Dean Jackson

Dean Jackson is one of the nine protagonists of the 2010 thriller film Nine Dead. He is a police officer, who had unknowingly assisted Kelly Murphy in framing Wade Greely in an attempt to maintain her career. 
He is protrayed by William Lee Scott, who played in Gone in 60 Seconds, Pearl Harbor, October Sky and The Butterfly Effect. Scott began his career as a series regular on The Steve Harvey Show. 
== Biography ==
Dean Jackson started off in the police force in the Valley Divison, where his partner (who was already having a bad day), caught a "Speed Freak", who took a swing at him, then proceeded to beat him. Realizing the beating was going too far, Jackson wanted to stop him, but was too afraid to go against his partner, then fearing that he might lose his job joined in after being urged by his partner. Feeling guilty about the incident, he left the department and transferred elsewhere, where he was trying make things right by continuing to be a good cop. 
At some point, he married an unnamed wife, then later had an affair with Kelly Murphy, an upcoming prosecutor, who he unknowingly had a son with named Billy, but she blamed it on someone else. At around this time, during one of her trials involving someone named Wade Greely, who she knew was innocent, but wanted to make it so he was tried as guilty to save her career. And so, Kelly used her relationship with Jackson to get into see the evidence again for the trial, without realizing that she switched the collected hairs, resulting in Wade's conviction, and eventual death.
== Personality ==
Jackson comes off as a rather likeable and upright policeman, wanting to do the right thing no matter what. He didn't want to reveal that he was a cop, at first, since it might cause the criminals who happened to be in the room to not speak, fearing it was a trap to arrest them, which would result in someone's death each time ten minutes passed. Jackson was also always quick to get the others into working together to figure out the reason that all of them were brought there, but would often not get anyone to agree with him, at least until someone died in front of them. 
Because of his desire to do the right thing, he often feels great regret and guilt over the actions he does, ranging from him beating a kid in his past to the point of blinding him, and cheating on his wife. Due to this, Jackson also shares a deep aggression toward worse criminals such as Coogan who openly admitted that he was a rapist, pedophile, and murderer, even wanting to beat him himself. 
Jackon also has a complex relationship with Kelly, who appears to be his opposite in several ways, often arguing with her throughout the incident, because of her own selfishness and desire to turn on the others to survive. It made things worse as he realized that she was hiding someone from the rest of them about the incident, then realized that she used him to frame Wade Greely, which resulted in them all being captured, and brought their by his vengeful father, and even keeping the fact that Billy was his son. 
== Trivia ==
*Among the nine prisoners kept there, Jackson had the least reason to be there since Kelly replaced the evidence without him knowing. As well as it being apart of his job to allow lawyers access to evidence related to their cases.
*Jackson and Kelly played opposing roles in their capture: he tried to bring everyone together to find the reasons they're there; whereas Kelly tried breaking them apart and surviving (at least, with Jason), more so near the end.
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