Post by Trinity on Oct 18, 2021 5:50:03 GMT -5
After a long delay, I FINALLY finished the second part of Nevermore. A story based on the novel set in S2.
With that, we are now only one press release away from finishing S2, the S2 finale.
With that, we are now only one press release away from finishing S2, the S2 finale.
SUPERNATURAL - (TV-14, L, V).
Air Date: January 18, 2007
Time Slot: 9:00 PM-10:00 PM EST on The CW
Season 2 Episode 11: "Nevermore" (Part 2)
This is based on the Supernatural: Nevermore originally written by Keith R.A. DeCandido.
THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO THE TWO PART EPISODE IN NEW YORK CITY -
THE BRONX, NEW YORK: FIFTIETH PRECINCT (ONE HOUR AGO) – It had been several years since Detective Marina McBain (guest star Gina Torres) had been up to the Five-oh in the Bronx. Like most of the New York Police Department's precinct houses, the Fiftieth Precinct in the Bronx was a boxy white edifice with few windows and an American flag atop it flapping from a pole.
McBain drives her own car rather than a departmental one, as technically she was off duty to the precinct. McBain walks in the precinct to the reception area. The public information desk was empty at this time of night, so McBain moved past it walking by about half a dozen plaques for those officers who fell in the line of duty (Guidice most prominent among them), Mcbain speaks to the bored night-shift sergeant named O'Shaughnessy (guest star Michael Busswood), the sergeant was perusing the sports pages of the Daily News. Getting right to business, Mcbain introduces herself "My name's McBain, I'm with MPU. You guys get any calls the last couple of days for a 10–31 at 2739 West 195th Street?" she asked, using the radio code for a burglary in progress. O'Shaughnessy's pudgy face fell into a frown. "Don't think so. What's that gotta do with Missing Persons?" Putting on an exasperated look, she said, "Don't ask. My sergeant's taken up lodging right in my ass until I get through this.""Heard that." O'Shaughnessy sputtered a noise that McBain supposed could have been a laugh. He grabbed the keyboard with a meaty hand and dragged it toward him. "Lemme check."
The dispatcher's voice called, "Nine-one-one call, 10-31 at—" Here, the dispatcher enunciated each number. "—two-seven-three-nine West one-nine-five." McBain fights to keep herself from grinning, revealing she knew she could reply on the boys. O'Shaughnessy stared at McBain with an expression that she supposed was awe. "How the hell'd you know about that?" "It was a guess," was all McBain would said, and insisted to take care of it, and The sergeant approves.
Driving to the corner of Webb and 195th Street, it doesn't take her long to find an illegally parked 1967 Chevy Impala. ”I swear, I'm gonna kill 'em.” she sighs. Double-parking her Saturn right next to the Impala, she checks to make sure her NYPD credentials were prominently displayed on the dashboard, in case one of O'Shaughnessy's "guys" decided to get overzealous with the parking citations. The house in question is easy enough to pick out, as it is the only structure on the corner that wasn't red brick.
Walking back toward where her car and the Impala were parked, she sees a gated driveway. Peering past the gate down the driveway, she sees a side door, and two figures kneeling down in front of it. McBain removes her nine-millimeter weapon from its holster and thumbed the safety. She also removed her flashlight, flicked it on and held both it and the nine-mil up as she kicked open the gate. "Freeze, police!
THE BRONX NEW YORK: WEBB AND 195TH STREET (NOW) - All three Winchesters (Jeffery Dean Morgan, Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki) looked up at her, like deer frozen in headlights as her flashlight shone on them. Slowly, she walks into the driveway. Dean starts to rise up, and she yells, "Which part of 'freeze' didn't you get?" Dean stopped moving. "You guys are complete idiots, you know that?" she groans Sam started to speak. "Officer, I can explain—""It's 'Detective,' and don't even try to explain it, Sam, 'cause I got no tolerance for Winchester brand bull."
Both of them started opening and closing their mouths, as if unsure how to respond to her use of their name. When Mcbain notices John, her voice lowers and the two smile. Dean and Sam look at John confused.
Deciding to put them out of their misery, Mcbain and John both look at each other and John reveals to his sons that he knows her. He came to New York City on three separate occasions, once to hunt a golem in Brighton Beach, once to deal with a haunting on the subway and the third a vampire near Chinatown. Mcbain hits John on the shoulder annoyed that she didn’t bother to call her when he was in town, and they are damn lucky she found them before the uniforms in the Five-oh did and telling them their was a 911 call on them.
McBain pulls her cell phone out calling up the number for the Fiftieth Precinct. She tells O'Shaughnessy that it was the guys she thought it would be and she took care of it, so he doesn't need to send his guys over. Mcbain hands Sam the flashlight, and smiles going out on a limb and assuming they are checkin' out the basement. "Good guess." Dean then looked at her with an annoyed expression. "I suppose you wanna come in with us, huh?" Mcbain rolls her eyes at Dean "You wanna try and stop me, knock yourself out."
Dean raises his voice at her "Lady, I don't even know who you are, you know my Dad, but I don’t." John steps in “Let her come, we can trust her, I do”.
McBain smiled sweetly. "John your boy is as stubborn as you were trusting me when we first met. Lemme give you a clue, brushy-top. I'm the only person standin' between you and a couple uniforms from the Five-oh bustin' your asses, runnin' your face and prints through the system, turnin' up a federal warrant for your arrest, and lockin' you both up for the rest of your natural lives. You feel me, Dean, or you want me to call Sergeant O'Shaughnessy back and tell him I need backup?" Dean shut up.
The Winchesters and McBain walk towards where the entrance led right into a staircase. To the left, it goes up to an open doorway. McBain shone the light up to see an empty room expected in an empty house for sale. She quickly goes to the bottom of the stairs, and turns on the light switch. Based on the reports she'd read, she mentions that it was fairly easy to break the wall down after both the neighbors and the real estate agency complained about the smell in the basement. Sure enough, there was a large hole in the brick, more yellow crime-scene tape draped across the gap.
As the Winchesters moved forward inspecting, Mcbain tells them that Reyes, the victim died of suffocation. Deciding to respect the Winchesters need to do their own thing, McBain hung back.
