Some where in OASIS PLAINS, OKLAHOMA, Construction workers are building a luxury home complex. two employees from Oklahoma Gas and Power, TRAVIS WEAVER and DUSTIN BURWASH, It was a normal day march 16th nothing was happeinging as they were working the one skinny man with a beard turns to the other and says.
TRAVIS Man, these are some phat houses, huh? I'd like to live here.
DUSTIN Yeah, too bad you can't afford it.
TRAVIS Yeah, you're right. This neighborhood'll be damn expensive when it's done.
TRAVIS No, this place is perfect.
He smacks a bug on the side of his neck.
TERAVIS: Except for the mosquitoes.
he turns to hear what he thinks is screaming and he looks all around and dosen't see DUSTIN so he walks towards the screamings and finds a sink hole that Dustins has fallen into and realizes that Dustine is the one screaming for help.
TRAVIS: Dustin?
Travis rushed over to the hole, to see what he could do to help.
DUSTIN Help me, I'm trapped! I broke my ankle!
TRAVIS All right, I'll get a rope!
Travis leaves to go to the truck and get supplies. meanwhile down Inside the hole, DUSTIN is clutching his bloody ankle, breathing heavily. He looks around nervously and sees that there are thousands of beetles inside the walls of the hole. Several of them have landed on his hand, and he frantically brushes them off.
DUSTIN Oh, God.
TRAVIS was still trying to search for the roap that was stashed in the back of his truck hearing more and more of Dustin's screams and plea's for help. all the while ton's of beetles are beginning to cover DUSTIN'S body. They gather in groups on his clothing and skin.
DUSTIN Travis, help!
TRAVIS Hang on!
TRAVIS finally gets the rope and supplies from the truck and runs back to where Dustins is. Inside the hole, DUSTIN is almost entirely covered in beetles.
DUSTIN Travis, help!
He continues to scream as beetles crawl inside his ears and nose.
TRAVIS It's okay, Dustin! It's okay!
Dustin? Dustin, I'm here!
He looks into the hole with a flashlight, horrified when he sees what Dustins looks like now that he's stopped screaming and thrashing around.
TRAVIS: Oh, God.
DUSTIN is dead. He is bleeding heavily from the ears, nose, and eyes, and it terrifies Travis and he runs to get the building supervisor to tell him what has happened.
The Winchesters were in a OKLAHOMA BAR Dean was inside and Lydia and Sam were outside waiting for dean to come back out, Lydia was practicing her Knife throwing on a stack of wood pallets that were set up by the Garbage can that had been used and discarded.
SAM: Remember to release the knife in the Paint brush movement above your head let the pointer finger just slide down the handle when you release ok?
LYDIA: Yes uncle Sammy.
she went and grabbed her knives and walked back to her ready position and placed her knife in the correct position in her hand placed her forarm up by her ear and then with force flung the knife forward releasing the knife as her arm straitened and it hit the center of the target she danced around gleefully she had been practicing for about 2 hours while dean was playing pool for money and she was getting so much better at it.
SAM: way to go squirt your getting really good at that.
Sam said smiling at her, He continued reading a newspaper article about DUSTIN when a minute later, DEAN comes outside, laughing and waving a wad of cash in the air.
SAM You know, we could get day jobs once in a while.
DEAN Hunting's our day job. And the pay is crap.
LYDIA: Daddy, Look I can throw my knife and hit the target now.
She showed him with all three of her knives getting a really small grouping in the middle of the wood pallet.
DEAN: that's really a good grouping baby girl, have you been practicing the whole time?
LYDIA: yes Daddy I want to get as good as you and uncle Sammy and Grandpa, so I can help kill the bad things.
DEAN: Awsome,Little Lydi
Sam rolled his eyes at the pair, and continued on with his moral soap box diatrbe.
SAM Yeah, but hustling pool? Credit card scams? It's not the most honest thing in the world, Dean.
DEAN Well, let's see honest.
He holds out one hand.
Fun and easy.
He holds out the other, and gestures that "fun and easy" outweighs "honest". It's no contest. Besides, we're good at it. It's what we were raised to do.
SAM Yeah, well tell that to your daughter who is the honest police and by the way how we were raised was jacked.
DEAN Yeah, says you and Lydi understands that what we do isn't your everyday normal apple pie life and she gets that we have to be unconventionial in how we get our money so we stay off the radar since I still an on a wanted list for supposed murder thanks to our skin walker friend any way, We got a new gig or what?
SAM Maybe. Oasis Plains, Oklahoma - not far from here. A gas company employee, Dustin Burwash, supposedly died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob.
DEAN and LYDIA: Huh?
SAM: Human mad cow disease.
DEAN Mad cow. Wasn't that on Oprah?
SAM and LYDIA: You watch Oprah?
DEAN, embarrassed, can't think of anything to say.
DEAN (changing topic) So this guy eats a bad burger. Why is it our kind of thing?
SAM Mad cow disease causes massive brain degeneration. It takes months, even years, for the damage to appear. But this guy, Dustin? Sounds like his brain disintegrated in about an hour. Maybe less.
DEAN: Okay, that's weird.
LYDIA: And Kind of yucky too.
SAM: Yeah. Now, it could be a disease. Or it could be somethin' much nastier.
DEAN: All right. Oklahoma.
They get in the car, Lydia straps her self in the booster and puts her stuffy up against the window and closes her eyes to sleep on the way to Oasis Plaines.
DEAN: Man. Work, work, work. No time to spend my money.
LYDIA: you can buy me a donut in the morning Daddy with that money.
she says smiling, Dean chuckles at her antics never one to give Dean the last word, then they drive off.
