Jeremiah

**Jeremiah** is a survivor and an antagonist of Telltale Games' *The Walking Dead*. He served as the primary antagonist of "Around Every Corner" and "No Time Left".

## History

### Season 1

#### "A New Day"

Jeremiah is seen driving his vehicle, as Lee Everett is being transported to prison.

#### "Long Road Ahead"

After Lee and Kenny return from their supply run, Clementine is seen talking on her walkie-talkie, presumably to Jeremiah. Later, while Clementine is sleeping next to Lee Everett and Kenny inside the driver's cabin of the train, he attempts to contact her over the radio. He says that he is excited that she is coming to Savannah, and informs her that he has her parents, Ed and Diana. He also says to go see him, no matter what Lee says. Lee and Kenny wonder who he is and what he has told Clementine as they near Savannah.

#### "Around Every Corner"

At the start of the episode, Lee holds the walkie-talkie, so Clementine cannot contact him. After a church bell goes off, Jeremiah contacts the group and tells them, in a very threatening tone, to get off the street for their own safety (as he wants to keep Clementine safe and keep the rest of the group alive long enough for him to exact his revenge). Lee asks who he is, but the man doesn't respond.

While Lee is at the house, a man spies on him through the gate while he is burying Fivel (a young child who died of starvation inside his house). Lee sees him but fails to get a good look of the man due to the thick fog. Jeremiah flees as Lee yells at him. The group then wonder if this was the man who was talking to them on the walkie-talkie.

At the end of the episode, he convinces Clementine to meet him outside the mansion so that she can go with him to see her parents at the Marsh House. While she agrees to go with him, he soon reveals his true nature and holds her captive within the Marsh House and contacts Lee once again to implement the next phase of his plan; luring Lee and his group into disaster. Lee suspects that Vernon was the one who took Clementine, as he had previously stated that she would be better off with his people.

However, when Lee, Kenny, Omid, Christa, and Ben arrive at the hideout of Vernon's group, he and the others are nowhere to be seen. Jeremiah contacts him via the walkie-talkie. Lee, still assuming that he is Vernon, demands he reveal himself, but the man denies that he is Vernon, and tells Lee to watch his tone. He says Clementine is safe and sound, and that Lee should choose his next words very carefully.

#### "No Time Left"

Following the ending of the previous episode, a quick dialogue occurs between Lee and Jeremiah on the radio. He assures Lee that Clementine is safe and the only thing he wants is Lee to stop hurting other people, challenging Lee to find Clementine if he truly cares for her. Presuming that the kidnapper and Clementine are in the Marsh House, Lee and the group decide to head that way. After arriving at the hotel alone following his forced separation from Omid and Christa, Lee notices the abandoned car from "Starved For Help" parked in the street. Lee discovers the room where Clementine is, but is held at gunpoint by Jeremiah, who finally reveals himself.

Jeremiah orders Lee to give up his weapons and sit down. He then reveals that he was the owner of the abandoned car that was looted for supplies by Lee's group in "Starved For Help". Lee explains that he was against the group's decision. However, Jeremiah tells Lee that he didn't want to harm Clementine as she was either one of two to not take anything from the car, and only wanted to kill everyone else.

However, upon hearing all about the dangerous and life-threatening situations she was put through, he became convinced that he could take better care of her. Jeremiah goes on to explain his earlier life in which he took his son to hunt in the forest, but he lost him in the wilderness. He and his wife searched the forest multiple times to look for their lost son, but were unable to find him.

Jeremiah and his family decided to go back to their car only just to discover that their supplies were stolen by Lee's group. This caused a chain of events in which his wife took their daughter and left him after days of starvation and anger. Jeremiah found their corpses on the road the following day, where he cut off Tess's head either before or after reanimation and left with it. Jeremiah then found Clementine over his radio, learning that she was looking for her parents in Savannah and that her group was responsible for stealing the supplies from his car.

After losing his last bits of humanity and sanity, Jeremiah became hungry for blood and vengeance, using Clementine to get the information he needed to get his revenge on Lee and his group. Over the next three weeks, the man stalked and watched the group carefully, all the while using the information Clementine supplied him with, including their plan to head to Savannah, to carefully plan out his revenge on the group. When the group left the motel in wake of the bandit attack to make their way to Savannah, Jeremiah drove to Savannah as well to arrive at the city before the group did to plan his next move.

He then came up with the scheme to abduct Clementine to make Lee feel his own pain and lure him and his group into a death trap, but had to wait for the perfect moment to present itself to make it quick and quiet. To entice her to separate from Lee, he tells Clementine that he has her parents with him in Savannah, knowing that they were likely dead, and she should meet up with him once she arrives. Taking control of the Marsh House and establishing it as his main base within the ruined city of Savannah, Jeremiah continued to keep tabs over Lee.

He finally took Clementine to lure Lee and his group into disaster in hopes of finally killing them and having Clementine as his new daughter. After explaining his exploits for revenge, Jeremiah accuses Lee of all the bad things he has done, all the while trying to convince Lee that he himself is not a bad man, but a broken father who lost everything to live for except for revenge. Jeremiah find faults with his actions and guardianship over Clementine, which is ironic since he took his son hunting after his wife told him not to, then returned to her without Adam.

Jeremiah states his intentions to brutally torture and murder Lee and then take Clementine with him to be raised as his own daughter, believing that this would both satisfy his lust for revenge against Lee and provide him with a good substitute for his family. He then begins to taunt Lee with how little he actually knows about Clementine and what a horrible guardian he has been, bragging about his connection to Clementine and occasionally talking down to something within a bowling ball bag laying in front of him on the floor, referring to it as, "Tess".

In this moment of distraction, Clementine is able to escape the closet she was locked in and uses a lamp to strike Jeremiah. During the distraction, Lee is able to disarm him and they start brawling through the room. At one point, Jeremiah goes for his gun. Lee decides to let him live while strangling him.

Jeremiah tries to strangle Lee instead, and gets shot in the head by Clementine, who picked up his gun from the floor. He dies a broken man who lost everything and allowed his lust for vengeance consume his humanity. It is later revealed that the object inside the bowling ball bag was actually his wife's reanimated head.

## Death

Killed by:

* Clementine

While trying to strangle Lee, Jeremiah is shot in the head and killed by Clementine.

## Killed victims

* Numerous counts of walkers
* Ben Paul (indirectly caused)
* Lee Everett (indirectly caused)

## Appearances

**Season 1:**

* "A New Day" (No lines)
* "Long Road Ahead" (Voice)
* "Around Every Corner"
* "No Time Left"

## Trivia

* This character was not officialy named in the game. Jeremiah is the name given to him by this wiki's creator.