NBCThe opening episode of Suits LA introduces Eddie, Ted’s “sweet, beautiful” brother who helps him around the house. However, get ready for a huge twist unlike anything the franchise has ever tried to pull off.
Suits LA Episode 1 is jam-packed. By the time the credits roll, Stuart betrays Ted and rips Black Lane in half with a merger, Rick abandons the firm to work for the other side, Erica becomes head of entertainment, and Ted agrees to represent a producer who may (or may not) have murdered their partner.
In its quieter moments, there’s a poignant dynamic between Ted and his younger brother Eddie. Ted is clearly a busy man, but he allows himself some downtime when he’s around Eddie (he makes him pancakes and helps him to bed when he stumbles in the house drunk).
These scenes are meant to lull you into a false sense of security – because there’s a big twist at the end.
Eddie is actually dead in Suits LA
NBCSuits LA holds the title for the franchise’s most bonkers twist: Eddie is dead, and Ted is simply comforted by the memory of his brother.
So, excluding Episode 1’s brief scene of the brothers in 1993, Eddie is dead the whole time. Nobody actually helps Ted to bed, nor does anyone make him breakfast – he’s imagining Eddie as if he’s there with him, but he’s not.
It’s not a Sixth Sense situation (or at least, I don’t think it is). This isn’t Eddie’s ghost actually walking around, but Ted clearly misses his brother deeply, so he constantly sees him when he’s at home.
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It could also be a manifestation of his guilt; we know his father was partly responsible for Eddie’s death, and perhaps Ted could have prevented it. The best point of comparison is Butcher seeing Joe Kessler in The Boys Season 4 (without the parasitic tumor, of course).
Suits LA creator explains Eddie twist
NBCSpeaking to TV Line, Aaron Korsh (who also created the original Suits) opened up about the twist. “I don’t know if [Eddie is] haunting him, necessarily. It’s, to some degree, helping him,” explained.
“Eddie comes and goes from time to time. First of all, Eddie is alive and well in the flashback, so in some of the flashbacks, you’ll see Eddie, obviously, not as a spirit, but as an actual person. But it’s not really, to me, Eddie’s spirit. What Eddie really is in the present day, to me, is sort of Ted’s subconscious speaking to him.
“So, Eddie is most often, in my mind, the voice of forgiveness. It’s Ted’s softer side that Ted might not be in touch with. So Eddie encourages him to maybe forgive his father, or maybe forgive Stuart, or whatever the case may be. But he appears at times throughout the season in the present day, and at times, throughout the season in the past.”
Who plays Eddie?
Eddie is played by Carson A. Egan. It’s a major milestone for the actor, as it’s his first-ever on-screen credit.
Speaking to Deadline, Egan praised Stephen Amell. “He’s been very nice and welcoming,” he said, adding that it felt like being part of a “new family.”
Amell also described Egan as “such a wonderful actor [and] so great to work with… his performance makes the scenes with Ted and Eddie very easy to be involved in.”
Until Episode 2, keep our Suits LA release schedule bookmarked, check out our breakdown of the Suits LA cast, and find out if Suits Season 10 will ever happen. You can also keep tabs on the year’s releases with our 2025 TV show calendar.
