Season 4(5) – Monster Movie
The three hunters were travelling to Pennsylvania. "Radio around here sucks." Dean spat before he turned it off. Sam was in the passenger seat, holding a flashlight to read the article in the paper. "Come on, man. Jobs don't get much sweeter than this. You know. Dead vic with a gnawed-on neck, body drained of blood. And a witness who swears up and down that it was a vampire."
"No, I agree. It's a hell of a case." Sam stated, not even looking at his brother.
Dean had his mouth open. "A little more gusto, please." He said, shaking his head. "You too, Jess. Don't think I don't see you back there moping." The man looked at the girl through the rear-view mirror.
Jess was sitting in the back, staring out the window with a blank expression before she turned to the mirror, meeting Dean's eyes. "I'm not moping about. I'm just confused why we are going on this random case when the world is coming to the end."
"Well, we can't save the world. Not today, anyway. But what we can do is chop off some vamps' heads." Dean said with a bright smile, facing the road again before glancing at his brother. Sam had the same thoughts as Jess, so when Dean saw his face, he commented. "Come on, man. Not you too. It's like the good old days. Honest-to-goodness monster hunt. About time the Winchesters got back to tackling a straightforward, black-and-white case. With a little help from Aussie girl back there."
The three hunters had entered a town full of music. It was Oktoberfest, and the town was buzzing in excitement. The trio were wearing suits to look professional as they were here for business.
"We still gotta see the new Raiders movie." Dean chimed as they entered.
"Saw it." Sam responded, glancing around the village.
Dean froze and looked at his brother with disbelief. "Without me?"
Sam looked at Dean. "You were in hell."
"It's no excuse." Dean stated with exasperation. "Fine. Whatever. Me and Jess will go watch it then." He turned with a smile to look at the girl.
"Not interested." Jess replied without even glancing at the boy.
"Pretzels. Pretzels." A stand man was yelling out to the passing crowd. Jess' eyes lit up from that and headed in that direction.
When she reached the stand she greeted the man. "Hallo." She smiled. "Drei, bitte." She said while holding three fingers up to the man. The man nodded as he wrapped up three pretzels before handing it to them to the girl. "Danke."
By this time, the two boys had wandered over. Jess handed a pretzel to each of them as they thanked the girl. "I didn't know you spoke German." Sam stated to the younger girl.
"I can't. Not fluently. We learnt German at my school so I know a few words." Jess responded as she took a bite out of her pretzel.
The three stood for a moment, surveying the town. A pretty lady walked past the trio while saying. "Guten Tag."
"Guten Tag yourself." Dean mumbled as he watched her pass, obviously checking her out.
"Do you even know what she said?" Jess asked the boy.
Dean smirked before turning to her. "Wouldn't have a clue."
Jess chuckled with a shake of her head. Sam spoke up, grabbing the other two's attention. "Hmm. Looks like that's our man." Sam nodded his head in the direction of a sheriff. The three quickly finished their pretzels before walking over.
"Sheriff Deitrich?" Sam asked when they approached the man.
"Are you three from the fed?" He responded, obviously revealing he was indeed the person they were looking for.
"Agents Angus, Young and Willows." Dean stated as the trio pulled out their ID to show the man. "We called ahead about your problem."
After glancing at their IDs, the sheriff nodded. "Right. I tell you what. Why don't we talk this out away from the crowd?"
The trio were at the morgue as the sheriff pulled out the body. He pulled to cloth back, revealing the victim's face. "Marissa Wright, 26. Just up from Larkin for the fest." The sheriff tsked with a sigh. "Terrible. Just terrible. I mean, it's the last thing this town needs in peak tourist season."
"Definitely the last thing Marissa Wright needed." Sam added, looking at the girl's body with pity.
Jess leaned forwards a little, squinting her eyes. "What's that?" She asked pointing to the victim's neck. She couldn't see it clearly since it was on the other side.
Dean reached out and turned the victim's head towards them to get a better look. There planted on her neck were two bite holes which looked just like a vampire bite. "What the hell?" Dean exclaimed.
