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| John Winchester (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) Jeffrey Dean Morgan as John Winchester
He is the father of Dean (b. January 24, 1979) and Sam (b. May 2, 1983) Winchester. He is also an former Marine (Echo 2/1). John watched as his wife, Mary, was killed by Azazel in Sam's nursery on November 2, 1983. He raised his two sons to fight the supernatural, with help from hunters he met on his travels, including several customers of Harvelle's Roadhouse. Season 1Twenty two years after Mary's death, John disappears, causing Dean to seek out Sam at Stanford University to help find him. The brothers are able to track him to Jericho, California. They then follow a set of coordinates they find amongst their father's things, thinking they might lead them to John. When the brothers return to their childhood home after Sam has precognitive dreams, they leave a message for John on his voicemail. John tracks them in Kansas, but does not reveal his presence while staying with the psychic Missouri Moseley. John finally visits the brothers in Chicago, Illinois. Meg, a woman possessed by one of Azazel's children, reveals that Azazel is after John. After defeating the daeva, the brothers split up from their father to keep him from Meg and Azazel. John meets back up with his sons when his old mentor, vampire hunter Daniel Elkins, is murdered. It turns out that the vampires that killed him also stole The Colt, a gun that can kill anything. The brothers and John succeed in getting the gun back and decide to go after the demon together. When Meg threatens to kill their friends unless they deliver The Colt, John gives her a fake gun and is captured. The brothers end up rescuing him, but he becomes possessed by Azazel and attacks. However, John manages to resist, freeing Sam from his telekinetic control. Sam manages to get The Colt and shoots him in the leg, temporarily subduing the demon. John begs Sam to kill him so that Azazel will die too, but Sam can't bring himself to do it. To John's dismay, Azazel then escapes. As the Winchesters later flee the scene in Dean's 1967 Impala, a man possessed by a demon hits them with a semi truck. Season 2After the crash, Sam and John awake in hospital with only minor injuries. However, Dean's life hangs on a thread. John tries to get Sam to get some materials so that he can summon Azazel from the hospital where they have all ended up. He also seems to know what Azazel wants from Sam and other kids like him. He makes a deal with Azazel so that Dean can live, sacrificing the Colt and its last bullet, along with his soul. After Dean wakes up, Sam angrily presses John about his whereabouts the night before. John waves it off, telling Sam that arguing is pointless. John then asks Sam to get him some coffee. After Sam leaves, John talks with Dean. John tells Dean to take care of Sam. He then whispers something in Dean's ear. John then leaves Dean and returns to his hospital room, where he gives the Colt to someone. Sam walks by John's hospital room, where he finds an unconscious John on the floor. The doctors arrive to try to revive John, but are unable to save his life. John Winchester's official time of death is 10:41AM. Dean and Sam burn his body on a funeral pyre, as is traditional among hunters. In the future episode, "Crossroads", a demon refers to John suffering in Hell to tempt Dean into making a deal to resurrect him. In another episode, "Born Under A Bad Sign", the demon Meg, who is possessing Sam, tells Dean that she saw John in Hell and that he says "Howdy". However, this comment is most likely to have been made out of spite. John returns in "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2" when the gate to Hell is opened. When Azazel is about to kill Dean, John grabs him and pulls him out of his human body. Both John and Azazel wrestle, but John is ultimately thrown off by the demon, who returns to his host body. This distraction gives Dean enough time to grab the Colt and shoot Azazel in the heart, finally killing him. John then gives Sam and Dean a loving smile before becoming engulfed in a white light, seemingly putting his soul at rest. Possibly because the death of Azazel breaks the contract holding John in hell, allowing him to leave. Season 4When Dean is sent through time, he meets his father's younger self. When Dean starts talking about the smell of sulfur and cow mutilations, John believes he's a little crazy. When John goes to a car dealership, Dean suggests that John buy the car that Dean will eventually have in the future. Dean then watches John go to a diner with Mary, whom he intends to propose to. It is then revealed that Mary is a hunter. When Mary goes to see John, Azazel possessing her father brutally snaps John's neck. Mary makes a deal with Azazel to bring John back to life in exchange for permission to enter her house in ten years, though he does not reveal his intentions of giving demon blood to Sam. In "On the Head of a Pin", Alastair reveals to Dean that he tortured John in Hell for over a century. According to Alastair, he gave John the same deal as he gave Dean, and that the original plan was to break the first seal - a righteous man spilling blood in Hell - with him, but John never gave in. In "Jump the Shark", it is revealed that John hunted a ghoul about twenty years ago and that during this hunt he slept with a nurse named Kate Milligan, whom he met after being brought into the hospital with some wounds. John unknowingly fathered his third son, Adam, with Kate. When he was 12 Adam contacted John (berating his mom until she gave him John's old phone number), and he visited them on-and-off, doing normal father-son things with Adam that he did not do with Dean and Sam. Dean would later come to the realization that John didn't want Adam to grow up with the life of his other sons as he hadn't been affected by the supernatural. Adam was not informed of Dean and Sam's existence (and vice versa) or the fact that John was a hunter. In 2009, two ghouls, children of the ghoul killed by John all those years ago, murder Kate and Adam Milligan and assume their forms, hoping to lure John into a trap. "Adam's" call reaches Dean and Sam instead, as John is already dead. Dean and Sam discover the trick, kill the two ghouls, and burn the body of the brother they had never known, (Dean saying as he was their brother and died like a hunter, he deserved the funeral of one). | |||||||||||||||||
