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Lawrence, Kansas
22 years ago
A large deciduous tree with no leaves stands outside one of several suburban homes.

A Woman, Mary Winchester, wearing a white nightgown, carries her son Dean, into a dark room.

MARY: Come on, let's say good night to your brother.

Mary turns on the lights: it's the nursery of Sam, who is lying in his crib and looking over at Mary and Dean. Mary sets her son down. Dean leans over the side of the crib and kisses Sam on the forehead.

DEAN: Night, Sam.

MARY leans over Sam as well.

MARY; Good night, love.

Mary brushes Sam's hair back and kisses his forehead.

MAN: Hey, Dean.

Dean turns around the Man in the doorway wearing a USMC T-shirt is John. Dean rushes over to his father

DEAN: Daddy!

JOHN: Hey, buddy.

John scoops Dean up.

JOHN: So what do you think? You think Sammy's ready to toss around a football yet?

Dean shakes his head, laughing.

DEAN: No, Daddy,
JOHN laughs.

JOHN: No?
Mary passes John and Dean on the way out of the room

MARY: You got him?

JOHN: I got him
John hugs Dean closer

JOHN: Sweet dreams, Sam
John carries Dean out of the room, flipping off the lights. Sam watches them go

The baseball-themed mobile above Sam's crib begins to spin on its own while Sam watches. The transportation-themed clock on the wall ticks, ticks, stops. The moon-shaped nightlight flickers.

Lights flicker on a baby monitor sitting on a nightstand next to a photo of Mary and John. Strange noises come through the monitor. Mary, asleep in bed, stirs. She turns on the light on the nightstand.

MARY: John?

Mary turns over she's alone. She gets up.
Mary walks down the hall to Sam's nursery. John, seen only in silhouette, stands over Sam's crib.

MARY: John? Is he hungry?

John turns his head
MAN: Shhh
"That doesn't sound like John" said a skeptical Billy Loomis causing most to agree

MARY: All right
Mary heads back down the hallway. The light by the stairs is flickering. Mary frowns and goes to tap at it till the light steadies.

MARY: Hm
More flickering light is coming from downstairs: Mary investigates. A war movie is on TV and John has fallen asleep watching it. If John is here, Mary realizes, then the Man upstairs cannot be John and must be a danger. She runs back upstairs.

MARY: Sammy! Sammy!
Mary enters Sam's nursery and stops short.

From downstairs John hears Mary's frantic scream waking him up

JOHN: Mary?
John scrambles out of the chair.
JOHN: Mary!
Sounding more frantic
John runs upstairs.

John bursts through the closed door of the nursery.

JOHN: Mary.
The room is quiet and appears empty except for Sam awake in his crib and John. John glances around and pushes down the side of SAM's crib.

JOHN: Hey, Sammy. You okay?
Something dark drips next to Sam. John touches it. Two more drops land on the back of John's hand. It looks like blood. John looks up. Mary is sprawled across the ceiling, the stomach of her nightgown red with blood, staring at John and struggling to breathe. John collapses onto the floor, staring at Mary.

JOHN: No! Mary!
This scares many of the slashers that didn't see this coming

Mary bursts into flame. The fire spreads over the ceiling. John stares, frozen. Sam wails. John, reminded he's not alone, gets up and scoops Sam out of his crib and rushes out of the room.
We're he meets an awake Dean

DEAN: Daddy!

John shoves Sam at Dean

JOHN: Take your brother outside as fast as you can and don't look back! Now, Dean, go!

Dean turns and runs. John turns back to the nursery.

JOHN: Mary!
The entire room is on fire

JOHN: No!

Dean runs outside, holding Sam

DEAN: It's okay, Sammy

Dean turns to look up at Sam's window, which is lit with gold.

John runs outside, scoops up Dean and Sam, and carries them both away.

JOHN: I gotcha

Fire explodes out of Sam's nursery window.

Later
The Lawrence fire department has arrived. A Firefighter gets out of a fire truck and takes over at the gauges for another firefighter.

FIREFIGHTER: I got it, You go hold the line up.

The second firefighter goes to the back of the truck and takes a hose from a third firefighter. That firefighter takes the hose towards the house where a fourth firefighter is spraying through Sam's nursery window. A paramedic opens the back of an ambulance. A Police officer waves some neighbors back.

OFFICER: Stay back, You have to stay back.

Across the street from the house, John and Dean sit on the hood of John's Impala, John holding Sam. John looks up at the remnants of the fire.

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