Supernatural: Ghostfacers
April 25th 2008 07:46
We interrupt this episode of Supernatural for an all new episode of “Ghostfacers" starring, you guessed it, Ed Zedmore and Harry Spangler, self-proclaimed “professional paranormal investigators”.
Okay, first off, this episode is hilarious and can really only be fully enjoyed by watching it. Haha Think a mix between Cops, The Blair Witch Project, and Ghost-Hunters, and you’ll kind of get the idea of the overall camerawork and mood. Plus of course you get the greatness of Sam and Dean.
Alright then, moving on to the recap.
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We open on Ed and Harry, dressed to the hilt and addressing us in their mysterious-yet-powerful-and-i mportant-people voice. (It’s hilarious)
Ed: If you received this tape you must be some sort of big-wig network executive. Well, today is your lucky day Mr.”
Harry: Because the unsolicited pilot you are about to watch is the bold new future of “reality tv”.
Ed: Mmm, we know you’ve had a hard and crippling writers strike.
Harry: Lazy fat cats.
Ed: Who needs writers when you’ve got guys like us?
*Harry reaches over and dims the lights*
Ed: Our team faced horrible horrors the footage that will change your world forever. So strap in for the scariest hour in the history of television—
Harry: In the history of. Your. Life.
Ed: Strap in for…
Both: Ghostfacers!
*Ghostfacers opening begins, with a wicked theme song and montage introducing us to the team: Ed, Harry, Spruce, Maggie, Corbett, and…Sam and Dean? Thus begins the handheld camerawork.*
Ed and Harry begin their investigation pulling up and stepping out of the car with their nifty metal briefcases featuring the “Ghostfacers” logo and walk in real-time, over-the-top acted, slo-mo up towards “headquarters”. They talk about how they’re two lone wolves leading…uh…other wolves.
Phase 1: The homework
We learn more about the team: Corbett’s an Intern/cook who first saw Ed putting up fliers, thought to himself “Where do ghosts come from?”, and ended up here. Maggie is Ed’s adopted sister who’s labeled, “Research Team, Adopted”. She tells us that Ed’s always been obsessed with the supernatural since they were kids. Then he met up with Harry at computer camp and it was “love at first geek.”
Spruce swings the camera around, “What up playeeeerrrs?” He is labeled “Camera, Licensed Shamanologist, 1/16 Cherokee. He drives around in a cage as golf balls fly towards him and explains his supernaturally linked background: My grandfather is a moil, my great-grandfather was a talismaker, and my great-great-grandfather was a degenerate gambler and, uh, had a peyote addiction.
Back HQ, Ed explains Morton House. Every four years it apparently becomes the most haunted place in America. The Leap Year Ghosts return at midnight just as Feb. 29th begins. Ed says that’s about to change. He takes a drink of his coffee and Corbett quickly pipes up, “It’s French Vanilla. You uh, said you liked it….” Ed is confused. Harry gives Corbett a strange look. Awkward…
In the car Harry explains to the camera that Corbett is a nice guy and all, but he thinks he has a thing for Ed. Which, you know, could spell trouble for the whole team. Corbett shows up to knock on the window and give the camera the thumb’s up.
Cut to Corbett explaining that Ed has that nice golden beard look going on…oh and Harry’s nice.
As the team continue to discuss their upcoming case, the front of the room where they’ve been posting pictures and writing notes suddenly shudders, and with a loud creaking and grinding, starts to lift. Everyone jumps back, “What the—”
“Ah, Dad! Dad—let’s just cut the cameras.”
“We don’t need that, let’s just cut—”
Phase II: Infiltration
It’s night as the team sneaks up to the chained fence surrounding Morton House. Maggie asks, “Wait, didn’t you guys get like a permit or something?” Ed and Harry look at each other. “That’s a good idea for next time.”
Suddenly a car drives up and they all hide…we hear some familiar mullet rock…the car comes into view…Brief glimpse of Sam and Dean before they drive off again.
“Okay! Not cops, just kids!” The Ghostfacers break the lock and head up into the house. They set up camp in the main room, calling it “the eagles nest”. Ed sits by the computers and watches as everyone set up their cameras in other rooms. They regroup at the eagles nest as 10:40.
Ed: We’ve all done this before, standard walkthrough. Team 1 west, team 2 east.
Everyone else: Got it.
Ed: Spin the tires, light the fires. Ghostfacers on three.
*They all put their hands in*
Ed: 1, 2, 3—
*hands up* GHOOOOST-*dramatic *and scene* movement*--FACERSSSS!!
Phase III: Face Time!
They search the house and get thoroughly creeped out. Ed and Corbett search rooms nervously, asking if the spirits can give them a sign of their presence. Corbett can’t breathe, he’s freaking out. Ed tells him to calm down, to “calm the whirlwinds of your mind.”
2nd Floor: Team 2-Harry, Spruce, Maggie
Flashlights scan a hallway and the camera starts to go ghost-staticy. Harry reaches a closed door and starts to kick it. Nothing happens. He kicks idly at it some more until Spruce says, “Turn the knob.” It’s unlocked and creaks open easily.
Harry peaks in, flashlight searching and, “AHHHHHH!” He freaks out and runs down the hall. The camera follows him, then turns back to the empty room. Spruce: It’s just a rat dude.
Harry: *car interview* I-I don’t really like rats. They’re gross. Rats are like…the rats of the world,
Back to the house:
Harry is asking about the EMP and spectral images and everything as Spruce picks up the rat and throws it at him. Harry shouts again, telling Spruce that that was not funny!
