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TITLE: NOW INT. 1950s MILITARY HOSPITAL - NIGHT DEAN wakes up and looks around. DEAN ...the hell? He gets up and tries to turn off the record player, but the music just keeps going. He kicks a leg off the table that's blocking the door to take with him as a weapon, and starts exploring the hospital. The floor is littered with several dead, bloody bodies. DEAN What the hell is this? He finds a newspaper on the floor. It's dated July 12, 1951. DEAN 1951? A growling figure approaches; we only see the shadow it casts. TITLE: SUPERNATURAL ACT ONE INT. BUNKER - LIBRARY - NIGHT SUPERIMPOSED: 24 Hours Earlier DEAN enters, placing a bag of groceries on a chair and a six-pack of beer on the table. He opens one of the beers. SAM enters, looking sleepy. DEAN Y— [looks up] Man, I'm telling you, give me five minutes with some clippers, and... SAM Oh, shut up. Uh, what time did I lay down? DEAN You took a siesta around noon. Yesterday. DEAN grabs another beer and throws it in SAM's direction. SAM fails to react and the beer shatters on the floor. SAM I'm sorry, I, uh... DEAN That's why we don't have nice things, Sam. [SAM stumbles] You okay? SAM Yeah, I'm, I'm fine, I just— [he leans on the table, rubbing his face] uh, you know what, I'm gonna get dressed. We should go find Kevin. DEAN Hey hey, hey hey hey, easy, easy, sleeping beauty. Look, man, I've hacked into every security camera around Garth's houseboat, Kevin's hometown, where Mrs Tran lived... SAM And? DEAN Well, nothing so far. SAM Dean, we have to find him. DEAN I know. I know, but Garth is out looking for him, we got a hunter APB out on Kevin, we will do what we can from here while you get better. SAM I'm fine. Dean, I can still go out there, I can still hunt. DEAN Really? INT. BUNKER - SHOOTING GALLERY - NIGHT SAM and DEAN enter. DEAN loads a gun. SAM This is stupid. DEAN fires the gun twice, hitting one of the targets in the chest both times. DEAN Alright. You hit that target, we'll talk about getting you back out there. SAM No problem. SAM aims, wavering. He uses his other hand to steady the gun, but still misses the target entirely on both shots he fires. DEAN Look, man, this second trial hit you a lot harder than that first one. I don't know whether it was just more intense or what. SAM Felt the same. Till the next day. DEAN So, we're gonna sit tight. Keep an eye out until you get better. INT. BUNKER - NIGHT A "You Have Email" notification pops up on the laptop. SAM It's from Charlie. "In the neighborhood, found you guys a case." Found us a case? DEAN In the neighborhood? How the hell does she know where we are? SAM Uh, well, she doesn't. Not exactly, at least. It says she tracked our cells to a twenty mile radius, then the signal went out. Huh. This place must be in some kinda, like, Bermuda Triangle. DEAN What, are you saying we can make and receive phone calls from here and nobody can track us? Man I love this place. EXT. BUNKER - DAY SAM and DEAN are leaning on the the trunk of the Impala, waiting. CHARLIE BRADBURY pulls up. DEAN Your Highness! CHARLIE What's up, bitches? CHARLIE hugs DEAN, then SAM as well, who leans back heavily onto the Impala immediately afterwards and grunts. CHARLIE You okay, Sam? SAM Yeah, no, I'm, I'm good, yeah. What're you doing in Kansas? CHARLIE Uh... a comic convention. In Topeka. SAM In the middle of the week? CHARLIE Girl's gotta get her collectibles. So, are you gonna invite me into your dungeon, or do I gotta answer your "questions three" first? SAM Allow us— let us introduce you to the Men of Letters. INT. BUNKER - LIBRARY - DAY CHARLIE Holy awesome. Too bad they got wiped out, though that is what they get for the sexist name. SAM Well, anyway, that's our skinny. How about you? CHARLIE Um, made a deal with the yesteryear weirdos, we're gonna team up to stomp the shadow orcs. You guys are still coming to the mid-year jubilee, right? DEAN Wouldn't miss it. SAM So what about this case