Eddie Jones

Ben McKenzie as Eddie, as portrayed in artwork for season two

**Eddie Jones** is one of the main characters of *Night Terrace*. He is portrayed by Australian actor Ben McKenzie.

## Biography

Eddie was studying an unspecified degree at a university in Melbourne, majoring in contemporary dance with a minor in theoretical physics.(*NT* One: "Moving House") His contemporary dance studies include classical ballet(*NT* One: "Moving House") (*Hello! My Name is Eddie*: "The Academic Transcript of Death"), Welsh clog dancing(*NT* Two: "Sense & Susceptibility") and Irish set dancing.(*Hello! My Name is Eddie*: "The Job of a Lifetime of Death") Eddie has also completed other studies, including a diploma in biography research. (*Hello! My Name is Eddie*: "The Psychological Experiment of Death") He speaks passable French.(*NT* One: "Moving House")

### Life before 2014

Eddie once spent a summer picking fruit in South Australia.(*NT* One: "The Outsourcing") He supported himself by working a number of temporary and casual jobs, mostly in call centres(*NT* One: "The Outsourcing") before selling electricity plans door-to-door for Powergy Enerco.(*NT* One: "Moving House")

### 2014

Eddie became the first human to be teleported, however as a key process didn't function he didn't experience the teleportation, although for a few short moments there were two of him. (*Hello! My Name is Eddie*: "The Psychological Experiment of Death")

On 23rd September 2014 on his way to a call centre job interview Eddie had an awkward conversation in a lift and gave some change to someone who at first had been convinced to eat fruit, but instead decided they wanted chocolate, possibly altering the timeline as a result. (*Hello! My Name is Eddie*: "The Awkward Small Talk of Death")

With encouragement from his friend Alex (who set up the interview) and with a fake CV under the name "Graeme Garden" Eddie applied to "the Bureau", he briefly met Susan Denholm who was wearing a fake moustache and pretending to be Maria. Sue decided he wasn't D.E.P.A.R.T.M.E.N.T. material. (*Hello! My Name is Eddie*: "The Job of a Lifetime of Death")

### Travels with Anastasia

While on rounds in his sales job, he knocked on the door of Anastasia Black's house, "Night Terrace". She pulled him inside for his own protection as an "unprecendented conjunction" of weird phenomena occurred, causing him to be transported with her when the house travelled through space and time to Tranquillos. Eddie took some time to adjust to the fact that he had travelled to another planet, but eventually recovered and encouraged Anastasia to help the alien Vraxnols fight off their invaders. He encountered a mysterious woman who identified herself as "Sue", and her advice helped him get the house moving again.(*NT* One: "Moving House")

Despite being enthusiastic about having "adventures" throughout space and time, he immediately parted ways with Anastasia when he thought they were back in Melbourne, trying to resume his old life and job until he again met "Sue". When he discovered he was aboard the future starship *Australis*, he asked the ship's computer to tell him of his own fate, but didn't hear the answer. Reunited with Anastasia, he assisted her in putting a stop to a plan to sabotage the ship and murder the peaceful inhabitants of the planet Borealia.(*NT* One: "Starship Australis")

On Earth in the 1929, Eddie encountered both "Sue" and the amateur sleuth Miss Leaina Baker in non-chronological order, thanks to the fact that he left teaspoons in the house's sink. He struggled to understand the more complicated aspects of time travel and was enamoured with Miss Baker, though he was ultimately disappointed to find she was a fake.(*NT* One: "Time of Death")

By the time the house landed on VX7, Eddie had started to get the hang of adventuring on alien worlds, and was confident enough for Anastasia to let him go off exploring on his own. He soon managed to get himself into a lifetime contract working in the Valufrax call centre, where he befriended fellow employee KRL/2. Anastasia rescued him and they left the planet before the Food-o-berry harvest.(*NT* One: "The Outsourcing")

When the house landed on the far future asteroid theme park Yesterland, Eddie was outraged to find it staffed by robotic versions of Adolf Hitler, and that future generations barely remembered his evil. Anastasia tried to suggest he was little better, considering he bought a T-shirt depicted Chairman Mao as a cute cat.(*NT* One: "Sound & Führer")

In the distant past of Australia, Eddie found himself defending the last marsupial lion, even though the local hunters helping them get back to the house were trying to kill it. He admitted to Anastasia that he still charged and carried his mobile phone, just in case he ever got a signal and could contact home.(*NT* One: "The Last Hunt")

By the time they found themselves in a weird seventies-style disco, Eddie had grown cocky, believing he and Anastasia had the right to stick their nose into whatever trouble they found. They had also developed quite a rapport, working well as a team. But they made a major mistake in not realising the true nature of the disco: it was an artificial world created by alien technology, and the house's arrival destabilised it.(*NT* One: "Discoworld") They were separated and ejected from the "discoworld" into a white void, where Eddie met the real Sue. Sue explained who she was, and about the D.E.P.A.R.T.M.E.N.T., before helping him reunite with Anastasia and escape.(*NT* One: "Home")

