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"Eddie! Help me! Eddie, Eddie! Don't leave me, god no! "
―Charles after seeing Eddie drive away.

Edward "Eddie" Caputo is the partner-in-crime of Charles Lee Ray, the Lakeshore Strangler.

Child's Play (1988)[]

Charles is chased down an alleyway by Detectives Mike Norris and Jack Santos, with both parties engaging in shooting match. Charles attempts to make it back to Eddie's getaway van, but Mike shoots him in the leg and he collapses to the ground. When another police car arrives at the scene, Eddie decides to bail on Charles despite him screaming and begging for him not to leave him behind. Mike orders Jack to pursue Eddie while he goes after Charles.

Fatally shot, Charles desperately stumbles into a toy store and attempts a voodoo soul transfer on the closest thing he could find, a Good Guy doll. Before dying, he swears vengeance on Mike and Eddie, no matter what. Officer Jack Santos succeeds at apprehending Eddie, but he later manages to escape custody while being transferred on a prison bus on his way to court. Eddie’s escape makes the evening news, which alerts Chucky, whose soul is now inside the doll. Eddie flees to the safe house he and Charles used during their crime spree, a condemned tenement in the Cabrini Green section of Chicago.

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Eddie's death.

Chucky is able to convince Andy to escort him to his hideout. When Andy goes off to use the bathroom, Chucky sneaks into his house and disconnects the gas line to the stove. This noise alerts Eddie, he arms himself and makes his way downstairs, believing an intruder is present. As he continues hearing noise, he fires two shots into the hallway before kicking the living room door open. He is briefly distracted by seeing Andy outside the window looking for Chucky, before he hears a laugh coming from the kitchen. Opening the door, Eddie fires a shot blindly into the kitchen, resulting in the house exploding and killing him.

Chucky: Season 1 (2021)[]

As a child in 1972, Eddie lived at the Burlington County Home for Wayward Boys. There he meets a teenaged Charles Lee Ray, whom he befriends along with two other boys. Charles attempts to mold the three boys into future killers, reading them twisted fairy tales and teaching them swear words. One day while Charles reads them Peter Pan, the House Mother enters the room and asks them how they are enjoying the story. Eddie remarks that it's "fucking fantastic", to which she demands to know where he learned such language. Eddie silently looks over to Charles, and the two wink at each other.

A few days later, Charles takes the boys on a Peter Pan-esque adventure to find Captain Hook. He leads them through the forest and to the corpse of the janitor, whom he murdered earlier. The two other boys run away screaming, but Eddie remains behind and pokes at the maggots on the corpse with a stick. Smiling, Charles tells him that he has guts for staying with him. That night, Charles is forced to leave the Burlington Home as the police arrive to investigate the murder. Before he runs off, he says goodbye to Eddie and gives him a shoebox with the janitor's severed hand inside.

Trivia[]

  • Eddie is Chucky's 2nd victim in Child's Play.
  • Director Tom Holland was influenced by the Hillside Stranglers to make Charles Lee Ray have a partner.
  • According to Don Mancini, in an interview with William Bibbiani for The Chucky Files, Mancini claimed Eddie didn't have any lines but made grunting noises. His only line in the film is "Oh shit... Oh shit!", which he says before driving away in the getaway van.
  • In Curse of Chucky, it is revealed that Eddie was waiting for Charles in the getaway van as his partner spent time with his hostage Sarah Pierce.
  • In Just Let Go, Eddie's childhood nickname at the Burlington Home was "Tootles".
  • In Hail, Mary!, Eddie's old music cassette tapes are used for Chucky to listen to as the kids attempt to brainwash him.

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