Character Relationship Map: Primitive War

Characters

• Colonel Jericho (played by Jeremy Piven) — protagonist

  US Army commander who deploys the Vulture Squad to locate missing Green Berets. He insists on preserving the particle collider for military advantage and later regrets its destruction, blaming the squ...

• Sofia (played by Tricia Helfer) — protagonist

  Soviet paleontologist who discovers the hidden valley's secret. She explains the collider's wormhole experiment caused the dinosaur incursion, guides the surviving soldiers to disable the machine, and...

• Baker (played by Ryan Kwanten) — supporting

  Vulture Squad leader and Green Beret sergeant. After being attacked and separated, he reunites with his team, helps plant explosives around the collider, recruits defectors from the opposing Soviet un...

• Eli (played by Nick Wechsler) — supporting

  Former Air Cavalry soldier and member of the Vulture Squad. He participates in the initial mission deployment but has no further specific combat actions detailed in the operations.

• Keyes (played by Anthony Ingruber) — supporting

  Vulture Squad sniper. He suffers a leg wound during a firefight, is severely injured by a large raptor but manages to blind it, and makes a final stand with grenades to save his teammates.

• Borodin (played by Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) — minor
• Logan (played by Aaron Glenane) — supporting

  Vulture Squad sniper. He makes a heroic sacrifice during a dinosaur ambush, staying behind to ensure the rest of the squad can escape safely.

• Sergei (played by M.J. Kokolis) — minor
• Miller (played by Albert Mwangi) — supporting

  Former Air Cavalry soldier in the Vulture Squad. He engages the Vietnamese guerrilla Con Nhen and chooses to detonate his explosives to kill her and himself.

• Leon (played by Carlos Sanson Jr.) — supporting

  Rookie radio operator for the Vulture Squad. He becomes separated from Baker, is rescued by Sofia, and survives the mission by escaping with the remaining team members.

• Con Nhen (played by Ana Thu Nguyen) — supporting

  Vietnamese guerrilla fighter allied with the Soviet Dogs of War. She ambushes Miller in the Soviet base but is killed when Miller detonates his explosives.

• Xavier (played by Adolphus Waylee) — supporting

Canonical Relationships

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

• Baker → Logan (Professional Squad Leader And Sniper) — Logan is one of Baker's combat subordinates and protects the unit.

  Logan serves as a sniper in Vulture Squad and sacrifices himself during a Deinonychus attack so the others can escape.

• Baker → Keyes (Professional Squad Leader And Sniper) — Keyes operates under Baker's leadership during the squad's retreat.

  Keyes serves in Baker's Vulture Squad and is rescued by the Vultures after fighting off the Deinonychus and a larger raptor.

Story Dynamics

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

• Colonel Jericho → Sofia (Conflict Strategic Opponents) — They disagree over whether the collider should be captured or destroyed.

  Jericho demands that the collider remain intact until troops arrive, whereas Sofia convinces the Vultures that it must be disabled to prevent global d...

• Borodin → Colonel Jericho (Conflict Strategic Adversaries) — Their opposing military interests center on control of the collider.

  Borodin oversees the Soviet collider project, while Jericho seeks to preserve the collider for American military advantage.

• Sofia → Sergei (Alliance Coalition Allies) — Sofia's anti-collider mission brings Sergei into the allied group.

  Sofia helps recruit Sergei from the opposing Soviet unit, and Sergei later joins the surviving group after the collider's destruction.

• Baker → Sergei (Alliance Recruiter And Defector) — Their cooperation expands the coalition against the predators.

  Baker and Sofia recruit Sergei, who later escapes with the survivors and fights alongside Jericho's forces.

• Miller → Con Nhen (Conflict Opponents) — Their direct confrontation ends in mutual deaths.

  Con Nhen ambushes Miller at the Soviet base, and Miller kills her by detonating his explosives, killing himself as well.

• Baker → Con Nhen (Conflict Combat Enemies) — They belong to opposing armed groups, although the plot does not describe a direct personal fight.

  Con Nhen is allied with the Soviet Dogs of War, while Baker leads the opposing Vulture Squad during the valley conflict.

• Baker → Miller (Alliance Teammates) — Miller acts as part of Baker's squad during the collider operation.

  Miller is identified as a Vulture Squad member and later detonates his explosives during the Soviet-base confrontation.

• Baker → Eli (Alliance Teammates) — They share membership in the deployed American team.

  Eli is listed as a member of Vulture Squad and participates in the initial mission deployment under Baker.

• Sofia → Xavier (Alliance Mission Allies) — They become part of the surviving coalition opposing the dinosaur threat.

  Xavier escapes the valley with Sofia after the collider is destroyed and joins Jericho's forces against the remaining predators.

• Sofia → Leon (Alliance Rescuer And Survivor) — Sofia directly enables Leon's survival and continued participation.

  Sofia rescues Leon after he is separated from Baker and takes him to her hideout.

• Sofia → Borodin (Conflict Victim And Perpetrator) — Borodin's actions create Sofia's personal opposition to the project.

  Sofia explains that Borodin oversaw the experiment and murdered her husband and coworkers after they questioned him.

• Baker → Sofia (Alliance Survival Allies) — Baker and Sofia cooperate to understand and stop the collider crisis.

  Sofia rescues Baker and Leon, shelters them at the abandoned research station, and later works with Baker to recruit Nikita and Sergei.

• Baker → Leon (Alliance Teammates) — Their separation and reunion form an important survival thread.

  Baker and Leon become separated during the Deinonychus ambush, later encounter the Tyrannosaurus family together, and are rescued by Sofia.

Story Analysis

A Vietnam War rescue mission becomes a desperate struggle to stop a Soviet wormhole experiment from unleashing dinosaurs beyond the hidden valley.

Plot Progression

1. The Valley Mission — A Green Beret platoon disappears in a remote Vietnam jungle valley. Colonel Jericho deploys Baker and Vulture Squad to investigate, but the team soon discovers strange tracks and feathers.
2. Predators In The Tunnels — The Vultures are attacked by an unseen creature and then ambushed by Deinonychus in a cave. Baker and Leon become separated as the Soviet Dogs of War begin tracking the mission.
3. The Scientist's Warning — Baker and Leon flee a Tyrannosaurus family before Sofia rescues them at an abandoned research station. Sofia reveals that Borodin's collider experiment created a wormhole that brought dinosaurs into t...
4. Sacrifices In The Jungle — The Soviet and American units clash while aerial predators attack both sides. Keyes makes a fatal last stand, and Logan later sacrifices himself so the survivors can escape.
5. The Collider's Last Stand — The survivors assault the Soviet base and plant explosives around the collider. Miller dies stopping Con Nhen, Baker holds off the raptors, and the collider is destroyed as the dinosaur threat spreads...