OKLAHOMA GAS AND POWER COMPANY BUILDING
DEAN, LYDIA and SAM get out of the car and approach TRAVIS.
SAM: Travis Weaver?
TRAVIS: Yeah, that's right.
DEAN: Are you the Travis who worked with Uncle Dusty?
TRAVIS: Dustin never mentioned nephews or a niece?
DEAN: Really? Well, he sure mentioned you. He said you were the greatest.
LYDIA: Yes sir, he really liked you, said that you were a really good friend.
TRAVIS: (smiling) Oh, he did? Huh.
DEAN: Listen, we wanted to ask you... what exactly happened out there?
TRAVIS: I'm not sure. He fell in a sinkhole, I went to the truck to get some rope, and, uh... by the time I got back...
DEAN: What did you see?
TRAVIS: Nothin'. Just Dustin.
SAM: No wounds or anything?
TRAVIS: Well, he was bleeding... from his eyes and his ears, his nose. But that's it.
LYDIA: do you really think my uncle died because of this whole mad cow thing?
TRAVIS: I don't know sweet heart, That's what the doctors are sayin'.
SAM: But if it was, he would've acted strange beforehand, like dementia, loss of motor control. You ever notice anything like that?
TRAVIS: No. No way. But then again, if it wasn't some disease, what the hell was it?
DEAN: That's a good question.
SAM: You know, can you tell us where this happened?
TRAVIS: Yeah.
Travis gave them the address of the home that they were laying down the gas and electric lines, and a while later, DEAN, LYDIA and SAM arrive at the scene of DUSTIN'S death. The sinkhole is surrounded by police tape.
DEAN Huh. What do you think?
SAM I don't know. But if that guy, Travis, was right, it happened pretty damn fast, lydia should probably stay here it would look to suspecious for a little girl to be in the crime scene.
Lydia agreed and stayed with the car she heaved herself up on the hood of the Impalla and waited for her Dad and Uncle to get back, she called for them to be careful, as Dean and Sam ducked under the police tape and looked into the hole with a flashlight.
DEAN: So, what? Some sort of creature chewed on his brain?
SAM: No, there'd be an entry wound. Sounds like this thing worked from the inside.
DEAN: Huh. Looks like there's only room for one. You wanna flip a coin?
SAM: Dean, we have no idea what's down there.
DEAN: picks up a nearby coil of rope.
DEAN: All right, I'll go if you're scared. You scared?
SAM: Flip the damn coin.
DEAN chuckles and takes a coin out of his pocket.
DEAN: All right, call it in the air... chicken.
He flips the coin, and SAM catches it in midair, shaking his head he couldn't believe that he was falling for the reverse psychology dean was playing him with.
SAM: I'm going.
DEAN: I said I'd go.
SAM: I'm going.
DEAN: All right.
SAM: begins tying the rope around his waist.
SAM: Don't drop me.
Sam gathers up some of the dead beatles in a plastic bag he then climbes out of the whole and unties himself and they walk back to the Impalla, Lydia jumps off the hood and gets in the back seat and buckles up as the boys get back in the car, mean while DEAN was driving, SAM was examining a dead beetle in his hand, and Lydia was closing her eyes's she hated bugs the one thing that scared her in the world were the creepy crawlies.
DEAN: So you found some beetles. In a hole, in the ground. That's shocking, Sam.
SAM: There were no tunnels, no tracks. No evidence of any other kind of creature down there. You know, some beetles do eat meat. Now, it's usually dead meat, but
LYDIA: How many did you find down there?
she asked as she shivered with the heebee jeebies.
SAM Ten.
DEAN It'd take a whole lot more than that to eat out some dude's brain.
SAM Well, maybe there were more.
DEAN I don't know, it sounds like a stretch to me.
SAM Well, we need more information on the area, the neighborhood. Whether something like this has ever happened before.
LYDIA: Blech, no more bug talk daddy.
As they drive through town, they pass a sign for an open house, decorated with red balloons.
SAM What?
DEAN I know a good place to start.
Another sign reads, "Models Open. New Buyers' BBQ Today!"
DEAN: I'm kinda hungry for a little barbeque, how 'bout you two?
SAM gives him a knowing look, while Lydia's tummy growls.
DEAN: What, we can't talk to the locals?
SAM And the free food's got nothin' to do with it?
DEAN Of course not. I'm a professional.
SAM Right.
LYDIA: I'm hungry Daddy!
Dean looks at sam with a I can't deny my daughter BBQ now. They pull over and they all get out of the car, and begin walking down the street to the open house.
DEAN: Growin' up in a place like this would freak me out.
SAM: Why?
DEAN: Well, manicured lawns, "How was your day, honey?" I'd blow my brains out.
SAM: There's nothing wrong with "normal, Lydia grew up in a house like this!".
DEAN: I'd take our family over normal any day.
LYDIA: I liked being on the road with you and grandpa daddy it's fun.
Sam roll's his eye's his niece is so much like his brother it's rediclious. They approach the house and knock on the door. The homeowner, LARRY PIKE, answers.
LARRY: Welcome.
DEAN: This the barbeque?
LARRY: Yeah, not the best weather, but... I'm Larry Pike, the developer here. And you are... ?
DEAN Dean. This is Sam and LYDIA.
They shake hands, and Larry gives them a look.
LARRY Sam, Dean, good to meet you. So, you two are interested in Oasis Plains?
DEAN Yes, sir.
LARRY Let me just say - we accept homeowners of any race, religion, color, or... sexual orientation.
SAM and DEAN realize what he is trying to say.
DEAN We're brothers and this is my daughter.
LARRY seems slightly embarrassed.
SAM Our father is getting on in years, and we're just lookin' for a place for him.
LYDIA: grandpa dosent like his neighbors, say's their too loud.
