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    Seth 

Reverend Seth Davenport

Portrayed by: Killian Scott

A politically radical small-town preacher currently organizing a farmer's strike in Holden, Iowa. His bloody past soon comes back to haunt him as he strives to fight the growing power of big business in America.


  • Abusive Parents: His father was a monster. Beyond physically and emotionally abusing him and Creeley, he also pressed them into service as hired guns for the oil companies in Wyoming, and also murdered Seth's girlfriend and her father.
  • Anti-Hero: While his goals are noble and he's generally a good man, it can't be denied that Seth is a violent, angry individual with a lot of skeletons in his closet.
  • The Atoner: Feels intense shame over his past as a hired thug for the oilmen in Wyoming, with much of his current political outlook stemming from his desire to help the kind of people he once terrorized.
  • Becoming the Mask: His preacher persona was originally just a tactic in order to evade the law and gain people's trust, but he eventually had a genuine spiritual awakening and now takes his role as preacher just as seriously as his political activism.
  • Berserk Button: Capitalism in general, and especially big businesses taking advantage of the poor via the law or government. Snubbing his faith is also a good way to set him off.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Despite being the younger brother, Seth did everything he could to shield Creeley from their father's abuse. This makes it sting all the worse when he makes Creeley take fall for the murder of their father, his men, and the Rainey family.
  • Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: While he's never explicitly dubbed an anarchist, he rails against the state just as often as he rails against capitalism, and he's not shy about using violence to secure his political goals.
  • Cain and Abel: He's the Abel to Creeley's Cain, being overall less prone to violence than his brother. He used to be the Cain, and is the reason why Creeley is the way he is.
  • Cain and Abel and Seth: He and Creeley are biological half-brothers, and they both had a brotherly relationship with Lew, the son of the family help.
  • Chummy Commies: An ardent socialist, and an overall kind and decent man who strives to help those in need.
  • Genius Bruiser: While he might not have a lot of formal education, Seth is a brilliant political organizer and definitely has a strong grasp of sociopolitical theory, he's also a lethal marksman and a strong hand-to-hand fighter.
  • Good Shepherd: Despite his violent tendencies, Seth is genuinely devoted to the working people of Holden and works hard to satisfy both their material and spiritual needs.
  • The Gunslinger: Is a terrifyingly good shot with his revolver, being able to shoot people inside moving vehicles while on foot. He cut his teeth as a thug and murderer for hire in Wyoming.
  • Happily Married: He and Amelia are passionately in love and are utterly devoted to each other. His bowing to pressure and giving out a radio broadcast denouncing the strike may have thrown a wrench in this.
  • Hired Guns: He and Creeley both used to be hired killers and musclemen for oil companies in Wyoming to drive settlers off their land so the company could explore for oil unimpeded.
  • Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Tortures the assassin set after him by Hyde in an attempt to get information, but is quickly enraged by the man's nihilistic ranting and blows his head off before getting anything out of him.
  • The Lost Lenore: As a teen he fell deeply in love with Cynthia Rainey, a preacher's daughter who lived near him in Wyoming. Sadly she was murdered by Seth's father and his men after the latter found out about his son's plans to elope with her.
  • Missing Mom: Nothing is ever said about who his mother was save that she died when he was eight years old.
  • Not Me This Time: Despite being the prime suspect, he really didn't murder Nunn's husband, Amelia did.
  • Preacher Man: A quintessential rural Christian preacher, down to the formal clerical garb, but with a militant left-wing twist.
  • Rabble Rouser: A rare (anti)heroic take on this trope, with him radicalizing and organizing the poor of Holden against the bank and businesses exploiting them.
  • Revolvers Are Just Better: Prefers a .38 caliber revolver, a very common weapon for the time and location he's in.
  • Rousing Speech: Most of his sermons are this, urging the poor of Holden to rise up against their abusers while couching it in Biblical phrasing. He turns his denouncement of the strike into this after getting back to the radio, urging the working people of Holden and America at large to not give up fighting for their rights against big business and the government.
  • Self-Made Orphan: Kills his father after the latter murdered Seth's girlfriend and her father, then sets up Creeley to take the blame for all of it.
  • Teens Are Monsters: As a teenage gunman working for the oil companies in Wyoming he was so brutal and cruel in his methods he made Creeley at his worst look good.