you brought us? CHARLIE When I was in Topeka, I saw this pop up over the wire. Tom Blake, a checkout clerk in Salina, who went missing on his way home from work. He was found dead yesterday, his insides liquefied. Locals have no idea what happened, they tried to bury the report so people wouldn't freak, but I flagged it. I have eliminated the following things that go bump in the night... SAM Wait a second. When did you become such an expert? CHARLIE Well, after you guys left, I dug into all things monsters. I'm a wee bit obsessive. If "wee bit" means completely. I also found this series of books, by a Carver Edlund? [SAM and DEAN exchange awkward looks] Did those books really happen? SAM and DEAN look away. SAM sighs. CHARLIE (cont'd) Wow. That is some meta madness. [to DEAN] Thanks for saving the world and stuff. [to SAM] Sorry you have zero luck with the ladies. SAM Wha— [to DEAN] We need to find every single copy of those books and burn them. CHARLIE They're online now, so good luck with that. DEAN Awesome. [he gets up] Well, you two crazy kids deal with that, I will go see if there's anything to this, uh, case of yours. SAM I'm coming with you. SAM stands up as well but staggers, nearly falling over. CHARLIE jumps from her seat and grabs his arm. CHARLIE Whoa, are you sure you're okay? SAM Yes. DEAN No. You're taking a knee as long as you're off your game. CHARLIE I'll go with you. DEAN No disrespect, okay, but there's a big difference between reading about hunting and actually hunting. CHARLIE I'm coming with. INT. BUNKER - SHOOTING GALLERY - DAY DEAN loads the gun. CHARLIE gives him an exasperated look. CHARLIE For serious? DEAN Okay, now, if you can hit that target then we can talk about you actually— CHARLIE grabs the gun and fires twice — both perfect headshots. CHARLIE What? DEAN Alright, if you're gonna do a ridealong, then, uh... you gotta lose the novelty t-shirts. CHARLIE Son of a pantsuit. INT. CLOTHING STORE - DAY MONTAGE (to "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves) of CHARLIE trying on different outfits. DEAN sits outside the dressing room making her a fake FBI badge and occasionally looks up to disapprove of the various outfits. Eventually he grabs Charlie's cellphone and turns off the music. CHARLIE (disappointed) Montage! DEAN glares at her and CHARLIE goes off to try on another outfit, which finally gets DEAN's approval. CHARLIE Trials? That's never good. DEAN Yeah, and our prophet's in the wind. CHARLIE What about, uh, Castiel? He seems helpful, and dreamy. DEAN He's MIA, with a tablet of his own, doing God knows what. I mean, to be honest this whole thing is... I mean, Sam's a tough son of a bitch, but... Cas is saying that these trials are messing with him in ways that even he can't heal. CHARLIE If it's any consolation, having read your history, there is pretty much nothing the Winchesters can't do if they work together. DEAN Thanks. CHARLIE Must be nice, having a brother, someone to always watch your back. DEAN Yeah. No brothers or sisters? CHARLIE Actually I have two. Their names are XBOX and PS3. DEAN Not getting any reception. Can I use your phone? CHARLIE Um, sure. DEAN takes her phone and dials. SAM (O.S.) Yeah? DEAN Hey, it's me. You okay? SAM (O.S.) Yes, Dean. INT. BUNKER - SHOOTING GALLERY - CONTINUOUS SAM (cont'd) I'm still fine. Look, I can hunt, I— DEAN (O.S.) Well, then let the healing continue. INT. CLOTHING STORE - CONTINUOUS DEAN (cont'd) I'll check in with you later. DEAN hangs up. INT. BUNKER - SHOOTING GALLERY - CONTINUOUS SAM hangs up and grabs the gun. He fires another two shots, closer than before but still not quite hitting the target. SAM Close enough. INT. HOSPITAL - CORONER'S OFFICE - DAY DEAN knocks on the door to DR. JENNIFER O'BRIEN's office. JENNIFER Come in. DEAN and CHARLIE enter the coroner's office. DEAN takes out his badge. CHARLIE fumbles with hers and ends up holding it out upside-down. DEAN glances over and CHARLIE notices her mistake and quickly