Minor characters: The Walkers in Skin¶

This page lists the minor and one-scene characters of The Walkers in Skin, the Utah arc set around Ballard, Roosevelt and the Sherman Ranch.

Armed townsfolk at the gym¶

Unnamed Ballard locals who file into the school gym behind the duplicate of Andrew Howard, flanked by upright horses. One shotguns the real Andrew, and many die when a grenade goes off in the gym. Afterward the duplicate tells the party that townsfolk tried to kidnap him. (Walkers 07)

Ballard general store clerk¶

A middle-aged, lifelong Ballard resident with an enormous beehive hairdo, who sells the party bologna, white bread and cheap beer. She insists the town is normal ("the ranch is weird, but that's the county"), resents the community center, blames the mayor and Deborah Wells, and misses Reagan. She tells Andrew about Edward Douglas and recommends the diner's funeral potatoes. Her name is never given. See Ballard general store. (Walkers 02)

Ballard grocery clerk¶

The only person on duty at the Ballard grocery when Huell goes there after a mysterious page. Listless and unhelpful, she patches the bite on his wrist, offers "ham or something," and tells him Ballard has no homeless people. She suggests the page was a prank. See the "homeless" man. (Walkers 06)

Big-house doorman¶

A curt, unfamiliar doorman at Bigelow's big house who tells Kurt, at night, that Bigelow is asleep and to come back tomorrow. Kurt leaves before he "escalates." He is a man the party has not seen before. (Walkers 04)

Bigelow's enforcer¶

A big, burly guard at Bigelow's compound in Ballard who serves the team pancakes, cheap syrup and coffee on paper plates while the rest of the staff, armed with SPAS-12s and M16s, stay on edge. (Walkers 08)

Bigelow's staff psychiatrist¶

An unnamed psychiatrist employed by Bigelow. After the night event, the party gives him a 45-minute debrief, deliberately leaving out the levitation and the vanished fillings. See the night event. (Walkers 05)

Bud¶

Sheriff McDermish's deadpan seven-year-old son. He answers the door of the sheriff's trailer ("My daddy's on the shitter. Can I help you?"), watches Aladdin on VHS and beats his father at Monopoly. In Walkers 06 the sheriff, fleeing the state, tells his son to get his backpack because they are going "to see the aunts." (Walkers 03, Walkers 06)

Carl (Roosevelt cop)¶

A hungover Roosevelt police officer whose entire contribution to the investigation is the word "Ham." He microwaves Canadian bacon, eats Lucky Charms from a coffee cup, eavesdrops on the party's whispered conference and chokes on hot ham. The "ham guy" became a running joke at the table. See Roosevelt Police Department. (Walkers 06)

Chuck¶

An offscreen teenager who grows sickly yellow marijuana behind his parents' trailer and sells it for $25. He is a friend of Harrison's brother and the source of the weed the two boys are carrying when the party catches them. (Walkers 04)

Cold-open patrolman¶

A Native American man in a big cowboy hat who patrols the ranch at night with a shotgun, an ATV and a dog, seen only in the cold open of Walkers 02. He whistles for the dog, finds nothing and drives off, and a coyote then steps out from behind the sheep and stands up on two legs. Gardner later describes a Native American former Army Ranger who reported shooting at a snooper near the barn; that man is the gate guard Walt, whom the patrolman resembles, though the cold open never names him. See upright coyotes. (Walkers 02)

Confused Roosevelt resident¶

An older man in Roosevelt whose car was stolen and whose job did not open. He likes Wheel of Fortune and plans to eat unheated TV dinners and read a book, since the power is off ("Get an electric oven, they said"). (Walkers 08)

Coyote-feeding woman¶

An unnamed woman in the cold open of Walkers 05. She drives a pickup into the desert with a bulging backpack, and as coyotes circle the truck she scoops white powder with a coffee cup and pours it down the throat of one whose mouth opens unnaturally wide, with grey fibers moving inside. Her identity and purpose are never explained. See upright coyotes. (Walkers 05)

Craig¶

A name dropped in a joke. In Walkers 06, during banter about ghosts and tulpas, Dante (as Kurt) says, "tulpas are definitely real, or Craig had telekinesis." Rita answers, "I'm saying he had telekinesis." Craig is never explained. (Walkers 06)

Doug's victim¶

A woman who lets herself into Doug's desert trailer with the spare key hidden under a ceramic frog. She finds a hoard of Jell-O and a garbage-bag-wrapped figure, and Doug's grey tendrils infest her. Her fate is not shown. See Doug's trailer. (Walkers 06)

Eager Roosevelt officer¶

A young, starstruck Roosevelt cop who leaks the lead about the junkyard to the party and is proud of how quickly Yusuf confessed ("I've never had a case come together so quickly"). He boasts that the suspect confessed after "30, 45 minutes of working him over." (Walkers 05, Walkers 06)

Ed Shepherd¶

A missing Ballard local, named only by the sheriff: his trailer is empty and his mail is piling up. He is one of the examples of the disappearances in Ballard. (Walkers 06)

Edgar Roberto¶

A teenage delinquent who stole every toilet seat in the Ballard school without knowing why. Sheriff McDermish names him as his usual culprit for local mischief. (Walkers 03)

Edward Douglas¶

A Ballard resident mentioned by the beehive clerk, who shot half his right foot off and drove an hour in a manual car to get it treated. He is never met. (Walkers 02)

