Richardson, Texas, 2 Months Ago: Group of teens enter a house with a Pentagram on the floor and symbols on the walls. A man strings up girls in the cellar, one of them says. The cellar contains jars and a girl is hanging.
Interstate 35 Present Day: Sam (Jared Padalecki) is asleep in the car and Dean (Jensen Ackles) puts a plastic spoon in his mouth and takes a photo. Sam says they're not children anymore and it's not the prank shift again. Dean: "what's the matter Sammy, you afraid you're gonna get a little Nair in your shampoo again." Sam warns Dean to remember he started it. Dean: "bring it on baldy!" They talk about a local haunted house and girls dying there. The legend talks of them being strung up on rafters and some teens saw a dead girl in the cellar. When the police arrived there was no body. Read accounts on paranormal website: hellhoundslair.com
Sam is still going on about how it was a mistake to let Dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) go. Each of the teens tell them their accounts of what they saw and each one varies from the Vic having black, blonde and red hair. Craig (Shane Meier) works in a record store. Sam and Dean feign being reporters from the Dallas Morning News. The killer appears to be Mordecai Murdoch (Nicholas Harrison) and the house is known as 'hellhouse.' In the 1930's Mordecai lived in a farmhouse with 6 daughters and he hanged them, before hanging himself. His cousin, Dana (Krista Bell) told him. Dean looks at the records, cos it's his kind of record store, i.e. vinyl, well he's into cassettes still.
Electric wiring is interfering with Dean's readings from his EMF. Sam comments the reverse cross symbol was used by Satanists for centuries. The sidual of sulphur didn't show up in San Francisco until the late '60's. Dean: "That's exactly why you never get laid." Well, Deano, hate to break it to you, but some girls prefer brains, ha. Yes it is a joke. Sam notices a symbol he's never seen before and Sam takes photos on his phone. Notice how they stopped taking photos and filming the scenes in later episodes, until this completely disappeared. Dean's seen the symbol before somewhere. Sam notices it's freshly painted.
Dean thinks the police might be right in calling them suicides, as two guys break in with cameras, calling themselves professionals, paranormal investigators and have a card. Ed Zeddmore (AJ Buckley) and Harry Spangler. (Travis Webster) and they run the hell.com website. Dean: "We're huge fans." Love it when Dean goes all sarcastic. They "know they're amateurs looking for ghosts and cheap thrills." They're conducting a scientific investigation and tell them about EMF detectors; entities cause fluctuations. Sam: "Woah." Sammy's not so bad at sarcasm either. Dean asks if they've seen ghosts before.
At the public library (where's the old computer then Sam?) Sam doesn't find any record of any killings and nothing matching the description of the dead girl. Dean's car wipers and radio goes off. Sam calls that 1 to him. Dean just sees it as weak. More teens enter the house and one is dared to retrieve a jar from the cellar. She is also hanged.
The police think it's suicide as she's a straight 'A' student and Dean is sure they missed something. The two ghostbusters turn up and Dean comments, "Who you gonna call?" The police chase them, leaving Sam and Dean to go over the house. Dean still can't place that symbol. Then dares Sam to drink from a jar. Eeww why would he, disgusting. Sam asks why? Then double dares him. A noise is heard from the cupboard, it could be rats, but Dean hopes it's a ghost. They shoot at Mordecai but he still comes after them. The other two return as Sam and Dean come running out of the house. "Sweet Lord of the Rings."
Dean draws the symbol again and is bothered as to why in the legend he "only goes after chicks." Sam: "He does."
Dean: "That will explain why he came after you - why me?"
Sam: "Hilarious." Mordecai slit his wrists and carries an axe, but in the actual legend he keeps hanging them. Sam then reads a new posting saying Mordecai was a Satanist who chopped his Vics up before slitting his wrists. Dean realizes where it began.
