( BLOOD BROTHERS )

EAGLE HARBOR, WASHINGTON

DOCK
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        A man walks along the dock. Benny steps out behind him. "Hello, Quentin." He says.

       "Benny. No, It – it can't be you."

       "I get the confusion. You of all people knew I was really, truly dead. After all, you held down my legs, didn't you?" Benny asks. "When the old man told Sorento to saw off my head. Where is he?"

      "Are you serious? Did you really think I'd tell you where he is?"

       "Well, I guess I was..." Benny holds up a large knife. "...kind of hoping you wouldn't."

      "On the other hand, I might show you where he is." Quentin says as two other men walk up behind Benny. "After me and my boys take off your hands and feet."

      "Well, don't go through all that trouble on my account."

       "Please. You go and crawl your way out of God's ass for another ride on the merry-go-round?" Asks Quentin. "The old man's gonna want to see this for himself."

       "Mm. Well, they might be able to kill me. And that's all right. 'Cause if they do, I know exactly where I'm going... and who I'll see when I get there." Benny says.

       Quentin growls and his fangs descend. Benny lunges at him and cuts off his head before turning to face the other two men, who are holding knives.

SUPERNATURAL

ENID, OREGON

MOTEL ROOM
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      Sam, Elena and Dean enter. Sam immediately crosses to the bathroom and turns on the light. Dean looks around the room. "Well, that is twice that he's burned us. Shame on you." Dean says.

       "No, no, no, no. I'm the one who said he set us up." Sam says.

       "No, you said, 'I wonder if Kevin is setting us up', and then you started in with the – the techno babble. That was like two states ago."

       "Yeah, well, whatever. Either way, that's two other rooms billed to one of Kevin's false credit IDs." Elena says as Dean picks the lock on the mini-bar. "And the motel ran his number today."

       "Just like he actually checked in?" Dean asks.

      "Yes." She says.

      "Kid's like Rain Man. He's like a crappy little credit-card-counting... criminal prodigy Rain Man."

      "Well, he was in advanced placement." Sam says.

      "Shut up." Dean hands Sam a beer from the mini-bar. "When's that little idiot gonna stop running from us?"

      "I don't know, Dean. I mean, you did try to kill his mother." Says Sam.

       "I was trying to kill Crowley, okay? Who happened to be wearing Kevin's mother at the time." Dean says. "Well, there's a difference."

       "Apparently not to Kevin. Oh, I know. Maybe because – oh, yeah – it's his mother." Sam says.

       Dean's phone rings. "Hold that thought. No, actually, you know what? Don't hold that thought." He answers. "Hello? Hello? Uh, hang on. There's not enough bars." Dean goes outside and closes the door behind him. "Benny?"

       Benny's bloody knife lies on the ground. He is bleeding from several wounds. "Hey, Dean. You, um – you got a minute? Afraid I messed up, buddy." He says. Their conversation alternates between Dean outside the motel and Benny on the dock.

      "What did you do?" Dean asks.

       "No, man, not like that." Benny says and Dean leaves the room. Sam looks out the window at Dean talking on the phone.

       Dean looks over his shoulder at the motel room window. "I'm sorry. You took on how many? Are you crazy?" He asks.

       "Hey." Benny says. We see Quentin's men lying dead on the dock. "See, the thing is, my legs – they ain't working so good. There's, uh... a fuel barge not too far from here. I'm pretty sure I can make it at a slow crawl. I was kind of hoping maybe I could ask you for one more favor?"

       Later, Dean puts a bag down on the bed. "And – and what exactly is that supposed to mean, you've got to go?" Sam asks.

      "Which words are giving you trouble?" Dean asks.

       "We're on the case, remember, Dean? The – the Winchester holy grail, "shut the gates of hell forever" case." Sam says.

       "Sure are. But in order to close the Gates of Hell, we need our Prophet, am I right?" Dean asks. "So step one – find Kevin Tran. Well, he ain't here. But he wanted us to be, which means we're probably as far away from him as he could possibly put us. So step two – find Kevin Tran." He looks in the mini-bar. "You mind if I take the Toblerone?"

       Dean leaves the motel room, followed by Sam and Elena. "Wait. Dean, seriously?" Sam asks.

       "Hey, the trail is dead, but the room is paid for. You got some research to do, and I got some personal crap I got to take care of. That's all."

      "What does that mean – 'personal'?" Elena asks.

       "Did you have a stroke? Vocabulary? Personal, as in my own grown-up personal – I don't know – crap." Dean says.

       "Damn it –"

       "What, Sam? Last I counted, you took a year off from the job. I need a day." Dean gets into the Impala and starts the engine.

       Elena runs up to the Impala window. "Dean—"

      "Everything's fine, Lena." Dean says softly. "I'll be back before you know it."

FLASHBACK

PURGATORY
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       Dean falls on his back to the ground during a fight. He looks for his weapon, which is out of reach. He kicks out with a leg and knocks the monster he is fighting down. Dean gets up and grabs his weapon.

       Dean hurls the monster to the ground and swings his weapon at it three times. He reaches behind him to put a hand on Benny's arm. They appear to have been fighting back to back. Another monster runs at them. Benny is whistling. A second monster runs towards them. Dean and Benny get ready to strike.

END FLASHBACK

MOTEL ROOM
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       Sam looks up Cascadia Credit, Kevin's Princeton admission form, and a credit card application with Kevin's picture in the name of "Kevin Park' on his laptop. "You are a wascally wabbit, Mr. Tran." Sam then calls up a credit card application in the name of Amelia Richardson. "Concerned. Not stalking... concerned."

       He hears a whirring noise coming from the bathroom and goes to investigate. The bathroom fan is making the noise.