John asks her if the crime report in indicated any herbs found lying around, and she shakes her head saying no, but that the woman who used to own this place was a gourmet cook. Dean holds up a small piece of greenery between thumb and forefinger, and jokes I hope she didn't cook with this. This is wormwood." Sam tells Mcbain its used in resurrection rituals including the one this is part of and Mcbain jokes she isn’t up to speed on resurrection rituals.”
John then brings up the case they worked on before, and she admits she doesn’t hunt that much, actually. Killed a vampire that was draining homeless folks for fun a few years back and John can attest it takes forever to saw through a neck bone with a kitchen knife but mostly she just keeps an eye on things, help out hunters who come through town, and make sure the mundanes don't get word of it. And that she is part of a network of cops, actually that who know of the supernatural and help hunters.
Dean and Sam ask if she knows Jody Mills. She nods, that she does. And that right now there’s five of them, herself, Jody in Sioux falls, a woman in Chicago named Murphy, and a guy in Eugene, Oregon, named Lao. She mentions the newest member who the Winchesters ran into not too long ago named, in Baltimore named Diana Ballard, the newest member had been recruited into a small country-wide group of cops. She also tells them that Ballard is under investigation for her role in the events of with the Winchesters case and while she will probably be cleared, she likely won't be allowed to work Homicide anymore. Mcbain won’t be surprised if Donna Jody’s co-worker joins then, but Jody insists not telling her.
As Dean Sam started checking out the rest of the basement. John checked the hole in the wall, while McBain checked the ceiling. She didn't expect anything, but she also figured it couldn't hurt.
Mcbain asks John what the resurrection ritual this is. John tells her its a fake ritual some jackass in the nineteenth century made up to scam people out of their hard-earned money, but somebody believes its real.
Dean pulls out the EMF meter and gets no reading. Dean thinks they should call it a night since they haven’t found anything. Mcbain asks if they think this is part of a ritual and assumes there's more to it, and the next piece is gonna be Monday. The Winchesters are impressed, and she tells them she follows the phases of the moon as a kind of an occupational hazard.
Sam quickly explained the ritual from some freak named Percival Samuels and the next murder's either gonna be on Webster Avenue near Bedford Park Boulevard or at Fordham Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. She offers to help them out, and take whichever location they don't. Mcbain tells John he has her number, and hands Sam and Dean her card to reach her on their cell phones.
When they leave the house Dean whispers that he doesn’t like her to John. As the Winchesters head into the Impala, McBain tells them to be careful. That she covered this up this time, but it ain't gonna be easy, especially if they are gonna go pulling felonies on her. She reminds them that right now she was on a Wednesday to Sunday rotation, which meant she'd be free to help the Winchesters out on Monday.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: THE AFIRI HOUSE - (NEXT MORNING) – The Winchesters were sitting at the table, Sam at the laptop telling John and Dean about Arthur Gordon Pym having archived a whole bunch of Poe's stories on his site, so Dean and John start reading them while drinking some of Manfred's killer coffee. John asks what they think of Detective McBain. Dean isn’t happy that John never told them about her, and doesn’t like it one bit. John tells him he is sorry, but they can trust her. Sam likes her, but Dean hasn’t warmed up to her yet.
Manfred wakes up and joins the kitchen, he tells them he wouldn’t normally be up this early on a Saturday, but has something they might want to check out and tells them that a while back Aldo had himself a girlfriend who was a real 'rÿcher. Sam and John look puzzled squinted as Dean rolls his eyes. Telling him he means a Queensrÿche fan, not the first officer of the Enterprise. Manfred goes go on to tell them Her name was Roxy and that Aldo only dated blondes. The Winchesters agree to go to talk to Aldo about Roxy., which means they gotta go back to the Park in Rear." Sam grinned. "It's hell bein' a hero, ain't it, Dean?" Dean sighs "Screw you two.
LARCHMONT, NEW YORK: THE PARK IN REAR – Dean finds Jennifer was working the bar again. Jennifer is surprised to see them again, especially Dean. As John and Sam got a table, Dean talks to Jennifer. After some flirting, where John and Sam roll their eyes and eye Dean to get on asking her for some information on a lead in the case. Dean finally asks her Also if he had any old girlfriends come in around here like a Blond girl named Roxy. Jennifer laughs he means Roxy Carmichael and in her opinion she ain't no girl, as she’s even older than her. She tells him she broke up with Aldo a couple years back, and she hasn’t seen her since. Too bad, because she thinks they were a good couple as neither of 'em drank or smoked or nothin'. But she then remembers she and Roxy I used to go outside to smoke right after they made it illegal to smoke in bars. Knowing that those laws varied from state to state, Dean asked When that was, and Jennifer said a couple f years ago, right before they broke up. She hands Dean his drinks, and grins for him to catch her later.
With a warm, pleasant feeling in his chest, Dean walked over to the table with the three beers. John and Sam tell Dean case first, woman later, wondering if he scored a new lady. The Winchesters see Aldo exit the bathroom, as Sam and John get up to question him.
Sam asked Aldo how hes been and tells him that Manfred was telling him that he you used to date someone named Roxy. Aldo tells Sam he remembers her. She was a girl he used to date, that she just disappeared one day with no forwarding address, and it was right after they had this big fight. John asks if this fight at Manfred's house. Aldo tells them no, and asks why they want to know. Realizing he had pushed it too far, John backed off. He tells her he hasn’t seen her in two years, and yeah that’s all he can tell them.
Sam and John head back to the table, where Dean is chatting with Manfred and the drummer Tommy, whose name Dean also couldn't remember. Sam still had the remains of a light beer he hadn't even tried ordering a gin and tonic again in his presence while Manfred and the drummer Tommy had thick-bottomed glasses. Manfred tells them that Tommy was just talking about Aldo’s lady Roxy. Sam asks Tommy what happened to her, as Tommy and Manfred tell them nobody knows as Aldo told them they broke up, and we never saw 'er again.
