Roadkillby Rachel
At night, on a deserted road in the middle of a forest, while “The House of the Rising Sun” is playing on the radio, Molly and David start to argue. Molly is driving, David is navigating. She is convinced they are lost; he’s convinced he knows exactly where they are. Molly spots a road sign that proves she is right, she is fed up they are stuck in the car on their anniversary so David apologizes and leans towards his wife to kiss her. She pushes him back a first time, telling him she’s mad at him and when he tells her: “Hey, you love me”, she answers smiling: “No, I don’t. You’re a jerk. David, I mean it”. She pushes him back once again, taking her eyes off the road, and suddenly, David screams because there’s a man on the road. Molly swerves to avoid him; the car leaves the road and crashes against a tree below the road.
When Molly regains consciousness, the passenger door is open and David is missing. She climbs out of the car and starts looking for him, calling his name but he doesn’t answer. Suddenly, Molly finds herself in front of a cabin and after knocking on the door without getting any answer, she walks nervously inside. She spots traces of blood on a table, then instruments hanging on the wall and finally, she sees a man and although from behind, she recognizes him: the man who was standing in the middle of the road. She asks him if he’s okay and apologizes for not seeing him. She moves towards him but when he turns around, she sees the man’s face is decomposing; she starts screaming when she notices his guts are spilling out.
Molly runs through the woods and, once at the road, she sees a car coming: we recognise it as the Impala. She stands in the middle of the road and shouts for them to stop. Dean brakes hard, swearing; and stops just inches from Molly.
She screams that they have to hep her, knocking on Sam’s window.
Sam opens his window and tries to calm her down, he asks her what happened. She tells him about the man in the road, her husband being missing and the man in the cabin chasing her.
“Did he look like he…lost a fight with a lawn mower?” Dean asks the young woman. Molly asks him how he knew that, he replies it was a lucky guess. Sam asks her what her name is.
“Molly. Molly McNamara.” Sam tries to encourage her to leave with them and they will take her into town then him and Dean would come back to look for her husband. She refuses and pleads with them to go with her back to her car. Sam and Dean exchange a look before agreeing.
They drive to where the accident took place. Molly points out where her car crashed, but when they look over the edge of the slope the car is gone. She is very confused; she is convinced she hit a tree down the ravine. Meanwhile, Sam is concerned the man in the road will show up any moment. He tells Dean they have to tell Molly the truth.
Molly is still trying to convince herself and the Winchesters that she hit the tree; she cannot understand how it has disappeared. Sam tells her they believe her but they have to leave. Molly says they have to find David, that she has to see the police. Dean tells her they will take her to the station and she agrees to go with them.
As they are making their way along the highway in the Impala, Molly tells them it was her and David’s 5 year wedding anniversary; they were on their way to Lake Tahoe. She tells them about the argument and how it was only because they were stuck in the car together, which Sam says he totally understands. She then realises the last thing she said to him was calling him a jerk. Sam tries to comfort her when suddenly; “The House of the Rising Sun” is playing on the radio. Molly realises it is the same song that was playing on HER radio, just before she crashed.
“She’s mine. She’s mine. She’s mine...” is on the radio after the frequency changes once again by itself.
Then we see that the spirit standing in the middle of the road.
“Hold on!” Dean says before speeding up.
The ghost disintegrates when Dean hits it with the car. Molly is frantic by now, wanting to know what is going on, so Sam is trying to calm her down, telling her everything will be alright. Unfortunately, he obviously spoke too soon, as the Impala’s engine splutters and dies then won’t start again. They then realise, “I don’t think he’s gonna let her leave.”
They all get out of the car. Molly cannot believe this is all happening.
“Well, trust me, it’s happening.” Dean answers whilst opening the trunk as well as its false bottom, allowing their whole arsenal to appear.
Molly backs away, scared by what she sees. She says she’ll be okay, she can walk into town.
Sam tries to hold her back, pleading with her to listen. He tells her it is not a coincidence they found her. Dean tells her; “We weren’t just cruising for chicks when we ran into you, sister. We were already out here. Hunting.”
“Hunting for what?” she asks but Sam doesn’t know what to answer.
“Ghosts” Dean answers without even hesitating a second before going back to the trunk.
“D... d... don’t...sugar coat it for her” Sam tells him.
Molly tells them they are nuts. Dean replies really about as nuts as a vanishing guy with his guts spilling out?
