In Them: The Scare, Edmund Gaines is a struggling actor who ultimately becomes the antagonist of the series. Luke James plays Edmund.
In the late 1980s, Edmund Gaines spends his days working at a restaurant, often entertaining the children.
At the same time, he is auditioning daily, looking for his big break. He often goes above and beyond to study the characters he will be playing. Unfortunately, luck is hardly ever in his favor.
No matter the amount of effort he puts in, he is ultimately rejected in the end. Edmund frequently exhibits odd and unsettling behavior that causes people to distance themselves from him.
While studying the role of a serial killer, Edmund absorbs the qualities of one. However, despite putting in a convincing performance at the auditions, he is rejected.
Even his friend, Rhonda, who got him this role, keeps a distance from him after watching his behavior.
Becoming a killer
Edmund is adopted. His parents no longer want to associate with him. He doesn’t have friends, and his only hope is his long-lost twin sister, Dawn, with whom he grew up at Bernice Mott’s foster home for the first three years.
When they were kids, Athena had adopted both of them, with Edmund among them being very difficult to handle. Edmund was stubborn and used to throw a lot of tantrums.
When it comes to the relationship between Edmund and Dawn, they were inseparable. Edmund used to scream when Dawn left the room.
One day, Edmund and his father were alone at home. Athena came back to find her husband dead and Edmund playing with her husband’s pills as if they were toys. This event caused Athena to send Edmund back to the foster home.
Dawn, on the other hand, is told that Edmund was part of her imagination. Hence, over the course of her life, Dawn forgets that she even had a brother.
After learning that his sister has been located, Edmund seeks her out. Watching the perfect life of his sister overwhelms Edmund, who is not able to tell his sister who he is.
Dawn, on the other hand, suspects Edmund’s behavior and warns him to not visit her again.
Left with nothing, Edmund finds a way to pour out his frustrations on a sex worker before being caught by the cops, who mistake him for a serial killer they are hunting.
For a while, Edmund feels important, but he is told that he is a nobody the moment the cops figure out that he is not the person they are looking for.
Following this, Edmund ends up becoming a killer, murdering Donovan, the cameraman who used to laugh at his auditions.
Edmund’s fate
A guilty Edmund regrets killing Donovan. He plans to kill himself. At a time like this, an entity visits him and asks him to give himself up to it.
Edmund agrees, and he proceeds to kill himself. This is how Edmund becomes the monster, committing the strange and terrifying murders that Dawn is investigating in the second season.
By the end of the second season, Dawn figures out that Edmund is sharing his story with her through these murders.
The entity tries to take Dawn with it too, but Dawn expresses her love for Edmund, resulting in the entity dying and the chapter of Edmund coming to a close.
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