In The Beginning Transcript

Written by: Jeremy Carver
Directed by: Steve Boyum

TEASER
INT. MOTEL ROOM - NIGHT
DEAN is asleep. SAM pauses and looks at him before leaving the room.

EXT. MOTEL - NIGHT
A car pulls up. SAM enters the passenger side. RUBY is driving.

RUBY
Ready?

SAM
Definitely.

INT. MOTEL ROOM

DEAN is dreaming. We see flashes of his terrified face, in red, and the sound of screams. He wakes to find Castiel sitting on his bed.

CASTIEL
Hello Dean. What were you dreaming about?

DEAN
What do you get your freak on by watching other people sleep? What do you want?

CASTIEL
Listen to me. You have to stop it.

DEAN
Stop what?

CASTIEL puts two fingers to DEAN's forehead.

EXT. STREET - DAY

DEAN is sleeping on a bench.

POLICE OFFICER
Move it buddy - you can't sleep here.

DEAN
Okay...sleep... where?

POLICE OFFICER
Anywhere but here.

Dean tries to make a call on his cell but gets no signal

DEAN
Perfect.

DEAN gets up and enters 'JAY BIRD'S DINER'.

INT. DINER - DAY
DEAN sits at the diner's counter next to a young man.

DEAN
Hey, where the hell am I?

YOUNG MAN
Jay Bird's Diner.

DEAN
Yeah, thanks. I mean...city and state.

YOUNG MAN
Lawrence, Kansas.

DEAN
Lawrence...

YOUNG MAN
Hey, you okay buddy?

DEAN
Yeah, tough night.
YOUNG MAN
Hey, coffee here Reg.
REG
Okay, coming right up.

DEAN pulls his cell phone from his pocket.

DEAN
Can you tell me where I can get reception on this thing?

YOUNG MAN
The USS Enterprise?

DEAN looks at REG as he brings the coffee over. REG is dressed in 1970s hippie gear - think early Sonny Bono.
DEAN
Thanks...nice threads. You know Sonny and Cher broke up right?

YOUNG MAN Sonny and Cher broke up?

DEAN looks around the diner and notices everyone is dressed in 1970s era clothes.

MR.D enters the diner.
Hey, Winchester.

DEAN and the YOUNG MAN look around The MR.D shakes the hand of the YOUNG MAN.
MAN
Son of a *****. How you doing Corporal?

YOUNG MAN
Hey Mr. D.

MR.D
I heard you were back.

YOUNG MAN
Yeah, a little while now.

MR.D
Good to have you home John, damn good.
DEAN
Dad...
MR. D
Well, say hello to your old man for me.

JOHN
You got it, Mr. D.

JOHN sees DEAN staring at him

JOHN
Do we know each other?

DEAN
I guess not.

JOHN gets up to leave. JOHN
Take it easy, pal.

DEAN
Yeah.

ACT ONE

EXT. STREET - DAY
DEAN is following JOHN WINCHESTER. As he disappears around a corner, DEAN bumps into CASTIEL

DEAN
What is this?

CASTIEL
What does it look like?

DEAN
Is it real?

CASTIEL
Very.

DEAN
Okay, so what? Angels got their hands on some Deloreans? How did I get here?

CASTIEL
Time is fluid Dean, it's not easy, but we can bend it on occasion.

DEAN
Well bend it back or tell me what the hell I'm doing here!

CASTIEL I told you, you have to stop it.

DEAN
Stop what? What, is there something nasty after my Dad?

DEAN turns as a car horn sounds. When he turns back CASTIEL is gone.

DEAN
Oh, come on! What are you allergic to straight answers you son of a *****?!

EXT. RAINBOW MOTORS CAR DEALERSHIP

JOHN is talking to a CAR SALESMAN

CAR SALESMAN
A fine young man like yourself, just starting out? How about I take off another 250?

JOHN
considers it for a moment.

JOHN
Let's do it.

CAR SALESMAN
I'll get the paperwork.

JOHN
walks over to the front of a beige VW van and starts to look at it, rubbing the headlights.

DEAN
That's not the one you want.

DEAN is leaning on a 67 Chevy Impala!

JOHN
You following me?

DEAN
No, no, I was just passing by. I never got to thank you for that cup of coffee this morning - I was a little out of it.

JOHN
More than a little.

DEAN
Let me repay the favor.

DEAN pats the hood of the Impala.

DEAN
This is the one you want.

JOHN
Oh yeah, you- you know something about cars?

DEAN
nods his head and looks slightly nostalgic.

DEAN
Yeah...yeah, my Dad taught me everything I know...

DEAN
And this- this is a great car.

DEAN
opens the hood of the car and leans in, as JOHN
joins him on the side of the car, looking under the hood.

DEAN
327 four barrel, 275 horses. A little TLC and this thing is cherry.

