James Copley

James Copely is a former CIA operative working freelance with Steven Merrick, a pharmaceutical company's CEO.

James, stricken over the loss of his wife to ALS (movies), is searching for a way to stop this sort of thing from happening ever again.

With funding from Merrick Pharmaceuticals, he hires Andy and her team to rescue Sudanese girls who have been taken. He lures Andy and her team into a trap, complete with cameras. These videos are given to Steven Merrick. Merrick is quick to discredit them, calling the recordings simply billion-dollar snuff videos. He urges Copely to bring them in, alive.

Copley has been working with Booker from the first meeting and attacks them while they are in a safe house, where Nicky and Joe are taken, hostage.

Copley insists their treatment be moral, but Merrick seems not to care about what Copley wants.

Andy and Booker confront Copley and are taken in. Andy now suffering from a gunshot wound and the loss of her immortality. With Copley's help, Nile manages to save the team, and they leave the building as a unit meeting back at Copley's residence.

Copley is told in no uncertain terms that he will be working FOR them, to make up for all this, and in the wake of Booker's exile, he agrees.

In the comics, the story is generally the same, except Andy is immortal throughout. Nile, Booker, and Andy do confront Copley. Andy lets Copley live, and they jump out of the 32nd floor of a building. Copley watches Nile land on a car. Andy and Booker go splat on the pavement. The small group go on to Save Joe and Nicky. They do not revisit Copley in the comic, and he does not work for them in the end.