Characters / Search Party

The Search Party

Left to right: Portia, Drew, Dory and Elliott

The group of millennial Hipsters on a quest to find Chantal.

In General

• Four-Philosophy Ensemble:
  • The muted and unpredictable Dory is the Apathetic.
  • The straight-laced and unobtrusive Drew is the Realist.
  • The ditzy and trusting Portia is the Optimist.
  • The pragmatic and wily Elliott is the Cynic.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble:
  • The brooding and directionless Dory is Melancholic.
  • The submissive and put-upon Drew is Phlegmatic.
  • The bubbly and impressionable Portia is Sanguine.
  • The outgoing and bossy Elliott is Choleric.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: The main four consists of two girls (Dory and Portia) and two guys (Drew and Elliot). The two other most prominent characters who act as pseudo-members of their social circle, Julian and Chantal, also keep the gender ratio balanced.
• Hipster: Dory, Drew, Elliott, and Portia are caricatures of Brooklyn hipsters. Detective Joy even lampshades this in the second season.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Dory is a foot shorter than her boyfriend Drew.
• It's All About Me: Multiple characters on the show, but none more so than Elliott. At least, until the group actually finds Chantal.
• Karma Houdini: From what is shown in the final scenes, the four leads have seemingly suffered no repercussions for causing a zombie apocalypse that wiped out most of the country's population.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Everyone in the gang suffers a bit of this after Dory and Drew kill Keith and they help to conceal his murder.
  • They briefly feel remorseful after accidentally starting the zombie apocalypse, but they very quickly get over these feelings and go back to their usual selves.
• Villain Protagonist: From the season 1 finale onward, Dory, Drew, and Elliott are all complicit in murder, with Portia soon joining them in the season 2 premiere. While they're all sympathetic to varying degrees (even Elliott), and Keith, the victim, was rather transparently a scumbag, the remainder of the series is about them literally attempting to get away with murder and becoming increasingly harder to root for in the process.

Dory Sief

Dory Sief

Played by: Alia Shawkat

As a twenty-something year old without a sense of purpose in life, Dory decides to search for her old college “friend” Chantal when she turns out to be missing and gets her friends involved in the quest.

