Brent Hall

Brent Hall is a main character and the primary antagonist in QIA, as well as the protagonist of the short story "The Blood-Dimmed Tide". He is the former Director of The London Hub, and is currently serving a life sentence in prison for his crimes.
== Biography ==
=== Background ===
Prior to the QIA's inception, Hall was the youngest Senior Administrator in CERN history. While not a member of the Echelon himself, he was present when the Eye was first turned on in October 2010. ("Echelon")
Hall was once married to Elaine Watson, but the two have been estranged since around 2010; according to Elaine, the break-up was not particularly amicable. ("Fugitive") Sarah Cunnington, however, witnessed that at least as up until June 2010, the two had a very loving and warm relationship. ("Unnatural")
However, after discovering that his house had been broken into by an unnamed quantum terrorist, he brought this to the attention of his superiors in Geneva, even though doing so could bring to light Elaine's illicit dealings in trying to buy the stolen painting, Landscape with Obelisk. This is what ultimately led to their divorce. ("Hall") Despite taking this discovery to the Echelon, nothing came of it. ("Echelon")
In November 2015, some five years after Elaine left him, Hall received a visit from his old colleague Jarrad Foley, who told him that he had seen Hall's death in the future, at the hands of Fran Grenouille, otherwise known as Sarah Cunnington. ("Hall")
=== Director of the London Hub ===
Brent Hall is a well-educated man who rose to the rank of Director of the London Hub in spite of his young age.
The day after receiving the warning about Fran, Hall met with Ansar Jilani, who gave him a demonstration of The Formula. ("The Blood-Dimmed Tide")
Despite his role, Hall often displayed a hidden ruthless and calculating side, frequently striving to accomplish his own goals even when they did not officially align with the QIA's. For example, he had Ethan Taylor unwittingly assist in Chris Darby's murder of Ansar Jilani, claiming it was for the world's benefit, and later had Ethan help Miranda Davenport in destroying all evidence of Jilani's research, and blackmail a man named Patrick Kearney. ("Revelations")
Hall was responsible for recruiting Sarah Cunnington into the QIA; having been made aware of her abilities as a Natural, he ordered Ethan Taylor to orchestrate a ruse that would make the Eye send the Hub data on her. ("Sarah", "Revelations")
Hall sent Sarah and the rest of the London Field Team, on the Berlin 1933 Mission ("Sarah", "Berlin"). During this mission, Ethan secretly released captive Reclaimer Jacob Dorody, under Hall's orders ("Revelations").
Hall ordered Sarah to interrogate captured Reclaimer Owen Farley, during which he instructed her to blackmail Farley by making subtle threats towards Farley's sister. Following Farley's intelligence regarding collaborator Donald MacKenzie, Hall had the team attempt to convince MacKenzie to defect to the QIA. When Sarah broke protocol and Home Jumped with MacKenzie's son Daniel in order to save him from his original fate of being shot and killed by Adam Conley, Hall decided to use this to his advantage and use Daniel as leverage to convince MacKenzie. However, MacKenzie was murdered in an ambush on the road before he could make it back to London. ("Glasgow")
After Sarah, who was undercover in Bethlem Hospital in 1811, became part of documented history, Hall instructed Captain Hafiz and the rest of the team to no longer interfere with the timeline, as doing so would be in clear breach of QIA guidelines. However, in spite of this, he not only allowed Agent Burt to join them, but also provided helpful information that allowed them to mount a rescue operation. ("Elizabeth")
Hall sent Sarah to Geneva under orders of the Echelon, and sent Agent Taylor along with her. He also tasked Taylor with the mission of, while in Geneva, planting a device that would allow Hall to bypass the Interface and access the Eye directly. While the two agents were away, however, somebody hacked into the Eye Interface and accessed unknown classified data, something that infuriated Hall. ("Geneva")
Hall set up an elaborate plot in Sarah's home village of Lower Penbridge, which resulted in Aleksander Volkov capturing both Ethan and Sarah, under Hall's orders. The purpose of this was to try and influence Sarah into more fully exploring her Natural abilities, but Ethan, who was growing tired of Hall's hold over him, refused to cooperate and the plan failed. However, he later blackmailed Ethan, who had started dating Sarah, into dumping her on Christmas Eve 2019 by forcing him to tell her that he had a girlfriend. This had the intended effect and Sarah made her first Jump of her own accord. ("Revelations")
After the Dubai mission, when Ansar Jilani's name came up again, Hall ordered Ethan to cover up the fact that he and Darby had killed him. When evidence came to light that potentially could out Ethan as the mole, Hall blackmailed him into framing Tom Burt. Hall authorised the unprecedented mission into the future in order to arrest Cassius. However, he also had Ethan enable Dorody's escape for a second time. After the mission's inevitable failure, Sarah brought the evidence to Hall which in fact did incriminate Tom, and so he had this data verified by Drew Glenn - who had been helping Hall and Ethan with the cover-up already. Hall authorised the arrest of Tom, but Ethan revealed the truth about his own involvement, and fled. ("Dorody", "Tom", "Revelations").
