Gordon Walker was a hunter that primarily went after vampires, more than anything else.
Background
When Gordon was almost 18, a vampire broke into his home and attacked his sister. In the fight, Gordon was knocked unconscious. When he woke, his sister and the vampire were gone. He ran away from home, learning how to find, fight and kill vampires. He killed the vampire who attacked his sister, and also killed his sister who had been turned into a vampire.
Season 2
Dean Winchester and Sam Winchester first meet him while tracking a vampire nest. Despite his assurances that he can handle them by himself, the two of them save Gordon's life and Dean starts to warm up to him because they are both hunters. Sam, however, is wary of him, and calls Ellen to ask if she's heard of him. She warns him that despite being a good hunter, he is dangerous and that they should leave him alone. Despite the fact that the vampire do not harm humans, Gordon tracks them down and captures their leader, Lenore. While he tortures her for the location of the other vampires, Sam and Dean arrive and try to persuade him to stop. It is then that Gordon reveals that his sister wasn't killed by a vampire, but instead she was turned into one so Gordon hunted down his sister and killed her. After Sam frees Lenore, Dean and Gordon engage in a fist fight, from which Dean emerges as the victor. The Winchesters leave him tied up inside of the house, promising to call someone to let him out in a couple of days.
He later returns in "Hunted". While Sam investigates the murder of Scott Carey, another special child whose mother died in a nursery fire on his six month birthday, Gordon tries to kill him with a sniper rifle from a nearby rooftop. Dean finds where he is posted and fights him, only to end up being knocked unconscious and used as bait for Sam. While he converses with a tied-up Dean, he tells her that while he was performing an exorcism in Louisiana on a teenaged girl, she told him about a coming war, and that a demon has soldiers fighting in this war, special children with psychic abilities, which the demon has plans for. The demon said he knew one of them: Sam Winchester. After revealing his knowledge about Sam's visions, and the brothers' connections at the Roadhouse, he announces his intent to track down and kill the special children, starting with Sam.
Despite placing multiple tripwires attached to grenades near the backdoor of the house, Sam is able to set them off without harming himself and gets the drop on Gordon. After a short tussle, Sam knocks Gordon out, frees Dean, and they both exit the house. However, Gordon chases after them with guns in both hands, shooting at them. After hiding in a patch of grass, they watch as police cars roll up to the house and arrest him after finding the arsenal of weapons in his car, thanks to an anonymous call from Sam.
Season 3
Gordon appears again during the episode "Bad Day at Black Rock" in jail and talking to a fellow hunter whom he convinces to go after Sam Winchester. He tells him that he is not even sure Sam Winchester is even human. Gordon Walker is aware of the brothers having opened the Devil's Gate in the second season finale. At the end of the episode he tells the hunter he was talking with that they will have to break him out of prison. In the episode "Fresh Blood", Gordon pursues the Winchester brothers again. During the hunt he is captured and subsequently turned by a vampire named Dixon as an ironic form of punishment, revenge for the slaughter of Dixon's vampire family by hunters. He kills two other vampires turned by Dixon, then sets up a trap for the Winchester brothers, still convinced it's his duty as a hunter to rid the world of Sam Winchester. A fight ensues in a warehouse where Gordon holds a girl he has kidnapped and turned into a vampire to use as bait. Sam Winchester decapitates Gordon Walker with a garotte improvised out of barbed wire during the struggle, thus ending the threat he poses.
Appearances
Season 2
Season 3
Trivia
- Drives a red car with Michigan plates : TRI 208
- Has met John Winchester
- Used to frequent the Roadhouse around 2000-2001. Had some conflicts with Jo and Ellen, see Jo's Journal for more details.
- Gordon keeps a hunter's journal
- According to series creator Eric Kripke, Sterling K. Brown was supposed to stay for more episodes but couldn't due to him being contracted for Lifetime for the series Army Wives. After Season 2, Lifetime allowed Brown to guest star in two more episodes.