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• Audience Surrogate: Deconstructed with Dory. She's introduced with essentially no discernible character traits beyond being a young person Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life, which makes her very easy for the viewer to project themselves onto. As the series progresses, though, it becomes clear that Dory's complete lack of any kind of sense of self is actually a sign of something much more unbalanced within her, as she repeatedly ruins the lives of numerous others for the sake of her own sense of fulfillment, growing increasingly less guilty about her actions each time. By season 3, it's hard to describe her as anything other than a callous, calculating borderline sociopath. When she is put on trial for her crimes in the same season, her surface-level image as an attractive, blank slate young person manages to win her enormous support from the American public and eventually get acquitted for her crimes, entirely because they perceive her to be "just like" them. It also earns her an extremely unhinged stalker who becomes obsessed with her because she's allegedly "just like" him.
• Ambiguously Brown: Dory is curly-haired and has a somewhat dark complexion, along with a non-European sounding surname. In season 2, this ethnic ambiguity earns her a job working on Senator Mary Ferguson's campaign team as a diversity hire, where she confirms that her parents are Iraqi immigrants.
• Ambiguous Disorder: Dory hallucinates the dead (or the presumed dead) speaking to her as an externalization of her own guilt, has daydreams so vivid that she mistakes them for reality, and, come season 3, is able to seamlessly convince herself that she isn't guilty of any of the crimes she has committed.
• Consummate Liar: Dory also steadily slips into this territory as she's forced to lie to cover her own tracks. While her lies are much clumsier than Elliot's, she is gradually able to delude herself into believing them enough that they end up becoming nearly unbreakable.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Dory's primary motivation for finding Chantal is that she's reached an impasse in her life and convinces herself that Chantal's disappearance is some sort of Call to Adventure to her own greater destiny.
• Fake Memories: Chip brainwashes Dory into believing that her friends are responsible for killing Keith and pinned the blame on her when she confesses to have murdered him in season 4. When she asks about April, he convinces her that April is still alive.
• Happiness in Mind Control: After breaking out Chip's brainwashing, Dory returns to Chip and asks him to do it again, because she was happier that way.
• It's All My Fault: Subverted in the end when a zombie apocalypse descends upon Manhattan as a result of Dory’s actions. Dory seems to have a Heel Realization but it becomes immediately clear that it’s rooted in It's All About Me as she gets in a petty argument with Chantal about which one of them caused the end of the world.
• Karma Houdini: Subverted with Dory at the end of season 3. She gets acquitted for murdering Keith, but is kidnapped by Chip and forced to experience a living Hell while being imprisoned by him for several months. During that time, the full weight of her actions catches up to her and she crosses the Despair Event Horizon.
  • By the end of the series, Dory faces no real consequences for causing a zombie apocalypse that killed millions, even feeling more fulfilled because of it.
• Lady in Red: Dory begins wearing striking red-colored outfits as she continues to commit crimes and gain more and more blood on her hands.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Dory undergoes this again in season 4, where she confesses to killing both Keith and April as a means of breaking Chip, only to end up also breaking herself after finally having to come clean about the crimes she committed and got acquitted for. It is heavily implied that Chip's ability to brainwash her into believing a series of false memories about both murders is due in part to Dory's own desire to escape the guilt of her past.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: As the series progresses, we see Dory evolve from a directionless twenty-something to someone so detached from her own conscience that she is able to kill two people and successfully lie about her innocence in their murders in court. Scarily, she seems much more comfortable and confident with herself throughout season 3 than she ever did in season 1, implying that this was within her all along. And then we get to the final season, where Dory becomes a full-on cult leader and accidentally starts a zombie apocalypse.
• Sanity Slippage: While Dory is shown to be prone to having hallucinations as early as season 1, they start to become far more frequent and vivid in season 2 in the wake of covering up Keith's death. In the same season, Elliott has an outright mental breakdown for similar reasons.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: In season 5, a committed Dory has visions of an apocalypse, and escapes her asylum believing she is the only one who knows how to prevent it. As it turns out, her actions from the escape onward are the very thing that lead to said apocalypse happening in the first place.
• Stockholm Syndrome: Dory undergoes a variant of this after she fails her attempt at escaping Chip and crosses the Despair Event Horizon, becoming almost sedately calm and much more cooperative toward him. While it's primarily the result of Chip brainwashing her by implanting False Memories into her head, it's also implied to be in part due to her subconscious desire to escape the guilt she feels over her past crimes by spending the rest of her life in seclusion with him.
• Stress Vomit: Dory after she realizes absolutely everything was pointless since Chantal was okay all along.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Dory's more heinous behavior in season 3 is heavily implied to be the product of her choosing to embrace the media's skewed portrayal of her as a deplorable murderer simply because it allows her to have an identity. When the full weight of her actions hits her in season 4, she immediately experiences a My God, What Have I Done? moment.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: The audience is treated to Dory's numerous panicked hallucinations throughout the series.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: A literal example by the series finale. All of the trauma Dory has suffered throughout the series ultimately leads to the world being ravaged by zombies.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: A central aspect of the series is that Dory tries to filter her life through the lens of a genre narrative in order to find meaning where there isn't any. While this is most clearly seen in the first season, where her attempts at being an Amateur Sleuth end in her killing a person while trying to solve a mystery that didn't exist to begin with, it continues to be present even after the series undergoes a Genre Shift between seasons. It causes her to become outright villainous in season 3 when she decides to embrace the media's own false narrative about her being a calculating Femme Fatale.

Drew Gardner

Drew Gardner

Played by: John Paul Reynolds

Dory’s spineless boyfriend with the tendency to let other people walk over him.

