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[[folder:Threat Assessment Unit, Los Angeles Police Department]]
!!Lieutenant Beth Davis [[spoiler:aka Michelle Webber]]
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/MaggieQ
A [=LAPD=] officer in charge of the [=TAU=]. She usually partners with Jack when the two work on a case.
* ActionGirl: Given that she's a police officer.
* AFriendInNeed: Beth helps out Tracy when she's in trouble.
* AllThereInTheManual: Promotional material mentions that her past is very, very dark.
* ButNotTooForeign: Vietnamese-American.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Beth is kind and compassionate to the victims she is interviewing, but is completely callous to the point of being a JerkAss to the team she oversees most of the time.
** She's in charge of the [=TAU=], but she refuses to inform anyone except for her superior. Possibly averted near the end of "Crazy For You".
* CowboyCop: Willing to do this if only to give stalkers with influential backing to stay away from their victims, lawsuits be damned.
* DaChief: Head of the [=LAPD=]'s Threat Assessment Unit.
* {{Dark and Troubled Past}}: [[spoiler:She changed her name from Michelle Webber to Beth Davis because her controlling ex-boyfriend went crazy in his attempts to win her back, starting with romancing her sister to make her jealous and ultimately setting her family's house on fire with the intent to rescue them and appear a hero. The fire spread too quickly and her family died, ending in him being locked in an asylum for 12 years.]]
* ExperiencedProtagonist: An experienced police officer who specializes in investigating stalker cases.
* FairCop: She is played by Maggie Q.
* HeroicBSOD: Has one in "Crazy For You" after Perry gave her an ArmorPiercingQuestion about her past.
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:After getting things that only Ray knows about, she began to be careful about who she talks to and tries to talk to her superior if anyone in Seattle is trying to look for her.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Jack tells her of his troubled past in "Love is a Battlefield", she encourages him to try and fix the relationship between him and Amanda as best as possible.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Confronts Perry near the end of "Pilot" and warns him that she'll give him trouble if he tries stalking someone again.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: "The Haunting" confirms that Beth Davis is an alias.]]
!!Detective Jack Larsen
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/DylanMcDermott
A new recruit to the [=TAU=] from New York via [=NYPD=], he moves to the city in order to locate his son and reunite with him. His ex-wife, however, is not pleased with it.
* ButtMonkey: How Jack feels at the start of his first day on the job.
* CastingGag: Dylan [=McDermott=] has [[Series/DarkBlue played a LAPD officer in the past.]]
* {{Dark and Troubled Past}}: Based on "Pilot", he has a bad fallout with his wife, who left him prior to the events of the show.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Jack says this many times in the series.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: An experienced Homicide detective from New York before he got assigned to the [=LAPD=].
* GenreSavvy: Claims that his knowledge of stalker movies and shows gives him an advantage in his detective work. Of course, Beth isn't pleased when she hears about it in his interview.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Jack seems to be fully convinced that he can't seem to help causing problems in his life.
* {{Hypocrite}}: For a detective involved in handling stalker cases, he stalks his ex-wife's [=LA=] residence. [[WhattheHellHero She even calls him out for it]] near the end of "Pilot".
* NewMeat: Treated as such by everyone in the [=TAU=] after he arrived from New York.
* ParentalAbandonment: A big reason as to why he's not allowed to see his son; Jack was absent for most of his life and Amanda stubbornly believes the he's no longer allowed to be part of it.
* SecretKeeper: After he learns of Beth's DarkAndTroubledPast.
* SherlockScan: The [=TAU=] uses this to help figure out more about their suspects/victims.
* StealthHiBye: Does this several times after meeting with Ethan to avoid complications with Amanda.
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!!Detective Janice Lawrence
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/MarianaKlaveno
A veteran detective in the [=TAU=]. She is seen usally working together with either Ben or Jack, depending on the case.
* ActionGirl: Seen in "Phobia" when she saves a kidnap victim from being drowned to death.
* {{Cliche}}: Like to throw this word around in "Love is a Battlefield" when she explains it to Jack.
--> We love cliches. We live them. We make movies about them. It's the [=LA=] way of life.
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:She never realized that the mastermind in the events of "Love is a Battlefield" is the victim she interviewed for a while now until the unit ran through their evidence and found that she had a personality disorder.]]
* ExperiencedProtagonist: Been with the unit for several years.
* FairCop: She's played by Mariana Klaveno.
* {{Fangirl}}: Of the [=TV=] show "Savage Shore".
* PrimalFear: Janice reveals in "Phobia" hates the dark to the point that her residence has the lights on for the entire evening. [[WildMassGuessing She said that she hates clowns and spiders.]]
* SecretKeeper: After she learns of Beth's DarkAndTroubledPast.
!!Detective Ben Caldwell
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/VictorRasuk
A veteran detective in the [=TAU=], he's usually in charge of feeding his fellow detectives information on stalking cases they work on.
* BerserkButton: Hates Neo-Nazi gangs becaue they once beat his younger brother for "looking at them in the wrong way".
* BilingualBonus: Ben can speak Spanish, first demonstrated in "Skins".
* ButNotTooForeign: Hinted to be of Mexican-American origin in "Skins".
* DeadpanSnarker: Tends to be this at times, but more with Jack since he joined up.
-->'''Ben''': (After Jack tells him to call for his attention in "Phobia") "I'll call Beth."
* ExperiencedProtagonist: Been with the unit for several years.
* {{Infodump}}[=/=]MrExposition: Does this when he explains relevant information to his fellow detectives in their stalking cases.
* PrimalFear: He reveals in "Phobia" that he hates the dark like Janice. According to him, he hates being buried while still alive.
* SecretKeeper: After the others told him of Beth's past.
* TheSmartGuy: His function in the [=TAU=].
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Jack when they interview a suspect in "Phobia". Beth teases them since they tended to finish each other's sentence, resulting in much hilarity.
!!Special Agent Vicki Gregg
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/MiraSorvino
A former [=TAU=] officer turned [=FBI=] agent, she took command of the [=TAU=] after Beth was kidnapped by her ex-husband Ray.
* ActionGirl: She did take down the serial killer in her own house.
* CastingGag: Mira Sorvino previously planed a [=FBI=] agent in the late 1990s.
* FairCop: Helps to be played by Mira Sorvino.
* ItsPersonal: In "Love Kills", it turns out the recent deaths of single females turns out to be similar to her old cases back in the Bureau.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:In "Love Kills", Vicky realizes that her ex-husband was the mastermind for murdering Sharon Gardner. And also, he took her sidearm and turned it against her.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Tries to listen to the [=TAU=] detectives when they want to solve the case. [[JurisdictionFriction But her hands are tied when the FBI announces that they'll take over the case from them.]]
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[[folder:Los Angeles City government]]
!!Deputy District Attorney Amanda Taylor
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/ElisabethRohm
Ex-wife of Jack Larsen and the deputy District Attorney to [=LA=], she refuses to let him get involved with their son Ethan. Amanda assists the [=TAU=] in handling legal matters if the unit would get involved in a messy situation.
* AmoralAttorney: Jack is very sure that [[DarkSecret one of the trials she was involved in]] resulted in a disaster due to her actions.
* {{Blackmail}}: Amanda plans to use this on Jack by telling Beth about his past if he doesn't pack up his things and leave the city.
* CharacterDevelopment: From being a jerk to Jack, she eventually warms up to him after she realizes that Jack sincerely wants to build a good relation with his son.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Amanda hits Jack out of anger after she finds out Jack covertly made contact with her son.
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: How she sees Jack, since he's been absent for all of his son's life.
* SecretKeeper: After she out about Beth's past, she goes out of her way to help her find a legal way to convict Perry.
* StealthHiBye: Does this when she confronts Jack at the end of "Pilot" at his residence.
* WhatTheHellHero: Amanda calls Jack out for stalking her after he arrived in [=LA=].
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Jack finds out in "Manhunt" that she's living with Trent Wilks, a fellow detective from the LAPD Robbery and Homicide Division.]]
* WorkingWithTheEx: Amanda's problem with Jack throughout the season. Which leads to TeethClenchedTeamwork between the two. It's downplayed a bit after Jack admits to Beth about his DarkSecret.
!!Mayor Will Hayes
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/BrettCullen
The current mayor of Los Angeles. He is Beth's friend in the city from her days prior to joining the [=LAPD=]. He calls for her help in solving a case where a suspect has sent a threatening package to his office.
* DarkSecret[=/=]DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:When he was a young, aspiring politician, he got into an affair with one of his secretaries after his marriage.]]
* {{Expy}}: Janice comments that his political career to mayor is similar to Bill and Hillary Clinton. [[spoiler:Up until the point that his wife knew about the affair.]]
* [[OldShame/InUniverse Old Shame]]: [[spoiler:His affair. His wife had to conceal traces of it in order to prevent any public backlash from his political supporters.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Beth insists that he needs his cooperation to help solve his case, Mayor Hayes agrees to help her in any way he can.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:Despite the fact that his secret night visits might attract attention, he nevertheless risks his own political career in order to ensure a good future for his daughter.]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Visits his daughter secretly every night in order to help her get away from being a call girl and get into a university after he found out that her mom died.]]
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:In "Secret and Lies", Beth and Jack (and the rest of [=TAU=]) finds out that Wills had an affair in the past and the stalking victim happens to be his daughter.]]
