This week, The WB Network got a bit of a head start in premiering their new fall line-up sooner than the rest of their programming with the series premiere of Supernatural, a new hour-long drama belonging to the um, well, "supernatural" genre. Described as a cross between Route 66 and The X-Files, the show is centered around two brothers — both played by vets of The WB; Jared Padalecki of Gilmore Girls and Jensen Ackles of Smallville and Dawson's Creek — in their twenties as they search for the answers behind their mother's bizarre death when they were young and the more recent strange disappearance of their father.
The very beginning of the series starts out with a flashback where we get to see for ourselves just how bizarre the strange death of their mother really was. The sequence ends with her dead body suspended in air towards the ceiling above her newborn baby boy, Sam. After her husband discovers her like this, she very suddenly bursts into flames, causing the house to go up in smoke with her. Frantically grabbing Sam and his older son, Dean, the three evacuate the house as it continues to burn.
Afterwards, in the present day, we join a fully grown Sam (Jared Padalecki) at Stanford University where he is attending school and living with his girlfriend Jessica (Adrianne Palicki). We're next greeted with a scene in the middle of the night in which Sam discovers someone walking around in their apartment. Assuming that it's someone who has broke in, Sam takes action against the intruder only to discover that it's his older, smartassed brother Dean (Jensen Ackles). Settling down a little bit, Dean informs Sam that he's come to see him in order to take him on a road trip in order to go out and find their father, who Dean hasn't heard from in three weeks. Sam is a little hesitant at first because he's been trying to move on with his life from all the freaky things they've seen and been a part of in the past, but decides to go anyway because their father could, in fact, be in danger. The two set off on the condition that Sam be back at Stanford by Monday morning so that he can attend an interview for law school.
Needless to say, the two boys are led to a town where their father was last seen. The two brothers uncover a bit more information about his disappearance and the strange disappearance of eight other men in the same area before hearing a rumor from some of the locals about a "woman in white." She's a spirit who was driven to killing her two children and herself after discovering that her husband had cheated on her. Now she haunts and kills other men in the area who have also been unfaithful to their significant others because she's unable to bring herself to go home and face the spirits of her dead children, no matter how often she urges the men she haunts to "take her home." When Sam eventually comes into direct confrontation with the ghost of this woman, he does exactly that. He takes her home to where she lived when she was still alive to face the angry spirits of her two children, which finally eliminates the source of all these men disappearing.
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