Age: 16
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Ian Ho is a Canadian-born actor from Toronto, Ontario. He landed his first major film role at the age of 7, playing Nicky Nelson in Paul Feig's, A Simple Favor. Ian appears in Season 3 of the Hulu series The Handmaids' Tale - Unfit, and Netflix's A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting, based on the bestselling book series by Joe Ballarini. He stars alongside Adrien Brody and Emily Hampshire as Tane Boone in the new EPIX limited series "Chapelwaite", and is featured in Season 6 opening scenes of The Expanse, introducing the Laconia story arc with his twin sister Emma Ho. He will also recur in the Comedy "Overlord and the Underwoods." In 2022, he guest-starred in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as The First Servant in the Episode, "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach." As a voice actor, he appears many animated series including Rusty Rivets, Blues Clues 'N You, Pikwik Pack, Elinor Wonders Why, and the series regular role of Flicker in Spin Master's series, Mighty Express. He continues to discover new characters to voice along the way. He is the sister of actress Emma Ho.
Vera enters witness protection under a new identity — Claire Hastings, a mediocre administrative assistant in a non-descript office in Midtown. Sarah, officially reassigned from the case, secretly maintains contact, driven by the need to understand who Cassandra really is and what she plans to do with the client list. Cassandra has disappeared into the city's infrastructure, using the leverage data to systematically acquire power across multiple industries: banking, politics, real estate, media. She is not using the leverage for blackmail — she is using it for something far more sophisticated: she is mapping human weakness as a technology. Every compromised judge, every embezzling executive, every sexual secret becomes a data point in a system that predicts behavior, manipulates decision-making, and exerts control at a scale that makes Vera's boutique leverage operation look like a child's game. Vera, now powerless, begins to understand what she built: not a system of control, but an archive of humanity's worst impulses — and it was always vulnerable to someone with fewer scruples and better infrastructure. The final episodes track Vera and Sarah's impossible hunt for Cassandra, leading to a confrontation that doesn't end in victory or defeat, but in a kind of exhausted ceasefire. Vera walks away from the city entirely. Sarah remains, changed fundamentally by what she has learned about how power actually works.
