- At Sandover Bridge & Iron Inc., Dean is Dean Smith, the buttoned-down director of Sales & Marketing. Sam is Sam Wesson, a cubicle-dwelling tech support guy. What the heck is going on? Or is it what the Hell?
- In an alternate reality mysteriously created as if Sam and Dean were never brothers and have never met, Sam and Dean work at a marketing office where they are forced to team up with one another when a series of mysterious suicides point to a ghost haunting the premises.—Anonymous
- Dean is the Sales & Marketing Director and Sam works in a cubicle of the Technical Support of a Corporation. Sam has glimpses of Dean and himself vanquishing ghosts and supernatural creatures. When the Human Resources sends an e-mail to Sam's colleague Paul Dubar, he returns stressed and commits suicide after a mistake. Then another colleague, Ian, also receives an e-mail of the HR and goes to room 1444. On the next day, he changes his behavior and also commits suicide. Sam and Dean team up to investigate the mysterious room and finds that the ghost of the founder of the company is haunting the flawed employees. In the end, Dean realizes that once hunter, always hunter.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- An alarm goes off at 6 a.m. Dean, clean-shaven in a fancy white-collar shirt, steams his morning latte and walks out to his Prius, where he scowls at the hard rock on his radio. Bizarro Dean changes the channel to NPR. He arrives at work, as Dean Smith the director of sales and marketing. He talks on his head set, he schmoozes, he eats his bento box. He speaks business and generally doesn't kill any demons or hell spawn. His boss comes to congratulate him on a job well done. He leaves for the day, checking his Blackberry. He and Sam share an elevator. They don't know each other. Sam's dressed in a polo shirt and thinks he might know Dean, but Dean brushes him off. "Save it for the health club, pal."
Sam answers phones in tech support. He's Sam Wesson. He walks someone through the super complicated process of turning a printer on and off. He and a techie pal take a coffee break straight out of "Office Space." (Note: Dean Smith and Sam Wesson, Smith & Wesson guns and Winchester rifles.)
Sam's pal Ian loads up on office supplies and asks Sam if he's had any of "those" dreams lately. Sam's embarrassed. Sam dreamed that he saved a grim reaper named Tessa from demons. Ian finds this hilarious, because he apparently hasn't seen previous episodes.
Back at his desk, Sam nods off and has dream flashbacks of the past few seasons (including the one where Dean chainsawed the vampire in season two, which was totally gnarly).
Leaving work, the not-brothers end up in the same elevator again. Awkward. Sam asks Dean what he thinks about ghosts, if he believes in them. What about vampires? Sam shares that he's been having weird dreams. Dean tells him he over-shares and leaves.
The next day in tech support, Sam doodles demons and goes on-line, searching for vampires. His friend Ian has to report to HR for something. Sam goes back to vampire surfing but hears his cube mate Paul cursing his computer, which just wiped clean. He's distraught. Sam tells him these things happen. Late in the night, Paul still sits at his computer, finding that all of his work is gone. He freaks a little, then grows eerily calm.
He grabs a plastic fork from the break room, snaps off the tines, sticks it in the microwave door hinge and puts his head in. It crackles and blisters like a hot dog.
The next day at work, Sam tires to make sense of it. He sees Dean. Dean asks the guy next to him if something about this doesn't make sense to him. Back in his office, Dean looks up Paul's personnel file. He finds that Paul was set to retire in two weeks.
Sam also finds this odd. He tries to talk about it with Ian, who has suddenly become the model of productivity. He's got the tech support shirt on and he's shaved. Ian gets a call from Dean and goes to his office. He needs him to redo some forms. Not a big deal. But Ian starts to melt down, acting as if he's just killed a kitten. He freaks out and runs from Dean's office. Dean finds him in the men's room, staring in the mirror. Dean sees his breath. The sinks start running and soap dispensers go haywire. Ian takes a pencil out of his pocket and calmly jabs it in his jugular. Dean turns to see an old man's image in the bathroom mirror.
The coroner takes Ian's body away as Dean tells the police what happened. Sam stands nearby.
The next day, Sam gets a call from Dean to come to his office.
Dean asks Sam who he is. Sam's not sure he knows. He's been there three weeks. Dean wants to know why Sam was talking about ghosts and now.... Dean started three weeks ago, too.
Sam asks Dean if he saw something in the bathroom with Ian. Sam suggests there might be something unnatural about the suicides. Dean tries to process ghosts being real. Sam says it's based on instinct. Dean has the same instinct.
Sam thinks he found a connection between the two guys, hacking their email. They both got the same HR email, to report to room 1444. But HR is on 7.
They decide to check it out.
