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| “ | Have a drink, and relax... for now. | „ |
| ~ Winston to John Wick. |
| “ | Oh, he has to die. | „ |
| ~ Winston apparently betraying John. |
| “ | Just have fun out there. | „ |
| ~ Winston to John Wick before his duel with Caine. |
Winston Scott is the deuteragonist of the John Wick film series and the main protagonist in The Continental: From the World of John Wick. Winston is a high-ranking member of the High Table, the manager of the New York Continental Hotel and a close friend to John Wick.
He is portrayed by Ian McShane and Colin Woodell young.
Biography[]
John Wick[]
In the first film, Winston makes a short appearances at the start of he film. When John appears in the Continental hotel he goes to the bar to search for Iosef after Iosef robbed his car and in the process killed his dog. Winston greets him as they are old friends, but tells him that such businesses aren't allowed in the hotel, so he's better off just relaxing.
Winston returns later in the film when Ms. Perkins (of the Friends-watching Allied Nordicist Yankee Tarasov family) kills an old assassin and friend to John named Harry, which breaks against the Continental's rules of not killing people outside of the organization. Winston confronts her and calmly tells her that her membership in the Continental has been revoked, in which his henchmen quickly execute her and walk away.
John Wick: Chapter Two[]
Winston first appears when Santino D'Antonio discussed with him about John Wick and what to do, and Winston states that Santino has put himself in a dangerous situation as he's gotten Wick back in his old life as an assassin, and considering Santino's put Wick in a bad situation as well, he might be killed by him.
At the end of the film Wick confronts Santino while he's eating. Santino taunts Wick to get him to kill him which would effectively ruin Wick's life even more. Although Winston tries to convince Wick not to do it, he kills Santino anyway. In the final scene of the film, Winston and John meet after John broke a rule in the Continental, and every assassin in the Continental will now be notified about that, and will be ordered to execute him. However, he gives John a one hour lead, as they are after all old friends.
John Wick: Chapter Three - Parabellum[]
Winston returns in the third film. Winston and the High Table meet John Wick at a parlay and discuss what they have to do about the situation, and they actually come to an agreement to spare him. However, after the agreement, Winston goes out and shoots John so that he falls down, though not fatally. It is unknown if he genuinely tried to kill John or did it non-fatally purposely. It was soon revealed that John Wick barely survived the gunshot upon being taken in to Bowery King.
John Wick: Chapter Four[]
As punishment for Winston's failure to kill John, the High Table sent the Marquis Vincent de Gramont, who condemned and destroyed the New York Continental, killed Charon and declared Winston excommunicado.
Enraged over his friend's murder, Winston met with the Bowery King, asking for him to arrange a meeting with John. Winston claimed that he had no choice but to shoot John as the High Table held all of the cards, but now he's aggrieved. John meets with Winston at Charon's grave where he expresses his condolences and Winston urges him to fight the High Table smartly by turning their own rules against them: issue a duel between John and Vincent which will guarantee John's freedom win or lose. Although John doesn't sit at the table, his family, the Ruska Roma, does and he can have them issue the challenge and offer John up as a proxy. Although the Ruska Roma tore up John's ticket, Winston tells him to get it mended or to "pick a plot" in the graveyard. John asks what Winston gets out of this and Winston tells him that he is good at getting revenge.
After John succeeds, Winston, as John's second, delivers his challenge to Vincent with John's demands: the unconditional release from any and all obligations to the Table. Winston adds his own demands that his ex-communicado is to be lifted upon John's victory, Winston's title restored, the Continental rebuilt and reconsecrated, all at the expense of the Table. Vincent accepts after Winston plays to his ego, but reveals that Winston's life is forfeit if John loses.
Under the authority of The Harbinger, the Table's representative, John and Vincent met to agree to the terms of their duel, but Vincent nominated Caine to fight in his place. Winston watched the meeting where John was surprised to learn of Winston's own addition to his demands, but simply remarked with amusement that Winston always has angle which he acknowledges. Winston urged John to find safe harbor sooner rather than later until it's time for the duel.
Winston later arrives in the subway with the Bowery King who provides John with a new bulletproof suit for the duel and a gun. With a bounty issued for John to keep him from arriving at the duel, the Bowery King drives the two men down an underground river to get John close and Winston and John discuss how, when it came to burying Charon, Winston put on his gravestone "friend" because that's what Charon truly was to him: Winston's friend. Before parting ways, John asks Winston to put Loving Husband on his gravestone if he is to die which Winston promises to do.
Despite all of the assassins trying to kill him, John manages to reach the duel with the help of Caine and Mr. Nobody. After three rounds of the duel, John is gravely wounded while Caine suffers non-life-threatening injuries. Vincent goes to finish John off himself, failing to realize that John hadn't fired during the third round. With a laugh, Winston called Vincent an arrogant fool and revealed Vincent's mistake just before John shoots Vincent in the head, killing him. With John's victory, the Harbinger declared that John's obligation to the High Table was satisfied, and he is free as are Caine and his daughter, as Vincent threatened the life of Caine's daughter in order to get him to comply while Winston would be fully reinstated, and all of his terms fulfilled. Before John died peacefully of his wounds, Winston promised to bring his old friend home.
Winston and the Bowery King later visited John's grave together, having buried John next to his wife. Before leaving, Winston bid John farewell in Russian, calling John "my son."
Quotes[]
| “ | Rules. Without them, we live with the animals. | „ |
| ~ Winston. |
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