A Brief Guide to those who hindered
the Gizmos Team in Season Three.
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Blaze of
Glory/The Revenge Effect; Kitty McHaig
Charismatic "destruction artist" whose ostracism from her father’s business was the catalyst for her decision to become an artist. Her hatred for her father and his attitude turns to a single-minded need for revenge when her brother Christopher commits suicide rather than face his father and ask him for permission to leave the family business (McHaig Construction). Initially attracted to Ed she has no qualms in leaving him to die in her attempt to sabotage her father’s Airport Link Tunnel project.
Ed survives, and becomes entangled in Kitty’s life again when her ex-employee Zak uses Ed’s plaster cast to store the passcode for Kitty’s bank account. Forced to kidnap him and hold him hostage Kitty is unable to elicit the passcode and eventually makes a break for freedom, stealing Ros’ car along the way. She dies when Ros’ car explodes, thanks to one of her own explosive shells…
Blaze of
Glory: Andrew McHaig
No-nonsense owner of McHaig Construction, with interests only in his work and certainly not in his family. He inadvertently comes into contact with a nerve agent released from a stored chemical weapon and is hospitalised, and almost killed by his own daughter when she attempts to blow up the Airport Link Tunnel project.
Blaze of
Glory: Ben
Accomplice of Kitty McHaig, responsible for providing her with the information on the Bureau of Weapon’s underground Chemical Weapons Dump. Apprehended by Ros and Beckett trying to meet the Duchess of Fortezza at the Airport.
Blaze
of Glory: Zak
Kitty’s other accomplice, whose expertise is in computer hacking. It is thanks to his abilities that Kitty is able to hack into her own Offshore Bank and change the details of her own account. Zak however changes Kitty’s password (as he wants no more to do with his boss after she kills her agent) and leaves the new code written on the back of Ed’s plaster cast. Last seen escaping from Kitty in a stolen ambulance…
The
Price of Peace: General Chenlov
Committed soldier and not a believer of peaceful negotiation, Chenlov wants to use the Project Darkling missiles to systematically eliminate his enemies. He is angry at Trozek’s attempt to steal diamonds rather than concentrate on military conquest, and is eventually shot by his superior.
The Price of
Pease: Marius Trozek
Leader of Virghizia, disgraced by Pieter Van Straaten into leaving the negotiating table, and out for revenge. He fakes a Van Straaten Security Card in his successful attempt to kidnap Beckett and extract from him the access code for the Project Darkling satellite: however greed gets the better of him and he dies in a lift after an abortive attempt to steal diamonds from Van Straaten’s company.
Hollow Man:
Lewis Drake
Disgruntled patent clerk who preyed on potential millionaire Ethan Rockridge, giving him an unfair advantage in his bid to be the first person to patent hologram marking on credit cards. In exchange for the privilege, North forces Rockridge to manufacture a Holo-imager which (after North has stolen the �0 print master from the Bank of England) he uses to print a vast amount of legal tender. Responsible for the shooting of Rockridge, Drake dies with North when their truck, full of money, crashes into an acetone store and explodes.
Hollow Man:
Felix North
Inventor of the encryption software used to encode the Bank of England’s
�0 note master print disc. Fakes his own death in an attempt with Drake to cash in on
his plan to embezzle the Bank of England, and dies with Drake in a massive
explosion.
Hollow Man:
Finance Minister
Responsible for the removal of Drake’s record (at Rockridge’s request) thus pointing suspicion away from the patent clerk. Beckett uncovers his attempt to erase Drake’s record, thus negating the Minister’s request to have him sacked for dissension…
Nuclear
Family: Grigori Rostov
Embittered son of General Rostov, who tries on a number of occasions (using Driscoll and Bridget Kay) to kill his father, who he blames for the death of his mother. Dies after unwittingly being injected with a poison intended for his father…which takes effect as he is fighting Ed on the roof of the private clinic where Rostov is to be operated on.
Nuclear
Family: Bridget Kay
Owner and founder of Conflict Hardware International, a specialist in weaponry and small arms for regimes and dictatorships. Hired with Driscoll to sell the Medusa Missiles that Grigori Rostov will provide them with once his father has been disposed of, and dies due to one of her best selling weapons, the pressure-pad activated bomb.
Nuclear
Family: Driscoll
Professional assassin hired to kill General Rostov, who fails in his attempt and is captured by Ed and Varetsky.