In light of the recent failures of the team, Hall demoted Hafiz back to the rank of Agent, replacing her as Captain with Joe Graham ("Luxembourg").
Shortly after Ethan fled, Hall ordered retired Agent Alan Burns to track him down and kill him. Alan found Ethan, but was unsuccessful in killing him before he got away again. ("Revelations")
Regarding the abduction of Enora Gallou in the year 2263, Hall ordered any rescue operation to be put on hold for now, stating that they could go back for her, at the same time that she was taken, at any point in the future, once they had more information to work with. During the attack on the London Hub by an awakened Mary Bowman, Hall shot and killed Mary to save Sarah's life, but inadvertently revealed that an immediate rescue operation for Enora was impossible, leading to Sarah making an unauthorised Jump back to the future anyway. ("Tom", "Spitalfields"). 
Later that same day, during the police raid on the Hub led by DCI Rupa Kalsi, Hall ordered Hafiz and Tom to enact the Bermuda Protocol. He also met with Kalsi, and offered her a job - which she refused. ("Walker")
After learning the truth about his deeds and morality, Sarah was confronted in her own home by Hall, who assured her that he was not affiliated with the Reclaimers. However, he told her that she was the only one who could stop their endgame, and sent her to 1954, where she was indeed able to prevent Robert Tunneson from using Daniel MacKenzie - aka Patient 47 - as the catalyst for attempting to create a natural Hub on the Katla caldera in Iceland. He then sent Dan Hamilton and Vicky Wells to arrest Sarah for the murder of Chris Darby. ("Reclamation")
Since Sarah escaped arrest, Hall has become obsessed with her capture ("Sides"), to the point that he even threatened Hafiz with being charged as a collaborator unless she actively pursued the former Agent's arrest ("Fugitive").
Once the name Jarrad Foley surfaced (following the Toledo mission), Hall immediately contacted Miranda and tasked her with murdering Foley in 2011. ("Rupa")
Later, after Sarah was captured by Miranda, Hall sent Marcus Anderson to beat Sarah up, but Miranda let Sarah go and Anderson, having been "promised a girl", beat up Miranda in her place ("Rome").
After the successful apprehension of Sebastián Marcos, Hall tasked Denny Franklin with taking a sample of Marcos' blood to Henry Macht, a solicitor in Temple, on the pretense of them learning about how he had become a Natural - something that Denny was very interested in. Shortly afterwards, Hall ordered Dan Hamilton to tag and arrest Sarah, whom Hamilton had spotted during the Rome mission. ("Northolt")
Following Sarah's conviction as a quantum terrorist ("Justice"), Hall ordered Anderson to kill Tom, whose memories had returned and who could potentially incriminate him. However, despite his diligence, Hafiz linked the two and fabricated evidence, with Mike Duncan's help, to frame him for the hit on Tom. Consequently, Hall was arrested by Rupa and confined to an interrogation cell. He later escaped, with the aid of Denny Franklin and an unknown French ally, but not before (allegedly) murdering Joseph Christophe, a high-ranking Reclaimer whom the Field Team had also taken into custody earlier that same day. ("Hall", "Denny")
In fact, Hall did not kill Christophe, instead faking his death with the help of The Circle and taking him with him to use as leverage to obtain assistance from the Reclaimers' new leader (and Christophe's successor) Radimir Krepela in Malta. He kept Christophe prisoner in the basement of a house in Denmark for five weeks, until he needed him. ("Adam", "Malta")
=== Post-QIA ===
Hall relocated to Denmark, where he resides mainly in the Royal Suite of the Hotel D'Angleterre. There, solicitor Henry Macht brought him an unknown substance, which he began injecting himself with. ("Change", "Life", "Death")
He also spent time in another hotel suite, in Oslo, Norway; it was here that he first met Rick Parry, a mysterious American from 2259, who gave him the NT-063 weapon. ("The Blood-Dimmed Tide")
Somewhere around this time, he also tasked Denny with implanting a tracking device on Tom; the purpose of this was to provide data pertinent to his plans for the NT-063 ("Ted", "Life").