Through Corbett’s night vision camera we see him and Ed searching another room. Suddenly his camera comes up to a flashlight and—
“Freeze! Police officers! Don’t move!”
Dean and Sam show up asking to see some ID and after getting over the initial shock, Ed squints at them. Wait a minute…He tells them he knows them and Dean ignores him. Sure he does. Sam on the other hand looks at Ed.
Sam: Holy *bleep*
Dean: What?
Sam: Uh, West Texas, the tolpa we had to take out? Those two goofballs that almost got us killed? Hellhounds or something?
*Camera swings to Ed. Cut back to Sam and Dean*
Dean: *bleep*
Ed tells Corbett they’re not cops and that he and Harry aren’t Hellhounds anymore. When Dean tries to tell him they need to get out, Ed steps up, “Listen here chiseled-chest, we were hear first.” He and his team, “were here first.”
Dean looks at Sam. “They were here first.” He laughs then turns and shoves the camera out of the way, asking Ed where his partner is.
Back with team 2, Maggie tries to get a reading as the camera goes wiggy again. Suddenly there’s a flash and a man in a suit and hat appears out of nowhere. He’s arguing with an unseen mugger and suddenly gets shot just as Maggie and Spruce appear and just stare at the spot where the man disappeared.
*cue theme and logo* “Ghost-fac-ers!*
Dean asks Ed what he’s doing at the Morton House and he tells them it’s for their tv show. They’re just gonna stay the night since it’s never been done before. Dean tells them, uh yeah it has. They just haven’t heard of them because they’re all dead. They don’t believe him.
Sam pulls out a stack of real research showing a list of all the people who have disappeared at Morton House. Ed’s impressed. The only body they found was the last owner.
Suddenly team two comes rushing in all talking at once, “We saw one!” “It was a full on apparition!” “It was amazing—”
Team two all stop to stare at Sam and Dean. *camera shifts to get Sam and Dean in the picture. Back and forth* Finally Harry asks, “Hey aren’t those those *bleeps* from Texas?”
Dean tells them they should have this reunion across the street. They’ll even buy the ice cream, what do you say? The ghostfacers are too busy trying to upload their proof to show the rest of the team. Sam and Dean can’t drag them out so they stand to watch the footage.
As the team continues to gush over the footage of their real ghost, Sam and Dean slide over to the corner. They need to get out of there. It’s just a death echo, there could be a lot worse in store for them. The camera follows them and Spruce asks, “What’s a death echo?” Sam explains that they have a lot more to worry about. Spruce again asks about a death echo and Dean finally explains that it’s a spirit trapped in a loop. They keep replaying their death over and over and over again usually in the place where they died. “It’s about as dangerous as a scary movie.”
Sam and Dean once again try to pull the team out of the house until Ed asks, “Wait. Where’s Corbett?”
Upstairs—Corbett:
Corbett is trying to contact the spirits again, and instead finds himself attacked and dragged off by one. Downstairs everyone hears his yelling and chaos breaks out as they try to find him.
Morton House: 11:59...*Corbett screams*…12:00
Madness as Sam and Dean try to force everyone outside. Shaky cameras, “Go, go!’ Shuffles, shouts, Dean’s face as he comes at the camera and *BlinkFuzzOUt*
Morton House: 12:04 P.M.
The ghostfacers decide they need to go through the footage to try and figure out what happened to Corbett as Sam and Dean argue over by the door.
Sam: It’s 12:04 Dean, you good, you happy?
Dean: *sarcastically* Yeah, I am happy.
Sam: Let’s go hunt the Mormon House you said, “It’s our Grand Canyon!”
Dean: Sam, I don’t want to hear it.
Sam: You got two months Dean. Instead we’re gonna die tonight. *slams chair against the door*
The ghostfacers turn around, “Whoa! What are you doing?” Dean explains that it’s a supernatural lockdown. Whatever took Corbett doesn’t want them getting out any time soon. Dean explains that it’s no death echo either, “it’s a bad mother and it wants us scared.” Maggie nervously adds, “Or it just wants us.”
The camera fuzzes out again and we get a glimpse of Maggie grabbing Harry’s hand. The EMF starts to spike and the computers go out. Something big is coming.
A different echo shows up and Dean starts yelling at it. “Hey! Hey buddy, wake up! You’re dead!” Ed asks Sam what he’s doing and Sam explains that sometimes you can snap the echo out of it to talk to the leftover human part of the ghost. But usually you have to have a connection to them.
Wait, what’s that sound? Everyone starts to look around. The echo turns, a light approaches and *BAM* he’s hit by an invisible train. Multiple echoes that clearly didn’t die here? What?!
*Morton House flashes as transition*
Maggie follows Dean and Sam down the hall with a camera asking him what’s going on, if that thing is what took Corbett and he says he doesn’t know, that that’s what they’re trying to figure out. She continues to follow them and Sam explains that usually echoes are left where the people died, but clearly no one got hit by a train here.
Maggie: So what are they doing here?
Dean: Hey, give the lady a cigar! *pause* Seriously, does lookin’ at this nightmare through a camera make you feel better or something? I mean…
Maggie: I uh..I…Yeah, yeah I think so, Mmhmm.
Dean: Oh. *Dean makes his classic ‘okay then’ face and walks off*
In another room full of cobweb-covered taxidermist’s animals, Sam finds a dusty certificate from a janitor of a hospital. Freeman Daggert. He died in ’64 of a heart attack. Apparently all he ate was sea rations as the room is full of them. Sam finds a pamphlet for “Survival under an atomic attack. An optimist!”
