Jo Harvelle

Name	Joanna Beth Harvelle
Actor	Alona Tal
Dates	April 7, 1985-
Location	Originally Harvelle's Roadhouse, now Duluth, Minnesota
Occupation	Bartender, Hunter
Episode(s)	2.02 Everybody Loves a Clown 2.05 Simon Said 2.06 No Exit 2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign

• Jo is daugher of Ellen and William Anthony Harvelle.
• In 2.06 No Exit (episode), Ellen calls her "Joanna Beth".
• According to Jo's Hunter's Blog, she was born April 7, 1985.
• According to Jo's Hunter's Blog, her email address is Enihpesoj91@gmail.com.
• In early drafts of the script, Jo was called "Alex"
• Jo's Blog documents her life, and life at the Roadhouse from 1993-2006.

2.02 Everybody Loves a Clown

Thinking Dean is an intruder at the Roadhouse, Jo holds him at gun point. He disarms her, but she punches him in the face.

Jo is used to having hunters hit on her:

Most hunters come through that door think they can get in my pants with some... pizza, a six pack, and side one of Zeppelin IV.

And while Dean says "normally I'd be hitting on you so fast it'd make your head spin", in the wake of his father's death and the secret he is carrying, he concludes it is "wrong place, wrong time."

2.05 Simon Said

Jo beats a hunter at an arcade game, as Sam and Dean turn to Ash for help. Jo likes REO Speedwagon "Kevin Cronin sings it from the heart" she says as I can't stop this feeling plays.

2.06 No Exit

Jo wants to go from hunting on her own, but Ellen doesn't want her to. Even though Ellen gives the case she has researched to Sam and Dean, Jo sneaks off and joins them, getting Ash to help her cover her tracks. She is flush with cash, having won it playing poker with hunters at the Roadhouse.Jo reminisces with Dean about her Dad, Bill Harvelle:

I was still in pigtails when my dad died, but I remember him coming home from a hunt. He'd burst through that door like, like Steve McQueen or something. And he'd sweep me up in his arms, and I'd breathe in that old leather jacket of his. And my mom, who was sour and pissed from the minute he left, she started smiling again. And we were... we were a family. You wanna know why I want to do the job? For him. It's my way of being close to him. Now tell me what's wrong with that.

While hunting with the boys, Jo is kidnapped by the spirit of Dr. H.H. Holmes. Dean and Sam rescue her, and she then helps them capture and trap him.

Back at the Roadhouse, Ellen reveals to Jo that her father was killed while hunting with John Winchester.

2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign

In Hunted that Jo had left the Roadhouse to become a hunter, against Ellen's wishes, although Jo is still sending her postcards.

She is working in a bar in Duluth when Sam, possessed by the Meg!Demon arrives. He teases her about having a crush on Dean and then takes her hostage. The demon taunts her about her father's death. She relates the version she knows:

Our dads were in California: Devil's Gate Reservoir. They were setting a trap for some kind of Hell spawn. John was hiding, waiting, and my dad was bait...The thing showed up. John got too eager, jumped out too soon, got my dad exposed out in the open. The thing turned around and killed him.

Evil!Sam gives his own, more horrible version:

You see, Bill was all clawed up. Holding his insides in his hands. He was gurgling and praying to see you and Ellen one more time. So my dad . . . killed him. Put him out of his misery like a sick dog.

and concludes (in a sing song voice) "My daddy shot your daddy in the head"

The veracity of this story must be doubted as the Meg!Demon has interested in hurting Jo and also painting John in a bad light.

After Dean arrives, Evil!Sam turns his attention on him. Dean frees Jo as he pursues Evil!Sam. Jo finds Dean half-drowned after Evil!Sam has shot him. She patches him up, and wants to come with him in pursuit of Evil!Sam, but Dean won't let her.