    Creeley 

Agent Creeley Turner

Portrayed by: Logan Marshall-Green

A Pinkerton agent and professional strikebreaker, called in to shut down the Holden farmer's strike by any means necessary. His past with Seth and his true employers soon lead to a massive outbreak of violence in the once-quiet countryside.


  • Abusive Parents: He caught the worst of his father's abuse due to the latter considering him "weak" due to his compassion and gentle heart.
  • Affably Evil: While his smile often just hides savagery, he does show genuine goodness and decency to a select few.
  • Anti-Villain: While he's a brutal individual working for truly reprehensible people, Creeley is a deeply troubled and tragic figure with many redeeming qualities.
  • The Atoner: Eventually chooses to fight alongside his brother and the strikers both to earn his freedom and make good some of the harm he caused.
  • Boom, Headshot!: Hands these out like candy.
  • Boxed Crook: We hear that he has a rap sheet, and his work as a Pinkerton is his way out. In reality he's effectively indentured to Hyde and Duvall by virtue of their securing his release from prison and giving him his Pinkerton badge. Hyde in particular constantly threatens him with going back to prison should he fail.
  • Cain and Abel: The Cain of the two, being much more overtly brutal than his brother and working toward more nefarious ends. Of course, he wasn't always this way.
  • Covered in Scars: Cuts a tally on himself for every kill he makes, resulting in his torso being covered with tiny scars.
  • Cowboy: Plays up his image as a western gunfighter, to the point he's even called "The Cowboy" by the people of Holden.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: While he may be a murderous strikebreaker, even he finds The Black Legion and their racism distasteful. He's also horrified by his bosses' designs, and as a younger man was shocked at the sheer senseless brutality Seth committed.
  • Fall Guy: Made to take the rap for all of the Wyoming murders by his own brother, with him ending up with a life sentence he would still be serving if not for Hyde.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Treats everyone with an easy-going smile and folksy western charm, even when gunning them down in cold blood.
  • The Gunslinger: He pulls off some truly insane shots with his pistol, and is rightfully feared by everyone in Holden for his skill.
  • Kill Tally: Cuts a tally for every kill he makes on his own skin.
  • Never Going Back to Prison: He's terrified of going back to prison for the murders in Wyoming, hence his initial loyalty to Hyde and Duvall.
  • Improbable Aiming Skills: Kills a half-dozen men who had an elevated position on him in under a minute, all with one hand as he was enjoying an ice cream cone at the time.
  • Never Learned to Read: Unlike his brother, Creeley is illiterate and requires a "secretary" to read and write for him. He's deeply ashamed of this and takes pains to hide it.
  • Nice to the Waiter: While he doesn't mind throwing his weight around when pushed, Creeley's first option when dealing with people under him is generosity, tellingly he gives a massive wad of bills to a paperboy hawking newspapers for two cents and genuinely compliments the ice cream he's given by the soda fountain owner.
  • Pinkerton Detective: Is a Pinkerton agent, and is a typically violent anti-labor muscleman. His badge is really just a formality, and his true employers are Hyde and Duvall.
  • Self-Harm: While his tally-mark scarring at first seems to be a sign of his machismo and bloodlust, upon learning about his past it's clear that it's really a tragic attempt at forcibly squaring what he's done with his own conscience.
  • Son of a Whore: Unlike Seth we do know that Creeley's mother was a prostitute whom his father had accidentally impregnated, and he had lived with her in the brothel for a few years before he was dragged out by his dad.
  • Weak-Willed: As a child he was always the "weak" brother, bowing to his father and requiring his brother to step in for him. This leads to tragedy when he informs his father about Seth's girlfriend and his plan to elope, resulting in her murder, the subsequent killing of his father by Seth, and him taking the fall for all of it.

     Amelia 

Amelia Davenport

Portrayed by: Sarah Jones

Seth's equally-radical wife who supports his campaign as a propagandist and co-organizer. Like her husband she also has a past she is trying to avoid.


