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Supernatural 3.05 Bedtime Stories

Original Air Date: November 1, 2007

At night, in Maple Springs, NY, at the site of a new housing tract a threesome of contractors arguing about some lumber. They hear a strange noise coming from the periphery. One (Kyle) goes to investigate, sees nothing. Relieved, he heads back to the others. Suddenly, the others are attacked by an unseen “wild animal”. The remaining man, looking at his co-workers dead on the ground is then attacked.

A bullfrog sitting in the roadway is disturbed by the on-coming Impala. Dean and Sam are arguing. Sam wants to confront the crossroads demon with the Colt, but Dean insists they let it go. Sam grudgingly acquiesces, and Dean asks about the psychotic killer –who has not been mentioned, yet. Sam reads that it rips victims apart with brute-like ferocity. It’s pattern seems to coincide with the lunar cycle.

In the hospital, Sam and Dean in suits, posing as County detectives, are there to speak with Kyle, the surviving contractor. Kyle doesn’t know how he got away. He said the killer came at him, stopped, gave him a blank look, then took off. Six feet tall, dark hair. The boys ask questions to draw out unusual details –animal eyes, strange teeth, different finger nails. The man says he was just a regular guy, who killed his brothers. He asked how they’d feel. Sam says he can’t imagine anything worse. Kyle had a Wile E. Coyote tattoo on his arm. Doctor Garrison, Kyle’s doctor, comes in. Dean leaves with the doctor to ask him questions.

Dean and Sam are walking outside. The doctor told Dean that parts of the men’s kidneys, lungs, and intestines were missing. They debate its being a demon. They are stumped.

A man and woman are hiking through a dense forest. He asks about the Power Bars, she says he ate them, and they’re lost. They come to a clearing, and find a little, blue house. An elderly woman kindly greets them, and offers to give them directions. Ken, the man, eyes a pie cooling in the woman’s window. The woman invites them in. Ken insists they stay.

Inside the woman’s house, Ken is finishing a piece of piece of pie. As he stands to leave, he falls down, holding his stomach. His companion stands to help him, but she falls over, as well. She looks at the woman, but the room is spinning and blurry. The woman has drugged them, and is sitting at the table smiling. She calmly gets up, grabs a large carving knife. She slashes Ken’s throat, splattering the young woman with blood. She is stabbing him repeatedly, as we see a young, dark-haired girl in a white dress, looking on with satisfaction.

At the hospital, Sam and Dean are in their suits, avoiding eye contact with police who enter. Dr. Garrison is talking to the young woman, Miss Watson. He comes over and asks the boys what’s going on with the whole town going insane.

They ask her how she got away. She tells that, when the woman was carving up Ken, she pushed the old woman, causing her to “crack” her head on the stove. Miss Watson thinks she killed the woman. She remembers seeing the little girl outside the window, but she seemed to vanish. She describes the girl as being around eight years old.

The boys are investigating the old woman’s house. There’s no sulfur, but lots of “EMF”. Dean questions what could be going on. Sam offers a theory that it’s like fairy tales. He compares the “boy” and “girl”, hiking through the forest getting eaten by an old woman to “Hansel and Gretel”. The three brothers, arguing over how to build a house, with two getting killed, are like “The Three Little Pigs”. Dean says they all lived happily ever after. Sam explains that the original Grimms’ Fairy Tales were full of sex, violence, and cannibalism. They were sanitized over the years, and made into Disney films and bedtime stories.

[Okay, Jensen Ackles fans from his Days days! Pay attention!]

Dean: So, you think the… murders are what? A reenactment? That’s a little crazy.

Sam:Crazy as what? Every day of our lives?

Dean: Touché.

Sam thinks the creepy ghost girl must have been at the construction site.

Dean comes out of the County Library. He looked at all the records they have. No girls with dark hair and fair skin have gone missing, or have been killed violently. Sam tells Dean of Lillian Bailey, a British medium from the 1930s. She went into trances, and her thoughts and actions would be controlled by spirits. Dean scoffs a bit at the idea that the little girl is a “ghost puppet master”, is making Wolf Boy and Grandma go into trances and kill people. They walk upon the bullfrog from earlier, and comment on the coincidence. Dean gives into the idea that it’s fairy tales all around.

Sam points out a pumpkin and mouse on a front porch, and starts recounting details of Cinderella. His mastery of the workings of the story [not really that over the top] make Dean ask, “Dear, could you be more gay?”