Elderly farmer¶

A maimed skinwalker in the cavern, missing an arm with his torso blown open. He vomits his brain-creature into a tank and dies, while the other copies stand silently entangling their tendrils. See skinwalkers and the cavern. (Walkers 09)

FedEx truck driver¶

A driver turned back at the bridge blockade, which is manned by skinwalkers in stolen police uniforms. His fate is unknown. See the bridge blockade. (Walkers 08)

Good Hills Diner waiter¶

A glum teenager with bad acne who mixes up the party's waffle and pancake order at the Good Hills Diner, where Andrew attempts the French Toast Castle. See Good Hills Diner. (Walkers 04)

Herbert¶

Drebin's pet iguana, who rides on his shoulder and has "mad lizard eyes." Drebin shows him off to the party before leaving to return with the ground-penetrating radar. (Walkers 05)

Hertz clerk¶

A voice on the phone from Hertz Rent-A-Car who pages Andrew to report the rental Plymouth Voyager blocking East Lagoon Street in Roosevelt. She spells out "L-A-G-O-O-N" and tells him to keep better track of his car. See the Plymouth Voyager. (Walkers 04)

Kurt's wife¶

Kurt's wife is never seen. In Walkers 01 she is established as an excellent cook with Vietnamese leanings, whom Dante jokes is ex-Viet Cong; in Walkers 02 Kurt says she mostly cooks Vietnamese food; in Walkers 03 he mentions a watch his wife bought him on vacation. (Walkers 01, Walkers 02, Walkers 03)

Marina¶

A staffer at Bigelow's research operation who has recurring nightmares of drowning. Bigelow mentions her when asked whether his staff have had psychological symptoms. See Bigelow's research operation. (Walkers 05)

Marshall Crichton¶

Harrison's silent friend, who joins him in the barn and refuses to say why he came. Kurt nicknames him Snake Eyes before he gives his name. He tells Harrison, "We're the fucking worst at crime." (Walkers 04)

Officer Hernandez¶

A polite Roosevelt police officer who winces at swearing. He assumes the wrecked Voyager is the work of vandals with a roller crusher and a flatbed and plans to check the junkyards. After seeing Andrew's FBI ID he waives the tickets, recommends the diner and arranges the loan of the squad car Betsy. See Roosevelt Police Department. (Walkers 04)

Philip Bishop¶

Gardner's tall, thin, silent FBI partner, who has a thin mustache and blinks owlishly. He stiffens at Huell's "So, Mormons, am I right?", which is followed by about four minutes of sweaty silence. He confirms the former Ranger's account of the shooting and the lack of evidence. See the FBI Salt Lake City field office. (Walkers 02)

Ranch gate guard¶

An unnamed guard who lets the party out of the ranch gate after the dusk event. The episodes treat him as a separate person from Walt. See the dusk event. (Walkers 03)

Roadside ambushers¶

A matronly woman with a double-barrel shotgun, a pot-bellied man with a handgun and two children with kitchen knives, who ambush McManley on the road with a spike strip and roll his Suburban. McManley kills all four, and is shaken afterward that two were children. Two of the bodies, one child and one adult, are found to be carrying dead pilots in their skulls. See pilot and host biology. (Walkers 08)

Roosevelt dentist¶

A dentist working from a spare room, who has never seen every filling in a patient's mouth vanish. The only material on hand is gold, so he spends five hours replacing the Biz's fillings with non-magnetic gold on the company's dime. (Walkers 05)

Roosevelt hospital doctors¶

Doctors at the Roosevelt hospital who keep the hospital's generator running for a single ventilator patient after the ambulance and radio are stolen. Smoke is visible outside the door. See Roosevelt, Utah. (Walkers 08)

Roosevelt repair-shop mechanic¶

A mechanic who tells the party that every drivable car in town has been stolen and the rest sabotaged by hand, with batteries removed, wires and belts cut, tires slashed and sugar in the gas tanks. The party concludes that someone wants nobody to leave. (Walkers 08)

Salt Lake FBI secretary¶

The friendly front-desk secretary at the Salt Lake City field office, who confirms that Big Bill called ahead and gives the party directions. See the FBI Salt Lake City field office. (Walkers 02)

Shelly (FBI staffer)¶

A staffer at the Salt Lake City office, heard on the intercom when Gardner asks for another drinking-fountain test kit; he calls her "a peach." She is unrelated to Shelly Wilmarth. (Walkers 02)

Stewart's checkout lady¶

A chatty elderly cashier at Stewart's grocery in Roosevelt who thanks the party for not patronizing the Dollar Tree "interloper" and guesses they are Feds. She winks at Andrew as "Half-Gallon Howard" after he buys a half-gallon of ice cream, and she is reading a "Mormon smutty" pirate romance. The total is $19.43. See Stewart's. (Walkers 05)

The medic¶

A kindly National Guard medic who treats Howard, Huell and Kurt in the field. When the Guard collapses, he panics because he has no chain of command, and Kurt takes his Humvee ("I'm the chain of command. We're moving."). See the National Guard. (Walkers 09)

Thomas Kendrick¶

Huell's father, seen only in a memory. When the tendrils of a captured skinwalker enter Huell's mouth, they pull up a scene of his father eating a plate of bacon while his mother needles him about cholesterol. (Walkers 09)

A man's voice that pages Huell and says, "I have something you should see. It's about your colleague," telling him to come alone to the back room of the Ballard grocery. Nobody shows up, and the number is unlisted. The caller's identity is never established. (Walkers 06)