Supernatural: In The Beginning
October 3rd 2008 06:12
Dean: So Angels got their hands on some DeLoreans or what?
It’s Supernatural meets “Back to the Future”! Watch Dean try and convince his dad he wants to buy The Impala and find out a major secret about his mom in this awesome episode guest starring X-files alum Mitch Pileggi.
Dean’s asleep in another hotel room. Sam grabs his jacket, glances at his brother, and sneaks out. Outside, Ruby pulls up in a car. Sam gets in.
Ruby: Ready?
Sam: Definitely.
(Me: Noooooo!!! ARGH)
Inside the hotel, Dean wakes up from a nightmare. Same red flashes and screams. Suddenly Castiel appears, asking him what he was dreaming about.
Dean: What you get your freak on watchin’ other people sleep?
Castiel: Listen to me. You have to stop it.
Dean: Stop what?
In answer, Castiel reaches over and touches Dean’s forehead.
~*~*~
Suddenly Dean wakes up on a park bench with a guy telling him he can’t sleep there. Sleep where? Anywhere but here.
Dean sits up, finding himself in a quaint little downtown. He pulls out his cell phone. No signal. “Perfect.” Dean grabs his jacket and dad’s journal and walks into a diner.
He sits down next to a young guy and asks him where he is. The guy tells him the name of the diner. Okay, good, but what city and state? “Lawrence, Kansas.” He asks Dean if he’s sure he’s okay. “Yeah,” Dean answers. “Tough night.” The guy orders Dean a coffee.
Dean pulls out his cell phone and asks if he knows where he might get reception. The guy looks over and laughs. “USS Enterprise?” Okay…Dean puts his phone away and accepts the coffee from the guy behind the counter.
“Nice threads,” he tells the man. “You know Sunny and Cher broke up, right?”
The kid turns to him. “Sunny and Cher broke up?”
Dean looks at him, the guy behind the bar, then the rest of the people in the diner. Wait a second…He glances at the date on the newspaper: “Monday, April 30, 1973”
1973?! As Dean is trying to process this information, a man walks in and calls out, “Hey Winchester!”
Both Dean and the guy he’s sitting next to turn towards the door in the same way. The man who called out the hello walks over to shake John Winchester’s hand. Dean’s eyes widen. “Dad?”
The other guy tells John to “say hi to your dad for me” and walks off. Dean continues to stare at this younger version of his father. Finally John asks, “We know each other?”
“I guess not.” Dean forces himself back to his coffee.
“Take it easy pal.”
“Yeah.”
John gets up to leave and Dean can’t help but stare after him. Talk about craziness!
~*~*~
John walks down the street. Dean follows. He rounds the corner and comes face to face with Castiel. “What is this?” Dean asks.
“What does it look like?”
“I mean is it real?”
“Very.”
“So what, angels got their hands on some DeLoreans or what? How did I get here?”
“Time is fluid Dean,” Castiel tells him. “It’s not easy, but we can bend it on occasion.”
Dean wants him to “bend it back”. Or at least tell him why he’s there. Castiel tells him that he already told him why he’s there: To stop it. Dean doesn’t understand, stop what? “Is somethin’ nasty after my dad?”
A car horn sounds, drawing Dean’s attention. When he turns back, Castiel is gone.
~*~*~
John is getting ready to make a deal on a VW van. The car salesman goes inside to get the paper work, and Dean walks up. “That’s not the one you want.”
John turns around to see Dean sitting on the edge of The Impala.
“You following me?” John asks, walking over.
No, Dean was just walking by. He never got a chance to thank him about the cup of coffee this morning. He wants to repay the favor. Dean taps The Impala. “This is the car you want.”
“Oh yeah? You know something about cars?”
“Yeah,” Dean answers. “Yeah, my dad taught me everything I know…And this. This is a great car.”
Dean lifts the hood for John to check out The Impala’s insides. John tells him that he’s right, it’s a great car, but he promised someone else about the van. Dean finally talks him into The Impala and John holds out his hand.
“John Winchester.”
Dean shakes his dad’s hand. “Dean Van Halen.”
