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Jane Van Veen
Jane Van Veen
Portrayed by: Rachael Taylor
- Artistic License – Medicine: In "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", Jane reacts with great anxiety to the nurse strapping a band on her arm to take her blood pressure (because it reminds her of being restrained during her recent repressed traumatic experience) and tells her to stop, and the nurse insists on pressing on, struggling with her, holding her down and injecting her with sedatives. In reality, this would be illegal. Jane's dissociative episode is not enough for her to be treated as mentally incompetent, and hospital workers are supposed to respect patients' anxieties and personal space.
- Face–Heel Turn
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Jane completely blacks out everything from when she enters the hidden stairway in the basement of the Drake to suddenly appearing in Times Square.
- Jane, I Am Your Father: Her connection to the Drake.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Jane makes a deal with Gavin to save Henry when he's shot, the price of which is... a new order. What does this mean? Two words; The Antichrist.
- Villainous Rescue: Jane is saved from Peter Kramer's ghost when the birds in the walls of the Drake attack and re-kill him.
Henry Martin
Henry Martin
Portrayed by: Dave Annable
- Supernatural Proof Boyfriend: To frustrating levels, but it could be argued that the Dorans are hiding the supernatural part to him because they plan to lure him in and use him for whatever purpose.
Brian Leonard
Brian Leonard
Portrayed by: Robert Buckley
- Buried Alive: Ends up walled alive in the basement of the Drake.
- Together in Death: With Louise.
Louise Leonard
Louise Leonard
Portrayed by: Mercedes Mason
- Alliterative Name: Louise Leonard
- Buried Alive: Ends up walled alive in the basement of the Drake.
- Evil Elevator: One sends her to the hospital in the pilot.
- Shout-Out: The scene in which Louise is 'attacked' by the elevator brings to mind both the Danish movie Das Lift and a death scene in Final Destination 2.
- Together in Death: With Brian.
Alexis Blume
Alexis Blume
Portrayed by: Helena Mattsson
- Throwing Off the Disability: She was the victim of a hit and run that left her in a wheelchair, Gavin restored the use of her legs after she told him she would do anything to be able to walk again.
Nona Clark
Nona Clark
Portrayed by: Samantha Logan
- Seers: Like her grandmother, she possesses psychic abilities, being able to see the future.
Tony DeMeo
Tony DeMeo
Portrayed by: Erik Palladino
- The Dragon: Seems to act as Gavin's muscle on occasion. Though now it seems he's going to hire Kandinsky to do his dirty work for him.
Olivia Doran
Olivia Doran
Portrayed by: Vanessa Williams
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Gavin and Olivia are absolutely devoted to each other, and they both loved their daughter.
Gavin Doran
Gavin Doran
Portrayed by: Terry O'Quinn
- Affably Evil: He just seems so charming and nice, right up until he has you Dragged Off to Hell.
- Bald of Evil: He's evil and bald.
- Decapitation Presentation: Gavin does this with Sam's head when sending Shaw a message.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Gavin and Olivia are absolutely devoted to each other, and they both loved their daughter.
- Evil Versus Evil: Him versus Victor Shaw.
- Fate Worse than Death: When Gavin realizes that one of his associates has betrayed him, he traps him an endless hallway with no way out until he cracks and confesses. And then the trope is subverted when Gavin just plain kills him.
- First-Episode Twist: He's an evil supernatural entity. Jury's still out on whether or not he is actually The Devil.
- Satanic Archetype: He's an evil supernatural entity. However, it remains to be seen if he is actually Satan, a demon serving Satan, or a servant even lower than a demon.
Recurring cast
Harlan Moore
Harlan Moore
Portrayed by: Richard Short
Kandinsky
Kandinsky
Portrayed by: Misha Kuznetsov
Hayden Cooper
Detective Hayden Cooper
Portrayed by: Teddy Sears
- Agent Mulder: Detective Cooper seems to believe Jane when she says she was attacked by a ghost and later when she says she essentially traveled in time to 1927. His faith is proven correct.
Annie Morgan
Annie Morgan
Portrayed by: Aubrey Dollar
- My God, What Have I Done?: Annie says this word for word when she realizes her way out of her deal with Gavin will lead to an innocent man's death.
- Rewriting Reality: A journalist with dreams of making it big, makes a deal with Gavin to become a success. This manifests as gaining the ability to make whatever she writes come true. Unfortunately, this leads to the assassin she created killing her.
- Too Dumb to Live: Literally. You have the power to write obituaries that magically come true. There's a scary hitman after you. And you don't even think about trying to write the scary hitman's obituary?
Dr. Todd Scott Evans
Laurel Harris
Victor Shaw