Cassie Robinson is the daughter of Martin and Audrey Robinson. She works at the newspaper, where Jimmy Anderson has taught her everything she knows. While at Ohio University, she had a stormy relationship with Dean Winchester, which ended when he told her he was involved with popping ghosts with his dad. |
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Cassie's father's business partner, Clayton Soames, is killed in a car accident along the main road. Then her father Martin is killed the same way, but with only one set of tire tracks there is nothing to prove he was run off the road. Feeling out of her depth, she calls on her ex-boyfriend Dean Winchester for help, since he had told her he deals with ghosts.
Dean and his brother Sam show up at the newspaper office the day after her dad died, right after she had an argument with the Mayor on what to print in the newspaper about the deaths. It is amazing to see him again, and she takes them back to her parent's house to talk. She tells them of the appearing and disappearing truck following her dad before his death, and how there was only one set of tire prints. How the official version is "lost control of his car", but she knows it's the truck. She's skeptical about the ghost stuff, and can't explain it, so she called Dean for help.
The next morning Jimmy Anderson's vehicle is found crashed, with him dead inside. Cassie has another discussion with Mayor Harold Todd, this time to close the main road. He declares it was another accident, and will not close the main road. She accuses him of being racist, but he is affronted, and tells her to ask her mom before walking off. Dean and Sam show up and ask questions, but then they leave to investigate, while she heads off to do her job as a reporter.
That night Dean comes by the house as she's trying to find words for a tribute to Jimmy, looking through his awards. They talk - she had asked her mom about the racist comment, but her mom didn't want to talk about it. They end up talking about their relationship - Dean backs off or makes a joke when there's emotional vulnerability. He accuses her of slamming the door on their relationship, and then buried the key. She just couldn't believe his insane story of popping ghosts for a living, and thought he was dumping her, so she dumped him. He didn't want to dump her, she didn't mean to hurt him. After apologizing, they start to kiss and spend the night making hot steamy sex.
The next morning he tells her that it was a big first for him to tell her who he really was. She thought he was nuts, or dangerous. He tells her that working things out with her was scary, and she tells him no more excuses from either of them. Sam calls Dean to tell him about the Mayor's death, and he leaves.
Dean joins her at the newspaper offices later, and with Sam on the phone, the three of them work out that it was the Mayor bulldozing the old Dorian place that started the killings up again. They find the old article of Cyrus Dorian missing from 40 years ago, and that was right about the time of the black murders happening.
That night the black truck appears to Cassie, and she spends some time terrified as she runs from room to room closing blinds. The truck drives at the house again and again, but doesn't break through. She calls Dean in desperation. Both Dean and Sam come over to be with her and her mom, and slowly the story comes out of her mom about what had happened 40 years ago with Cyrus. How he hated blacks and murdered them, how he went after the church, and how he came after her father but her father killed him instead. How her father and his friends covered up the murder, and even the deputy Harold Todd helped them by not doing anything. After putting her exhausted mother to bed, she meets Dean outside. He tells her to stay in the house with her mom, but she's hating him getting all authoritative on her, so he asks her politely before kissing her goodbye.
Later, after the brothers leave, Sam calls with a strange request - he wants to know exactly where the old burned down church was located. She tells him, then he hangs up. She thinks things through, and realizes there can't be a relationship with Dean after all. The next morning, after thanking them, she tells Dean goodbye. He is hoping that there can be something between them, but she is a realist and doesn't see that hope. They kiss, and she tells him goodbye. He only tells her he will see her, before climbing into the Impala and riding away.