| “ | Bring out the Gimp.
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| ― Zed to Maynard. |
Zed was the secondary antagonist in Quentin Tarantino's 2nd film Pulp Fiction, serving as the main antagonist in the chapter called "The Gold Watch". He was a treacherous security guard and an homosexual rapist who victimized men that he and his accomplice and best friend, Maynard, kidnaped. In the film, Zed rapes Marsellus Wallace inside basement of Maynard's pawn shop. He also has a chopper he calls Grace.
He was portrayed by Peter Greene.
Biography[]
Boxer Butch Coolidge was being chased by crime boss, Marsellus Wallace, into a pawn shop where Butch disarms him and prepares to shoot him in the head. Suddenly the pawn shop owner, Maynard, holds Butch at gun point with his shotgun, forcing him to walk up to the front desk with his hands behind his head, before knocking him out with the stock of the shotgun while Marsellus passes out from the fight with Butch. Meanwhile, Maynard calls Zed and says that, "a spider just caught a couple of flies".
Later on, Maynard wakes them both up and they find themselves bound and gagged. Zed arrives and tells Maynard to wake up "The Gimp", one of their captured victims who was driven insane from their torment. Zed couldn't decide who wanted to rape at first, and so he eventually picked Marsellus with a game of "eenie meenie miny moe". Leaving The Gimp to watch over Butch, he and Maynard brought the crime boss into the back room, bend him over a vaulting horse and begin to rape him. However, Butch manages to untie himself and kill The Gimp, but just as he is about to leave the pawn shop, he realizes he cannot leave Marsellus to his fate and goes back to save him with a katana in hand.
Butch sneaks into the back room, witnessing Zed raping Marsellus while Maynard masturbating and brutally slashes and stabs the shop owner before holding Zed at bay with the katana. Marsellus frees himself and picks up Maynard's shotgun. Before Zed can grab his pistol, Marsellus shoots him in the crotch. He vows that Zed's suffering has only begun, promising that he will "get medieval on [his] ass". Since Butch saved him, Marsellus calls off his feud with him, providing time for Butch to leave Los Angeles and keep what happened there to himself. Butch does so and takes Zed's chopper to pick up his girlfriend Fabienne and leave Los Angeles for good.
While what happens to Zed afterwards is unknown, it's implied that Marsellus kept his word and Zed was tortured, mutilated and killed by his men as his many previous victims.
Trivia[]
- The room in which Zed and Maynard take Marsellus to is referred to as "Russel's Old Room", implying that they may have sodomized and killed one of their previous victims, before kidnapping Butch and Marsellus.
- Zed and Maynard's specific relationship is not mentioned in the film, but according to the screenplay, they are brothers.