When the boys stop at a diner, Sam goes to buy food, while Dean muses about pie. Suddenly the radio starts cutting out. Dean rushes into the diner to find Sam gone and the staff and customers dead, and sulfur staining the back door.

Dean goes to Bobby for help, but he has no information on demonic activity across the country. Ringing the Roadhouse, an agitated Ash admits to having information he will only reveal in person.

Sam wakes up to find himself in a deserted town. He runs into Andy, whom he’d previously met when Andy’s twin brother was using his psychic powers to kill people. Together they find Ava who says she has only been there for half an hour even though it is five months since Sam last saw her. Also in the town are Jake Talley, an American soldier whisked away from duty in Afghanistan, and Lily. Lily reveals that her power is that people’s hearts stop when she touches them; Jake’s that he is super strong.

The group is doubtful when Sam explains that a demon is behind things, until an Acheri Demon in the shape of a young girl, attacks Jake. While Sam leads the group to find supplies and weapons, Lily tries to leave the town through the woods, but is killed by the demon. Desperate for Dean’s help, Sam gets Andy to try to send him a vision of where they are.

Dean and Bobby have arrived at Harvelle’s Roadhouse, only to find it burnt out and the occupants, apparently including Ash but not Ellen, dead. Dean is suddenly struck by flashes of images sent by Andy. With Bobby’s help they work out that Sam is in Cold Oak, South Dakota.

Sam has surrounded a room with a salt line, and as they wait for what may come, Sam dozes off. The Yellow-Eyed Demon appears to him, and explains that his plan is for the children with special powers to fight amongst themselves until the strongest is left to lead the Demon’s army. He tells Sam, with his leadership qualities and hunter training, is his favorite. The Demon admits to killing Jessica so Sam would go back to hunting. He then shows Sam a vision of what happened the night Mary died. Sam sees that the Demon fed drops of his blood to baby Sam, and that Mary knew the Demon.

On waking Sam finds that Ava has disappeared, and he and Jake go to look for her. Ava returns to the room, breaks the salt line, and summons an Acheri Demon who kills Andy. When Sam returns and confronts her, she admits that she has spent the last five months developing her powers, and killing the other children who arrived. Just as she summons another demon, Jake kills her.

As Sam and Jake prepare to leave the town, Jake admits he doesn’t trust Sam and attacks him. After a fight, Jake appears to be unconscious. At that moment Dean and Bobby arrive. As Sam walks towards Dean, Jake grabs a knife and stabs him in the back, then runs away. Bobby chases him. Sam collapses into Dean's arms and is unresponsive to Dean's pleas for him not to leave him. As Dean says that it's his job to take care of Sam he sees the truth, that Sam is fatally wounded. Sam spends his final moments cradled in his distraught brother's arms.

Episode - 22 [All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two] => Season Finale

Sam is dead and Bobby suggests that it's time they bury him and leave to prepare for whatever is to come next. Dean is furious at the idea and tells Bobby to leave.

Meanwhile, the Yellow-Eyed Demon appears to Jake and tells him that he is the strongest and has to do something for him.

Dean is unable to decide what to do next and is heartbroken at the thought of letting everyone in his life down. In a fit of rage, he drives to the nearest crossroads and summons a demon. The demon, however, will not agree to anything. In a last desperate measure, Dean decides he'll agree to anything. The demon offers to bring Sam back and in return offer's Dean one year, and one year only, promising that if he tries to get out of the deal, Sam will drop dead straight away.

Sam wakes up in pain but is fully healed. Unaware that he has been resurrected from the dead, Dean lies and tells Sam he was only wounded. Sam fills Dean in on what happened previously and wants to recommence hunting immediately. Dean, reluctant but unable to deter Sam, drive them over to Bobby's place.

Bobby sees Sam and knows immediately what Dean did but plays along, despite being reproachful. So far Bobby has found nothing but demonic omens appearing in the state of Wyoming, except for one particular area. Ellen appears at Bobby's and, after Bobby gets her to drink Holy Water to confirm that she is not possessed, she produces a map of Wyoming that Ash left. On the map, five locations have been marked with X's. Upon research, the X's each marks an abandoned frontier church, all mid-19th century, built by Samuel Colt. Also built, was a set of iron railway lines connecting each church in the form of a pentagram, forming a hundred squre mile devil's trap.

Within the devil's trap, is an old cowboy cemetery, which Dean suggests could contain something that the Colt wants to prevent from getting out as opposed to demons trying to get in. They know the devil's trap is still unbroken because of the lack of demonic omens in the area and Bobby says that full-blooded demons would not be able to enter. Remembering his dream from last episode, Sam understands the purpose of the Special Children.