JOHN
You know man, you're right.

DEAN
nods over his shoulder at the van.

DEAN
Then what are you buying that thing for?

JOHN
I kinda promised someone I would.

DEAN
Over a '67 Chevy? I mean, come on, this is the car of a lifetime. Trust me, this thing's still gonna be badass when it's 40.

JOHN
considers it for a moment and hold out his hand to DEAN
.
JOHN
John Winchester, thanks.
DEAN
shakes his hand.
DEAN
Dean Van Halen - and thank you.
DEAN
I was in pretty rough shape this morning huh?
JOHN
No kidding.
DEAN
I've been hung over before but, hey, I was, I was getting chills in that diner. You didn't feel any of those cold spots did you?
JOHN
Nope.
DEAN
I swore I smelled something weird too you know? Like.. like rotten eggs. You didn't happen to smell any sulfur by chance?
JOHN
No.
DEAN
No....There been any cattle mutilations in town recently-
JOHN
Okay, mister! Stop it.
DEAN
Yeah, if only I knew what to stop. Listen - watch out for yourself okay?
JOHN
Yeah, sure.
DEAN pats the Impala again and leaves.
CAR SAMESMAN
So?
JOHNpoints at the IMPALA.
JOHN
I'll take this one.

EXT. SUBURBAN STREET
JOHN pulls up in the IMPALA. Further down the street DEAN pulls up. He watches as a young woman runs from a hosue to JOHN'S car.
JOHN
Hey.
GIRL What's this?
JOHN
My car.
The GIRL walks around the back of the car, and JOHN follows her.
GIRL
What happened to the van?
JOHN
Mary, this is better than the van! This has got a 327, a four barrel carburetor.
DEAN
Mom?
EXT. DINER - NIGHT
MARY and JOHN are inside with milkshakes. DEAN watches them through a window.
DEAN
Sammy, wherever you are, Mom is a babe. I'm going to hell...again.
INT. DINER - NIGHT
JOHN and MARY are sitting across from one another talking over ice cream shakes.
JOHN
I should just talk to him.
MARY
My Dad's being my Dad John, it's not you.
JOHN
How is it not me? He's been like this for how many years?
MARY
He's just protective over me, that's all. He doesn't want me to-
JOHN
Hook up with a mechanic from a family of mechanics?
MARY
No! Hey, I love you, for exactly what you are. I'll be right back.
MARY leaves. JOHN sits and pulls out a small red box. Inside is a ring.
EXT. DINER - NIGHT

MARY sneaks up behind DEAN

MARY
Why are you following us?

DEAN whips around and MARY knees him in the stomach and throws him against a metal container next to the building. She goes to punch him, and he dodges it, stepping sideways.

DEAN
Are you crazy?

MARY continues her attack, and he backs up as she comes after him, but he manages to grab her arms when she grabs his chest to shove him again.

MARY
You've been trailing us since my house.

DEAN
I don't know what you're talking about-

MARY
Really?

MARY and DEAN grapple.

DEAN
Okay, how about we talk about this huh?

MARY
Let me go!

DEAN looks and sees MARY is wearing a bracelt with protective charms

DEAN
Are you a hunter?

ACT TWO
EXT. CAMPBELL'S HOUSE - NIGHT

JOHN
See you later?

MARY
If you're lucky.

They kiss and MARY gets out of the car. as she approaches the house DEAN appears.

MARY
Dean right? I'm not sure you should come in.

DEAN
You can trust me, I mean, come on, we're all hunters right? I mean, we're- we're practically family.

MARY
Yeah, thing is, my Dad, he's a little um...

DEAN
Oh, I gotta meet him

MARY
You've heard of him?

DEAN
Clearly not enough.

INT. CAMBELL HOUSE - NIGHT SAMUEL CAMPBELL
So, you're a hunter? Well, tell me something mister hunter, you kill vampires with wooden stakes or silver.

DEAN
Neither, you cut their heads off.

MARY smiles knowing what her Dad was pulling.

DEAN
So, did I pass your test?

SAMUEL CAMPBELL
Yep...Now get out of my house, I don't

MARY
Dad!

SAMUEL CAMPBELL
I don't trust other hunters Dean, don't want their help, don't want them around my family.

DEANNA CAMPBELL is setting the table in the next room, and calls to SAMUEL CAMPBELL.

DEANNA
Knock it off Samuel.

SAMUEL
He's a hunter.

DEANNA walks into the room talking to SAMUEL.

DEANNA
Who passed your little pop quiz, and now I am inviting him to dinner. Are you hungry?

DEAN
Starving.

DEANNA
Good, I'm Deanna, you've met my husband Samuel, now wash up.

DEAN looks at MARY.

DEAN
Samuel and Deanna?

MARY nods.

DEAN
Really?