Fugitive:
Gage
Head of SSD, he is responsible (with Eric Hammer) for the pillage of a number of Government Arms Dumps. Unsuccessfully attempt to frame Ros Henderson for the thefts, and is eventually apprehended at Weapons Storage base JS6 by Beckett. Responsible for the death of Reinhold and the injury caused to Davies.
Fugitive:
Eric Hammer
Arms dealer and Gage’s accomplice, who loses the disc containing the details of the Storage dumps he has pillaged, forcing Gage to frame Ros for the thefts once it becomes clear the Bureau could expose his involvement.
Happy Ever
After?: Mark Curtis (aka Mark Schuman)
Owner of Curtis Drilling, who stand to go bankrupt as a result of the Government’s National Water Grid scheme. Curtis befriends the daughter of the Minister involved in overseeing the project (Julia Fairchild), marries her and then has kidnapped in an attempt to force Fairchild into scrapping the scheme. He is unsuccessful in this and in his attempt to blow up the Central Intake Station, which forms the backbone of the NWG scheme.
Happy Ever
After?: John Donaldson & Martin Sugar
Criminals hired by Curtis to kidnap Julia Fairchild, and who are paid for their troubles by Curtis with a car bomb under a car…
Buried
Treasure: Sasha (aka Athena)
Ex-lover of Ed who returns to ask a favour of him ten years after walking out of their relationship: she requires his services as a helicopter pilot as part of an elaborate scheme to steal national art treasures. Dies when she tries to pilot the damaged helicopter away from the bunker in which Delaware has stored his stolen treasures, which subsequently crashes and explodes.
Buried
Treasure: Johns, Ben Kennedy and James Flood
Three prisoners who Athena affords an early release from prison, to allow them to participate in her scheme to steal art treasures. Johns is a construction expert, Kennedy specialises in electronics and Flood in explosives. Of the three only Kennedy survives: Athena kills Johns, whist Flood dies by accident after Alex inadvertently sends him over the wall of a Hotel car park. Beckett assumes Flood’s identity, allowing him to insinuate Athena’s hideout.
Buried
Treasure: Roger Delamere
Government’s Art Advisor who has been systematically stealing from the nation’s art treasures to form his own private collection. Killed by Athena when he refused to co-operate with her plans.
Identity
Crisis: Elaine Harman
Ex-Director of Communications and member of the National Security Executive who is in cohorts with David Lance to relieve Bureau Two of it’s monetary assets. Assuming the identity of "Jan" from the old "Jan" she instructs the team to break into the Data Storage Agency and obtain a confidential data disc. Contained on the disc is a security code, part of the complicated process to obtain the Bureau’s money, plus details of which member of the Cabinet is the current holder of the Bureau’s Beta Card. Apprehended by Ros when she attempts to flee the Consolidated Clearing Bank as the operation goes wrong.
Identity
Crisis: David Lance
Charismatic head of the Central Vetting Office, whom Jan suspects of leaking Government secrets to outside agencies. Decides to leave his employers before they have a chance to catch him, and has his eyes on Bureau Two’s financial assets as his retirement fund. However, does not do his research and is thwarted just as he gets his hands on the money itself.
Identity
Crisis: Decker & Luba
Kidnappers hired by Lance who are charged with holding Jan, and forced to track her down once she manages to escape them.
Renegades:
Roland Blatty (Recurring Character Season 1 and Season 2)
Roused from what was a persistant vegetative state by an activation code placed in his brain by Cyberax, Blatty is sent to retrieve the 4 discs that the original Cyberax program was placed on as a result of recommendations made by the Fulwood Committee. Once revived he has no feelings or recognition of former friends or colleagues even those who he was close to. He is almost successful in uplinking the virus to a military satellite but is prevented in finishing his mission by a lead-lined church roof. Once his computer and the discs are destroyed Blatty has served his usefullness to the virus and dies.
Renegades:
Samantha Jones and Jenna Spinks
Former Bureau of Weapons employees and the other two survivors of the Cyberax virus. Both are "activated" soon after Blatty and join him in the search for the four Cyberax discs. Jenna dies after throwing herself from a top story window at the Bureau (after successfully retrieving Disc Two) whilst Samantha returns to a vegetative state after successfully uplinking the contents of Disc Three to Roland Blatty.