Character: Alpha seven
Age: 3 weeks (however he has been created as a fully grown adult)
Physical description: 5’8 brown hair, plain black shoes, plain black trousers and a plain white top.
Background: Alpha seven is the first clone to successfully be created without a defect, in the test trials run by Charles Preston. The clones before Alpha seven (alphas 1 to 6) for whatever reason did not survive after their creation.
Occupation: Unemployed, he is a fugitive.
Personality: Alpha seven is innocent, as he had nothing to do with his creation but feels the implications of it. He is good and doesn’t want ‘trouble’ he simply wants to live and is confused as to why he has to be ‘disposed of’. Towards the end of the film we see this innocence change into slyness, as he trades the man who is trying to kill him for himself in effect allowing Preston to ‘reap what he has sown’.
Relationship to other characters:
· Charles Preston: Charles is Alpha seven’s creator and Double. Charles is also Alpha seven’s Archenemy as Charles orders the ‘disposal of’ Alpha seven.
· Mr Cooper: Mr Cooper is the head henchman to Charles, Alpha seven is constantly on the run from him, as Mr Cooper is the one sent by Charles after Alpha Seven to dispose of him.
Function within the film:Alpha 7 highlights the evil side of Preston; the mere fact that he is secretly doing controversial cloning experiments makes Charles a ‘shady character’.
Character: Charles Preston
Age: 42
Physical description: 5’8 brown hair, plain black shoes, plain black trousers, a plain white top, a suite jacket and a blue tie.
Background: It has taken him years to build his company up to the way it is now with a lot of hard work on his part, many new medicines and scientific breakthroughs have come from or have partly come from the research his company does. Recently however he has decided to push the scientific frontier bordering into areas of science the would be considered controversial, the idea of cloning, rather than the current method of cloning, involving a fertilised egg being taken and implanted with someone else’s DNA then re inserted into a surrogate, Preston has developed a machine or ‘tank’ that will artificially recreated the atmosphere in the womb and effectively cloning a human. The process has been so accurately and precisely recreated it even surpasses normal a normal mothers ability to grow an embryo leaving the clones to be very intelligent and adaptable, slightly more so than the average human.
Occupation: Charles Preston is the proud owner and manager of a highly successful scientific research company known as “Preston’s”, Names after himself.
Personality: Charles started our quite innocent simply wanting to do his part with science that he grew to love as a boy, however over time he has become tainted by greed for more money and a bigger company, to such an extent he has even crossed the border into what is seen to be immoral. He has become without pity and is very self cantered.
Relationship to other characters:
· Alpha 7: Alpha 7 is the first of 7 tests done by Charles that has worked successful however unbeknown to Charles is exactly how effective his test has been, Alpha 7’s everyday abilities are heightened to that of athletes and theologians.
· Mr Cooper: Mr Cooper is the right hand man to Preston, He is loyal and rarely questions his orders, he is very successful which is why Charles puts such a value on his services.
Function within the film: Charles is the brains behind the creation of Alpha seven, however know Preston knows his machine works he has no need of Alpha 7 who is merely a test trial, Charles sends Mr Cooper after Alpha to ‘dispose of him’ making Alpha into a fugitive, on the run for his very life.
Actor: Owen Jenkins
Character: Mr Cooper
Age: 30
Physical description: 5’8, plain black shoes, plain black trousers, wears a suite jacket and often sunglasses.
Background: Mr Cooper started out in the police force where the quickly excelled to a high rank, someone capable of complex planning and able to wield a firearm. Highly successful on police hunts and tracking. He was removed from active duty after he struck a higher ranking officer who had decided for ‘no apparent reason’ to remove him from active duty. He later resigned from the police fore altogether, and stumbled across a security guard position at “Preston’s” whilst in his late twenties, He quickly befriended Charles Preston and impressed him with his hard work and capabilities, Charles promoted him officially to his assistant managing director.
Occupation: Officially assistant managing director and head of security at “Preston’s” however He often does other jobs for Charles, many which could be deemed unlawful.
Personality: Mr Cooper started life often seeing other who he knew and loved being mistreated by others, he developed a desire to join the police force and to help those he loved and knew. After being what he calls ‘unjustly disciplined’ by a superior officer who appears to have no reason for the way he acted except maybe out of jealousy, Mr Cooper holds a grudge against the police, the apparent kindness and promotion given to him by Preston fuels his loyalty to Preston, doing almost anything he asks.
Relationship to other characters:
· Alpha 7: Alpha 7 is the first of 7 tests done by Charles that has worked successful, know Charles has no need to this ‘test trial’ He has asked Mr Cooper to “terminate it”
· Charles Preston: Charles appears to be a friend to Mr Cooper and is somewhat like a father figure to him, Charles gives Mr Cooper a large level of responsibility and often tells Mr Cooper how proud and grateful he is for his services.
Function within the film: Mr Cooper is the one who keeps in pursuit of Alpha 7, trying to hunt him down along with a few other guards, He does every bidding of Charles Preston.
