Saul Eckhart

**Saul Eckhart** was a former Washington D.C. Metro Special Reaction officer who later became the Manassas City Counter Terrorism Unit's Director, an unorthodox law enforcement agency. Saul led a promising and fruitful career, as he enlisted in the United States Marine Corp in 1994 as a rifleman. His service record show that he deployed to Iraq, once during the Battle of Fallujah and another in 2006. He was awarded a purple heart for injuries sustained during the Battle of Fallujah.. After retiring from the Corp in 2007 as a Staff Sergeant, Saul Eckhart would move to Washington D.C. where he applied and became a D.C. Metro officer, continuing his career as a law enforcement officer. Throughout his ten years as a police officer, Saul Eckhart has trained a dozen rookies, conducted operations and raids along with being the team leader for D.C. Metro's only Special Reaction Team, which Saul dubbed "The Vultures." He was later approached by Richard Halland, an old friend of his that worked at the Department of Homeland Security, to spearhead a new project regarding counter-terrorism. In early 2017, Saul Eckhart resigned from his position as a Sergeant II and became the Director of the Manassas City Counter Terrorism Unit.

## Saul Eckhart

### Affiliation

United States Marine Corp (Formerly 2006-2014)Washington D.C. Metro SRT (Formerly 2014-2024)

Manassas City Counter Terrorism Unit (2024-Present)

## Biography

### Early-life

Not much is known about Saul Eckhart as a child as his psych evaluation report is sealed and classified. However, it is known through Eckhart's ex-wife, Chelsea Burns, that he had a "less than ideal" childhood.

### Entering the Marine Corp

At 18 years old, Saul entered the United States Marine Corp in 1994 as a rifleman. He deployed to Iraq twice where he fought once during the Battle of Fallujah; Staff Sergeant Saul Eckhart was a distinguished Marine with impeccable leadership, investigative and combat skills, all becoming of a Marine. Unfortunately, near the end of his service, Staff Sergeant Saul Eckhart suffered injuries during a firefight and was sent home to serve the remaining of his contract domestically. He was honorably discharged in mid-2007.

### Washington D.C.

A stalwart, driven individual, Saul sought to quickly return to service by joining Washington D.C. Metro in late 2007. As a rookie, he was under the mentorship of Sergeant I Richard Halland. Halland and Eckhart quickly became best friends, despite Halland's occasional tough love lessons to Eckhart as he progressed through his career of being a police officer. On the field, Eckhart often confused his civilian community with enemy combatants, due to his prior service in the Corp. Eckhart also showed signs of post traumatic stress, but Halland opted to keep quiet about Eckhart's "outbursts." Three years into his service, both Halland and Eckhart joined D.C. Metro's Special Reaction Team. However, in 2014, Halland resigned from his position to work at the Department of Homeland Security. This left Eckhart alone with two other operators, both of which he personally trained and befriended later. Eckhart was given the objective to create a full sized division of Special Reaction officers. He personally created "Vulture Team", a hard-hitting and fast unit that "flew in like a vulture" as described by another Metro officer. He and his Vulture Team was responsible for investigating the Ogan Crime Family that was based in Elite City, which was only twice the size of Washington D.C. at the time. A firefight brokeout between the crime family and the operators. Saul was shot and injured by Mr. Ogan and was treated by a teenage high-school girl Reina Hunter, a junior emergency responder for the Manassas City Fire Department. Saul kept Reina's name in his personal journal, intrigued by the girl's talent.

Eckhart lived in D.C. in his 10 years as D.C. Metro, where he met and married a Chelsea Burns, a police officer working at the White House. Married for 9 years, Saul and Burns' marriage struggled due to differences in schedules and beliefs, with Eckhart's occasional PTS outburts that he struggles to manage. Chelsea urged Saul to see professional help, but Saul refused. However, Saul keeps a small notebook noting important events in his life, events that he was injured but survived in. Later, in 2015, Burns transferred to the Manassas City Police Department, which caused an argument between her and her husband. The two formally split and divorced but the two still hold immense feelings for each other.

#### The D.C. Riots

The United States faced several problems, to include but not limited to the racism and police brutality, and the frequent mass-shootings resulting in civilian casualties. The American people cried for immediate change in the gun regulations and policies. What started from protests in the streets, turned to small-scale riots and then domestic terrorism, as groups all over the country began to take the law in their own hands and start effecting change by means of violence. Having seen his fair share of domestic violence and brutality, including his efforts to defend the capitol on the day of the attack, Saul Eckhart developed an even more hardened personality. On December 3rd, 2015, the D.C. area's power grid was compromised by domestic terrorists, which caused mass riots and a shutdown of infrastructure. Saul Eckhart and his team of Vultures deployed to the streets to maintain the peace and uphold a perimeter of security. This was the first domestic attack on US soil since 9/11. During an effort to contain civilians from breaking through a perimeter, an explosive was used against the operators, which seriously injured all three.

##### In Recovery

In the months after the December 3rd attack, Saul Eckhart spent some time in Walter Reed hospital. During his recovery, Richard Halland, working at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), visited Saul Eckhart about a project he was working on that was designed to combat the domestic terrorism problem the country faced. Saul continued field work for an additional six months. In that time, he worked a joint-operation with the DC FBI field office where he met Stella Steele, a junior data analyst. Saul, impressed with her work, would keep her in contact in case he ever needed her. Saul was later diagnosed to be "no longer fit for active duty", which forced him to leave the D.C. Metro. Upset that his passion for serving would be over, Halland continued to pitch his idea to his old friend. Despite being reluctant to take what was ultimately a desk job, Saul Eckhart decided to accept Halland's idea.

### The Manassas City Counter Terrorism Unit

In early 2017, Saul Eckhart was chosen to be the Director of the Manassas City Counter Terrorism Unit, an organization based in Manassas City meant to combat domestic terrorism. The Unit was the culmination of Saul's years of dedicated service to his country and the American people. Saul was authorized to work at the state level, recruit his own personnel and create his own authorities. Saul wondered how his Unit was the only one created, but Halland refused to divulge any further details.

## Personalities and Traits

Saul is a man of dedication and service, with a love for his country and the people he worked and served with. He is hardened, and often shows "tough love" to his subordinates in an effort to push them to be better. He was considered to be a man of honor, but as the violence in the US increased, his sense of honor diminished, developing a more vigilante-type style of justice and honor. He tends to have occasional panic-attacks and anxiety due to his exposure of violence and from suffering from multiple injuries over the course of his career, which caused his marriage to slowly fall apart.

Saul is a structured individual, with a clear task and purpose at all times. While managing his team, he ensures that they are performing at their very best, and this carries over to when he was appointed to lead the Unit, but after pushing one of his Agents too far, he withdrew and decided on a more lean and relaxed approach with his Agents. Saul likes to keep a self-sufficient organization, and wants everything running as smoothly as possible.

He is a father-like figure to his subordinates, hoping to better than his father, but when working with some of his Agents, he forgets that they are still young adults.