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While looking for information on a codex that could decode the ''[[Book of the Damned]]'', Sam finds out that Magnus hid it in May 1956 inside the [[Werther Box]], a magical vault of his own creation that causes hallucinations which make anyone who attempts to open it without the proper ritual kill themselves. Sam listens to the tape of the meeting where Magnus was expelled, in which he defends his actions in creating the Box because he felt the codex was too dangerous to allow the [[Grand Coven]] to recover. However, the other [[Men of Letters]] were not impressed, as the Box caused two of their members to kill themselves with its alarm system. Sinclair tells the other members that they should be out fighting evil with the knowledge granted to them, not sitting around in the [[Men of Letters Bunker|Bunker]] like librarians. Markham gives Sinclair a chance at leniency if he tells them how to break the warding [[spell]] on the Box, but he refuses and is escorted out. He does tell them that Martinez, a Man of Letters who had died trying to disarm the Box, was on the right track, though he doubts the Men of Letters have the courage to try. Rather than try, like Sinclair expected, Markham orders the Werther Box to be interred and guarded where it stands, in the house of the St. Louis chapter, and that no further attempts be made to open it. However, when [[Abaddon]] destroys the Men of Letters, the plans to guard the Box are stopped and the chapterhouse is eventually sold off. The Box would remain untouched in the basement of the house until in the 1970's, a young girl named [[Suzie]] attempts to open it, which causes her entire family to kill themselves.

In the present, Sam and Dean attempt to disarm the Box. Sam's attempt at using a spell fails as he, Dean, and an older Suzie fall under the Box's influence. Suzie kills herself and Dean falls into a catatonic state where he imagines he is in [[Purgatory]], where [[Benny Lafitte]] encourages him to kill himself so he can stop Sam and [[Castiel]] from having to do it when he falls fully under the influence of the [[Mark of Cain]]. Sam is apparently saved from a hallucination of Suzie by [[Rowena]], but it is just another of the Box's hallucinations. Sam eventually discovers that Magnus designed the Box so that only the blood of a Man of Letters or a Legacy could break the spell, but that it needs enough to take a life. Sam attempts to sacrifice himself to stop Magnus's creation and save Dean, but Dean breaks free of the spell and stops Sam, adding his own blood to the mix. Sam and Dean's combined blood disarms the enchantment, allowing them to open the Box and get the codex. Dean later destroys the Werther Box with a sledgehammer as a precaution.