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In [[the Bunker]], [[Dean]] comes across [[Jack]] in the kitchen trying to understand his new taste buds since losing his grace. He tells Dean that [[Sam has gone ]] left to meet up with [[Charlie Bradbury (Apocalypse World)|Charlie]] while Dean was on an overnight run to [[Mary]] and [[Bobby Singer (Apocalypse World)|Bobby]]. Jack wistfully comments that Sam and Charlie are probably doing something really exciting.

Jack tells Dean that he was left at the Bunker so that someone would be around when Dean returned, telling Dean that because Sam is worried about him. Jack tells him that what happened with [[Michael (Apocalypse World)|Michael]] is not Dean’s fault. Jack has found the death in McCook, Nebraska, and wants to check it out with Dean. Dean says he’ll go check it out alone, but Jack objects, telling Dean that everyone is supposed to hunt with a partner and Jack needs something to do. Finally agreeing to the hunt, Dean call Sam and let lets him know.

In the pick-up truck, Sam express his concern about Dean, and talks about how their Charlie was a close friend. Charlie says that’s not her and they discuss Charlie’s experience in the [[Apocalypse World]] and the angel war. Charlie says she was a programmer with [[Richard Roman Enterprises]], and she lived with her partner Kara, who was a cupcake baker in Chicago. She tells Sam that Kara was killed in the early days of the Apocalypse, and after witnessing how society can fall apart, she doesn't wish to be around people anymore.

Back in the diner, Dean and Jack are eating [[pie]]. Jack wants to know what “courting” means, . Dean tells him when they get back to the Bunker, they’ll have “the talk,” but for right now, they are going to find Harper. Dean enters the library to begin interviewing Harper about Winston’s death. Harper refusesdoesn't want to talk about it, but Dean insists. Jack (now in street clothes and not his FBI suit) enters the library, interrupting Dean and Harper by asking for a book. Jack stands up for Harper’s refusal to answer Dean’s questions. Dean leaves and Harper thanks Jack for being chivalrous and and tells him she has the perfect book back at her apartment. As they leave the library, Miles wants to know where they are going and objects that Harper is taking a stranger to her apartment. Harper tells him to stop and leaves with Jack as Miles storms off. Having observed all this from [[Baby]], Dean begins to follow Harper and Jack. Miles goes into the alley to take out the trash and is attacked. Dean hears a scream and sees trash cans being turned over. Upon investigating, Dean finds Miles has been killed.

In Memphis, Charlie thinks the [[monster]] may be a [[musca]] -- a hybrid of a man and a fly that no one has ever seen in real life. Charlie’s book indicates that the goo she found is an from an unmated musca, which uses it to bind people’s bodies to its nest. A figure dressed in black and wearing a black beekeeper-like headpiece approaches the bus stop and sits down next to two ladies. The ladies get up and leave.

It’s nighttime and Sam and Charlie are still staking out the bus shelter. Sam tries is trying to convince Charlie not to walk away from people and hunting when the black-clad figure sits down at the bus stop next to a man. After a bus passes by, Sam and Charlie see the man being dragged down an alley by the black figure. They chase them to a warehouse where Sam cites the lore that a brass nail dipped in sugar water will kill a musca. Since they don’t have that, they will have to get creative. As they enter the warehouse, Sam and Charlie notice flies buzzing around and the smell of pine cleaner and rotting meat. They split up and Charlie finds the victim, alive, in a pile of other dead victims. As she calls for Sam’s help, she is grabbed by the musca. Charlie gets free but is momentarily knocked out. Sam rushes to check on her and is attacked by the musca. As the musca overpowers Sam, Charlie comes to and stabs the musca in the back while Sam shoots it in the chest, killing it.