Hall reached out to Miranda, who had mostly recovered from her ordeal with Anderson. Hall manipulated her by telling her that he had arranged Anderson's death because of what he had done to her, then sent her to recover some files from inside the Hub ("Change"). The files recovered were called omega.exe, theta.exe and list.db, the latter being a database of blackmail information he had been using to secure the loyalty of many employees within the London Hub.
While in Malta to meet with Krepela, Hall also took the opportunity to approach recently-wed Rupa Shaw, to offer her a job. However, he did this knowing she would contact the others in London, for the sole purpose of making contact with Sarah; he gave her a stark warning to stay away from Northern Ireland ("Malta"). Hall later told Enora that in fact he had been in Malta for her, not Rupa. ("Auxerre")
Unbeknownst to Hall, Denny had only helped him escape at the behest of Draper, using his sister's terminal illness as the reason, in order to become a double agent. However, Hall began to grow suspicious and eventually gave Denny a final task - to murder Erik Draper - while simultaneously calling Sarah personally to tell her what was about to happen. Draper, however, had already known about this from a wiretap, and allowed Denny to believe that he had succeeded and that Draper had died, so that Denny might then lead them to Hall. ("Denny")
Shortly afterwards, Hall tasked Stéfanie Roux to abduct Enora and bring her to Auxerre in 2017 - the night when she believed she had killed Stéfanie, her friend. Hall made a deal with Enora; in exchange for information on Adam Solomon, he arranged for Enora to be cured of an affliction caused by Robert Tunneson that was preventing her from Jumping. He also mentioned to her that she was very important to his future. ("Auxerre")
Two months later, Hall was now pursuing Adam Solomon. He ordered Matthew Leland and Stéfanie Roux to find Adam's daughter, Magdalena, which they eventually did. With Magdalena now in his custody, Hall ambushed a convoy taking Adam on his first step to Geneva, and threatened to have Magdalena killed unless Adam gave himself up, which he did. Hall later took Adam to a facility in Copenhagen and revealed to him that he was - 'in a manner of speaking' - creating his own Pariahs ("Magdalena"). This apparently included Sebastián Marcos, though Marcos was soon after killed. ("Ted")
After Ethan was able to access Hall's own searches using the remote uplink to the Eye that had been set up a year earlier, the team learned that Hall had been focussing his work on two areas - Pariahs and Sarah herself. Jack speculated that he was working on a project relating to the (purely hypothetical) concept of quantum tracing. The team also discovered that he had come into possession of the NT-063 weapon, but after Hafiz took it from his Omagh facility, he in turn abducted her fiancé Ted Lambert, demanding an exchange. While Hafiz eventually agreed and handed it over, Hall reneged on their deal and tried to get away with Ted. Ted was rescued, but in the ensuing struggle, Sarah was knocked out of Hall's airborne helicopter - though he did attempt to save her - and she fell two stories to the concrete below. ("Ted")
Hall consequently began to suffer doubts about his actions, but continued on nonetheless, sending Adam to retrieve the sword Joyeuse and meet him in Norway. Later, Hall travelled to a secret bunker deep inside the mountain of Glittertind, where he placed the sword into a machine, seemingly destroying it and in turn 'upgrading' the NT-063. Hall then went to Toulouse, with the apparent intention of stopping the Reclaimer terrorist himself; he did this by killing him, along with Agent Denny Franklin. Hall then went through a series of Jumps - facilitated both by his knowledge of quantum tracing and the tempraxine he had been injecting himself with, which had temporarily transformed him into a form of Natural. His target was Sarah, whom he intended to use the NT-063 on in order to harness her apparently limitless quantum potential. Along the way, he inadvertently murdered Jarrad Foley, whom Sarah had just found after months of looking. Before he was able to achieve his goal with Sarah, however, Adam interrupted, Jumping with Hall into the submarine base at Hara. There the two of them battled Pariahs until they could eventually escape the security technology preventing quantum shifts, after which Hall murdered Adam using a Pariah gun. Hall then immediately Jumped to the Hub to find Sarah, only to be told that she had been killed by his weapon, a fact that was later confirmed by Miranda. ("Life", "Death")
==== The Red Right Hand ====
Hall spent the next year or so obsessing over the possibility that Sarah was still alive (in spite of attending her funeral), knowing she still had a destiny to fulfil, contemplating various theories such as her having been doubled by The Circle (for which he made a deal with Arvin Costlemach in order to learn more about their techniques). After receiving a warning from Rick Parry that he was going to be betrayed by a man called Josef Weidemann, Hall made arrangements with Rolf Vikander to frame Weidemann for an infraction, leading to his arrest and incarceration in the Void. 
