Characters / Utopia

aka: Utopia The Network

Characters appearing in Utopia. Due to the series' Black-and-Grey Morality and many characters' Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, folder "alignment" groupings are fluid and perusal is at the reader's own risk.

The Heroes

An unfortunate group of people who have ended up as targets of The Network due to their interest in a graphic novel called The Utopia Experiments, as well as the allies they meet during their attempts to survive. These are the protagonists of Utopia.

General Tropes

• Anti-Hero Team: Some of the things they'll do to uncover the truth and combat the Network can make them no better than who they're fighting against, but it's still very clear which one is the worst of the two.
• Covert Group: An anti-heroic slant, of very disorganized and secretive figures bent on uncovering the truth of the Manuscript, and later, attempting to stop a much more nebulous conspiracy.
• David Versus Goliath: A handful of everyday people working closely against an agency that has far more reach and history they can ever imagine.
• Doom Magnet: The lives of their loved ones are threatened, either because they've chosen to become involved with the Network's machinations or because the Network needs them. Anyone who decides to get involved with the cast, even unwittingly in passing like Alice, are subsequently put in danger.
• Fire-Forged Friends: They all bond over discussion and theorization of a graphic novel online, but as the dangers to their searching for the answers make themselves apparent over the course of the series, they find themselves much closer than they were before. Then Wilson defects.
• He Knows Too Much: They were tasked with analyzing Part 2 of The Utopia Experiments, which sends the Network and their goons after the group.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Courtesy of Becky. They eventually stage break-ins, wield weapons and engage in deceitful practices in order to keep themselves safe and to further their goals — much like the Network has.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Start out as bunch of comic book fans each leading their own mundane lives, with their own personality quirks and ideals.
• Guile Hero: They all rely on improvisation and cunning to hide well from the Network and keep their operations under the notice of the public.
• Unscrupulous Hero: Their intentions are good, but they have to resort to various brutal and questionable actions to fight and cover their tracks thanks to what their opposition is capable of. It all mainly comes at the behest of Jessica, who embodies this archetype.
• Villain Has a Point: They come at a moral impasse when they learn the motivations of the Network, which is to control the human population, fearing the ensuing conflict from overpopulation. It's enough to convince Wilson to switch sides.

Original Members

Ian Johnson

Portrayed by: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett

An IT employee living with his mum.

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• Black and Nerdy: A humble IT worker sporting Nerd Glasses.
• Dating Catwoman: A kind of eternal flaw for Ian — he's attractive to Becky, who isn't bad, just much darker than Ian is used to. Then there's Jessica... who definitely is.
• The Everyman: He has truly no idea what he's gotten himself into and just wants to survive.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Says more than a few mean things about those around him, but he clearly means well and it's mostly in jest. Mostly.
• Jumped at the Call: By Season 2, he's grown tired of his IT job and is recounting his adventures in being chased by a nebulous shadow organization, and is waiting to get a call from Milner at any time or a chance to locate Becky. When there's sign of the latter, he quickly takes off with Grant.
• Nerds Are Sexy: As even Jessica would agree.
• Resigned to the Call: He has no interest in being special and is forced on the run by circumstances.
• Team Dad: Again somewhat reluctantly, but clearly feels responsible for and protective of Alice and Grant. Especially when he's had to look over Grant in Season 2.
• Victory Is Boring: In Season 2, after seemingly crippling the Network and handing the Manuscript and Jessica to Milner, Ian is able to return to his normal office life. He finds the mundanity to be monotonous and is ready to staple his own tongue to alleviate himself from the boredom.

Becky

Portrayed by: Alexandra Roach

A grad student who is convinced her father's mysterious death from a terminal illness is connected to The Utopia Experiments.

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• Betty and Veronica: The "Betty" to Jessica's "Veronica" and Ian's "Archie."
• Broken Bird: Her impending death from Deel's syndrome leads her into depression, especially near the end of Season 2.
• Cool Big Sis: Is this to Grant and Alice.
• Deadpan Snarker: Mixes it with Cluster F-Bomb.
• Driven to Suicide: To escape a painful death from Deel's syndrome. Turns out she's actually healthy; Ian barely saves her from overdosing.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be pretty sharp and rude even to people who are trying to help her, but what with her dead father and oncoming terminal illness, nobody can blame her.
• Psychotic Love Triangle: In a reluctant one with Ian, who the psychotic Jessica wants for herself.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: A female version, at points spouting a Cluster F-Bomb.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: As a result of her father's, and what she assumes to be her own, illness.
• Stepford Snarker: Her extremely sharp snarkiness is one of the ways she copes with what she assumes to be her terminal illness and difficult circumstances.

Wilson Wilson

Portrayed by: Adeel Akhtar

A survivalist and conspiracy theorist.

