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That's the number one rule at Camp Green Lake. DO NOT UPSET THE WARDEN.
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~ Mr. Pendanski warning Stanley not to get on the Warden's bad side.
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Excuse me?
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~ Warden Walker's catchphrase.
Warden Louise Walker is the main antagonist of the 1998 young adult adventure novel Holes by Louis Sachar and its 2003 film adaptation of the same name.
As stated by her title, she is the corrupt and cruel warden of Camp Green Lake, wherein she forces delinquent teenage boys left without options into slavery for her own purpose. She is also the archenemy of Stanley Yelnats IV and Hector Zeroni, as well as the rest of the D-Tent crew.
Louise Walker originated in Green Lake, Texas. She spent a majority of her childhood digging holes (even on Christmas) in the barren wasteland that was once the serine Green Lake on the orders of her parents (in the novel) and her cruel and greedy grandfather Charles "Trout" Walker (in the film) to find the buried treasure of famed outlaw Kissin' Kate Barlow for her family to be extremely wealthy again. As seen in the film, as a child she hated digging for the treasure, but her angry grandfather forces her to continue as she grew older.
Running Camp Green Lake[]
First Signs of Progress[]
In the film, as the years pass by, Walker became just as obsessed as Trout for finding the treasure (probably even more so) and in both the film and book, she established a camp for juvenile delinquents and ordered them to dig holes, 5 feet deep every single day under the scorching sun across the lake under the guise of the work helping them "build character". In truth, she did not care at all for the boys learning a lesson for their crimes or becoming rehabilitated and simply used them as a slave labor force to help her find the treasure.
Eventually, Stanley Yelnats, a wrongfully convicted teen sent to Green Lake was able to find the location of the treasure. However, it remained hidden as he was forced to give up a lipstick tube found at the site to his group leader X-Ray, thus making the Warden believe the treasure was buried in the vicinity of X-Ray's hole (where he claimed he found the tube), though after making the boys dig a massive hole, nothing was found after 4 days, angering her. The treasure potentially may never have been found had the events of the book and film played out differently.
Scratching Mr. Sir[]
In both the film and book, Mr. Sir brings Stanley to the Warden to be punished after his sunflower seeds were stolen from his truck (his groupmate Magnet was the real thief though Stanley took the fall for it) and the Warden strikes Mr. Sir in the face with her fingernails coated with rattlesnake venom as punishment for bothering her. While Stanley is not punished, the Warden's actions lead to Mr. Sir depriving him of water for a time out of revenge for "stealing" his seeds and getting his face mutilated, but he eventually stops. When another of Stanley's groupmates, Squid, asks Mr. Sir about his scarred face, Mr. Sir reacts by slamming him against a pot and then throwing him to the ground.
The Endgame Begins[]
After a fight between Stanley and Zigzag, the Warden was present when Zero struck her henchman Mr. Pendanski in the face with a shovel after he insulted him and the Warden just let Zero run into the desert to die. She later ordered all records of Zero's presence at the camp to be destroyed to prevent the authorities from investigating her camp (although Pendanski is sure that no one will search for him due to his homelessness). Eventually, Stanley also escaped the camp after crashing Mr. Sir's truck into a hole while attempting to go save Zero and she claimed they would wait 2 weeks until he was long dead and gone to notify the authorities of his escape (In the film).
Stanley and Zero, after surviving in the desert for a time, returned to the camp and finally discovered the treasure of Kissin Kate Barlow, though the Warden and her henchman discovered them. However, she was still unable to get her hands on it due to yellow-spotted lizards.
Final Fate[]
By morning and with the arrival of Stanley's attorney and authorities, the boys eventually overcame the lizards. The Warden attempted to take the treasure from Zero by claiming it belongs to her and that Stanley had stolen it from her cabin, but she was horrified to discover the name "STANLEY YELNATS" engraved on it. With this evidence, the authorities allow Stanley to take the treasure home with him since it rightfully belongs to his family, much to the Warden's protests.
After Stanley convinces his lawyer to go through Zero's file, the authorities soon learn that Zero's file has been erased from the camp records, so the Attorney General takes control of the camp and places the Warden under arrest along with Mr. Sir and Dr. Pendanski, resulting in rain falling for the first time at Green Lake in 100 years.
The Warden meets her well-deserved comeuppance in the film when in a final attempt to see the treasure, she begs Stanley before his departure to open the treasure trunk so she could see what is inside, though, in revenge for her actions, Stanley coldly refuses and simply says "Excuse me?" before leaving with Zero. She is arrested and sent to prison along with her men for their crimes, much to their discomfort and her camp is closed, all the boys are released for time served and sent to real counselors and her camp eventually becomes a Girl Scout Camp.
In the book, the warden receives a less severe comeuppance and simply became bankrupt and sold her property but still was never able to get the treasure she wasted her entire life looking for.
Appearance[]
The Warden is a middle-aged woman with red hair and fair skin. She wears a cowboy hat and blue tunic with long blue jeans and cowboy boots. While she is in her cabin, she wears a white bra with black stretchy workout pants, which she occasionally wears a denim jacket over buttoned up halfway. When she wears her nail polish, her long and well-trimmed fingernails take on a very dark red color.
Personality[]
Initially, the Warden comes across as a strict and no-nonsense, yet charming and well-meaning middle-aged woman. However, she is in reality characterized by her greed and sadism. She has hired known criminals to run her camp, leaves stowaways to die, and injects Mr. Sir's cheek with rattlesnake venom (in the form of her notorious nail polish) just for wasting fifteen minutes of her time (ironically, this leaves them together longer, as she probably isn't strong enough to drag his plump six-foot body outside and he can't go anywhere in his condition).
Trivia[]
Sigourney Weaver's daughter was a fan of the book and wanted her to play the Warden. So, Sigourney ended up playing the Warden for her daughter.
Louise intended to leave Stanley and Hector in the desert to die. Legally, this would mean she would have been charged with negligent murder, because as the Warden of Camp Green Lake, she is fully responsible for the boys' overall welfare.
Although the Warden, Mr. Sir, Kissin' Kate Barlow and Mr. Pendanski are antagonists, their actors have top billing above the protagonist, Stanley.
She claims her nail polish’s unique colour cannot be found anywhere else as she made it herself.
This is never confirmed in the book nor film, but the Warden is implied to be the only female on the camp compound. Although none of the counselors besides Dr. Pendanski are ever described. 
