Episodes 1-11: Supernatural - Season 1

Eleven episodes. Eleven towns. Eleven graves desecrated for the greater good. They are not the same boys who left Kansas. Their eyes are older. Their humor is darker. They have learned that monsters are real, but so is the weight of a loaded shotgun passed from father to son.

Sam nodded. “Same goes.”

They hunted a phantom in a theater (an usher who hated applause), a haunted lake that drowned children (turns out the water remembers), and a demon in a truck that killed hitchhikers—a vengeful spirit with a lead foot. Each time, the lore proved true. Each time, they buried the bones or burned the object, and the monster dissolved into mist. Supernatural - Season 1 Episodes 1-11

When they reunited, bleeding and bruised, Dean slammed Sam against the Impala. “Don’t you ever walk away again.” Eleven episodes

They began in the rain, on a lonely road in Jericho, California. A woman in white, her dress soaked with the ghost of betrayal, lured men to a watery grave. Sam was still wearing his Stanford hoodie, still smelling like law books and Jessica’s shampoo. Dean was all bravado and bad classic rock—a soldier without a war yet. They killed her, or laid her to rest, and Sam realized his brother had been telling the truth all along. The dark was real. They are not the same boys who left Kansas

Episode 4 nearly broke them. The shapeshifter in St. Louis wore Dean’s face—his smirk, his swagger, but with dead eyes. Sam had to hold a silver knife to his real brother’s chest, not knowing which was the monster. Afterward, Dean didn’t joke for three hours. “You hesitated,” he said finally. “No,” Sam lied.