Hannah Wells

**Hannah Wells** was a former FBI agent who investigated the US Capitol during President Richmond's State of the Union address. She is portrayed by Maggie Q.

## Biography

Under Tom Kirkman’s authority, Hannah became the lead investigator into the terrorist attack that killed everyone present at the Capitol (with the exception of Peter MacLeish, as was discovered later).

During the events of the first season, Hannah was the one to eventually find that Peter MacLeish, the survivor of the Capitol bombing, was hiding in a bomb shelter beneath the Capitol and that he was involved with the conspirators responsible. She exposed Peter MacLeish, who was then the vice president. She also discovered the identity of another conspirator, named Catalan. Ultimately, she was able to expose the conspirators who dubbed themselves as the True Believers and thus led to their downfall.

She had worked on an investigation into the murder of Eric Little, who was bribed by Alex Kirkman's mother. Which in the end, Alex Kirkman won but was then killed by a car accident.

She worked on an investigation into Andrea Frost, who she thought to be the hacker known as, "Gamine," that was responsible for hacks into NASA, the Power Grid of Washington D.C, President Kirkmans therapy tapes, and other hacks, which resulted into multiple deaths including Damian Rennet. She had publicly humiliated Andrea Frost by accusing her of these actions and sabotage against President Kirkman, after the president told her to find concrete evidence and Frost admitting to a private conversation at the Cabinet hearing against Kirkmans mental ability to remain in office. After the fact, these actions seemed to have gotten Hannah fired by President Kirkman in the Oval Office.

However, the firing was just a setup since the model car in the office was bugged by Kirkman's close friend Dax Minter, also known as Gamine. Without going too deep, Hannah Wells was not fired. In the end, Aaron Shore and Hannah Wells were together at a bar when Hannah Wells pulled out her White House ID and her FBI badge and laid them next to him, explaining that she could not do what she needed to while working with the White House.

Hannah becomes involved with Damian Rennett, who is later exposed as a double agent who works with Russia. After his death, Hannah is fueled by anger, and it is clear that she still harbors feelings for Damian.

At the end of Season 2, Hannah arrived in England to search for Damian's daughter Amy. While there Hannah killed Valeria and at Amy's behest, brought her back to America. The season ends with Hannah watching a video obtained from Valeria which contained a scene where Emily Rhodes hands some documents to Valeria.

In Season 3 Hannah is recruited by the CIA. During her bioterror investigation, she eventually discovers a hidden biolab in a brewery. She dies from the poisonous gas produced in the brewery.

## Biography

Hannah Wells was born in Oceanside, California to a father who worked for SEAL, and is a top surgeon in Chicago, and a Vietnamese-American mother.She intially studied medicine because her father told her to do ir because he wanted her to follow his footsteps and according to Hannah he practically "held her at gunpoint" and took her to Johns Hopkins. Eventually, halfway through grad school, she walked out, jumped on a train, went to D.C, and signed up for the FBI. Hannah said she did it to "piss him off".

A few moments after the Capitol explosion, Hannah made an attempt to call her partner, Scott Wheeler who was a member of Congress that died in the Capitol bombing, but was sent to voicemail. Hanna and Wheeler had been involved in an affair, which she explains to Atwood. After seeing the plumes of smoke rising from the Capitol in the distance, Hannah got in her car and drove to the flaming wreckage. While the FBI and emergency services dig through the rubble, they find an explosive commonly found in the Middle East, but was later deemed dysfunctional. From that point, most of the team suspected major terrorist groups in the Middle East, but Hannah became skeptical. She theorized that whoever perpetrated the bombing was just getting started.

She was close friends with both Jason Atwood and the director of the FBI - John Forstell. She is also close friends with Chuck, who helps her on a number of investigations. He seems to have feelings for her, though she does not return these feelings. She also develops a relationship with Secret Service agent Mike Ritter, though it is purely professional. Hannah is in good terms with Aaron Shore, with who she started to work closely after finding out the responsable for the attack on the capitol, and has sort of a friendship with Emily Rhodes which is seen in Grief when Hannah is taken as a hostage, Emily realizes she's signaling them by doing the sign of the cross due knowing Hannah is not Catholic.

## Personality

Hannah was a brave, strong-minded woman who did everything she could in order to protect the country from any threat putting all her efforts in evey case she worked on. She was fiercely loyal to the president and the U.S Goverment, completely devoted to her job, making her one of Kirkman's most reliable allies. It didn't matter where she worked (FBI, White House, CIA) because in any place Hannah demonstrated to be an exceptional asset and professional.

Wells was very smart and intuitive, she saw through Peter MacLeish and was capable to realize he was involved in the conspiracy against the Goverment. She was often seen acting behinf the scenes and sometimes she came to be in equal terms with enemies, or even one step ahead of them like when she discovered the attempt of murder of President Kirkman by Lozano, she caused a distraction to give agent Mike information about Catalan and telling him to find Chuck, this eventually helped the president to learn MacLeash's involvement in the conspiracy, she found out Joyner was hiding something by seeing how he reeacted when she saw that the group for the secret mission in 2005 had one more member that was off the record.

Unlike other agents, such as Mike or John Foerstel, Hannah had a tendency to do anything to get close to a lead that would allow her to solve any case, and in most cases she ended up working slightly outside of the law and this often put her in situations that compromised her career or even her own life. Despite this, she'd demonstrated to be very resourceful, capable of handling herself in many situations that would seem impossible to get off.

However, despite her professionalism and devotion, Hannah was someone who also put her emotions in the line of duty and whenever happened she acted impulsive, reckless and most of all very angry. According to Jason Atwood, Hannah didn't know to lie. While she said something her face and emotions always were different.

## Trivia

* Her interpol ID is 64X-Q91.
* She's an atheist.

## Death

Hannah Wells dies in the Season 3 episode #identity/crisis. She died during an investigation into the bioterror attack when toxic gas was released in the area and she was killed by Wouter Momberg.

## References

1. ↑ Commander-in-Chief
2. ↑ One Year In
3. ↑ #privacyplease
4. ↑ The Oath