Once they were gone, Sam and John fill Dean in on what they’d gotten from Aldo. Dean asks if they both think Aldo killed Roxy. John thinks its the same old story they have a fight, he kills her, and he buries her somewhere. Sam nods and thinks she comes back to haunt Manfred, which is the part that makes no sense. Dean wonders if Manfred's the one who killed her. But John thought Manfred didn’t even remember her this morning, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been lying. John thinks that if Roxy comes back tonight, maybe if we call her by name, she might respond. It was a long shot, but some spirits were communicative, at least to some extent. Unfortunately, her only words to date—"Love me!" are not very helpful, although Aldo is the prime suspect number one.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: THE AFIRI HOUSE – (SUNDAY NIGHT) – The Winchesters wait for Roxy to show up. Roxy was beneath the walls muttering to herself that she’ll make them pay and she couldn't do anything to change what happened, but she refused to believe that, she wasn't dead, and It needs to stop and wondered why he won’t he love her. Yesterday, someone else came in who wasn't anyone from Scottso. It was three new people, and they shot her!
She goes through the walls, and as the Winchesters feel her presence, she makes the pictures fly off the wall and headed straight for Sam. Unfortunately, he heard it coming. Sam yells out Roxy’s name and tells her they don’t want to her her. She is shocked that they know her name. Dean tells her let them talk and less throwing pictures at them or they’ll shoot her again. She laughs at them She laughed long, she laughed hard, and she laughed and said she won’t manifest fully, so as not to risk another shotgun blast. Instead, she went away, like she always did once Manfred left.
Dean stared down at the EMF reader and shook his head. John thinks she hasn't come all the way back from the rock-salt dispersal. They figured it was different for every spirit. Some only stayed dissolute for a few minutes. Others were permanently torn apart by the rock salt, though that was pretty rare.
Sam thinks he’ll do more digging online, then Monday check with Ash and Bobby for help, about this house, and they are assuming it's Roxy because of that King's Reign T-shirt. Dean winced and snarled at the same time. "It's Queensrÿche." Sam thinks its a stretch, but it's not like the band's been all that forthcoming. And they can't tell if she’s reacted to them calling her by name."
John will keep looking for Arthur Gordon Pym and make some calls tomorrow, and Sam will see if he can track down who owns the server space that website's on. Then something occurred to Sam that McBain said she was with missing persons? John thinks McBain can run her name in the system and he’ll get her on it.
Manfred banged on the door outside asking if he can get inside now that the spirit is gone, as he’s Freezing his ass off out here. Sam turned toward the front door, through which Manfred had yelled. It was much colder tonight than it had been the previous night, and John thinks it was no reason to keep Manfred out of his own place. "It's clear!" Sam yells.
THE BRONX, NEW YORK: WEBSTER AVENUE AND EAST 199TH STREET (NEXT DAY) - Sam has gotten help from Bobby and Ash who tells Dean that the Poe website was paid for by a corporation called Pendulum Pit Incorporated. Bobby (Jim Beaver) calls Sam with an update on the case with research, as Ellen's (Samantha Ferris) voice is heard asking that she hopes Ash's old friend they are staying at is going alright with the ghost case. Bobby tells Sam that he find out that Pendulum Pit Inc. was a self-owned corporation owned and operated by one Arthur Mackey.
THE BRONX, NEW YORK: NYPD STATION - Marina tells John about Roxy's status as a missing persons.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: THE AFIRI HOUSE – Manfred explains his past with Roxy to the Winchesters after learned of her status as a missing person from Detective Marina McBain. He tells them that he meet her when she was high on everything speed and booze. He explains she came with some friends to the Park in Rear for a gig. She stayed behind after the show, as she didn't have nowhere to go. He offered to give her a ride back to his place, but instead they came to his place. The Winchesters asks why he didn't remember her, and he said he just forgot it was her, drinking and being high, you blank stuff out. He then went on about the time Aldo house was suppose to be house sitting for him.
The Winchesters began to suspect that Aldo murdered Roxy and buried her in the backyard of Manfred's house when he was supposed to be house-sitting. However, the Winchesters realized that they couldn't dig up Roxy's corpse and salt and burn her without destroying the evidence that would put her killer in jail. Instead, ask Manfred call a band meeting and then confronted Scottso with all of the facts they gathered.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: THE AFIRI HOUSE - (THAT NIGHT) - The band meeting has no effect, and doesn't go anywhere. The Winchesters then decide to cast a summoning spell that brought Roxy into visibility. Roxy went after Eddie, demanding that he love her and his screams that she was dead and buried exposed him as her killer. Sam then dissipated Roxy with a shotgun blast and Eddie reluctantly confessed to Roxy's murder, claiming it was an accident at first.
John calls Detective McBain and lets her know of the development in them solving Roxy's murder and McBain contacts the 50th precinct to arrest Eddie and dig up Roxy's body.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: THE AFIRI HOUSE - (Sometime later) Frightened by Roxy's appearance and threatened by Scottso, Eddie confesses to Roxy's murder when the police arrive and leads them to Roxy's body.
With one case solved, the Winchesters only have one more left.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: NYPD STATION - Following Eddie's arrest, Detective McBain closes the missing person's case on Roxy and transfers it over to the homicide division. The Winchesters lets her know that while Eddie's arrest likely means that Roxy is at peace, but they won’t salt and burn her body, just yet, since the cops have taken the remains as evidence. Instead now the attention moves to the other case.
They pull an all nighter looking over evidence, and figure out that Doctor Ross Vincent who teaches English literature at Fordham University and was at one point married to a woman who died, leaving him with a great deal of money. Sam went earlier to speak to Arthur Mackey with Bobby’s lead, but turns out it wasn’t a lead that panned out, but truly just a Poe fanatic.
Detective McBain looks into some more with her sources, telling the Winchesters this guy was right under her nose the whole time. Vincent's murders were able to avoid suspicion of being connected from the police due to the murders falling under different precincts.
VINCENT’S APARTMENT – (TUESDAY MORNING) - Accompanied by Detective McBain, the Winchesters found Vincent in the apartment he'd hidden Lowrance's remains in, but due to a trip wire left by Vincent, he was alerted to their presence and ran. Dean spots Vincent and chases him into the street, but Vincent, successfully got to his car and escaped.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINE - (LATER IN THE DAY) - Vincent sets his sights out the Church of St. Nicholas of Tolentine to figure out how to use the Bells to perform the final portion of the ritual. As Vincent decides to burn someone alive as he rang the church bells due to a portion of the poem referring to fire, Vincent was approached by Mackey who recognizes him and realizes Vincent was the killer due to his interest in Poe and his being at the site of the ritual late at night.
