Penny Cest At age 5, prowlers entered Penny's home and murdered her parents while in bed. Penny and their butler managed to escape injury while hiding in the closet. The murderers were never caught.
Fearing his safety, the butler fled back to his homeland in Japan, bringing Penny along. Placing Penny in a temple deep in the hills of Kyoto, Japan, she became a master at several martial art styles by her teens.
When Ms. Cest returned to the States at age 21, she began to study law enforcement. She was soon hired as a beat cop for the San Francisco Police Department.
Captain Berneti noticed her keen skills and promoted her into the homicide division, where she soon became one of SFPDs most valued police officers. Sometimes she had unconventional ways of dealing with criminals, but she always got the job done on her own terms.
Jean Seigfried Daughter of a German immigrant, Ms. Seigfried grew up in Los Angeles County. While attending junior college, Jean met the love of her life, Jake Mathis, a part time actor. A large wedding was to be the beginning of a fairy tale marriage.
On the wedding day, Jake was a no-show, but instead a clown in a suit entered the church and danced up to the alter, approaching the bride. "Sorry, doll," said the clown, "Jake changed his mind!" He then broke into a shrieking laugh and handed her some dead roses while surprised wedding attendants looked on.
It was learned that Jake fell in love with a soap opera star on one of the sets and hired the clown to break the news to Jean.
At that point, she declared all men evil and vowed to get even. While attending a job fair at the Los Angeles Convention Center, she met Sidney Bekon, who was hiring people for his new startup. Bekon seemed sympathetic to her problem and offered her a job as a lobby receptionist for Bekon Microdevices.
However, Bekon's real motive was to use her revenge to test the effectiveness of his new deadly microchip.
Sidney Bekon Born in 1953, this San Francisco Bay Area native was the youngest of four children. He spoke his first words at age one and had mastered the piano at age three. By age five, Sidney had broken mathematical formulas that the worlds leading mathematicians couldn't solve.
In 1976, he developed a low cost mini computer and started a company, Empire Computers. In 1984, the company went public and kept Bekon as CEO. While a genius at ones and zeros, he was terrible at business. The company gave him a generous golden parachute and showed him the door.
Bored and lonely with several billions in assets, Sidney Bekon purchased some land in the Silicon Valley and built a huge research and development facility. Calling it Bekon Microdevices, this was nothing more than a front to create weird inventions.
The first was a robot with artificial intelligence. With a woman's voice, he called this contraption his girlfriend and kept it in his office to keep him company.
His main invention was microchip that altered brain waves, making the recipient capable of human super strength and speed.
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Cindy Taylor In the early eighties, Cindy attended her senior year at a private California high school for the gifted. While other girls her age were swooning over the Petshop Boys, Ms. Taylor was busy experimenting with computers.
Saving up from her part time job at a local mall, she purchased a state of the art Radio Shack computer and modem. From her bedroom, she managed to break into the NASA mainframe computer at the Kennedy Space Center and change the source code of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
For almost a year, the FBI was puzzled by who this intruder was. Assuming it was a foreign terrorist group bent on crippling the US space program, investigators were surprised that it was just the work of this unassuming teenage California girl.
Cindy spent 6 months in Federal lockup until Sidney Bekon's high priced layers were able to convince a judge to release her. Bekon immediately hired her as a lead programmer for his company.
Captain Berneti A cop from the old school, Captain Tony Berneti lead the Homicide division of the San Francisco police department. Berneti was son of a Chicago Cop who helped fight the mob in the late thirties.
At 45 years old, Berneti was divorced with three kids. His wife left him several years prior because she couldn't take the pressure of being a "cop's wife".
Berneti was constantly called on the carpet by top brass to defend some of Cest's unorthodox police work. He felt that Cest was an asset to the department and didn't believe in the constraints that have been put on police officers during his last 24 years on the force.
Big Jim At age 50, Jim Revington owned a tow yard in a rural area in Santa Clara, California. His trailer was located in the back, where he usually entertained bar flies that he'd pick up from the local tavern.
In fact, he had a reputation that he was a little rough with them. In one instance, one of his "dates" reported that he beat her, but it was never proven,. The case was eventually dropped.
Never married, rumor has it that in his younger days, he road his horse into a bar and ordered a drink.
