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| Character | Role |
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Turner A corporate mercenary who specialises in the extraction of high-value defectors - moving scientists and executives from one megacorporation to another without them being killed in the process. Turner is the protagonist of Count Zero, hired by Hosaka Corporation to extract Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D, a job that goes wrong in ways that expose him to the strange new entities operating in the matrix. He is competent, professional, and emotionally hollowed out by his work - a man whose skills are available to whoever pays. His backstory, including a destroyed relationship and a brother living off the grid, gives him more interiority than the role might suggest. |
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Webber A tough, seamed-faced woman from New Mexico who serves on Turner's site team as muscle and demolitions. She breeds dogs and has a daughter with her female partner back home. She reveals herself as Conroy's plant but cooperates with Turner, and destroys the medical pod with an antitank rocket when the extraction goes wrong. | Member |
Lynch A bearded young member of the site team who Turner correctly identifies as Conroy's spy. He carries a fletcher pistol and wears a silver death's-head belt buckle. Turner shoots him dead with the Smith and Wesson just before the extraction begins, confirming his suspicions about the man's divided loyalties. | Member |
Ramirez The on-site console jockey at the extraction in Arizona - a slight, nervous young man from Los Angeles who is Jaylene Slide's understudy. He obsessively maintains his equipment and monitors cyberspace during the operation, with the careful, paranoid concentration of someone who knows exactly how thin the margins of an extraction at this scale tend to run. | Member |
Sutcliffe The Australian leader of the point team at the extraction site. He has blue eyes, steel-capped prosthetic teeth, and sun-bleached hair bound in a topknot. He previously witnessed Turner's work at the IBM Marrakech extraction and monitors the site perimeter during the operation. | Member |