Adam

### Relatives

Camilla (Younger Robot Sister)Badger (Younger Robot Brother)Holiday (Younger Robot Sister)

### Affiliation

The FourJ.P Whittier(formerly)

Thornton Rust(formerly)

## Appearances

### Episode appearances:

S2: EP 1
S2: EP 4

S2: EP 7

S2: EP 13

S2: EP 17

S2: EP 20

S2: EP 22

TBC

Adam was the first humaniod robot that Dr. J.P Whittier created at Thorton Rust, and is considered to be the leader of The Four throughout season 2. He has super-human strength and enhanced tracking abilities.

## Backstory

Adam was created at Thorton Rust by Dr. J.P Whittier, who raised him like a son. During his time there, Adam bonded with Whittier and thought of him like a father. Soon after his creation, Dr. Whittier deemed Adam a “failure”. He claimed that Adam was a failed model because he could not experience or show emotion, however Adam later attributes the label to the fact that he stopped following Whittier’s orders.

(It is worth noting that throughout the series, Adam expresses many emotions such as resentment of Whittier’s treatment of him, his fear of accidentally hurting the Anders family, his grief when Camilla betrays him to Holiday, and regret for his part in killing Whittier. Additionally, he also expresses many symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), so the assumption that he was does not *have* emotions is highly inaccurate.)

After Whittier decides that Adam is a failed model, he deactivates him and traps him in a box, discarding him at the bottom of the ocean. The deactivation was unsuccessful, and Adam came back online to find himself trapped underwater. In later episodes, Adam expresses his pain and confusion at being left, recounting that he didn’t know what he’d done to deserve being betrayed and abandoned by the person he had considered a father.

He finds a way to escape the box and drags himself to a nearby island, where there are no human inhabitants. Later, Camilla and Badger are discarded in similar ways and Adam rescues them, bringing them to safety on the island. They began to call themselves “Bots”, as they find the full term “robot” dehumanizing and insulting. When they discovered the creation of Holiday, the model that Whittier planned to keep, they sent Badger to reveal the darker side that Whittier had shown to them. Holiday then chose to come to the island with the other Bots, who helped her escape from Thorton Rust.

The Bots began to go on missions, sabotaging WhittierCorp’s Whit-kids and preventing them from collecting and distributing dangerous technology and weapons. When they started interfering, WhittierCorp gave them the name “The Four”. As the first Bot, the one to claim their island and rescue the others, Camilla, Holiday, and Badger recognized Adam as their leader. After the WhittierCorp tech was intercepted, the Four would give the technology to people outside of WhittierCorps's circle. Adam began to doubt whether or not they should be giving it away to more humans, and why they were not keeping the technology for themselves.

Whittier was the only person that Adam had ever been in contact with, and his actions towards Adam led to a deep distrust of all humans. Because of this, Holiday began to realize that if they did collect the WhittierCorp's weapons for themselves that Adam “wouldn’t be upset if his finger slipped, and… bye bye humans.” This sentiment is somewhat true before the story starts and during seasons 1 and 2, as Adam shows several times that he strongly dislikes humans and holds very little value for human life. Holiday strongly disagrees and begins to distrust Adam, leading to a rift between the two. They reach a point where the two refuse to speak to each other, ultimately ending with Holiday leaving the island all together, choosing to be with the Anders family instead. Adam feels deeply betrayed by this, even though he and Holiday had been fighting, because he thinks of her as a sister and believed that he had done nothing to deserve her leaving. After she abandoned them, his paranoia about being abandoned yet again increased.

## Season 1

 While Adam is not present in season 1, it is later revealed that he was working with Camilla to influence events happening on-screen, watching Holiday and then Badger as they lose their memories and stay with the Anders family.

## Season 2

 Adam’s first appearance is  in episode 1 of season 2, when he is talking with Camilla as they track the Anders family during their time on the run. Camilla accidentally refers to the Anderses as Holiday’s family and Adam snaps at her, revealing a possessive side to himself when it comes to the other Bots that most likely stems from his trauma of being abandoned. He is very adement that the Bots are a family, and that no humans can be part of that family.

As Adam and Cam track the Anderses, Badger finds out that WhittierCorp is using his hoverboard as a way to continually find them. Overwhelmed by guilt, he takes his hoverboard and leaves them. Adam and Cam find him, and Badger (having no memory of who they are) points out that Adam looks too young to be driving. Badger becomes very excited as he finds out that they are members of The Four, and Adam is in disbelief as he mocks WhittierCorp for the simplistic name. He then resets Badger’s memory, and Badger tells them that Holiday is going back to Thorton Rust. The three of them decide that they have to stop her, but are unsuccessful. They are also present in the swamp, briefly getting a chance to interact with Holiday when Magnus kidnaps Cyrus and Bryleigh.

When Holiday finds out that she is a Bot and runs away from Thorton Rust, Cam and Badger follow Adam’s orders, putting a bag over her head and taking her back to Neverland with them. As she realizes where she is and who she’s with, Holiday explores the island and the Bots unsuccessfully attempt to bring back memories of her old life. Adam then used several tactics to manipulate Holiday into staying with them on the island.

