When a coven of witches find themselves on John Winchester's radar, they hatch a plan to distract him. Using some old, untested magic, they banish John's oldest son to Purgatory, derailing John's hunt and sending him on a wild goose-chase for his lost child that lasts for years. Dean is twelve years old when he disappears and twenty-four when he returns from monster hell, covered in scars, with a Bible in his front pocket and a vampire on his arm. Sam has become a hunter in his absence and regu