It was around this time that Hall first heard the name of a new organisation, calling themselves the Red Right Hand - a cult devoted to Fran Grenouille and the destruction she will supposedly bring. Taking it upon himself to destroy this organisation, Hall began recruiting specialist criminals, including Theo Beckett, Lucita Cadamon and a man calling himself Darren Scrimshaw - in reality, undercover QIA agent Hayden Kemp.
In August 2021, Hall, along with Sophie King, Theo, Lucita, Darren and Miranda Davenport, travelled to Helsinki in an effort to find and kill Erik Draper. However, thanks to intervention by both the QIA and the Red Right Hand, this effort failed.
In June 2022, with his attention now fully on the Hand, Hall organised a plan to utilise the Hand's attempt to break into the QIA's Diamond Vault to steal the Black Archive - a repository of information and intelligence from the future - so that he could steal it himself. While Hayden was abkle to forewarn the QIA about this, meaning that Hall only ended up acquiring a fake copy, in order to get into the vault, Hall had Hayden horrifically torture Zinaat Haider to obtain the passcode. During this brutal interrogation, Hall began to doubt his methods, and later made up his mind to quit everything, as soon as the Hand was dealt with.
After their huge losses in Geneva, the Hand were severely weakoned by August 2022, which Hall used to his advantage, setting up a trap for their remaning forces, including the organisation's leader Ayana Sarkar and her son Ayoub; once the rest of the Hand had been subdued, Hall murdered Ayoub in front of Ayana, and then had Theo Beckett kill her as well. This was, unknown to Hall, witnessed by Miranda, who had been brought to the scene by Fran, causing Miranda to switch loyalties from Hall to Fran. ("The Blood-Dimmed Tide")
==== The OVM ====
At some point during the two years following Sarah's 'death', Hall also began disseminating QIA secrets, data and schematics to the Russian government, to 'bank a favour' from them, using Sacha Bell as his courier; Bell, who had an eidetic memory, would memorise the data and then pass it on to the Russians, allowing them to gradually build their own version of the QIA, which they called the OVM. ("Moscow")
Rick once again came to give Hall a warning, this time in November 2022, telling him that he would be arrested by the Russians (presumably in relation to the above) and put into Black Dolphin prison, and told him to begin preparing a means of escape for when it happened. ("The Blood-Dimmed Tide")
=== Arrest ===
Finally in November 2022, Hall finally uncovered evidence from Miranda that Sarah was indeed still alive. He located Sadie Docherty and tortured the information out of her, then gathered a group of people, including Lucita Cadamon and Sacha Bell, and made a move to abduct her from the Void facility she was being held in. However, Hall had miscalculated; Darren Scrimshaw was in fact Hayden Kemp, a QIA agent who had infiltrated his organisation and had already forewarned his colleagues. While Lucita got away, Hall and Bell were both arrested. ("Resurrection")
Facing a lifetime sentence within the Void after being fully debriefed, Hall offered a counter-proposal: exemption from the Void, house arrest, one phone call a month to Elaine, and visitation from Sarah, should she agree, in return for helping them completely dismantle the entire Reclaimers organisation. To prove his sincerity, he offered them details of when and where they could successfully arrest Cassius, which led to the Iduna mission. After the team successfully brought Cassius in, Hall and Enora - now Director of the London Hub - agreed to his terms. Hall was subsequently placed under house arrest, under strict supervision from a security team lead by Paul Thorne, with Róisín Lynch acting as his liaison. He was also forced to wear an ankle monitor and an implanted amp (which he didn't know about), which would immediately Jump him back to the Hub should he leave the vicinity of his house ("Resurrection", "Missing"). However, in spite of this, he has nonetheless still been able to keep in contact with his people. ("Tasneem")
==== Konstantin Denisov ====
After Sacha Bell was taken by the Russians, who were still awaiting the final data drop in order to get their OVM project operational, Konstantin Denisov learned that these final files were in the possession of Sophie King. After Sophie told Konstantin that Hall knew of 'Vozrozhdeniya', Konstantin executed her. When Irina Polyakov learned of this, she sent Konstantin to interrogate, torture and kill Hall. During this brief interrogation, Konstantin asked Hall several times about 'vozrozhdeniya', but Hall refused to talk, and was ultimately rescued by Sarah and Iulya Dalca. During their altercation with Konstantin, Hall had the chance to escape his captivity, but instead chose to return to his house arrest. ("Ghosts", "Masquerade")
==== Will Bradley ====
