Lee Everett (DoTWD)

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> ### Actor
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> Dave Fennoy
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> ### Gender
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> Male
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> Black
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> ### Age
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> 37
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> **Pre-Apocalypse*** Former History Professor for the University of Georgia
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> * Supply Runner for the Motel Survivors
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> Mrs. Everett- Mother †
> Mrs. Everett - Father †
> B. Everett - Brother †
> (Unnamed) - Ex-Wife
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> African-American
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> Alive
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> | “ | *No! You don’t touch that boy, you don’t touch **anybody**! I’ve got kids I’m trying to protect in here too. You wanna get violent, you old fuck?! Well, **come on**! You better have a plan to kill me though because it’s **me**, before **anyone else** in here!*
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**Lee Everett** is a protagonist and a survivor of the outbreak in JunoBox's Dawn of The Walking Dead. He is the main protagonist of Season One. Convicted for the murder of the Georgia state senator, Sam, who slept with his wife, Lee is freed from this fate by the apocalypse and encounters two young girls named Clementine and Rachel, along with a teenage boy named Travis. He took them under his care, and the four met up with a group of survivors. Lee's personality is consistently smart, independent and resourceful.

## Overview

Prior to the outbreak, Lee was a professor who taught history for over six years at the University of Georgia. He had a mother, father, and a brother living in their hometown of Macon, Georgia, looking after their family business. Lee felt neglected by his family after he killed state senator Sam who had an affair with his wife, severely hurting his relationship with his family. Later on, Lee finds out that he's lost his entire family, and takes it upon himself to kill his own reanimated brother, mortified at the loss of his family despite the walls that had come between them.

Lee has shown numerous times that he is smart, reasonable, independent, and generally kind. During his conversation with Carley about his past involving the senator, it's implied that Lee had no intention of killing him and he claims that it was purely accidental, but nevertheless feels guilty, speaking with a tone of remorse whenever questioned about the incident.

## Pre-Apocalypse

Lee was born in 1966 and comes from Macon, Georgia. His mother, father, and only brother worked at the family's pharmacy in Macon. Lee had been a history professor at the University of Georgia for six years before the incident with the senator, judging by his position at the university it is likely he earned a PhD in history. He owned a pet fish, which he kept on his desk at work. His wife had a traveling job that kept her away for significant periods of time, something that had been difficult for their relationship since Lee wanted to have a family but her job prevented that. One day, he came home sick from work at the university and discovered his wife sleeping with a state senator. Angered, Lee killed him in a fight. For this, he was convicted of murder. Lee later claimed the two got into a fight and he killed him by accident. Near the start of the apocalypse, Lee was being transported by a police officer to the Meriwether County Correctional Facility.

## Post-Apocalypse

### Season One

The first time Lee Everett is fleeing from several walkers after they were lured by the sound of him killing the undead corpse of the officer transporting him to prison. Lee barely escapes them, managing to quickly limp up a hill and pull himself over the fence of a nearby house's yard. He decides to look for help inside, finding a pool of blood in the kitchen and an answering machine containing messages that recount of the quickly worsening situation for the couple, Diana and Ed, that lives in the house where it is implied that they were about to die. He discovers a hand-held two-way radio in a kitchen drawer and is contacted by Clementine, the young girl who lives in the house, along with two other kids, Rachel Paul and Travis. They have been hiding in Clementine’s tree house while her and Rachel’s parents are away in Savannah. Clementine suddenly screams and Lee is attacked by a zombified Sandra, the girls’ babysitter. Lee is nearly bitten several times but eventually kills the walker with a hammer Clementine gives him. Lee promises Clementine, Rachel and Travis that he'll look after them until they find their parents. Travis asks what they should do now, and Lee decides they should wait until dark sets in.
Clementine says that they could hide in her tree house until the sun went down, but due to his injury (and their combined weights), Lee opts to remain indoors. Once it was dark outside, the four walk into the street, where they are shot at by an unknown assailant. Lee and the kids take cover behind a car as a man announces that he is of a Georgia State Patrol searching the area. The kids is frightful that they were going to die, and Lee says that everything will be okay. Lee stands up with his arms raised in surrender. Two men walk around the car to meet them, and a police officer hastily puts his gun down upon realizing that they were not infected. The other man with him introduces himself as Shawn Greene and the cop as Officer Andre Mitchell. Shawn notes how Lee's leg is wounded and says that his father could help. He makes the offer to take Lee and the kids with him when a walker stumbles around a fence and snarls at them. They all get into the car and drive away, swerving out of the way to avoid hitting the walkers. As Andre drives them to Shawn's farm, all of them are silent.

