Chapter Summaries

Nick used his experience as a police officer and a Grimm to challenge Sam and Dean’s reasons for hunting monsters, then agreed to help them find their missing father and investigate a string of disappearances. Dean played Nick the last call from their father, which ended with a woman’s voice saying she could never go home.

• Nick told Sam and Dean that protecting people and preserving order mattered more than blindly following rules, and questioned whether revenge or helping others drove their hunt.
• Dean thanked Nick for the meal and asked him to help find their father; Nick sent Bert Aframian’s name to Andrew Wu so officers could check nearby motels.
• Dean explained that their father had been investigating a possible ghost case involving repeated disappearances along the same stretch of road over twenty years.
• Nick connected the disappearances to the urban legend about Centennial Highway and the old iron bridge, and offered to obtain the case files and investigate.
• Dean played Nick his father’s final phone call, then played an isolated audio track containing a woman’s voice saying, “I can never go home.”

Nick reluctantly discussed the Winchester brothers’ ghost investigation before returning to work and learning the Billy Capra case was resolved. After telling Dahlia about the female ghost, Nick woke to find her researching the Sylvia Bridge suicide, leaving the pair poised to investigate the haunting.

• Nick handed Dean back the iPod and asked where the Winchester brothers planned to investigate next, while privately hoping to find John Winchester instead of hunting ghosts.
• Sam explained how the brothers dealt with ghosts, and he and Dean planned to investigate local legends connected to the female ghost.
• Nick returned to the police station, where Hancock told him Billy Capra would likely survive but face severe injuries and multiple prosecutions.
• Nick told Dahlia that they could visit another movie world, then explained the female ghost legends before falling asleep.
• Nick woke and found Dahlia researching a report about Constance Welch, who had drowned after jumping from Sylvia Bridge in 1981.

Nick and Dahlia traced a suspected ghost to Constance Welch’s suicide at Sylvia Bridge and went there with the Winchester brothers. After a woman jumped from the bridge and vanished, both couples’ empty cars started driving at them, forcing them to flee over the railing.

• Dahlia found reports that Constance Welch had drowned her two children before killing herself, and Nick agreed the incident could have created a vengeful spirit.
• Dahlia gathered an assortment of folk exorcism supplies, and Nick reluctantly agreed to investigate the bridge with her.
• Nick and Dahlia met Dean and Sam at Sylvia Bridge, where the brothers said they had found no other leads along Centennial Highway.
• A woman in a white nightgown appeared on the bridge, jumped into the river, and vanished without a sound.
• Both empty cars started their engines and charged toward the group, so Dean and Sam climbed over the railing and Nick carried Dahlia after them.

After the White Lady nearly forced their cars off a bridge, Nick, Dahlia, Sam, and Dean discussed the spirit’s legend and how it gained power. Sam explained that finding and burning the ghost’s body and destroying its anchors was usually safer than spreading the story further.

• Dean climbed out of the river and complained that the others had not jumped, while Sam, Nick, and Dahlia confirmed he was safe.
• Nick checked both cars for mechanical problems and found no damage despite their near collision.
• Dean identified the spirit as a White Lady, and Sam described the legend of vengeful women who haunted roads and waterways.
• Dahlia compared the White Lady to the Slavic Rusalka, spirits who lured men into rivers.
• Sam explained how legends could empower spirits and warned that witch hunters might strengthen them by spreading their stories.
• Sam said the usual approach was to find and burn the spirit’s body and destroy anything anchoring it.

Nick investigated disappearances along Centennial Highway and confirmed that the missing men had all been unfaithful. At a motel room where John Winchester had been staying, Nick and the Winchester Brothers found evidence about the Woman in White and a cryptic message showing that John had left for coordinates 35-111.