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[[folder:Suspects (HEAVY SPOILERS)]]
!!Kurt Wild
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/MichaelGrantTerry
An ex-softcore actor, he made a living in Los Angeles by working as a physical fitness trainer to his Spin classes.
* CharacterNameAlias: His name. Jack found his name hard to believe at first.
* EvilWearsBlack: [[spoiler:Wears a black hoddie and jogging pants at the start of "Pilot".]]
* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:Part of his motive rant in dousing his latest victim with gasoline before attempting to use a match to light them both up.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:How he killed his first victim. And the latest one if the LAPD didn't intervene.]]
* [[OldShame InUniverse Old Shame]]: His softcore actor past, though he decided to use the surname "Wild" to make a name for himself.
-->'''Kurt''': The truth, I did a little softcore when I first moved out here. It's all over the net. Killed any chance of an acting career.
* PunchClockVillain: Works full-time as an aerobics instructor.
* PunnyName: His surname. Jack lampshades it well.
-->'''Jack''': Out of curiosity, Kurt, is Wild your real last name?
* StarterVillain: In the show, he's the first stalker arrested by the LAPD.
* TakingYouWithMe: Kurt's plans to kill himself and his latest victim by being burned alive.
* WouldHitAGirl: Among the charges he was convicted for including assaulting on his ex-girlfriend in his police records.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:His feelings towards his latest victim.]]
!!Rosemary Wilson
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/SageKirkpatrick
A normal housewife who underwent a breakdown after loosing her only child in a boating accident, she kidnapped the child of her neighbor in order to fulfill her wish of getting her family back together.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lost her son in an accident while they were in a boat.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Rosemary became a stalker after she stopped taking medication to help her cope with her mental illness.
* ItsAllAboutMe: One way to interpret on her nervous breakdown [[spoiler:after she took Thomas from his family.]]
* SanitySlippage: After her son was killed in an accident. Her ex-husband told police that she wasn't the same despite taking medication.
* SuddenlyShouting: Part of her SanitySlippage when Thomas wouldn't stop shouting for being kidnapped against his will. Rosemary starts to do this after she went back to her old house.
* TheDogIsTheMasterMind: [[spoiler:The [=TAU=] never suspected her of being a stalker initially.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Rosemary was very close to killing an innocent child if Beth and Jack didn't arrive in time to save him.]]
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Averted. She tries to go back to her old house when she was still sane. However, said house was occupied by someone else. So Rosemary beats the hell out of her and "took" over.
!!Silas Martin
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/MichaelIrby
Once an ex-Green Beret commando and [=LAPD=] officer, he was kicked out of the force after he shot a teenager during a call that resulted in hearings and lawsuits. This gave a breakdown and was convinced that there was a conspiracy working in the department against him.
* CastingGag: Michaely Irby [[Series/TheUnit has played a commando in the US Army]] and [[Series/AlmostHuman a LAPD officer in another TV show]].
* CharacterDeath: Jack shoots him twice with his sidearm when Silas tries to kill him.
* CrazyPrepared: Has kept a small arsenal of weapons and combat gear in his apartment and had setup a near-invisible sniper's nest on an adjoining building.
* ColdSniper: Silas is portrayed as one when he shot Frank's daughter on the day of her wedding.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was diagnosed with anxiety problems at a young age. Frank suspects that [[ShellShockedVeteran there may have been other mental health issues that weren't disclosed.]]
* ItsPersonal: Silas went to stalk his ex-boss because he thought that he was responsible for disposing of the only weapon that can link the teenager to a lawful shooting. He then targets his closest friends and loved ones, severely wounding his daughter, murdering a young man who was getting his life together, and nearly murdering his partner and closest friend whose pictures were displayed in his office.
* MadnessMantra: ''Where is the gun?!''
* MotiveRant: Gives one when the [=TAU=] uncovers camera footage of him giving a message to the LAPD.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: When the [=TAU=] raids his apartment, they found notes and surveillance photos of the officers he used to work with, their friends and loved ones.
* SanitySlippage: Once he left the military and the [=LAPD=], the latter because he had no choice due to undisclosed mental health issues that left him unstable.
* WouldHitAGirl: To be precise, Silas would shoot a girl.
!!Chris Powell
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/DavidChisum
An influential man who was not convicted despite raping a young woman, he stalks women by using their phobias against them.
* CrazyPrepared: Partially part of his MO in avoiding being arrested by the police.
* EvilWearsBlack: [[spoiler:Wears black clothes when he does his filming at night. Helps him blend into the dark so that witnesses won't be able to identify him.]]
* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler:Why he went out of his way just to film his victims being scared of whatever phobia they have.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Jack was able to get the location of his latest victim by using his fear of heights.
* NightVisionGoggles: [[spoiler:During his first attack, he uses a pair of night vision googles attached on a head harness since he took his time to remove all lights from the victim's residence.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney[=/=]ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: How Chris was able to avoid being charged of rape.
* SharpDressedMan: He wore a dress suit, Oxford shoes and a tie when he was first revealed.
* SmugSnake: Chris certainly seems to think so after being arrested by the [=LAPD=]. That is, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard until Jack uses his fear of heighs to make him surrender easily.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: He has no problems doing this as long as he can get a video of them being scared by their own phobia.
!!Greg Miner
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/KevinSizemore
A man who had long disappeared from the public eye after his wife has passed away. He kidnapped a university student due to her resemblance with his late wife.
* {{Angrish}}: Is seen talking like this when the [=TAU=] was able to apprehend him alive.
* AxCrazy: By the time [=TAU=] arrested him, they realize that he was long out of touch with modern society. He's last seen restrained and taken to an ambulance.
* BeardOfSorrow: He sports one after being "found" by the LAPD.
* {{Deconstruction}}: He's not a stalker by default. [[spoiler:He "lived" in his house because he missed the days when he lived in it with his wife.]] Even the [=TAU=] realized that when they arrested him for kidnapping and assaulting a police officer, he was not mentally fit to be taken into police custody.
* DynamicEntry: Greg busts out of the wall to literally surprise Jack.
* FishOutOfWater: Greg lived in the house "literally" for a long time that he's not connected with the modern age.
* SympatheticMurderer: He lost his wife in grief and was unable to move on that he "lived" in the house and cut off contact from the rest of the world, despite his hand in the death of a college professor who specializes in the occult.
!!Andrea Brown
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/JessicaTuck
A wealthy woman known in Los Angeles for her philanthropy, especially in supporting the arts. He had divorced her husband prior to the events of the show. [[spoiler:She was discovered to have a personality disorder, which was responsible for her mood swings.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: When she finds out that [[WildMassGuessing Jack "cheated" on his significant other]]. Andrea was clearly upset about this.
--> '''Andrea''': "Have you cheated?"
--> '''Jack''': "Yes."
--> '''Andrea''': "Why?"
** [[spoiler:Andrea gloats on how she didn't like killing her own dog.]]
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Conducts stalking operations against herself so that the LAPD can have the "needed" evidence to lock up her ex-husband on stalking and assault charges.]]
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Her idea of fixing her relationship with her ex-husband includes the invovlement of putting a bullet into Melissa Barnes' head, his live-in partner.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Andrea's known to the public for being a philanthropist. She's also a known supporter of the arts.
* SuddenlyShouting: [[spoiler:Once her personality disorder is revealed, she does this to Melissa while gloating that she'll be seen as a victim in the public eye.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Andrea crosses this path from her personality order, which includes the killing of her own dog. She also said that she was aware of it and didn't like it.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: You should know why most of the details about her are under spoilers.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:She has no problem using a gun to fix "her" relationship problems.]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Her idea of fixing her relationship with her ex-husband includes murder if she has to.]]
!!Robert "Robbie" Dalton
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/BrendanSextonIII
An obsessive fan of [=TV=] actress Nina Preston, who is a leading star of ''Savage Shore''. Prior to his stalking activities, he had lost a job and was diagnosed with a mental disorder.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Robbie is diagnosed with a mental disorder and stopped taking anti-psychosis medication to help him cope with his disorder, which eventually led to his stalking activities on Nina Preston. Beth said that he'll get the attention he needs.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:His mother unwittingly causes his life to go into a downward spiral by pretending to be Nina and feeding his delusions.]] This leads to him going off his meds, losing his job and stalking Nina.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Robbie didn't like the way Emily treated Nina all the time [[spoiler:after the latter found out that her sister leaked senstive information to a paparazzi reporters to give him good pictures for the papers. Things that could have gotten her killed.]]
--> '''Robbie''': I want you to be nicer to Nina. You've hurt her.
* {{Fanboy}}: Of ''Savage Shore''.
** LoonyFan: He becomes this eventually.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Uses a tire iron to attack Emily Preston after she leaves Nina's house. [[{{Fanboy}} Considering that he knows about Savage Shore,]] there's a meaning to why he did that.
* MyBelovedSmother: Certainly thinks his mom is too overprotective of him. [[spoiler:Which makes things worse when the TAU finds out that his mom pretended to be Nina sending in e-mails.]]
* NoMedicationForMe: Part of his problem was that he didn't resume his medication.
* StalkerShrine: Has one in his garage dedicated to Nina when Jack and Beth arrive at his house to speak to his mother. Jack is not pleased by this.
* StalkerWithACrush: To the point that he imagines himself as Paul and Nina as Lily. Nina doesn't reciprocate his feelings, considering her dislike towards stalkers due to her previous experience with three of them.
