Welcome back, Sheriff Jody Mills!
Kim Rhodes reprised this beloved role on Supernatural Season 10 Episode 8, running into Donna Hanscum at a Minnesota-Dakotas Sheriffs’ Retreat.
The two end up as partners for the weekend and learn of a gruesome alleyway murder along the way: there are no claw marks on the victim, nor is there any hair. The man has been eaten down to the bone.
It must have been a supernatural attack, right? Judy figures as much and therefore checks in with Dean and Sam, who are busy conducting research on the Mark of Cain.
They haven’t come up with much.
Sam alerts Jody to Dean’s post-demon binge recovery, while she explains that Alex is smoking marijuana under the bleachers, but "at least she’s not luring men to their death."
She tells them not to come along, but Dean needs a study break.
The brothers ride into town and split up, Kinkos-printed FBI badges in hand. They try to follow up on the mysteriously shady Sheriff Cuse.
Dean ends up on the trail of Cuse, but Donna spots him while bearing some vampiric fangs and hanging over the bloody body of Sheriff Goodhill.
Donna tells Jody what she saw and the two go to check on Cuse’s room for themselves. Sam and Dean then barge in, forcing Jody to reveal their identities, along with what they’re hunting.
Thanks to an address found in Cuse’s room, the group ends up at an abandoned farmhouse just outside town. This sort of location never spells trouble, does it?
They spot Cuse through a window there, as he tells them to run… just before two unknown assailants knock the brothers out.
See, this farmhouse is a vampire nest. It’s run by a girl named Lynn. She tells them that Cuse ran away from them, but they’ll take him back… if he devours all this fresh meat
When Cuse refuses, Lynn beheads him.
While she’s rambling away, though, our heroes free themselves and Donna ends up with her first vampire kill just as Lynn is about to take out Jody.
Go watch Supernatural online to see how the hour ends: with Jody offering to train Donna in the ways of the supernatural and with Dean saying that, for the first time, he didn’t feel like the Mark of Cain was compelling him to kill. Yay for progress!