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• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Subverted. It's not the torture itself that turns him into the dark side, ironically, it's when he hears the reason why it happened and why his father is killed from the organisation that did it, that he switches sides. Ian even points out to him when they spell out their agenda those very same incidents to dissuade him from considering their viewpoint. It doesn't work.
• Big Bad: Takes over where Milner left off in this position.
• Conflicting Loyalty: By the later half of Season 1, he's very much torn up about his friends lying to him about the status of his father, and when they listen to the Network's plan to stop overpopulation, he finds it preferable to actually stopping them. In Season 2, even though he's part of the Network and is under Milner, he initially can't find it in himself to see Lee kill his former friends and struggles with killing Ian's brother.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Who happens to be correct.
• Easily Forgiven:
  • Not himself, but his reaction towards the Network. Milner ponders this herself in Season 2, recounting their torture of Wilson and the killing of his father to further their goals. Instead of carrying a grudge, Wilson justifies it all as the costs of furthering the ultimate goal of the Network. The dedication earns him a spot in their ranks.
  • Notably, this isn't exactly the case with Lee, at one point pulling a gun on him when he becomes conflicted over how Lee was his father's killer and will be hunting his former friends down.
• Evil Former Friend: Played with. He comes to believe that the villains are right, but he maintains a soft spot for his former friends, even as he continues to work against them.
• Eye Scream: His first encounter with the Network ends with his right eye been scooped out with a spoon.
• Face–Heel Turn: By the end of Season 1, he converts to the Network's philosophy. By the end of Season 2, he has become the new Mr. Rabbit.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Begins as little more than a nerdy guy poking his nose dangerously deeply into conspiracy theories. He eventually attempts to join and assist in a genocidal plot, and ends up as the mastermind of it.
• Heroic BSoD: Experiences one after Conran Letts lays out the Network's plan and the reasoning behind it, as Wilson comes to realize they're justifiable in their motivations.
• Irony: The Conspiracy Theorist of the group, the one most worried about what will happen when they chase after the truth, ends up joining the conspiracy himself when he finds them agreeable.
• It Gets Easier: He manages to shoot Lee, although it was in a panic and a life-or-death situation, when the latter clearly demonstrated that Cold-Blooded Torture was not an issue for him. The next time, he threw up before getting the stomach to kill Ian's brother and two MI-5 agents. By the finale, he's more than confident enough to eliminate two Sleeper Agents still at their cover job, and kills Lee without batting an eye.
• Not Quite Dead: Stabbed and left for dead by Jessica at the end of Season 1, but survives into Season 2.
• Properly Paranoid: Even before entering the premise of the show, Wilson redacted records of himself using every resource the average person could get, masked his IP addresses on individual devices, and went by different protective software to hide his search history. He also trained himself to use the joints of his thumbs to get out of handcuffs, which comes very useful later on.
• Repetitive Name: His name really is Wilson Wilson. He and the others Lampshade this, and he finds no problem using it on public platforms since people would automatically doubt it as a real name.
• Rule of Symbolism: The spoon he carries (or is given, rather) is a reminder of the trauma he received from the Network and his limitations. When he kills Lee, he looks at it more confidently, signifying his shift into ruthlessness.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: In Season 2, he gains a suit to compliment his fedora.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork:
  • After his trust in his friends is shot later into Season 1, he finds his cooperation with them becoming conflicting. It culminates into him tricking them into thinking he sent the incriminating e-mail out to the public, as he makes his intentions to halt their progress against the Network clear to Jessica.
  • By Season 2, he's not exactly pleased to be working with Lee, the man who tortured him and tore his eye out.
• Trauma Button: The sight of a spoon and Lee's return in Season 2 both unnerve him, with how the latter tortured him using the former. It then becomes an Inverted case, where looking at the spoon after killing Lee becomes a motivator for him.
• The Unfettered: Eventually dives into this by Season 2, now that he's working for the Network.
• Walking Spoiler: Possibly the biggest in the series, following his change in behavior during the later half of Season 1.

Grant Leetham

Portrayed by: Oliver Woollford

A troubled 11-year-old who comes into possession of The Utopia Experiments after its owner is murdered by the Network's assassins.

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• Badass Adorable: Took out two of the top brass of the Network all by himself.
• Badass and Child Duo: The "child" in the duo mostly with Jessica, but also with Pietre come Series 2.
• Bratty Half-Pint: He likes to think he's a badass tough guy, but he ends up more or less broken by the immense trauma he's been through before he's even in his teens.
• Catfishing: Not to rope someone else into romance, mainly just to hide his identity and as a bit of a coping method. Online, he pretends to be a successful city trader with a Porsche and several one night stands under his belt, when he's really just an eleven-year-old boy living in poverty with an abusive father.
  Wilson: You said you owned a Porsche and your girlfriend was a supermodel!
  Grant: Yeah, I've got ambitions.
• Death Faked for You: Before Series 2 begins. It further affirms his disdain for what his life has become.
• Emo Teen: Jessica dresses him up as one as a disguise. He's annoyed, to say the least.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Boy, but still. He's aggressive, nasty to just about everyone, picks fights...but he's also completely devastated when the Network even threatens his mother and agrees to go along with whatever they want just to help her.
• Had to Be Sharp: Broken home, abused mother, and living in poverty, he developed a knack for quick resourceful thinking and an abrasive personality.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He is well aware of how people have a tendency to consider a child his age to be innocent, harmless and likely in need of help from an adult. And he has learned to take advantage of it.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In addition to specific cases like leading Arby to kill Alice's mother, Grant also might have caused the death of almost all of humanity by shooting Milner at the end of series 2.

Later Members

Michael Dugdale

Portrayed by: Paul Higgins

A put-upon civil servant who becomes embroiled in the conspiracy after the Network begins blackmailing him about an affair in which he impregnated a Russian prostitute.

