| Charlotte Bowles | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Birthdate: | 2005 |
| Status: | Alive |
| Age: | 8 |
| Other information | |
| Gender: | Female |
| Hair color: | Brown |
| Eye color: | Brown |
| Skin color: | White |
| Relationships | |
| Monitor: | Marion Bowles (formerly) Susan Duncan (formerly) |
| Family: | Marion Bowles (adoptive mother) Rachel Duncan (sister/direct genetic template) |
| Series information | |
| Portrayed by: | Cynthia Galant |
| Season/s: | 2, 3, 4, 5 |
| First appearance: | "By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried" |
| Latest appearance: | "From Dancing Mice to Psychopaths" |
| Appearance count: | 8 |
Charlotte Bowles is a clone of Project Leda introduced in the finale of Season 2. She is an eight-year-old girl who is disabled in one leg. She lived with her adoptive mother Marion Bowles until she was abducted by the Neolutionists at some unknown point in time during Season 3.
Origins
Charlotte is the sole survivor of over 400 attempts to recreate a clone from the batch of Project Leda. She was created twenty years after the other Leda clones. The original genome the female clones were based on was lost in a fire twenty years before Charlotte was created. Several Project Leda scientists died in the fire, one of whom was thought to be Susan Duncan. Ethan Duncan claimed Aldous Leekie set the fire.
It is revealed in Season 4 that Charlotte was directly cloned from Rachel Duncan and that she suffers from an early onset version of the Leda clone respiratory degeneration.
Season 3
Her next appearance is within a hallucinating Sarah Manning, who has been following a rare reaction to the Castor clones' defect, although it is uncertain whether the girl Sarah saw was truly Charlotte or merely a younger version of herself or any other Leda clone. In her dream, Charlotte ushers Sarah to follow her, before disappearing as she is left to encounter a hallucination of Beth Childs.
Later on Charlotte appears to have been kidnapped by Neolution. The circumstances of her abduction are currently unknown. Captured by the Neolutionists, Susan explained to Charlotte that Rachel, who was also captured by Neolution, could be her new mother.
Trivia
- She is the youngest female clone in the series.
- A lot like Rachel, she seems to be a little aware that she is a clone.
- Her actress made her own version of the clone dance of Season 2 finale which can be found on YouTube.
- Cynthia Galant also played the younger version of Rachel Duncan in the home videos she and Sarah watches.
| Season 2 appearances | ||||
| Nature Under Constraint and Vexed | Governed by Sound Reason and True Religion | Mingling Its Own Nature With It | Governed As It Were By Chance | Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est |
| To Hound Nature in Her Wanderings | Knowledge of Causes, and Secret Motion of Things | Variable and Full of Perturbation | Things Which Have Never Yet Been Done | By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried |
| Season 3 appearances | ||||
| The Weight of This Combination | Transitory Sacrifices of Crisis | Formalized, Complex, and Costly | Newer Elements of Our Defense | Scarred by Many Past Frustrations |
| Certain Agony of the Battlefield | Community of Dreadful Fear and Hate | Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method | Insolvent Phantom of Tomorrow | History Yet to Be Written |
| Season 4 appearances | ||||
| The Collapse of Nature | Transgressive Border Crossing | The Stigmata of Progress | From Indistinct to Rational Control | Human Raw Material |
| The Scandal of Altruism | The Antisocialism of Sex | The Redesign of Natural Objects | The Mitigation of Competition | From Dancing Mice to Psychopaths |