Pierre Tolbert

Pierre Tolbert is a character in QIA.
== Biography ==
In 1994, Pierre Tolbert was teaching at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Between the 3rd and 5th March of that year, he went to Paris to give a lecture at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, where he was (unknowingly) the apparent target of a quantum infraction. ("Cornwall", "Enora")
Despite meeting briefly with Enora during the mission, he did not recognise her 26 years later when she met him again in Geneva with Erik Draper in 2020. ("Ted")
Tolbert became associated with CERN in 2003, and was the lead scientist during the first test of the Large Hadron Collider in September 2008. Following the 2008 incident, he discovered a hole in space-time which he nicknamed the Window. In the months that followed, Tolbert was in charge of the project, and led a team through the Window and into the year 2247. After the 2248 incident, Tolbert had the LHC dismantled and the Window closed. ("Berlin")
Some time between then and 2011, Tolbert considered Jarrad Foley as his protégé. ("Fugitive")
In September 2020, when Erik Draper launched his coup against corrupt President Georges Bouchan, Tolbert was angry to learn that not only had Brent Hall been secretly accessing the Eye for the past nine months, but that Erik had also kept it from him ("Ted"). However, he appears to have trusted Erik enough to have allowed the access to remain for long enough for Enora and Anna Vogel to find the evidence they needed to expose Bouchan's crimes. ("Life")
== Appearances ==
=== Season One ===
"Enora"
=== Season Two ===
"Echelon" (flashbacks, uncredited), "Ted", "Life"
== Trivia ==
There is a portrait of Tolbert in the Bâtiment de Broglie at CERN. ("Geneva")
Erik Draper fondly refers to him as "the grandfather of the QIA" ("Ted").Category:Characters