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C H A R A C T E R S

Sam Feldman (30)

D E A S p e c i a l A g e n t

Sam is smart, clever and a great dad. But he’s also
paralyzed by insecurity, and he feels like he’ll really never

make much of himself. He lives in the shadow of his far

more successful brother, and the jealousy still festers

between them to this day. He never finishes anything he
starts.

He dropped out of every school he enrolled in and he’s
been going from job to job, until he finally decided the only

marketable skill, he has is speaking Spanish, because of his

Salvadorian stepmother, the only one in his family who’s
ever had any faith in him.

So Sam gets a job as a Spanish wire tap interpreter for the

DEA. Now he’s listening to a bunch of criminals, and he’s
totally intrigued by the chase, the deciphering, the coded

language, the mystery. He thinks that maybe he’s found his

calling….and listening in on someone else’s life is better
than looking at his own anyway.

He fell in love with NICOLE, an immigrant from Ecuador, but

he started to feel that she wanted a green card a lot more
than a husband, so Sam felt betrayed. They had a kid,

which created more problems and fighting. Then she

cheated on him with a more successful guy, who she ends
up marrying, so makes Sam feels even worse.