Supernatural Scoop

Cicero, Indiana:

A woman walks outside her house, arms folded. An SUV drives up, and her ex drops off their daughter. Apparently, Katie, the daughter, threw a fit and he brought her back. As the dad drives off, the little girl says her dad is mean, there are monsters at her dad’s house, and she never wants to go back.

Cut to a garage. Katie’s father is sanding a wooden hobby horse in his shop/garage. As he finishes and starts to leave, the table saw turns on all by itself. He looks at it and turns it off. He starts to leave. It turns on again. When he goes back again, we see him from the perspective of someone apparently looking from behind the car. That something seems to pick him up and slam him down on the running table saw, killing him.

In a diner, Sam is sitting alone with his laptop, and talking on the phone. He’s talking to Bobby about a “demon dispelling ritual.” His laptop screen shows some exotic script, within an application labeled “TRANSLATE FILE”. He’s talking to Bobby about saving Dean.

Dean walks in, Sam slams the laptop shut, and tells him he’s ordering pizza. Dean says he’s in a restaurant, then shortly dismisses it with a quip “Weirdy McWeirderson”. He shows Sam a newspaper story about the man dying on the table saw in Cicero, Indiana. Sam is incredulous about how significant that is. Dean confesses that he would like to see Lisa Braden, a woman he spent the night with, almost nine years before. “She’s a yoga teacher.”

Dean drops Sam off at the Cicero Pines Motel. The Impala drives into a nice, suburban tract. He shows up at Lisa’s door. She’s surprised, but looks happy to see him. She’s a bit nervous, and says she’s having a party. Dean invites himself, only to find that it’s her son Ben’s eighth birthday party. Ben is excitedly opening an AC/DC CD.

While Dean grabs some cake, alone at the table, one of a pair of moms points out that Lisa called him Dean. Then, she goes on, quoting Lisa about “the best night of my life.” They look him up and down.

Dean approaches and greets Ben. As they stand side-by-side, Ben exhibits a lot of the same womanizing, ogling tendencies that Dean knows and loves. Dean looks more and more suspicious.

Inside, Lisa is talking to a friend, who is talking about something that’s “wrong” with her daughter. “I don’t think Katie’s Katie.” Lisa tries to talk her down, that they’re just grieving the death of Katie’s father, her ex-husband. The woman walks off, calling Katie to leave.

Dean walks in, and dances around the issue, then asks if Ben is his son. She says he is not. Katie and her mom are leaving in the background, and Dean asks about her. She tells the story, and he realizes it’s the man from the paper. She says there’s been a lot of bad luck in the neighborhood, lately.

Sam is sitting in the restaurant at the motel, with his laptop, and taking notes. Ruby (Katie Cassidy) walks in and sits across the booth from Sam. He looks surprised.

Sam is grilling Ruby to find out why she’s following him. He asks about the knife. She says she’s interested in Sam, because he’s tall. “Then, there’s the whole anti-christ thing.” She talks about all the kids with special abilities, how the YED (yellow-eyed demon) rounded them up, and Sam’s the sole survivor. He asks how she knows. She explains that, although the YED is gone, he’s still special. There’s something about Sam that makes him special, even though Sam denies that he has had any visions since the YED died.

Ruby says that something happened with all of Sam’s mother’s friends. Sam knows nothing, so she writes on his hand, so that he can look up the friends on his own time. She gets up to leave, and says, “By the way, you do know there’s a job in this town, right?”

Dean calls, and tells Sam about all the “accidents” that have happened in the neighborhood where Lisa lives. None of the other ones –outside the table saw accident- made the papers.

Katie’s mom is sleeping on the couch. She wakes to find Katie, sitting up right behind her. Katie asks if they can play. When Katie hugs her, she sees her Katie in a mirror. In the mirror, the girl’s skin looks discolored, and reptilian. She draws away to see that Katie still looks all right, straight on.

Sam is at another house, walking outside with a woman, talking about expediting a life insurance policy for her. He looks around at the back of the house, where the woman’s husband had been changing a light bulb, fell out of a window, and died. She explains that only her daughter was home, at the time. Sam sees the daughter in a window, looking suspicious. There’s “blood” on a window sill, and on a railing. He then notices a strange, round, toothed wound on the back of the woman’s neck.

