Andrew David Cody, better known as Pope, is the eldest son of Smurf’s sons. He is mentally unstable and often turns to violence as a way to deal with the problems he encounters. He is one of the main characters of the TNT series "Animal Kingdom." Played by actor Shawn Hatosy, Pope makes his debut in the series premiere episode, “Pilot.”
“If we don't retaliate, they'll think we're weak.”
Note: This Wiki page contains SPOILERS!
Biography[]
Andrew Cody was born alongside his twin sister, Julia, on June 28, 1977, to mother Janine “Smurf” Cody and father Colin. He is the second child of his mother, Smurf, the younger twin of Julia and the older half-brother of Craig and Deran. He also has an older adoptive brother named Barry Blackwell.
1977[]
Because Smurf never went to the doctor when she was pregnant, she was expecting to only give birth to one baby. After Julia was born, she was still experiencing contractions, and was surprised to welcome Pope into the world. He was born at his Uncle Jed's farmhouse with the help of his Aunt Laney, who knew from the beginning that he would be fierce because his teeth came in while still in utero. Smurf decided to go with the name Andrew as that is what his deceased father, Colin, would have liked.
1984[]
In 1984, Andrew is seven years old. He is a quiet, yet observant child. He is often seen organizing things, such as lining up food or sorting toys by color. His mother, Smurf, will often place him in front of the TV and show him movies that display violent and graphic images. Being surrounded by a lifestyle of crime, he tends to play with dangerous objects like a knife or lighter, more than participating in age appropriate activities. He is not shown to express much emotion, including when he witnessed a murder. He does, however, show feelings of anger, in which he is taught to handle inappropriately. For example, his mother once allowed him to hold another child's head under water at the swimming pool. In general, Smurf is a bad influence on him, and seems to think of him as a tool for her own benefit. His twin sister, Julia, cares more about his mental wellbeing than their mother.
During the third season, Pope recalls being placed in the foster care system during his childhood. It is not made clear when this occurred.
1992[]
As a teenager, Andrew is much more involved in the family heists, and Smurf is leaving her older children to commit them without her. He still does not say much and is prone to inappropriate reactions such as starting a fire in the garage. He struggles to do things that make him happy, such as skateboarding, because Smurf always finds a way to ruin it for him and he feels like he cannot say no to her. During this time in his life, he is also warming up to having an unofficial adopted older brother, Barry/Baz. Smurf seems to favor her new son more than her other children, and Julia has been spending less time with Andrew since she is head over heels for Baz. Due to this, he is often left alone and unnoticed, so he starts showing interest in Catholicism. As a playful tease, Baz refers to him as "Pope Andrew," launching the nickname he is best known as.
At some point in his life, Pope would skateboard back and forth along one ramp throughout the entire day. He did not allow anybody else to skate there until he was finished. Once somebody called the police, he picked up boxing instead.
1999[]
After a few years of not seeing his sister, Andrew finds Julia pregnant on her third trimester. He knows that she is also addicted to heroin, so he locks her in the backroom, causing her to detox. He wants Smurf to take her to rehab, but when they get in the car, they soon discover that Julia is being dropped off at an underpass camp. She begs Pope to come with her, but Smurf says that if he decides to leave, he will never be able to return home. In the present, Pope deeply regrets making the decision to stay with Smurf instead of supporting Julia and J.
2013[]
In 2013, Pope and Baz commit a bank robbery. While Pope is inside collecting money, Baz is waiting outside in his car. When police start to show up, Pope is not finished. Baz proceeds to wait for a little while, but he flees only a few seconds before Pope gets to the parking lot. With a tote bag of cash, Pope is left running around the city, trying to avoid getting caught. However, he gets circled by cop cars and is arrested. He gets sentenced to Folsom State Prison for six years, but he got out early in June of 2016. It was noted that during his stay, his main source of safety came from his cellmate, Vin, rather than the workers because they were abusing him.
Background[]
Pope is a mentally unstable man who often turns to violence as a way to deal with the problems he encounters. In one of the later episodes, it is suggested that he inherited his mental illness from his father, Colin, who was a mentally unstable Vietnam veteran along with his brother, Jed. Some fans believe that Pope may also have OCD due to his fear of contamination, need for control and perfection, social difficulties, anxiety, and other behavioral patterns. He first appears in the pilot episode, when he returns to the Cody house after serving three years in Folsom State Prison. He is close with all his siblings, especially his adopted older brother, Barry - better known as Baz. Throughout the first season it becomes evident that Pope has an obsessive infatuation with Baz's wife, Catherine. It is also noted that out of all the Cody boys, he is shown to be the closest to Smurf.
Personality and Traits[]
Pope is thought to have an ISTJ personality type. He is known for being rigid and emotionally challenged. He is driven by a moral code that determines even the little details in life. This gives him a sense of stability and control. Being one of the most reserved members of the family, he tends to bottle up strong emotions until they burst out in violent ways. He is also the only Cody who does not often express his own needs and desires. Instead, he lets others have what they want, even if it causes him harm. However, this only applies to the people he feels personally connected to. Otherwise, he can be threatening and unempathetic.