  • Badass Bookworm: Extremely educated and well-read, and a tough-as-nails labor organizer with a razor tongue.
  • Crusading Widow: Killed the strikebreaker who murdered her first husband by burning him alive. Coincidentally, that strikebreaker happened to be Connie Nunn's husband.* Deadpan Snarker: Is a sharp wit, both in playfully bantering with her husband as well as skewering those who cross her.
  • Death Glare: Has a serious glare which she breaks out when particularly angry or upset. The worst by far is the one she give Seth when he denounces the strike in an attempt to save her.
  • Defector from Decadence: Grew up the privileged daughter of an industrialist, but left it all behind after realizing how destructive and cruel her family's business was to the workers.
  • Disappointed in You: Constantly expresses her disappointment in D.L. for his bowing to his boss' demands and failure to report real news. When Seth bows to the threat against her life and denounces the strike over the radio, she shoots him a truly withering glare showing just how far he had fallen in her eyes.
  • Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A blonde and a genuinely kind and decent woman.
  • Happily Married: She and Seth are completely devoted to each other and are still extremely passionate in their marriage.
  • Moustache de Plume: Pamphlets under the name of "Dr. Samuel T. Hawkins" both to throw off suspicion as well as to avoid the sexist response a woman writing politically-radical tracts would garner in the 1930s.
  • Silk Hiding Steel: While never demure she does present herself publicly as a mild preacher's wife, in reality she has just as much fire and backbone as her husband, if not more so.
  • Uncertain Doom: Connie confronts her over her role in the murder of the former's husband. Seth comes home to find his kitchen covered in blood and Amelia not answering his calls. Roll credits.
  • Unwanted Rescue: Makes it clear she would have rather died than have Seth denounce the strike to satisfy her captors.

     Bessie 

Bessie Louvin

Portrayed by: Chasten Harmon
A young black prostitute working for Madame Della in Holden. She gets taken on by Creeley as his "secretary" when she proves to be literate and cunning above everyone else. While at first ambivalent toward the strike and Creeley's appearance, she soon establishes herself as a major player in Holden's conflict.


  • Because You Were Nice to Me: Why she comes to genuinely love Creeley, being the only man to look past her race and profession and treat her with deserved dignity.
  • Deadpan Snarker: One of the few people capable of keeping up with Amelia in this regard.
  • Deliberate Values Dissonance: Is treated with extreme scorn within Holden due to her being black, a prostitute, and a woman.
  • Establishing Character Moment: Seeing through Creeley's test and brazenly demanding double pay from him since she's the only one he can rely on.
  • Hooker with a Heart of Gold: While she tries to put up a callous, professional front it's clear she's a good woman who cares deeply for those around her.
  • Missing Mom: She was dropped off at an orphanage as an infant by her mother, and she was brought to Holden shortly after at her father's request.
  • Oh, Crap!: Is understandably terrified of the Black Legion, their confronting her and Creeley being one of the few times she loses her composure.
  • Only in It for the Money: Holds this attitude at first, but soon comes to genuinely care for Creeley and becomes invested in the happenings around Holden.
  • Spotting the Thread: She's the first one to truly pick up on the machinations of Hyde and Duvall in relation to the Holden farmer's strike and the Black Legion's activities.
  • Son of a Whore: Assumed to be this, and holds this belief herself. Her mother was actually a famous jazz singer whom Sheriff Berryman had deeply loved.

     Connie 

Agent Connie Nunn

Portrayed by: Melinda Page Hamilton
A coldblooded operative for the William J. Burns International Detective Agency who has a personal vendetta against Seth Davenport. While she's initially an outsider to the conflict in Holden, her pursuit of vengeance ensures she takes a key role in its resolution


  • Agent Provocateur: Turns the miner's strike in Harlan, Kentucky violent by sniping people both on the picket line and on the side of the strikebreakers.
  • All for Nothing: Nearly has a breakdown when she realizes Seth wasn't the one who murdered her husband. But, her rage builds again when she figures out it was Amelia who killed her husband.
  • Cold Sniper: A crackshot with a rifle, and maintains an icy, murderous outlook toward her targets.
  • Crusading Widow: Will stop at nothing until she kills Seth Davenport for his murder of her strikebreaker husband. Too bad he didn't do it.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Has a bright, calm demeanor with everyone, even when gunning them down or discussing how much she enjoys murdering labor forces.
  • It's Personal: Wants Seth dead above all else because he murdered her husband. She seemingly transfers this attitude toward Amelia once she learns the truth.
  • Moral Myopia: Is driven to avenge the murder of her husband by militant labor forces, but doesn't particularly care about all the widows and orphans she makes herself.
  • My Beloved Smother: After "adopting" Brittany, Connie proves herself to be an extremely domineering and possessive mother figure to the poor girl.
  • Pinkerton Detective: Is actually a Burns agent, a rival outfit to the Pinkertons who engaged in similar anti-labor violence at the behest of American industry.
  • Proper Lady: Presents herself as the quintessential respectable middle-class American woman and works hard to drill Brittany into being the same.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Provides marksman support for the strikers against the Black Legion, even though she still plainly hates all of them.
  • Tranquil Fury: Is in a near-constant state of this, never raising her voice or breaking her calm, but still being very plainly murderously angry toward labor forces.
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit: She gets close to her targets by presenting herself as a sympathetic labor widow before killing them in cold blood once their guard is down.

