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Otis, portrayed by Pruitt Taylor Vince, is a character in the television series The Walking Dead.

Otis is Hershel Greene's ranch hand and Patricia's husband. In "What Lies Ahead", he accidentally shoots and wounds Carl Grimes while hunting deer, and Otis leads Rick Grimes and Shane Walsh to Hershel's farm to get help.

Guilt-ridden over Carl's wounding, he volunteers to go with Shane to the local high school to get the medical supplies needed to save Carl's life. Both Otis and Shane are injured while fleeing a large herd of walkers. When they run low on ammunition and seem in danger of being overtaken, Shane shoots Otis in the leg, leaving him to be devoured so that Shane can escape.

After Sophia Peletier is revealed to be a walker held in the farm's barn, Hershel speculates that Otis found her and put Sophia in the barn before his death. Over the course of the season, the characters slowly come to realize that Shane murdered Otis despite his lies which Shane eventually confesses to when directly confronted by Rick ("18 Miles Out").

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