2.01 In My Time of Dying Commentary

From 1.22 Devil's Trap, Bobby is talking with Sam and Dean in his home.
Bobby: Storm's comin'. And you boys, your daddy? You are smack in the middle of it.
"Stranglehold" by Ted Nugent starts playing.
The screen goes black

JA: Hi, we’re here for ah, the... Season... Two... opening show DV[D] commentary. Uh, I’m Jensen Ackles. I play Dean Winchester.
JP: I’m Jared Padalecki. I play Sam Winchester.
KM: I’m Kim Manners. I directed this episode.
CY: Cyrus Yavneh, producer.
JP: Jensen just got a raise.
KM/CY: (Chuckles)
JA: Strictly due to performance.
JP: (laughs)
JA: And the commentary.
JP: (laughs)
JA: Especially in this episode.

From 1.20 Dead Man's Blood, camera pans from behind Samuel Colt's jacket, showing him putting together a gun.
John (voiceover from 1.20 Dead Man's Blood): Samuel Colt made a gun.
In 1.20 Dead Man's Blood, the Colt is being polished, showing the Latin "non timebo malo"
The Impala races along a highway with trees and headlights on, heading to get help.
John (voiceover from 1.20 Dead Man's Blood): They say this gun can kill anything.
From 1.20 Dead Man's Blood, John raises the gun to shoot Luther, to save Sam. The bullet races through the air and hits Luther in the middle of his forehead.

JA: Phil does a good job with these recaps.
KM: Yeah he does.
JP: Oh yeah.

From 1.19 Provenance, Dean driving the Impala through the gate at the cemetery to get to the Merchant Mausoleum.
John (voiceover from 1.21 Salvation): know how to kill it.
From 1.21 Salvation, Tom is joining the face off between Meg and John. Scene fades out.
Scene fades in. From 1.21 Salvation, John knows the demons figured out it was a fake gun.
Bobby (voiceover): More
Sam is reading the exorcism to free Meg.
Bobby (voiceover): and more demons
A demon is possessing a man on the street. Scene fade out.
Bobby (voiceover): are walkin' among us.

JP: Oh.
JA: Oh yeah, that had to hurt.
JP: Pass.

Scene fades in. Meg's chair is being dragged side to side, while the boys watch Sam finish the exorcism. Scene fades out.

Music:

Like a dog in heat

Scene fades in. From 1.11 Scarecrow, Dean is getting a close look at the scarecrow. Scene fades out.
Scene overlay. Meg looks up at the Devil's Trap she is caught in.
Dean holds the Colt on John in a standoff.
Dean: You're not my Dad.

Music:

Tell it's me by the way now baby

Sam: Dean, what's the hell's going on?
Dean: I think he's possessed.
John's head slowly comes up to show yellow eyes.

Music:

I like to tap the streets

Scene overlay. Sam gets thrown into the wall.
Scene overlay. Azazel, in John's body, is throwing the boys. Scene fade out.
Scene overlay. Dean is thrown against the wall, dropping the Colt.
John/Azazel (voiceover): I have plans
John/Azazel is talking with a pinned Sam.

Music:

Now I've been smoking for so long

John/Azazel: for you, Sammy. You, and all the children like you.
Sam grabs the Colt off the table, and takes aim at John/Azazel. John/Azazel stops killing Dean and turns to face Sam, walking towards him. Sam fires the Colt, and the bullet goes in John's leg, causing him to fall.

Music:

You know I'm here to stay

John is in control on the floor, begging Sam to shoot the demon.

Music:

Got you in a stranglehold baby

John: It's inside me. I can feel it.
Sam lifts the Colt to aim.

Music:

You best get out of the way

John: Hey shoot me. I can't hold onto it much longer.
The demon escapes through John's mouth, before leaving the cabin through cracks in the floorboards. Sam is panting, watching this. Scene fades out.
Scene fades in. The Impala comes around the corner, sideways. Inside the Impala, Sam is driving to the hospital, talking with John.
John: Why didn't you kill it?
Sam: We still got the Colt. We still have the one bullet left.

JP: We are broadcasting to you from Vancouver, British Columbia right now. We’re right outside our shooting stages. Which are in Barnaby for those who know Vancouver, and we’re inside our ADR truck, so to speak. Where we get to watch here and where we do most of our voice overs. And, uh, where we did actually Season One commentary on episode Phantom Traveler. And I’m going to stop talking.
JA: (fake snores)
JP: Jensen, Jensen.
KM: This location where the guy getting out of the truck it’s not the location where we did the wreck in. It’s a complete cheat.
JP: (chuckles) Nor the guy in the truck.
KM: No, nor the guy in the truck.
JA: Yeah, that’s right.
JP: It’s not the same truck.

The demon walks to the driver's side, and pulls the driver's side door off its hinges to reveal Sam pointing the Colt at him. The door is tossed to the side.
Sam: (low) Get back... or I'll kill you, I swear to God.
Demon: You won't. You're saving that bullet for someone else.
The music fades out. Sam cocks the gun, aiming it higher.

JP: That gun is not a really massed produced gun. And it’s so hard to pull back the hammer with one hand (chuckles) and look like you’ve just got in a car accident because it takes so much force. I remember that being the toughest part of that shot, for me at least.

The demon races away in a cloud. Sam drops his head back in relief, and uncocks the gun.
The trucker lifts his head unsteadily, looking at the inhabitants of the crushed Impala.
Trucker: Oh my God.
Sam: Dad?
Trucker: Did I do this?
Sam: Dad!
Sam is starting to pant, and get upset.
Sam: Dean? Dean!!
Bright light.

