Adam Lee

"It's funny. I'm the one usually helping folk. Ain't one to care much for myself so long as others need me, yet here we are."

- Adam, accepting his treatment in psych.

Adam Lee is an inmate at San Hill.

Appearance
Adam is one of the shorter inmates standing at 5'5". He has short, scruffy auburn hair with a long fringe, and features a partial goatee - later a full circle goatee. He frequently wears glasses. In general population, it is noted that Adam typically wears a full prison jumpsuit and boots - dissimilar to other inmates.

Personality
Adam comes off as friendly, polite and welcoming to most, embracing a 'southern gentleman' kind of personality. He is very honest and open in his beliefs and morals, but is often smart enough to avoid sharing information that he deems exploitable or would expose him as a snitch. Despite his friendliness, he is wary of making friends or getting close to others, a likely result of his PTSD.

As the librarian, Adam is very protective of the library and the books that reside within it. He's strict on no chatter, and takes pride in the cleanliness and organisation of the library, challenging those who do not respect his hard work. Adam himself appears to be well-read, a book often accompanying him in his cell, and he has stated that he favours non-fiction or western novels.

He is also relentlessly stubborn and is almost impossible to win an argument against, as had happened with Maxie Tanaka, and Dr. Morley. Adam is very determined on standing up for those who cannot do so for themselves.

Season One
Adam was not one of the recent intake of prisoners, and has been in San Hill long enough to have earned a respectable job as the librarian, even accomodating an old broom closet within as his own office. He was also employed in a volunteer fire service group. His selfless nature and desire to always help others also led him to become Cell Block E's snitch, his first action following the arrival of The March Nine of which was reporting to Warden Odysseus that a shiv that was discovered during a search instead belonged to either Jason Zharkov or Sanders, and not the inmates whose cell it was found in.

Adam has been in prison for 3 years by the arrival of The March Nine. While he does not speak much of these years, he does have history concerning his old cellmate, Lee Stuart. He was admitted to psych in November the year prior to the start of season one, being released three months later where he was eventually diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. He is also noted to be on suicide watch - something that he disagrees with. He regularly attended counselling sessions with Beatty, until he burnt Beatty's office down by setting a book on fire. He was admitted to psych again after this, where he displayed signs of dissociative amnesia or dissociative seizures, simply forgetting all of his past trauma and his act of arson. Adam refused treatment for the first two weeks, and instead protested for the other patients to be freed from their restraints after briefly witnessing the true horrors of the psychiatric ward of San Hill for the second time, having forgotten his first visit. He was released one month later after having regained his memories, however unlike the first time, the trauma surrounding them seems to have faded.

Season Two
The start of season two had Adam rearranging the library following the freezer incident, paranoid of any flood water reaching the books. Upon completion, he had a friendly chat with head chef Sprinkles, discussing the many changes the prison had gone through, both having been there longer than the other inmates. This was the first chat of many that Adam sought out, becoming seemingly more social as he was comfortable around people once more. Adam also assisted Grey at the greenhouse with his farming knowledge and helpful nature, as well as shared advice for prison life in general and the reason why he snitches, claiming that he'd "rather a target on his back than someone else's." Grey also asked Adam to look into getting the chicken muck from the psych ward donated as fertilizer, which he successfully managed to do.

Adam later retrieved an overdue book from Sanders, allowing another brief conversation. He also had a small talk with Maxie while he collected his weekly commissary order, which revealed he orders ten cans of lemonade every week.

During a clean of the library on a visitation day, Adam discovered numerous scraps of paper with threatening words written upon them. Worried that someone was out for him, he hesitantly left the library to seek out Officer Rydin's assistance, where after some time of looking through camera footage, discovered that Akira Yubari was the culprit, although her name was unknown to them both. Adam left the information with Rydin, preferring not to confront Akira personally as it was not his job to. Adam never heard back as to whether she was punished or not, unaware that nothing had been done at all.

Adam was later caught up in the personal investigation of the murder of Delilah, a psych chicken, of which were revealed to have been donated to the prison by Adam's father. He managed to seek out a variety of leads, although he stubbornly believed it could've only been Meridia Hatzi due to her careless showing of a photo of her and a dead deer when they first met. A visitation from Adam's father convinced him to look elsewhere. Adam also believed it could've been Akira, as her notes had not been followed up on and she sought further attention, or eventually, Maxie, Adam having been informed of his close relationship with Grey, whose bed Delilah was found in, which reminded Adam of his relationship with Stuart.

Despite his efforts, Adam never got to find out the true culprit of the murders. He was granted a years early release, and was escorted out of the prison one morning, unable to say his goodbyes to those he had become close with, his status as a snitch too risky to have it known that he was getting out. As he packed his belongings, he took particular note that no one had harmed Neigh-Neigh, his horse soft toy that he had brought with him, and chose to remember from his time in prison that there is good in the bad.

Romantic

 * Alexander Sinclair

Allies

 * Ilya Luzhkov
 * Lincoln Morley
 * Sprinkles
 * Korbyn Mendosa

Enemies

 * Ashley Stuart
 * Meridia Hatzi
 * Akira Yubari
 * Jason Zharkov

Trivia

 * Adam is vegetarian.
 * Adam is from Lee County, GA, where his family runs a farm.
 * Adam is a former firefighter and has medical training.
 * Adam appears to know ASL.