"I checked the fuses." "They're fine." "It's the wiring!" "Look, you promised this place would be ready when I moved in." "No!" "You come up now!" "Please." "Thank you." "Gross." "What the hell?" "Los Angeles, California." "What's in L.A.?" "A young girl's been kidnapped by an evil cult." "Yeah?" " The girl got a name?" " Katie Holmes." "That's funny." "Of course, on the other hand, catfight." "I am your mother!" "I don't have to be reasonable!" "You can't keep me here!" "Don't you bet on that, sweetie!" "Are you gonna chain me up in the basement?" "You've had worse ideas than that recently." "You don't want to stay?" "Don't -- go back to school!" "I didn't belong there!" "I was a freak with a knife collection!" "Getting yourself killed on some dusty back road -- that's where you belong?" " Guys, bad time." " Yes, ma'am." "We rarely drink before 10:00 anyway." "Wait." "I want to know what they think about this." "I don't care what they think!" "Are you guys open?" " Yes!" " No!" "We'll just check out the Arby's down the road." "Harvelle's." "Yeah, preacher." "Three weeks ago, a young girl disappears from a Philadelphia apartment." "Take it." "It won't bite." "No, but your mom might." "And this girl wasn't the first." "Over the past 80 years, 6 women have vanished " "All from the same building, all young blondes." "It only happens every decade or two, so cops never eyeball the pattern." "So we're either dealing with one very old serial killer " "Who put this together?" "Ash?" "I did it myself." "I got to admit, we hit the road for a lot less." "Good." "If you like the case so much, you take it." "Joanna Beth, this family has lost enough." "I won't lose you, too." "I just won't." "Mother told me" "Yes, she told me" "I'd meet girls like you" "She also told me," ""Stay away you'll never know what you'll catch"" "Mommy's all right," "Daddy's all right, they just seem a little weird." "Surrender, surrender." "I feel kind of bad, snaking job's case." "Well, maybe she put together a good file," "But could you see her out here working one of these things?" "I don't think so." "You getting anything?" "No, not yet." "What's that?" "What?" "Holy crap." "That's ectoplasm." "Well, Sam, I think I know what we're dealing with here." "It's the stay-puft marshmallow man." "Dean, I've only seen this stuff like twice." "I mean, to make this stuff, you have to be one majorly pissed-off spirit." "Let's find this badass before he snags any more girls." "Yeah, it's a great building." "I fixed it up real nice." "All the apartments come furnished, too." "Yeah, I love the furnishings." "It's so spacious," "And the location is so convenient for me." "What the hell are you doing here?" "There you are, honey." "This is my boyfriend, Dean, and his buddy Sam." "Good to meet you." "Quite a gal you got here." "Yeah, she's a pistol!" "So, did you already check out the apartment?" "The one for rent." "Yeah." "Yes." "Loved it." "Great flow." " How'd you get in?" " It was open." "Now, Ed, when did the last tenant move out?" "Uh, about a month ago." "Cut and run, too." "Stiffed me for the rent." "Well, her loss, our gain, 'cause if Dean loves it, it's good enough for me." "Oh, sweetie." "We'll take it." "Okay." "I'll flip you for the sofa." "Does your mother even know you're here?" "I told her I was going to Vegas." "You think she's gonna buy that?" "I'm not an idiot." "I got Ash to lay a credit-card trail all the way to the casinos." "You shouldn't lie to your mom." "You shouldn't be here, either." "Well, I am, so untwist your boxers and deal with it." "Where'd you get all that money from, anyways?" "Working at the roadhouse." "Hunters don't tip that well." "They aren't that good at poker, either." " Yeah?" " Is she with you?" "Oh, hi, Ellen." "She left a note she's in Vegas." "I don't believe it for a second." " Dean?" " I haven't seen her." " You sure about that?" " Yeah, I'm sure." "Well, please, if she shows up, you'll drag her butt back here, won't you?" " Absolutely." " Okay." "Thanks, hon." "This place was built in 1924." "It was originally a warehouse, converted into apartments a few months ago." "Yeah?" "What was here before 1924?" "Nothing." "An empty field." "So the most likely scenario " "Someone died bloody in the building, and now he's back and raising hell." "I already checked." "In the past 82 years, zero violent deaths," "Unless you count a janitor who slipped on a wet floor." "Would you sit down, please?" "So, have you checked the police reports, county death records?" "Obituaries, mortuary reports, and seven other sources." "I know what I'm doing." "I think the jury's still out on that one." "Would you put the knife down?" "Okay." "So, uh, it's something else, then." "Maybe some kind of cursed object that brought a spirit with it." "We got to scan the whole building." "Right." "So, you and me " "We'll take the top two floors." "We'd move faster if we split up." "Oh, this isn't negotiable." "So, are you gonna buy me dinner?" "What are you talking about?" "It's just if you're gonna ride me this close, it's only decent you buy me dinner." "Oh, that's hilarious." "Its bad enough I lied to your mom," "But if you think I'm letting you out of my sight " "I don't know if you noticed, but you're kind of the spirit's type." "Exactly." "You want to