Special Agent Wakefield is a federal agent who serves as Grant MacLaren's immediate superior in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is host to two separate Travelers, one after the other, and neither of whose numbers were ever specified. He has a knack for making bets based on accurate assessments.
Averted Death[]
Wakefield does not have an averted death. He is one of the people whose consciousness is overwritten by the quantum frame before the date of their historical death. (S2E01: Ave Machina)
Biography[]
Host[]
Wakefield was a coworker of FBI Deputy Director Oslin, having served with her since 2008. He was on the verge of discovering the Traveler program: he brought the matter to Oslin, who remained skeptical but reluctantly told him that he could continue to investigate. (S3E01: Ilsa)
The next day, Wakefield leads the task force that raids Ellis' farm and captures Grace Day and the Core Traveler Team; they also confiscate the quantum frame. Wakefield seems determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, even questioning Grant MacLaren personally. MacLaren urges Wakefield to destroy the device, but Wakefield refuses.
He allows MacLaren's team to "overpower" him and his task force; he wants to know what they would do in that situation. He has his head slammed into the table by MacLaren, then when he recovers he heads to a control room to observe the Travelers' movements. He made a bet with an agent that the Travelers won't kill anyone, which he wins with a dollar. When they discover the quantum frame in the building they move to destroy it, but MacLaren realizes Wakefield was never going to let them do it. Wakefield and his task force surround the Travelers once more and ask them to show what the device does, but they aren't budging, resulting in their return to lockup.
Wakefield goes home for the night, but he receives a text message telling him to return to the room where the quantum frame was stored. He finds himself in the same space as twenty-four other agents, including Walt Forbes - all of whom had received a text message seemingly from Wakefield himself. Suddenly, the quantum frame activates, and everyone present is overwritten. (S2E01: Ave Machina)
Unnamed Traveler[]
Wakefield is now under the control of a Traveler loyal to the Faction. He calls Oslin and FBI Director Stevenson to inform them his task force found "nothing", alerting the FBI leadership that he has been replaced. He is overwritten once more when the Director is brought back online. (S2E06: U235, S3E01: Ilsa)
Second Unnamed Traveler[]
In one timeline, Wakefield receives a phone call from Carrie (then under the control of Traveler 5001) one morning invoking Protocol Alpha. Carrie asks if he could get anyone to the coordinates 49.3506 N by 122.8599 W within seventeen minutes. Wakefield informs her that he has a helicopter full of non-Traveler federal agents 25 minutes away, but could not get anyone to the site faster. Carrie hangs up on him.
Wakefield brings Callahan into the room, and the two speculate on what the call could mean. Wakefield realizes it's related to the Fraser meteor that contains an element vital to the Director's very existence. He bets his FBI job that the Faction (or somebody else) is trying to get to it before the loyal Travelers do.
As the timeline is redone several times, this sequence doesn't occur in subsequent instances as Carrie (and later her brother Wayne) no longer contacts Wakefield for help because of the delay. In the latest revision the mission is successfully completed without FBI involvement. (S2E07: 17 Minutes)
Sometime later, Wakefield sees a report that DoD, Homeland Security, CIA, and the NSA have discovered the existence of Travelers, possibly worldwide. Travelers at the NSA and Homeland Security have been doing counterintelligence, but it is only a matter of time before there are leaks. (S2E12: 001)
A few weeks hence, when the core team's loved ones are abducted by Vincent Ingram, Wakefield is approached by MacLaren requesting an interagency investigation on the billionaire. Wakefield advises him to wait it out since Ingram promised to give himself up to the Director. Mac won't back down, citing that Ingram hunted Traveler teams and his own would've died if he hadn't used NSA resources to search for them. Wakefield points out it's one of the reasons the government is alerted to the existence of Travelers. Therefore, going after Ingram is a red flag that they cannot afford. (S1E05: Room 101, S2E12: 001)
Later, Wakefield is sent a video of Grant confessing to be a Traveler from his teammate in the NSA. He still attempts to dissuade MacLaren from proceeding as the intelligence agencies already have them targeted. MacLaren proposes they work together to get ahead of it, but that fails, as Ingram sends the confession videos to the intelligence agencies and also news outlets. Wakefield's then forced to field calls about the matter, and deny time travel exists. Conversing with Grant, Wakefield supposes this matter won't go away with a simple news cycle as the evidence fills in blanks on dozens of Traveler missions the CIA couldn't explain. (S2E12: 001)
When the core team's loved ones have been released, Wakefield provides a safehouse and FBI assets for security, made up of both Travelers and non-Travelers he handpicked. He oversees the integrity of the cover stories they feed the abductees following their memory wipe of much of the incident.
Later, he eats a stir fry plate full of spices that Trevor Holden prepared in the safehouse's kitchen; the plate originally belonged to Grant, but he found its flavors too much. Wakefield gorges on the dish with more enthusiasm as he hasn't eaten in hours. He updates Mac that the released videos appear to have been scrubbed from the internet and that the memory wipes appear to be successful. Regarding Jeff Conniker's inhibitor tolerance though, Wakefield figures they still have to release him as per Protocol 3.
As he's down two agents driving Grace Day and Ray Green away from the safehouse, he receives Trevor and Carly Shannon's help patrolling the back of the property. However, the pair report they're being surveilled. Wakefield assumes Faction, and assures Grant his FBI assets can handle it, prompting the agent to retort he's just showing off. However, he later realizes he's not dealing with Faction: his non-Traveler agents have bailed, and his requests for air support are going unheeded. Military forces have come to neutralize the Travelers.
While the core team and remaining FBI Travelers prepare to defend the safehouse Wakefield calls for Traveler backup. Fortunately they turn out unnecessary as Director Stevenson cancels the assault at the last moment. (S3E01: Ilsa)