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10[[WMG:Annie Walker]]
11[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Annie_01_437.jpg]]
12-> ''Played by Creator/PiperPerabo''
13
14Annie Walker is a talented CIA officer. She entered into the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} because she got "burned by love" when she "let her guard down", a reason that makes Auggie say she "fits the profile" of a typical CIA worker. She is compassionate, and genuinely desires to help those she meets on missions. She speaks seven languages, including Spanish, English, and Russian, and is able to hold her own in a fight.
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16%%* ActionGirl
17* AllWomenLoveShoes: In the pilot, Annie's cover story to go back to the scene of the shooting is that she wants to retrieve her Louboutins.
18%%* AntiHero: Becomes more questionable in Season 3.
19%%* BrokenBird: She grows out of it, though. Aaaand right back into it with the events of Season 3.
20%%* CombatPragmatist
21%%* CombatStilettos: Usually averted.
22%%* CowboyCop: Annie has never met an order from her superiors that she hasn't broken into itty pieces.
23%%* CoyGirlishFlirtPose
24* CunningLinguist: Did you read that part where she speaks seven languages?
25%%* DeadpanSnarker
26* DoesntLikeGuns: Technically, but it's justified in that 1) she's suppose to be a museum curator in most of her covers so guns would break her cover and 2) she never completed gun training before being brought up from the Farm so she probably isn't even allowed to use a gun unless she's forced to. [[spoiler: This is true until post-"Horses to Water" in season 2, she specifically asks Joan to get "shooter and bodyguard" training. Blown totally to bits as of season 4's "Dig for Fire, when it's revealed that she's now routinely carrying on US soil, technically against the CIA's rules, because she nearly died from a gunshot wound received in season 3's "Glass Spider".]]
27%%* GenkiGirl
28%%* HighClassCallGirl: Annie impersonates one in the pilot.
29* ImprobableWeaponUser: So far the best examples are a bottle of Vodka and a pair of handcuffs. Oh, and a bottle opener. Does siccing Auggie on an opponent count?
30* JustFriends: With Auggie, although her reaction to [[spoiler:his engagement with Parker]] says a few things about her [[UnresolvedSexualTension real feelings]].
31%%* LethalChef
32%%* MacGyvering
33* SexualExtortion: She sees no problem in seducing male contacts to build a rapport, such as the apparent BigBad of Season 3. As Lena points out however, the CIA has a bit of a self-aware DoubleStandard when it comes to this, so it doesn't mind.
34%%* WhatBeautifulEyes
35* YouGetMeCoffee: She gets upgraded to walk-in work, though! And then lunch duty! And it is always noted that whenever she goes into the field, it's limited to situations where her skills would be useful such as being a liaison.
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39[[WMG:Auggie Anderson]]
40[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Auggie_01_8706.jpg]]
41-> ''Played by Creator/ChristopherGorham''
42
43Auggie Anderson worked as a CIA special operative, but was blinded on a mission in Iraq. As he put it, he got out to look at what he thought was a dead dog, and the "next thing [he] knew, [he] was Ray Charles".
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45%%* AlliterativeName
46%%* AngerBornOfWorry: For Annie, in season 5.
47* BlindMistake: Uses this trope ''[[InvokedTrope deliberately]]'' to coincidentally be there [[BigBrotherInstinct whenever Annie needs him.]]
48%%* BigBrotherInstinct
49%%* BigBrotherMentor
50* ByronicHero: He's the NiceGuy version of this. Intelligent and charismatic? Check, Dark events in his past that he feels the need to atone for? Check. Resistance to authority? Check. Cynical and Jaded? It's subtle but it's there.
51%%* ChickMagnet
52%%* DisabilitySuperpower
53%%* DisabledSnarker
54* DrowningMySorrows: Tries this after [[spoiler: his fiancee breaks up with him when she learns he's CIA. Lands him in jail when he ends up in a bar fight.]]
55%%* HandicappedBadass
56%%* TheHandler: To Annie.
57%%* JustFriends: With Annie.
58%%* MissionControl
59%%* MrFanservice
60* MyGirlBackHome: To Annie on a lot of episodes as he typically has to stay home while she goes on missions. Occasionally they work together in the field and once in a while it is Annie who is the [[MyGirlBackHome Girl Back Home]].
61* NerdsAreVirgins: Awesomely subverted with Auggie, who is most certainly a ladies' man.
62* NervesOfSteel: In an unfamiliar house, after finding a corpse, Auggie realizes the killer is still there, [[OhCrap standing yards away]], [[ParanoiaFuel silently]]. So he ''slowly'', carefully exits the building, and then calls for backup.
63%%* NiceGuy
64* RageBreakingPoint: When Auggie snaps, better run for cover. His career over five seasons features two arrests for assault, putting ''Henry Wilcox'' in a choke hold and ''decking Arthur''. Seriously, BewareTheNiceOnes.
65%%* ShirtlessScene: Often.
66%%* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: [[ChickMagnet Apparently lots of them do.]]