be bait?" "The quickest way to draw it out, and you know it." " What?" " I'm so regretting this." "I've had it up to herewith your crap." "Excuse me?" "Your chauvinist crap." "You think women can't do the job." "Sweetheart, this ain't gender studies." "Women can do the job fine." "Amateurs can't." "You got no experience." "What you do have is a bunch of half-baked romantic notions that some barfly has put in your head." "And now you sound like my mother." "Oh, and that's a bad thing?" "Because let me tell you " "What?" "Forget it." "No, you started this." "Jo, you got options." "No one in their right mind chooses this life." "My dad started me in this when I was so young." "I wish I could do something else." "You love the job." "Yeah, but I'm a little twisted." "You don't think I'm a little twisted, too?" "Jo, you got a mother that worries about you," "Who wants something more for you." "Those are good things." "You don't throw things like that away." "They might be hard to find later." "What?" "I'm not sure." "Do you smell that?" "What is it, a gas leak?" "No." "It's something else." "I know it." "I just can't put my finger on it." "Mazel Tov." "You just found your first spirit." "It's inside the vent." "Here." "There's something in there." "Here." "Someone's keeping souvenirs." "This building " " I swear to god." "I'm so out of here." "Morning, princess." " Where's Sam?" " Went to get coffee." "My back." "How'd you sleep on that big, soft bed?" "I didn't." "I've just been going over everything." "Here." "What's this for?" "It'll work a hell of a lot better than that little pig stick you've been twirling around." "W A H" "William Anthony Harvelle." "I'm sorry." "My mistake." "What do you " "What do you remember about your dad?" "What's the first thing that pops into your head?" "Come on." "Tell me." "I was 6 or 7..." "And, uh..." "He took me shooting for the first time." "Bottles on a fence --that kind of thing." "I bull's-eyed every one of them." "And he would smile, like..." "I don't know." "He must have been proud." "What about your dad?" "I was still in pigtails when my dad died, but..." "I remember him coming home from a hunt." "He'd burst through that door like " "Like Steve McQueen or something." "And he'd sweep me up in his arms," "And I'd breathe in that old leather jacket of his." "And my mom --who was sour and pissed" "From the minute he left - she started smiling again." "And we were..." "We were a family." "You want to know why I want to do the job?" "For him." "It's my way of being close to him." "Now, tell me, what's wrong with that?" "Nothing." " Where's the coffee?" " There are cops outside." "Another girl disappeared." "Theresa Ellis --apartment 2-F." "Her boyfriend reported her missing around dawn." "And her apartment?" "Cracks all over the plaster --walls, ceiling." "There's ectoplasm, too." "Between that and that tuft of hair, I'd say the sucker's coming from the walls." "But who is it?" "The building's history's totally clean." "Maybe we're looking in the wrong place." " What do you mean?" " Check this out." "An empty field?" "It's where this building was built." "Take a look at the one next door." "The windows." "Bars." "We're next door to a prison?" "Thanks, Ash." "Oh, and if you breathe a word of this to my mom " "That's right." "I will." "With pliers." "Okay." "Moyamensing prison " "Built in 1835, torn down in 1963." "And get this " "They used to execute people by hanging them in the empty field next door." "Well, then, we need a list of all the people executed there." "Ash is already on it." "157 names?" " We got to narrow that down." " Yeah." "Or else we're gonna be digging up a hell of a lot of stiffs." "Herman Webster Mudgett?" "Yeah?" "Wasn't that H.H. Holmes' real name?" "You got to be kidding me." "Holmes was executed at Moyamensing May 7,1896." "H.H. Holmes himself." "Come on." "I mean, what are the odds?" "Who is this guy?" "The term "multi-murderer" -- they coined it to describe Holmes." "He was America's first serial killer before anybody knew what a serial killer was." "He confessed to 27 murders, but some put the death toll at over 100." "And his victim flavor of choice -- pretty, petite blondes." "He, uh, used chloroform to kill them," "Which is what I smelled in the hallway last night." "At his place, cops found human remains," "Bone fragments, and long locks of bloody blond hair." "Boy, he sure knew how to pick them." "We just find the bones, salt them, and burn them, right?" "It's not that easy." "His body is buried in town," "But it's encased in a couple tons of concrete." "What?" "Why?" "The story goes that he didn't want anybody mutilating his corpse 'cause, you know, it's what he used to do." "You know something?" "We might have an even bigger problem than that." "How does this get bigger?" "Holmes built an apartment building in Chicago." "They called it the murder castle." "The whole place was a death factory." "They had trapdoors, acid vats, quicklime pits." "He built these secret chambers..." "Inside the walls." "He'd lock his victims in, keep them alive for days." "Some, he'd suffocate." "Others, he'd let starve to death." "So Theresa could still be alive." "She could be inside these walls." "We need sledgehammers, crowbars." "We got to smash these walls" "Anywhere thick