Character Relationship Map: Rewind

Characters

• Shaun Knox (played by Shane McRae) — protagonist

  Shaun Knox is a CIA agent and one of the central members of the team responding to the nuclear destruction of New York City. Working alongside Danny and Dr. Lyndsay Bryce, he travels back in time to p...

• Dr. Lyndsay Bryce (played by Jennifer Ferrin) — protagonist

  Dr. Lyndsay Bryce is the scientist who joins CIA agents Shaun Knox and Danny in investigating the time travel operation created to prevent the catastrophe. She helps the team understand the connection...

• Danny (played by Robbie Jones) — supporting

  Danny is a CIA agent assigned to the team attempting to stop the nuclear attack that has destroyed New York City. He works with Shaun Knox and Dr. Lyndsay Bryce as they travel into the past, investiga...

• Charlie (played by Keon Alexander) — supporting
• Rourke (played by David Cronenberg) — supporting

  Rourke is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who becomes embittered after his wife's death and engineers the nuclear bombing of New York City. His plot is designed to force the US Government to use time...

• Marsden (played by Chris Ratz) — minor

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Charlie → Dr. Lyndsay Bryce (Professional Scientific Collaborators) — Their scientific contributions inform the team's assessment of time travel and its potential effects.

  Bryce explains the time-travel window's uncertainties, while Charlie's analytical program models consequences of changing the past.

• Danny → Dr. Lyndsay Bryce (Professional Mission Colleagues) — Danny participates in the time-travel mission while Bryce advises the team about its dangers.

  Bryce works with the team that includes Danny, and Danny travels into the past as part of the operation she explains and helps prepare.

• Shaun Knox → Dr. Lyndsay Bryce (Professional Mission Colleagues) — Bryce provides scientific guidance while Knox leads the mission and refuses to abandon it when the return window is at risk.

  Bryce works with Knox on the time-travel operation, explains the window's uncertainties, and warns that their actions have shortened its safe period.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Danny → Marsden (Conflict Mission Pursuer And Target) — Danny participates in the pursuit of Marsden as part of the time-travel operation.

  The team, including Danny on the mission, pursues Marsden during its operation in 1929.

• Shaun Knox → Marsden (Conflict Mission Pursuer And Target) — Marsden becomes a focus of the team's pursuit, but the available account leaves the outcome unresolved.

  During the operation in 1929, Knox and the team pursue Marsden. Knox later learns from Charlie that Marsden is living with his sister.

• Charlie → Shaun Knox (Alliance Analytical Adviser) — Charlie supplies analysis and information that changes how Knox understands the mission's possible consequences.

  Charlie's analytical program demonstrates possible consequences of changing the past, and Charlie later tells Knox that Marsden is living with his sis...

• Shaun Knox → Danny (Alliance Time-Travel Mission Partners) — They travel together to 1929 and pursue the mission despite the risks of being stranded in the past.

  The military operation sends Shaun Knox and Danny into the past to prevent Rourke from destroying New York.

• Shaun Knox → Rourke (Conflict Interrogator And Detainee) — Knox attempts to obtain the information needed to prevent the disaster and understand Rourke's motive.

  Rourke has surrendered but refuses to provide the code needed to stop the device. Knox tries to reach him by recognizing that Rourke's attachment to h...

Story Analysis

A team attempts to avert New York's destruction by changing the past, while confronting the unpredictable costs of altering a timeline.

Plot Progression

1. A Code Withheld — A bomb threat in New York leads officials to investigate Rourke, who has surrendered but refuses to provide the code. Knox tries to reach him through the grief connected to his deceased wife.
2. The Cost of Changing Time — Bryce explains the unpredictable time-travel window as the team considers a mission into the past. Charlie's program warns that altering history may produce far-reaching consequences, while a simulati...
3. The 1929 Mission — Knox and Danny enter the window and arrive in 1929, where Danny recovers from disorientation. The team pursues Marsden as Bryce warns that their safe time is shrinking.
4. A Complication in the Timeline — Knox refuses to abandon the operation and later learns that Marsden lives with his sister. Charlie explains that the program excluded her because it predicted her death from tuberculosis, leaving the...