Jessica Lee Moore was the girlfriend of Sam Winchester, though she never got to know about his family secret. Jessica was killed by Brady on Azazel's orders in the pilot episode, partly because she was in the way for Sam to find his skills, partly to give Sam a reason to continue hunting. Contents |
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It is unknown how Jessica Moore lived and how exactly she met Sam Winchester, but they were introduced to each other through Brady. They became a couple one and a half years before the pilot episode of the series; Jessica often helped Sam feel normal. Despite living together and loving each other deeply, Jessica never got to know about Sam's family secrets, or that Sam had been dreaming about her death prior to it. Sam had planned on getting a ring and asking her to marry him soon.
When Dean Winchester, Sam's older brother, visits to bring Sam along to look for their father in the Pilot, Jessica worries that Sam will lose his chance to get into law school by following his brother, but Sam reassures her that he will be back before Monday. At some point during the end of the weekend, Jessica made cookies as a welcome home present for Sam. When Sam sees Jessica, she seems to still be alive; however, she is sliced across her stomach while lying flat on the ceiling, before bursting into flames. Jessica Moore was killed in the same way that Mary Winchester was killed.
In Wendigo, Sam dreams of visiting Jessica's grave, where there is a photo of her on the gravestone.
Jessica's death is what makes Sam go back to the hunting life in order to find Azazel and avenge her death. She is often the topic of choice whenever Sam is feeling down or becomes attracted to another woman in the first season. Weeks after her death, Sam has nightmares about her all the time, making him sleep as little as possible. In Phantom Traveler Dean worries about Sam not getting enough sleep, that Sam's nightmares about Jess are keeping Sam awake. Sam admits to some nightmares, but also claims he's not sleeping because of the job.
In Hook Man, Lori Sorensen starts kissing Sam, but he pulls back. He tells her he lost someone, meaning Jess, but doesn't tell Lori anything more about her. Sam just isn't ready to move on from Jess's loss yet.
In Home, Sam reveals to Dean that he had visions of Jessica's death before it happened, blaming himself for not telling her or doing something about it. This is also the secret that he used to summon Bloody Mary in the episode Bloody Mary. Sam actually sees a vision of Jessica standing on the corner looking at him, as they are driving by, before she disappears behind a telephone pole. After this episode, though, Sam's nightmares seems to dim.
In Skin, when Sam and Dean are getting ready to leave after the job is finished, Sam's college friend wonders if anyone else at college knew what Sam did. He admits no one else knows, not even Jess.
John calls Sam for a job, to warn his sons not to try to find him, and to express his sorrow about Sam's girlfriend dying in Scarecrow. John confirms to Sam that it was a demon who killed their mom, and possibly Jessica as well. (Later it is revealed the demon put a hit on Jessica, but did not do the actual killing.)
In Route 666 Sam is upset with Dean for telling the "family secret" to a girl (Cassie) he'd been dating, when Sam lied to Jessica for over a year and a half about it.
Later, in Shadow, Sam mentions Jessica. As the brothers prepare to battle Meg, Sam confesses to a surprised and shocked Dean that he will return to Stanford after they kill The Yellow-Eyed Demon, the demon who killed their mother and Jessica.
Dean pushes Sam into trying a romantic relationship in Provenance, not-so-subtlety trying to help him get over Jessica. Sam acknowledges that Jess would want him to move on, but that was only part of it. Later, Sam tells Sarah that there is something between them, but that he wants to keep her safe. When people are around Sam, they get hurt, and he cites Jess' death.
In Devil's Trap, Azazel mentions to Dean that Sam was shopping for engagement rings and intended to marry Jessica before Dean came to visit him.
Jessica is mentioned in In My Time of Dying; John is mad at Sam, thinking that killing The Yellow-Eyed Demon was Sam's obsession too, since it had Jessica killed.
Sam is finally able to move on with his life, putting Jessica's death behind him, in Heart.
In Dean's wish-world in What Is And What Should Never Be, Jessica is still alive, and she and Sam are engaged.
Jessica is mentioned in All Hell Breaks Loose (Part 1); The Yellow-Eyed Demon tells Sam that Jessica just had to die because Sam was all set to marry her, when he needed Sam on the road, sharp, honing his skills and gifts.
Jessica is mentioned twice in The Monster at the End of This Book. When Sam and Dean are trying to find the author's name at the publisher's office, the secretary mentions how much she loves it when the boys cry - as Sam did when he had to kill Madison, the first woman he loved after Jessica. Then later Chuck is horrified that everything he had written had happened to them, killing their father, burning their mother, and Sam reliving the whole burning thing again with Jessica.
Jessica is mentioned in When the Levee Breaks; when Sam is talking with young Sam in his hallucinations, young Sam demands to know why Sam isn't broken away from the life, to be normal. Sam counters that Jessica was killed. Young Sam demands Sam to face up to the fact that he's using Jess as an excuse - she loved Sam and wouldn't want him turned into this! Sam apologizes, but states that they were never going to be normal, or get away, and to grow up.
In Free to Be You and Me, Lucifer communicates in Sam's dreams through an illusion of Jessica, telling him how he cannot run from who he is and that it was Sam running from himself which got her killed. Eventually, however, Lucifer ceases this form and changes back to Nick's shape.
Jessica is mentioned in The Devil You Know; Sam realizes that a demon named Brady introduced him to Jess, and Brady himself states that it was he, not Azazel, who burned her on the ceiling.
Jessica is mentioned in The Man Who Knew Too Much; Tortured Sam begs Sam to stay here in his mind, turn back, to find that bartender, to go find Jess. Only to not go through him (Tortured Sam), for Sam shouldn't know what happened in the Cage.
When Osiris puts Dean on trial in Defending Your Life, he calls Sam Winchester to the stand. Osiris mentions Sam was going to marry Jess, and was happily out of the game until Dean showed back up. That it was quite the domino effect - Sam came back and Jess is dead. Sam declares it wasn't Dean's fault.
In We Need to Talk About Kevin, Dean brings up Jess in an argument to Sam. "I can't believe what I'm hearing. Sam, we have an opportunity to wipe the slate clean. We take Kevin to the tablet, he tells us the spell, we send every demon back to hell - forever. Every single bastard that destroyed our lives, killed our mother, killed Jess. And you're not sure?"
Sam mentions Jessica in Torn and Frayed in an argument with Dean. Dean had tricked Sam into thinking there was something wrong with Amelia, and Sam pointed out that Dean had wanted him to be afraid for her, that what happened with Jessica would happen with Amelia.
In Book of the Damned, Sam mentions Jess when talking to Charlie. He had been thinking just one more job when Dean came to get him at school, but then he lost Jess. Then it was just one more job (to kill her killer), before going back to law school and his life. Now he realizes hunting is his life.
In the Pilot, Jessica is killed in the same manner as Dean and Sam's mother, Mary, pinned to the ceiling over Sam's bed with her stomach cut open. Azazel ordered Brady to kill Jessica because she was getting too close to Sam and in the way of Azazel's plans.
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