Jake 2.0

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Jake 2.0 is a spy-fi TV series centered on Jake Foley, an NSA computer technician who becomes infected with experimental nanites and develops superpowers. Many of his biological functions are improved, granting him super strength and speed, acute hearing, low-light vision, and rapid healing. His most prominent new ability, however, is remote wireless control over computers. Jake is able to interface with any computer or computer-controlled device, from a range of up to thirty feet. The devices in question do not have to be equipped for wireless communication. The proliferation of such devices throughout modern society makes Jake's ability very useful.

Once the agency recognizes Jake's new abilities, they make him a field agent in order to take the best possible advantage of what he can do. The series is set in Washington, D.C.

Characters

Central Characters

• Deputy Director Louise Beckett – NSA executive. Jake Foley's and Kyle Duarte's boss. Former Blackhawk pilot during Gulf War I, where she was known as Tankbuster. Speaks German.
• Sarah Carter – Legislative director for Senator Thompson. Went to Georgetown University with Jake Foley, who has a crush on her.
• Susan Carver – NSA tech agent under Louise Beckett.
• Kyle Duarte – NSA field agent. Jake Foley's partner and mentor.
• Kevin Jarod Flynn – Genius hacker from Berkeley, California, whose team stole $10 million from the Federal Reserve. Also known as DuMont. Currently incarcerated at Federal Corrections Institute, Cumberland (prisoner number 16913).
• Jake Foley – Computer technician from Akron, Ohio, turned NSA field agent when he developed nanite-induced superpowers.
• Diane Hughes – NSA scientist from Bar Harbor, Maine, who inherited the nanite project and became the primary authority on Jake's abilities and condition.
• Chief Director James Skerrit – NSA executive. Louise Beckett's superior.
• Executive Director Valerie Warner – NSA executive. Intent on controlling or destroying Jake Foley. Ex-wife of Carl Warner.

