Supernatural (TV Series)
Scarecrow (2006)
Jensen Ackles: Dean Winchester
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Quotes
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Dean Winchester : [to the scarecrow] Dude, you fugly.
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Dean Winchester : So, can I drop you off somewhere?
Sam Winchester : Nah, I think you're stuck with me.
Dean Winchester : What made you change your mind?
Sam Winchester : I didn't. I still want to find Dad... and you're still a pain in the ass. But Jess and Mom... they're both gone. Dad is God knows where. You and me, we're all that's left. So, uh, if we're gonna see this through, we're gonna do it together.
Dean Winchester : Hold me, Sam. That was beautiful.
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Emily : [Emily and Dean are tied to trees to be sacrificed to the scarecrow] So, what's the plan?
Dean Winchester : I'm workin' on it.
[Hours later]
Emily : You don't have a plan do you?
Dean Winchester : I'm workin' on it!
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[Sam finds Dean and Emily tied up in the orchard]
Dean Winchester : [relieved] Oh, I take everything back I said. I'm so happy to see you! C'mon.
[Sam starts untying him]
Dean Winchester : How'd you get here?
Sam Winchester : I uh... stole a car.
Dean Winchester : Ha-ha-ha! That's my boy! Keep an eye on that scarecrow. It could come alive any minute.
Sam Winchester : [looking] What scarecrow?
[Dean gets up and looks; the scarecrow is gone]
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Dean Winchester : Hi, my name is John Bonham.
Scotty : Isn't that the drummer for Led Zeppelin?
Dean Winchester : Wow. Good. Classic rock fan.
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[Dean and Emily are tied up in the apple orchard to be sacrificed]
Dean Winchester : How many people have you killed, sheriff? How much blood is on your hands?
Sheriff : We don't kill them.
Dean Winchester : No, but you sure cover up after. I mean how many cars have you hidden, clothes have you buried?
Emily : [crying, frightened] Uncle Harley, please.
Harley Jorgeson : [grieved] I am so sorry, Em. I wish it wasn't you.
Stacey Jorgeson : Try to understand. It's our responsibility. And there's just no other choice. There's nobody else but you.
Emily : I'm your family!
Stacey Jorgeson : Sweetheart. That's what sacrifice means. Giving up something you love, for the greater good. The town needs to be saved. The good of the many, outweighs the good of the one.
[they leave]
Dean Winchester : I hope your apple pie is freakin' worth it!
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Dean Winchester : How did you get here?
Sam Winchester : I... stole a car.
Dean Winchester : Ha ha! That's my boy!
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Sam Winchester : [on cell] The scarecrow climbed off its cross?
Dean Winchester : Yeah I'm tellin' you. Burkettsville Indiana. Fun little town.
Sam Winchester : It didn't kill the couple, did it?
Dean Winchester : No. No, I *can* cope without you, you know.
Sam Winchester : So something must be animating it. A spirit.
Dean Winchester : No, it's more than a spirit. It's a god. A pagan god, anyway.
Sam Winchester : What makes you say that?
Dean Winchester : The annual cycle of its killings, and the fact that the victims are always a man and a woman, like some kind of fertility rite. And you should see the locals. The way they treated this couple. Fattening 'em up like a Christmas turkey.
Sam Winchester : The last meal. Given to sacrificial victims.
Dean Winchester : Yeah, I'm thinkin' a ritual sacrifice to appease some pagan god.
Sam Winchester : So a god possesses a scarecrow...
Dean Winchester : ...The scarecrow takes its sacrifice, and for another year the crops won't wilt and disease won't spread.
Sam Winchester : You know which god you're dealin' with?
Dean Winchester : No, not yet.
Sam Winchester : Well, you figure out what it is, you can figure out a way to kill it.
Dean Winchester : I'm actually on my way to a local community college. I've got an appointment with a professor. You know, since I don't have my trusty sidekick geek boy to do all the research.
