Bela Talbot

Bela Talbot, whose real name is Abby, was a professional thief who steals the Colt from the Winchesters. She acquires supernatural objects for rich clients, and also runs scams selling fake charms and running seances. According to Bobby Singer, Bela knows her way around the hunting world, but occupies it in a different way to typical hunters.

Has some skills in contacting the dead and uses them as an information source. In Bad Day at Black Rock she tells Dean she used a Ouija Board to find John's lock-up, and in Fresh Blood, a spirit tells her where Gordon is.

She had her parents killed in exchange for her soul as part of a ten-year deal she made with a Crossroads Demon when she was 14 due to what is implied to be abuse by her father. This was the reason the ghost ship allowed her to see it and why she was hunted by the sailor's ghost.

Personality
According to series creator Eric Kripke, the writers conceptualized Bela Talbot as "someone [the Winchesters have] really never come across before". Though she moves throughout the supernatural world, Bela has no interest in the "altruistic or obsessed or revenge-minded motives of hunting". Described by actress Lauren Cohan as a "a female Humphrey Bogart", Bela is also "a mercenary, very much out for herself", who "sees everything as an opportunity". Cohan also feels Bela is "a little bit manipulative" and "always wants to be in control". The character "thinks she’s justified" in stealing artifacts for profit rather than for helping people like the Winchesters do, and finds the brothers "really naive and kind of endearing". On this aspect of Bela, writer and producer Sera Gamble commented, "I always suspect when someone is that blasé that there's something underneath, and we're finally getting into that". Likewise, after talking with the writers about later episodes, Cohan came to the realization Bela is a "really damaged character" who, due to terrible experiences in her life, has been shaped into a character that is "a lot less heartful" than she was expecting. Cohan noted, "She keeps those walls up and very rarely lets them down. She does but then she quickly builds them back up because she doesn’t like to ask anyone for help.

Early Life
When she was young, she made a deal with a demon to kill her parents in an act of revenge against her father, who was abusive, and her mother for for pretending like nothing was wrong and for not doing anything about the situation. Her contract with the demon assures her a large inheritance from her parents' death, but in return, the demon will claim her soul ten years from the date of their agreement. In the episode, "Time Is on My Side", Bela's ten years are up. She tells Dean that the demon who holds the contract on her soul is the same that holds the contract on his: Lilith. At the end of the episode, the Hellhounds come for her.

Season 3
In her first appearance, "Bad Day at Black Rock", Bela Talbot hires two crooks to steal a cursed rabbit's foot from a storage container owned by deceased hunter John Winchester. Anyone who touches the foot is granted good luck, but will die within a week if the foot is lost. She intends to sell it and shows no concern for the fate of the thieves. John's sons, series protagonists Sam Winchester and Dean Winchester, retrieve the foot but are cursed by it. Bela interferes when they attempt to destroy it, and shoots Sam in the shoulder. Dean, however, tricks her into touching it. She gives the foot up for destruction, but manages to steal $46,000 in winning lottery tickets from Dean that he had purchased using the foot's granted luck.

She next appears in "Red Sky at Morning", an episode in which the Winchesters track down a ghost ship responsible for local deaths. Bela fools them into helping her again, with the three of them working together to steal a Hand of Glory, a precious and magical artifact. The Winchesters plan to destroy it in order to end the curse, but Bela steals it from them to sell to a client. However, Bela then witnesses the ghost ship, which only appears to those who have spilled the blood of a family member. Condemned to death, she turns to the Winchesters for help. Dean is prepared to leave her behind to die, but Sam comes up with a plan to save Bela's life. This time, Bela gives them $10,000 as a "thank you" before she leaves because she does not like being indebted to others.

In "Fresh Blood", hunter and recently-escaped felon Gordon Walker tracks Bela down and threatens to kill her unless she reveals the location of the Winchesters. Reluctant at first, Bela agrees to do so in exchange for his priceless mojo bag. She then "forgets" to warn the Winchesters that Gordon is coming to kill Sam. Once the brothers later confront her, she uses a Ouija board to obtain information on Gordon and his location.

In "Dream a Little Dream of Me", Bela returns when the Winchesters contact her for help in saving fellow hunter and family friend Bobby Singer after he falls into a mystical coma. They need dream root to enter Bobby's dreams and find out what is keeping him asleep. She claims nothing from them in compensation, explains she is helping them in order to repay a debt to Bobby. However, the Winchesters discover after Bobby awakens that she was lying, having helped them to gain access to the Colt, a mystical gun capable of killing any being.

Enraged at the theft, Dean and Sam attempt to track her down in "Jus In Bello", but instead are led into a trap she has set up; police arrest the Winchesters and throw them in jail. Though the demonic overlord Lilith sends her forces, Sam and Dean eventually make their escape.

In "Time Is On My Side", Dean tracks down Bela and discovers she has sold the Colt. He later gets her criminal record from England and learns her true name is Abbie. Almost ten years prior, when she was 14, she had her parents killed in exchange for her soul as part of a ten-year deal made with a Crossroads Demon. The reason is implied to be abuse by her father. Now desperate because her time is running out, Bela tracks the Winchesters down and tries to kill them, but they anticipated her and escaped ahead of time.

They then call her a few minutes before her deal is up. She confesses to them she tried to get out of the deal with the Crossroads Demon by trading the Colt. Once she gave it up, however, the deal changed so she had to kill Sam as well. She pleads for them to help her, and though Dean refuses, she reveals to him the demon Lilith holds all the contracts brokered by Crossroads Demons, including his own. At the stroke of midnight, Dean hangs up after saying, "I'll see you in Hell." Her death is inevitable, but not shown.

Season 5
Fangirl Becky tells Sam that in the Supernatural book written by Chuck which tells the events of 3.15 Time Is On My Side, Bela gave the Colt not to Lilith but to her right hand demon, and possibly lover, Crowley.

Season 3

 * "Bad Day at Black Rock"
 * "Red Sky at Morning"
 * "Fresh Blood"
 * "Dream a Little Dream of Me"
 * "Jus In Bello"
 * "Time Is on My Side"

Season 5

 * "The Real Ghostbusters" (Mentioned only)

Trivia

 * Had an apartment in Queens, New York.


 * Lived with a Siamese cat.


 * She was indirectly responsible for the death of her parents after she, unknowingly, made a deal for her soul.
 * She was 24 when she died. She made a deal with the crossroad demon when she was 14.
 * Her first name Bela maybe a reference to Bela Lugosi and her last name maybe a reference to the wolfman.