Peripheral Characters

• General Iniko Baako – Radical paramilitary leader in South Kembu. Led a successful coup against the government of King Namir, but then had to fight his successor, Prince Malik.
• Doctor Mark Benton – Former NSA psychiatrist. Performed psych evaluations, lie detector tests. Allied with DuMont. Currently in federal custody.
• Big Mick – Pit fighter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Bit – Hacker who worked with (and was misled by) DuMont. Currently in federal custody.
• Alex Brandt – Former NSA field agent, explosives and munitions expert. Captured during an operation in Serbia. POW from 1998 to 2004. Blamed Beckett for abandoning him; tried to kill her. Currently under psychiatric treatment.
• Jennifer Brandt – Alex Brandt's wife. Also a federal agent.
• Caesar – Former owner of the Palace in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; operator of the pit fighting ring there. Currently in custody for trying to steal $10 million in bearer bonds.
• Theresa Carano – International arms dealer, dealing in Micro-Semtex (ten times as powerful as Semtex). Daughter of Ruben Carano. Currently in federal custody.
• Mr. Carter – Went missing during Operation Desert Storm while testing classified weapons systems. Sarah Carter's father.
• Steve Clemens (b. 11/13/1969, Alexandria, Virginia) – NSA cryptographer. Dirty agent who attempted to abduct and sell Diane Hughes. Currently in federal custody.
• Elena Dankova – Former KGB operative. Still fighting for the Soviet Union as a true believer. Attempted in 1986 to sabotage the Wilmington Nuclear Facility. Currently in federal custody.
• Carl Devereaux – Former MI5 agent. Vasily Koronkiewicz cut off both of his hands in an act of intimidation and malice.
• Jerry Foley (b. ca. 1984) – College student. Jake Foley's younger brother.
• Richard Fox – Legendary NSA agent, retired. Single-handedly captured Mikhail Itzach Petrovich in the 1980s, the beginning of the end for the KGB. Point man on Elena Dankova. Suffers a split personality. Possibly cyber-enhanced.
• Fran – NSA scientist. Diane Hughes' assistant.
• Ethan Fulton – Militia leader, American domestic terrorist. Currently in federal custody. Husband of Ann Fulton; father of Caleb Fulton.
• Gilmore – Prison guard at Federal Corrections Institute, Cumberland.
• Angela Hamilton – Former CIA agent who went rogue and stole Varcon gas from the Densmore Research Facility to avenge her sister's death in Central America.
• Mr. Harcourt – Bank manager at the Washington, D.C. branch of the National Bank of Poland.
• Alan Huergott – Jake Foley's sixth-grade teacher. Foley occasionally borrows Huergott's name as a convenient alias.
• Nikolai Iskanov – Ex-KGB sleeper agent. Also known as Nikolai Nolotov. Formerly employed at Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station under an alias. Currently in federal custody.
• Miles Jennings – NSA executive.
• Ayana Karanga – Former loyalist to General Baako. Fell in love with and married his enemy Prince Malik Namir. Also known as Anna.
• Karen – Jake's nosy neighbor.
• Seymour Lafortunata – NSA researcher specializing in "interpersonal liaising," gathering intelligence through an extensive network of personal contacts. Genius.
• MacP – Hacker who worked with DuMont. The only one who really knew DuMont's plans. Currently in federal custody.
• Shinji Makito – Former assassin of the Yakuza Junshi clan. Given new identity as Yoshino Omano, sushi chef in Spokane, Washington. Brother of Yuki Makito.
• Darin Metcalf – College friend and former roommate of Jake Foley.
• King Malik Namir (b. December 10, 1982) – Rightful king of South Kembu, fighting to regain his country following General Baako's coup. Former university student in Washington, D.C.
• Jennifer Parks – Friend of Jake Foley, living in Seattle, Washington. Wife of Kevin.
• Kevin Parks – Friend of Jake Foley, living in Seattle, Washington. Husband of Jennifer.
• Mikhail Itzach Petrovich – KGB agent captured by Richard Fox in the 1980s.
• Rachel – Hacker who worked with (and was misled by) DuMont; DuMont's online lover. Also known as Yori. Currently in federal custody.
• Alonzo Reed – Right-hand man to Theresa Carano. Currently in federal custody.
• Minnie Riley – Civilian. Romantic interest of Kyle Duarte. Janet Riley's sister.
• Janet Riley – Civilian. Minnie Riley's sister.
• Stephanie Romanov – Cocktail waitress at Rudolf's Red. Graduate of Central Academy for Advanced Physics in Voronezh. Daughter of Max Romanov.
• General Mwong Cho Sang – Military dictator in East Asia.
• Nanda Sang – East Asian peace activist, widely revered. Target of assassination plots by General Mwong Cho Sang.
• Senator Thompson – Sarah Carter's employer.
• Abdul Tiranzi – Terrorist with al Jahara.
• Tracey – Prince Malik Namir's friend and bodyguard.
• Vanessa – DuMont's girlfriend. Injected herself with modified nanites taken from Jake Foley, to unknown effect.
• Carl Warner – Valerie Warner's ex-husband. Remarried.
• Earl Wenk – Professional eraser, specialist in making people disappear. Contact of Kyle Duarte.
• Congressman Williams – Member of the Agriculture Committee.
• Mei Ling Wong – Chinese double agent. Former lover of Kyle Duarte.