As his dad check’s out the car, Dean tries to get him to talk about hunting stuff, mentioning the chills he felt in the diner, the rotten egg smell…”Didn’t happen to smell any sulfur by chance?”
John gives him a strange look. “No.”
“No…” Dean pauses a second, then asks, “There been any cattle mutilations in town—”
“Okay Mister,” his dad interrupts. “Stop it.”
“Yeah, if only I knew what to stop,” Dean mutters. He tells asks his dad to watch out for himself and John nods. “Okay, sure.” He watches Dean walk away as the car salesman appears.
“So?”
John taps The Impala. “I’ll take this one.”
~*~*~
Dean follows his dad and watches as Mary comes out to greet him. She spots The Impala. What happened to the van?
As John tells her how much better this car is, Dean stares at her. “Mom?”
~*~*~
Dean follows his parents to a diner and watches them from outside the window. He grins. “Sammy, wherever you are, Mom is a babe.” He thinks a second, then adds with a nod, “I’m going to hell. Again.”
Inside the diner, John tells Mary that he should just talk to her dad. She tells him he’s just protective of her and that she loves John “Exactly for who you are.” She tells him she’ll be right back and gets up.
Dean watches as his dad pulls out a box and opens it to look at the engagement ring inside.
“Why are you following us?”
Dean swings around to find his mom standing right behind him. She grabs him and starts beating him up. Dean sideswipes his mother’s punches. “Are you crazy!” She continues to swing and kick at him, and finally Dean pins her to the wall. “How about we talk about his, huh?”
Suddenly he spots her charm bracelet. The familiar symbols tell him that this is not your normal girl’s jewelry. Shocked, Dean lets his mother go. “Are you a hunter?”
~*~*~
John drops Mary of at the Campbell house. “See you later.” He kisses her. “If you’re lucky.”
John drives off and Dean steps out from behind a tree.
Mary: Dean right?
She doesn’t know if she should let him inside or not, and he tells her she can trust them. “I mean we’re all hunters right? We’re practically family.”
Mary hesitates. “Yeah, the thing is my dad. He’s a little…”
“Oh I got to meet him,” Dean interrupts.
What? He knows her dad? Dean takes in her reaction and answers, “Clearly not enough.”
~*~*~
Inside the house, Mary introduces Dean to her father, Samuel (Mitch Pileggi!). “Tell me Mr. Hunter, you kill vampires with a wooden stakes or silver?” he asks.
“Neither,” Dean tells his grandfather with a smirk. “You cut their heads off.”
Mary smiles.
“So’d I pass your test?”
Samuel finally turns to look at him. “Yep. Now get out of my house.”
“Dad!”
He tells Dean that he doesn’t trust other hunters. Dean’s grandmother walks in, chastising her husband. “Samuel, he passed your little test and now I’m inviting him to dinner.” She turns to Dean. “Are you hungry?”
“Starving.”
His grandma holds out her hand. “I’m Deana, you’ve met my husband Samuel.” Dean shakes her hand, then turns to his mom after his grandma leaves. “Samuel and Deana?”
Yep, that’s right, Sam and Dean are named after their mother’s parents. Awwww!
At the dinner table, his grandma asks him if it’s his first time in Lawrence and Dean says no but things sure have changed a lot. “I think.” Samuel asks him if he’s working a job, and Dean answers “Yeah, Maybe.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“It means I don’t trust other hunters either, Samuel,” Dean answers. His mom and grandma try not to smile. Samuel gives him an almost amused look and Dean returns the favor.
So, why was he after Mary and John again? Right. Dean tells his mom that he thought “Someone was after your, your…boyfriend. ” He doesn’t think that anymore.
Dean’s grandma lets out a soft laugh. “John Winchester mixing up with spirits? Can you imagine?”
Dean doesn’t quite know what to make of this, and Mary sighs, telling her father, “I saw that.” Saw what? That “Sour lemon look” he gave at the mention of John’s name.
“Hold on,” Samuel answers. “John’s a really—really nice…” He struggles for the right word and Mary cocks her head. Yes? A really nice what? “Naïve civilian,” her dad answers.
Mary lets out a scoff. “ So what, you’d rather me be with a guy like this?” She nods to Dean.
