The Institutions and Organisations
featured in Season One
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OUT OF THE HIVE: The Hive [Mentioned from Season One to Season Three]
Government listening post, where Beckett is initially employed. Literally a hive of high-technology computer equipment: all ‘phone conversations are routinely monitored and the Mainframe boosts an impressive array of computer software. However, it is a relatively simple task to "hack" into this computer, as Ros demonstrates. Security is also less than efficient, and Ed has a relatively easy task when asked to break in and retrieve a DAT tape for Beckett.
OUT OF THE HIVE: Gizmos [Mentioned from Season One to Season Three]
The company owned by Ros, whose initial business is the selling of covert listening equipment. Based in a factory unit, the company occupies two levels. There is a living area and various computer equipment on the upper floor, whilst the space below is used for storage and occasionally doubles as "fake" office space (see Down Among the Dead Men) The unit is eventually destroyed by Jean-Daniel.
ASSASSINS, INC: Cyberscope
Owned by Irene Campbell, Cyberscope is at the cutting edge of sophisticated and highly illegal) weapons manufacture. A huge area full of video games and diversions serves as a focal point for the employees, whilst Campbell herself has a massive office dominated by a RAID Computer system with software designed by Dave Young. Sealed by the Bureau of Weapons Technology it is a relatively simple task for Beckett and Ed to break in. The company has an off-site backup facility, which is conveniently destroyed in a fire prior to Blatty’s visit
ASSASSINS, INC.: The Bureau of Weapons Technology [Mentioned from Season One to Season Three
Headed by Roland Blatty, the Bureau is a top-secret organisation formed to police and supervise weapons exports and development. Their first assignment is to shut down Cyberscope, who they suspect are illegally selling arms to foreign parties. Very little is known about the Bureau at this stage.
ASSASSINS, INC: Marine Command
Responsible for the Navy, their headquarters are situated aboard a decommissioned cruiser. It is aboard this cruiser that a foreign regent is assassinated, and outside headquarters a voice-activated bomb also kills Admiral Lansdale. Beckett served in Marine Command before being court martialed and discharged.
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN: Kamen & Ross
International finance house, whose Head of Security Graham Hurry employs the team when he suspects ex-employee Bryan Brody of planning to defraud his ex-employers. The Board of Kamen and Ross are not convinced that Hurry’s suspicions are correct, and he is forced to work alone with Ros to prove his suspicions are founded.
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN: Jacobs Doyle
Secretive diamond merchants with a very exclusive clientele, Jacobs Doyle are unwittingly the target of Brody’s fraud, when his wife Juliet buys a large amount of diamonds using a phoney money transfer. Their security however is adequate enough to prevent Juliet’s escape once the fraud becomes known.
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN: Fathom Five Diving Services
McTiernan’s company, which he has run for 10 years.
SHOTGUN WEDDING: SSD (Special Services Department) [Mentioned from Season One to Season Three]
Run by Commander Wence, SSD is so secret very few people even know of the organisation’s existence. Their methods are not exactly cutting edge, relying often on numbers and brute force to get the job done. Wence has little time for Beckett and his team regarding them as amateurs. Their offices are located at the top of an office building that Beckett has no trouble breaking into…
SHOTGUN WEDDING: Liberty Party
Anna Fabrizi and Alberto Corelli’s Italian Political party committed to cleaning up Italian politics. Their logo is produced here using lasers by William Swift.
STEALTH: Tronix Automotive Design Group
Owned by Dave O’Neill, Tronix (located at an old airbase) is at the cutting edge of vehicle design and technology. They have an impressive R&D lab, with a Military Division that funds a great deal of the R&D on the Tronix Trancer, O’Neill’s hope for the future of car design.
MANNA FROM HEAVEN: New Earth Foods
Owned by Richard Lennox, New Earth Foods is a design facility with a number of specialist Propagation Suites for the growth of Phodex, Lennox’s miracle food for the future. Based on two floors the company also boasts a sophisticated time lock safe with the addition of password control that can only be operated by Lennox himself, a feature that almost causes his own demise.
MANNA FROM HEAVEN: Hennessy Brock plc
Massive food giants who occupy a large high rise building. Very little is known about them, except that their Research Director Zander is desperate to obtain the secret of Phodex from Lennox.
MANNA FROM HEAVEN: JBS Security [Mentioned from Season One to Season Two]
Security consultants to Hennessy Brock, and for the Water pumping station where Sally is killed.
HOT METAL: Millennium Metals
Large independent metal manufacturing and development company, who have a government license to manufacture R6. Run by Vermeer, their security is put under scrutiny after hired gun Da Silva attempts to break in and steal an amount of R6 for his own ends. Government official Kent asks Beckett and his team to beef up security as a result.
A SPORTING CHANCE: International Sporting Academy
Run by Frances De Freitas, the Academy promotes sporting excellence in all fields. The Academy has an extensive laboratory facility where Peter Hunter, Head of Sports Medicine, conducts his research on Tri-meserone.
PULSE: Computer Recall
Front for a crime syndicate run by Jean-Daniel and Patric Marcel, the company processes and stores backups for companies, guaranteeing their safety from a manner of man-made or natural disasters. Backups can either be sent remotely to the company, or deposited in a wall safe for collection for processing.
PULSE: Weapon Works
Company owned by Claire Bishop which is targetted by Computer Recall in their scheme to disable London and Geneva. Manufacturers of strictly non-lethal weaponry. Claire is forced to manufacture two pulse weapons which the French pair then launch to disable the financial centres of the two cities. Her daughter is held hostage as an added incentive...
PULSE: Newsoms Coachbuilders (Newsoms Trucks)
Truck body-builders who are also on Computer Recall's hit-list. The owner is killed, and the Bugs team take over the running of the company in an attempt to ascertain the French duo's real plans.