puts the badge away. DEAN shows the Dr. his own badge. DEAN Hi, uh. Special Agent Hicks, this is my partner Special Agent Ripley. We're here about the body with the creamy filling. JENNIFER Ah, right. I didn't think you guys would have any interest in that. DEAN FBI, ma'am, we never leave a stone unturned. Mind if we take a peek? JENNIFER Of course not. I just need your signed chain of custody request and it's all yours. DEAN Sorry, the what? JENNIFER Chain of custody request? From your supervisor to mine? DEAN Right, uh. You know what. [holds out a business card] You wanna call my supervisor, I'm sure he can give you the override or whatever. JENNIFER Yeah, I'm sorry. Unless he can give me the form, I can't give you access to the body. CHARLIE But... FBI. JENNIFER I understand, dear. But paperwork is paperwork. DEAN Of course. Jennifer— uh, it is Jennifer? JENNIFER Yeah. DEAN Uh, we have been on the road all day, and this is strictly routine, dot the I, cross the T kind of thing. If you could do us a solid..? JENNIFER Come back with the signed form, I'd be happy to do you a solid. Until then... EXT. HOSPITAL - DAY CHARLIE and DEAN leave the hospital. CHARLIE That never happened in the books. DEAN Wanna tell me what happened back there, Boo Radley? CHARLIE I'm sorry, I froze. I couldn't Ctrl-Alt-Delete my way out. Real life roleplaying is hard. DEAN It's okay. We'll come back later when Doris Do-Right isn't here anymore. CHARLIE Oh, perfect. Breaking and entering. DEAN No different than hacking. CHARLIE Beg to differ. One I've been doing since I was a teenager, the other I've done once, with you two idiots walking me through it, and I had my arm broken in the process. DEAN What did you hack when you where a teenager? CHARLIE Uh, NORAD. DEAN Yeah, whatever you say, Wargames. Why don't we go grab some grub while we wait. EXT. RAILROAD TRACKS - NIGHT Two GUYS are playing videogames as they walk along the tracks. GUY #1 Awesome, I got three stars. GUY #2 So? I'm three levels ahead of you, man. GUY #1 [noticing something on the ground] Dude, stop. GUY #2 I can't, I'm just too good. GUY #1 Dude! He points down. There's a dead man on the ground, his stomach distended. GUY #1 picks up a fallen branch and tries to poke at it. GUY #2 Whoa, no, dude. That's a bad idea. GUY #1 Your face is a bad idea. [he pokes the dead guy's stomach] See? Nothing to worry about. He pokes some more until the dead man's stomach ruptures, splattering both of them in blood. They scream. ACT TWO EXT. RAILROAD TRACKS - LATER Police have arrived at the scene. DEAN and CHARLIE pull up in the Impala. CHARLIE Maybe you should go first this time. DEAN Nuh-uh. Back on the horse, kiddo, come on. They exit the car and walk over to a POLICE OFFICER. CHARLIE Hey there. [holds out badge, upright this time] I am Special Agent Ripley, this is my partner— POLICE OFFICER Save it. Your other agent's over there. CHARLIE and DEAN exchange a glance, then walk over to SAM, who had already arrived. SAM Took you guys so long? DEAN What the hell are you doing here? SAM Working the case, same as you. [points in the direction of the body] Jake Hill, librarian. Went missing yesterday, no relation to the other vic. Coroner already swooped in and scooped up what was left of him. DEAN Yeah, we met her, bit of a stickler. Well, if there's not a body, there's nothing else to see here, so why don't you head on home? SAM Still have to talk to the witnesses. DEAN Well, we can handle that. Charlie, why don't you go talk to the witnesses. CHARLIE But I don't wanna miss the broman— DEAN Charlie. [CHARLIE walks off to where the guys are sitting] Look, man, I know you're frustrated, but you're also sick. SAM I'm not leaving, Dean. CHARLIE [to the guys] Hey, boys. Special Agent Ripley, FBI, and, stuff. What game you guys playing? GUY #2 Supereater. CHARLIE Underworld Adventures or Dimension Travellers? GUY #1 Underworld Adventures. CHARLIE Nice. So, about that childhood trauma you experienced