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Episode 1x12 - Faith

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Original Air Date: 17th January 2006
Production Code: 2T6910
Writer: Raelle Tucker, Sera Gamble
Director: Allan Kroeker

Official Episode Description

While battling a demon, Dean is electrocuted, resulting in permanent damage to his heart and leaving him with only a couple of months to live. A despondent Sam searches desperately for a way to save his brother and believes he may have found an answer through a preacher who claims to heal the incurable. However, Dean and Sam discover that the preacher is getting help from the Grim Reaper who is trading one life for another he feels is less worthy.

Summary

Sam and Dean enter an abandoned house to try and rescue two young children from some kind of creature. They find the children and Dean confronts the creature, using a taser to kill it. Unfortunately, Dean has fallen and landed in a puddle of water when he fires. The electrical current from the taser shoots back through the water and leaves him unconscious.

In the hospital, a worried Sam talks to the doctor, only to find out that Dean is being given only a few more weeks to live - the electric shock gave him a heart attack and damaged his heart. The doctor says there is nothing more they can do for Dean. Laying in the hospital bed, Dean accepts what has happened, but Sam cannot. He'll find a way to save his brother - somehow.

A few days later, Sam is in his motel room, scouring the internet and calling every contact he can find in his dad's journal, still with no luck. Suddenly there is a knock at the door and Dean is standing there, looking like he's about to drop. He tells Sam he's not dying in the hospital and Sam responds that he's not going to let Dean die at all. He's found someone that might be able to help.

In Nevada, they pull up outside a large white tent proclaiming to be the home of Ray LeGrange - faith healer. Dean almost turns and walks away, but he is drawn in by a pretty young girl who seems sure that the faith healing will work. Inside, Dean is called up by Roy LeGrange who miraculously manages to heal him. Confused by what has happened, and by the strange figure he saw standing next to him, Dean wants to visit Roy and talk to him. While he's doing that, Sam goes to investigate the death of a young man that appeared to happen at the same time as Dean was healed. As Dean is leaving the LeGrange's house, he meets the same young woman he saw earlier, Layla Rourke, and her mother who are trying to see Roy. Layla is dying and they are desperate for a miracle.

When Sam reveals to Dean what he discovered about the dead young man, they realise that somehow, Roy is exchanging the lives of his "patients" with the lives of other people. Dean believes that the figure he saw standing next to him was a reaper. Somehow, Roy is controlling the reaper into trading lives. While Sam breaks into the LeGrange house to look for clues as to how to stop him, Dean tries to stop another healing. Horrified, he sees Layla walk towards the stage. He desperatly wants her to be healed, but he cant allow it to happen at the cost of another life. He triggers a fire alarm, scattering everyone.

As they leave, Dean sees Roy's wife, Sue Ann, who appears to be praying with a cross in her hand that Dean recognises as being connected to the reapers. It's Sue Ann controlling the reaper, not Roy. But Dean cant do anything about it as he is pulled away by a pair of sheriffs. Later that night, Dean and Sam head back to try and stop her once and for all. They split up and Sam is caught by Sue Ann, who traps him in the cellar and then summons the reaper to attack Dean. Moments before Dean is killed, Sam escapes and grabs the cross from her, smashing it. The reaper is uncontrollable and attacks Sue Ann, killing her.

Layla visits Dean before they leave. She has come to terms with what has happened and the fact that she is going to die and reassures Dean that she still has her faith. Dean responds by telling her that despite not being religious, he'll pray for her. "Well, there’s a miracle right there", she replies.

Deleted Scene

The deleted scene for this episode is one of the longest and starts off by showing Marshall Hall swimming in the pool where he died. The scene cuts back and forth between Dean being healed by Roy and Marshall being chased by the reaper.