| Blake Wellesley | |
|---|---|
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| Vital Statistics | |
| Gender | Male |
| Status | Alive |
| Significant Other(s) |
Edna Debiasse (fling, deceased) |
| Parents | Lenanne Wellesley (mother) Casper Wellesley (father, deceased) |
| Children | Olivia Debiasse (daughter, deceased) |
| Other family | Winston Wellesley (brother) Unnamed brother (deceased) Trent Wellesley (nephew) |
| Character Information | |
| Appearances | "Kill the Messenger" |
| Portrayed by | Mark Moses |
Blake Wellesley is the golden child and heir of Senator Casper Wellesley and his wife Lenanne, the logical successor, in the family's eyes, to his father's seat.
Blake is running for Senator for New York, much as his father did some thirty-five years before, and is focused and determined this time, having been unsuccessful in his bid a decade earlier. However, the murder of the bike messenger Caleb Shimansky throws up an unexpected link to a young woman, Olivia Debiasse, who was part of that earlier run and was murdered at that time. Blake, when asked to help the police with their enquiries, tries to do so on his own terms and surrounded by a phalanx of lawyers.
However, when it becomes clear to him that his own family, particularly his mother and his brother Winston, have been lying to him in what they consider his own best interests, Blake pushes enough buttons for the tale of his illegitimate daughter, Olivia, to come out: Blake had conceived Olivia during a fling with a campaign worker, Edna, at his father's 1978 re-election campaign, and his daughter's desire to find her father risked tainting the Wellesley family's carefully crafted image, in the ruthless matriarch's eyes.
After learning that his mother told their family chauffeur Frank Davis, her 'fixer', to "take care of it", Blake donates $20 million to a children's charity on condition that they take care of the son of Brady Thompson, the man Frank paid to take the fall for Olivia's murder, then arranged to have killed in prison. The cynical might presume this is an exercise to try to salvage the Wellesley name, but it is the closest thing to a silver lining, beyond the arrests and explanation of the murders, this case can offer.