Supernatural S01E01
| Supernatural: The Remington Files | |
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| Season 4, Episode 1 | |
| (November 2011) | |
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Team Remington Scott Remington · Marcus Remington Amanda Grey A Dose of Doctors Dr. Alexander Airy · Dr. Richard Magnum The X-Files Ciaran Brennan · Jon Clarke Razik Ericson | |
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Áine Ni Seachnasaigh Gabriel, aka Loki | |
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Contacts · Lore Index John Remington's Journal Aunt Agatha's Book Supernatural Ritual Compendium Roman Rite 1999 English Edition |
- John Remington's Journal Entry: January 26, 2000 Intro for the Green-Eyed Demon and demons of disease, Demons, Exorcisms, etc.
- 9/20/81 TARRAGON (Une histoire de l'herbe et d'une sainte) Tarragon and Martha
- 7/04/92 Protection Spells Gargoyles
Episode 1: "Choke Hold"
In the episode we were introduced to Scott and Marcus Remington, two brothers from Alaska, and their younger cousin Amanda. A dramatic flashback showed how the brothers lost their mother and amanda lost her older sister when mother Linda Remington was possessed by a mysterious Green-Eyed Demon. Now all three are adults and after ten turbulent years since their loved ones' deaths, have set off on a life of hunting down the supernatural. The trio were joined by Dr. Alexander Airy and Jon Clark, a professed former bounty hunter with mysterious connections. Side scenes revealed that Airy had become a hunter after encountering vampires at his hospital, and Jon got the offer to "switch professions" after he was discovered in what seems like a hit job. Jon Clark was also driving "a friend's car," an Audi belonging to some sort of government employee.
The quintet got a call from Chuck Savage, a hunter contact man that has taken a mentor role to the brothers and Amanda and has been a point man for Clark's new assignments. The job took them all to Fort Douglas, Wisconsin where a homeless man was found beaten and drowned in the freezing - and dry - night outside a prominent hotel. Investigations led to the discovery that Jon is extraordinarily good at casing towns and chatting up locals... and keeps a stash of purchased kitsch and feminine gift items bought in the process, hidden in a duffel under a layer of extreme porn. Amanda and Airy investigated the homeless population for leads and Scott discovered in the library archives that similar deaths had occurred at the same location in 66 year and 6 day intervals, showing possible demonic involvement. Jon also plied the only witness, a night porter, with a beer and discovered that he thought the homeless man was murdered by a big man.
Marcus established himself as a tourist and hunter, asking questions around the police and other officials to determine if there was anything out in the woods and later asked some of the homeless population himself after he found their camp... and a shotgun aimed at him from a Vietnam veteran. Marcus diffused the situation by showing his father's challenge coin which had been given to him for luck, thus showing that their father John Remington is also a veteran of 'Nam.
The hunters got a hand from Police Officer Mike White, who believed that something was up with his superior, Police Chief Joe Ryan, who went ballistic when he found out an autopsy was going to be performed and the witness interviewed. The witness - the night porter- had told White that the big man he saw was made of stone. White pointed them to the local medical examiner and the group began thinking about golems and gargoyles and other stone based monsters.
Amanda researched the golem lead to learn that they are usually made of clay, not stone, and looked for stone figures matching the size the porter saw, ending at the church of St. Paul, a gothic church rebuilt after a mid 19th century fire - where she waited for the young priest to get off duty and prayed, in a reveal to the audience, to the Goddess for guidance.
Meanwhile, the brothers went on the gargoyle lead and checked out the church and tried to go up to see the stone gargoyles on the roof but failed, instead going to check it out from the hillside with Jon, who dropped Airy off at the ME.
Airy called his and Jon's friend, who was seen smoking a bowl of pot, to pose on the phone as a federal agent to "send" in Scott Remington and Jon to obtain the forensic autopsy report on the dead man. The report confirmed that the man had drowned in rainwater and his head was beaten by a basalt stone weapon. The hunters rounded their suspects to gargoyles and set back to the hill to take photographs of the gargoyles.