Dean: What? No, no. No.
Dean continues to shake his head and Samuel answers, “Of course not, it’s just—”
Deana interrupts to remind them they have company. Mary and Samuel back down.
“So what about you Samuel?” Dean asks. “You workin’ a job?”
His grandpa picks up his water glass. “Might be.”
Mary rolls her eyes and tells Dean about the job her dad’s working on at a nearby farm. Dean wonders why the name sounds familiar, and Samuel tells him the name’s been all over the papers. He wonders why the guy stays there when his crops are all dead. Demonic omens? That’s what he’s got to figure out.
“So you find out anything on the web—” Dean realizes what year he’s in and stretches it into “—of information that you’ve assembled?”
His grandma tells him the weather service graphs should be there by Friday.
Dean: By mail?
Samuel: No we hired a jetliner to fly ‘em to us overnight.
Dean stares at his grandpa’s sarcastic look and laughs. Guess it runs in the family. He tells Samuel that it looks like they might be onto the same thing here. If they go in together, they could get rid of this thing real quick.
Samuel leans closer. “What part of ‘we work alone’ do you not understand son?”
~*~*~
Samuel, now dressed as a priest, and Mary pull up to a house. Mary wonders again why she’s here, and he reminds her that it’s a family thing. “Family.” They get out of the car and her dad asks her if she’d rather be waving pom-poms at a bunch of jocks? Mary smirks and spots a boy leaning against a nearby tree.
Samuel: Uh, were are you goin’?
Mary: To do the job, Dad.
She continues walking, and he turns and heads up to the front door.
Samuel is just about to knock when the door opens. Dean, also dressed as a priest, stands there with the victim’s wife.
Samuel stares at him. “Father.” He forces a smile. “I see you beat me here.”
“The Lord is funny that way,” Dean answers with a smile. He introduces Beth to his associate, the “Senior, *senior* priest”. Samuel holds out a fruitcake and offers his deepest condolences.
Beth thanks him and Dean informs the “Father” that she was just telling him all about Tom “and how NORMAL and ORDINARY things were before his death.” Samuel gets it. “I see. So you didn’t notice anything unusual, ma’am?”
She stares at him. “You mean like my husband’s guts fertilizing the back 40?”
Much to Dean’s amusement, Samuel doesn’t know what to say.
“Excuse me.” Dean pats his grandpa on the shoulder and leaves him to talk to the grieving wife.
Dean joins Mary and the boy by the tree. His name is Charlie. He tells Dean that his father drank sometimes, got rough with his mom. Then a week ago some stranger shows up, tells him he could stop it. Charlie thought he was crazy, but then the next thing he knows, his dad’s dead. “Am I going to jail?”
Mary reminds him that he didn’t do this, and Dean asks if the stranger wanted something in return. No, but he did say something about coming to call ten years from now. “Maybe he’d want something then.”
“Something like what?” Dean asks.
The kid doesn’t know. “I told you he was nuts.”
Mary pulls Dean aside. “What do you think?”
“I think he just pimped his soul to a demon and he doesn’t even know it,” Dean answers.
They go back to ask if Charlie remembered what the strange looked like. 5’10, white, normal-looking guy. Except for one thing. When the light hit his eye just right Charlie could have sworn that they were…
“Black?” Dean offers. “Or red maybe?”
“No,” Charlie answers. “They were yellow. Pale yellow.”
Whoa, did you just say YELLOW?!
~*~*~
Samuel’s trying to get Dean to calm down. None of them have ever heard of a demon with yellow eyes. Dean looks up from the map he’s been laying out. “Yeah well I have. This thing killed my family.” Samuel again tells him to relax, but Dean just tells him that he has no idea how much danger they’re all in. He tells him to get his family somewhere safe.
His grandma is with her husband. “This could be a demon, it could be a shapeshifter, any number of things.”
“I know what this thing is!” Dean insists. “And I’m gonna kill it. That’s all the talking I need to do.”
Deana goes back into the kitchen with her fruit salad as Samuel just asks, “You’re gonna kill a demon? How.”
There’s a hunter who lives in Colorado. Dean points to the map. “He has Colt’s gun.”