* WouldHitAGirl: To anyone else being an obstacle to Nina, except for his mom.
!!Howard Granger
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/LeonardoNam
One of the neighbors of Mark Richards. He was also an ex-victim of a public beating, which was investigated by police to be racially motivated.
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Being attacked by racially violent gangs and individuals. And then there's that neighbor of his who has Nazi Swastikas tattooed all over his body.]]
* ButNotTooForeign: Howard's of Asian descent, but it's not revealed on what he's descended from.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Started to hate Neo-Nazi groups and individuals with zeal after he was beaten by them in the past.
* {{Deconstruction}}: [[spoiler:His actions are motivated due to a beating he received in the past, which was racially motivated.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:He didn't like why the [=LAPD=] is protecting an ex-Neo Nazi while he was arrested.]]
--> '''Howard''': [[spoiler:Why are you protecting him?!]]
* TheDogIsTheMastermind: [[spoiler:Howard was never considered to be a major suspect or a person of interest after his neighbor's Neo-Nazi reveal by the TAU.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:If Howard did know that one of his explosives almost killed a couple of children, he didn't show any signs of guilt or remorse after he was taken into custody.]]
!!Jason Walker
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/WesRamsey
A man with a DarkAndTroubledPast, he wanted to get back to the old days when he was drinking together with his ex-wife after the latter voluntarily went into anti-alcohol rehabilitation.
* ControlFreak: [[spoiler:His ex-wife Shelly mentions this to the TAU when they interview her as a potential suspect.]]
--> '''Shelly''': [[spoiler:When I told him I wanted to stop drinking, he did everything he could to sabotage me.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:He gets back at Dr. Lewis for trying to partially help his ex-wife be sober again by making him overdose on sleeping pills that he'll die by being choked without knowing it.]]
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Jason was responsible for making the LAPD assume that one of Dr. Lewis' old patients is trying to stalk him.]]
* JerkAssHasAPoint: Despite being a control freak and threatening to his victim, Jason has a point to make when he mentions that Dr. Lewis' marriage with his wife is slowly going down the drain.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:When he visited Shelly in a rehabilitation center, he almost tricked her into drinking vodka inside a soda can. This made her divorce him for real.]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:His ultimate plan to get back at Dr. Lewis.]]
--> '''Jason''': [[spoiler:Everyone will know that you killed yourself because you're a failure as a husband and as a psychiatrist.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Uses this a lot to his advantage to throw the LAPD's suspicion from him.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about him a lot since he's part of the plot in "Crazy For You".
* TheAlcoholic: Heavily implied when he spoke to Jack and Ben.
!!Cori James
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/AleslieKies
A young woman who went missing after her best friend Meg died of a drug overdose.
* BrokenBird: Being raped changed her and not for the better. Her best friend Meg ended up in even worse shape and died years later from a drug overdose after several relapses.
* DarkActionGirl: After her ordeal, she took martial arts classes in order to defend herself. She proves herself to be stealthy, quick and ''brutal''. She's even able to [[spoiler:to easily disable her rapist after he realizes who she is despite his size advantage. She also ends up in an evenly-matched fight with Davis.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Being raped in high school didn't do a lot of good things to her personality. Her best friend, Meg, comes off even worse and dies from a drug overdose, which is what triggers the attacks.]]
* {{Deconstruction}}: Like Greg, Cori is a stalker due to her wish to get back at those who raped her and her best friend, and those who either didn't do a thing to stop it or actually helped the rapist restrain them.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even after Cori gets arrested, she doesn't like the fact that her rapist could technically walk free due to statute of limitations. [[spoiler:It later turns out that Meg's and Cori's rapist didn't just rape them and his DNA matches that of a rape of a minor that does fall within the statute of limitations.]]
* ForeShadowing: [[spoiler:She once mentions that she hated being blonde when she went to a barber to get her hair dyed.]]
* GeniusBruiser: She's able to get the drop on her victims every time and knows exactly where and how to hit to disable them and make it ''hurt''.
* ItsAllMyFault: She blames herself as much as her rapist for not getting help and wanting to forget which she feels is what ultimately led Meg to die.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: What finally gets her to stop. She ends up in an evenly-matched fight with Davis--a person who had nothing to do with the rapes--finally breaks down and surrenders.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her actions in attacking her victims made [=TAU=] check their stories before they found out that Cori and the victims went to high school together [[BlatantLies despite their insistence that they don't know Cori]], even when they revealed her to be a suspect. [[spoiler:Her crimes also enable the police to easily collect her rapist's DNA which nails him for another rape and likely others.]]
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:She ends up exposing Meg's and her rapist--who turns out to be a serial rapist of teen girls--and the roles her other victims played in it. But it comes at the cost of being charged with multiple felonies and facing jail time; which she is willing to accept. Likely downplayed as there's a chance she can plead it out due to mitigating circumstances--namely helping catch a serial rapist. She also has her mother, who was the one who reported her missing, who is no doubt going to support her no matter what and help her heal. On the other hand, her rapist was going after ''teenage girls'' and is likely going to do more time than her (and under harsh conditions as he raped children) and end up on the sex offender registry for life if he ever gets out.]]
* {{Revenge}}: Her entire goal after she went off the grid. Her best friend's death from a drug overdose is what triggered it. [[spoiler:She ultimately gets it on Meg's behalf.]]
* SymbolicMutilation: All of her attacks. [[spoiler:The bus driver ends up having his hands nailed to his bed board--symbolizing how he held her down when she tried to fight back. The hairdresser--also the rapist's wife--was temporarily blinded as she watched the rape and did nothing to stop it. For obvious reasons, she was planning to castrate her rapist with a pair of scissors.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:She attacked her victims because she wanted them to acknowledge that they there present during her and Meg's rape and either did nothing or aided the rapist instead of stopping it. She also wants her rapist to pay for what he did to Meg.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Especially if said person didn't do anything to stop a rape.]]
!!Tom Wade
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/JasonWiles
A well-known hockey player who got divorced from his wife due to their marriage going bad.
* CoolTeacher: Says to teach teenagers how to play hockey in his free time.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Has a tendency to pick fights back when he was married because of no reasons after getting drunk.
** [[spoiler:This escalates after he was "forced" to get a divorce from his ex-wife. It didn't help him at all.]]
* {{Handguns}}: Used a Glock 19.
* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:He was willing to harm Stella if she didn't allow him back into her life.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Played with. He was an initial suspect. And it turns out, he was the real mastermind.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:He's responsible for stalking Stella in order to get her back in the long run.]]
* TheAlcoholic: When he was married to Stella, he's publicly known to be like this. It turned to be bad since it ruined their marriage.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Tom tries to take on Beth via close quarters after his plan began to break apart. Beth, being an ex-stalker victim who became an ActionGirl after nearly being killed, easily grapples with him before being disarmed by throwing him down the staircase.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Talking about him in details would spoil his character in his episode appearance.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:He did threaten to shoot one of his ex-wife's acquaintances.]]
!!Lauren [[spoiler:aka Candice]]
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/ErinDaniels
A woman who became the new wife of news reporter John Bardo. [[spoiler:She turns to be using him to get closer to his colleague Keith Bradshaw.]]
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Being called Lauren after being outed as the real suspect in the stalking case against John.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:When she reveals to John about the reasons of her stalking.]]
* {{Deconstruction}}: [[spoiler:She took advantage of her relationship to get close to someone else.]]
* {{Handguns}}: [[spoiler:Uses a Beretta 84FS.]]
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:Takes advantage of being John's new wife.]]
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:Never suspected to being the real culprit to John's current problems.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Her description would bring spoilers to her episode appearance.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:She opened fire at a female colleague of John's when she took John hostage.]]
!!Robert Foster
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/MichaelLandes
The leader of a religious movement known as the Celestial Fellowship. He calls him ''Abraham'', named after the man who is important in Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
* AGodAmI: Insists that he's the reincarnation of Abraham himself.
* {{Cult}}: The Celestial Fellowship.
** SecondComing: The type of cult [=CF=] falls under.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was formerly investigated for sexual misconduct by police before the courts found him to be non-guilty due to his mental state at the time.
* DisproportionateRetribution: See WouldHitAGirl for more details.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Claims that he has the rights to practice his own religion. But yet, he uses it to entrap the victim and kill her.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: When [=TAU=] found one of the victim's friends left alive in the abandoned house he used instead of taking her along, her statement confirms the unit's suspicions that he does plan to kill his victim.
* WouldHitAGirl: He tried to drown the victim for telling his parents to send him to the mental asylum.
!!Zoe Parsons
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/NicholleTom
A civilian who was saved from drowning at a beach in Los Angeles by Nicole Clark when she was on duty as a lifeguard.
* DrivenToSuicide: Zoe was ready to drown herself until Nicole intervened again to save her.
* HeroWorship: To Zoe ever since she saved her life.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: What Nicole wants to be with Zoe after they helped each other out. Zoe refuses to be like this forever.
* IfICantHaveYou: Her rejection was not taken so well, so she had plans to push Nicole to the sea.
* SanitySlippage: See IfICantHaveYou.
* SuddenlyShouting: Zoe getting upset over Nicole's "rejection" of her love.
* WouldHitAGirl: She threatened to hurt Zoe for rejecting her love.
