The Friend

Charming, calm, searching for love (lonely?)

A charming woman, who is in grad school and handles the stress and chaos with calm and grace. She is charming and makes friends easily, but is lonely - she needs many friends as an extrovert, but is also looking for love. She drives forward the B plot by first falling in love with the wrong guy, and then falling in love with The Duke

The Partner in Crime

Independent, logical, cold, aloof, secretive

Mathilda meets this mysterious man when she and the friend meet The Duke. He’s introduced as the best friend of The Duke, but might also be his bodyguard. Basil (the partner) originally offers to help Mathilda, helping plan and letting Matilda use his apartment as a space for meeting, and is a competent spy/investigator/protection officer. Later, he is part of encouraging her to continue investigating and getting a team together, but then he disappears in the ALL IS LOST. However, he disappeared to protect The Duke and his own identity as MI6, but also to go to ground and sniff out the mole in the FBI. He returns as part of the big reveal with the law student to close the net on the conspiracy (and for The Duke’s grand gesture of love).

The Law Student

Naive, Good Listener, Hot Headed & Impulsive

Mathilda constantly gets his name wrong because she thinks he is too cavalier with his identity. He tends to get angry easily, in contrast to the calm friend. He does not get roped into the investigation, as Mathilda sees him as a person she needs to protect, but Basil runs off with him and The Duke during ALL IS LOST only to reappear using his baby-lawyer internship skills to help close the conspiracy.

The Suspected Ally

Private, vigilant, worldly, opinionated

Former USA military, it isn’t clear if she’s an ally or the mole for the terrorist cell. Her apartment is in the same unit that the original terrorists disappeared into, and something about her seems hyper-vigilant. Mathilda can’t tell if she just lacks the “coolness” of a professional, or if she really is just adapting to civilian life. At the midpoint, when Mathilda is kidnapped and has to decide whether or not to reform, the ally proves she is beyond doubt when she helps Mathilda to escape and then helps to reform the group for the grand finale after ALL IS LOST.