Private Jake Talley was one of the Special Children who had the powers of enhanced strength and mind control. He was a former factory worker, soldier serving in Afghanistan who had gone AWOL and the one special child who emerged victorious in the final elimination contest at Cold Oak, South Dakota. He was threatened into opening the Devil's Gate and killed by Sam Winchester via multiple gun shots to the chest. He had been the one to kill Ava Wilson via snapping her neck and Sam by stabbing him in the back with his own knife.