Black Doves
WARNING : SPOILERS ahead for Black Doves season 1 .
Keira Knightley ’s Netflix espionage seriesBlack Dovesfeatures a robust cast of secret agents , clandestine spies , and deadly assassin . create by Joe Barton ( The Lazarus Project , Giri / Haji),Black Doveshas opened to outstanding reviews , earning aperfect 100 % Rotten Tomatoes critic scoreupon its December 5 , 2024 button escort . Knightley ( Atonement , Pirates of the Caribbean ) leadsthe mould ofBlack Dovesalong with Ben Whishaw , who is best screw for playing Q in Daniel Craig ’s final three James Bond movies . Black Dovesalso feature a stellar patronise casting , including Sarah Lancashire ’s Reed , Kathryn Hunter ’s Lenny , Ella Lily Hyland ’s Williams , and Omari Douglas ’s Michael .
Black Dovesfollows Knightley ’s Helen Webb , the loving and supportive wife of Andrew Buchan ’s Wallace Webb , a prominent British politician . Webb is also a mysterious agent sour for the mysterious covert undercover agent organization known as the Black Doves , which Mrs. Reed is the head of . Reed confronts Helen over an affair she was suffer with a civil servant named Jason ( Andrew Koji ) , who was shockingly shot and vote out in a park from long kitchen stove . Suspecting that Helen could be in hot water with a potent criminal conspiracy , Reed draft a trusted triggerman named Sam Young ( Whishaw ) to aid Helen deflect terror to her lifetime and house .
Netflix has already substantiate thatBlack Doveswill proceeds for season 2 .
14Helen Webb
Black Dove
Helen Webb is the obvious Black Dove protagonist of the series . Helen Webb is introduced as one of the top Black Dove agentswho has one of the bighearted responsibilities as the married woman of a prominent British politician . Helen Webb was formerly Helen Dawson before she met and wed the ideological Conservative minister of state for defense , Wallace Webb . Before she joined the Black Doves , she went by Daisy Bradshaw , although the leader of the Black Doves , Mrs. Reed , suspected that Daisy was not her real name the first time the two characters met . Helen has a mystic past tense that involves an alienated stride - sister name Bonnie , who is in prison for mangle her father .
13Sam Young
Assassin
Sam is an assassin inBlack Doveswho has a longsighted story with Lenny Liles . Lenny gave Sam the unthinkable first hit on his own father , Frank . When Sam was a male child , he would watch his ominous and towering father closely and hear to his collateral advice about how to be an assassinator . His daddy used to say him that he"never pulled a trigger that did n’t make the humanity a better place " , an ideology that Sam also adopted when he initially approached Reed and Lenny to become a hitman himself . Sam used to be an " odd - job " human for Reed before becoming an assassinator through Lenny . Sam fled the country after failing to kill Hector Newman , a target who at the clock time was only a kid .
12Mrs. Reed
Mrs. Reed is a cryptic , high - ranking member of the Black Doves . It ’s unclear whether she had any field experience herselfor what on the nose her origin story is with the covert organization . She has a sort of maternal relationship with Helen and guides her as Helen try out to contend with the acute emotions of losing Jason , who she reveals to have been in love with . As Reed explains to Helen when she first propose her the problem , the Black Doves acquire sensitive entropy to sell to the high bidder . They operate for no particular country and have no preconception toward England .
11Lenny Liles
Assassin Wrangler
Lenny Liles is the dot of contact for many of the local assassins in London , such as Sam , Williams , and Eleanor . Although she acts like the head of a mob , she come along to be a standalone figure with her own private connection of hired gun and hitwomen . Lenny give Same several chances to redeem himself after flush it to kill Hector Newman when he has the chance . She also threatens Sam with Williams and Eleanor , who terminate up help Sam and Helen find Kai - Ming . Lenny ’s backstory stay on a mystery after one time of year onBlack Dovesbut judging by the amount of flashback used in the series , viewers could find out more about her next time of year .
10Williams
Williams is one of the London - ground assassinator in Lenny ’s web . Funny but deadly , she is rent by Lenny to intimidate Saminto killing Hector Newman before they eventually become study friends who sample to unveil the Clarks ' cabal . Williams is relatively new for an assassin but looks like quite seasoned in fight . Sam nearly kills her when Williams ab initio set on Helen in Jason ’s flat in sequence 1 . Not much else is know about what mother Williams into the game of secret agents and assassins .
9Kent
Kent was the female assassin with Williams who fought Helen in Jason ’s flat before she buy the farm . Sam saves Helen with a shotgun by killing Kent in a brutal death as Williams runs aside . Kent did not have a speak part in Black Doves and is only in the serial for that one shot . There ’s no approachable information about her in the series other than she was Williams ' partner for a while .
8Eleanor
Eleanor is a London - based bravo who becomes Williams ’s second partner after Kent is killed by Sam . She , like Williams , is quite funny in a deadpan sort of way , and the two of them make a estimable pair . During a gunplay inBlack Doves , as the Clarks attempt to find Kai - Ming , Eleanor ardor a rocket launcher in a memorable scene . She and Kai - Ming go MIA for a while before rise for the season 1 close showdown with Helen , Same , and the Clarks .
7Cole Atwood
CIA Operative
Cole Atwood is a CIA operative who is stationed at the U.S. Embassy in London . He used to hang out with Kai - Ming and Maggie hush-hush to extract info on Chinese Ambassador Chen . The Chinese discover his identity and charge him of murdering the Ambassador when , as it turns out , it was really an stroke by Trent Clark . Helen go Cole from the Embassy and nearly turn over him over to the Chinese until she and Sam actualize that something is up . Cole ends up being proved unacquainted but his CIA cover charge is shove along . He also see the truth about Helen being a Black Dove , which could make him a threat in time of year 2 .
6Dani
Dani is a Black Dove who break herself to Helen towards the ending of time of year 1 . She was introduced as Wallace ’s flirty help but Helen quickly captivate on to her and figure out she was a spy . Although the two secret federal agent are technically on the same team , Dani and Helen have an larger-than-life fight in the jewellery storage after Reed decide that Helen has gone rogue . Helen catch the good of Dani and convey her to back off , sparing her life . The two Black Doves could work more hand in glove next season .
5Elmore Fitch
Elmore Fitch is an elite SAS sniper turn assassin who is not consort with Lenny or the Black Doves . He was hire by Trent Clark to kill Jason , Maggie , and a tabloid reporter call Phillip . Maggie had captured the footage of Trent killing Chen and had told Phillip and Jason about it , which is why they also became Fitch ’s targets . polecat tried to kill Helen in her own plate but Helen bested him and guide his life in her garden shed . Fitch is hardly in the series , so his non - military scope and his human relationship with the Clarks are not explored .
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