Following the attack by Konstantin, and given his complex feelings towards Róisín, he 'fired' her as his liaison. As a replacement, Erik brought in newly recruited former QIA agent Will Bradley, who had turned himself in for his crimes in Washington, since Erik believed that Will would hate Hall as much as the rest of the QIA does. However, it transpired that this had in fact all been set up by Hall, who secretly welcomed Will into his house as an ally. ("Zoey")
Shortly after, Hall and Will moved on to 'Phase Two' of Hall's plans, which involved Will - posing as Ryan Mitchell - inserting himself into Sarah's life and soon becoming her boyfriend ("Eleven", "Iulya"). However, after learning that Sarah had become aware of Will's true identity, he ordered him to tell her the truth. At around the same time, Hall was told by Kara Mildner that, having failed to deliver on his promises, he was to be extradited to Geneva for more intensive interrogation. ("Prey")
==== Escape ====
Having already instructed Will to enact Phase Three, Hall next attempted a further deal with Kara and Enora, promising them Lucita, the Reclaimers and The Circle in exchange for another two months in London. For this, he required computer access (though this was to be supervised by Anna Vogel) in order to convince the world that he was 'back'. While he indeed did find the information on Lucita, he had Will give this first to Tom, whom he knew wanted revenge on Lucita after she had murdered his wife and daughter. 
During his continued computer acess, his failsafe file theta.exe was deployed, shutting down all three Hubs worldwide, though he strongly denied being responsible. Consequently, Kara ordered him to be delivered immediately to Geneva, but during the convoy to the airport, of which she was also a part, the cars were attacked with everyone but Hall being murdered, and Hall being taken, presumably by his own people who had come to rescue him. ("Power", "¥o¬ Cø~1")
Hall remained at large for the next month ("Lorenzo"), until - during the Black Dolphin mission - Tom discovered that Hall was in fact a prisoner in Orenburg ("Bell"). Hall told Tom that he had in fact been waiting for him to come (as this had all been pre-ordained by Rick Parry) and that he had an escape plan. As it turned out, this plan hinged on Konstantin Denisov's rampage through the prison. Hall had already paid off one of the guards to disable the prison's security measures that prevented Jumping, but took a short detour to pick up two specially-modified amps he had stored within the building. When Jack Harringer Jumped, taking Tom, Sacha Bell, Hall and Aleksander Volkov, Hall and Volkov were redirected (thanks to the amps) elsewhere, allowing for his true escape. Hall later returned to Copenhagen, where he was reunited with Róisín. ("Voyna")
Still in the belief that it had been Miranda who had betrayed him by deploying the theta.exe file, Hall later got a lead on her location in York, 2008, where he did indeed find her. However, after a brief conversation, during which he concluded she had not done what he suspected her of, he allowed her to go. He was next seen, just a few minutes later, standing in the doorway of the flat in 2008 that Carlos Sánchez was currently using, holding a gun - and Carlos dead. Sarah, having arrived with Jack just moments after learning that Carlos was in fact their son, immediately snapped after assuming Hall had killed Carlos, and tried to kill him. However, Hall was rescued by Volkov and returned to Copenhagen. He told Róisín to leave, unaware that she had called Elijah Phelps; Phelps abducted Hall, intending to use him as bait to lure Sarah out so that he could kill her, thereby preventing Fran from murdering Chris Darby. En route to Hiddensee, Phelps murdered Róisín in front of Hall, to 'prove' to him that the future could be changed. On Hiddensee, during the London team's attempt to take both Hall and Phelps into custody, Hall got hold of a gun and shot Phelps dead to avenge Róisín. Back in London, Hall asked for protection from Sarah, but she came for him anyway and almost murdered him - until Jack confirmed that Carlos had been killed not by Hall, but by Fran herself. While Sarah escaped with Jacob Dorody, Hall was once again arrested. ("Destiny", "Ascension")
Hall will spend the next three years serving a life sentence in HMP Whitemoor. ("Villains")
=== Future ===
At some point in the future, Hall will provide information to his younger self, including knowledge about Sarah and the fact that something bad will happen to her in Northern Ireland. ("Season Two Prologue", "Life")
In 2026, Hall will recreate Tunneson's experiment, this time using an actual solar eclipse and a real Natural (Nicole Harris) as the catalyst. In doing so, he will (seemingly) kill Nicole and succeed in his task, although the actual consequences of his actions remain unknown, as he will then blackmaill Sarah (from 2019) into Home Jumping and taking him with her. 2026 Hall will then send her to rescue Tom Burt from being murdered by Alan Burns, having apparently planned all of this out. 2026 Hall was last seen still in the year 2020. ("Reclamation")