Andre leaves, and Shawn introduces Lee and the kids to his father, Hershel Greene. Hershel asks the children if they know Lee. They say yes and Hershel takes care of Lee's leg. Hershel questions Lee about his whereabouts and doings before the apocalypse. Lee's chose to be honest with him (though it is a slightly edited version of and closest to the truth, leaving out only the most troublesome details). The next day, Lee is introduced to Kenny Jr. (also known as Duck), Kenny, and Katjaa, and helps around the farm. After assisting Shawn in the backyard, Lee goes to converse with Hershel in the barn.
As they talk, someone screams and they leave the barn to investigate. Hershel gets his gun while Lee runs to see what's going on. When Lee gets to the source of the noise, he sees Shawn pinned under a tractor tire. It appears Duck, sitting on the tractor, inadvertently trapped Shawn. There are three walkers near the tractor, two try to get to Shawn and one tries to get Duck.
Lee chooses to save Duck and once he frees him, assists Travis in saving Shawn. Lee moves the tractor off of Shawn’s leg, but regardless, Shawn dies. Hershel thanks Lee and Travis but blames Kenny. Angrily, Hershel tells Kenny and Lee to leave his farm and never come back. As Kenny and his family prepare to leave, he encourages Lee and the kids to come with them.
When they arrive in Macon, they run out of gas and stumble upon a group of walkers. They are saved by a group holed up in a pharmacy. A woman named Carley saves Duck from a walker and they run inside. There is an argument over how risky it was to save them and what to do with Duck, as Larry, a member of the group in the pharmacy, suspects he was bitten. Lee sides with Kenny. After, Clementine is attacked by a walker who was locked in the bathroom and Lee saves her with help from Carley. Glenn then leaves on a supply run at a nearby motel to get food and gas.
Larry starts to have a heart attack and his daughter, Lilly, explains they have run out of pills for his condition and have been attempting to get into the storeroom since they got to the pharmacy. Lee goes looking for the keys to the Pharmacy and the player learns the group is in Lee's family pharmacy and that his family is dead. Lee helps out around the store and Carley reveals she is a reporter and knows who he is and what he did. Despite this, Lee trusts her to keep it between them.
Afterwards, Glenn calls on the walkie-talkie and says he is trapped at the motel. Carley, Travis and Lee go out to get Glenn and learn that there is a woman trapped in a nearby room, and decide to save her by taking out a group of walkers one by one. After saving her, they discover she was bitten. Lee and company try and bid her goodbye when the woman notices Carley’s gun. She lunges for the weapon, causing the balcony to break and fall. On the ground, she takes the gun and commits suicide.
After the motel incident they return to the pharmacy with the gas and Lee and Doug go out to the gate to look around. Sometime later, Lee grabs the keys, and runs back in to the pharmacy.
With keys in hand, Lee and Lilly enter the medical section of the store but trip an alarm, attracting the attention of all the walkers in the area, and now need to hold out until Kenny can fill his truck with the gas Glenn retrieved from the motel and bring it around to rescue them. After locking the entrance doors, Lee knows he must choose to save Carley or Doug, but assigns Travis to assist Carley while he tended to Doug. Lee saves Clementine from a walker. On their way out, Lee is blocked by Larry, who socks the former, knocking him to the floor just as a horde of zombies closes in on him. Just before Lee is attacked by a zombie, Kenny comes to his rescue, killing the zombie with his axe and helping Lee to his feet. Lee takes one last look at the building once owned by his parents, now flooding with zombies, then shuts the door and flees.
The survivors relocate to the motel where they intend to set up a base. Glenn tells Lee that he has to leave to find his friends in Atlanta with or without his and the group's blessing. Larry reveals that he also knows about Lee's past, and will not hesitate to use it against him if ever steps out of line. Just when things seem calm and for the most part peaceful, the street lights begin shutting off one by one until all the power goes out.