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• The Atoner: To some extent. His heroism, if it can be called that, comes not as much from trying to improve himself as from fearing for his life and trying to save face after being humiliated repeatedly. By the end of series 2, however, it's clear that he's genuinely improved relations with his wife and has become much braver and more selfless.
• Badass Bureaucrat: Downplayed, but he's a civil servant in the UK's Health Department made to work for the Network. He finds himself joining the main group nearing the end of Season 1.
• The Chew Toy: Michael is immensely flawed, a walkover, cheated on his wife, and more... but he's also so mistreated and disrespected at every part of his life that it's hard not to root for him.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: When it comes to his family, he'll throw anyone under the bus to save them. He tips the police off to Grant arriving at his house, after he's falsely accused of a school shooting, and has a female scientist killed by Network thugs when she gets a little too close to uncovering Russian flu and tells him.
• Classical Anti-Hero: Though definitely a bit of an asshole, he's mostly just cowardly and incompetent rather than immoral.
• The Dog Bites Back: He tries to stand up to the Network more than once.
  • He tends to find blackmail to leverage against Geoff and the Network, hoping to get the safety of his family in exchange. He first gets a sample of one of the Russian virus victims, then gets his hands on Donaldson's documents. Neither end up doing much.
  • After long enough, he stands up to Geoff and kills Anya in self-defense seemingly as an impulse. Too little, too late, however; Wilson is still able to keep him under control by threatening his family.
• Driven to Suicide: At the start of the show. He's cheated on his wife, who is infertile, and gotten a prostitute pregnant, which has made him indebted to her Russian pimp under threat of blackmail. He's prepared a drink and pills to overdose on, but he decides to listen to the pimp.
• Extreme Doormat: His whole problem and personality, at the mercy of the Network and the consequences he'll face if he doesn't do what they say. They not only put the safety of himself and his family at risk constantly, but also taunt him at every opportunity to make sure he knows he's a puppet of theirs. His public appearances also tend to be humiliating.
• Kicked Upstairs: Downplayed since he's not completely out of the picture, but by Season 2, he's been promoted to Acting CEO of Corvadt following the death of Letts and the Assistant, while kept under the Network's thumb and with his family still in danger.
• The Mob Boss Is Scarier:
  • He's introduced as struggling to choose whether to overdose in a motel following the consequences of his cheating, or to take the instructions of a pimp he's now blackmailed by. He ultimately chooses the latter.
  • When confronted by the main group with the opportunity to stop the Network's plans with the knowledge that he has, he elects to call the police on them. As this is after he's seemingly given the chance to reconcile with the Network and his wife over their situation, Geoff knows it was because Michael wouldn't dare take risks.
• Not Afraid of You Anymore: Ultimately overcomes his submission to Geoff.
• Papa Wolf: About the only thing that can get to him — though it always works — is any threat of "I Have Your Family".
• Sixth Ranger: His arc eventually collides with the main group's plot, and Milner sends them to ask that he provide the medical information they'll need to halt the Network. He then sends the authorities after them to keep the Network's wrath at bay. However, after Anya makes it clear that she's an undercover agent for them and that there is no baby, Michael kills her and joins the group's efforts for real.
• Sixth Ranger Traitor: He detests the Network but chooses to not take the risk to expose them in working with the main group, instead sending the authorities after Grant when they come to his home. As the circumstances change and make themselves more apparent, however, he comes to truly join them by the end of Season 1.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: He cheated on his infertile wife with a Russian prostitute, who he got pregnant, but the circumstances surrounding him tend to draw sympathy towards his plight. Things only worsen for him when he's at the mercy of the Network and must follow demands threatening the safety of his wife, who he genuinely cares about. It's then revealed that said prostitute is actually an agent working for the Network, there is no baby, and that he's been played a fool much more than he already thought he was.

Jessica Hyde

Portrayed by: Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Aine Garvey (Young)

The main target of the Network, Jessica Hyde is the daughter of Philip Carvel, the author of The Utopia Experiments.

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• Abusive Parents: Regards Phillip Carvel as one. And rightfully so.
• Action Girl: Completely, using guns, traps and close-quarter combat.
• Betty and Veronica: The "Veronica" to Becky's "Betty" in a love triangle with Ian.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: She relies on pure pragmatism and views no moral sides to the world, only categorizing people as those who help you and those that don't. Jessica kills with little remorse as she believes there can be no risks with anyone connected to the Network, and is willing to lie to Wilson about the safety of his father or torture enemies in order to keep things stable. This unsettles and at times outrages the others, but they learn from her as things grow dire.
• Broken Bird: Her caretaker/trainer was killed before her very eyes as a teenager. By her big brother, no less. She still has nightmares about it in adulthood.
• Cain and Abel: The revelation that she and "Arby" are siblings turns her into the Abel to his Cain throughout Season 1. Certain developments stop this in Season 2.
• Crazy Survivalist: There's no denying that her spending every day of her life on the run from The Network has made her a little unhinged.
• Daddy's Girl: Her father loved her enough that he's willing to wipe away everyone who isn't of Roma blood off the planet... just so she can be protected.
  Milner: "Can't you feel Daddy's love inside you?"
• Daddy's Little Villain: Deconstruction. Philip Carvel was abusive as she recognises, and she mostly just wants to get away from his legacy.
• Dark Action Girl: Jessica is even more ruthless than she is skilled at physical combat.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Courtesy of Phillip Carvel and his disgruntled ex-coworkers.
• Determinator: Jessica will stop at nothing to achieve her goals, and even being trapped in a cage inside an ominous pyramid of doom for five months can't cow her.
• Good Is Not Nice: Jessica exemplifies this by insisting that the other characters cut off all contact with their loved ones and berating them for their stupidity, but succeeding in keeping them alive. On a number of occasions, she threatens to kill or seriously injure the members of the group if they step out of line.
• Hypocritical Humour: When Ian gets a little apprehensive with her, she, the emotionally-stunted woman with No Social Skills, asks him: "Why are you being so odd?"
• I Did What I Had to Do: Jessica kills anyone who could possibly be used by the Network to find her. Ian calls her out on this, and she coldly informs him that if they leave witnesses behind they'll be dead within the week.
• It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: Carvel chose her to carry Janus, and it gets her into a lot of trouble. Although, to be fair, it's not great to be anyone in the Utopia-verse, so downplayed.
• Lack of Empathy: Her experiences with Carvel and his associates, followed by a life of constantly being on the run from ruthless conspirators, has stunted her emotions and made it difficult for her to form connections and have deeper attachments. The torture and death of her caretaker was one such event that compounded this for her.
• Living MacGuffin: The Network is looking for her, with it being Arby's stated mission. It turns out to be because Carvel hid Janus within her blood.
• Meaningful Name:
  • "Jessica Hyde" bears a resemblance to "Jekyll and Hyde," foreshadowing her dual role of good and evil and of being the carrier of Janus, the genetic trigger named after the two-faced god.
  • Not only does her last name reference the fact that she's "hiding" from the Network, but there's also how Arby's real name is Pietre, a version of "Peter". As he's Jessica's brother, with both being used in the plans of their father's partner Mr. Rabbit, would that make them Peter and Jessica... Rabbit?
• No Social Skills: She employs Brutal Honesty and often thinks Murder Is the Best Solution for nearly everything. Including petty arguments. Even her expressing attraction comes off as incredibly disconcerting and unnatural. Given the life she had, you could hardly blame her.
• Parental Favoritism: Carvel cherished Jessica immensely, in stark contrast to the ruthless experimentation and disregard he had for her brother.
  Carvel: My love for Jessica was like a physical thing... an organ that didn't exist until she was born. And then it controlled... everything.
• Sociopathic Hero: Has no qualms about using torture and murder quite liberally to get what she wants.
• Spell My Name With An S: She goes by Jessica Hyde, which as Season 2 shows, was from her obscuring a page of the Manuscript that said "Jessica hides".
• Stalker with a Crush: Jessica for Ian. After they have sex, she slips a mobile phone inside his parka so she can track him down later on.
• There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: How she views things, and she's not necessarily wrong.
  Jessica: There are no sides. Just people who help you and people who don't.
• Unflinching Walk: After blowing up a car.
• Unscrupulous Hero: Has no qualms about lying and using torture and murder quite liberally to get what she wants.
• Waif-Fu: She easily kills The Tramp, who's larger and stands at a head taller than her, by grabbing a cloth, tying it around his neck, bringing him to the ground, and choking him to death with it.