enough to hide a girl." "Okay." "Call us after you check the southeast wall." "Sam's almost done with the first floor." "He hasn't found jack squat, either." "What is it?" "It's too narrow." "We can't go any further." " Let me see." " What are you " " I should have cleaned the pipes." " What?" "I wish the pipes were clean." "Shut up!" "I can fit in there." "You're not going in thereby yourself." "You got a better idea?" "The " " Where are you?" " By the north wall." "I'm heading down some kind of air duct." "No, no, no, no." "Stay up here." "We got to find this girl, don't we?" "I'm okay." "All right." "I'm heading to you." "Oh, god." "What is it?" "Jo?" "Jo?" "!" "Jo!" "Jo?" "!" "Jo!" " He's got Jo." " What?" "How'd that happen?" "I wasn't with her." "I left her alone." "Damn it!" " Look, we'll find her." " Where?" " Inside the walls." "We were inside the walls all night long." "None of the other girls are there." "She won't be, either." "Look, take a beat and think about this." "Maybe we got Holmes' M.O. Wrong." "Well, we better friggin' think fast." "Yeah?" "You lied to me." "She's there." " Ellen." " Ash told me everything." "The man's a genius, but he folds like a cheap suit." "You put my damn daughter on the phone." "She's gonna have to call you back." "She's, uh, taking care of feminine business." "Yeah, right." "Where is she?" "Where is she?" "!" "Look, we'll get her back." "Get her back?" "Back from what?" "The spirit we're hunting --it took her." "Oh, my god." " She'll be okay." "I promise." " You promise?" "That is not the first time I've heard that from a Winchester." "What?" "If anything happens to her " "It won't." "I won't let it." "Ellen, I'm sorry." "I really am." "I'm taking the first flight out." "I'll be there in a few hours." "Damn it!" "Don't beat yourself up, Dean." "There's nothing you could have done." "Tell me you got something." "Uh, maybe." "Look." "If you look at the layout of the Holmes murder castle," "There's other torture chambers inside the walls, right?" "But there's one we haven't considered yet " "The one in his basement." "This building doesn't have a basement." "You're right." "It doesn't." "But I just noticed this." "Beneath the foundation," "It looks like part of an old sewer system." "It hasn't been used for " "Let's go." "Hello?" "Is -- is anybody there?" "Your name's Theresa?" "Yes." "This won't make you feel better, but..." "I'm here to rescue you." "Oh, god." "He's out there." "He's gonna kill us!" "No, he won't!" "We're getting out." "My friends are looking for us." "Oh, god, it's him!" "Shh!" "Just be quiet!" "Here." "Got it?" "Yeah." "You're so pretty." "So beautiful." "Go to hell!" "How do you like that?" "!" "Pure iron, you creepy-ass son of a bitch!" "Is he gone?" "I don't know." "I " "Hey!" "No!" "Jo!" "I'm here!" "Hey." "I'm gonna get you out of here, all right?" "Sam!" "Hang on." " You all right?" " I've been better." "Let's get the hell out of here before he comes back." "Actually, I don't think you're leaving here just yet." "What?" "Remember when I said you being bait was a bad plan?" "Now it's kind of the only one we got." "Now!" "Scream all you want!" "There's no way you're stepping over that salt!" "So..." "Is this job as glamorous as you thought it would be?" "Well, except for all the pee- your-pants terror, yeah." "But that Theresa girl's gonna live a life 'cause of us." "It's worth it, isn't it?" "Yeah." "Yeah, it is." "Hey, what if somebody finds that sewer done there" "Or a storm washes the salt away?" "Both very fine points, which is why we're waiting here." "For what?" "For that!" "You ripped off a cement truck?" "I'll give it back." "Well, that ought to keep him down there till hell freezes over." "Well, you -- you really weren't kidding about flying out, were you?" "How about we listen to some music?" "You're as cold as ice." "This is gonna be a long drive." "Ellen..." "It was my fault." "Okay?" "I lied to you, and I'm sorry." "But Jo did good out there." "I think her dad would be proud." "Don't you dare say that --not you." "I need a moment with my daughter -- alone." "You're angry." "I understand." "Angry doesn't beg into touch it!" "Let's just think about this." "Everything's okay." "I'm alive." "Not after I'm through with you!" "Is this about me hunting or something else?" "You let those boys use you as bait." "They were backing me up the whole time." "That is why you do not have the sense to do this job." " You're trusting your life to them." " What are you talking about?" "Like father, like son." "That is what I'm talking..." "John?" "I thought you and John were friends." "Yeah, we were." "I'm sorry." "I didn't mean " "Mom..." "What aren't you telling me?" " That bad, huh?" " Not right now." "What happened?" "Hey, talk to me." "Get off me!" "Sorry." "I'll see you around." "Dean..." "It turns out my dad had a partner on his last hunt." "Funny, he usually worked alone." "This guy did, too." "But I guess my father figured he could trust him." "A mistake." "The guy screwed up, got my dad killed." " What does this have " " It was your father, Dean." "What?" "Why do you think John never came back, never told you about us?" "'Cause he couldn't look my mom in the eye after that -- that's why." " Jo " " Just " "Just get out of here." "Please, just leave."