Team Zude

Jude and Zero are both such fascinating characters, but the character I have a lot of questions about is Jude. I think they boil down to: who is Jude, and what was Jude’s pre-s2 relationship with Zero? The two questions kind of overlap, but I want to concentrate on the first for now.

Who is Jude?

Zero calls him a junior agent (2.01); Derek calls him a ‘desk jockey’ (2.11); and Lucas says ‘wasn’t it just a year ago he was screwing up our coffee orders’ (s3). Also according to Jude himself, he was just assigned to the Arena as the agency’s ‘point person’ since they have two clients there now, but before that he hadn’t ‘always felt welcome here’ on his own (2.01) and admitted that he had to sneak in the night Olivia was murdered when he says he was on the arena floor because, as Det. Harrison said, Oscar wasn’t giving him that kind of access to the arena then (2.12).

Based on the above, Jude shouldn’t have been in a position job-wise (just a junior agent, desk jockey, got coffee) or location-wise (didn’t have access to the arena) to become friends, or even acquaintances with Derek or Zero. And yet he did.

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