Ed
Background
Ed is a resident of London, England. He once shot his sister in the leg with an arrow. Ed can do an impression of Clyde from Every Which Way But Loose.
During the events of Shaun of the Dead (2004) played by Nick Frost
Shaun is at the Winchester Tavern with Liz, Ed, Dianne and David, when John calls for last orders. The next day, Shaun wakes up and when he sits down to play a video game with Ed, Ed brings up that Shaun has work. Noel calls Ed and asks him if he has any marijuana to sell, and Ed tells him he barely has enough for himself. Before leaving for work, Pete asks Ed to do simple chores around the house and Ed repeatedly mumbles he will, but then tells Shaun he won't do anything Pete asked. After work, Shaun calls Fulci's restaurant to make reservations, but they are all booked up. Shaun asks Ed what he should do and Ed suggests taking Liz to the Winchester. Liz calls and after suggesting they go to the Winchester due to him not making reservations, she hangs up on him. After Liz breaks up with Shaun, Ed tries to cheer up Shaun and comes up with interesting back stories for the people in the Winchester including Snakehips, Spinster, John and Bernie. Ed then tells Shaun, Liz breaking up with him isn't the end of the world. Just then someone bangs on the door to the Winchester and moans. As Shaun and Ed leave the Winchester the woman that was embracing outside chews the neck off of her lover. They go back to their house and play Electro music loud on their record player until Pete comes downstairs and throws out the record. He yells at them for being loud and tells them he has to go to work in the morning due to everyone calling in sick. Shaun tells Pete he broke up with Liz and as Pete is walking away, Ed calls him a prick. Pete yells at Ed to go live in the shed and accuses Shaun of keeping Ed around so he doesn't seem as much of a loser and yells at Shaun to sort his life out. Ed notices a bandage on Pete's hand and Pete tells them some crackhead bit him.
The next morning, Ed tells Shaun there is someone in their garden and they go outside and find Mary shambling around. Mary grabs Shaun and as he pushes her away, she falls on a table rod and impales herself. Mary gets back up and Shaun and Ed go back into the house as a Hulking Zombie shambles into their garden. Shaun calls 999, but the lines are busy. He and Ed watch the news and The Usher shambles into the house from the front door Shaun left open. Ed manages to kill The Usher zombie by smashing it in the head with an ashtray. Mary zombie and Hulking Zombie break the window and Shaun and Ed at first try to kill them by throwing household objects at them. Shaun then smashes open the shed and he and Ed kill them using a cricket bat and shovel. As Jeremy Thompson tells the public to isolate themselves from anyone that may have been bitten, Shaun and Ed look upstairs to Pete's room. Barbara calls Shaun and tells him Philip was bitten and Shaun and Ed come up with a plan to take Pete's car to pick up Barbara and Liz and then to go to the Winchester until everything calms down.
They drive to Barbara's house and pass by people being attacked by zombies and Ed accidentally runs into Grizzled Zombie, which he and Shaun are relieved when they realize he was dead before Ed hit him with the car. Ed stays outside while Shaun goes to get Barbara. Shaun leaves with Barbara and Philip and Ed tells him he crashed Pete's car so they are forced to use Philip's Jaguar. Philip is attacked by Clubber 1 and bitten in the neck. Everyone gets into the car and Ed peels out and starts blasting music from a tape. They drive to Liz's and Shaun climbs up the wall to her apartment. He returns with Liz, Dianne and David and they get into the car and Shaun introduces Liz to Barbara. Philip dies and then turns into a zombie and everyone runs out of Philip's Jaguar. They run into Yvonne's group which consists of Declan, Mark, Maggie, Yvonne's Mum and Cousin Tom and who are heading in the opposite direction. Shaun hears Barbara scream and as he goes to help her, he is attacked by Pyjama Zombie. Liz and Dianne help Shaun kill Pyjama Zombie while Ed and David watch. He checks to see how many zombies are surrounding the Winchester and Shaun asks Dianne to try and teach everyone how to act like a zombie so they can sneak their way to the Winchester.
As they make it to the Winchester they find the front door locked and Ed's phone rings and he answers it and tells Noel he still doesn't have any marijuana. Shaun starts yelling at Ed and the crowd of zombies start to surround the group. Shaun tells the others he is going to lead the zombies away and find another way in after David breaks one of the windows of the Winchester. David goes to turn the lights on, but the power is off. David starts to complain about Shaun and his plan and Shaun walks in. As the day turns into night, the outside lights turn on and Shaun goes to flip the circuit breakers in the Winchester back on. Dianne turns on the television and all the channels are offline. Ed asks Liz for money and then uses it to play a loud casino game. The zombies start to pound on the windows and zombie John grabs David and the jukebox suddenly comes on. Shaun, Liz and Ed start whacking John with pool sticks while David goes to turn off the breaker for the power. Liz hits John with a fire hydrant and then Dianne tries to hit him with darts. Ed tosses Shaun the Winchester rifle over the bar and Shaun uses it to push John into the jukebox. Ed tells Shaun he should have shot John and as Shaun pulls the trigger to show Ed the weapon no longer works, he fires a round.
Barbara shows Shaun her bite and Ed runs over, followed by Dianne. Barbara thanks Shaun for the flowers she found in the trash and then dies. David comes over and cocks the rifle and points it at Barbara and says they have to shoot her. Shaun and Ed break bottles and threaten to cut David and Shaun says David hates Shaun and is in love with Liz. David denies it and Dianne tells him she knows it is true. Liz calms the situation down and Barbara rises from the dead, forcing Shaun to shoot her in the head after telling her he is sorry. David makes another comment and Shaun punches him in the face. David takes the rifle and pulls the trigger, but the rifle is out of ammunition. Everyone is shocked and David tells them he is leaving. As David is standing by the window, a group of zombies break the window and pull David out, ripping his stomach open. Dianne chases after the zombies and starts beating them with David's ripped off leg. The zombies pour into the Winchester and Ed starts making Molotov cocktails. Ed is grabbed and then bitten by zombie Pete and zombie Bernie and Shaun shoots Pete in the head. Shaun, Liz and Ed hide behind the bar and Shaun lights the bar on fire using liquor. They go into the cellar and close the door behind them. As Shaun and Liz are planning to use the remaining two rounds to kill each other, Shaun finds the controls to the barrel elevator. Ed decides to stay behind and Shaun apologizes for yelling at Ed.
Six months later, Shaun goes to the shed to play video games with a chained up zombie Ed.
