Dossier
Cal Hampton prefers not to go out. He has a home setup that intercepts Coast Guard frequencies and feeds him more useful information than most people who are actually in the field. Dice tattoo on his neck. Rusty Anchor t-shirt. He looks like a Keys regular. He functions like a surveillance operation.
His connection to Jason Duval is personal before it is operational. They know each other. Cal ended up inside the Heder boatyard network through that relationship, and his signal work serves the routes that run through it. He provides the intelligence. Other people act on it. He mostly prefers that arrangement, except when the operation calls for bodies on site, at which point Cal is one of them.
He has strong opinions about Lifeinvader, the Jay Norris situation, and the extent to which big tech is tracking everyone in Leonida. These are not casual opinions. He has built his entire setup around avoiding the kind of digital footprint he believes gets people noticed. Whether he is right or paranoid is a matter of perspective.
At a rooftop dinner, Jason and Lucia get properly introduced to him as former Dominican intelligence, which tracks with a man who built a home setup for intercepting Coast Guard frequencies. They debate how much to tell him about their own situation before deciding to hold back, at least for now.
