List of Timeless characters

Timeless is an American television series created by Eric Kripke and Shawn Ryan. The following is a list of characters from the series.

Main characters

Lucy Preston

Lucy Preston (played by Abigail Spencer) is a history professor following her mother's footsteps. Despite her extensive knowledge of history, she is denied tenure by her university. One night, she is recruited by Homeland Security to the Lifeboat team as a history advisor to Wyatt Logan and Rufus Carlin in their mission to stop master criminal Garcia Flynn and recover the stolen experimental time machine Mothership. Throughout the team's adventures, Lucy personally encounters Flynn, who reveals that he possesses a journal she will write in the future. In the original timeline, her mother Carolyn is in the terminal stage of lung cancer, with her younger sister Amy caring for her. Following the Hindenburg mission, Lucy discovers that Carolyn no longer has cancer, but Amy no longer exists and she is engaged to a man named Noah. In addition, she finds out that Henry Wallace, her father in the original timeline, is not her biological father. After several arguments, Carolyn reveals Lucy's biological father as a man named Benjamin Cahill.^[1]

Wyatt Logan

Wyatt Logan (played by Matt Lanter) is a U.S. Army Delta Force operative assigned to the Lifeboat team. As a military operative, he has expertise in weapons and picking locks, and is fluent in four languages. He constantly tries to cope with the loss of his wife Jessica, who was murdered after being reported missing in February 2012. Wyatt also suffers from PTSD after being the lone survivor of a failed operation.^[1]

Rufus Carlin

Rufus Carlin (played by Malcolm Barrett) is a programmer at Mason Industries assigned as the pilot of the prototype time machine Lifeboat. He is initially uncomfortable with the idea of traveling with the team due to the unkind history of African-Americans over the centuries. Though he bonds well with his teammates, he is revealed to be recording their activities under Mason's orders. When Rufus threatens to quit, he is threatened by an agent of Rittenhouse to stay with the team in order to assure the safety of his family.^[1]

Garcia Flynn

Garcia Flynn (played by Goran Višnjić) is the series' antagonist. A former NSA agent, Flynn steals Mason Industries' experimental time machine Mothership with the intent of destroying American history. While still with the NSA, Flynn intercepted a series of financial transactions between Mason and Rittenhouse. When he reported this to his superiors, Rittenhouse had his wife and daughter murdered; since then, he swore to destroy Rittenhouse through time travel. Flynn also possesses a journal written by Lucy sometime in the future, which he uses as a road map to his time travels.^[1]

Connor Mason

Connor Mason (played by Paterson Joseph) is the CEO of Mason Industries and inventor of the two time machines in the series. Of Black British descent, Mason is a father figure to Rufus, having taken him off the streets of Chicago and providing him with an education at MIT. It is later revealed by Flynn that Rittenhouse had secretly funded Mason's time machine project. While they have mutual understandings with each other about the project, Mason questions Rittenhouse's decisions such as recruiting Lucy when there are hundreds of history professors in the country with actual tenure.

Denise Christopher

Denise Christopher (played by Sakina Jaffrey) is a Homeland Security agent in charge of the Lifeboat team. She is initially unaware of the existence of Rittenhouse, but she grows suspicious of Mason that she orders Homeland Security to put him under surveillance.

Jiya

Jiya (played by Claudia Doumit) is a programmer at Mason Industries. After the Hindenburg mission alters Lucy's family, Jiya helps her with a theory that Henry Wallace and Carol Preston never met, and concluded that Wallace was not Lucy's biological father. She has a complicated relationship with Rufus, mostly because she is a Trekkie while Rufus is a Star Wars fan.

Supporting characters

Anthony Bruhl

Anthony Bruhl (played by Matt Frewer) is a scientist at Mason Industries who was in charge of the Mothership project before he was kidnapped by Flynn. In episode 4, it is revealed that Anthony helped Flynn steal the Mothership. After stealing a plutonium core in 1962 Las Vegas, Anthony uses it as the Mothership's permanent fuel cell.

Carolyn Preston

Carolyn Preston (played by Susanna Thompson) is Lucy's mother.

Rittenhouse Agent

The Rittenhouse Agent (played by John Getz) is a member of the mysterious organization who oversees the activities of Mason Industries.

Patrick Ramsey

Special Agent Patrick Ramsey (played by Hector Hugo) is Agent Alexander's boss at Homeland Security. Originally sent in to relieve Wyatt of his duties, he allows Wyatt to stay with the Lifeboat team at the insistence of Lucy and Rufus. Ramsey continues to oversee the Mothership recovery mission with Agent Alexander.

Karl

Karl (played by Chad Rook) is Flynn's henchman.

Guest characters

Recurring

• Amy Preston (played by Bailey Noble) is Lucy's younger sister. As a result of the changes from the Hindenburg mission, Amy disappears from the present day timeline, as Henry Wallace married the granddaughter of one of the Hindenburg survivors instead of Carolyn, revealing that Lucy had a different father.
• Noah (played by Daniel Di Tomasso) is Lucy's fiance in the corrected timeline, though she does not really know him. After their engagement party, Lucy tells Noah that she needs time off for some soul searching.

