He then takes over as lookout and watches the camp from the roof of the RV. The next day, Ed watches with the other camp members when Daryl Dixon is informed that his brother Merle was left behind on a rooftop in a building. However, Carol does it to keep things peacefully. That night, as newcomer Rick Grimes talks with his family and other members of the group, Ed starts a fire in an attempt to receive some warmth from the cold night and after Shane asks him to dim it down to embers, he refuses. Sometime after the city was napalmed by the military, they formed a campsite outside the outskirts of Atlanta, along with other survivors.Įd watches as Shane, Dale Horvath, and Jim work together to remove the battery from the car Glenn Rhee has brought to the camp after returning from the scavenge mission in Atlanta. While on the road, Ed became angry when Carol offered a snack to Lori so her son could eat, and ordered her not to share with anyone. On the way, they got caught in a traffic jam and met Shane, Lori, and Carl. Post-Apocalypse Metro- Atlanta, Georgia ĭuring the onset of the outbreak, Ed and his family traveled towards a supposedly safe-zone in Atlanta.
At one point, Ed grabbed Carol by her hair and slammed her head against the wall, an event which would cause her to cut off all of her hair. When Sophia was an infant, Ed resorted to staying at a friend's house nights on end, leaving Carol to deal with Sophia by herself.Įd dominated Carol throughout their marriage, from preventing her from buying her own clothes, to physically and verbally assaulting her in order to solidify his authority. He rarely paid attention to Sophia, often relying on Carol to be the parental figure of the family. They had a daughter together, who was named Sophia. In his younger years, he charmed Carol enough to convince her to date and eventually marry him. Pre-Apocalypse Southern United States Įd never attended college and grew up as an uneducated and abusive individual. While never elaborated on, it's hinted that Ed had a predatory sexual relationship with his daughter as Carol stated in a prayer in " What Lies Ahead" that she wished Ed to be punished for not only abusing her but also "for looking at his own daughter, whatever sickness was growing in his soul." Lori Grimes, who was sitting beside Carol during the prayer, reacted noticeably.
Carol subsequently kept her hair short to prevent this and the trauma of Ed's abuse would cause her to keep her hair short for years after his death before she would feel safe enough to let it grow long again.Įd was revealed to have paid very little attention to his daughter Sophia and when she was an infant he would often stay at a friend's house, leaving Carol to care for Sophia.
In " Omega," Carol's adopted son Henry tells Daryl Dixon that he overheard Carol telling Ezekiel that whenever she tried to get away from Ed, he would use her long hair to pull Carol back to him and abuse her more. Carol reveals that the controlling bully would try and assert his dominance by not allowing her to wear attractive clothing. At one point Ed started an argument with the women of the camp that was completely unprovoked and brazenly threatened to hit Andrea he would also often verbally abuse and harass the other women of the group. Ed was a boorish, surly, combustible, abrasive, compassionless, misogynistic and vicious bully who was brazenly violent and abusive to his wife and implied to be violent to his daughter as well - as while threatening to kill him in response to him hitting Carol, Shane also mentioned that if he put his hands on Sophia again, he'd kill him for that as well.
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