!!Alexis
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/CaitlinCarver
A high school student who is "friends" with Jenny Kline. [[spoiler:It turns out that she's the biological daugther of Jenny's foster mom, Monica Grant.]]
* AlphaBitch: She's known for this in her high school, especially with Jenny.
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: When Monica rejects her desire to be her "daughter" again.]]
* BestServedCold: [[spoiler: Alexis planned for many years by researching on Jenny's life and finding out what happened to Monica after Alexis was given up for adoption.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Alexis was given up for adoption by Monica since at the time, she wasn't ready yet to support her.]]
* {{Deconstruction}}: [[spoiler: She only stalked Jenny because her real mom adopted her after she was given up for adoption.]]
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler: Her [=MO=] so that the police would suspect someone else for stalking Jenny.]]
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler: What Alexis used during her "date" with Coach Grant as part of her FalseFlagOperation to frame Jenny.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: When Alexis finds out that Monica couldn't accept her back into her life as her "actual" daughter.]]
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:A very clear and sinister one.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Talking about one single thing in her entry is key to understanding her actual history and background.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: She did attack Jenny when she confronted her.]]
!!Darren Tyler
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/DavidAnders
A person of interest who was investigated by the [=TAU=] following an attack on his ex-wife Pam, he has divorced her due to his temper problems.
* AintTooProudToBeg: A Type 2 variety. [[spoiler:Darren does want to fix his marriage with Pam and be a couple again.]]
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Didn't want to hurt Pam despite his past temper problems.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Darren and Pam got divorced due to the former's temper.
* NoMedicationForMe: [[spoiler:Didn't take his anti-psychosis medicine.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Considered as a major suspect against his wife. Turns to be true. But in his case, he was not the main suspects for a few murder cases investigated by Vicki in "Love Hurts".]]
* StalkerShrine: [[spoiler:Formerly had one when the LAPD raided his apartment.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Is really sorry for hurting Pam. But his stalking tactics were not helping his case.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:He isn't, considering that he didn't hurt Pam nor the other murder victims.]]
!!Nathan Grant [[spoiler:aka Nicholas Kosta]]
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/KristofferPolaha
A person of interest the TAU interviews in a murder case. [[spoiler:He turns out to be a wanted felon hiding out from law enforcement in Philadelphia.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Nicholas used stolen identification. But the show doesn't reveal if he had to kill the person to do it.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[spoiler:Uses anything he can get his hands on.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: Deconstructed. Nathan gets into this a lot that he sought help from peers to overcome it.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:His death and investigation into his life only solved the murders of Francine Johnson and Christine Harper.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:His presence in "Love Kills" will bring more answers as to who the murder suspect is responsible for killing Francine and Christine.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:His murders go at this. Even the murder of his wife. He even tried to kill a female FBI agent because she was close to figuring out his real identity.]]
* YouRemindMeOfX: [[spoiler:Nicholas went to kill his victims because they remind him of his wife.]]
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[[folder:SPOILER CHARACTER]]
!!Will
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/AdamKaufman
Vicki's ex-husband. At the start, he was seen trying to settle their divorce. [[spoiler:He's also the main suspect responsible for murdering Sharon Gardner and is still considered one when the case went cold.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Vicki from being killed in her own house. [[spoiler:Of course, he probably did [[AllAccordingToPlan save her so that the LAPD and the FBI won't suspect of him as being the murderer to Sharon]].]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His marriage with Vicki fell apart when she found out about the affair and the subsequent murder of Sharon. The latter placed a strain on him and to Vicki.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: His name came up on the LAPD's case as a potential suspect in Sharon Gardner's murder years ago.
* HappilyMarried: Used to have a happy marriage with Vicki many years ago...
* RedHerring: Was suspected of murdering Sharon Gardner, despite denials by him and Vicki. [[spoiler:It worked in his favor since his ex-wife was a law enforcement officer and as such, would try to defend him.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: The moment he shows up again in "Love Kills", you pretty much would figure out that the episode would allude to him as the main suspect in Sharon's death.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:His involvement in killing Sharon. "Love Kills" suggest that he went ballistic when he realized that Sharon wanted to end it. And he's about to do the same to Vicki for finding out that he was the culprit.]]
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[[folder:Others]]
!!Perry Whitley
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/ErickStocklin
A university student who was not charged for supposedly stalking his roommmate, he became obsessed with finding out more about Lt. Davis after being assaulted in a deserted parking lot.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Gives this one to Beth near the end of "Crazy For You".
--> '''Perry''': Why did you smack me around? Was it because I remind you of Ray? I can understand that.
* BavarianFireDrill: He manages to get Ray out of the psych ward by using fake credentials to pass himself off as a psychologist.
* BerserkButton: Don't talk to him about his dead mom. Unless you want him to strangle you.
* BigBad: Serving to be one in the season.
** BigBadDuumvirate: Gets into one with Ray after the latter gets released.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: According to "Tell All", his mother died under suicide after having affairs when Perry was living in Santa Barbara.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Perry didn't like how Beth assaulted him in a deserted parking lot without any good reason.
** [[spoiler:Perry smugly admits to Beth that he's got obsessive personality disorder and it implied that he can't do anything to solve it.]]
** When Perry spoke to Ray in the psych ward, he was stunned to hear that the latter had his house burned and left his child dead.
** He doesn't like Ray's idea of having a gun with him.
* MommasBoy: Nicely summarized by Janice.
--> '''Janice''': ...Because you're just a little boy with mommy issues.
* SanitySlippage: Briefly when Janice mocked him for being a MommasBoy.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: His family is well-known in Los Angeles. [[spoiler:It was used to help Perry bail from jail on the condition that he's to be taken to a psych ward to be "treated". He takes advantage of this to get away from it.]]
* SmugSnake: Knows that Beth can't attack him again "Cry For Help" 'cause they were in an open parking lot.
* StalkerShrine: Has one dedicated to Beth, with drawings that include him choking her to death.
* StalkerWithACrush: Starts to have one over time after being assaulted by Beth in "Pilot".
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: According to his ex-roommate, Perry was not formally charged with stalking him in university because of his influential family.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:"Crazy for You" reveals that Perry, in Beth's perspective, was the boyfriend of Tracy Wright.]]
** [[spoiler:Made even worse when "Phobia" reveals that she was Tracy's boyfriend in the eyes of the audience.]]
!!Ray Matthews
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/EionBailey
The ex-husband of Beth. He was sent to a psych ward after he was responsible for burning their family home in Seattle that left their only child dead. Ray was committed to the ward before Perry made arrangements for his release.
* AccidentalHero[=/=]NominalHero: Ray wants to be like this to Beth when he went through his plan to burn their family house.
* AllThereInTheManual: "Fun and Games" reveals his surname as "Matthews".
* BigBadDuumvirate: Gets into one with Ray over wrecking Beth's life.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Responsible for burning his own house in Seattle, which resulted in being sentenced for psych evaluation.
* FalseFlagOperation: He was the mastermind for burning his own house and he almost got away with it.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ray's really a nice guy at first. Until he talks about his past.
* GoodHairEvilHair: He slighty has a goatee, but it shows that it's only growing again.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: [[spoiler:Ray kidnaps Beth from her house by disguising himself as a [=LAPD=] plainclothes officer in order to wound Ben by shooting him.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Ray dies in the cabin fire after being knocked out by Beth near the end of "The Woods".]]
* PermaStubble: Ray has one and has never shaved it, even after Perry bailed him out of the psych ward. Averted in "Lost and Found" when he got a clean shave and haircut in order to evade law enforcement.
* WhamEpisode: Beth finds out that Ray's been released by Perry near the end of "The News".
* WouldHitAGirl: He slammed Amanda's head against the car near the end of "Salvation".
** There was even the idea of burning and potential harming Beth when he burned their house down.
** Then he later kidnaps Tracy just to lure in most of the [=LAPD=] to go after him.
** He later kills a woman to be sure of no witnesses.
* WouldHurtAChild: He knows that his actions got his child killed, but he didn't care since he wanted Beth's attention.
!!Tracy Wright
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/TaraSummers
Beth's best friend from her early days working in the [=TAU=]. She happens to run a restaurant in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
* AFriendInNeed: Tracy helps out Beth when she's in trouble. This trope is invoked when she cancels a date from Perry to help Beth out.
* DamselInDistress: She was kidnapped by Ray to draw the [=LAPD=] to her as a decoy in "Fun and Games".
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her backstory was her being an ex-stalking victim when Beth used to work on her case. From there on, they became best of friends.
* MayDecemberRomance: Was engaged in this with Perry. [[spoiler: Turns out that Perry used it to gain access to private information about Beth.]]
* MuggleBestFriend: Best friend of Beth ever since she saved her from a stalker when the former joined the force.
* OhCrap: When Tracy finds out that Perry was really Beth's current stalker.
** Also this when Ray kidnapped her and stuffed in the car of a trunk.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:"Phobia" reveals that Perry is the boyfriend of Tracy Wright.]]
** [[spoiler:"Fun and Games" showed off her abduction by Ray when he decides to go after Beth's inner circle.]]
!!Ethan Taylor
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/GabrielBateman
The son of Jack and Amanda, he lives with the latter at the start of the series.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: He's well-adjusted [[spoiler:until he overhears Amanda telling Trent that Ethan needs to be told about his actual father.]]
* MoralityPet: For both Jack and Amanda, but more for the former as he wants to build a relationship with him.