earlier... DEAN I know you wanna help, I do, but— SAM Dean, you cannot take care of the both of us. I need to be out here. Play through the pain, right? DEAN Come on man, don't quote me to me. CHARLIE returns. CHARLIE So the boys said they noticed something on the body's arm before it covered them in years of future therapy. Said it looked like a blue handprint. DEAN Sounds like something you should read about. In a book. At home. SAM I'm not leaving until we find out whatever is doing this. DEAN Whatever. [stalks off] CHARLIE You guys fight like an old married couple. SAM Charlie... CHARLIE Does this mean we don't have to break into the coroner's office anymore? SAM That's a good idea. DEAN drives off in the Impala. CHARLIE Is he leaving? He's leaving! SAM That's alright. I stole your car, I think I know where he's going. Come on. CHARLIE Cool. Wait, you stole my car? INT. HOSPITAL - HALLWAY - NIGHT DEAN enters the morgue. SAM and CHARLIE are already waiting there. SAM What took you so long? DEAN I stopped for gas. Shut up. Body's in here. The headlights of a car pulling up outside shine in through the window. SAM The hell? CHARLIE runs off. DEAN Charlie. Charlie! She disappears around the corner for a moment, then reappears. CHARLIE It's the coroner. I got this. SAM and DEAN enter the morgue. CHARLIE enters the coroner's office. INT. HOSPITAL - CORONER'S OFFICE - NIGHT CHARLIE Hello! Hey there. Front door was open. JENNIFER Oh. Wha— what are you doing here? CHARLIE I, uh... came back, to get a blank copy of that form you asked for. JENNIFER The FBI doesn't have chain of custody forms? CHARLIE The field office had a power outage. After catching fire. Figured I could just borrow a copy or two? JENNIFER Of course. Just gimme a sec. INT. HOSPITAL - MORGUE - NIGHT DEAN opens the chamber only to find there's no body in there. DEAN The hell? It's empty. SAM [flipping through paperwork] Uh... they burned the bodies. DEAN Already? SAM Yeah, they think it's some kinda like, uh, outbreak scenario. Even got the CDC to sign off on it. DEAN These folks run a tight ship. INT. HOSPITAL - CORONER'S OFFICE - NIGHT JENNIFER Here you go. She hands CHARLIE the forms. CHARLIE Great! Perfect. Thank you. JENNIFER Well, if you'll excuse me, I have some work to do in the morgue. JENNIFER starts to leave. CHARLIE Uh— can I ask you a personal question? I am new to the whole power suit thing, and yours is killer. Where do you get them? INT. HOSPITAL - MORGUE - NIGHT DEAN So does this mean we need to take Silkwood showers now, or is this still a case? SAM Yeah, something about that mark the kid saw rings a bell. [snaps photos of the documents] Probably have to check the lore, or maybe Dad's journal. DEAN Hurry up. INT. HOSPITAL - CORONER'S OFFICE - NIGHT JENNIFER All you need are three jackets, three pairs of pants, and you're all set. CHARLIE So simple, so smart. You should have a blog. JENNIFER Okay, I'll get right on that. She leaves again. CHARLIE runs after her. INT. HOSPITAL - HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS CHARLIE Um, so what about shoes? I can never find the right kind to go with— JENNIFER Okay, I'm sorry, but I'm not a stylist. They reach the morgue, which has been deserted. CHARLIE Uh. Well. Thanks for the forms, and the fashion advice. You're the best. Don't go change it. Okay bye. INT. BUNKER - LIBRARY - NIGHT SAM Leviathan. CHARLIE No, they consume their prey. SAM Well, maybe the vics were Leviathan. CHARLIE No black goo on either scene in the coroner reports. SAM Dragons, they uh— CHARLIE No signs of burns on the vics. [she crosses them off the list on her iPad] SAM I hate that thing. (beat) I want one. DEAN Wait a second. Djinn. CHARLIE Djinn vics don't get liquefied. DEAN No no no, not regular Djinn. According to this, there's a bastard offshoot. Uh, their eyes light up blue, they pass as humans, all that regular jazz, except these leave their victims with jelly-like insides, and supposedly, when they poison their