Eleanor Holmes

Eleanor Holmes is introduced as the mother of Brick Holmes.

Season 8
Sam and Dean visit Eleanor in Boulder, Colorado in the course of their investigation of deaths involving recipients of her son Brick's organs. He was a star quarterback who'd been killed in a single car accident the previous year. Unsatisfied with her answers to their questions, Sam and Dean return to her home that night when she is not there to investigate further. They find what appears to be a bedroom that she shared with Brick, as well as a hidden room filled with decades worth of sports memorabilia and personal correspondence. They find that the photos, while of particular stars of different sports, all seem to resemble Brick. Also, the correspondence is all addressed lovingly to someone called Betsy. Sam eventually spots a decades old photo of Brick (as Boxer Kelly Durand) with is wife, Betsy. The boys recognize the woman to be Eleanor.

Sam and Dean confront Betsy with the truth the next day. Dean implores her to help and she reveals that Brick was actually an ancient Mayan named Inyo, who was born nearly 1000 years ago. In order to keep his youthful athleticism, Inyo made a deal with the god Cacao, offering him the sacrifice two hearts every year--one at the beginning of planting season and one at the beginning of harvest season. She swears that she didn't know about the murders committed in the year since Brick died because she thought that the sacrifices would end when he died. She explained that they met in the 1940's, and that by the time she learned what and who he was, they were so deeply in love that she chose to ignore it. They would lay low for a few years at a time in between his various careers, then reemerge and he would rise to the top of a different sport. As she reached her 40's and he remained young, they started to pose as mother and son. He knew that Betsy would someday die and leave him alone again in the world, the realization drove him to suicide.

Though Dean and Sam are prepared to find and deal with the eight people that received Brick's organs (and therefore parts of his consciousness bound to his deal with Cacao) before they can perform their sacrifice, Betsy tells them that if they can just destroy Brick's still-beating heart, the curse end for all of them. She knows Randa Moreno received Brick's heart, and Randa has warned her to keep quiet.

Appearances

 * Season 8
 * Heartache