INT. CAMPBELL HOME - NIGHT

DEAN, MARY, SAMUEL and DEANNA are sitting around the dining room table eating dinner. DEANNA leans over and touches DEAN's arm.

DEANNA
First time in Lawrence Dean?

DEAN
Well, it's been a while. Things sure have changed...I think.

SAMUEL
You working a job?

DEAN
Yeah, maybe.

SAMUEL
What's that mean?

DEAN
It means I don't trust other hunters either, Samuel. MARY
Hey, so why were you following me and John?

DEAN
Mmm, I thought something was after your boyfriend, but um, I don't think that anymore.

DEANNA
John Winchester mixing it up with spirits, can you imagine?

MARY
I saw that.

SAMUEL
What?

MARY
That sour lemon look.

SAMUEL
Now hold on, John's a really really nice...naive civilian.

MARY
So what? You'd rather me be with a guy like this?

She nods to DEAN

DEAN
What? No, no

SAMUEL
Mary, of course not, it's just I

DEANNA
That's enough, both of you, we have company.

DEAN
So what about you Sam, you uh, working a job?

SAMUEL
Might be.

MARY
He's working a job on the Whitshire Farm.

SAMUEL gives MARY a look as DEAN clears his throat.

DEAN
Whitshire, why does that name sound familiar to me?

SAMUEL
Well, it's been all over the papers Tom Whitshire. Got tangled up in a combine a few towns over.

DEAN
That kind of thing happens.

SAMUEL
So why was he on it in the first place when his crops are all dead?

DEAN
Demonic omens?

SAMUEL
That's what I gotta find out.

DEAN
What about the rest of the town? Well, did you find anything on the web? ...of information that you have assembled.

DEANNA
Electrical storms maybe, the weather service graphs should be here on Friday.

DEAN
By mail?

SAMUEL
No, we hired a jet liner to fly 'em to us overnight.

DEAN
You know, it sounds to me like we might be hunting the same thing. You know if we go in there in numbers, we could take care of this thing real quick.

SAMUEL
What part of we work alone do you not understand son?

EXT. WHITSHIRE HOME - DAY

MARY and SAMUEL are sitting in a truck

MARY
And I'm here because?

SAMUEL
Family business Mary...family.

SAMUEL
What? You'd rather be waving pom poms at a bunch of dumb jocks?

MARY sees a boy leaning on a tree nearby.

SAMUEL
Where you goin'?

MARY
To do the job Dad.

SAMUEL walks to the house and knocks on the door.

SAMUEL
Father, I see you beat me here.

DEAN
The Lord is funny that way. Beth Whitshire, this is my associate, our senior- senior priest, Father Chaney.

DEAN joins SAMUEL outside

SAMUEL
Please accept our deepest condolences on behalf of the county diocese.

BETH
Thank you.

DEAN
Mrs. Whitshire was just telling me all about Tom, and how normal and ordinary things were the day before his death.

SAMUEL
I see, so you didn't notice anything unusual Mam?

BETH
You mean like my husbands guts fertilizing the back 40?

SAMUEL is stunned into silence at her response, and DEAN looking amused turns to leave.

DEAN
Excuse me.

DEAN pats SAMUEL on the back and then makes his way off the porch. SAMUEL shares an awkward smile with BETH, and we see DEAN approaching MARY and the boy, CHARLIE. MARY sees DEAN, and gets the outfit, and turns back to CHARLIE.

MARY
Charlie, would you like to tell the father here what you just told me?

CHARLIE
Dad drank sometimes, sometimes he got rough with Mom.

MARY
And that's when the stranger came?

CHARLIE
I just thought he was some Bible thumper, like you all. He showed up about a week ago.

DEAN
Saying what?

CHARLIE
Did I want the beatings to stop? I just thought he was crazy, I didn't think- and the next thing I know, Dad's dead. Am I going to jail?

MARY
You didn't do this Charlie.

DEAN
Did the stranger want something in return?

CHARLIE
He didn't want anything.

DEAN
Come on Chuck, he wasn't just handing out freebies now, was he?

CHARLIE
He did say something about comin' a callin' ten years from now. Maybe he'd want something then.

DEAN
Something like what?

CHARLIE
I don't know okay? Look, I told you he was nuts.

MARY grabs DEAN's arm and leads him off to the side where CHARLIE can't hear them talk.

MARY
What do you think?

DEAN
I think he just pimped his soul to a demon and doesn't even know it.

MARY turns back around and returns to CHARLIE, and DEAN follows her.

MARY
Charlie, do you remember what this stranger looked like?

CHARLIE
Yeah, he was about 5'10, white, normal looking really.

MARY
Anything else?

CHARLIE
There was one thing.

DEAN
What?

CHARLIE
It's just, the light hit his eyes in a weird way and...for a moment I coulda sworn-

DEAN
What? That they were black? Or red maybe?