Milner (MASSIVE SPOILERS)

Portrayed by: Geraldine James

An MI5 agent who aids the group throughout their journey, but in truth is the very mastermind behind the Network playing them for fools.

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For tropes related to her, see the folder for "Mr. Rabbit".

The Network

The mysterious organization resides at the center of a massive, complex conspiracy, seemingly bent on human genocide, whose member are the antagonists of Utopia.

General Tropes

• Anti-Villain: Arguably, following The Reveal of their intentions for designing the Russian flu.
• Big Bad: The massive organization with vast reach and intentions on a global scale.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Almost always, including in the endings of both series.
• Benevolent Conspiracy: From their point of view.
• The Conspiracy: A highly secretive group of people, created during the Cold War to counter the Soviet Union's secret biological weapons programs in the 1970s (although details in Season 2 revealed that the Network had precedents a decade before that) and founded by two mysterious figures, who later on have a grand goal that will change the world and humanity as we know it.
• Cold Equation: Their ultimate goal is the mass sterilization of the human race, in semi-selective destruction to cull the overpopulation crisis and ensuing conflicts by leaving one-in-twenty people safe. Letts is willing to compare their actions to Genghis Khan and his destructive conquests (as well as claiming that Hitler did what he do not out of racial prejudices, but out of the need for survival), in how such monstrous actions will benefit the planet far better than the alternatives offered.
• Collective Identity: It slowly becomes the case for Mr. Rabbit. The Assistant carved the Chinese symbol for "Rabbit" into his stomach to act as a Decoy Leader for Milner, and when Milner begins to falter in leadership, Wilson and Leah decide they "are Mr. Rabbit". Wilson completes his succession by carving the symbol into his stomach as well at the end of Season 2.
• Conspiracy Kitchen Sink: Numerous real-life historical events from the deaths of Carmine Pecorelli and Airey Neave to the 1979 Three Mile Island incident are connected to the Network in one way or another.
• Corporate Conspiracy: They have certain companies like Corvadt Industries cooperating with them.
• Government Conspiracy: Though not necessarily run by any government, they have various members among different governments.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: They're known to kill those who know about them or their plans, persuade people to work for them through blackmail or threats on their loved ones, can fake footage and incidents to incriminate and intimidate their targets, and as in Season 1 later shows, seemingly have an interest in eugenics upon further reading of the Manuscript. Yet their true intentions remain unknown until much later.
• Humans Are Bastards: The Network worries about people escalating conflict when the resources are limited and there are always more mouths to feed. Some of them outright detest people for having families.
• Hypocrite: They claim utmost dedication to saving humanity from overpopulation by sterilizing and diminishing mankind's growth, abhorring letting personal values get in the way of everything, yet many of their higher-up members get cold feet when their plans are nearing completion. Of note is Philip coming to cherish the birth of his daughter and having second thoughts, Milner trying to keep said daughter alive a little bit longer for the sentimental connection it gives her to Philip, and Gorski wanting to keep his life and regretting the sleeper agents despite believing his isolated life has become meaningless.
• Lack of Empathy: Many of their ranks are self-centered, sociopathic, or incapable of feeling emotions and sympathy for others. Some have been conditioned to be this way, granting them the mindset they need to accomplish their assignments.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: How they tend to cover up certain deaths, some being small-scale, others reaching historical impact.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Zig-Zagged. They genuinely think they can help humanity with their intentions, which are meant to reduce the populace significantly without any racial bias, but certain figures believe Humans Are Bastards to varying degrees. This sentiment is best seen with their sleeper agents, who think they're saving the world with the death and sterilizations they'll cause. Terrance deems the raising of a child a "selfish" and harmful act for what it does to the environment.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name:
  • When the heroes discover the Manuscript's focus on races that can handle certain viruses and genetics, they fear selective destruction of humanity. Letts swears the Network has no racial bias when trying to cull the population, however.
  • Back when Mr. Rabbit and Carvel were founding the Network in its early stages, the Assistant noticed Carvel's choice to adapt the virus so only a certain group of people would be immune, comparing it to the machinations of the Third Reich. Carvell's experience with the actual Nazis drove him to this.
• Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy: Their connections can go from legitimate enterprises and everyday people to criminals like pimps.
• Nebulous Evil Organisation: The Network's reach spans bodies, both lawful and unlawful, and transcends specific governments.
• Never Suicide: Their tracks are covered with the murders of their targets made to look like suicide, if not accidents.
• Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: Occasional in Season 1, more noticeable by Season 2.
  • After Conran Letts is deemed compromised for letting their plans be known, the Assistant hands Geoff a rope to strangle him with. Geoff is incredulous at being made to follow orders, and the Assistant simply says a few more words to urge him.
  • At the starting flashback episode of Season 2, Carvel is far too conflicted with his plans following the birth of Jessica, while Milner has trouble trying to convince him to follow their plans. In the next episode, Geoff tries to argue against announcing simultaneous vaccinations because he wants to keep his power, and Milner finds herself arguing with Leah after Jessica is held within their facilities, unwilling to just bisect her to retrieve Janus in its entirety just because she is wrapped up in preserving the last connection she has to Carvel.
• The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: There were several founding members whose backgrounds are rather elusive. Scenes with their leadership leave them commenting on whether things are going according to their machinations or not, with certain figures turning out to have more or less power than initially perceived.
• Resignations Not Accepted: Members of all ranks cannot leave or abandon their missions while knowing everything they have about the Network. They will find a way to get you back or to end your life if you will not cooperate.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: The Network's conspirators come from all sorts of backgrounds, for both legitimate and criminal enterprises, getting people to work in the favor of "friends" one way or another. The Russian pimp that blackmails Dugdale is one example.
• Suicide Mission: Certain members know they won't survive their assignments, or accept certain roles they know will mean the end of their lives. Some do it willingly, while others don't realize this was the case for them until it's too late.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: Everything they do, they claim is for a better world. Hence the name of the series.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: They want to address humanity's overpopulation and the inevitable conflicts that will ensue over resources, and they intend to cull mankind with a spread of viruses.

