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No Exit

by Michelle

Inside a city apartment building. The lights are flickering and scratching is heard in the walls. A girl is on the phone, complaining about the lights flickering. She sits down and notices drops of a black substance on the coffee table falling from the ceiling. Hearing the scratching becoming louder, she walks towards the other end of the room. She sees more of the black substance oozing out of the light switch. Looking closely into the screw hole of the switch, a man’s eye pops up and she all you can hear is the girl scream.

Sam and Dean are outside the roadhouse there they joke about Katie Holmes who’s been kidnapped by an evil cult. They hear screaming and yelling inside the roadhouse and go to check it out. Jo and Ellen are arguing over whether Jo should be allowed to go on a hunt by herself. The phone rings and when Ellen goes to answer it, Jo shows Sam and Dean the case on the death of a girl three days ago. Jo tells the boys that over the past 80 years six women have disappeared from the same building, all young blondes. The murders only occurred once every decade or two so the cops never eyeballed the pattern. Dean asks if Ash put this case together and Jo says she did it herself. Ellen tells the boys to take the case and tell Jo she will not lose her too.

The boys sneak into the girl’s apartment and scan the room with their EMF’s. Sam picks up high signals as he pans the scanner over the light switch. He notices the black substance and recognizes it as ectoplasm. Sam says he’s only seen this stuff once or twice and in order to make it, you have to be one majorly pissed off spirit.
Sam and Dean walk down the hall way, they hear voices and hide behind the corner. As the voices get closer they realise it is Jo, she has followed Sam and Dean. She is talking with the building manager about renting the apartment. She tells him that Dean is her boyfriend, they need a fresh start and they want to rent the apartment. Dean goes along with it but by the look on his face he is not pleased. Jo gives the manager a roll of cash and says we will take it.

Sam and Dean are loading up their weapons and Dean asks Jo if her mother knows she’s here. Jo says that she left a note saying she was in Vegas and that she got Ash to lay a credit card trail all the way to the casinos. Dean’s phone rings. It’s Ellen wanting to know if Jo’s with them. Dean is about ready to spill the beans but covers for Jo and says that he hasn't seen her.

Going over the buildings history, Jo informs them that this building built in 1924, originally as a warehouse and then turned into an apartment complex a few years ago. Before that there was nothing. There were no violent deaths reported in the past 82 years. Sam thinks it could be a cursed object that brought the spirit along. They decide to scan every area of the building they can get to. Jo says they’ll save time by splitting up but Dean says there’s no way he’s letting her out of his sight.

Dean and Jo are looking through the first two floors. Jo says that using herself as bait would be the quickest way to catch the spirit. Deans replies that he is so regretting this. Dean says women can do the job, but amateurs can’t and that she has no experience. Sounding like Ellen, Dean tells Jo that she’s got options, that no one in their right mind chooses this job and that she should be grateful to have a mother who cares for her and wants more for her. They continue walking down the hall. Jo stops at the corner, scanning the walls. The camera pans down at the vent and we see grey gushy fingers extending out. Jo turns around suddenly and the fingers disappear. Dean senses a smell that he recognizes but he can’t put a name to it. Jo picks up high signals as she scans the vent. Dean unscrews the vent and reaches in hoping to find something and manages to pull out a lock of blonde hair.

Teresa walks into the apartment reading a letter in the mail. Drops of ectoplasm fall from the ceiling. The lights start flickering and she looks up at the ceiling and sees the walls shredding open. She rushes to the phone only to get static. She tries the front door but no luck. Then as she turns around towards the wall she sees the hand coming out of the vent. It grabs her by the leg and pulls her in.

