Gideon Gemstone

Gideon Gemstone is one of the main characters in the T.V. series, The Righteous Gemstones. He is portrayed by Skyler Gisondo

Background
Jesse and Amber’s estranged, oldest son Gideon ran away from the Gemstones to Los Angeles, where he’s trying to make it as a stuntman—or so his family thinks.

Plot
As of the beginning of season 1, Gideon was the estranged eldest son of Jesse and Amber Gemstone. He had left the family to pursue a career as a stuntman in Hollywood. However, he randomly showed back up in Charleston at his family's compound close to the Easter holiday. Feigning a desire to return to the family and get involved in Gemstone Ministries, Gideon used this as an opportunity to learn the ins and outs of the church's operations, namely their money handling during Sunday services. It is later revealed that Gideon was one of the blackmailers that had confronted his father Jesse in the red utility van. Gideon had been working with one of his stuntman buddies, Scotty, to try and blackmail his father in order to abscond to Thailand with the proceeds. When that failed with Jesse running over/hitting Scotty and Scotty's girlfriend, Gideon and Scotty hatched a plan to commit a major heist on Gemstone Ministries.

In a flashback episode, it is revealed that Gideon and his father were having a falling-out over his desire to pursue stunt work in Hollywood. Because of this conflict and Jesse's callous dismissal of Gideon, Gideon would secretly record Jesse and his friends doing cocaine, drinking, and canoodling with prostitutes/strippers. This recording on Gideon's phone would form the basis of his and Scotty's original blackmail scheme, later being stored on a hard drive that Jesse would later possess.

After hiding out in an RV park, Scotty was brought to the family by Gideon, falsely claiming that Gideon "saved" Scotty and brought him to the Lord. Using this cover story to involve Scotty more in the church's operations, they were able to case the main sanctuary and plan a heist of upwards of $3 million on Easter Sunday. Come Easter Sunday, Gideon would get cold feet and back out of the heist operation. Frustrated, Scotty would then kidnap Gideon, Jesse, and Eli at gunpoint, force them to open the church's vault, where Scotty would then take off with his proceeds. Luckily for the aforementioned three, Scotty would die in a horrific car accident, hitting Gideon's great uncle, Baby Billy Freeman, while Baby Billy was being fellated while driving with his wife, Tiffany.

However, upon being confronted by Eli, Gideon would take sole responsibility for the heist, specifically omitting the part where it all started with his blackmail video of his father, Jesse. Because Jesse didn't speak up to clarify about the situation, Amber would go on to banish Gideon from the family. Knowing full well it was actually his responsibility, Jesse let his guilt get to him. Jesse goes on to reveal the blackmail video to the families of everyone involved, which leads Amber to shoot Jesse in the buttocks and offer Jesse an ultimatum: either get Gideon back, or neither are welcome back in their home. Gideon would be discovered working for the Gemstone Ministries mission in Haiti, as a way to pay off his debts to the church. Jesse goes to Haiti and confronts Gideon, who coldly refuses to come back with Jesse, stating that Jesse's motives are selfish and not from some fatherly love. Jesse would return to Charleston and tell Amber this, who decides to separate from Jesse until Gideon returns. Jesse later has a change of heart, and ends up returning to Haiti, where he and Gideon begin working together at the mission.

Quotes
"Because of my frame they have me doubling for women a lot. It's called wiggin'."