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The Day Family

Father and Mrs. Day

The devoutly religious parents of Wiley and Melissa. Quite proud of Melissa. Not so much Wiley.

Wiley Day

Played by Jennette McCurdy

The pregnant teenage daughter of the Days. She was planning on giving her baby up for adoption in return for a sum of cash.

• The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: Wiley starts the series as a selfish, bitter young woman who feels unfit to be a mother. Over the course of the first season, she warms up to the idea of motherhood and shows a much more empathetic side.
• Healing Factor: After being given the cure, her tumor (which had taken up a large portion of her abdomen by the time it was discovered) shrinks to just a fraction of the size in mere hours, and is completely gone by the time she’s extracted from Pretty Lake. It’s also mentioned that her immunity has been significantly boosted.
• I Did What I Had to Do: How she justifies leaving Jason with the Mennonites.
• Secret-Keeper: Regarding the identity of her baby's father. It’s Charles Sr., Chuck’s father.
• The Topic of Cancer: “Us vs Them” reveals that she has a tumor. However, it heals as a result of the cure.
• You Are Number 6: Referred to as “Patient Two” at the Horatio testing site.

Melissa Day

Played by Brooke Palsson

Wiley's disapproving older sister, she is devoutly religious and has taken it upon herself to look after Pretty Lake's small children now that their parents are dead.

• It's All My Fault: In the second episode, she blames herself for Jeremy’s death. Gord reminds her that she was simply stretched too thin trying to take care of the town’s children by herself.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: She knew who the baby's father was, but never gave any indication to anyone.

Jason Day

Wiley's infant son.

The Lotts Family

Mr. and Mrs. Lotts

Played by Stephen Bogaert and Nahanni Johnstone

Charles Sr. and Dottie, the wealthy parents of the Lotts family, and owners of a significant amount of property in the town of Pretty Lake.

• Dirty Old Man: Charles Sr. appears much older than Wiley, judging by the fact he has a teenage son. He and Wiley had a sexual relationship before the outbreak when she worked at the dealership he owned, which resulted in her getting pregnant.
• Make an Example of Them: What Charles Sr. claims he’s doing when Gord catches him about to tar-and-feather Pat and Ronnie.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: How Charles Sr. operated even before the virus struck. After the virus struck he just got less subtle.

Chuck Lotts

Played by Justin Kelly

The arrogant and spoiled scion of the Lotts family. He takes it upon himself to keep peace and order in the town after the virus hits.

• Drowning My Sorrows: After Gord dies, Chuck spends the night drinking heavily.
• Everyone Has Standards: He’s uncomfortable with his father planning to tar-and-feather Pat and Ronnie.
• Healing Factor: He falls into (and shatters) a glass table while in a drunken stupor. The next morning after showering and washing the blood off him, he’s completely fine.
• Jerk Jock: At least before the virus. After the virus, he turns more into a Rabid Cop, trying to keep order in the town but going a little too far in doing so.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Learning that Jason is his half brother, witnessing Pat sacrifice himself to save him, and losing Gord seems to have made Chuck a kinder person overall than he was at the start of the series.
• You Are Number 6: Referred to as “Patient Three” at the Horatio testing site.

Amanda Lotts

Played by Krystal Nausbaum

Chuck's younger sister, she cares about her family and lives with Down's Syndrome.

Lana Lotts

Played by Niamh Wilson

Chuck's other sister, what little we know about her so far is that she's dead and possibly a drug dealer.

• We Hardly Knew Ye: She dies before we got the chance to really know her her.

The Creeker Family

Pat

Played by Jim Watson

The elder of his family, he tries to protect his family in the face of the irresponsible (at best) behavior of his younger brother.

• Accidental Murder: He accidentally hits Amanda with his car when she runs into the road.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Goes down in a Bolivian Army Ending to keep Chuck alive and as penance for killing Amanda.
• Papa Wolf: He knows his brother is a loose cannon, but goes out of his way to protect him.

Ronnie

Played by Kyle Mac

The younger brother in the family, Ronnie is a rebel without a cause. Or conscience. Basically, he's a violent drug dealer.

• Addled Addict: He is severely hooked on oxycontin, to the extent that when he decides to go clean, he is in severe pain. He's mostly functional, but his wild behavior is proof that "mostly functional" is mostly not good enough.
• Conspiracy Theorist: He believes the virus is the work of terrorists/the government.
• Dead Person Conversation: After Pat dies, Ronnie starts to hallucinate his ghost following him around and trying to act as his conscience.
• Hearing Voices: When he starts suffering from withdrawal.
• Kick the Dog: After a few episodes in which he got the shitty end of the stick from the unpleasant Lotts family (in the first case deserved because he had stolen a car, in the second undeserved because he hadn't killed Lana), he then sexually assaults and attempts to rape Wiley.
• Spiteful Spit: When Mr. Lotts forces him and Pat to strip, he spits on the ground in front of him. He does it again in “Crossing Lines” after Chuck beats him.

Tracey

Played by Jordan Todosey

The sister of the family, she appears to be even more responsible and level-headed than Pat.

