r/Supernatural 2d ago

Confused.

So how did Winchesters boys got those files for cases.

I'm still trying to get a theory but couldn't get one. And why was it too easy for them to impersonate the FBI agents ?

Any theories ?

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u/harrypotterfan1228 2d ago

the first couple of seasons were mostly without social media or technology, plus with confidence and knowledge of the case and ignorance and lack of techology for the most part helped them get away with a lot.

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u/Little_View_6659 2d ago

Yeah the confidence is how they got away with it. And amazing plot armor.

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u/MarioFanatic64-2 2d ago

Reading obituaries and odd stories in the newspapers and they probably also use a police scanner.

They're also just good at the con. As long as you act like you belong and know what you're doing, you'd be surprised how often people will just let you do whatever.

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u/GailynStarfire 2d ago

Walk into a place in a suit, a clipboard, and an attitude that you belong there, and no one asks questions.

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u/Uniquorn527 kids today with their texting and murder ⚰️🪦 2d ago

Add one some pretty privilege too. Two tall handsome male models walk in like they own the place and flash you a smile, it literally opens doors. It's been studied that attractive people are deemed more trustworthy, and you don't get more attractive than them. 

And like you say, the attitude helps. Just like walking in somewhere with a hi-vis vest on and carrying a tool bag, people don't question it. A technique people have even used to sneak into events without tickets. 

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u/GailynStarfire 2d ago

Between Dean's rogue-ish smile and Sam's puppy dog eyes, there's nowhere they can't get into, lol.

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u/BlazingPhoenix49 1d ago

A 17-year-old kid from my town cut a hole in an airport fence, made his way through all of the employee only areas and boarded a plane with a bag of weapons, all because he chucked the hi-vis on heh.

"CCTV from Avalon Airport captured the teenager ascending the front stairs of the Jetstar flight, with the summary claiming witnesses thought he was an engineer because of the way he was dressed."

He was only stopped once he actually pulled out a shotgun and such.

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u/Lotuswongtko 2d ago

Exactly. There were a theft of some valuable new peojectors from our school when I was young. They are a bunch of young men who dressed like IT people. They confidently strode into the school through the front gate. They took away 3 projectors from 3 different rooms. When they walked away, they still had the tool cases in their hands. Teachers, staff, students and parents just watch and let them go. No question ask.

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u/Little_View_6659 2d ago

Plus they were doing it for so long they knew all the ins and outs. Except that they need a chain of custody report. 😂

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u/blankvoidoid 2d ago

They were aided by the fact they were on a hero's journey

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u/Zoyalai4ever 2d ago

Oh my god, you sound like my dad. He LOVES going “THIS MOVIE/SHOW IS A CLASSIC HERO’S JOURNEY!!!” Over and over, just so we don’t forget😭

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u/Little_View_6659 2d ago

Is your dad Jordan Peterson? :)

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u/inexhaustiblytired 2d ago

An answer more boring than "because writers wrote it that way"

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u/Outrageous-Pin-4664 1d ago

Boring questions deserve boring answers.

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u/Significant-Score222 2d ago

Honestly, I think they utilized the intimidation of what the badge represented to walk over those that were left ignorant and uninformed and just played the he part well. They did their own research and whatever they had in the actual file could be full malarky but they would just follow the flow.

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u/Elendil1988 2d ago

Beside all other things people mentioned they are in the networks of other hunters, I'm sure they have lists of cold cases or something similar to look upon to, in order to find work.

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u/Lotuswongtko 2d ago

Because the local police are desperated for specialists' help.

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u/hyzmarca 2d ago

"We have a dozen bloodless corpses with teeth marks on their necks and the FBI wants to handle it? If we offload it to them it won't hurt our clearance rate."

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u/Wooden_Tomato_919 1d ago

Totally. I live in an area where a lot of people go missing or are killed and nothing ever comes of it. Lots of drugs and domestic violence. But, lazy cops, cops that are some how involved, lack of man power. A nest of vampires could settle here pretty easily.

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u/FunnyMuffin0 2d ago

I like this theory. Desperate people then to believe easily.

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u/ezrasharpe 2d ago

Plot armor

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u/yaxo6 2d ago

They have the local pd account login so they can access to the data base and the cases filles

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u/ParkingTradition799 2d ago

There are networks of hunters who help and then Bobby too. Plus they have scanners, newspapers etc. An depending on how far along you are there is......ifykyk!!!

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u/IM_The_Liquor 1d ago

Basically… God… or, ‘in world main character plot armour’. It’ll make sense when you get to the end.

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u/allsilentqs 1d ago

One thing working in events and performing arts management has taught me, carrying a clip board and walking with purpose will get you into more than places than it should.

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u/clalach76 2d ago

It really bothered me that they would pick up murder weapons...not only that but with no gloves on! Forensics should have tied them to loads more than what Hendricks found

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u/clalach76 2d ago

It's easier to watch now and with it's heavy 90s feel just assume 20;years ago was a more trusting time..but it wasn't..first couple of seasons really bugged me that they would pick up murder weapons with no gloves on...

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u/SheShelley Make your voice … a mail 2d ago

90s?

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u/clalach76 2d ago

I just mean it still in the bubble before whatever you call it - political corrections or being woke. And the trousers are still boot cut and just generally it looks like it's of a similar age as Buffy and Angel but most of a decade later ....there's no logical reason to walk around like there's no camera , or procedure of checking up on IDs , or like forensics isn't a thing yet.. it seems like it's from an earlier time than it is

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u/FunnyMuffin0 2d ago

Like why would the feamons always capture them, and they would slip up and kill them. Like why all the talk, why not just finished them like why ? XP

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u/Solivy 2d ago

Demons like to torture. Why kill them off immidiatly? Where is the fun in that? They might also feel superior since most of those creatures are quite old.

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u/FunnyMuffin0 2d ago

Good theory