Jake arrives Wyoming and the Yellow-Eyed Demon gives him instructions to open a crypt with the Colt as the key. On arrival at the cemetery, Dean, Sam, Bobby and Ellen ambush Jake but are overpowered by his psychic mind control. Jake unlocks the crypt and is shot dead multiple times by Sam. Dean removes the Colt and they dive for cover as the doors are flung open and a tremor ripples out from the crypt, breaking the railway line and thus the devil's trap. Hundreds of demons and ghosts fly out of the crypt, which is actually a Devil's Gate, an entrance to Hell), and enter the world.

Bobby, Ellen and Sam run to shut the doors of the Devil's Gate. The Yellow-Eyed Demon steps into the cemetery, snatches the Colt from Dean and flings him against a headstone. He thanks Dean for bringing Sam back into the game and prepares to kill him. Suddenly, John appears and wrestles the Demon out of his physical body, giving Dean enough time to grab the Colt and shoot the Demon when he re-enters the body, and kill him.

John then appears to move on and disappears. Sam finds out the truth about his death and what Dean did to save him. In an emotional moment of brotherly love, Sam swears that he will get Dean out of his deal. Even though the Yellow-Eyed Demon died, an army of demons was unleashed; the war has just begun.

The brothers investigate mysterious deaths at the Pierpont Inn in Cornwall, Connecticut. It is owned and run by Susan (Annie Wersching), a single mother who plans to sell it. Living there with her are her mother, Rose (Brenda McDonald), and her daughter, Tyler (Matreya Fedor), who has an imaginary friend named Maggie (Conchita Campbell). When another murder occurs while Sam and Dean are there, Sam feels guilty and, after getting drunk, makes Dean promise to kill him if he ends up turning evil. Later, the brothers discover that Rose has been practicing voodoo, and suspect that she is behind the deaths. However, she recently suffered from a stroke, and would be unable to do so. Susan is soon attacked by a vengeful spirit, but is saved by Sam and Dean. They then discover that Maggie is the ghost of Rose's sister Margaret, who drowned as a child in the inn's pool. Maggie had been kept at bay by Rose's practice of voodoo, but has returned since Rose's stroke. Maggie does not want the family to move away, so she tries to drown Tyler so that she can have a friend forever. To save Tyler, Rose gives her own life, taking Tyler's place as Maggie's eternal playmate.

Episode - 12 [Nightshifter]

Number of Episodes : 22

Season Premier : September 28, 2006

Season Finale : May 17, 2007.

Overview: The season focuses on protagonists Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) as they track down Azazel, the demon responsible for the deaths of their mother Mary and father John. 


They hunt the yellow-eyed demon with assistance from new allies Ellen, Jo, and Ash.They attempt to discover the demon's plan for Sam and other psychic children—young adults who were visited by Azazel as infants and given abilities, and whose mothers often then died in a fire. 

Part of the demon's master plan is eventually revealed as he gathers Sam and others like him, leading to Sam dying. Dean makes a deal with a crossroads demon to bring back Sam in exchange for his soul, which will be collected in one year. In a final confrontation, in which Dean kills the yellow-eyed demon, a hell's gate is opened, releasing numerous demons from within.

"Something Wicked This Way Comes" is also the title of a Ray Bradbury novel in which two teenage boys encounter Mr. Dark, the owner of a mysterious carnival, who has offered secret desires to several people, only to bind them in service to the carnival.

An old man, Daniel Elkins, sits scribbling in his journal, in a bar in Manning, Colorado. After leaving the bar in a hurry, Elkins is confronted by the woman, Kate, leading the group he saw earlier in the bar. Elkins attempts to load an old 5 shot Colt however after a struggle, he is murdered.

When Sam and Dean read about Elkins death, Dean recognizes the name from John's Journal. Arriving at Elkins' cabin, the boys find it ransacked and in chaos. Amongst the wreckage Dean finds a journal, a lot like their father's, and also a message. A mail drop, just the way their father does it.They find a letter addressed to "J.W.". They are startled by the surprise appearance of their father. Reading the letter, John realizes that Elkins had been holding out on him about a legendary gun, a Colt made in 1835. He tells them it's Vampires, and they will hunt them together.

Sam is bridling at John’s dominating attitude and is constantly questioning his father's orders. Dean is frustrated by the reoccurring old arguments that drove the family apart. Working together to attack the Vampire nest and look for the Colt, they are discovered before John can grab the gun, and end up running for their lives. John has alternative plan and while waiting for Dean to return with dead man’s blood, Sam and John talk, mending fences in the process.

They use the dead man’s blood to catch Kate in order to draw out Luther, her Mate. John’s plan is to trade her for the Colt. While Luther and his vampires discover John and Kate and parley for the Colt, Sam and Dean invade the nest,  freeing the captives. John’s plan is foiled and he is knocked out by Luther, however before Luther can kill him, Sam and Dean attack, having ignored their father's orders to stay away. John, grabbing the Colt, kills Luther by shooting him in the head. The gun works. It can kill supernatural beings with a bullet. Finally seeing the sense of the boys argument, John agrees that now they have the Colt, they will hunt the Demon together.

