( HAMMER OF THE GODS )

THE ELYSIAN FIELDS HOTEL
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A dark car pulls into the parking lot. We are in Muncie, Indiana. A security Guard walks up to the hotel lobby doors from outside, by the light of a car's headlights. Using keys he unlocks the lobby doors and enters, using a flashlight as light. The hotel itself is dark. There are sheets and drapes covering most of the furniture, as though this building has not been in use for some time. Sounds of clanging startle the Guard.

"Hello?" As the Security Guard passes, a small potted plant that was once withered begins to return to life. "Hello?" A loud bang startles the Security Guard once again.

As he turns around he witnesses a shattered mirror slowly returning to its original (unbroken) form. There is a metallic clang and he gasps. "Hiya." A dark figure says.

"Buddy, you can't be here." The Guard says.

"Course I can. Someone's got to get everything ready. They're coming—all of them. And we've each got our part to play. Even you."

"What?" Asks The Guard.

"You're dinner."

"Aaah!" There is a crunch as the Security Guard continues to scream. 

ELYSIAN FIELDS HOTEL LOBBY
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A bell dings, thunder crashes. The Impala parks in front of the hotel lobby at an angle. Sam and Dean enter the lobby, soaked and gasping. Elena is still on an absence leave, leaving the boys to cause trouble without her. Lounge music plays. "Whew. Nice digs, for once. Busy night." Dean says.

"Any port in a storm, I guess." Chad the Attendant chuckles. "If you could just fill this out, please."

"Yeah." Dean says.

"Sir, I think... Shaving nick there." Chad hands Dean a tissue. "Your key."

"Oh. Thanks. Hey, you wouldn't happen to have a coffee shop, would you?" Dean asks.

"Buffet. All you can eat. Best pie in the tri-state area."

"You don't say?" Asks Dean.

The Bachelors' "You Know You Know (I Love You)" plays as Dean Samples pies. "Heaven, right?" A Man asks Dean.

Dean scoffs. "Trust me, pal... better." He sees a Woman sitting alone. "How you doing?"

"No." She says.

"But—" Dean starts.

"No." She repeats.

"Oh, lady, I'm just, you know-" Dean starts again.

"I understand." She says. "And no."

"10-4. Yeah." Dean's cellphone beep. He grunts. "Sam, unpucker, man. Eat something."

"We should hit the road, Dean." Sam says.

"In this storm? I-it's-" Dean starts.

"It's biblical. Exactly. I-it's friggin' Noah's ark out there, and we're eating pie." Sam says.

"How many hours of sleep did you get this week? What? Three? Four?" Dean asks. "Bobby's got his feelers out, okay? We have talked with every hoodoo man and root woman in 12 states."

"Yeah, well, I'm not giving up." Sam says.

"Nobody's giving up. Especially me. We're gonna find a way to beat the devil, okay?" Dean says. "Soon. I can feel it. And we will find Cas, we'll find Adam. But you are no good to me burnt out."

"Yeah. Yeah, okay." Sam says.

"Come on, we've actually got the night off for once. Let's try to enjoy it."

ELYSIAN FIELDS
HOTEL KITCHEN
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A server carries in a tray of dirty glasses. The camera pans to a severed arm on the counter top next to a bloody cleaver.

ELYSIAN FIELDS HALLWAY
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A couple is making out in front of their room. Dean points and smiles. "Oh, what are you, 12?" Sam asks him.

Dean scoffs. "I'm young at heart." He says. The door creaks and he whistles. "Wow. Look at this. We're like Rockefellers. Chocolates! You want yours?"

"Knock yourself out." Sam says.

"Whoa. "Casa Erotica 13" on demand." Dean says and Sam Scoffs. "What?"

"Isn't this place...in the middle of nowhere?" Sam asks.

"So?"

"So what's a four-star hotel doing on a no-star highway?" Sam asks.