The Colt? Yeah. Samuel’s heard about it, “used to tell it to Mary as a bedtime story.”
“Well it’s real,” Dean tells him.
Okay, say that it is, does he have some kind of crystal ball telling them where this demon’s going to be? Maybe he does. Dean pulls out his dad’s journal, explaining to his grandpa that his dad kept a list of everyone who he ever thought might have come in contact with the Yellow-Eyed Demon. When Samuel asks why, Dean tells him the more he could learn about him the more he could figure out “Why he killed my mom.”
Samuel nods in understanding. Dean flips to a page in his dad’s journal, pointing to a listing of Tom Whitshire 1973. “I told you that sounded familiar.”
Samuel looks at the entry that was two days ago. How’s that on his dad’s list? Uh…”My dad can see the future,” Dean lies. He points to another journal entry. They know where to go next.
Samuel and Deana don’t say anything, and Dean tells them, “Look I know you guys think I’m crazy.”
“You seem like a really nice kid Dean,” his grandpa tells him. “But yeah, you’re crazy.”
Maybe, but he knows where the YED’s going to be and he’s going to stop him. “Once and for all.”
~*~*~
Dean finds his mom going through records in the living room. He tells her that he’s shovin’ off, but that he just wanted to say bye. “Really?” She stands up. Yeah, but first Dean tells her, “It doesn’t matter what your dad thinks, I like that John kid.”
Mary laughs. “You do?”
“Yeah…yeah I think you two were meant to be.” He mutters that he’s depending on it, and when Mary asks, “What?” he just shakes it off. “Nothing.”
Dean can’t help himself and asks his mom, “What’s he like, John?” Why does he want to know? He’s just curious.
“I don’t know.” Mary laughs. “He’s sweet, kind. Even after The War, after everything, he still believed in happily ever after, you know? He’s everything a hunter isn’t.”
Really? This is news to Dean. Interesting…
“No offense,” Mary quickly tells him.
“None taken.”
Mary takes in a breath, then asks, “Can I tell you something?” Dean nods and she excitedly answers, “I think he’s gonna ask me to marry him! Tomorrow I think!” She beams.
“Yeah?”
“Dad’s gonna explode,” she answers still smiling. “But I don’ t care. I’ll run away if I have to. I just…I love John and…”
“And what?” Dean prompts.
“I want to get out,” Mary admits. Her smile is gone. “This job, this life. I hate it. I want a family. I want to be safe.”
This hits Dean hard, but he continues to listen as she adds, “You know what the worse thing I can think of? The very worst thing? Is for my children to be raised into this like I was.”
Dean swallows hard.
“ I won’t let it happen,” Mary insists.
This hits Dean hardest of all, and manages to choke out, “Yeah,” even though he can’t look at her. He’s trying to hold back his emotions, but she notices.
“Dean? Are you okay?”
“Yeah, oh I’m fine.”
She smiles at him and Dean asks, “Hey Mary, can I tell you something?”
“Sure.”
“Even if this sounds really weird, will you promise me that you will remember?” he asks seriously.
Mary laughs. “Okay...”
Dean stares at her a long time, then finally says, “On November 2, 1983…” She frowns at him and he chokes back tears. “Don’t get out of bed?...No matter what you hear, or what you see…promise me you won’t get out of bed?” A tear slides down his cheek.
Mary stares at him. She may not know what he’s talking about but, “Okay.”
Okay. Dean wipes at his tears and smiles at his mom, then leaves.
~*~*~
Castiel appears in the passenger’s seat next to Dean. Dean jumps in surprise. “So God is my co-pilot is that it?” he asks dryly. When Castiel doesn’t answer, Dean tells him, “Well you’re a regular Chatty Kathy.” But what about Sam. He’d want to be in on this, why didn’t Castiel bring him back too?
“You had to do this alone Dean.”
“And you don’t care that he’s tearing up the future lookin’ for me right now?” Dean asks as he drives.
Castiel stares straight ahead as he answers, “Sam’s not lookin’ for you.”
“Alright, if I do this then the family curse breaks, right?” Dean asks. “Mom and Dad live happily ever after and Sam and I grow up playing little league and chasing tail?”