Blue Earth, Minnesota – A priest is reading the Bible at his Alter. Meg enters as a young woman seeking solace. The priest encourages her to speak but, when he sees her black eyes, the priest retreats in horror to an underground office. She demands the Winchesters who he refuses to betray. She slits his throat.

Back in Manning, Colorado, John is sharing his research of the last 20 years with Sam and Dean. John sees the signs starting again and is intent on saving another family from the pain and loss suffered by the Winchesters. The 3 hunters head out to Salvation, Iowa. On the road, John receives the news that Pastor Jim Murphy has been murdered. John feels the pressure to hurry, to find the next family on the demons list. Following the signs in his vision, Sam meets the young mother Monica and her daughter, Rosie. Unable to warn her, he returns to Dean and John. Sam’s phone rings and Meg, demands to speak with John. Informing him that she murdered Jim Murphy and today she is with Caleb. She wants The Colt.In desperation John plays dumb and Meg kills Caleb. John offers her the Colt, but he has a plan. To substitute a fake colt for the real one. 

 While the boys stand watch over Monica and her family, John confronts Meg. She is joined by another demon. John hands the gun to Meg and she in turn hands it off to the other, asking if they think it’s the real thing? Without warning he shoots Meg. Now it is obvious the gun isn’t the real Colt. Making his escape John finds his truck’s tires have been slashed. Running, he finds himself in a dead end and trapped.

Meanwhile, recognizing the signs, the boys break into the house in attempt to save Monica and Rosie. Racing to the nursery Sam faces the demon over Rosie’s crib a, fires off a shot but the demon vanishes. They race them from the burning house. Dean stops Sam from trying to reenter the burning building to reach the demon. Back at the hotel room, Dean tries his father’s phone, it is answered by Meg and to their horror she promises they will never see their father again…

The boys arrive at the home of another hunter, Bobby. Sam goes through some of Bobby's books on demon lore, including the Key of Solomon, while Bobby and Dean talk. Suddenly Meg kicks in the door, attacks the boys, and demands the Colt. However, she soon gets caught under a devil's trap that is painted on the ceiling. Bobby explains that Meg is actually a girl possessed by a demon, and that the injuries she previously sustained in Chicago (in the episode 'Shadow') will kill her if the demon leaves her body. Dean insists on exorcising the demon to save the girl, no matter how broken she is. Finally, the demon is banished, and human Meg, dying painfully, thanks them and offers the clue "sunrise." 

They arrive at the building where John is being kept, form a plan to evacuate it that involves dressing up as firemen, and execute it. They manage to overpower the possessed humans guarding John and get him out of the apartment - after Sam insists on testing John with holy water. John is barely coherent, but he manages to ask about the Colt. Once all three are out of the building, they're set upon by Tom, who beats Sam severely. Dean whips out the concealed Colt and shoots him through the head.

In a secluded cabin, the boys salt the doors and windows. John enters, claiming that Dean should be proud of what he does for the family. Dean grows suspicious of the kind words and points the Colt at John. Sam allies himself with Dean, and John is revealed to be possessed by the Demon as his eyes glow yellow. The Demon injures both boys and taunts Sam's unreliable special powers, and he also mentions that Sam was about to propose to Jessica. Dean draws the Demon's attention away from Sam, and it reveals that the demons in Meg and Tom were his children. He uses some psychic power to attack Dean, causing him to bleed internally. Dean begs for his life, and John manages to surface long enough for Sam to free himself and grab the Colt. John begs Sam to kill him in order to kill the Demon while Dean pleads for Sam not to shoot. Sam uses the penultimate bullet in the Colt to shoot John in the leg, forcing the Demon to leave John's body.

Sam drives the Impala with John in the passenger seat and Dean, gravely hurt, in the backseat. John expresses disappointment that Sam didn't shoot and end the family's quest, but Sam says that killing the Demon is not the most important thing. Sam promises to get them to the hospital, but a huge truck slams into the Impala, smashing it and rendering all three Winchesters unconscious. The truck driver has the black eyes of the possessed.

The boys arrive in Chicago to investigate recent violent deaths. Disguised as operators from a security alarm company, they visit the apartment of the last victim. Dean notices that the blood spatter on the carpet forms a symbol.

That night they visit the bar where Meredith worked. Sam spots a familiar face; Meg, the girl he met when he was going to travel to California to find John. Sam tracks Meg to an abandoned warehouse, where he observes her at an altar, communicating with someone through a goblet of blood. Dean calls John and asks him to come to Chicago. 