victims, they leave behind a blue handprint. [slams his hand on the journal] CHARLIE I hate that thing. And I want one. SAM So these things die like regular Djinn? DEAN Silver blade dipped in lamb's blood, yeah. And now we just gotta find the asshat. CHARLIE Alright, well, breakthrough means snack time to me, and I wanna just stretch my legs. I will pick us up some grub, and unlike you, Sam, I will not forget the pie. CHARLIE exits. DEAN She seem a little off to you? SAM Since the second she got here. INT. CHARLIE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT CHARLIE rummages through a box of fake passports and other IDs, cards etc. She opens her laptop and starts typing in code. She pauses as she hears a sound, then continues typing. Funds are being transferred from multiple accounts (in the names of Christine E. Le Guin, Annie Tolkien and Susan Asimov) to a Gertrude Middleton. There's another sound and CHARLIE gets up to investigate. She opens the front door only to find no one's there. When she turns back around, JENNIFER (with Djinn-blue eyes) has suddenly appeared in the room. ACT THREE INT BUNKER - LIBRARY - DAY SAM is on the phone. SAM Charlie, it's Sam. Um, again. Call us. Okay? [starts coughing] DEAN enters. SAM Hey. DEAN Any word from Charlie? SAM Uh, no. And there was no comic convention in Topeka. I don't know why... I mean, why would she lie to us? DEAN One way to find out. DEAN pulls out his cellphone. SAM What are you doing? DEAN When I called you from her phone, I turned on her GPS. INT. CHARLIE'S APARTMENT - DAY The room is a mess, furniture flipped over and everything. SAM (O.S.) Charlie! Hey, Charlie, you in there? SAM opens the door and enters, DEAN following right behind him. SAM Dean. They quickly survey the room but find it empty. SAM spots the box of fake IDs. SAM The hell? DEAN What the hell is this place? SAM Whatever it is, it belongs to Charlie. [looking through the fake IDs] Or some variation of her. DEAN Who the hell is she, Jason Bourne? Okay, so we got no forced entry, so either it was somebody that she knew, or... SAM Djinn. DEAN [picking up Charlie's phone] Here's all our missed calls. You got anything on her laptop? SAM Yeah, um, she's been making donations through her aliases to Shawnee County General here in Topeka. DEAN What, a charity? SAM A patient. Gertrude Middleton. DEAN We need answers. I'll take Gertrude, you keep Djinn-digging. INT. HOSPITAL - GERTRUDE'S ROOM - DAY GERTRUDE MIDDLETON is lying in a hospital bed, comatose and on life support. NURSE Getrude's been in a persistent vegetative state for sixteen years. About a year ago her condition got worse. This ventilator is the only thing keeping her alive. DEAN How did this happen? NURSE She and her husband were hit by a drunk driver. He didn't make it. They were on their way to pick up their daughter from a sleepover. DEAN A daughter. NURSE She was twelve. She got into trouble after her parents' accident. Nobody's heard from her since. Folks have been donating to cover Gertrude's care over the years. It's a sweet gesture, but the truth is, she's gone. DEAN She ever get any visitors? NURSE A couple nurses said they thought they saw someone in here reading to her, but nobody's ever officially signed in to visit her. She's all alone. If you'll excuse me, I have to make my rounds. DEAN Thank you. [he walks over to Gertrude] You've got one hell of a daughter, Mrs Middleton. I promise you I will find her. INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - DAY CHARLIE is tied to a chair, struggling to try and get free. JENNIFER You're not going anywhere. CHARLIE (panicky) Wilhelm Scream. JENNIFER You know what I smell on you? CHARLIE Deodorant? A little pee, maybe? JENNIFER Fear. CHARLIE Djinns smell fear? JENNIFER Well well well. If you know about Djinn, then you and your little friend are hunters, not FBI. CHARLIE No, I'm, I'm more hunter-in-training. Totally not worth killing. JENNIFER Oh, but you are worth