The Event/Characters

Sean Walker
"Played By: Jason Ritter"


 * Action Survivor -> Action Hero -> Anti-Hero (Type III)
 * Break the Cutie:
 * : Dempsey seems to think he's this, in regards to the threat of Sophia's people.
 * Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
 * Playful Hacker: In his youth. He still has some connections.

Leila Buchanan
"Played by: Sarah Roemer"


 * Damsel in Distress -> Action Survivor
 * Idiot Ball: She is always captured and needs Sean to rescue her. Even though it seemed as if she Took a Level in Badass recently, her forays into heroism are far less successful than Sean's.
 * Damsel Scrappy
 * Damsel Scrappy
 * Damsel Scrappy

Michael Buchanan
"Played By: Scott Patterson"



Vicky Roberts
"Played By: Taylor Cole"


 * Action Mom: Adopted a baby whose family she killed for the job.
 * Anti-Villain
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Turned against Dempsey after finding out about his experiments on girls.

Elias Martinez
"Played By: Blair Underwood"


 * Bald Black Leader Guy
 * Our Presidents Are Different: President Minority, starts off as President Personable
 * Tranquil Fury: See Episode 15.

Blake Sterling
"Played By: Zeljko Ivanek"


 * Badass:
 * Character Development: Starts out looking like he's going to be a Knight Templar, but turns out to be a truly good guy.

Raymond Jarvis
"Played By: Bill Smitrovich"


 * Our Presidents Are Different: Well, Vice Presidents;
 * Unwitting Pawn: To Dempsey, partially. And now even more so to.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Everything he does,  has been to protect his country.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Everything he does,  has been to protect his country.

Christina Martinez
"Played By: Lisa Vidal"


 * Demoted to Extra: In the main cast, yet we barely ever seen her.

Sophia Maguire
"Played By: Laura Innes"


 * Redheaded Hero: Though it's debatable whether she's a hero
 * Redheaded Hero: Though it's debatable whether she's a hero

Thomas
"Played By: Clifton Collins Jr."


 * Big Bad Wannabe: And he was succeeding, for awhile.
 * Knight Templar
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Well,
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Well,
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy

Simon Lee
"Played By: Ian Anthony Dale"


 * Alien Among Us
 * Defector From Decadence: After
 * Disney Death
 * Ensemble Darkhorse
 * Interspecies Romance: Was in love with a human girl, but Thomas convinced him to leave her. Years later he ran into her, now an elderly woman, himself looking exactly the same.
 * The Mole: An Alien working in the White House.

James Dempsey
"Played By: Hal Holbrook"


 * Affably Evil
 * Ancient Tradition: Claims to part of a lineage of "Sentinels" who have been protecting Earth from the aliens for thousands of years.
 * Big Bad: Starting to look like it...
 * At least until.
 * The Chessmaster
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Justifies his actions by saying it's to stop the impending Alien Invasion.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Justifies his actions by saying it's to stop the impending Alien Invasion.

Agent Angela Collier
"Played By: Heather Mc Comb"


 * FBI Good
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: Nothing comes of her entire FBI suboffice getting slaughtered by

Isabel
"Played By: Necar Zadegan"


 * Big Bad Wannabe: With Thomas.
 * Lady Macbeth

Carter
"Played By: D. B. Sweeny"


 * Mauve Shirt: Considering it's a wonder he's even got a name...

Maya
"Played By: Clea Du Vall"


 * Cradling Your Kill: After killing her boyfriend, who was going to give information about Sophia to the government in exchange for releasing them from Inostranka.

Catherine Lewis
"Played By: Virginia Madsen"


 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: A feisty female Governor Senator from Alaska? Hm.