The boys enter the nice house with the pumpkin and mouse. Looking around, they hear something, and pull their handguns. They find a blonde girl chained to the oven. She says her stepmom went crazy, beat her, and chained her up. As they go to help her, they see the dark-haired, fair apparition in the house. Dean follows, finds her, and asks who she is. She disappears, leaving a red apple on the floor.

Sam approaches Dean, who is leaning on the Impala with the apple. He says that the police have taken care of Cinderella, and that he thinks the little girl and the apple represent Snow White. He tells Dean that Snow White’s stepmother had poisoned her with an apple, making her appear almost dead.

At the hospital, a nurse tells them there are no comatose little girls, just adults, and Callie. Callie, is Dr. Garrison’s daughter.

Dr. Garrison is reading “Little Red Riding Hood” to Callie, at the part where the wolf opens a door for the grandmother, then he eats her. We see a young man helping an older woman carrying groceries. He opens her van door for her, then throws her into the van, and begins beating her. He drives off in the van, as the dark-haired apparition watches.

Sam and Dean walk in on Dr. Garrison and Callie, hearing his reading the story. They ask him about her. She’s been there since she was eight years old. She had swallowed some bleach, but he never could figure out how she got into it. His wife, Callie’s stepmom, had found her. He says Julie, his wife, had died a couple years earlier, and Callie is all he has left.

Walking down the hallway, Dean tells Sam that he was right; it’s just like “Snow White”. Sam asks what the stepmom’s motive was. Dean recalls Misha Barton’s character in Sixth Sense. They discuss the possibility that it was Munchausen’s by Proxy –the stepmom did it to keep her sick, while she (the stepmom) gets all the attention. Meanwhile, the girl’s spirit gets angrier and angrier, lashing out at some point.

As they discuss the difficulty of stopping Callie, a gurney comes in the ER. The woman beaten in her van comes in. She has lacerations, puncture wounds, and a bite mark on her neck. The doctor postulates a dog or wolf may have done it.

The EMT gives Dean and Sam the next of kin’s address. Dean tells Sam to find a way to stop Callie. Dean goes off to “stop the big bad wolf.”

At an elementary school, a little girl walks out, wearing a red hoodie. She gets in her grandmother’s van, but it’s the man who attacked her grandmother. He smiles and drives off, the girl screaming.

At the hospital, Sam finds Dr. Garrison. He asks about Callie. He tells the doctor that Callie was poisoned by his wife. The doctor tells him to stay away from him, and his daughter. Sam rushes into Callie’s room, and tells Garrison that Callie is still here; she’s a spirit. The doctor says, “So, you’ve seen her too.”

Dean finds the “Little Red Riding Hoodie”, and gets into a fight with the man.

Garrison is telling Sam of his visions of Callie, that he smelled her, felt her presence. Sam says she’s been trying to talk to him. Dr. Garrison doesn’t believe that Julie had poisoned Callie. Sam pleads with him to listen to Callie, who used the apple to let them know what happened.

Dean and the man are fighting. Callie’s spirit is looking on. Dr. Garrison’s voice summons her away. He is talking to his comatose daughter. He says he’s listening, and asks if it’s true, if there’s any way for her to tell him. He sees her apparition, who nods when he asks again about her stepmom. Garrison apologizes, and tells her she must stop hurting people. He knows the truth, and asks her to let go. He says it’s time for him to let her go. He stands and approaches her body. He kisses her brow, and the heart monitor flatlines.

At that moment, the man fighting with Dean smaps out of it, and asks Dean what’s going on.

Quickly back at the hospital, Garrison is sobbing over his daughter’s body, with Sam looking on.

Dr. Garrison, in the hallway, tells the boys that it’s really over. He says he should have let her go a long time ago. He walks away.

Dean: You know, what he said… some good advice.

Sam: Is that what you want me to do, Dean, just let you go?

In the motel, Dean is sleeping, but Sam is dressed. He grabs his backpack, and walks out the door, looking back at Dean.

Sam buries a small wooden box full of personal items in the center of a gravel crossroad. He looks around. The crossroad demon (Sandray McCoy) appears. He pulls the Colt. He confronts her, but she acts non-plused. She says it’s not the original Colt. She realizes Ruby gave it to them. Sam threatens to shoot her, if she doesn’t let Dean out of the deal. She dances around the issue, smiling glibly, and telling Sam he’s better than Dean. She taunts him with how much easier his life will be when Dean’s gone. She says the deal is iron-clad, the one that can’t be broken. She also says she was only the saleswoman, that she works for someone who holds the contract. She won’t tell who it is, but says he’s not as cuddly as her. Sam looks defeated, then draws the Colt and shoots her in the forehead, killing her.

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