Line #255 Characters/Zoo


1	The characters of the 2015-2017 series ''Series/{{Zoo}}''.
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5	!!Task Force:
6	[[folder:In General]]
7	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zoo_tv_series_cast_600x477.jpg]]
8	* FiveManBand (Type 1):
9	** TheLeader / TheLancer: Shared and switched by Jackson and Chloe- if the situation is mostly in the field, then Jackson is the former and Chloe is the latter; if negotiating or dealing with people is largely involved, then Chloe takes charge.
10	** TheBigGuy: Abe- Physically the largest member on the team. NiceGuy but can be [[ScaryBlackMan intimidating]] when necessary.
11	** TheSmartGuy: Mitch- the InsufferableGenius who snarks at everything but will [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold do anything asked of him and more]] for the team
12	** TheHeart: Jamie- IntrepidReporter who knows how to relate to people.
13	** TheSixthRanger: Dariela- A [[ActionGirl U.S. Army Ranger]] who joins the team at Chloe's request after her original unit is killed off. Knows how to fight, knows how to shot, is extremely [[UndyingLoyalty loyal to her team.]]
14	** (Type 2-after [[spoiler: Chloe's]] death:
15	** TheLeader: Technically, it's newcomer Allison but as far as field operations go, it's Jackson, at least for now...
16	** TheLancer: Dariela
17	** TheBigGuy: Still Abe
18	** TheSmartGuy: Still Mitch
19	** TheHeart: Still Jamie, although with all the changes, it remains to be seen if she remains this.
20	** TheSixthRanger: Logan- He has a DarkAndTroubledPast as a thief and despite Jamie vouching for him, no else trusts him when he's brought on board.
21	*** SixthRangerTraitor: Logan is TheMole and has been reporting to Gen. Davies the entire time.
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24	[[/folder]]
25
26	[[folder:Jackson Oz]]
27	!!Jackson Oz
28	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/635684167496500000.jpg]]
29	-->'''Played By''': Creator/JamesWolk
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31	An ex-zoologist who now lives in Botswana, making a living as a tour guide for photo safaris. He gets involved in the animal attacks when he rescue Chloe Tousignant from being taken out by lions. Leads the team's wilderness forays and interprets the afflicted animals' abnormal behavior.
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34	* AdaptationalHeroism: ''Much'' more mature and considerate than in the novel, where he was a dropout blogger who'd ruined his own reputation, kept a chimpanzee in his New York apartment, and [[spoiler: got his ex-girlfriend killed because he never thought to warn her that the ape she was baby-sitting could turn violent]].
35	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Shunned because his father, Robert, had tried to bring forth a theory that animals will someday take down humans.
36	* OfficialCouple: With Chloe. It's a ForegoneConclusion to anyone who's read the novel.
37	* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Ever since he left the zoologist career behind to stay in Botswana. That ended after he's caught up in a lion attack.
38	* SinsOfTheFather: How the public treats him thanks to his father. That is, until the animals attacked.
39	* ZombieInfectee: Jackson was bitten by an afflicted German shepherd in the season one finale, and now appears to be contaminated with the same "Phase Two" infection that mutated Kovacs.
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43	[[folder:Abraham Kenyatta]]
44	!!Abraham Kenyatta
45	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zoo_tv_series_nonso_anozie.jpg]]
46	-->'''Played By''': Creator/NonsoAnozie
47
48	A close confident and companion of Jackson in Botswana, Abe is a photo-safari guide who was nearly killed in a mass lion attack. Following his rescue, he agrees to join with Jackson in order to solve the mystery. Field tracker, protector, and occasional conscience of the team.
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51	* CasanovaWannabe: He sees himself as one.
52	--> '''Abe''': Besides, I think Japanese women are very sexy.
53	--> '''Jackson''': I'm sure they're gonna find you sexy, too, in a beaten-up kind of way.
54	* ChildSoldiers: He and his younger brothers were captured by rebels, who conscripted Abe as one until he managed to escape.
