Originally aired: 08/05/2008
Writer:
Sera
Gamble
Director:Charles Beeson
Guest Stars: Jim Beaver as Bobby Singer, Billy
Drago as Doc Benton, Lauren Cohan as Bela Talbot
Official CW Description
SAM
AND DEAN MEET DOC BENTON; BELA'S FATE IS REVEALED As
time runs out for Dean), Sam convinces him to head to
Eerie, Pennsylvania to investigate a possible zombie
case. Instead, they discover Doc Benton, a real-life
doctor who, in 1816, abandoned his medical practice
to follow his obsession with finding the key to eternal
life by drugging people and stealing their vital organs.
Meanwhile, Bobby ) finds out where Bela is hiding, and
Dean heads out to confront her, leaving Sam behind to
deal with the good doctor. Dean and Bela battle it out
for the last time, and Dean leaves Bela in a desperate,
and possibly fatal, position.
Full Synopsis
Erie,
Pennsylvania
We
open up to two guys walking to their cars outside the
“Crystal Spa and Racquet Club.” It sounds
like they’re doctors. They split up and one goes
to put his bag in the trunk of his ride. We see someone
watching him from nearby bushes. The view shifts to
an angle under the car and we see the doctor’s
feet. From behind, another set of feet appear and the
doctor is suddenly attacked and tossed into his own
trunk. He screams for help and the scene fades to black.
The
second scene opens to blood dripping on linoleum –
it’s obvious we’re inside a hospital. The
camera moves and we realize the doctor is now standing
naked all but for a coat and he’s bleeding badly
from his stomach. He tries to walk and a nurse approaches
him. She tells him to let her look, there’s nothing
she hasn’t seen before, but when she pulls away
his hands and the coat she screams. From the sound we
here it’s apparent the man has probably been eviscerated.
Cut
to a inside a cabin:
Dean
and Sam have a man tied up throwing holy water on him
– it’s a demon. They’re demanding
to know who holds Dean’s contract, but the demon
refuses to tell, explaining that he’d rather go
to hell than rat on the demon that has Dean’s
“ticket.” Sammy exorcizes the demon.
Cut
to:
Sam
is on the phone when Dean walks in. He asks Sam who
he was talking to and Sam asks “remember that
thing in the paper yesterday?” Dean responds “Stripper
suffocates dude with thighs?” Sam says “No,
the other thing” and goes on to remind his brother
about the gutted man at the hospital. Apparently, the
man had his liver cut out! Not only that, but his body
was covered in fingerprints that match a man who died
in 1981. The brothers conclude they may be dealing with
a zombie.
Dean
then asks why Sam is interested seeing as its only three
weeks until his “deal” is up and Sam is
usually more concerned with saving him. Sam makes an
excuse that Dean is obviously not totally believing.
Morgue
The
brothers speak to the coroner posing as two cops. The
coroner tells them the liver wasn’t ripped out,
but surgically removed. He shows them the body and asks
if they read his report. Dean lies and the coroner asks
them to leave – which they do. As they walk out
through the corridor Sam says this new evidence punches
a hole in their zombie theory unless their walking dead
got some new skills. Dean laughs and says Dr Quinn,
Medicine Zombie!!! Sam suggests this may be some kind
of organ theft and that they should look for survivors.
Cut
to Hospital Room:
Sam
and Dean are again posing as cops. They’re interviewing
a man who has just been attacked and one of his kidneys
removed. The man doesn’t want to talk but tells
them he was jumped from behind and then found himself
strapped to a table. He blacked out and then woke up
screaming in a motel minus one kidney.
Motel
Room
Sam
in on the laptop researching and Dean is stuffing down
a burger. Sam says he has an idea. The victims were
sewn up with silk which used to be used in the early
19th Century by doctors. The problem was it caused infections,
so the doctors back then used maggots. Apparently the
man whose liver was removed had his body cavity filled
with…maggots! Dean finds this a gross subject
while he’s eating, but it doesn’t stop him
from chowing on more burger. He says this story sounds
familiar some how and Sam agrees.
