Carlos Sánchez

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## Carlos Sánchez

### Aliases

Noah Cunnington (birth name) ("¥o¬\_Cø~1", "Lorenzo")Lorenzo Martinez (given name) ("¥o¬\_Cø~1", "Lorenzo")

Alistair Fareham ("Masquerade")

DC Ruiz ("York")

Eduardo Wade ("Bell")

Mr Kushnir ("Bell")

Sergeant Dimitri Kaloyev ("Voyna")

### Relatives

Sarah Cunnington (mother)Jack Harringer (father)

## Biographical information

### Marital status

In a relationship with Esther Wilson (until his death)

### Date of birth

2nd October 1999 (presumed)26th September 2020 (actual)

## Physical description

### Hair Colour

Brown

Carlos Sánchez was a main character throughout *QIA*'s third season, up until his murder. He was an Agent of the London Field Team.

## Biography

### Birth and Early Life

Carlos was born Noah Cunnington, but was raised with the name Lorenzo Martinez ("¥o¬ Cø~1", "Lorenzo").

He was in fact abducted by Claudia Horne and Rian Brady and taken to 1999, where he was left outside a hospital in Barcelona. For the next eight years he grew up as Lorenzo Martinez in an SOS Village, taken care of by señor Gongora and señorita Gutiérrez. During this time, he was told that his father had got drunk and murdered his mother and then himself, making him an orphan. However, on his eighth birthday, Claudia arrived at the orphanage claiming to be his aunt, and took him away with her. That same day, she told him that they were not in fact related, and that the truth was that he had been born in the year 2020, and that he had been abducted as a baby by Fran Grenouille. Claudia promised Lorenzo that she would one day reunite him with his parents - whom she claimed were still alive in 2021 - and that she would help him get revenge on Fran. Needing a new name so that Fran would not find him, Lorenzo chose the name Carlos.

Soon after, 'Carlos' met Arvin Costlemach, who provided him with legal documentation for his new name, as well as enrolling him in school. Over the next few years, Claudia and Costemach manipulated and conditioned Carlos into hating Fran, including a brief trip to Lower Penbridge in England, where Costlemach showed Carlos a beautiful teenage girl, Sarah Cunnington, whom Costlemach explained would one day become Fran.

Later, Carlos attempted to contact his real parents in 2020, but was stopped by Costlemach, who confirmed that he would never actually be able to meet them. Carlos resumed his studies and his training, and thanks to Costlemach he was soon enrolled in the Academy. ("Lorenzo")

### The QIA

Upon graduating from the Academy, Carlos apparently received high praise from Andrew Wesker and had an excellent finishing record ("Missing"). However, Wesker later refuted this, describing Carlos as having been "adequate at best" ("Thursday"), his record presumably having been doctored by Costlemach.

Following his graduation, Costlemach told Carlos that his mission would be to kill Fran, and that she had abducted him because she herself had lost a baby. Costlemach also told him that when this baby's father returned, the time when Sarah would become Fran would soon be at hand. ("Lorenzo")

Carlos joined the London Field Team on 2nd October 2022 as their new linguist, replacing Sarah - the very woman he had been groomed to one day murder. After her return to the team, this became a role that they shared. ("Ides")

### Mission to kill Sarah

During his pursuit of Lucita Cadamon in Athens, Carlos was forced to let her go after Lucita revealed that she knew who he really was, and threatened to tell the QIA unless he backed down ("Athens").

Three months later, Carlos met with his handler, Claudia Horne, and reaffirmed to her that his true goal is Sarah's death ("Zoey"). Shortly after this, while under the influence of Erika Tod, Carlos indeed attempted to kill Sarah during the Düsseldorf mission, but was stopped by Zoey Hallett; he later expressed regret about this to Sarah herself ("Eleven").

Carlos met with Claudia again, who tasked him with getting hold of Ethan Taylor's quantum trace device. To acquire it, he began dating Brianne Lake, whom he knew had a crush on him ("Prey"). However, he defied Claudia and Arvin Costlemach and did not bring the device to them, stating that in spite of his mission he would not betray the QIA ("Predator"). Costlemach was not pleased, and next ordered him to allow two men, who were coming to kill Sarah themselves, access to the London Hub. However, when this effort failed, Claudia issued Carlos an ultimatum: kill Sarah, or he would be killed. ("Power")

Shortly afterwards, Carlos was confronted by Zoey, who had been investigating him and had learned that the real Carlos Sánchez had died 16 years ago. Carlos explained that his real name was Lorenzo Martinez and that he had been orphaned and brought up by Claudia, who he regarded as his mother.

However, in May, Iulya Dalca learned the real truth - that he was in fact Noah Cunnington, Sarah's baby whom everyone believed had died in childbirth. ("¥o¬ Cø~1")

After everything but his true identity became known, Carlos admitted his life story and secret mission to Enora Gallou, Iulya, Zoey and Tasneem Hafiz, placing his fate in their hands after confirming that he no longer wished Sarah any harm at all. Ultimately, Enora decided to forgive him, on the condition that Zoey forgive him for the incident with the intruders, one of whom Zoey had been forced to kill. She also told him they would protect him against Claudia and Costlemach. ("Lorenzo")

### Esther Wilson

During the York 2000 mission, Carlos first came across Esther Wilson as a 14-year-old girl whose life he saved after Alex Tremaine tried to kill her ("York"). Later, during the subsequent York 2008 mission, he and Zoey attempted to protect her from another attempt on her life, but ended up stranded after the Hubs were disabled by Hall's virus. During this time, he begins a romantic relationship with her. ("¥o¬ Cø~1", "Lorenzo")