Unable to bluff his way out, Vincent punched Mackey, but failed to knock him out. As Mackey called Detective McBain, Vincent retrieved a baseball and a fishing line from his car and used the baseball to wind Mackey before destroying his cell phone and tying him up with the fishing line, planning to use Mackey as his last victim.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: NYPD STATION – Detective McBain gets the call from Mackey and tells the Winchesters, that she knows where Vincent is.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINE- (NIGHT) - Vincent is in the church preparing for the ritual, the Winchesters and McBain arrived, having learned about Mackey being in trouble and then having figured out what Vincent intended to do for the last part of the ritual. Hearing the Winchesters and McBain in the lower levels of the bell tower, Vincent fires a warning shot at the four and refused to surrender. Dean recognizes Vincent's voice and realizes who he was before calling him out and telling him the ritual was fake.
Using Mackey as a hostage, Vincent descends from the bells and reveals how he was trying to resurrect Poe to find out how he died and the other potential things they could learn about his life. Now completely insane, Vincent refuses to surrender and while firing a second warning shot, punctures one of his gas cans in the bells with a ricocheting bullet.
Taking notice of the gas, Dean disarms himself and while Vincent was distracted by John and Sam, ignites the gas with his lighter. Vincent and the stairway to the bells are set on fire, enabling John and Sam to rescue Mackey in time. Dean fires the extinguisher putting out the stairs and Vincent who is left burned but alive.
With Vincent successfully subdued, Detective McBain arrests Vincent on suspicion of murdering Mall the victims and kidnapping of Arthur Mackey and resisting arrest.
Mackey thanks the Winchesters for saving him Sam leads him down the stairs. McBain calls for backup and an ambulance for Vincent. Finishing her call, McBain thanks the Winchesters for helping them, and is happy she got to run into John again. The Winchesters are just happy to know there are people on the inside that know about this thing. She smiles reminding them that just like Mills in Sioux Falls and the others. Staring intently at John McBain smiled "Why don't you guys go wait for the backup to show up?" "Good idea," John emphatically getting the hint that they should all vamoose before that backup arrived.
Dean just hopes the cops are done at Manfred's place for the investigation into Roxy’s murder. Sighing, McBain tells the Winchesters "Send his holiness up here on your way out. I'll fill him in. Oh, and don't forget, we got that meeting tomorrow morning at six at the parking area just off the 97th Street exit on the West Side Highway. They all agree
NEW YORK, NEW YORK: 97TH STREET EXIT, WEST SIDE HIGHWAY (WEDNESDAY MORNING) - McBain looks at her watch waiting for the Winchesters, when the Impala drives fast right on time. Sam and Dean take a moment to admire the view.
McBain hands a folder to Dean, when they take a look. She tells them she isn’t the first NYPD cop to walk the spook beat, and guy before her was a cranky old man named Landesberg. He used to keep an eye on the crazy-ass stuff back in the seventies, and left her a box full of folders. She had dug through it every once in a while. Finding this case, she figured the boys might find interesting. Dean stared at the contents of the folder, then closed it and hands it to Sam. John and Sam see several yellowing newspaper clippings from Roosevelt asylum in Rockford, Illinois. The Winchesters thank McBain for the new possible case. McBain snorts. "It's way outta my jurisdiction, so sure. Just try to keep people alive, okay?"
Moving toward the Impala, Sam tells John that McBain isn’t bad, and "She's not that bad, as Dean looks at them "She calls me 'brushy-top.' " Sam just laughs "Like I said, she's not that bad." John just rolls his eyes.
WEST SIDE HIGHWAY – The Winchesters make their way out of New York, enjoying the view for the last time.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: NYPD STATION (LATER THAT DAY) – McBain is putting the finishing touches on some paperwork that would close the Roxy Carmichael case at least, as a missing persons case, it was now a homicide. As a voice came from the entryway to her tiny cubicle: "Detective Marina McBain?"
Turning around, McBain finds herself a tall man, with close-cut hair and a goatee who introduces himself as Special Agent Victor Hendrickson. Insisting he needs to talk to her about three men named John, Sam and Dean Winchester. She covers for them, telling him the names don't ring a bell. Telling him she doesn’t care and has a metric ton of paperwork to deal with right now. I can go see if these Winchester guys are in the files. He tells her, that he thinks they're not missing persons, they're fugitives. and that she knows them.
McBain rolled her eyes. "It's nice that you think that, but I never even heard of 'em."Unfolding his arms, Hendrickson tells her that he can make your life a living hel and asks where she was last Saturday, and she tells him she can prove it, and if he wants to make her life a living hell, he can get in line behind her sergeant, my captain, my inspector, Commissioner Kelly, and Mayor Bloomberg. Hendrickson leans against the side of her cubicle and refolded his arms. His facial expression had yet to change since he arrived. The slightly angry look seemed to be his default. "If you think I won't step on all those people to get what I need, Detective, you are sorely mistaken."
McBain bites back "I don't know what you need, Hendrickson! You been standin' here threatening me, talkin' some nonsense about three people I never even heard of" He doesn’t believe her as she insists on the list of things she gives a rat's ass about, what he believes is at the bottom. She blasts him that unless he has actual police business to discuss with her to get lost.
McBain turned to see the wiry form of Sergeant Glover, her immediate supervisor, stomping toward her cubicle. Hendrickson identified himself, even going so far as to show ID, which was more consideration than he'd shown McBain. Glover tells Hendrickson that he has no business harassing his people. Glover tells him to back off, and she won’t be answering any more questions. Telling him he can leave on his own, or he’ll call up a couple of uniforms to haul your ass downstairs for trespassing.
Hendrickson stares at Glover, then stared at McBain, pointing an accusatory finger at her that he’ll be back. Giving him a sweet smile, McBain tells him her door's always open. With another nasty look at Glover, Hendrickson turned on his polished heel and left. Glover asks McBain. What the hell was that about, and she tells her Sergeant she talked to him for five minutes, and still can't tell him what it is about. Shaking his head, Glover walks off.
