Alva

central missing absent kin-linked

Alva functions as the missing sister whose disappearance propels Slade Bender into desperate, transactional action. Referenced repeatedly but never present, she anchors the episode’s initial moral and narrative urgency: Slade hires Dixon Hill (Picard’s Holodeck persona) and offers payment to recover her. Alva’s absence converts a private loss into a public pursuit, raising stakes and triggering an assassination attempt that pivots the plot into lethal urgency.

1 appearances

Family Relations / Missing Persons

Alva's Journey

A timeline through the narrative

1 moments

S2E19 · Manhunt

A Gangster's Commission: Slade Hires Dixon Hill

Not onstage; inferred vulnerability and the emotional weight of being missed and possibly endangered.

Alva is not physically present in the scene; she is the missing person whose absence catalyzes Slade's visit and Picard's acceptance of the job — the object of the conversation …

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