Pilot



Summary
Two brothers, Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles, "Smallville" and "Dark Angel") and Sam (Jared Padalecki, "Gilmore Girls" and "House of Wax"), witness their mother's paranormal death as children and grow up trained to fight by a distraught father who wants nothing more than to hunt down the thing that killed his wife. Sam escapes to college to start a new, normal life, but gets pulled back in after Dean shows up on his doorstep to tell him their father is missing. Following clues from their father's eerie phone message, the boys travel to a small town and encounter a violent and vengeful spirit called the "Woman in White."

Recap
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, 22 YEARS AGO - Dean Winchester, a young boy, says goodnight to his baby brother Sam Winchester, along with the rest of his family. We see Mary Winchester lying in bed when she hears Sam crying. She goes to investigate and sees someone standing over Sam’s cot. She assumes it’s her husband, John. However, when she goes downstairs and realizes John is actually sleeping in his chair by the TV, she runs back to Sam's room. John Winchester is awoken by her scream and runs to Sam’s bedroom, but the baby is alone. Blood spatters from above and Mr. Winchester looks up to see his wife pinned to the ceiling by some unknown entity. Her body bursts into flames and the horrified father grabs Sam and gives him to Dean. He orders Dean to take Sam outside as fast as he can, then rushes back to try to save his wife. He's too late, however, and the flames completely consume the room, forcing him to flee the house. Sam's room explodes moments later.



STANFORD UNIVERSITY, PRESENT DAY - Sam is now grown up and going to a Halloween party with his girlfriend, Jessica Moore. He talks about an interview he has on Monday for law school and that his family doesn’t know.

LATER THAT NIGHT - Sam is in bed with Jess when he hears someone break in. He fights the shadowy intruder until he realizes it's Dean, his brother. Dean explains he needs Sam’s help to find their dad because he’s missing after going on a ‘hunt.’ The pair step outside to talk and discuss the family obsession to find what killed their mom. Sam is reluctant to continue the crusade, he wants a normal life, but he does agree to help Dean find their dad.

Sam asks what their dad was hunting and Dean opens his car trunk and shows newspaper clips. He explains men are vanishing from their cars on Centennial Highway. 10 are missing over the past 20 years and it’s happening more. Dean plays Sam a voicemail from their dad. It has EVP on, but Dean has cleaned it up to hear the hidden message, ‘I can never go home.’ Sam reminds Dean if he goes he has to be back by Monday for his law school interview.

BACK INSIDE - Jess finds Sam packing and he makes an excuse his dad is hunting deer with a few guys and got carried away. He’s going to just bring him back. Jess reminds him of the interview and worries what’s going on.

JERICHO, CALIFORNIA, NIGHT - A guy is driving down the road when he sees a woman in white standing alone in the dark. He pulls over and she gets in. She acts seductively, teasing the guy and asking him to go home with her. He says 'hell, yes' and heads where she directs him. When they arrive the house is derelict and she tells him ‘I can never go home,’ before vanishing. He gets out and looks around, but gets spooked and jumps back in his car. When he looks in the rear-view she’s in the back and he freaks, crashing through a barrier onto a bridge. The car stops and we hear screams and blood splatter in the windshield.

A GARAGE SOMEWHERE NEXT MORNING - Dean and Sam have stopped for gas and Sam accuses Dean and their dad of credit card scams to pay for their ‘hunting.’ Dean doesn’t deny it. Sam then tells Dean he needs a better selection of music in his car, to which Dean replies, ‘House rules, Sammy. Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.’ They drive off and we see them pass a sign for Jericho. Ahead, they see the bridge where the guy’s car crashed the night before and lots of cop cars. Dean pulls up and takes out 2 fake ID’s and the two brothers’ question the cops posing as US Marshals. The cop says he knew the latest victim, named Troy and that his girlfriend is putting up missing posters, but they have no leads to his whereabouts.

DOWNTOWN - Dean and Sam find Amy (Troy’s girlfriend) and tell her they’re his uncles and are looking for him too. They go to a diner and she explains he last spoke on his cell from his car. Amy’s friend is there too and brings up a local legend about a girl who died on Centennial Highway whose ghost hitchhikes and kills the driver who has picked her up.

LATER - Dean and Sam search the net for news items concerning deaths on Centennial. They find an article about a woman who committed suicide after her 2 kids drowned mysteriously. It seems Constance Welch jumped from a local bridge back in 1981.

THE BRIDGE THAT NIGHT - Dean and Sam go to check out the scene where Constance died. They talk about more family stuff and Dean gets upset with Sam for not even remembering his mom. Suddenly, they spot a ghostly woman in white jump from the bridge and the next moment Dean’s car starts on its own and tries to knock them down. The brothers run for it, and Dean ends up diving off the bridge. He survives, but gets pretty muddy.

HOTEL - Dean and Sam book into the same hotel their dad was in and check out his room. There are pictures stuck to the walls and Sam notices their dad had solved the puzzle. The killer spook is a ‘woman in white.’ Dean says dad would have destroyed the corpse and Sam says maybe the ghost has another weakness. Dean says dad would still have dug her up, so they decide to go talk to the dead woman’s husband to find where she’s buried. First, Dean decides to get cleaned up and go for food.

