The janitor is a staff member of Bailey Downs High School, serving on the custodial staff. He dies a painful death under the hands and claws of Ginger Fitzgerald.
Description[]
The janitor is unnamed in his appearance in Ginger Snaps. He is very compassionate towards the students, and helps Brigitte Fitzgerald several times such as offering her a rag to clean blood off of herself, or scaring away Jason McCardy when he corners Brigitte in a utility closet.
In the film, the janitor is only seen at his job maintaining the grounds at Bailey Downs High School. He sports a gray uniform with the school's logo. He looks very tidy and organized.
History[]
The janitor appears for the first time when he offers Brigitte a rag to clean blood off of herself after she got pushed into the bloody remains of a dog on the hockey field[1]. Ginger then approaches Brigitte and tells her she suspects him of looking down her shirt, which Brigitte dismisses.
The next time we see him when Jason confronts Brigitte in a utility closet about Ginger avoiding him and tells her about his recent werewolf transformation. The janitor accidentally walks in on them and breaks up the situation.[2]
After classes on Halloween, he is inside the school cleaning up the remains of Halloween celebrations that took place in the school. When he wants to lock the guidance office he notices that the lock is loose and accidentally discovers Ginger inside next to Mr. Wayne's body. She attacks him and inflicts horrible wounds, slitting his throat. He still tries to crawl away with blood squirting out of his neck but Ginger grabs him and flings him repeatedly against the lockers on the walls. After she threw him into a fire hose cabinet, he was rendered unconscious, but his spastic breathing revealed that he got infected by the lycanthropy virus. Ginger subsequently finished him off by slamming her claws into his abdomen.
Significance[]
The janitor symbolizes the role of Brigitte's sister Ginger, where the janitor assists Brigitte on multiple occasions. In a way, he acts as a "foster" guardian to her. He is seen assisting Brigitte Fitzgerald during critical points in her life.
Ginger held a secret grudge against him, falsely believing he was trying to advance on Brigitte or being into underage girls in general, which might have just been her being jealous of other people s==howing kindness to her sister.