Johnson (Children of Earth: Day One)

**Agent Johnson** was a British government operative tasked with investigating, and later assassinating, the members of the Pyramid. Her primary motivation was to "protect the state", even if it required her to commit cold-blooded murder.

Johnson placed Rupesh Patanjali in the field to masquerade as a potential new member for the Pyramid. After months of perfect infiltration, the plan was abandoned when, following the reappearance of the 456, she received orders from John Frobisher to terminate Bernice Summerfield, Chris Hector and Jennifer Ward. Under Johnson's orders, Patanjali lured in Summerfield and chloroformed her. Johnson had a bomb strapped to her ankle, to destroy the Pyramid base. Deciding that Patanjali, having blown his cover, now was a security risk, she cold-bloodedly shot him in the back and had his corpse placed next to Summerfield's cell. (TV: *Children of Earth: Day One*)

After the bomb detonated, destroying the Pyramid base, Johnson positioned a team at Cardiff Bay to eliminate any survivors. They failed to catch Jennifer Ward and Chris Hector, who made their separate escapes. She and her men followed Jennifer to her home, but she once again eluded capture, shooting Johnson's vehicle's tires out. The next morning Johnson supervised the search for Bernice's body, only to discover that she was alive. Johnson ordered her men to take Summerfield to a remote military compound.

Johnson attempted to interrogate Bernice about where Jennifer and Chris might be, but failed to gain any information. Jennifer and Chris infiltrated the base and escaped from the building with Bernice in a fork-lift truck. Johnson and her men pursued the group, but were cut off in their pursuit by an exploding lorry Jennifer placed in the middle of the road. She phoned Mr Frobisher and apologised for their failure. (TV: *Children of Earth: Day Two*)

Johnson grew agitated as she found herself kept increasingly out-of-the-loop. Nonetheless, she continued to pursue the Pyramid team. She led the strike force that confronted Jennifer at the abandoned facility the team had been using as their temporary base.

She was forced to stand down when Jennifer revealed that the Pyramid had blackmailed Johnson's superiors in the government. Jennifer invited Johnson to join her in watching the meeting with the Prime Minister and the 456 ambassador. Along with everyone else, Johnson was horrified when the ambassador released a deadly virus into Thames House and there was nothing that they could do as dozens of people died. (TV: *Children of Earth: Day Four*)

After her encounter with Jennifer Ward and her realisation of what the government was doing, Johnson had a change of heart and helped the Pyramid's efforts. She broke Bernice and Chris out of prison. She provided them with equipment needed — as well as getting Dekker — to analyse the 456's signature wave frequency. With these assets, Chris defeated the 456, sacrificing himself. Johnson was visibly upset by Chris' sacrifice. (TV: *Children of Earth: Day Five*)

## Personality

Johnson was raised to show absolute loyalty to the state, and believed that "the end justifies the means" in pursuit of this. During the 456 crisis, she committed murder at least once without any hesitation and attempted to orchestrate the killing of Summerfield, Ward and Hector. (TV: *Children of Earth: Day One*) She also shot Mr Dekker in the leg simply because she was irritated with him for saying that it was impossible to defeat the 456. (TV: *Children of Earth: Day Five*)

While initially seeming cold and heartless, Johnson began displaying more genuine emotions as the crisis went on. When the 456 ambassador released a deadly virus into Thames House, Johnson was upset by the deaths of dozens of people and their inability to help them as well as the brutal death of Clement McDonald in front of her. Though she justified sacrificing Chris to save millions of children, his brutal death was too much even for her and she could not help but turn away from the sight and cry. (TV: *Children of Earth: Day Four*, *Children of Earth: Day Five*)