“You realize if you do alter the future, your father, you , Sam, you’ll never become hunters. And all those people you saved, they’ll die.”
Dean thinks a second, then, “I realize.”
“And you don’t care?”
“Oh I care.” Yeah he does! “I care a lot. But these are my parents. I’m not gonna let them die again. I can’t, not if I can stop it.”
~*~*~
Dean opens a safe and pulls out The Colt. He checks the bullets and *shk-shk* “Hold it right there friend. Drop the gun. Be on your way.”
Dean stands up and points the gun at Daniel. He tells him he’s a hunter, he just needs The Colt for a few days. Yeah right, like Daniel’s going to let that happen!
“I have a chance to save my family,” Dean tells him. “My *family*. I need this gun to do it. So if you want to stop me, kill me.” He uncocks The Colt and starts to walk out. He pauses. Daniel lowers his rifle.
Dean tells him that he can find The Colt with The Campbells in Lawrence.
~*~*~
Mary and her father clean their rifles. She laughs when he tells her that Dean went off to kill a demon, telling him that that’s impossible. “Yep,” Samuel agrees. Where was he heading again? When Samuel tells her the name was Walsh he thinks, Mary’s smile disappears. “Dad she’s a friend of mine. We’ve got to help her!”
Mary jumps up. “I’ll be in the car.”
Her mother appears. “Hey!” Where’s she going?
Samuel frowns at after his daughter. “She wants to hunt, she doesn’t want to hunt. Is this some female time of the month thing?”
His wife just walks out.
“What?”
~*~*~
The YED posing as a doctor tells the young woman that he can help her with her cancer. What does she have to do? Nothing, just give him permission to enter her house in ten years. The girl gives him a confused look. What? Why? He smiles, flashing his real eyes.
*Bam!* Samuel kicks down the door and fires his shotgun at the YED. The girl screams as he falls to the couch…and then gets back up. Samuel gets ready to fire again, but YED just flings his rifle again, pinning Samuel to the wall.
Mary tries to get him from behind, but he swings around, easily stopping her. “Hello there.” And where have they been hiding her this whole time? In answer, Mary swings her knife again, and the YED just grins. “I like you. You’ve got a lot of spunk.” She tries kicking him again, and he smashes her into the wall.
Dean swings around the corner, Colt drawn. Unfortunately the YED holds his mother in front of him, blocking the shot.
“Let her GO!”
“Where’d you get that gun?”
Dean nods to his mom, who moves but not in time. The demon vacates the body in a rush of black smoke. So CLOSE!
~*~*~
Outside Mary tells Dean that the YED just said that he “liked her”. What did he mean by that?
Samuel comes out asking her if she’s okay and she stomps off. Of course she’s not okay, Dad! Samuel turns to Dean. “Nice work in there.”
“I missed the shot,” Dean says, furious at himself.
“Take the compliment son,” his grandpa tells him. “I was saying I was wrong about you.”
Dean looks at him, Mary, then back. “We need to talk alone.”
~*~*~
Dean and Samuel are alone in the dining room. Dean checks outside the window, then tells him, “We have to kill this thing now or Mary dies.”
What? How does he know that? Just trust him. Samuel asks if he’s a psychic now too, and Dean answers, “No.” He stares at his grandpa a second, then finally sits down. “Now this is going to sound a little—” Dean stops. “Actually it’s going to sound massively, massively crazy.”
“Okay…”
“Mary is my mother.”
“Excuse me?” Samuel asks, sure he didn’t hear right.
“And I am your grandson,” Dean continues. And he knows what he’s talking about. Whoa, wait. Samuel asks him to run that by him again.
“My real name is Dean Winchester. I was born January 24, 1979. My parents are Mary and John Winchester.”
“I know I don’t have to listen to this—”
“Mary gets killed by a yellow-eyed demon in 1983,” Dean interrupts. “And I think that this, what happened tonight, is the moment that he caught her scent. And if we don’t catch this thing now and kill it? And it gets away? Then Mary dies. So I’m asking you, please.”
~*~*~
Mary runs up to John and hugs him. He asks her if she’s okay and he she reminds him that he promised he’d take her away. Of course he did…She pulls back to look him in the eye. “Do it now.”