Founders and Leadership

Everyone in this section is a Walking Spoiler, so all spoilers within this section are unmarked. Open the folders at your own risk.

Mr. Rabbit

Portrayed by: Geraldine James, Rose Leslie (as young Milner)

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The mysterious leader of the Network, and one of its co-founders; masquerading as an MI5 agent aiding the heroes on their journey.

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• Big Bad: Having masqueraded as the Big Good throughout Series 1, she's actually just manipulating the heroes so she can have what they want.
• Big Good: Only nominally; it was all a facade to see the heroes do some of the dirty work for her.
• The Chessmaster:
  • Mr. Rabbit was said to have manipulated mob syndicates, the CIA, and the Russians during his time in China's criminal underworld, pitting them against each other. As head of the Network following Carvel's departure, he is responsible for the decisions the conspirators take to see their plans through.
  • She plays both sides multiple times and has spoken her way out of danger or to see the results she wants, playing the main cast for fools at the end of Season 1.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Concerning Jessica Hyde; from the moment she was born, Carvel loves Jessica enough for him to have doubts about his work, causing Milner to comment that she's "losing him". When she captures Jessica at the end of Series 1, Milner takes special delight in telling her that Janus was inside her ("Can't you feel Daddy's love inside you?"). And in Series 2, #5, when Carvel reveals that he altered Janus so that Jessica would survive and carry on humanity.
  Milner: ...You did this for her?
• Deep Cover Agent: Appears to operate both as an actual government spy and as the head of the Network, simultaneously.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Dies while she's being cradled by Philip Carvel.
• Double Agent: Infiltrates the main group opposing the Network, while acting as the Network's leader.
• Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: Milner claims to be working for MI-5 when she introduces herself as the main group's benefactor, and they come into conflict when Ian and the others discover she's been working with the Network as well. She claims she's only working with them to infiltrate and intercept the conspiracy's plans and promises she has the heroes' interests in mind. When they're captured and stuck in bindings, she looks as though she's about to execute them, only to shoot the Network's agents and assist in their escape. Then at the end of Season 1, it's revealed that she not only willingly works with the Network to further their goals, but has also been their leader "Mr. Rabbit" this whole time.
• The Dreaded: Milner tells terrifying stories of Mr. Rabbit's history as an assassin and spy prior to the Network, which has established them as an unstoppable and all-pervasive force, an enemy virtually impossible to fight back against — not least because nobody knows who they are.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • She has a "higher form of love" for Philip Carvel and was more concerned about having lost him than his work when his split and escape from the Network happened.
  • Said love extends to his children, as she develops a warped sense of care for Jessica and hesitates to have her dissected for Janus since she's the last connection she has to Carvel. It even applies to Arby/Pietre, telling him about how "incredible" his father was and embracing him upon his return to the Network.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In the Series 2 premiere, Milner is shocked when Philip tells her that Pietre's behavior — which leads to Philip's wife had him arrested for child endangerment — is due to experiments Philip performed on him. His excuse is that Pietre was the only human test subject he had on hand.
• Evil Old Folks: She's been working towards her ideal world for over 40 years.
• Evil Redhead: In the 70s.
• The Faceless: Mr. Rabbit has gone to great lengths to shield his appearance from the public, making sure to kill every mobster and passerby that saw his face as he escaped Guangdong. He can only be identified by the carved Chinese character "Rabbit" on his stomach. It's eventually revealed that Milner was Mr. Rabbit this whole time, while the Assistant would throw others off by carving the symbol onto himself.
• Gender-Concealing Writing: The alias "Mr. Rabbit" neatly deflects scrutiny off of her.
• Like a God to Me: Philip Carvel is this to her.
  Milner: I said you were a god. And you were.
• Love Makes You Dumb: Milner's love for Philip Carvel invokes this trope. He is forgiven by her for doing things (trying to leak Janus to the press on more than one occasion) that would have any other person killed by the Network. After Jessica is born, he's allowed to keep the baby. And when he reveals that his 'adjustment' to Janus nullifies the vaccine for Russian flu - meaning that 98% of humanity would be sterile and then die horribly and quickly, as opposed to the Network's original plan of 95% of humanity dying quietly over a generation or two - she still goes ahead with the plan.
• The Man Behind the Man: She is the woman behind the Assistant, who was in turn behind Letts and Geoff.
• Mob War: According to Milner, Mr. Rabbit was embroiled in criminal feuds that pulled government agencies into the mix, playing every faction for fools, until one Triad boss was tipped off to his identity and had him tortured. Mr. Rabbit gained his moniker when said boss carved his name into his stomach.
• Mysterious Past: An MI-5 agent (or so she claims) that is, in truth, one of the two infamous founders of the Network, "Mr. Rabbit". While her time with Carvel and the Assistant during the conspiracy's early years are shown, other events, such as the Mob War in China and the carving of the Chinese symbol for "Rabbit", are not elaborated upon when she's asked about it—and might not even be true due to Milner's penchant for deception.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Milner isn't actually her real name, but an alias, as no one knows her true name. However, it's implied that "Letan" is her actual name, as The Assistant is the only person to refer to her as Letan.
• The Team Benefactor: She offers assistance and advice to the group after the Manuscript. It's merely just to get the outcomes she wants.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: Between Milner and Philip Carvel. Milner's then-husband, Tom, calls what's going on between them a "higher" form of love.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Deconstructed in her backstory. She's seen horrible things in her life even before her involvement with Carvel and the creation of the Network. So when Carvel presents a scheme to save the world, no matter the cost, Milner goes ahead with it, and still pushes forward with it even after her initial objections around what Carvel intended to do, and even beyond Carvel's own objections, no matter how many people she has to put in body bags. And it's thousands of them by the sound of it.