McBain turned around and lets out a long breath, never more grateful for the rivalry bordering on hatred between federal and local law enforcement. Watch your asses, guys, she thought to herself thinking about the Winchesters.
Air Date: January 18, 2007
Time Slot: 9:00 PM-10:00 PM EST on The CW
Season 2 Episode 11: "Nevermore" (Part 2)
This is based on the Supernatural: Nevermore originally written by Keith R.A. DeCandido.
THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO THE TWO PART EPISODE IN NEW YORK CITY -
THE BRONX, NEW YORK: FIFTIETH PRECINCT (ONE HOUR AGO) – It had been several years since Detective Marina McBain (guest star Gina Torres) had been up to the Five-oh in the Bronx. Like most of the New York Police Department's precinct houses, the Fiftieth Precinct in the Bronx was a boxy white edifice with few windows and an American flag atop it flapping from a pole.
McBain drives her own car rather than a departmental one, as technically she was off duty to the precinct. McBain walks in the precinct to the reception area. The public information desk was empty at this time of night, so McBain moved past it walking by about half a dozen plaques for those officers who fell in the line of duty (Guidice most prominent among them), Mcbain speaks to the bored night-shift sergeant named O'Shaughnessy (guest star Michael Busswood), the sergeant was perusing the sports pages of the Daily News. Getting right to business, Mcbain introduces herself "My name's McBain, I'm with MPU. You guys get any calls the last couple of days for a 10–31 at 2739 West 195th Street?" she asked, using the radio code for a burglary in progress. O'Shaughnessy's pudgy face fell into a frown. "Don't think so. What's that gotta do with Missing Persons?" Putting on an exasperated look, she said, "Don't ask. My sergeant's taken up lodging right in my ass until I get through this.""Heard that." O'Shaughnessy sputtered a noise that McBain supposed could have been a laugh. He grabbed the keyboard with a meaty hand and dragged it toward him. "Lemme check."
The dispatcher's voice called, "Nine-one-one call, 10-31 at—" Here, the dispatcher enunciated each number. "—two-seven-three-nine West one-nine-five." McBain fights to keep herself from grinning, revealing she knew she could reply on the boys. O'Shaughnessy stared at McBain with an expression that she supposed was awe. "How the hell'd you know about that?" "It was a guess," was all McBain would said, and insisted to take care of it, and The sergeant approves.
Driving to the corner of Webb and 195th Street, it doesn't take her long to find an illegally parked 1967 Chevy Impala. ”I swear, I'm gonna kill 'em.” she sighs. Double-parking her Saturn right next to the Impala, she checks to make sure her NYPD credentials were prominently displayed on the dashboard, in case one of O'Shaughnessy's "guys" decided to get overzealous with the parking citations. The house in question is easy enough to pick out, as it is the only structure on the corner that wasn't red brick.
Walking back toward where her car and the Impala were parked, she sees a gated driveway. Peering past the gate down the driveway, she sees a side door, and two figures kneeling down in front of it. McBain removes her nine-millimeter weapon from its holster and thumbed the safety. She also removed her flashlight, flicked it on and held both it and the nine-mil up as she kicked open the gate. "Freeze, police!
THE BRONX NEW YORK: WEBB AND 195TH STREET (NOW) - All three Winchesters (Jeffery Dean Morgan, Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki) looked up at her, like deer frozen in headlights as her flashlight shone on them. Slowly, she walks into the driveway. Dean starts to rise up, and she yells, "Which part of 'freeze' didn't you get?" Dean stopped moving. "You guys are complete idiots, you know that?" she groans Sam started to speak. "Officer, I can explain—""It's 'Detective,' and don't even try to explain it, Sam, 'cause I got no tolerance for Winchester brand bull."
Both of them started opening and closing their mouths, as if unsure how to respond to her use of their name. When Mcbain notices John, her voice lowers and the two smile. Dean and Sam look at John confused.
Deciding to put them out of their misery, Mcbain and John both look at each other and John reveals to his sons that he knows her. He came to New York City on three separate occasions, once to hunt a golem in Brighton Beach, once to deal with a haunting on the subway and the third a vampire near Chinatown. Mcbain hits John on the shoulder annoyed that she didn’t bother to call her when he was in town, and they are damn lucky she found them before the uniforms in the Five-oh did and telling them their was a 911 call on them.
McBain pulls her cell phone out calling up the number for the Fiftieth Precinct. She tells O'Shaughnessy that it was the guys she thought it would be and she took care of it, so he doesn't need to send his guys over. Mcbain hands Sam the flashlight, and smiles going out on a limb and assuming they are checkin' out the basement. "Good guess." Dean then looked at her with an annoyed expression. "I suppose you wanna come in with us, huh?" Mcbain rolls her eyes at Dean "You wanna try and stop me, knock yourself out."
Dean raises his voice at her "Lady, I don't even know who you are, you know my Dad, but I don’t." John steps in “Let her come, we can trust her, I do”.
McBain smiled sweetly. "John your boy is as stubborn as you were trusting me when we first met. Lemme give you a clue, brushy-top. I'm the only person standin' between you and a couple uniforms from the Five-oh bustin' your asses, runnin' your face and prints through the system, turnin' up a federal warrant for your arrest, and lockin' you both up for the rest of your natural lives. You feel me, Dean, or you want me to call Sergeant O'Shaughnessy back and tell him I need backup?" Dean shut up.
The Winchesters and McBain walk towards where the entrance led right into a staircase. To the left, it goes up to an open doorway. McBain shone the light up to see an empty room expected in an empty house for sale. She quickly goes to the bottom of the stairs, and turns on the light switch. Based on the reports she'd read, she mentions that it was fairly easy to break the wall down after both the neighbors and the real estate agency complained about the smell in the basement. Sure enough, there was a large hole in the brick, more yellow crime-scene tape draped across the gap.
As the Winchesters moved forward inspecting, Mcbain tells them that Reyes, the victim died of suffocation. Deciding to respect the Winchesters need to do their own thing, McBain hung back.
John asks her if the crime report in indicated any herbs found lying around, and she shakes her head saying no, but that the woman who used to own this place was a gourmet cook. Dean holds up a small piece of greenery between thumb and forefinger, and jokes I hope she didn't cook with this. This is wormwood." Sam tells Mcbain its used in resurrection rituals including the one this is part of and Mcbain jokes she isn’t up to speed on resurrection rituals.”