"Hey, you got me. I mean, this killer is some kind of grade-A whacko, right? I mean, some Satan-worshipping, Anne Rice-reading gothic psycho vampire-wannabe?" The sheriff questioned, obviously not understanding what was happening in this town.
"Sheriff, in your report, you mentioned a witness." Sam inquired while raising his head to look at the man.
"Yeah, I wished I didn't. But the witness insisted. That's Ed Brewer. Not exactly what you'd call reliable." He said with a sigh, pushing the body back in.
Following the sheriff's directions, the hunters went to the bar to find their witness. "I remember you." The bartender stated to the three. It was the blonde lady from earlier who spoke to Dean in German.
Jess leaned over to Sam and sarcastically whispered. "Great. Looks like Deans reunited with 'Guten Tag' girl." This caused Sam to chuckle while Dean scowled at her, obviously hearing what she said.
Dean turned back to the woman before flirting. "Yeah, and I remember you…" He paused to read her name tag. "…Jamie. I never forget a pretty everything." He gestured all of her while she blushed from the comment.
Realising this was going nowhere, Jess intervened. "We're looking for Ed Brewer. You know where he is?"
Jamie crossed her arms. "What do you want with Ed?"
"Well, we are, uh, ahem, federal agents." Dean explained as the three showed their badges. "Mr. Brewer was witness to a serious crime. We just need to-"
Jamie interrupted him. "Wait a minute. You're a fed? Wow, you don't come on like a fed." She saw his expression and cleared her throat. "Seriously?"
Dean leaned forward on the bar bench. "I'm a maverick, ma'am. A rebel with a badge. One thing I don't play by? The rules." He ended with a wink at Jamie.
Sam took it upon himself to end the little interaction. "Okay, maverick." He said to his brother before turning to Jamie. "So, where can we find Mr. Brewer?"
The hunters had found Ed and were sitting down at a table with him. He was drinking from a large jug full of beer, common for Oktoberfest. "I told the cops everything I saw. No one believes me. Why should you be any different?" He stated pointing his fingers at the three obviously being slightly drunk.
"Believe me, Mr. Brewer. We're different." Dean reassured the man.
"I spoke the God's-honest truth, and now I'm the town joke." Ed complained. Jess felt slight pity for the man when he said that.
"Marissa Wright's murder is no joke to us. And we wanna hear everything, no matter how strange it may seem." Sam stated in a serious voice to emphasis his point.
"We have a lot of experience with strange." Dean added on, humour in his voice that only the other two hunters caught.
Ed took another swig of his drink. "It was just after midnight. I just left here and like I do every night, I cut through the park on the way home." Ed was using his fingers to make them look like legs that were walking across the table. "At first I thought it was a couple kissing. But she was struggling too much. And this man, he was. Well, he was biting her neck."
"Can you describe her assailant?" Sam inquired ready to record any details.
"Oh, he was a vampire." Ed answered without missing a beat.
Dean gave him a strange look. "Okay, right. And by that, you mean?"
"You know, a vampire." Ed said before proceeding to make noises of a vampire showing its fangs with a hiss, leaping forward slightly, hands raised. Jess recoiled back when he lunged giving him a weird look wondering what the heck the guy was doing.
The brothers looked unfazed. "So, he looked like?"
"He looked like a vampire. With the fangs, and the slicked-back hair, and the fancy cape and the little medallion thingy on the ribbon." Ed explained with gestures.
"So, what, like your generic vampire? Dracula style?" Jess said with a slight confusion and humour.
"Exactly. Like a Dracula." Ed pointed at the girl. "Right down to the accent."
"The accent? What did he say?" Sam asked.
"You know, something like: "Stay away, mortal. The night is mine!" Ed repeated in a generic Dracula voice while covering his face slightly with his arm, as a vampire would hide away from sunlight, while also reaching out with his other hand. All three hunters were frozen stiff and wide eyed. "You do believe me, don't you?"
