1.10 Asylum

In Rockford, Illinois, police officers Walter Kelly and Daniel Gunderson were called for a breaking and entering at the deserted Roosevelt asylum. Gunderson tells Kelly the legend, since he's not a local, of whoever spends the night at the asylum, goes insane from the spirits who haunts it. They head inside, and split up to search for the kids who have broken into the asylum. Gunderson finds them, and sends them on their way. However, Kelly seems different, and when they climb into the police car, he is wiping away blood. That night, Kelly goes home and inexplicably shoots his wife and himself.

Sam hangs up from Caleb. No word from their Dad to Caleb, nor to his other contacts - Jefferson or Pastor Jim. Dean has checked the journal, but no leads there, either. Sam wants to call the Feds and file a missing person's report, but Dean refuses because it will piss Dad off. Sam points out that Dad should've been there in Kansas, and the fact that he wasn't doesn't bode well. While Sam and Dean argue about John's whereabouts, Dean receives a text message from him, containing coordinates. Dean checks into it, and it leads them to Walter Kelly's killing his wife, and suicide. Dean finds the asylum earmarked in the journal, and realizes Dad is sending them on a job. Sam thinks the whole thing is weird - Dad texting coordinates, but Dean stands firm by him. "Dad's tellin' us to go somewhere, we're goin'."

Dean tries to pressure Gunderson to talk, claiming to be Nigel Tufnel with The Chicago Tribune, but Gunderson feels it's too much like an ambush and doesn't want to talk about his partner. Sam shows up, pushes Dean aside roughly, and runs him off. Gunderson is more open to Sam, who sits and orders two beers for them. Later Sam meets up with Dean outside, and tells him what all he found out. Kelly was a good cop, head of his class and even keeled. At home, it was mostly smooth sailing with a few fights with his wife, although they'd been wanting kids. So Kelly had something done to him… and they next need to go to the asylum.

They climb over the fence, and look around. The cops found the kids in the south wing, and Dean finds a reference in John's journal to kids who disappeared from the south wing in 1972. They don't find any spirits, but they normally aren't active during the day. Dean razzes on Sam about his psychic powers, and eventually Sam hits him back, playfully. Dean cuts up about what might be happening - ghosts possessing people, or driving them insane. Sam brings up the fact that Dad isn't there. Dean doesn't want to talk about it; but Sam doesn't care about what Dad wants. Dean is just following orders, and he finds a name plaque of "Sanford Ellicott". They have to find out what happened.

Sam and Dean track down a psychiatrist, James Ellicott, whose father, Sanford Ellicott, was the Chief of Staff at the asylum. Sam poses as a last minute patient as he tries to find out information. Dr. James makes a deal with him - Sam must talk about himself, and James would tell him what happened. Sam is extremely uncomfortable. Later he walks out of the building and tells Dean what he'd found out. The south wing housed the hard cases, psychotics and criminally insane. In 1964 the patients rioted, killing some of the patients and the senior Dr Ellicott, whose body was never found. It equalled up to a bunch of angry spirits.

That night, Gavin brings Kat to the Roosevelt Asylum for a date. He thinks it will be fun to look around, but she doesn't like it. So he's going to look around and tells her to stay there. While looking around, a girl shows up. He wrong assumes it's Kat, and makes out with her. At that point, Kat calls for Gavin. Gavin steps back and realizes a ghost was kissing him, and freaks out.

The boys return to the asylum that night, where both the EMF meter and the video camera are registering. They carefully look around, needing to find and burn the body. They split up, and Sam runs into a woman spirit whose face is disfigured. She is coming towards him, when he calls for Dean's help. Dean shows up, and yells for Sam to get down when he shoots her point-blank. Sam thought it was weird she didn't attack, when they discover Kat, who has been separated from her boyfriend Gavin. She insists on helping the boys find Gavin, and she goes with Dean while Sam goes off on his own.