Throughout The Series[]
Season 1[]
The season begins with Pope returning to the Cody residence after serving three years in Folsom State Prison after getting caught robbing a bank. When he meets his nephew, J for the first time, he makes she to keep a close eye on him as he is not sure he can trust him.
Smurf and Baz are worried about Pope's mental health. They want him to start medications but he refuses. Smurf secretly puts crushed up pills in his food, but he finds out about it when he fails a drug test. Although he is angry at first, he ultimately decides it is best to stay on the meds.
The main job of the season is stealing money from the Military base. The Cody brothers initially don't want to include Pope in the job as he has just been released from prison, but he insists and ends up joining them because J is not ready for a significant role in that big of a crime.
At the end of the season Smurf convinces Pope to kill Baz's wife, Catherine, as she feels that she has been talking to the police about their family. Despite his own preoccupation with Catherine, he suffocates her and buries her body off a desolate road.
Season 2[]
Pope secures his first relationship within the series with Amy Wheeler, who he meets when scouting out a megachurch for a new job. He attends a Bible study with her, where he meets an ex-con who he frames for the church heist.
Pope remains quiet about how he is responsible for the disappearance of Cath, but feels extremely guilty and even has thoughts of suicide. As a response to his regret, he to becomes closer to his niece, Lena, especially because her father, Baz, has been distant. At the end of the season, he finally admits to murdering Catherine.
Season 3[]
Due to Baz's unexpected passing, Pope becomes the primary care provider for Lena. She eventually gets put into the foster system which is extremely difficult for him, until he comes to recognize that what is best for her is more important than his own personal feelings.
Pope is determined to figure out who killed Baz. He suspects it might be J or Baz's girlfriend, Lucy. He does not want to believe that Smurf played a role in it, but he eventually accepts that as the truth.
In this season, Smurf is rightfully convinced that Lucy stole a large portion of Baz's money. Pope does not think there is enough evidence to prove that as a fact. He learns that Smurf is right after she holds Lucy's brother, Marco for ransom. Lucy gets revenge by kidnapping Pope.
Another significant event during season three would be Deran's father, Billy, unexpectedly showing up to the Cody house. Pope is the only one old enough to remember him from the past and desperately wants him to leave. Billy makes weak attempts to rekindle things, but he only makes things worse. In one scene, Pope yanks Billy out of the car and tosses him to the side of the road. On another count, Pope beats up Billy and holds his head under water.
Season 4[]
At the beginning of season four, the Cody family is worried about Pope's mental health. When Angela Kane, an old friend of his sister, Julia, shows up at their house, he starts feeling much better. The two become very close and become romantically involved. It is highly important to Pope that Angela does not relapse on drugs since his sister died from an overdose. In one episode, J sets her up to fall back on drugs as an attempt to get her kicked out of the house. However, even though Pope is upset at first, he quickly forgives her and puts the blame on J.
Pope finds Smurf passed out on the bathroom floor and looking extremely ill. He takes her to the hospital only to learn that she has terminal cancer. Coping with this fact causes anxiety for him as he is unsure what life will be like without her. Though Smurf wants him to keep it a secret from Craig and Deran, he eventually tells him because he figured they should know.
In the penultimate episode of the season, Smurf takes her boys to rob gold from Pope's uncle, Jed. While Craig, Deran, and J are gathering all the gold, Smurf takes Pope to his father, Colin's burial site. He also meets his cousins and uncle for the first time. Together, they look at pictures of Colin.
After all the gold is collected, Smurf starts a shootout with Jed's family in attempt to get herself killed. Pope rescues her by pulling her away from the chaos, which makes her extremely angry. When they get back with the other Cody boys, she points a gun at him and begs him to shoot her with another gun at the same time, so they both die. J shoots her in the forehead, saving Pope's life.
Season 5[]
In this season, there is a double timeline where flashbacks are shown of seven-year-old Pope. In the first few episodes, he is living under the same roof as a woman named Pamela Johnson, who is helping Smurf take care him and his sister. When they get kicked out, they move into a trailer, and eventually into the Cody compound house. Throughout his childhood, he witnesses a lot violence - in person and on TV. He sees "uncle Jake" get beaten up my a man named Max Cross, which makes him angry. In one episode, Andrew stabs Max in the leg with a knife because he was attacking Smurf. She then tells him to look away, but he does not listen and ends up watching her murder Max. He shows no signs of being upset or fearful due to the event.
In the present, Pope experiences severe grief from Smurf's death and develops dissociative fugue due to the trauma. His symptoms include memory loss, wandering, and confusion. He is also struggling with hallucinations and suicidal thoughts. As a result, he goes on a road trip to the middle of nowhere, where he finds a roadside commune. He becomes friends with a woman named Cassandra who has also been struggling because she lost custody of her son. Upon hearing her story, he kidnaps the child and helps her flee to Canada.
