| 1 | Carolyn | Brock | President's Chief of Staff. Aka: Carrie. |
| | Lester | Rhodes | Speaker of the House. |
| | Danny | Akers | President's oldest friend. White House counsel. |
| | Jenny | Brickman | Deputy Chief of Staff and President's senior political advisor. |
| | Michael | Dukakis | Democrat who ran for President and lost in 1988 (real). |
| | Suliman | Cindoruk | Sons of Jihad (SOJ) leader. |
| 2 | Mike | Kearns | Chairman, House Judiciary Committee. Rhodes protégé. |
| | General | Burke | At Centcom. (U.S. Central Command) |
| | Nathan | Cromartie | CIA operative. Died in Algeria. |
| | Clara | Cromartie | Nathan's mother. |
| 3 | Bach | | Assassin. A female. |
| 4 | Rachael | Duncan | President's wife. |
| | Katherine | Brandt | Vice President. Aka: Kathy. |
| | JoAnn | | President's Secretary. |
| | | Jacoby | A Senator. |
| | Lawrence | Gordon | A Senator. |
| | Jonathan L. | Duncan | President. |
| 5 | Deborah | Lane | President's ITP disease doctor. |
| | | | ITP - a disease that can lead to excessive bruising and bleeding. |
| 6 | Elmurod | | Works for Cindoruk. |
| | Mahmad | | Works for Cindoruk. |
| | | | Gang of Eight - bipartisan group of 8 US senators. |
| 8 | Alex | Trimble | Head of the Secret Service. |
| 9 | Isabella | Mercado | Bach's fake passport name. |
| 10 | Brendon | Mohan | National Security Advisor. |
| | Erica | Beatty | CIA Director. |
| | Dmitry | Chernokev | President of Russia. |
| | Saad ibn | Saud | King of Saudi Arabia. |
| 11 | Rodrigo | Sanchez | Admiral and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Aka: Rod. |
| | Dominick | Dayton | Secretary of Defense. |
| | Sam | Haber | Secretary of Homeland Security. |
| | Abu- | Dheeq | Shabaab's head of military operations. |
| | Al- | Fadhl | AQAP's military commander. |
| | | | AQAP - Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. |
| | | Burke | General and head of US Central Command. |
| 14 | Lily | Duncan | President Duncan's child. |
| 16 | Professor | Waite | Professor at University of North Carolins (UNC) Law School. |
| 17 | Charles | Kane | Fake name used by President Duncan. |
| | Amanda | Braidwood | Rachael Duncan's roomate at Harvard. A disguise expert. Aka: Mandy. |
| 19 | Christopher | Knight | Homeless veteran. |
| 20 | Nina | | Former member of SOJ. Augie's partner. |
| 23 | Augie | | Former member of SOJ. Nina's partner. |
| 31 | Ranko | | Taught Bach how to shoot. |
| 32 | | Davis | Secret Service Agent. |
| | | Ontiveros | Secret Service Agent. |
| | | Jacobson | Secret Service Agent. |
| 35 | Elizabeth | Greenfield | Acting FBI Director. |
| 37 | Greg | Morton | Carolyn Brock's husband. Aka: Morty. |
| | James | Morton | Brock's child. |
| | Jennifer | Morton | Brock's child. |
| 39 | Augustas | Kaoslenko | Augie's full name. |
| | David | Guralnick | Israel's Director of National Institute for Intelligence (Mossad). |
| 43 | Peter | Evian | Vice President's Chief of Staff. |
| 49 | Devin | Wittmer | Co-chair, Imminent Threat Response Team. |
| | Casey | Alvarez | Co-chair, Imminent Threat Response Team. |
| 51 | Noya | Baram | Israel Prime Minister. |
| | Victor | Chernokev | Russian President's father. |
| 52 | Juergen | Richter | German Chancellor. |
| 56 | Dieter | Kohl | Head, Germany International Intelligence (BND). |
| | Nina | Shinkuba | Nina's full name. |
| | | | Exfiltrate - to withdraw (troops or spies) from a dangerous position. |
| 62 | Ivan | Volkov | Prime Minister of Russia. |
| 64 | Geoffrey | | Father of Bach's child. |
| 65 | Tony | Winters | Meet the Press host. |
| 80 | Hagan | | Works for Cindoruk. |
| | Levi | | Works for Cindoruk. |
| 81 | Christof | | German Special Forces team leader. |
| 98 | Lojzik | | Van driver. |
| | Hamid | | Leader of boat group. |
| 122 | Randy | | Bach interrogator. |
| | Catharina D. | Ninkovic | Bach's real name. |
| | Wilhelm F. | Herzog | Bach's brother. |
| 125 | Andrei | Ivanenko | Russian Ambassador to the US. |
