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Supernatural :: Scarecrow (01x11)
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| Title: | Scarecrow |
| Episode #: | 01x11 |
| Production Number: | 2T6911 |
| Original Airdate: | Tuesday January 10th, 2006 |
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Burkitsville, Indiana One Year Ago
On Main Street, a couple leaves a store and a mother and daughter try to convince them to take some apple pie with them. The young woman takes the pie as the father finishes filling their car up with gas. The young man shakes the father’s hand as the young woman comments on the man’s tattoo. The mother and father give them directions to the interstate.
On a county road, a Mustang slows to a halt. With the headlights flashing, the man tries to use his cell phone, only to find that it’s dead. They climb out of the car and notice the light of a house on the other side of a row of apple trees. The woman is reluctant to head towards the house, but follows the man anyway. As they walk through the orchard, they come across a man in an overcoat impaled by a long board. They take a closer look and see that the man is a leather-looking hockey mask on with wiry hair underneath and is covered in mold. They walk away, but the woman keeps her eyes on what they believe to be a scarecrow and sees it move, which causes her to jump. The man and woman continue to walk through the orchard and begin running when they hear something growling behind them. The woman realizes that she’s running alone and stops to call out to the man. After more branches crack behind her, she begins running, but trips over what she finds to be the man’s corpse. The woman screams and begins to walk backwards and a figure comes between the camera and the woman. The camera cuts to the scarecrow’s perch where the scarecrow is once again hanging.
Present Day
The phone rings at the motel while Sam tries to wake Dean up. Sam reaches over and answers the phone, asking if it’s his father. John asks Sam how they are and tells him that he’s not hurt. Dean begins to stir as Sam asks his father where he is and if he’s after the demon that killed their mother. He tells Sam that he knows what killed Jess and Sam tells him that he wants to help kill the demon. John tells Sam that they need to stop looking for him and tries to give Sam a list of names. Dean tries to get Sam to give him the phone and finally grabs it away from him. He asks his father where he is, then his face turns serious as he mutters “yes, sir” while writing down a list of names.
Sam drives the Impala while the brothers discuss the list of names that their father gave them. The names are that of three couples who disappeared during a cross-country road trip. Dean finds a common connection with all of the couples: they each passed through a small town in Indiana during the second week of April, one each year. Sam realizes that this is the second week of April. Sam pulls the car over and says that they’re not going to Indiana, they’re going to California to find their father. Dean tells him that their father doesn’t want help, but Sam refuses to agree to not try finding him. Sam tells Dean that he was only four when their mother died, but Jess was killed six months ago, so this means a lot more to him than it ever could to Dean. Dean continues to argue for their father, and Sam begins to question Dean’s blind faith in their father. Dean snaps that “it’s called being a good son” and Sam gets out of the car. He grabs his bags out of the trunk as Dean calls him a selfish bastard. Sam walks away as Dean gets in the car and drives away.
The Impala pulls up to a town square. Dean pulls his cell phone out and scrolls down his contacts. He pauses on “Sam” and shakes his head then puts his phone away. He walks up to a man in a sitting on a chair at a café. He introduces himself as John Bonham, but the man asks him if that was the drummer from Led Zeppelin. Dean hands him a flyer about the missing couple, but gets no response. He tells the man that he’s already checked out Scottsburg and Salem. The man still doesn’t respond, but tells Dean that “you gotta smile that lights up a room. Anybody ever tell you that?"
Sam walks in the fog until he comes across a girl sitting on a bench listening to her headphones. Sam tries to get her attention, but she can’t hear him over her loud music. She jumps a little when Sam taps her on the shoulder. They chat about hitchhiking until a van pulls up and offers the girl a ride. Sam asks her, "You trust shady van guy and not me?" “Definitely,” she replies as they drive off.
Meanwhile, Dean asks the Mom and Pop owners of Jorgeson General Store – the same people from the opening scene – about the missing couple. They deny ever seeing the couple until a girl comes down the stairs and asks if the man had a tattoo on his arm. She reminds the Mom and Pop that the couple did stop at their store, and Dean asks her to point him in the direction that the couple went. Dean drives down the same road the couple did. As he drives, one of his ghost meters starts going off, so he stops and gets out to look around. While walking through the orchard, he comes across the leather-faced scarecrow. Dean grabs a ladder to get a closer look at the scarecrow. He pulls up the sleeve on the scarecrow to find a tattoo on the arm that’s same as the one in the picture as the missing couple.
In town, Dean runs into the girl, Emily, from the General Store. She tells him how the Mom and Pop are actually her aunt and uncle and how her parents died when se was only thirteen. Dean asks her questions about the town, but Emily insists that it’s a great town and how the town seems blessed. As they talk, Dean notices that a couple’s car has broken down and is at the General Store for repairs.
