Character Relationship Map: Morlocks

Characters

• Colonel Wichita (played by Robert Picardo) — supporting

  Colonel Wichita is the military authority overseeing the operation. He orders a civilian scientist to prioritize Morlock DNA research despite warnings that rescuing stranded people is more urgent, and...

• Patterson (played by Hamish Clark) — supporting

  Patterson leads the first group sent through the experimental time device. The team was meant to travel only fifteen minutes forward but became stranded for sixty-eight years, surviving by scavenging...

• Angela (played by Christina Cole) — supporting

  Angela is a scientist who explains that the creatures emerging from the rifts are unknown biological entities called hostiles and that humanity may have disappeared in the future. She joins the effort...

• Captain Finnis (played by Lincoln Frager) — supporting

  Captain Finnis commands the military team sent into the deserted area to search for survivors and investigate unusual radiation readings. Under his command, Perez and Marco scout the perimeter, but un...

• Vera Cortez (played by Marem Hassler) — supporting

  Vera Cortez joins the search for the latch after it is taken to a Morlock nest. She becomes part of the group working to retrieve the device, studying the creatures’ habits and attempting to cross the...

• Marco (played by Vlado Mihailov) — supporting

  Marco is one of the soldiers sent with Perez and Captain Finnis to scout the deserted perimeter. When unseen creatures attack during the mission, Marco is lost while the rest of the team retreats to i...

• Perez (played by Shelly Varod) — supporting

  Perez is a soldier serving under Captain Finnis during the initial perimeter search. Perez enters the deserted area with the military team to look for survivors and investigate radiation readings, the...

• Pip Squeak (played by Iain McKee) — supporting

  Pip Squeak joins Angela and the others in the search for the latch after it is carried into a Morlock nest. As part of the retrieval group, Pip helps confront the danger of the creatures’ territory wh...

• Military Scientist (played by Timothy Howlett) — supporting
• Scientist (played by Jesse Steele) — supporting

  The Scientist is a civilian researcher ordered by Colonel Wichita to study Morlock DNA. Although warned that the creatures are dangerous and that rescuing stranded people should come first, the Scient...

Canonical Relationships

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

• Colonel Wichita → Scientist (Professional Commanding Officer And Scientist) — Wichita’s order places the scientist within the contested research operation.

  Wichita orders a civilian scientist to study Morlock DNA, and the scientist later refuses to abandon the project.

• Colonel Wichita → Military Scientist (Professional Commanding Officer And Scientist) — Wichita directs the scientist’s research assignment.

  Wichita orders a civilian scientist to study Morlock DNA.

• Captain Finnis → Marco (Professional Commander And Soldier) — Finnis commands Marco during the perimeter search.

  Marco is among the soldiers sent to search the perimeter under Captain Finnis’s command.

• Captain Finnis → Perez (Professional Commander And Soldier) — Finnis commands Perez during the military scouting mission.

  Perez is sent with the soldiers to search the perimeter under Captain Finnis’s command.

Story Dynamics

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

• Angela → Scientist (Conflict Opposing Priorities) — Their stated actions place the recovery effort at odds with continuing the project.

  Angela and the others seek the latch to stop the expanding rifts, while the scientist panics and refuses to abandon the project.

• Patterson → Pip Squeak (Narrative Shared Time-Travel Crisis) — Patterson’s team’s fate forms part of the crisis Pip helps address.

  Patterson’s team was stranded for decades in the future, while Pip Squeak joins the search for the latch needed to return and stop the rifts.

• Patterson → Vera Cortez (Narrative Shared Time-Travel Crisis) — Patterson’s group’s predicament is part of the crisis Vera helps confront.

  Patterson’s team was stranded for decades in the future, while Vera joins the search to retrieve the latch needed to return and stop the rifts.

• Patterson → Angela (Narrative Shared Time-Travel Crisis) — Patterson’s team’s fate informs Angela’s effort to address the time-rift crisis.

  Patterson’s team is identified as the first group sent through time, and Angela and the others must retrieve the latch to return and stop the expandin...

• Angela → Colonel Wichita (Operational Conflict) — Their priorities conflict over the experiment and the urgent threat.

  Wichita prioritizes studying Morlock DNA despite warnings that the immediate priority should be rescuing the stranded people; Angela is part of the ef...

• Angela → Pip Squeak (Alliance Search Allies) — They participate in the mission to recover the latch.

  Pip Squeak joins Angela and the others in the search for the latch.

• Angela → Vera Cortez (Alliance Search Allies) — They take part in the effort to retrieve the latch from the Morlock nest.

  Vera Cortez joins Angela and the others in the search for the latch.

• Perez → Marco (Alliance Teammates) — They serve on the same military search team.

  Perez and Marco are both among the soldiers sent to search the perimeter, and both are caught in the mission’s attack and escape.

Story Analysis

A damaged time-travel device links a military operation to a future overrun by predatory creatures, as the effort to retrieve it collides with a dangerous experiment.

Plot Progression

1. The Perimeter Turns Deadly — Finnis sends soldiers, including Perez and Marco, to investigate unusual radiation and search for survivors. Unseen creatures attack, Marco is lost, and the escaping team gets away with the latch.
2. The Latch and the Rifts — Scientists discover that the latch opens temporary rifts between the present and future, but damage has made the openings unpredictable. Angela explains that the creatures are hostiles, while evidence...
3. Stranded Beyond Time — Patterson's team is revealed as the first group sent through time, intended to travel only fifteen minutes forward but stranded for decades. The survivors have been scavenging and hiding from Morlocks...
4. The Search and the Dispute — Angela, Vera Cortez, and Pip Squeak join the effort to retrieve the latch, studying Morlock habits and planning to move by daylight. Wichita instead orders Morlock DNA research despite warnings that r...
5. The Base Under Siege — Recovered latch data shows the travelers went sixty-eight years into the future, making the catastrophe imminent. The scientist refuses to abandon the project as hostiles infiltrate the base, a new ri...