Jane Rhodes (Remake)

## Appearances

**Jane Rhodes** is a main character and a survivor of the outbreak in *Strain Zero* and *Storytellers* and the protagonist of the upcoming *Dead Gold* miniseries. She is the stepsister of Bart Rhodes, a former member of the Innocents and later the leader of the Fargo Depot. Following the domers' assault on the depot, Jane was taken captive by Henry and brought to the town of Briarwood. Deciding to abandon her brother's sadistic regime, Jane fought for Henry's group during the Battle of Briarwood and joined the Pioneers on their westward journey. She later became head-of-security at Wolf Dam and Greencole's leader when most of the populace relocated to Graystone. Following the Militia-Delta Force conflict and the war with the Frontiersmen, Jane joined Henry's newly-formed ranger division of the Commonwealth Army.

Having aspired to study film and direct a movie before the outbreak, Jane finally got her chance when she found an old video camera. Shortly after, she and a selection of rangers were roped into a plan by treasure hunter Gaunter O'Kyle to find a lost horde of pre-outbreak gold somewhere in the American southwest.

## Overview

### Personality & Traits

Since her introduction, Jane has been shown to be nothing like her monster of a stepsibling, expressing horror at the violent atrocities committed by Bart and his soldiers. In comparison to most of the Innocents, Jane displays pacifistic behaviours, nervous tics and open shows of fear and discomfort, likely a result of her time surviving alone with her brother; she notes to herself that she would likely be a slave or dead were it not for her siblinghood with Bart. Nonetheless, she mostly views Bart as a necessary evil, and has come to accept violence as a means to survive.

When Henry's group arrives in Fargo, however, Jane's tolerance for Bart's sadistic regime finally breaks and she abandons him to his death during the Battle of Briarwood. Upon joining Henry's group and the Pioneers, which she believes can truly build a free and fair society, Jane is finally able to let her true self shine through: compassionate, cunning, resourceful and unafraid of violence as a means to an end.

## Pre-Apocalypse

Not much is known about Jane's life before the outbreak. When she was twelve, her mother married an Australian businessman who had a son named Bart.

## Post-Apocalypse

### Season 5: Remake

#### "Rules"

Jane and several others, notably Drew, vote to remain at Greencole whilst everyone else relocates to the town of Graystone. At Henry's own request, Jane takes charge of the settlers who remain at the site.

### Dead Gold

#### "Press Play"

Twelve years have passed since the Battle of Adams Air Force Base. The survivors gather in the Bastion theatre to watch the premiere of **Jane Rhodes**' movie, *Dead Gold*. Halfway through, her nine-year-old son Carl angrily leaves, forcing Jane to chase after him. He reveals his anger that his mother's story is fake when she claimed during her opening presentation that it was based on a true story. Jane claims that she was telling the truth, and decides to finally tell Carl the truth about his father. In her office, Jane retrieves a set of tapes labelled "Operation Dead Gold" and explains their backstory: before the outbreak she wanted to be a film director, specifically documentaries; when she joined the rangers, she finally saw her chance and found an old video camera. The subsequent footage she captured was eventually edited down and used to make her movie *Dead Gold*. Carl agrees to watch the tapes.

Jane's story begins nine years prior, three years after the Battle of AAFB. Bastion is still under construction, but it home to several hundred people, mostly newcomers from outside the Commonwealth. Jane celebrates with Drew about getting her new video camera working, part of a special request from "the bride". That evening, Jane is picked up by her boyfriend, fellow ranger John Blake, to attend the wedding of David and Ashleigh. Jane films most of it and confesses to Ashleigh that she doesn't feel strongly about John, but nonetheless believes he is good for her. The celebrations are interrupted by a security alert from Adams Air Force Base, which has just suffered a break-in. Henry, Jane and the other rangers gear up at their office and set out to the base.

The rangers are met by the base's commander, Kieron, who explains that the thieves broke into a hidden vault beneath the base; nothing was taken aside from a few military documents. The thieves used explosives, drawing walkers to the base; Henry elects to stay behind while Jane, Katrina, John, Mike and sole eyewitness Samson track the thieves. As dawn approaches, the group find tyre tracks in the fields; they trace them to a large truck, where they find the two thieves locked in an argument. One of the thieves pulls a gun on the other, only for his accomplice to pull out a sleeve gun; both thieves are shot, but the one with the sleeve gun survives after shooting his accomplice in the head. The rangers restrain the injured thief and begin interrogating him.

The thief calls himself Patches and explains that he has been looking into Operation Dead Gold, a pre-pandemic Contingency plan to move truckloads of gold from various casinos to a single, secure site somewhere in the southwestern United States. He believes that the gold never reached its destination before the outbreak and may be sitting around, waiting to be discovered. He offers a share of the gold if the rangers were to help him find it, effectively serving as hired muscle. The rangers are skeptical, but Patches points out that gold never loses its value, not even after catastrophic disasters such as the outbreak; believing that the adventure could be made into a documentary, thus fulfilling a lifelong dream, Jane convinces the others that they should help.

## Killed Victims

* 1 unnamed Innocent *(alive)* - stabbed in the back
* At least four unnamed Frontiersmen
* Numerous counts of zombies

## Relationships

### Bart Rhodes

Although Bart and Jane are stepsiblings, they are as distant as strangers. Forced to survive the early days of the apocalypse at Bart's side, Jane came to rationalise his malicious acts, so much so that she became almost completely indifferent to the suffering of others.

## Appearances

### The Walking Dead: Strain Zero

#### Season 3: Remake

* "No Time Left"
* "Monsters"
* "Consequences"
* "One Way Out"
* "Fools and Dead Men"
* "Hopes and Fears"
* "Same Stitch"

#### Season 4: Remake

* "Miles"
* "Hellfire"
* "Divide"
* "Nightmares"

#### Storytellers

* "Voices"
* "Storms"
* "Ghosts"

#### Season 5: Remake

* "Blood"
* "Rules"
* "The Game"
* "Call to Arms"

#### Season 6: Remake

* "Aftermath"
* "Hope"
* "March to War"
* "Fear Itself"
* "All Out War"

#### Season 7: Remake

* "A New Beginning"
* "Act of God"

## References

1. ↑ *Dead Gold'*s frame plot is a movie directed by Jane titled "Dead Gold"