FLASHBACK

MOTEL ROOM
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       We see a close-up of a noisy air conditioner in the motel reception. Sam enters with Riot on a leash. "Everett. Hey, buddy, you still on duty?" He asks.

       "Yeah, yeah."

       "How's your dad?" Sam asks.

       "He's kind of having it rough on the new regimen. Can't keep anything down." Everett says.

      "That sucks."

      "Yeah." Says Everett.

       "Listen, um, I'm gonna stay on another week, okay?" Sam asks. "But I need you to run it on this card, 'cause I just canceled the one you had on file."

       "Okay, sure." Everett says as Sam looks at the noisy air conditioner. "Figured you'd have moved on by now."

       "Right. Well, I'm – I'm kind of between jobs." Sam looks again at the noisy air conditioner. "Uh... plus, uh, dog has a surgery follow-up on Tuesday."

       "Yeah, you really messed up that dog."

       "Right. Uh, thanks for that." Sam says. They both look at the noisy air conditioner.

       "Oh, yeah, it's all that thing does – piss, moan, and eat up money we ain't got."

       "Well, you got any tools?" Asks Sam.

      "Hell, if you can fix it, you don't need to go and look for a job. You got one here."

END FLASHBACK

MOTEL ROOM
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        Sam screws the cover back onto the fan. He turns it on and it operates quietly. He turns it off.

DOCK
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       Dean pulls up in the Impala and parks next to a pick-up truck. He looks into the cabin of the truck and then opens the covered truck bed. He opens a small ice chest, which contains blood bags. Dean shakes his head, takes the ice chest and closes the truck bed.

FUEL BARGE
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       "Benny!" Dean walks down a flight of stairs and finds Benny leaning against a wall. "Benny? Not lookin' good."

       Benny chuckles. "Up yours." He says. Dean opens the ice chest.

       Dean leans against a table, on which there are many empty blood bags. Benny comes out of a bathroom wearing clean clothes and drying his hair with a towel. "Wow. You, uh... look okay." Dean says.

      "Getting there."

      "Dude, you were double-hamstrung." Says Dean.

       "Yeah, well, a little rest, a half a cooler full of AB-negative – most wounds short of an amputation will mend up... vampirically speaking." Benny says.

      "Uh-huh."

       Benny picks up a bag and puts on his cap. "I'll be 100% before you know it." He picks up the ice chest and holds out a hand to Dean. "Thank you, brother." They shake.

       "Benny, what's going on?"

       "Oh, your work here is done, Dean. You already saved the day. You know, I got my, uh, deal, and you got – what'd you call it? A family business?" Benny asks.

      "Benny. What's going on?" Dean asks.

      "You and that whole 'friend' thing, man."

FLASHBACK

PURGATORY
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        Dean stands up after killing a monster. Benny cleans his weapon on another monster's clothing. A third monster swings a weapon at Castiel, who puts a hand on the monster's head and smites him in a blaze of light. The monster falls to the ground dead.

        "Well, I got to admit, Dean – he's got his strong points, but holy hell if he ain't a magnet." Benny says.

       "Well, before we found Cas, you said it was my humanity that was drawing too much attention." Dean says.

       "Yeah, that too."

       "Well, I think we're clear for the moment. It does present a curious curl in the metaphysics, doesn't it?" Cas asks. "If you murder a monster in monster heaven, where does it go?"

        "And this is the crazy aunt I want to take on the road?" Benny asks.

      "I am not your aunt."

       "What? Really?" Asks Benny.

       "I have no possible relationship to your sibling offspring." Castiel says.

       "Now, you're kidding me."

       "Oh, you two are killing me." Dean says.

       "I have to agree with the vampire, Dean. The risk of crossing Purgatory with a seraph -" Castiel starts. "...it's... less than strategic, and certainly when we have no reason to believe that I can pass through the door that you're headed for."

       "You see, you're an intact, living human being stuck in Purgatory's craw. This dimension wants to spit you out, which is exactly what's gonna power our escape pod." Benny says. "Now, I'm pretty sure I can squeeze through, too, because, after all, you take away the fangs and the fun, I was born human, too. But..."

        "I don't think it would work for me." Says Cas.

       "You hear what he's telling you, Dean? Your buddy is saying –"

       "Listen to me, you undead blood junkie, I'm the one with the mojo. I'm the one with the plan." Dean says. "Cas... we're gonna shove your ass back through the eye of that needle if it kills all three of us."

       "Obviously, I'm less than comfortable with that."

END FLASHBACK

FUEL BARGE
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       "Well, it's good to know you're still dumb as ever." Benny says.

       "Yeah, well, some things never change. Now, why are you getting into machete fights with your own kind?" Dean asks.

       "Quentin, the one I came for? We were in the Same nest. I'm hunting the vampire who turned me, my maker." Benny says.

       "Well, now, don't get me wrong. I'm down with the hunting, but, uh... why?" Asks Dean.

       "Kill him before he kills me... again."

MOTEL ROOM
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       Sam is using his laptop outside his motel room. He looks up as a moth flies into a bug zapper, and a few moments later looks up again as a woman in a bath robe gets ice from an ice machine.

FLASHBACK

MOTEL ROOM
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        Riot lies on the floor watching Sam fix an ice machine. Sam flips a switch to test it. "Awesome. Uh, if you're still on the clock, lady in 118 says the sink's backed up." Everett says.

       Later, Sam is crouching on the floor under the sink. Three glasses with pieces of lime in them are on the counter. Amelia enters, carrying shopping bags.

       "What the hell? What are you doing here?" Amelia asks and Sam stands up. "I knew there was something off about you, with your creepy Army-Navy and your sideburns –"

       "Stop, stop. Um, I'm fixing your sink." Sam says.

       "What?"