• Nick checked recent missing-person cases and confirmed that the victims had all been unfaithful men.
• Andrew Wu gave Nick the motel address where Mr. Aframian had rented a room, and Nick contacted the Winchester Brothers before heading there.
• Dean explained that vengeful spirits could cause magnetic disturbances that affected lights and radios.
• Nick, Dean, and Sam found John Winchester's messy motel room, including protective powder and an evidence wall identifying Constance Welch as the Woman in White.
• Sam found John's journal and a note for Dean with the coordinates 35-111, suggesting John had left urgently.

Nick traveled to Goldendale to question Joseph Welch, now called Old John, about his late wife Constance and the tragedy that had driven him away. He left Old John stunned by asking whether he had ended up with the woman he truly loved.

• Nick found Joseph Welch’s address in Goldendale, informed the Winchester Brothers and Dahlia, and drove from Portland toward Washington State.
• Nick reached Old John’s isolated home and introduced himself as a Portland police detective investigating events from the past.
• Old John said a reporter named Amiam had asked where Constance was buried, and he said she lay on Breckenridge Mountain with their two children.
• Old John explained that he had moved because he could no longer bear hearing his family call him Daddy whenever he closed his eyes.
• Nick asked whether Old John had ended up with the woman he really loved, and Old John froze in disbelief.

Nick questioned Old John about Constance and learned more about the family tragedy behind the White Lady disappearances, while Fox Mulder arrived to investigate. As the Winchester brothers burned the family’s remains, the White Lady appeared in Nick’s car and demanded to be taken home.

• Nick told Old John the White Lady story, and Old John tearfully insisted that Constance had never intended to abandon him or their children.
• Nick left whiskey and money for Old John, then called the Winchester brothers and told them where the family was buried.
• Fox Mulder arrived at Old John’s house, showed his FBI credentials, and asked to speak with him.
• Dean told Nick that the brothers and Dahlia had found the remains and were burning them.
• A white figure appeared in front of Nick’s car; after he passed through it, the doors would not open and a ghost spoke from the back seat.
• Nick saw the ghost’s face in the rearview mirror and recognized her as Xiao Dachui.

Nick encountered Constance’s ghost, who forced his car to an abandoned farmhouse and then pinned him down with a disturbingly sensual attack. He shot at her, making her vanish, but her fate remained unclear.

• Nick refused to take Constance home, but she took control of his Ford Explorer and drove it to an abandoned farmhouse.
• Constance told Nick she could not go home, then vanished from the back seat and appeared beside him.
• Nick asked whether Constance was unable or afraid to go home, but she pinned him beneath her and demanded that he hold and love her.
• Nick summoned his P266 and fired several shots, causing Constance to disappear.

After escaping the Female Ghost by using the Magic Movie Ticket, Nick arrived at Portland State University in 2009 with a new identity as Horton Parker and a mission to survive and save his companions. Months later, he still had not identified the world, but he had become a masked killer; Kurt then invited him on a weekend trip and promised to introduce him to Dana.

• The Female Ghost attacked Nick by reaching into his chest, and he escaped by tearing open the Magic Movie Ticket.
• Nick arrived at Portland State University as Horton Parker, a transfer student and football running back, and received the mission to survive and save his companions.
• Kurt helped the badly injured Nick to his dorm room, where Nick entered Fake Death Revival and later woke with his heart restored.
• Nick spent months attending classes and gathering information about the nearly familiar world, but he could not determine which movie or television setting it was.
• Nick killed a tattooed Latino man while wearing the Predator Mask, then answered Kurt's call and said he was working over summer break.
• Kurt invited Nick to spend the weekend with him, and Jules urged Nick to meet her best friend Dana.

Nick robbed a Zetas drug deal, taking sixty gold bars, then agreed to join Kurt and Jules on a trip to help Dana recover from being dumped. After returning to Portland, he arrived near Jules’s apartment on Saturday morning.

• Nick spoke with Jules and Kurt, who asked him to help Dana rebuild her confidence after Professor Bennett dumped her by email.
• Nick checked the gold bars from the drug deal, killed the gang members, and stored the remaining cases in his pocket dimension.
• Nick accepted Kurt and Jules’s invitation to vacation in Hood River with Dana and Martin, while warning them he was not looking for a girlfriend.
• Nick returned to Portland and arrived near Jules’s apartment building early Saturday morning.