     Berryman 

Sheriff Don Berryman

Portrayed by: Christopher Heyerdahl

The spectacularly-corrupt sheriff of Holden county who finds himself caught up in the growing conflict as an opponent of both the strikers and of the murderous newcomers to the area.


  • Affably Evil: He's a nasty piece of work for sure, but he's also genuinely affable and capable of real decency.
  • Cowboy Cop: When he does bother to enforce the law he doesn't give much heed to pesky rules or procedures.
  • Corrupt Politician: The series shows the more political side of American county sheriffs, with Berryman working hard to ensure his voting graft goes unchallenged.
  • Dirty Cop: A county sheriff who's more akin to a mob boss than a lawman.
  • Establishing Character Moment: First seen brutally pummeling an unfortunate moonshiner, not because it's against the law but because he wasn't cut in on the operation.
  • Gold Digger: A rare male example, he was in love with Della but married her sister instead for her money.
  • The Lost Lenore: His late wife is this to him, mostly because he regrets how awfully he treated her in their marriage. The Memphis Pearl is another, as he truly loved her during their affair and had a daughter with her, Bessie.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: He's Bessie's father via an affair he had with her jazz singer mother, the "Memphis Pearl", which is why he had her brought to Holden after her mother died.
  • Papa Wolf: Kills off the rest of the Black Legion in his custody, even though he knows it will ruin him, because they threatened Bessie's life.
  • Small-Town Tyrant: The sheriff of Holden County who holds controlling stake in all of the moonshining, gambling, bootlegging, and prostitution in the area.
  • Unwanted Spouse: He only married his wife for her money and connections and immediately proceeded to ignore and cheat on her, but does genuinely miss her once she's dead.

     D.L. 

D.L. Sullivan

Portrayed by: Joe Adler
A young reporter working for the local newspaper in Holden while trying to launch an independent literary career. While originally content to toe his boss' line and pen only politically-safe pieces, his interactions with Amelia and Seth lead to him taking up his pen to report the real happenings around the county.


  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: A milquetoast and unassuming kid who's also a lethal shot from his days as a carnival sideshow marksman. He nearly singlehandedly breaks himself and Amelia out of Black Legion custody.
  • Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Often seen with a pipe when he's reading, setting him apart from the rougher denizens of Holden.
  • Grew a Spine: While he originally avoided any potentially-incendiary reporting out of fear for his job, he soon becomes the only one willing to stick his neck out to report on the strike.
  • Hopeless Suitor: He has a very obvious crush on Amelia, who's already in a committed relationship with Seth.
  • Intrepid Reporter: Starts growing into this under Amelia's goading. Sadly he's killed before he can truly make anything of himself.
  • I Should Write a Book About This: Has lofty literary aspirations and namedrops Hemingway as inspiration for his getting experience reporting on the farmer's strike for his book.
  • Killed Offscreen: After seemingly freeing himself and Amelia, he's overcome and killed by Black Legion goons with his body sent with a message to Seth.

     Calvin 

Calvin Rumple

Portrayed by: Dan Donohue
A corrupt banker who has collected the majority of debt on the local farmers of Holden, while he initially seems to be the chief agent of business against the striking farmers, it becomes clear that he's little more than another pawn in a much larger game.