KM: This scene was originally, uh, written to be inside of the Paramedic
CY: Trauma ward
JA: Emergency room.
KM: Trauma ward. Cyrus came up with the idea to play it live as if the boys had been laying there all night.
JP: I remember about this scene. I- since I - in the Pilot, or in-in the first episode of this season rather, and the last episode of last season, I had busted eye. So I had prosthetics on my eye to make it look like I had a big, bruised black eye on my-on my right eye. And it was so hot outside and I was laying down on that gurney, that the glue from the prosthetic melted and dripped into my eye.
KM: (chuckles)
JP: And that’s why we had to, ah, end up putting a patch on it. Because we had to take it off because I had to get an eyewash and there were safety issues. So, that’s why I have a patch on my eye.

Dean walks out into the hallway.

KM: This entire sequence was reshot. We shot it originally with Jensen opening up doors and we got a call from Eric Kripke saying - (clears throat) Ghosts can’t open doors.
JA: Ghosts can’t open doors.
KM: (laughs)
JA: Small technicality there.
KM: But the rules are different for different ghosts. Who knew?

Dean goes halfway down the stairs to the front of the hospital.

JP: We just went from stage to location, didn’t we. Was that first shot?
KM: Yeah. That was on stage, this is on location.
JA: No, no that was location.
KM: This is, uh, Riverview?
JA: Umm-hmm. This is Riverview.
JP: Where we did last year’s Asylum.
JA: It should be our stage 5.

Dean: Excuse me.
He continues to make his way down to the station.
Dean: Hi. I, uh, think I was in a car accident... with my dad and my brother. I just need to find them.
The nurse is unresponsive.
Dean: Hello?
Dean snap his fingers a few times, then waves his hand in front of her face. She is still unresponsive. He is confused.
Dean runs back down the upstairs hallway, panicked and worried.

INT. DEAN'S ROOM - DAY
Dean sees his body on the bed, intubated and dying. Close up on his shocked face.

KM: This is all CGI. This is Jensen in both spots. Later in the show we had a-a guy with a rubber face on.
JA: That was molded after my face.
KM: That’s right.
JA: Which was probably one of the weirdest experiences I’ve ever had
KM: (chuckles)
JA: to deal with on this show.
JP: And the guy, who had - he was a body double, who had the Jensen face molded onto his face for basically 10-12 hours a day, had to have somebody walk him around. Because Jensen’s mask face had the eyes closed so he couldn’t really see out of it
JA: So he was all-
JP: so he was getting guided around and he was a real champ about it. He didn’t gripe. I mean I would’ve been crying and gripeing
JA: Yeah, you’d been peeling it off.
JP: and peeling my face. He didn’t complain at all. He was a real champ.

Spirit Dean: considering... huh.
Sam: Oh, no.
Spirit Dean: Man, tell me you can hear me. How's Dad? Is he okay?

JP: Those are the prosthetics pieces I’m talking about. I’m-I’m not just - half winking my right eye. That’s actually an effect, um, that’s been glued on. One to my top lid and one to my bottom lid and then, uh, the edges get smoothed out and so you can’t tell where the skin ends and the prosthetic begins.

Doctor: Blood loss, contusions to his liver and kidney. But it's the head trauma I'm worried about. There's early signs of cerebral edema.
Sam: Well, what can we do?
Doctor: Well, we won't know his full condition until he wakes up.
Sam nods.
Doctor: If... he wakes up.
Sam: If?
Doctor: I have to be honest—
Spirit Dean: (overlap) Oh, screw you, Doc, I'm waking up.
Doctor: (overlap) most people with this degree of injury

JA: It’s a interesting show working with, you know, the actors that-that... just don’t even see you and they
JP: Um-hmm.
JA: don’t react to you. And nothing - It was quite an interesting experience.

Spirit Dean: I'll be fine.
Sam is still staring at the doctor, absorbing the bad news.
Spirit Dean: Sam.

INT. JOHN'S ROOM - DAY
John is lying in a hospital bed, his arm in a sling. Awkwardly one-handed, he pulls something out of his wallet.
John: Alright. Here. Give 'em my insurance.
Sam takes the card John gives him, smiling as he reads it.
Sam: Elroy McGillicuddy?

KM: The shot that Maddy loves. Maddy’s our camera assistant. This is - I’m just screening at Jared’s face here.
JP: Very hard.
KM: Very hard to keep focus here.

Sam: Nothin'. Look, if the doctors won't do anything, then we'll have to, that's all. I don't know, I'll find some... Hoodoo priest and lay some mojo on him and...
John: We'll look for someone.
Sam: Yeah.
John: But Sam... I don't know if we're gonna find anyone.
Sam: Why not? I found that faith healer before.

JP: Did Sammy think of that himself? Or did he get a vibe
KM: (chuckles)
JP: from beyond? (chuckles)
KM: We’ll never know.
JP: I’ll know. But I’m not gonna tell ya’ll.
JA: You read the script.
JP: (laughs)

John: Where's the Colt?
Sam: Your son is dying, and you're worried about the Colt?
John: We're hunting this demon, and maybe it's hunting us too. That gun may be our only card.
Sam: It's in the trunk.
Sam: They dragged the car to a yard off of I-83.
John: Alright. You've gotta clean out that trunk before some junk man sees what's inside.
Sam: I already called Bobby.
Sam: He's like an hour out. He's gonna tow the Impala back to his place.
John: All right. You, you go meet up with Bobby.
John: You get that Colt, and you bring it back to me. And you watch out for hospital security.
Sam: I think I've got it covered.
Sam gets up to leave; John stops him, picking up a sheet of paper.
John: Hey. Here.
John: I made a list of things I need. Have Bobby pick 'em up for me.
Sam: (reading) Acacia?

JA: I like this shot at the end here.

Sam: (reading) Oil of Abramelin? What's this stuff for?
John: Protection.

KM: It’s a good scene.