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[[folder:Threat Assessment Unit, Los Angeles Police Department]]
!!Lieutenant Beth Davis [[spoiler:aka Michelle Webber]]
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/MaggieQ
A [=LAPD=] officer in charge of the [=TAU=]. She usually partners with Jack when the two work on a case.
* ActionGirl: Given that she's a police officer.
* AFriendInNeed: Beth helps out Tracy when she's in trouble.
* AllThereInTheManual: Promotional material mentions that her past is very, very dark.
* ButNotTooForeign: Vietnamese-American.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Beth is kind and compassionate to the victims she is interviewing, but is completely callous to the point of being a JerkAss to the team she oversees most of the time.
** She's in charge of the [=TAU=], but she refuses to inform anyone except for her superior. Possibly averted near the end of "Crazy For You".
* CowboyCop: Willing to do this if only to give stalkers with influential backing to stay away from their victims, lawsuits be damned.
* DaChief: Head of the [=LAPD=]'s Threat Assessment Unit.
* {{Dark and Troubled Past}}: [[spoiler:She changed her name from Michelle Webber to Beth Davis because her controlling ex-boyfriend went crazy in his attempts to win her back, starting with romancing her sister to make her jealous and ultimately setting her family's house on fire with the intent to rescue them and appear a hero. The fire spread too quickly and her family died, ending in him being locked in an asylum for 12 years.]]
* ExperiencedProtagonist: An experienced police officer who specializes in investigating stalker cases.
* FairCop: She is played by Maggie Q.
* HeroicBSOD: Has one in "Crazy For You" after Perry gave her an ArmorPiercingQuestion about her past.
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:After getting things that only Ray knows about, she began to be careful about who she talks to and tries to talk to her superior if anyone in Seattle is trying to look for her.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Jack tells her of his troubled past in "Love is a Battlefield", she encourages him to try and fix the relationship between him and Amanda as best as possible.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Confronts Perry near the end of "Pilot" and warns him that she'll give him trouble if he tries stalking someone again.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: "The Haunting" confirms that Beth Davis is an alias.]]
!!Detective Jack Larsen
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/DylanMcDermott
A new recruit to the [=TAU=] from New York via [=NYPD=], he moves to the city in order to locate his son and reunite with him. His ex-wife, however, is not pleased with it.
* ButtMonkey: How Jack feels at the start of his first day on the job.
* CastingGag: Dylan [=McDermott=] has [[Series/DarkBlue played a LAPD officer in the past.]]
* {{Dark and Troubled Past}}: Based on "Pilot", he has a bad fallout with his wife, who left him prior to the events of the show.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Jack says this many times in the series.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: An experienced Homicide detective from New York before he got assigned to the [=LAPD=].
* GenreSavvy: Claims that his knowledge of stalker movies and shows gives him an advantage in his detective work. Of course, Beth isn't pleased when she hears about it in his interview.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Jack seems to be fully convinced that he can't seem to help causing problems in his life.
* {{Hypocrite}}: For a detective involved in handling stalker cases, he stalks his ex-wife's [=LA=] residence. [[WhattheHellHero She even calls him out for it]] near the end of "Pilot".
* NewMeat: Treated as such by everyone in the [=TAU=] after he arrived from New York.
* ParentalAbandonment: A big reason as to why he's not allowed to see his son; Jack was absent for most of his life and Amanda stubbornly believes the he's no longer allowed to be part of it.
* SecretKeeper: After he learns of Beth's DarkAndTroubledPast.
* SherlockScan: The [=TAU=] uses this to help figure out more about their suspects/victims.
* StealthHiBye: Does this several times after meeting with Ethan to avoid complications with Amanda.
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!!Detective Janice Lawrence
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/MarianaKlaveno
A veteran detective in the [=TAU=]. She is seen usally working together with either Ben or Jack, depending on the case.
* ActionGirl: Seen in "Phobia" when she saves a kidnap victim from being drowned to death.
* {{Cliche}}: Like to throw this word around in "Love is a Battlefield" when she explains it to Jack.
--> We love cliches. We live them. We make movies about them. It's the [=LA=] way of life.
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:She never realized that the mastermind in the events of "Love is a Battlefield" is the victim she interviewed for a while now until the unit ran through their evidence and found that she had a personality disorder.]]
* ExperiencedProtagonist: Been with the unit for several years.
* FairCop: She's played by Mariana Klaveno.
* {{Fangirl}}: Of the [=TV=] show "Savage Shore".
* PrimalFear: Janice reveals in "Phobia" hates the dark to the point that her residence has the lights on for the entire evening. [[WildMassGuessing She said that she hates clowns and spiders.]]
* SecretKeeper: After she learns of Beth's DarkAndTroubledPast.
!!Detective Ben Caldwell
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/VictorRasuk
A veteran detective in the [=TAU=], he's usually in charge of feeding his fellow detectives information on stalking cases they work on.
* BerserkButton: Hates Neo-Nazi gangs becaue they once beat his younger brother for "looking at them in the wrong way".
* BilingualBonus: Ben can speak Spanish, first demonstrated in "Skins".
* ButNotTooForeign: Hinted to be of Mexican-American origin in "Skins".
* DeadpanSnarker: Tends to be this at times, but more with Jack since he joined up.
-->'''Ben''': (After Jack tells him to call for his attention in "Phobia") "I'll call Beth."
* ExperiencedProtagonist: Been with the unit for several years.
* {{Infodump}}[=/=]MrExposition: Does this when he explains relevant information to his fellow detectives in their stalking cases.
* PrimalFear: He reveals in "Phobia" that he hates the dark like Janice. According to him, he hates being buried while still alive.
* SecretKeeper: After the others told him of Beth's past.
* TheSmartGuy: His function in the [=TAU=].
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Jack when they interview a suspect in "Phobia". Beth teases them since they tended to finish each other's sentence, resulting in much hilarity.
!!Special Agent Vicki Gregg
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/MiraSorvino
A former [=TAU=] officer turned [=FBI=] agent, she took command of the [=TAU=] after Beth was kidnapped by her ex-husband Ray.
* ActionGirl: She did take down the serial killer in her own house.
* CastingGag: Mira Sorvino previously planed a [=FBI=] agent in the late 1990s.
* FairCop: Helps to be played by Mira Sorvino.
* ItsPersonal: In "Love Kills", it turns out the recent deaths of single females turns out to be similar to her old cases back in the Bureau.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:In "Love Kills", Vicky realizes that her ex-husband was the mastermind for murdering Sharon Gardner. And also, he took her sidearm and turned it against her.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Tries to listen to the [=TAU=] detectives when they want to solve the case. [[JurisdictionFriction But her hands are tied when the FBI announces that they'll take over the case from them.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Los Angeles City government]]
!!Deputy District Attorney Amanda Taylor
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/ElisabethRohm
Ex-wife of Jack Larsen and the deputy District Attorney to [=LA=], she refuses to let him get involved with their son Ethan. Amanda assists the [=TAU=] in handling legal matters if the unit would get involved in a messy situation.
* AmoralAttorney: Jack is very sure that [[DarkSecret one of the trials she was involved in]] resulted in a disaster due to her actions.
* {{Blackmail}}: Amanda plans to use this on Jack by telling Beth about his past if he doesn't pack up his things and leave the city.
* CharacterDevelopment: From being a jerk to Jack, she eventually warms up to him after she realizes that Jack sincerely wants to build a good relation with his son.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Amanda hits Jack out of anger after she finds out Jack covertly made contact with her son.
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: How she sees Jack, since he's been absent for all of his son's life.
* SecretKeeper: After she out about Beth's past, she goes out of her way to help her find a legal way to convict Perry.
* StealthHiBye: Does this when she confronts Jack at the end of "Pilot" at his residence.
* WhatTheHellHero: Amanda calls Jack out for stalking her after he arrived in [=LA=].
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Jack finds out in "Manhunt" that she's living with Trent Wilks, a fellow detective from the LAPD Robbery and Homicide Division.]]
* WorkingWithTheEx: Amanda's problem with Jack throughout the season. Which leads to TeethClenchedTeamwork between the two. It's downplayed a bit after Jack admits to Beth about his DarkSecret.
!!Mayor Will Hayes
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/BrettCullen
The current mayor of Los Angeles. He is Beth's friend in the city from her days prior to joining the [=LAPD=]. He calls for her help in solving a case where a suspect has sent a threatening package to his office.
* DarkSecret[=/=]DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:When he was a young, aspiring politician, he got into an affair with one of his secretaries after his marriage.]]
* {{Expy}}: Janice comments that his political career to mayor is similar to Bill and Hillary Clinton. [[spoiler:Up until the point that his wife knew about the affair.]]
* [[OldShame/InUniverse Old Shame]]: [[spoiler:His affair. His wife had to conceal traces of it in order to prevent any public backlash from his political supporters.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Beth insists that he needs his cooperation to help solve his case, Mayor Hayes agrees to help her in any way he can.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:Despite the fact that his secret night visits might attract attention, he nevertheless risks his own political career in order to ensure a good future for his daughter.]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Visits his daughter secretly every night in order to help her get away from being a call girl and get into a university after he found out that her mom died.]]
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:In "Secret and Lies", Beth and Jack (and the rest of [=TAU=]) finds out that Wills had an affair in the past and the stalking victim happens to be his daughter.]]
