in the field, and FRANK and DEAN in FRANK’s trailer, in 7.11 Adventures In Babysitting.
FRANK
They're surveying. They're getting ready to build something.
DEAN
Build what?
FRANK
Exactly. What?]
BOBBY
They’re building as we’re yammering. Check it out yourself. It's all right. I mean, you guys missed it because you've been kind of busy [SAM opens the laptop] killing ghosts the past few days. But Dick is about to get into the Soylent Green business.
[Flashbacks to the meat delivery to the Biggerson’s warehouse in 7.09 How to Win Friends And Influence Monsters.]
BOBBY
That site'll show you they're building a biotech lab, right?
The laptop screen shows Geothrive’s “Standard plans for an efficient slaughterhouse”.
BOBBY
Biotech my ass.
[Flashbacks to the meat delivery truck and one of the caged hyper-aggressive humans who reacted badly to the Turducken in 7.09 How to Win Friends And Influence Monsters.]
BOBBY
That sucker is a state-of-the-art slaughterhouse. And we're the beef.
[Flashback to BRANDON, the waiter who reacted badly to the Turducken, being led into a cage in 7.09 How to Win Friends And Influence Monsters.]
DEAN
Don't you think that's a little bold, even for Dick?
BOBBY
I bet you no one will even notice…
[Flashback to the Biggerson’s restaurant in 7.09 How to Win Friends And Influence Monsters. DEAN and many of the patrons are eating Turducken sandwiches.]
BOBBY
… 'cause first, he's gonna dumb us all down with Turducken-style munchies.
[Flashback to SAM taking DEAN’s partly-eaten Turducken sandwich away from him in 7.09 How to Win Friends And Influence Monsters.]
BOBBY
Make us docile.
[Flashback to gray goo erupting from DEAN’s Turducken sandwich in 7.09 How to Win Friends And Influence Monsters.
BOBBY
It's in the meat.]
DEAN
Yeah, we haven't been to Biggerson's since that whole fiasco.
BOBBY
Biggerson's? He's bought a list of joints 10 pages long.
DEAN
Ah.
BOBBY
Next, he's gonna cure us.
SAM
Cure us of what?
[Flashback to DICK ROMAN and other Leviathans watching the family eat in 7.09 How to Win Friends And Influence Monsters.]
BOBBY
All the biggies – cancer, AIDS, heart disease. Let's just say they got an affinity for stem-cell research.
DEAN
The, uh, Leviathan real-estate mooks building that cancer center.
[Flashback to GEORGE and DEAN in 7.16 Out With The Old.
GEORGE
It's going to be a research center.
DEAN
Research for what?]
BOBBY
They're not hunting anymore. They're engineering the perfect herd.
[Flashback to DICK ROMAN and other Leviathans watching the family eat in 7.09 How to Win Friends And Influence Monsters.
DICK ROMAN
With the very first dose, it starts to work on their DNA, slowing their metabolism, causing weight gain, and dampening their emotional range, which makes them perfectly complacent.]
BOBBY
Now, we've gone up against plenty liked to eat a few folk in the woods. This ain't that. This is about knocking us off the top of the food chain. This is about them Levis living here forever, one-percenter style, while we march our dopey, fat asses down to the shiny new death camps at every corner.
CUT TO: A WOMAN plugging a hard drive into a computer. She drags the “external volume” icon on her screen across to a box that says “Drop harddrive here to decrypt” and types rapidly.
CUT TO: SAM’s laptop beeps. His email program reads “You have 1 new message.” The top email is from Frank and is titled “I’m probably dead…”
SAM
It's an e-mail... [He opens the email.] From Frank.
DEAN
Frank's alive?
BOBBY
That jackass, always stealing my thunder.
SAM
"Sam and Dean, if you're reading this, I'm dead... or worse. This e-mail was sent because some prince is trying to hack into my hard drive right this second. So unless it's you, you got trouble."
CUT TO: the WOMAN trying to access the hard drive.
SAM
Um, okay. "My drive is full of compromising info. Your new aliases, hangouts, where you stored your car..."
DEAN
Baby?
SAM
Even though he encrypted the crap out of his drive, he says we should assume that someone can hack into it eventually. He did put a tracking device in it.
SAM clicks on a link in Frank’s email and a “Hard Drive Tracker” application appears on the laptop screen.