* He hacks into the microphone of her favorite pet so that he can hear what she says when she thinks he isn’t listening. When Cam tries to tell him that it seems wrong, he explains that he doesn’t want her to run from them again.
* When Mr. Anders and Cyrus come looking for Holiday, Adam orders Cam and Badger to redirect their boat and forbids them from telling her.
* When Holiday later does try to leave the island, Adam takes the other Bots and intercepts her, eventually convincing her to return with them.
* After returning to the island, Adam offers Holiday the role of overseeing the task of building more Bots, revealing his plan to build more of them. While he claims that he wants to build a “community”, Holiday sees this plan as him attempting to build an “army”, however when Adam offers to build them in her image rather than his, she accepts.

The Bots begin to go go on more missions as The Four, leading them into a trap set by WhittierCorp. Adam and Badger are captured, but are rescued by Cam while Holiday discovers Casey Duprees, who she believed had been sent away. Adam tells Cam to knock her unconscious before she can shock them, but instead they decide to take her to their island and use her as an ally.

Their next mission leads them to WhittierCorp, where the plan is for The Four to use their and Casey’s abilities to shut down the building and kidnap Whittier. The first part of the plan is successful, however the Bots then discover that the Anders family is unexpectedly present in the building as well. Adam chooses to continue with the plan, and Dr. Whittier, Angleica graves, and Birdie Anders are all trapped inside Whittier’s office, where Cam and Adam corner them. Adam radios Holiday, telling her that he has a room full of hostages, and Cam tries (unsuccessfully) to convince Adam to let Birdie go, seeing as she’s just a kid. Adam’s plan is then interrupted again, as Whittier reveals a remote used to shut the Bots down remotely, giving him the upper-hand. Camilla is forced to turn visible, however Whittier is then distracted and as Camilla grabs the remote, Adam grabs hold of Dr. Whittier’s neck, lifting him into the air. Cam tried again to convince Adam to leave because they “had what they came for”, however Adam then throws Whittier, sending him through the wall of the building and killing him.

Cam and Adam decide to grab Cyrus instead, and trap him in a pit behind a waterfall on Neverland. Adam argues with Holiday about whether or not Cyrus should stay with them, and Holiday convinces him that she is on his side. Brynleigh and Casey then arrive on the island, looking for Cyrus, and are captured by Adam and Cam and thrown into the same pit that Cyrus was previously in.

While Cam is watching the two hostages, Adam takes Holiday to see his work shed, using a key card to get in. He shows her the models that he had made and explains how he needs Cyrus to bring them online. Holiday convinces him that she is on his side, while back at the pit the two girls manage to trick Camilla into letting them out, electrocuting her and leaving her unable to move or talk properly. Bryleigh sneaks into Adam’s hut, where he is taking his six minute reboot, and they take the key card that he has. When Adam wakes up, he finds Holiday in his hut and furiously realizes that the key card is missing.

Later, holiday breaks into Adam’s shed to confront him, finding Angelica and Casey there as well. Adam brings his Bots online, though they run on the same program and are not sentient like the Four are. He commands the army to attack Holiday and the two humans with her, but Holiday learns that she can mirror Casey’s ability to manipulate electricity and shorts all of them out. She then leaves the shed and the broken Bots to confront Adam at the top of Neverland’s waterfall. The two fight, falling from the top of the cliff and into the water below.

Adam manages to defeat her, shutting her down temporarily and trapping her in a box, leaving her in the ocean just like Whittier had done to him, Cam, and Badger. With Angelica’s help, he uploads his consciousness into one of the Bots he had built to look identical to Holiday. He also downloads her voice and develops an alliance with Angelica. She allows him to tie her up and bring her to the Anders family, who are waiting on the beach, effectively convincing them that he is the real Holiday and that Adam and Angelica have been defeated.

The Anders return to their home in Juneau, Alaska, believing that they are safe and that Adam is their daughter Holiday. That night, Adam wakes Birdie up and takes her to WhittierCorp, the company that she now owns, and has her give him access to all of the labs. When they return home, Badger and the Anderses are furious and tell Holiday/Adam how scared they were when they disappeared. Holiday/Adam apologies, but explains to them that “some things are going to be different”. They also say that they will no longer be going to school, but then change their mind upon discovery of Whittier middle school’s computer labs. Additionally, Holiday/Adam sneaks away to see Angelica before she is brought to a more secure prison, betraying her rather than helping her escape like he had promised. When they are discovered talking to Angelica, Holiday/Adam tearfully explains that they wanted to know that it was truly over and that all of the bad guys had been defeated.

Holiday/Adam begins to act out of character, showing up Bryleigh in class, being unaware of the promise Casey made to Holiday, snapping at the Anderses, and defending Adam’s decisions. Cyrus believes that everything Holiday went through is just having a temporarily negative effect on her, and sets up a big dinner with Holiday’s favorite meals, family, and friends. Holiday/Adam does not appreciate the attention, and when Birdie insults Adam, Holiday/Adam defends themselves and their actions, eventually storming upstairs to Holiday’s room. Badger goes up to talk to them, and Holiday/Adam reveals who they really are and deactivates Badger using the remote that he took from Dr. Whittier. Brynleigh finds them trying to hide Badger’s body, and discovers that the person the came home with was really Adam.

