(TUA) The Handler

The Handler held a high ranking position within the Temps Commission under the authority of Board of Directors headed by Carmichael. She burned her rugae and had to be on a diet.

She dealt on numerous occasions with Number Five, including in his hiring to the Temps Commission. The Handler introduces herself as a member of the Commission, explaining that they do everything in their power to preserve the timeline and ensure nothing is changed. When Five asks why they do not try and avert the apocalypse, she remarks that time is fixed and, despite any intervention, the apocalypse will always happen. Five later betrays the Temps Commission, using their resources to get back to his time, eight days prior to the apocalypse.

Events of The Umbrella Academy

In retaliation for Five's betrayal of their deal, The Handler puts out a hit on Five, taken care of personally by Hazel and Cha Cha; Five is easily able to evade them, however, which puts The Handler in a dangerous position. Again, The Handler offers Five a deal, offering Five a managerial position within the Temps Commission; Five agrees in return for his family's safety.[1]

Returning with Five to the Temps Commission, she introduces him to his new role as case manager. Handler follows Five even in the bathroom, she confess having a strange disease that makes her have urination a lot of times, so she pees at the right cubicle of Five, right seconds later that he realize that the files were fake. Five is quick to betray her once again, however, and when The Handler realizes Five's plan, a gun fight ensues between the two and The Handler is left scarred when Five uses explosives to escape.[2]

The Handler later confronts Hazel and Cha-Cha as they turn against each other. Hazel shoots the Handler in the head when she threatens his lover Agnes Rofa's life. While having apparently been killed, the Handler had survived thanks to a metal plate that had been implanted at an earlier time in her life. The shooting initially left her partially paralyzed but she managed to recover over time.

Upon her return to the Commission three months later, Carmichael informs the Handler that she had been demoted because of her failures. Unable to accept this, she initiates a plan to take over the Commission. She has Lila get close to Diego while in 1963 and makes a deal with Five to kill the Commission's Board of Directors.