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[[folder:Suspects (HEAVY SPOILERS)]]
!!Kurt Wild
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/MichaelGrantTerry
An ex-softcore actor, he made a living in Los Angeles by working as a physical fitness trainer to his Spin classes.
* CharacterNameAlias: His name. Jack found his name hard to believe at first.
* EvilWearsBlack: [[spoiler:Wears a black hoddie and jogging pants at the start of "Pilot".]]
* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:Part of his motive rant in dousing his latest victim with gasoline before attempting to use a match to light them both up.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:How he killed his first victim. And the latest one if the LAPD didn't intervene.]]
* [[OldShame InUniverse Old Shame]]: His softcore actor past, though he decided to use the surname "Wild" to make a name for himself.
-->'''Kurt''': The truth, I did a little softcore when I first moved out here. It's all over the net. Killed any chance of an acting career.
* PunchClockVillain: Works full-time as an aerobics instructor.
* PunnyName: His surname. Jack lampshades it well.
-->'''Jack''': Out of curiosity, Kurt, is Wild your real last name?
* StarterVillain: In the show, he's the first stalker arrested by the LAPD.
* TakingYouWithMe: Kurt's plans to kill himself and his latest victim by being burned alive.
* WouldHitAGirl: Among the charges he was convicted for including assaulting on his ex-girlfriend in his police records.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:His feelings towards his latest victim.]]
!!Rosemary Wilson
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/SageKirkpatrick
A normal housewife who underwent a breakdown after loosing her only child in a boating accident, she kidnapped the child of her neighbor in order to fulfill her wish of getting her family back together.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lost her son in an accident while they were in a boat.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Rosemary became a stalker after she stopped taking medication to help her cope with her mental illness.
* ItsAllAboutMe: One way to interpret on her nervous breakdown [[spoiler:after she took Thomas from his family.]]
* SanitySlippage: After her son was killed in an accident. Her ex-husband told police that she wasn't the same despite taking medication.
* SuddenlyShouting: Part of her SanitySlippage when Thomas wouldn't stop shouting for being kidnapped against his will. Rosemary starts to do this after she went back to her old house.
* TheDogIsTheMasterMind: [[spoiler:The [=TAU=] never suspected her of being a stalker initially.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Rosemary was very close to killing an innocent child if Beth and Jack didn't arrive in time to save him.]]
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Averted. She tries to go back to her old house when she was still sane. However, said house was occupied by someone else. So Rosemary beats the hell out of her and "took" over.
!!Silas Martin
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/MichaelIrby
Once an ex-Green Beret commando and [=LAPD=] officer, he was kicked out of the force after he shot a teenager during a call that resulted in hearings and lawsuits. This gave a breakdown and was convinced that there was a conspiracy working in the department against him.
* CastingGag: Michaely Irby [[Series/TheUnit has played a commando in the US Army]] and [[Series/AlmostHuman a LAPD officer in another TV show]].
* CharacterDeath: Jack shoots him twice with his sidearm when Silas tries to kill him.
* CrazyPrepared: Has kept a small arsenal of weapons and combat gear in his apartment and had setup a near-invisible sniper's nest on an adjoining building.
* ColdSniper: Silas is portrayed as one when he shot Frank's daughter on the day of her wedding.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was diagnosed with anxiety problems at a young age. Frank suspects that [[ShellShockedVeteran there may have been other mental health issues that weren't disclosed.]]
* ItsPersonal: Silas went to stalk his ex-boss because he thought that he was responsible for disposing of the only weapon that can link the teenager to a lawful shooting. He then targets his closest friends and loved ones, severely wounding his daughter, murdering a young man who was getting his life together, and nearly murdering his partner and closest friend whose pictures were displayed in his office.
* MadnessMantra: ''Where is the gun?!''
* MotiveRant: Gives one when the [=TAU=] uncovers camera footage of him giving a message to the LAPD.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: When the [=TAU=] raids his apartment, they found notes and surveillance photos of the officers he used to work with, their friends and loved ones.
* SanitySlippage: Once he left the military and the [=LAPD=], the latter because he had no choice due to undisclosed mental health issues that left him unstable.
* WouldHitAGirl: To be precise, Silas would shoot a girl.
!!Chris Powell
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/DavidChisum
An influential man who was not convicted despite raping a young woman, he stalks women by using their phobias against them.
* CrazyPrepared: Partially part of his MO in avoiding being arrested by the police.
* EvilWearsBlack: [[spoiler:Wears black clothes when he does his filming at night. Helps him blend into the dark so that witnesses won't be able to identify him.]]
* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler:Why he went out of his way just to film his victims being scared of whatever phobia they have.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Jack was able to get the location of his latest victim by using his fear of heights.
* NightVisionGoggles: [[spoiler:During his first attack, he uses a pair of night vision googles attached on a head harness since he took his time to remove all lights from the victim's residence.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney[=/=]ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: How Chris was able to avoid being charged of rape.
* SharpDressedMan: He wore a dress suit, Oxford shoes and a tie when he was first revealed.
* SmugSnake: Chris certainly seems to think so after being arrested by the [=LAPD=]. That is, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard until Jack uses his fear of heighs to make him surrender easily.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: He has no problems doing this as long as he can get a video of them being scared by their own phobia.
!!Greg Miner
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/KevinSizemore
A man who had long disappeared from the public eye after his wife has passed away. He kidnapped a university student due to her resemblance with his late wife.
* {{Angrish}}: Is seen talking like this when the [=TAU=] was able to apprehend him alive.
* AxCrazy: By the time [=TAU=] arrested him, they realize that he was long out of touch with modern society. He's last seen restrained and taken to an ambulance.
* BeardOfSorrow: He sports one after being "found" by the LAPD.
* {{Deconstruction}}: He's not a stalker by default. [[spoiler:He "lived" in his house because he missed the days when he lived in it with his wife.]] Even the [=TAU=] realized that when they arrested him for kidnapping and assaulting a police officer, he was not mentally fit to be taken into police custody.
* DynamicEntry: Greg busts out of the wall to literally surprise Jack.
* FishOutOfWater: Greg lived in the house "literally" for a long time that he's not connected with the modern age.
* SympatheticMurderer: He lost his wife in grief and was unable to move on that he "lived" in the house and cut off contact from the rest of the world, despite his hand in the death of a college professor who specializes in the occult.
!!Andrea Brown
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/JessicaTuck
A wealthy woman known in Los Angeles for her philanthropy, especially in supporting the arts. He had divorced her husband prior to the events of the show. [[spoiler:She was discovered to have a personality disorder, which was responsible for her mood swings.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: When she finds out that [[WildMassGuessing Jack "cheated" on his significant other]]. Andrea was clearly upset about this.
--> '''Andrea''': "Have you cheated?"
--> '''Jack''': "Yes."
--> '''Andrea''': "Why?"
** [[spoiler:Andrea gloats on how she didn't like killing her own dog.]]
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Conducts stalking operations against herself so that the LAPD can have the "needed" evidence to lock up her ex-husband on stalking and assault charges.]]
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Her idea of fixing her relationship with her ex-husband includes the invovlement of putting a bullet into Melissa Barnes' head, his live-in partner.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Andrea's known to the public for being a philanthropist. She's also a known supporter of the arts.
* SuddenlyShouting: [[spoiler:Once her personality disorder is revealed, she does this to Melissa while gloating that she'll be seen as a victim in the public eye.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Andrea crosses this path from her personality order, which includes the killing of her own dog. She also said that she was aware of it and didn't like it.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: You should know why most of the details about her are under spoilers.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:She has no problem using a gun to fix "her" relationship problems.]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Her idea of fixing her relationship with her ex-husband includes murder if she has to.]]
!!Robert "Robbie" Dalton
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/BrendanSextonIII
An obsessive fan of [=TV=] actress Nina Preston, who is a leading star of ''Savage Shore''. Prior to his stalking activities, he had lost a job and was diagnosed with a mental disorder.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Robbie is diagnosed with a mental disorder and stopped taking anti-psychosis medication to help him cope with his disorder, which eventually led to his stalking activities on Nina Preston. Beth said that he'll get the attention he needs.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:His mother unwittingly causes his life to go into a downward spiral by pretending to be Nina and feeding his delusions.]] This leads to him going off his meds, losing his job and stalking Nina.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Robbie didn't like the way Emily treated Nina all the time [[spoiler:after the latter found out that her sister leaked senstive information to a paparazzi reporters to give him good pictures for the papers. Things that could have gotten her killed.]]
--> '''Robbie''': I want you to be nicer to Nina. You've hurt her.
* {{Fanboy}}: Of ''Savage Shore''.
** LoonyFan: He becomes this eventually.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Uses a tire iron to attack Emily Preston after she leaves Nina's house. [[{{Fanboy}} Considering that he knows about Savage Shore,]] there's a meaning to why he did that.
* MyBelovedSmother: Certainly thinks his mom is too overprotective of him. [[spoiler:Which makes things worse when the TAU finds out that his mom pretended to be Nina sending in e-mails.]]
* NoMedicationForMe: Part of his problem was that he didn't resume his medication.
* StalkerShrine: Has one in his garage dedicated to Nina when Jack and Beth arrive at his house to speak to his mother. Jack is not pleased by this.
* StalkerWithACrush: To the point that he imagines himself as Paul and Nina as Lily. Nina doesn't reciprocate his feelings, considering her dislike towards stalkers due to her previous experience with three of them.
