Adam Solomon

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## Adam Solomon

### Relatives

Leah Solomon (wife, deceased)Magdalena Solomon (daughter)

## Physical description

### Hair Colour

Grey

Adam Solomon was a major character in the second season of QIA, and the primary antagonist of Season Two, Part II: Naturals.

## Biography

Adam lived with his wife and daughter in Hancock Park, Los Angeles. He was affluent, had a successful business, Solomon Insurance, and was well-respected within the local Jewish community. In June 2019, Adam inexplicably began to experience blackouts, and after consultation with his family doctor, Daniel Goldberg, he agreed to see a specialist, Doctor Gourmand, in Oregon. However, Gourmand referred him next to another specialist, Tomáš Horak, who diagnosed Adam with MCI and started him on experimental drug therapy. Horak also seemed extremely interested in Adam's condition.

When Adam began to experience vivid nightmares, Horak told him there could be a permanent solution, which would also negate the further need for drugs. However, this would involve flying to Budapest. Adam reluctantly agreed, and the two of them traveled to the Sağlık Pharmaceuticals facility there, where Adam met Adil Kurtuluş for the first time. Kurtuluş showed Adam a dormant Pariah and told him that Adam was the key to reviving it - which in turn would be the key to defeating them, for Kurtuluş also told Adam that there was a war coming, in which Pariahs would feature heavily. Adam was horrified by the idea, but Kurtuluş had Horak administer a much heavier dose of tempraxine, which triggered Adam's quantum potential, leading to his first Jump.

After Adam Jumped back to his home, he tried to ignore his experience and dismiss it as delusion. However, two weeks later, Kurtuluş visited him in Los Angeles with orders for Adam to recruit other Sağlık test subjects, along with thinly veiled threats against his family. Adam refused but, fearing for his family's life, told Leah and Magdalena to run. Deciding to try and turn the tables on Sağlık, Adam found one of the test subjects that Kurtuluş had told him about, one Michal Jachin, whom he recruited for his own mission: to destroy Sağlık. Knowing that Adam was betraying him, Kurtuluş had the yacht that Leah and Magdalena were hiding on burned down. Leah was killed, but Magdalena survived - barely.

Knowing now that he had to destroy Sağlık completely, Adam tracked down more from Kurtuluş' list and summoned them, through his unexplained mental link with them, to the town of Lampeter in Wales. However, Abigail Jenkins, an unexpected addition, joined the group (whom he called his 'Family'). When Adam learned the truth of who she was, he had her drugged and left behind, fearing that she might try to stop him and his Family. ("Lampeter", "Adam")

Adam led his Family on the mission to the Budapest facility, intending to eliminate all of Sağlık's data and destroy the building, along with the dormant Pariah. However, after Kurtuluş revealed that Horak was holding his daughter hostage, Adam was forced to awaken the Pariah. Soon after, the building became a bloodbath as the creature began to pick the Family off one by one. Eventually, with Sarah's help, Adam survived the ordeal, though most of his Family had been slaughtered. He was able to escape alongside Michal (who had been severely injured by the Pariah), Negar Boaz and Marcel Jober. ("Sağlık")

Over the next two weeks, Adam and his fellow survivors hid out in a motel in Phoenix, Arizona. Eventually, Michal and Negar discovered that Magdalena had been murdered by Horak. However, Adam sought to change that and to Jump back and rescue her. While Negar was resistant to the idea, Michal supported it, and so Negar and Jobert agreed to go with him, the latter having his own personal score to settle with Horak. The mission was a success and the past was changed; Adam rescued Magdalena and allowed Jobert to beat Horak to death. Despite this being a quantum infraction, the QIA remained somehow unaware, and they got away with it. Afterwards, in spite of her misgivings about what had happened, Negar agreed to help Adam begin recruiting anew, to permanently destroy the Pariahs and Sağlık. Adam's first port of call was to visit Jonas Gessner, whom apparently had been helping him already. ("Denny")

At some point afterwards, Adam travelled to the year 2034, where he witnessed thousands of people losing their lives, presumably at the hands of Pariahs. Seeking a way to stop this future, he traced one of Kurtuluş' associates, General Henrik Kallas, to a genetics expert in Azerbaijan, Ibrahim Alhashemi, whom Adam murdered, believing it to be for the benefit of humanity. Discovering that Kallas had acquired at least four more Pariahs and had gathered them at an old submarine base in Estonia. Adam led an attack on the base, intending to destroy the Pariahs and kill Kallas as well. However, he sorely underestimated Kallas' forces and witnessed the slaughter of the majority of his Family. Regrouping, he decided instead to go straight to the source, and to murder Kallas as a baby. He Jumped to Copenhagen in the year 1991, but his presence there caused a level 8 infraction and caught the attention of the QIA. Sarah convinced him to stop, telling him that although Kallas might grow up to be a monster, his life in between will be filled with many good and important events. Eventually, after telling him that his Family would fail no matter what, and that as Naturals the QIA would pursue them, Adam agreed to disband his group, using his mental powers to reach out and make them forget it all, and handed himself over to QIA custody. ("Family")

Adam was later sentenced to the Void, and was sent to a facility in Bedfordshire overseen by Sadie Docherty. However, a month later, after former members of the Family were targeted by a serial killer, Adam was brought back out of the Void, much to the disagreement of Warden Ben Scallon. While Adam was unable to help with the QIA's enquiries, President Georges Bouchan informed Erik Draper that he wanted Adam brought to Geneva for 'research purposes'. During the escort from the Void facility, Brent Hall ambushed the convoy and revealed that he had Magdalena and was willing to have her executed unless Adam agreed to trade places with her. Of course, Adam agreed to this - in spite of the protestations of Negar, who had since regained her memories of the Family. Adam asked Negar to look after Magdalena, which she tearfully agreed to do, and Adam went with Hall, who later showed him his plan - manufacturing Pariahs, including one that had once been Sebastián Marcos. ("Magdalena")

After being convinced by Hall that he was acting for the greater good, Adam continued working with him. He was sent by Hall to obtain the sword Joyeuse, which was at the time being kept safe by Ethan Taylor. However, Miranda Davenport tipped Ethan off and the two ended up fighting over the sword. Adam bested Ethan, blinding him in one eye with a gardening trowel leaving him for dead so that he could deliver the sword back to Hall. Adam later accompanied Hall to Toulouse but was horrified to see the upgraded NT-063 in action; he had only been under the impression that the weapon would strip one's quantum ability, rather than kill them. Severing his ties with Hall, Adam told the team that Hall's endgame concerned Sarah, and together they enacted a plan to save her. Adam followed Sarah and rescued her, Jumping with Hall back into Hara, where the security technology prevented his immediate escape. After battling Pariahs, the two men eventually emerged back outside, whereupon an enraged Hall shot and killed Adam using one of the Pariahs' large guns. ("Life", "Death")

## Appearances

### Season Two

"Lampeter", "Adam", "Sağlık", "Denny", "Family", "Magdalena", "Life", "Death"