The Assistant

Portrayed by: James Fox, Ed Birch (as the young Assistant)

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Letts' assistant, a high-ranking member of Corvadt Industries. Series 2 reveals that he was a spy in the Cold War and was a founding member of the Network as well as a close associate of Mr. Rabbit.

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• Beard of Evil: Ominous and commanding within the conspiracy, and has a soul patch. Season 2's flashback episode shows he sported the look when he was young as well.
• Decoy Leader: Such a devoted follower of Mr. Rabbit and the Network that he even carved the Rabbit symbol into his chest, so anybody who killed him would be completely convinced he was Mr. Rabbit.
• The Dragon: To Mr. Rabbit, aka Milner.
• Dragon-in-Chief: Has much greater authority than Letts, and before the finale of Season 1, was the most antagonistic to the main group compared to the real Mr. Rabbit.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Only recognized as "The Assistant".
• Evil Old Folks: Very old, and one of the founding members of the Network.
• Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Orders Geoff around and forces him to kill Letts, the latter of which pretty much deserved his fate.
• No Name Given: His real name is never given out, and he's only referred to as "The Assistant" in the credits.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Unknowingly does this to Philip. He compares Philip's favoring immunity to his disease for one race over others to "the Third fucking Reich", not knowing Philip experienced their concentration camps firsthand.
• Slashed Throat: Grant gives him one via a piece of plastic broken off of a laptop.
• Spell My Name with a "The": The Assistant. He may be mistaken to be the assistant to Letts, only to be seemingly portrayed as the true head of the Network, until it's later shown he's subordinate to the actual Mr. Rabbit.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: His reason for ordering Letts' death.

Philip Carvel

Portrayed by: Ian McDiarmid, Tom Burke (as young Philip)

A brilliant scientist, the other co-founder of the Network, and the author of The Utopia Experiments under the pseudonym Mark Dane.

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• Abusive Parents: Used his own children for scientific experiments, resulting in one becoming an emotionless sociopath and the other socially stunted and largely unscrupulous. He insists that he loves Jessica, however, even though he plants a bioweapon inside of her, making her the target of a ruthless genocidal conspiracy.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: Was motivated to use his intellect for something greater after escaping the Nazis, but went on to engineer things at a much greater scale of genocide than they could ever hope to achieve. And despite his scathing remarks about humanity's desire to spread leading to overpopulation, his views changed significantly following the birth of his daughter.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: In the modern day, he seems like a confused elderly man and only rambles in Romani. But Donaldson discovers that he cracked Deel's syndrome, and how it works... only the surfaces of the basement. As he's actually Phillip Carvel, he may not only know about it, he could've been responsible for it.
• Deadpan Snarker: In his younger years.
• Evilutionary Biologist: Downplayed. Traumatized by man's brutality to man, he went as far as to experiment on his own children, to diminish the impulse of violence — but it backfired horribly. He also wrote a paper on eugenics advocating a human cull and all but stated that during the creation of Janus, he wanted it adjusted to work on 95%-98% of the world's population, choosing one ethnic group to survive, to the shock of his colleagues. He later reveals that he went ahead with it anyway, but expresses deep regret over this, and can't even mention the adjustment without breaking down, and it is eventually discovered that the Roma people are immune to Janus.
  Philip Carvel: I only wanted to help evolution...
• Faking the Dead: His death was falsely reported to get him away from the Network's trails, allowing him to survive to the present day.
• For Science!: Wanted to use his mind to help the world after his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, and it eventually brought him to his dangerous experimentation.
• Heel Realization: He came to regret starting the Network's near-genocidal mission, leading to a divide between himself and Mr. Rabbit. In the present, now a senile old man, he dreads seeing the agenda put into motion, and when reunited with Milner before he can recognize her, says they should kill themselves in cries of anguish.
• I Have Many Names: Philip Carvel, Mark Dane, and Anton.
• Insufferable Genius: He's smart. And he knows it. This stops when his ideas start making headway in the Network, and he starts having second thoughts. He eventually loses his marbles altogether.
• Jerkass: Let us put it as straightforward as possible: Carvel is not a good man. Not only was he extremely abrasive during his youth, but he also deliberately experimented on his children (he justified them by stating that he didn't have any other human subjects). Then there's that whole "let the human race die horribly, except for the Roma people" thing. But then, by the end, even he realized how fucked up that plan was.
• Mad Artist: He's a talented artist as well, and created "The Utopia Experiments" in the form of a comic book/manuscript. However, he went insane shortly after completing them.
• Mad Scientist: By the end of his career.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: His engineering of Janus is meant to only keep the Roma people safe, dooming the rest of the world, instead of the unbiased sterilization the Network was hoping for. He made this his plan following the experiences he and his people had during the Third Reich's reign, having escaped a concentration camp as a boy.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Played with when he was younger. Not so much now, since he's genuinely mentally unstable.
• Sanity Slippage: By the time he writes The Utopia Experiments.
• The Unfavorite: Pietre/Arby. What makes it worse is that what makes Pietre this to him, is something that was his own fault to begin with.
• The Unfettered: Experimented on his own son, and developed ideas for mass sterilization of the human race to combat overpopulation. However, the birth of his beloved Jessica slowly turned him away from this motivation.

Operatives

Conran Letts

Portrayed by: Stephen Rea

A high-ranking member of Corvadt Industries.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: Though not much, he's a bit more sympathetic than the rest of the Network.
• Asshole Victim: Was abrasive and demeaning to Dugdale and is a corrupt CEO in league with the Network. Nobody in the cast misses him after he's ordered to be strangled to death.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: CEO of Corvadt Ltd., responsible for the vaccines the Network intends to manipulate.
• Decoy Leader: First appears to be the head of the Network. Then it turns out The Assistant is really his master. Then it turns out the Assistant is a decoy of Mr. Rabbit.
• The Dragon: To the Assistant.
• Hannibal Lecture: Speaks quite rationally and persuasively about his mass-murderous ideology. Ian isn't convinced, but Wilson is.
• Slouch of Villainy: Leans back and forth in his fancy leather chair when talking down to people like Dugdale.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After being caught by the heroes, the Assistant orders his death.

