This is so cool! I just found out that TV shows has this sypnosis section on IMDB! That is so cool! Now I will have content to this cool blog of mine!
The main source of my content is Wikipedia.. looks like it’s going to be wikipedia and IMDB from here on forth…
Anyway, Supernatural Season 4 Episode 13 is entitled, “After School Special”.. This is where Sam and Dean went back to one of the high school they attended after hearing that it was haunted by a demon or a ghost..
Here’s supernatural sypnosis on IMDB:
In a high school lunch room we see a flaxen haired teenager declaring, “She’s such a slut.” Other cheerleaders and jocks at the table continue discussing the alleged slattern; the phrase “she gave him the reverse cowgirl and everything” is used. On cue, up walks the subject of the conversation, an attractive brunette named Taylor, looking a bit unsure of herself. Head cheerleader informs Taylor her spot at the table has been revoked, because said table is now a “skeeve-free zone.” Everyone at the table starts coughing, “Slut! Slut! Slut!” Taylor rushes through the crowd to another table that’s nearly empty, save for one of Taylor’s plumper classmates, April.
“You shouldn’t listen to those jerks,” April says, offering comfort by adding that she’s sorry.
“You? You’re sorry?” Taylor shoots back at her. “Don’t you feel sorry for me, you fat ugly pig!” Taylor picks up her tray and stomps off, leaving April slack-jawed and visibly hurt.
Next day, in the bathroom, Taylor is crying and adjusting her makeup when her lunchtime companion comes up behind her. “You think I’m ugly?” April says.
Taylor apologizes, explaining she didn’t mean it. She turns around and keeps doing her hair…until April grabs her and bashes her face into the mirror. She slams Taylor’s head on the edge of the sink, then drags her across the tile floor to a toilet, where she holds Taylor’s head underwater until she stops moving. A thick black tear drips from April’s right eye, as she finishes with, “You’re ugly.”
One cloud of crows and title card later, the girl is in the mental ward, chatting with Sam (who is dressed as an orderly). She doesn’t want to talk about the incident anymore, saying she already told her side of things the cops and the doctors, and nobody believes her — they all think she’s crazy. But Sam coaxes the story out of her: She insists she was possessed because she was there, she could see what she was doing, but she wasn’t in control of her body. “I couldn’t stop. I just wanted to stop,” she said.
Apparently the kids at school told the authorities that Taylor and April didn’t get along, but the girl insists she never wanted to kill her. As a last question Sam asks if April noticed any smell of sulphur or black smoke that day. “What are you, crazy?” April answers.
Back at the Impala, Sam debriefs Dean and tells him that it sounds like a demonic possession, minus the black smoke and sulphur. Dean thinks it just might be a kid who snapped at a bully, but Sam pushes him to investigate it since the school is nearby.
Then Dean shows some resistance. “Truman High, home of the Bombers,” he says sarcastically. Apparently he and Sam went there for a month when they were kids and wonders why Sam is so jazzed to return to the scene of the crime. But, eventually he gives in.
Then we flashback to 1997, when Sam is still a tiny freshman, and Dean is a tall mysterious guy in a leather coat, the kind of kid the girls waste a lot of time on. (In other words, he hasn’t changed.) Sam cowers in front of his peers; in another classroom Dean calls his teacher sweetheart, immediately inspiring all the girls to have crushes on him.
Sam drops a butterfly knife as he walks to his desk, and retrieves it before the teacher sees it, but not before a little kid named Barry notices. Barry, obviously the class nerd, is impressed by Sam and immediately introduces himself. But as they settle into their seats the guy behind Barry, a large lug named Dirk, starts flicking Barry’s ear. Sam tells him to stop. “What, you wanna take his place?” Dirk asks, staring Sam down with a menacing glare.
Sam leans in and stares right back. “Yeah,” Sam says intimidatingly, “I do.” Dirk is taken aback.
Present day: Dean is wearing comically tight polyester shorts, knee-high gym socks and a red headband, playing the part of the substitute gym teacher to perfection. The game of the day is dodgeball, “one of the greatest games ever invented,” he says. “A game of skill, agility and cunning. A game with one simple rule: Dodge!” He follows this up by beaning one of the kids in the gut with a red ball. Another boy tells Substitute Coach Ron (Dean’s cover– hah!) that the regular gym teacher doesn’t let them play dodgeball because it’s dangerous. Dean responds by telling the kid to do a lap. He throws the balls to his students and says, “Go nuts.”
