Wendell Wells

Background Information

Wendell Wells: 6'0" high, bleached white hair, firm chin and piercing blue eyes. A respected FBI agent Wendell's background is in engineering and he is a whiz with mechanical and electrical gadgets. Wells is a brave and daring fellow who was commended for bravery after heading running into a fire fight to pull out a wounded colleague without any back up, weapon or flak jacket.

Wendell was assigned to work with the FBI in New York where he eventually married his long-time partner, Marie Silone in 1997. Wendell is reassigned to the task force working against drugs baron Emilio Sanchez. About eighteen months ago the FBI team traced Sanchez to a chemical plant belonging to the Kuehne Chemical Company about eight miles from New York City This was a major operation with SWAT teams and flak jackets and the like. Wendell's team are also going in because they have a chance of nabbing Sanchez himself.

The agents headed into the plant and in the ensuing fire-fight they were separated. Wendell saw Sanchez fleeing the scene and pursued. The two got into a fist fight over a vat of dangerous chemicals. Sanchez got the better of Wendell and threw him into the vat. Wendell hit his head on the way down and would have drowned if he wasn't rescued by colleagues. Sanchez escaped.

Over the next few weeks Wendell recovered (the chemicals had bleached his hair white but that was the only physical effect). Unfortunately the experience had completely unhinged him. Wendell became convinced that the chemicals had given him super powers and turned him into a scourge against all evil. Dressing up in an electric blue Kevlar body suit, cape and cowl (with luminous yellow accoutrements) he headed out onto the mean streets of New York to bring justice to evil doers and to finally catch up with Sanchez who he now referred to as his "evil nemesis". In this persona he called himself Captain Dynamo.

Wendell believed he had superhuman strength, agility and endurance, the ability to see in the dark and to become invisible in shadows. He also believed that his touch sent waves of icy fear through those he touched. Of course all this was utter rubbish - in fact Wendell's insanity was such that he became convinced of new powers depending on the circumstances. Yet despite this, Wendell was still highly trained, physically adept and bedecked with a number of useful gadgets he had invented himself. He was surprisingly effective at taking out minor hoods who were suitably embarrassed at having been caught by him. Captain Dynamo quickly became a bit of a joke in the New York police force. Of course, Wendell never actually killed anyone during these events.

It didn't end well for Wendell. He never got his showdown with Sanchez because he was arrested by the police while trying to rescue a kidnap victim. His identity revealed Wendell was put into serious psychiatric care that lasted for twelve months. He has recently been released. The official report says that Wendell accepts his insanity and that he doesn't have any super powers.

This is completely wrong. Wendell is still utterly convinced of his powers and his invulnerability, but he has accepted that using them within the FBI could be more beneficial to himself, his colleagues and the world. Suffice to say that evidence response was the only outfit desperate enough to take him in. Marie, who stood by her husband all this time, has allowed him the personal space to find himself with evidence response. She hopes that he is cured, but she doubts it.

Pre-Campaign Timeline

18 May 1970

Wendell is born to parents Richard and Mary in New York City.

27 July 1983

Richard and Mary are shot and killed by dastardly criminals while leaving a theatre. The thirteen year old Wendell is put into care.

1 September 1988

Wendell attends college. He has an aptitude for electronic and mechanical gizmos. He trains to be an engineer.

1 July 1991

Wendell leaves college and decides to join the FBI. Partly he is motivated by the death of his parents, and partly he is motivated by a desire to do good. What a guy.

28 June 1994

Wendell graduates from Quantico and is assigned to an FBI team in New York city where he remains until his unfortunate accident.

12 February 1997

After several years of playful jibes, blazing arguments and meaningful stares Wendell and his FBI partner Marie Silone finally realise what their colleague always knew and they decide to get married. Wendell accepts reassignment to a taskforce trying to bring down Emilio Sanchez so that the husband and wife no longer have to work closely together.

31 January 1999

Wells and other agent head into the Kuehne Chemical Company to apprehend drugs baron Emilio Sanchez. In an accident, Wells is knocked into a chemical vat that he believes gives him super power.

14 February 1999

Wells checks himself out of hospital and takes on the costumed identity of Captain Dynamo. For the next six months, he fights crime. During this time Wendell's relationship with his wife suffers. She comes to think he is having an affair.

8 August 1999

Wendell and his wife separate when he refuses to tell her where he goes at night.

7 September 1999

Captain Dynamo (aka Wendell Wells) is arrested by the police. Marie Wells returns and tries to understand her husband. She opts to stand by him through the months of psychiatric attention Wendell will receive.

10 November 2000

Wendell is released from psychiatric care apparently cured. He is eager to start working for the FBI again, but he is considered to have had too much 'history' in New York. Wendell is assigned to the mid-west evidence response team. Marie agrees to give her husband a little space to work through his new life. She remains in New York.

Recent Events

The following events have been highlighted as having special significance for Wendell. Please see the Timeline to place these incidents in context.

16 November 2000

Wendell Wells joins the mid-west evidence response team in North Dakota. They are quick to spot the fact he is still mad.

20 November 2000

Wendell is bitten by a werewolf and contracts lycanthropy. This completely plays into his delusion that he is super-hero much to the chagrin of his companions.

27 November 2000

Eisenstein tells Joshua Blackthorne that Wendell must remain on the team even though he is a werewolf. Wendell is blissfully ignorant of his condition.

29 November 2000

In Hawaii, Wendell's ill-considered actions result in the death of Special Agent Elise Steiger.

30 November 2000

A mad Wendell steals a helicopter and abducts Artemis Black in an attempt to find the "real killers" of Elise Steiger. He ditches the helicopter in the sea and it is a miracle that both escape with their lives. Artemis calls for Wendell to committed, and Eisenstein agrees that he should be contained. Wendell is locked up in a secure hospital in Honolulu.

3 December 2000

Wendell is removed from Honolulu by agents of Eisenstein to an unknown location.

See Also:

• Wendell Wells entry in the Who's Who? section.