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[to scarecrow]
Dean Winchester : Nice tatt.
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Dean Winchester : Dude, you fugly.
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Sam Winchester : So Dad is sending us to Indiana to go hunting for something before another couple vanishes?
Dean Winchester : Yahtzee!
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[Dean and Emily are imprisoned in a cellar]
Emily : I don't understand. They're gonna kill us?
Dean Winchester : Sacrifice us. Which is... I don't know, classier I guess. You really didn't know anything about this, did you?
Emily : About what? The scarecrow god? I can't believe this.
Dean Winchester : Well, you better start believing, 'cause I'm gonna need your help.
Emily : Okay.
Dean Winchester : Now. We can destroy the scarecrow, but we gotta find the tree.
Emily : What tree?
Dean Winchester : Well, maybe you can help me with that. It would be really old. The locals would treat it with a lot of respect. You know, like it was sacred.
Emily : There's this one apple tree. The immigrants brought it over with them. They call it the First Tree.
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Sam Winchester : We're not goin' to Indiana.
Dean Winchester : We're not?
Sam Winchester : No. We're going to California. Dad called from a payphone. With a Sacramento area code.
Dean Winchester : Sam...
Sam Winchester : Dean, if this demon killed Mom and Jess and Dad's closing in, we gotta be there. We gotta help!
Dean Winchester : Dad doesn't want our help!
Sam Winchester : Well I don't care!
Dean Winchester : He's given us an order!
Sam Winchester : I *don't care*! We don't always have to do what he says!
Dean Winchester : Sam, Dad is asking us to work jobs, to *save lives*, it's important!
Sam Winchester : All right, I understand, believe me, I understand, but I'm talking one week, here, man, to get answers. To get revenge!
Dean Winchester : All right, look, I know how you feel...
Sam Winchester : Do you?
[laughs slightly]
Sam Winchester : How old were you when Mom died? Four? Jess died, *six months ago*. How the hell would you know how I feel?
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Dean Winchester : Dad said it wasn't safe. For any of us. I mean, he obviously knows somethin' that we don't, so if he says to stay away, we stay away!
Sam Winchester : I don't understand the blind faith you have in the man. I mean, it's like you don't even question him!
Dean Winchester : Yeah, it's called being a good son!
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College Professor : I'm afraid Indiana isn't really known for its pagan worship.
Dean Winchester : Well what if it was imported? You know, like the Pilgrims brought their religion over. Wasn't a lot of this area settled by immigrants?
College Professor : Yeah.
Dean Winchester : Like that town near here, Burkettsville. Where're their ancestors from?
College Professor : Ah, Northern Europe I believe, Scandinavia.
Dean Winchester : Well what could you tell me about those pagan gods?
College Professor : Well there are hundreds of Norse gods and goddesses.
Dean Winchester : I'm actually lookin' for one. Might live in an orchard.
College Professor : [looking in a book] A woods god, hm? Well, let's see.
[flips through the book, Dean sees a picture that resembles the scarecrow]
Dean Winchester : Wait, wait, what's that one?
College Professor : Well, that's not a woods god, per se.
Dean Winchester : [reads] The Vanir were Norse gods of protection and prosperity, keeping local settlements safe from harm. The villages built effigies of the Vanir in their fields, other villages practiced human sacrifice, one male, and one female.
[about the picture]
Dean Winchester : Kinda looks like a scarecrow, huh?
College Professor : Well, I suppose.
Dean Winchester : This particular Vanir, its energy sprung from a sacred tree?
College Professor : Well, pagans believed all kinds of things were infused with magic.
Dean Winchester : So what would happen if this sacred tree was torched? You think it'd kill the god?
College Professor : [laughs] Son, these are just legends we're discussing.
Dean Winchester : Oh, of course. Yeah, you're right. Listen, thank you, very much.
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[Sam, Dean and Emily prepare to burn the sacred tree and destroy the scarecrow god]
Emily : Let me.
