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Crossroad Blues

by Michelle

Mississippi, 1938: A bluesman is on stage playing his guitar. He glances casually at a young black woman in the audience. Then suddenly he hears growling from outside. When he stops playing, the growling stops. He continues to play but every few seconds, the growling would start again. He notices shadow things dash by the window outside. He drops his cigarette to the ground and darts out the door. The bluesman runs down the path. He rushes homes bolting the door and pushing a chair under the door handle. However the chair doesn’t stay there for long as the door bursts open, a woman and two others rush in, but the bluesman looks like he is having a fit. The woman tries to keep him alive, but the bluesman responds by whispering “black dogs”.

Sam and Dean are sat in a diner. Sam’s on his laptop and informs Dean that he’s officially in the Fed’s database. The boys joke around about Dean being on there and not Sam, Dean jokes to Sam and says you’re just upset because I am on there and you are not! Sam tells Dean that architect Sean Boyden plummeted to his death from the roof of his home, a condominium he designed. He called animal control two days earlier, reported seeing “vicious, wild black dogs”. Authorities couldn’t find it and no one else saw it. After that he doesn’t show up for work, and two days later, he died. Sam says there are spectral black dogs all over the world. Some say they’re animal spirits and others say they’re death omens.

Sam and Dean pose as writers for Architectural Digest and talk with Sean’s business partner. They find out he lived a charmed life. But the weird thing is that ten years ago, he couldn’t design for beans. He worked as a bartender at a place called Lloyds. Then overnight, he became this genius designer, designing some of the most ingenious buildings anyone had ever seen.

The boys stop by animal control to get more information. Dean speaks with a girl named Karley who tells him they’ve received 19 calls total. She gives them the address of Sylvia Pearlman, who was the most recent person to report of seeing black dogs. Karley also gives Dean her MySpace address. Sam finds it amusing that Dean thinks MySpace is some kind of porn site.

Sam and Dean go Sylvia’s house only to find she as disappeared two days ago after reporting seeing black dogs. She was a surgeon at a very young age, the youngest in the history of the hospital. She got the job ten years ago. Dean notices a picture of Sylvia and her friends at a bar, he flips it over and reads Lloyd’s Bar 1996.

Sylvia is pacing around a motel room, shivering and nervous. The manager of the motel knocks at the door saying that she either needs to leave or pay for the night. She grabs cash out of her purse. When she turns around, she sees the demons face fade in and out. She hand the guy her money and slams the door shut.

Sam and Dean walk up to the bar. Dean notices there are yarrow flowers planted in the middle of a bunch of weeds, used for summoning rituals. Dean starts digging a hole at the centre of the crossroad and finds an old box. They open it up and find a bottle of graveyard dirt, a black cat bone, and other deep hoodoo items, used for summoning demons. Dean says that crossroads are where pacts are made and realizes that these people aren’t just summoning a demon, but making deals with it. Sam says that these people aren’t seeing black dogs, but rather hellhounds (demonic pit bulls).

At Sylvia’s motel room, there’s rattling at the door. Sylvia is crouched down behind the bed, covering her ears and crying. When the banging stops, Sylvia slowly gets up only to be trampled back to ground as the hellhound shatters through the glass window and starts tearing Sylvia to shreds; we see a streak of blood on the carpet.

1938: The bluesman puts his picture in a box with other hoodoo items, and buries the box in the centre of the crossroad. He turns around to find the demon and responds with a simple “Holy…” Robert says that he wants her to make him the best bluesman that ever lived. She grants him his wish and seals the deal with a kiss. By the time he opens up his eyes, she’s vanished.

Dean tells Sam that this case is like the Robert Johnson Legend, the whole selling your soul at the crossroads deal. Dean explains that Robert Johnson died chocking on his own blood. He was hallucinating and muttering about “big black dogs”. Sam says they need to find out if any more people made deals with this demon. Dean believes they should just forget about this case because it’s their decision to make these deals. Sam still insists that they shouldn’t leave these people to die. Despite how Dean feels, he agrees to continue on with the hunt.

Sam and Dean go to see George Darrow, the last person who left a crossroad summons. They notice a line of pepper outside his door. The door opens, Darrow gives them five minutes inside. He explains that the stuff outside his door is Goofer Dust, used as protection against demons. They don’t get much out of him but he does give them the name of another guy who made a deal with the demon, Evan Hudson.

Evan hears barking outside. He looks out the window but sees nothing. His wife walks in the room to say goodbye before she leaves for the weekend. He gives her a hug and says he loves her. Sam and Dean go to Evan’s house. Thinking the boys are demons, Evan slams the door on them and runs into his study. Sam and Dean break down the door and go into the study. After convincing him that they aren’t demons, they ask him what his asked for. Evan tells them that his wife was dying of cancer and that he begged the demon to save her.

Dean tells Sam to take the goofer dust and keep the hellhounds away from Evan and that he’s going to the crossroad to summon the demon. Sam thinks it’s a bad idea because of the way Dean’s been acting. Sam think that Dean believes their dad made one of these demonic deals to save his life and that he should stay with him. Sam is not happy but Dean goes anyway.

Dean puts his picture in the metal box along with the other items and buries the box. He turns around to find the red-eyed demon. She says she knows all about him and the deal that their dad made. Dean requests that they talk in his car. She agrees. Sam’s is sprinkling goofer dust around the room and makes a big circle of the dust around Evan telling him to stay inside the circle.

Dean and the demon walk towards the impala. Dean tells the demon that he wants her to release Evan from his contract. She says that’s not negotiable, that she can’t terminate a binding contract. He offers himself in return. As she starts to get into the car, she notices a devil’s trap underneath the car.

The demon says she can bring John back. Dean would be able to live ten more years as part of the reunited family. Dean manages to lure her into another devil’s trap and begins to perform an exorcism on her. As Dean starts incanting in Latin:

The Hellhounds are now in Evans house and are getting closer to breaking the circle of goofer dust. Dean continues to incant as the hellhound slowly begins to eat away at the goofer dust. Before Dean finishes, the demon agrees to end Evan’s contract if he lets her out of the devil’s trap. She seals the bond with a kiss. Dean lets her out of the trap and she says that Dean should’ve taken her up on the deal to bring John back. All of sudden, the demon exorcises itself from the girl’s body.

Dean and Sam are travelling in the Impala. Dean is quite upset about the fact his dad John died so he can live. He thinks their dad should have died fighting the Demon because that was his legacy, not bargaining with it. Sam tells Dean of all the people their dad saved and for that matter that number of people they saved because of what their dad taught them, that was their dad’s legacy and that they must follow in his footsteps to finish what he started.