André Santana

### Actor

Gabriel Calamari (Season 1, flashbacks), Bruno Fagundes (Season 2, Season 3, Season 4)

### Age

26 (Season 2)
27 (Season 3)
28 (Season 4)

### Occupation

Division soldier (S1 - S3) (formerly)Chief of the Process (S4)Leader of the Offshore (S4)Warlord (S4)

### Family

* Unnamed Parents †
* Michele Santana † (Sister)

### Ethnicity

White

**André Santana** was a military leader who rose to be the de facto dictator of The Offshore and served as the last Chief of the Process, and briefly was a warlord in The Inland.

Santana was the older brother of Michele Santana and was a candidate to the 99th Process.

## Personality

André was a loving and caring brother to Michele, and nearly didn't participate in the Process to continue taking care of her. André was bright, charismatic, and hardworking, which allowed him to succeed in the Process and live on the Offshore.

However, he believes that suffering is good and that it allows to set the worthy from the unworthy, thus setting him at odds with the beliefs of his sister, Michele Santana.

André believes the ends justify the means, evident by how he committed the first murder in the Offshore and never even explained why, which was to keep the secret of The Founding Couple and protect the Offshore's way of life.

Overtime, his beliefs in the ideologies of the Offshore and the Founding Couple turn to zealotry and arrogance, that he is absolutely certain that he is in the right while his sister Michele is in the wrong once she turns against the Offshore upon learning about Samira. He goes as far as to question the Elder Council of the Offshore, only held back by Marcela's threat of throwing him back in jail if he steps out of line, and finally usurping the Council at gunpoint once Marcela's plot to take over the Shell fails.

André is defined by his inability to accept truths that go against what he feels, what he believes in, or are too painful to accept, as first demonstrated when he refused to accept the truth of his parents' death, justifying it to himself with the excuse of "protecting" his sister (even though Michele later revealed she always knew what happened to their parents). He was unable to accept the Offshore had been destroyed and tried desperately to keep it hidden from his security forces and the candidates of the Process, and reacted to the truth getting out by murdering his sister. When he lost his last and final chance to impose his beliefs over the people of the Inland, he chose to go back to the now radiated Offshore, despite the submarine not having enough oxygen to get there and died with the delusion of Michele giving him comfort in his final moments.

## Background

André grew up on The Inland with his sister, Michele, who he took care of after their parents died from a collapsed building. He was so devastated by their deaths that he denied it, to himself and to his sister by telling her their parents had left them (not knowing she'd already seen the truth).

When André turned 20, he left home to participate in the 99th Process. Michele was later manipulated by the Cause into believing that Ezequiel murdered him during the Process.

André was imprisoned after committing the (allegedly) first murder at the Offshore, murdering his mentor due to information found at the Founder's Communication Room.

## Season One

### "Chapter 01: Cubes"

André was mentioned briefly by Michele in a flashback, where she mentioned that he would always say "I got this." She told the Cause Leader that André had been murdered by Ezequiel and that she sought revenge. However, the Cause Leader told her that she should avoid Ezequiel and run away if he was near, and that their mission was greater than avenging André.

### "Chapter 06: Glass"

During another flashback, André is seen playing hide and seek with a young Michele. When it's Michele's turn, André disappeared, and when Michele went to find him, she ran into Ezequiel instead, the sequence seemingly being a dream.

## Season Two

### "Chapter 01: Mirror"

Upon her arrival in the Offshore and completion of her treatment, Michele started to go visit André, who was in a cell that was mirrored on all four sides, meaning she could see in but he couldn't see out. Despite this, she promised him she'd find a way to get him out.

### "Chapter 04: Napkin"

Michele continued to try to get André released, but Ezequiel refused. Finally, when he sensed Michele straying, Ezequiel finally let her speak to her brother.

### Chapter 07: Fog

After breaking free from her treatment, Michele went to André's cell and broke him out. He let her to an escape route no on else knew about.

### "Chapter 08: Frogs"

André and Michele ran through threes toward the hideout. He told her about how spent five years waiting for her, calculating when he'd see her again if she passed her Process. He also said he didn't remember what happened to Eugênio. To avoid being found, Michele and André cut out their registrations. They finally reached the hatch but André couldn't remember the password. He knew it was related to Michele, but couldn't remember what it was. She was able to figure out that it was a backwards N, like she used to draw when they were kids. They entered the hatch right before the security team found them.

### "Chapter 09: Necklace"

In the hatch, André and Michele entered a room. André remembered the room and knew he'd been there before. slowly, he remembered that that room is where he killed Eugênio, to prevent him from telling everyone that the Founding Couple was actually a Founding Trio and the two killed their third. He and Michele watched videos of the Founding Trio, which revealed that their original plan for the Offshore was much different from how it is now. He believed it was for the good of everyone that no one knew the truth, but Michele disagreed. She eventually left André.