As the children are pulverizing each other, Sam comes in with a report: No sulphur, no signs of demonic activity. Dean votes for them to split after lunch, because it’s sloppy joe day. Let’s cut over to home ec, where the kids are chopping veggies in food processors. A jock tells his nerd partner that he needs to copy his homework again, but the nerdy kid looks strangely out of it. When he snaps back to attention he says to the jock, “Why? Because you’re a stupid, brain-dead dick?” And turns on the food processor.
“I’m going to shove my first down your throat, you little freak!” Sporty says.
The nerd smiles and looks at his home ec partner’s right hand, “That fist?” Before the jock can fully answer, the geek grabs his hand and shoves it into the processor bowl, where it quickly purees into thick red sludge. Looks like Sporty’s going to have to sit out the rest of the season! Everybody’s screaming, and Sam runs in as the jock is escorted out of the room, just in time to see the nerdy kid collapse. When the kid’s eyes refocus he asks what happened…and Sam sees black sludge trickle out of his ear. It’s ectoplasm. Cut to commercial!
When we return, Sam is checking the lockers for EMF readings and confers with Dean — there are no signs in the school, but it’s obviously a ghost possession. Dean dug up the school files (finding out which cheerleaders were legal for good measure) and found out that there was only one suicide on school grounds, back in 1998, “Some kid named Barry Cook.” Sam’s face falls. Barry apparently slit his wrists in the same bathroom where April death swirlied Taylor. It would seem he’s using nerds to get back at bullies. “Sound like Barry’s M.O.?” Dean asks. Sam replies quietly, “Barry had a hard time.”
1997 Flashback: Barry’s walking down the hall, minding his own business, when a jock walks past and up-ends his books. A group of girls stand nearby and laugh at him. Sam stops and helps Barry pull everything together. Barry professes not to care. “Three years, and I’m out of here,” he says, adding that he plans to attend Michigan State to prep for a career in veterinary medicine. “Animals are a lot nicer than people.”
Dean, meanwhile, is making out with Girl Next Door Amanda Heckerling in the broom closet, then proposes a date highlighted by a midnight screening of “I Spit On Your Grave” (also known as Day of the Woman. And, seriously? Talk about uncomfortable first date flicks. I smell a list! Get to work, IMDb users!) The girl says she can’t — she has an 11 o’clock curfew.
“So?” Dean says. So, she replies, if she breaks it, she’s grounded. She asks Dean when his curfew is, and he says he doesn’t have one. He lays out the state of affairs: His dad’s out of town for a couple of weeks, so he and Sam are on their own at the local motel. “I do whatever I want, whenever I want. It’s perfect.”
“Yeah…but don’t you miss your dad?” she asks. Dean is silent. He and Amanda come out and rejoin the stream of kids in the hallway, where Barry and Sam are walking together, until they’re stopped by Dirk. “Get outta here, Barry,” Sam says, and tells Dirk he’s not going to fight him. Barry runs to get a teacher.
“Why not?” Dirk says. “You chicken?” Sam turns to leave, but Dirk grabs him by the shoulder, turns him around and clocks him. Sam face clouds up with rage, but before he can do anything a teacher breaks it up. Dirk stalks off.
Present day: Sam and Dean find Barry’s grave and salt and burn his bones. “So long, Barry Cook,” Dean says, and they head off. In the car, Sam can’t believe that he was friends with Barry, and here he was, burning his bones. He wonders whether he could have helped the kid, had Papa Winchester let them stay a little while longer. Dean reminds him of the coroner’s report: Barry was on a cocktail of anti-anxiety meds and antidepressants. His parents were splitting up, and school was Hell. He just wanted out. “It’s tragic, but it’s not your fault,” Dean said, adding he’s glad he got out of that town because he hated that school.
Sam looks confused. “It wasn’t all bad,” he says, to which Dean replies, “How can you say that after what happened to you?”
