Wayne Jessup

Jessup is a 19 year old (according to the original movie script) soldier stationed at the Arrowhead base. In high school he and Sally flirted but he never asked her out, which is mentioned by her later on in the movie. He, Donaldson and Morales come to the store to get supplies, but before leaving they are stopped by a military police officer who tells them they are needed back at the base for unknown reasons. He is obviously upset but realizes why this is when a cloud of mist surrounds the entire store with the soldiers, bar the officer still inside. He is next seen discussing plans with the other two soldiers, presumably a triple suicide but is interrupted by Billy when he is asked if his "army friends" are going to save him. David interrupts and asks Jessup and his friends to come and help with the fortifications of the store windows, which they oblige. During that night, he meets Sally in the locker room of the store and eventually initiates a sexual encounter, but Sally refuses stating she doesn't want it to be in a locker room at her work. Eventually during that night fly and bird creatures break into the store, and before a fly creature can be stopped it stings Sally in the neck with a neurotoxin. He is visibly distraught throughout the rest of the movie, wherein he is willing the next day to sacrifice himself to bring back supplies for a burnt and suffering Joe Eagleton. In the store he is obviously very anxious, even yelling at Jim after Jim accidentally knocks something over. He escapes back to the market after it is found a nest of spider creatures are in the pharmacy, trying to pull down the military soldier from before, but not before he whispers "I'm sorry". David's group realize this, and after David has woken up interrogate Jessup and ask where Donaldson and Morales are. Jessup eventually finds them, but before he can explain to David what he knows Jim, now a part of Mrs. Carmody's congregation bursts in and drags Jessup to the floor in front of Mrs. Carmody, where he is forced to explain the Arrowhead project opened a portal to another dimension which spewed these creatures out onto the Earth. Jessup tries to reason with the congregation but Mrs. Carmody has Jessup executed by throwing him out into the mist to be devoured by the lobster-scorpion creature which had smelled his blood.