Sam turns to leave again, then stops and turns around at the door.
Sam: Hey, Dad? You know, the demon. He said he had plans for me, and the children like me. Do you have any idea what he meant by that?
John: No, I don't.
Sam leaves. The camera angle shifts to a close up of John, who seems troubled, then to the corner of the room to reveal Spirit Dean, who has been leaning against the wall staring at Dad.
Spirit Dean: Well, you sure know something.

EXT. JUNKYARD - DAY
Sam steps over to Bobby, sighs, and looks down at the mangled car.
Sam: Oh man. Dean is gonna be pissed.
Bobby and Sam exchange a look.

JA: That’s great.
KM: (Chuckles) You boys were lucky to live.
JP: There - We certainly were!
KM: (laughs)
JP: Kim can verify this, but I think this was actually our first shot scene... of season two.
KM: I believe it was.
JP: Just, day one.
KM: Mm-mmm.

Bobby: sell the rest for scrap.
Sam: No.

KM: Chris Cooper came to me and said, he said, how am I gonna break this computer? I said, go up to the roof of the studio and throw it off. (chuckles) And that’s what he did. (laughs)
JA: You’re kidding!
JP: No way! Chris Cooper’s our prop master.

Bobby: barely any parts worth salvaging.
Sam: Listen to me, Bobby.

JA: Jim Beaver’s been a great addition to this show, I think.
JP: Oh yeah.
JA: Yeah.

Sam: We're not just going to give up on...
Bobby: (quietly) Okay. You got it.
Sam: Here, uh, Dad asked for you to get this stuff for him.
Sam hands over the list. Bobby looks at it, frowning.
Bobby: What John want with this?
Sam: Protection from the demon.
Bobby gives him a look.
Sam: What?
Bobby: Oh, nothing. It's just, uh-
Sam: Bobby. What's going on?

INT. DEAN'S ROOM - DAY
John is sitting by Dean's bed watching the ventilator breathe for him.

KM: That was two separate shots, obviously.
JA: Mm-hmm.
KM: On Jeffrey Dean and Badman(?). We cut them together on the back of his head.
JA: Right.

Spirit Dean: Come on, Dad. You gotta help me. I've gotta get better. I've gotta get back in there. I mean, you haven't called a soul for help. You haven't even tried. Aren't you gonna do anything? (yelling) Aren't you even gonna say anything?
Spirit Dean starts walking around the bed.
Spirit Dean: I've done everything you have ever asked me. Everything. I have given everything I've ever had. Are you just gonna sit there and you gonna watch me die? What the hell kind of father are you?
Spirit Dean pauses, hearing something rumbling.
Spirit Dean: What is that?
Spirit Dean goes into the hallway and a spirit whooshes past him. He jumps back.

KM: (chuckles)
JA: That’ll get ya.

Spirit Dean: (to John) I take it you didn't see that.
Spirit Dean heads out to track the spirit.

INT. HOSPITAL - DAY
Spirit Dean stalks the spirit down the hallways.

JP: This is back on stage?
JA: Nah, this is Riverview.
KM: No, this is Riverview.
JP: Oh yeah, that staircase.
KM: That’s Guy B doing that study cam, the 180. It took maybe 4 hours to shoot that little scene.
JA: Um-hmm.
KM: Who was the operator that day?
JA: Uh... Clovier.
KM: John Clovier. (low) Yeah, that’s it.

Dean follows it to where a female nurse is lying on the floor, choking.
Dying Nurse: Help! Help! Help!
Spirit Dean calls towards some nearby hospital personnel.
Spirit Dean: Hey! I need some help in here!
He goes back over to her, leaning over her.
Dying Nurse: I can't...

KM: This poor girl. She really struggled.
JA: She was.
KM: She - She really sold out.
JA: I wanted to give her a bottle of water and a hug
KM: Yeah.
JA: after every take.
KM: Yeah.

INT. JOHN'S ROOM - DAY
Sam stalks into the room with a duffel bag; Spirit Dean meets him at the door and starts trying to talk to him.
Spirit Dean: Sammy! Tell me you can freakin' hear me, man. There's somethin' in the hospital. Now, you've got to bring me back and we've got to hunt this thing. Sam!

JA: Not much you can do when you’re dead.
KM: This is my favorite scene of the film, in terms of performance.
JA: Yeah.
KM: This and the very end. And the stuff with Fred Lane.
JA: Mmm-hmm.

Sam: Think I wouldn't find out?

JP: This was funny, because uh, a couple of the takes I was really watching the back on Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s legs. He started, (chuckles) He started sneaking his legs off of the bed on the right side and just holding them there until I came and threw the bag down. (Chuckles) Cause of my coverage, I just come and it’s not-it’s not full of anything, it’s got clothing in it and maybe a shoe or something, but I come and I slammed it on his legs. And he started - he was getting pretty pissed off. A way to have fun while you shoot.

Sam: It's the same selfish obsession!
Spirit Dean: (overlap) Come on guys, don't do this!
John: (overlap) It's funny, you know what? I thought it was your obsession too!

JP: Jensen and I both, and I speak for Jeffery as well, um, always really happy when the three of us got to work together. Those two guys brought out a lot in me and stuff that I can’t usually get to because, by virtue of how the scene with another character, your father. I think Jensen feels the same way.
JA: Yeah. It’s definitely a treat.

John: You know what? I should have never taken you along in the first place. I knew it was a mistake, I knew I was wrong—
Spirit Dean: (overlap) I said SHUT UP!
Spirit Dean smacks a glass of water off the table and it goes flying, crashing to the floor.

JP: And then it was really hard I remember to perfect that glass coming off.
JA: Mm-hmm.
JP: There was a string tied to it at first.
KM: (chuckles)
JP: Cause then overlap those shots obviously.
KM: Yeah, right.

Spirit Dean: Dude, I full-on Swayze'd that mother.

KM: This was a hard scene to
JP: Yeah, right there
KM: for Jared and Jeffrey, because you’re there, but you’re not there.
JP: Right.
KM: They can’t see you.
JP: Yeah. I think a couple of times we did, that I’d shoot a glance over.
JA: Mm-mmm.