1997: Dean, having heard about what Dirk did to Sam in the hall, is telling Sam he’s going to rip Dirk’s lungs out, but Sam calls him off. “I don’t need your help,” Sam says. That’s right, Dean says, adding that Sam could have torn Dirk apart, so why didn’t he? “Because….I don’t want to be the freak for once, Dean,” Sam tells him. “I want to be normal.”
“So, taking a beating, that’s normal?” Dean asks. Sam doesn’t answer, asking instead of there’s been any word from their dad. Turns out the job’s going to take another week, at least. Dean’s itchy to leave. Sam tries to comfort Dean by reminding him that at least he has Amanda.
“Dude. She wants me to meet her parents,” Dean replies. “I don’t do parents.”
Later, Sam’s teacher, Mr. Wyatt, asks him to stay after class to talk to him about an essay assignment. It was supposed to be non-fiction, so he’s wondering why Sam wrote about killing a werewolf last summer. Sam tells Mr. Wyatt it’s OK if he wants to flunk him. “I’m not flunking you,” Mr. Wyatt says. “I’m giving you an A.” He tells Sam he’s a great writer, and asks if he’s thought about pursuing the craft. Sam says he can’t, because he has to go in to the family business. “Do you want to go in to the family business, Sam?” Mr. Wyatt asks. Sam tells him nobody’s ever asked him that before.
Mr. Wyatt goes on to tell Sam that he was supposed to be a surgeon, just like his dad, but that wasn’t him. Thus, the glorious world of high school education is his! “Point is,” Teach says, “there may be three or four big choices that shape someone’s whole life, and you need to be the one who makes them. Not anyone else. You seem like a great kid, Sam. Just live the life you want to live.”
Present day: Sam broods in the passenger seat as he remembers that conversation. Sam asks Dean to take him back to Truman so he can chat with the teacher who changed his life! Oh Captain my Captain!
He walks down the hall to find Mr. Wyatt when he’s stopped by a girl who asks for directions to another room. Sam grins and gives them to her. She responds by smiling brightly at him. “Thanks, Sam,” she says, then suddenly stabs him in the chest with a pen.
“You got tall, Winchester,” she says, delivering a kick to his groin and sucker punch to the jaw in quick succession. Sam drops to the floor, but manages to pull out a fistful of salt as she saunters up to him, ectoplasm dripping from her mouth. Sam grabs the girl and shoves the salt into the girl’s mouth, driving out the ghost as he holds her in his arms.
Retreating to the Impala, Dean hands Sam some whiskey and declares that he’s going to rip the ghost’s lungs out. “Well, you know what I mean.” Sam’s still shocked that the ghost knew his name. But how could it be Barry if they salted and burned his bones? Dean pores over the files and realizes that the three kids (whom he refers to sensitively as Martha Dumptruck, Revenge of the Nerds and Hello Kitty) all rode the same bus. That’s where their ghost must hang out — ghosts are tied to the places they haunt. But as Sam points out, ghosts can ride the living for miles and be bounced out once exorcised.
They check the bus and bingo, they have EMF. But nobody’s died on the bus, so they have to find whatever is tying the spirit to it. Dean rummages through the driver’s compartment and finds a new bus permit, belonging to Dirk McGregor, Sr. — the bully’s dad.
1997: Dirk’s tripping up Barry on the way to the bus, and Sam intervenes. As Sam is heading after Barry, Dirk pushes him again, sending him to the ground. Dirk goads Sam, calling him “Lose-chester” and a freak, and ding!ding! ding! It’s on. Sam gets up and faces Dirk, who takes another swing that Sam dodges before returning with a punch to Dirk’s ribcage. From there, Sam delivers a legendary beat-down to Dirk, one that can only come from years of training by a demon-hunting dad. Once Dirk’s laid out on the concrete, Sam stands over him. “You’re not tough. You’re just a jerk. Dirk the Jerk.” Hey, that rhymes! The crowd around Dirk takes up the moniker immediately. Dirk gets up and walks off, cringing angrily. Sam glares after him triumphantly.
