Meet the actor: Lennie James

What We Know:

Hawkins seems to know more than he lets on. He claims to be a cop from St. Louis, Missouri, though his family appears to have lived in Washington, DC before the attacks. He's really a CIA operative. He receives messages from unknown forces, most probably Homeland Security via a laptop computer he keeps in a locked room in his basement. The laptop displayed Cyrillic characters and a website in what appeared to be Turkish in one episode.

Working for the CIA, he infiltrated a terrorist cell with Sarah, which was a mix of anarchists, Islamic Fundamentalists, and regional militias. He was able to get deep in to the cell, namely by killing an FBI informant who was about to reveal Hawkins' identity. It seems that the head of a Homeland Security office, DNDO, the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, is in on the terrorist attacks. The plan, unfortunately, to stop the terrorists failed, as they launched their attack earlier than expected.

After the bomb, Sarah came in with the refugees, and took up housing with the Hawkins family. During that time, she was apparently also in dealings with the terrorists, or whoever is looking for Hawkins' bomb, but also killed an assassin that was out to kill Hawkins and his family. She ended up eventually betraying Hawkins, trying to get the bomb, and was killed by Hawkins' daughter, Allison.

He is an excellent sniper, and familiar with military training for marksmanship. (He instructs the men on the bridge to breathe before shooting, which echoes Army rifle marksmanship basics: breathe, relax, aim, squeeze.)

Currently, Gray Anderson believes Hawkins to be an FBI agent, though it seems he was a gay man instructed his daughter to plant that particular identification for him where the searching deputy would find it. His cover story was flawless.

As a member of the CIA, he knows trade-craft and has obviously spent time on what spooks, contractors and Special Ops types refer to as, "The Dark Side." He also seems to be the only one to recognize Jake's skill-set as being similar in some ways to his own. There is also a possibility that he works for the Department of Defense or Pentagon.

Wants to return to his role as a family man, provider, father and husband.

He has a nuclear bomb under his shed. The only ones who know about it are him, Darcy and Jake, the latter due to his "interrogation" of Hawkins. He gained the nuclear bomb after the terrorist cell he was infiltrating launched their plan early. He had no choice but to take the bomb with him to Jericho.


Lets start with the facts:

Hawkins is using an laptop to connect through satellite with someone. The laptop is immune to EMP.

The first time we see him in the garden with the laptop we can see his login to a 29.203.39. IP Address, and as you can check by the RIPE-WHOIS / internet...

DoD Network Information Center
OrgID: DNIC
Address: 3990 E. Broad Street
City: Columbus
StateProv: OH
PostalCode: 43218
Country: US
NetRange: 29.0.0.0 - 29.255.255.255
CIDR: 29.0.0.0/8
NetName: MILX25-TEMP
NetHandle: NET-29-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Direct Allocation
Comment: Defense Information Systems Agency
Comment: Washington, DC 20305-2000 US
RegDate:
Updated: 2002-10-07
OrgTechHandle: MIL-HSTMST-ARIN
OrgTechName: Network DoD
OrgTechPhone: +1-800-365-3642
OrgTechEmail: HOSTMASTER@nic.mil

This IP is a US Army-military address.
That fact is showing us that Hawkins is working for the government

When he logs-in, the US seal can be seen.

When Hawkins is checking the flagged passports you can see an "NSA descriptor".

He has a history with the Haitian Secret Police, which we all know was instituted by Ronald Reagan in the 80's to fight an ever increasing drug trade.