55	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was an ex-child soldier for the United Republic Army before he escaped and changed his name.
56	* FishOutOfWater: Abraham doesn't understand the uniqueness of cosplaying in Japan. Justified since it's been a while for him since he last traveled.
57	--> '''Abe''': Another hour searching through city streets with teens dressed like circus clowns. And did I mention, I haven't been off the African Continent in over a decade?
58	** He didn't expect Americans to be "obsessed" with using guns.
59	* RaceLift: Abe was a white Afrikaner with a different surname in the novel.
60	* SadisticChoice: The rebels who conscripted Abe ordered him to choose one of his little brothers to shoot, else both would be executed. Abe refused to choose knowing that both his brothers would die, because he knew the survivor's fate as a conscript soldier would be crueler than the other's quick death.
61	* SparedByTheAdaptation: His book version is one of the first people to die on-screen by the animal attacks.
62	* ShipTease: With new season 2 main character Dariela Marzan with who he flirts with and they hook up in episode 3 and have a sexual relationship.
63	* SurvivorGuilt: He feels horrible about having to leave Jamie behind in the Season 2 premiere. Mitch's blaming him doesn't help matters, resulting in Abe delivering a mini TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
64	* TokenMinority: In the task force. Subverted in season 2 when Dariela joins the team.
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66	[[/folder]]
67
68	[[folder:Jamie Campbell]]
69	!!Jamie Campbell
70	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zoo_kristen_connolly.jpg]]
71	-->'''Played By''': Creator/KristenConnolly
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73	A journalist who's made it her mission to uncover evidence that the multinational company, Reiden Global, might be involved in the recent animal attacks. Self-taught expert on Reiden's past misdeeds, with covert contacts among its ex-employees.
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75	* AmateurSleuth: Starts to go through it even before the series started. For starters, she was able to get incriminating information on Reiden Global thanks to acquaintances from the hacker underworld.
76	* BreakTheCutie: As if her experiences in the Canadian wilderness and Caraquet weren't traumatizing enough, she returns to find that [[spoiler: Chloe has died]]. When she learns that [[spoiler: Dariela]] was responsible, she absolutely [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge loses it]].
77	* {{Determinator}}: She's adamant about making Reiden Global pay for their crimes. Also in Season 2, she's dead-set on making it to Caraquet and reuniting with the the team, frigid conditions, shady companion, [[spoiler:a possibly infected foot and an amputated big toe]] be damned.
78	* DrowningMySorrows: In ""The Silence of the Cicadas" when the senator she trusted refuses to help her any longer due to Reiden Global being too powerful. Combined with losing her job and apartment, she briefly decided to give up.
79	* IntrepidReporter: Her invasive home visits to witnesses and attempts to discredit megacorporation Reiden Global borders on fanatical. She is fired from the newspaper in the first episode for refusing to give up her conspiracy blog, which only strengthens her resolve to bring Reiden down with her. [[spoiler: It turns out that her fanaticism has roots, as Reiden’s use of pesticides in her home town allegedly led to the death of twenty-six people, including her own mother.]]
80	* PartingWordsRegret: In "The Silence of the Cicadas", she told Mitch that she was ashamed of her mother's baldness (due to Reiden Global's contamination of their town).
81	* SurvivorGuilt: Blames herself for [[spoiler:Leo's death.]]
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85	[[folder:Dr. Mitch Morgan]]
86	!!Mitch Morgan
87	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mitch_morgan.jpg]]
88	-->'''Played By''': Creator/BillyBurke
89	A veterinary pathologist and antisocial snarker who was investigating the L.A. zoo lion attacks when Jamie convinced him to look into the larger mystery. Serves as team snarker, researcher, field medic, and gadgeteer. [[spoiler: Dragooned into being the Task Force's leader after Chloe's death, despite his objections.]]