OUTSIDE THE HOTEL - Dean is going for food when the cops arrest him for impersonating a US Marshal. He does manage to call Sam first warning him to run for it.

SHERIFF’S OFFICE - Dean gets interrogated and is told he’s a suspect in the men's disappearances. The sheriff throws Dean’s dad’s diary at him and asks what the numbers in it mean. Dean seems surprised to see them.

CONSTANCE’S HUSBAND’S HOME - Sam visits Mr. Joseph Welch and asks where Constance is buried and what happened back in 1981. Sam fathoms out Joseph was unfaithful and suggests in temporary insanity, Constance killed her kids and herself when she found out, thus becoming a ‘woman in white.’ She now kills unfaithful men on the highway. Joseph asks Sam to leave.

SHERIFF’S OFFICE - The sheriff’s interrogation of Dean is interrupted by an emergency call and he leaves Dean cuffed to the desk. Dean picks the cuffs locks with a paperclip and escapes.

OUTSIDE - Dean calls Sam who is on his way to the old Welch house where Constance is buried. Dean says he knows Sam made the fake call to the sheriff to distract him. He also says the numbers in their dad’s diary are coordinates and their dad has left Jericho to go there. Before they can discuss more, the woman in white appears in front of Sam’s car and he drives right through her. He yells, and Dean knows something is wrong. The next minute, the woman in white is in the car with Sam, asking to be taken home. When he refuses, she takes control of the car and it drives on its own.

THE OLD WELCH HOUSE - The car stops and Constance says she can never go home. Sam figures she’s scared to enter. Constance jumps on Sam intent on making him unfaithful, but he refuses to give into her seduction. She starts to hurt him and we see her real, grotesque features as Sam screams. Then, Dean comes to the rescue, shooting at the spook. The distraction gives Sam enough time to drive the car straight into the house, taking Constance’s spirit with him. Dean runs in and pulls Sam from the car, but Constance pins them down with a desk. It looks like their goose is cooked, but Constance’s dead kids’ show up, just as Sam had hoped when he drove the car in the house. (Constance was afraid to go in the house because she was afraid of them because she drowned them) The kids take their mom’s spirit back with them to the netherworld and all 3 apparations vanish into a pool of water on the floor. Dean and Sam push free and get in their car.

On the way back they figure out their dad is in a place called Blackwater Ridge, but Sam says he isn’t going. He’s going back to Stanford for his interview. Sam seems happy to be home and smiles at the cookies lying on a table. He finds a note "Missed you! Love you!". Sounds coming from the shower makes him feel Jessica is probably home. He comfortably lies down but blood splatters on him. He is horrified to see Jessica pinned to the ceiling in the same way as his mother. She bursts into flames and Dean appears at the right moment and rescues Sam. As the fire is doused down by the fire engines, Dean and Sam pack their stuff on to the car and Sam ends by saying "We got work to do."

Main

 * Dean Winchester
 * Sam Winchester

Minor

 * John Winchester
 * Mary Winchester
 * Jessica Moore
 * Azazel (cameo)

Featured Music

 * Ginger - Gasoline


 * Classic - What Cha Gonna Do
 * Eagles of Death Metal - Speaking in Tongues
 * Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man
 * AC/DC - Back in Black
 * AC/DC - Highway to Hell
 * Kid Gloves Music - My Cheatin' Ways

Featured Supernatural Beings

 * Ghosts
 * Woman in White
 * Azazel (in 1983)
 * Brady (off-screen)

Errors

 * During the initial teaser, when Constance kills the unfaithful man, we clearly see blood splashed on the windows of the car. However, later when Sam & Dean meet the police on the bridge, there is no blood on the windows of the same car.
 * At 19:06, in the background of the window, we can see a flat terrain but just as they park, we can see a hill with trees beside the road.
 * When Mary is pinned to the ceiling, her blood drips on Sam. Yet when John sees her body and falls down screaming, he looks in another direction that would make it impossible for Mary's blood to drip on Sam.
 * When Sam criticizes Dean's choice in music Dean takes a Metallica tape of off Sam an puts the cassette in the stereo but instead of Metallica playing AC/DC's back in black starts playing.

Quotes
Dean: "Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cake hole."

Dean: "No chick flick moments."

Sam: "Alright ... jerk."

Dean: "Bitch."

Sam: "What were you doing, shooting Casper in the face you freak?"

Dean: "Hey, saved your ass:"

Dean: "That Constance chick — what a bitch!"

Sam: "We got work to do."

Police: Fake US Marshals, fake credit cards...Got anything that's real?
Dean: My boobs.

International Titles

 * Czech: Mrtvá na mostě (Dead on the Bridge)
 * Finnish: Isää etsimässä (Searching for Dad)
 * French: La Dame blanche (The White Woman)
 * German: Die Frau in Weiß (The Woman in White)
 * Hungarian: Nyomtalanul (Without a Trace)
 * Italian: La caccia ha inizio (The hunt has begun)