After his instrumental part in taking down the OVM ("Bell", "Voyna"), Carlos discovered that Esther was pregnant with his baby - a fact that unsettled him, due to knowing that she would die in childbirth nine months later. With Jack's help, Carlos attempted to go and meet his 'real' parents, but their investigation ran into a problem when the man he thought was his father told him that he had never had children. Barcelona police records revealed that no abduction had taken place, and so Carlos and Jack went to the hospital on the night he had been abandoned there as a baby, and Carlos witnessed Claudia Horne being responsible for it, not Fran. Distraught, Carlos deciced to quit the QIA and spend what little time Esther had left with her, in 2008. ("Children")

In 2008, Carlos moved into the empty flat above the abandoned Rebirth Beauty Salon, where he intended to make as little impact on the timeline as possible, helped by Jack. However, shortly afterwards, on the night of 13th July 2008, Carlos awoke to find that Miranda Davenport had killed two men who had come to kill Esther once again, and was then confronted by Fran Grenouille herself. Fran sent Esther away with Miranda so she could speak with Carlos alone, and although Carlos agreed, he secretly called Jack several times. When Jack - along with Sarah, the two of them now aware that Carlos was in fact their son - arrived in the flat, they found Carlos had been shot dead and that Brent Hall was standing in the doorway holding a gun. However, Jack later learned that Hall had not been resposible for his murder, but that he had in fact been killed by Fran. Fran would later tell Miranda that she had murdered her own son in order to ensure Sarah's Sarah's Ascension. ("Destiny", "Ascension")

## Relationships

### Zoey Hallett

While most of the team did not take kindly newcomer Zoey, an auditor sent to monitor their missions by Cameron Campbell, Carlos was much more welcoming to her ("Zoey"), including taking responsibility for training her in how to quantum shift ("Eleven").

As they grew closer, he attempted to cultivate a romantic relationship with him, but she let him down gently on account of being gay. However, the two of them instead agreed to be friends. ("Eleven")

Their friendship endured over the next few months, each becoming the other's confidante, and when Carlos decided to quit the QIA and go and live in 2008 with Esther Wilson, his parting gift to Zoey was to encourage her to express her feelings to Iulya Dalca, which later resulted in their (brief) romantic relationship. ("Destiny")

### Claudia Horne

After it is revealed in "Zoey" that Carlos is working for some other organisation towards the goal of Sarah Cunnington's death, it is also revealed that his handler is Claudia. Carlos told Zoey that Claudia had brought him up and that he regarded her as like his mother. ("¥o¬ Cø~1")

However, Carlos eventually decides that his loyalty lies with the QIA and not Claudia. ("Lorenzo")

### Fran Grenouille

At some point in the future, it seems that Carlos will have some kind of relationship with Fran - Sarah's future self - as, during the masquerade party in 2022, she insinuated as such, telling him that she had missed him greatly. However, Carlos appeared to have no idea what she was talking about. ("Masquerade")

It was later revealed that Carlos had spent his whole life believing that Fran Grenouille had abducted him as a baby and dumped him in 1999; from the age of 8 onwards, he was subsequently groomed by Claudia Horne and Arvin Costlemach to hate her, with the view of one day killing her. ("Lorenzo")

Carlos later came face-to-face with Fran in York, 2008, though by this point he had learned that Fran had not abducted him at all, and that instead it had been Claudia. In spite of this, Fran subsequently murdered Carlos - even though she would have known that he was her own son - in order to pave the way for Sarah's Ascension. ("Destiny", "Ascension")

### Brianne Lake

In April 2023, Carlos found out that Brianne had a crush on him. At around the same time, he had been tasked by Claudia to obtain Ethan Taylor's quantum trace device, and so he initiated a relationship to manufacture an opportunity in which he could steal it. ("Prey")

Carlos' relationship, one-sided though it was, continued for a few weeks until he officially ended it, having fallen in love with Esther Wilson ("Glittertind").

### Arvin Costlemach

Although the time that Arvin has actually spent with Carlos throughout his life has been little, Carlos regards him as a father figure and both fears and respects him. ("Predator")

### Esther Wilson

After first saving Esther as a pre-teen, Carlos felt a connection to her and was upset to later learn that she had died long before 2023 ("York"). Later, while stuck in 2008 during the third York mission, Carlos and Esther - now 22 - began a romantic relationship. ("Lorenzo", "Virmayarvi")

### Jack Harringer

After his graduation from the Academy, Carlos was told by Arvin Costlemach that Sarah would become the evil Fran shortly after her baby's father returned to her life. Following some investigation, Carlos learned that this father was Jack Harringer, and so was unnerved when Jack returned in 2023 to help him and Zoey to leave 2008 ("Lorenzo"). In spite of this, however, he started becoming friendly with Jack during the Glittertind mission, even to the point of Jack facilitating his trips back to 2008 to spend time with Esther Wilson ("Circle", "Virmayarvi")

Jack also later helped Carlos to try and investigate the truth behind his parents and his abduction, though this later led Jack to discover the truth - that Carlos was his and Sarah's son, Noah Cunnington. While Jack struggled at first to deal with this, he eventually came around to the idea and told Sarah as well. However, by the time the two of them reached Carlos, he had been shot dead. At first, they presumed he had been murdered by Brent Hall, who was present at the scene, but Jack later learned that Carlos had in fact been murdered by Fran Grenouille. Later, Jack and Enora Gallou left for the future to pursue Sarah, who was on the brink of turning into Fran. ("Children", "Destiny", "Ascension")

## Trivia

Carlos spoke nine languages, which do not include Latin. ("Ides")

Carlos lived in Hounslow ("Prey").