By 2027, Enora Gallou will be working for Hall, and will enter into a fight to the death with Fran Grenouille, to enable Hall to escape from her ("Auxerre"). Later that same night, Hall will flee inside the derelict London Hub, where he will be confronted by Fran; Fran will then cut off his arm using the sword Joyeuse but be saved by Gaby Marshall; Gaby will shoot Fran in the head, believing (wrongly) to have killed her, and will then take Hall to get medical attention from Leigh Selvin. ("The Blood-Dimmed Tide")
== Agenda ==
For at least eight years, Hall has been obsessed with Sarah Cunnington, ever since learning from Jarrad Foley that she would one day kill him. He orchestrated her recruitment into the QIA and later tried to encourage her Natural abilities. After she found out that he was not the benevolent Director she had thought him to be, she fled and he ordered her arrest with the intention of incarcerating her in the Void. Although in her subsequent trial she was found guilty, Hall was ousted anyway, whereupon he shed his QIA activities and focussed instead on criminal enterprises. Later, after acquiring and upgrading the NT-063 weapon using the sword Joyeuse, Hall used his studies of quantum tracing to attempt to turn Sarah into a 'quantum battery', but was unsuccessful after interference by Adam Solomon.
After two and a half years of believing that Sarah had died, during which his obsession has begun to fade, Hall learned the truth - that she had been placed in the Void to hide her from him - and attempted to awaken and abduct her, but Hall was betrayed by Hayden Kemp, who had been working undercover in his operation, and was arrested. Nevertheless, Hall continued his agenda and pursuit of Sarah, though he claimed to her that he merely wanted to help her. According to Will Bradley, Hall's goal was to prevent Sarah from becoming Fran Grenouille.
== Murder Victims ==
The following is an incomplete list of people Brent Hall is known to have directly killed:
* Mary Bowman ("Spitalfields")
* Reuben Matza ("Death")
* Denny Franklin ("Death")
* Jarrad Foley ("Death")
* Pete Morris ("Death")
*Elijah Phelps ("Ascension")
*Ayoub Sarkar (son of Ayana Sarkar) ("The Blood-Dimmed Tide")
== Relationships ==
=== Sarah Cunnington ===
Hall carefully manipulated Sarah's recruitment into the QIA, and subsequently put much of his efforts into controlling her progress, including exploring her abilities as a Natural ("Revelations"). This appears to be a result of having been told by Jarrad Foley that she will one day kill him ("Hall").
After Ethan Taylor told her the truth ("Revelations"), he arranged for her to be arrested ("Reclamation"). However, Sarah evaded capture thanks to Hafiz, and Hall became hellbent on her arrest ("Sides"). After he finally caught her and she stood trial, she was acquitted and he was in turn cast out of the QIA. ("Hall")
Hall's obsession with Sarah grew, culminating in him using quantum tracing technology, along with the NT-063, to attempt to turn her into some kind of quantum battery. Thanks to some intervention by Adam Solomon, he failed, and while Sarah voluntarily entered the Void to escape his detection, Hall was led to believe that she had in fact died ("Death"). Nonetheless, he refused to give up, even for two and a half years, and when he finally realised the truth, he attempted to take possession of her again, but was betrayed by one of his own operatives - in fact, an undercover QIA agent, Hayden Kemp - and arrested before he was able to do so. Under the terms of his subsequent house arrest, he still maintained his obsession, asking several times to be allowed to speak to her ("Resurrection"), and later sending his new ally Will Bradley to manipulate her into becoming his girlfriend, so that he could cause (and then cure) the nauseous side-effects she began suffering shortly afterwards when Jumping. ("Eleven", "Iulya", "¥o¬ CØ~1").
In June 2023, Sarah briefly suspected that Hall had murdered Carlos Sánchez, whom she had just learned was hers and Jack's son Noah Cunnington, and relentlessly pursued him as he had her, but after discovering he was innocent - of that, at least - she stopped, but promised him she would still come for him one day, after he murders Nicole Harris in 2026. ("Ascension")
By 2027, Sarah - now Fran Grenouille - will be Hall's direct enemy. ("Auxerre")
=== Tasneem Hafiz ===
Hall respects Hafiz, appointing her as the new Captain of the Field Team shortly after the death of former Captain Chris Darby ("Home"). After a series of unsuccessful missions, however, he demoted her in favour of Joe Graham ("Luxembourg"). Later, in spite of Hafiz's support of wanted terrorist Sarah Cunnington, Hall nonetheless reinstated her as Captain ("Sides").