During In the middle of a fight with Dean, Vance pauses and runs out of the apartment. In the library, Harper unlocks the door and lets in zombie Vance, who presents her with the book Jack discarded and the two kiss. Harper reveals that Vance is her boyfriend and that he is stalking Jack as a game they play. Eating the victims also helps to maintain Vance's dead body. Harper explains that she comes from a long line of [[necromancers]], and while she likes Jack, who she knows he is a hunter, he and she can't let him get in the way of the first love which she and Vance share. Jack talks to Harper, trying to lure Vance out into the open, telling her that they can make their relationship work. Vance rushes Jack, and Dean shoots Vance. They struggle and Jack appears and they handcuff Vance to some pipes, which allows Harper to escape. Later, in the diner, Harper writes Jack a love letter, saying that when she finds Jack, she'll still have to kill him for what he did to Vance, but that then she can then bring him back and they can be together. The letter is addressed to Jack Smith, Lebanon, Kansas, PO Box.

'''Charlie:''' Uh ... she owned a bakery outside of Chicago. Cupcakes. It was like something out of a storybook. She always smelled like peaches, and her smile was just... Michael and Lucifer, when they started their war, first thing, a giant EMP or something like it went off over North America. Fried every bit of technology. Cellphones, power plants. For the first few days, we banded together. Thought, 'Hey, someone'll save us.' No one ever did. When the food ran out, people got mean. Mobs started forming, stealing whatever they could get their hands on. A lot of people died. Kara died. People are always the same when things go wrong -- they lose it. One day, the water gets shut off, the next day, people are on fire. It's a fact about society -- it all falls apart.

'''Sam:''' Yeah, but you're also a hunter. The things that we've seen, it's not so easy to just walk away from it all.<br>'''Charlie:''' Believe me, I've tried.<br>'''Sam:'Our'' Our Charlie tried.<br>'''Charlie:''' Yeah, well, again, she ain't me. It's ''my '' life, Sam. Not ''hers '' and not ''yours'.

'''Harper:''' No, he's stalking ''you''. It's a little game we play. Some people pretend to be naughty nurses, some people get tied up. We do this. Oh, and he has to eat flesh to maintain his body. Stupid magic. But it all works out. Except .. not for you. I'm sorry about all this, Jack. I actually think I liked you. But you're obviously a hunter, and I come from a long line of necromancers. I mean, I can mostly only raise the dead, but that comes in handy. And I can't let you or your friend get in the way of the love Vance and I share. It's first love, Jack. The best kind. Without baggage or compromise. I mean, I did have to kill him to keep him here after college, but ... every relationship has its stuff, right? And all the other guys -- none of them are like Vance. Strong and courageous and -- So, they all had to die. Especially Miles, who just -- ugh. So, I had Vance crush his throat. I wish I could have watched. And now we're going to kill you.

'''Sam:''' Okay, I know, I know. How about this? Don't leave. Hear me out. Sure, some people can do bad things when they're desperate or scared, but I mean, the guy we just saved, he has a wife, children. I'm not saying all people are good people or even that most people are, but ... if we help people, then maybe ''they'll '' help people and all that. And that's worth it. Even with all the tears and death -- it's worth it.<br>'''Charlie:''' Just to be super clear, I am not like the fly monster. But... I'll think about staying.

'''Harper:''' 'Jack. I'm already writing -- isn't that crazy? I'm not crazy. But our love is so vivid. I can't wait to find you. You're the first man to ever get me to leave McCook. Now I'm in the world. I'm sorry I have to kill you for what you did to Vance, but then I can bring you back so that we can be together again. It's gonna be ... perfect. See you soon. Love, Harper.'

'''Jack:''' And ... how to not beat yourself up over them?<br>'''Dean:''' You know, Jack, you're pretty smart sometimes. I tell you what -- when Sam gets back, I'll talk to him about getting you out on more hunts.Okay? In the meantime, we'll get you a crate of cough drops.<br>

'''Wanda:''' Listen, Deep State. Flashing a badge might work on people who don't have a working knowledge of the Constitution ... but that ain't me. Now I got to go earn some money.