Dean buys an album from the store and explains the symbol doesn't mean anything. It's the Blue Oyster Cult logo. Dana showed the girl the house and made it look haunted, taking symbols from Theology text books. They made up stories and posted them on the web. Dean asks how they'd explain the appearance of Mordecai. Dean puts itching powder in Sam's clothes. Sam says it's a Tibetan thought form: a Tolpa. Sam shirtless and in a towel!!! In 1915 Tibetan monks visualized a Gollum in their heads and meditated so hard they brought it to life. That was only 20 monks. These are 20,000 websurfers. Dean says as people believe in him, Mordecai is real. Dean: "People believe in Santa Claus, how come I'm not getting hooked up every Christmas."
Sam: "Cos you're a bad person and cos of the Tibetan spirit sidual on the wall." The sidual was used for centuries and thoughts were amplified like a magnifying glass and could have brought the Tolpa to life. Dean says rock salt didn't work as Mordecai is not a traditional spirit per se. Dean wonders how to kill the idea.
Sam thinks he's allergic to the motel soap and realizes it was Dean when he sniggers. The ghostbusters, later to be known as Ghostfacers are warned not to return to the house, but if they can get footage they'll get movie deals and money as well as "sex with real girls." What as opposed to inflatable ones! Dean: "Action figures in their original packaging, what a shocker." Dean wants them to shut the site down. Sam thinks they could tell them about Mordecai but it still wouldn't help them, they'll shut down the site. Sam says from the death certificate, COD was self-inflicted .45 gunshot wound with rod iron rounds, which killed the SOB, i.e Mordecai. Dean pushes the string on the laughing fisherman toy commenting Sam needs more laughter in his life. Think he gets enough from Dean.
Dean's hand gets stuck on his beer bottle. Courtesy of Sam. They leave the fisherman outside for the police to find as a distraction to enable them to get into the house. Dean doesn't have any skin left on his palm he says. Cue ghostbusters and Mordecai with axe in hand. Bullets don't work on him and the server conked out. Sam acts as bait so they can escape and Dean uses fire, Mordecai can't leave the house and they can't kill him so he improvises and sets the house alight. Sam retorts that's his solution. Well, no house = no haunting. Sam asks what will happen if the legend changes and Mordecai returns. Dean replies so will they. Sam: "kind of makes you wonder of all the things we hunted, how many existed just because people believed in them." The ghostbusters get a call from a Hollywood producer wanting to option movie rights. Sam called them and Dean put a dead fish in their backseat. Sam and Dean call a truce; for the next 100 miles at least, adds Dean.
Great episode in the sense that it was purely about hunting the beast and putting him down, what they do. The addition of the Ghostfacers was a little annoying upon watching for the first time, but they have their fans and their moments. Love AJ Buckley as lovable Adam in CSI:NY, which I think is more his niche. An episode full of laughs, killings aside and showing us how juvenile Dean can be, which is just a reflection of not just his funny side, since he doesn't get serious very often and especially not when Sam wants to talk feelings and he doesn't.
As for Dean's comment about Mordecai coming after Sam, implying he's a chick, kind of became redundant since the legend kept changing, so Dean couldn't really call Sam a chick this time round. Since he also came after him. Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper was used in 1.12 Faith and here the band is mentioned again.
In joke: Jensen hails from Richardson, Texas. Eric Kripke told TV Guide how fans wanted to see Jensen and Jared in little clothing and so he wrote the towel scene so Jared would be shirtless! Er, naked, practically! In the opening when Dean turns up the song, the lines heard include: "a fire of unknown origin took my baby away." Alluding to Mom and Jessica. The song is entitled Fire of Unknown Origin by Blue Oyster Cult. Dean saying he hates rats and prefers ghosts and his use of "pursqueeter." Casting your minds forward, Ruby played by Genevieve Padalecki, will use this in a season 4 episode. Sam saying he could probably bitch slap both Ed and Harry. Britt Irvin, credited as 'first teen girl' went on to play Stargirl in Smallville.
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