- Sam is mysteriously released from Hell and seeks out his brother who is trying to have a normal life. Together the brothers must join forces with their maternal grandfather, Samuel, and begin the fight anew.
- One year ago, Dean moved to Lisa's house to live a normal, "apple-pie" life with Lisa and her son Ben, as recommended by Sam, working as a construction worker. One day, Dean finds scratches of Djinn in several places and he chases the supernatural being. When his is attacked by the Djinn, he is saved by Sam that tells him that he was released from hell one year ago and teamed-up with their Grandfather Samuel and three Campbells. Now Dean has to decide whether he wishes to leave Lisa and Ben to hunt demons again or stay with his regular life.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- It's a year later and Dean has given up hunting and is living with Lisa and her son Ben. Mysteriously freed from his cage in hell, Sam finds Dean and tells him he needs to rejoin the fight and introduces Dean to a world-a family-he never even knew existed: the Campbells, his mother's family, lead by none other than their Grandfather Samuel.—CW Publicity
- One Year Ago
...The Apocalypse happened. Sam threw himself into a hole to Hell to imprison the Devil and stop the End of Days, once and for all. Before he did so, he made Dean promise not to try to rescue him, to go and lead an apple pie life with Lisa Braeden.
That's precisely what Dean did. But one night, Sam showed up on the sidewalk in front of Lisa and Dean's place anyway, watching the happy couple and Lisa's son, Ben, through the front window as the street light above him ominously dimmed.
NOW
Dean awakens in bed at 7 a.m. Lisa rolls over and asks him if he's OK, then kisses his hand. They get up and get ready for work. Dean scrambles eggs for Lisa's son, trying not to think of what he used to use salt for as he seasons them. He puts his toolbox in his truck, ignoring a flash of opening his old weapons cache.
He drives his truck to his job working construction, and pushes down memories of his past life. Scenes of his new life -- barbecues, fixing his truck with the boy, all normal things -- interweave with the good and the bad from his former existence. And as he slides into bed beside Lisa, the camera pans to the space underneath the bed...where his shotgun silently lies, ready.
Later Dean is having drinks with a new friend, Sid, in a bar. Dean is reluctant to reveal details about his past, but since Sid keeps pressing him, Dean makes up a story that he used to be in pest control.
"Of course, that was then. And now? You're practically respectable," Sid says, and they both laugh. The waitress brings him their bill, and Dean notices that she's left her number on it. They both laugh, and Dean observes that chicks dig unavailable guys.
The two men part ways outside of the bar, and Dean is getting in his truck when he hears a scream from a nearby hotel that's under construction. He reaches into his truck and grabs a weapon, tucking it into his jacket as he also retrieves a flashlight, and heads inside.
Inside one of the rooms he finds claw marks on a wall, and notices a blood smear. He heads home to call the police to check on missing persons, but the cops have nothing. Lisa comes into the room to see what he's doing, and he lies to her about checking on a poker game. She obviously doesn't believe him, but accepts it when he says he'll be up to bed. He finishes his whiskey.
The next day, Dean is driving down a sunny street when he notices the same claw marks on a wooden post in front of a cheery home surrounded by flowers. Tucking his revolver in his waistband, he heads up the walkway to investigate and finds a shredded sheet on a clothesline...and the same claw marks on the door of the tool shed. He pulls out his gun, opens the shed door and finds -- a tiny Yorkshire Terrier, whimpering to get out.
As Fido runs for it, Dean's drinking buddy Sid surprises him and is alarmed that Dean has a gun. Dean makes up a story about thinking the dog was a possum -- pest control, you know -- but as he's looking around the shed he notices something truly alarming: yellow powder by the door. It's sulfur. He quickly excuses himself and heads back to Lisa's place.
In his garage he digs up his old duffel bag and heads over to a tarp. He lifts it up, revealing the Metallicar. Dean opens the trunk and retrieves a few weapons, just as Lisa comes up the walkway. But by the time she gets to him, he's bent over a toolbox, pulling out a hammer with a grin on his face.
Lisa asks if he's hunting something, and he tells her that he thought he was, but he's probably just getting worked up over nothing.
"Are you sure?" Lisa asks again, and Dean tries to reassure her, but advises her to take Ben to dinner and a movie just in case while he does a sweep. Worried, Lisa takes his advice and heads out.
Dean finds his dad's journal in the garage and is starting to look through it when the light bulb flickers. One of Ben's balls bounces out from nowhere, and Dean heads over to investigate...but finds nothing. When he turns around, he finds himself face to face with Azazel, the Yellow Eyed Demon.
"Hi, Dean. Look what the Apocalypse shook loose!" Azazel says with a laugh. Dean can't believe what he's seeing, but Azazel crows, "The Big Daddy brought back your pal Cas, right? So why not me, to add a little spice to all that sugar?"
