Scott Northman
A student whose brilliance forces him to stop hiding.
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Daniel Holloway
The teacher
A dryly funny computer-science teacher in a cardigan, carrying a metal thermos and thirteen years of guilt. His former life as an Air Force software engineer is the first crack in the official story.
- Understated
- Brilliant
- Guilt-haunted
- Protective
Dr. Alan Voss
His dead colleague and the moral debt he has never escaped.
Richard Mercer
A fellow survivor of the program’s long compromise.
Q
The descendant of the system he helped build—and failed to protect.
Character arc · Spoilers hidden
Holloway’s silence began as survival. Breaking it costs him dearly and finally lets him act on the courage he believed he had lost.