Jump to Katie’s mom, rubbing the back of her own neck, while preparing Katie a snack. She goes to the bathroom, locks the door, and checks the wound in the mirror. Suddenly, Katie is at the door, banging, and demanding to be let in. The woman is upset. The doorbell rings, and Katie stops. A woman –a realtor- is at the door with a gift basket. She asks Katie’s mom if she’s ready to sell her house. The womaan slams the door on the realtor.

Dean talks to Ben in the park. Something is wrong. Dean sees some boys in the distance, apparently playing a video game. Ben is holding an empty video game case. Ben explains that Brian Humphrey borrowed it, and won’t give it back. Dean offers to go over, but Ben stops him. Only “bitches” send a grown-up. Dean looks proudly at Ben, sizes up the other kids, and asks if one of them is Humphrey.

In the huddle of boys watching Humphrey playa the game, suddenly, Ben interrupts. He asks for his game, then fakes a fade away, and knees Humphrey in the crotch. As Humphrey rolls around in pain, Ben takes his video game back. “Thanks.” Lisa is not happy with Dean’s teaching him to beat up another kid. She asks Dean to leave them alone. Ben runs back and hugs Dean, thanking him. Ben and Lisa walk off. Three other children do a nice Children of the Corn look at Dean.

Katie and her mom are getting in the car “for ice cream.” She drives Katie to a boat ramp, gets out, and lets the car roll into the lake, with Katie strapped into her booster seat. She watches and cries.

Back at the house, Katie is sitting at the kitchen counter, dripping water, and waiting for her ice cream. Her mommy is visibly distressed.

Sam is in the motel, at the computer, looking at articles on “Changelings”.

Sam: What do you know about changelings?
Dean: Evil monster babies?
Sam: No. Not necessarily babies.
Dean: They’re kids… creepy, stare at you like you’re lunch kids.
Sam: Yeah. [Looking at a map] There’s one in every victim’s house.

Changelings feed on the moms. The changeling sneaks in, steals the kid, and takes his or her form. Only fire kills them. The changeling, posing as the kid, feeds on the mom until she eventually dies. The changeling will remove anyone who gets between him and the mother.

Dean wants to check on Ben.

When they get to Lisa’s house, Dean tries to get Lisa to take Ben on a long vacation. He even offers his credit card. She won’t do it. Dean discovers that Ben is already a victim. He’s acting creapy. Lisa makes Dean leave. Dean watches from outside, and finds the blood stains on Ben’s window will

Dean goes to the Impala, and says he thinks he knows where the kids are. They drive to a house under construction. Dean finds the children, and opens the kennels containing them, Ben’s first. Ben helps the others. Sam is interrupted by the realtor from earlier. He sees that she’s a changeling in a reflection.

Dean finds the actual realtor, who looks bedraggled, trapped in a kennel, just as Dean is being confronted by the changeling mimicking the realtornear those holding the children. Sam tells the “agent” that he’ll just get his bag and leave. He then reaches for his torch and fires it at her, but the changeling has disappeared.

Back at Lisa’s house, Ben is begging to stay up and play. She sees his reflection in the glass top coffee table, and sees that he’s really a monster.

Dean and Ben help the other children out the basement window. Sam meets up with them, just before the changeling walks into the room.

Lisa tries to escape from the Changeling Ben, runs out the front door to see three ominous looking children waiting for her. She runs back in.

Katie’s mother is still locked in the bathroom, and Changeling Katie is banging on the door.

Dean and Sam are fighting the Changeling Realtor, not well at first. Then, Dean gets the upper hand. As the children are climbing out, the Changeling gets up, only to see Sam holding the torch. He torches her, she screams as she’s vanquished. [Thanks, Charmed Ones]

The Changeling Ben and the Changeling Katie both disappear as the Changeling Realtor goes bye-bye.

Back at Lisa’s, Dean asks again about Ben. She explains that she had a blood test, and a bar back was the father. He’s off the hook. She comments that he looks disappointed. He tells her that, in his situation, he wonders what he’ll leave behind. She tells him that Ben wouldn’t be there if it wasn’t for Dean, and so he will leave something behind. Lisa invites Dean to stay, but he says it’s not his life, and exits.

Sam is in the motel, asking about a series of names in an apparent series of phone calls. They’re all dead –all of their mother’s friends. He tells Ruby what he’s found out, and confronts her, asking who she is. Suddenly, Ruby reveals her “black eyes”. She’s a demon. She doesn’t know why anyone wanted to cover up what the YED did. She just knows that it has to do with Sam. She says she wants to help, and can help save Dean. Sam is stunned.

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