Ozzie Jones

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* Ozzie (8)

**Ozzie Jones** is the tritagonist in Leprechaun and a minor character in Leprechaun Returns. He is dimwitted and works with his friend Alex and Nathan Murphy by painting houses. He appears in two different timelines.

## Biography

### Leprechaun

Contract workers Ozzie Jones, Nathan Murphy, and his 10-year-old brother Alex help re-paint the O' Grady farmhouse. While looking around the basement, Ozzie hears the Leprechaun's cry for help and mistakes him for a little child. He brushes the old four-leaf clover off the crate, freeing the Leprechaun. After failing to convince the others that he met a Leprechaun, Ozzie spots a rainbow and chases it, believing that he will find a pot of gold at the end. Alex accompanies him for fear that Ozzie might hurt himself. A bag of one hundred gold pieces magically appears before Ozzie. After Ozzie tests the gold and accidentally swallows a piece, they stash it in an old well and plot to keep it for themselves, hoping to fix Ozzie's brain.

The Leprechaun lures J. D. into a trap by imitating a cat, biting and injuring his hand. Nathan and the others rush him to the hospital, and the Leprechaun follows on a tricycle. Alex and Ozzie visit a pawn shop to see if the gold is pure, and the leprechaun kills Joe the shop owner for stealing his gold. After leaving J. D. at the hospital, the group drives back to the farmhouse. Finding it ransacked, Nathan checks outside, where he is injured by a bear trap set by the Leprechaun.

After finding a shotgun in the farmhouse, they shoot the Leprechaun several times. When this has no effect, they attempt to flee the farm, but their truck's engine has been sabotaged by the Leprechaun. After ramming the truck with a go-kart, the Leprechaun terrorizes the group until Ozzie tells them about Daniel O'Grady, who was taken to a nursing home after his stroke. Tory visits the home to learn how to kill the Leprechaun.

After learning that a four leaf clover is the Leprechaun's weakness, Tory returns to the farmhouse, where she searches for a clover until she is attacked by the Leprechaun; Nathan and Ozzie save her. Alex sets a trap near the well, but the Leprechaun almost kills him. Ozzie reveals that he swallowed the last gold coin, and the Leprechaun critically wounds him trying to get it. Before the Leprechaun can kill Ozzie, Alex takes a four-leaf clover Tory has found, sticks it to a wad of gum, and shoots it into the Leprechaun's mouth, taking away his power. The Leprechaun falls into the well, but his skeleton climbs out. Nathan pushes the Leprechaun back into the well and blows up both the well and the Leprechaun with gasoline.

### Leprechaun Returns

A girl named Lila hitches a ride from Ozzie Jones and reveals that her mother, Tory Reding had died the year prior to cancer. When he drops her off to the O’Grady farm, he accidentally drops his phone while unloading Lila's and her friends (Meredith, Rose, Katie, Andy, Matthew, and Emily) luggage and heads back to retrieve it, only to get sprayed by water from the old well and later rebirthing the Leprechaun and causing it to punch his way out of Ozzie's torso, killing him and taking the gold coin he still had in his stomach (Leprechaun is trying to get the rest of his gold).

When Lila goes to bed that night, she encounters visions of zombie ghost Ozzie. The next day, Andy gets killed. Her friend, Meredith locks Lila in the basement then tells their friends she got killed by the Leprechaun. Lila’s friends leaves her behind because it’s revealed Meredith made a deal with the Leprechaun by saying Lila got killed, no one knowing the truth. Meanwhile, Lila encounters Ghost Ozzie, who helps Lila learn of the Leprechaun's true weakness and of the basement's exit hole, Ozzie’s ghost also helps her find a map. In the woods, the Leprechaun then kills Meredith and Matthew gets killed. Rose and Kate run into Lila and they try to find the truck Ozzie and Alex discovered 25 years ago. They end getting the gold for Leprechaun but Rose cashed in most of the gold to Bismarck, so the three find a way to make it seem their are still 100 coins. If doesn’t work. Later, Lila uses iron to surround the Leprechaun to trap him, then she stuffs a hose in his mouth and causes him to explode, he ends up turning into little Leprechauns and kills Rose. Lila and Katie then blows up the O’Grady house to kill the Leprechaun. Zombie ghost Ozzie congrats Lila for defeating the Leprechaun. But The Leprechaun ended up surviving, he hitchhikes a ride on a chicken truck on its way to Bismarck, North Dakota so he can reclaim his gold.

## Appearances

* Leprechaun
* Leprechaun Returns

## Trivia

* Mark Holton who portrays Ozzie Jones, is the only cast member (besides Warwick Davis portraying the Leprechaun himself) to reprise a role for a Leprechaun film.
* He is considered a fan favorite character.