List of Timeless characters

Timeless is an American television series created by Eric Kripke and Shawn Ryan. The following is a list of characters from the series.

Lucy Preston (played by Abigail Spencer) is a history professor following her mother's footsteps. Despite her extensive knowledge of history, she is denied tenure by her university. She suffers from claustrophobia after having nearly drowned in a car accident while she was in college. Aside from history, Lucy is fluent in French. One night, she is recruited by Homeland Security and Mason Industries to the Lifeboat team as a history advisor to Wyatt Logan and Rufus Carlin in their mission to stop master criminal Garcia Flynn and recover the stolen experimental time machine "Mothership". Throughout the team's adventures, Lucy personally encounters Flynn, who reveals that he possesses a journal she will write in the future. In the original timeline, her mother Carol is in the terminal stage of lung cancer, with her younger sister Amy caring for her. Following the Hindenburg mission, Lucy discovers that Carol does not have cancer, but Amy no longer exists and she is engaged to a man named Noah, who is a complete stranger to her. In addition, she finds out that Henry Wallace, her father in the original timeline, is not her biological father. After several arguments, Carol reveals Lucy's biological father as a man named Benjamin Cahill.

Lucy Preston is named after Bill S. Preston, Esquire, the first main protagonist of the Bill & Ted franchise.

Wyatt Logan (played by Matt Lanter) is a U.S. Army Delta Force operative assigned to the Lifeboat team. As an elite soldier, he has expertise in weapons and picking locks, and is fluent in four languages. He constantly tries to cope with the loss of his wife Jessica, who was murdered after being reported missing in February 2012. Because of this, he often wishes to use the time machine to prevent her death. While in 1962 Las Vegas, he takes a cue from Back to the Future Part II and has Western Union write a telegram for Jessica in 2012, only to return to the present timeline with the same scenario. After the Chicago adventure he gets a call from Flynn who tells him who killed his wife and suggests what he should do to reverse it. Wyatt also suffers from PTSD after being the lone survivor of a failed operation as explained to James Bowie during the team's adventure in the Alamo. With the help of Rufus, Wyatt steals the Lifeboat and travels to 1983 to prevent the birth of Wes Gilliam, the serial killer who murdered Jessica. While he succeeds in erasing Gilliam from existence, he is arrested by Homeland Security and discovers that Jessica remains dead. He promptly escapes with the help of Agent Christopher and reunites with the team to continue chasing after Flynn. After the team's 1954 mission, Wyatt finally decides to get over his wife's death.

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