Spirit Dean: What the -? What is -?
John: Somethin's going on out there.
John jerks his head indicating "Go find out" to Sam.

INT. DEAN'S ROOM - DAY
Monitors are beeping, a doctor and some nurses are surrounding Dean, resuscitating him.
Doctor: All clear.
Nurse #1: Clear.
Nurse #2: Still no pulse.
Sam huddles in the doorway, tears in his eyes.
Sam: No.
Nurse #2: Still no pulse.
Doctor: Okay, let's go again. Three-sixty.
Nurse Janet: Charging.
Doctor: All clear?
Nurse #1: Clear.
Nurse #2: Clear.
Doctor tries the paddles again.
Sam is in the doorway, crying and fidgeting.
Doctor: Come on, come on.
Nurse #2: Still no pulse.
Nurse Janet: Baseline 36. Charged.
Nurse #2: Clear.
Doctor: Standing by.
Spirit Dean comes up slowly behind him.
The paddles are used on Dean's body once more, as he arches from the electricity used.

JA: And I'm gone.
JP: Jensen will tell you how fun it is to have all that stuff strapped to him. (chuckles)
JA: I think I got into a fight with the, uh, the actual onset nurse that put that stuff together. She’d, you know, every-every other take she’d strap me back in, and it’s just like-
JP: From what I remember actually-
JA: Come on, lady.
JP: Right, oh yeah. For this shot I’m not watching anything. This shot of me right now, obviously, I’m looking at a bunch of camera guys. And I can’t - r-really see the nurses or what not, because there’s where the camera is, and obviously I can’t look at Jensen.

Spirit Dean grabs for the spirit; he latches on momentarily before it hurls him back against the wall.

KM: And obviously this is all visual effects stuff. That puppet’s not there. Jensen can’t see it.
JA: It was actually a bulb on a pole.
KM: (chuckles) That’s right, it was a light bulb.
JA: It was a light bulb on a pole.
KM: Yeah.

Spirit Dean runs into the hallway, looking for the spirit; it is vanished. Sam sighs in relief and backs into the hallway, watching Dean's body from there. Spirit Dean comes back, stands by him.
Spirit Dean: Don't worry, Sammy. I'm not goin' anywhere. I'm gettin'

JP: This is one of my favorite shots coming up.

Spirit Dean: It's some kind of spirit...

JA: Yeah.
JP: Right here.
JA: this is great.

Spirit Dean: And if I can grab it... I can kill it.

KM: That’s Jensen’s body double. And come all the way around, and pull back and... the ghost is gone.
JA: And I’m gone.
CY: It’s a wonderful shot.
JA: Yep.
KM: Yeah.

INT. HOSPITAL - DAY
Spirit Dean wanders the halls, then hears a girl yelling.
Tessa: Can't you see me? Why won't you look at me?

JA: And enter Lindsey.
KM: Yep.
JP: This is the most comfortable Jensen’s ever been shooting. Cause he’s wearing a T-shirt and scrubs. (chuckles)
JA: (chuckles)
JP: Instead of pants and boots and coats.
JA: Boots and four layers.
JP: We have a rockin’ wardrobe, but it’s definitely heavy.

Spirit Dean: Hi, just, uh, calm down. What's your name?
Tessa: Tessa.
Spirit Dean: Okay, good. Tessa, I'm Dean.
Tessa: What's happening to me? Am I-? Am I dead?
Spirit Dean: That sort of depends.

EXT. TESSA'S ROOM - DAY
Spirit Dean and Tessa stand outside a room, watching what is apparently Tessa's body, hooked up to tubes and machines. A woman sits by the bed, holding her hand. Tessa looks up at Dean.
Tessa: I don't understand. I just came in for an appendectomy.

JA: Oops.
KM: (chuckles)
JP: Awkward.

Spirit Dean: I hate to bear bad news but... I think there were some complications.
Tessa: It's just a dream. That's all. This is just... a very weird... unbeliev-

KM: All the shots with the girl? Both in the bed and standing up.
JA: All superimposing.
KM: Yeah, but they all have to be shot twice.
JA: Right.
KM: You know, she has to play the part, in the hallway. Get in bed, get all hooked up with all the props.
JA: Right.
KM: Takes forever.

Tessa: New Agey guy?
Spirit Dean: You see me messing with crystals or listening to Yanni? It's actually a very old idea. It's got a lot of different names: Bilocation... crisis apparitions, fetches.

JP: We’re really lucky that Jensen’s cut on his forehead healed so well, because-
JA: Yeah, by uh, pretty much by the second episode
JP: Right, right, right.
JA: Yeah.
JP: Yeah, pretty much immediately after this episode. Sam was worried about him for a while. So-
JA: I know he was.
KM: Did folks know how it healed so quick?
JA: It’s that magic network cream that they give us, isn’t it right?
KM: (chuckles) That’s right.
JP: Yeah. And I’d apply it on him every night.
JA: That’s right.
JP: Before I went to sleep.
JA: Just a nice little application.
JP: (chuckles)
JA: Kiss on the forehead,
JP: Yep.
JA: and you were off to bed.
KM: A little - going too deep, boys.
JA: Oh, right.
KM: (chuckles)
JP: And all these scenes here that, uh, that I have with Jeffery or that Jensen and I both had with Jeffery are-were all filmed back-to-back-to-back-to-back. They take place at beginning, middle and end of the episode, but-
JA: Editorially, yeah. But, uh,
JP: Yeah, we don’t film chronologically, we film by which location we’re in, so basically Jeff was in that bed all day long. And um-
JA: Much like the other show he was shooting the uh,
JP: Right. (low) Right. (normal) I forget the name of it.
JA: Yeah. I’ll know it.
KM: (chuckles)
JA: That guy just can’t stay alive on network television.
JP: No way.
KM: (chuckles) He’s making a fortune dying on TV.
CY: (chuckles)
JP: I know. I need to get his agent.