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• Ambiguously Bi: While his main love interest is Dory, he kisses Elliot and Portia while drunk at one point. However, he is not canonically bi like Dory and Portia.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Drew is generally polite, passive, and conflict avoidant, but is also very petty and vindictive. Perhaps best shown when he "confronts" Julian over spending time with his girlfriend, where he tries to frame the interaction as a friendly one (even buying Julian a milkshake and pretending that he was given two by mistake to seem less obvious), refuses to own up to the actual reason why he wanted to meet up when Julian calls him out on it, and throws the aforementioned milkshake at Julian in frustration after he walks away. Rather than confront Dory directly about how unhappy he is with her fixation on "solving" Chantal's disappearance, he fakes having their apartment get ransacked as an attempt to scare her off from looking into things any further. This ends up backfiring fantastically, and only ends up making the situation much worse for both of them.
• Broken Bird: After the guilt of having taken a person's life and then lying about it eats away at him throughout season 2, Drew seemingly crosses the Despair Event Horizon after realizing that Dory not only intends to continue to avoid facing reckoning for their actions (to the point of killing another person so that she couldn't expose them) but has also seemingly completely deluded herself about their actual involvement with Keith's death. He spends almost all of the final episode of season 3 quietly despondent, aware that he has no means of getting through to her or absolving himself of his sins.
• Chick Magnet: While Drew's relationship with Dory is clearly waning at the start of the series, Chantal has nursed a crush on him since college, April shows pretty transparent interest in him, and he gains a rather tremendous amount of female groupies after he's put on trial in season 3.
• Extreme Doormat: Drew is absurdly non-confrontational, and often allows bad situations to escalate even further by being too passive to confront others about them directly.
• Minnesota Nice: Drew is an archetypal non-confrontational midwesterner. He's so conflict avoidant that the majority of his conversations consist of nothing but blindly agreeing with whatever the other person says until they leave him alone.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Drew's first instinct whenever things get ugly is to try and flee the country. He tries to leave Canada for New York when he finds out that Dory cheated on him with Keith at the end of season 1, spends most of season 2 trying to get a job transfer to Shanghai to avoid facing the consequences of Keith's murder. In the first episode of season 3, he tries to head for Shanghai again after finding out that someone ratted the main four out to the police.
• Stress Vomit: Drew while on trial for killing Keith.

Elliott Goss

Elliott Goss

Played by: John Early

The Gay Best Friend with a real knack for lying, and a self-proclaimed Narcissist.

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• Consummate Liar: Elliott is a compulsive liar who effortlessly spins tall tales with a completely straight face for his own benefit. Late into season 1, we learn that his entire inspirational backstory of surviving cancer is completely fabricated, while in season 3 we learn that his entire identity, right down to his name, is false.
• Gay Best Friend: Played with a bit by Elliott. Sure he's Camp Gay, Portia's roommate, and a member of the main group, but he's otherwise a manipulative asshole who always puts himself before his "friends". Adaptation Decay causes him to be portrayed as a much more conventional and generic one in the biopic about Dory.
• Hidden Depths: Elliott normally comes across as a vapid Jerkass who couldn't care less about others... and he is, but his actions at the end of season 1 and his plotline throughout season 2 also reveal that he in part feels obligated to remain so even in the face of Keith's murder in order to seem strong and dependable for his panicking friends.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Elliot's description of Chantal being "the worst" and "bringing nothing to the table" is proven to be completely accurate by the time she actually appears.
• Narcissist: Elliott is self-diagnosed as such, and with good reason. Many other characters, not least of all the other three, also show signs of this; prioritizing their own comfort above the wants and needs of the people around them.
• The Unreveal: Elliott ventures out from New York to his childhood home deep in the swamps of Tennessee late into season 3 to confront his parents about the origins of his compulsive lying. His mom reveals that his lying was in fact triggered by a traumatic event in his past that she had been keeping from him his entire life, but Elliott walks off in disinterest just as she's about to tell him after he receives a call offering him the position of co-host on a daytime talk show.

Portia Davenport

Portia Davenport

Played by: Meredith Hagner

A bubbly yet shallow actress with a need to be seen by others.

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• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Portia isn't much for brains, but shows a good few times that she actually does have some acting chops.
• Token Good Teammate: Portia is stupid and vapid, but is the only one of the main four who seems to lack any kind of underlying mean streak. She's also the only one who wasn't present for Keith's murder and only becomes complicit in it because she's upset that her friends are keeping a dark secret from her.
• Turn to Religion: Portia becomes a born again Christian after her friends turn against her for agreeing to testify against them in court. It lasts just long enough for her to record a Christian rock song before she abandons religion rather nonchalantly after narrowly avoiding getting killed at Elliott's wedding.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Portia's mother is rather distant, and acts unsupportive and belittling about her acting career; all of which clearly bothers her. This gets exploited in season 2, where Elijah convinces her to cut off all ties with her mom as a means of seizing control over her life under the guise of trying to help her remove herself from a toxic relationship. In the season 4 finale, Portia's mom admits that she acted aloof toward her because she felt envious of her bright and magnetic personality, which in turn caused her to feel guilty about thinking such things about her own daughter and begin avoiding her. The two seem to start on the path toward making amends with each other after she reveals this, though it's unclear whether this actually happened due to the episode turning out to be All Just a Dream.