Nick joined Kurt, Jules, and Dana for a weekend trip to a remote cabin, though the group planned to bring Kurt’s motorhome in case the cabin was unfit to stay in. As Kurt and Jules packed, Kurt tried to give Nick and Dana a reason to talk.

• Kurt showed Nick his father’s motorhome and explained that they were heading to a cheap cabin beyond Hood River, so they might need to sleep in the RV.
• Kurt led Nick into Jules and Dana’s apartment, where Nick saw Dana and suspected the trip would not go smoothly.
• Jules argued with Dana about bringing a thick book, and Nick complimented Jules’s newly dyed blond hair.
• Kurt joked with Jules about her hair and the book, then picked Psychology and Life for Dana to bring as a possible conversation starter with Nick.
• Jules called Kurt to help with her suitcase, and Kurt encouraged Nick before going to her.

Nick and his friends set off in Kurt’s Winnebago for a weekend trip, joined by the eccentric mathematics student Martin. As they left, Nick worried that someone had been watching them and wondered whether their group had already been targeted.

• Nick pointed out that Dana was wearing only panties, then helped her and the others load their bags into the RV.
• Martin arrived in a smoke-filled red SUV, and Kurt scolded him while Nick admired Martin’s collapsible smoking pipe.
• Martin greeted Dana and Jules, then Kurt got everyone aboard and started the RV.
• Nick sensed that someone had been watching the group but found no suspicious person.
• The group set off toward Hood River, where they planned to stop at a supermarket for ingredients.

Nick and his companions encountered familiar faces from The Walking Dead before their RV reached a remote, dilapidated gas station that reminded Nick of horror films. An old man appeared inside the station, and Nick asked him for gas and directions.

• Nick recognized faces resembling Detective Miller, Andrea, and Carol, and worried that he might be in a zombie apocalypse.
• Nick explained away his purchase of canned food and considered how his weapons could protect the group if zombies appeared.
• Jules complained about the missing GPS route and phone signal while Martin and Kurt teased each other during the drive.
• Kurt realized he had forgotten to refuel, and the group stopped at a run-down gas station on the way to the Columbia River Gorge.
• Nick called into the apparently empty station, then stepped back when a filthy old man appeared and asked what he needed.

Nick and his friends stopped at a gas station, where he intimidated the hostile old man and learned the way to the Buckner House. After the RV drove on, the old man, Mordecai, contacted someone and revealed that the group was being led toward a planned slaughter.

• Nick watched the old man pump fuel while Kurt asked for directions to Talleyman Road and the Buckner House.
• The old man insulted Jules, and Nick stepped between him and the others, frightening him into backing down.
• Jules and Dana admired Nick, while Martin questioned how he had projected such a convincing murderous presence.
• Nick told his friends he had worked in Hollywood as a cold-blooded killer in a movie, then dodged their questions by claiming the film was confidential.
• Mordecai watched the RV leave, called someone from the gas station, and said the group had entered the pen and would soon reach the slaughtering ring.

Nick and his friends drove to a remote cabin while Nick sensed they were under constant surveillance, and a secret research team revealed it was manipulating Jules and monitoring their trip. The group reached the cabin and found its clean interior far more welcoming than its exterior suggested.

• After driving through a mountain tunnel, Nick felt watched from every direction but chose to follow the plot rather than act rashly.
• In a secret mountain base, Sturson, Root, and Hadley laughed at Mordecai's warning and discussed sabotaging Jules with a drug administered through her hair dye.
• Root reported that the Swiss team had failed, while Sturson said their own operation had two safeguards and watched the RV arrive at the cabin.
• Jules, Nick, Martin, Dana, and Kurt approached the dilapidated cabin, and Martin worried that things were going badly.
• Kurt opened the cabin, and the group found a clean, furnished living room with a lifelike mounted wolf's head.