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91	* BetterWithNonHumanCompany: Mitch has an establishing character moment early on where he outright admits to liking animals ([[DeadpanSnarker but also beer, pizza, and heavy traffic]]) better than people. After this, references to his affinity for animals are generally more subtle: he visibly recoils when he sees a moose stuffed and mounted in Senator Vaughn’s office, but recovers himself enough for polite commentary. Only once the senator is revealed to be a corporate jerkass and kicks them out of his office does Mitch deliver a parting shot revealing his contempt for the trophy.
92	* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: As Abe describes him, he's the sort who can't stop "poking the beast until it bites".
93	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Traps himself in the control room with the hybrids on Pangea in order to ensure that the rest of the team escapes with the cure for daughter Clem's illness]]
94	* InsufferableGenius: In addition to having NoSocialSkills, he snarks at everything and makes a second career out of pushing everyone's buttons. The team needs his veterinary expertise, so they put up with it... barely.
95	* MacGyvering: Jury-rigs a device to test the effects of bacteria on cerebrospinal fluid using a coffee pot, a car battery and some coconut milk. He also throws together a bat-repelling sonic oscillator from $20 worth of miscellaneous electronic junk (and crazily enough, he only requested the equipment to buy time in order to prevent being killed by gangers, but still managed to build an effective device out of it). In Season 2, "Collision Course" has him rigging up an electric chair to help [[spoiler: kill an ant that Dariela accidentally swallowed]]
96	* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:His attempt to sell out the team to Reiden Global was only done because Reiden had access to experimental medicine that could cure Clementine's illness. The moment he decides not to do it, he steals the medicine and runs.]]
97	* RedHerring: [[spoiler:It appeared that Mitch was willing to give up the Mother Cell to Reiden, but later doesn't do it.]]
98	* TheSnarkKnight: He makes a passing attempt at being polite when first introduced, but efforts to rein in his sarcasm rapidly dissolve as the conversation continues. As Abe describes him, he's the sort who can't stop "poking the beast until it bites".
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102	[[folder:Dariela Marzan]]
103	!!Dariela Marzan
104	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marzan.jpg]]
105	-->'''Played By''': Creator/AlyssaDiaz
106	A U.S. Army Ranger who joins the team after a black op operation in Argentina goes wrong, resulting in her original unit being slaughtered by [[spoiler: a mutated Red Cross doctor]].
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108	* ActionGirl: She's an Army Ranger who "shoots things for a living".
109	* DarkIsNotEvil: Dariela wears black clothes, but she's not a bad guy.
110	* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: See {{Ranger}} for more details.
111	* {{Expy}}: A BadAssSpaniard with military experience who's the only survivor of her squad and had to kill a mutated team member? Where have we seen ''[[Creator/MichelleRodriguez that]]'' [[Film/ResidentEvil2002 before?]]
112	* HappilyMarried: To Kenyatta in Season 3, though the happiness is negated by the fact that the entire human population has been sterilized and their son is one of humanity's last generation.
113	* IAteWhat: She accidentally swallows one of the electric ants in "Collision Course" and has to have it shocked to death while it's still ''inside'' her.
114	* IChooseToStay: Done twice. First when she chooses to stick around in the team at Chloe's request and later when she stays in England to help the refugees there.
115	* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Her response when she's called out for [[spoiler: causing Chloe's death]]. Justified since if she hadn't sealed off the hallway, everyone in the building would have been poisoned.
116	* OfficialCouple: With Abe after their sexual relationship [[spoiler:results in her getting pregnant]] and in the TimeSkip they are [[spoiler:married and watching their son graduate]].
117	* {{Ranger}}: The only female Ranger in the squad sent to Argentina.
118	* SoleSurvivor: Her Ranger squad was wiped out in Argentina.
119	* ShipTease: Flirts with Abe in "Caraquet" and briefly hooks up with him in "Collision Course" and when she decides to stay with the team they continue with a sexual relationship.
120	* SpicyLatina: Her name implies a Hispanic heritage and she's tough as nails to boot.