Dean breaks open an old safe, pulls out an old metal box and finds three toe tags: Death by gunshot, suicide, and train accident…
Sam: Eww...
When the rest of the team doesn’t get it, Sam explains the death echoes are there because their bodies are there…as in somewhere in the house…Everyone just stares at him. Dean explains, “Daggert brought the remains home from the morgue to play…”
*long moment*
Ghostfacers: Ewwwww!
Maggie plays here camera around the room, trying not to hyperventilate. She screams and jumps when Dean comes into view and he tells her to stay closer to the herd. Ed calls for his sister and Dean assures him he’s fine.
Ed runs back in, followed by Dean and Maggie. According to their instruments, something big is coming again. The camera flickers and warps. “Nobody move! Hold on, hold on everybody just stay put—”
*Flicker/flash*
Dean: Sam?
Where Sam was standing right next to Dean is now just a flashlight. Dean picks it up. “SAM!”
*”Ghost-fac-ers!”*
Dean: Sammy?!...Sammy!
Ghostfacers: Corbett?
Maggie’s camera is on Harry as she admits she’s “so scared”. We can still hear Dean yelling for Sam somewhere. Spruce sneaks up on Maggie and Harry, catching them on camera as they begin to make out.
Ed’s in the hallway calling for Corbett. Dean’s still calling for Sam. Maggie and Harry continue to kiss. Ed’s flashlight lands on, “my best friend, and my best sister…” Furious, Ed tells Spruce to hold his glasses as he lunges at Harry. They begin to, uh…fight? Ish?
Dean runs in and breaks them apart reminding them that they’re two people down! Dean goes back to calling for Sam.
Harry and Ed look at each other. Harry apologizes, and Ed grudgingly follows. He starts to leave, gets his glasses back from Spruce and asks, “I won that right?” Spruce agrees, “Yep, you’re good.” Maggie and Harry just glare at him. “Thanks Spruce.”
*It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to…*
Corbett starts to wake up to Sam’s coaxing. From his headcam we see Sam tied to a chair and seated at a table full of dead people at a birthday party. There’s even cake!
Sam tries to calm him, to get him to look at him, but Corbett just whimpers as a creepy voice tells him, “Don’t worry, it stops hurting.” A creepy hand picks something off the table and…Sam: Corbett? Stay with me, I’m right here, okay? Corbett? Corbett—Don’t, don’t!” That something goes right through Corbett’s neck. Sam yells his name as Corbett falls to the table dead.
The rest of the ghostfacers scramble after Dean, scared to death, asking him what he’s doing. Dean flips through Daggert’s stuff. He was a Cold War nut, an amateur taxidermist, he likes to slow dance with cadavers and all he ate was sea rations—He was scared.” Dean runs off as the team calls after him and quickly runs after him. “Dean where you goin?”, “Wait, wait, wait, don’t leave me—”, “Whoa!”
Back at the “party” the creepy man Daggert heads toward Sam. Sam starts to struggle, we can’t see what the guy’s doing, but he assures, “it won’t hurt.” He pulls back and Sam is now wearing a party hat.
Meanwhile Dean’s decided there must be a bomb shelter down in the basement and he’s going to find it. He heads down the stairs with Spruce and the door slams behind them, separating them from the other ghostfacers.
Frantic, Ed and Harry ask him what to do. Dean tells him to go out and get the salt from his duffle bag. “Make a circle and get inside!” There is a long pause as Ed and Harry look at each other. Finally Ed asks, “Inside your duffle bag?” Dean’s muffled reply comes back, “In the salt!” Oh right. Ed and Harry hurry off.
Dean heads down the stairs and Spruce follows with the camera. Ed, Harry, and Maggie quickly make the salt circle and get in. Harry admits that he doesn’t want to die, and Ed pats his friend on the shoulder, telling him, “If we don’t die…it’s totally okay if you, uh, do my sister.” Maggie punches Ed in the side. “Ow!”
Lights and camera go ghosty again and Harry and Ed and the camera smash together, waiting. Corbett appears.
Back in the basement, Spruce follows Dean around with the camera and asks him if he can ask him something. When Dean says, “What?”, Spruce answers, “Earlier you and Sam, you said you had two months left?”
Dean: Yeah, it’s complicated. A while ago see--*stops* No, no, no, naw I’m not gonna whine about my *bleep* problems to some *bleep* reality show. I’m gonna do my *bleep* job.
Dean goes back to looking.
Spruce: Is it cancer?
Dean: Shut up.
Back in the party room, Daggert tells Sam that he gets lonely sometimes. “But you’re coming to my party aren’t you?” Sam is still struggling to get out of the chair.
Dean pulls a heavy shelf/cupboard thing out to reveal a door. Spruce is impressed, “Wow you’re strong.” Dean turns and the camera fuzzes out his hand as he flips the camera off.
Dean busts open the door—“Sam!”—and shoots Daggert. He rushes over to untie his brother and Spruce runs the camera over the dead bodies dressed up for a birthday party…the cake on the table…the music is still going…”Oh no, Corbett…”
Back in the salt circle, Ed shakes back and forth mumbling to himself. Harry reminds him that Corbett’s a death echo, to which Maggie adds, forced to live his death over and over…
Sam tells Dean Daggert was the “Norman Bates, stuff your mother kind of lonely”. That’s why he brought back all the corpses and through himself a birthday party. They were the only ones who’d come. He left the bodies in the bomb shelter and went up stairs at midnight to OD on horse tranquilizers. When Dean asks him how he knows all this, Sam simply says, “he told me.”