A woman moans pleasurably on the other side of the wall. We can hear bed thumping, Chuckling, then a loud thud which accompanies the brick wall of the room being smashed in from the other side, almost knocking the LCD flat screen television off the wall.

HONEYMOON SUITE
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The Winchester brothers open the door to the room to find it empty. Dean finds a large engagement ring on the floor. "Hello?" He asks.

"Hello?" Sam asks.

THE ELYSIAN FIELDS LOBBY
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"The, uh, the room next to ours-t-the couple that are, uh, joined at the lips-have you seen them?" Dena asks.

"Mr. and Mrs. Logan-the honeymooners?" Chad asks. "They checked out. Is something the matter?"

"They checked out?" Sam asks.

"Mm-hmm. Mm, just now."

"Really? It sort of seemed like they were, uh..." Sam chuckles. "...in the middle of something."

"Yeah, it's kind of weird for honeymooners to, uh, check out without this." Dean holds up the engagement ring.

"Oh, dear. I'll just put that right in the lost and found. Don't you worry. Is there anything else I can help you with?" Chad asks.

"Uh, no. No, we're good." Dean says.

"Super-fantastic." Chad says.

"Creepy." Sam says as they walk away.

"Broke the needle." Dean says. "All right, well, I'll scope out the joint, and you keep an eye on Norman Bates over here. I mean, one night off. Is that too much to ask?"

Sam follows Chad as he leaves the front desk, but loses sight of him near the vending machines. We hear a slicing sound and Sam reaches for his neck, where a fresh cut has appeared.

ELYSIAN FIELDS HALLWAY
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Dean exits the elevator, and pulls out an EMF detector. Dean passes a room with its door open and we can see an elephant holding a towel. Dean takes a few steps back to look again, and sees Man wrapping a towel around his torso. "This ain't no peep show, man!" He yells.

THE ELYSIAN FIELDS
BUSINESS SUITE
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"You're beautiful." A Man, Baldur, says to his companion Kali.

"You're sweet." He says. "I hate sweet."

Chad is no longer wearing his name badge. "Sorry to interrupt. The last guest just arrived." He says.

"So everything's ready?" Asks Baldur.

"As it will ever be. Pantry's full." Chad says.

"And the Winchesters?"

"Suspicious, but under control." Says Chad.

"You have their blood?" Kali asks.

"Of course I do." Chad says. "I'm quick. Boys never even knew what hit them."

"Thank you, Mercury." Kali says.

"Let's get this show on the road."

THE ELYSIAN FIELDS LOBBY
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Lounge music continues to play as Sam and Dean enter. The room is completely empty. "An elephant?" Sam asks.

"Yeah." Dean says.

"Like, an elephant?"

"Like, full-on Babar." Says Dean.

"So what the hell is... Where is everybody?" Sam attempts to open the lobby doors, but they do not budge.

"Let me guess-it's locked. So what-the roaches check in, they don't check out?" Dean asks.

"Think about how we got here. That detour on I-90? The friggin' hurricane?" Sam asks.

"You saying we were led here?" Dean asks.

"Like rats in a maze."

ELYSIAN FIELDS KITHCEN
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Dean is looking at liquid bubbling in pot. "Please be tomato soup. Please be tomato soup." He lifts ladle to reveal eyeballs. "It is not tomato soup. Motel hell." Sam sees the locked freezer and walks slowly towards it. Inside he sees the rest of the hotel guests.

"Help us! Get us out!" a Man yells. Sam reaches into his pocket and removes his lock picking tool kit.

"Hurry up!" Dean yells.

"I'm going as fast as I... as I can." Sam says slowly.

"There's somebody behind me, isn't there?"

THE ELYSIAN FIELDS
GRAND BALLROOM
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Sam and Dean are dragged into the Grand Ballroom by two men. "Something tells me this isn't a Shriner convention." Dean says as he sees people gathered around.

"Dinner is served." Mercury says. Applause.

"Ladies and Gentleman, our guests of honor have arrived." Baldur says.