Jordan McKimmel

**Jordan Graham McKimmel** is an American drug kingpin and former Marine. A former accountant in Riverside, California, he joined the Los Angeles drug trade in order to pay for his lifestyle and secure his family's financial future. He is the main protagonist of the HOOT Original crime drama series *Broken Down Hard*.

After learning of his recent unemployment, former colleague and friend, Dave Sanchez, enlists the aid of Jordan to provide enforcing services for his company. Jordan eventually becomes business partners with Dave and Raymond López, assisting in distribution and money laundering. At the beginning of his new career, Garcia-López made mere thousands of dollars through street dealing, and were constantly met with failure. Following multiple tense, deadly partnerships with distributors Nio Morales and Benjamin Cruz that ended in their respective deaths, however, and with the help of Dave, Elena López, Matt Starkman, and Stefan Alexander, Jordan eventually became the head of his own drug empire: the largest cocaine manufacturing operation in US history, branching as far as Eastern Europe.

After accumulating an $100 million fortune, Jordan finally attempted to retire from the drug business permanently, so he could return to a life with his family. However, the Los Angeles County Sheriff Lucas Townsend eventually discovered his criminal secrets and embarked on a mission to bring McKimmel down. After secretly aligning himself with Elena, Townsend succeeded in bringing Jordan to justice, and he was arrested by authorities on a host of charges. After being turned on by the entire drug trade, even his own empire, Jordan was forced to go onto trial for the charges, eventually being found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

A month after the vedict, Jordan, in order to avoid a death sentence, revealed to Sheriff Townsend that Stefan Alexander was the person who killed Peggy Anderson. Discovering this, Stefan shot and left Jordan for dead.

## History

### Background Information

Jordan Graham McKimmel was born on February 14, 1986. When Jordan was young, his father was absent for the majority of his childhood due to his career in the military, and all the good stories that friends and family told Jordan inspired him to pursue a career in the military ("Greetings"). He remembered how his father apologized for not being there for him and how we would try to, but he would later be killed during service ("Greetings"). He presumably grew up somewhere near Phoenix, given the fact that he lived in Phoenix during high school. ("Memento")

When he was nineteen, Jordan joined the United States Marine Corps. It was here where he killed his first person, while on surveillance duty with Albert Nguyen, a fellow marine. After spotting three suspicious individuals nearby their hideout, Jordan used a sniper rifle to kill each one of them, hitting each one with incredible accuracy and marksmanship. At the time, Jordan was congratulated by Albert and his other peers for his skills, but this event would later haunt Jordan as, after he left the military, he realized that he may have accidentally killed three innocents.

Sometime later, Jordan and Albert were on patrol investigating the murder of a dog when they were attacked by a gunman hiding in a building nearby. Jordan had a clear shot at the gunman but he hesitated, resulting in Albert being shot and killed. This caused a long life resentment of himself, blaming himself for Albert's death. After this, Jordan was sent to a hospital in Germany, where, he was later discharged.

By the turn of 2012, Jordan was working as an accountant near Los Angeles, where he met his wife Holly Walker, who worked as a surgeon in a neighbouring hospital ("Tacino"). In Riverside, he and Holly settled into an apartment at 1532 Central Avenue, despite his desire for a smaller house, and they married on April 3, 2014 ("Something Hopeful"). Financially, his job was not enough to support his family, so Holly did side work writing articles and selling items on the internet. After struggling financially for months, Jordan took on a degrading second job at a fast food restaurant.

## Trivia

* He is the central character of *Broken Down Hard*, and is portrayed as an antihero. As the series progresses, Jordan gradually becomes darker and takes on a more villainous role until the fifth season finale.
* According to show creator Cooper Brandis, the estimated amount of money inside the storage space is between 50 and 80 million dollars.
* Jordan's car was a well-used 2007 Mercury Grand Marquis that had been repainted in a non-factory color chosen by series creator Cooper Brandis, perhaps to mimic the look of a badly-faded factory paint job or as symbolic of McKimmel's previously bland existence. The windshield has been broken and replaced several times due to various acts that have been a result of Jordan's descent into the drug world. The show's production team has at least 2 Mercuries equipped for different filming situations.
* Jordan is 6'0" (183 cm) and 183 lbs (83 kg) ("Adjudicator").
* Jordan is the only character to appear in every episode.
* Jordan has killed (inadvertently or otherwise) 89 people.
* Jordan and Dave are the only main to have killed another main character.
* Jordan is shown to be particularly good at mathematics, as shown when he calculates most of the numbers to his deals within his head and with no calculator.
* Cooper Brandis developed most of Jordan's backstory, and also partially chose his attire. When he developed Jordan's hair, he cut his hair himself, saying that Jordan wouldn't waste money getting a haircut.