Epsilon

Epsilon was an artificial construct used by the Special Operation's program Freelancer. Its assigned agent was Freelancer Washington, later known as Recovery One.

The Epsilon Incident
Epsilon is a copy of a "smart AI". Artificial constructs were all subject to a number of algorithms to ensure stability, but these procedures failed to predict Epsilon's eventual rampancy. Alpha was tortured in order to 'fragment', resulting in extra AIs for Project Freelancer. Each was not a full AI, but an aspect of Alpha's personality. The first thing that Alpha fragmented was its memories, as it would otherwise have been driven insane by what it had experienced. These memories became Epsilon. Unfortunately, Epsilon proved unable to cope with the memories and entered full rampancy. Worse, this happened while it was inside its host, Agent Washington. The construct's rampancy caused Washington to become temporarily insane, as he was unable to differentiate the AI's deteriorating thoughts from his own. The incident caused the board of directors to supposedly terminate the use of AI implantation out of fear of a worse incident arising. This caused future agents, namely South to miss out on the program. He was revealed in chapter 16 of Reconstruction to have been removed from Washington, tortured by the Director of Project Freelancer, and then taken back to Freelancer Command. Wash also revealed that he gained all of Epsilon's (and therefor Alpha's) memories as a result of the incident, and now has full knowledge of Project Freelancer's experiments. This is also why he no longer trusts AIs; for fear that his knowledge whould be discovered and eventually reach command (which would likely result in Wash being imprisoned or killed).

During the Epilogue of the Reconstruction series, Caboose is seen about to attempt to implant Epsilon into an empty suit of armor, presumably the body that Tex once used.

Other

 * Epsilon is shown during a flashback, while Washington is reminiscing about the incident.
 * Epsilon is revealed to be stored in Freelancer Command in Episode 15 of Reconstruction instead of being deleted, and is removed from storage by Washington.
 * Epsilon was able to send flashes of images to Church while Church was merely standing near the A.I. towards the end of Episode 15 of Reconstruction. Because of its connection with the Alpha, its contact with Church allowed him to remember several of his former memories; memories that Epsilon witnessed.
 * He is revealed to be Alpha's memory by Agent Washington, with its fall to insanity the aforementioned result of the tests performed against it in the past.