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As they head towards Burkittsville, Sam argues with Dean, and declares that he wants to go after John, who he knows from the phone call is in Sacramento. Sam stops the car, and gets out of the driver's seat. He argues with Dean that he's going to Sacramento. Dean threatens to leave and go on without him, but Sam is set on finding his father instead of following orders from him. Dean shuts the Impala's trunk, gets in the car, and drives away, as Sam walks off down the road.
Whilst trying to hitch a ride, Sam comes across another hitchhiker [[Meg]]. They chat briefly before she manages to get a lift, with an unsavory looking guy driving a van.
In Burkittsville, Dean hands around the photo of the couple who went missing the previous year, to no avail. He follows the route they took out of town, and when his [[EMF]] meter starts reacting, he stops to investigate an orchard. He finds a [[scarecrow]], and discovers it bears the same tattoo as the last missing man.
Dean returns to the township, and speaks to [[Emily (Scarecrow)|Emily]], who lives with her aunt and uncle. He finds out that a young couple are at the diner, while their car is being fixed. Suspicious, Dean joins them and tries to encourage them to leave the town in daylight, until the Sheriff arrives and orders him Dean to leave town.
Meanwhile Sam has reached a bus station, where he finds out it is a day’s wait til the next bus to California. He encounters Meg again, who is also traveling to California, and they start talking, comparing stories of dealing with family expectations.
Dean goes to visit a local professor to investigate local lore, and finds out about the town was settled by Northern Europeans who brought their Norse gods with them. [[Vanir]], fertility gods, can keep a town thriving if they're appeased by a sacrifice of a man and a woman once a year. They derive their power from a sacred tree, so Dean speculates torching the tree would kill one. As Dean goes to leave, he is knocked out by the Sheriff.
When Dean regains consciousness, he is locked in a cellar with Emily. The townsfolk , including her aunt and uncle, have decided that they will be the sacrifice this year, to replace the couple who Dean helped escape. Emily tells Dean of the First Tree, an apple tree brought over by the first immigrants and revered by the town.
Back at the bus station, Sam gets worried when Dean doesn’t answer his phone, and despite Meg encouraging him to stay, decides to go after Dean.
The townsfolk tie Emily and Dean to trees in the orchard, leaving them for the scarecrow. As night falls, Sam arrives and frees them, but the scarecrow is already after them. The townspeople try to thwart their escape, but instead the scarecrow takes Emily’s aunt and uncle.
The next morning Emily, Sam , and Dean return to the orchard, and burn the First Tree. The boys take Emily to the bus station, -- she is returning to Boston. Dean offers to drop Sam somewhere, but Sam tells him he has decided to stay with him, and that they should stick together.
On the side of a highway, Meg hitches another ride. Along the way, she tells the guy to pull over, whereon whereupon she slits his throat and collects his blood in a goblet. After making an incantation over the goblet, she speaks to someone she calls Father, clearly indicating that the Winchesters are known to them.
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'''Dean:''' Yahtzee. Can you imagine putting together a pattern like this? All the different obits Dad had to go through? The man’s a master. What are you doing?
:''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahtzee Yahtzee] is a dice game made by Milton Bradley. Saying "Yahtzee!" has come to mean something good happenshas happened.''
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[[Dean]] uses the name "John Bonham" when questioning about the missing people in Burkittville. John Bonham is the late drumm drummer for [[Led Zeppelin]].
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