Bobby Singer

Background
Robert Steven "Bobby" Singer is a hunter and an old friend of John's. He owns Singer Salvage Yard. He's been gathering from the wealth of books in his house and his dialogue and role in "Devil's Trap", is somewhat of a demonology expert.

Season 1
With John held captive by the demons, the boys turn to Bobby for help. He gives Sam the Key of Solomon. When Meg turns up at his house, they restrain her using a devil's trap (symbol) painted on the ceiling. It is Bobby who alerts the boys to the fact that Meg is not a demon herself, but a woman possessed by one. After the demon is exorcised, and Meg dies, Bobby agrees to dispose of her body and the authorities.

Season 2
With Dean in a coma and John injured, Sam goes to visit Bobby who has towed the Impala from the crash site. Sam has to retrieve the Colt, and John has given Sam a list of herbs to get from Bobby. Sam is distressed at the wrecked state of the Impala, and Bobby suggests scraping the car, until he sees that to Sam it embodies the state Dean is in, and to give up on the Impala would be to give up on Dean. He also informs Sam that the items Sam has requested are not for repelling a demon, but for summoning one.

Although Bobby is not present in this episode, Sam and Dean are staying with him as they recover from their wounds, and the death of their father. Dean uses Bobby's tools to repair the Impala. They have been there a week at the beginning of the episode. Bobby lends them a van (which makes Dean feel like a "soccer mom") when they drive to meet Ellen at the Roadhouse.

When Sam is possessed by the Meg Demon, he turns up at Bobby's place, intending to kill him. However Bobby is alerted to the demon's presence when it reacts to holy water he has spiked Sam's beer with. Again, the demon is restrained under the devil's trap (symbol), but this time the exorcism Dean attempts fails because the demon has bound itself to Sam's body with a brand. The demon is expelled when Bobby burns across the brand with a hot poker.

Bobby is aware Sam killed another hunter, Wandell, while possessed, and advises the boys to leave before other hunter's find them. He gives them each a charm to ward off possession. When Sam disappears, Dean turns to Bobby for help. Together they search for Sam, and find the burnt out ruins of the Roadhouse. After Dean receives the vision of Sam's location, it is Bobby who deciphers that the town is Cold Oak. When they arrive there, Bobby pursues Jake after he stabs Sam, but loses him in the woods.

Bobby tries to look after Dean in the wake of Sam's death, but Dean pushes him away in anger. Bobby responds with understanding, and leaves. When Dean and Sam turn up at Bobby's, he immediately knows Dean has made some deal to resurrect Sam. Out in the middle of his junkyard he confronts Dean, and is upset when he learns Dean only has a year to live. His affection for Dean is clear, when he despairs that Dean doesn't value his own life. When Ellen appears, having escaped the demon attack on the Roadhouse, Bobby makes her drink a shot of holy water to ensure she is not possessed.

Bobby is part of the effort to stop the opening of the Devil's Gate in Wyoming, and it is he and Ellen who actually close it.

Season 3
Bobby tracks down a possible omen in Nebraska, and the boys join him to investigate. They meet Tamara and Isaac, a married hunter couple Bobby knows. While Bobby urges caution, they are attacked by demons and Isaac is killed. Bobby works out that the demons are the Seven Deadly Sins, and with Sam, Dean and Tamara and the intervention of a mysterious girl, the demons are trapped and Bobby exorcises them.

At the beginning of the episode, Sam is on the phone to Bobby as they try to translate an ancient document.

After finding John's lock-up has been broken into, the boys contact Bobby, who confirms that he built the Curse Boxes, one of which has been stolen. Later, he explains the curse of the Rabbit's Foot and starts researching how to destroy it. During this

conversation, he appears to be working on the Colt. After Bela steals the Rabbit's Foot, Bobby identifies her to Dean, and tracks down her address for him. Finally, Bobby provides Sam and Dean with a ritual which destroys the Rabbit's Foot and breaks its curse.

Bobby is working on the Colt, with Dean's help. After the boys leave for Ohio, he is test firing the Colt, when Ruby appears, and offers to help turn it back into a demon-killing weapon. Summoned by Sam he arrives to help, only to be struck down by Father Gil. At the end of the episode he reassures Dean that Sam is okay - that nothing has changed since he came back from the dead.

Months later, Bobby was investigating a Doctor who had been studying sleeping habits, but testing people with nightmarish serum-induced dreams. Bobby fell under what Sam described as a Freddy Krueger type dream state, and Bobby went into a coma.

Season 4
Bobby was the first person to see Dean Winchester alive, after he was brought back to life. At first not believing it was him he fought back until Dean sliced his arm with a silver knife. Even still, Bobby splashed Holy Water to make sure he wasn't a demon.

In "Are You There God? It's Me, Dean Winchester", Bobby is tormented by the spirits of victims he couldn't save, most notably two blond children. He finally puts them to rest using a exorcism spell.

In the episode "Yellow Fever", Bobby helps Sam kill a ghost, to save Dean's life.