Dean: Oh okay, so what now that he’s dead, what? Same song different verse? Trying to get people to come to his party?
A few bullets from Dean’s shotgun fall to the floor and Spruce follows with the camera, asking, “Are those real bullets?” He tilts the camera back to Dean’s face as he answers, “Rock salt.
Back in the salt circle, Ed and Harry shake back and forth as Harry sings the ghostfacers theme song. Ed finally realizes it’s Corbett, they’ve got to try and pull him out of his loop. He gets up. “Don’t cross the line!” “I gotta do it Harry.” Ed approaches a dying-over-and-over-again-Cor bett, who does the spirit flash thing and Ed quickly jumps back in the salt ring. Corbett’s not hearing him. “He can’t stop dying!”
Dean’s trying to bust open a door and Sam turns to Spruce. “Seriously? You’re still shooting.” Dean pauses just long enough to say, “It makes him feel better, don’t ask,” before going back to the door.
The camera starts to fuzz out and Spruce warns them that something’s coming. Shaky camera—floor—two guys—BAM! Sam shoots them
Back in the other room, Harry tries to explain to Ed that Corbett had feelings for him. Ed doesn’t get it, Harry kind of acts/mumbles about until he does, then looks at poor trapped-in-a-dying-loop Corbett and tells Ed, “And you know what you gotta do. You can do it Ed, you’ve always been the brave one—you make us brave! Right Maggie?”
Maggie: You do, you totally do.
Harry: Ed. You gotta go be gay for that poor dead intern! You gotta send him into the light!
Ed looks at Corbett. Finally he works up the nerve to start approaching the poor dead intern, and although it takes a while, he finally gets through to him by telling Corbett how much he meant to the team. “You meant a lot to the team…You meant a lot to me. “Never back down, never say a bad word?” He tells him he remembered that quote because he loves him. Corbett finally snaps out of it, staring sadly at Ed.
Ed: You gotta help us Corbett. Please? Alright?
Sam and Dean are making sure Spruce is okay when a guy suddenly appears behind Dean. Spruce starts to warn him, but he’s too late. Dean gets thrown across the room, Daggert shoves Sam aside and heads for the camera. Spruce: This is bad, very bad.
Suddenly Corbett appears. Daggert turns around. The two ghosts slam into each other in a white ball of swirly ghost fighting and then POOF! They’re gone. Spruce takes the camera to Dean and Sam, “You okay, dude? You okay?” They groan and get up, realize that Spruce is still taping, and Dean covers the camera.
*Ghost-fac-ers!*
Harry and Ed do a dramatic voice-over over the footage of everyone walking out of Morton House. “We lost a beloved friend. But, we gained new allies.” Sam hands Ed a piece of paper with their numbers on it.
Back to the beginning room with Ed and Harry in their suits and armchairs. “The ghostfacers were forced, to face something much more scary than ghosts. They were forced to face themselves.” Ed holds up his thumb to the camera, “War changes man.”
Harry: Amen.
Ed: War…changes man. And one woman.
Ed tells Corbett he hopes he’s out there somewhere watching over them, and Harry tells him that as far as they’re concerned he’s not an intern anymore, but a full-fledged Ghostfacer. “Plus it’d be cool to have a ghost on the team.” Ed points out that all this time they thought they were teaching him, when Corbett was just teaching them, “About heart, about dedication…about how gay love can pierce through the veil of death and save the day.”
Harry: Go well into the starry night.
*footage of Corbett packing up for the trip and Spruce gets him to talk.*
Corbett: I think tonight all my dreams are gonna come true. Does that sound stupid?”
Spruce: It kind of does yeah.
They laugh, freeze on Corbett and fade to: “In Memory of Alan J. Corbett, 1985-2008: King Of The Impossible”
The camera pulls back from a computer where Sam and Dean have just finished watching the Ghostfacers episode with us. They’re surrounded by the team anxiously awaiting their review.
Sam and Dean just stare at the computer, then, finally Dean says, “You know, I think it was half awesome.”
Maggie: Half awesome? That’s full-on good!
Dean and Sam exchange a look. Sam distracts them while Dean slips a bag under the table.
Sam: Yeah I mean, it’s bizarre how y’all are able to, uh, to honor Corbett’s memory while grossly exploiting the manner of his death! Well done.
Dean: Yeah! It’s a real tight rope you guys are walking.
Sam and Dean start to leave and Ed reminds them that it’s their job to show this for Corbett, to show people the truth.
Sam: Right. Well uh, in our experience you know what you get when you show the world the truth?
Dean: Straightjacket. Or a punch in the face, sometimes you get both.
Ed tells them not to be facer-haters just because they happened to get the footage of the century. Dean tells them they have them there and he and Sam leave.
The second the door closes the whole team start bashing Sam and Dean. They laugh when they find the bag, “Menudo left their dance bag behind!” They pull out the contents of the bag…and all of their computers crash. “Wait, wait, wait, nononono!”
Outside, Sam and Dean head for the Impala.
Sam: We clean?
*frantic shouts from inside, they get in the car*
Dean: Electromagnet. Wiped out every tape and harddrvie they have.
Sam: The world just isn’t ready for the Ghostfacers.
Dean: It’s too bad, I kinda liked the show.
Sam: *thinks a second* It had it’s moments.
They grin and drive off to the Ghostfacers theme, the TRUE ghostfacers.
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LOL!! Great episode as always. I love how they saved the Supernatural credits until after the “Ghostfacers pilot” was over. Haha Sam and Dean on a reality show, who would have thought?
