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Thelonious: "I miss you, son. Every day."

Wells: "I'm always with you, Dad."

Jaha and Wells in Inclement Weather


Thelonious and Wells is the relationship between Wells and Thelonious Jaha. They are portrayed by Eli Goree and Isaiah Washington.

Summary[]

Thelonious Jaha is Wells Jaha's father. Wells sets fire to the last tree on The Ark before the 100 Delinquents were sent to Earth, because he wants to be with his childhood best friend, Clarke Griffin. It appears that Wells didn't know that Bellamy Blake shot his father to get on the Dropship.

Throughout the Series[]

In Pilot, Thelonious, the chancellor of the Ark space station, sends Wells and 99 more delinquents to the ground to find out if it’s survivable since the station is running out of oxygen.

In Earth Skills, After getting out of medical, Thelonious “finds out” through the wristbands signals that Wells is dead, which he’s visibly sad about.

Later, in his quarters, Abby’s tending to his wound and tries to convince him that the 100 may still be alive, but is shut down by him and he notes that his son is dead.

Afterwards, in the Council Room, he gives a speech about how he sent his son to the ground, and he doesn’t know if he’s alive, but says that he still has hope and gives Abby 10 days to find out if the 100 are alive or they’ll carry out Kane’s population reduction plan.

In Twilight's Last Gleaming, he blames Abby for Raven’s “death” and mentions how it’s another child dead just like the rest and just like theirs.

Later, in Jaha’s quarters, he’s contemplating Wells’s chess board when Abby storms in confronting him for going to die in the Culling and leave Kane as the chancellor. He ignores her and she asks her how he’s gonna tell his son that he let those people die without trying to do everything he could to stop it.

In Contents Under Pressure, After they make radio-contact with Raven, Jaha asks Clarke if his son is with her. Clarke hesitates but answers him the truth, he’s dead. Jaha and everyone in there is shocked but Jaha appears to handle it well and leaves to his quarters.

Afterwards, he’s in a meeting with the citizens and informs them that the ground is survivable. Everyone is upset because they think that he’s saying it to cover up for the Culling (which turned out to be unnecessary) and Jaha tells tells them that he is suffering too. When they keep pushing, he finally breaks and screams that he lost his son.

In We Are Grounders (Part 1), After Diana Sidney’s mutiny, as the Ark resulted crippled, he declares to everyone that they aren’t going to the ground. In his quarters, he chooses to spend time remembering old memories, seeing a video of young Wells and Clarke. And thanks to that, he’s struck with an idea to save everyone.

In We Are Grounders (Part 2), Jaha stays behind on the Ark so that the Sky People can go to Earth. He tells Abby that she’ll see her daughter soon, and he’ll see his son.

In The 48, Jaha, alone on the Ark, says “may we meet again” to Wells’s wristband’s screen image. After a few seconds, he hears a baby’s cry and is confused by it.

In Inclement Weather, he finds the baby hidden in a drawer. He then tries to find a way to get to the ground on a ship-to-ground missile and sees that the baby’s holding a chess piece, and tells him maybe he will teach him to play someday.

Later, Thelonious is in an airlock and puts on a space suit with a carrier to put the baby in to be able to reach where the missile is, and he has to go through space. He’s “floated” into space and when he’s reaching the other side he’s helmet breaks and nearly kills him. Anyways, he reaches the airlock and checks if the baby’s okay, but he sees that the baby has disappeared. He’s going mad and hears Wells’s voice say “dad” behind him, when he turns around he sees Wells, confirming that the baby was a hallucination because he’s oxygen deprived. Wells tells his father not to give up since his people need him and Jaha tells Wells that he misses him making Wells say that he'll always be with him. After that, he disappears.

In Many Happy Returns, Jaha survived the missile and is a dessert, laying on the floor. A boy approaches an apparently unconscious him and sees that he has presumely Wells’s chess piece, but he doesn’t know what it is. When he tries to grab it, Jaha wakes up and takes the piece rapidly from his hand and scares the boy.

Later, he’s let to stay in his tent by his parents. He’s teaching the boy (with a deformed face due to radiation) to play chess, he tells him he teached his son when he was his age too. The mother asks him where he’s now and Thelonious tells her that he’s dead, and that he chose differently from her, referencing and earlier conversation when she told him that, as the deformed one are cast away; she chose to save his son and chose him instead of her people, which Jaha did it backwards. He shows remorse.

In Fog of War, he’s trapped with Kane in a grounder cell but Thelonious is optimist and tells Marcus that they didn’t go down from the Ark, just to die there. When Marcus asks him how can he be sure, Thelonious responds that he’s son told him.

In Survival of the Fittest, Jaha asks John Murphy to get him to his son’s grave, which he accepts. Whereupon Jaha kneels down and mourns him. Later, Jaha is done and asks Murphy how close he was to Wells which he answers that “well enough to be strung up for his death”. Jaha then asks what happened to his son, Murphy tells him how a little girl stabbed in the neck with a knife she stole from him. Thelonious asks why she did that and Murphy tells that it was because she couldn’t kill him, and proceeds to blame him for the people that died and they wouldn’t have (including his son) if he wouldn’t have sent them down there. Jaha is upset and tells him that if he didn’t sent them, they would have all died on the Ark and wouldn’t have discovered that Earth is survivable, he says that good can come out of even the darkest acts.

In Wanheda (Part 2), a chipped Jaha tells Murphy how his son’s death nearly killed him but the City of Light unburneded him, made him whole.

In Bitter Harvest, it is revealed in an “interrogatory” with Abby that Jaha doesn’t remember his son at all since A.L.I.E. wipes out the chipped members memory, which shocks Abby and Jasper there. Alie quickly reminds him of his son and Thelonious makes up an excuse saying that he hasn’t thought of his son for a while, but Abby shuts him down.

In We Will Rise, Monty makes Jaha remembers his son to try wake up his moral side because Geoff Hardy is (according to Jaha) just blowing off steam about Ilian’s ark destruction. Monty asks him if that’s what they were doing when they strung up Murphy for killing Wells, which impacts Jaha. And after Jaha’s not convinced, Monty tells him that his son would be ashamed of him. Later, he took into account what Monty said and frees Ilian from the mob.

In DNR, when trying to save a depressed Jasper and his suicide party from Praimfaya, Jaha remembers Wells for a moment and decides to stand down since “they can’t save someone if they don’t want to be saved”, and leads the 400 arkadians to Polis.

In Red Queen, when Jaha’s dying, he asks Marcus to take him to his wife, to take him to Wells. Marcus recites the Traveler’s Blessing and Thelonious dies.

Quotes[]

Jaha (to Abby): "You'll see your daughter soon. And I'll see my son."
-- We Are Grounders (Part 2)
Wells: "What would you tell me to do?"
Jaha: "That’s not fair."
Wells: "You would tell me to live. You’ve sacrificed so much. Your life can be more than just impossible decisions and a tragic end. You can choose to live."
Jaha: "I miss you, son. Every day."
Wells "I’m always with you, dad. You can do this."
-- Inclement Weather

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