LARRY: Great, great. Well, seniors are welcome, too. Come on in.
LARRY takes them outside to the backyard. There are lots of people walking around, chatting and eating.
SAM: You said you were the developer?
LARRY: Eighteen months ago, I was walking this valley with my survey team. There was nothing here but scrub brush and squirrels. And you know what, we built such a nice place to live that I actually bought into it myself. This is our house. We're the first family in Oasis Plains.
They walk over to his wife.
LARRY: This is my wife, Joanie.
JOANIE: Hi there.
DEAN: Hi.
They shake hands.
JOANIE: Hi, nice to meet you.
LARRY: Sam,Dean and Lydia.
SAM: (shaking her hand) Sam.
JOANIE: Pleasure, and arn't you just a cute girl how old are you?.
LYDIA: I'm eight years old, Ma'am.
LARRY: Tell them how much you love the place, honey. And lie if you have to because I need to sell some houses.
LYDIA: lying is Bad, you shouldn't lie if you want someone to trust you.
JOANIE: Right.
They all laugh, Larry and Joanie because they thought she was sweet, and Dean and Sam because they just know how she is about wanting to be told the truth.
LARRY: will you excuse me? (He leaves.)
JOANIE: Don't let his salesman routine fool you. This really is a great place to live, and that is not a lie.
she says pointedly to Lydia getting the sense that she was a very mature 8 year old. A very energetic woman, LYNDA BLOOME, approaches them. Her black hair is pulled back in a tight bun.
LYNDA: Hi, I'm Lynda Bloome, head of sales.
JOANIE: And Lynda was second to move in. She's a very noisy neighbor, though.
She leaves, to continue mingling.
Lynda laughed.
LYNDA: She's kidding, of course. I take it you two are interested in becoming homeowners.
DEAN: Well...
SAM: Y-yeah, well...
LYNDA: Well, let me just say that we accept homeowners of any race, religion, color, or... sexual orientation.
DEAN chuckles, he so dosen't want to explaine that the two of them are brother and Lydia was his daughter again.
DEAN: Right. Um... I'm gonna go talk to Larry, Lydia why don't you stay with sam and find something to eat, keep an eye on our girl.
Dean says to SAM
DEAN: Okay, honey?
He walks away, smacking SAM on his ass and giving Lydia a Kiss on the head. SAM and LYNDA share an awkward silence. Dean found Larry and asked if he could see the lay out of the typical model home which Larry was obliged because he lived in the basic model. they went Inside and walked around answering all of Dean's fake questions, LARRY and DEAN come downstairs, finishing the tour.
LARRY: You've got three choices - carpet, hardwood, and tile.
DEAN: notices a jar full of bugs on a nearby table.
DEAN: Whoa. Someone likes bugs.
LARRY: My son - he's into insects. He's very... inquisitive.
DEAN: well I better keep Lydia out of here, that's the one thing she is terrified of, all the creepy crawlies.
While Dean was inside Lydia and Sam were Outside Lydia was sitting at a near by table eating her BBQ ribs and a juice ans watermellon while, LYNDA was still talking to SAM.
LYNDA Who can say "no" to a steam shower? I use mine everyday.
SAM (uninterested) Sounds great.
While LYNDA continues talking, SAM notices a tarantula crawling towards her hand, which is resting on a table. A few feet away, LARRY's son, MATT, is watching excitedly he looks back to see that Lydia isn't paying attention which was a good thing because she would be screaming and throwing a fit if she was the huge spider out on the table and not in a spider habitat.
SAM: Excuse me.
He pushes LYNDA out of the way and picks up the spider, bringing it over to MATT.
SAM: Is this yours?
MATT: You gonna tell my dad?
Taking the spider from sam and holding it in his hands.
SAM I don't know. Who's your dad?
MATT (scoffs) Yeah, Larry usually skips me in the family introductions.
SAM Ouch. First name basis with the old man - sounds pretty grim.
MATT Well, I'm not exactly brochure material.
SAM Well it's a good thing my niece didn't see the spider then every one would have known to not to worry, but any way hang in there. life gets better, all right? I promise.
MATT When?
LARRY Matthew.
They turn to see LARRY and DEAN walking towards them.
I am so sorry about my son and his... pet he didn't scare Lydia did he?.
SAM um... no she didn't see it, really It's no bother.
LARRY Excuse us.
He walks away with Matt scolding him about the potential chaos he could have created if the Lydia had noticed the spider and freaked out.
SAM: Remind you of somebody?
DEAN looks over at LARRY, who is yelling at MATT. He looks back at SAM, confused.
SAM: Dad?
DEAN Dad never treated us like that or Lydia.
SAM: Well, Dad may have never treated you two like that. You were perfect and Lydia is his granddaughter she's just like you perfect and obedient. He was all over my case. You don't remember?
DEAN: Well, maybe he had to raise his voice, but sometimes, you were out of line.
SAM: (scoffs) Right. Right, like when I said I'd rather play soccer than learn bowhunting.
DEAN: Bowhunting's an important skill.
SAM: (rolling his eyes) Whatever. How was your tour?
DEAN: Oh, it was excellent. I'm ready to buy. (SAM laughs.) So you might be onto somethin'. Looks like Dustin Burwash wasn't the first strange death around here.
SAM: What happened?
DEAN: About a year ago, before they broke ground, one of Larry's surveyors dropped dead while on the job. Get this severe allergic reaction to bee stings.
SAM: More bugs.
DEAN: (nodding) More Bugs.
LYDIA: Daddy I need to wash my hands, they're all gooey.
