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Lonnie
Lonnie Watley
Played By: Malachi Weir
A prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office, shuttling from Southern to Eastern quite often.
- Big Brother Mentor: Tries to be this to Kate Sacker, but she's got a more powerful mentor in Chuck.
- Butt-Monkey: Compared to Bryan and Kate, who are clearly Chuck's favorites and will be mentored by him into higher positions, Lonnie is hung out to dry by Chuck multiple times, even for things that are Chuck's fault. The latest is Chuck promoting Bryan to lead prosecutor at Eastern District and Kate to head of criminal prosecution at Southern, leaving Lonnie where he is - a deputy prosecutor forced into increasingly more illegal actions.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: By Season 4 he has become thoroughly fed up with the Rhoades family, and agrees to help Taylor prepare for their testimony against Wendy before the medical board.
- Put on a Bus: After failing to secure either a position at Eastern or the head of crim position at Southern, Lonnie is nowhere to be found until the latter half of Season 3, when he's moved to the private sector.
- Token Minority: The only black male regular in the cast.
Dake
Oliver Dake
Played By: Christopher Denham
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A member of Internal Affairs, he is sent by the Attorney General to investigate the Southern District's handling of the Axelrod case from season one. He is meticulous, ruthless, and absolutely focused on ferreting out the corruption, starting with Chuck Rhoades.
- Beard of Sorrow: Connerty finds him wearing one after being fired by Jeffcoat and exiled to UVA.
- Corrupt Bureaucrat: Not as bad as Chuck but Dake certainly falls into Rhoades' web of prevarication.
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Designated Villain: Dake is an ambitious young man, dedicated to clearing the government of corruption. It's just that he opposes our "heroes" at the Southern District. - Enemy Mine: After 2.09, the AG will not allow him to go after Chuck Rhoades after Chuck announces his run at the governorship, so Dake slinks back to Washington. In 2.11, it's revealed that part of Chuck's plan to tank Ice Juice involves him handing over Eastern District to Dake, to prosecute Bobby. In return for the job, Dake must agree to work with Chuck and take Bryan as his deputy.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: His horn-rimmed specs just make him that much more unnerving. He loses them by the third season, however.
- The Fundamentalist: Interestingly, he seems pretty self-aware about it. When Rhoades calls him a Calvinist crusader, Dake bristles, but then concedes the point.
- Inspector Javert: Assigned by the AG to root out the corruption at Southern.
- Married to the Job: He has a wife in DC, or so he says, but he pretty clearly puts his career first. In fact, there's a whiff of Girlfriend in Canada whenever someone brings up his marriage.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: Railroads Connerty's investigation, ignoring, dismissing or outright forbidding several key elements to the case to make sure Rhoades and his family are off-limits.
- Put on a Bus: Chuck mentions that Dake is outside the political-judiciary circus and is teaching law in season four.
- You Have Failed Me: On the receiving end of this when the Ice Juice case collapses, courtesy of Jeffcoat.
Jeffcoat
Waylon "Jock" Jeffcoat
Played by: Clancy Brown
"All right. Any way we can take some scalps?"
- "Well, somebody's gotta fry..."
Waylon "Jock" Jeffcoat is the new U.S. Attorney General, starting in Season 3.
- Actually Pretty Funny: Jeffcoat finds Chuck cursing him in Italian hilarious, even though he doesn't know what Chuck said.
- Bad Boss: He is an authoritharian/antagonistic Attorney General who takes pride in demolishing criminals and underlings alike.
- The Bad Guy Wins:
- Comes out on top at the end of Season 3. Chuck thinks he has Jeffcoat nailed on money laundering and obstruction of justice, only to realize that Epstein, Dake, Bryan and Kate have all betrayed him. Jeffcoat promptly fires Chuck as U.S. Attorney.
- Reversed in season 4, where he loses in the final episode.
- The Bus Came Back: Returns for a short time in the final season, having been sent to prison.
- Corrupt Church: Jock's brother is a famous televangelist. Turns out both brothers are laundering money through the TV ministry to shore up their fortune, making Jock several times richer than publicly thought.
- The Dreaded: Every interaction with this General is filled with apprehension, as his subordinates fear and know they could be fired on the spot.
- Good Ol' Boy: Cowboy-boots-wearing, gun-toting, hillbilly-accented redneck and proud of it. Makes his introduction with a highly disgusting stallion-and-mare metaphor.
- Everything Is Big in Texas: Jeffcoat is a native of the Lone-Star State and stands at a towering 6'4.
- Gratuitous Spanish: This Señor likes to insert some Spanish palabras every now and then.
- Hanging Judge: One step removed. He's notoriously harsh and unrelenting in his prosecutorial agenda, perfectly willing to indict and punish to the end any kind of wrongdoers, even the seemingly innocent ones.
- Jerkass: He's quite overbearing and obnoxious, in a raw, archaic and almost endearing way.
- Karma Houdini: Fires Chuck before he can bring charges related to Jeffcoat's money laundering.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: Is blackmailed by Chuck into resigning when he produces audio evidence that Jeffcoat ordered Connerty to violate attorney-client privilege.
- Large and in Charge: His towering presence adds another layer of superiority around him.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Jeffcoat is loosely based on Jeff Sessions, on the basis of being an ultraconservative, southern-born Attorney General for a new Republican administration, with both of them pushing racist policies and inaugurating their appointments with the dismissal of almost every sitting U.S. Attorney.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Has no desire to get Maria Gonzalez back into the country to testify in the Ice Juice case, citing her being a "three-times illegal." Tries to make Chuck prosecute cases against ethnic minorities to appease Jeffcoat's Breitbart-reading base, but balks when Chuck wants to prosecute white prison guards for the murder of a Hispanic inmate. Dislikes visiting New York because he thinks certain areas are "shitholes."
- Real Men Love Jesus: Is a devout Christian.
- Tyrant Takes the Helm: In his first scene, he boasts about his firing of every U.S. Attorney except for seven since he was appointed, and not only does he discourage Chuck's office from pursuing investigations into Wall Street, he's also a brutal micro-manager. It's telling that he doesn't talk about a new "administration", he instead uses the term new regime.
- Undisclosed Funds: He has more than a quarter billion, but people think his net worth is just a tiny fraction of what it really is.
- You Have Failed Me: He always makes very clear to his underlings that heads will roll if they displease him. As does Dake's after the Ice Juice fiasco. And Chuck's when Jeffcoat finds out about his attempted putsch.
Terri
Terri McCue
- Played By: Susan Misner
An FBI agent working with Chuck and the United States attorney’s office on the Axelrod case