121	* SurvivorGuilt: Due to being the only member of her Ranger unit to survive [[spoiler: Kovacs's onslaught]]. She gets another one later when she [[OutrunTheFireball makes it to safety ahead of a cloud of]] DeadlyGas but is forced to close the doors before Chloe can catch up to her and breaks down in hysterics as[[spoiler: Chloe seemingly suffocates to death]].
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125	[[folder:Logan Jones]]
126	!!Logan Jones
127	-->'''Played By''': Creator/JoshSalatin
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129	* BackFromTheDead: Managed to survive being tranquilized and sent falling out of a plane due to the tranq wearing off just in time for him to activate his parachute.
130	* ShipTease: With Jamie
131	* SixthRangerTraitor: Is revealed to have been acting as General Davies's [[TheMole mole]] in Season 2. He's no longer this by Season 3, but Jamie has an understandably hard time trusting him.
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135	[[folder:Chloe Tousignant]]
136	!!Chloe Tousignant
137	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/635684166687270000.jpg]]
138	-->'''Played By''': Creator/NoraArnezeder
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140	A [=DGSE=] intelligence analyst, first met on vacation in Botswana. The only survivor of a coordinated lion attack, she manages to escape the savannah thanks to assistance from Jackson Oz. Acts as team leader and liaison with officialdom, as well as its translator/spokeswoman in far-flung locales. [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal after inhaling a lethal amount of DeadlyGas]].
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142	* ActionGirl: Chloe's packed a gun against hoods in Brazil, and a flamethrower against killer rats in New England.
143	* AdaptationalBadass: ''Very'' different from the novel version, who was an ecologist and Jackson's semi-neglected LoveInterest.
144	* DarkAndTroubledPast: She ended her engagement to her fiancé because he had an affair with her sister.
145	* DeathByAdaptation: In the novel, she [[spoiler: survives and starts a family with Jackson]]. Here, [[spoiler: she's killed by DeadlyGas]] barely 5 episodes into Season 2.
146	* DroppedABridgeOnHer / KilledOffForReal: Dies 4.5 episodes into the second season after inhaling DeadlyGas.
147	* OfficialCouple / [[ReplacementGoldfish Second Guy Wins]]: She's recently made her feelings for Jackson known and the feeling is mutual. ForegoneConclusion if you've read the novel. [[spoiler: Doesn't last past Episode 2x05, unfortunately]].
148	* {{Omniglot}}: She speaks five languages, which include English and French as her two main languages. She uses Portuguese in "Blame It on Leo".
149	* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Her native French accent becomes more pronounced when she's excited or pissed off.
150	* TrappedInContainment: [[spoiler: How she dies, of poison gas accidentally unleashed at Reiden Global.]]
151	* YouCanKeepHer: Chloe ''tries'' using this trope when [[spoiler: Gaspard]] has her sister tortured to coerce Chloe into talking. Chloe points out that her sister had tempted her fiance away from her, suggesting she may ''enjoy'' watching her suffer, but [[spoiler: Gaspard]] doesn't believe she hates her sibling enough for that.
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153	[[/folder]]
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155	!!Other Members And Associates Of The Task Force
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157	[[folder:Clementine Lewis]]
158	!!Clementine Lewis
159	-->'''Played By''': Creator/MadisonWolfe (child), Creator/GracieDzienny (older)
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161	Daughter of Mitch Morgan
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167	[[folder:Allison Shaw]]
168	!!Allison Shaw
169	-->'''Played By''': Creator/JoanneKelly
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171	Former Step-mother of Mitch Morgan who was secretly running the task force.
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174	[[/folder]]
175	!!Interpol:
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177	[[folder:Gaspard Alves]]
178	-> '''Played by''': Creator/HenriLubatti
179
180	An Interpol agent who is responsible for assembling the task force on behalf of Delavane.
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182	* DarkIsNotEvil: Wears a black trenchcoat at times, but he's with Interpol. [[spoiler: Subverted up the wazoo when he has Brannigan shot to capture Chloe, then interrogates her about the team's destination.]]
183	* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler: Has Chloe's sister tortured on live video to motivate her to talk.]]
