Jay Morris

"*I’ll follow you anywhere, you know that. I’m surprised you’re not sick of me yet.*"
— Jay to Alicia after she leaves the Doomsday Cult.
**James Morris**, known primarily as **Jay**, is the current tritagonist of the series and a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's *Fear The Walking Dead*. He is the son of a poor mechanic named David Morris, who died of an unknown illness a few days before the outbreak began. Prior to this, David and Jay were friends with Daniel, Griselda and Ofelia Salazar.

Early on in the series, Jay navigates post-apocalyptic Los Angeles and Mexico with the Clarks, the Salazars and the enigmatic Victor Strand. Over the course of several years surviving in the apocalypse, Jay continues to travel with members of this group, eventually forming a romantic relationship with Alicia Clark.

Currently as of Season 7, Jay is a member of Alicia’s newly formed group and acts as her second-in-command during their search for the mysterious “Padre”. Jay is one of the longest-surviving characters on the series alongside Alicia, Madison, Daniel and Strand.

## Pre-Apocalypse

### Los Angeles, California

Jay was born on April 2nd, 1990 in Los Angeles, California to David and Linda Morris. He grew up in a low-income family that constantly faced financial difficulties, relying solely on his father’s work as a mechanic.

At some point when Jay was younger, his mother died of an unspecified cancer. While growing up Jay developed an affinity for fixing cars and started working with his father to fix the plumbing, wiring and household appliances that their neighbors couldn’t afford to replace.

Throughout high school Jay decided that he wanted to pursue a college education in mechanical engineering, however he failed to achieve an academic scholarship. Some time after graduating, his father was injured in a workplace accident and could no longer provide for himself. Jay then started working full time as a handyman at his father’s old workshop.

## Post-Apocalypse

### Season 1

#### "Pilot"

Jay is seen in the garage of a car repair shop, arguing on the phone with an insurance company. After multiple calls to different companies and funeral homes, Jay slumps down on the hood of a car, clearly feeling defeated. A woman on the phone offers to look into a government-funded funeral service that “provides only preparations and storage for the body”, however he tells her not to worry about it after hearing what it would cost. Later he is seen at his family home in El Pino, receiving a dish of leftovers from an elderly woman *(presumably a neighbor)*. Jay thanks her and she offers her condolences for the recent death of his father, reminding him that “David was a good man” who found her an old space heater when her family’s broke last winter. Afterwards Jay is seen sitting on his couch listening to the news through a portable radio, as he does not own a television. Reports of a spreading sickness appear to be playing on many stations as he flicks through them, stopping to listen to the news broadcast about the police shooting on the highway.

The next day Jay is called into his boss’s office at the garage, where he is told that he can’t be paid for his overtime last week due to several of his coworkers coming down with a virus and needing sick pay. Jay argues that he needs the money so that it can go towards paying for a cemetery plot, but his boss just apologizes, genuinely feeling bad for the unfortunate situation. Later Jay sits in his car outside a pawn shop, contemplating if he should pawn his watch. He stares at the watch thoughtfully, until eventually he decides against it and drives away.

That night Jay sits in his garage staring at a home-made wooden coffin, which contains the body of his recently deceased father. Unable to afford a plot or funeral service for a burial, Jay apologizes to the closed coffin for not being able to do better. Jay admits to his father that he almost sold his old watch and how he feels ashamed that he even considered getting rid of it, “Once I finally get you in the ground, it’s all I’ll have left of you”. When Jay gets up to leave the garage, he suddenly hears a thump come from inside the wooden coffin. He freezes and turns back to it, quietly walking over to the coffin. He hears another thump of movement from inside, followed by a few low, muffled breaths. This disturbs him greatly, however he has the good sense not to open the lid, and instead turns around to leave the garage. He mutters to himself that he must be overtired and simply imagining things, but once he leaves the garage, he hesitates for a moment and then makes sure the door is locked.

## Killed Victims

This list shows the victims that Jay has killed:

* Andrew Adams *(Alive)*
* Numerous counts of zombies