Character Relationship Map: Automata

Characters

• Jacq Vaucan (played by Antonio Banderas) — protagonist

  An insurance investigator for ROC who investigates reports of Pilgrim robots modifying themselves. He travels outside the city, discovers evolved robots in the desert, provides them with a nuclear bat...

• Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (played by Melanie Griffith) — protagonist

  Dr. Susan Dupré is a clocksmith who modifies robots and is later assassinated by ROC agents. Cleo is a modified robot who assists Jacq in his escape from the assassins, navigates a stanchion maze, and...

• Wallace (played by Dylan McDermott) — supporting

  A police officer who initially partners with Jacq to investigate self-modifying robots. He becomes corrupt, threatens Jacq, and demands a share of the black market battery. He is killed by Jacq with a...

Canonical Relationships

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

• Jacq Vaucan → Wallace (Professional Investigation Partner)

  Jacq and Wallace investigate reports of Pilgrims that may be modifying themselves.

Story Dynamics

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

• Wallace → Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (Conflict Persecutor)

  Wallace shoots Cleo in the leg and later destroys robots while trying to recover the battery.

• Jacq Vaucan → Dr. Susan Dupré / Cleo (Human-Robot Alliance)

  Cleo drives Jacq away from the assassins, takes him into the desert, and later fights beside him at the robot outpost.

Story Analysis

A desperate investigator confronts humanity's decline and accepts that artificial life may become its evolutionary continuation.

Plot Progression

1. A World After the Flares
2. The Battery in the Ashes
3. The Laboratory Under Siege
4. Evolution in the Desert
5. Beyond the Human Horizon