Spirit Dean: Most people in your spot would be jello by now, but uh, you're taking this pretty well. Maybe a little better than me.
Tessa: Don't get me wrong. I was pretty freaked at first. But now, I don't know. Maybe I'm dealing.
Spirit Dean: So you're okay with dying?
Tessa: No, of course not. I just think, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen. It's out of my control. It's just

JA: Did you see that skepticism in my-my-?
JP: I saw it. I didn’t know if it was the scar itching,
JA: (scoffs)
JP: or whether it was scepticism, but-
JA: Could’ve been little allergies.
JP: I’ll go with the later.

Spirit Dean: You can either roll over and die or you can keep fighting, no matter what-
PA Announcement: (overlap) Room 237, code blue. Dr. Kripke to room 237,

JP: Dr. Kripke?
JA: (snorts)
KM: Kripke?
JP: Name sounds familiar.
KM: Yeah.
JA: I don’t know why.

Spirit Dean runs down the hallway to another room in crisis.

INT. GIRL'S ROOM - DAY
Nurse #1: Start bagging.
Doctor: Give me another amp of epi, please.
The same spirit is hovering over a little girl, who is being resuscitated. It reaches a hand into her face.

JA: I had to get in there next to that bed and not touch anybody.
KM: That’s right.

Spirit Dean: Get away from her!

JA: But you actually saw her shirt move? Did you notice that?
JP: Mm-hmm.
KM: I didn’t put the - or did you bump it?
JA: I bumped it.
KM: Oh.
JP: That was Jensen’s fault. ‘Cause he didn’t-
JA: Right.
JP: Do what he should’ve.
KM: Well I told him not to bump into anybody. Didn’t listen to me.
JA: I didn’t touch her. I just touched her shirt.

Nurse Janet: At least she's not suffering anymore.
Close-in on Spirit Dean looking stunned.
The screen goes black.

INT. DEAN'S ROOM - NIGHT
Close shot on Dean's face; Sam enters the room quietly, clutching a brown paper bag in his arms. Sam sighs.
Sam: Hey. I think maybe you're around. And if you are... you'll make fun of me for this. But, um...

KM: (chuckles) This is one of my favorite scenes.

Sam: but there's one way we can talk.
Sam pulls out a box labeled "Mystical Talking Board". Spirit Dean is now behind him, arms folded.

JA: Oh yeah. This is the 180 that Glovier did. This. I remember we did, we had to build him a ramp.
KM: Yeah.
JA: To go behind you, Jared.
JP: Oh yeah, right.
JA: Do you remember that?
KM: It was- it was actually 360, almost.
JA: Yeah, that’s right.
CY: That ouija board presented a great problem to us because we couldn’t use certain graphics.
JA: That’s right.
CY: We had to - went
JA: Make-up.
CY: round and round and Mary Ann, our graphic designer, made it. Every prop, every piece of paper, every piece of wardrobe everything is discussed, scrutinized, prepped for, budgeted, and there it is. It all looks so simple.
JA: Yeah.

Spirit Dean sits cross legged, opposite Sam in front of the board.
Spirit Dean: All right, Sam. This isn't going to work.
Spirit Dean places his fingers on the pointer as well and slowly, concentrating, slides it to "YES" on the board.

JP: This was definitely also really tough to-to film.
JA: Yeah. Because you couldn’t react to anything I was saying.
JP: Right.

Spirit Dean: I'll be damned.
Sam laughs in relief.
Sam: Oh, it's good to hear from you, man. Oh, it hasn't been the same without you, Dean.
Spirit Dean: Damn straight.
Spirit Dean places his fingers on the pointer again and starts sliding it.
Spirit Dean: (low) All right, all right.
Sam looks down with surprise as the pointer starts moving again.
Sam: Dean, what?

JP: These are some really tough shots with Jensen right here.
JA: This is the- this is the 360.
KM: The one where you had to hide and then sneak in?
JA: Yeah, I had to hide... and then literally-
JP: Were you behind the camera? Were you-?
JA: No, I was just… just up.. just up, uh, on top of the screen there.
JP: What would there have been?
JA: And then I had to slide in-
JP: Four guys, going around in a circle?
KM: Oh yeah.
JP: What?
JA: Oh yeah, there were 4 guys. There was a boom operator, and then the, uh, focus, and the camera operator,
KM: And the camera that was there and you had to scoot in
JA: Boom!
KM: and it was planned
JA: I had to run in and sit Indian style really quick
KM: We kept catching your landing
JA: Yeah.
KM: and had to do that over and over and over again.

Spirit Dean: don't think it's killing people. I think it's taking 'em. You know,

JP: I actually got... a raise for my-my hand acting.
JA: And your spelling.
JP: Right. They didn’t know I was going to be
JA: Took you four takes to just spell “Reaper” right?
KM: Coach
JP: I didn’t know there weren’t 3 E’s.
KM: (chuckles)
JP: I mean, where’s the A in Reaper?
JP: R - triple E - per.
JA: Kept spelling Reefer. It was weird.
JP: (laughs) My subconscious.

Sam: If it's here naturally...

JP: And what’s also funny about that shot I remember, if you were looking at the ouija board from my perspective - when the camera was seeing R, I was not seeing R. Because the camera was at such a angle that I had to stop. In my vision it was below the letter that I needed to show, cause the camera was looking
JA: That’s right, cause the angle-
JP: in the ouija hole at an angle. I was just hoping that it was the right angle and I was holding it about a half an inch and slightly to the right of the R and the E and the A and the YES. And I just hoped that the camera saw what they needed to see, ‘cause Kim gets really pissed off if it doesn’t comes in.
KM: (chuckles) That’s right!
JP: He throws stuff, and he kicks stuff, and you know.
JA: Countless many actors.
JP: Many monitors.
JP: Mm-hmm. Broken monitors, broken hands and arms.
KM: I can cripple a camera or two.
JP: (chuckles) And has!