## Season Three

### "Chapter 02: Scalpel"

After Michele started a Selection to decide who would stay in the Shell and who would have to leave, André watched as several people's implants went dark, meaning they were removed.

### "Chapter 03: Medicine"

Elisa contacted André from the Shell and told him about the Selection and that she wanted to return to the Offshore, trying to convince him of her innocence. André then told Marcela about the Selection, which made her angry because the Shell might survive.

### "Chapter 04: Duck"

André went with Marcela to meet with Glória, who wanted to know if the Offshore's offer to help the Shell was still on the table. Marcela said it was, inspiring Glória to rally a team to take over the Shell.

### "Chapter 05: Lever"

André and Marcela watched as a crowd of people approached the Shell to take it over.

### "Chapter 06: Trapdoor"

André offered Elisa a deal to return to the Offshore in exchange for the capture of Michele, Joana, and Rafael.

### "Chapter 08: Wave"

André prepare to invade the Shell. They took along a registration tool to re-register all those who had removed their implants. When they arrived, they started handing out food and water to everyone. When Joana played the recording that proved that the Offshore had sabotaged the Shell, André tried to capture them and take the recording, but when that didn't work, André escaped out the trapdoor. Then he met with the Council to discuss Marcela's capture in the Shell, where he announced that he wanted to retire the Council.

## Season Four

### "Chapter 01: Moon"

André hosted members of the group from the Shell for a diplomatic visit. They wanted to end the Process, but he said he didn't want to. When they realized they weren't getting anywhere, they left. He agreed to send supplies to the Shell, but only if negotiations went forward. André then did not show up to the next meeting.

### "Chapter 02: Shock"

André announced that the Process would start the next day, much earlier than normal and invited all 20 year olds, even those who had removed their own registrations, to participate. When the candidates arrived at the Process building, André encouraged all of them to do whatever it took.

Instead of starting with the cubes, André started the Process with a test that involved withstanding a serious electric shock. André stopped Denise from ending the test when both participating candidates passed out, saying that allowed the weak to get through.

### "Chapter 03: Fire"

André learned that Michele had infiltrated the Process building, so he sent the candidates to capture her, using it as a test. They brought her to him. When Marcela and Nair tried to stop André, he told them about the plan to take dow the Offshore, saying they had to decide if they're with him or with the Shell.

### "Chapter 04: Submarine"

André showed Michele that the Shell was burning and tried to sway her to his side, but she refused, so he put her in a cell.

André was opposed to Marcela sending a team to the hatch, but she did it anyway.

### "Chapter 05: Painting"

After the pulse destroyed all the Offshore's technology, André became frustrated and told Ariel to do the cube test next to keep the Process going. Despite knowing the Offshore was destroyed, André continued to insist that the Process would continue.

### "Chapter 06: Buttons"

André continued to insist that nothing was wrong. When submarines arrived from the Offshore, he refused to let them disembark. Marcela tried to tell him what was happening, but he refused to accept it and had Marcela arrested.

André refused to tell the candidates that the Offshore was destroyed and continued their testing. When he learned that the four prisoners from the Shell were on the submarine, he had them brought to him. He hooked them up to chairs and had four candidates he believed had promise stand on the other side of glass from them, facing buttons. Each of them had to push the button in front of them to kill the person in the chair they were facing. André also forced Michele to watch from an adjacent room. Once the buttons were pushed and the prisoners appeared dead, André left Michele in the room by herself.

Michele later confronted André and they each held the other at gun point. Michele eventually shot André, then used his equipment to announce the end of the Offshore. When André woke up, he came up behind her and stabbed her to death while imagining the Founding Couple telling him they were proud of him.

### "Chapter 07: Sun"

Two weeks after the fall of the Offshore, André arrived in the Inland with his guards and declared them the owners of it. Elisa was taken to André, who wanted her because she was from the Offshore. He needed her to treat the wounded.

When Joana found one final test from the Founding Couple, she explained that it required six candidates to compete. She proposed that the winner would control the Inland and decide what happened next. Xavier, Verônica, Marcela, and Rafael accepted Joana's challenge. Joana then specifically called André to take the final spot and he did, telling Pedro to fire the second things went south before he left. The challenge began. The candidates were eliminated one at a time until it came down to Joana versus André. Joana said her plan if she won was to create a society where everyone had a voice, while André said if he won, the Inland would belong to the 3% and others would bow down or be killed. Joana made her final guess, but before she could be revealed as the winner, Pedro fired into the crowd, causing chaos. André then ordered his troops into battle, avoiding the question of whether or not Joana's guess was correct.

During the night, everyone prepared for what they believed would be a hard battle. The next morning, however, nothing happened. Everyone peacefully proceeded to the Process building to start their new society cooperatively. André entered the Process building and immediately went to a submarine. It warned him that there wasn't sufficient oxygen to make the trip, but he set out for the Offshore anyway. As the power fails and the submarine sank to the bottom of the ocean, he imagined Michele there with him.