Andrew Cody

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**Andrew David Cody,** better known as **Pope**, is the eldest son of Smurf’s sons. He is mentally unstable and often turns to violence as a way to deal with the problems he encounters. He is one of the main characters of the TNT series *Animal Kingdom**.* Played by actor Shawn Hatosy, Pope makes his debut in the series premiere episode, “Pilot.”

## Biography

### Early Life

Andrew Cody was born alongside his twin sister, Julia, on June 28, 1979, to mother Janine “Smurf” Cody and father Colin. He is the second child of his mother, Smurf, the younger twin of Julia and the older half-brother of Craig and Deran. He also has an older adoptive brother named Barry Blackwell.

## Background

He is mentally unstable and often turns to violence as a way to deal with the problems he encounters. He is first seen in the Pilot, where he returns to the Cody house after serving three years in Folsom State Prison. Pope is close with all his siblings, especially his adopted brother Barry - better known as Baz. Throughout the first season it becomes evident that Pope has an obsessive infatuation with Baz's wife Catherine.

## Throughout The Series

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3
* Season 4

### Season 1

The season begins with Pope returning to the Cody residence after serving three years in Folsom State Prison after getting caught on one of the jobs. When he meets J for the first time, he is unsure about whether they should just trust him without knowing anything about him. Pope remains wary about J constantly being around the family and ensures that he keeps an eye on him.

He is shown to have a close relationship with all of his brothers and to be prepared to do anything to protect his family. In this season he is shown to be the closest of his brothers to Smurf and often goes to her for attention. The main job of the season is stealing money from the Military base that Nicky's father works in. The Cody brothers initially don't want to include Pope in the job as he has just been released from prison, but he insists and ends up joining them, as J is still too young and does not know enough about running jobs. At the end of the season Smurf gives Pope the order to kill Baz's wife Catherine, as she feels that she has been talking to the police. He ends up following her orders, despite his own preoccupation with Catherine, and buries her body just off an desolate road.

### Season 2

Baz is extremely worried about Catherine, as he doesn't believe that she would just leave without taking Lena. He begins to worry if anything has happened to her. Pope remains quiet and keeps himself and Smurf out of it. Pope is still unaware of why Smurf had asked him to kill Catherine and begins to feel extremely guilty about what he did. Due to Catherine's death, Baz to becomes increasingly distant in an attempt to find her. This leaves Pope to become closer with his niece Lena. He wants to ensure that Lena doesn't end up in the same situation that the rest of the family is in he wants to make sure that she is receiving a proper education and places her in a private school. Pope also secures his first relationship within the series with Amy, who he meets when scouting out a megachurch for a new job.

### Season 3

Due to Baz's unexpected passing, Pope reassumes his role in looking after Lena. At the beginning of the series he is still in a romantic relationship with Amy but they end up breaking up due to him becoming violent.

Lucy takes Pope to Mexico, where a man tells him about rumors of an older white lady looking to hire someone to kill one of her sons. Pope doesn't believe it, saying Lucy could've paid the guy to tell her that story.

Smurf leans on Pope and the rest of the Cody boys to kill Lucy and get her money back. Pope isn't interested, because although he might think she did it, he doesn't know for sure.

The Department of Child and Family Services removes Lena from Pope's care, which sends Pope into a tailspin. He later shows up at the DCFS office, and has trouble controlling his temper when the workers won't tell him where she is. When he turns to Smurf for help, Billy, (Deran's father) mocks him. Pope attacks Billy nearly drowning him, but during the scuffle Billy stabs Deran. Smurf calls Pope off.

Later she drives Pope to Lena's foster home. He then considers taking Lena and getting new IDs to leave.

Smurf arranges to become Lena's legal guardian/adoptive mother, much to Pope's chagrin. But, she explains that because he was convicted of aggravated battery and assault, DCFS would never allow him to gain custody of her. She uses it as an opportunity to manipulate Pope into moving back in with her to be, leveraging Lena and her safety.

When Lena tells Pope she liked living with the foster family, he returns her to them, and tells Smurf that as long as she leaves Lena alone, he won't tell his brothers she had Baz killed. Smurf says she wants Pope home with her, and so long as he complies, she'll forget Lena ever existed.

### Season 4

Pope wins a cage fight. After his shower, he comes to find Smurf in his old bedroom -- the bedroom that was intended for Lena. She says she's going to paint the room and he can pick the color, but he tells her to leave it. The Cody boys believe Pope is too unstable to participate in a job with them, feeling as though he will get someone killed. While Smurf tells them he's in, she approaches Pope and tells him he better have his sh\*t together.
## Apperances

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3
* Season 4
* Season 5
* Season 6

 “Child Care”

 “Cry Havoc”
 “The Leopard”

 “Broke from the Box”
 “Jackpot”

 “Into the Black”
 “Julia”

 “Home Sweet Home"
 "Trust the Process"

 “Diamonds Are Forever”
 “Hit and Run”

## Trivia

* J's mother Julia was Pope's sister but only Craig and Deran's half sister.
* Pope and Julia's father Colin has a brother named Jed. Jed and his wife Laney have four sons: Odin, Jeremy, David, and Mike.
* Julia and Andrew were delivered on their uncle Jed's farm. Julia was born before Andrew.
* Pope's "Kill Count" includes: Catherine "Cath" Blackwell (whom he suffocates with a pillow and buries).
* Pope is one of only four main characters that appear in every episode of the series, along with Craig, Deran, and J.