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|---|---|
| Donald "Mr. Sutherland" Hoffman | |
| Species: | Human |
| Allies: | Tyrell Wellick Joanna Wellick Elliot Alderson |
| Enemies: | Kareem Hernandez |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Portrayed by: | Jeremy Holm |
Donald Hoffman, also known as Mr. Sutherland, is Tyrell and Joanna Wellick's bodyguard.
He was portrayed by Jeremy Holm.
History[]
Background[]
Mr. Sutherland was born in 1973. He lives in NYC. He has had a list of clients, all of them eccentric in one form or another. One was a first chair violinist who performed at Carnegie Hall. The client would masturbate in the car.
Season 1[]
On March 2, when Terry Colby is arrested, Mr. Sutherland picks up Elliot Alderson in Times Square. He accompanies him to the E-Corp Headquarters for a meeting with Tyrell Wellick. (“eps1.0_hellofriend.mov”) Afterwards, he accompanies Elliot to his apartment. He jokingly says to call him Mr. X and mocks Elliot when he doesn't laugh, assuming he never saw the Oliver Stone film JFK. He tells him to watch it and to pay. He gives Elliot a phone number to reach Tyrell at when he ready to accept the job. (“eps1.1_ones-and-zer0es.mpeg”)
Later, after Tyrell loses a meeting with E-Corp CEO Phillip Price, Mr. Sutherland accompanies his boss to a street corner under a bridge where Tyrell punches a homeless man he has paid. (“eps1.2_d3bug.mkv”)
On May 8, Mr. Sutherland is there when Tyrell meets with Mr. Robot in the back of the SUV. (“eps1.7_wh1ter0se.m4v”)
Season 2[]
By June, Mr. Sutherland now accompanies Joanna Wellick wherever she goes. He picks her up from her secret rendezvous with her lover Derek. Later, he is with her when she is paying hush money to Kareem Hernandez, the valet who found Elliot in her husband's car 3 days after 5/9. He reminds her that they are running low on funds, especially when the FBI has frozen Tyrell's severance package from E-Corp.
Later, Mr. Sutherland kills Kareem in his own apartment. He makes it look like a burglary, framing an ex-con who lives on the same floor. He injects Kareem with Succinylcholine to paralyze him, making him watch as he was shot once in chest and once in the head. Mr. Sutherland asks why he drug him, to which Joanna says it allowed him to have answers rather than a sudden death. Meanwhile, he is tasked with tracing the calls that are coming into the mystery phone gifted to Joanna.
On August 7, Mr. Sutherland drives his boss to Elliot's apartment to wait for him, against the driver's advice. They bring him back to the Wellick's house, where she insists he trace the call. Mr. Sutherland is driving him back to his apartment when Elliot says they need stop at Micro Center to buy a computer. At the store, Sutherland plays video games.
At the apartment, Elliot begins tracing the call. Sutherland starts talking about his past employment, but Elliot tunes him out. When a location is determined, Sutherland takes a picture of the map although he is sure Tyrell wouldn't be calling from there. He shows Joanna the location, to which she says it is Tyrell's greatest gift.
Season 3[]
Mr. Sutherland drives both Joanna and her son home until a car follows them. He stops the car over and approaches it which has stopped behind them. He grabs the man Derek out of the car, who then starts yelling about Joanna lying about him to testify on Scott Knowles, upset on the fact that she loves Tyrell more than him. Mr. Sutherland punches him in the face and tells him go find a girl that loves him, and to never seen Joanna again. When Mr. Sutherland gets back in the SUV, Derek shoots him, with Joanna panicking and tries to shoot him but gets shot by Derek instead with her son beginning to cry, covered in blood. Mr. Sutherland, who wakes up a bit, shoots Derek in the stomach, leaving him bleeding on the ground.
At the hospital Dominique mentions to Ernesto Santiago that Mr. Sutherland is expected to survive with the FBI waiting for him at the hospital. He is not seen again, with either him being dead or alive. (“eps3.1_undo.gz”)
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