killing, sweetheart. Yeah. You see, my kind, we prefer a more bitter taste to blood than the run of the mill Djinn. We prefer the taste of fear. And when I caught a whiff of you at that morgue, ooh, such delicious fear inside of you, I followed your scent. I knew you'd make a meal fit for two. CHARLIE For two? JENNIFER grabs CHARLIE's arm. CHARLIE No! Blue tattoos light up on the Djinn's arm. Her eyes light up blue as well. CHARLIE gasps. INT. BUNKER - LIBRARY - DAY SAM and DEAN enter. SAM So no chance of a recovery, huh. DEAN No. No, Gertrude seemed like a cool mom, too. Kind, strong, taken from her family way too young — remind you of anybody? (beat) Did you find anything? SAM I think so. A John Doe from nine years ago. The original coroner wanted the body sent to the CDC, but the coroner's new assistant "accidentally" ordered the body to be burned. DEAN New assistant? SAM Jennifer O'Brien. DEAN Coroner's a hell of a cover for hiding kills. INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - DAY JENNIFER releases CHARLIE's arm, leaving behind a blue handprint. CHARLIE My manly man-friend's gonna come get you, you creepy power-suit lady. JENNIFER Oh, let him come. He reeked of fear as well. She grabs Charlie's arm again. CHARLIE screams, then passes out. INT. BUNKER - LIBRARY - DAY SAM Now get this. CDC never heard from Jennifer this time either. She faked the reports, burned the bodies to cover her tracks. DEAN So why does she get sloppy again after nine years, start leaving the bodies where they can be found? SAM Well, let's go ask her. According to this, she owns two pieces of property in town, one two-bedroom house about ten minutes from here, and an abandoned shipping warehouse. DEAN Course she does. INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - DAY SAM and DEAN enter and make their way to the area where CHARLIE is being held. JENNIFER is nowhere to be seen. DEAN moves over to CHARLIE. DEAN Charlie. Charlie! Hey! [shakes her] Hey. Charlie. SAM, meanwhile, explores the rest of the warehouse. Suddenly, JENNIFER creeps up behind him. He attempts to attack her, but she easily overpowers him. JENNIFER starts rolling up her sleeve. The tattoos and her eyes glow blue as she approaches SAM. Suddenly, the blue light in her eyes dies out and she drops to the floor; DEAN has come up behind her and stabbed her with the silver blade. DEAN You okay? SAM Where's Charlie? INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - MOMENTS LATER SAM and DEAN run up to CHARLIE. SAM injects her with a syringe filled with blue liquid, but it has no effect. DEAN What the hell's going on? SAM I don't know. Different Djinn, maybe she needs a different antidote? DEAN Charlie? [touches CHARLIE's forehead] She's burning up, man, we're not letting her turn to jello. SAM Okay, okay, uh. Okay, Djinn poison puts your brain in something like a feedback loop while your blood boils, right? DEAN Right. SAM Um, if the antidote didn't break the loop, then maybe we can find a way to break it from the inside. I mean, if Djinn take you to your happy place, your happy place is like a dream — SAM / DEAN (simultaneously) African dream root. INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - LATER SAM unscrews a jar of African dream root. DEAN tips in a vial of ginger. SAM pulls out one of CHARLIE's hairs and adds it to the jar. DEAN Alright, let's do this. [he drinks the contents of the jar] Ugh. Okay. Alright, I'm gonna need to go sleep fast, so, punch me. [SAM gives him a look] Look, man, I know you don't want to, okay— SAM punches him. DEAN staggers backwards a little, but isn't knocked out. SAM shakes his hand in pain. DEAN Well, you're a little off your game there, cause I was— that was pretty— SAM punches him again and DEAN slumps into the unoccupied chair, unconscious. INT. 1950s MILITARY HOSPITAL - NIGHT DEAN wakes up. CUT TO: DEAN picking up the newspaper. CUT TO: DEAN being approached by the growling creature — which turn out to be two vampire