Exile on Main Street

Exile on Main Street is the opening episode of Season 6, which aired on September 24, 2010.

This episode starts about a year after the events of Swan Song, and Dean Winchester has retired from hunting and is living with Lisa Braeden and her son following the last promise he gave his brother. Dean seems to be enjoying a normal life, working a day job and hanging out with friends but is still tormeted by the events which led to him losing Sam Winchester.

Summary
This long awaited episode starts with a nightmare that Dean has with the events that changed his life forever. He wakes up lying in bed with Lisa Braeden and goes about his normal day. Dean has a day job, hangs out with his friends and seems to have a perfect life. One night, after leaving the bar after having a drink with his friend Sid, he hears a woman scream. Dean whips out a gun and goes into the building from where the scream came from and finds scratches and blood on the walls. He returns home and searches the police records for a missing persons report but finds nothing.

The next morning, as he travels towards work, he finds similar scratch marks around a house. Dean investigates further and finds sulphur near the doors. His hunter instincts kicked in and he quickly made his way back to his garage where his old car and hunting gear where safely stored. Instructing Lisa to take Ben to the movies and to stay out of the house, he goes through all his old gear. Dean notices that the lights were flickering and immediately picks up a shotgun. Looking around the room, he did not find anything. Suddenly, Azazel shows up and Deans shots don't affect him. Azazel pins Dean against his car and tries to kill him, but then out of nowhere, Sam shows up and stabs Azazel with what appeared to be a syringe with white fluid inside. Dean passes out and wakes up to find Sam looking over him. Sam tells Dean that he got pulled out of Hell by someone and he has been trying to find whom. He reveals to Dean that he has been out of Hell for nearly a year and he did not come to Dean because he knew that Dean would leave the life that he had built. Dean gets extremely upset with Sam and does not agree with Sams logic. Sam tells Dean that he had been poisoned and that it was not Azazel that he had seen but merely a hallucination. Sam tells Dean that he's been hunting with their family, the Campbells. Sam introduces Gwen, Christian and Mark Campbell to Dean as his third cousins and a distant relative. Samuel Campbell appears and tells Dean that he was the one who brought the family together and that he was pulled out of Heaven.

Sam and Samuel tell Dean that djinn were hunting them to take revenge for their fallen brethren. Dean and Sam hurry towards his home where he believes Lisa and Ben were in danger to find that the hunter watching over the house is killed. Dean and Sam look over the house to find nothing. Then Lisa and Ben come through the door and Dean hurries them to pack thier bags. Dean takes them to Bobby's place where he finds that Bobby knew that Sam was back. Dean tries to tell both of them how horrible his life has been for the past year knowing that his brother was trapped in a box in hell. Both Bobby and Sam tell Dean that his life is as good as a hunters life can be. Dean tells Lisa that he has to leave them because he thinks that their life together wasn't good. But Lisa tells Dean that the past one year has been the happiest in her life and that all she ever wanted as a good role model for her son, Ben.

Sam, Dean, Samuel, Gwen, Christian and Mark plan to bait the djinn with Sam and Dean and they return to Lisa's house. Samuel tells Dean that the Campbells have been hunting even during the times of the Mayflower and that this was in his blood. Mark informs them that three djinn were on the trees waiting for the brothers to be alone. Sam and Dean stay behind while the other hunters leave. They instruct Sam and Dean to call them as soon as the djinn show up. Dean notices that his neighbours were choking and he immedately rushes towards them with the antidote to the posion that Samuel created. He finds that both Sid and his wife were killed and suddenly a djinn holds him. Another djinn, a woman comes and passes poison into his system. Meanwhile, Sam is attacked by the third djinn whom he kills with Dean's golf club. Sam is then left being attacked by the two djinn while Dean hallucinates Azazel killing Lisa. Sam is nearly overpowered when Samuel comes in and stabs a djinn. Samuel asks Sam to go find Dean while he faces the female Brigitta. While they stare each other down, Christian Campbell comes and places a bag over the djinn and ties her up. Samuel instructs him to carry the djinn over to the van before Sam and Dean come back.

The next day, Dean tells Sam that he's going back to Lisa and Ben and that he's changed his mind. Sam advices Dean to rethink as he thinks that Dean will only put them in danger. Dean replies by saying that he's already done that and he can't leave them alone unprotected. Sam says that he could really use Deans help because of how Dean just rushed out to help Sid and his wife while he himself wouldn't have donet hat. Sam tells Dean that he cares a lot about people unlike himself. Dean offers Sam his car but Sam refuses the offer because he's got his own car now. Sam drives off and Dean waves a goodbye not knowing what to say.

Major Characters

 * Dean Winchester
 * Sam Winchester

Minor Characters

 * Lisa Braeden
 * Benjamin Braeden
 * Bobby Singer
 * Samuel Campbell
 * Christian Campbell
 * Gwen Campbell
 * Mark Campbell
 * Azazel
 * Brigitta

Featured Supernatural Being

 * Djinn
 * Azazel (as a hallucination)

Featured Music
"Beautiful Loser" by Bob Seger

Trivia

 * Antagonist: Brigitta
 * Frederic Lehne returns to portray Azazel in this opening episode. Mitch Pileggi, the actor that portrays Samuel Campbell is back in this season
 * Azazel returned as a hallucinations of Dean's nightmare after being overdosed by a djinn's poison.
 * How Samuel Campbell came back to life is still unknown.
 * This episode begins a year after Swan Song.
 * It appears as not all of the Campbell family are not dead and some were all hidden for a reason.
 * 3rd season premiere to feature Azazel, and the second such occurance where he's portrayed by Fredric Lehne.