Deceased Characters

• Sergeant Ken Aubrey – Member of the Wolfpack. Killed in action in Afghanistan.
• Bill Brummond – Agent of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Killed by Yuki Makito.
• Ruben Carano – International arms dealer. Father of Theresa Carano. Died in 2001.
• Clu – Hacker who worked with (and was misled by) DuMont. Killed by MacP.
• General Wesley Frewald – Base commander at Fort McLelland. Commander and former member of the Wolfpack. Killed by Lawrence, a member of the Wolfpack.
• Ann Fulton – Wife of Ethan Fulton, mother of Caleb Fulton (both militiamen). Former FBI agent. Shot and killed in 1994 during a botched raid on Henry Travis's compound near Bozeman, Montana.
• Caleb Fulton – Militiaman. Son of Ethan and Ann Fulton. Shot and killed during an NSA raid on Ethan Fulton's militia.
• Doctor Gage – NSA researcher turned traitor and murderer. Killed by NSA security.
• Vasily Koronkiewicz – Mercenary kidnapper and assassin. Killed in federal custody by his employer, Steve Clemens.
• Yuki Makito – Junshi Clan assassin. Sister of Shinji Makito. Killed by Jake Foley.
• King Namir – Patriarch of the royal family of South Kembu. Killed in a military coup.
• Liam Petrov – Ex-KGB sleeper agent. Also known as Liam Kovalev. Killed by Elena Dankova.
• John Ramsey – Senior engineer for GDLS. Killed by Chinese agents during the theft of his laptop.
• Max Romanov – Former KGB sleeper agent and Soviet nuclear engineer. Also known as Max Petrenko, Max Bulgakov. Killed himself in Atlantic City, New Jersey after the end of the cold war. Father of Stephanie Romanov.
• Eric Vaughn – Black market arms dealer with ties to the IRA. Killed by Jake Foley.
• Ben Wilton – NSA agent, candidate for the human nanite project. Killed by Alex Brandt.
• Nicholas Wright – NSA field agent. Call name "Sandstorm." Killed by Abdul Tiranzi.

Organizations

• al Juhuara – Middle-Eastern terrorist organization.
• Ethan Fulton's militia – American domestic terrorist cell responsible for at least six terror attacks.
• Junshi Clan – Yakuza assassin family. Junshi translates as "pure death."
• Soledad – South American terrorist organization.
• The Wolfpack – American military unconventional, black ops, special forces unit.

Government Agencies

• NSA – The central organization of the show, involved not only in signals intelligence but also advanced research and field operations.

Companies

• Banatech – Software company.
• Chemdyne – Operates a cryogenic research facility in Washington, D.C.
• Dranzacom
• Fabian Digital, Inc. – In Washington, D.C.
• Filmbit GMBH – In Zurich, Switzerland.
• GDLS – Military subcontractor. Designers of large-scale weapons systems, including next-generation tanks.
• Morley – A brand of cigarettes.

Projects

• Crimean Project – Joint operation between the KGB and GRU to collect biometric data on American intelligence agents and, using plastic surgery, drug therapy and other means, to create duplicates of them.
• Project Free Target – Research project into nanotechnology-enhanced human agents, now embodied in Jake Foley.

Locations

• Central Academy for Advanced Physics at Voronezh – Graduate school in Voronezh, Russia.
• Densmore Research Facility – Secret American government facility storing and researching biological weapons, including Varcon gas.
• Fort Meade – NSA facility in Washington, D.C. Home base for Deputy Director Beckett and her team.
• Fort McLelland – Military base housing special forces and unconventional weapons, including the HADES-13 tactical nuclear weapons.
• The Palace – Bar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that hosts illegal pit fights.
• Rudolf's Red – Gambling den off the Atlantic City boardwalk. Russian mafia hangout. Low rent, high rollers.
• Wilmington Nuclear Facility – Nuclear power plant near Wilmington, Delaware.

Countries

• Santa Costa – Central American nation whose government is allied with the United States against the rebels in the country.
• South Kembu – African nation with a fragile parliamentary democracy/monarchy. Its oil production is of interest to the United States.

Cities

• Nayumba, South Kembu – In the north of the country.
• Ojami, South Kembu – in the north of the country.

Equipment

• EMP bomb – Suitcase-sized, man-portable electromagnetic pulse weapon.
• HADES-13 – Tactical mininukes stored at Fort McLelland. About the size of a suitcase.
• Varcon gas – Airborne biological weapon produced by the United States government and sold overseas. Researched and stored at the Densmore Research Facility.

See also

• J2.0 Fans – Jake 2.0 fansite. Good episode guide.