*bts promo pic
Okay, first off, this episode is hilarious and can really only be fully enjoyed by watching it. Haha Think a mix between Cops, The Blair Witch Project, and Ghost-Hunters, and you’ll kind of get the idea of the overall camerawork and mood. Plus of course you get the greatness of Sam and Dean.
Alright then, moving on to the recap.
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We open on Ed and Harry, dressed to the hilt and addressing us in their mysterious-yet-powerful-and-i mportant-people voice. (It’s hilarious)
Ed: If you received this tape you must be some sort of big-wig network executive. Well, today is your lucky day Mr.”
Harry: Because the unsolicited pilot you are about to watch is the bold new future of “reality tv”.
Ed: Mmm, we know you’ve had a hard and crippling writers strike.
Harry: Lazy fat cats.
Ed: Who needs writers when you’ve got guys like us?
*Harry reaches over and dims the lights*
Ed: Our team faced horrible horrors the footage that will change your world forever. So strap in for the scariest hour in the history of television—
Harry: In the history of. Your. Life.
Ed: Strap in for…
Both: Ghostfacers!
*Ghostfacers opening begins, with a wicked theme song and montage introducing us to the team: Ed, Harry, Spruce, Maggie, Corbett, and…Sam and Dean? Thus begins the handheld camerawork.*
Ed and Harry begin their investigation pulling up and stepping out of the car with their nifty metal briefcases featuring the “Ghostfacers” logo and walk in real-time, over-the-top acted, slo-mo up towards “headquarters”. They talk about how they’re two lone wolves leading…uh…other wolves.
Phase 1: The homework
We learn more about the team: Corbett’s an Intern/cook who first saw Ed putting up fliers, thought to himself “Where do ghosts come from?”, and ended up here. Maggie is Ed’s adopted sister who’s labeled, “Research Team, Adopted”. She tells us that Ed’s always been obsessed with the supernatural since they were kids. Then he met up with Harry at computer camp and it was “love at first geek.”
Spruce swings the camera around, “What up playeeeerrrs?” He is labeled “Camera, Licensed Shamanologist, 1/16 Cherokee. He drives around in a cage as golf balls fly towards him and explains his supernaturally linked background: My grandfather is a moil, my great-grandfather was a talismaker, and my great-great-grandfather was a degenerate gambler and, uh, had a peyote addiction.
Back HQ, Ed explains Morton House. Every four years it apparently becomes the most haunted place in America. The Leap Year Ghosts return at midnight just as Feb. 29th begins. Ed says that’s about to change. He takes a drink of his coffee and Corbett quickly pipes up, “It’s French Vanilla. You uh, said you liked it….” Ed is confused. Harry gives Corbett a strange look. Awkward…
In the car Harry explains to the camera that Corbett is a nice guy and all, but he thinks he has a thing for Ed. Which, you know, could spell trouble for the whole team. Corbett shows up to knock on the window and give the camera the thumb’s up.
Cut to Corbett explaining that Ed has that nice golden beard look going on…oh and Harry’s nice.
As the team continue to discuss their upcoming case, the front of the room where they’ve been posting pictures and writing notes suddenly shudders, and with a loud creaking and grinding, starts to lift. Everyone jumps back, “What the—”
“Ah, Dad! Dad—let’s just cut the cameras.”
“We don’t need that, let’s just cut—”
Phase II: Infiltration
It’s night as the team sneaks up to the chained fence surrounding Morton House. Maggie asks, “Wait, didn’t you guys get like a permit or something?” Ed and Harry look at each other. “That’s a good idea for next time.”
Suddenly a car drives up and they all hide…we hear some familiar mullet rock…the car comes into view…Brief glimpse of Sam and Dean before they drive off again.
“Okay! Not cops, just kids!” The Ghostfacers break the lock and head up into the house. They set up camp in the main room, calling it “the eagles nest”. Ed sits by the computers and watches as everyone set up their cameras in other rooms. They regroup at the eagles nest as 10:40.
Ed: We’ve all done this before, standard walkthrough. Team 1 west, team 2 east.
Everyone else: Got it.
Ed: Spin the tires, light the fires. Ghostfacers on three.
*They all put their hands in*
Ed: 1, 2, 3—
*hands up* GHOOOOST-*dramatic *and scene* movement*--FACERSSSS!!
Phase III: Face Time!
They search the house and get thoroughly creeped out. Ed and Corbett search rooms nervously, asking if the spirits can give them a sign of their presence. Corbett can’t breathe, he’s freaking out. Ed tells him to calm down, to “calm the whirlwinds of your mind.”
2nd Floor: Team 2-Harry, Spruce, Maggie
Flashlights scan a hallway and the camera starts to go ghost-staticy. Harry reaches a closed door and starts to kick it. Nothing happens. He kicks idly at it some more until Spruce says, “Turn the knob.” It’s unlocked and creaks open easily.
Harry peaks in, flashlight searching and, “AHHHHHH!” He freaks out and runs down the hall. The camera follows him, then turns back to the empty room. Spruce: It’s just a rat dude.
Harry: *car interview* I-I don’t really like rats. They’re gross. Rats are like…the rats of the world,
Back to the house:
Harry is asking about the EMP and spectral images and everything as Spruce picks up the rat and throws it at him. Harry shouts again, telling Spruce that that was not funny!
Through Corbett’s night vision camera we see him and Ed searching another room. Suddenly his camera comes up to a flashlight and—
“Freeze! Police officers! Don’t move!”
Dean and Sam show up asking to see some ID and after getting over the initial shock, Ed squints at them. Wait a minute…He tells them he knows them and Dean ignores him. Sure he does. Sam on the other hand looks at Ed.
