1.20 Dead Man's Blood (transcript)

SUPERNATURAL

1.20 Dead Man's Blood

Written by: Cathryn Humphris and John Shiban

Directed by: Tony Wharmby

Air Date: 20 Apr 2006

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TEASER

INTERIOR. BAR.

MANNING, COLORADO

MUSIC: Stevie Ray Vaughan - The House Is Rockin'

Shot of the bar covered in newspapers, someone's hands turning the pages of a hunter's journal.

BARMAID
(gently) Mr Elkins?

MR ELKINS doesn't seem to hear, he is totally focused on the journal.

BARMAID
Mr Elkins, would you like another?

ELKINS (Looking up) Yeah. Thanks Beth.

MAN AT THE BAR
(To Beth as she serves him another beer) Thought they caught the Unibomber.

BETH
Yeah, poor Mr Elkins lives all alone, up the canyon. Sits here every day, going through his papers, making his little notes. He's a nice old man, he's just a nut.

BETH
(Pouring another shot for ELKIN) Here you go.

ELKINS suddenly stops and looks up. Four leather and denim clad people, one woman, 3 men, enter the bar and stand arrogantly surveying the room before moving to the bar. ELKINS watches them.

BETH
What will you have?

WOMAN
Jack all around, leave the bottle.

BETH
You hungry?

WOMAN
we have dinner plans.

BETH
Ok.

BETH
(turning to grab a bottle of jack) CAn I get you something else Mr Elkins?

She turns to him, but he is gone. The door swings closed.

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EXTERIOR. COUNTRY CABIN.

ELKINS parks and hurries to the door, looking behind him as he struggles with the key.Once inside he dumps his papers on the desk, then freezes. He slowly turns to see the woman from the bar.

WOMAN
It's been a while. I gotta say, you look old.

ELKINS
What do you want.

He throws a knife which hits her dead centre in the chest. She looks down at it.

WOMAN
(Pulling knife out) Damn. You can do better than that.

Her eyes flash and she smiles. ELKINS hurries into the other room, locking the door and pushing a heavy bookcase across it. He opens a door to reveal a safe.

ELKINS
(starting the combination) Come on come on.

There is banging on the door. He removes a metal box from the safe and opens it to reveal a gun, which he quickly starts to load. The banging continues.

Two men from the bar drop through the roof and leap over the desk to grab ELKIN. The gun falls to the floor. The bookcase barricading the door falls and the woman walks though. The WOMAN picks it up from the sloor and examines it.

WOMAN
Nice gun. wouldn't do you much good of course. Boys, we're eating in tonight.

The men fall on ELKINS. They are vampires.

END TEASER

ACT ONE

INTERIOR. DAY. CAFE

DEAN is reading the paper, SAM on his laptop.

DEAN
(folding up paper) Well dude. Not a decent lead in all of Nebraska. What have you got?

SAM
Well, I've been scanning Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota. Here, a woman in Iowa fell 10,000 feet from an areoplane and survived.

DEAN
Sounds more like That's Incredible' than 'Twilight Zone'.

See Trivia and References section 1.20 Dead Man's Blood

SAM
Yeah

DEAN
Hey you know we could just keep heading east. New York. Upstate. We could drop by and see Sarah again huh? 1.05 Bloody Mary Cool chick man, smokin (he whistles) You two seemed pretty friendly. What do you say?

SAM
Yeah I dunno, maybe someday. In the meatime we got a lot of work to do Dean, you know that.

DEAN
Yeah all right. What else you got?

SAM
Ahh, I man in Colorado, a local man named Daniel Elkins was found mauled in his home.

DEAN
Elkins? I know that name.

SAM
Doesn't runa a bell.

DEAN
(under his breath, thinking) Elkins, Elkins Elkins.

SAM
Sounds like the police don't know what to think. At first they said it was some sort of bear attack and now they've found some signs of robbery.

DEAN
(Starts flicking through John's journal) mm-hmm. There, check it out.

DEAN hands the journal to SAM and points. 'D Elkins 970-555-0158'

SAM
You think it's the same Elkins?

DEAN
It's a Colorado area code.

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The Impala cruises down the road, snow capped mountains in the background.

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INTERIOR. ELKINS CABIN. NIGHT

The door creeps open to reveal SAM putting away his lock pick, DEAN with a torch pointed ito the hosue.

DEAN
(Looking around at the mess) Looks like the maid didn't come today

SAM
Hey there's salt over here, right beside the door.