Sam
pulls out John’s journal and explains they heard
it when they were kids. It’s the story of Doc
Benton from new Hampshire – a doctor obsessed
with alchemy and immortality. He found the secret to
living forever, but it came with a price. As his organs
and body parts wear out he has to replace them. He does
this by killing people and taking their parts. Dean
says he thought their dad killed the doc, and Sam says
he did, he caught Benton and removed his heart, but
somehow the doc must have gotten a new heart and started
all over again. He likes to hold up in forests with
access to a river or stream where he dumps the bile,
and intestines etc.
Cut to man running:
A
man is out jogging at night. He pauses for a rest and
we see he is being watched from the bushes. He looks
at the heart rate monitor on his wrist and as he does
someone jumps him from behind and uses chloroform on
him.
Doc
Benton’s Place
The
runner is now strapped to a table, his heart monitor
still beeping. A man appears with grotesque suture marks
all over his face. It’s Doc Benton. He cuts down
the man’s chest, cracks his ribs and removes his
heart. The monitor stops beeping.
The
Erie (Motel)
Sam
and Dean are in their room looking at maps. They think
they’ve found Benton’s lair when Bobby calls.
He says he thinks he’s finally found out where
Bela is. She’s been visiting a fellow hunter named
Rufus Turner trying to buy some things. Dean thinks
Bela is being sloppy. Bobby tells Dean to take a bottle
of Johnny Walker Blue with him if he’s going to
visit Rufus, then hangs up. Dean goes to leave the room
and Sam says its pointless going after Bela, she probably
sold the Colt months ago.
Dean
says then he’ll kill her, win/win. Sam says Dean
should stay on the Benton case. If they can find out
how he became immortal, maybe they can use it to save
Dean. If he can’t die, he can’t go to Hell.
Dean doesn’t like the idea. He says their best
shot is to shoot the demon that holds the contract and
his slate is wiped clean. He asks Sam to go with him
after Bela, but Sam won’t. He’s sticking
around to find Benton. They tell one another to be careful
as Dean leaves.
Rufus
Turner’s Home
Canaan, Vermont
Dean walks up on the porch and rings the bell. Rufus
asks who he is on the intercom, but won’t let
him in. He seems pretty grumpy. He won’t tell
Dean where Bela is or let him in until Dean offers up
the bottle of whiskey Bobby told him to take.
Inside,
Dean and Rufus are drinking the whiskey. Rufus tells
Dean Bela wanted to buy some things off him. He then
asks Dean why he’s after Bela when he only has
a few weeks to live. He tells Dean there is no happy
ending for hunters like them.
Woodland
Trail
Sam
pulls up in a Jeep and checks a map. He gets out of
the car and walks away.
Cut back to Dean & Rufus:
Rufus
tells Dean Bela is at the Hotel Canaan room 39 and to
watch his back. Dean says he can handle her, but Rufus
tells him not to be so sure, there are things Dean doesn’t
know about Bela. Dean thinks Rufus has checked out Bela’s
fingerprints for info and Rufus admits he has, but it
didn’t work. He tells Dean to “do her ear”
to which Dean responds “I’ll try anything
once, but I don’t know, that sounds uncomfortable.”
Rufus explains he had to use pictures and match them
to her ears – apparently their just as traceable
as fingerprints. He tosses Dean a folder with Bela’s
information in. Dean looks inside and frowns.
Benton’s
Cabin
Sam
walks inside, flashlight on. It’s dark, but he
finds some kind of journal. He moves on, taking the
book with him. In the basement, he finds the runner’s
body, along with a girl whose arm is crawling in maggots.
Benton has taken a huge flap of her skin. Sam wraps
a towel around the raw limb and is about to help the
girl up when he hears Benton upstairs. He puts a hand
over her mouth to stifle her screams.
Cut
to Outside:
Sam
has gotten out the basement window and is running with
the girl in his arms. He makes it to the Jeep and is
just about to pull away when Benton smashes the window
and grabs his head. He smashes Sam’s skull on
the steering wheel until Sam can get the car in gear
and reverse. Sam sees Benton in his headlights and hits
the gas, mowing the doc down. Sam rides off and we see
Benton clamber up, straightening out his obviously broken
neck! Blood runs from the corner of one of his eyes.
