Born Under A Bad Signby crystalrach
The episode begins with Dean standing by the Impala, parked under a bridge. He's on the phone with Ellen asking her if she’s heard from Sam; he’s been trying to reach Sam on his phone but it keeps diverting to voicemail. He doesn’t know where Sam has gone or why. However, during the conversation, Sam comes in on the other line. After calming him down, Dean drives to a motel Sam’s been staying at, in Twin Lakes. Dean arrives at the motel to find Sam covered in blood. Dean demands to know what the hell happened, but Sam doesn’t remember anything.
Dean tells am he found out that Sam checked into the motel two days ago under the name of Richie Sambora. The room has been quiet and no one has noticed anything unusual. The last thing Sam remembers is the two of them at the motel in west Texas over a week ago, going out to grab burgers. The next thing he knew he was in this motel room. Sam doesn’t know how he got here and he feels like he’s been sleeping for months.
They decide to retrace every step Sam made. Dean tells Sam that the manager saw him leave the room yesterday afternoon but didn’t return. Looking over at the window, Dean notices more dried blood on the window lock but doesn't say anything.
Looking at the storage lots across the street, Dean asks Sam if he's getting any "deja vu" feelings. Sam thinks door number 2 is familiar. Reaching into his pocket, Sam pulls out a key to the lock of the door. The boys find a Volkswagon Beetle inside, with blood on the steering wheel. On the back seat they find a knife covered in sticky blood, along with a pack of cigarettes on the floor and a receipt from a gas station down the road.
Sam and Dean walk inside the gas station. The cashier immediately recognizes Sam and demands he leave or he’ll call the cops. He says that Sam came in yesterday drunk, grabbed a forty from the fridge and started chugging. He also snagged two packs of cigarettes and was smoking like a chimney. (Dean: "This guy?") Dean pays the guy for the beer and cigarettes and asks the guy where Sam headed next. The guy tells Dean he went north up route 71.
The boys are heading North on the interstate when Sam suddenly orders Dean to turn right onto a side road, leading them to a dark unlit house with security cameras. Walking up to the door, they see one of the windows smashed open and the power to the alarm system cut off. They discover a dead body on the floor in one of the rooms, head covered in blood. Sam believes that he did this, but Dean is not so quick to jump the gun on this one. He’s sure that if Sam did kill this guy that he must have had a reason. Picking open the lock on the closet, Sam and Dean find a wall of weapons, photographs of missing people and articles about Supernatural creatures; this guy was a hunter.
The boys watch the security tape of the room during the previous night, which shows Sam clearly entering the room like a maniac, before punching the man with the utmost force. The video then shows him dragging the guy to the middle of the room, slicing his throat with the knife. Sam stares at the screen in shock and guilt that he killed him. Dean says they must leave quickly because there will be other hunters after him and they’ve got to cover their tracks. After wiping off their prints Dean grabs the TV and smashes it on the floor.
Back at the motel Dean is trying to reassure Sam that it wasn’t him, that it could have been another shape shifter. Sam tells Dean that over the past couple of weeks he’s been having feelings of rage and hate that he can’t control. Day by day these feelings have become worse and he feels that his evil side is finally taking over. Sam hands Dean his gun and pleads with him to end his life because he doesn’t want to hurt anyone else. However, Dean is unable to pull the trigger. Then Sam sparks an attack on Dean, ramming the gun at his head, them storms out of the room.
Dean awakes the next morning to a pounding on the door. It’s the manager, telling him that it’s past check out. Dean asks the manager if he’s seen Sam, and he says that Sam left that morning, before dawn, in the Impala. Dean asks the manager if he can use his computer. The manager only agrees after Dean hands him several hundred dollar bills from his wallet. After activating the GPS tracker on Sam’s phone, Dean finds out that Sam went to Duluth, Minnesota.
Sam enters a bar and we see Jo, who is very surprised to see Sam, as he is the last person she expected to see. When inquiring what he’s doing there, Sam replies that he wants to square things off, telling her that her dad’s death was not his or Dean’s fault and that Dean likes her, but not in a romantic way. Holding her hand, Sam says he can be more to her. Jo is becoming nervous and asks Sam to leave. Sam starts walking out the door, but turns around suddenly, grabs her by the head and knocks her unconscious on the bar top.