Dean had left to head to the bar where he was talking to Jamie. Sam and Jess thanked Ed for his time before following after him. "So, what do you think? Goth psycho vampire-wannabe, right?" Dean asked the two when they arrived.
Jess looked on the counter to see a napkin with a lipstick mark. She did see Jamie's co-worker bite down on it. "Definitely not our kind of case." Sam's voice broke Jess out her trance.
"So, you guys had me sit through that guy's testimony full of vampire re-enactments for nothing." Jess said joking, fake saltiness in her voice.
"It was an interesting interview." Dean said with a raise of his eyebrows before walking over to a table, the other two following. "But who cares? Room's paid for and it's Oktoberfest. Come on, beer and bar wenches."
Sam saw Jess give a sour look at Dean's comment before he spoke up. "Pretty sure women today don't react well to the whole wench thing."
Dean smirked, accepting the challenge. "Hey, bar wench, where's that beer?" Dean yelled over at Jamie who was making his beer.
"Coming up, good sir." Jamie called back with a forced smile.
"Dude, Oktoberfest." Dean turned back with a triumphant smile.
Jess chuckled. "Try that anywhere else and watch your head be smashed into the table. Or more classy, cyanide in your drink."
"There you go." Jamie placed the beer in front of him. Jess saw Dean's expression of hesitation, knowing he was thinking about her comment. "What can I get you two?" Jamie turned to ask Sam and Jess.
"Oh, they don't drink. She's not a drinker and him. Well, he's a Christian Scientist. Doesn't even take aspirin. It's a real drag on stakeouts." Dean told Jamie.
"You're funny." Jamie replied, turning to Dean.
"I'm lot more than that. Love the chance to show you. What time you get off?" Dean flirted.
"Ha, ha. Like I said, funny." She dead panned before walking away.
Sam and Jess were silently laughing at his rejection. "Hmm. Maybe it was the whole wrench thing." Jess stated with humour causing Sam to laugh harder.
"Whew. Man, it is time to right some wrongs." Dean brushed off her comment while leaning back.
"Come again?" Sam asked confused.
"Look at me. I came back from the furnace without any of my old scars, right? No bullet wounds, knife cuts none of the off-angle fingers from all the breaks. My hide is as smooth as a baby's bottom. Which leads me to conclude sadly that my virginity is intact." Dean finished with a smirk.
"What?" Jess choked out.
"I have been re-hymenated." Dean stated proudly.
"Re? Ha. Please. Maybe angels can pull you out of hell, but no one could do that." Sam told his brother with disbelief.
"Brother, I have been re-hymenated. And the dude will not abide." Dean explained.
Jess gave a disgusted look. "Okay, I'm out. Sam." She turned to the younger brother.
Sam understood Jess wanted to leave. "Alright, dude. Well, you go do whatever you gotta do. And we're gonna go back to the room and get some sleep." Sam and Jess left Dean to his own plan while they went to get their much deserved sleep.
A girl was drinking out of large slushie through straw, slurping it. It was the next day and the three hunters were questioning a witness of another murder. "And then it just tore Rick into little pieces." She stated flatly.
"Ma'am, we understand how hard this is but can you describe the creature?" Dean asked, trying to be sensitive.
"Oh." The girl slurped her drink again. Jess bit the inside of her cheek, hating the noise as she forced a smile for appearances. "It was a werewolf."
"A werewolf? You're sure." Sam double-checked.
"Oh, yeah. With the furry face, and the black nose, and the claws and the torn-up pants and shirt. Like from the old movies." She explained.
"Of course, why would it be anything else." Jess mumbled to the boys sarcastically.
"Um. Whoa, okay, so. Thank you for your time." Dean ended the conversation while the girl slurped her drink one last time before walking away.
The trio went back to the morgue to look at the second victim's body. "First a Dracula, and now a full-on movie-time wolf man? What the hell is going on in this town?" Dean questioned while Sam and Jess searched for the correct name for their victim.