Upon returning to Oceanside, Pope, his brothers, and nephew work together to steal from a crashed cargo plane packed with drugs. J has a man named Pete hide all their findings. When the DEA shows up to Pete's property, he flushes everything down the toilet. This makes Pope have an ongoing anger towards him. When he discovers that Pete lied about flushing the drugs, he becomes livid. He storms over to Pete's car repair shop, and uses pliers to tear out his eye.
This season a DEA agent, Dennis Livengood, is onto the Cody family. When he gets killed by another cop, Pope and J take the body to some people who make it look like the drug cartels are the ones to blame.
In the final scene of the season, Catherine's body is found at a construction site.
Season 6[]
In season six, Pope buys a lot to build a singular skating ramp just for himself. He does not tell anybody what his is making, including, Auge, the carpenter he recruits. Once he is finished, some young men start showing up. He is upset at first, but he eventually lets them share it with him. One of the regulars is a homeless man named Taylor Cline, who Pope hires to work at the skatepark and sleep in the garage at the Cody house. This ends up being a mistake because Taylor providing Detective Louise Thompson with information as she investigates Cath's murder.
In one episode, Louise pretends to be Taylor's mom, which causes Pope to be suspicious. He attacks Taylor and forces him to say what he knows. Even though they are not sure why she is watching Pope so closely, Pope makes a plan to scare her away. The attempt backfires because she ends up confronting him about Cath's murder and claiming that there is practically no way he will be able to get away with it. Pope cannot believe his ears because he had no idea Cath's body had even been found. He is quick to notify his family who were unaware he was responsible for her disappearance.
When J brings in the best criminal defense lawyer he can find, they learn that Pope is also being charged with assault from when he attacked Taylor. The lawyer advises Pope to confess to the assault but not to the murder. When in questioning, Pope finds out that a trial on Cath's murder would cause a big toll to some people he cares about like his niece, Lena, and his ex-girlfriend, Amy. In order to protect them, he confesses to the murder too.
While in jail, Deran and J pay for Pope's protection because some of the inmates are ought to seek revenge from when he took out Pete's eye. However, Pope is more concerned about being left alone, and complains about the protection. When he is finally able to get some space, it takes no time at all for him to be stabbed in the abdomen.
The Cody boys plan to break Pope out of prison and flee the country. Pope reopens the stab wound and puts a GPS chip inside. Once he starts to run free with Deran and Craig, they realize that their plan has been sabotaged by J. Now, they have no money or way to get out of the country quickly. Pope takes out the GPS chip from his body and manages to get home because he wants to kill J. First, he tries to strangle him and then he tries to drown him, but he cannot get himself to complete either of the murder attempts. J tells him that the reason he betrayed the family is because of the trauma they caused for him and his mother. Pope allows J get away and he starts a fire in the house before dying from a shot he took from the cops earlier that same day.Appearances[]
| Season 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| “Pilot” | “We Don’t Hurt People” | “Stay Close, Stick Together” | “Dead To Me” | “Flesh Is Weak” |
| “Child Care” | “Goddamn Animals” | “Man In” | “Judas Kiss” | “What Have You Done” |
| Season 2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| “Eat What You Kill” | “Karma” | “Bleed for It” | "Broken Boards” | “Forgive Us Our Trespasses” |
| “Cry Havoc” | “Dig” | “Grace” | “Custody” | “Treasure” |
| “The Leopard” | “You Will Be Gutted” | “Betrayal” | ||
| Season 3 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| “The Killing” | “In the Red” | “The Center Will Hold” | “Wolves” | “Prey” |
| “Broke from the Box” | “Low Man” | “Incoming” | “Libertad” | “Off the Tit” |
| “Jackpot” | “Homecoming” | “The Hyenas” | ||
| Season 4 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| “Janine” | “Angela” | “Man vs. Rock” | “Tank” | “Reap” |
| “Into the Black” | “Know Thy Enemy” | “Ambo” | “SHTF” | “Exit Strategy” |
| “Julia” | “Ghosts” | “Smurf” | ||
| Season 5 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Red Handed" | "What Remains" | "Freeride" | "Power" | "Family Business" |
| “Home Sweet Home" | "Splinter" | "Gladiators" | "Let It Ride" | "Relentless" |
| "Trust the Process" | "Loose Ends" | "Launch" | ||
| Season 6 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| “1992” | “Rise” | “Pressure and Time” | "Inside Man” | “Covet” |
| “Diamonds Are Forever” | “Incognito” | “Revelation” | “Gethsemane” | “Clink” |
| “Hit and Run” | “Exodus” | “Fubar” | ||
Character Quotes[]
- “I can’t tell which version of me you like better: drugged up or crazy? I kinda think you like crazy. Less competition.”
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- He is named after the professional ice hockey player, Andrew Bathgate.
- Pope is one of only four characters to appear in every episode of the series, along with Craig, Deran, and J.
- Deran's father, Billy, once compared Pope to an elephant because of his good memory.
- In the 2010 film, Animal Kingdom, Andrew is played by Ben Mendelsohn. He won three awards for his role.
--
| Kill Count | |
| 1. Carmen Ortiz | Arson |
| 2. Emilio Ortiz | Arson |
| 3. Catherine Balen | Suffocation |
| 4. Odin | Drowning |