Supernatural 1.01 - Sam Winchester

Show: Supernatural 

Episode: S1E01, "Pilot"

Character: Sam Winchester

Whump Factor: 1

Supernatural's "Pilot" finds Sam Winchester sucked back into a life of hunting things that go bump in the night when his estranged older brother, Dean, pays him a visit at Stanford to tell him their father is missing. The episode is largely an introduction into the Winchesters' investigative methods, but there are a few moments of solid whump. The fight between Sam and Dean at the beginning of the episode is cute, brief, and fluffy - not whump-worthy.

Serious whump occurs at the end of the episode, when Sam finds himself trapped in the Impala with Woman in White Contance Welch. Sam resists when Constance attempts to make an "unfaithful man" of him. In anger, Constance attacks Sam, plunging her fingers into Sam's chest in an apparent attempt to disembowel him. Sam is resced by Dean before serious damage can occur. In a brief showdown with Constance, Sam drives the Impala through the front wall of Constance's house. Constance retaliates by trapping both Sam and Dean behind a dresser.

At the end of the episode, a shellshocked Sam also finds his girlfriend murdered by a supernatural entity. Sam and Dean narrowly escape Sam's apartment burning to the ground.