Secondary Main Characters

Julian Marcus

Julian Marcus

Played by: Brandon Micheal Hall

Dory’s ex-boyfriend with a more grounded sense of reality and a strong sense of justice.

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• Advertised Extra: Julian often appears in promotional images alongside the main four, and is billed as a series lead. Despite this, he's absent in several episodes and is completely disconnected from the main plot. He's significant more as a Foil to the main group than he is for any actual story involvement.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Julian's assessment that Dory is simply latching onto Chantal's disappearance as a means of overlooking her own desperation, while harsh, is right on the money.
• Not So Above It All: Julian presents himself as a mature Only Sane Man who is above all the frivolous he said she said the main group constantly engages in and instead directs his passions toward pursuing the truth as a journalist. Though this is true of him to an extent, the only two journalistic articles we see him produce are hit pieces on his ostensible friends. While he is justified for doing so (as both articles consist of exposing a person for lying about a serious issue to gain sympathy and profit from it), there's still a clear irony to it.
• Only Sane Man: Julian is the only character who shows even a modicum of sensibility and, while a bit of a dick, one of the few to never do anything particularly morally repugnant.
• Put on a Bus: Julian in season 3, as he is paid handsomely by Mary Ferguson to leave the country.
• Surprisingly Happy Ending: The honest and well-intentioned Julian receives $750,000 to keep quiet about the scandalous photos he received from Senator-elect Ferguson, even though he had no intention of leaking them and was being honest about losing his phone, allowing him to travel to Brazil.
  • Considering what happens in the Season Five finale, this probably saved his life.
• That Came Out Wrong: He titles a piece about Chantal "Playing the Victim", using the phrase with its originally-intended meaning of someone pretending to be the victim of an injustice when they themselves were the ones who committed the injustice. However, with the phrase being frequently used by the alt-right starting in The New '10s as a way of denigrating women who have experienced sexual harassment or abuse, it ends up completely changing the impression he wanted the article to give, causing him to become a pariah within Mary Ferguson's campaign.

Chantal Witherbottom (SPOILERS)

Chantal Witherbottom

Played by: Clare Mc Nulty

Goes missing at the start of the show which prompts Dory to look for her old college "friend".

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• A Day in the Limelight: The season 4 episode "The Imposter" is told entirely from Chantal's perspective, with Dory and Elliott only making a single short appearance each.
• Flanderization: In the season 1 finale and the first few episodes of season 2, she's depicted as very ditzy, and more than a little self-centred, but otherwise not that obnoxious. By season 3 she devolves into an outright Cloud Cuckoolander womanchild who's completely divorced from any form of reality.
• Hate Sink:
  • Chantal is designed to be as insufferable as possible; she's shrill, childish, selfish, needy, mean-spirited, overly-dramatic, stupid, and boring on top of all that. That she's so fundamentally horrible serves to make the fact that Dory ends up destroying the lives of herself and her three friends, as well as killing a man, all for the sake of "rescuing" her (when in reality she was never in any danger) all the more depressing and poignant.
  • Chantal's status as such gets Lampshaded in season 3 when the jury that she is screened as a potential witness for Dory's trial in front of end up finding her so naturally unbearable that they insist on her being guilty despite her not being on trial.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Chantal went to college with the main four, but Elliott describes her as "the worst", Dory can only vaguely recall interacting with her, and Drew completely forgot she even existed. Sure enough, she reveals herself to be ludicrously unbearable in just about every conceivable way once they finally reunite with her.
• Took a Level in Badass: Chantal spends the final season under the learning tree of a conspiracy theorist/doomsday prepper and becomes incredibly proficient with weapons. She's still a deeply delusional narcissist but at least she's a useful one to have around in a zombie apocalypse.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • Chantal running off to Canada without telling anyone was just intended to be a way for her to decompress and "find herself", but, as the catalyst to the entire series inadvertently leads to the deaths of several people and the destruction of the lives of many more.
    • Chantal also becomes this on a much grander scale by the end of the series, with her disappearance in season one ultimately setting up a chain of events that culminates in a zombie apocalypse in season five.
• Walking Spoiler: Chantal's entire character essentially spoils the season 1 finale's reveal that she isn't in any actual danger and Dory's search for her is All for Nothing.