DEAN
(flicking through ELKINS journal) You mean protection against demon salt, or 'whoops I spilled the popcorn 'salt.

SAM
It's clearly a ring. Do you think this guy Elkins was a player?

DEAN
(looking at the journal) Definitely.

SAM
(coming up behind DEAN) That looks a hell of a lot like Dad's.

DEAN
Yep, except this dates back to the '60s.

Shot of outside. A man is standing in the shadows of a large tree, looking at the cabin.

SAM and DEAN move into the other room and shine their torches around the destruction, including up at the hole in the roof.

SAM
Whatever attacked him, it looks like there was more than one.

DEAN
Looks like he put up a hell of a fight too.

SAM
Yeah.

They look around the room. DEAN crouches to get a closer look at the floor.

SAM
You got something?

DEAN
I dunno. Some scratches on the floor.

SAM
Death throes maybe?

DEAN
Yeah, maybe.

DEAN grabs a page from a notebook, places it over the marks and runs a pencil over it to get an outline then lifts it to get a closer look.

DEAN
Or maybe a message.

DEAN
(handing the paper to SAM) Look familar?

SAM
Three letters, six digits. The location and combintion of a post office box. It's a mail drop.

DEAN
Just the way Dad does it.

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INTERIOR. POST OFFICE. NIGHT

DEAN opens the post office box, SAM at his side. He removes the one letter that is there, stares, and shows it to SAM. They look at each other, confused.

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INTERIOR. IMPALA. NIGHT

SAM
'J.W.' You think? John Winchester?

DEAN
I Don't know. Should we open it?

There is a knock on the window and both boys jump. John Winchester is leaning over smiling in at them.

DEAN
Dad?

JOHN gets in the backseat.

SAM
Dad what are you doing here? Are you all right?

JOHN
Yeah, I'm ok. I rad the news about Daniel, I got here as fast as I could. I saw you two at his palce.

SAM
Why didn't you come in Dad?

JOHN
You know why. Because I had to make sure you weren't followed....by anyone or anything. Nice job covering your tracks by the way.

DEAN
Well we learned from the best.

SAM
Wait, you came all the way out here for this Elkins guy?

JOHN
Yeah. He was...he was a good man. He taught me a hell of a lot about hunting.

SAM
Well you never mentioned him to us.

JOHN
We had a...we had kind of a falling out. I hadn't seen him in years. (gesturing to the envelope) I should look at that. He opens it. 'If you're reading this, I'm already dead'. That son of a bitch.

DEAN
What is it?

JOHN
He had it the whole time.

SAM

Dad what?

JOHN
When you searched the place, did you see a gun. An old revolver, and antique, did you see it?

DEAN
Ah, there was an old case but it was empty.

JOHN
They have it.

DEAN
You mean whatever killed Elkins?

JOHN
(starting to get out of the car) We gotta pick up the trail.

SAM
Looking across DEAN through the window at JOHN) Wait. You want us to come with you?

JOHN
If Elkins was telling the truth we gotta find this gun.

SAM
The gun, why?

JOHN
Because it's important that's why.

SAM
Dad, we don't even know what these things are yet.

JOHN
They were what Daniel Elkins killed best: Vampires.

DEAN
Vampires? I thought there was no such thing.

SAM
You never even mentioned them Dad.

JOHN
I thought they were extinct. I thought Elkins and others had wiped them out. I was wrong.

VOICEOVER BY JOHN. Vision is of the Vampires from earlier drinking by a car.

Most Vampire law is crap. A cross won't repel them, sunlight won't kill them. and neither will a stake to the heart. But the bloodlust, that's true. They need fresh human blood to survive. They were once people, so you won't know it's a vampire until it's too late.

A car comes along the road toward the vampires.

WOMAN Vampire
(throwing away the empty bottle to smash on the road) All yours baby.

In the car a young man drives, girl in the passenger seat.

GIRL
(laughing) Well I bet you showed that guy.

GUY
What guy?

GIRL
The one that bet you wouldn't buy that shirt.

GUY
(looking at her) I love this shirt.

She shakes her head, smiling, and turns back to face the road. The guy continues smiling at her A man lies in the road.

GIRL
(Squeals) No, look out!!

The guy slams on the brakes.

GIRL
What happened to him?

GUY
Call 911.

The guy goes to the man on the road as the girl opens her phone. He turns the man's face to him. His eyes suddenly open, as does his mouth. a mouthful of fangs decend from his gums and he grabs the young guy who screams.

END ACT ONE

ACT TWO

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