Bobby returns to save the brothers from a seductive Siren in "Sex and Violence".

Bobby is seen briefly in "The Rapture," towards the end of the episode. He calls Sam and asks that both Dean and Sam get to his place immediately. Once there, Dean and Bobby trick Sam and lock him up for his own safety.

Season 5
After Lucifer is freed, Bobby meets up with Sam and Dean to help them research the "Michael Sword" that will be used to kill Lucifer. Sam reveals to Bobby that it was he, not Lilith, that was responsible for Lucifer being freed. Bobby becomes angry and tells Sam that, if they survive the apocalypse, he wants nothing to do with him. Sam leaves, while Bobby and Dean continue research. Bobby is revealed to be possessed after Dean finds a lead and almost kills Dean, before stabbing himself with Ruby's Knife, killing the demon possessing him. Sam and Dean rush Bobby to the hospital, where his wound is repaired. The doctor informs him that he is unlikely to walk again. Bobby tells Sam that it was the demon, not Bobby himself, that said those things to Sam, and that he's not cutting him out.

Bobby then gets an urgent call from fellow hunter Rufus Tanner to immediately get to River Pass, Colorado, as Rufus is under attack by what he says are demons. Bobby, since he can't walk, sends Dean and Sam to help out.

"In the Curious Case of Dean Winchester" Bobby finds out a witch is holding poker games with years instead of money. He sees this as a chance to escape his wheelchair and rushes to play, only to lose 25 years. Dean immediately threatens the witch before betting 25 of his own years in the game to restore Bobby, only to lose 25 more. As the hunters work to undo Dean's fate, Bobby admits his personal feelings of uselessness at a time of such urgency, even considering suicide. After experiencing life as an old man, Dean appreciates Bobby's view, but urges him that he is not useless and begs him to not try and kill himself.

In "Abandon All Hope" the Winchesters get a lead on Lucifer's whereabouts. With Castiel, they team up with Ellen and Jo Harvelle. Before they leave, though, they all gather at Bobby's house to reminiscence and drink beer. Bobby then gets a picture of them all, for they know not everyone will live. The Winchesters, the Harvelles, and Castiel go to Carthage, Missouri, where Lucifer is supposed to be. There, Castiel sees many reapers all over, even though no one else can. He goes to investigate. The Winchesters and Harvelles are then attacked by hell hounds, one of them mortally wounding Jo. They lock themselves inside a hardware store, trying to help Jo. Dean then reaches Bobby by radio, telling them of their situation. Bobby concludes that the reapers are there because there will be many deaths due to a ritual, which turns out to be true.

In "Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid" Bobby's dead wife comes back to life. As Sam and Dean try and convince him that he must kill her as she is a zombie, but he tells them to leave or they will have trouble. As Bobby's wife starts to turn he realizes he must kill her. After he killed her again every zombie in town starts coming after him. He and Dean fight them off and in the end are saved by Sam and the town sheriff, who calls Bobby the town drunk. Bobby tells the boys that Death sent the dead after him because he supports the Winchesters and is one of the reasons why Sam hasn't said yes to Lucifer yet. While Dean says he at least got 5 days with his wife, Bobby tells them that only made it a 1000 times worse.

Season 1

 * "Devil's Trap"

Season 2

 * "In My Time of Dying"
 * "Born Under a Bad Sign"
 * "Tall Tales"
 * "All Hell Breaks Loose - Part 1"
 * "All Hell Breaks Loose - Part 2"

Season 3

 * "The Magnificent Seven"
 * "Bad Day at Black Rock"
 * "Sin City"
 * "Dream a Little Dream of Me"
 * "Mystery Spot"
 * "Time Is on My Side"
 * "No Rest for the Wicked"

Season 4

 * "Lazarus Rising"
 * "Are You There God? It's Me, Dean Winchester"
 * "Yellow Fever"
 * "Sex and Violence"
 * "The Rapture"
 * "When the Levee Breaks"
 * "Lucifer Rising"

Season 5

 * "Sympathy for the Devil"
 * "Good God, Y'all"
 * "Free to Be You and Me"
 * "The Curious Case of Dean Winchester"
 * "Abandon All Hope..."
 * "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"
 * "Point of No Return"
 * "The Devil You Know"
 * "Two Minutes to Midnight"
 * "Swan Song"

Season 6

 * Exile on Main Sreet.
 * Weekend At Bobby's
 * You Can't Handle The Truth

Trivia

 * Bobby lives in South Dakota
 * Owns a blue Ford tow-truck with Lawrence County, South Dakota plates : 9NO3L1. This is probably a reference to Jim Beaver's role in the HBO Western drama Deadwood. Deadwood is the county seat of Lawrence County. In Season Three he also drives a 1971 Chevelle.
 * His dog, who has only appeared in one episode, is called Rumsfeld.
 * At some point in his hunting career, Bobby was unable to save a pair of twin sisters from an unknown creature.
 * In the episode Yellow Fever, it is revealed that he is fluent in Japanese.
 * Bobby may also be named after the series' executive producer Robert Singer.