WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Utopia, available now on Amazon Prime Video.
At the heart of Amazon Prime's Utopia is an elaborate, ever-changing conspiracy revolving around two comic books that predict future pandemics. While every book has key characters, the ones in Dystopia and its sequel exist in real life and are either stuck in a web of lies or are the ones weaving it. To understand Utopia and its ambiguous, knotted plots, viewers will have to keep up with the increasingly complex conspiracy.
There are many real-world characters like the comic book nerds who become the innocent targets of the evil plan at play, but the ones depicted in Utopia are steering the chaos in the story and thus warrant a conspiracy guide to straighten out the roles they play in it.
The Harvest
After 9/11, the U.S. government recruited a group of scientists to help beat the rest of the world in biological warfare. Building nuclear weaponry wasn't enough, so they created dangerous and potent viruses, ushering the world in a new form of arm's race. The plan was to use the viruses as a threat to keep other countries in check, but there were a few rogue scientists among the team. They took all the secret and potentially hazardous information and went global. Together, they formed a shady organization called "The Harvest," which has been creating massive biowarfare weapons and selling it to the highest bidders worldwide under the leadership of a man named Mr. Rabbit.
Mr. Rabbit
Mr. Rabbit is the leader of the Harvest and is the one who sent his assassins to hunt down Jessica, Alice, Ian, Grant, Wilson, Becky and Samantha, as well as killed Wilson's entire family. In 2002, he unleashed the SARS virus in China, killing over 800 people after the Chinese dealers went back on their promise. When they released Mr. Rabbit's identity to every agent in every government in nations he had dealings with, they'd hoped he wouldn't survive the day. Instead, he went on a killing spree, hunting down everyone who knew who he was and wiping out all threats against him.
He went into hiding for a few years and emerged recently with a new identity. To the outside world, he is known as Kevin Christie, an extraordinary scientist and owner of the massive pharmaceutical company, Christie Labs. He maintains a facade of being harmless and a good samaritan-- he married a woman who is not aware of his real identity, has one biological son with her and also adopted four children. For years, he has been releasing different viruses to curb the world's population, but now he has a bigger plan-- a new virus to render the human population sterile for three generations.
Jessica Hyde
Jessica believed that The Harvest had kidnapped her father, but in reality, her father "created" her and the assassin Arby for them. While Arby was fashioned into an emotionless "monster," Jessica was kept in a yellow house in Home and experimented on by her father since she was around 6 or 7. The different viruses and diseases he created on the commands of Harvest and Mr. Rabbit were all tested by him on his daughter. But she has no memories of the same as she was heavily sedated every time.
Before she comes to know the truth, she thought she was held captive and used as leverage to make her dad do terrible things. After she and her father were rescued by Artemis, hinting that her dad had a change of heart, they both were always on the run. But after some time, he went missing, and for the past nine years, she has been fending for herself. The "fight or flight" life she led since she was a young child has left her oscillating between being a "hero" or a "villain."
Artemis
Artemis, Protector of the Children, is the woman who rescued Jessica and her father from Home. She trained Jessica like a soldier and taught her how to survive on her own. While Jessica blamed the Harvest for kidnapping her father, it was Artemis who took away her father. Before leaving Home, the last virus he had created was so powerful that it affected his mental abilities. When he "cracked," Artemis admitted him in an asylum to protect Jessica but never told her the truth.
When Jessica's father's drawing about Home and the Harvest was released in the form of a comics named Dystopia, Artemis knew that now he would be tracked down and killed. Mr. Rabbit did just that, burning down the asylum and killing all 58 patients inside. After it is revealed that the sequel to the first comic book Utopia exists, Jessica tracks Artemis down, who tells her everything she has done. She also warns her that she has lost the edge and resilience she once had, and if Mr. Rabbit comes looking for Jessica, she will break easily and tell him that Jessica is in Chicago. To protect herself and to save Artemis from certain torture at the hands of the Harvest, Jessica kills her.
The Blue Fairy
In Utopia, the Blue Fairy is seen playing puzzles with Jessica and sitting with her while she sleeps. She is initially introduced as Agent Katherine Milner in the real world, who worked with Jessica's father in Homeland Security's biological crime unit before he joined Mr. Rabbit. She initially wants Jessica on her side to defeat Mr. Rabbit, but by the finale episode, it is revealed that she had been the one pulling the strings from Mr. Rabbit to Jessica getting Utopia to even Arby.
"Home" is both a place and a living entity i.e., Milner, who uses the Utopia comics to lure Jessica back to her in order to use the multiple viruses she unknowingly carries on her back. She explains that she and Jessica's father had the vision of a reborn world, which they called Utopia, a dream she'll fulfill by using Jessica.
Created by Gillian Flynn, Utopia stars Dan Byrd, Ashleigh LaThrop, Jessica Rothe, Desmin Borges, Javon "Wanna" Walton, Sasha Lane, Farrah Mackenzie, Christopher Denham, Cory Michael Smith, John Cusack and Rainn Wilson. The series is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.