Guest Stars

Genevieve Cortese As Ruby Recurring	Barry Bostwick As The Incredible Jay
Luke Camilleri As Jeb Dexter	Richard Libertini As Vernon Haskell
John Rubinstein As Charlie	Michael Weston As Young Charlie (as Michael Rubinstein)

Co-Guest Stars

Alex Zahara As Patrick Vance	Amber Lewis As Bar Waitress
Ecstasia Sanders As Vance's Assistant	Jordan Becker As Doorman
Christopher Burns As Chief (as Chris Burns)

Main Cast

Jared Padalecki As Sam Winchester	Jensen Ackles As Dean Winchester

Recap

In Iowa, Sioux City is holding its annual Magic Week. The Incredible Jay, an older magician, is trying to impress a waitress in a bar by doing card tricks. Another magician, Patrick Vance, is heckling him and ruining the trick despite his assistant's admonishments to stop. A depressed Jay leaves and goes to the theater where he and his friends Vernon and Charlie watch a hip new magician, Jeb Dexter. None of them are impressed but Jay admits that Jeb is the type of magician that's promised and their breed is dying out. He decides to do the Table of Death illusion. Vernon and Charlie warn against it, but Jay insists that he'll do it or die trying. That night, he performs the illusion with Charlie's help. He's fastened beneath a spiked ceiling that's held up by a rope. Charlie ignites the rope and draws a curtain. The seconds count down and the spikes drop... and Jay emerge from behind the curtain, unscathed, to thunderous applause...

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• Creator	Eric Kripke
• Executive Producer	McG  |  Eric Kripke  |  Robert Singer (1)  |  Kim Manners
• Co-Executive Producer	Peter Johnson  |  Ben Edlund  |  Philip Sgriccia
• Supervising Producer	Sera Gamble
• Producer	Todd Philip Aronauer  |  Vladimir Stefoff
• Co-Producer	Jerry Wanek  |  Serge LaDouceur
• Associate Producer	Kristin Cronin
• Production Designer	John Marcynuk
• Editor	Nicole Baer
• Casting	Carol Kritzer  |  Eric Dawson  |  Robert J. Ulrich  |  Coreen Mayrs  |  Heike Brandstatter
• First Assistant Director	John MacCarthy
• Second Assistant Director	Adrian Diepold
• Music	Christopher Lennertz
• Music Supervisor	Alexandra Patsavas
• Costume Designer	Diane Widas
• Set Decorator	George Neuman
• Location Manager	Paul Lougheed
• Property Master	Christopher Cooper
• Production Coordinator	Anita Truelove
• Supervising Sound Editor	Charlie Crutcher
• Re-Recording Mixer	Dennis Kirk  |  Bill Jackson (1)
• Director of Photography	Serge LaDouceur
• Story Editor	Julie Siege  |  Cathryn Humphris
• Stunt Coordinator	Lou Bollo
• Production Manager	Todd Pittson
• Sound Mixer	Donald Painchaud
• Executive Story Editor	Jeremy Carver
• Key Makeup Artist	Shannon Coppin
• Visual Effects Supervisor	Ivan Hayden
• Visual Effects Producer	Grant Lindsay
• Key Hairstylist	Jeannie Chow
• Special Effects Supervisor	Randy Shymkiw
• Original Casting	Patrick Rush