* WouldHitAGirl: To anyone else being an obstacle to Nina, except for his mom.
!!Howard Granger
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/LeonardoNam
One of the neighbors of Mark Richards. He was also an ex-victim of a public beating, which was investigated by police to be racially motivated.
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Being attacked by racially violent gangs and individuals. And then there's that neighbor of his who has Nazi Swastikas tattooed all over his body.]]
* ButNotTooForeign: Howard's of Asian descent, but it's not revealed on what he's descended from.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Started to hate Neo-Nazi groups and individuals with zeal after he was beaten by them in the past.
* {{Deconstruction}}: [[spoiler:His actions are motivated due to a beating he received in the past, which was racially motivated.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:He didn't like why the [=LAPD=] is protecting an ex-Neo Nazi while he was arrested.]]
--> '''Howard''': [[spoiler:Why are you protecting him?!]]
* TheDogIsTheMastermind: [[spoiler:Howard was never considered to be a major suspect or a person of interest after his neighbor's Neo-Nazi reveal by the TAU.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:If Howard did know that one of his explosives almost killed a couple of children, he didn't show any signs of guilt or remorse after he was taken into custody.]]
!!Jason Walker
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/WesRamsey
A man with a DarkAndTroubledPast, he wanted to get back to the old days when he was drinking together with his ex-wife after the latter voluntarily went into anti-alcohol rehabilitation.
* ControlFreak: [[spoiler:His ex-wife Shelly mentions this to the TAU when they interview her as a potential suspect.]]
--> '''Shelly''': [[spoiler:When I told him I wanted to stop drinking, he did everything he could to sabotage me.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:He gets back at Dr. Lewis for trying to partially help his ex-wife be sober again by making him overdose on sleeping pills that he'll die by being choked without knowing it.]]
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Jason was responsible for making the LAPD assume that one of Dr. Lewis' old patients is trying to stalk him.]]
* JerkAssHasAPoint: Despite being a control freak and threatening to his victim, Jason has a point to make when he mentions that Dr. Lewis' marriage with his wife is slowly going down the drain.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:When he visited Shelly in a rehabilitation center, he almost tricked her into drinking vodka inside a soda can. This made her divorce him for real.]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:His ultimate plan to get back at Dr. Lewis.]]
--> '''Jason''': [[spoiler:Everyone will know that you killed yourself because you're a failure as a husband and as a psychiatrist.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Uses this a lot to his advantage to throw the LAPD's suspicion from him.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about him a lot since he's part of the plot in "Crazy For You".
* TheAlcoholic: Heavily implied when he spoke to Jack and Ben.
!!Cori James
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/AleslieKies
A young woman who went missing after her best friend Meg died of a drug overdose.
* BrokenBird: Being raped changed her and not for the better. Her best friend Meg ended up in even worse shape and died years later from a drug overdose after several relapses.
* DarkActionGirl: After her ordeal, she took martial arts classes in order to defend herself. She proves herself to be stealthy, quick and ''brutal''. She's even able to [[spoiler:to easily disable her rapist after he realizes who she is despite his size advantage. She also ends up in an evenly-matched fight with Davis.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Being raped in high school didn't do a lot of good things to her personality. Her best friend, Meg, comes off even worse and dies from a drug overdose, which is what triggers the attacks.]]
* {{Deconstruction}}: Like Greg, Cori is a stalker due to her wish to get back at those who raped her and her best friend, and those who either didn't do a thing to stop it or actually helped the rapist restrain them.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even after Cori gets arrested, she doesn't like the fact that her rapist could technically walk free due to statute of limitations. [[spoiler:It later turns out that Meg's and Cori's rapist didn't just rape them and his DNA matches that of a rape of a minor that does fall within the statute of limitations.]]
* ForeShadowing: [[spoiler:She once mentions that she hated being blonde when she went to a barber to get her hair dyed.]]
* GeniusBruiser: She's able to get the drop on her victims every time and knows exactly where and how to hit to disable them and make it ''hurt''.
* ItsAllMyFault: She blames herself as much as her rapist for not getting help and wanting to forget which she feels is what ultimately led Meg to die.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: What finally gets her to stop. She ends up in an evenly-matched fight with Davis--a person who had nothing to do with the rapes--finally breaks down and surrenders.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her actions in attacking her victims made [=TAU=] check their stories before they found out that Cori and the victims went to high school together [[BlatantLies despite their insistence that they don't know Cori]], even when they revealed her to be a suspect. [[spoiler:Her crimes also enable the police to easily collect her rapist's DNA which nails him for another rape and likely others.]]
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:She ends up exposing Meg's and her rapist--who turns out to be a serial rapist of teen girls--and the roles her other victims played in it. But it comes at the cost of being charged with multiple felonies and facing jail time; which she is willing to accept. Likely downplayed as there's a chance she can plead it out due to mitigating circumstances--namely helping catch a serial rapist. She also has her mother, who was the one who reported her missing, who is no doubt going to support her no matter what and help her heal. On the other hand, her rapist was going after ''teenage girls'' and is likely going to do more time than her (and under harsh conditions as he raped children) and end up on the sex offender registry for life if he ever gets out.]]
* {{Revenge}}: Her entire goal after she went off the grid. Her best friend's death from a drug overdose is what triggered it. [[spoiler:She ultimately gets it on Meg's behalf.]]
* SymbolicMutilation: All of her attacks. [[spoiler:The bus driver ends up having his hands nailed to his bed board--symbolizing how he held her down when she tried to fight back. The hairdresser--also the rapist's wife--was temporarily blinded as she watched the rape and did nothing to stop it. For obvious reasons, she was planning to castrate her rapist with a pair of scissors.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:She attacked her victims because she wanted them to acknowledge that they there present during her and Meg's rape and either did nothing or aided the rapist instead of stopping it. She also wants her rapist to pay for what he did to Meg.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Especially if said person didn't do anything to stop a rape.]]
!!Tom Wade
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/JasonWiles
A well-known hockey player who got divorced from his wife due to their marriage going bad.
* CoolTeacher: Says to teach teenagers how to play hockey in his free time.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Has a tendency to pick fights back when he was married because of no reasons after getting drunk.
** [[spoiler:This escalates after he was "forced" to get a divorce from his ex-wife. It didn't help him at all.]]
* {{Handguns}}: Used a Glock 19.
* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:He was willing to harm Stella if she didn't allow him back into her life.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Played with. He was an initial suspect. And it turns out, he was the real mastermind.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:He's responsible for stalking Stella in order to get her back in the long run.]]
* TheAlcoholic: When he was married to Stella, he's publicly known to be like this. It turned to be bad since it ruined their marriage.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Tom tries to take on Beth via close quarters after his plan began to break apart. Beth, being an ex-stalker victim who became an ActionGirl after nearly being killed, easily grapples with him before being disarmed by throwing him down the staircase.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Talking about him in details would spoil his character in his episode appearance.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:He did threaten to shoot one of his ex-wife's acquaintances.]]
!!Lauren [[spoiler:aka Candice]]
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/ErinDaniels
A woman who became the new wife of news reporter John Bardo. [[spoiler:She turns to be using him to get closer to his colleague Keith Bradshaw.]]
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Being called Lauren after being outed as the real suspect in the stalking case against John.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:When she reveals to John about the reasons of her stalking.]]
* {{Deconstruction}}: [[spoiler:She took advantage of her relationship to get close to someone else.]]
* {{Handguns}}: [[spoiler:Uses a Beretta 84FS.]]
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:Takes advantage of being John's new wife.]]
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:Never suspected to being the real culprit to John's current problems.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Her description would bring spoilers to her episode appearance.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:She opened fire at a female colleague of John's when she took John hostage.]]
!!Robert Foster
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/MichaelLandes
The leader of a religious movement known as the Celestial Fellowship. He calls him ''Abraham'', named after the man who is important in Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
* AGodAmI: Insists that he's the reincarnation of Abraham himself.
* {{Cult}}: The Celestial Fellowship.
** SecondComing: The type of cult [=CF=] falls under.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was formerly investigated for sexual misconduct by police before the courts found him to be non-guilty due to his mental state at the time.
* DisproportionateRetribution: See WouldHitAGirl for more details.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Claims that he has the rights to practice his own religion. But yet, he uses it to entrap the victim and kill her.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: When [=TAU=] found one of the victim's friends left alive in the abandoned house he used instead of taking her along, her statement confirms the unit's suspicions that he does plan to kill his victim.
* WouldHitAGirl: He tried to drown the victim for telling his parents to send him to the mental asylum.
!!Zoe Parsons
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/NicholleTom
A civilian who was saved from drowning at a beach in Los Angeles by Nicole Clark when she was on duty as a lifeguard.
* DrivenToSuicide: Zoe was ready to drown herself until Nicole intervened again to save her.
* HeroWorship: To Zoe ever since she saved her life.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: What Nicole wants to be with Zoe after they helped each other out. Zoe refuses to be like this forever.
* IfICantHaveYou: Her rejection was not taken so well, so she had plans to push Nicole to the sea.
* SanitySlippage: See IfICantHaveYou.
* SuddenlyShouting: Zoe getting upset over Nicole's "rejection" of her love.
* WouldHitAGirl: She threatened to hurt Zoe for rejecting her love.
