Charlie Crews

Detective Charles 'Charlie' Crews is a fictional character on the NBC drama Life, played by Damian Lewis. He was exonerated for a crime he didn't commit and now uses his new found appreciation for life and insights gained from a Zen book to solving crimes.

Description

Charlie is a Homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department. Recently exonerated and released from prison after serving 12 years in Pelican Bay for a crime he didn't commit.

He was placed in solitary confinement for his own protection after being constantly attacked, he received over 216 stitches. The first six months in solitary he spent it doing push-ups everyday, the next six months he started talking to himself and on the last six months of his stay Charlie started to lose his mind until one day on his one hour outside solitary he found a book on Zen, with the help of the book Charlie was able to regain his sanity and eventually he asked to return to the general population.

Sometime after his return to the general populace Charlie saves Ted Earley's life.

After his exoneration and winning a settlement from the City of Los Angeles Charlie is reinstated to the LAPD as a Homicide Detective and is partnered to Dani Reese.

Since no fruits were served in prison Charlie developed an interest in growing and eating fruit and with the help of Ted purchased an orange grove with a big red tractor .

Unknown to most of his friends and colleagues Charlie has launched his own independent investigation into the Seybolt murders intending to find the people responsible for their deaths and his 12 year incarceration.

While in prison his wife Jennifer Conover divorced him and his mother died because his father won't let her see Charlie in prison.

Charlie is currently living in an unfurnished mansion with Ted.
 
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