"Here it is." Jess pointed while Sam walked over and pulled the body out. He opened the bag, revealing the body torn to shreds.
"Damn." Dean stated while almost gagging at the first look.
"Ooh. All right. Whatever did this, wasn't a psycho wannabe." Sam lifted up a part of the victim's flesh with a pen. "Look at those bite marks. Right down to the bone and deeper."
"I really hope you throw that pen away afterwards." Jess commented as she watched Sam flick the flesh back into the bag.
"Strong enough to tear a healthy man apart, limb from limb. Could be a werewolf." Dean said, steering the conversation back on topic.
"Except, look. Heart's still there, in one piece. They never leave the heart behind." Sam pointed into the chest cavity.
"Thus, I reiterate. What the hell is going on?" Dean grumbled frustratedly.
"Well, I was hoping you guys could tell me." The three turn to see the sheriff walking in. "Just got a rush job back from the lab on those fibres we found on the body. Canine, wolf hairs."
The three hunters looked at each other. "I'm getting a headache." Dean stated, rubbing his forehead with his hand.
The hunters were back at the bar having a meal. "I don't know, guys. Looks like we've stumbled onto a midnight showing of Dracula Meets Wolf Man. Is that it?" Dean asked with a mouthful.
"I don't know. I mean, Wolf Man seems real enough. Makes Dracula seem less impossible, I guess." Sam answered.
"Werewolves don't grow wolf hair. That's just a myth." Dean stated, face full of confusion. "So, what, we've got a vampire and a werewolf monster-mashing this town?"
Jess spoke up. "Yeah, just if this isn't a vampire or werewolf what the heck is going around draining people's blood and ripping their bodies to shreds?"
The trio went quiet as Jamie brought beer over. "Ahh. Looks like you guys are staying a while. I heard about Rick Deacon."
"This just got weird enough for our department." Dean told her, obviously referring to a previous conversation they have had.
"Well, beers are on me. And just so you know, I get off at midnight tonight." Jamie directed to last part to Dean.
Jess closed her eyes not really wanting to watch the two flirting. However, she could still hear them. "Oh, it's not another girls' night out?" Dean inquired.
Jess reopened her eyes to see Jamie smiling at him. "Doesn't have to be."
"Okay then. I'll see you tonight." Dean said.
"Okay then." Jamie finished their conversation by turning around and leaving.
Dean looked at Sam and Jess, a happy smile on his face. "Hey, you think this Dracula could turn into a bat? That'd be cool." He said like nothing had just happened while taking a sip of his beer.
Once again, there was another murder. The trio were examining an Egyptian coffin after a mummy had killed the guard. "This sarcophagus isn't ancient. It's from a prop house in Philly." Sam stated as he held up a sticker he ripped off the coffin.
As Jess was the smallest of the three, she was leaning into the sarcophagus reaching for something she hidden at the bottom. She reached her arm as far as possible, grabbing something made of tin and dragging it out into her view. She sighed before holding it up for the boys to see. "That goes well with the bucket of dry ice that was stashed in it."
"Is he making his own special effects?" Sam asked, deeply confused.
"Mummy with good sense of showmanship." Dean replied.
"This is so stupid." Jess mumbled.
"Damn it. Jamie. I'm late. You're good here with the mummy and the crazy?" Dean asked, getting up from crouching while gesturing to everything around him.
"Yeah, we're good." Jess dismissed with a wave of her hand before Dean ran off.
"Hey. You guys all right?" Jess asked as her and Sam came to the bar after receiving a phone call from Dean that him and Jamie were attacked by Dracula.
"Yeah, I think so. And I think I know what's going on." Dean started as he grabbed a cloth laying next to him. "Part of it, at least." He opened the cloth to reveal an ear. As in an actual human ear.
"Ew, what the heck Dean? Is that an ear? How's this a case solved?" Jess fired a pile of questions at the boy.
"Ripped it off Dracula's head. Touch it." Dean stated.
Jess looked at the ear before turning to Sam and stepping back, gesturing for him to do the honour. Sam gave her 'seriously, me?' face and slowly touched the ear. "Ugh." He mumbled in disgust.
