Anomaly Background Information
So since I have this to keep track for myself, you guys might need it to.
TIMELINE
CANON TIMELINE
Charlie, ~29 current (2004 S1)
13: Graduates High School, same time as Don
16: Princeton graduation
17: Masters MIT/Institute of choice
18-20: PhD on Cognitive Emergence
20-22: Cambridge with Susan
22-26: Moving back to LA, his 'fluid dynamics period'
25: Margaret's illness, Charlie's fall into P vs. NP, Margaret's death
~29: Beginning of show
Charlie lost touch with Don when he was ~16 -25
Don, ~34 current (2004 S1)
5 years older then Charlie
18: Graduated high school same time as Charlie
18-20: Was scouted and played for Stockton Rangers baseball for 2(?) years, then joined FBI,
20–23: Joined FBI
24: Went to FBI Academy in Quantico and dated Terry at 24 in 1995 (Charlie was 20)
25-26: Spent 2 year in Fugitive Recovery with Billy before going to Albuquerque
27-29: Lead Albuquerque Agent and almost purposed with Kim Hall
29: Came back to L.A. when Mom got sick and died
~34: Beginning of show
FICTION TIMELINE
Charlie
16: last year at Princeton, NSA training camp
19: with Frynd-Sign, learns how to shoot, gets in relationship with Anderson
~20-22: Living with Susan, went more often to the base in second year, less time with Susan, strained relationship. Camp was overtaken and when came back, they broke off relationship.
23: Charlie walks away from operative status and goes home with his mother.
25: Mother gets cancer.
29: beginning of Anomaly
CHAPTER EVENTS TIMELINE
Tuesday: Greg Williamson shot, Charlie lets n-1 letter, Greg is released, Charlie unpacks gun and magazine, Greg comes to visit, Don comes home for dinner to see Greg visiting
Wednesday: Victor Helm shot, Don puts an agent to guard Charlie when he and Greg try to go out, Greg tells Charlie he's Third
Thursday: James Iverson shot, Vahn sends text f(x) = -x-(-n) = c =1
Friday: Colby and David interview James, unknown to FBI a member of Frynd-Sign dies taking down the preps with him
Saturday: No activities mentioned.
Sunday: Frynd-Sign member Gryffin Beck's funeral, his NSA partner Jessica Cale walks away to find her superiors
Monday: Frynd-Sign text sent out. Vahn makes contact with Charlie. Megan finds Frynd-Sign connection.
Tuesday: Philip Wren orders Don off the case. Jessica visits James. Philip Wren opens the letter (To the light in our lives).
Wednesday: Gregory is appointed Charlie's 2IC. David and Colby visit Charlie.
Thursday: Osaki makes contact as ex Frynd-Sign. Jessica does background search on Don's team.
CHARACTERS
Krythan Frynd – Colonel, Assassin
Vahn Sign – Lieutenant Colonel, Spy
Both came from CIA, and then was loaned to Army base, gained their own team which alter expanded into the Company.
Frynd-Sign Company ex-members:
Gregory Williamson: Lieutenant, used to be Specialist when Charlie knew him, becomes Charlie's 2IC.
Victor Helm: Covert ops. Was on leave and shot.
James Iverson: Left Frynd-Sign and now runs his own security consultant business. Black hair, brown eyes, is only half-oriental but looks full.
Yami Shino: Japanease descent. Paired with Osaki.
Professor Osaki: mentioned in S3E22, an organic chemist. Japanease descent. Paired with Yami.
Jessica Cale: NSA partner of Gryffin Beck. Last member of her Frynd-Sign team. Was Jessica Cartman from Charlie's childhood mentioned in S2E8.
Gryffin Beck: deceased. Was last member of Frynd-Sign his team.
Moyne Jefferson: lost his beloved, went catonic for a while.
(Unknown) Anderson: deceased. Dark hair, green eyes. Was Charlie's significant other for 1 year. Had been trained for Charlie's 2IC.
Two years after Charlie left, the Frynd-Sign company was disbanded. Krythan and Vahn went back to the CIA and everyone else were transferred to other departments or voluntarily discharged.
Common Military Ranks
OFFICERS: Field Marshal, General, Brigadier, Colonel, Lt. Colonel, Major, Captain, Lieutenant, 2nd Lieutenant
SOLDIERS: Sergeant Major, Sergeant, Corporal, Private
Scenes incorporated from Canon Episodes
CHAPTER FOUR EXCERPT
"Charlie where did you learn all this stuff about assassination?"
Charlie gave a weak smile. "If I told you that, I'd have to kill you."
Amita laughed. "Seriously."
