The West Coast Team
FBI Evidence Response Campaign Background

The west coast team was the second evidence response team to be created by Eisenstein. On 13 December 2000 all the members of the west coast team were murdered by the ancient Chinese geomancer, Mao Sei Ben. Case LA10749 was quickly opened into their deaths, and the mid-west team under Leading Agent Jane Munroe began work were eventually able to find and kill Mao Sei Ben and his henchman. A new new west coast team team was created by Eisenstein on 19 December 2000. However, events soon overtook this.

Team History

Original Line-Up: The original Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the west coast team isOscar Harben. Harben operates the team from his own mansion in Beverley Hills (see resources below), and leads the team for many years until his death in 1995. Alan Cummings is part of this team, but the other members are unknown.

Line-Up Two: Alan Cummings joins the team in 1993 as Harben's subordinate. After Harben dies, Cummings is the obvious choice to become the new Assistant Special Agent in Charge. At the same time Cummings becomes the head of the unit, five other FBI agents join the group. These are: Doctor Mathew Wilson, Doctor Klaus Goldfarb, Doctor Anthony Tate, Doctor Jennifer Summers and Paul Hilderbrandt. Their first case together is SF211, (Mirror Ghost in Chinatown).

Line-Up Three: On 13 December 2000 the entire west coast team is killed by Chinese Geomancer, Mao Sei Ben. The case i=s investigated by the mid-west team and during this time there is no west coast evidence response team. Following the evidence response reshuffle on 19 December 2000 a new west coast team is formed: Assistant Special Agent in Charge Dominic Rocaan, Senior Special Agent Bradley Ecks, Special Agent Jack Burchill (inactive), Special Agent Philip McKraken, Special Agent Mathew St. John Wainwright (inactive), Special Agent Todd O'Connell and Special Agent Bruce Campbell-Robson. Agents Burchill and Wainwright are off active duty for some considerable time after their encounter with Mao Sei Ben and Plum Blossom (case 0008-GCF). The one-legged Wainwright will eventually take up a position as the team's resident librarian.

Line-Up Four: On 1 January 2001, Philip McKraken is shot and killed by serial killer Apache Joe. He is not replaced, leaving the west coast team as follows: Assistant Special Agent in Charge Dominic Rocaan, Senior Special Agent Bradley Ecks, Special Agent Jack Burchill (inactive), Special Agent Mathew St. John Wainwright (inactive), Special Agent Todd O'Connell and Special Agent Bruce Campbell-Robson.

Line-Up Five: After wisely convalescing in Winterset, Jack Burchill returns to active duty on 5 February 2001. Shortly after he has a psychotic episode, and faces a futher two months of psyche evaluation before he is allowed to return to active duty. The roster is now: Assistant Special Agent in Charge Dominic Rocaan, Senior Special Agent Bradley Ecks, Special Agent Jack Burchill, Special Agent Mathew St. John Wainwright (inactive), Special Agent Todd O'Connell and Special Agent Bruce Campbell-Robson.

Line-Up Six: On 10 June 2001, Jane Munroe uses a wish granted by Archangel Raphael to retore to life all grey case agents killed in the past year. After an enormous reorganisation on 17 June 2001 (to accomodate the twenty revived agents), Dominic Rocaan and the entire existing west coast team are moved to Wichita to become the first of two mid-west teams. The west coast team is made up of the following resurrected agents: Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alan Cummings, Senior Special Agent Doctor Mathew Wilson, Senior Special Agent Doctor Klaus Goldfarb, Senior Special Agent Doctor Anthony Tate, Senior Special Agent Doctor Jennifer Summers and Special Agent Paul Hilderbrandt.

Resources

Located in the shadow of the Hollywood sign, the west coast headquarters is an enormous rambling four-floor mansion designed to look as though it was built in the Colonial Period. Beyond the high walls are extensive lawns, a swimming pool, a maze, a helipad (no helicopter) and a two-storey car park around the back that is larger than the Wichita HQ. In that garage is an impressive collection of motorcycles, sportscars and (incongruously) an ice cream truck and a dilapidated baker's van. There is also an hydraulic lift to a workshop.

Inside, the headquarters is divided up into quarters. Firstly, the conservatory in the centre of the building is home for the atrium and the indoor swimming pool. Secondly, the east wing is the FBI quarter with offices and conference rooms for visiting agents as well as the west coast team's private offices accessible only through a key-card activated man-trap (an airlock that imprisons unwanted guests). The team's vault is located behind a Turner on the second floor of this wing. Thirdly, the west wing is the guest quarters including a dining room and the kitchens. Finally, the front wing of the house is the reception wing, capable of entertaining many guests.

The house is administered by the butler, Schult. Schult is a most curious fellow who seems excessively knowledge about everything, knows what a guest wants seemingly before the guest does and can do the little things - like ward the entire building from demonic intrusion and supply nanotech transmitters to track the life-signs of agents. When Harben left the mansion to the FBI in his will he wrote that Schult was simply the butler, and they should "ask no more". On occassions since then there have been attempts to discover the true nature of Schult, but these attempted have been vexed by the house ceasing to work until the curious desisted their actions.

The mansion was destroyed on 11 June 2001 in an attack by agents of Majestic. It is currently being rebuilt.

Supernatural Resources

Special Agent Bradley Ecks of the mid-west team believes that Schult is actually S.C.H.U.L.T. (Sentient Computer Holographic Utility - Lifepod Two) and that an alien spaceship is actually buried under the mansion. Schult himself has claimed to be 5221 years old, so Ecks's theory is as good as anyone's, and seems to have been proven following the agents' seismic scanning of the cavern below the mansion on 19 December. Schult has the ability to erect a forcefield around the headquarters capable of keeping out supernatural, summoned and possessing entities.

The spacecraft was eventually found to be one of four lifepods jetisoned from the strickened Signai vessel that is currently buried beneath Winterset. The lifepod holds twenty Signai space explorers in suspended animation. Marc Georgeson, the supercomputer at the heart of the Winterset mothership, controls the actions of all the computers on the lifepods (including Schult). However, after more than 5000 years all the holographic utilities have become a little peculiar. Following the destruction of the mansion, Schult retreated to the lifepod and will not return to his role as butler until the mansion is rebuilt.

See Also:

• Back to Campaign Background
• Mid-west Evidence Response Team