67%%* TechnoWizard
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70
71[[WMG:Joan Campbell]]
72[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Joan_01_3183.jpg]]
73-> ''Played by Creator/KariMatchett''
74In early seasons Joan is the head of the DPD and wife of Arthur Campbell, Director of Clandestine Services (DCS).
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76* ActionSurvivor: Joan doesn't show it much since she is no longer a regular field agent, but in "Welcome to the Occupation" she and another agent take five armed kidnappers down while being unarmed.
77%%* CombatStilettos
78%%* DaChief
79* HappilyMarried: To Arthur, though it's not readily evident in the earlier episodes. Once she's pregnant with their son and [[spoiler:rumors about Arthur's extramarital affairs are debunked]], they are shown to be very much in love with one another.
80%%* IronLady
81* AMotherToHerMen: [[spoiler: First thing Joan does when she meets Annie after months of thinking her former operative dead? Gives her a hug, administers first aid, and asks if she needs cash.]]
82* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler:In Into the Fire she cleans up a crime scene, cracks a safe, blackmails a senator in the middle of a Senate Intelligence Committee meeting, and then gets promoted, thus becoming the CIA's highest ranked female employee ever.]]
83%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: At least to her own people. Not so much when other agencies get involved, most notably the FBI, at least from their perspective.
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87[[WMG: Jai Wilcox]]
88[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Jai_11_8601.jpg]]
89-> ''Played by Creator/SendhilRamamurthy''
90His father was the head of the CIA. Because of this, he seems to have issues relating to people in the workplace. He was also sent to befriend Annie to get information about Ben Mercer from her.
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92* AmbiguouslyBrown: Lampshaded. Jai is played by Chicago native of Indian descent Sendhil Ramamurthy: his father is white and his mother's ethnicity has not been elaborated upon, and Annie's sister calls him "the Creator/GeorgeClooney of... wherever he's from!"
93* AntiHero: He's much more morally gray than either Auggie or Annie.
94* ButNotTooForeign: His father is from America and he met his mother in India while the former was stationed in the country as a CIA agent.
95%%* TheChessmaster: Jai is turning into one. [[spoiler: Jossed as of season 3 premier.]]
96%%* DeadpanSnarker
97%%* IAmNotMyFather
98%%* InTheBlood: The Wilcox ruthlessness.
99%%* MrFanservice: InUniverse.
100%%* SmugSnake: Sometimes.
101%%* WellDoneSonGuy
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105[[WMG:Arthur Campbell]]
106-> ''Played by Creator/PeterGallagher''
107[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Arthur_campbell_9109.jpeg]]
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109Arthur Campbell is the head of the National Clandestine Service. He is married to Joan Campbell.
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111%%* DaChief: To all the other chiefs.
112* HappilyMarried: To Joan (for the most part, and it takes a lot of effort, but they make it work). Notably, Arthur is given the opportunity to run for Senator, and turns it down because he doesn't want to put Joan through the immense scrutiny that would entail. In any case, they prove to be a very loyal and loving couple, especially during and after Joan's pregnancy with their son.
113%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
114* YourCheatingHeart: Apparently has had at least one marital indiscretion to his name, which causes Joan no small amount of trust issues, and he cites it as the reason for him resigning from the [=CIA=]. [[spoiler: However, it's later revealed that he never cheated on her.]]
115[[WMG:Calder Michaels]]
116-> ''Played by Creator/HillHarper''
117
118Calder is initially the station chief in Colombia, but rapidly moves up the promotion ranks in the CIA. As a consequence he becomes a thorn in Annie's and Auggie's sides.
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120%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's not the nicest of people, but is a good guy deep down.
121* WildCard: He appears initially to be working for Henry Wilcox. [[spoiler:However, the truth is, he's not wholly on anybody's side. He's after "the truth", as he sees it. It just so happens that dovetails with Annie's mission of getting rid of Henry.]]
122[[/folder]]
123
124[[folder: Secondary]]
125
126[[WMG: Danielle Brooks]]
127-> ''Played by Creator/AnneDudek''
128
129Danielle Brooks is Annie Walker's sister. She is married, has two children (both girls), and lets Annie live in her guest house.
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131%%* CoolBigSis
132%%* MyGirlBackHome
133%%* PutOnABus
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136
137[[WMG: Ben Mercer]]
138-> ''Played by Creator/EionBailey''
139
140Ben Mercer is a wanted person by the CIA. He and Annie Walker spent three weeks together in Sri Lanka, and fell deeply in love, but he left in the middle of the night, only leaving a note which read, "The truth is complicated, forgive me".
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142%%* PutOnABus
143%%* WalkingTheEarth
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146
147[[WMG: Henry Wilcox]]
148-> ''Played by Creator/GregoryItzin''
149
150Former head of the CIA, father of Jai, and general [[TheChessmaster manipulative prick]].
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152%%* BigBad: Of season 4
153%%* TheChessmaster: In spades. [[spoiler: He even manages to do it ''while imprisoned!'']]