[she takes the torch from Dean]
Dean Winchester : You know the whole town's gonna die.
Emily : Good.
[she throws the torch, the tree goes up in flames]
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Sam Winchester : [On the phone] You know, if you're hinting you need my help, just ask.
Dean Winchester : I'm not hinting anything. Actually, uh... I want you to know... I mean, don't think...
Sam Winchester : Yeah. I'm sorry too.
Dean Winchester : Sam. You were right. You gotta do your own thing. You gotta live your own life.
Sam Winchester : You serious?
Dean Winchester : You've always known what you want. And you go after it. You stand up to Dad. And you always have. Hell, I wish I... Anyway, I admire that about you. I'm proud of you, Sammy.
Sam Winchester : I don't even know what to say.
Dean Winchester : Say you'll take care of yourself.
Sam Winchester : I will.
Dean Winchester : Call me when you find Dad.
Sam Winchester : [sadly] Ok. Bye, Dean.
[They hang up. Meg wakes up and sits next to Sam]
Meg : Who was that?
Sam Winchester : My brother.
Meg : What'd he say?
Sam Winchester : Goodbye.
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Sam Winchester : [on cell] Dad, where are you?
John Winchester : Sorry kiddo, I can't tell you that.
Sam Winchester : What? Why not?
Dean Winchester : Is that Dad?
John Winchester : Look, I know this is hard for you to understand, you just, you're gonna have to trust me on this.
Sam Winchester : You're after it aren't you? The thing that killed Mom.
John Winchester : Yeah. It's a demon, Sam.
Sam Winchester : A demon? You know for sure?
Dean Winchester : A demon, what's he sayin'?
John Winchester : I do. Listen Sammy, I uh, I also know what happened to your girlfriend. I'm so sorry. I would've done anything to protect you from that.
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John Winchester : I think I'm finally closing in on it.
Sam Winchester : Let us help.
John Winchester : You can't. You can't be any part of it.
Sam Winchester : Why not?
Dean Winchester : [holding out a hand] Gimme the phone.
John Winchester : Listen Sammy, that's why I'm callin'. You and your brother, you gotta stop lookin' for me. All right, now I need you to write down these names.
Sam Winchester : Names? What names? Dad, what... talk to me, tell me what's going on!
John Winchester : Look, we don't have time for this! This is bigger than you think, they're everywhere. Even us talking right now, it's, it's not safe.
Sam Winchester : No! All right? No way!
Dean Winchester : Gimme the phone!
John Winchester : I've given you an order. Now you stop following me, and you do your job. You understand me? Now take down these names.
Dean Winchester : [snatching the phone] Dad! It's me, where are you?
[he listens]
Dean Winchester : Yes sir. Uh. Yeah, I got a pen. What're the names?
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Sam Winchester : All right, so the names Dad gave us, they're all couples?
Dean Winchester : Three different couples, all went missing.
Sam Winchester : And they're all from different towns, different states?
Dean Winchester : That's right, yeah, Washington, New York, Colorado. Each couple took a road trip cross country, none of 'em arrived at their destination, none of 'em were ever heard from again.
Sam Winchester : Well it's a big country Dean, they could've disappeared anywhere.
Dean Winchester : Yeah, could've, but each one's route took 'em through the same part of Indiana. Always on the second week of April, one year after another after another.
Sam Winchester : This is the second week of April.
Dean Winchester : Yep.
Sam Winchester : So Dad is sending us to Indiana, to go hunting for something before another couple vanishes?
Dean Winchester : Yahtzee.
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Dean Winchester : So, did you grow up here?
Emily : Came here when I was thirteen. I lost my parents. Car accident. My aunt and uncle took me in.
Dean Winchester : Are they nice people?
Emily : Everybody's nice here.
Dean Winchester : So what, it's the uh, perfect little town?
Emily : Well you know, it's the boonies, but I love it. I mean, the towns around us, people are losing their homes, their farms. But here... it's almost like we're blessed.