Ozzie Graham

Ozzie Graham was a journalist who traveled to Beacon, New York to write an article on a group of survivors of alien encounters, otherwise known as "experiencers". While in Beacon, Ozzie came to the realization that he, too, was an "experiencer" and stayed in the small town to find the truth.

Biography
Not a lot is known about Ozzie's childhood. His grandmother gave him a toy train he is shown playing with. It is revealed that Ozzie had been to Beacon as a child. His family took a trip during a heatwave but they got lost. They stopped at Sak's Fine Foods in Beacon. While his parents were arguing, Ozzie disappeared. He was found 48 hours later in the store they'd stopped at, sleeping on the big bags of dog food. After his disappearance, he began drawing illustrations of himself holding hands with a green person he called Snake Man. His parents divorced shortly after because they blamed each other for losing him.

At some point, the reptilian Kurt implanted a metal chip in his brain when he showed an unusual ability to recover lost memories.

While in journalism school, Ozzie lived in an apartment on the water for $500 a month. Unknown to him at the time, Jonathan Walsh was his landlord.

After graduating with a Master's degree, he became a journalist. He worked for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. While covering the Occupy Wall Street protests, he was tased three times by the same cop.

When the show starts, he is a journalist at Glint Enterprises in New York, New York. He regularly covers topics like prison reform and gun control. However, after he hits a deer with his car and takes some time off work, his boss Jonathan Walsh assigns him an article about a support group in a town called Beacon who claim to have been abducted by aliens.

While writing the article, he meets the members of StarCrossed, a support group for alien abductees who call themselves "experiencers." He discovers that his memory of hitting a deer might be a cover memory for an alien "experience" of his own.

After quitting his job at Glint Enterprises, he moves to Beacon and lives out of a motel. He tells his parents he is writing a novel about the Civil War. He gets a job at the Beacon Daily Gazette, a newspaper that has been run by the same family for over 100 years. It is later bought by Jonathan Walsh.

His hallucinations of a talking deer get worse. Eventually, he goes to a doctor. An MRI scan reveals he has something in his brain. He gets an operation to remove the piece of metal, which was an implant put there by the aliens.

Despite initially calling them "weirdos," Ozzie develops friendships with many of the members of StarCrossed. Kelly Grady is his sponsor. While high, he calls Gerry Johnson his best friend. He considers Richard Schultz something of a friend and does his best to help him when his wife wants a divorce.

In Season 2, he dies jumping in front of a blast from a gun to save Jonathan Walsh.

Trivia

 * Ozzie has a goldfish named Abraham.
 * He is shown doing yoga. It is later revealed his ex-girlfriend was a yoga instructor. This is much like his father, who also picked up something (Buddhism) from an ex-girlfriend.
 * His best friend is named Dwayne. He lives in D.C. and they've known each other since kindergarten.
 * He has a tattoo of the Public Enemy logo, which he got while sober.
 * He has at least one Master's degree. Jonathan Walsh claims he has two.
 * Ozzie's subject number is 28409.

Behind the scenes
Wyatt Cenac plays Ozzie Graham.