Jared

> "*Wake up, everybody! There isn't any herd, there isn't any deal waiting back at Hilltop. You think these ass-wipes came here to save us? They came here for blood. Hell, this one strangled one of his own guys to death with his own hands! All Rick is saying here is a steaming pile of bullshit.*"
> ― Jared to his fellow Saviors after Rick Grimes tries to negotiate with them
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**Jared**is an antagonist in AMC's The Walking Dead*.*He is a member of the Saviors.

## Personality

Jared is shown to be a vicious bully who takes pleasure in his role. He often likes to start fights or arguments, and he also has no respect for property. Jared is disliked by many others including his superiors and he is known to be brutal and antagonizing toward many people. Jared apparently takes pleasure in killing, showing no hesitation or remorse, having a lack of empathy and remorse towards other people. Jared acts very hostile toward his peers however he can be cowardly.

## Biography

### Post-Apocalypse

#### Season 7

##### The Well

Jared is among a group of Saviors led by Gavin in charge of collecting weekly offerings from the Kingdom. During that

    week's offering, he antagonizes and gets into a fight with Richard and proceeds to punch him several times before being ordered off of him by Gavin, who points out that Ezekiel has been good to them and has done nothing to deserve bad treatment. Before he lets Richard go, he gives him the middle finger and proceeds to leave with the other Saviors in their trucks, taunting the Kingdommers as he leaves.

##### New Best Friends

Jared, Gavin and his group of Saviors arrives at their pickup location for the Saviors' collections. Gavin comments

    that the drop looks light, but Ezekiel tells him that they have met their obligations and upon further inspection Gavin agrees. Jared says that he wants Richard's gun and the two men face off again. Ezekiel tells Richard to hand over his gun, which he reluctantly does. When Jared lunges at Richard, Morgan Jones strikes him with his staff. Jared seizes the staff and hits Richard and Morgan with it, so Benjamin hits Jared and sends him to the floor. Ezekiel bans Richard from attending future exchanges, but Gavin stops him and tells him to keep bringing Richard, and he will keep his word to kill him if he doesn't control his temper and as the Saviors prepare to leave, Morgan asks for his staff back but Jared leaves with it.

##### Bury Me Here

    Jared is present for the exchange with Gavin and his fellow Saviors. He is playing around with Morgan's stick, waiting for the Kingdommers to show up. When the guns are raised, he aims his weapon at Richard and when given permission by Gavin to take someone out, he turns his gun to feign killing Richard but then suddenly shoots Benjamin in the leg. This angers Gavin who orders Jared to return Morgan's fighting staff, which he does.

As time goes on, it turns out Jared had actually killed Benjamin, which sends Morgan into a deep depression, resulting in him turning back to his old ways. The next day, Jared and the other Saviors return for the twelfth cantaloupe that was missing from the previous exchange. After Gavin learns that Benjamin has died, he furiously orders Jared to start walking back to their outpost  without saying a word or anything to spark another issue, threatening to kill him where he stood if he did so. Jared complies and walks away from the exchange. He watches Morgan kill Richard.

#### Season 8

##### The Damned

    Jared had been transferred by Gavin to the Satellite Outpost, presumably for killing Benjamin. He is among the Saviors who surrender to the Militia led by Jesus. When Morgan emerges from the outpost after having killed multiple Saviors, he and Jared recognize each other. Morgan holds his gun to Jared's heart, but is talked down from killing Jared by Jesus as he and the other Saviors had surrendered and are taken prisoner.

##### Monsters

Jared is among the Savior prisoners who surrendered and are brought to the Hilltop Colony. Along the way Jared annoys and taunts Morgan over the death of Benjamin to the point of Morgan pointing his gun at him. Right after walkers attack, Jared and his group escape into the woods. Morgan eventually catches up to them and right before Morgan shoots Jared, Jesus stops him. Jared is spared and brought to Hilltop as a prisoner with his fellow Saviors.

##### The King, the Widow and Rick

    Jared is with the other captured Saviors sitting outside the Hilltop as their fates are discussed, refusing to eat an apple ungratefully when Jesus gives him one. Ultimately, Jared is allowed inside of the gates in a makeshift prison when Maggie Rhee chooses to side with Jesus over Gregory. Jared, however, attempts to escape while being escorted inside of the prison but Maggie easily subdues him by hitting him twice in the face with her rifle. Jared tries once again to escape by using a piece of wood to cut through the binds around his wrists but Alden bumps him, causing him to drop the wood as he wants to avoid causing anymore trouble.

##### How It's Gotta Be

Jared and the other Saviors are surprised when Maggie summons Dean to the jail's entrance and shoots him in the head, killing him.

##### Dead or Alive Or

Jared makes a ruckus while the Savior prisoners are being watched over by Morgan and Henry. As a result, Henry demands to know which one killed his brother though Jared doesn't answer. Morgan later lies that it was Gavin to prevent Henry from taking revenge upon Jared and taking another life. When Maggie arrives at the prison pen, Jared quickly scurries to the back in apparent fear of Maggie's potential wrath.