Main Antagonists (ALL SPOILERS UNMARKED)

Keith

Keith Powell

Played by: Ron Livingston

A private investigator who Dory encounters during her search for Chantal.

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• Anti-Villain: He's not really villainous at all, just a private detective using slightly unethical means to get the reward for finding Chantal. Unfortunately, the means in question result in an escalating series of misunderstandings that lead to his death.
• Becoming the Mask: Initially he just pretended to have a crush on Dory so as to pump her for any information that might lead to him being able to find her and claim the reward. However, he ends up genuinely falling in love with her.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's pretty sleazy and easily angered, but he's a doting father and did genuinely love Dory.
• Poor Communication Kills: His falsely telling Dory that he was hired by Chantal's parents causes her to start distrusting him when she finds out, and Drew ends up accidentally killing him while he's attacking Dory.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears in the second half of the first season, and dies during the season finale, but his death ends up being central to the storyline of the second and third seasons.
• Stalker with a Crush: What ends up getting him killed. He gets so obsessed with Dory that he follows her to Canada, and when she rejects his advances he turns violent, causing Drew to unwittingly kill him.

Detective Hartman

Detective Joy Hartman

Played by: Tymberlee Hill

An NYPD detective who is assigned to investigate Keith's death.

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• Accidental Murder: While investigating the Fat Frankie lead (and even then, mostly just to eliminate him as a suspect), she panics and shoots him dead when the two stumble across each other.
• Disc-One Final Boss: It appears as if the second season is building up to having her arrest Dory and Drew for Keith's murder. Her unwitting murder of Fat Frankie forces her to shoot herself in the arm in order to make it look like she killed him in self-defense, which takes her out of the story for the remainder of the season and leads to April taking over as the main antagonist for the last couple of episodes.
• Hero of Another Story: In just about any other TV show, Hartman would be the hero, as she's an honest cop trying to investigate Keith's murder. At least until she accidentally kills Fat Frankie.
• Jurisdiction Friction: Downplayed; she and the Canadian mounties have a couple of minor arguments over who's in charge, but they otherwise set this aside in favor of working together to find Keith's killer.
• Put on a Bus: Early in the third season it's revealed that Fat Frankie was an FBI informant, and was wearing a wire at the time of his death, proving that Hartman's killing him was in no way an act of self-defense. The Feds hold off on charging her with murder on the grounds that it would expose their intelligence operations (and probably get Hartman killed into the bargain), but she's dismissed from the NYPD with her career in ruins.

April

April Kenyon

Played by: Phoebe Tyers

The foul-mouthed, ill-tempered downstairs neighbor of Dory and Drew.

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• Chekhov's Gun: It's hinted during the third season that her diary will be key to convicting Dory and Drew of Keith's murder. Subverted in the end, however, as the diary turns out to be written in a bizarre-sounding language that only she and her sister June speak, meaning it would never be accepted as credible evidence.
• Chekhov's Gunman: She appears a few times in the first season, mostly just to insult Drew, before taking a much larger role towards the end of the second season.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Dory was content to just give her the incriminating photos of Senator-elect Ferguson and let the matter go, but when April makes it clear that she will hold Keith's murder over Dory and her friends for the rest of their lives and continue to blackmail them whenever she feels like it, Dory is pushed into killing her.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: To her sister June; April is incredibly foul-mouthed, caustic, and downright psychotic, whereas June is a perpetually happy, upbeat Friend to All Living Things.
• Theme Twin Naming: She and her twin sister June are both named after months of the year.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: It's very rare that she can deliver a sentence without dropping a Cluster F-Bomb, Atomic F-Bomb, or some combination of the two.

DA Danziger

District Attorney Polly Danziger

Played by: Michaela Watkins

The District Attorney for New York, who ends up prosecuting Dory's and Drew's murder trial.

