Sheriff Jim Valenti
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| Jim Valenti | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | "Pilot" |
| Last appearance | "Roswell: Turnabout" |
| Created by | Melinda Metz |
| Portrayed by | William Sadler |
| Information | |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Title | Sheriff, Deputy |
| Children | Kyle Valenti |
Jim Valenti is a fictional character from the television series Roswell. He was portrayed by William Sadler.
[edit] Season 1
Valenti is frequently the antagonist in the first season, albeit a sympathetic one. His father was also the sheriff of Roswell, and was ridiculed for his insistence that aliens were among us. Valenti inherited from his father an old autopsy photograph from the 1950s of a body killed by inexplicable means, with a silver handprint on the chest. In the pilot episode, Valenti is called into the local Cafe, the Crashdown, where a shooting has occurred. Although no one was apparently injured, and the young waitress Liz Parker insists that the red mess on her uniform is ketchup, a pair of tourists insist they saw the girl get shot, and a young man run up to her and do something to her before running off. There is also no bullet found in the cafe. Valenti notes the presence of empty bottle of Tabasco sauce on one of the tables, and later notices more in the jeep of teenager Max Evans.
Valenti becomes convinced that Max Evans was in the Crashdown that day and that he somehow healed Liz Parker. He steals Liz's waitress uniform, which has a bullet hole in it, and gives it to a friend of his in the FBI for analysis. His son Kyle then tells him that he saw a silver handprint on Liz's stomach when they were on a date, similar to the one in the photograph, and Valenti suspects that Max is not a teenager but rather a decades-old alien and a murderer. The FBI agent returns, telling him there was nothing found on the dress, and proceeds to remove any files on aliens from Valenti's office. Valenti is convinced, however, that the FBI are lying to him, and are conducting their own investigation.
He continually investigates Max throughout the first season, but gradually becomes aware that, although he is an alien, Max is a good person. When Max is kidnapped by the Special Unit of the FBI, Liz comes to Valenti for help. He helps rescue Max from their stronghold, and is let in on the secret that not only Max, but also his sister Isabel and their friend Michael are aliens, but ones that has been raised as humans and are only seventeen years old. Valenti then helps the group vanquish the Special Unit. When he finds his son Kyle shot and dying in the melee, Max heals him, and Valenti expresses his gratitude, promising to always be there for Max and the others.
[edit] Season 2
Valenti loses his job as sheriff, so he creates a band and calls them the Kit Shickers.
[edit] Season 3
In Graduation, Valenti is now deputy sheriff. He finds out that Kyle is leaving Roswell. He lets him go.
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