Holiday/Adam forms a temporary “alliance” with Brynleigh, who warns the Anders family and sets a trap for him. Adam turns their trap back on them, trapping Mr. Anders, Mrs. Anders, Brynleigh, Casey, and Badger in a WhittierCorp panic room and reprogramming Badger to suck all of the air out of the room leaving the humans to suffocate. Meanwhile, Adam kidnaps Cyrus and Birdie, taking them to a helicopter where he believes Cam will be waiting to take them back to Neverland. When he gets there, the helicopter takes off and flies the group out and over the bay. When Adam goes to check on Cam, he finds the helicopter has been left on auto-pilot. Holiday appears behind him, and Adam realizes that she had “blended in”- a power that previously belonged to Camilla. He asks what Holiday had done to her, and Holiday explains to him that Cam sacrificed herself for Holiday after Adam abandoned her under the caved-in rocks. Frustrated, Adam slams his hands into the side of the helicopter and questions why everyone willingly sacrifices themselves for Holiday but betrays him. Cyrus then appears, and is confused by the appearance of a second Holiday. Adam and Holiday fight to convince him that they are the real Holiday, and Cyrus asks them a series of questions to determine who is telling the truth. Finally, he asks them weather he should pick Casey or Brynleigh, and Adam makes a mistake, revealing information that Holiday couldn’t have known. Cyrus shocks him with exposed wires, causing him to short circuit, and takes Holiday to help Birdie, who had injected herself with Gen-A serum.

When Adam wakes up, he asks Holiday why he’s still operational, and why they hadn’t shut him down. Holiday tells him that he deserves a fresh start to life, and offers to reset his memory. Adam tricks them into thinking he’ll accept, and uses his bought time to untie the chains that they had wrapped him in. He breaks free and grabs Birdie, dropping her out of the hovering helicopter. Cyrus lunges out the helicopter after her, and Adam and Holiday fight again. As they fight, Holiday pushes Adam into the control panel, causing the helicopter to crash into the water. Mr. Anders, Mrs. Anders, and Brynleigh, who’d managed to escape the panic room, stole a boat and took it into the bay to look for Cyrus and Birdie, who they had seen fall. They pull the two siblings into the boat, and Birdie reveals that the Gen-A serum gave her the ability to breath underwater. Adam then swims beside the boat, using Holiday’s voice to trick Cyrus into extending a helping hand. Holiday tries to warn them that it isn’t her, but she it too late, and Adam grabs hold of Cyrus’s arm, dragging him into the water. Holiday and Birdie dive after him, managing to free Cyrus and bring him back to the boat. Adam then threatens them, saying that he will never stop hunting their family. Hovey then appears, ramming into the back of Adam’s head hard enough to knock him unconscious.

While Cyrus votes to deactivate Adam, the decision is ultimately left up to Holiday, who decides to reset his memory and adopt him into the family. A few months later, at Holiday’s birthday, it’s revealed that Adam, who now goes by Bruce, has recurring nightmares of his past life. He tells Holiday about the anger that he feels in the dreams and how he is horrified at what he’s done, but Holiday reassures him, telling Adam that he is a different person now and that his past does not define him.

## Season 3

In season 3, Adam goes by the name Bruce and is an accepted part of both the Pasternak and Anders's family. When Cyrus is injected with a mysterious substance from a stranger, Birdie begs Bruce to use his old tracking skills to find the person who did it. Bruce initially resists, explaining that he is afraid using his powers will bring back Adam, but eventually tries in an effort to help Cyrus. However, he is unsuccessful, and tells Birdie that the person in the room must not have been human as they have no scent.

When Magnus tries to sabotage the cure being used for Cyrus, Bruce threatens him, forcing Magnus to help and ultimately saving Cyrus's life. He is worried about his actions, but the Anders family reassures him that he was doing the right thing and reminds him that Cyrus would have died otherwise. Bruce and Badger fly to Elixr Key to visit Bryleigh, but their hoverboards short out when they hit the island's electronic barrier. They crash land on a fisherman's boat and are soon knocked unconscious by the same force field. Bruce wakes up on an island, separated from Badger. During these events, Bruce demonstrates several signs that his past trauma is affecting him, pointing out the depths of the water and freaking out when he realizes he has been left alone on the island.

Badger finds Bruce unconscious, and brings him back to WhittierCorp to try and reboot him. It takes a long time, and he explains to Birdie that he has to run the same program on himself before loading them for Bruce. KC then sneaks into the room where Bruce is being kept and helps bring him back online under the headmsater's orders. In doing so, she also re-loads some of the programming that made him Adam, and Bruce starts to demonstrate more pre-memory wipe behavior.

During a press conference, a camera man will not back away from Birdie, instead pressing her for questions when she tries to back away. Adam grabs the camera man in a surge of anger, but then lets him back down when he realizes what he is doing. Scared of becoming Adam again, he runs away and has not been seen since episode 48.

## Quotes

"Silly humans- Streets are for kids!"

"If I had feelings, you'd be hurting them."

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