SAM
All right, let's see where Frank's drive is.
A box appears on the screen saying that the hard drive is at Richard Roman Enterprises.
DEAN
Perfect. It's in the middle of the Death Star.
SUPERNATURAL (Title Card)
ACT ONE
EXT. – RICHARD ROMAN ENTERPRISES – DAY
The WOMAN who attempted to hack into Frank’s hard drive pulls up on a yellow scooter in front of the building. She removes her goggles and helmet, puts on headphones and plays Katrina and the Waves’ “Walking on Sunshine” as she walks towards the building.
♪ I used to think maybe you loved me ♪
INT. – RICHARD ROMAN ENTERPRISES – DAY
♪ Now, baby, I'm sure ♪
The WOMAN enters the building and swipes her pass card.
♪ And I just can't wait till the day ♪
♪ When you knock on my door ♪
The WOMAN walks bouncily across the foyer in time to the music. A security guard’s computer screen shows her picture and name – Charlie Bradbury – and reads “Access Granted”.
♪ Now every time I go for the mailbox ♪
♪ Gotta hold myself down ♪
CHARLIE swipes her pass card in the elevator and presses a button for the fourth floor.
♪ 'Cause I just can’t wait ♪
♪ Till you write me you're coming around ♪
CHARLIE looks around, smiles and starts to dance vigorously.
♪ Now, I'm walking on sunshine ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
♪ I'm walking on sunshine ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
The elevator arrives at CHARLIE’s floor. She composes herself and walks out.
♪ I'm walking on sunshine ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
♪ And don't it feel good? ♪
♪ Hey ♪
CHARLIE turns off the music and removes her headphones as she walks to her desk. Her workspace is decorated with figurines and pictures from Star Wars, Harry Potter, Wonder Woman, etc. Next to her computer is a Hermione Granger figurine.
CHARLIE brings up a website for “The U.S. Conservatives – Keep America Strong” and transfers $10,000 from their account to “Animal Lovers & Lovers of the Planet”.
CO-WORKER
How'd it go last night? Charlie, it's a moral imperative you let me live vicariously through you.
CHARLIE
Pictures or it didn't happen, right?
CHARLIE hands her CO-WORKER her phone. Her computer screen now shows the “Animal Lovers” website online donations page. A message appears saying that the $10,000 funds transfer is complete.
CO-WORKER
You hooked up at a charity benefit?
CHARLIE
If you can't score at a reproductive rights function, then you simply cannot score.
CO-WORKER
Wait. Is that legal?
CHARLIE
We were two consenting adults.
The CO-WORKER rolls his chair over to look at CHARLIE’s computer screen.
CO-WORKER
No. That. Why do you insist on breaking the law on company property?
CHARLIE
Mmm, faster Internet connection here.
CO-WORKER
Oh, well, if Pete finds out, he's gonna fire you... or get you arrested.
CHARLIE
Teddy Bear Pete? Please. You know I've been doing this for like a month. I can cover my tracks, Harry. Trust me.
PETE
Charlie!
CHARLIE and HARRY stand up and look over the cubicle divider at PETE.
PETE
My office. Now.
HARRY
I love you.
CHARLIE
I know.
CHARLIE walks into PETE’s office. DICK ROMAN is there.
DICK ROMAN
Charlie Bradbury? Dick. Sit.
CHARLIE looks very nervous.
DICK ROMAN
Charlie, I've been running things for, well, feels like since before the dawn of man. Always had a vision. I'm close to realizing that dream. I don't want to brag, but the world is my dinner plate. And I don't want anything to jeopardize that – definitely not the actions of one tiny, little person.
CHARLIE
Sir, sir, I can fix this. Please – please don't fire me.
DICK ROMAN
What's she talking about?
PETE
I – I –
DICK ROMAN
Is that about hacking those Super Pacs? 'Cause that was adorable. Tell me, how does a high-school dropout become one of the brightest minds at Roman, Inc.?
CHARLIE
Um... Honestly... Historically, I've had this problem with – with authority – no offense – so I realized the only way to get away with being me was to be as indispensable as possible. Sorry.
DICK ROMAN
You're kind of completing me right now, Charlie. You have that spark, that thing that makes humans so special. Not everyone has it, you know. Those people – they can be replaced. But people like you... are impossible to copy.