Dean’s sleeping on the couch and wakes up to the sound of sirens outside. Jo is awake looking at all the information, still twirling around the small pocket knife in her hand. Dean takes a larger one out of his bag and hands it to her, saying it will work better than that one. She hands him hers and he reads the inscription on the knife W.A.M. (William Anthony Harvelle) - her father. Dean apologizes for the mistake.
Sam walks in and reports that another girl, Teresa Ellis in apartment 2F, disappeared last night. There were cracks all over the walls and ceiling, ectoplasm too. Jo notices in the picture that there is a prison. She calls up Ash to get information. He tells her, it was the Moyamensing Prison, built in 1835 and torn down in 1963. They executed people by hanging them in the empty field next door. Ash emails Sam a list of everyone executed, 157 names. One of the names on the list is Herman Webster Mudgett (H.H. Holmes). Sam pulls up information on Holmes. He was executed at the prison on May 7th, 1896. The term multi murder was used to describe him, he was America’s first serial killer before anyone knew what a serial killer was. He confessed to 27 murders but some put the death toll at over 100. His victim flavor of choice was blonde women and he used chloroform to kill them, which is what Dean smelled in the hallway last night. The cops found human remains and long locks of blonde hair in his home. Jo says that they should find the bones, salt them and burn them. Sam says it’s not going to be that easy. His body was buried in town, but it’s encased in a several tons of concrete. Story goes Holmes didn’t want anyone mutilating his corpse because that’s what he used to do. Sam also points out that Holmes built an apartment building in Chicago, they called it the Murder Castle. The whole place was a death factory containing trap doors, acid fats, and quick line pits. He built these chambers inside the walls, locking his victims inside, keeping them alive for days. He would suffocate some and others he would let starve to death.

Sam, Dean and Jo break through the walls and head inside in search for any sign of Teresa. Dean and Jo come across a path too narrow but Jo says she can fit through, so she continues down the path. She follows the path and heads down an air duct. Looking at the walls, Jo sees more of the ectoplasm seeping the through the bricks. Still on the phone, Dean hears her screaming he runs out and starts smashing in the wall but all he finds is Jo's phone. Sam and Dean continue looking for Jo but there is still NO sign. Dean’s phone rings. It’s Ellen. She demands to know where Jo is and Dean tells her the truth that Holmes took her. He promises Ellen he will get Jo back, Ellen is upset and says "Thats not the first time I have heard that from a Winchester". She tells Dean she will on the next flight out and will be there in a few hours.

Jo is lying in a tiny box space. She turns on her flashlight and she notices scratches from where someone else as been trying to escape, Jo hears Teresa and she tries to reassure her that Sam and Dean will find them. Holmes walks into the chambers and reaches into Jo’s box and grabs her hair. Jo manages to grab her knife and stab his hand.

Sam and Dean burst into the chamber and fire at him with rock salt. Sam and Dean get both Jo and Teresa out of their box. Sam gets Teresa out of the sewers and Jo can't wait to go but Dean tells her that her being bait is now a good idea. Jo agrees to it and sits in the middle of the open chamber sitting still. Holmes suddenly appears behind Jo. As he’s hovering directly above her Dean fires a buck shot into the ceiling releasing salt that falls to the ground in a perfect ring surrounding the entire chamber, trapping Holmes inside.

Sam and Jo are standing in the empty field. Jo is saying what if Holmes gets out and Sam says thats why we need this. Then Dean who turns up in a stolen a cement truck and fills up the open hole to the sewer to be sure that Holmes remains down there till “all hell freezes over".

On the way back to the Road house. Ellen has now joined Sam, Dean and Jo. Everything is quiet, Dean puts on the radio "Cold as Ice" is playing. Ellen turns it off and it is still quiet.

Back at the roadhouse Dean tells Ellen he is sorry she tells the boys she needs to speak to her daughter. Ellen and Jo are having another row. Ellen says that they can not be trusted like father like sons. After a while Jo storms out, Dean tries to talk to her but she walk past, Dean says ok see ya and walks over to the impala. Jo turns around and says that it turned out that her father wasn't alone on his last hunt, John was his partner and its obvious she blames John. She says why do you think John never mentioned that. She then walks off, leaving a shell-shocked Dean.