### Travels with Anastasia and Sue

Some time later, when the house become stuck in 1950s London, Eddie had begun to feel like a bit of a third wheel, since Anastasia and Sue had similar training and worked so well together. His main contribution to fixing the problem was distracting the cast and director of ‘’The Fletchers’’, a long-running radio serial, with his dancing skills.(*NT* Two: "Sense & Susceptibility") This resentment only deepened when the pair laughed when he suggested they might be in a “parallel universe” when they landed on the *SSS Implausible*. Aboard the ship, he befriended the chaplain Rosh, and learned from her about the mysterious mineral which powered the ship; he was also the one who realised it was a fake as he recognised its name from a story by H. G. Wells. When they discovered an aged Night Terrace hidden in the ship’s hold, he was afraid of what it might mean for their future.(*NT* Two: "Full Steam")

When the house landed inside an advanced entertainment system, Eddie was quick to understand the rules of the sit-com like universe in which they found themselves, having always been a fan of the genre.(*NT* Two: "Situational Awareness")

Eddie struggled to prove himself capable to Anastasia and Sue as he was almost immediately kidnapped when they landed on a nameless feudal planet.(*NT* Two: "A Verb of Nouns") When the house was trapped in the Einstein-Rosen-Wimberley-Grant bridge, Anastasia had Eddie drink the “quantum tea” she prepared using house paint, sending him across the dimensional interface into Darren’s house. He again thought he was in a parallel universe, but Anastasia followed him across without needing to drink the tea and fixed the problem with Sue’s help.(*NT* Two: "Things That Go Bump in the Night Terrace")

After meddling with a “truncated dodecahedron” in an alien temple, angering the locals and endangering the housemates, Eddie was grounded by Anastasia. He reacted angrily and ignored her instructions, leaving the house to look for wild thyme. As they were captured by a mercenary and delivered to a local clan who wished to sacrifice them, Eddie was angry at the way Anastasia treated him like a fool and a subordinate, even when his knowledge of comic books helped him identify that they were in Gaul, probably during the time of Julius Caesar. He was also upset that Anastasia had never asked him about himself, claiming that she knew nothing about his life before he met her. When they escaped, he was left behind and accidentally entered the wrong house, meeting Horatio Gray.(*NT* Two: "Ancient History")

### Brief travels with Horatio

Eddie travelled with Horatio, quickly becoming appalled at the way he casually meddled with human history, and developing an appreciation for what it must be like for Anastasia travelling with him. After narrowly escaping death at the hands of the English and Spanish Armadas, he and Horatio arrived in the very early pre-history of the Earth where Anastasia and Sue explained Horatio's destiny was to die creating the planet. Eddie rejoined his housemates, but shortly after Horatio's house departed there was a huge explosion.(*NT* Two: "The Retirement of Horatio Gray")

### Return to Anastasia's Night Terrace

Eddie and Sue were flung into an empty void, while Anastasia ended up in a bizarre paradise. Eddie appeared in her reality only through the song "I Had a Dream", which was always at number one in the charts. Like Sue, he was able to speak to her through the radio, explaining that he felt no pain, but also felt nothing else. He was also able to see what happened, and explained that she was in a pocket universe created by the collision of all the Night Terraces as a result of Horatio's journey so far back in time. He and Anastasia reconciled, both apologising for their previous argument. Anastasia eventually destroyed the pocket universe, sending all three back to reality. Anastasia was so pleased to see the other housemates that Eddie was suspicious something had happened to her, or that she had been replaced by a fake.(*NT* Two: "Home Again")

### Personality

Optimistic and eager, although daunted by three suns and a pink sky on his first venturing into the universe. (*NT* One: "Moving House") He's always hungry, (*NT* Two: "Full Steam") and willing to embrace odd foodstuffs like sweet and sour tiramisu. (*NT* One: "Moving House")

He was a fan of *Star Wars* and was able to recite every scene. (*NT* One: "Discoworld")

## Relationships

According to a form he filled out in order to participate in a psychological test, he has no next of kin.(*Hello! My Name is Eddie*: "The Psychological Experiment of Death")

One of his lecturers was Professor Brenda.(*Hello! My Name is Eddie*: "The Academic Transcript of Death")

## Appearances

Eddie Jones appears in the following episodes:

* *Night Terrace* season one
	+ “Moving House”
	+ “Starship Australis”
	+ “Time of Death”
	+ “The Outsourcing”
	+ “Sound & Führer”
	+ “The Last Hunt”
	+ “Discoworld”
	+ “Home”
* *Night Terrace* season two
	+ “Sense & Susceptibility”
	+ “Full Steam”
	+ “A Verb of Nouns”
	+ “Things That Go Bump in the Night Terrace”
	+ “Ancient History”
	+ “The Retirement of Horatio Gray”
	+ “Home Again”
* *Night Terrace* specials
	+ “Situational Awareness”
* *Hello! My Name is Eddie*
	+ “The Academic Transcript of Death”
	+ “A Trip to the Milk Bar of Death”
	+ “The Awkward Small Talk of Death”
	+ “The Psychological Experiment of Death”
	+ “The Job of a Lifetime of Death”
	+ “Did You Know You Can Save 4% of Death?”
* *Night Your Own Terrace*
	+ “Habitat of Mushrooms”
	+ “Dinosaurs of Antarctica”
	+ “The Sandwiches of Pluto”
	+ “The Smell of Books”
	+ “An Echo of Socks”
	+ “The Conditions of Entry”

## References

 *Auguste Night* · *Horatio Gray*