After his ejection from the London Hub, Hafiz now despises Hall greatly.
=== Ethan Taylor ===
Hall heavily manipulated Ethan into doing many illegal and immoral acts, on many occasions outright blackmailing him ("Revelations"). After Ethan was revealed as the mole, Hall ordered his arrest ("Luxembourg").
After his own arrest in November 2022, Hall still maintained that he admired Ethan and that he regretted all the things he had put him through. ("Ides")
=== Enora Gallou ===
Hall directly intervened, in spite of Geneva's differing recommendations, in the recruitment of Enora into the London Field Team; he later revealed to her that this was because she has a very important role to play in his future. Indeed, by 2027, Enora will be working for him and against her fellow agents. ("Auxerre")
=== Rupa Kalsi ===
Although initially very hostile during her investigation into the London Hub ("Walker"), since her recruitment into the QIA, Rupa has become an ally in finding and arresting Sarah Cunnington ("Sides").
=== Denny Franklin ===
Hall's manipulation of Denny, as with Ethan before him, was gradual. At first he played on Denny's desire to be a Natural, which was greatly fuelled by the investigation into Sebastián Marcos, who had seemingly been turned into one. As he was grooming Denny, however, the young Agent was contacted by Erik Draper, and ordered to become a double agent. Denny released Hall after his arrest, and started feeding the former Director information, all at Draper's behest. This culminated when Hall ordered Denny to murder Draper, which he did - although Draper had engineered the situation so as to convince Denny that he had been killed ("Denny"). However, Hall was seemingly aware all along that Denny had been a triple agent ("Auxerre"). Hall later ordered Ethan to kill Denny as a demonstration of the powers of the sword Joyeuse, but Ethan in fact faked it, allowing Denny to survive ("Family", "Redemption"). Nonetheless, Hall later murdered Denny himself, using the NT-063 ("Death").
=== Elaine Watson ===
Elaine is Hall's ex-wife. Up until at least June 2010, the two were in a very warm, loving and stable relationship ("Unnatural"); however, at some point after this, their relationship broke down for as-yet unknown reasons ("Fugitive").
By 2022, it is possible that their relationship has improved somewhat, as part of Hall's terms upon being arrested included allowing him one phone call to Elaine every month. ("Resurrection")
=== Adam Solomon ===
After learning of Adam and his abilities, Hall began to take an interest in the American, arranging for Adam's daughter Magdalena to be abducted so that he could orchestrate an exchange with Adam, for reasons as yet unknown. ("Magdalena")
=== The Echelon ===
During Erik's investigation in Geneva of Hall's ties to corruption within the Echelon, Enora discovered that Hall had been channelling funds from various places. One of these was, unbeknownst to her, Kara Mildner, who was a major stakeholder in a Greek company, the Alexandrou Investment Group, which had been laundering money through a shell company to Collange Shipping, a corporation owned by Hall. ("Ted")
=== Sophie King ===
While Sarah was a fugitive from the QIA, she came to Sophie for help in finding Jarrad Foley. In return, Sophie asked Sarah to obtain evidence that Hall's wife Elaine was engaged with buying stolen paintings ("Unnatural"). Sophie later used this to try and blackmail Hall into helping her avenge Jarrad's death, for which she blamed Erik Draper; however, Hall turned this to his advantage and acquired Sophie's loyalty; shortly afterwards she murdered Georges Bouchan, most likely under Hall's orders. ("Life")
During the next two years, Sophie became one of Hall's closest allies, due mainly to his promise to help her kill Erik to avenge Jarrad. Part of this involved setting her up as the provider of files to Sacha Bell, who would act as a a courier to give the files to Russia. To facilitate this and other work, Hall had a system set up whereby he would - to anyone who might be monitoring - seem to be calling his ex-wife Elaine once a month, but would in fact be talking to Sophie. ("The Blood-Dimmed Tide")
By 2023, Sophie was regarded as someone Hall believed worth protecting, as he refused to give her up as the person in possession of the files required by the Russians. ("Ghosts")
=== Hayden Kemp ===
