Supernatural 1.09 - Sam Winchester

Show: Supernatural

Episode: S1E09, "Home"

Character: Sam Winchester

Whump Factor: 1

In "Home" the Winchester brothers must return to their childhood home in Lawrence, Kansas to hunt a malevolent spirit causing trouble in their old house. Sam is only alerted to the situation through his disturbing and increasingly frequent death visions, which direct him to reveal his power to Dean and convince his brother to revisit the site of their mother's murder.

The whump of the episode arrives midway through, when Sam, Dean, and local psychic Missouri are attempting to cleanse the house of evil spirits by placing pouches of spell components at key points throughout the house. Sam separates from the others to place a bag in a bedroom wall upstairs. The house itself appears to fight back, possessing a lamp to try to strangle Sam with its power cord. It nearly succeeds before Dean arrives to save him.

After the cleansing ritual, Sam is unconvinced that the house is safe, and inists he and Dean stay to watch the place for another night. The house attacks once more, and Sam and Dean run inside to rescue the homeowner and her children. Dean successfully rescues the woman; Sam grabs the children and runs partway downstairs before sensing an evil presence. He tells the kids to run; a mysterious force grabs him by the ankle and drags him backwards further intot he house. The children inform Dean, who proceeds to hack down the mysteriously locked front door with a hatchet.

In the living room, Sam is tossed around by the malevolent spirit and held off the floor against the wall by a mysterious force. Moments before Dean arrives to rescue him, the spirit of their mother manifests and saves sam from the poultergeist.