Jamie

**Siblings**

* Vic (younger brother)

> **"You don't get respect through fear. I mean, look at what happened to Pops. That's what happens when people stop fearing you. That sound like respect to you? That was his life. We'll make ours."**
> *-- Jamie, Dread (2019)*
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**Jamie** is a major character in the 2019 short horror film *Dread*. He is the son of Pops and the older brother of Vic. A young man who rejected the leadership of his father's gang, Jamie intended to get himself and his younger brother away from the city so they could start a new life. However, they ran afoul of King's gang and Jamie fought back to give Vic time to escape. He was killed when King took a metal pipe to his head.

He is portrayed by Ezekiel Ajeigbe.

## Physical Appearance

Jamie was a young black man with short, curly black hair and dark eyes. He wore a blue and white t-shirt, dark-colored pants, and white tennis shoes. He had a brand in the shape of a "W" on his right forearm.

## Characteristics

Jamie had a good head on his shoulders. He did not believe a person could gain respect through fear, as bad things happen when people stop fearing them, and would rather be respected. He did not wish to follow his father's footsteps, and instead used the money that his father left him to get himself and his brother out of gang territory.

## Background

Some time before the events of the film, Jamie's father, Pops, passed leadership of his gang, the Wreckers, onto him, and was presumably killed by other gang members after his loss of leadership. Jamie did not want to follow in his father's footsteps and decided to take his brother Vic away from the city so they would not have to deal with the gang life anymore.

## Crypt Monster Universe

### Dread

Jamie and Vic escape into an alley where their father had stashed an old car for them. As Jamie tries to break into the car, he sees Vic take out a knife and tells him to put it away. Vic tells Jamie he doesn't understand why they're leaving, because Pops gave him the stripes of the Wreckers to him for a reason, and people will respect him here. Jamie tells him that a person can't get respect through fear, because once people stop fearing them, bad things will happen. Jamie is able to break into the car, but he hears people talking in the warehouses. He goes to investigate, telling Vic to stay in the car. He goes into the warehouse and sees Roach and Slade dragging Brendan's dead body to King's car. He is startled by Vic coming over to him, and he knocks over a bottle, alerting the other gang to their presence. The brothers run to their car, but are intercepted by King driving her car in front of them.

Jamie tells her that they didn't see anything, but King takes notice of the Wreckers mark on his arm and refuses to let them go. Vic offers King the money in his backpack, but Jamie takes a pipe from the ground and attacks the gang members, telling Vic to run. As Jamie fights the other men, King summons Dread, who attacks Jamie and incapacitates him. While he is on the ground, King takes the pipe from him and bashes his head in.

## Relationships

### Vic

Vic is Jamie's younger brother. Jamie didn't want himself and his brother to live with the hardships that the life of leading a gang would bring, so he took his brother with him to skip town. They had different views on what respect was -- Vic believed that leading the Wreckers would get Jamie more respect, but Jamie knew that fear was not the same as respect, and once the other members stopped fearing him, it would all be over. Jamie protected his brother to the end, using himself as a distraction to buy his brother time to escape the onslaught from King and her boys.

### Pops

Pops was Jamie's father. After his death, Pops passed leadership of his gang, the Wreckers, onto Jamie. However, Jamie didn't want anything to do with the gang life and decided to skip town, taking his younger brother with him. Pops and his gang played a large role in how Jamie viewed respect and leadership -- Pops was only respected because people feared him, and when people stopped fearing him, it led to his downfall and death. This drove Jamie to believe that people can't gain respect by making other people fear them.

## References

1. ↑ *Dread* (dir. Matthew Castellanos; December 20th, 2019)