Kyle

**Kyle**, also known as simply **"The Intern"** is a character on the Paramount+ original series *Rabbit Hole*. He is portrayed by Walt Klink.

Kyle is the definition of Gen Z ennui with no real direction. He takes an intern position at John Weir's company to try to find purpose, but gets more than he bargained for when a psyop goes south.

## Profile

### The suspect intern

Kyle works as an intern at the clandestine operation run by John Weir and is known to take the gig economy to a new level. In truth, Kyle is actually a plant by Crowley, the individual that John Weir and his team are working to try to take down. He manages to kill most of Weir's team, but Weir himself is entirely unaware of this until much later, believing that his team only faked their deaths under his plan and are just waiting to come out of hiding.

Dr. Ben Wilson is immediately suspicious of Kyle, believing correctly that Kyle is Crowley's plant. John, however, is not so sure, thinking that it is possible that Kyle could merely by an FBI plant by Josephine Madi, who is constantly hounding him. He therefore wholeheartedly shoots down Ben's request to kill Kyle, as he is against killing unless it is absolutely necessarily. Nevertheless, Ben secretly tails Kyle, but ends up getting made and stabbed by him. It is ultimately this that causes Kyle to kill John's team.

Following this, Kyle continues to track John, working to try to stymie his efforts against Crowley. He tracks John to a police station which he has infiltrated, hoping to get a keyfob that will allow him to access the communications of his deceased friend, Miles Valence. When John exits the police station, carrying a box with the keyfob, he whacks him in the back with his skateboard and attempts to steal the keyfob away from him. John, however, manages to get the drop on him. Kyle fights dirty, kicking John in the balls, but is saved by a well-timed intervention from his companion, Hailey Winton, who drives straight into Kyle, pushing him away and allowing John to get the keyfob and escape.

### An assassin

Despite the best efforts of Xander Arnaz of Arda Analytics, John succeeds in using the keyfob to access Mile's communications. Kyle then goes to Xander, telling him that he has a delivery for him. He then punches him in the neck, before grabbing him and taking him out to an awning, telling him he had one job and that he messed it up. He pushes him off the side of the building, then returns to his desk and places a buff of Vladimir Lenin upon it.

Later, back at his apartment, Kyle takes a phone call from a man who asks him what this was about, why he would make a scene like that, if he thought it was funny. Kyle replies that it kind of was and the man tells him that he's not laughing. Kyle replies that if you want send a message telling people to not mess up, they need to know that it's a message. The man tells him not to do it again, asking him how things are going with their "long-term project." "No worries there," replies Kyle, and the man tells him that's good. Kyle asks him if there's anything else, but the man just hangs up.

Kyle's girlfriend, Eliza, comes over, asking him if everything is okay. He tells her that it's just work stuff, that he had to get rid of someone for somebody. He tells her that it's stressing him out, that he's tired of doing stuff for other people. She suggests that he quit, but he tells her it isn't that easy, that it's good money. She replies that this is how they keep you under control, but that not to worry, that he has her. She then gets a message on her phone, about a protest against something called the "Shared Data Act." She asks if they can go. "Of course," he agrees.

### Master manipulator

Sometime following this, Kyle and Eliza attend another of these protests. Although Eliza joins the crowd's chants against the Shared Data Act, Kyle just stares, seeming bored. Following this, the two sit together, Kyle asking Eliza if she's going to help him like she said she would. Eliza replies that she's never done anything like this before and he tells her that she can either help him or get out of his way. He tells her that he has to do this for himself, that he can't live his life like this anymore. She tells him that she wants to help, but he pulls out a gun, saying forget it, that he'll do it himself. Kyle tells her to forget about him, that he shouldn't have told her. She shouts that she'll help him, pleading with him to just not leave her. He then hugs her, telling her that it's alright.

