Envoys

They didn't know each other before this began... but they will depend upon one another for their lives.

  • Ryan HurstJustin Kazotchek, mechanic. played by Phil Morey Justin is a good Polish Catholic boy from Hamtramck, and is related to somebody just about anywhere in the Detroit area. He's a mechanic specializing in expensive custom vehicles, who survived an attack in Iraq of... something... that swarmed over his group and seemed impossible to kill. If the choppers hadn't come when they did...

    One good thing has come of this so far - Justin has fallen in love with and married Karen Riley. They've survived the wedding, now for the rest of it...

  • Jensen AcklesTony Leonetti, demolition specialist played by John Lawitzke It's hard to tell which is more explosive with Tony - his job or his personality. An Italian boy from the streets of New York, his day job is blowing things up for Controlled Demolitions. He's also in demand when a building partially collapses and they need to figure out how to get the survivors out. He seems, however, to have learned his social skills from Vinnie Barbarino, or maybe Ash (Army of Darkness).
  • Reg Morrison played by Brian Gray Born, bred and raised WASP, Reg hasn't let his Grosse Pointe upbringing limit him. No, he's immersed himself in it to the hilt. Entrepreneur and CEO, Reg helms the second tech-company he's founded, living the playboy, jet-setting lifestyle. Just don't ask him what he keeps locked in the triply-secured server room at work, or what happened to his company's co-founder.
  • Hugh LaurieAgent Frank Muelder played by Jason Nichols Formerly FBI, now Homeland Security, Agent Muelder kept stumbling across this group, first while investigating a kidnapping (Suzanne Forester) and then while tracking a terrorist cell. Considering that this group helped him with the biggest success of his entire career, he's working with them. For now.
  • Jennifer MorrisonKaren Riley, Anthropology Professor, Wayne State U. played by Lisa Lawitzke All of her life, Karen has seen dead people. After a stay in a mental hospital in her teens, she learned not to talk about it. Unfortunately, sometimes they see her. That can be a problem...
  • Robin Wright-PennLeigh Sorensen played by Erika Nichols A citizen of Denmark, Leigh is a professor of Anthropology and a lifelong student of the occult. Her studies took on an intensely personal tack when her beloved husband was seduced and killed by a creature of the Unknown... and then tried to come back for her. She's spent some time in this country training with Dee Crystal, and is now adding her skills to those of the Detroit envoys.

Envoys out of play

  • Mark Conway, Assistant Proscutor, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office. played by Reimer Behrends
  • Angelina JolieDECEASED Kathleen "Kat" Samuelle, CIA contract programmer/analyst. played by Kris Hasenfratz Kat had it all - a hot boyfriend, one of the coolest jobs in the world and more money than she really needed (thanks to her patent for part of what makes flash drives work). Irrepressibly curious (some might say nosy), she poked into one or two things that Man Was Not Meant To Know (nor Woman!). Kat died May 17, 2005, in Washington DC in a hit-and-run accident that may have been more hit than run. Her fiancee Jared Birkoff was also seriously injured, and may have been the target of the attempt.
  • Harvey Seidelmaier, TV Producer, Stop the Clock Productions. played by Joe Kavanagh - After the Unknown murdered the family nanny in an attempt to kidnap his daughter, Katy, rendering the child catatonic with terror, Harvey has disappeared to parts unknown, leaving his assistant CJ Guittierez in charge of production for Knight of the Night. He may return from time to time, but his daughter is his first priority. Joe went off to college in Chicago - he may be back to visit on breaks

Envoy: Riley, Karen

Jennifer MorrisonFemale, Caucasian, aged 30

Petite, though not waif-thin, she can pass as a student at the U rather than the prof. that she is. She's generally quiet, and if dragged into conversation, she'll try to direct it away from anything personal and towards the safe subject of her archeology work. She's not unattractive, but is shy and decidedly bookish.

Karen has seen 'ghosts' since early childhood and it's shaped much of who she is. She has 3 siblings, though has little contact with them beyond the occasional holiday get-together; she is the oldest. Her elderly mother lives near her in an assisted-living complex, and Karen is quite close to her. Her father passed away several years ago.

Karen was born in Detroit, and raised in suburban Detroit. When she was young, her parents dismissed her 'imaginary friends' as a childhood "phase" that would pass. But as she got older and the 'phase' persisted, her parents got her "help". When therapy alone didn't solve the problem (and when she was able to describe the dead grandparents whom she'd never met to an alarming degree of accuracy--including mannerisms that she couldn't have gotten from old photos!), she went into the psych. ward at the hospital. It was at this time that she came to the notice of SAVE. The organization (such as it was) began to keep track of her, though she didn't know it. She spent a couple years there (about age 14-15), until she learned all the 'right answers' and was declared competent and released to her family. Unfortunately, this disturbance of her otherwise relatively normal adolescence left her shy and reserved, and she retreated into books.

She excelled at school, though she had few friends and took part in none of the usual extracurricular activities, and she went on to undergrad studies at MSU. She discovered a love for archeology, and devoted most of her energies to making a place for herself in that academic world. She did her grad. work at U of M, working through summer breaks in order to get her PhD by the time she was 25. In the past several years, she's made a name for herself in the study of Native American archeology, and is in a tenure-track position in the Department of Archeology at Wayne State University.

At the same time, Karen still had the haunting knowledge that there were many things in the world that it seemed only she saw--the things she'd learned to not talk about. Whenever the opportunity to research these things presented itself (more often lately, since she's earned her tenure), she would grasp it, explaining to anyone that asked that it was "just some obscure reference" she needed to track down. When her research repeatedly led her to files 'flagged' by SAVE, she was finally contacted, and brought into the fold. She's begun to learn a few of the things an envoy needs to survive; but, more important to her, she's learned that she's not the only one who sees the Unknown, and she's learning how to control the knowledge and talents she has. Father Andrew gave Karen a crucifix to provide protection, and she wears it at all times.

Karen is represented by Jennifer Morrison. She has the right feel--not really forceful, but smarter than she seems, and kind of unsure in social situations--and the right look--younger than her age and attractive but not drop dead gorgeous.

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