Dean grabs some napkins and dunks them in a water cup from the table and goes over to help his daughter clean up since she would have a melt down inside with all the bug cages everywhere. then they head out and continue driving around the neighborhood. Dean let, SAM drive while he looked through their father's journal.
DEAN: You know, I've heard of killer bees, but killer beetles? What is it that could make different bugs attack?
SAM Well, hauntings sometimes include bug manifestations.
DEAN Yeah, but I didn't see any evidence of ghost activity.
SAM Yeah, me neither.
LYDIA: Maybe they're being controlled by something or someone.
SAM You mean, like Willard?
LYDIA: who's willard?
DEAN Yeah, so some one or something is training bugs to kill instead of rats.
SAM There are cases of psychic connections between people and animals - elementals, telepaths.
DEAN Yeah, that whole Timmy-Lassie thing.
LYDIA: That's just a T.V. show Daddy.
Dean thinks for a second and realizes something.
DEAN: Larry's kid - he's got bugs for pets.
SAM: Matt?
DEAN: Yeah.
LYDIA: grose why does he keep them for Pets?
SAM: He, likes them Lydia, and well he did try to scare the realtor with a tarantula while you were with his father.
DEAN You think he's our Willard?
LYDIA: There was a Tarantula by us outside?
She asked frightened, Dean grabed her hand and stroked her knuckles with his thumb getting her jitters to relax.
SAM: I don't know. Anything's possible, I guess.
DEAN: Ooh, hey. Pull over here.
SAM pulls into the empty driveway of one of the Oasis Plains homes.
SAM: What are we doing here?
Dean got out of the car and went to the garage and lifted the door up.
DEAN: It's too late to talk to anybody else.
SAM: We're gonna squat in an empty house?
DEAN: I wanna try the steam shower. Come on.
SAM doesn't mov) : Come on!
Dean waves him forward, Reluctantly, SAM pulls the car into the garage, and DEAN closes the garage door then opeing the back door for Lydia to climb out and grab her bag from dean who takes it out of the trunk along with his things and sam's bags. Sam picks the lock to the house door and walks in leading the way to the upstairs Dean and Lydia take the Master Bedroom while Sam takes one of the other ones Lydia lay's down her stuffy for a pillow and takes out her blanket and places it on the floor in her spot while Dean does the same with his duffel and jacket, once they are situated she pulls out her grimm fairy tales book and walks over to her dad.
Daddy will you read me a story?
DEAN: of course my little Lydi, come here.
He patted to the space next to him as he leaned up against the wall taking the book from her he opened the book to where the next story was marked it was named THE QUEEN BEE.
DEAN: Two king's sons once upon a time went into the world to seek their fourtunes; but they soon fell into a wasteful foolish way of living so that they could not return home their brother, who was a little insignificant dwarf, went out to seek for his brothers: but when he had found them they only laughed at him, to think that he, who was so young and simple, should try to travel through the world, when they, who were so much wiser, had been unable to get on. However, they all set out on their journey together, and came at last to an ant- hill. The two elder brothers would have pulled it down, in order to see how the poor ants in their fright would run about and carry off their eggs. But the little dwarf said, Let the poor things enjoy themselves, I will not suffer you to trouble them.
Mean while LYNDA BLOOME enters her bedroom, turning on the light. She turns on the television and takes her hair out of the bun.
News WOMAN ON TV: Atoka Valley County began mandatory insecticide spraying across a wide swath of the district today. Authorities say the decision to spray was made because of several recent cases of West Nile virus, coupled with a dramatic increase in the mosquito population of some areas.
As she is watching the news, a large spider crawls out of LYNDA'S hair and onto her face. She gasps and swipes it away. She turns off the television, frightened. A few moments later, then she heads to the shower. While she was washing her hair, a very big spider crawls out from behind the showerhead. In a matter of seconds, hundreds of enormous spiders begin crawling out from the tiles. LYNDA opens her eyes and screams and she tries to get them off and away from her causingher to fall and break through the glass of the shower door, she was still trying to get away from the mass of spiders even though she was impaled with glass and being assulted with the fangs of the spiders until she died, A trail of blood leads from the bathtub to the bedroom floor. LYNDA is lying there, dead, as several smaller spiders run across her body.
the next morning sam puts a bagle on the counter along with orange juice for Lydia while sam has his bagle and Coffee and one for Dean as well they were listening to the police scanner seeing if anything else weird was going on when a call comes about Lynda Blooms death, Lydia looks at sam and he returns her look then he gets up and goes upstairs to find Dean, SAM approaches the bathroom door, where the shower was running. He knocks.
SAM: You ever comin' out of there?
DEAN: What?( he calls through the door.)
SAM: Dean, a police call came in on the scanner.
DEAN: Hold on.
SAM: Lynda Bloom was found dead three blocks from here. Come on.
The bathroom door opens. DEAN is standing there, in the steam-filled room, with a towel on his head.
DEAN: This shower is awesome, Lydi loved it too.
SAM: (rolling his eyes) Come on. (He walks away.)
DEAN, LYDIA and SAM pull up and get out of the car. They approach LARRY, who is finishing talking to someone on the phone. LYNDA'S body is being carried out in a body bag on a stretcher.
LARRY: Hello. You're, uh, back early.
DEAN: Yeah, we just drove in, wanted to take another look at the neighborhood, see if it was really what we wanted for our dad!
SAM: What's goin' on?
LARRY: You guys met, uh... Lynda Bloome at the barbeque?
SAM: The realtor.
LARRY: Well, she, uh... passed away last night.
The boys and Lydia looked at Larry shocked.
LYDIA: What happened to her?
LARRY: I'm still tryin' to find out. I just Identified the body for the police. Look, I-I'm sorry, this isn't a good time now.
SAM: It's okay.
LARRY: Excuse me.