Amanda saw some sort of vision while praying in which a statue in the church holding a book was seen to hold her aunt's journal. She checked the journal outside and discovered a passage on protective spirits, spells, and herbs... including gargoyles. The gargoyle is clearly here to protect something. At roughly the same time, Amanda looked up and the group on the hill noticed one of the gargoyles move. Amanda phoned her cousins to come quick, and the group rushed to the church, fearful for the gargoyle's next target, even if the monster was protecting something.
At the church, Jon caught the door handle before the old priest, Father MacManus, could shut it in their faces and the group forced their way in. The priest darted up the stairs to the bell tower where the gargoyles were and the brothers and Jon ran to follow. Airy and Amanda noticed that a salt line had been drawn across the doorway but was now broken. Father MacManus had been drawing a barrier against spirits and demons. While Amanda went to lay salt on the church's doorways, Airy went to the center of the church and started pulling out holy water and communion wafers and prayed, prepared for whatever may come.
Up in the bell tower, the brothers confronted the priest and were attacked by the gargoyle. The priest tried to flag the monster off but was clearly afraid of it. The gargoyle held and attempted to drown Marcus while Clark and Scott attacked it. Gunfire set the church bells reverberating, deafening those on the tower. When it cleared, the boys heard Amanda shout that something else was in... she and Airy were looking at a back door to the rectory that was wide open and swinging. Something had gone through it, and faster than they could notice. Scott questioned the priest to learn that the gargoyle was protecting something in a vault under the altar and tried to tell Amanda.
Jon helped Clark wrestle out from drowning and Scott barreled down the stairs, straight into Police Chief Joe Ryan, who was sickly and dripping snot. The Chief pushed Scott against the wall, held there under supernatural power and his eyes flashed - he was possessed by the Green-Eyed Demon! The demon demanded the priest give him something that "belonged to him" now that the original owner "didn't need it" and called it "the lion-headed."
The priest yelled for the gargoyle to attack his true enemy, and the two locked in combat while the hunters further attacked the demon and Scott struggled to get free. The gargoyle succumbed to injury and toppled off the ledge, taking another stone figure with it. Scott got free and pulled open his father's journal to recite an exorcism, but was having a hard time concentrating. The Chief/demon was injured, and with a massive gut punch from Marcus, the demon left the body in a cloud of black fog and headed downstairs, only to posses the praying Dr. Airy. The Green-Eyed Demon held Amanda close and seemed to enjoy it, and remarked about his surprise to see her there and commented on how she had grown so well. The others all rushed to aid Amanda. Marcus channeled high school football to tackle the demon, who slid across the church floor with Amanda underneath. Marcus barreled into the altar and Scott returned to the exorcism while the hunters tried to grapple and hold down the demon who was possessing their friend. Scott finished the ritual and the demon, apparently with some humor, looked at the Remingtons and then Amanda, said he would be back for her, and left in a black cloud streaming from Airy's mouth.
While Airy recovered and prayed, Officer White and the younger priest were seen trying to tie up the crime scene and piece together a story of what had happened. The hunters questioned Father MacManus who was hesitant at first but in the end revealed to them that the gargoyle had originally come from France with the stones used to build the church, part of a demolished church to St. Martha. With the stones came a relic that the gargoyle was commanded to protect: a wooden cross said to belong to Martha herself when she came to France from the Holy Land with Lazarus and Mary Magdalen. Father MacManus said that there were three other churches like St. Paul's, each made of stones from the French cathedral, and each with a relic and a gargoyle to protect it.
Further reading in John Remington's journal revealed information he had gathered about the Green-Eyed Demon. Further reading in Aunt Agatha's journal revealed the story to St. Martha and the terrasque, and the herbal lore of tarragon. The three journal entries from this episode are attached as pdf files.