Ed Peletier (TV Series)

Ed Peletier was one of the Atlanta survivors. He had a wife, Carol, and a daughter, Sophia at the camp. He was killed when zombies invaded their camp.

Location Unknown
It's implied, through remarks directed at Andrea, that Ed hadn't gone to college. He and Carol presumably had been living in the South with their daughter, as well as possibly one or both of their families. He dominated over Carol, from preventing her from buying nice clothes and such to constantly assaulting her to solidify his authority. It's unknown whether he abused Sophia as well, though it's heavily implied that he had harbored underlying sexual feelings toward her (which Carol was aware of, much to her disgust).

During the outbreak, he meets Shane and Lori as evacuations are being made for survivors to head towards Atlanta. He gets angry when Carol offers their supplies to others and tells her not to share with anyone. With the city being destroyed by the military, he along with his family decided to stay with Shane and Lori.

Tell It to the Frogs
When Glenn returns to the group alone, he brought a noisy car with him, and Ed helps Shane, Dale, and Jim to shut the noise up. One night in the survivors' camp after Rick and the other survivor make it back from Atlanta, Ed starts a fire in attempt to get some warmth due to the cold nights outside. Shane asks Ed to dim it down to embers, and Carol does so in attempt to keep things calm between the two men. Later, as Carol, Andrea, Amy, and Jacqui are doing laundry at the quarry, they are joking and chatting, which draws the attention of Ed. He comes over to the women and begins harassing them, saying they should cut the chatter and quietly do the laundry. Andrea and Jacqui reply that he needs to back off, to which Ed responds with some hostility. His wife intervenes to prevent him from becoming violent, but he smacks her across the face. Shane grabs Ed and begins to savagely beat him, warning him that if he ever hits another woman (or his daughter), Shane will not stop. Shane lets go of Ed and walks away as a sobbing Carol tends to her injured husband.



Vatos
Ed is recovering in his tent from his injuries sustained from Shane's beating. Sophia is in the tent with him when Carol calls her out to have dinner with everyone. Ed tells her to stay but Carol, standing her ground, says Sophia is leaving. Carol invites him to join but he declines. Later, while he is napping, he is awoken by rustling outside his tent. Annoyed, he opens the tent only to be attacked and killed by zombies.

Wildfire
Ed's body was laid out with the dead campers. Just as Daryl Dixon was going to impale his head with an axe to prevent reanimation as a zombie, Carol stops him, saying she'll do it since he was her husband. She hits Ed's bloody and mangled body several times before breaking down. He is then buried on the hillside with Amy and the other bodies.



Chupacabra
Ed makes a brief appearance in the episode Chupacabra, where he and his family were joined up with Shane, Carl, and Lori on the highway when Atlanta was being bombarded with bombs by the military. He is heard telling his wife, Carol, to not share any of their food or supplies with other survivors since they should just focus on themselves.

Trivia

 * In the comic series Ed was dead prior to Carol and Sophia's arrival at camp. In Issue 5, Carol stated that her husband was a car salesman and alluded that he had committed suicide after watching his parents die.
 * Ed was mentioned once again in the comics when Carol confided in Lori that he was abusive toward her (like in the show), but it was unclear if that actually happened or if Carol was just making it up due to her deteriorating mental state at the time.
 * Ed's last name was revealed in Episode 4, Vatos, through dialogue by Jim, as well as on the AMC website.
 * Ed made an appearance in Season 2 Episode 5, Chupacabra, during a flashback to before he, Carol, and Sophia made it to the camp.