Ethan Lander

Ethan Lander is a character on Prime Video's Utopia. He is implied to be engaged to Olivia, though the two have not yet actually married. Their lives take a dramatic turn when Olivia is left a house by her grandfather and Ethan discovers the manuscript for a comic named Utopia within it.

History
Ethan and Olivia pull up outside of the home, excited to be starting their new life together. They embrace excitedly, but upon entering discover that while the house looks great on the outside, it is a real mess on the inside. With the house filled with years of accumulated clutter and debris, the two get down to work on some serious cleaning. As they do so, Ethan discovers an unusual comic with grisly images, titled as Utopia and said to be the conclusion to Dystopia. Olivia wants him to just throw it out and keep cleaning, but he tells her that it could be worth something, that last year a man sold an old Batman comic he found in his attic for around a million dollars. He does a quick search on the Internet and finds many results about the Dystopia comic, telling Olivia that fanboys are going to go nuts over the comic. He posts online that the comic will be sold at a convention called Fringecon, quickly attracting the attention of a select group of fans.

He and Olivia set up a private room at Fringecon, where they see bidders for the comic individually, taking down their bids on a sheet of paper. He allows each bidder a look at the cover of the comic and a single page. As the bidding draws towards a close and Olivia talks with a friend about who to go back to, Ethan meets with a man named Phillip Carson who tells him that he'd like to preempt all bidding and walk out with the comic then and there. Ethan tells him to put down his information, but he pulls out a briefcase and from it, $20,000 in cash. "How's that?" he asks. Stunned, Ethan eyes Olivia, who smiles widely. Later, Ethan and Olivia party it up with their friends, celebrating their big sale, when there is a knock at their door. Two men, Arby and Rod, enter, demanding to know who they sold the comic to and who else has seen it. He tells them that it's a private party and they pull out a gun, demanding answers. Olivia gives them the list of bidders and then they pull out a case with syringes filled with deadly poison, but tell them that it's a robbery and that the shots will simply put them to sleep for a bit. Before the two of them are injected, Olivia admits to Ethan that she's scared, but he tries to reassure her, telling her that they wouldn't swab their arms if they were going to hurt them. Before collapsing, he tells her that he loves her.