At the abandoned warehouse, the boys’ plans are thwarted when Meg commands to daeveas to attack them. Once they are restrained, bound to pylons, Meg reveals the murders were a plan to trap them, and use them as bait for John. Sam cuts himself loose and overpowers Meg and then overturns the altar. Freed from her control the daevas turn on Meg, and throw her from the window. Sam and Dean see her dead on the pavement beneath.

Returning to their room, Sam and Dean find an unexpected visitor – John. Their reunion is interrupted when the daevas attack them, but Sam repels them by lighting flares. As they go their separate ways, they are observed by a figure in the shadows – Meg.

A group of teenagers in Richardson, Texas, visit a reputedly haunted house,they find the body of a girl hanging in the cellar. However, by the time the police arrive, the body is missing.Sam and Dean, who are engaged in a prank war, decide to investigate and track down Craig Thursten, who relates the legend, of Mordechai Murdoch, a farmer who lived in the house during the 1930s, and who killed his daughters, hanging them in the cellar.

Sam and Dean visit the house, which has symbols painted from many different origins freshly painted on the walls and floor. While searching the house, the boys run into Ed Zeddmore and Harry Spengler, paranormal investigators, who run a website called Hell Hound's Lair. Mordechai chases them from the house and is not slowed by a blast of rock-salt. Dean and Sam return to visit Craig. Craig admits that he and his cousin painted the symbols and spread the rumour about Mordecai as a prank. Sam postulates that Mordecai is a Tulpa – the manifestation of a thought. One of the symbols painted in the house is Tibetan spirit sigil, which assists in concentrating mental energy. In order to “kill off” Mordechai, the boys tell Ed and Harry that they have found out that being shot with iron rounds will kill him. They wait for the boys to post it on their website, and enough people view it so that it becomes real. Ed and Harry tell them the server crashed, so the new legend will not manifest. As Mordechai attacks them, Dean sets the house on fire, figuring that without that part of the legend Mordechai won’t exist.

In Fitchburg, Wisconsin children in the town are becoming mysteriously ill. Dr Hydeker at the local hospital indicates that no treatments are proving effective with the children, who seem to have compromised immune systems.At the home of the latest victim, the boys find an inhuman handprint on the window ledge outside the child’s bedroom. After checking into a motel run by a woman with two young sons, Michael and Asher, Dean tells Sam he thinks the creature at work is a shtriga, which their father had encountered many years previously. Back at the motel, the youngest child Asher is sick and has been taken to hospital. While Dean drives the mother to the hospital and interviews the doctor again, Sam finds the Shtriga is disguised as Doctor Hydecker - who is working at the hospital in Fitchburg, and is also seen in an 1890s photo.

Dean says John found out they are vulnerable when feeding. Sensing Dean knows more about the shtriga than he has revealed, Sam pushes him. Sixteen or seventeen years ago, John Winchester was hunting a shtriga in Fort Douglas, Wisconsin. While John was out, Dean left Sam alone briefly and the shtriga attacked. John shoots it and takes the boys to stay with Pastor Jim, but when he returned he couldn't track the shtriga. Dean blames himself for its escape, and for the deaths that have occurred since. Dean suggests using Michael as bait to trap the shtriga. Michael at first refuses, but later decides to do it, even though Dean can't guarantee Asher will get better. Dean and Sam set up a system to observe Michael in bed, as they need to wait until the shtriga starts feeding before they can attack. The Shtriga attacks Michael and the boys storm in, only killing the monster when it tries to feed on Sam.After the Shtriga is killed, Asher and the other children recover.

The boys arrive in upstate New York, where Mark and Anne Telesca were found dead in a locked house, the latest in a series of murders over a number of decades in the same area according to research from John’s journal. They visit the Telesca home, but all the furnishings have been taken to an auction house, so they decide to check it out, in case a spirit has itself attached to an object. Sarah Blake, who works at the auction house confirms that the Telesca estate is being auctioned. Before she can tell them anymore, her father asks the boys to leave.

Over dinner, Sarah reveals she hasn’t been on a date since her mother died unexpectedly a year ago.Sarah get’s Sam copies of the provenances of the items of the Telesca house. Dean finds that a portrait of Isaiah Merchant’s family painted in 1910 was also owned by the other families which had been killed. At the local library, they find out that Isaiah Merchant was accused of killing his wife, two sons and adopted daughter. Sam calls Sarah to see if they can view the painting again, only to find it has been sold, to a friend. The boys rush to the house just as Sarah arrives, and they find Evelyn dead, her throat slashed. They examine the painting and more features in the painting have changed, amongst other things there is now a mausoleum in the picture with the name Merchant on it. Sam and Sarah get trapped inside Evelyn’s house, and attacked by the spirit of Melanie Merchant, the adopted daughter. Dean returns to the mausoleum and burns an antique doll which bears some of Melanie Merchant’s hair. This finally dispels her spirit.