Later that day, Kyle gets a call from the man before, apparently Crowley. He asks him if he's in position, and he tells him that the almost is. "Well, hurry up," Crowley tells him, saying that every second matters in this game and that the master dies today. Senator Nora Evers appears, preparing to give a stump speech for her presidential candidacy. Suddenly, she falls to the ground, having been shot in the head. Eliza is seen in the crowd, holding a gun, though the shot did not come from her. Eliza drops the gun, but another shot rings out, killing Evers's staffer, Lanneman, who tried to give chase. Eliza races away and into the arms of Kyle, waiting by a vehicle.

Kyle kisses Eliza, telling her that she did great. He then starts speaking in a European accent, telling her that they had to scrape through so many girls' Facebook profiles in order to find the right person. Someone with a passion for politics, angry and lonely and having struggles with mental illness but no attachment disorders. He finishes by saying most importantly, somebody that he could stand to have sex with. He continues that with enough data, you can make people do whatever you want them to. He tells her that she hasn't been on her meds for six months now, that he's been switching them out for homeopathics. He continues that Crowley told her to make her need him and he hit her and pet her. He finishes by saying that Crowley told him that when he handed her the gun, she would take it because she wanted to and because she loved him. "L-O-L" he says, as he chokes her to death. Meanwhile, watching news of the shooting, John and his team read up on Eliza's profile and realize just how much of a perfect patsy she was, just how deep Crowley's control goes.

Kyle's next action is to accost John late at night. "Hey, boss, remember me?" he comments. He pulls a gun on John. "Bang bang," he comments, telling him that it would be that simple, that he's just the "task monkey." He tells him that if he tries any tricks on him, "he" said that he could kill him. John asks who this is and he replies "Let's find out," telling him to start walking. As they reach their final destination, he tells him it's where he leaves him. He continues that he really wished he had paid him more, that he was a good boss. "You were a shit intern," replies John and Kyle takes his leave, leaving John with a man who claims to be Crowley.

### The endgame

Although Crowley tries to convince John that he is on his side, the gambit does not work, and things proceed to the endgame. This involves John and his team revealing the survival of a U.S. Treasury Department agent named Edward Homm, along with a vast treasure trove of data on just how many people are in Crowley's pocket. As they prepare to go on air at the news station AWN, a team supposedly from the Justice Department arrives downstairs, claiming to have an injunction to stop the broadcast. Their presence, however, is merely a smokescreen for Kyle, who in the ensuing melee of arguing between the team and the broadcaster's legal team manages to slip past security.

Kyle boards an elevator and heads up, only John to punch him in the face as the doors open. Kyle pulls a knife, but then Hailey appears, sending him to the ground. As a team comes and takes Kyle away, he tells him that it was nothing personal, just a job. Among Kyle's personal effects, the guards discover a gun and a camera phone. As one of the guards hands the gun to another, telling him to lock it up, Crowley is shown watching through the camera phone. He uses facial recognition to identify the guard, then begins indexing all known data about him. Crowley then calls the phone and the guard picks up. He speaks of the guard's arrest history and how his father, a district judge, covered it all up. He threatens to tell his wife. "I understand," the guard tells him. He then hands his gun to Kyle and lets him go free.

Kyle heads to the newsroom where Homm is about reveal his survival. As this is taking place, Crowley is trying to manipulate John and his team, having kidnapped Ben Wilson, as well as a woman whom he believes to be John's ex-wife, Olivia "Liv" Bonen. Kyle listens over his earpiece as it is revealed that the woman is actually not John's ex-wife, but rather a woman he had hired to rescue his ex-wife after she had been kidnapped once before, and has been posing as ex-wife ever since. As Kyle reaches the newsroom, he pulls out the gun, but recoils when he hears the gunshots through his earpiece of Ben shooting and killing Crowley. He lowers the gun and runs away, John telling Hailey not to worry about him. His final fate is unknown.

## Trivia

* Closed-captioning typically refers to him as simply "The Intern."

## Gallery

### Video

Rabbit Hole - The Intern That Went Rogue - Paramount+

## References

1. ↑ Snierson, Dan (January 6, 2023). 'Things are not what they seem' in first look at Kiefer Sutherland's thriller *Rabbit Hole*. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on February 25, 2023.