Cordell Walker could use a friend.

series star and executive producerJared Padaleckitells EW.

“Walker has known Hoyt for decades, they grew up together.

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“It’s a theme we keep going throughout the season and throughout the show, ultimately.”

So will he start to let that mystery go?

“Walker thinks he’s after vengeance, but I think he’s really after closure.

He just doesn’t know it yet.

He doesn’t know how to put it.

He will always be after more.

They answered a few questions [last week] but they posed a few more.”

One thing we know for sure?

“They are a little bit on the mend,” Padalecki says of the father-daughter relationship.

They haven’t figured out just yet how to grieve together and how to support each other.

Walkerairs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the CW.