Laura Morgan

Registry of the Non-Evolved Database

File #22 Sep 2008 04:34

Summary

Name Laura Morgan Aliases Status Unregistered Non-Evolved Gender Female Race/Eth. White Birthdate February 8 Age 29 Height 5' 4" Build Slender Eyes Blue Hair Lt. Blonde Residence Le Rivage Employment Morgan Security Consulting Parents Siblings Marital Status Single Children First Seen December 6, 2008 Last Seen Profile A relatively recent (~1 year) arrival in NYC who operates a security/recovery business by day and moonlights as a highly-trained and very successful burglar for the Linderman Group. Decidedly available for hire.

portrayed by Hannah Spearritt

Background

Laura Morgan was, in many ways, raised by a single father. A magician who made his home in Las Vegas, he was never one of the famous stage performers, but made a living (of sorts) from street performances, birthday parties, and the occasional small-stage show. Most of the family's funds came not from his work (which he loved and enjoyed) but from Laura's mother — who was away about as often as she was home, from the time Laura was 5 until… well, even now. Her mother, after all, was a professional burglar — and though her run-ins with the law had been remarkably rare, she spent as much time laying low away from her family as she did planning and executing heists. The only reason she didn't wind up behind bars for a very long time, the few instances where she was caught, was due to the efforts of Daniel Linderman on her behalf.

Despite the frequent absences of her mother, Laura learned the skills of her trade, just as much as she did the sleight of hand and other tricks employed by her father. And she proved to have inherited quite a talent for both. Enough of a talent that a young and not-yet-jaded teen was recruited into the Linderman group — not, at that age, as an agent, but given more formal (and thorough) training for her skills and promised a very well-paid career (if she finished well in school).

Laura did finish well, and — after a couple of years spent doing the normal sorts of post-high-school entry-level jobs, while she finished her training to the standards of the Linderman Group — she established a business as a professional safecracker in San Francisco. The person you hire when you lose the key or combination to your safe; the person the police hire to crack vaults belonging to suspects. And while her mother had arrest records in several cities, including SF, Laura's record remained immaculate, no matter what grief suspicious cops gave her over her poor choice in relatives and her own skills. They never realized their automatic suspicion was actually very well warranted — because Laura was moonlighting as a burglar. Mostly at the Linderman Group's beck and call.

There's only so long a lady can stay in one place before either a) she runs out of things to do, or b) suspicion starts to approach an intolerable threshold, especially when said lady's favored pastime involves criminal acts. Besides, the boss said he wanted something in Seattle. So Laura moved to Seattle when she was 24. At 26, Laura relocated to Denver, also upon request from above. She liked Denver — a lot more than dreary Seattle, although she missed the ocean. A year later, give or take a couple of months, Linderman flew out to pay a personal visit.

Daniel Linderman had a job in New York that required the attention of one of the best. Said young woman didn't feel she'd exhausted Denver's possibilities yet, and put up some resistance to being told to move again. So he brought along a little bit of flattery — enough to make a lady feel appreciated, not so much as to seem insincere. Given his organization's long-term relationship with Laura, that wasn't exactly difficult to do. Appeased, Laura agreed to relocate. She did the job. And a few others, not to mention personal… errands. She's remained in New York since, amongst cops who don't know her family history and a city whose security is in many ways still as haphazard as everything else. It seems to be working out quite well.

Psych Profile

Appendices

Timeline:

December 2008

December 2008

12/06	Laura meets a woman named Steve.	Laura, Steve
12/07	Kain is annoying. Laura's just learning this is usual.	Kain, Laura
12/09	There is not a barfight.	Ben, Dantes, Hagan, Laura
12/18	Security for something that doesn't exist.	Cat, Laura
12/21	Laura and Dixon discuss the deviltry of little girls.	dixon, Laura
12/26	A brief appearance at a charity fundraiser.	Laura, Magnes, Paul
12/31	Half of the conversation is awkward…	Hagan, Laura
(2)	…and this was not a date.	Hagan, Laura, Tony

Then there was a very long period of scenes but no timeline updates.

Volume XII: Divided We Fall
11/20/10	Laura makes an atypical purchase.	Anna, Laura, Marjorie
11/20/10	…after which she helps an officer catch a pickpocket.	Christine, Laura
11/27/10	Evan asks for a favor, which puts him in Laura's debt.	Evan, Laura
02/08/11	The deceased laugh. But the last laugh? Maybe not.	Laura

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