"What company?" Mark asks.

"Echo-2-1." Dean says.

"So can you help us?" Sam asks.

Mark hesitates "Duane Tanner's got a scar like that. But I know him. Good kid, keeps his nose clean."

"Oh, I'm sure he does. Um. You know where he lives?" Dean says.

"With his family, up Aspen Way." Mark says.

"Thank you." Dean says. They leave; Mark frowns as he watches them go. Across the street, Sam bumps into a telephone pole and glances at it in passing. He stops, carved into the wood is a single word. Croatoan. They approach the pole and Sam points at the word with a significant look.

"Hey." Sam says.

"Croatoan?" Scarlet asks.

"Yeah." Sam says.

Dean looks at him blankly.

"Roanoke? Lost colony? Ring a bell? Dean, did you pay any attention in history class?" Sam questions.

"Yeah! Shots heard 'round the world, How bills becomes laws . . ." Dean says.

"That's not school, that's Schoolhouse Rock." Scarlett says trying not to laugh.

"Whatever." Dena rolls his eyes.

"Roanoke was one of the first English colonies in America, late 1500s?" Sam says.

"Oh yeah, yeah, I do remember that. The only thing they left behind was a single word carved in a tree. Croatoan."  Dean says.

"Yeah. And I mean, there were theories — Indian raid, disease, but nobody knows what really happened. They were all just gone. I mean, wiped out overnight. Like the Aztecs, except we know it was the Spaniards fault." Scarlett says.

"You don't think that's what's going on here, I mean . . ." Dean says.

"Whatever I saw in my head, it sure wasn't good. But what do you think could do that?" Sam says.

"Well, I mean, like I said, all of your weirdo visions are always tied to the Yellow-Eyed Demon somehow, so . . ." Dean says.

"We should get help. Bobby, uh, Ellen maybe?" Sam ask.

"I can call in my mom and Will. My dad stays home." Scarlett offers.

"Yeah, that's a good idea." Dean pulls out his cell phone, then frowns at it. "I don't have a signal."

Sam does the same, shakes his head. Scarlett checks her phone no signal. "I don't either." Sam and Scarlett say.

They walk to a pay phone, which Dean picks up, we hear the "out of service" beeping, and Dean clicks the receiver several times.

"Line's dead." Dean hangs up. "I'll tell you one thing. If I was gonna massacre a town, that'd be my first step."

"I need paper and pen! I can contact them." She smiles. They head to car and she sends a message to Will and her mom.

"It's good to have you around, Doll." Dean teases. She shakes her head and rolls eyes.

   𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙡𝙖 𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙖 𝙘𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙣--𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚
𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 middle of nowhere, it's the Tanner house and Sam and Dean approach the front. By the door is a small, tacky plaque that reads "BORN TO FISH, FORCED TO WORK". Sam knocks on the door, and a teenaged boy with dark spiked hair, Jake opens it.

"Yeah?" He asks.

Dean flashing the badge. "We're looking for Duane Tanner, he lives here, right?"

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