Suzanne Wu

**Suzanne Wu** is the tritagonist of *Raising Dion*. She is portrayed by Ali Ahn.

## Summary

Suzanne Wu is the CEO of BIONA Initiative, and thus in charge of all the research performed at the institute.

## Biography

### Season 1

Suzanne is first seen in "ISSUE #102: Fortress of Solitude", when Pat Rollins tries to propose his idea for a new research to her, but she pretends not to hear him. In "ISSUE 103: Watch Man", she tells Pat she considered his idea good, but Pat himself won't perform it since he's just an engineer.

In "ISSUE #104: Welcome to BIONA. Hope You Survive the Experience", after finding out Pat took Dion Warren to BIONA, she gives the boy a tour of the facility. Later, after Dion and Pat break into the restricted laboratory L5 and escape with a hermit crab, causing a power outage in the process, she demands to get the names of everybody who was near L5 prior to the power outage.

In "ISSUE #105: Days of Mark's Future Past", she attends the birthday party for Andre and Dion at Tasha Patel's house. After Dion used his powers to telepathically summon his inhaler due to an asthma attack, Pat feared that Suzanne might have seen him.

In "ISSUE #106: Super Friends", she surprised Pat by approving his research plan, and granting him access to lab L5. She also told him what is at stake, namely that Biona is trying to prevent the decay of Iceland as a result of the Aurora Event. When Pat told Nicole about his promotion, he told her Suzanne probably knows he and Dion took Pinchy from L5. Pat's suspicions of Suzanne turned out to be correct; she announced that Biona would support the science fair at Dion's school (thus giving Biona agents an excuse to visit the school), and she sent Lars to Nicole's apartment to spy on Dion. By the end of the episode, Lars showed her footage of Dion and Charlotte Tuck turning themselves invisible.

In "ISSUE #107: Why So Vomity?", after Lars warned her that Dion had been hospitalized, Suzanne used this as an opportunity to get her hands on the boy. When CDC ordered for Dion to be quarantined because of his mysterious condition, she send a team of BIONA agents to take Dion from the hospital and bring him to L5 for research. In "ISSUE #108: You Won't Like Him When He's Angry", Nicole confronted her at BIONA to demand Dion's return. Suzanne only agreed after Nicole offered her all of Mark's research data in return, but assured Nicole that BIONA had Dion's best intentions in mind, and that their real enemy is The Crooked Man. Later, when The Crooked Man attacked Charlotte Tuck outside Nicole's apartment, she called Nicole to warn her about him.

In "ISSUE #109: Storm Killer", Suzanne, along with a team of BIONA agents, tried to help Nicole and Dion fight off The Crooked Man. Their plan was to use liquid nitrogen to weaken him, but the giant destroyed their vans before they got the chance to use it. Suzanne survives the encounter.

### Season 2

Two years after Season 1, Suzanne had Biona set up a training facility for powered people like Dion, and made Nicole Warren a spokesperson for these powered people. In "ISSUE 201: A Hero Returns", she assigns Tevin Wakefield to Dion as his new trainer, reasoning that Dion needs a good role model to keep him on the right path now that he is reaching the age that he becomes sensitive to peer pressure. Nicole is at first not happy with her decision, but eventually warms up to Tevin.

When Pat Rollins unexpectedly returns to warn Biona about a new Crooked Man, Suzanne has him locked up in lab L5. She warns Nicole about this turn of events and they try to keep Pat's return a secret from Dion. This fails when David Marsh secretly takes Pat out of L5 to investigate the Sinkhole behind McKoy Park Elementary, and Dion sees him there. When Suzanne finds out what David did, she suspends him and has Pat locked up again.

In "ISSUE 203: Monster Problem", Suzanne witnesses how Gary Stafford, the first victim of the Crooked Man's Parasitic spores, attacks and injures Nicole. In "ISSUE 204: With Friends Like These" she has the sinkhole filled with CO2 and closed off, again against David's wishes. David reminds Suzanne that the higher ups at Biona, in particular chairman Ben Cutler, are planning to have her replaced since in the past two years she hasn't delivered anything that can help Biona make a profit, but Suzanne is adamant that containing the danger should have their highest priority.

In "ISSUE 205: You vs. Me", Nicoles injury from the attack begins to slowly turn her into one of the plant monsters, so at Nicole's urging Suzanne reluctantly allows Pat to help find a cure, since he knows all of Mark's research. With help of Janelle Carr and Kat Neese, Pat is able to find a serum, but it is as lethal to the spores as it is to the host they infected, meaning it will keep Nicole's infection at bay but ultimately kill her. Suzanne tells Nicole of the risks, and she decides to take the serum anyway.

Pat's research also reveals that the P-DNA that gives powered people their abilities can potentially be transfered to regular humans. David Marsh of course immediately sees the potential profit of this, and since he is now promoted to a position higher than Suzanne, she can no longer stop him. She does however bring in a group of experts to help perfect the serum, and once they arrive, she has Pat taken off the research and locked up again, making it clear to him that she will never forgive him for his actions as the Crooked Man. Unfortunately, this pushes Pat over the edge and he injects himself with all the P-DNA that Biona managed to isolate so far. He falls into a deep coma, from which he awakens with powers of his own, which he uses to escape from Biona.

At the end of "ISSUE 208: Who You Are", Suzanne offers Kat a permanent job at Biona so she can hopefully find a way to strip Pat of his powers again.

## Personality

She “lacks the ability to fake enthusiasm or interest. She’s either fascinated or disengaged.” She especially doesn't like Pat Rollins, but if her interactions with Dion in "ISSUE #104: Welcome to BIONA. Hope You Survive the Experience" are an indication, she was rather fond of Mark Warren. She is aware of the danger that The Crooked Man poses to Dion and other people that got powers from the Aurora Event, and is determined to stop the necrosis that is destroying Iceland. But she is not afraid to go to extreme lengths to achieve her goals, like threatening to keep Dion quarantined at BIONA indefinitely. Deep down however, she does care about Dion and the other powered people, and believes Biona should first and foremost help people instead of making profit.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Matt Lauria Joins Apple’s ‘Dickinson’, Ali Ahn In Netflix’s ‘Raising Dion’". *Deadline*. January 29, 2019. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
2. ↑ “ISSUE #108: You Won't Like Him When He's Angry”. *Raising Dion*. Season #1. Episode #8