INT. BOILER ROOM - NIGHT
John pushes the door open and enters, carrying the duffel bag. He walks through a dark and dripping hallway to a clear space, and places the bag down.

JA: This is some of my favorite stuff in this episode. This Fred and Jeff stuff.
KM: Yeah.
JP: Oh yeah. And this is on my birthday.
JA: That’s right.
JP: This is, uh, July 19.
KM: Ah, that’s right.
JP: It was like the 4th day of filming.
KM: Because you guys were dismissed, but you didn’t go away.
JP: We were dismissed but we didn’t go away. One of the first few days I’d actually stuck around on set after I’d been wrapped. (chuckles)
KM: All day.
JP: All day.
KM: We won’t go into details.
JP: and into the night.
JA: (chuckles)
JP: But I’m sure you all can guess.
JA: You spent your birthday at, uh, Riverview and uh, I also spent mine at Riverview.
JP: Right, yeah.
JA: Yeah.

Sam flips open the journal and leafs through it, glancing up at Dean's unconscious form occasionally. Spirit Dean comes to stand behind him.
Spirit Dean: Thanks for not giving up on me, Sammy.
Spirit Dean glances at his body, before turning his attention to the journal. Sam turns to a page that says "Reapers".

KM: Boy they sure crushed this down, didn’t they?
JP: Yeah.
KM: Really crushed it.
CY: Every piece of paper, note, has been cleared, has been written.
JA: Yep.
CY: Twenty people look at it. Probe it. Hopefully nothing taken for granted.

Spirit Dean: You know, you read the most interesting things. For example, did you know that reapers can alter human perception? I sure didn't. Basically, they can make themselves appear however they want.

JA: Lindsey did a good job in these scenes.
KM: Nice actress.
JA: Yeah.
JP: Great lighting. The lighting really tells a different story
KM: Mm-hmm.
JP: of-of who she is. Up till this point you’d seen her, you know, you’d seen her full-face and... not very shadowy or dark, and here obviously something menacing and-
KM: Mm-hmm.
JA: The genius of our RDP Serge Ladouceur.

Spirit Dean: to figure that one out.
Tessa: It's my sandbox. I can make you see whatever I want.
Spirit Dean: What is this, like, a turn-on for you? Huh? Toying with me?
Tessa: You didn't give me much choice. You saw my true form

KM: I think that the reason that a show like this works is because we ground it in some sort of emotional reality. This scene is a perfect example of that. You know, when you’re doing a subject matter that is something as far-fetched as demons, yet you give them a heart and a soul.
JA: Hmm-mmm.
KM: And it-it seems to work.

Tessa: It's your time to go, Dean. You're living on borrowed time already.

INT. BOILER ROOM - NIGHT
John has finished the chalk symbol, has placed several candles and a black bowl in specific spots.

JA: What was that stuff in that bowl?
KM: I don’t know exactly what the prop department used.
JA: They just used some, uh, gunpowder?
KM: Yeah, some s- well, that was Randy, our special effects man put in that flash effect and a big explosion of fire.

John drawing blood and dripping it on the bowl. He lights a match,

KM: I couldn’t use a prism, because the prism would reflect the light all over the place. So that shot right there - we had to - that one-
CY: we had
JA: So you built it up on a platform?
KM: We built it all up on a platform, probably 4 feet off the ground.
JA: Right.
KM: but you can’t tell a difference because Jeffrey’s also on the same platform.
JA: Right.

The sand in the bowl flares up and goes out.

KM: But this whole set is just an empty room in this Riverview Hospital. We brought in all this
JA: Brought it all in.
KM: all the dressing, and the leaking pipes, and all that.
JP: It was actually a scene, in the same location, where Jensen and I filmed an episode called Asylum last season. Where...
JA: I shoot the ghost in the head.
JP: Mm-hmm.
JA: Same room.
JP: Where you and I come to meet, right before I shoot you.

Man: Come on, you follow me.

JA: There’s the Colt.

John: Hey.
John cocks the Colt, aiming at the man.
John: How stupid do you think I am?
The man's eyes began glowing yellow.

KM: That’s Ivan Haven, our special- our visual effects guy turning his eyes... yellow for the first time. And after that, the actor, Fred Lehne who plays the demon here, he had yellow contact lens in and he was completely blind. We had to put a light on the camera, so he knew where to look. He couldn’t see Jeffrey Dean. And in order for him to move in the scene, we had to put down sandbags. (chuckles) He’s just walk and feel
JA: He’d feel.
KM: He’d feel the sandbag.
JA: Yeah.

As John holds the Colt steady on Azazel, two possessed men in hospital garb stalk by and take positions behind John, who smiles slightly.

JP: That’s one of my favorite parts right there.
JA: And still turned out an amazing performance.
KM: Oh yeah.

Azazel: And you only got one try, don't'cha? Did you really think you could trap me?
John: Oh, I don't wanna trap you.

JA: How deep can two actors’ voices be, too?
JP: I know! (laughs)
JA: (low) Jeff, hey. (normal) Yeah.
JP: (low) Hey to you.
JA: (normal) Both singing bass.
JP: (low) You a demon?

INT. DEAN'S ROOM - NIGHT
Sam is standing on the window side of Dean's bed, hands on his hips. Spirit Dean is not there.
Sam: Dean, are you here?
Sam looks around.
Sam: Couldn't find anything in the book. I don't know how to help you.

JA: I hated that thing sticking in my mouth.
JP (chuckles)
KM: Yes?
JA: Up my nose and my mouth, so annoying.
JP: Plus I seem to remember jiggling it around when you weren’t expecting it to help you feel really uncomfortable.
JA: Yeah, you did a good job with that. Appreciate that.
JP: I try.