"Starved For Help"
Three months later, Lee is seen hunting in the forest with Mark, a new member of the group. They talk about Kenny and Lilly and the arguments they have as Lilly is rationing food and Kenny is trying to feed his family. They are interrupted when they hear screaming and find two survivors: Ben and his teacher, David Parker. David's leg is caught in a bear trap, one which is revealed to have been altered without a release latch. They rescued him, albeit by gruesomely severing his leg. After taking Mr. Parker back to the motor inn with Travis, Kenny and Mark, Lilly chastises them for bringing back more mouths to feed. Travis vouches for them, and Lilly casts his vouch aside, reciting their lack of food. Annoyed, Travis called over Rachel and Clementine to meet Ben. Excitedly, Rachel rushed over and hugged Ben. It's then revealed that Ben is her older brother. Irritated by the situation, decided that Lee should take charge of rationing, and gave him the group's food for the day. Travis told Lee that he would personally feed the kids this time before leaving to help Katjaa with Mr. Parker.
Lee goes over and talks with the kids. He asks Clementine about her missing hat, and her radio. He gives the three youngest members of the group rations, and offers Ben some as well, but is turned down. Carley calls Lee over and the two discuss their new arrivals before Lee is summoned by Katjaa.
Lee helps Katjaa sew up Mr. Parker's leg and she tells him to check in on Traivs, which he does. He hears Travis express his anxiety about the situation. Lee reassures him before sending him over chat with Ben instead.
Sometime later, Katjaa calls over Lee and Kenny to tell them that Mr. Parker has died. She is then attacked by a reanimated Mr. Parker. Lee saves her and has to be saved by the others.
They confront Ben and ask him why they didn't tell them his friend was bitten. Ben swears that the recently deceased was not bitten, and he explains to them that everyone is infected anyhow and when they die they will come back unless the brain is destroyed. Doug's alarm system goes off and the group hides as they hear two men come up the road. Kenny and Lee confront them and they introduce themselves as Andy and Danny St. John. The men tell them they're out scouting for gasoline to fuel their generators and electric fence, and offer a trade of fuel for food. Lilly sends Lee, Mark, Travis and Ben to see if it's legit.
On the way, Lee and Travis converse. Travis mentions being Doug's study and talks a bit about if the fence could kill walkers. During this time they witness two bandits arguing in the woods. The heated argument ends when one shoots the other repeatedly, brutally killing him.
After moving on they arrive at the St. John Family Dairy that Mark instantly takes liking to. Lee is slightly suspicious and tells Mark to keep an eye open. After being introduced to Brenda St. John they offer to help clear up the electric fence of 'fried' walkers. Andy St. John has turned off the electrical fence at this time Mark and Lee are removing the walkers who have "fried". After fixing one of the posts, the electricity comes back on, and Lee is enraged by Andrew's carelessness; but they are suddenly attacked by bandits. Mark is shot in the shoulder with an arrow and they both make their way back to the gate via hiding behind a tractor. The bandits withdraw after they reach the gate. At this point Travis and Ben have informed the others, about the barn and have now arrived at the farm. They are shocked to see Mark has been shot and is immediately taken in by Brenda and Katjaa. Lee learns that Ben, Travis, Carley and Doug have chosen to stay at the Motor Inn until they come back.
At that time, Danny St. John asks Lee if he would like to go to the bandits' camp to get some payback. Lee decides to go after checking up on everyone before leaving.
After returning, Kenny seems somewhat suspicious about the Dairy. Lilly is still angry about the idea of leaving the Motor Inn and wants to go back but Larry advises her not to, saying that they should stay for dinner at least. Lee goes into the barn where he finds Duck, Clem and Ray. Kenny is there with Katjaa and Andy. They find a locked door and Kenny begins to get increasingly suspicious. As a method to distract Andy to peek inside Lee tampers with one of the generators, thus luring Andy away.

## Killed Victims

This list shows the victims Lee has killed:

* Sam *(Accidental, Pre-Apocalypse)*
* Atlanta Police Officer *(Zombified)*
* Sandra *(Zombified)*
* Shawn Greene *(Caused, Alive, Determinant)*
* Irene *(Caused, Out of Mercy, Determinant)*
* B. Everett *(Zombified)*

## Relationships

Allies
* Mr. Everett † - Father
* Mrs. Everett † - Mother
* B. Everett † - Brother
* Motel Survivors
	+ Clementine - Daughter Figure
	+ Rachel Paul – Daughter Figure
	+ Travis – Son Figure
	+ Kenny - Close Friend and Savior
	+ Katjaa - Friend
	+ Duck - Friend
	+ Carley - Friend, Savior
	+ Doug - Friend
	+ Lilly - Friend
	+ Ben Paul
	+ Glenn †
* Clementine's Neighborhood
	+ Andre Mitchell – Temporary Ally
* Greene Family Farm
	+ Hershel Greene – Former Ally
	+ Shawn Greene †
* Irene † - Caused Victim

Enemies
* Motel Survivors
	+ Larry

## Gallery

The Gallery for this Character is a work in progress.

## Appearances

### Dawn of The Walking Dead

#### Season One

* "A New Day"
* "Starved For Help"

## Trivia

* Based on internal monologue in *"In Your Charge",* Lee says that his drink of choice is bourbon.
* Despite being the first main character seen in the canon series, Lee does not make an appearance until Chapter 3, *"In Your Charge"*.
* In *"Just On Bullet Goes A Long Way"*, neither Clementine nor Rachel question if Lee is a bad person because of Carley's revelation.
	+ This could be due to the fact that the girls were already aware of his arrest in *"In Your Charge"*.
* Lee is the only member of his family to not die in Macon.
* According to "BTSing my Fic w/Juno: DoTWD Ch. 3**",** the original draft of Chapter 3 would've had Lee fight a walker Sandra at night. This was scrapped due to continuity errors.