Hotel
Canaan
Room 39
Dean
grabs Bela and asks where the Colt is. He tells her
not to move and begins searching the room anyway. Bela
moves and Dean shoots a hole in the door near her head.
Eventually, Dean accepts the Colt is gone and he points
his gun at her, he says he’s going to kill her.
He says he can’t imagine killing his parents like
she did. She was what? Fourteen when they had a car
accident – the police suspected a slashed break
line but could never prove it. Little Bela – or
rather Abby, inherited millions.
We
go to flashback from Bela’s point of view. She’s
fourteen and crying. Her dad enters the room and its
obvious she’s scared of him. The door closes and
we don’t see what happens next – but then,
we don’t have to.
Back
to the present and Bela admits she killed them, but
she doesn’t tell Dean why. Dean is mad, but he
hasn’t the heart to kill her. He does, however,
see some kind of root placed above her motel room door.
He backs off, saying Bela isn’t worth it, and
leaves.
Bela
unscrews a paper she’s taken from his pocket and
quickly makes a phone call. She tells the person/thing
on the line “It worked, he found me. No, Sam wasn’t
with him, but I know where they are…”
The
Erie
Sam
is sitting back at the motel when Dean calls. Dean says
he didn’t get the Colt, and he didn’t kill
Bela. He’s really screwed. Sam says maybe not.
He has Benton’s lab book and it looks like his
formula might work. What’s more, there’s
no magic involved – it’s pure science.
Before
Sam can say more, he’s grabbed from behind and
his phone falls to the floor. We hear Dean calling Sammy
down the line.
Benton’s
Cabin
Benton
has Sam tied to a table, his eyes taped wide open. Benton
tells Sam he knows who he is. He explains that he doesn’t
do things he doesn’t have to. Like now, he needs
new eyes. He also tells Sam he knows it was the brothers’
father who cut out his heart. Basically, its payback
time.
He
moves to pluck out Sam’s eye when we hear gunshots.
Dean has arrived and has shot the doctor. Benton isn’t
affected and tosses Dean across the room. Dean stabs
him – which Benton finds amusing – until
he realizes Dean soaked the blade in chloroform. Benton
collapses. He may be immortal, but he is still susceptible.
Cut
to Benton strapped to a table. He offers Dean his secret
in exchange for freedom and Sam takes Dean to one side
and says maybe they should consider it. Dean says what
Benton has isn’t what he calls living and no way
is he considering it. Dean says he’d rather go
to Hell than be a monster like the doctor.
Outside
Somewhere
Benton
finds himself inside a meat freezer. From an outside
view we see Dean and Sam have dug a hug hole and are
burying him alive. Sam looks sad as he throws on the
earth because he knows he’s just lost a chance
to save Dean.
The
Erie
Bela
breaks into the boys room and shoots the two figures
in the beds. When she checks under the sheets, they’re
blow up dolls.
The
phone rings. It’s Dean. He says he felt her hand
in his pocket when she swiped the motel receipt. She
tries to explain, but he won’t listen. He says
he saw the herb, Devil’s Shoestring in her motel
over the door, and it can only be used to ward off Hellhounds.
Bela made a deal with a demon to kill her parents, and
today, her deal has come due.
Flashback
to young Bela on a swing. There’s another girl
on the swing beside her. The second girl has red eyes
and offers Bela what she wants, and it won’t cost
her anything for ten whole years.
Skip
to present. Dean asks Bela if she stole the Colt to
swap to save herself, and she admits she did, but it
didn’t work. The demon who holds her contract
insisted she killed Sam too.
Bela
begs for help, and Dean says it’s too late. If
she’d asked for help before they could have used
the Colt to save her AND Dean. Bela knows about Dean’s
deal – the same demon has her contract –
in fact all the contracts. She tells Dean the demon’s
name is Lillith, and he asks why he should trust her.
Bela responds that maybe he can kill the bitch.
Dean
replies “I’ll see you in Hell,” and
hangs up.
The
clock in the hotel room turns midnight, and Bela hears
the Hellhounds. She goes to the window, resigned to
her fate. The screen turns black.
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