John then brings up the case they worked on before, and she admits she doesn’t hunt that much, actually. Killed a vampire that was draining homeless folks for fun a few years back and John can attest it takes forever to saw through a neck bone with a kitchen knife but mostly she just keeps an eye on things, help out hunters who come through town, and make sure the mundanes don't get word of it. And that she is part of a network of cops, actually that who know of the supernatural and help hunters.
Dean and Sam ask if she knows Jody Mills. She nods, that she does. And that right now there’s five of them, herself, Jody in Sioux falls, a woman in Chicago named Murphy, and a guy in Eugene, Oregon, named Lao. She mentions the newest member who the Winchesters ran into not too long ago named, in Baltimore named Diana Ballard, the newest member had been recruited into a small country-wide group of cops. She also tells them that Ballard is under investigation for her role in the events of with the Winchesters case and while she will probably be cleared, she likely won't be allowed to work Homicide anymore. Mcbain won’t be surprised if Donna Jody’s co-worker joins then, but Jody insists not telling her.
As Dean Sam started checking out the rest of the basement. John checked the hole in the wall, while McBain checked the ceiling. She didn't expect anything, but she also figured it couldn't hurt.
Mcbain asks John what the resurrection ritual this is. John tells her its a fake ritual some jackass in the nineteenth century made up to scam people out of their hard-earned money, but somebody believes its real.
Dean pulls out the EMF meter and gets no reading. Dean thinks they should call it a night since they haven’t found anything. Mcbain asks if they think this is part of a ritual and assumes there's more to it, and the next piece is gonna be Monday. The Winchesters are impressed, and she tells them she follows the phases of the moon as a kind of an occupational hazard.
Sam quickly explained the ritual from some freak named Percival Samuels and the next murder's either gonna be on Webster Avenue near Bedford Park Boulevard or at Fordham Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. She offers to help them out, and take whichever location they don't. Mcbain tells John he has her number, and hands Sam and Dean her card to reach her on their cell phones.
When they leave the house Dean whispers that he doesn’t like her to John. As the Winchesters head into the Impala, McBain tells them to be careful. That she covered this up this time, but it ain't gonna be easy, especially if they are gonna go pulling felonies on her. She reminds them that right now she was on a Wednesday to Sunday rotation, which meant she'd be free to help the Winchesters out on Monday.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: THE AFIRI HOUSE - (NEXT MORNING) – The Winchesters were sitting at the table, Sam at the laptop telling John and Dean about Arthur Gordon Pym having archived a whole bunch of Poe's stories on his site, so Dean and John start reading them while drinking some of Manfred's killer coffee. John asks what they think of Detective McBain. Dean isn’t happy that John never told them about her, and doesn’t like it one bit. John tells him he is sorry, but they can trust her. Sam likes her, but Dean hasn’t warmed up to her yet.
Manfred wakes up and joins the kitchen, he tells them he wouldn’t normally be up this early on a Saturday, but has something they might want to check out and tells them that a while back Aldo had himself a girlfriend who was a real 'rÿcher. Sam and John look puzzled squinted as Dean rolls his eyes. Telling him he means a Queensrÿche fan, not the first officer of the Enterprise. Manfred goes go on to tell them Her name was Roxy and that Aldo only dated blondes. The Winchesters agree to go to talk to Aldo about Roxy., which means they gotta go back to the Park in Rear." Sam grinned. "It's hell bein' a hero, ain't it, Dean?" Dean sighs "Screw you two.
LARCHMONT, NEW YORK: THE PARK IN REAR – Dean finds Jennifer was working the bar again. Jennifer is surprised to see them again, especially Dean. As John and Sam got a table, Dean talks to Jennifer. After some flirting, where John and Sam roll their eyes and eye Dean to get on asking her for some information on a lead in the case. Dean finally asks her Also if he had any old girlfriends come in around here like a Blond girl named Roxy. Jennifer laughs he means Roxy Carmichael and in her opinion she ain't no girl, as she’s even older than her. She tells him she broke up with Aldo a couple years back, and she hasn’t seen her since. Too bad, because she thinks they were a good couple as neither of 'em drank or smoked or nothin'. But she then remembers she and Roxy I used to go outside to smoke right after they made it illegal to smoke in bars. Knowing that those laws varied from state to state, Dean asked When that was, and Jennifer said a couple f years ago, right before they broke up. She hands Dean his drinks, and grins for him to catch her later.
With a warm, pleasant feeling in his chest, Dean walked over to the table with the three beers. John and Sam tell Dean case first, woman later, wondering if he scored a new lady. The Winchesters see Aldo exit the bathroom, as Sam and John get up to question him.
Sam asked Aldo how hes been and tells him that Manfred was telling him that he you used to date someone named Roxy. Aldo tells Sam he remembers her. She was a girl he used to date, that she just disappeared one day with no forwarding address, and it was right after they had this big fight. John asks if this fight at Manfred's house. Aldo tells them no, and asks why they want to know. Realizing he had pushed it too far, John backed off. He tells her he hasn’t seen her in two years, and yeah that’s all he can tell them.
Sam and John head back to the table, where Dean is chatting with Manfred and the drummer Tommy, whose name Dean also couldn't remember. Sam still had the remains of a light beer he hadn't even tried ordering a gin and tonic again in his presence while Manfred and the drummer Tommy had thick-bottomed glasses. Manfred tells them that Tommy was just talking about Aldo’s lady Roxy. Sam asks Tommy what happened to her, as Tommy and Manfred tell them nobody knows as Aldo told them they broke up, and we never saw 'er again.