He leaves them, to walk back to the police officer to get a copy of the incident report for his employee insurance.
DEAN: You know what we have to do, right?
SAM: Yeah. Get in that house.
DEAN: See if we got a bug problem.
LYDIA: I'll stay out here and keep a look out, I don't want to see bugs alive ones or dead ones.
Dean Squeezed her shoulder and then made their way to the back yard, they climb over the fence, up the side of the house, and through LYNDA'S bedroom window. The outline of her dead body is drawn on the carpet.
DEAN: This looks like the place.
They walk over to another part of the room. DEAN picks up a towel, and drops it when he sees it is covered in dead spiders.
DEAN: Spiders. From Spider Boy?
SAM: Matt - maybe.
Sam and Dean climb back out the window and over the fence again he picks up Lydia and they walk back to the car and make a plan to Meet Matt at the Bus stop so they can confront him. DEAN, Lydia and SAM pull up at the curb. Across the street, MATT gets off a school bus and begins walking into the forest.
DEAN: Isn't his house that way?
He points in the opposite direction.
SAM: Yup.
LYDIA: So where's he goin'?
They all get out of the car and begin following MATT. They find him in the woods, examining a grasshopper, lydia leaps back and scurries behind Dean trying to get rid of the heebee jeebies.
SAM: Hey, Matt. Remember me?
MATT: What are you doin' out here?
DEAN: Well, we wanna talk to you.
MATT: You're not here to buy a house, are you?
DEAN: shakes his head.
MATT: W-wait. You're not serial killers?
SAM and DEAN laugh.
SAM: No, no. No, I think you're safe Serial killers usually dont bring a little girl along with them on their murder spree.
DEAN: So, Matt... you sure know a lot about insects.
MATT: So?
DEAN: Did you hear what happened to Lynda, the realtor?
MATT: I hear she died this morning.
DEAN: Mm, that's right. Spider bites.
LYDIA: Matt... My unlce sam said you tried to scare her with a spider, it's not nice some people are terrified of bugs.
She said innocently from behind Dean, Dean reached around him and pressed her head up against his hip giving her reassurance and love, he knew this was difficult for her she absolutly hated bugs.
MATT: Wait. You think I had something to do with that?
DEAN: You tell us.
MATT: That tarantula was a joke. Anyway, that wouldn't explain the bee attack or the gas company guy.
SAM: You know about those?
MATT: There is somethin' going on here. I don't know what... but something's happening with the insects. Let me show you something.
He picks up his backpack and beings walking with them to another area of the forest they were in.
SAM: So, if you knew about all this bug stuff, why not tell your dad? Maybe he could clear everybody out.
MATT: Believe me, I've tried. But, uh, Larry doesn't listen to me.
SAM: Why not?
MATT: Mostly? He's too disappointed in his freak son.
SAM: (scoffs) I hear you.
DEAN: You do?
SAM turns and gives him a look, like duh of course I do this kid is living my life.
SAM; Matt, how old are you?
MATT: Sixteen.
SAM: Well, don't sweat it, because in two years, something great's gonna happen.
MATT: What?
SAM: College. You'll be able to get out of that house and away from your dad.
DEAN What kind of advice is that? a Kid should stick with his family.
LYDIA: Uncle Sammy do you really hate us that much?
Lydia looks at him saddly, and Dean raises his eyes like well what are you gonna tell her?
SAM sighs and glares at him, Sam Didn't hate Dean or Lydia or his father but he could relate to Matt wanting to be out living his own life and doing things his own way but he couldn't explain that to Lydia she thought that family was everything and so did Dean they just didn't get it.
SAM: How much further, Matt?
MATT: We're close.
SAM glares at DEAN one more time before he continues walking and tries to look away from Lydia her frown deepens severly he was going to have to do damage Control with her later that was their game they would start to have a better relationship but then something always made them take several steps backwards she was tough and unyeilding in her devotion to honesty, truth and family again she was alot like Dean loyal to a fault and unbending as temperd steel. A few moments later, they reached a large clearing. The sounds of hundreds of different insects can be heard among the trees, lydia put her hands on her ears to drown out the sound and she Clamped her eye's shut tying to keep herself in a safe and soundless cacoon.
MATT: I've been keeping track of insect populations. It's, um, part of an AP science class.
DEAN: You two are like peas in a pod.
SAM ignores him and continues to listen to Matt.
SAM; What's been happening?
MATT: A lot. I mean, from bees to earthworms, beetles... you name it. It's like they're congregating here.
DEAN: Why?
MATT: I don't know.
SAM: What's that?
He points to a dark patch of grass a few feet away. Curious, they walk over to it and discover hundreds of worms. DEAN steps on some of them, and they fall into the ground, creating a hole he turns Lydia away from the hole so she dosen't see what he pulls out then, He crouches down and uses a stick to poke around in the hole.
DEAN: There's somethin' down there.
He puts the stick down and puts his hand into the hole. With a disgusted expression, he feels around then touches something inside the hole, He brings his hand back up, and the three boys look horrified, Dean was glad that Lydia was turned around because, he pulled out a human Scull that was covered in dirt and worms. Dean lead Lydia back to the Car and grabbed a box they usually kept their files in and handed the file folders to her to hold while he went back to where sam and Matt were and unburried the rest of the bones to clean up and take with them, they would have to think of who they could talk to about the bones later.
Sam had looked into the local Collage and discovere they had a DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, he called the professor to make an appt, telling them that he and his lab partner had questions about some bones they had discovered and if he could take a look at them.
SAM and Dean pull up outside the local university and get out of the car, Lydia was told to stay in the car because she would be a deterant to their cover as students, Dean left her with her fairy tale book and snacks and water and told her to text if she needed the bathroom or anything else. Sam took the box of bones out from the backseat and head towards the building.