Sam: Dean, you gotta hold on. You

KM: This is first scene I think I found myself sitting behind the monitor watching Jared work. (chuckles) And I was crying, because he truly emotional touched me not because he was completely screwing up the scene.
JP: (laughs) We had three or four of those other ones.
KM: Ah.
CY: Beautiful lighting, Serge.
JA: Mm-hmm.
CY: Absolutely beautiful.

Spirit Dean: break.
Tessa: Stage three: bargaining.
Spirit Dean turns to face Tessa, then slowly walks over to her.
Spirit Dean: I'm serious. My family's in danger. See, we're kind of

JA: A Kim Manners close-up.
KM: A little wide.
JP: A little-?
KM: (laughs)

Spirit Dean: And they need me.
Tessa: The fight's over.
Spirit Dean: No, it isn't.
Tessa: It is for you. Dean.

KM: This was another scene. Well, we had quite a few scenes in this movie where not only I was crying but you look over at the grips and they have tears running down their face. You know you’ve scored when you got a grip crying.
JP: Yeah, when you have the crew guys. (quiet chuckles)
JA: That’s one thing about this crew too is that everyone really, has really invested themselves into this show.
KM: Mm-hmm.
JA: It’s neat when you see a production assistant in an orange vest sitting on the roadside reading a script.
KM: Yeah.
JA: You know.
KM: Yeah.

Tessa: It's an honorable death. A warrior's death.
Spirit Dean: I think I'll pass on the seventy two virgins, thanks. I'm not that into prude chicks anyway.
Tessa: That's funny. You're very cute.
Spirit Dean: There's no such thing as an honorable death. My corpse is going to rot in the ground. And my family is going to die! No. I'm not going with you. I don't care what you do.
Tessa: Well, like you said...

JP: Most of these scenes where you can’t see the other actor you can just see Jensen, he’s actually in his apartment and has been blue screened in the background
JA: (chuckles)
JP: ‘Cause basically his opinion is - if they can’t see the other actors, don’t-why the hell am I on set? Get them out of my face. I don’t want to see ‘em.
JA: Ri- I wish he’d tell other people that.
JP: I tried to tell people ahead of time
JA: Yeah.
JP: ‘cause-
JA: (chuckles)
JP: ‘Cause I know that you borrowed that from me, you know.
JA: Mmmm.
JP: If I’m acting, I don’t want to see nobody.

Tessa: Dean... how do you think angry spirits are born? They can't let go, and they can't move on. And you're about to become one.

JP: That’s obviously a big deal for Dean to hear, since we’ve been... hunting angry spirits for years and years.
JA: Our whole life, essentially.
JP: And he finds out he’s going to become one, if he didn’t.
JA: Yeah.
JP: We have a catch-22.

Azazel: just another trick?
John: It's no trick. I will give you the Colt and the bullet... but you gotta help Dean. You gotta bring him back.
Azazel: Why, John, you're a sentimentalist. If only your boys knew how much their daddy loved them.
John: It's a good trade. You care a hell of a lot more about this gun than you do Dean.
Azazel: Don't be so sure. He killed some people very special to me. But still, you're right. He isn't much of a threat.

KM: Hoisted Maig(?) and his son.
JA: Mm-hmm.

Azazel: of course.

JA: I miss Nicki (Meg). Yeah, I wish she was
JP: I miss her too.
JA: still hanging around.
KM: Matter of fact, I hope she comes back,
JA: Um-hmm.
KM: sooner or later.
JP: That would be nice.

John: Yeah. I've known for a while.
Azazel: But Sam doesn't, does he? You've been playing dumb.
John: Can you bring Dean back? Yes or no?
Azazel: No. But I know someone who can. It's not a problem.
John: Good. And before I give you the gun... I'm gonna wanna make sure that Dean's okay, with my own eyes.
Azazel: Oh, John, I'm offended. Don't you trust me?
John shakes his head slowly.
Azazel: Fine.
John: So we have a deal.
Azazel: No, John, not yet. You still

KM: You doing a scene like this with these two guys, it makes my life so easy.
JA: Mmmm.
KM: And the last scene in this picture with you and Jared and Jeffrey Dean.
JA: Mm-hmm.
KM: All I had to do was sit back and take the ride.
JP: It works two ways, ‘cause I know that Jensen and Jeffrey and myself also, you know. When you trust your director, when you believe the captain of the ship isn’t going to steer you the wrong way, it’s easy to trust yourself and give a more full performance ‘cause you’re not worried about trying to make up for where someone else might not. It’s a great environment, especially working with Kim where we can all hopefully do the best work that we have in us. And push each other and complement each other with our working styles in, you know, our passion for this project.

Tessa: So, what's it going to be?
Spirit Dean thinks hard, and turns to look at Reaper Tessa. After he turns to look at her, the lights start flickering.

KM: The camera sure loves this girl, huh?.
JA: Mm-hmm.

Spirit Dean: What are you doing that for?
Tessa: I'm not doing it.
The both turn to a vent in the floor and see black demon ichor pour out of it.
Spirit Dean: What the hell?
Tessa: You can't do this! Get away!

JP: Uh-oh. It’s Ivan.

Spirit Dean: What's happening?!
Reaper Tessa screams as the demon flows into her mouth, then the demon growls as he finishes possessing her. She turns, eyes glowing yellow.
Azazel/Reaper Tessa: Today's your lucky day, kid.
Azazel places a hand on Dean's forehead; he gasps and convulses.

KM: (chuckles) Remember when we shot that?
JA: Mm-hmm.
KM: That actress is also blind and she had
JA: She-
KM: to put her hand on Jensen’s forehead and couldn’t cause she didn’t know
JA: Or she’d turn around and she’d like come up about fall 4 inches short
JP: (laughs)
JA: of my forehead.
KM: Or she’d miss it and hit his shoulder.
JP: (laughs)
JA: I had to grab her wrist at one point and just put it on my forehead. (chuckles)
JP: That’s awesome.
JA: We finally got it, but, uh, I think she hit my nose and lips at more than one time.
KM: Mm-hmm.

