Miranda Bates was a sergeant in the United States Army, and served as military police in San Diego. After Abaddon had a group of demons possess three sailors on a bus, leaving their dead vessels behind, Sergeant Bates was in charge of the crime scene. When Agents "Stark" and "Banner" of the FBI, in actuality Dean and Sam Winchester, came to investigate, she informed them it was a military case, not a federal case. Dean called his supervisor, Kevin Solo, but Sergeant Bates thought he sounded too young, and threatened to arrest the Winchesters and spank Kevin. He then mentioned a recent trip she had taken to Cabo, and told her that if she didn't give the Winchesters access to the crime scene, he would forward the pictures to her superior. She later brought the brothers surveillance footage w