Geoff Lawson

Portrayed by: Alistair Petrie

The Secretary of State for Health, secretly working for the Network.

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• Asshole Victim: One of the Network's least sympathetic victims.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's able to be very charming when he wants to be, but drops the friendly facade when he gets down to business, especially to Dugdale.
• Jerkass: He's generally unpleasant in all scenes involving him.
• Villains Want Mercy:
  • He's told that the Network's plans for vaccination will be simultaneous administration, which will end his role in the conspiracy. He makes every bargain and threat he possibly can to keep his power for a bit longer.
  • Geoff resorts to offering Dugdale a chance to leak information regarding the Network and to deal a blow to their operations. Dugdale has other plans and beats him down after all the years of being kept under his abusive thumb.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Network only needs him around to help distribute vaccines. Once that's out of the way, they'll stop helping him and his career. They eventually make good on this intention.

Assassins

"Arby" / Pietre

Portrayed by: Neil Maskell

"Where is Jessica Hyde?"

An assassin employed by the Network, later discovers that he has a more personal connection to the organization than it first appeared. He eventually finds out that his real name is Pietre, and he's really the son of one of the Network founders, Philip Carvel, as well as the brother of Jessica Hyde.

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• Animal Motifs: Rabbits, especially in Season 2.
• Big Eater: Eats a full English breakfast at a diner quite often.
• Cain and Abel: The revelation that he's actually Philip's son and Jessica's brother renders him as the Abel to her Cain throughout Season 1. Certain developments stop this in Season 2.
• Catchphrase: "Where is Jessica Hyde?" It gets a brief Call-Back in Season 2, where he's not with the Network anymore.
• Character Tics: When he shoots someone, he has a tendency to raise his free hand in front of his face, covering the gun and the target from his sight for a moment. Why exactly he does this is never explained.
• Creepy Monotone: He almost always speaks with the same dull effect, especially when it comes to horrible things.
• The Dreaded: The heroes come to fear his appearance, knowing how ruthless and effective of a killer he is. As we see in Season 2, his father grew fearful of his behavior (ignoring how much his own experimentation helped cause this) and even Lee fears him and what he's capable of.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Arby turns out to mean "R.B." as initials. It's short for "Raisin Boy".
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • By the end of Season 1 and into Season 2, he starts worrying about Jessica when they discover they're siblings, who return his care for her when they're reunited. He also grows to steer Grant away from trying to be like him.
  • He's started a family of his own at the start of Season 2, and when the Network comes around to take him back, he hesitates until Lee starts threatening them. He later takes an opportunity to forge new identities for the three of them, but only to make sure his girlfriend and daughter escape to somewhere isolated.
• Evil Counterpart: To Jessica. Both are loners, pragmatic survivalists, and trained killers. They're even siblings. But Jessica has always been on the run from the Network, while it's Arby's mission to get her for them.
• Freudian Excuse: His father killed his pet rabbit in front of him when he was just a baby and it was all downhill from there. Carvel not only experimented on him beforehand, but also grew to favor his sister Jessica.
• Heel–Face Turn: After finding out who he really is, he slowly turns away from the Network. By Season 2 he's actively helping Jessica and the group.
• Inappropriate Role Model: In Season 2, he finds himself becoming this to Grant, who wants to become an emotionless killer like him. He refuses to see this happen.
• Insistent Terminology: After discovering his real name, he refuses to be called Arby again.
• It's Not You, It's My Enemies: He does this in Season 2, telling his girlfriend and her daughter to escape and live a new life under new identities without him, so the Network and other affiliates can't go after them.
• Lack of Empathy: He notes that he cannot feel remorse for killing and cannot sympathize with others easily. It's mostly thanks to the experiments of his father.
• Meaningful Name:
  • "Arby" is actually initials, "R.B.", which stood for "Raisin Boy". Alternatively, due to his Lack of Empathy and eventual desire to gain the feeling of care for others, it can be interpreted as "Real Boy".
  • His real name turns out to be "Pietre", a Romanian variant of "Peter". Knowing the rabbit motifs following him and his work for Mr. Rabbit's organization, his name might be construed as "Peter Rabbit".
• Psychopathic Manchild: He kills and causes pain without remorse at command, while at the same time he has extremely stunted emotional development. Once he actually tries to socialize with other people, his attempts are very clumsy.
• Skilled, but Naive: He's an efficient agent for the Network and is successful in the missions set by them and himself, but he lacks social experience and empathy.
• The Sociopath: Kills with no remorse or hesitation whatsoever. Then it's revealed in season two that he was experimented on by his father as a child, implying that he was made into one.
• The Un-Favourite: His father abandoned him without a second thought while being prepared to die for his daughter, Jessica.
• The Unsmile: He tries his hardest to put up a genuine smile, but his trouble with emotions is a detriment to it.
• Would Hurt a Child: Would kill one. That said, it seems to spark his eventual rebellion against the Network.

Lee

Portrayed by: Paul Ready

• Affably Evil: So affable, he can convince people to gas themselves to death.
• Boom, Headshot!: How Wilson kills him in Season 2, for real this time since Lee is the only one left from the Network who is opposing Wilson in so many ways.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Courtesy of his spoon and various powders.
• Evil Cripple: After being shot by Wilson, his left arm is completely paralyzed due to nerve damage. This doesn't make him any less dangerous or evil, however.
• Foil: To Arby. Whereas Arby is an assassin who had a serious case of a lack of empathy towards human emotions, in general, which in turn causes him to have a hard time in expressing himself, Lee on the other hand seems to have a better grasp on human emotions (and expressing himself), only to use it for his self-benefits.
• Must Have Nicotine: He's fond of smoking, to the point where he risks lighting a cigarette while he and Arby are staging a gas leak. This is a vulnerability for him, as he gets out of the room Wilson is tortured in to grab a smoke, giving Wilson a chance to escape.
• Smug Snake: Delivers his lines confidently and constantly sports a facial expression of self-assurance.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Sports a nice navy blue suit in season 1 and a canary yellow up for season 2.
• Torture Technician: With a particular specialty for eyes, as poor Wilson found out.