Present day: “So, you were friends with Dirk?” Sam and Dean are at Dirk Sr.’s home to get the story about what happened to the kid. Turns out he died at 18 after years of abusing alcohol and drugs. “He just slipped through my fingers,” the man says sadly, adding that school was never easy for Dirk, that the kids picked on him for not having much money. They called him poor, and dirty, and stupid. “They even had a nickname for him: Dirk the Jerk.”
Oh, dear. Sam’s face melts with guilt. And it gets worse. Dirk’s mom died of cancer when he was 13, and since Dirk’s dad was working three jobs, it fell to Dirk to take care of her as she wasted away. “You watch somebody die slow, waste away to nothing…it does things to a person. Horrible things,” the man continued. “Lot of anger in that boy.”
Dean cuts to the chase and asks where Dirk is buried. Dirk Sr. tells him that Dirk was cremated, but he kept a lock of Dirk’s hair on the bus, in his Bible.
The very same bus which, at that moment, is transporting a team to parts unknown. Eddie, the substitute bus driver, has black sludge dripping from his nose. NOOO!!!!
Dirk/Eddie is driving way too fast, and the coach is starting to get worried. Fortunately, someone has spiked the road, blowing out the tires and forcing Eddie to stop. Waiting outside are Sam and Dean, who tie Dirk/Eddie’s arms with a rope saturated with saltwater. Dean gets on the bus to find the Bible.
“Wait, aren’t you the P.E. teacher?” the team’s coach asks.
“Not really,” Dean tells him. “I’m like ’21 Jump Street.’ The bus driver sells pot…Yeah.” He rifles through the compartment, but comes up empty. Sam barks at Dirk/Eddie, who monologues about jocks and popular kids who bully the others. “To you I was just Dirk the Jerk, right? Now you evil sons-of-bitches are going to get what’s coming to you!”
“I’m not evil,” says Sam. “And neither were you. Trust me. I’ve seen real evil. We were scared. And miserable. And we took it out on each other, us and everybody else. That’s high school.” He goes on to say that he suffered through it, but it gets better. “I’m sorry you didn’t get a chance to see that,” Sam tells him, “You or Barry.”
But Dirk/Eddie breaks free of his bonds, forcing Dean to shoot him with a salt round. Eddie goes down and grunts…just as Dirk possesses the strongest member of the team, who emerges from the bus to pound Sam to a pulp. Dean searches Eddie until he finds the lock of Dirk’s hair, and lights it on fire with his Zippo. The jock rears back as Dirk’s spirit comes out of him, turning to ash in the wind as the kid collapses on top of Sam, pinning him down.
“Hey! He’s giving you the full cowgirl!” Dean points out…and the circle of comedy is complete.
1997 Amanda catches Dean in the broom closet with another girl, and begins to stomp off. “C’mon baby, she means nothing to me!” he tries to tell her, but newsflash: Amanda isn’t angry. She tells Dean she was hoping that underneath his carefully maintained exterior of cool that there was something there, some sensitivity, but at that moment? “I was wrong. You spend so much time trying to convince people that you’re cool, but it’s just an act. We both know that you’re just a sad, lonely little kid. And I feel sorry for you, Dean.”
Amanda turns tail and trots off as Dean yells, “Don’t feel sorry for me. You know nothing about me. I save lives. I’m a hero. A hero!” Which is true but, uh…gee. He got served
Meanwhile, Sam’s the man of the hour for kicking Dirk’s ass, getting high fives from everyone as he walks down the hall and fielding looks from the hotties. Dean’s phone rings, and it’s their dad. Time to go. Outside the school, Dean all but sprints to the car, calling Sam to join him. Sam looks up at one of the top floor classroom windows and sees Barry looking at him forlornly. Sam waves sadly, gets into the Impala, and he’s gone. And we all know what happened to Barry after that.
Present day: Sam finally completes his pilgrimage to visit Mr. Wyatt, who remembers him with a bit of prompting. Sam tells Mr. Wyatt he gave him some great advice once — that he didn’t have to go into the family business, that he could make his own choices. He asks Sam if he ended up doing his own thing, and Sam tells him he went to college because of Mr. Wyatt but, well, you grow up. Responsibilities kick in.
“Well, you know, the only thing that really matters is that you’re happy,” Mr. Wyatt says with a smile. “You happy, Sam?”
He doesn’t have an answer.