CHARLIE
C-copy?
DICK ROMAN
Take the compliment.
DICK ROMAN picks up a hard drive.
DICK ROMAN
This belonged to one Frank Devereaux. Thought he could bring down the whole company. He was wrong. Let's keep him wrong. It's encrypted [He gives the hard drive to CHARLIE], or whatever you crazy kids say these days. Break it open and bring it to me.
CHARLIE
Yeah, I'm on it. And – and thank you.
DICK ROMAN
You're welcome. You have three days or you're fired. Good talk.
DICK ROMAN leaves the office.
CHARLIE
Is this real life?
PETE stares at her with his mouth open.
CHARLIE walks past HARRY’s desk holding up the hard drive.
CHARLIE
Dick Roman gave me an assignment.
HARRY
Is that... good?
CHARLIE
It means the Eye of Sauron is on me.
HARRY
Well, if you need anything, I'll be back in the Shire.
CHARLIE plugs in the hard drive and looks at her Hermione figurine.
CHARLIE
All right, H. It's just you and me now.
CHARLIE drags the “external volume” icon on her screen across to a box that says “Drop harddrive here to decrypt” and types rapidly. A message appears:
LOGON: error. Access denied.
CHARLIE types more and gets the same "access denied" message several times.
Her screen reads:
‘Games’ refers to models, simulations and games which have tactical and strategic applications.
List Games
Falken’s Maze
Black Jack
Gin Rummy
Hearts
Bridge
Checkers
Chess
Poker
ELECTRONIC VOICE
How about a nice game of chess?
More games appear on the list on CHARLIE’s screen:
Fighter Combat
Guerrilla Engagement
Desert Warfare
Air-to-ground Actions
Theaterwide Tactical Warfare
Theaterwide Biotoxic and Chemical Warfare
Global Thermonuclear War
CHARLIE
Wait a second. Seriously? "Wargames"?
CHARLIE types “Joshua” to log on. The screen reads “Greetings Professor Falken.” CHARLIE smiles.
CHARLIE
Shall we play a game, bitches? [To her Hermione figurine] That was hardly the Chamber of Secrets, right? [She mock-fistbumps the Hermione figurine] Booyah.
The computer screen flickers.
ELECTRONIC VOICE
Shall – we – play – a – game?
A system alert appears on the screen: NICE TRY ZERO CHARISMA.
FRANK’S VOICE
Nice try, Zero Charisma.
CHARLIE sighs and addresses the Hermione figurine.
CHARLIE
And back to square one.
SAM (V-O)
Let's see where Frank's drive is.
INT. – CABIN – DAY
SAM’s laptop shows the location of Frank’s hard drive at Richard Roman Enterprises.
DEAN
Perfect. It's in the middle of the Death Star. All right, well, off to Chicago.
DEAN stands up.
BOBBY
No, wait, boys, you can't just break in. They know your mugs. What if we mailed in the flask? Then I could ghost through the joint. I mean, it's not like Dick can kill me twice. What, you got a better plan? Come on. Just because I'm dead doesn't mean I don't know how to do my damn job.
SAM
Bobby, that's Dick's office.
DEAN
I think what Sam's trying to say is, what happens if you run into Dick and, you know... go vengeful. You know it's not something you can just shake off.
BOBBY
Come on. Give me some credit. What, I'm supposed to just ride the pine?
SAM
Sorry, Bobby.
SAM shuts the laptop and walks away. DEAN follows him.
EXT. – RICHARD ROMAN ENTERPRISES – DAY
INT. – RICHARD ROMAN ENTERPRISES – DAY
CHARLIE is asleep at her desk.
HARRY
Did you go home last night?
CHARLIE shakes her head.
HARRY
I'll get us some coffee. I assume you want some crack in yours.
CHARLIE
Yes, please.
CHARLIE’s computer screen is still running through the decryption process. There is a beep and CHARLIE looks up. The screen reads Access granted!
CHARLIE
Finally.
FRANK’s folders appear on the screen:
March of Dimes
Clones
Known Facts
Monsters
CHARLIE
Who is this d-bag?
One of the folders is labeled “Richard Roman Enterprises”.
CHARLIE
Don't do it. Roman said to bring it right to him. [She looks at the Hermione figurine] You're right, H. You're always right.