SAM: So, a bunch of skeletons in an unmarked grave.
DEAN: Yeah. Maybe this is a haunting. Pissed off spirits? Some unfinished business?
SAM: Yeah, maybe. Question is, why bugs? And why now?
DEAN: That's two questions.
SAM ignores him.
DEAN: Yeah, so with that kid back there... why'd you tell him to just ditch his family like that?
SAM: Just, uh... I know what the kid's goin' through.
DEAN: How 'bout tellin' him to respect his old man, how's that for advice?
SAM: Dean, come on.
They stop walking and Face each other, sam knew there was bound to be a confrontation about what Sam had told Matt, both Dean and Lydia had been giving him the silent treatment and the cold shoulder since that happened.
SAM: This isn't about his old man. You think I didn't respect Dad. That's what this is about.
DEAN: Just forget it, all right? Sorry I brought it up.
SAM: I respected him. But no matter what I did, it was never good enough.
DEAN: So what are you sayin'? That Dad was disappointed in you?
SAM; Was? Is. Always has been.
DEAN: Why would you think that?
SAM: Because I didn't wanna bowhunt or hustle pool - because I wanted to go to school and live my life, which, to our whacked-out family, made me the freak.
DEAN: Yeah, you were kind of like the blonde chick in The Munsters, but I'm tellin ya man as a parent I am never going to be disappointed if Lydia dosen't want to hunt, I only want to teach her how to be safe and happy; and really that's all dad wanted for you too, he wanted to teach you the skills to be safe along with giving you the things you liked he didn't have to enroll us in every school in every state that we went to he did that because of you and he knew that it was hard for you to be the new kid every time but he thought better be the new kid then deny you the thing you loved.
SAM: Dean, you know what most dads are when their kids score a full ride? Proud. Most dads don't toss their kids out of the house.
DEAN I remember that fight. In fact, I seem to recall a few choice phrases comin' out of your mouth.
SAM You know, truth is, when we finally do find Dad... I don't know if he's even gonna wanna see me.
DEAN Sam, Dad was never disappointed in you. Never. He was scared.
SAM What are you talkin' about?
DEAN He was afraid of what could've happened to you if he wasn't around just like I am with Lydia. But even when you two weren't talkin'... he used to swing by Stanford whenever he could.
SAM'S smirk fades and turns into a look of shock.
DEAN: Keep an eye on you. Make sure you were safe.
SAM What?
DEAN Yeah.
SAM Why didn't you tell me any of that?
DEAN: Well, it's a two-way street, dude just like you never called me back when I tried to tell you about Lydia. You could've picked up the phone.
SAM stares at him sadly, realizing that he'd been putting alot of the blame on the his father and Dean when he was to blame for the family fracture as well.
DEAN: Come on, we're gonna be late for our appointment.
He walks away, sad and still irritated they made it to the Anthropology class room and walked in and down to the lecture platform. SAM and DEAN were talking with the professor.
PROFESSOR: So, you two are students?
SAM: Yeah. Yeah, uh, we're in your class - Anthro 101?
PROFESSOR; Oh, yeah.
DEAN: So, what about the bones, Professor?
PROFESSOR: This is quite an interesting find you've made. I'd say they're 170 years old, give or take. The time frame and the geography heavily suggest Native American.
SAM: Were there any tribes or reservations on that land?
PROFESSOR: Not according to the historical record. But the, uh, relocation of native peoples was quite common at that time.
SAM; Right. Well, are there any local legends? Oral histories about the area?
PROFESSOR: Well... you know, there's a Euchee tribe in Sapulpa. It's about sixty miles from here. Someone out there might know the truth.
DEAN: All right, thankyou for your time Professor.
They shook hands and headed back to the car and drove to SAPULPA DEAN, LYDIA, and SAM are driving through Sapulpa. They stop and ask a Native American man for directions. Once he directs them where to go, they thank him and drive away.
they park at an OKLAHOMA DINER and get out of the Car. SAM,DEAN and Lydia enter and find another Native American man playing cards at a table.
SAM; Joe White Tree? (The man nods.) We'd like to ask you a few questions, if that's all right.
DEAN: We're students from the university.
JOE: No, you're not. You're lying.
DEAN seems taken aback.
DEAN: Well, truth is
JOE: You know who starts sentence with "truth is"? Liars.
DEAN exchanges a look with SAM.
LYDIA: My daddy's not a Liar sir, he hunts the bad things that people don't believe exist so he has to pretend to be somthing he's not so he can do his job and keep people safe.
she defended as she crossed her arms over her chest staring at him in the eyes, as if daring him to question her statment.
SAM: Have you heard of Oasis Plains? It's a housing development near the Atoka Valley.
JOE: (to Dean) I like her she's upfront your doing a good job raising her, I know the area.
SAM: What can you tell us about the history there?
JOE: Why do you wanna know?
SAM: Something... something bad is happening in Oasis Plains. We think it might have something to do with some old bones we found down there - Native American bones.
JOE: I'll tell you what my grandfather told me, what his grandfather told him. Two hundred years ago, a band of my ancestors lived in that valley. One day, the American cavalry came to relocate them. They were resistant, the cavalry impatient. As my grandfather put it, on the night the moon and the sun share the sky as equals, the cavalry first raided our village. They murdered, raped. The next day, the cavalry came again, and the next, and the next. And on the sixth night, the cavalry came one last time. And by the time the sun rose, every man, woman, and child still in the village was dead. They say on the sixth night, as the chief of the village lay dying, he whispered to the heavens that no white man would ever tarnish this land again. Nature would rise up and protect the valley. And it would bring as many days of misery and death to the white man as the cavalry had brought upon his people.