154* DecapitatedArmy: [[spoiler:At one point head of a sprawling corporate espionage empire with moles seemingly everywhere, he has since been reduced to seeking asylum in China, but before he can get out of Hong Kong, Annie shoots and kills him.]]
155* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Is genuinely shocked and saddened by the idea that [[spoiler:he would sacrifice his own son]] for his Chessmaster schemes. He seems to care for his ex-wife, but it has a possessive edge to it as revealed in Season 4.
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158
159[[WMG: Eyal Levin]]
160-> ''Played by Creator/OdedFehr''
161
162Eyal Levin is a Mossad agent who has frequently crossed paths with Annie and have worked together on several joint CIA-Mossad operations.
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164%%* BadassIsraeli
165%%* DeadpanSnarker
166%%* HeroOfAnotherStory
167* UndyingLoyalty: Eventually, over the seasons, he develops this for Annie, even willing to put his career on the line for her and break her out a jail in another country.
168* WithFriendsLikeThese: Whenever we see him he has a hidden agenda that is somehow opposed to the United States' best interest. He's more or less a good guy but that doesn't stop him from lying to and manipulating the Americans to make sure Israel comes out ahead.
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172[[WMG: Lena Smith]]
173-> ''Played by Creator/SarahClarke''
174
175Lena Smith is the head of a rival departmant to Joan's. She recruits Annie into her department to seduce and turn Russian FSB agent Simon Fischer, [[spoiler:but is eventually revealed to be a FSB double agent when she executes Simon and tries to frame Annie as a mole. She is later hunted down and killed by Annie in Moscow.]]
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177%%* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of the first half of season 3.]]
178%%* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
179* CrazyPrepared: How she [[spoiler:was able to get away from the CIA when her FSB allies assassinated CIA operatives trying to look for her thanks to the information she provided.]]
180%%* DoubleAgent
181* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler:She doesn't have much of a reason for her [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder constant backstabbing.]]]]
182%%* ManipulativeBitch
183%%* TheMole
184%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:Subverted.]]
185%%* TheRival: To Joan.
186%%* SmugSnake
187%%* TheSociopath
188%%* TreacherousAdvisor
189* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Annie and Simon were no longer useful to her so she shot them both (Annie survived, but Simon didn't).]]
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192
193[[WMG: Teo Braga]]
194-> ''Played by Creator/ManoloCardona''
195
196The leader of the ALC (a Colombian terrorist group). He's actually a CIA operative, and Arthur's son.
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198* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Spanish of course.
199
200[[WMG: Ryan Mcquaid]]
201-> ''Played by Creator/NicBishop''
202
203Head of Mcquaid Security. Annie has several encounters with him during season 5. And it eventually becomes romantic. In previous years, he served in the US Navy with Arthur, who was his mentor, and after Arthur resigns from the CIA, offers him a top-level position at his firm.
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205* CrazyPrepared: Has ''plenty'' of safehouses scattered all over the globe. In addition, he maintains at least one safehouse with a weapons cache to be used purely as a trap in case anyone came after him.
206%%* DeadpanSnarker: He has quite the wit.
207%%* HonestCorporateExecutive: To Annie's surprise, he turns out to be this.
208%%* LoveInterest: [[spoiler: For Annie halfway through season 5.]]
209* NiceGuy: Ryan has always had Annie's back even when she was dismissive of him. He's also very concerned about his people and their welfare, and when it looks like his company is going to lose all its contracts, his first worry is for his employees.
210* PrivateMilitaryContractor: A fairly positive example. [=McQuaid=] is out to make money, but he is also a patriot who loves America.
211* UnclePennybags: Basically funds Annie's hunt for Belevko halfway through Season Five.
212
213[[WMG: Alec Belenko]]
214-> ''Played by Creator/ShawnDoyle''
215
216Georgian diplomat who masterminded the Chicago bombings and several other hits.
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218%%* BigBad: Of season 5.
219%%* ColdBloodedTorture: Winds up on both sides of this trope.
220* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler: His brother was killed in a prisoner exchange gone wrong. He vows vengeance on Auggie's squad, who participated in the exchange.]]
221* KnightOfCerebus: Hell yes. The show is at it's darkest when he shows up and [[spoiler: has Auggie kidnapped and tortured.]]
222* TheSociopath: A textbook example. He sees people as mere pawns [[spoiler: as demonstrated when he coldly shoots Caitlin Cook after she's [[YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness no longer useful to him]]]].
223* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: Shoots Caitlin Cook as she's fighting Annie in the midseason finale. He does this to tie up loose ends, but it's actually what ends up making Annie suspect him in the first place.]]
224%%* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness
225
226[[WMG: Hayley Price]]
227-> ''Played by Creator/AmyJoJohnson''
228Hayley Price is a National Counterterrorism Center official tasked to investigate the Chicago bombing. She gets on Annie's and Auggie's nerves but soon forms a relationship with the latter.
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230%%* LoveInterest: [[spoiler: For Auggie halfway through season 5.]]
231[[/folder]]

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