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International Response Team
Supervisory Special Agent Jack Garrett
Played by: Gary Sinise
Head of the IRT, he leads the team in its cases involving crimes that target Americans outside the US.
- Action Dad: FBI Agent with six kids. Don't mess with his son, Ryan, who's a cop...even when he's undercover during one of Jack's missions.
- Da Chief: He's the head of the IRT.
- Experienced Protagonist: He's an experienced FBI Agent. He's so well-known in the international law enforcement community that on certain occasions, he's allowed to carry his sidearm in countries that forbid firearms.
- Omniglot: Speaks a variety of languages, including Japanese, Spanish, Russian, etc.
- White Male Lead: Jack's the main character, the boss and the only white male member of the IRT.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He gets called out by his son, Ryan, for pulling him out of his undercover op in Tijuana, Mexico because the bikers can get wind of his FBI status if he doesn't show up sooner than later.
Supervisory Special Agent Clara Seger
Played by: Alana de la Garza
- Experienced Protagonist: She's an experienced FBI agent, even before she left the Bureau pre-series.
- Fair Cop: She's played by Alana de la Garza.
- Omniglot: Clara speaks Thai and several other languages.
- It's Personal: In "Type A," there's a cold case that involved the death of one of her friends when she was still working under the UN.
- Married to the Job: So much that Mae tries to get her to socialize with other people.
- Mr. Exposition: She's there to help the team learn what to expect in working in a different country in terms of what to do to avoid any Culture Clash problems.
Special Operations Agent Matthew "Matt" Simmons
Played by: Daniel Henney
- Action Dad: He's the father of two boys and twin girls, and a badass who can take down suspects.
- But Not Too Foreign: A character in an American-focused show; "Pretty Like Me" confirms that he's of Korean descent. Part of the episode is Matt arriving in Seoul to track down his missing grandmother.
- Experienced Protagonist: He's an experienced FBI agent who used to be with the US Army.
- Fair Cop: He's played by Daniel Henney.
- Omniglot: Can speak Arabic, English, Korean and Spanish.
Technical Analyst Russ "Monty" Montgomery
Played by: Tyler James Williams
- The Face: Since the team is usually in another country, it's also Monty's job to speak with victims' families.
- Mr. Exposition: Helps fill in the team in on case information regarding the victims and basic info on the country they're in, sharing this role with Seger.
- Voice with an Internet Connection: Speaks with the team from FBI HQ via cell phone, headset, or video call since he's not often in the field with them.
Medical Examiner Mae Jarvis
Played by: Annie Funke
- The Determinator: She won't let rules/cultural barriers hinder her job in examining corpses at all.
Allies
Panit Taksin
Played By: Keong Sim
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: If you pay attention to closeups of him, you can see his full name on his badge.
- Omniglot: Speaks English and Thai.
Deepak Singh
Played By: Hari Dhillon
- Remember the New Guy?: He's never shown in the CM world, but he knows (at least) Jack and Clara.
- Omniglot: Speaks English and Hindi.
Un Subs
Klahan
Played By: Doua Moua
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: He hunts down his victims in "The Harmful One," more than just killing.
- Meaningful Name: Means "brave" in Thai.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He's the Last of His Kind of his entire family, desperately driven to — in his mind — find worthy sacrifices for their spirits. And in the end, while he's successfully convinced to stop, he's nonetheless Driven to Suicide — all while lamenting that he'll be Dying Alone.
Antonio Cayetan
Played By: Jonathan Medina
- A God Am I: Declares himself to be a god when cornered. Jack makes it clear he's anything but.
- Exotic Extended Marriage: He attacks honeymooning couples, murdering and devouring the husbands, then making the wives his sex slaves.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Cuts out and eats the hearts of his male victims.
- Mayincatec: His MO of cutting out and devouring his male victims' hearts as well as keeping their wives is inspired by traditions of Mayan and Aztec warriors.
Rafael Acosta
Played By: Aaron Behr
- Freudian Excuse: He became a Serial Killer after his son died in an earthquake and another boy on vacation survived.
- Misplaced Retribution: He wanted to kill the young tourist boy who survived the earthquake instead of his son out of anger, but was unable to, so now he just settles for killing the eldest sons of any vacationing family he finds.
Samraj Sabah
Played By: Karthik Srinivasan
- Alliterative Name: Samraj Sabah
- Tragic Villain: Samraj wants to ease his father of his pain in the afterlife, but he does it by killing his victims and removing their organs to transplant into the man's body.
