Supernatural 1.06 - Sam Winchester

Show: Supernatural

Episode: S1E06, "Skin"

Character: Sam Winchester

Whump Factor: 1

In "Skin," the Winchesters hunt for a creature with a gruesome shapeshifting ability. Towards the end of the episode, the shifter assumes Dean's form and uses this to decieve and capture Sam.

Sam is captured by the shapeshifter and taken to its lair, where a tied-up Sam is lectured by the shifter on how dysfunctional his family is. The shifter reveals its plans to kill Sam and frame Dean for the murder.

Sam spots a knife out of his reach and fights with the shifter to get it and cut his own bonds. He fights the Dean-shaped shifter for several minutes, though the knife is taken out of play and it devolves into the shifter beating Sam badly and attempting to choke him to death. Dean arrives in the nick of time and saves Sam by shooting the shifter several times in the chest. The episode is more psychologically disturbing than physically damaging for Sam.