soldiers. The elevator behind DEAN opens. CHARLIE is inside it, in combat gear, carrying a shotgun. DEAN steps out of the way and CHARLIE exits the elevator, shooting both vampires. CHARLIE Come with me if you wanna live. (beat) I've always wanted to say that. What're you doing in my dream? DEAN You were attacked by a Djinn. The coroner, Jennifer, remember? Djinn usually send you to your, uh, your happy place— uh, no judgement, but, you got a really strange sense of happy, kiddo. CHARLIE Wait wait wait, no, no, no. Jennifer said that her kind feeds off fear. This isn't my happy place. It's a recurring nightmare of mine. DEAN What is this? CHARLIE It's a videogame. DEAN Wait a second, you're telling me that this whole thing is a videogame? CHARLIE It was called The Red Scare. A first person shooter against super-soldier vampires. I copied it off a game company's server before it was finished, reprogrammed it to reflect my flamingly liberal politics and then I released it. For free. Then they tracked me down and had me arrested. I was twelve. DEAN And you've been on the run ever since. INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - NIGHT SAM coughs, checks for blood, then glances over at CHARLIE and DEAN. There's a sound in the distance. INT. 1950s MILITARY HOSPITAL - NIGHT CHARLIE So how do we get out of here? DEAN I don't know. We gave you the Djinn antidote, it didn't take. And I killed the Djinn. CHARLIE Both of them? INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - NIGHT SAM looks around the warehouse and sighs. The younger DJINN (JENNIFER's son) steps out from behind a corner. DJINN You killed my mom. He approaches SAM and his eyes glow blue. ACT FOUR INT. 1950s MILITARY HOSPITAL - NIGHT DEAN and CHARLIE are walking down a corridor. DEAN We gotta get back and help Sammy. Tell me about this game, maybe if we can win, we— Several more vampire soldiers approach. DEAN and CHARLIE take them all out. CHARLIE Look, I don't know how long I've been out, but I've been through this level a thousand times already. DEAN What?! CHARLIE Every time I beat the level and save the patients, I get reset back to the beginning, only there's less weapons and the vampires are faster. [they kill two more vampires] It's an infinite loop. Like, Pac-Man without level 256. DEAN Level what? CHARLIE Nothing. DEAN Wait, what patients? INT. 1950s MILITARY HOSPITAL - MOMENTS LATER DEAN and CHARLIE lock themselves inside the patients' room. DEAN slides back the curtain around one of the beds to reveal GERTRUDE. DEAN Charlie? I know who this is. CHARLIE comes over to have a look. CHARLIE What are you talking about? DEAN When you went missing, me and Sam found your little crash pad. We saw the payments that you make for her. So I went and visited your mom, looking for you. CHARLIE She's why I'm in Kansas. I sneak into the hospital whenever I can, and I just... I read to her. She used to read me to sleep at night when I was a kid. Sh— she'd read me The Hobbit. [blinks back tears] She's the reason I love the stuff I love. DEAN I'm sorry for your loss. CHARLIE (insulted) She's not gone. CHARLIE yanks the curtains closed and paces away. DEAN opens another curtain. DEAN Sam? CHARLIE walks over. CHARLIE Is this my nightmare or yours? The vampires start breaking down the doors to the patients' room. INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - NIGHT SAM is thrown to the ground by the DJINN, but crawls back up. SAM So, it wasn't your mom who messed up, it was you. DJINN Shut up! He punches SAM, who drops to the ground again. DJINN I just came of age, I had to feed. I screwed up. SAM reclaims the dropped silver blade as the DJINN looks over to JENNIFER's body. DJINN Mom knew how to cover her tracks. She always told me not to play with my food. SAM comes up behind the DJINN and stabs him as he turns around. SAM Yeah, well, you should have listened to your mom. The DJINN drops to the floor. INT. 1950s MILITARY HOSPITAL - NIGHT CHARLIE This