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• Diabolus ex Machina: A series of these pile up to wreck her case against Dory and Drew:
  • The Canadian man who harangued the two into buying a zebra-print suitcase to hide Keith's body unwittingly establishes himself as an alternate suspect for the murder by buying the same kind of suitcase, especially since he's seen engaging in obviously deranged behavior on the store's security tape, while Dory and Drew just seem to be calmly buying a suitcase and some shovels.
  • April's twin sister June bursts in to the courtroom claiming to have definitive proof against Dory and Drew, and then reads out an entry that, to anyone except for April or June, is just gibberish, not doing much to help the credibility of Danziger's case. To make things worse, June does this right as Danziger is trying to point out that the suitcase presented as Dory's and Drew's is almost certainly a fake (which it is), distracting everyone from the argument she was trying to make.
  • What should have been the smoking gun in the trial — namely the reconstructed tape that April recorded — instead ends up helping to ruin her case, as the people in the courtroom are divided on whether Dory is saying that she and Drew "murdered" Keith, or whether they "pancaked" him. This, along with her baselessly (even if correctly) accusing Dory of murdering April, causes the judge to declare the tape inadmissible.
• Fatal Flaw: Her case against Dory and Drew is actually pretty watertight for the most part, and would probably have gotten them convicted in most situations. However, her excessively angry and vindictive prosecutorial style does far more to harm her case than help it, and when combined with Dory's convincing Crocodile Tears during her closing argument to the jury, it causes them to get acquitted.
• Hero of Another Story: Like Detective Hartman before her, by any standards she should be the heroic figure in the murder trial, since Dory and Drew are guilty of murder, or at least manslaughter.
• Jerkass: While she's pursuing a case against two genuine criminals, she's not a terribly pleasant individual in her own right, expressing hatred of millennials and liberals and coming across as an angry and shrill person in court.

Chip

Chip

Played by: Cole Escola

A mentally-disturbed young man who develops a crush on Dory, then kidnaps her and holds her prisoner.

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• Brother–Sister Incest: He is revealed to be the result of this, with the implication that his deranged behavior is the result of inbreeding.
• Chekhov's Gunman: He has a few off-screen appearances throughout the third season, before appearing in-person to try to kill Portia and kidnap Dory. This fails and seemingly results in his death, but he comes back in the season finale and successfully kidnaps Dory, after which he's central to the fourth season's story arc.
• Faking the Dead: Pretends to be killed after his initial attempt to kidnap Dory fails, allowing him to later break into her apartment and capture her when she gets home from the trial.
• Karma Houdini: Thanks to his mother/aunt, he gets away with everything he did to Dory.
• Knight of Cerebus: Of all the antagonists seen in the show, Chip is by far the darkest and most disturbing of the whole bunch. Whereas most of the others were Anti Villains who were simply doing their jobs, and even April was mostly just an incredibly unpleasant person whose worst sin was blackmailing Dory and her friends, Chip kidnaps and Mind Rapes Dory, maims at least one person just for being rude about her, and kills a Nosy Neighbor when she gets in the way.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He has a childlike manner about him, but also has absolutely no problem killing and maiming people who get in his way, or just act rude towards Dory.
• Stalker without a Crush: Despite his obsessive stalking of Dory, and later capturing her and turning her into his prisoner, he's never actually shown to be romantically interested in her, and simply seems to want her as a friend, while convinced in his twisted mind that he's somehow helping her.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Granted, a lot of people were in one way or another responsible for the Disaster Dominoes that brought about the Zombie Apocalypse in the series finale, but Chip's Mind Raping Dory causes her to experience massive Sanity Slippage which persists through the rest of the show's run, and leads directly to the events of Season 5.

Tunnel Quinn

Tunnel Quinn

Played by: Jeff Goldblum

The owner of a highly successful MegaCorp, who offers to fund Dory's attempts to create an enlightenment pill.

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• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite his eccentric personal mannerisms, he's a genuinely very good businessman and publicity hound.
• Captain Ersatz: Of any number of modern-day tech entrepreneurs, though as is largely standard for this type of character since the turn of the century, Steve Jobs is the most obvious influence.
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: He ends up indirectly bringing about a Zombie Apocalypse that's indicated to cause the death of 99% of humanity (or at least the population of the United States) purely because he wanted to use Dory as his Unwitting Pawn in an insider trading scam.
• Put on a Bus: The board of directors at his company fires him after Dory and her followers stage a take-over and hostage situation at the facility that he gave them.