Sam: Holy *bleep*
Dean: What?
Sam: Uh, West Texas, the tolpa we had to take out? Those two goofballs that almost got us killed? Hellhounds or something?
*Camera swings to Ed. Cut back to Sam and Dean*
Dean: *bleep*
Ed tells Corbett they’re not cops and that he and Harry aren’t Hellhounds anymore. When Dean tries to tell him they need to get out, Ed steps up, “Listen here chiseled-chest, we were hear first.” He and his team, “were here first.”
Dean looks at Sam. “They were here first.” He laughs then turns and shoves the camera out of the way, asking Ed where his partner is.
Back with team 2, Maggie tries to get a reading as the camera goes wiggy again. Suddenly there’s a flash and a man in a suit and hat appears out of nowhere. He’s arguing with an unseen mugger and suddenly gets shot just as Maggie and Spruce appear and just stare at the spot where the man disappeared.
*cue theme and logo* “Ghost-fac-ers!*
Dean asks Ed what he’s doing at the Morton House and he tells them it’s for their tv show. They’re just gonna stay the night since it’s never been done before. Dean tells them, uh yeah it has. They just haven’t heard of them because they’re all dead. They don’t believe him.
Sam pulls out a stack of real research showing a list of all the people who have disappeared at Morton House. Ed’s impressed. The only body they found was the last owner.
Suddenly team two comes rushing in all talking at once, “We saw one!” “It was a full on apparition!” “It was amazing—”
Team two all stop to stare at Sam and Dean. *camera shifts to get Sam and Dean in the picture. Back and forth* Finally Harry asks, “Hey aren’t those those *bleeps* from Texas?”
Dean tells them they should have this reunion across the street. They’ll even buy the ice cream, what do you say? The ghostfacers are too busy trying to upload their proof to show the rest of the team. Sam and Dean can’t drag them out so they stand to watch the footage.
As the team continues to gush over the footage of their real ghost, Sam and Dean slide over to the corner. They need to get out of there. It’s just a death echo, there could be a lot worse in store for them. The camera follows them and Spruce asks, “What’s a death echo?” Sam explains that they have a lot more to worry about. Spruce again asks about a death echo and Dean finally explains that it’s a spirit trapped in a loop. They keep replaying their death over and over and over again usually in the place where they died. “It’s about as dangerous as a scary movie.”
Sam and Dean once again try to pull the team out of the house until Ed asks, “Wait. Where’s Corbett?”
Upstairs—Corbett:
Corbett is trying to contact the spirits again, and instead finds himself attacked and dragged off by one. Downstairs everyone hears his yelling and chaos breaks out as they try to find him.
Morton House: 11:59...*Corbett screams*…12:00
Madness as Sam and Dean try to force everyone outside. Shaky cameras, “Go, go!’ Shuffles, shouts, Dean’s face as he comes at the camera and *BlinkFuzzOUt*
Morton House: 12:04 P.M.
The ghostfacers decide they need to go through the footage to try and figure out what happened to Corbett as Sam and Dean argue over by the door.
Sam: It’s 12:04 Dean, you good, you happy?
Dean: *sarcastically* Yeah, I am happy.
Sam: Let’s go hunt the Mormon House you said, “It’s our Grand Canyon!”
Dean: Sam, I don’t want to hear it.
Sam: You got two months Dean. Instead we’re gonna die tonight. *slams chair against the door*
The ghostfacers turn around, “Whoa! What are you doing?” Dean explains that it’s a supernatural lockdown. Whatever took Corbett doesn’t want them getting out any time soon. Dean explains that it’s no death echo either, “it’s a bad mother and it wants us scared.” Maggie nervously adds, “Or it just wants us.”
The camera fuzzes out again and we get a glimpse of Maggie grabbing Harry’s hand. The EMF starts to spike and the computers go out. Something big is coming.
A different echo shows up and Dean starts yelling at it. “Hey! Hey buddy, wake up! You’re dead!” Ed asks Sam what he’s doing and Sam explains that sometimes you can snap the echo out of it to talk to the leftover human part of the ghost. But usually you have to have a connection to them.
Wait, what’s that sound? Everyone starts to look around. The echo turns, a light approaches and *BAM* he’s hit by an invisible train. Multiple echoes that clearly didn’t die here? What?!
*Morton House flashes as transition*
Maggie follows Dean and Sam down the hall with a camera asking him what’s going on, if that thing is what took Corbett and he says he doesn’t know, that that’s what they’re trying to figure out. She continues to follow them and Sam explains that usually echoes are left where the people died, but clearly no one got hit by a train here.
Maggie: So what are they doing here?
Dean: Hey, give the lady a cigar! *pause* Seriously, does lookin’ at this nightmare through a camera make you feel better or something? I mean…
Maggie: I uh..I…Yeah, yeah I think so, Mmhmm.
Dean: Oh. *Dean makes his classic ‘okay then’ face and walks off*
In another room full of cobweb-covered taxidermist’s animals, Sam finds a dusty certificate from a janitor of a hospital. Freeman Daggert. He died in ’64 of a heart attack. Apparently all he ate was sea rations as the room is full of them. Sam finds a pamphlet for “Survival under an atomic attack. An optimist!”
Dean breaks open an old safe, pulls out an old metal box and finds three toe tags: Death by gunshot, suicide, and train accident…
Sam: Eww...