Nick discovered hidden cameras and a one-way mirror in the cabin, then warned Dana and offered to switch rooms with her. The group began checking their rooms, while Nick remained suspicious that the cabin concealed more than its strange decor suggested.

• Nick repaired the generator and noticed backup wiring connected to cables running through the cabin.
• Nick used his phone camera to find hidden cameras throughout his guest room and discovered a disturbing hunting painting.
• Nick removed the painting and found a one-way mirror behind it, through which he saw Dana in the next room.
• Nick knocked on the glass to warn Dana, and the group gathered to discuss the mirror and check their rooms.
• Nick offered to switch rooms with Dana, and she accepted and helped carry his backpack next door.

Nick noticed that the lakeside cabin and woods seemed deliberately staged, while researchers underground prepared a ritual-like procedure and bet on what would happen to the five people. After sunset, the five returned to the cabin and began playing Werewolf, unaware of the control center beneath them.

• Nick pointed out that the woods had no birds and told Martin that the cabin and surrounding area felt deliberately arranged.
• Underground, Sturson and Hadley explained to a young Black man that the researchers could guide the five toward the cellar, but their choices had to determine what followed.
• The control center staff placed bets on possible horrors and cheered as the game was about to begin.
• Nick lost his appetite for cooking and ate canned food while the five prepared dinner at the cabin.
• After night fell, the five gathered by the fireplace and played Werewolf.

Nick realized that a strange gas in the cabin was making the group act unusually aroused, and he escaped its effects by opening the door. When a hidden cellar entrance appeared, Jules, Kurt, and Dana eagerly prepared to investigate while Nick remained wary.

• Hadley and Sturson released a special gas into the cabin through a concealed vent.
• Nick noticed the group growing flushed and suggestive, and he briefly entertained thoughts of pursuing Jules before recognizing that something was wrong.
• Nick smelled a goat-like scent, opened the door for fresh air, and concluded that a potent hallucinogenic gas was affecting the others.
• A floorboard sprang open to reveal stairs leading into a cellar, and Jules, Kurt, and Dana gathered around the entrance.
• Jules volunteered to explore the cellar, Kurt and Dana agreed to go, and Nick wondered whether they were behaving like characters in a horror movie.

Nick realized he was trapped in Cabin in the Woods as one of five sacrifices and considered how to protect his companions while surviving the ritual. In the cellar, the group discovered objects that would determine which monsters the organization sent after them, and Nick planned to reach the underground base.

• Nick recognized that the cabin and contrived cellar entrance placed him in Cabin in the Woods, where five people were meant to die as sacrifices to appease the Old Gods.
• Nick recalled that the Movie Ticket's mission required him to survive and save as many companions as possible, despite the ritual's deadly rules.
• Kurt called Nick into the cellar, where the group gathered around a flashlight and lantern.
• Nick and the others found a collection of eerie objects, including a mask, dolls, a shrine, a strange metal polyhedron, and a pendant on a wedding dress.
• Nick decided to keep the plot moving while protecting the others, then seek a way past surveillance and into the underground base.

Nick and the others explored the cellar of the Buckner House, where Dana found Anna Faith Buckner’s diary and read its Latin spell despite Martin’s warnings. In the underground control room, Sturson declared the Buckner family’s zombie torturers the winners, while the group left the cellar unaware of what they had triggered.

• Kurt, Jules, Dana, and Martin examined objects in the cellar as Nick recognized that each seemed linked to a monster.
• Dana found Anna Faith Buckner’s 1903 diary and read passages describing the family’s sacrifices and gruesome rituals.
• Nick tripped Martin when he tried to stop Dana, and Kurt restrained Martin while Dana read the Latin spell.
• Sturson announced that the Buckner family had won the control room’s wager, and the researchers celebrated their prize.
• Kurt led the group upstairs, and Jules returned the cat’s-eye necklace to the wedding dress.