Meanwhile, up at 1444, another poor tech schlub walks into the darkened storage closet. The door slams shut behind him. Monitors of old computers fuzz on. His breath comes out cold.
Sam and Dean round the corner and hearing screaming. Sam kicks down the door, tough guy style. They enter to find the man pinned beneath a shelf. The old man ghost stands over him. He throws Sam and Dean out of the way and goes to zap the pinned dude. Dean picks up a wrench and swings it at the old man ghost, who disappears. Sam asks Dean how he knew how to do that. He has no idea.
Back at Dean's place, Sam thinks it feels like they've done this before, he feels like he doesn't belong there. He doesn't like his clothes, the town, his job or his own last name. Like he was destined for something different.
Dean doesn't believe in destiny, but he does believe in dealing with what's in front of him. He tells "Sammy" they do what he does best, research.
Dean finds a web site of "real" ghost hunters. Ghostfacers return! The first step: Figure out what you're up against.
Sam finds a record of P.T. Sandover, the company founder who died in 1916. They said his very blood pumped through the building.
This isn't the first time people have killed themselves in that building. There were 17 suicides when the market crashed in 1929. And this is the worst economic time we've had since. So Sandover was zapping model employees to help the company bottom line. 1444 used to be Sandover's office.
Back to the Ghostfacers, who tell them to use salt and iron (why the wrench worked, Sam notes) and then, finally, a trick they learned from those useless d-bags that they hate, the Winchesters: shotgun shells filled with rock salt.
Sam and Dean arm themselves, stumped on how to get a gun. The Ghostfacers tell them the final step: You have to dig up the body. Sandover was cremated, but not to worry, the Ghostfacers say, find some genetic material.
Sam and Dean go check out 1444. Sam gets busted by security, going through the desk. Helpfully, Dean hides as Sam is led away.
But on the way down, the elevator goes haywire (and Sam can see his breath). The guard uses his key to stop the elevator between floors. Sam watches nervously as the guard flops out, waiting for the doors to slam shut at any second. But the guard makes it to the floor. Upstairs, Dean keeps searching.
Back in the elevator, the guard reaches in for Sam. But, still awaiting something bad, Sam says he's cool, he'll just wait. The guard reaches in for him and, whamo, the elevator drops and Sam is splattered in guard blood. Ew.
Dean and Sam meet up on 22, where Dean has found Sandover's gloves on display. Dean breaks the glass but Sandover appears almost immediately. Sam douses him with salt but he pops up behind Dean, who whiffs him with a fire poker. They're getting in the swing of things now, but the ghost gets the jump Dean. As he's about to zap him, Sam grabs Sandover's gloves and burns them. Sandover disappears.
Dean says he's never had so much fun in his life. Sam says they should keep doing this, there must be other ghosts out there. Dean asks how they'd support themselves. "You don't want to go fighting ghosts without any health insurance," he says. Sam tells Dean that in the dreams he had they were fighting ghosts together, like brothers.
Sam says this isn't who they're supposed to be. Dean recites his family history(Parents Bob and Ellen and sister Jo - Roadhouse, anyone?) and Sam asks when the last time he spoke with any of them was. Sam tried his ex-fiance Madison's number and all he got was an animal hospital (hello, sly reference to Madison the werewolf he fell for).
Sam says he knows Dean isn't the corporate d-bag he appears to be. Dean tells him he should go.
Back at work the next day, Sam sits in tech support, ignoring his ringing phone. Then he stands up and whacks the holy crap out of it with a crowbar. He quits.
Up in his office, Dean wears his little headset and tries to concentrate. His boss stops by, asking how he's feeling. He offers Dean a bonus, saying it's purely selfish, he wants to make sure Dean's not going anywhere. He dangles a promotion in front of him, in just eight to ten short years. Instead, Dean gives notice. He has other work he has to do.
His boss laughs and then says "finally." He taps Dean on the forehead, welcoming him back. Dean snaps out of it, wondering why he's wearing a tie and announcing that he's hungry. His boss is the angel Zachariah, Castiel's superior.
Dean asks if this was some sort of lesson, saying it was creative. "You should see my decoupage," Zachariah deadpans. "Ew. Gross," says Dean, for want of a crafting dictionary.
It was a real haunting, he just plunked them in the middle with no memories, to prove that the path they're on is truly in their blood. Not just because their dad did the same. He tells Dean he'll be successful, he will stop it. He knows Dean is scared, but it's how he looks at it. He gets to change things, maybe save the world. All the while he gets to drive a classic car and fornicate with women, Zacariah says, it's a gift. There are plenty fates worse than his.
Is he ready to stand up and be who he really is?
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