Lydia Hall

"I am a CIA operative defending this country. After all the violence today. The infighting in our own government. The fact that our very own First Lady was plotting against her country. But there's a chance here to use what they wanted for a greater good."

- Lydia to Alex Parrish

Lydia Hall was a recurring character who is introduced in the second season of ''Quantico. ''She is portrayed by Tracy Ifeachor.

Biography
Lydia was a CIA operative who also served as an instructor at the Farm, the CIA's training facility. She is the daughter of Owen Hall, the lead instructor at the Farm. As seen in Episode 10 "Jmpalm", she secretly also ran a CIA black ops division within the CIA. For example, she recruited Ryan Booth, Dayana Mampasi, and León Velez to her group. As part of a black ops mission, she had the three kill a park ranger who was actually a CIA operative who was still very much alive in Episode 8 "Odenvy". The program also had León and Dayana kill a German woman for unknown reasons and had Ryan place a wiretap at the NSA. She later revealed in Episode 12 "Fallenoracle" that she was running an approved CIA black ops division that was approved by the President. In addition, she mentioned that the hit that the three carried out in Odenvy was a misdirection. Furthermore, she mentioned that the tap that Ryan placed helped thwart a bomb attack at a Syrian refugee camp. After her father was accused of a crime and incarcerated in a federal prison, she kicked Alex Parrish out of the Farm. Some time later, her black ops program turned rogue, wanting independent oversight and complete control of the program. As a result, those members of the program were CIA case officers who joined a rogue faction within the CIA called the AIC. After the black ops division became apart of the AIC, she left the program. In September of 2018, the villainous Lydia attended the G-20 Summit in New York. However, the event was infiltrated by a terrorist group calling themselves the Citizens Liberation Front. She later escaped from the terrorist group with the help of Alex Parrish and in the present timeline of 'Fallenoracle', it was revealed that she was briefly leading a FBI tactical unit. Towards the end of the crisis, she downloaded the intelligence drives onto the Internet that the AIC were planning to. After the crisis ended, she was arrested and incarcerated in a federal prison.