DEAN: Insects. Sounds like nature to me. Six days.
JOE: And on the night of the sixth day, none would survive.
SAM and DEAN exchange a look and Lydia shivers it was her biggest nightmare to die my bugs. SAM, DEAN and Lydia are walking back to the car.
SAM :When did the gas company man die?
DEAN: Uh, let's see, we got here Tuesday, so, Friday the twentieth.
SAM: March twentieth? (DEAN nods.) That's the spring equinox.
DEAN: The night the sun and the moon share the sky as equals.
SAM: So, every year about this time, anybody in Oasis Plains is in danger. Larry built this neighborhood on cursed land.
LYDIA: And on the sixth night - that's tonight.
SAM: If we don't do something, Larry's family will be dead by sunrise. So how do we break the curse?
DEAN: You don't break a curse. You get out of its way. We've gotta get those people out now.
They get in the car and drive away.
While the Winchesters are Driving back to Oasis Plains, MATT is in the backyard with a flashlight. He hears a noise coming from the ground. He crouches down by a patch of ground and moves a rock. Suddenly, tons of cockroaches come crawling out from under the dirt. MATT runs away.
DEAN is driving while talking on the phone with LARRY, sam is anxiously bouncing his knee up and down and Lydia is sobbing in the back seat unable to control the fear she was feeling because of the bugs that might kill Matt's Family.
DEAN: Yes, Mr. Pike, there's a mainline gas leak in your neighborhood.
LARRY: (in his kitchen) God, really? And how big?
DEAN: Well, it's fairly extensive. I don't want to alarm you, but we need your family out of the vicinity for at least twelve hours or so, just to be safe.
LARRY: And who is this, again?
DEAN: Travis Weaver. I work for Oklahoma Gas and Power.
LARRY: Uh-huh. Well, the problem is, I know Travis. He's worked with us for a year, so who is this?
DEAN; Uh...
Panicked, Dean hangs up the phone and sighes, Dean tells Lydia to climb over the seat and sit inbetween Sam and himself because he could feel her fear and he couldn't pull over to comfort her, she did as she was asked and climbed over and burried her self in her fathers side and continued to cry.
SAM: Give me the phone.
Sam takes the phone from DEAN and dials a number. At the Pike residence, MATT answers his cell phone.
MATT: Hello?
SAM: Matt, it's Sam.
MATT: Sam, my backyard is crawling with cockroaches.
SAM: Matt, just listen. You have to get your family out of that house right now, okay?
MATT: What, why?
SAM: Because something's coming.
MATT: More bugs?
SAM: Yeah, a lot more.
MATT: My dad doesn't listen in the best of circumstances, what am I supposed to tell him?
SAM: You've gotta make him listen, okay?
LYDIA; Give me the phone, give me the phone. (She grabs the phone from SAM and takes a deep breath to calm her voice.) Matt, under no circumstances are you to tell the truth you know he won't believe you because somthing like this is just to incredible, He'll just think you're nuts and then everyone will die.
MATT: But he's my
DEAN: I know he's your dad, Belive me I am always for telling the truth, but we are dealing with the supernatural and that's hard enough for anyone to believe in if you want to save your families lives Tell him you have a sharp pain in your right side and you've gotta go to the hospital, okay?
MATT: Yeah. Yeah, okay.
He hangs up, and so does LYDIA. she puts the phone in Deans pocket and continues to lean into him.
DEAN: Make him listen? What are you thinkin'?
shaking his head at Sam exasperatedly, while carressing his daughters head and kissing her she really was amazing she could tell the best stories so they could get their job done along with being the most honest person in the whole world, he was so proud of her.
A while later, they pull up outside LARRY'S house. LARRY looks out the window and, seeing their car, goes outside.
DEAN: Damn it, they're still here. Come on.
They all get out of the car, and are joined by MATT.
LARRY: Get off my property before I call the cops.
SAM: Mr. Pike, listen.
MATT: Dad, they're just tryin' to help.
LARRY: Get in the house!
MATT: I'm sorry. I told him the truth.
he said looking at a terrified Lydia.
DEAN; My daughter gave you a plan, Matt, what happened to the plan?
SAM: Look, it's 12:00 AM. They are coming any minute now. You need to get your family and go, before it's too late.
LARRY: Yeah, you mean before the biblical swarm.
DEAN: Larry, what do you think really happened to that realtor, huh? And the gas company guy? You don't think somethin' weird's goin' on here?
LARRY: Look, I don't know who you are, but you're crazy. You come near my boy or my family again, and we're gonna have a problem.
DEAN; Well, I hate to be a downer, but we've got a problem right now.
LYDIA; Mr. Pike, My dadd's right, okay? We're in danger.
LARRY: Matt, get inside! Now, that's real cute the two of you guys using a little girl to cause me and my family undo frustration, you ought to be...
Mr. pike said laying into Dean and sam, when Matt stepped up in defence of Lydia.
MATT No! Why won't you listen to me?!
LARRY: Because this is crazy! It doesn't make any sense!
SAM: Look, this land is cursed! People have died here. Now, are you gonna really take that risk with your family?
DEAN Wait. (They all go silent.) You hear it?
From somewhere nearby, a very loud buzzing noise can be heard. It continues to get louder Lydia starts crying wrapping her arms around Dean and burring her head in his stomach.
LYDIA: Daddy, you gotta kill the bad thing, please I don't want to have this nightmare, daddy please!.
she begged sobbing, dean picked her up and held her tight as he continued to look into the horizion.
LARRY: What the hell?
The fluorescent bug light on the porch begins to overheat, killing several bugs at a time.
DEAN: All right, it's time to go. Larry, get your wife.
