Graham Kelton was the lead FBI investigator in the disappearance of Sara Collins. He was played by Gale Harold. Before the Collins case he helped find Nathen Miller, grandson of Supreme Court judge Gil Prescott, however while delivering 1,000,000 dollars to the kidnapper, the kidnapper pulled an explosive control killing Nathen Miller and critically injuring Kelton. He spent almost a year in the hospital for a crushed lung a broken skull and a serious head trauma, leaving him in a coma for 4 months. He returned to work 2 weeks before Sara Collins vanished.

When it was believed that Sara Collins was dead, Kelton was forced to take a leave of absence from his position. After realizing that Sara was alive, Kelton tried to alert Senator Collins but was shot five times by a man named Evil Ben Franklin. He was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital. The last thing he saw before he died was a hallucination of Sara over him. He received FBI honors after his death, including having his picture added to the Wall of Martyrs.

QUOTES
Senator Collins: Have blind faith in the FBI, why does that make me nervous?
Agent Graham Kelton: Faith makes me nervous, so blind faith must be terrifying.

Lin Mei: Where are you going?
Agent Graham Kelton: To church. Pray for a lead.

Agent Graham Kelton: I need to know where you were, Tuesday night.
Mr. McNeal: Fixing the irrigation in my orchard.
Agent Graham Kelton: Did you have any company?
Mr. McNeal: [sarcastically] Yeah, peaches! Does that count?

Agent Graham Kelton: [after Judy plays a recording of Sarah Collins] Where’d you get that?
Judy Nash: We both went out with Sarah’s parents; I guess they liked me better.
Agent Graham Kelton: [grinning] They’ll get over it…

Judy Nash: The Senator and Sarah – the marriage wasn’t as perfect as everybody thought, was it – off the record…
Agent Graham Kelton: [shrugs] On the record! No marriage is.

CONNECTIONS

LIN MEI (Ming Na). Lin is an FBI Agent stationed in the Atlanta, Georgia office and investigated the disappearance of Sara Collins. Mei is a field agent who was partnered with Agent Graham Kelton until his death. Even though she was offered the choice to leave, she decided to remain on the case. She then joined up with new lead investigator Agent Daniel Lucas. Throughout the rest of the series, she expressed the desire to avenge Graham’s death, and even tried to once with no results. She often acts as a backup.

MICHAEL TYNER (Esai Morales). Tyner served as the head of the FBI’s Atlanta headquarters as well as an overseer to the Sara Collins case throughout the series’ run. He often let the investigation into the Sara Collins case go unhindered, but when Graham Kelton disobeyed a direct order not to communicate with the media without his permission, he nearly fired Graham. In a plot twist in the last episode, it is revealed that he is part of the Masonic group after Sara Collins.

SENATOR JEFFERY COLLINS (John Allen Nelson). Collins is a Republican senator from Georgia; the disappearance of his wife. Throughout the series, he wavers in his decision whether to confirm Judge Wallace Rainer to the Supreme Court or not, believing he is part of the conspiracy and is using her to make him confirm Rainer. When he believed that Sara was killed, he stood firm in his stance to not confirm him; however, Agent Graham Kelton informed him that the murder scene was staged. Believing that he was going to vote against crunchy, one of the kidnappers named Morrel threatened to kill Sara right in front of his eyes, but the shot turned out to be a blank, but more importantly, a warning to confirm Rainer. Jeffrey does so, but is astounded when doesn’t get the call from the kidnappers informing him where Sara will be released. Agent Lucas then tells him that the whole kidnapping was a wider plot whose main objective was to release a death-row criminal who could decipher an important message for the kidnappers.

JUDY NASH (Rebecca Gayheart). Judy is a reporter investigating the disappearance of Sara Collins.