##### Do Not Send Us Astray

When the Saviors arrive at the Hilltop, Maggie brings out the Savior prisoners and threatens to kill each one if the Saviors don't leave. However, Simon makes it clear that he doesn't care if the prisoners live or die, stunning Jared. As the Saviors prepare to attack, he is sent back inside along with the other prisoners.
The night after the attack, an armed Henry arrives to the pen and opens the gate, demanding to know which Savior killed his brother and threatening to kill everyone if the killer doesn't step forward. Jared is seen scared and trying to hide, when suddenly a injured Savior reanimates and attacks the rest of the prisoners, allowing Jared to push Henry and take his weapon, leading the other prisoners away.

##### Still Gotta Mean Something

Jared and the other escaped prisoners capture Rick Grimes and Morgan near the abandoned dive bar they are resting at. With injured comrades, the Saviors argue over what to do, particularly as Rick reveals that a herd is on the

    way. Jared refuses to believe them while insisting that they kill Rick and Morgan and press on to the Sanctuary. Rick offers the Saviors a chance to return to Hilltop and join the community, which most consider though Jared refuses to.

As the Saviors argue over what to do, the walker herd attacks the bar.
Though Jared tries to kill Rick and Morgan, he is thrown to the ground by another Savior and is disarmed before the Savior is eaten by a walker.

As the fight continues, Jared attempts to flee, but is pursued by Morgan. The two fight with Jared briefly gaining the

    upper hand and trying to kill Morgan with his own sharp stick. However, Morgan kicks Jared off of him and into a hallway that walkers are coming down. As Jared tries to escape the hallway, Morgan closes the gate, locking Jared in the hallway with the walkers. As Jared desperately tries to get through the gate, Morgan holds it shut and grabs him by his jacket and holds him against the gate as Jared begs to be let go. As the walkers approach, Morgan holds Jared against the gate so he can't escape, eventually letting go after Jared has been bitten multiple times, Morgan then watches Jared get dragged back and fully devoured. Morgan later returns to Hilltop and informs Henry that he killed his brother's killer.

##### Wrath

Jared appears as an hallucination, shown partially devoured after his death. Jared begins to mock Morgan for his brutal killing of Duke and he then continues to taunt Morgan until Jesus snaps Morgan back into reality.

## Killed Victims

* **Benjamin:** Shot in the leg and bled to death.
* Numerous counts of zombies and unnamed people

## Relationships

### Gavin

Jared and Gavin have a complicated relationship due to Jared's obnoxious personality. Gavin considers him an idiot and their bad relationship is shown when Jared kills Benjamin and not Richard, as Gavin had ordered, and when he lost patience with Jared and ordered him to get back to their outpost, otherwise he would kill him. Later, he is disciplined by having been transferred to the satellite outpost, presumably to ensure he wouldn't be a bother to Gavin or the Kingdom anymore.

### Richard

Jared and Richard have an incredibly poor and fairly violent relationship, at every exchange between the Kingdom and the Saviors, Jared takes any chance he can to antagonize Richard, and at times violently attacks him. After Gavin orders him to kill Richard as punishment for the Kingdom being one cantaloupe short, Jared shoots Benjamin instead, killing him. He watched Richard's death off-screen, and later rubs it in Morgan's face when he captured him and Rick Grimes.

### Morgan Jones

Morgan Jones and Jared have an incredibly negative relationship. During their first meeting, Morgan is disinterested in Jared's mocking nature, and only regards him as a small part of the bigger threat. However after Jared kills Benjamin, Morgan singles Jared out as a personal enemy. Regardless, Jared continues to mock Morgan, even when he is threatened with death. Morgan tries to kill Jared after the Militia slaughters multiple Saviors at an outpost and a majority of the remaining ones surrendered. However, Jesus stops him.

Jared continues to taunt Morgan as a prisoner, and even makes fun of Benjamin posthumously, which leads to Morgan training a rifle on him again. However, he and the Militia are almost immediately distracted by walkers coming down a hill and Jared uses this chance to try an escape, Morgan chases Jared and the other Saviors into the woods, he executes one of them and prepares to shoot Jared dead next, but Jesus stops him again. When Morgan and Rick are kidnapped by an escaped Jared and a band of fellow Savior escapees, the pair end up in a scuffle, Morgan kicks Jared away before closing a gate and holding Jared to it, allowing walkers to eat him alive. Morgan shows no remorse for this and later smiles while informing Henry of the news.

### Alden

Jared and Alden have presumably a poor relationship. When Jared tried to free himself from his binds at the Hilltop Colony, Alden bumped into him and stated that he does not want that Jared to get all the other Saviors, including Alden himself in trouble, after risking their safety one time before.

## Quotes

* "I'm trying to figure what's different about you, because something's definitely different...I think I finally got it! It's your armor. That's it, right? Smaller. Almost like it...like it shrunk, or something...oh shit...is that the kid's? It is, isn't it? Why the hell would you wear that? It didn't do shit for him."
* "Hey, asshole, how about a smile?"
* "Ehh...we should give em over your majesty...or maybe I'll just shove this down your throat."
* "I don't know what the hell you're talking about, kid."
* "Shit, I know you. Did you get transferred too?"

## Trivia

* Jared's death is very reminiscent of Jimmy's, T-Dog's, Noah's, David's and Paula's deaths in the fact that all are eaten alive by walkers while another character(s) is able to escape and alive. Also, most of them were initially bitten around the face/neck area.
* Jared's death almost mirrors the way that Rick attempted to kill Andrew in which he trapped him in a courtyard full of walkers after shutting the prison gate. Unlike Jared however, Andrew was able to survive.