Sam starts explaining to her they think his name is Jonah Greeley. He was a local farmer that died 15 years ago on this highway. One night a year, on the anniversary of his death, he haunts the road. Sam and Dean are there to try and stop him.
Molly asks if the “ghost” made her car disappear too, Dean’s reply is that crazier things have happened. Molly says once again she is off to find the police but Dean reminds her that the original plan was to get her out of there and that didn’t work.
Sam tries to convince her again, they are telling the truth and that Greeley is not going to let her leave the highway. Every year Greeley punishes someone, this year that someone is Molly. She tells Sam it was wasn’t her fault, so Sam tells her that spirits don’t see things like that.
Molly arrives at Greeley’s cabin with the boys.
Dean and Molly are first inside. Instruments hang on the wall; they conclude it must have been his hunting cabin.
“No markers or headstones outside.” Sam says as he joins them inside.
Molly asks if they are looking for Greeley’s grave. Sam says yes. When Molly asks why, Dean tells her (like she should KNOW that!) “So we can dig up the corpse and salt and burn it.”
She sarcastically comes back with “Oh! Sure. Naturally.”
Sam explains it’s a way to get rid of a spirit. Molly asks if it will save David, Sam tells her it should help both of them, provided there’s a corpse to be found. He explains that after Greeley died, his wife claimed the body and that was the last anyone saw of her. So they think she brought him back here, however they had a thousand acres and he could be buried anywhere on them.
Molly exclaims they are like Ghostbusters!
“Yeah. Minus the jumpsuits.” Dean retorts, before telling them there's only a few hours until sun rise to wrap this up so they need to move faster.
They all leave the cabin and start exploring the surroundings, Dean leading the way. Molly asks what they are looking for; Sam tells her they are looking for the house as maybe Greeley is buried there. He tells Molly to stay close.
However, a moment later, after hearing her husband’s voice, Molly goes in that direction, away from Sam. Suddenly, Greeley catches her and she starts screaming. Dean appears and shoots at the head of the ghost, which once again disintegrates. Sam runs over to see if she is okay, Molly is still upset and worried as to what Greeley ahs done with her husband. Sam tells her she will see him again.
“Hey! Follow the creepy brick road.” Dean jokes, shining the torch down an overgrown path. As they walk, Molly asks Sam about rock salt. Sam explains that salt is a symbol of purity that repels impure and unnatural things, hence throwing it over your shoulder.
“You know, just once I’d like to round the corner and see a nice house.” Dean exclaims as they arrive in front of an old abandoned house.
While Dean is having a look outside, Sam and Molly enter the house. When Dean joins them Sam asks if he found any headstones; Dean replies is it ever that easy? He tells Sam to look upstairs and he will continue to search downstairs, see if they can find any paperwork as to where Greeley is buried.
Molly and Sam go upstairs and after making sure there’s no danger, they start rummaging through the room. While Sam is looking through the papers on the floor, Molly leafs through an album of the Greeley family. She finds a photo of Greeley and his wife, standing in front of the hunting cabin, plus a love letter to “Dearest Marion”. Molly can’t understand how he could turn into a monster. Sam explains how spirits can be lost and in pain, so they lash out and how unfinished business keeps them from crossing over, caught in the same loop, replaying the same tragedies over and over.
Dean joins them and asks if they found anything. Sam is telling him about the photos when he notices something has drawn his brother’s attention. Dean says there is something behind the wall.
Dean throws his weapon to his brother so that he can move a piece of furniture away from the front of a small opening. It’s locked from the inside. So he kicks down the door and after getting his gun back, he enters another room, full of dust and cobwebs.
“Smells like old lady in here.” Dean exclaims as Sam and Molly follow him into the room. Then he sees the remains of a woman who hung herself. Sam walks over to the corpse and asks Dean to help him; he’s going to cut her loose and put her to rest.
Some while later. The boys have dug a grave to bury Greeley’s wife and Molly asks them; if they manage to put Greeley to rest as well, what happens to them? Dean replies that answer is beyond their pay grade, they don’t come back and that’s all that matters. Sam hopes they go somewhere better, but he doesn’t know. No-one knows.
Molly asks what happens when you burn their bones. Sam tells her that his dad used to say it was like death for ghosts, but they don’t know for sure. He says he guesses that’s why they hold onto life so hard, even the dead. It’s all about being scared of the unknown. Molly says the only thing that scares her is not seeing David again.