Jo awakes to find herself tied to a chair. Sam makes use of the time by asking her what Ellen had told her about Bill. With a knife held to her face, Jo says that their dads were in California at the Devil’s Gate Reservoir, setting a trap for a Hellspawn. John was hiding and Bill was bait. The thing show up and John jumped out too soon, exposing Bill. The thing turned around and killed Bill. Sam brushes her story off and laughingly tells her that John killed Bill to put him out of his misery.
Dean barges into the room, pointing his gun at Sam. Sam says he can’t control his actions and begs Dean to kill him or he will kill Jo, but once again Dean is unable to pull the trigger on his brother. He turns around and throws holy water at Sam's face, proving that he’s possessed by the black-eyed demon. With smoke pouring off his face, the demon runs and jumps out of the window. Dean follows him into the storage building next door.
Although they are not facing each other, they are still talking in the warehouse. Dean asks the demon why it didn’t kill him, when it had a hundred chances to do so. The demon says this was a test; to see if he could kill Sam. The demon continues, saying that he is going to kill him and every other hunter it can find. The demon leads Dean into a trap on the dock out back. The demon shoots Dean in his left shoulder, causing him to fall off the dock and into the water. The demon stands on the edge of the dock with an evil smile on his face, as he looks at Dean’s body floating in the water.
Jo is walking down the dock looking for Dean. She calls his cell phone but gets no answer. She tries calling him one more time and hears his phone ringing in the water. She finds Dean lying on the edge of the dock still alive and carries him back to the bar to patch up his wound. Jo asks him how he knew Sam was possessed. Dean says all he knew was that it wasn’t Sam. She then asks him if demons ever tell the truth. Dean tells her that they sometimes do, especially if they think it will mess with someone's head. After she finishes patching up Dean, he tells her that the demon is going after hunters and the closest one he knows is in South Dakota. Without question, Jo says she’s going with him. Dean can’t put it any plainer except to say, “If you so much as follow me, I’ll tie you right back up in that chair. This is my fight. I’m not getting your blood on my hands.” As he walks out the door Dean says he’ll call her later, but Jo, under her breath, mutters, “No you won’t.”
Sam arrives on Bobby’s doorstep; he cuts the phone line so Dean can’t reach him. He knocks on the door and Bobby seems very happy to see Sam and invites him in for a beer. After one sip of the beer, Sam falls to the ground coughing up smoke. Bobby put holy water in the beer and throws a punch at the demon, knoocking him out. When the demon awakes he is tied to a chair under the devil’s trap on the ceiling. Dean has arrived and he and Bobby are prepared to exorcise the demon from Sam’s body. But as Bobby incants, the demon doesn’t appear to be harmed. The demon incants a Latin spell of its own. The flame in the fire expands, lights flicker, and the furniture shakes. Bobby looks on Sam’s right arm and sees a binding link. It’s a "lock" the demon used to trap itself inside Sam’s body.
The demon continues incanting until the ceiling cracks into the devil’s trap. He then launches Bobby and Dean to opposite ends of the rooms. The demon punches Dean several times, telling him that hell is like a prison made of bones, flesh, blood, and fear, even for demons and that Dean sent him back there. Dean realizes that the demon inside Sam is "Meg". As the demon launches his arm back to throw one final punch at Dean, Bobby comes up behind it with a heated metal rod, burning the binding link off Sam’s arm. The demon immediately leaves Sam’s body and the black smoke heads on its way back to hell through the flames of the fire.
As Sam and Dean are sitting in the room recovering from the battle, Bobby informs them that Steve Wondell was found dead at his house and that a couple of his buddies are looking for someone or something to give payback to. Dean says they should hit the road. As they’re walking out, Bobby hands them both charms that fend off possession, so that the demon can’t get inside either of them.
As the boys are driving down the road, Sam tells Dean that he was awake for some of his possession. He saw Steve die and he’s shocked that Dean wouldn’t kill him, even when he almost killed Jo. Dean tells Sam that John told him that he might have to kill him, but only if he couldn’t save him. Dean says if it’s the last thing he does, he’s going to save him.
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