Edict Boy

Jesse

Background

Jesse is the son of Russ and Carol.

During the events of Z.P.G. (1972) played by Theis Ib Husfeldt

Carol gives birth and Russ buys a mechanical child from Baby Shop Salesman 2. On the day Carol is supposed to be returning, Jesse is ill. She switches the mechanical baby for Jesse and takes Jesse out in a stroller and is stopped by Edna who welcomes her back. As Carol is walking away, Jesse starts to cry. Carol goes into a movie theater showing old world citizens eating gluttonously. She goes to see Dr. Herrick and Mary Herrick and tells Dr. Herrick, Jesse is sick. He examines Jesse and tells Carol there is nothing to worry about and gives Jesse a shot. Carol comes home and finds Edna in her house sitting next to both her and Carol's mechanical children. Edna says she won't tell anyone and asks to touch Jesse. Later both Edna and George stop by and tell Russ and Carol that they want to help take care of Jesse. Carol at first refuses to let them hold Jesse, but Russ tells her to let them. As time goes on, Edna and George push the boundaries and at one point Edna calls Jesse "our" baby to Carol. One day Carol finds Edna with Jesse in Edna and George's house. Eventually George and Edna demand to keep Jesse every other day. At one point, George tells Russ that he and Edna are keeping Jesse and Russ and Carol will only have one more day with him. When Edna and George come to retrieve Jesse, Russ and Carol refuse to give him to them. Edna grabs the mechanical child and smashes it into the ground and yells they need to destroy all of the mechanical children. Guards break into the house and take, Russ, Carol and Jesse away to the extermination center. A clear dome is placed over them as they are prepared for suffocation that will begin in 12 hours. George and Edna stare inside the pod as guards spray it with red spray paint. Russ digs into the ground until he digs into the sewer system and he, Carol and Jesse crawl through a tunnel and then get into an inflatable raft. George finds upturned dirt in the bomb shelter and starts to climb in the sewer tunnels. Russ, Carol and Jesse pass through an old car junkyard and make it out into a lake. They pass a jetty that warns not to go past and arrive at a beach at Complex 13 and a plaque declaring Polaris missiles were buried there on 17 July 1978 in the interest of peace. Carol, Russ and Jesse exit the raft and walk across their new home.