• I Choose to Stay: She stays behind in Pretty Lake to look after the children, despite being given the cure earlier.
• Talking Down the Suicidal: Has to do this with Ronnie when the latter is detoxing.

The Farm Family

Grandpa

Gord

Frances

Chuck's Posse

• Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: They haven't killed anyone. Yet. That's about the best you can say for them.

Other 21&Unders

Adam Jones

Played by Jesse Carere

Wiley's nerdy friend. He's investigating the virus and totally pining for Wiley.

• Conspiracy Theorist: He believes the government is intentionally keeping everyone in Pretty Lake in the dark. He’s right.
• Deadpan Snarker: His response to Minister Miller’s message asking the survivors to burn the bodies of their deceased loved ones? “Guess we’re starting a bonfire. I wonder if we have any marshmallows left.”
• The Immune: According to his father, Adam is not a carrier of the virus because Clarence used his own genome to create it, meaning it’s already part of his DNA. The second season supports this, since Adam has prolonged contact with several outsiders without spreading the virus to them.
• Just Friends: With Wiley. They make out early on and he carries a torch for her, but she lets him down hard after he accidentally destroys thousands of dollars of her cash.
• String Theory: The second episode shows that he keeps an extensive evidence board in his room.

Amy

Played by Shailyn Pierre Dixon

Adam's teacher at the high school. After the virus strikes, she's one of the oldest people left alive in the town because she's a few weeks shy of her 22nd birthday.

• Killed Off for Real: One of the few people to get significant characterization before her death; she dies on her birthday.
• Younger Than They Look: In the first episode, Adam asks her how old she is when she mentions starting her master’s degree. She replies that she’s twenty-one.

Ellen

Played by Sarah Podemski

A guard at the prison that Mark escapes from. She's one of the few genuine authority figures left in town and, at 21, one of the oldest.

Mark

Played by Jack Murray

A prisoner who killed his own father, he clocked the guard on the head and ventured out into the town.

• Abusive Parents: When asking Stacy if her father was a mean drunk, he tells her that his own father would sometimes turn violent when he got drunk.
• I Choose to Stay: He reveals to Stacy that he lied about taking the cure because he saved the last available vaccine for her, sacrificing his own chance to get out of Pretty Lake.
• I Did What I Had to Do: He claims he killed his father to protect his mother, and later elaborates to Franny that his father had threatened him with a gun; Mark snapped and shot him with it.

Stacy

Played by Samantha Munro

Chuck's ex-girlfriend, daughter of the former bar owner (now the bar owner herself), one of the few properties in town not owned by the Lotts family.

• Manipulative Bitch: She falsely claims Ronnie attacked her to sic Chuck on him. In the second season, she convinces Mark to cover up the death of a kid he’d accidentally murdered and locks him up when he tries to do the right thing and confess.

Other Characters

Clarence Jones (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Played by Rick Roberts

• Big Damn Heroes: Shows up to shoot Ellen just before she can kill Adam.
• Disappeared Dad: To Adam before the events of the show. He reveals in “War” that he disappeared to protect Adam after Art Carey went rogue.
• Papa Wolf: Comes back to Pretty Lake and exposes his plan to Adam in the hopes of saving the boy's life.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Designed the virus that was loosed on Pretty Lake as part of a population control experiment. However, he didn't release it. That was the work of someone else in his little cabal.

Dexter Crane (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Played by Pascal Langdale

The CEO of Horatio Pharmaceuticals.

• Ambiguously Evil: Almost every scene he’s in makes the audience question his true alignment.
  • He doesn’t approve of Minister Miller approving military strikes to eradicate the virus without an available cure. He also agrees to Adam’s deal to extract his friends from Pretty Lake and tells the driver to go back for Wiley and Jason when they’re nearly left behind.
  • However, he’s willing to send Brooks after Daisy when she hacks into Horatio’s databases, and remarks that “this may be a very short meeting” when Adam is initially unwilling to cooperate with him (suggesting that he’s willing to have him killed as well). He also expresses fascination with the self-healing abilities exhibited by the escapees and has them injected with something just to see if they would survive it.
  • Adam believes Horatio is withholding the cure so that they can have exclusive ownership of it, but Dexter is insistent that it’s because the cure may not be ready. He apparently has a pattern of doing this, since a series of emails (which Adam hacked into) reveal that Horatio had earlier manufactured a cure for the SARS virus, which Dexter also chose to delay.
  • The final scenes of the second season finale have him declaring that “Adam Jones will pay” when Daisy leaks Adam’s video to the public, and Adam suspects that Horatio (and Dexter by extension) is also behind the second outbreak.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Adam accuses him of being one. The end of season two shows that he may be right.
• Evil Brit: Ambiguously Evil as described above, but he speaks with a British accent (his actor’s natural one).
• Last Episode, New Character: He appears in the last two episodes of the second season, “Horatio Rising” and “Don’t Look Back”.
• Leitmotif: Almost all of his scenes are accompanied by a low, ominous hum.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: His response to Daisy hacking into Horatio’s database? Send Brooks to kill her in her bike shop. The attempt fails, but shakes Daisy to the point she refuses to help Adam further.