Once they were gone, Sam and John fill Dean in on what they’d gotten from Aldo. Dean asks if they both think Aldo killed Roxy. John thinks its the same old story they have a fight, he kills her, and he buries her somewhere. Sam nods and thinks she comes back to haunt Manfred, which is the part that makes no sense. Dean wonders if Manfred's the one who killed her. But John thought Manfred didn’t even remember her this morning, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been lying. John thinks that if Roxy comes back tonight, maybe if we call her by name, she might respond. It was a long shot, but some spirits were communicative, at least to some extent. Unfortunately, her only words to date—"Love me!" are not very helpful, although Aldo is the prime suspect number one.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: THE AFIRI HOUSE – (SUNDAY NIGHT) – The Winchesters wait for Roxy to show up. Roxy was beneath the walls muttering to herself that she’ll make them pay and she couldn't do anything to change what happened, but she refused to believe that, she wasn't dead, and It needs to stop and wondered why he won’t he love her. Yesterday, someone else came in who wasn't anyone from Scottso. It was three new people, and they shot her!
She goes through the walls, and as the Winchesters feel her presence, she makes the pictures fly off the wall and headed straight for Sam. Unfortunately, he heard it coming. Sam yells out Roxy’s name and tells her they don’t want to her her. She is shocked that they know her name. Dean tells her let them talk and less throwing pictures at them or they’ll shoot her again. She laughs at them She laughed long, she laughed hard, and she laughed and said she won’t manifest fully, so as not to risk another shotgun blast. Instead, she went away, like she always did once Manfred left.
Dean stared down at the EMF reader and shook his head. John thinks she hasn't come all the way back from the rock-salt dispersal. They figured it was different for every spirit. Some only stayed dissolute for a few minutes. Others were permanently torn apart by the rock salt, though that was pretty rare.
Sam thinks he’ll do more digging online, then Monday check with Ash and Bobby for help, about this house, and they are assuming it's Roxy because of that King's Reign T-shirt. Dean winced and snarled at the same time. "It's Queensrÿche." Sam thinks its a stretch, but it's not like the band's been all that forthcoming. And they can't tell if she’s reacted to them calling her by name."
John will keep looking for Arthur Gordon Pym and make some calls tomorrow, and Sam will see if he can track down who owns the server space that website's on. Then something occurred to Sam that McBain said she was with missing persons? John thinks McBain can run her name in the system and he’ll get her on it.
Manfred banged on the door outside asking if he can get inside now that the spirit is gone, as he’s Freezing his ass off out here. Sam turned toward the front door, through which Manfred had yelled. It was much colder tonight than it had been the previous night, and John thinks it was no reason to keep Manfred out of his own place. "It's clear!" Sam yells.
THE BRONX, NEW YORK: WEBSTER AVENUE AND EAST 199TH STREET (NEXT DAY) - Sam has gotten help from Bobby and Ash who tells Dean that the Poe website was paid for by a corporation called Pendulum Pit Incorporated. Bobby (Jim Beaver) calls Sam with an update on the case with research, as Ellen's (Samantha Ferris) voice is heard asking that she hopes Ash's old friend they are staying at is going alright with the ghost case. Bobby tells Sam that he find out that Pendulum Pit Inc. was a self-owned corporation owned and operated by one Arthur Mackey.
THE BRONX, NEW YORK: NYPD STATION - Marina tells John about Roxy's status as a missing persons.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: THE AFIRI HOUSE – Manfred explains his past with Roxy to the Winchesters after learned of her status as a missing person from Detective Marina McBain. He tells them that he meet her when she was high on everything speed and booze. He explains she came with some friends to the Park in Rear for a gig. She stayed behind after the show, as she didn't have nowhere to go. He offered to give her a ride back to his place, but instead they came to his place. The Winchesters asks why he didn't remember her, and he said he just forgot it was her, drinking and being high, you blank stuff out. He then went on about the time Aldo house was suppose to be house sitting for him.
The Winchesters began to suspect that Aldo murdered Roxy and buried her in the backyard of Manfred's house when he was supposed to be house-sitting. However, the Winchesters realized that they couldn't dig up Roxy's corpse and salt and burn her without destroying the evidence that would put her killer in jail. Instead, ask Manfred call a band meeting and then confronted Scottso with all of the facts they gathered.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: THE AFIRI HOUSE - (THAT NIGHT) - The band meeting has no effect, and doesn't go anywhere. The Winchesters then decide to cast a summoning spell that brought Roxy into visibility. Roxy went after Eddie, demanding that he love her and his screams that she was dead and buried exposed him as her killer. Sam then dissipated Roxy with a shotgun blast and Eddie reluctantly confessed to Roxy's murder, claiming it was an accident at first.
John calls Detective McBain and lets her know of the development in them solving Roxy's murder and McBain contacts the 50th precinct to arrest Eddie and dig up Roxy's body.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: THE AFIRI HOUSE - (Sometime later) Frightened by Roxy's appearance and threatened by Scottso, Eddie confesses to Roxy's murder when the police arrive and leads them to Roxy's body.
With one case solved, the Winchesters only have one more left.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: NYPD STATION - Following Eddie's arrest, Detective McBain closes the missing person's case on Roxy and transfers it over to the homicide division. The Winchesters lets her know that while Eddie's arrest likely means that Roxy is at peace, but they won’t salt and burn her body, just yet, since the cops have taken the remains as evidence. Instead now the attention moves to the other case.
They pull an all nighter looking over evidence, and figure out that Doctor Ross Vincent who teaches English literature at Fordham University and was at one point married to a woman who died, leaving him with a great deal of money. Sam went earlier to speak to Arthur Mackey with Bobby’s lead, but turns out it wasn’t a lead that panned out, but truly just a Poe fanatic.
Detective McBain looks into some more with her sources, telling the Winchesters this guy was right under her nose the whole time. Vincent's murders were able to avoid suspicion of being connected from the police due to the murders falling under different precincts.
VINCENT’S APARTMENT – (TUESDAY MORNING) - Accompanied by Detective McBain, the Winchesters found Vincent in the apartment he'd hidden Lowrance's remains in, but due to a trip wire left by Vincent, he was alerted to their presence and ran. Dean spots Vincent and chases him into the street, but Vincent, successfully got to his car and escaped.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINE - (LATER IN THE DAY) - Vincent sets his sights out the Church of St. Nicholas of Tolentine to figure out how to use the Bells to perform the final portion of the ritual. As Vincent decides to burn someone alive as he rang the church bells due to a portion of the poem referring to fire, Vincent was approached by Mackey who recognizes him and realizes Vincent was the killer due to his interest in Poe and his being at the site of the ritual late at night.