  • Bring My Brown Pants: Openly wets himself when threatened by Seth and Lew, and earlier the strikers joke he shit his pants at the penny auction.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: Chief executive of Holden Savings and Trust, and also engaged in criminal conspiracy to drive local farmers into bankruptcy.
  • Morally Bankrupt Banker: Openly conspires to fix food prices in Holden to force the farmers whose debt he owns to foreclose.
  • Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: He seems like a major financial figure on par with any Wall Street millionaire, but in the end he's still a small town banker in the backwoods of Iowa.
  • Out Of The Fryingpan: The relief of his exit is short-lived, given it just brings Hyde and Duvall who are infinitely more dangerous and capable to the fore.
  • Pointy-Haired Boss: For all his posturing he's incredibly incompetent in the conspiracy, requiring Hyde and even Creeley to spell things out and hold his hand.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Cuts and runs when Seth and Lew kidnap him and threaten him with death should he stay in Holden.
  • Smug Snake: Obviously sees himself as an untouchable capitalist tycoon, in reality he's a jumped-up accountant who's not nearly as smart or capable as he thinks.
  • Starter Villain: While he takes center stage for half the series, once he ducks out it becomes clear who the true villains are.

     Hyde 

Martin Eggers Hyde, PhD

Portrayed by: Gabriel Mann
A shadowy agent for big business and the one pulling the strings in Holden, giving direction and backing to Rumple and the Black Legion against the farmer's strike.


  • The Dragon: He's Duvall's chief agent, carrying out his plans in Holden.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Puts up a front of erudite refinement which does nothing to mask the absolute evil which he holds in his heart.
  • The Heavy: While it's Duvall who truly sits at the center of the whole conspiracy, Hyde is the one who sets events in motion and orders around the lower-ranking conspirators.
  • Karmic Death: After spending the whole series hiring and disposing of people out of hand, he himself is shown to be just as disposable as those he thought his lesser.
  • Kill the Poor: Holds extremely classist views, seeing the poor working people of America as nothing but vermin and roadblocks toward "progress".
  • Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Holds some kind of unspecified doctoral degree, a fact he never fails to remind people of.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: Beyond his virulent classism, Hyde also seems to be racist or at the very least fine with racism given he doesn't think twice at using the Black Legion as foot soldiers.
  • Recruiting the Criminal: Hyde prefers freeing prisoners and using his connections with the Pinkertons to have them enlisted as agents as it gives him an effective means of control over them.
  • They Call Me Mr Tibbs: Without fail introduces himself, and signs his letters with, "Martin Eggers Hyde, PhD", obviously very proud of his degree.
  • Undignified Death: Dies weeping and begging for his life after getting gutshot by Duvall, it's extremely satisfying.
  • You Have Failed Me: Regularly threatens his underlings, Creeley included, with severe punishment should they fail to satisfy. Fittingly he's on the receiving end of this by his own boss.

     Duvall 

Tennyson Duvall

Portrayed by: Zach McGowan
A multimillionaire industrialist, heir to an even more massive family fortune, beloved philanthropist, and the man truly at the heart of the conflict in Holden County with grand designs for the future of the United States.


  • Endearingly Dorky: Is so sincere when showing off his automated masturbation "health machine" to Creeley it's hard not to feel sorry for the guy despite how creepy and ridiculous the whole thing is.
  • Affably Evil: Unlike nearly all of his lackeys, Duvall himself is unfailingly pleasant and is genuine in his better qualities.
  • Big Bad: He's the man at the heart of every terrible thing that happens over the course of the series.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Is disgusted by Hyde's more underhanded actions, and especially his hiring the Black Legion as security. Which is why he shoots him dead at the end of the series.
  • Freudian Excuse: His obsession with "progress" started when his father finally took him away from his fundamentalist mother to be treated with modern medicine after nearly dying due to several childhood illnesses.
  • Kill the Poor: While not as malicious about it as Hyde, his plans ultimately see the elimination of the working class of America save to be mindless drones and cattle to be sacrificed for "progress".
  • Necessarily Evil: How he sees himself, understanding how much suffering his plans will cause but writing it off as needed to ensure America enjoys even greater prosperity in the future.
  • Southern Gentleman: Is always polite and soft-spoken, and means every word he says.
  • Villainous Rescue: Disables Hyde moments before he was about to kill Creeley, seeing the latter as the more valuable follower.
  • Visionary Villain: Sees a future of total automation, where the "productive elite" of America enjoy every luxury in utopian plenty, too bad this means every barrier to this, the working class included, must be eliminated by any means necessary.
  • You Have Failed Me: Shoots Hyde in the gut after growing tired of his lieutenant's scheming, letting him suffer for a minute while giving him a heavy dressing down, before blowing his brains out.

