Jason Everleigh

**Jason Everleigh** is a character in the HBO Max original series, *The Time Traveler's Wife*. He is portrayed by Spencer House.

He is a tall, muscular and good looking classmate of Clare's who becomes embroiled in a heated situation with Henry.

## Biography

### Assault

Clare Abshire is a sixteen year old girl attending one of her first parties with her friends. She happily dances and ogles a few boys from afar. As she returns to the party, a boy she was ogling before named Jason asks her to hang out so she happily agrees. They go to a lookout spot where they begin making out, but she changes her mind about having sex, something that angers Jason. He ultimately beats, burns, and rapes her. Clare wants revenge and enlists the help of her friend Henry DeTamble, who is a time traveler, to help her kill Jason. Henry ultimately agrees to help her and arranges for his 24-year-old self to have an alibi. He wants Clare to have an alibi too but she refuses as she wants to watch. She has a gun that she stole from her father and Henry makes a stop at a convenient store for duct tape and a blue marker.

They kidnap Jason from his house and put him in the trunk for her car. She hears him breathing wrong and realizes that Henry didn't get Jason's inhaler. She makes him go back inside to get it, then, as they drive, she realizes they can't kill Jason - only hurt him. Henry jokes that he figured they wouldn't kill Jason after she made him get the inhaler. Clare, emotional, reveals that what Jason did to her isn't funny or a joking matter. She asks if he wants to see what Jason did and he does. She gets out of the car and takes off her shirt, revealing large bruises on her torso, arms, back, and shoulders. Henry holds her as she recounts the events of the night - she and Jason went to a place where people go to hang out. She changed her mind about having sex which he didn't think was fair to him or something she was allowed to do. He got angry and hurt her as punishment, even burning the top of her breast with the cigarette he was smoking. Henry asks if Jason raped her, though Clare denies the assault. Henry is ready to kill Jason but Clare refuses to let him as she only wants Jason to suffer as she did.

They duct tape Jason to a tree as they debate how to hurt him. Jason argues his innocence by referencing texts Clare sent him after the assault that thank him for a great time. Clare explains to Henry that she did send those texts but that she was scared of what he would do if she didn't. She didn't have a great time, something Henry completely understands. Jason sticks to his story that Clare likes it that way, angering Henry even further as he continues to punch the boy while denying Clare's interests. Jason asks how he would know and Henry emotionally screams out that he's her husband and that's how he knows. Clare, despite her conflicting beliefs over the validity of their future, is left surprised by his revelation. He turns to face her as he begins to cough, about to disappear again. She begs him not to go now but he doesn't have a choice. He gives her the marker he bought - he's not sure why, but he thinks she'll need it. After Henry vanishes, Clare decides the right course of action. She calls every girl she knows and invites them to her location with the only stipulation being that they could only come if Jason had hurt them. As girls arrived they wrote the stories of what happened to them on Jason's body and the duct tape around him. Jason became her first sculpture and the catalyst of her choice to become an artist.

## References

1. ↑ *The Time Traveler's Wife*, Season 1, *Episode 3*