The Standoff with Dean's Crossroad Demon was a standoff between hunter Sam Winchester and a Crossroad Demon in an attempt to break Dean Winchester's deal.
Progression[]
Prelude[]
After his brother is killed by Jake Talley,[1] a desperate Dean Winchester summons a Crossroad Demon to make a deal to resurrect Sam. The demon negotiates a deal where Sam is resurrected and in exchange, Dean's soul goes to Hell in one year. A caveat of the deal is that Dean can do nothing to try to break it or Sam will die.
Once Sam learns of the deal, he becomes determined to break it.[2] After fellow hunter Bobby Singer creates new bullets for the legendary gun known as the Colt with the help of the demon Ruby,[3] Sam insists on using the Colt to try to threaten the demon into breaking the deal or to kill her. However, Dean refuses, seeing it as too dangerous as he is unwilling to risk Sam's life.[4]
Battle[]
Despite Dean's insistence, Sam sneaks out of their motel room while Dean is asleep and takes the Impala and the Colt to a crossroads. There, Sam performs a summoning for a Crossroad Demon.
Finally, Dean's Crossroad Demon appears and is amused to see Sam as Dean has been to see her twice,[2][5] but she has never met Sam. Sam draws the Colt and tells the demon that she can beg for her life, but she is just annoyed that "we were having such a nice conversation, but then you had to go and ruin the mood." Sam tells the demon to stop making jokes and start acting scared, but she is just amused, stating that its not her style. The demon recognizes that Sam isn't wielding the original Colt and realizes that Ruby had a hand in making the gun work again. Calling Ruby "such a pain in my ass," the demon promises that Ruby will get what's coming to her and that Sam can count on it.
Sam has had enough and tells the demon that he has come to make her an offer, something that she finds amusing. "You're going to let Dean out of his deal right now. He lives, I live, you live. Everyone goes home happy. Or.." Sam cocks the Colt, "you stop breathing. Permanently." Continuing to be amused, the demon circles Sam and suggests that he is just "going through the motions" and doesn't want Dean's deal broken. The demon suggests that Sam will be relieved once Dean is gone and is no longer there for Sam, causing Sam to repeatedly order her to shut up. "Doth protest too much if you ask me," taunts the demon.
Stating that he's had enough of her crap, Sam orders the demon to let Dean out of his deal immediately. However, the demon states that Dean is an adult who made the deal of his own free will "fair and square." The demon calls Dean's deal "ironclad" and tells Sam that Dean's can't be broken. Sam suggests that he'll kill the demon and once she's gone the deal will be as well.
"Guess again," laughs the demon. The demon explains to a surprised Sam that she's just a saleswoman. "I've got a boss like everybody. He holds the contract, not me. He wants Dean's soul, bad and believe me, he's not gonna let it go." Sam suggests that the demon is bluffing, but she tells him to shoot her if he wants to but the deal still holds and Dean will still go to Hell once his year is up. Sam questions who the demon's boss is, but she refuses to tell him. "I'm sorry Sam, but there's no way out of this one. Not this time."
After a moment's contemplation, Sam shoots the Crossroad Demon through the head with the Colt at point-blank range, killing her and her vessel.[4]
Aftermath[]
While Sam hides his meeting with the Crossroad Demon from Dean, Dean notices that there is a bullet missing from the Colt and deduces what happened. Dean confronts Sam who tells him that he killed the demon because she was "a smartass." Sam admits to Dean that the demon's death doesn't break the contract which is held by someone else, annoying Dean both for the risk that Sam took and the fact that the demon was their only lead as to who the contract holder was.[6]
Trivia[]
- During the standoff, Dean's Crossroad Demon states that her boss holds all of the contracts and call her boss "he." This is presumably the first reference to the recurring and later main character Crowley who is the King of the Crossroads at this time. However, it is later revealed that Lilith holds all of the contracts.