Thursday’s episode was originally written as the season 1 finale.
Walker’s past has quite literally landed on his front doorstep.
And as we saw in the last episode, the Rodeo Kings aren’t messing around.
Austin Nichols as Clint West, Jared Padalecki as Cordell Walker, and Matthew Barr as Hoyt on ‘Walker.'.Rebecca Brenneman/The CW
They’ve already shot Liam (Keegan Allen).
EW spoke with series star and executive producerJared Padaleckiabout what to expect from the hour.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Liam’s been shot.
Are we picking up right where we left off, in the action of it all?
JARED PADALECKI:We pick up right where we left off.
We pick up in real-time right where [episode] 12 ended and carry on from there.
How do they not have a force field installed around this ranch?
That’s episode 14.
[Laughs] Building a force field.
You would think so, right?
Walker’s famous among his friends and family and the Rangers but really he’s just a Ranger.
He’s one of so many law enforcement agents we have here in Texas.
So he learns really quickly in episode 13.
I’m sure he also never thought the Rodeo Kings would show up on his doorstep.
They thought they had taken care of it.
Turns out they had not.
Walker still has so much guilt about leaving his family for that undercover work.
How’s he going to cope with it threatening the lives of those he loves?
Walker’s the kind of guy who would rather get shot at than get yelled at by his kids.
This was originally written as the series finale, correct?
Before you all were given five more episodes?
Yeah, it was.
And it didn’t change when they added episodes, so it’s an enormous, enormous episode.
It’s the biggest by far.
I had to stay in a certain headspace.
I really wanted to do it properly; I wanted to give everything to Walker.
It’s a huge episode.
Walkerairs Thursdays at 8 p.m.
ET on the CW.
