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Jim is the central protagonist of the 2002 horror film, 28 Days Later.

## Background

Before the Rage Virus decimated Britain, Jim was a bicycle courier for an unknown company. One day, when he was delivering a package from Farrington to Shaftsbury Avenue, a car cut across him causing him to crash, leaving him comatose.

While Jim was unconscious in hospital, his parents paid him a visit. As the virus began to spread across London, the hospital was emptied and someone locked the door to Jim's room and slipped the key under the door in case he woke up.

28 days into the outbreak, Jim woke up to find the hospital abandoned and London deserted. Confused and nervous, Jim wandered through the streets of London calling out for life. Eventually, Jim entered a church where he was attacked by an infected priest. After knocking the priest backwards with his bag, Jim made his escape with several infected in hot pursuit. He was then saved by 2 people called Mark and Selena who burned the infected with firebombs.

Mark and Selena then took Jim to their hideout in the London Underground, where Selena explained to him that the Rage Virus had spread through Britain and either killed or infected lots of people. Concerned for his parents' safety, Jim convinced Mark and Selena to accompany him to his house in Deptford, where they found that his parents had committed suicide via drug overdose and left him a note saying *With endless love, we left you sleeping. Now we're sleeping with you. Don't wake up.*.

That night, Jim decided to light a candle, which attracted the attention of an infected Mr. Bridges and his daughter who attacked him. Selena and Mark managed to save him, but Mark was seemingly infected, prompting Selena to kill him.

As Jim and Selena were walking through London together, Selena explained to Jim that if someone gets infected, they have between 10 and 20 seconds to kill the infected individual. They approached some lights emitting from an apartment and were chased up the stairs by a pair of Infected, only to be saved by Frank who let Jim and Selena stay in his flat with his daughter, Hannah.

The next day, the group set off towards Manchester where, according to a recorded message, the "answer to infection" was waiting for them. They narrowly avoided a herd of the Infected in a tunnel when they stopped to change a flat tire and raided a supermarket to stock up on food. When they were refueling at an abandoned diner, Jim decided to find some cheeseburgers, only to find an infected child, who Jim easily dispatched using his baseball bat.

The group then stopped to rest at some old ruins where Jim had a nightmare about being left alone. The next morning, the group continued on their way to Manchester and arrived at the 42nd blockade where the radio message said the soldiers were, but nobody was around. Frustrated, Frank wound up getting infected after getting a drop of blood from a corpse in his eye. Jim was about to kill Frank with his baseball bat, but then 2 soldiers showed up and shot Frank to death.

The soldiers then took Jim, Selena and Hannah to Worsley House where Major Henry West greeted them and let them live in the mansion. Major West gave Jim a tour of the mansion and introduced him to Mailer, a chained up soldier who got infected 2 days prior to meeting Jim. West explained that his "answer to infection" was seeing how long it would take for the Infected to starve to death.

That night, during dinner, the house was attacked by a horde of the Infected, but the soldiers managed to fend them off. Afterwards, Mitchell tried to force himself onto Selena, but Farrell forced him to leave Selena alone. Major West then asked Jim if he had killed anyone over the last 4 weeks, to which Jim guiltily answered that he had killed the young boy at the diner, and West explained to Jim that he had promised his soldiers women to be forced into sexual slavery to repopulate Britain after the Infected have starved to death.

Horrified and disgusted, Jim tried to leave with Selena and Hannah, but the soldiers captured him and had him locked up in the cellar with Farrell who tried to dissent from West's idea. The next morning, Jones and Mitchell were about to execute Jim and Farrell, but after Farrell was killed, Jim made his escape while Jones and Mitchell argued. After getting over the perimeter wall, Jim saw a plane flying overhead, making him hopeful that civilization outside of Britain had survived.

Jim then returned to the blockade and sounded the alarm, drawing Major West and Davis to the blockade. Jim dispatched Davis with a crowbar, then disabled his jeep and left West to the Infected. Jim returned to Worsley house and shot Mailer's chain, allowing the infected soldier to break into the house and infect Clifton. Jim prowled around the house in search of Hannah and Selena while Mailer and Clifton set about killing the other soldiers.

Jim soon found Selena being forced upon once again by Mitchell, who Jim attacked and brutally killed. Selena, believing that Jim was infected, was about to kill him, but then hesitated, prompting him to jokingly tell her that it was longer than a heartbeat. Once they reunited with Hannah, they began to make their escape.

Unfortunately, as soon as they reached Frank's taxi, they saw a vengeful Henry West who shot Jim in the abdomen. Hannah then reversed the cab towards the house, allowing Henry West to be killed by Mailer. Selena and Hannah took Jim to an abandoned hospital where he was revived.

The trio then hid in a cottage in Cumbria whilst the Infected began to starve to death. They created a large banner that said "Hello" in hopes that a passing aircraft would notice them.

28 days after escaping the house, Jim, Hannah and Selena managed to finish their banner as a Finnish jet flew overhead.

## Equipment

* Baseball bat: Jim wields a baseball bat to fight off the Infected with. He uses this to kill an infected child who tries to ambush him in an abandoned diner.