During the two years in which Sarah was in the Void, Hayden - under the alias of 'Darren Scrimshaw - joined Hall's organisation as an undercover operative, rising high enough in the ranks to become one of the small team Hall put together after learning that Sarah was in fact still alive. By this point, Hall was convinced that Darren was someone he could trust; however, Hayden tipped off his colleagues within the London Hub, and the effort to abduct Sarah failed and Hall was arrested. ("Resurrection", "The Blood-Dimmed Tide")
=== Róisín Lynch ===
After his arrest in late 2022, Róisín Lynch was assigned to Hall as the liaison between himself and the QIA, and she subsequently moved into his guest quarters. As the months passed, Róisín and Hall grew intimately close, which may or may not have been a tactic of hers to elicit information from him. Either way, by February 2023 they were sleeping together ("Ghosts", "Masquerade"). After Konstantin Denisov stormed Hall's house, murdering the entire security team and taking him captive, Hall later realised however that it was too dangerous for her to be near him, suggesting he did in fact have feelings for her himself, though he denied as such. As a result, he 'fired' her and forced her to leave. ("Zoey")
A few months later, after Hall's escape from Black Dolphin prison, he and Róisín were briefly reunited. However, Hall was unaware that Róisín was secretly informing Elijah Phelps about his movements, leading to Phelps abducting Hall in order to lure Sarah out into the open; it was Phelps' intention to murder Sarah and thereby prevent the death of Chris Darby. To 'prove' that the future could change, Phelps showed Hall a photo of him and Róisín, supposedly from the future, and then proceeded to murder Róisín right in front of him. Shortly afterwards, Hall killed Phelps in turn, to avenge Róisín's death. ("Ascension")
=== Rick Parry ===
Rick is an on-off ally of Hall's, who has several times given him warnings thanks to his unique insight from the future, including the fact that he would be betrayed by Josef Weidemann (though that may have been inaccurate, as he was in fact betrayed by Hayden Kemp), and that he would end up in Black Dolphin prison in Russia; it was thanks to this information that Hall was able to prepare and engineer his eventual escape. Rick and Hall appear to share a common goal - to stop (and possibly kill) Fran Grenouille. ("The Blood-Dimmed Tide")
== Appearances ==
=== Season One ===
(credited as Also Starring)
Sarah 	Berlin 	Manchester	Glasgow 	Paris
Home 	Mary 	Elizabeth 	Bedlam 	Geneva
Cornwall 	Enora 	Ethan 	Dubai 	Milcha
Jilani 	Dorody 	Tom 	Luxembourg	Spitalfields
Resistance 	Walker 	Hafiz 	Jack 	Misdirection
Revelations1	Reclamation	 	 	
1Flashbacks only
=== Season Two ===
Sides1 	Rupa1 	Fugitive1	Rome1 	Unnatural1
Witchfinder1	Northolt1	Justice1 	Hall1 	Change2
Academy 	Lampeter 	Adam2 	Sağlık 	Malta2
Denny2 	Auxerre2 	Family2 	Titanic 	Nottingham
Magdalena2 	Nicole 	Echelon2 	Redemption2	Ted2
Life2 	Death2 	 	 	
1Credited as Also Starring; 2Credited as Special Guest Star
=== Season Three ===
(Credited as Special Guest Star)
Resurrection	Missing 	Athens 	Tasneem 	Washington
Ides 	Moscow 	Ghosts 	Masquerade	Zoey
Eleven 	Iulya 	Thursday	York 	Prey
Predator 	Power 	¥o¬ Cø~1	Lorenzo 	Glittertind
Circle 	Virmayarvi	Bell1 	Voyna 	Children
Destiny 	Ascension 	 	 	
1Uncredited
Hall also appeared, as the central protagonist, in the short story "The Blood-Dimmed Tide".
== Unanswered Questions ==
* What is Hall's true endgame?
** Why are Sarah, Ethan and Enora seemingly so vital to his plans?
*** Sarah is vital to his plans in the later episodes of Season Two, but this likely extends beyond as well
*** Ethan may well only be vital in getting Sarah to where she needs to be for him
*** Enora, in the future, will work for Hall, as seen in "Auxerre"
* Why did he want Miranda to kill Jarrad Foley, even though he was due to be murdered anyway?
== Trivia ==
Hall frequently steeples his fingers during meetings ("Bedlam", et al).
Hall has informed Ethan that he needs him, Sarah and Enora, but that everyone else is seemingly expendable, but has yet to reveal why.
He reads (and likely speaks) Danish ("Change").
Hall drives a navy blue Tesla Model S. He also enjoys sketching, though the subject of many of his drawings is Sarah Cunnington. ("The Blood-Dimmed Tide")
Hall is portrayed by Jamie McCormack for photographic appearances, and by Alexander Staniforth for vocal performances.Category:Characters