A little later, in Greeley’s house, while Molly is in the kitchen looking at the couple’s album, Sam tells his brother he thinks they should tell her the truth about David. Dean thinks they shouldn’t yet; they should stick to the plan, get her out of there then tell her. Molly overhears them and demands they tell her. Sam tries to but Dean stops him. While they are arguing, “The House of the Rising Sun” starts playing. He’s coming.
Dean goes to see where the music comes from. He finds an old radio; wire is cut. Suddenly, he sees the words “she’s mine” appear on a window. As Sam moves away from Molly, Greeley appears behind the window, breaks it and catches the young woman and then he takes her. Sam shouts for Dean and the boys go to look for her, without success.
As the boys get back inside Greeley’s house, Dean realises they only have a couple of hors before sunrise.
Sam calls out to him after noticing something in the family album. It’s a photo taken outside the cabin, dated February 6, 1992. Sam is sure there is now a tree where the couple are stood. He remembers an old country custom of planting a tree as a grave marker. Dean tells him he is “like a walking encyclopaedia of weirdness”.
They head back to the hunting cabin.
Meanwhile, in the cabin, Molly is tied, hanging by the wrists, her feet barely touching the floor. Greeley is with her, holding a knife. She asks where David is. Greeley tells her she shouldn’t worry about David, she should worry about herself. She tells him she knows about his wife; that hurting her won’t bring her back. He replies that his wife is gone, all he has left now is hurting Molly and he cuts her. She begs him to let her go but he tells her she is never going to leave and cuts her again.
The boys arrive and hear Molly’s screams. Sam tells his brother to rescue the young woman while he takes care of Greeley’s remains. Dean enters the cabin and shoots the ghost in the head.
“Oh, thank God”, Molly exclaims.
“Call me Dean”, the young man replies, smiling. Greeley appears again and by telekinesis, makes a cut on his cheek, before sending him against the wall.
“Hurry up, Sam!” he shouts to his brother, who is digging up Greeley’s bones. Using telekinesis again, the spirit grabs a knife and comes up to Dean but outside, Sam has salted the bones and when he sets fire to them, the spirit vanishes.
A little later, the boys and Molly head back to the car. When they arrive at the Impala, Dean says they have to get put of there but Molly refuses, at least until they tell her what has happened to David, she thinks he is dead. Sam tells her that David is alive and they will take her to him.
Dean parks the Impala in front of David’s house. Sam tells Molly that David is in the house. She says she doesn’t understand but Sam says she will.
They all climb out of the car and walk up to the house. Then Molly sees a different David from the one she used to know. A woman walks into the room and David kisses her.
Sam explains to Molly that the woman is David’s wife. 15 years ago, it was Molly who hit Jonah Greeley with her car. David survived. Now there isn’t one sprit haunting the highway but two, Jonah Greeley and Molly. For the past 15 years, one night a year they have been appearing.
Molly says it’s not possible, it was their anniversary, February 22nd.
“1992.” Sam finishes. Dean tells her it is 2007.
We see a flashback.
First, Dean and Sam talking about the haunted road. Sam is telling Dean about Highway 41, how a woman appears in the middle of the road, being chased by a man covered in blood. There have been 12 accidents over the past 15 years.
Then Dean and Sam are doing some research and finding the article dealing with Molly’s and Jonah’s death; the boys asking David where Molly is buried and learning she was cremated; flashback of the accident; Sam telling Molly: “Some spirits only see what they want”; Molly stopping the boys in the middle of the road to ask for their help and Sam telling his brother: “Dean, I don’t think she knows she’s dead”; the boys’ discussion at the edge of the ravine about telling her the truth.
And finally, Sam telling Molly: “Some spirits hold on too tight. Can’t let go.”
Molly asks about Greeley. Sam explains that the person he punishes each year is her. Molly says she can’t remember any of it, Sam tells her it is because she couldn’t see the truth. Molly realises that was why Greeley wouldn’t let her off the highway; she killed them both.
A little later, Molly asks the boys why they didn’t tell her before. Dean tells her she wouldn’t have believed them and besides, they needed her. She says she has to tell David but the boys tell her that she will only freak him out, he know she loves him and he has already said his goodbye to her. Sam tells her she has to let go, of David, of everything. Then she should move on.
As the sun rises, Molly disappears into a white light.
Dean remarks that she wasn’t so bad for a ghost, and does Sam really think she is going to a better place. Sam admits he hopes so. Dean says they’ll never know, at least not until they die. Sam says that hope is the whole point.
“Alright, Haley Joel. Let’s hit the road.”
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