184	* NumberTwo: For Delavane in the task force [[spoiler: and for Reiden Global]].
185	* {{Omniglot}}: He can speak French and English.
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187	[[/folder]]
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189	[[folder:Delavane]]
190	-> '''Played by''': Creator/CarlLumbly
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192	An Interpol agent who is tasked to investigate the worldwide animal attacks.
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194	* BigGood: Was responsible for assembling the task force. [[spoiler: At least until he subverts it by turning up at Reiden.]]
195	* DirtyCop[=/=]TheMole: [[spoiler:For Reiden Global inside the task force.]]
196	* HeelFaceTurn: In ''Eats, Shoots and Leaves''. [[spoiler:He saves Chloe and her sister from being tortured by Reiden Global's hired thugs.]]
197	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:Warns that Shaffer's death in America will undo the good work the task force has done eventually unless they can show evidence that he's really working for Reiden.]]
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199	[[/folder]]
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201	!!Scientists & Doctors:
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203	[[folder:Robert Oz]]
204	-> '''Played by''': Creator/KenOlin
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206	A renowned zoologist who was ostracized by his peers for suggesting a theory that animals will one day take down humanity. He moved to Japan after Jackson's mother divorced him and took their son to Botswana, and got married to a Japanese woman while he isolated himself to do his research. Strongly implied to have been DrivenToSuicide, although the reasons have yet to be stated.
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208	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Prior to the events of the show/novel, he was ostracized for his theory.
209	* DoingResearch: Following his isolation from society, his stay in Japan was to use his research on horses to help reinforce his theory.
210	* EyeScream: He found that one way of pacifying the affected animals was to remove their eyeballs. Two eyeless horses used in his research are still alive, and apparently no longer hostile, when Jackson and Abe visit his abandoned research outpost.
211	* IgnoredExpert: Was the first to diagnose such things as the "defiant pupil" and how animals would eventually do ''something'' to fight back against ecological devastation. Everybody thought that he was insane, even his own son.
212	* PosthumousCharacter: Killed himself some time before the series, leaving behind cryptic video-logs and hidden research materials Jackson must track down. [[spoiler: At least, that's what everyone thought until "Sex, Lies and Jellyfish", which revealed he's alive and a prisoner of General Davies.]]
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214	[[/folder]]
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216	[[folder:Evan Lee Hartley]]
217	-> '''Played by''': Creator/MarcusHester
218	A ex-scientist who once worked alongside Robert Oz, he was arrested and incarcerated by the police for killing a group of hunters prior to the events of the series.
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220	* ExoticEyeDesigns: He has the Defiant Pupil.
221	* EyeScream: Has an eye doctor take samples of his retina... by sticking a long needle into his eye, without anesthesia. [[spoiler:When he has the doctor try to inject him into the eye with a possible cure, he is unable to handle the pain and jerks, resulting in damage. He dies minutes later]].
222	* WhamEpisode: The ending of "Pack Mentality" has Jamie secure a photo of him with Robert.
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224	[[/folder]]
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226	[[folder:Leo Butler]]
227	-> '''Played by''': Creator/JayPaulson
228	An ex-Reiden Global chemist who went to hiding after he found out information that their products are potentially contaminated, he was able to hide by moving around and getting blackmail money to different accounts.
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230	* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Gets killed in a car crash when Evan drove the pickup on the side.]]
231	* CrazyPrepared: Leo prepared himself by using fake names and different bank accounts to get the blackmail money and then give them to various charity foundations dedicated to helping those who were wronged by Reiden.
232	* ProperlyParanoid: He insists that Reiden has people everywhere so that critics and traitors can be killed.
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234	[[/folder]]
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236	[[folder:Janos Kovacs]]
237	-> '''Played by''': Creator/RyanHandley
238	Formerly a Hungarian physician working with the Red Cross, Kovacs was bitten by an afflicted elephant and became a "Phase Two" mutant that killed dozens of villagers in Ydermo, Argentina, and wiped out Dariela's Ranger squad.