His smiled died. "Seriously." – Season 2, Episode 5: Assassin
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CHATPER FIVE EXCERPT
"There was noise. Blood." And it all came back. Gun shoots around him, cold metal to his back, in his hands, the pressure of his finger on the trigger; the spray of red across his visions and spreading out on enemies, colleagues, friends.
"I never knew fear, until that moment." Until where Don had always presented safety, came the notion that even Don couldn't save him from some things. When he had been away, at the base, on sites, in the middle of gunfire, Don had always been his haven. That if and when he got home, Don would be there, and as long as Don was there, no one would be able to hurt him. Even with the sniper case, his belief held because while he had been shot at, Don wasn't there beside him, it had been David. But the concept was shattered with the bullet flaying past his head, inches from him, with Don right there by his side unable to do anything until it would have been too late.
Don couldn't save him from everything. That hurt him the most.
"I realize the only thing I'm really afraid of is being afraid again." He wasn't afraid of death, he had seen death. He had seen a lot of death, and murder and killings. But being afraid, freezing up, other people dying because of him - he couldn't do that again. He thought he left that behind. – Season 2, Episode 21: Rampage
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CHAPTER TEN EXCERPT
"Charlie you have to understand the reality of crimes like this-" Don said forcibly.
"Excuse me I understand the reality!" Charlie interrupted him, unable to be talked over on this, to just let his brother take the USB key and encrypted photos and the responsibility from his shoulders. This time there was more than what his brother understood, and this time he couldn't let it go.
"What the hell are you doing?" Don demanded, "I need more than the photograph, I need to stop a guy from disappearing into Mexico!" Don was angry, Don was furious that Charlie was getting in the way of his work, of his investigation, but Charlie couldn't give it up. This meant something. There was a reason why he couldn't give up the memory device. He couldn't fail. Not again. Then Don shouted "An Agent was killed," and there was nothing Charlie could do against that. Charlie understood responsibility and the weight of having others put their lives under your command in trust – and failing them. Charlie knew penance.
Before he even asked, he knew the answer. "He set off the explosion?"
"Yes" Don said, tone hard but the guilt hardly hidden at all.
Charlie looked down at the small electronic device clutched in his hand, knuckles white. Charlie didn't want to give it up, but he was familiar with weighing the cost between a life lost and a life they could save against the thirst for vengeance and appeasement of old failures. Charlie didn't want to let it go but this was Don, Don who was angry and hurting and Charlie was just too used to giving up, giving in, trying his best to protect Don from everything he could. From the hard truths that Charlie could not, could never, and had no intention of ever revealing to Don.
Charlie raised his arm and held out the memory key. Don still had to yank from his tight fingers and his bitten off "thank you" was full of hostility. Charlie couldn't look up, his head pulled downwards from the weight too heavy to lift.
It was another one of his failures pulled in front of him. Another reminder that he was weak; had always been weak. He had always walked away from things, from the things that hurt; turning away from reality and sinking into the numbers for escape. He had walked away from caring for his mother when she was sick, he had walked away from Frynd-Sign when it hurt too much, he had walked away from his family to Princeton when he couldn't relate to them anymore, and he had walked away from Jessica even when he had known something was wrong.
He was weak. He was a failure. He only hoped that it would be some time yet before Don knew. Could only hope that he could protect Don, help him, for just a little bit longer before the visage of competence was ripped away to reveal the wretched man underneath.
He needed his brother to need him, just for a bit longer. For as long as possible. - Season 2, Episode 8: In Plain Sight
FRYND-SIGN CALCULUS
n = Vahn Sign
x = Krythan Frynd
c = Charlie Eppes
f(x) = Frynd-Sign (Krythan and Vahn) Unit
Chapter One message sent from Krythan to Charlie: n - 1
Translation: Vahn minus 1, the 1 being Krythan
Meaning: Vahn is alone, Krythan is out of his reach at the moment.
Chapter Five
Message from Vahn to Charlie: f(x) = -x-(-n) = c = 1
Translation: Frynd-Sign Unit = missing Krythan minus (missing Vahn) = Charlie = First
Meaning: The Frynd-Sign Unit is still missing Krythan but no longer missing Vahn. Charlie though, has become First in command for the duration.
Message from Charlie to Vahn: c = n-1 = -x
Translation: Charlie = Vahn minus 1 = missing Krythan
Meaning: Charlie has previously recieved a note, that Vahn was alone, from the missing Krythan
Gad, I hope I that's everything. But a question for everyone - when I incorporate scenes/dialogues from canon episodes, would you like the origins (as posted above) directly in the chapter or revealed later in another separate note?