CHARLIE
No, they were yellow, pale yellow.

DEAN looks surprised and looks over at MARY with slight fear, hearing the YED is here.

INT. CAMPBELL HOME - NIGHT

DEAN slams a map down on the dining room table, as DEANNA is in the kitchen chopping up bananas, and SAMUEL is pacing back and forth next to DEAN.

SAMUEL
What do you say we just slow down and talk this thing through.

DEAN
There's nothing to talk about.

SAMUEL
Except you're saying it's a demon, and none of us has ever heard of a demon with yellow eyes.

DEAN
Yeah, well, I have, this thing killed my family.

SAMUEL
Just calm down son.

DEAN
You don't get it do you? You are in danger, we are all in danger. In fact, you need to get yourself someplace safe.

SAMUEL
Not until we know what we're dealing with here.

DEANNA comes in with a fruit salad in her hand.

DEANNA
Sam's right Dean, it could be a demon, it could be a shapeshifter, it could be any number of things.

DEAN
I know what this thing is!

DEANNA stops and turns around going back into the kitchen.

DEAN
And I'm gonna kill it, that's all the talking I need to do.

SAMUEL
You're gonna kill a demon? How?

DEAN
There's a hunter named Daniel Elkins, he lives in Colorado, he has Colt's gun. The Colt.

SAMUEL
Yeah, I heard about the colt, used to tell it to Mary as a bedtime story.

DEAN
Well, it's real.

SAMUEL looks at DEANNA, and she looks back at him, they don't know what to think.

SAMUEL
Alright, say that it is. You got some kind of crystal ball telling you where this demon's gonna be?

DEAN
Yeah, maybe I do.

DEAN reaches over and pulls out JOHN's journal and flips it open on the table.

SAMUEL
What's this?

DEAN
It's a list.

SAMUEL
Of what?

DEAN
My Dad wrote down anyone he thought ever came in contact with the Yellow Eyed Demon, who, where and when.

SAMUEL
Why?

DEAN
Cause the more he could learn about the son of a *****, the more he could figure out why it killed my Mom.

DEAN flips the page.

DEAN
Look, Whitshire farm. I told you that name sounded familiar.

SAMUEL
Whitshire farms, that was two days ago, how the hell is that on your Dad's list?

DEAN
Uh...my Dad could see the future. Looks at this, it says he's gonna hit here tomorrow night.

SAMUEL
Liddy Walsh?

DEAN
Haleyville, that's close.

SAMUEL
I mean, yeah, it's about three miles, but...

SAMUEL looks over at DEANNA leaning on the door jamb, and she shakes her head slightly at the whole story. SAMUEL looks back at DEAN, and he sees the tension, that they don't believe him.

DEAN
I know you guys think I'm crazy.

SAMUEL
You seem like a really nice kid Dean, but yeah, you're crazy.

DEAN
Yeah, maybe, but I know where this bastard's gonna be, and I'm gonna stop it, once and for all.

DEAN grabs his stuff and walks out of the room.

INT. CAMPBELL HOME - NIGHT

MARY is sitting listening to music.

DEAN
I'm shoving off, I just wanted to say, bye.

MARY
Really?So soon?

DEAN
Yeah - job to do. Hey, I wanted to- t-tell you, you know for what it's worth. Um...it doesn't matter what your Dad thinks, I like that John kid.

MARY smiles.

MARY
You do?

DEAN
Yeah, yeah, I think you two are meant to be.

DEAN softly: Hell, I'm depending on it.

MARY
What?

DEAN
Nothing. Can I ask you a question?

MARY nods

DEAN
What's he like? John.

MARY
Why do you ask?

DEAN
Just curious.

MARY
I don't know, he's sweet, kind. Even after the war, after everything, he still believes in happily ever after you know? He's everything a hunter isn't. (beat) No offense.

DEAN
No, none taken.

MARY
Can I tell you something?

MARY
He's gonna ask me to marry him. Tomorrow I think!

DEAN
Yeah?

MARY
Oh, Dad's gonna explode, but I don't care. I'll run away if I have to, I just, I love John, and...

DEAN
And what?

MARY
I wanna get out.

MARY
This job, this life, I hate it.

MARY
I want a family, I wanna be safe.

MARY
You know the worst thing I can think of? The very worst thing? Is for my children to be raised into this like I was. No, I won't let it happen.

DEAN blinks back tears.

DEAN
Yeah...

MARY
Hey, are you okay?

DEAN
Yeah, no I'm- I'm fine. Hey, uh, Mary, can I tell you something?

MARY
Sure.

DEAN
Even if this sounds really weird. Will you promise me that you will remember?

MARY
Okay.

DEAN
On November second 1983, don't get out of bed.

DEAN
No matter what you hear, or what you see.

DEAN
Promise me you won't get out of bed.

MARY
Okay.