Jed

**Jed** is an aggressive mechanic in New Mexico, whose obsession with a local girl reaches new heights when a nighttime confrontation turns deadly.

## Series

### Season 1

In "*The Night Shift*", Jed watches Sara from the roof of the mechanic shop, Whitely Bros., with a pair of binoculars. He enters the mini-mart and watches Sara and Damian through the fridge door as he's buying beer. He checks out and invites her to watch the meteor shower with him from Abe's roof. Damian politely turns him down on both of their behalf and Jed leaves. Damian asks Sara if Jed is bothering her, mentioning that his has a keen sense of knowing when someone is bad. It kept him alive.

Jed returns to Abe's mechanic shop and turns off the cameras so he can climb to the roof. Damian watches Jed climb onto the roof from his spot at the subway counter. He takes a knife from the Subway rack and walks over, just as Jed is watching Sara with his binoculars. Damian has one of his beers and Jed asks about Sara, who isn't coming. Damian has seen him watching her. Jed can see everything from up there like a God. He points out a truck that is parked further away than the others. He thinks the driver has something to hide. Damian points out Jed's perception and how it could be of use in the military, but Jed isn't interested in enlisting. Damian's not trying to recruit him but it did show him how big the world is. He knows it's easy to obsess over things and tells Jed to leave Sara alone, as he's creeping her out. Jed thinks if she had a problem with him that she would tell him. This upsets Jed who screams at him that Damian might be the one who's creeping her out. They argue until Jed steps toward Damian, who grabs him and holds him still. He understands the monotony - he did paperwork and inventory in the marines where days just blurred together. It feels like there's no way out and no future. Jed admits to thinking about hiding in the back of the cars he fixes and escaping before anyone notices. Damian is sure he'll make it out someday. They watch the meteor shower and talk about luck. Damian put work into his TikToks, not luck, and the chaos is just everything else like the lottery ticket he begins scratching off. He does it because it's fun and it's a moment that makes Sara smile. He stops mid-sentence. He just won $25,000. Jed pushes him off the roof and stares up at the meteors.

Jed climbs down from the roof to find Damian's body on the ground. He picks up the lottery ticket and Damian, who is still alive, uses the subway knife to slice Jed's ankle. Jed grabs a crowbar and beats Damian to death. He uses the material around him to cover up the crime. He pushes the body across the street using a dolly, unaware of the convenience store cameras. He puts the body in the back of the truck and hits Damian again with the crowbar. He tosses it into the back with the body, then returns to the mechanic shop to cover everything up again. He picks up the knife Damian used and finds his apron, returning both to the Subway. He watches the trucker walk to her vehicle and find the broken lock. She opens the back and finds Damian. She gets in her truck and drives to the front of the mechanic shop, unloading his body out front and running away. Jed turns on the cameras so it records the trucker committing the act. He calls the police to report he just saw a murder.

The day before the murder, Charlie Cale arrives in town after her Plymouth Barracuda breaks down. She enters Abe's mechanic shop and he agrees to fix it for her, having Jed move it around back to store overnight. She learns of Damian's murder and that her friend Marge is accused of killing him after being caught dumping the body by Abe's surveillance cameras. Abe tells Charlie that Jed was the one who reported the murder.

Jed enters the mini-mart to buy a scratch-off from Sara in honor of Damian. When Sara isn't looking, he swaps out the one he bought for the one he stole from Damian. He celebrates his "win" outside of the mini-mart. After learning Damian was bludgeoned, Charlie turns around and decides to investigate the crime further. Sara tells Charlie that Jed won $25,000 that morning. She adds that Jed invited her and Damian to see the meteor shower that night.

Charlie finds Jed outside the mechanic shop and observes his nasty cut. He claims it's a sharp piece of metal from work. It's his lucky day because she has super glue. They head inside where she uses it on his cut. She asks if he saw the meteor shower last night and he did. He had a few beers and watched in from the roof, alone, because he was alone. She asks about the Sandwich guy and goth girl, though he can't see why they'd hang out with him. They talk about how he's going to spend his lottery winnings and his future. She muses how Marge taught her the superglue trick and he jumps up, offering her a beer. He gives her a beer as he lies over being on the roof alone all night. She leaves abruptly.

Jed finds Sara stocking shelves and checks up on her. They talk about Damian's death and his shift starting soon. She snaps at him for not having respect for the dead. He was thinking of getting out of town soon and going to Hawaii. She stops stocking when he invites her with him. She turns him down as it's weird and storms off.

Charlie hums and climbs up the ladder to inspect the camera, which has a scuff mark on it and is loose. She finds bottle caps littering the floor and a Hawaii quarter. Jed asks what she's doing up there and she covers the quarter. She compliments the view and turns down his offer to sit. She asks if the caps belong to Sandwich but he quickly denies it. She found one of the caps in his apron and that means Jed might have lied. She cares because her friend is in jail and a lot of weird shit is going on. Sara also told her that Damian was headed up to see him. Jed calls bullshit. He then admits that he lied and that Damian was up there. He was embarrassed because Damian asked him to leave Sara alone. He rants over being in control of his life and puts down Sara as he does. Charlie uses this chance to pick up the coin. Jed made his life happen, but she points out that he didn't make shit happen, it was just dumb luck. Damian played every day and didn't win, which he confirms, and she calls bullshit. She leaves the roof and Jed eyes her car. While she's distracted, Jed walks over to Charlie's car and tampers with it.

Jed books his flight to Hawaii. Sara approaches and apologizes for being a dick to him. She vents over all the things making her weird, including birth control making her hormonal. He figures she was hormonal and forgives her. She asks to see his scratch-off as she hasn't seen anyone win more than $5. He hands it over and she walks away. He hurries after her and she hands it to Charlie, who rounds the corner to see Jed. She remarks that it's weird and explains how she just bought some scratchers herself. She noticed every ticket has a serial number. The serial numbers are in order. She saw this trucker play the Gold Rush that morning, right before she picked up her car, and before he bought his ticket. The trucker didn't win anything and threw it away. She had pulled it out of the trash and now reads the serial number which ends in 454. That means if he really bought his ticket after that ticket it should be 455, 56, or 57. But it doesn't. His ticket is 450. He suggests that maybe it's a misprint. But she thinks that maybe he didn't buy that ticket. Maybe Damian bought that ticket last night like he does every night, and maybe he brought it up to the roof. And maybe when it was just the two of them alone he realized he'd won. And maybe Jed killed him for it. Jed tearfully says he didn't do it, but Charlie knows he did. Abe appears and asks if everything's fine. He had his hearing aids up to high and offered to warm Charlie's car for her. When he's gone, Jed admits she got him. That he did it. He offers to call the cops, as they'd love to hear some half-baked theory about serial numbers from a vagrant who lives in her car. She has no proof and he isn't on camera like her friend. He offers to call the cops and tell them that Charlie Cale, a person of interest in a bunch of deaths in Nevada, wants to talk. Charlie's watch alarm goes off. Jed tells her to get out of town before he calls the cops on her. Abe returns and tosses her the keys.

Charlie works with a group of truckers and The Roadhouse waitress Dana to find the trucker whose dash cam was pointed at Whitley Bros. mechanic shop the night of the murder. Charlie drives out of town while Jed watches. Abe approaches him and recounts how when he brought her car around, he saw that someone messed with her brakes. He fixed them for her gratis. Jed asks what he's thinking. Abe always treated him like he was his own son. Jed calls Charlie a bitch who's out to get him, but Abe merely removes his hearing aids and walks away as Jed shouts after him.

Jed burns the lottery ticket and watches from the roof as the police arrive. He leans back in his chair and takes a drink of his beer.