When the rest of the team doesn’t get it, Sam explains the death echoes are there because their bodies are there…as in somewhere in the house…Everyone just stares at him. Dean explains, “Daggert brought the remains home from the morgue to play…”
*long moment*
Ghostfacers: Ewwwww!
Maggie plays here camera around the room, trying not to hyperventilate. She screams and jumps when Dean comes into view and he tells her to stay closer to the herd. Ed calls for his sister and Dean assures him he’s fine.
Ed runs back in, followed by Dean and Maggie. According to their instruments, something big is coming again. The camera flickers and warps. “Nobody move! Hold on, hold on everybody just stay put—”
*Flicker/flash*
Dean: Sam?
Where Sam was standing right next to Dean is now just a flashlight. Dean picks it up. “SAM!”
*”Ghost-fac-ers!”*
Dean: Sammy?!...Sammy!
Ghostfacers: Corbett?
Maggie’s camera is on Harry as she admits she’s “so scared”. We can still hear Dean yelling for Sam somewhere. Spruce sneaks up on Maggie and Harry, catching them on camera as they begin to make out.
Ed’s in the hallway calling for Corbett. Dean’s still calling for Sam. Maggie and Harry continue to kiss. Ed’s flashlight lands on, “my best friend, and my best sister…” Furious, Ed tells Spruce to hold his glasses as he lunges at Harry. They begin to, uh…fight? Ish?
Dean runs in and breaks them apart reminding them that they’re two people down! Dean goes back to calling for Sam.
Harry and Ed look at each other. Harry apologizes, and Ed grudgingly follows. He starts to leave, gets his glasses back from Spruce and asks, “I won that right?” Spruce agrees, “Yep, you’re good.” Maggie and Harry just glare at him. “Thanks Spruce.”
*It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to…*
Corbett starts to wake up to Sam’s coaxing. From his headcam we see Sam tied to a chair and seated at a table full of dead people at a birthday party. There’s even cake!
Sam tries to calm him, to get him to look at him, but Corbett just whimpers as a creepy voice tells him, “Don’t worry, it stops hurting.” A creepy hand picks something off the table and…Sam: Corbett? Stay with me, I’m right here, okay? Corbett? Corbett—Don’t, don’t!” That something goes right through Corbett’s neck. Sam yells his name as Corbett falls to the table dead.
The rest of the ghostfacers scramble after Dean, scared to death, asking him what he’s doing. Dean flips through Daggert’s stuff. He was a Cold War nut, an amateur taxidermist, he likes to slow dance with cadavers and all he ate was sea rations—He was scared.” Dean runs off as the team calls after him and quickly runs after him. “Dean where you goin?”, “Wait, wait, wait, don’t leave me—”, “Whoa!”
Back at the “party” the creepy man Daggert heads toward Sam. Sam starts to struggle, we can’t see what the guy’s doing, but he assures, “it won’t hurt.” He pulls back and Sam is now wearing a party hat.
Meanwhile Dean’s decided there must be a bomb shelter down in the basement and he’s going to find it. He heads down the stairs with Spruce and the door slams behind them, separating them from the other ghostfacers.
Frantic, Ed and Harry ask him what to do. Dean tells him to go out and get the salt from his duffle bag. “Make a circle and get inside!” There is a long pause as Ed and Harry look at each other. Finally Ed asks, “Inside your duffle bag?” Dean’s muffled reply comes back, “In the salt!” Oh right. Ed and Harry hurry off.
Dean heads down the stairs and Spruce follows with the camera. Ed, Harry, and Maggie quickly make the salt circle and get in. Harry admits that he doesn’t want to die, and Ed pats his friend on the shoulder, telling him, “If we don’t die…it’s totally okay if you, uh, do my sister.” Maggie punches Ed in the side. “Ow!”
Lights and camera go ghosty again and Harry and Ed and the camera smash together, waiting. Corbett appears.
Back in the basement, Spruce follows Dean around with the camera and asks him if he can ask him something. When Dean says, “What?”, Spruce answers, “Earlier you and Sam, you said you had two months left?”
Dean: Yeah, it’s complicated. A while ago see--*stops* No, no, no, naw I’m not gonna whine about my *bleep* problems to some *bleep* reality show. I’m gonna do my *bleep* job.
Dean goes back to looking.
Spruce: Is it cancer?
Dean: Shut up.
Back in the party room, Daggert tells Sam that he gets lonely sometimes. “But you’re coming to my party aren’t you?” Sam is still struggling to get out of the chair.
Dean pulls a heavy shelf/cupboard thing out to reveal a door. Spruce is impressed, “Wow you’re strong.” Dean turns and the camera fuzzes out his hand as he flips the camera off.
Dean busts open the door—“Sam!”—and shoots Daggert. He rushes over to untie his brother and Spruce runs the camera over the dead bodies dressed up for a birthday party…the cake on the table…the music is still going…”Oh no, Corbett…”
Back in the salt circle, Ed shakes back and forth mumbling to himself. Harry reminds him that Corbett’s a death echo, to which Maggie adds, forced to live his death over and over…
Sam tells Dean Daggert was the “Norman Bates, stuff your mother kind of lonely”. That’s why he brought back all the corpses and through himself a birthday party. They were the only ones who’d come. He left the bodies in the bomb shelter and went up stairs at midnight to OD on horse tranquilizers. When Dean asks him how he knows all this, Sam simply says, “he told me.”
Dean: Oh okay, so what now that he’s dead, what? Same song different verse? Trying to get people to come to his party?
A few bullets from Dean’s shotgun fall to the floor and Spruce follows with the camera, asking, “Are those real bullets?” He tilts the camera back to Dean’s face as he answers, “Rock salt.
