Carlton Harris is an American National who owns a conglomerate of businesses, including an oil refinery on the free island of Melanique in the Caribbean. He is involved in several illegitimate business ventures, including arming a group of militants in return for oil holdings. Harris is quite dashing, and considers himself a "lady killer". His son is Donald Harris. Harris first encounters Jaime Sommers during her first aborted mission for the OSI following her resurrection and subsequently learns her bionic nature, resulting in a second encounter with the Bionic Woman.