Jim

*Jim* is a main character, as well as a survivor of the outbreak in The Walking Dead. During the initial outbreak, he and his family were trying to escape Atlanta when his wife and kids were devoured. Eventually, Jim finds and joins a camp.

## Pre-Apocalypse

### Atlanta, Georgia

Nothing is known about Jim's life prior to or as the outbreak began, except he lived in the city with his family and he was an auto mechanic specialized in vehicle repair.

## Post-Apocalypse

### Season 1

#### City of the Damned

Jim is first seen at the camp site eating a can of beans as Amy and Dale talk about the radio. He perks up and listens as Rick Grime's radio transmission comes over the radio, but quickly goes back to eating as it's over.

He is later seen as working on Dale's RV's troublesome radiator hose as Amy frets over the whereabouts of the group and her sister. "It's late. They should have been back by now". Dale, working on his , reasons with Amy that worrying won't make it better. Suddenly, the radio crackles and squeaks, and T-Dog's garbled transmission comes through, explaining that they're trapped in the department store, surrounded by hundreds of roamers. Jim rushes towards the radio, but Allen is the first to respond, which only radio silence follows.

#### Our Horrific Adventures

When Glenn arrives back to the camp with his red sports car, alarm blazing, Jim quickly deactivates the loud noise by pulling a wire under the hood. When Carl and Sophia find a roamer, he and the other men rush to kill it. When asked why was a roamer so far away from the city and out in the woods, he stated that it was probably because food was running out in the city.

Later, when Rick and some others are going back to Atlanta to retrieve Merle Dixon and some guns, Jim and Dale negotiate a deal with Rick, they'll lend the bolt cutters they need for their lost tools and car parts from Rick's van. Glenn also asks him if he knows of any gun shops in the city, incase they can't retrieve the bag of guns. Jim tells them the exact cross streets of a shop. Glenn later discusses Jim with Rick, and reveals he was the man who made it out of the city alive.

Jim is working on dismantling the car with Dale, who asks Jim if he can retrieve a tool he thinks should be outside of the RV. Jim walks over, and begins searching, before silently spotting a shovel. He grabs the handle, and looks to the ground for a moment, before dropping it, and retrieving the wrench, walking back towards Dale.

#### Inner City Blues

Jim is among the members of camp who rushes to see the scene after Donna was nearly bit by a stray roamer in camp, where she was saved by Dale, who had taken a break from working on the Mustang. Later on, he, along with Orlando, finish work on the Mustang while thunder is heard overhead. Jim begins to tell Orlando various tips about mechanic work, after Orlando admitted he always wanted to get into it. Jim trails off eventually, and stops talking, leaving a confused Orlando to get his attention. Jim then nods slowly, and tells Orlando he’ll have him fixing these cars and RV with him in no time.

Jim watches as Orlando begins to cover up what is left of the Mustang as it begins to rain slightly. Orlando asks for help, but Jim appears quiet, and doesn't react. Orlando asks Morales, who is walking over, if this happens often. Morales nods, and tells him that Jim was here even before his family was. The two look at Jim, concerned. Morales reassures Orlando, telling him to not worry so much about him. Jim gets up suddenly, and begins helping with the tarp, and thanks the two of them for helping with the car today. He later watches as Shane beats Ed Peletier for his abuse towards Carol, not showing much in the way of emotion during it.

#### A Matter of Time

Jim is first seen participating in the group's shooting practice, standing in line with other survivors. He walks back with the group, and arrives back in camp, disappearing from view. T-Dog later spots Jim digging graves, sparking a bit of panic as the group tries to talk to him. Shane, along with several other members of the group, begin asking him questions, and attempt to get him to stop, but Jim becomes hostile, and attacks Shane. Shane quickly subdues him, and in his weakened and tired state, Jim admits to the entire group he only got out of Atlanta as the roamers ate his family.

Shane ties Jim to a tree, while the group begins to discuss what to do with him. Jim attempts to apologize, but when asked why he was digging the holes, he can't fully answer why, and assumes it came from a dream. He tells Lori to not let Carl out of her sight ever. Carl later lets Jim free from the tree as the group gathers around the fire, and Jim reassures Carl to not worry about his father. Jim joins the others, and as they discuss their pasts, he quietly just adds he was a mechanic.

As the Roamers begin to swarm the camp, Jim grabs the same shovel he was using earlier, and begins to whack several, including one that nearly bit Andrea as she sits over Amy's corpse. Jim later drops the shovel during the chaos, and begins to shoot as the herd thins. He misses a shot, striking a roamer in the shoulder as it tackles him, and knocks him to the ground. In the struggle, he angrily pushes it off, and begins to bash it's face in with his pistol, screaming how it killed his family as the gunshots quiet around him. Shane walks up to him as he continues, and tells him to stop, and that it's over.

After the chaos, Jim notes he remembers why he dug the holes now, before Jacqui gasps, and realizes he's been bitten. Jim looks down at his left arm, bleeding heavily from a bite wound, and he states it's nothing but a scratch.

## Appearances

### The Walking Dead

#### Season 1

* City of the Damned
* Our Horrific Adventures
* Inner City Blues
* A Matter of Time

## Trivia

* Jim is the first character that is bit, and survives the initial bite.