Dean shoots a salt round into Azazel's torso, but it doesn't affect him. The demon grabs Dean by the throat and starts to strangle him. While Dean chokes, he threatens Lisa and Ben, telling Dean that he had to know the demons would be coming for him some time. Dean starts to pass out, his eyes rolling back in his head, as Azazel growls, "You can't outrun your past." But just as the lights are about to go out permanently, someone steps up behind the demon and jabs a syringe filled with milky liquid into Dean, depressing the plunger. Azazel disappears and Dean gulps down air to see who saved him.
It's Sam. Dean passes out.
Dean comes to on a cot to see Sam smiling at him. But Dean's greeting isn't particularly warm. He thinks he's dead, that the Yellow Eyed Demon killed him.
"Yellow Eyes? That's what you saw?" He tells Dean he was poisoned, and whatever crazy things he thinks he's seeing isn't real. But Sam assures Dean that he's real. To prove it, he takes out his knife and cuts himself. Then he grabs some water, salts it, and drinks it. He winces, saying it's nasty.
Dean gets up and hugs him at last. He asks Sam how he got back, and Sam says he doesn't know. He also says Cas isn't answering his prayers. He tells Dean that one minute he was in Hell, and the next minute it's raining, and he's lying in that field, alone. He says he looked for weeks to find out what saved him, but couldn't find anything. Dean stops him -- weeks? He presses Sam, and Sam finally admits that he's been back for nearly a year. Almost the entire time Dean's been with Lisa.
Dean gets angry at Sam for failing to contact him, but Sam tells him that after everything that happened, that Dean deserved a regular life. He stayed away so Dean could finally have what he'd always wanted. In the interim, he tells Dean, he's been hunting. Not alone -- with family.
"And they're here," Dean adds. Sam opens a door nearby to reveal two men and a woman cleaning weapons around a table. Sam introduces Dean to Gwen, Christian and Mark Campbell.
Campbell, as in his mother's family. They're cousins who grew up in the life, like Sam and Dean. Dean says he thought all of Mary's family was dead and wonders why he never heard about them before.
"Because they didn't know about you," says a voice from the shadows. It's Samuel, Dean's grandfather. Problem is, last time Dean saw Samuel, he was possessed and had been stabbed to death.
Samuel tells Dean to take a minute to process the resurrections he's seeing, and Samuel theorizes that whatever pulled Sam up also pulled Samuel down out of Heaven.And they have no leads on what that is. Dean's mind reels at this news, then points behind him. "No more door nails coming out of that door, is there?"
Sam assures him that only he and Samuel are the risen dead in the room. Samuel assures him that they realize that something is off about this situation but, for the time being, they're in the area hunting something else: a djinn.
Djinns poison with a touch and make their victims hallucinate until they die, and can blend in among humans. Sam cured Dean with an antidote that Samuel brewed up -- apparently their grandfather knows things even John didn't. What doesn't make sense to Dean is why a monster that tends to be a hermit and live in caves would venture out into the world and come after him. Sam reminds Dean that he staked one a while back, so revenge is probably high on their list. Plus, Sam adds, one came after him. And when that happened, he was pretty sure that it was going to go for Dean next.
The Dean realizes the djinn's next target will be Lisa and Ben. Samuel reassures him that he sent a man over to guard them, but when Sam and Dean get back to Dean's house, the guard is already dead. Lisa and Ben are gone.
Dean gets on the phone in a panic when Lisa and Ben suddenly walk in through the kitchen door. Dean clasps her to his chest, hard, and a surprised Lisa reminds him that they were at the movies, as Dean instructed her to do. Dean tells them they need to pack a bag and stay at a friend's house, and Lisa sends Ben upstairs to get going while she and Dean talk.
Ben's leaving the room, but is stopped at the sight of Sam. Lisa is officially shocked.
Dean takes Lisa and Ben to Bobby's, who isn't exactly pleased to see him. "If you're here," Bobby says, "something's wrong." Nevertheless, Bobby tells Lisa and Ben that it's nice to meet them and sends them to their rooms. Sam comes up behind Bobby and Dean expects the old hunter to be shocked, but he isn't. He greets him as normal, which freshens Dean's anger. He can't believe the two of them kept Sam's return from him.
In a rage, Dean tells them that for a year he tried to look for ways to bust Sam out, even though he told Sam he wouldn't. He drank too much and was out of his head with grief. "And you couldn't put me out of my misery?" he yells at Bobby.
Bobby explains that Dean was as close to happiness as he'd ever seen a hunter get. He left him alone because he was out. Dean spits back at him, "Do I look out to you?"
Lisa comes back downstairs, and Dean tells her that he and Sam will be out for a while. He apologizes to her, saying that the monster was coming for him.
She says with understanding, "How could you know that a monster was going to show up?"
"I should have known," Dean answers. " I should have known that if I stayed with you, that something would come, because something always does. But I was stupid and reckless and...you can't outrun your past."
In shock, Lisa realizes he's saying goodbye. Dean clarifies that he's saying he's sorry for everything.