He opens The Impala door for her and she gets in.
~*~*~
Inside the house, Dean is still trying to convince his grandpa he’s telling him the truth. How else did he know about The Colt, The YED, or where it would be? “I’m not making this up Samuel.”
Samuel admits that “every bone in my body is aching to put you six feet under, but there’s something about you…I can’t shake it.” He stares at Dean. “Now I may be crazier than you son, but I believe you.”
Dean thanks him. So, how are they going to find him? Dean pulls out his dad’s journal and Samuel asks about The Colt. Dean pulls it out and sets it on the table. When Samuel asks to see it, Dean tells him he doesn’t let anyone else hold it.
Not even his own grandfather? “Nothing personal.”
“Sure it is,” Samuel answers. “Especially when it’s me you’re trying to kill.”
Suddenly Samuel turns into the YED and flings Dean across the room with a wave of his hand. Dean glares at him. If looks could kill…
~*~*~
“Future boy, huh?” the YED asks, getting up to tell him he must have friends in high places since he only knows one thing that can take someone back in time.
The YED walks over to Dean. “So I kill your mommy? That’s why you came all this way to see little ol’ me?”
“I came here to kill you,” Dean growls back.
YED suddenly realizes something. If Mary’s his mom…”Does that mean you’re one of my psychic kids?” Excited, he leans in to sniff Dean. Nope. But maybe he has a sister…”or a bro. That’s terrific. Means it all worked out.”
Dean points out that “you don’t want these people’s souls”. Nope, he just wants their kids for his master race. At Dean’s look, the YED tells him not to worry, “no one’s breeding with me. Although Mary?” He smirks. “I’ d like to make an exception. So far she’s my favorite.”
Dean lunges forward, trying to get out of the YED’s hold. He suddenly spots his grandma in the kitchen and tries keeps the YED talking. So why the permission? The YED grumbles about all the red tape and how he needs permission to enter their homes. “But in ten short years? It’ll all be worth it.”
Deana sneaks closer to The Colt lying on the ground.
“You know what I’m gonna do to your sibling?” the YED asks, goading Dean on. “I’m gonna stand over their crib and I’m gonna bleed into their mouth demon-blood-is-better-than-ov altine vitamins, minerals, makes you BIG and strong.”
“For what?” Dean shoots back. “So they can lead your discount demon army? Is that your big plan?”
YED just grins. His plan is way bigger than that, but he’s not about to tell Dean what it is. Dean tells him that he’s going to kill him. The YED tells him that that’s something he’d like to see. Dean tells him to make sure he looks into his eyes “Because I’m the one that kills you.”
The YED laughs. “I’ll tell you one person you’re not gonna safe.” He pulls out a knife. “Your grandpappy.”
The YED stabs Samuel’s body and Dean shouts, “No!” But Deana shouts it louder and longer. The YED swings around, flinging her to the floor.
Poor Dean has to watch as the YED goes after his grandma. He finally manages to pull out of the YED’s hold and runs to The Colt.
It’s too late. His grandma is dead and the Yellow-Eyed Demon is gone. Dean stares painfully down at Deana, then suddenly realizes something. “Mary!” He rushes out of the room.
~*~*~
Mary and John are sitting in The Impala down at the lake. He tells her she probably knows why he brought her here, but still…She tries to interrupt to tell him that there’s something he doesn’t know about her, but he tells her “So?” He pulls out and opens the ring, holding it up to her. “I will always love you for exactly who you are.”
Mary glances from the ring to him and starts to lean forward, forgetting what she was about to say.
Just as they are about to kiss, her father bangs on the window. “What did I tell you?” He pulls Mary out of the car.
“Sir just listen!” John calls after him, telling him to “take it easy” when Mary tells her father that he’s hurting her. The YED grabs John’s head and twists violently.
John falls to the ground, and Mary falls down next to him. The YED kicks John and turns on his demon eyes. Mary looks up to him. “You killed him.”
“Oh not just John, Sweetie-pie,” he tells her, unzipping his jacket to show her the stab wound. “Mommy and Daddy too.”
Mary is horrified.