Unable to bluff his way out, Vincent punched Mackey, but failed to knock him out. As Mackey called Detective McBain, Vincent retrieved a baseball and a fishing line from his car and used the baseball to wind Mackey before destroying his cell phone and tying him up with the fishing line, planning to use Mackey as his last victim.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: NYPD STATION – Detective McBain gets the call from Mackey and tells the Winchesters, that she knows where Vincent is.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINE- (NIGHT) - Vincent is in the church preparing for the ritual, the Winchesters and McBain arrived, having learned about Mackey being in trouble and then having figured out what Vincent intended to do for the last part of the ritual. Hearing the Winchesters and McBain in the lower levels of the bell tower, Vincent fires a warning shot at the four and refused to surrender. Dean recognizes Vincent's voice and realizes who he was before calling him out and telling him the ritual was fake.
Using Mackey as a hostage, Vincent descends from the bells and reveals how he was trying to resurrect Poe to find out how he died and the other potential things they could learn about his life. Now completely insane, Vincent refuses to surrender and while firing a second warning shot, punctures one of his gas cans in the bells with a ricocheting bullet.
Taking notice of the gas, Dean disarms himself and while Vincent was distracted by John and Sam, ignites the gas with his lighter. Vincent and the stairway to the bells are set on fire, enabling John and Sam to rescue Mackey in time. Dean fires the extinguisher putting out the stairs and Vincent who is left burned but alive.
With Vincent successfully subdued, Detective McBain arrests Vincent on suspicion of murdering Mall the victims and kidnapping of Arthur Mackey and resisting arrest.
Mackey thanks the Winchesters for saving him Sam leads him down the stairs. McBain calls for backup and an ambulance for Vincent. Finishing her call, McBain thanks the Winchesters for helping them, and is happy she got to run into John again. The Winchesters are just happy to know there are people on the inside that know about this thing. She smiles reminding them that just like Mills in Sioux Falls and the others. Staring intently at John McBain smiled "Why don't you guys go wait for the backup to show up?" "Good idea," John emphatically getting the hint that they should all vamoose before that backup arrived.
Dean just hopes the cops are done at Manfred's place for the investigation into Roxy’s murder. Sighing, McBain tells the Winchesters "Send his holiness up here on your way out. I'll fill him in. Oh, and don't forget, we got that meeting tomorrow morning at six at the parking area just off the 97th Street exit on the West Side Highway. They all agree
NEW YORK, NEW YORK: 97TH STREET EXIT, WEST SIDE HIGHWAY (WEDNESDAY MORNING) - McBain looks at her watch waiting for the Winchesters, when the Impala drives fast right on time. Sam and Dean take a moment to admire the view.
McBain hands a folder to Dean, when they take a look. She tells them she isn’t the first NYPD cop to walk the spook beat, and guy before her was a cranky old man named Landesberg. He used to keep an eye on the crazy-ass stuff back in the seventies, and left her a box full of folders. She had dug through it every once in a while. Finding this case, she figured the boys might find interesting. Dean stared at the contents of the folder, then closed it and hands it to Sam. John and Sam see several yellowing newspaper clippings from Roosevelt asylum in Rockford, Illinois. The Winchesters thank McBain for the new possible case. McBain snorts. "It's way outta my jurisdiction, so sure. Just try to keep people alive, okay?"
Moving toward the Impala, Sam tells John that McBain isn’t bad, and "She's not that bad, as Dean looks at them "She calls me 'brushy-top.' " Sam just laughs "Like I said, she's not that bad." John just rolls his eyes.
WEST SIDE HIGHWAY – The Winchesters make their way out of New York, enjoying the view for the last time.
THE BRONX NEW YORK: NYPD STATION (LATER THAT DAY) – McBain is putting the finishing touches on some paperwork that would close the Roxy Carmichael case at least, as a missing persons case, it was now a homicide. As a voice came from the entryway to her tiny cubicle: "Detective Marina McBain?"
Turning around, McBain finds herself a tall man, with close-cut hair and a goatee who introduces himself as Special Agent Victor Hendrickson. Insisting he needs to talk to her about three men named John, Sam and Dean Winchester. She covers for them, telling him the names don't ring a bell. Telling him she doesn’t care and has a metric ton of paperwork to deal with right now. I can go see if these Winchester guys are in the files. He tells her, that he thinks they're not missing persons, they're fugitives. and that she knows them.
McBain rolled her eyes. "It's nice that you think that, but I never even heard of 'em."Unfolding his arms, Hendrickson tells her that he can make your life a living hel and asks where she was last Saturday, and she tells him she can prove it, and if he wants to make her life a living hell, he can get in line behind her sergeant, my captain, my inspector, Commissioner Kelly, and Mayor Bloomberg. Hendrickson leans against the side of her cubicle and refolded his arms. His facial expression had yet to change since he arrived. The slightly angry look seemed to be his default. "If you think I won't step on all those people to get what I need, Detective, you are sorely mistaken."
McBain bites back "I don't know what you need, Hendrickson! You been standin' here threatening me, talkin' some nonsense about three people I never even heard of" He doesn’t believe her as she insists on the list of things she gives a rat's ass about, what he believes is at the bottom. She blasts him that unless he has actual police business to discuss with her to get lost.
McBain turned to see the wiry form of Sergeant Glover, her immediate supervisor, stomping toward her cubicle. Hendrickson identified himself, even going so far as to show ID, which was more consideration than he'd shown McBain. Glover tells Hendrickson that he has no business harassing his people. Glover tells him to back off, and she won’t be answering any more questions. Telling him he can leave on his own, or he’ll call up a couple of uniforms to haul your ass downstairs for trespassing.
Hendrickson stares at Glover, then stared at McBain, pointing an accusatory finger at her that he’ll be back. Giving him a sweet smile, McBain tells him her door's always open. With another nasty look at Glover, Hendrickson turned on his polished heel and left. Glover asks McBain. What the hell was that about, and she tells her Sergeant she talked to him for five minutes, and still can't tell him what it is about. Shaking his head, Glover walks off.
McBain turned around and lets out a long breath, never more grateful for the rivalry bordering on hatred between federal and local law enforcement. Watch your asses, guys, she thought to herself thinking about the Winchesters.