![]() John tells them about the vampires, which he’d thought were extinct, wiped out by hunters like Elkins, but he was wrong. He had it the whole time – did you see an antique Colt revolver?ĭean says they found an old case but it was empty, and Sam asks why he wants it. John opens the letter, saying Elkins taught him a lot about hunting but they had a falling out. Sam: You came all the way out here for this Elkins guy? John: Nice job of covering your tracks, by the way. He didn’t want to make contact while they were at the cabin, he says, worried they might be followed. It’s John Winchester in the flesh, who read the news about Daniel. Back in the car, they wonder if that could be for John Winchester, and BOOM, someone bangs on the car window and scares the hell out of them. They visit the PO Box and find a note in it with the initials “JW”. He takes a scratching with graphite and finds three letters, six digits. Dean, who is smarter than hell back in Season 1, also realizes that there are scratches on the floor. It’s clearly a ring, they realize, and they also find a journal that looks a lot like their father’s – and dates back to the 1960s. They find the cabin, looking around by flashlight in the mess they vampires left behind.ĭean: Looks like the maid didn’t come today…ĭean: Like protection against demons salt or oops I spilled the popcorn salt? He pulls out the journal and finds an entry on Elkins, and it’s a Colorado area code. He also has found that a Daniel Elkins was found mauled in his home in Colorado, and Dean pauses, saying he knows that name. Sam: We have alot of work to do, Dean, you know that. Dean’s still trying to convince Sam to swing by where Sarah is and see her again.ĭean: Cool chick, man. Vampire lady: Boys, we’re eating in tonight…Ĭut to a diner in small town America, Dean reading the newspaper and Sam on the computer, just another night with the Winchester brothers on the road, saving people, hunting things. They knock him down before he can fire, and the female vampire picks up the gun, saying it wouldn’t do him much good. He gets a gun from his safe, muttering ‘come on come on’, and frantically loads it as the vampires are breaking down the door and smashing windows. They talk about having “dinner plans” (because they’re vampires, get it?) and when the bartender turns to ask Elkins if he wants another, it’s just his glass still there on the bar.Įlkins gets to his cabin and hurries inside, scared, locking the door behind him – but the vampires are already there. Daniel Elkins having a drink, well known to the bartender, who describes him as “a nice old man, just a nut.” He senses trouble coming as a group of people walk in the door, and Elkins stares. Its vampires are pretty memorably too, and not just because of what Jenny eventually does. ‘Dead Man’s Blood’ stands on its own as a well done episode, though, especially because it has all three Winchesters, something that feels like a treat now because we got precious little of that in other seasons. It makes this episode hard to watch, knowing what will happen so many years later. It’s amazing to me that the show managed to do that – to have the same actress come back to portray a character we never thought of as at all important, all those years later, to do something so pivotal to the show’s eventual ending. Female vampire combat series#That is all changed now, watching it post series finale – because this is the episode where we meet the vampire whose nest will take down Dean Winchester fifteen years later. This was a good episode when I first saw it, but not an overly emotional one. ![]()
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