Karina (Traveler A-18) was the Archivist who oversaw an update attended by Philip Pearson, Kyle, and 6 other Historians.
Averted Death[]
Nothing is known about the circumstances that turned her into a Traveler.
Biography[]
During the update, one Historian was overwritten with Traveler 5782. Karina welcomed this new Traveler after the procedure and gave him his team's coordinates. However, Faction forces under Dawn burst into the room and took everyone hostage, seeking the fresh intel in their heads.
Thanks to a dying Rick Hall being hooked up to a black box, the Core Traveler Team successfully extracted a location from his head and mounted a rescue there. They retrieved Karina and the Historians unharmed, except Kyle who turned traitor. (S3E06: Philip)
However, Karina was recaptured sometime later. She was tortured and drugged for information, but withstood it due to the archival nanites in her system. She's rescued by Jeff Conniker, who infiltrated Dawn's cell under the Director's orders.
Because she wasn't certain what information she divulged under duress, she told Jeff they needed to secure the local archive. But first, they detoured to David Mailer's place hoping to find Marcy Warton there, as Karina's nanites were working overtime and she needed medical attention. With Marcy not around, Jeff rummaged for her kit and injected Karina with a neurostimulator to keep her going. She took Marcy's pack for patching herself up along the way.
Borrowing David's phone, Karina called the other archives around the world but no one answered. She declared Protocol Epsilon and called for reinforcements to secure and transfer the archive's contents to backup sites. Unaware or uncaring that David's just a regular guy and not a Traveler, Karina instructed him to pack all the blood bags, explaining what they are. She extracted some of her blood as they contain the latest available historical information.
Unfortunately, the reinforcements that arrived are Faction, not Karina's soldiers. They neutralized Jeff outside and shot Karina in the head once they gained access to the archive, as David was also riddled with bullets beside her. (S3E08: Archive)
As Karina pocketed the knife the Faction used to stab her, David got a lucky break once he revived swimming with archival nanites in his system. He searched her body, found the knife, and used it to disable the Rothski device the Faction left behind in the archive. (S3E09: David)
Trivia[]
- A-18's host name Karina is only given in the episodes' credits.