"Pilot"

• Kate Drummond (played by Shantel VanSanten) is a journalist covering the Hindenburg landing in New Jersey on May 6, 1937. She is an original character in this series. In the original timeline, Kate is killed in the Hindenburg disaster when the burning airship crashes on her. When the Lifeboat team arrive in the timeline, Wyatt makes a futile attempt to save Kate, as she reminds him of his late wife. After the team saves the crew and passengers from a different Hindenburg explosion, Kate is shot dead by Flynn during a gun fight with Wyatt.^[2]

"The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln"

• John Wilkes Booth (played by Kelly Blatz) is a stage actor and Confederate sympathizer who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. He is paid a visit by Flynn, who offers him and his co-conspirators semi-automatic weapons to take out not only Lincoln, but also Vice President Andrew Johnson, Secretary of State William H. Seward, and General Ulysses S. Grant on the same night. Due to his theatrical ego, Booth declines to replace his Philadelphia Deringer with a modern firearm; a frustrated Flynn knocks Booth unconscious and does the Lincoln assassination himself. In the corrected timeline, Booth is still killed for his involvement in the assassination.^[3]
• Robert Todd Lincoln (played by Neal Bledsoe) is Abraham Lincoln's son. He meets Lucy (who uses the pseudonym "Juliet Shakesman") and invites her to watch Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre with the President.
• Nicholas Biddle (played by Mike Wade) is a Union soldier serving the 2nd Regiment Colored Infantry who confronts Rufus (who uses the pseudonym "Denzel Washington") over his replica uniform, feeling insulted that he is pretending to be a soldier while thousands of men who served the Colored Infantry lost their lives during the American Civil War. In the end, he respects Rufus for saving Vice President Johnson from being assassinated by one of Booth's co-conspirators. Biddle is named after a black servant involved in the Baltimore riot of 1861.

"Atomic City"

• Judith Campbell (played by Elena Satine) is President John F. Kennedy's mistress and connection to the Las Vegas mafia in 1962. After Flynn takes photos of her and Kennedy by their hotel window, he blackmails her into helping him steal a plutonium core from a nearby U.S. Army base.^[4]

"Party at Castle Varlar"

• Ian Fleming (played by Sean Maguire) is a British Naval Intelligence officer disguised as a Nazi SS officer in December 1944. Fleming reluctantly helps the Lifeboat team hand over German scientist Wernher von Braun to the Allies. In the corrected timeline, Fleming's adventures with the team inspires him to write the James Bond 007 novel "Weapon of Choice", which becomes a box office hit in 1964.^[5]
• Wernher von Braun (played by Christian Oliver) is a German scientist who invented the V-2 rocket. Flynn attempts to nab von Braun and hand him over to the Soviet Union, thus preventing the Americans from winning the Space Race during the Cold War.

"The Alamo"

• James Bowie (played by Chris Browning) is a Texian Volunteer Army Colonel during the Battle of the Alamo in 1836.
• Davy Crockett (played by Jeff Kober) is a frontiersman serving with Bowie in the Alamo Mission.^[6]
• William B. Travis (played by David Chisum) is a Texian Lieutenant Colonel credited for writing the "Victory or Death" open letter during the Texas Revolution. He is killed by Flynn before he finishes the letter, forcing Lucy to write a different version of the letter in order to secure the timeline.
• John William Smith (played by Sean Michael Kyer) is a young soldier in the Alamo who eventually becomes the first Mayor of San Antonio. He is saved by Wyatt after being pinned by falling debris when the Mexican Army fire cannonballs at the Alamo. He is later on convinced by Wyatt to go with the women and children and deliver the "Victory or Death" open letter.
• Antonio López de Santa Anna (played by Alex Fernandez) is the President of Mexico during the Battle of the Alamo. After being offered gold bars by Flynn, he orders his army to invade the Alamo three days before the original date. Santa Anna also orders his troops to raise the red flag to take no prisoners in their siege, much to Flynn's dismay.

"The Watergate Tape"

• Doc (played by Tiffany Mack) is a woman who is part of the Black Liberation Army in 1972. Known as "Doc" due to her PhD in History in the University of Chicago, she is revealed to be an ex-member of Rittenhouse who knows the organization's entire roster, thus making her a prime target for both Flynn and Rittenhouse.^[7]

"Stranded"

• Nonhelema (played by Karina Lombard) is a chieftess of the Shawnee tribe during the French and Indian War in 1754. When her tribe captures the Lifeboat trio, she sentences Lucy and Wyatt to death while sparing Rufus' life; however, Rufus convinces her to let his teammates go.

"Space Race"

• Katherine Johnson (played by Nadine Ellis) is a physicist and mathematician responsible for calculating trajectories for NASA's space missions, including the Apollo 11 lunar landing on July 20, 1969. When Anthony inserts a DoS attack into the Manned Spacecraft Center's mainframe, Rufus and Lucy ask Katherine to help them get the mainframe back online.
• Maria Thompkins (played by Caitlin Carver) is a Lockman Aerospace secretary with a son named Gabriel. Flynn sneaks into Maria's home and injects Gabriel with a shot of epinephrine to counter a anaphylactic shock from a bee sting before getting away from Wyatt. It is revealed in the present day that Maria is Flynn's mother and Gabriel is his half-brother.

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