"Feel familiar to you?" Dean inquired with a knowing look.
Sam's face fell. "Oh, man."
"Skin of a Shapeshifter. Just like St. Louis and just like Milwaukee. Of course, this one's all whole new buckets of crazy. Oh, and this." Dean reached into his pocket and pulled something out, handing it to Sam. "I pulled it off during the fight. Look at the label on the ribbon."
Sam did as instructed. "It's a costume rental."
"All three monsters, the Dracula, Wolf Man, the mummy all the same critter. We need to catch this freak before he Creature-From-the-Black-Lagoons somebody." Dean stated.
"So, you guys are like Mulder and Scully or something?" Jamie asked. "And The X Files are real?"
"Hmm. No, The X Files is a TV show. This is real." Dean informed her. Jamie let out a nervous laugh while Dean took a swig of his drink.
"So, what, this guy is running around doing some sort of cosplay and killing people?" Jess questioned, thinking it sounded ridiculous.
Sam thought about Jess' question before clicking. "Oh. Okay, so the stagecraft, the costuming. It's like he's trying to re-enact his favourite monster-movie moments right down to the bloody murders."
"Wait a second. Who the hell is Mina?" Jamie piped up.
"Mina?" Jess asked.
"Yeah, it's what he called Jamie. He called me Mr. Harker." Dean explained.
"Jonathan Harker? They're characters from the movies and the novels. Mina, Dracula's intended bride. Harker, the fiancé that stands in the way." Sam pieced together before turning to Jamie. "Seems like he's fixating on you. Like he sees you as his bride."
"Well, lucky me. Heh." Jamie sarcastically laughed.
"But to fixate on you, probably means the shifter has to have seen you before or been around you." Jess thought out loud.
Dean immediately turned to Jamie. "Jamie, has anybody strange come to town? Somebody that has taken specific notice of you."
"I don't know, Dean. It's Oktoberfest. I'm a bartender. There's lots of people." Jamie thought for a second. "Wait a second, there is Ed."
"'Ed Brewer' Ed?" Sam questioned further.
"Yeah. He moved here about a month ago. Lucy swears he has a crush on me. He comes in almost every night. But I don't think he's the type of guy." Jamie elaborated.
"Where does Ed live?" Dean inquired.
"I don't know. But he works at the old movie theatre. I think he's the projectionist there." Jamie stuttered.
Dean pointed behind him at the doors with his thumb, giving a message to his brother who understood. "Take care of Mina?"
"Yup." Dean answered.
"Come on, Jess." Sam told the girl as the two of them walked out to go find Ed Brewer.
Sam and Jess arrived at the movie theatre and snuck in. Sam pulled out his handgun, checking he had bullets, before putting it back. He gestured Jess to do the same which she obliged.
The two kept walking further inside before they heard creepy music being played. The followed they sound which led them to see a shadow behind a curtain playing the piano. The hunters slowly walked around the curtain to see Ed playing it.
The two worked their way forward before Ed suddenly changed the music to happy and upbeat music, dancing along as he played it on the piano. Jess gave Sam a questioning look before Sam shrugged and crept up to Ed.
Ed turned around, becoming scared and standing up. Sam pushed Ed against the piano, holding a gun to his head. "You FBI guys. What did I-"
Sam cut him off. "Shut up! Okay? You know what you did."
"What?" Ed asked, sounding genuinely confused.
"I know what you are." Sam threatened menacingly.
"I'm not anything. I just like to play the Casio." Ed replied. Jess thought if he was acting, he was good.
"Had time to grow the ear back, huh?" Sam said while staring at his ear. "Jess, check it out."
"What?" Ed asked while Jess did as Sam said and went up to Ed. She grabbed his ear and pulled hard. Ed cried out in pain.
"Eh, nothing happened." Jess looked at Sam.
"Maybe you didn't do it hard enough." Sam told her before he grabbed Ed's ear and tried to pry it off. Ed screamed in pain again before grabbing Sam's hand. "It's supposed to come off." Sam said in shock.
