Lawrence, Kansas: a woman, Jenny (Kristen Richardson) looks through photos and her daughter, Sairie (Haili Page Philippe) says there's something in the closet.. But the closet is empty. She puts a chair in front of the door so it won't open, but the chair slides away. Jenny finds a chest in the cellar with photos of the Winchesters: John, Mom, Dean and Little Sammy written on the back of the photo. The door opens and there's fire. The woman screams through the window. Sam (Jared Padalecki) dreams about her. He draws the tree. Dean (Jensen Ackles) surfs the Net and finds a case about a trawler crew being missing. Cattle mutilations and a man shooting himself int he head three times. Real X-Files territory. Sam's seen the tree before in photos and knows they must go back home.
Dean: "Okay, random, where'd that come from?" Sam tells him their house was rebuilt and there's people there who need their help. Dean must trust him. Sam: "I have these nightmares and sometimes they come true Dean. I dreamt about Jessica's (Adrienne Palicki) death for days before it happened." Dean thinks it's a coincidence. He dreamt of blood dripping, fire and did nothing about it. Now he's dreaming about the tree, the house, it must mean something cos that's where it all started.
Well Sam's secret is out now, at least about his dreams/premonitions. Sam thinks a demon could have killed them. Dean: "First you tell me you've got The Shining , then you tell me that I've gotta go back home, especially when...when I swore to myself that I would never go back there." Dean's done plenty of swearing so he's sworn to himself too, bad joke. He's just like Dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) then since he didn't go back there either, though we find that Dad had been in Lawrence (and is still there when they arrive.) Yet Dean knows they have to go.
Jenny opens the door and Sam introduces them as Sam and Dean. They wanted to see their house and she found their photos, now that couldn't have been a coincidence. Yes but now they could have been anyone using their names. She has a baby int he kitchen, Ritchie (Jamie Schwaneback) who loves his juice. She moved here from Wichita. They have lots of happy memories and the light flickers, there's rats, the sink's blocked. Dean asks if she's seen the rats or if she's heard them. Up to his usual questions. Sam says there's nothing in the closet. Sairie says something came into her room and it was on fire. Sam adds that flickering lights and scratching is a sign of a malevolent spirit. Dean: "I'm just freaked out that your weirdo visions are coming true." As if they wouldn't.
Dean tells Sam he doesn't recall much from that fateful night, the fire, heat and he carried Sam out the front door, which Sam didn't know. Mom (Samantha Smith) was on the ceiling and the Thing disappeared. Sam needs to find out if it's the same Thing and needs to talk with neighbours, friends. Dean calls Dad. There's a voice message: 8669073235. Dean: "Dad, I know I've left you messages before, I don't even know if you get them. But I'm with Sam and we're in Lawrence and there's something in our old house...I don't know what to do, so whatever you're doing, if you could get here please. (he breaks down.) I need your help Dad." Well that plea fell on deaf ears. At least Dean had the courage to actually step foot inside the house, unlike Dad, who not only didn't go into the house, but didn't even show his face when his son asked for help.
Plumber Joe (Jerry Rector) comes to fix the sink and puts his hand down the disposal, only to lose it. Now who in their right mind would put their hand down there. The mechanic at the garage tells them it's been 20 years since John disappeared, but he loved Mary and the kids. Something caused the fire, an electrical short in the ceiling. John read books and went to see a palm reader in town. There's a Missouri Moseley (Loretta Devine) in Dad's journal. Dad: "I went to Missouri and I learned the truth." Dean thought he was referring to the State.
Missouri: "You boys grew up handsome and you [Dean] were one goofy looking kid too." She takes Sam's hand and says sorry for Jess, she can read thoughts and sense energy. She tells Dean not to put his foot on the table, which he was thinking about doing. She went to the house with Dad and she could sense the Thing. It was evil. Ritchie wants his juice. Missouri thinks something is back in the house, keeping an eye on the place... "It feels like something's starting."
Dean: "That's a comforting thought." The door to the baby pen is opened and Ritchie gets shut in the fridge. They return to the house with Missouri, Dean wanted to show her the house he says. There's something in the house wanting to hurt the family and she wants to stop it. There's a dark energy in the house centre; Sam's nursery where it all started. Dean uses his EMF. Missouri: "amateur."
Missouri doesn't believe it's the Thing that took their mother. It's a different energy than the last time she was here. There's more than one spirit here. Missouri: "all those years ago, real evil came to you - it walked this house, that kind of evil leaves wounds and sometimes wounds get infected. This place is a magnet for paranormal energy." A Poltergeist is here and it won't leave or rest until it's killed Jenny and her children. Dean: "Nobody's dying in this house ever again!" Missouri makes some poultices and Dean even tastes it. The poor boy is starving again, ha. They need to be placed inside the four corners of the house walls. Should destroy the spirits and purify the house but they need to work fast. Sam takes his time putting the poultice in and the lamp cord comes after him, like a snake and the knife drawer opens in the kitchen. Look a knife for Dean. Which is thrown at him. Sam gets strangled with the cord. Dean saves him after he puts the pouch in the wall first.
The spirit seems to have left and Missouri says Dean will clean up the house. But Sam's dream hasn't taken place yet, when he saw her in the window. Dean watches the house from the outside and Sam has a bad feeling. He sees her at the window. Dean goes for the children, just like he did with Sam that night and gets to kick down the door again, as in the Pilot when he came looking for Sam at the end. Sam gets trapped int he house; he's thrown around and pinned to the wall. A figure appears and turns into Mom. Sam tells Dean not to shoot, he knows how it is. Dean: "Mom." She just ignores him and makes for Sam to say sorry and she tells the spirit to leave her house, to let go of her son. Then turns into fire. Sam: "Now it's over." Jenny gives them their photos. Missouri: "Your mom destroyed herself going after that thing." To protect her sons. She tells them to keep in touch and was never heard from again.
Missouri returns home, where Dad is and was all this time. She believes, "the boy, he has such powerful abilities, why he couldn't sense his own father, I have no idea." Dad wants to talk to them but not yet, not until, "I know the truth." So after all that, he waits around when his sons are in trouble. Can't forgive him for ignoring Dean's pleas like that when he's clearly distraught and not just about returning home. Okay so he knows they can handle themselves, especially Dean, but that's no excuse. He was practically begging for help. A bit selfish in Dad not wanting to step foot in that house.
So nothing much is revealed about the events from that night or what killed Mom, since this was a Poltergeist Mom came to fight, but why did she wait until the boys arrived to do that. (Get me, calling them boys now! ha.) Missouri didn't tell Dad Mom's spirit was possessing the house, not that we know of anyway. Perhaps he already knew and this was another reason why he didn't want to go back. Clearly the traumatic events were too overwhelming for him to go there. Probably another reason why their photos,etc, were still in the house.
Dean realizes the extent of Sam's visions and so does Missouri. Of course Sam not being able to sense Dad was to open up a whole new can of worms, casting doubt on whose son he really is, or why that Thing was in his nursery and how everything started there.
Some bloops in this episode, when Jenny gets Ritchie out of the fridge, the child lock on the door is opne, but when Ritchie was inside it was locked. Dean's phone number on the phone message is different to the one used in 1.4 Phantom Traveler. Sam's strangled by the lamp - the lamp behind him moves away, in the next shot, it appears to be further away.
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