     Stubbs 

Melvin Stubbs

Portrayed by: Paul Rae
The local food distributor in Holden who unknown to most is the leader of the local Black legion chapter. He's ultimately put up as Berryman's opponent for sheriff by Hyde who also makes use of his men as soldiers and security.


  • Deadpan Snarker: Has a surprisingly quick wit, throwing a few choice barbs in particular at Berryman.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Is introduced in the second episode being interviewed by D.L. about the farmer's strike, long before he has any real import in the story.
  • Fat Bastard: A heavyset man whose views are so vile they make Hyde look mild by comparison.
  • The Klan: Heads up the Holden Black Legion chapter, terrorizing the local minority population and later becoming the footsoldiers for Hyde and Duvall.
  • Mook Lieutenant: What he becomes for Hyde when the conspirators choose to dispense with subtlety, openly using the Black Legion as soldiers against the strikers.
  • Small-Town Tyrant: Goes along with Rumple's price fixing scheme as the sole food distributor in Holden.
  • Vigilante Execution: Orders his men to lynch Sam Riley Jr. and Seth as a way to break the farmer's strike.
  • We Have Reserves: Calls in Black Legionnaires from across the Midwest to put down the strikers.

     Lew 

Lew Nez

An old friend of Seth and Creeley's now turned professional bank robber, while he's only in Holden for a short time he has a major role in how the farmer's strike plays out.


  • Cain and Abel and Seth: The Seth, funnily enough, to Seth and Creeley's Cain and Abel.
  • Cutting the Knot: The Holden bank has a sophisticated, nearly indestructible vault door that can't be cracked by normal means, so he just dynamites the lesser-reinforced wall apart.
  • Dashing Hispanic: While he doesn't play up his Latin heritage, he's a charming Mexican-American bank robber who uses his charisma to get away with his heists.
  • Drink-Based Characterization: Blanco tequila, drunk neat, fitting for a rough-riding Mexican outlaw.
  • Embarrassing Nickname: Used to call Creeley "Squealy" due to the latter's proneness to tears as a child. Seth warns him against calling Creeley that in the present.
  • Guns Akimbo: Dual wields his revolvers during the bank heist.
  • Toxic Friend Influence: While not as pronounced as most examples, Seth noticeably becomes more quick to violence and resumes drinking heavily when he's around Lew.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While the money pulled from the Holden bank does give needed reprieve to the strikers, the brazen attack is what motivates Hyde to start taking more extreme action in the county.

    Victor 

Victor

Portrayed by:Arnold Pinnock
A black dairy farmer in Holden, and one of the foremost leaders of the farmer's strike. However, longstanding grievances aggravated by Creeley's manipulation tear him between his duty to his family, and his duty to his comrades.


  • "Angry Black Man" Stereotype: Only once, but his quietly furious speech toward Seth about how he, his family, and blacks as a whole have suffered for centuries while the white strikers have only dealt with a few years of the Depression has definite undertones of this trope.
  • Battle Trophy: A downplayed example in his "souvenirs" from his time in WWI, which seem to be pieces of American gear he was able to smuggle back home.
  • Dad the Veteran: Served in The Great War in an all-black regiment, and the "souvenirs" he brought back from Europe prove key in turning back the Black Legion's assault on the Riley Farmstead.
  • I Have a Family: Why he chooses to scab on the strike when offered double for his milk, being unable to bear his family's suffering when he can do something about it immediately.
  • Just a Flesh Wound: Gets shot through the shoulder by a carbine-wielding legionnaire early on, but it hardly slows him down and he's back on the picket line in no time at all.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: When Creeley slaughters the farmers who tried to prevent him from scabbing, Victor is visibly trembling in shame and sorrow, and can't bear to look anyone in the eye as he offloads his dairy.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: While the rest of the strikers only barely tolerate him after he scabs, they recognize his fighting skills and military gear will be needed to fight off the legion.
  • Throw Down the Bomblet: A key part of his "souvenirs" are a brace of grenades which prove invaluable in fighting the Black Legion.
  • We Used to Be Friends: After he scabs the rest of the strikers want nothing to do with him, with Martha Riley in particular harboring a lot of bad feeling toward him.

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