CHARLIE clicks on the folder labeled “Richard Roman Enterprises.” Video footage of the empty field from 7.11 Adventures In Babysitting, a Financial Markets Watch article about Richard Roman Enterprises, a drawing of a leviathan’s mouth, other articles and photographs, and handwritten notes open. CHARLIE clicks on what appear to be handwritten notes written by FRANK.
CHARLIE
What the frak's a Leviathan?
FRANK’S VOICE
The thing to know about Leviathan is these monsters are as old as time, and strong as all get-out. Sodium borate – commonly known as Borax. Decapitation… Splash them liberally. Repeat. …is the key. Then put that head in a box. These are the Superman of monsters. But don’t use… ...from the black hole of Purgatory. Send it to the moon if you can. They die. They can shapeshift… They don’t die easy. Take your face, your memory – the works. The top boss is Mr. Dick Roman. He runs the show.
CHARLIE hits a button and shakes her head, then hits another button.
FRANK’S VOICE
Cut one, you see black goo. We're through the looking glass. Blood is black, and black is blood. Don't turn your back. Get out of the building. Get out of the county.
CHARLIE hits a button and all of the open documents close. She gets up and looks in PETE’s office, which is empty.
HARRY
How goes it?
HARRY hands CHARLIE a cup of coffee.
CHARLIE
Pretty sure I spent the last 24 hours hacking into a loony bin. Where's Pete?
HARRY
Uh, probably snuck down to the garage for a smoky treat.
INT. – RICHARD ROMAN ENTERPRISES GARAGE – DAY
PETE is walking to his car. He takes a packet of cigarettes from the driver’s seat, then turns to find DICK ROMAN and another MAN waiting for him.
DICK ROMAN
How's it going with that drive?
PETE
Uh, great. Charlie was here all night.
DICK ROMAN
You know, that drive's very important to me. I'm gonna want a watchful eye kept.
PETE
Well, I will do just that.
DICK ROMAN
No. You won't. Bruce Springsteen, Eli Manning, our own little Charlie – you know what they are? Irreplaceable. You're more of a Tim Tebow, Joe Biden type. You got no spark in you. In fact, there's nothing in you... except Daryl's dinner.
DARYL grabs PETE’s arm and takes on PETE’s form. DARYL’s his face transforms and he lunges at PETE. Blood splatters PETE’s car. CHARLIE, who was watching from some distance away, gasps and turns around.
INT. – CHARLIE’S APARTMENT – DAY
CHARLIE enters, takes a bag from a cupboard and starts to pack. She pauses and looks around, then shakes her head and continues packing. Her phone rings.
CHARLIE
Hey, Pete, sorry I left without telling you.
No, I just wasn't... feeling well. It's a... lady thing. I will be in first thing. Got to go – cramps.
CHARLIE looks at Star Wars figurines on a shelf. The head of the Darth Vader figurine is moving. CHARLIE hurries for the door. As she opens it, DEAN slams it shut.
DEAN
It's all right. I'm not gonna hurt you.
CHARLIE
Get away from me, you... [She picks up a plastic sword] shapeshifter!
SAM
Look, we're not shapeshifters.
CHARLIE slashes at SAM with the sword, breaking it.
SAM
Geez!
DEAN takes the broken sword away from CHARLIE.
DEAN
Look, we're not Leviathans, okay? You want us to prove it? You know what Borax does to them?
CHARLIE
Yeah.
DEAN
Sam?
SAM holds out his hand and DEAN pours Borax over it, then pours some over his own hand. He holds his hand up to show CHARLIE.
DEAN
Huh? Your turn.
DEAN gives CHARLIE the Borax and she splashes some over one hand.
DEAN
Good.
DEAN takes back the Borax.
CHARLIE
Who the hell are you guys?
A commercial plays, with images of a farm, the Statue of Liberty, the Lincoln Memorial, the Capitol building, a city, a shoreline, laboratory workers, farmers, a warehouse, a shipping wharf, an office tower, people eating at an outdoor table, two people eating corn on the cob, an American flag, and the “Sucrocorp” logo.
VOICE ON COMMERCIAL
America – a nation of greatness… a nation of hardworking individuals. And, rest assured, no one works harder for you than Sucrocorp. Here at Sucrocorp, your well-being is our number-one priority. Sucrocorp – eat well, live well.