is it, the boss battle. Come on, we gotta save the patients. DEAN Wait wait wait. You said that we're stuck in a loop, right? But out there in the real world, you're dying. And I might be too. We gotta find a way to break this loop. CHARLIE Okay. How? DEAN I think the only way to stop this is to... not play. CHARLIE What?! No, no. We gotta save them. Not up, Winchester. A vampire punches in through the door. DEAN shoots him CHARLIE See? You can't stop either. DEAN Listen to me. This poison, it's designed to put your mind into an endless cycle, while your insides turn to mush, okay, and its fuel is fear. Now call me crazy, but I think the only way to break the cycle is to let go of the fear and stop playing the game. CHARLIE You don't know that. [shoots another vampire] DEAN I know that your fear is creating all of this. You're not afraid of those super-soldier vamps out there, you're not afraid of this game, and you're not afraid of what it did to you. [CHARLIE reloads, tearful] Hey! Look at me. You're afraid of losing her. (beat) Charlie, she's already gone. CHARLIE No. No, you don't understand. You don't understand! I was at a sleepover, and I got scared. So... [she starts tearing up] I called my parents to come and get me. They should never have been driving that night. DEAN It wasn't your fault. CHARLIE (crying) I just wanna tell her that I'm sorry and that I love her. And just have her hear it again. I just need her to hear that one more time. But she can't. She can't. DEAN I know. Believe me, I know. But you gotta let it go. (beat) Game over, kiddo. CHARLIE takes aim at the vampires near the door again, hesitates, then drops the shotgun. The vampires disappear. DEAN walks over and opens what is left of the door; the hallway is empty. CHARLIE walks over to GERTRUDE's bed and slides open the curtain. The bed is empty as well. CHARLIE Mom? INT. ABANDONED SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - NIGHT DEAN starts to wake up. SAM Dean? Dean. Hey. Hey! C'mere. You okay? What happened? [helps him out of the chair] What happened? DEAN I'm okay. [looks over to CHARLIE] Charlie? CHARLIE wakes up, looks over at DEAN, and lets out a tearful gasp. DEAN I'm sorry. I had to. CHARLIE starts sobbing again as DEAN pulls her into a hug. ACT FIVE EXT. BUNKER - DAY CHARLIE, SAM and DEAN all exit the bunker. SAM hands CHARLIE her bag. CHARLIE So... thanks for saving our bacon. SAM Any time, your Highness. CHARLIE You know you're gonna be okay, right? Those books portray you as like, one tough customer. If anyone can get through the trials, Sam, it's you. SAM Thanks. You know, you really should come back and dig through our archives. You are definitely a Woman of Letters. CHARLIE I like the sound of that. SAM hugs her and retreats to the bunker. DEAN Well, thanks for stopping by, Charlie. Always wanted to get Tron'ed. What's next for you? CHARLIE Gonna go by the hospital. (beat) Gotta let go, right? [DEAN nods] What about you, you're gonna let it go? DEAN Never. CHARLIE That's my boys. (beat) I love you. DEAN I know. DEAN pulls CHARLIE into another hug and kisses her temple. CHARLIE waves and walks away. INT. BUNKER - LIBRARY - DAY DEAN enters. SAM Okay, look, you were right, I-I should've laid low, I— I know, I should've hung back, but I'm glad I was able to— DEAN pulls him into a hug. DEAN What d'you say we find our prophet? DEAN exits, leaving SAM standing there slightly bewildered. INT. HOSPITAL - GERTRUDE'S ROOM - DAY CHARLIE signs in and hands the NURSE back her clipboard. NURSE Take all the time you need with your mom, okay? The NURSE exits. CHARLIE goes to sit by her mom's bedside. She brushes a lock of hair off GERTRUDE's face, then pulls a tattered book out of her bag. CHARLIE (tearful) One last time, okay? [she turns the first page] "In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on, or to eat. It was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

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