Chapter 12 - Bugs
Here it is! The episode so bad the writers apologised for it within the show. Personally I didn't think it was awful but anyway, hope you enjoy. BTW, thank you so much for all your tips and suggestions, they are really useful so keep them coming. Those wanting more character interactions or more characters in general, I promise next chapter will include some new people.
The episode began at a construction site. There was a tremor and one of the construction workers looked puzzled. A while later, another construction worker got bitten by a bug.
'That doesn't look good.' Cas commented.
Suddenly, a construction worker fell through a hidden hole in the ground. A worker nearby ran to get a rope to help him. Down in the hole, thousands of carnivorous bugs appeared and began eating at the man's flesh. By the time the other man got there it was too late; the guy was dead.
'Oh my goodness.' Mary said as it showed what the man looked like once he had been half eaten.
The scene then cut to Sam sat on the car and Dean coming out of a nearby building, having won some money hustling pool.
John sighed and looked down as Sam said, 'How we were raised was jacked.'. His cheeks had a red tinge and he wouldn't meet anyone's eyes when they looked at him. Am I that bad a father? He thought to himself. He didn't like the answer he came to.
Sam then told Dean about the case and they decided to check it out. They talked to the guy who had found the body and he told them where it had happened. They found the hole the man had fallen down. Dean and Sam discussed who should go down the hole to have a look and Dean called Sam chicken to persuade him to do it.
'You are so annoying. You only said that because you didn't want to go down there.' Sam said.
'It worked though.' Dean replied with a grin.
Sam found some of the bugs down there but Dean didn't believe that they could've killed the construction worker. They decided to stop off at a barbecue to find out more from the locals. Mary, John and Cas laughed as Larry and the realtor assumed that Sam and Dean were gay. Sam and Dean both blushed slightly.
'Why do people assume we're gay?' Sam asked, slightly confused.
'You're two young guys who go round together, what do you expect?' John said
Sam and Dean both notice insects around the house and they found that the man's son, Matt, was into insects. After meeting the realtor, who attempted to sell them a house, Sam saw Matt's tarantula near the food and gave it back to him. Matt said that his father normally skipped him in the family introductions as he was not proud of him. Afterwards, Sam commented on the similarity between John and the boy's father.
'I was not like him!' John said angrily but then he stopped himself when Sam said that he raised his voice when he wanted to learn soccer instead of bow hunting. John looked over to Mary who looked disgusted.
'Bow hunting? You should've let him play soccer.' Mary muttered.
Sam and Dean returned to the car and found that there was another strange death before the construction began. A man had dropped dead on the survey of the land from a severe allergic reaction to a bee sting. Sam and Dean then squatted in an empty house. The scene then went to the realtor who was attacked and killed by spiders.
'Man. Bugs are horrible.' John said and Sam and Dean wholeheartedly agreed.
'Bees aren't too bad.' Cas muttered quietly.
'Really? Still with the bees?' Dean questioned.
'What? I like them!' Cas replied
The scene then cut to Sam and Dean with Dean in the shower and he appeared with a towel on his head and he said that the shower was awesome. Everyone smiled at his reaction except Mary, who scowled. A nice shower shouldn't be a luxury she thought.
When Sam and Dean found out about the death of the Realtor they broke into the house and found the spiders. Dean thought that it was Matt, due to his pet spider. They believed that he had a psychic link to the bugs and that he was using them to attack people he didn't like. They went to talk to him and he answered their questions by asking if they were serial killers.
'I like this kid. He's sensible.' John said with a smile.
Matt said that there was something strange happening with the insects and he went to show Sam and Dean something. On the way Sam and Matt talked about his father.
'He's too disappointed in his freak son.' Matt said.
'I hear ya.' Sam replied.
'You're not my freak son and I am by no means disappointed in you.' John said adamantly, his heart racing. Mary shot a worried look at Sam and then at Dean.
'I know that now.' Sam replied.
Sam told Matt to wait until college as that would give him the chance to get away from his family. John and Mary both frowned. Dean soon interrupted and told Matt that he should stick with his family. Mary was conflicted. She wanted Sam to have a normal life but she also wanted him to be safe and with his family. John looked away from the screen towards Sam. They found a field in the forest where Matt said loads of insects were congregating. On a closer inspection of a hole made by the insects, they found a skull.
'I've never seen so many insects.' Cas said, 'I normally like insects but those are creepy.'
Sam and Dean took the bones to a professor to look at and they talked about how John treated them.
'You what?' Mary glared at John as Sam mentioned how John tossed him out of the house when he wanted to go to college. How could John justify tossing him out just because he wanted to go to college?
'I wanted to protect him.' John said, 'I wanted to keep him close.'
'How was tossing him out of the house keeping him close?' Mary retorted and John didn't have an answer.
'I don't know if he's even gonna wanna see me.' Sam said.
'Of course, I would want to see you.' John replied, 'Why would you think that?'
'Mabye, because the last time we talked you kicked me out of the house and told me never to come back?' Sam replied and John was silenced.
Dean said how John went by Stanford and Sam asked why he didn't say and Dean replied that it was a two-way street and that Sam never picked up the phone. John did care after all. He was just trying to keep him safe. John relaxed slightly as Mary's tight and pained expression softened. Sam and Dean found out that the bones were native American and they were pointed in the direction of a guy who knew about the native American tribes. The guy called Dean out on his lies when he claimed to be from the university.
'He saw right through your lie.' Cas commented with a smile.
The man told them about the curse the chief of the tribe put on the valley after the tribe was destroyed by western settlers.
'You need to get that family out of there.' Mary said, concerned.
They then tried to persuade the family to leave the land. The next scene showed Matt finding some carnivorous bugs.
'Looks like it's too late. It's starting.' John commented.
Dean called Larry, the father, and pretended to be from the gas company but he knew the guy Dean had pretended to be.
'Of course, he does. I can't believe you compared me to him.' John commented. Mary couldn't help scoffing at that.
Sam then called Matt and told him to get the family out. They tried to persuade the family to leave but by the time they got through to them it was too late.
'That does not look good.' Cas commented
They all ran and barricaded themselves in the house. They found that both the power and the phone lines were dead. Dean then found some bug spray in the house.
'There is no way you could've barricaded yourself against the bugs for the entire night.' Cas commented.
The bugs then got in via the fire place and Dean turned the bug spray into a small flame thrower and tried to keep them away. They all hid in the attic but termites ate through the wood. The sun then came up and the bugs went away.
'That was a short night.' Mary mentioned.
The next morning, they found the family moving out and Matt had got rid of his bug collection.
'I would've thought so, after what you went through.' Mary commented.
Sam said that he wanted to apologise to John for the things he said and he accepted that John had done the best he could. John smiled but Mary raised her eyebrows and looked away. Dean said that within 5 mins they would be at each other's throats and Sam laughed and said that they probably would. John smiled sadly. Sam and Dean then drove away.
'I can't help feeling confused as to why God is doing this.' Cas mentioned 'He hasn't intervened this much in ages. Something doesn't feel right.'
Outside the bunker, someone grinned. Cas doesn't know how right he is. One by one, all the exits from the bunker were closed off.