| “ | Shawn: The man with the drill. He was in my room. Dean: The Doc, he possessed you and he killed you. Shawn: I couldn’t stop it. He said I’d feel better, but...I just…I miss my mom. |
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| ~ Shawn describing how Meadows killed him. |
Avery Meadows is the main antagonist of the Supernatural episode "Advanced Thanatology".
In life, Meadows was a doctor would lobotomize any and all of his patients. He then brought those who lived to his facility, where he tortured and experimented on them. After death, he became a violent spirit, keeping his victims' spirits trapped in his facility, alongside anyone else who wandered into his home.
He is portrayed by Sacha M. Romalo, and by Seth Isaac Johnson when possessing Shawn Raider.
Personality[]
Meadows is shown to be obsessive, sadistic, and manipulative. When Shawn Raider escapes his facility, Meadows tracks him down to his house at night just so he can finish Raider off. He got inside Shawn's head and manipulated him to kill himself, telling him it would make him feel better. Meadows also seems to psychologically torment any victims that escape his grasp until he can catch up to them, trapping the rest of the spirits of his victims with him.
Biography[]
In life, Avery Meadows was a doctor operating out of Grand Junction, Colorado during the 1960s. When people were brought to him to treat mental illness, Meadows would always lobotomize them and take the ones that survived to his house where Meadows experimented upon them. Meadows' house became haunted by the ghosts of his victims while Meadows hid their bodies somewhere within his house. Meadows was eventually found out and arrested with the arresting officers having to rip his plague mask off of his face.
After his arrest, Meadows was tried, convicted and executed for his crimes. Meadows' body was cremated, but he became a powerful violent spirit tied to his old plague masks in his house. Meadows went on to become something of an urban legend amongst the townspeople with his house being declared haunted by many.
In 2017, on a dare, best friends Evan and Shawn Raider visit Meadows' old home. After the two steal one of Meadows' plague masks, Meadows' ghost begins to terrorize the teenagers, causing the house to creak with the sound of footsteps around them. As the two race down the stairs, Meadows' ghost, wearing one of his masks and wielding a drill, appears in front of them. Meadows attacks the teenagers, wounding Shawn in the head and killing Evan. Shawn manages to escape, traumatized and still carrying one of Meadows' plague masks in his backpack.
Meadows' attack on Shawn and the disappearance of Evan draws the attention of hunters Sam and Dean Winchester while leaving Shawn too traumatized to speak. The next night, while Shawn is trying to sleep, Meadows appears in his room, possesses the young man and forces him to put on the stolen plague mask. Meadows forces Shawn to return to his house, return the mask to its rightful place and then drill himself in the head. After Shawn's murder, Meadows' hides his body with all of his other victims.
The next day, Sam learns from Mike Raimos about the legend of Avery Meadows and where Evan and Shawn had gone the night Evan disappeared. The Winchesters went to speculate that Meadows made a demon deal or was actually a monster as reasons for his continuing attacks. Dean recognizes the plague masks Meadows wore from a news article as what Shawn had been repeatedly drawing. The Winchesters then learn that Shawn has disappeared and realize that Meadows is a ghost from Shawn's mother feeling cold spots when Shawn disappeared. The Winchesters realize that as Meadows was cremated, he is likely attached to something Shawn took from his house and he likely took Shawn there.
That night, the Winchesters travel to Meadows' home where Meadows' ghost appears and quickly threw the Winchesters around and attempts to kill Dean with his drill. However, Sam uses an iron crowbar to dissipate Meadows before he can kill Dean. While searching the house, the Winchesters find Meadows' masks and Dean realizes that Meadows is most likely tied to them.
Hearing Meadows start up his drill, Sam lays down a salt line in front of the room door while Dean dumps the masks into a trash can and begins performing a salt and burn upon them. Meadows attempts to enter the room by passing through the door but is stopped by the salt line. In response, Meadows makes the room shake and the salt line blow away. Sam attempts to shoot Meadows with rock salt, but he teleports away and then quickly returns to attack again. Before he can, Dean ignites Meadows' masks and Meadows ghost goes up in flames.
Moments after Meadows is destroyed, the Winchesters learn that the house is haunted by the ghosts of his victims. Dean briefly commits suicide in order to find out where the bodies are buried from the ghosts. Dean eventually finds Shawn's ghost and learns from him what Meadows did to the teenager. Shawn is able to reveal to Dean where the bodies of Meadows' victims are hidden. Eventually, due to Dean making a deal with Billie, the new Death, Meadows' victims are helped to the afterlife by the Reaper Jessica. The Winchesters are able to lead the local police to the bodies, allowing Meadows' victims to be granted proper burials by their families.
Trivia[]
- The set of Dr. Avery Meadows' Mental Health Center was previously used in Dr. Eleanor Visyak's mansion in San Francisco during the events in the Season 6 episode "Like a Virgin", specifically the grand staircase and the stained glass window featuring Joan of Arc.
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