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James B. "Jimmy" Edwards was a minor character during seasons one and three of One Tree Hill, portrayed by Colin Fickes.

The only child of Mary Edwards, Jimmy's father left him and his mother while Jimmy was in high school, something that may have played a part in the events of season three. Jimmy was a former student at Tree Hill High School where he was initially friends with Mouth McFadden and other members of the "River Court squard"—Lucas Scott, Skills Taylor, Junk Moretti, and Fergie Thompson. As his friends from the River Court gradually became more popular at school, Jimmy was left behind, causing him to feel isolated and alone. Feeling mistreated by his former friends, Jimmy recorded a scathing account of his high school experience for the senior class time capsule where he ridiculed the school's social hierarchy and everyone who played into it.

When the time capsule was released, Jimmy fell victim to bullying from other students, leading him to perform a school shooting. While no one died in the shooting, Jimmy was unable to be talked down and committed suicide in front of Keith Scott. In the aftermath of the shooting, wherein Dan Scott killed his brother Keith with Jimmy's gun, Jimmy was wrongly accused of Keith's murder. Over the course of the fourth season, however, Dan eventually came forward and confessed to his crime, clearing Jimmy's name.

Character arc[]

Season 1[]

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Jimmy and Mouth at the River Court.

Jimmy was a Tree Hill High Student, and was good friends with Mouth, Lucas, Skills, Fergie, Faith, and the other guys at the River Court. From the River Court, Mouth and Jimmy commentated most of the River Court games with big dreams of becoming professional sports commentators. When Lucas joined the Tree Hill Ravens varsity basketball team, Mouth and Jimmy started the website ravenshoops.com where they would commentate and update online for fans of the Ravens to see. After a while, however, Jimmy's friends eventually lost touch with him as they became more popular at school, leaving Jimmy lonely and upset.

Season 3[]

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Jimmy tells his true feelings about the school and students in the time capsule.

The teens at Tree Hill High created time capsules to show kids in the future what school was like back in their time, Jimmy was ignored by his old friends, and was getting bullied all the time, he took time off and no one noticed and was counting down the days till he got to leave school for good, then Rachel Gatina broke the time capsules out the wall and released them, Jimmy's time capsule was released where he stated his true feelings for all the people that went to Tree Hill. He insulted everybody in the school and Lucas and Marvin talked to him, Jimmy was upset with them because they had ignored him for so long and now they wanted his attention.

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Jimmy during the school shooting. ("With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept")

The school went on lockdown and he locked himself in a room with some students and held them hostage, one being Abby Brown, but after finding out she was diabetic, Jimmy let her go so she could get medication. He also noticed Lucas and an injured Peyton Sawyer coming out of the library to get help for her bleeding, Jimmy reacted badly to this stating the school was on lockdown, and Keith came in to save the day, Lucas and Peyton left the building leaving Keith to try and talk Jimmy into putting the gun down, but Jimmy thought Peyton was going to die and nothing would get better ; he then shot himself. After Jimmy shot himself, Dan Scott walked in, picked up Jimmy's gun, and shot Keith dead. Following the school shooting, residents of Tree Hill mourned the deaths of Jimmy and Keith. Lucas took Keith's death badly and found it hard to forgive Jimmy for who he believed to have killing Keith, but he put his feelings aside and attended Jimmy's funeral with the River Court gang to give Mary Edwards some support. Lucas and Mouth got people to sign Jimmy's yearbook to give as a gift to Jimmy's mother.

Season 4[]

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Lucas, Mouth, Skills and Fergie attending Jimmy's funeral.

Lucas starts to disbelieve that Jimmy killed Keith and ends up remembering that Abby Brown was in the room next to where Keith and Jimmy died and would have seen who shot who, she doesn't want to talk but eventually comes clean and tells Lucas that it was in fact Dan that had killed Keith not Jimmy, Dan eventually hands himself into the police and Jimmy's name is cleared from killing Keith. Jimmy and Keith died the same day.

Post-death[]

Season 8[]

When the River Court was threatened with destruction, Marvin remembered him and Jimmy, commenting on the games of Lucas and others.

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Mouth talk about Jimmy and Keith on TV.

Season 9[]

In season 9, Marvin received money from Dan Scott's Will with the line what you do matters, Marvin set up a charity for sport scholarships in Memory of Jimmy and Keith (Edwards Scott Scholarship Foundation).

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Trivia[]

  • Jimmy was initially best friends with Mouth McFadden until they eventually parted way after Mouth became friends with the popular kids at school. Even after Jimmy's death, however, Mouth still considered Jimmy his best friend throughout the series and set up a charity in memory of both him and Keith Scott.
  • Although Jimmy's character only appeared in 4 episodes, his storyline in season three had one of the most profound impacts on the series as a whole, with the fallout from the school shooting playing a significant part in season four. Jimmy himself was also featured in flashbacks and was mentioned from time to time across later seasons of the show.
  • The series has featured several continuity errors over the course of its run, with one being the appearance of Jimmy's headstone and the date of his death.
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