Jim Halsey (1968-2003) is a character from The Hitcher movies.

Jim drives through the desert and picks up a lifter (John Ryder). This seems to be a dangerous fool. Finally, Jim knows to shoot the lifter. But after the lifter killed a lot of other people, including Nash, Jim's girlfriend. Seventeen years later, Jim is shot down by another lifter.

In the 2007 remake, Jim comes out of 1986. He dies in 2007. He has been treated with Grace Andrews (1986). In this movie, Jim is killed. Grace, however, knows how to kill the lifter.

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