Dean: So you said a Reaper was after me?
Sam: Yeah.
Dean: How'd I ditch it?
Sam: You got me.

JP: I think we filmed this scene directly after we filmed the scene earlier, where I’m asking what about my brother. So it’s funny cause you’re doing stuff at the very beginning of the episode at the very end of the episode.
JA: So there’s nothing in between to-to
JP: Right.
JA: bridge that gap.

Dean: Fine, I guess. I'm alive.
John: That's what matters.
Sam: (confrontational) Where were you last night?
John: I had some things to take care of.
Sam: Well, that's specific.
Dean: Come on, Sam.
Sam: Did you go after the demon?
John glances down then back up.
John: No.
Sam: You know, why don't I believe you right now?
Dean's head drops, tired of them fighting. John comes into the room.
John: (pleading) Can we not fight? You know, half the time we're fighting, I-I don't know what we're fighting about. We're just butting heads.

JA: Sam gettin’ all upset again.
JP: I know. Something about - Pops.
JA: This was really good. I like, I like your reaction to him just not taking the bait to the fight
JP: And I like his, not taking the bait to the fight.

Sam: Dad, are you alright?

KM: It’s an amazing scene. You guys really, really nailed this. I mean Sam’s looking
JA: (low) Mm-hmm.
KM: to pick a fight with the old man but all he’s trying to do is to say goodbye and I love you.

John: Do you mind getting me a cup of caffeine?

JP: I remember also, uh, my instinct was to... telegraph this last exit right here in this last sort of walk past Dad and conversation with Dad. And since I obviously know the ending, my instinct was to ma-make a hallmark moment out of it, with a look to Dad like, what’s wrong? But, uh, Kim suggested that I-that I not do that, and looking back I think it’s more poetic
JA: More sad
JP: and more heartbreaking, that Sam doesn’t have a last moment with his father, than had he had
JA: Mm-hmm.
JP: even a 3 second exchange of eye contact. So, it- it- though it seems that you don’t have the, you know, I said hallmark movie tears in the eyes and blinking like oh my gosh, I’m never going to see him again, because Sam wouldn’t know. So it’s more true to life, and, uh, it’s - it’s - it’s... almost a worst loss having not had that last moment.
JA: Speaking of tears in the eyes, I remember shot Jeffery’s coverage on this first. His performance got me so choked up off camera that I - I think I was actually... tearing up and crying off camera. After the first or second take, I was like, I better cut it out or I’m not going to have anything left for my coverage.
KM: (chuckles)
JA: He nailed this scene.

John: You know, I put- I put too much on your shoulders. I made you grow up too fast. You took care of Sam, and you took care of me. You did that. And you didn't complain, not once. I just want you to know...

KM: That was it for me.
JP: Ha-ha. That was it.
KM: I was going, ‘Come on guys, I’m at the monitor
JP: (laughs)
KM: and give me a Kleenex, somebody.’

Dean: This really you talkin'?
John: Yeah. Yeah, it's really me.
John sniffs.
Dean: Why are you saying this stuff?
John comes closer, puts a hand on Dean's shoulder.
John: I want you to watch out for Sammy, okay?
Dean: Yeah, Dad, you know I will. You're scaring me.
John: Don't be scared, Dean.
John leans over and whispers something into Dean's ear.

JP: Such a great moment is that shots
JA: I like that they didn’t
JP: reactions
JA: reveal

Dean pulls back in shock, processing.

JP: And you see the confirmation from-from Jeffery with Jensen’s reaction which to what Dad just told him and-

John gives a small nod.

JP: And you just want to know what the hell did he just tell you?
JA: Which we didn’t reveal until what? Episode 4?
KM: Uh, no. Later. Was-
JP: Nine - Croatoan?
KM: Yeah, nine?
JA: Oh, it was ten.
KM: Ten. Held secret for a long time.
JA: Mm-mmm.

John pauses, takes a deep sigh, enters the room, and places the Colt on a hospital stand.

KM: I’ll tell you something you guys don’t know. This demon right here that we’re going to dolly over his shoulder in a minute?
JA: Mm-hmmm.
KM: That’s Kevin Parks, (chuckles) our first AD.
JP: No way!

He sighs again.
John: Okay.

JP: This was a fun shot to do.
JA: Oh yeah, this was great.
KM: This is the luckiest shot in the world.
JP: Yeah. It was like the third time!
JA: You’re right, it was.
JP: The absolutely luckiest shot in the world.
KM: Boink.
JA: I mean, come on.
KM: Lid came right into the camera.
JA: Yeah.
KM: I think you’re right - take three.

Sam runs to John's side.

JA: It’s heartbreaking.
JP: Yeah. I didn’t realize at first until I looked up and started screaming ‘No! Help!’ - that it was still standing upright. And I was like, did someone right it or what?

Sam helps Dean to the doorway.

JP: We’re looking at absolutely nothing.
JA: Yeah.
JP: There’s nothing going on in front of us. We’re looking at pieces of tape on, um,
JA: On a matte box.
JP: On a matte box.
KM: And Eric- Eric tried to make this such a frantic. And he did a great job with the way that he cut it. But he wanted it much - a lot more people stuffed in there. In reality, when somebody’s
JP: Yeah.
KM: crashing, there’s 3 or 4 people there. And-
JP: I don’t know, he’s John Winchester.
KM: Yeah.
JA: That’s it.
JP: Thanks guys.

Nurse #2: Still no pulse.
Doctor: Okay, that's it, everybody. I'll call it.
The screen goes black.
Doctor (voiceover): Time of death: 10:41 am.