!!Alexis
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/CaitlinCarver
A high school student who is "friends" with Jenny Kline. [[spoiler:It turns out that she's the biological daugther of Jenny's foster mom, Monica Grant.]]
* AlphaBitch: She's known for this in her high school, especially with Jenny.
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: When Monica rejects her desire to be her "daughter" again.]]
* BestServedCold: [[spoiler: Alexis planned for many years by researching on Jenny's life and finding out what happened to Monica after Alexis was given up for adoption.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Alexis was given up for adoption by Monica since at the time, she wasn't ready yet to support her.]]
* {{Deconstruction}}: [[spoiler: She only stalked Jenny because her real mom adopted her after she was given up for adoption.]]
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler: Her [=MO=] so that the police would suspect someone else for stalking Jenny.]]
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler: What Alexis used during her "date" with Coach Grant as part of her FalseFlagOperation to frame Jenny.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: When Alexis finds out that Monica couldn't accept her back into her life as her "actual" daughter.]]
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:A very clear and sinister one.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Talking about one single thing in her entry is key to understanding her actual history and background.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: She did attack Jenny when she confronted her.]]
!!Darren Tyler
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/DavidAnders
A person of interest who was investigated by the [=TAU=] following an attack on his ex-wife Pam, he has divorced her due to his temper problems.
* AintTooProudToBeg: A Type 2 variety. [[spoiler:Darren does want to fix his marriage with Pam and be a couple again.]]
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Didn't want to hurt Pam despite his past temper problems.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Darren and Pam got divorced due to the former's temper.
* NoMedicationForMe: [[spoiler:Didn't take his anti-psychosis medicine.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Considered as a major suspect against his wife. Turns to be true. But in his case, he was not the main suspects for a few murder cases investigated by Vicki in "Love Hurts".]]
* StalkerShrine: [[spoiler:Formerly had one when the LAPD raided his apartment.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Is really sorry for hurting Pam. But his stalking tactics were not helping his case.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:He isn't, considering that he didn't hurt Pam nor the other murder victims.]]
!!Nathan Grant [[spoiler:aka Nicholas Kosta]]
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/KristofferPolaha
A person of interest the TAU interviews in a murder case. [[spoiler:He turns out to be a wanted felon hiding out from law enforcement in Philadelphia.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Nicholas used stolen identification. But the show doesn't reveal if he had to kill the person to do it.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[spoiler:Uses anything he can get his hands on.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: Deconstructed. Nathan gets into this a lot that he sought help from peers to overcome it.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:His death and investigation into his life only solved the murders of Francine Johnson and Christine Harper.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:His presence in "Love Kills" will bring more answers as to who the murder suspect is responsible for killing Francine and Christine.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:His murders go at this. Even the murder of his wife. He even tried to kill a female FBI agent because she was close to figuring out his real identity.]]
* YouRemindMeOfX: [[spoiler:Nicholas went to kill his victims because they remind him of his wife.]]
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!!Will
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/AdamKaufman
Vicki's ex-husband. At the start, he was seen trying to settle their divorce. [[spoiler:He's also the main suspect responsible for murdering Sharon Gardner and is still considered one when the case went cold.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Vicki from being killed in her own house. [[spoiler:Of course, he probably did [[AllAccordingToPlan save her so that the LAPD and the FBI won't suspect of him as being the murderer to Sharon]].]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His marriage with Vicki fell apart when she found out about the affair and the subsequent murder of Sharon. The latter placed a strain on him and to Vicki.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: His name came up on the LAPD's case as a potential suspect in Sharon Gardner's murder years ago.
* HappilyMarried: Used to have a happy marriage with Vicki many years ago...
* RedHerring: Was suspected of murdering Sharon Gardner, despite denials by him and Vicki. [[spoiler:It worked in his favor since his ex-wife was a law enforcement officer and as such, would try to defend him.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: The moment he shows up again in "Love Kills", you pretty much would figure out that the episode would allude to him as the main suspect in Sharon's death.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:His involvement in killing Sharon. "Love Kills" suggest that he went ballistic when he realized that Sharon wanted to end it. And he's about to do the same to Vicki for finding out that he was the culprit.]]
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[[folder:Others]]
!!Perry Whitley
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/ErickStocklin
A university student who was not charged for supposedly stalking his roommmate, he became obsessed with finding out more about Lt. Davis after being assaulted in a deserted parking lot.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Gives this one to Beth near the end of "Crazy For You".
--> '''Perry''': Why did you smack me around? Was it because I remind you of Ray? I can understand that.
* BavarianFireDrill: He manages to get Ray out of the psych ward by using fake credentials to pass himself off as a psychologist.
* BerserkButton: Don't talk to him about his dead mom. Unless you want him to strangle you.
* BigBad: Serving to be one in the season.
** BigBadDuumvirate: Gets into one with Ray after the latter gets released.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: According to "Tell All", his mother died under suicide after having affairs when Perry was living in Santa Barbara.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Perry didn't like how Beth assaulted him in a deserted parking lot without any good reason.
** [[spoiler:Perry smugly admits to Beth that he's got obsessive personality disorder and it implied that he can't do anything to solve it.]]
** When Perry spoke to Ray in the psych ward, he was stunned to hear that the latter had his house burned and left his child dead.
** He doesn't like Ray's idea of having a gun with him.
* MommasBoy: Nicely summarized by Janice.
--> '''Janice''': ...Because you're just a little boy with mommy issues.
* SanitySlippage: Briefly when Janice mocked him for being a MommasBoy.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: His family is well-known in Los Angeles. [[spoiler:It was used to help Perry bail from jail on the condition that he's to be taken to a psych ward to be "treated". He takes advantage of this to get away from it.]]
* SmugSnake: Knows that Beth can't attack him again "Cry For Help" 'cause they were in an open parking lot.
* StalkerShrine: Has one dedicated to Beth, with drawings that include him choking her to death.
* StalkerWithACrush: Starts to have one over time after being assaulted by Beth in "Pilot".
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: According to his ex-roommate, Perry was not formally charged with stalking him in university because of his influential family.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:"Crazy for You" reveals that Perry, in Beth's perspective, was the boyfriend of Tracy Wright.]]
** [[spoiler:Made even worse when "Phobia" reveals that she was Tracy's boyfriend in the eyes of the audience.]]
!!Ray Matthews
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/EionBailey
The ex-husband of Beth. He was sent to a psych ward after he was responsible for burning their family home in Seattle that left their only child dead. Ray was committed to the ward before Perry made arrangements for his release.
* AccidentalHero[=/=]NominalHero: Ray wants to be like this to Beth when he went through his plan to burn their family house.
* AllThereInTheManual: "Fun and Games" reveals his surname as "Matthews".
* BigBadDuumvirate: Gets into one with Ray over wrecking Beth's life.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Responsible for burning his own house in Seattle, which resulted in being sentenced for psych evaluation.
* FalseFlagOperation: He was the mastermind for burning his own house and he almost got away with it.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ray's really a nice guy at first. Until he talks about his past.
* GoodHairEvilHair: He slighty has a goatee, but it shows that it's only growing again.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: [[spoiler:Ray kidnaps Beth from her house by disguising himself as a [=LAPD=] plainclothes officer in order to wound Ben by shooting him.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Ray dies in the cabin fire after being knocked out by Beth near the end of "The Woods".]]
* PermaStubble: Ray has one and has never shaved it, even after Perry bailed him out of the psych ward. Averted in "Lost and Found" when he got a clean shave and haircut in order to evade law enforcement.
* WhamEpisode: Beth finds out that Ray's been released by Perry near the end of "The News".
* WouldHitAGirl: He slammed Amanda's head against the car near the end of "Salvation".
** There was even the idea of burning and potential harming Beth when he burned their house down.
** Then he later kidnaps Tracy just to lure in most of the [=LAPD=] to go after him.
** He later kills a woman to be sure of no witnesses.
* WouldHurtAChild: He knows that his actions got his child killed, but he didn't care since he wanted Beth's attention.
!!Tracy Wright
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/TaraSummers
Beth's best friend from her early days working in the [=TAU=]. She happens to run a restaurant in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
* AFriendInNeed: Tracy helps out Beth when she's in trouble. This trope is invoked when she cancels a date from Perry to help Beth out.
* DamselInDistress: She was kidnapped by Ray to draw the [=LAPD=] to her as a decoy in "Fun and Games".
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her backstory was her being an ex-stalking victim when Beth used to work on her case. From there on, they became best of friends.
* MayDecemberRomance: Was engaged in this with Perry. [[spoiler: Turns out that Perry used it to gain access to private information about Beth.]]
* MuggleBestFriend: Best friend of Beth ever since she saved her from a stalker when the former joined the force.
* OhCrap: When Tracy finds out that Perry was really Beth's current stalker.
** Also this when Ray kidnapped her and stuffed in the car of a trunk.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:"Phobia" reveals that Perry is the boyfriend of Tracy Wright.]]
** [[spoiler:"Fun and Games" showed off her abduction by Ray when he decides to go after Beth's inner circle.]]
!!Ethan Taylor
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-> '''Played By: ''' Creator/GabrielBateman
The son of Jack and Amanda, he lives with the latter at the start of the series.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: He's well-adjusted [[spoiler:until he overhears Amanda telling Trent that Ethan needs to be told about his actual father.]]
* MoralityPet: For both Jack and Amanda, but more for the former as he wants to build a relationship with him.
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