Terrence

Portrayed by: Steven Robertson

"Nothing produces carbon like a first-world human, yet you created one. Why would you do that?"

One of three Network sleeper agents responsible for executing their plan in series 2.

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• Boom, Headshot!: How Ian deals with him.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Conditioned to fervently execute the Network's plans, like his fellow agents.
• Burger Fool: Works as a cashier at a Burger Station.
• Deadpan Snarker: Offers to kill a child right in front of his mother as a "favor" for the environment, and makes a snide comment about one of his targets' occupations as a fishmonger.
• Deep Cover Agent: Working for the Network and biding his time as a lowly fast food cashier until he's called.
• Determinator: He's stabbed in the stomach by Ian and incapacitated to the point where he can't stand on his own. Still, he's so dedicated to seeing his mission through he resorts to crawling with the canister in his arms.
• The Dreaded: One of plenty of sleeper agents with the mission to spread a deadly disease, whose reputations put fear and regret into their creators.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's polite, always calm, and smiling when working his day job at a fast food joint, even in the face of rude customers. It's all an act to hide the ruthless and robotic agent he really is, best seen when he belittles a mother for the "act" of having a son.
• Hannibal Lecture: Summarizes the Network's motives quite well in an iconic monologue in the final episode of Season 2, in which he argues the very act of childbirth is inherently selfish and enormously destructive for the planet.
• Manchurian Agent: His behavior shifts when he's contacted by Milner and told the code words to unleash the virus.
• Would Hurt a Child: Generously offers to murder a woman's child to remove the burden he'll put on the environment. He ends up not doing so, leaving it unclear if the suggestion was literal.

Supporters

Grant Leetham's arc

Alice Ward

Portrayed by: Emilia Jones

A schoolgirl Grant befriends.

• Break the Cutie: Her mother is shot dead in front of her, leading her to have a complete mental breakdown.
• Happily Adopted: At the end of Series One by Dugdale.

Michael Dugdale's arc

Anya

Portrayed by: Anna Madeley

A Russian prostitute whom Dugdale unintentionally impregnates.

• Deep Cover Agent: So deep she even has sex with her target just to complete her disguise as a prostitute.

Jen Dugdale

Portrayed by: Ruth Gemmell

Michael Dugdale's unfortunate wife.

• Beware the Nice Ones
• Nice Girl: She's such a kind-hearted woman that even she can't find herself hating Dugdale after realizing he's been sleeping with a prostitute. Even more so, she actually gets Grant (the main characters' resident Bratty Half-Pint) into following her orders to be orderly in her home, something that Dugdale himself can't do.

Becky's arc

Christian Donaldson

Portrayed by: Simon McBurney (Series One), Michael Maloney (Series Two)

• Asshole Victim: Absolutely no one grieves for him when he's killed off by Lee in Series 2.
• Hate Sink: He is nothing short of irredeemable throughout the series, treating Becky like a plaything, and he actually occupies the spot for being the single most despicable character in the series even when compared to the likes of the Network's members. It says a lot when Arby, a man who literally killed several innocent children, has more humanity than him.
• I Coulda Been a Contender!: He was a rising star in Corvadt Inc. until he discovered that the SARS virus was engineered, and sought to tell everyone. In response, Corvadt propped up a sex scandal involving him, and he was subsequently demoted. He now wants the Utopia Experiments manuscript as leverage to strike a new deal with The Network.
• Jerkass
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
• Manipulative Bastard: Throughout the entire series, he's been manipulating Becky to get her the Utopia Experiments manuscript under the promise of treatment for her illness. He's just been drugging her the whole time, and her symptoms were the body withdrawing from the opium she was actually given.
• Money, Dear Boy: Donaldson doesn't care about what The Network is planning to do, he even on some level agrees with them: He just wants the manuscript to cut a deal with The Network, and get rich, caustically noting that a mere pension plan will not save you from the global economic meltdown that will happen once The Network's plan goes into fruition.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: For claiming to his superiors that SARS wasn't a real epidemic, and hit with a sex scandal to boot.
• The Reveal: He turned out to be the mysterious contact Becky spoke to over the phone.

Marius

Portrayed by: Emil Hostina

A Romanian immigrant who Becky hires to translate Anton's ramblings.

• Everybody Has Standards: As Jerkass as he is, even he is shocked upon learning Carvel's (Anton's) past as a Holocaust survivor from the Belzec extermination camp, the third-deadliest extermination camp after Treblinka and Auschwitz.
• Jerkass: He may be invaluable to the group in learning Anton's past, but he proves to be a massive prick outside of that.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Is killed in the same episode he's introduced. Not that it stops Becky from having hallucinations of him taunting her.

Jessica Hyde's arc

Christos

Portrayed by: Simon Blackhall (Series One), William Belchambers (Series Two)

A mysterious man who decades ago saved Philip Carvel from The Network and took Jessica Hyde under his wing.

• Defiant to the End: Arby says he did not say a single word while he was tortured to death.
• Mysterious Past: By the end of the series he is possibly the biggest mystery that remains. Who was Christos? Why did he come to save Carvel and adopt Jessica? How did he know about anything that was going on? Was he working alone or as part of some organization? All unknown.
• Posthumous Character: He is long dead when the series begins. He gets a brief appearance in the whole-episode flashback at the start of the second season.

Other Characters

Bejan

Portrayed by: Mark Stobbart

The first member of the group to get a hold of The Utopia Experiments, which he was killed soon afterward.

• Decoy Protagonist: Unceremoniously killed in the very first episode.
• He Knows Too Much: The Network shows him as little mercy as they do anyone else who endangers their plans.
• Sacrificial Lamb: You may think he becomes part of the Protagonists. Nope, doesn't even live through the first episode.
• The Team Benefactor: Was going to be this, as a wealthy man and the original owner of the manuscript. Unfortunately, the Network gets to him first.

Anton (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Portrayed by: Ian McDiarmid

An elderly, senile Romani man Becky meets through Donaldson, with a clear interest in science and the Janus formula. In truth, he is Philip Carvel himself - hiding from the Network under a new identity.

For tropes related to him, see here.