rdfs:comment
| - Hartley Winterbottom is the true, original identity of the man known to the world as Alexei Volkoff, who was the main antagonist in the first half of Season Four. He was a MI6 scientist on the original Intersect team alongside Stephen Bartowski (Scott Bakula), and is the first Human Intersect. He is portrayed by Timothy Dalton. Some time ago, when working on the Intersect, the CIA assigned him a mission to go undercover. He took the cover of fictitious international arms dealer, Alexei Volkoff. Upon learning this, Stephen uploaded the Intersect into Hartley's head, attempting to aid his cover.
|
abstract
| - Hartley Winterbottom is the true, original identity of the man known to the world as Alexei Volkoff, who was the main antagonist in the first half of Season Four. He was a MI6 scientist on the original Intersect team alongside Stephen Bartowski (Scott Bakula), and is the first Human Intersect. He is portrayed by Timothy Dalton. Some time ago, when working on the Intersect, the CIA assigned him a mission to go undercover. He took the cover of fictitious international arms dealer, Alexei Volkoff. Upon learning this, Stephen uploaded the Intersect into Hartley's head, attempting to aid his cover. Eventually, his Intersect became corrupt, erasing everything that made him Hartley, and replacing it with the attributes of his cover identity. It seems reasonable to assume his intersect became corrupt due to the lack of a Governor. Mary Bartowski (Linda Hamilton) was sent into the organization he founded, Volkoff Industries, to ensure his safety. She and her husband would spend the rest of their lives trying to undo the damage the Intersect had done. Meanwhile, to avoid the scandal of an international supervillain having been created by the CIA, the US government buried all evidence of Winterbottom's original identity. In "Chuck Versus the Cliffhanger" when Volkoff has the Intersect taken out of him, he almost instantly becomes a kind man, basically the exact opposite of Alexei Volkoff. Instead of the mean and fearless Volkoff, he becomes a person who is nice, helpful and a slight worrier. He no longer expresses romantic obsession with Mary, and at least initially has no memories of his thirty years as a supervillain. He is the person who convinces his daughter, Vivian Volkoff, that she is not evil. When Chuck gave him and his daughter new, clean identities, Hartley returned the favor by giving Chuck and Sarah all of his assets and Volkoff Industries as a wedding gift.
|