Samuel Campbell

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Name	Samuel Campbell
Actor	Mitch Pileggi
Dates	killed by Azazel in May 1973; resurrected in 2010/11
Location	Lawrence, Kansas
Occupation	Hunter
Episode(s)	4.03 In The Beginning 6.01 Exile On Main St. 6.02 Two And A Half Men 6.05 Live Free or Twihard 6.07 Family Matters

Samuel Campbell is a hunter married to Deanna Campbell. He is the father of Mary Winchester and the grandfather of Sam and Dean Winchester, as well as Sam's namesake. Dean meets him when Castiel sends Dean back to 1973 to investigate the origins of Azazel's involvement with his family.

4.03 In The Beginning

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Samuel is a gruff, suspicious and anti-social man who neither trusts nor likes other hunters, though he grudgingly tolerates Dean as he proves himself capable on the job. After he, Mary and Dean encounter the Yellow-Eyed Demon at the home of Liddy Walsh, one of Mary's friends, the demon possesses Samuel. While using Samuel's meatsuit, Azazel stabs Samuel himself in the gut, snaps the neck of his wife, kills young John Winchester and makes a deal with Mary to bring John, but not her parent's, back in exchange for entering Mary's home in ten years (1983).

6.01 Exile On Main St.

When Dean is attacked by a Djinn, Sam rescues him and reveals he has been back from Hell for a year and hunting with cousins Gwen Campbell, Christian Campbell, Mark Campbell and grandfather Samuel.

Samuel doesn't know how he returned from the dead - he tells Dean "We're guessing whatever pulled Sam up, pulled me down." He says he wanted to come and get Dean and bring him back to hunting but respected Sam's wishes to leave Dean out of it. Samuel is obviosuly still adjusting to living in the 21st century - he doesn't know the term 'soccer mom' and refers to the the internet as the "intranet".

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Samuel knows an antidote to the Djinn's poison, which they use on Dean. The Campbells go back to the house Dean is sharing with Lisa and Ben to catch the Djinn, but when they realise the Djinn are watching the house, Dean suggests they need to leave so the Djinn will attack. When they do it is Samuel who helps defeat them.

6.02 Two And A Half Men

Samuel receives a call from Sam, who is investigating a string of suspicious child kidnappings. Sam thinks the case may not be their "kind of thing," and Samuel questions his lack of concern for the situation. Sam asks him to find out if the previous victims used the same brand of home security. After rescuing a child from another kidnapping, revealed to be perpetrated by Shapeshifters, Sam and Dean bring the child (who is itself the offspring of a shapeshifter) to the Campbells' compound. Despite Dean's suspicions that the Campbells will kill the baby, Samuel says that they will raise it, and let it hunt when it's old enough if it wants to. Samuel presents the child to Christian as an adoptive son.

Moments later, however, an exceptionally powerful shapeshifter arrives in Samuel's form and demands the return of its child. The Campbells attack the shapeshifter but it easily overpowers them and kills Mark despite being shot, stabbed in the heart with a Silver knife, and hit with several elephant tranquilizers. It then takes the baby from Sam and Dean and escapes. Samuel later reveals the monster to be an Alpha Shapeshifter the progenitor of all of the shapeshifters.

He is later seen on the phone with someone, promising that he will capture the Alpha Shapeshifter for them.

6.05 Live Free or Twihard

Samuel seems certain that vampires are involved in the disappearances in Limestone, Illinois because they follow a pattern: this is the fourth town where kids have gone missing and a blood bank van has been jumped and the blood stolen. In this town, the driver of the blood bank van was found with his throat ripped out. Samuel convinces Sam that he and Dean need to investigate further.

After Dean is turned into a vampire, Samuel tells them that the Campbells have a possible cure for vampirism written in Samuel's grandfather's journal, but it can only be used if Dean doesn't drink any blood. Samuel and Sam will gather most of the ingredients for the cure, but Dean has to get the blood of the vampire, Boris, who turned him. Dean insists that he will go into the vampire nest alone: he can sense where they are and he's sure that Sam would just attract attention because he "reeks" like "a walking hamburger." Samuel gives Dean a syringe of dead man's blood to use against Boris, and Dean leaves. Once they're alone, Samuel confronts Sam about his apparent knowledge of the cure. He's worried that Sam purposefully let Dean get infected so that he could get inside the vampire nest and help them capture an Alpha vampire they've been looking for. Sam denies everything, but Samuel doesn't seem convinced.

Later, once Dean has Boris' blood, Samuel helps Sam and Dean to create the vampirism cure that saves Dean.

6.07 Family Matters

When Dean, Sam, and Castiel learn that Sam no longer has his soul, they question Samuel about his own resurrection and test him to see if he still has his soul. They learn that his soul is still present, and Samuel reiterates that he doesn't remember anything before waking up alive. After Castiel leaves, Sam and Dean learn that Samuel is preparing to attack the nest of the Alpha Vampire, but Samuel seems reluctant to invite Sam and Dean along. Eventually, Dean convinces him to let them help. Before they leave for the attack, Dean, who is suspicious of Samuel's motivations, tries to break into his office but is waylayed by Christian.

Once they reach the house where the Alpha is hiding, Samuel orders Dean and Gwen to stay back and "sweep any stragglers" they flush out, but Dean is unsatisfied with this and heads around the back of the house, where he sees Samuel, Sam, and the other hunters loading the Alpha vampire into the back of a van. He waits until he's alone with Sam to confront him about it, and learns that Samuel is taking the creatures he captures somewhere to be interrogated. They activate a GPS tracker in one of Samuel's cell phones so that they can track him to where he takes the Alpha vampire, and they arrive to find Samuel torturing it, but not getting anywhere. He leaves the room and Sam and Dean take the opportunity to question the Alpha themselves. Eventually, he tells them that Samuel is trying to get information from him about Purgatory and where it is located, and that he's doing it on someone else's orders. Before they can learn more, Samuel, Christian, Gwen, and another hunter interrupt them and hold them at gun point. They're forced to disarm, but then the Alpha escapes and they join forces to try to kill it. Just when things are looking dire, demons show up and take the Alpha away with them, and Crowley appears.

Crowley, as the new King of Hell, had the power to resurrect Samuel and Sam, and he did so because he wanted their help. Crowley reveals that Christian has been possessed for a while and serving as his mole, and that Samuel has been working for him, gathering high-ranking creatures and trying to learn the location of Purgatory because Crowley is interested in "developing" it. He tells them that if Sam ever wants the return of his soul, he and Dean need to help Samuel continue to capture creatures for him.

Samuel Campbell in Fandom

• In Season 6 his fandom nickname became Sampa.