MATT: Guys.
All of them look up to the sky except for Lydia who now has her hands over her ears and is crying harder and harder. Millions of bugs begin flying towards the house, blanketing the sky.
LARRY: Oh my God.
SAM: We'll never make it.
DEAN; Everybody in the house. Everybody in the house, go!
They all rush inside the house and lock the door Dean hands Lydia off to Larry so he can assess the situation.
SAM: Okay, is there anybody else in the neighborhood?
LARRY: No, it's just us.
JOANIE enters the entry way seeing her husband holding a hysterical child while Dean and sam are walking around closing windows and shoving towls into cracks and any other openings the bugs could come through.
JOANIE: Honey, what's happening? What's that noise?
LARRY: Call 911. (She doesn't move.) Joanie!
JOANIE: Okay.
She picks up the phone and dials but hears nothing not even a dial tone.
DEAN: I need towels, rags anything.
LARRY: Uh, in the closet.
he points as he hoist's Lydia on to his hip and adjusting her in his arms while trying to sooth her but she wasn't having it, she was still crying just as hard as she was previously.
SAM: (to Matt) Okay, we've gotta lock this place up, come on - doors, windows, fireplace, everything, okay?
They go upstairs and lock up everything in the upstairs.
JOANIE: Phones are dead.
DEAN: They must have chewed through the phone lines.
He beings putting towels at the base of the front door when the power goes out.
And the power lines, and Lydia shrieks in fright.
LARRY: I need my cell.
He picks up his cell phone.
LARRY: there No signal on my cell either.
DEAN: You won't get one. They're blanketing the house.
there wre litterally Millions of bugs that were begining to collect on the doors and windows, covering the entire building. The five of them watch, waiting while Lydia was being drownd out by the buzzing of the bugs.
LARRY: So what do we do now?
SAM: We try to outlast it. Hopefully, the curse will end at sunrise.
LARRY: Hopefully?
In the kitchen, DEAN searches the cabinets for anything he can use as a wepon or a deturant he was hearing his daughter screaming and he didn't want her to die in her worst nightmare. He found a can of bug spray and returns to the living room.
JOANIE: Bug spray?
DEAN: Trust me.
They hear a creaking noise coming from somewhere around the fireplace which makes them all jump and look towards it.
MATT: What is that?
SAM: The flue.
DEAN: All right, I think everybody needs to get upstairs.
Suddenly, hundreds of thousands of bugs come into the living room, swarming all around them. They scream and try to protect themselves Lydia was batting them away from her head and screaming Mr. Pike finally had to let her down on the ground so he could defend him self as well as the others, DEAN uses a lighter with the can of bug spray to make it flare up. The flame wards some of the bugs away.
Dean: All right, everybody upstairs! Now! Go, go, go!
they all go upstairs with them into the attic, SAM closes the door after Dean gets in. After a moment of being in the attic, sawdust begins to fall from the ceiling. The buzz of the bees gets louder the Pike Family and Lydia huddle in the middle of the room looking around terrified while Lydia is still covering her ears and shutting her eyes trying to breath.
JOANIE: Oh, God, what's that?
DEAN: Something's eating through the wood.
MATT: Termites.
DEAN: All right, everybody get back. Get back, get back, get back!
The three Pikes and Lydia move as far into the corner of the attic as they can. A second later, the bugs chew a hole through the ceiling and swarm around the room. SAM and DEAN frantically try to patch up the hole in the ceiling, but this only works for a minute. Soon, two more holes are chewed, and while DEAN tries to ward them off with bug spray, nothing seems to work. The six of them stand in the corner, trying desperately to swat the bugs away for a few minutes. Then, suddenly, the sun rises. Miraculously, the bugs start to leave through the hole in the ceiling. Confused, SAM and DEAN go to see what happened. Through the hole, they can see the bugs in the sky, near the sun, in one enormous colony. The six of them continue watching, relieved then Lydia throws her self at Dean and just about strangles him because she was still so terrified, he hugs her and kisses her cheek assuring her that they destroyed the bad thing and that she wouldn't have to have any nightmares about this and to be obedient and brave.
Later that same day DEAN and SAM approach LARRY, Lydia stayed in the car she had falled asleep because she was emotionally exhausted from the events of last night, Larry was busy placing boxes into a moving van.
DEAN: What, no goodbye?
LARRY: Good timing. Another hour and we'd have been gone.
He shakes both their hands.
SAM: For good?
LARRY: Yeah. The development's been put on hold while the government investigates those bones you found. But I'm gonna make damn sure no one lives here again.
SAM: You don't seem too upset about it.
LARRY: Well, this has been the biggest financial disaster of my career, but...
He looks over at MATT, who is carrying a box to the garbage
LARRY ...somehow, I really don't care.
They share a smile. SAM walks over to MATT, who is throwing away all his insect paraphernalia.
SAM: What's this?
MATT: I don't know. They kind of weird me out now.
They both laugh.
SAM Yeah, I should hope so, my niece will be happy to hear that.
A few minutes later, SAM joins DEAN by the car. They watch LARRY and MATT, who are now getting along very well.
SAM: I wanna find Dad.
DEAN: Yeah, me and Lydia do too.
SAM: Yeah, but I just... I want to apologize to him.
DEAN; For what?
SAM: All the things I said to him. He was just doin' the best he could, just like you are with Lydia.
DEAN: Well, don't worry, we'll find him. And then you'll apologize. And then within five minutes, you guys will be at each other's throats.
SAM: (laughs.) Yeah, probably.
They sit in silence for a few seconds.
SAM: Let's hit the road.
DEAN Let's.
They get in the car, giving one last wave to LARRY and MATT, and drive away.