Natalie Knox & Nick Jamison
Played By: Ambyr Childers (Natalie) and Michael William Freeman (Nick)
- Freudian Excuse: Natalie was raped as a nine year old by her stepfather but no one believed her. Years later, while living in Cuba, she was raped by an American tourist; that did not do good things to her psyche.
Tuareg Brothers Amajagh, Ben, and Cadi
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: They kidnap and hold foreign tourists for ransom to pay for medical treatment for their terminally ill mother.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Ben and Cadi are clearly disturbed by their brother's increasingly Ax-Crazy behaviour.
- Freudian Trio: Amajagh is the Id, Ben is the Ego, and Cadi is the Super Ego.
- Know When to Fold Them: Ben recognises that their mother's condition is beyond curing and no amount of money can help her, urging his older brother to surrender when they're finally cornered by the IRT and the Casablanca police. When he realises his brother can't be negotiated with, he indicates a hidden gun to Jack, who uses the weapon to kill Amajagh.
- Spotting the Thread: While tending to their current victims, Cadi notices the blisters and calluses on the husband's hands (he builds houses in his spare time) prompting the brothers to realise they've kidnapped victims who can't afford the ransom they're demanding.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once their victims' families pay the ransom demanded, the brothers kill them.
Neith Ghannam
Played by: Aline Elasmar
- Near-Villain Victory: She kills almost all of her targets and kills herself to prevent the IRT from finding her final victim, whom she Buried Alive, but they manage to save him anyway.
- Misplaced Retribution: Her husband was part of a group of protesters during the Arab Springs protests, and the group she was with was gassed by the police, which left him severely disabled and ultimately Driven to Suicide. So she blamed the other protesters and got to work killing them with the same gas.
Paul Mossier
Played By: Ivo Nandi
Abu Hakim Al Badi & Marion Codwell
Played By: Nick Massouh (Badi) and Sonya Salger (Codwell)
Abu Hakim Al Badi
Marion
- Brainwashed and Crazy: They try to brainwash teenage girls into becoming suicide bombers.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard/Too Dumb to Live: They tell one of their victims all about themselves and their operation because they were convinced she'd die for their cause. Instead, she ultimately gives the police everything they need to shut them down.
- Middle Eastern Terrorists: Al Badi is based in Iraq. But it's never mentioned if he was with ISIS or an ISIS-affiliated terrorist group.
- Western Terrorists: Marion is former British MI6.
Yukio Aito
Played By: Takashi Yamaguchi
- Hikikomori: Is explicitly declared this in his IRT profile, and has the reclusive lifestyle — complete with a Hacker Cave — to back it up.
- You Killed My Father: Blames his victims for ruining his family and consequently making them get Driven to Suicide.
Curtis Miller
Played By: Cliff Simon
- Desecrating the Dead: Mutilates his victims' bodies post-mortem in the same manner done to his sister, before dumping the corpses in the same neighbourhood of Johannesburg where her body was found.
- From Camouflage to Criminal: After he got discharged from the South African military in the 1990s, he began to target anyone involved in Pretorius, OSS' former black ops unit.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: Is fatally stabbed with his own murder weapon during a struggle with Simmons.
- Posthumous Villain Victory: Curtis is killed in the struggle when the IRT finally catch him, but his sister's true killers are identified and arrested.
- Revenge by Proxy: His sister was murdered by racist South African cops as part of a False Flag Operation to discredit anti-apartheid activists. When he found out, he started killing the children of his sister's murderers in retaliation.
- Rejected Apology: One of his sister's killers confessed to the murder after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, begging for Curtis's forgiveness. Curtis responded by murdering the man's daughter.
- Wolverine Claws: Uses sharp claws to torture and stage his victims post-mortem.
- Would Hit a Girl: Would be willing to hurt females if it needs to be done.
- Would Hurt a Child: Is perfectly willing to murder an unborn infant.
Deputy Director Walter Atwood
Played By: Jim Beaver
- Dirty Cop: All of his murders are to hide that he is part of a child trafficking ring.
- Killer Cop: He arranges numerous killings to cover up his own corruption.
Oleg Antakov
Played by: William Forsythe
- The Corrupter: He uses his manipulations to turn a Russian nationalist prison guard into his accomplice.
- It's Personal: Is after Garrett, who helped put him in prison.
- Red Baron: Known as The Ripper of Riga for using a biting device he invented to mutilate his unfortunate victims.
- Torture Technician: He enjoyed torturing those he interrogated during his time with the KGB, but after the fall of the Soviet Union he turns to being a Serial Killer to get his kicks.
