Winston Scott
The owner of the New York Continental, John Wick's old friend and mentor.
Winston Scott, played by Ian McShane, is the owner and manager of the Continental Hotel in New York City, a powerful underworld figure and a close friend of John Wick, for whom he acts as a father figure. He took John in after he was orphaned and became his mentor. In the 2023 prequel series The Continental, set in the 1970s, Colin Woodell plays the young Winston, a Scottish-American businessman living in London who comes to run the New York Continental.
Quick Facts
- First appearance
- John Wick
Lore & Background
In John Wick, Winston tells John where to find Iosef and has the hitwoman Perkins executed for breaking the Continental's rules. In Chapter 2, after John kills Santino D'Antonio in the Continental lounge, Winston is forced to declare him excommunicado, but delays it by one hour and gives John a marker. In Chapter 3 – Parabellum, the Adjudicator gives Winston seven days to resign for helping John; he refuses and arms John against the High Table's enforcers, then offers his allegiance to the Table, shoots John off the hotel roof and is reinstated.
Reader's Guide
In Chapter 4, the Marquis Vincent Bisset de Gramont strips Winston of his duties, declares him excommunicado, destroys the New York Continental and executes Charon. Winston suggests that John challenge the Marquis to a duel and acts as John's second; after John wins, the Harbinger reinstates Winston as manager of the New York Continental, and Winston and the Bowery King later bid farewell to John at his gravestone.
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