“They’re all dead.”
“No…”
“’fraid so. You’re Little Orphan Mary now,” he mocks her. She swears she’s going to kill him.
“Let’s not get nasty now,” the YED tells her. “Let’s uh, kiss and make up.”
Mary fights back tears as he tells her he’ll arrange to “have lover boy here brought back breathing.” Her parents too? Nope, sorry. He tells her that she can have it all, white picket fence, family, no more hunting…
“And what?” she asks. “All it costs is my soul?”
“Oh no, you can keep your soul,” he tells her. “I just need permission.”
She has no idea what he’s talking about. Permission for what? “Mmmm, in ten years I need to swing by your house for a little somethin’ that’s all.”
“For what?” she asks more fiercely.
“Relax. As long as I’m not interrupted, nobody gets hurt.” He winks at her. “I promise.”
Mary stares down at John as the YED tells her, “Or you can spend the rest of your life desperate and alone…Mary? It’s a good deal,” he says in a happily creepy voice. He leans in. “So what do you say?”
Mary turns to look at him.
Dean drives up just in time to see the YED finish kissing his mother. “NO!” He jumps out of the car with The Colt, but once again he’s too late. The YED disappears.
Wracked with guilt and hopelessness, Dean stares at his mother. He couldn’t stop it. She looks at him.
“Mary?” John wakes up and Mary turns her attention back to him.
Dean watches, devastated. Castiel appears, laying a hand on Dean’s shoulder. Dean knows he failed. It’s over.
Mary turns back. Dean is gone. John spots her father lying dead on the ground. Mary hugs him.
~*~*~
Dean wakes up back in his hotel bed. Castiel is standing there.
Dean: I couldn’t stop any of it. She still made the deal. She still died in the nursery, didn’t she?
Castiel: Don’t be too hard on yourself. You couldn’t have stopped it.
Dean stands up. “What?”
“Destiny can’t be changed Dean,” Castiel says, turning to look at him. “All roads lead to the same destination.”
Dean is confused. “Then why’d you send me back?”
“For the truth. Now you know everything we do.”
What’s he talking about? Castiel looks at the other bed and Dean follows his gaze. The bed is empty. “Where’s Sam?”
Castiel tells him that they know what the YED did to his brother, but they don’t know why, what his end game is. “He went to great lengths to cover that up.”
“Where’s Sam?” Dean asks again.
“425 Waterman.”
Dean gets ready to go.
“Your brother is headed down a dangerous road Dean,” Castiel warns. “And we’re not sure where it leads. So stop it. Or we will.”
Dean stops getting ready to look at him. What?
“TO BE CONTINUED…”
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AHHHHHHHH!! Oh man oh man, where do I even start?! How about, ‘how can they leave us THERE?!” ARGH! LoL Fantastic episode! Mitch Pileggi as the YED? Totally creeped me out, man. So wrong, yet so right. Great job! And I loved all the Back to the Future nods. Classic!
It was great to see Sam and Dean’s parents as kids, and completely unexpected to find out that it was his mom who was a hunter, not his dad. 
Poor Dean. He tried so hard to stop him. 
I do wish that Sam was in this episode (One line?! "Definitely"), I always miss the brothers’ interaction, but I understand why Dean needed to do this alone. Don’t let Sammy go to the dark side!! AHHH! Please don’t tell me next week is a Dean-less episode now…
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Comment by vacelts
My favorite lines:
When Dean realizes he’s gone back in time, he asks if “angels got their hands on some Deloreans.”
When Castiel shows up in the passenger seat of the pinto, Dean asks if this means “God’s my co-pilot.”
And someone please tell me why every time someone travels back in time, there’s a reference to Tab. Is that the universal sign of time travel?
Comment by Meggie
TV Chit Chat
LoL I know, I guess at least we'll know if we wake up on a bench somewhere and see "Tab" everywhere.
I also liked the web...of information line.
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Comment by Ben Whitcomb
Extreme Critic
That's exactly what I thought! haha, especially when Dean meets his Dad in a Diner, clearly a reference to BttF when Marty meets his Dad in the past under the same circumstances.
Comment by Meggie
TV Chit Chat