Sam finds a terrified Gavin who says that a ghost kissed him and tried to whisper something to him, but he doesn't know what because he ran like hell. Meanwhile Dean and Kat are looking for Gavin when Dean's flashlight stops working. He pulls out a lighter, knowing the ghosts can't interfere with fire, when Kat mentions that he's hurting her arm. But Dean isn't touching her, so they look down and see a disembodied hand clutching Kat's arm. She screams as she is pulled into a room. The metal door slams shut behind her. She freaks out inside the room, banging on the door and calling for help as Dean works frantically with a crowbar trying to pry the door open, but he is unable to. A ghost shows up. Kat is trying to get as far away from it as possible. When Sam arrives he works out that it is trying to communicate with her, not hurt her. Sam yells through the door at Kat that she has to face it, calm down, and listen. From the hallway, everything is quiet inside for bit, before the door opens and there stands Kat. Sam checks the interior, but the ghost has vanished. She tells them that it whispered "One thirty-seven" to her. The boys deduce is a room number.

While Dean goes to find the room, Sam tries to lead the kids out, but finds they are trapped. Something in the asylum doesn't want them to leave. Sam looks everywhere, but there's no way out. Gavin starts to panic. Sam receives a phone call on a bad line from who he thinks is Dean, saying he's in the basement and hurry up. He leaves Kat with a shotgun filled with rock salt, since she can handle it, to protect them, and leaves to head to the basement. Sam doesn't find Dean, but is found by Dr. Ellicott, who uses his powers on Sam.

Dean finds the room and searches it, finally finding a satchel. It has journals documenting Dr. Ellicott's cruel experiments designed to test his theories that provoking extreme anger in patients would be therapeutic. These experiments were done in a secret room in the basement. He heads for the exit of the asylum, assuming he'll run across Sam, when he finds Kat and Gavin. She, in panic, tries to shoot Dean, thinking he's a spirit. Thankfully he has quick reflexes and threw himself back around the corner to dodge! He asks them why they were still here, and where was Sam? They told him that he'd called Sam to come to the basement, but that phone call Dean didn't make. Dean grabs extra weapons, and takes off to find him.

Dean finds Sam in the basement, telling him that Dr. Ellicott lured him down. Dean explains what he found in the log book, about the experiments of extreme rage therapy. He thought if he could get his patients to vent their anger, they'd be cured, but it only made them worse and worse and angrier and angrier. Dean figures the spirit is doing the same thing - making the cop and the kids in the seventies so angry that they become homicidal. He determines they must find Dr. Ellicott's bones and burn them. He figures the patients that rioted would drag him down to the secret room to kill him there. Sam claims he didn't find the secret room, but Dean locates a secret door which he thinks led to the hidden procedure room. Sam, under the influence of Ellicott, confronts Dean, aiming the shotgun at him. Sam's tired of taking orders from Dean, telling him to shut his mouth. Dean challenges Sam - "what was he gonna do? Gun's filled with rock salt. It's not gonna kill me." Sam shoots him in the chest with rock salt, blasting him through the hidden door, saying, "No. But it'll hurt like hell".

Dean calls to Sam, telling him they need to burn Ellicott's bones, and he'll be back to normal. But standing over Dean, Sam expresses his rage at Dean for thwarting his attempts to find John. That Dean always follows Dad's orders like a good little soldier, without question, desperate for his approval. Sam claims he's not pathetic, like Dean. Dean says he's going to make it easier for Sam, and hands over his gun to Sam. "Real bullets are gonna work a hell of a lot better than rock salt." Sam finally takes it, aiming it at Dean's face. Dean wonders if Sam hates him that much, that Sam could kill his own brother, and tells him to pull the trigger. Sam fires it at Dean, only there is no bullet. He tries firing it repeatedly, only it isn't loaded. Dean gives him a right cross to knock Sam back, and staggers to his feet. Dean says, "Man, I'm not going to give you a loaded pistol" before he gives Sammy a vicious right cross to knock him out. He pats Sam, apologizing, before searching the room. Dean finds the corpse of Dr Ellicott stuffed in a cabinet. He salts the corpse, and pours lighter fluid over it. But when he prepares to burn it, the ghost of Dr Ellicott appears and attacks Dean. As the power flickers through Dean, he manages to grab his Zippo, light it, and toss it onto the corpse. As it burns, the ghost darkens and falls to the ground. Sam wakes up. Dean asks if he's going to try to kill him now, to which Sam says no. The next morning the boys escort Kat and Gavin from the asylum. Sam then apologizes, he couldn't control what he said. Dean cuts him off - he just wants sleep.

While the boys sleep, Dean's cell phone rings. Sam wakes up and answers the phone - it's John.