"No, it's not." Ed mumbled angrily through gritted teeth.
Sam gave an awkward smile and chuckle, looking to Jess for help. "I'm so sorry. There appears to be a little mix up." She said quickly giving Sam a look. He understood immediately and let go of Ed, putting his gun away.
The two quickly left, heading back to the bar. But when they arrived, no one was there. Sam rang Dean's phone but he didn't pick up so he left a message. "Dean, hey listen. Ed is not out guy. I'm guessing you went home with Jamie, so just give me a call, okay?" He finished before hanging up the phone.
While Sam was doing that Jess walked over to the table they were sitting at. Their things were still there and there was a broken bottle on the ground. "Sam." She called him over. The two looked at the mess and realised a fight went down. Jess walked over to the table and lifted up a napkin with a lipstick mark. "Lucy."
Sam and Jess entered Lucy's home, pulled out their guns and began searching the house. Sam went one way while Jess went another.
Jess wandered through the house until she came to large door. She carefully opened it and held her gun up, ready to shoot. She saw Jamie laying on a bed in the centre of the room. Jess lowered her weapon and ran to the girl's side. She shook Jamie's shoulders gently, waking the girl up. "Don't worry, Jamie. I'll get you out." Jess reassured the girl.
Jess heard a noise behind her, grabbed her gun and turned around. However, Dracula knocked the gun out of her hands and next to the bed. "I'm sorry but you cannot replace Mina." The shapeshifter spoke before throwing Jess against the wall, knocking her unconscious.
Jess wasn't knocked out for very long and woke up to the sound of Dean's voice. "How about now you shut the hell up!"
Jess watched as Dean tried to grab his gun but the shapeshifter kicked it across the room. Jess hurriedly looked around for a weapon and spotted her gun still laying next to bed by Jamie. Jess caught her attention and gestured for her gun.
Jamie understood and kicked the weapon across the floor. Jess picked up the gun and turned to the shapeshifter. "Eat silver." She threatened before shooting him just before he attacked Dean.
The shifter turned around to face Jess. "Silver?" He asked before looking to Jamie, realising she helped Jess get the gun. "It was beauty that killed the beast. Even though it was not by your hands, do not weep Mina." Jamie gave the shapeshifter a weird and disgusted look before he continued. "Perhaps this is how the movie should end." He stumbled over to his chair and sat down before he died.
Dean and Jamie were currently making out while Sam and Jess stood awkwardly to the side. "They couldn't this before we were about to leave?" Jess grumbled to the younger brother.
Sam chuckled. "It wouldn't be Dean if they did."
The couple finally said their goodbyes as the three hunters started to leave. Jamie's voice made them turn around. "You guys saved my life, you know. So, thanks." She said before walking away.
"Feels good to be back on the job, doesn't it?" Dean questioned.
"Yeah, it does." Sam admitted.
"Hero gets the girl. Monster gets the gank. All in all, happy ending. With a happy ending no less." Dean explained.
"Isn't the hero supposed to be the one who ganks the monster?" Jess teased while giving Dean an innocent smile.
"Hero's the one who saves the girl." Dean retorted.
Jess pondered for a second. "Last time I checked, you were supposed to be keeping a watch on her until you had to get rescued. So doesn't that make me and Sam the hero?"
Dean frowned while Sam laughed. "I guess we saved the two damsels in distress." Sam joked.
"Well, last time I checked, you were knocked unconscious on the floor until we busted in." Dean directed his comment at the girl.
"Yeah, but this unconscious girl woke up and saved your hind." Jess fought back playfully.
Dean glared at her. "I had the situation under control."
"Oh, you did? I'm so sorry. I couldn't tell. Tell you what, next time I'll sit back and let you do your hero thing." Jess joked with a smirk.
"Yeah, yeah. Keep pushing it kid." Dean shot back, but he had a smile on his face. The two continued to bicker all the way back to the Impala.