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240	* CurbStompBattle: Mutant-Kovacs killed every one of Dariela's heavily-armed and trained squadmates in minutes, with most of these Rangers never even ''seeing'' what it was that was attacking them.
241	* LifeOrLimbDecision: Kovacs was trapped in a crashed car with his arm pinned at the time he began transforming, and tore or chewed off his own limb to escape once his humanity was gone.
242	* WasOnceAMan: Before the Phase Two mutation deformed and deranged him, Kovacs was a human doctor.
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244	[[/folder]]
245
246	!!U.S. Government:
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248	[[folder:Special Agent Ben Shaffer]]
249	-> '''Played by''': Creator/GeoffStults
250	A [=FBI=] agent tasked with investigating the animal attacks throughout America, he crosses path with the Interpol task force when they first met each other in Mississippi.
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252	* ArbitrarySkepticism: He can't simply tell his superior that someone from Reiden Global created a bacteria responsible for the worldwide animal attacks. [[spoiler:Because he works for Reiden Global..]]
253	* DirtyCop[=/=]TheMole: [[spoiler:For Reiden inside the FBI.]]
254	* TheresNoKillLikeOverKill: [[spoiler:Chloe shoots him multiple times with his own sidearm after he turns rogue.]]
255	[[/folder]]
256
257	[[folder:Special Agent Ronnie "Dogstick" Brannigan]]
258	-> '''Played by''': Creator/XanderBerkeley
259
260	A [=FBI=] agent who was acquainted with Shaffer. He starts going after the task force after he gets information that Shaffer last met with Tousignant several times.
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262	* CassandraTruth: After being told Shaffer was a dirty agent, he tries to kill the team to avenge his death.
263	* HeroAntagonist: For the task force because, they're responsible for killing Shaffer, despite being told that he was dirty.
264	* InspectorJavert: He absolutely gives no shits about the bigger conspiracy that is going on, labeling it as a lie that the group (and ''especially'' Chloe) made up to try to divert the blame from them [[CopKiller killing Shaeffer]] (in Brannigan's defense, he ''was'' an FBIAgent). He tries to kill Chloe once he finally meets her (after actually saying that he was proud of never firing his gun once in the many years he's worked for the Bureau) and his last words were an oath to hunt Chloe to the ends of the Earth if he had to in order to arrest her.
265	* KickTheDog: When he meets an injured member of an AnimalWrongsGroup, [[spoiler:Brannigan tortures him to get he to reveal where the former Task Force members are headed, and this is in a hospital and the doctors do nothing to stop him]]. He also made a point of mentioning that he had never fired his gun once in the many years he had worked for the Bureau... right before quick-drawing it and trying to shoot Chloe and the rest of the group dead without any other warning.
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267	[[/folder]]
268
269	[[folder:Amelia Sage & Eleanor Lewis]]
270	-> '''Played by''': Creator/JayneAtkinson (Amelia), Creator/AprilGrace (Eleanor)
271	A pair of government officials who believe the Task Force is on the right track and back their operation following the expedition to Zambia.
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273	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Amelia is reported dead from a bird-strike-induced plane crash.
274	* HighVoltageDeath / OrificeInvasion: Eleanor is fatally electrocuted after the electric ants get into her room-service meal.
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276	[[/folder]]
277
278	[[folder:General Davies]]
279	-> '''Played by''': Creator/PeterOuterbridge
280
281	A U.S. Army officer placed in charge of containing the hostile animals.
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283	* HeKnowsTooMuch: Davies kills Eleanor's aide to conceal the fact that the Noah Objective will also kill millions of humans.
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285	[[/folder]]
286
287	!!Reiden Global
288
289	[[folder:Clayton Burke]]
290	-> '''Played by''': Creator/StevenCulp
291
292	A Reiden Global executive who Mitch meets up secretly.
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294	* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: [[spoiler:Agrees to help Mitch if he gives up the Mother Cell.]]
295	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: In league with the company to cover up the contaminated products.
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