Ed Peletier (TV Series)

Ed Peletier is a survivor first appearing in Tell It to the Frogs, the third episode of the Walking Dead TV series. He has a wife, Carol, and a daughter, Sophia. He was killed when zombies invade their camp.

Tell It to the Frogs
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 lightly harassing them, saying they should cut it out and keep doing 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 punching his face and warns that if he ever hits another woman, he will not stop punching. 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, but invites him to join. He denies her invite. Later, while he is napping, he is awoken by rustling outside his tent. He is annoyed and opens the tent to find a zombie who then kills him.

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 illuded that he committed suicide after watching his parents die.
 * Ed's last name was revealed in episode 5, Vatos, through dialogue by Jim, as well as on the AMC website.