Jeff Sadecki

## Jeff Sadecki

* Teen
* Adult

### Aliases

Class King of 1996Your Highness (by Allie)
Jeffrey (by Walter)

### Relatives

Shauna Sadecki (wife)Callie Sadecki (daughter)
Unnamed Baby † (son; stillborn)
Linda Sadecki  (mother)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Jack DePew (teen, season 1, voice only season 2)
Owen Gates (teen, season 2, physical appearance)
Warren Kole (adult)

### Debut

"Pilot"

**Jeff Sadecki** is a character on the Showtime original series *Yellowjackets*. He is portrayed by Warren Kole as an adult and Jack DePew as a teen in the first season, with Owen Gates appearing in the teen role in the second season, but Jack DePew providing the voice.

## Profile

As a teenage boy, Jeff Sadecki was in a relationship with Jackie, the captain of the WHS Yellowjackets soccer team. They had been off and on since freshman year and were building towards having sex for the first time. Jeff told Jackie he loved her the day before the team left for the championship game. However we see that he has been secretly sleeping with her best friend Shauna, when the two have sex in his car after dropping Jackie off following a party. He states that he thought they weren't going to do it "again" but continues anyway, getting Shauna pregnant in the process. The girls are lost in the wilderness when their plane crashes. When they are rescued 19 months later, Jackie does not return with them having apparently died.

25 years later, Jeff is married to Shauna and they are parents to teenage Callie, who is not the same child that Jeff originally impregnated her with. It is clear that the marriage is not going well. The two are in couples therapy, and it soon becomes apparent that Jeff is likely cheating on Shauna with a woman named Bianca. Shauna intercepts a message on Jeff's phone from this woman which tells him to meet her tomorrow at 4 P.M. at the "usual place." The next day, she follows him to a hotel where she sees the two of them together.

Believing Jeff to be cheating on her, Shauna begins seeing another man that she met by getting into a fender-bender with him, "Adam Martin." The two soon begin a wild affair, even going so far as to sleep together in the Sadecki family bedroom, hiding him in the closet when Jeff arrives home. Meanwhile, Jeff continues to work late nights on thin excuses, claiming that there is an ongoing problem with the furniture store's "inventory database." However, when he and Shauna attend a birthday dinner with the parents of Jackie, Jeff defends Shauna against Mrs. Taylor's passive-aggressive comments, telling her that Shauna is the smartest person he's ever met and that he was sleeping with her when he was still with Jackie. Later, he tells Shauna that he meant every word and that he doesn't regret marrying her.

Shauna murders Adam Martin, believing him to be the man who was blackmailing her and her fellow Yellowjackets. She later returns home, however, and discovers Jeff with glitter, glitter which got onto the blackmailer when she and her fellow Yellowjackets were chasing him. He reveals that *he* is in fact the blackmailer, that his furniture store has been struggling to compete against the online retailer FurnitureFam.com. He took out a loan from some bad people, loan sharks, and defaulted, causing them to come after him. He thought of Shauna's friends, Natalie and Taissa and figured that at least one of them would have the money he needed, but never meant for her to get involved. He tells her that it's alright, though, that he was able to get the "bad loan people" the money and the furniture business is saved.

Shauna, however, tells Jeff that it is *not* alright, that she murdered Adam, that she thought he was the blackmailer. Stunned, he asks how it is that she even knows Adam in the first place. She explains that Adam is the person she got into a fender-bender with and afterwards, she started seeing him. She tells him that he can't blame her, that he was, after all, seeing Bianca. Jeff, however, rages at this, explaining that Bianca scares him, that she was one of the "bad loan people." He is shocked to hear that she was having an affair, but she mocks how he swallowed all of her lies about attending book club. "What? There's no book club?!" he shouts.

Jeff tells Shauna that they both watch *Dateline* and so they know how things will turn out, that Shauna would never get away with it. He says that therefore he's going to go to the cops and turn *himself* in, claiming that things got out of hand after he went to confront his wife's lover. Shauna says that she can't let him do this. He says he won't let her take fall because of something that happened because of his blackmail scheme, but she explains that it's more complicated than this. She says that if he takes the fall, it's likely that the cops will find out what else he was up to. If it were to get out that the Yellowjackets were being blackmailed because of what they did in the woods, then both their lives and Callie's would be ruined. She says that they just have to think and there must be other options.

Shauna asks Jeff if there's anybody else that knows about the blackmail. He tells her that Randy Walsh does, that he's his best friend and he had to tell him, that he had to turn to somebody for help. She asks why he wouldn't just tell her that the store was in trouble. He points out that she has a whole safe full of secrets she never told him about, referring to the journals she had kept from the wilderness. She is shocked to find out that he had known about the journals for years and had read them a long time ago. Even more shocking to her is that he still loves her after doing so, which he assures her. She wonders when it is that they became these people who lie and cheat and simply stay together just because. He asks her what she means, saying that secrets have always been a part of them. They decide on a plan: if Shauna believed that Adam was blackmailing her, then that's what she'll tell the other Yellowjackets as the story.

Shauna succeeds in convincing the other Yellowjackets that Adam Martin was the blackmailer and they, end turn, help her to get rid of Adam's body Her and Jeff's problems, however, do not end there. She reveals to Jeff that Adam had an art studio and that she does not know what might be there. The two of them therefore secretly pay the studio a visit and discover it to be filled with portraits that Adam had made of Shauna, despite her never having posed for him. Jeff asks Shauna what she was thinking and she tells him that the thought of him with someone else scared her, but also weirdly turned her on. She says that she used to think herself some sort of pervert for this, but that now she likes herself as she is. The two of them have sex right there in the art studio, then use paint thinner to obliterate the portraits. Afterwards, back at home, they hold a cookout using the grill which actually involves Shauna's journals from the wilderness, as well as Adam Martin's driver's license that she was hanging onto. They also cook actual food in order to try to cover up the oddness of the fact that they are cooking out in November. After dinner, however, their suspicious daughter, Callie, checks the grill, and discovers a piece of Adam Martin's ID that didn't get burned away completely, with his face on it.

## Quotes

* "*Shauna and I were sleeping together when Jackie and I were still a couple. Which is obviously, you know, a shitty, uh, thing. But there it is. Because the truth is Jackie was amazing. But so was my damn wife. And she still is. And I may have been an idiot then, but at least I was smart enough to see that. And this really is the best tuna quiche I've ever tasted, Mrs. Taylor.*"
* "*What? There's no book club?!*"