"GRAY is the bad guy, bent on wresting power from the rightful mayor--which he just did--and ruling vigilante-style. I believe Hawkins is GOOD. So far, he has given the town no bad advice. He was trying to remain low-profile because he's an outsider and AFRICAN AMERICAN!!!!!! I think he had knowledge of the imminent attacks and was unable to prevent them. Perhaps he ran up on fellow agents who were corrupt and participating in a domestic plot and BOOKED to Jericho with his estranged family. He is a GOOD GUY and may have been placed undercover to locate adherents of the coup at various levels of government. I think his last assignment may have been as a St. Louis cop. Look at the first page and read the thing about the female St. Louis cop lurking outside of Jericho. She's one of three things: a fellow good agent embedded with Hawkins during his previous undercover assignment, his honey while he was there--remember he and Darcy haven't been together for a while, OR ONE OF THE BAD GUYS HE WAS INVESTIGATING. Hawkins was a double agent, in all likelihood."