"Everything?" she asks angrily. Lisa tells him that what they have isn't perfect, but they're good together. Dean reminds her that he was a wreck half the time, but Lisa says she was ready to accept he had some issues given that Dean had, oh, JUST AVERTED THE END OF THE WORLD. Lisa says that what she wanted, more than anything, was a guy that Ben could look up to, like a dad. And that's what Dean was.
"Are you saying it was all bad, Dean? Because it was the best year of my life," she says.
Dean and Sam head back to the Campbells, ready to kill the Djinn. One of his cousins tells Dean to stay back and leave it to the professionals, since he hasn't been hunting for a while. But Dean reminds him that if the Djinn is after him and Sam, the best place to be is his home, where he can act as bait. "See? It's almost as if I'm a professional," Dean quips. Gwen smiles and shoots a look of admiration at Samuel.
The Campbells set up at Lisa and Dean's place, and the cousins make fun of the man Dean's become: a guy with InStyle magazine on the coffee table and golf clubs in the closet. Samuel takes him aside in the kitchen and tells him he understands that he wanted a real life. So did Mary, Samuel admits.
Then he tells Dean that the Djinn hunting them is part of a larger issue: Nocturnals attacking in broad daylight. Werewolves no longer governed by the full moon. Creatures they've never even seen before. They've been working around the clock, and it's all hands on deck.
"I'm knee-deep in half-eaten human hearts and exsanguinated 10-year-olds, and it's all making me...uneasy," Samuel says. He tells Dean that the family's counting on each other now, because that's how it is with Campbells. Samuel finally says, "We need you, Dean."
Dean is reluctant to say yes, but Samuel reminds him that he's part of something bigger, than his ancestors were killing monster on the Mayflower. That this isn't the time for golf.
Dean goes outside to think, and talks to his cousin, who's on the stakeout. The Campbell sees three Djinn in nearby trees. Dean realizes that the Djinn won't attack until they think Sam and Dean are outnumbered, so Dean sends Samuel and the cousins away.
As the sun goes down, Dean talks to Sam in the kitchen about why he thinks he was sent back, and who he thinks saved him. Good question, Sam asks. Then Dean asks if Sam remembers the cage. Sam says yes, but he doesn't want to think about it. He's just focusing on being able to breathe fresh air again. Before anyone can question this (since Hell is pretty much all Dean could think about when he got out), Dean glances out the window and sees the next door neighbors, Sid and his wife, convulsing and collapsing to the floor of their living room.
Dean grabs two syringes of the Djinn poison's antidote out of his bag and runs next door to save his friends, but waiting for him are two Djinn, a man and a woman. Black tattoos are snaking up their arms. One knocks the syringes out of Dean's hand while the other crushes them beneath her shoe. She grabs Dean by the jaw, telling him that she's giving him enough poison to kill him. "That's for our father, you son of a bitch," she says. The man also puts his hand on Dean's face, and the veins in his skin go black. Dean's eyes roll back and he passes out.
Another Djinn attacks Sam in Dean's house, but Sam is able to overpower him by using Dean's golf clubs. But Dean's attackers arrive, and Sam realizes he'll soon be overwhelmed.
In Sid's house, Dean is trying to pull himself up, and sees Lisa and Ben returning home. The Djinn in the kitchen wait in the dark. Dean screams and collapses to the floor again...but it's not his floor, it's Ben's bed. He looks around and sees Lisa pinned to the ceiling, much in the way Mary was when the Yellow Eyed Demon killed her. He can't move, and watches as Y.E.D. puts his arm around Ben, grinning. The demon slices into his wrist and makes Ben drink his blood. Lisa tells Dean it's all his fault. Yellow Eyes whispers to Dean that this is all just details, that something is coming for Ben and Dean knows it. Lisa screams as a wound opens in her stomach and she erupts in flames.
In reality, Dean is convulsing on Sid's living room floor.
The two remaining Djinn corner Sam, and the man is about to get the better of him, but Samuel sneaks up behind the man and kills him with a knife. He turns on the woman and tells Sam to take care of Dean, that he's got her under control. As soon as Dean leaves the room, one of the Campbell cousins steps up behind the woman and puts a bag over her head. Samuel instructs him to put her in the van before the boys get back, looking around to make sure Sam didn't what just happened.
In the next scene, Sam has restored Dean, who walks into his living room and rights a photo of Lisa and Ben that has been knocked over. Sam says he's going back to rejoin the Campbells and asks Dean if he's coming with him. Dean says no, to Sam's dismay. Sam reminds Dean that he'll be putting Lisa and Ben in danger if he stays with them. Dean says he knows that, but he can't leave them unprotected.
Sam accepts his brother's answer, but tells Dean that he wishes he were coming with him, because it's clear that Dean cares about people. He says it's better when Dean's around. As Sam turns to leave, Dean offers him the keys to the Impala, explaining, "She should be hunting."
Sam stares at the keys for a long moment, then thanks Dean, but tells him he has his car set up exactly how he likes it. Dean nods and walks him out, telling Sam to keep in touch. Sam gets into his modern muscle car and backs out of the driveway.
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