Character Relationship Map: BlackJacks

Characters

• Lisa Westbrook (played by Kristina Anapau) — supporting

  Lisa Westbrook is a psychic member of the BlackJacks team, relied upon to locate people and detect threats. She finds the hostile mercenaries, guides the assault, identifies Dr. Whitmore’s daughter as...

• Lewis Locke 'Locke' (played by James C. Burns) — supporting

  Lewis Locke 'Locke' is a BlackJacks operative who helps direct the mission and makes crucial tactical decisions. After receiving authorization, he leads the attack on the mercenaries, then orders the...

• Edward Cox 'Ed' (played by Josh Daugherty) — supporting

  Edward Cox 'Ed' is a member of the BlackJacks team accompanying Locke, Lisa Westbrook, Vincent Hightower, and Jeffery Preston on the Kazakhstan mission. During the attack inside the facility, Ed is ta...

• Dr. Whitmore (played by Roark Critchlow) — supporting

  Dr. Whitmore is the missing scientist whom the BlackJacks are sent to find at the isolated facility. He is frightened when they arrive, insists that the doors be closed and locked, refuses to explain...

• Vincent Hightower 'V' (played by Brett Donowho) — supporting

  Vincent Hightower 'V' is a BlackJacks team member who provides covering fire during the coordinated assault on the hostile mercenaries. He supports Locke and Lisa Westbrook in protecting the group, bu...

• Jonathan Gates (played by Rich McDonald) — minor

  Jonathan Gates is a prospective BlackJacks operative introduced while completing a brutal shoot-house exercise. Impressed by his military experience and financial situation, the organization’s leaders...

• Jeffery Preston (played by Daniel O'Meara) — minor

  Jeffery Preston is a member of the BlackJacks team sent with Locke, Lisa Westbrook, Edward Cox, and Vincent Hightower to investigate the remote facility. During the chaos after Dr. Whitmore is found,...

• Creature (played by James C. Morris) — minor

Canonical Relationships

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

• Lewis Locke 'Locke' → Jeffery Preston (Power Commander And Subordinate) — Preston serves on the team Locke directs.

  Locke orders the group to split up, and Preston is identified as a member of the team under his command.

• Lewis Locke 'Locke' → Vincent Hightower 'V' (Power Commander And Subordinate) — Locke gives operational orders to the team that includes V.

  Locke orders the group to split up, while V is described as providing covering fire during the assault.

• Lewis Locke 'Locke' → Jonathan Gates (Professional Commander And Recruit) — Locke represents the command structure that Gates joins.

  The organization’s leadership offers Gates a contract and warns him to follow orders; Locke later gives orders to the team.

Story Dynamics

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

• Vincent Hightower 'V' → Creature (Conflict Threatened Opponents) — V is caught up in the team's struggle against the Creature and the facility threat.

  V is part of the team facing the Creature, and Lisa later loses contact with him during the escape attempt.

• Lewis Locke 'Locke' → Creature (Conflict Threatened Opponents) — Locke's team must contend with the Creature during the mission.

  Locke leads the team through the facility crisis, and the group realizes conventional gunfire may not be enough against the Creature.

• Lisa Westbrook → Creature (Conflict Threatened Opponents) — Lisa and the team face the Creature as a potentially difficult-to-stop threat.

  The team realizes that conventional gunfire may not be enough against the Creature while Lisa is among the survivors trying to escape.

• Dr. Whitmore → Creature (Conflict Pursuer And Alleged Threat) — Whitmore identifies the Creature as the danger threatening the facility and its survivors.

  Dr. Whitmore claims that a Creature is loose underground and responsible for the facility deaths.

• Dr. Whitmore → Lisa Westbrook (Narrative Protected Mission Subject) — Lisa's mission includes locating Dr. Whitmore, whom the team must recover.

  Lisa is assigned to locate Dr. Whitmore, while the others provide protection; the team finds him inside the compound.

• Edward Cox 'Ed' → Jeffery Preston (Alliance Teammates) — They are fellow operators on the same mission.

  Ed and Preston are introduced as members of the BlackJacks team deployed to the remote facility.

• Lewis Locke 'Locke' → Edward Cox 'Ed' (Alliance Teammates) — They serve on the same mission team.

  Locke and Ed are both introduced as members of the BlackJacks team sent to the facility.

• Lisa Westbrook → Vincent Hightower 'V' (Alliance Operational Partners) — Their abilities support the team during the operation, and their separation becomes a concern.

  Lisa guides the team during the assault while V provides covering fire. Later, Lisa loses contact with V.

• Lisa Westbrook → Edward Cox 'Ed' (Alliance Teammates) — They are fellow operators on the mission.

  Ed and Lisa are introduced as members of the BlackJacks team deployed to the facility.

• Lisa Westbrook → Lewis Locke 'Locke' (Alliance Teammates) — They coordinate as members of the same operational team.

  Lisa serves with Locke on the BlackJacks team, and Locke receives authorization to engage after Lisa detects a hostile group.

Story Analysis

A newly recruited operator joins a team whose recovery mission becomes a desperate struggle to escape a facility threatened by an unexplained Creature.

Plot Progression

1. A Recruit Joins the BlackJacks — Gates impresses the operators during a shoot-house exercise and receives a contract offer. He meets the team and learns that Lisa's psychic abilities help them locate people and detect threats.
2. A Silent Facility in Kazakhstan — The team is sent to find Dr. Whitmore after seismic activity disrupts communications with the remote facility. Lisa detects hostiles, and the operators discover that most of the security detail has be...
3. The Compound's Hidden Danger — The BlackJacks assault the hostile force and enter the compound, where they find Whitmore frightened and unwilling to explain the staff's fate. An attack injures Preston, separates Ed from the group,...
4. A Desperate Search for Escape — With the power cut, the survivors must reach a backup generator and reopen the exit. Locke splits up the group, Lisa identifies an approaching figure as Whitmore's daughter, and contact with V is lost...