Back in the salt circle, Ed and Harry shake back and forth as Harry sings the ghostfacers theme song. Ed finally realizes it’s Corbett, they’ve got to try and pull him out of his loop. He gets up. “Don’t cross the line!” “I gotta do it Harry.” Ed approaches a dying-over-and-over-again-Cor bett, who does the spirit flash thing and Ed quickly jumps back in the salt ring. Corbett’s not hearing him. “He can’t stop dying!”
Dean’s trying to bust open a door and Sam turns to Spruce. “Seriously? You’re still shooting.” Dean pauses just long enough to say, “It makes him feel better, don’t ask,” before going back to the door.
The camera starts to fuzz out and Spruce warns them that something’s coming. Shaky camera—floor—two guys—BAM! Sam shoots them
Back in the other room, Harry tries to explain to Ed that Corbett had feelings for him. Ed doesn’t get it, Harry kind of acts/mumbles about until he does, then looks at poor trapped-in-a-dying-loop Corbett and tells Ed, “And you know what you gotta do. You can do it Ed, you’ve always been the brave one—you make us brave! Right Maggie?”
Maggie: You do, you totally do.
Harry: Ed. You gotta go be gay for that poor dead intern! You gotta send him into the light!
Ed looks at Corbett. Finally he works up the nerve to start approaching the poor dead intern, and although it takes a while, he finally gets through to him by telling Corbett how much he meant to the team. “You meant a lot to the team…You meant a lot to me. “Never back down, never say a bad word?” He tells him he remembered that quote because he loves him. Corbett finally snaps out of it, staring sadly at Ed.
Ed: You gotta help us Corbett. Please? Alright?
Sam and Dean are making sure Spruce is okay when a guy suddenly appears behind Dean. Spruce starts to warn him, but he’s too late. Dean gets thrown across the room, Daggert shoves Sam aside and heads for the camera. Spruce: This is bad, very bad.
Suddenly Corbett appears. Daggert turns around. The two ghosts slam into each other in a white ball of swirly ghost fighting and then POOF! They’re gone. Spruce takes the camera to Dean and Sam, “You okay, dude? You okay?” They groan and get up, realize that Spruce is still taping, and Dean covers the camera.
*Ghost-fac-ers!*
Harry and Ed do a dramatic voice-over over the footage of everyone walking out of Morton House. “We lost a beloved friend. But, we gained new allies.” Sam hands Ed a piece of paper with their numbers on it.
Back to the beginning room with Ed and Harry in their suits and armchairs. “The ghostfacers were forced, to face something much more scary than ghosts. They were forced to face themselves.” Ed holds up his thumb to the camera, “War changes man.”
Harry: Amen.
Ed: War…changes man. And one woman.
Ed tells Corbett he hopes he’s out there somewhere watching over them, and Harry tells him that as far as they’re concerned he’s not an intern anymore, but a full-fledged Ghostfacer. “Plus it’d be cool to have a ghost on the team.” Ed points out that all this time they thought they were teaching him, when Corbett was just teaching them, “About heart, about dedication…about how gay love can pierce through the veil of death and save the day.”
Harry: Go well into the starry night.
*footage of Corbett packing up for the trip and Spruce gets him to talk.*
Corbett: I think tonight all my dreams are gonna come true. Does that sound stupid?”
Spruce: It kind of does yeah.
They laugh, freeze on Corbett and fade to: “In Memory of Alan J. Corbett, 1985-2008: King Of The Impossible”
The camera pulls back from a computer where Sam and Dean have just finished watching the Ghostfacers episode with us. They’re surrounded by the team anxiously awaiting their review.
Sam and Dean just stare at the computer, then, finally Dean says, “You know, I think it was half awesome.”
Maggie: Half awesome? That’s full-on good!
Dean and Sam exchange a look. Sam distracts them while Dean slips a bag under the table.
Sam: Yeah I mean, it’s bizarre how y’all are able to, uh, to honor Corbett’s memory while grossly exploiting the manner of his death! Well done.
Dean: Yeah! It’s a real tight rope you guys are walking.
Sam and Dean start to leave and Ed reminds them that it’s their job to show this for Corbett, to show people the truth.
Sam: Right. Well uh, in our experience you know what you get when you show the world the truth?
Dean: Straightjacket. Or a punch in the face, sometimes you get both.
Ed tells them not to be facer-haters just because they happened to get the footage of the century. Dean tells them they have them there and he and Sam leave.
The second the door closes the whole team start bashing Sam and Dean. They laugh when they find the bag, “Menudo left their dance bag behind!” They pull out the contents of the bag…and all of their computers crash. “Wait, wait, wait, nononono!”
Outside, Sam and Dean head for the Impala.
Sam: We clean?
*frantic shouts from inside, they get in the car*
Dean: Electromagnet. Wiped out every tape and harddrvie they have.
Sam: The world just isn’t ready for the Ghostfacers.
Dean: It’s too bad, I kinda liked the show.
Sam: *thinks a second* It had it’s moments.
They grin and drive off to the Ghostfacers theme, the TRUE ghostfacers.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
LOL!! Great episode as always. I love how they saved the Supernatural credits until after the “Ghostfacers pilot” was over. Haha Sam and Dean on a reality show, who would have thought?
*bts promo pic
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You have put a great deal of work into this post ( of which I know little ) so well done, it's great to see such enthusiasm.
Comment by Meggie
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I was surprised by the length of this post myself, but I guess I just couldn’t leave anything out. I’m all about the whole story, and of course the quotes. I’m a sucker for good quotes.
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