At a bus station, Sam talks to a station employee who informs him that the next bus for Sacramento doesn’t leave until 5 pm the next day. He turns away and pulls out his cell phone, and scrolls down his contact list until he comes to “Dean”. He starts to dial Dean until he sees the girl from the bench walking out of the bus station. Sam walks over to her and asks what happened to her ride. She tells him that the guy was too shady. They talk about how she’s heading to California and introduces herself to Sam as Meg.
Inside the café, Dean enters and orders some coffee. He tries to start up a conversation with the couple with the broken down car he saw at the General Store. Scotty, the café owner, tries to interrupt their conversation, but Dean is able to continue the conversation. The couple tells Dean how the guy at the General Store saved their lives and tells him about their leaking brake line, which will be fixed by sundown. Dean offers to fix it for them for free, and tells them about how they’re in danger, but the man cuts Dean off. Just then, a sheriff comes into the diner and asks to talk to Dean. The scene cuts to the Impala being led out of town by a police cruiser.
Back at the bus station, Sam and Meg are drinking a few beers and talking about how Meg had to leave her family because her parents were mean. Sam tells her about Dean and how he felt that he needed to get away from him. Meg raises her beer and the two have a toast.
During the night, Dean drives the Impala back to Burkitsville. The scene cuts to the couple, walking through the apple orchard talking about their broken down car. They hear noises behind them, and all of a sudden the leather-faced scarecrow comes up behind them. They turn to run and run right into Dean, who yells at them to get in their car and shoots the scarecrow three times in the chest. The three make it to the car and get away from the scarecrow.
Meg is sleeping on the bus station floor while Sam is talking on the phone with Dean. Dean tells him about the scarecrow and they discuss what could be animating it. They decide that the scarecrow is probably a ritual sacrifice for a god. Dean tells Sam that he’s on his way to meet with a professor at a community college since he doesn’t have his "trusty sidekick geek boy to do all the research." They apologize to each other for the fight that they had, and as they hang up, each of the brothers begin to tear up. Meg asks Sam who he was talking to. Sam tells her it was her brother and she asked what he said. “Goodbye” Sam lies.
At the community college, Dean talks to a professor about local lore and pagan worship. The professor pulls down a large leather-bound book and leafs through it until he comes across a picture of a scarecrow. He reads the page which discusses a Vanir God that assures protection and prosperity whose energy sprung from a sacred tree. Dean begins to theorize about how to kill the scarecrow and the professor laughs, telling Dean that it’s only a legend.
Townspeople huddle under umbrellas and discuss having to feed a scarecrow with human flesh. They talk about how tonight is their last chance to feed the scarecrow, and Dean and Emily are going to be who they sacrifice.
Dean is locked in a cellar and soon Emily’s aunt and uncle throw Emily in with him, telling her it’s for the “common good”.
Meg tells Sam that their bus is waiting, but Sam tells her that he has to go find Dean since he’s not picking up his cell phone. Meg tries to convince Sam to come with her, but Sam refuses to change his mind.
In the cellar, Emily asks Dean if they’re going to kill them. Dean informs her that they’re going to sacrifice them and Dean tells her about the town’s evil history and dark secrets. Just then, the cellar door opens and a voice tells them that “it’s time”.
Emily’s aunt and uncle, Scotty, and the sheriff tie Dean and Emily to a pair of apple trees. When the foursome leave, Emily asks Dean what his plan is. “I’m working on it,” he replies. The scene fades out then back in revealing that it’s night. "You don't have a plan, do you?" Emily asks Dean. Once again Dean replies "I'm working on it." He tells her to look and see if the scarecrow’s moved yet. As she strains to see the scarecrow, Emily hears footsteps coming up behind them. Emily begins to panic, but it’s only Sam. He unties Emily and Dean and tells Dean that he doesn’t see the scarecrow. They look to see that the scarecrow has left its post.
Emily, Sam and Dean run through the forest looking for the sacred tree. They end up running into the foursome that tied Dean and Emily up and are stopped at gunpoint. They hear the scarecrow coming up to them, and Emily’s uncle tells her how she has to let the scarecrow take her. As he talks to her, he gets impaled by a hook hand. Soon after, they each get taken off, one by one, until all of the foursome has been taken by the scarecrow.
In the morning, Emily, Dean, and Sam find the sacred tree, douse it in gasoline, and light it on fire. Dean and Sam take Emily to a bus headed for Boston and talk about the evilness of the town she’s leaving behind. As she leaves, Dean asks Sam where he should drop him off. Sam tells him that he’s over it and knows that Jessica and Mom are gone, and all that’s left is him and his brother.
A van drives down the road at night. Inside, Meg asks a man to pull over. As he pulls the van to the side of the road, Meg reaches inside of her bag and pulls out a silver chalice, slits the man’s throat, and collects the blood in her chalice. She dips a finger in the blood and utters a spell. A demonic presence enters the blood and she begins talking into it: “It makes no sense. I could have stopped Sam. Hell, I could have taken them both. Why let them go." We cannot hear the response, but Meg whispers “Yes. Yes, father” into the chalice.
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