While working on a Max-and-Cassandra-centered fic, I decided I wanted to try and get some canon information to help me out. Unfortunately, unlike the Sonya Division profile, Cassandra’s equivalent Gogol profile is kinda sorta in Russian, which is kinda a language I don’t speak at all.
As if I would let that stop me.
So, after transcribing the not-perfectly clear Cyrillic and passing it through Google Translate, I edited what came out for clarity, and got, well, this...
Кодовое Имя: Охотник
Оперативный Статус: Под прикрытиеи
Личное дело Агента:
Выпускница Грейстоун Академии в Дондоне
Выпускница Оксфордского Университета, степень бакалавра по Истории Искусств
зачислена в Гоголь в 2001
Назначена расправиться с МИ-6 в Январе, 2002
Принята на службу в МИ-6 в Октябре, 2003
Замужем за Президентом Валерием Овечкиным с 21 Май, 2004
Вернулась в штабквартиру МИ-6 после смерти Овечкина в ноябрь, 2011
Имеет пятилетнего сына
Code Name: Hunter
Operative Status: Undercover
Agent Personal Data:
Graduated from Greystone Academy in London
Graduated from Oxford University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History
Enlisted in Gogol in 2001
Assigned to infiltrate MI-6 in January, 2002
Admitted to MI-6 in October, 2003
Married to President Valeri Ovechkin since May 21, 2004 [which should more properly read “Married President Valeri Ovechkin on May 21, 2004″ since Ovechkin’s dead]
Returned to MI-6 Headquarters after Ovechkin’s death in November 2011 [or “Returned to MI-6 Headquarters in November 2011 after Ovechkin’s Death”, which makes more sense but may not be supported by the syntax.]
Has a five-year-old son
Notes:
As far as I can tell, the Russian is actually pretty decent, insofar as translating it back into English doesn’t end up making it incoherent.
Cassandra joined Gogol around the same time Michael joined Division, which is a nice bit of symmetry.
Greystone Academy doesn’t appear to actually exist, at least not in London.
The order the information is presented here suggests that Cassandra graduated from college before she joined Gogol, which would seem to contradict what she says in “Arising” about being approached when she was nineteen. This isn’t necessarily an error, but if we assume that the info in the profile is indeed in chronological order, then that indicates a gap between being approached and actually joining. It also raises a question: did that approach involve a quid pro quo--college sponsorship with the understanding that she’d join Gogol after graduation or something to that effect--or was it something more benign, where she was told about Gogol, no strings attached, while she was in college and she only decided to join after getting her degree? The former seems to be more consistent with Cassandra’s account, but given that Gogol does operate with a level of legitimacy, I can also see the latter being the case.
Also, if the information is in chronological order, Cassandra is at least four years older than Nikita.
It’s not clear from the deleted scenes in “Arising” if Ari knew of the Ovechkin substitution, or if he only learned about it during the events of that episode. If he knew about it beforehand, then that information’s absence from the profile suggests he kept it from Gogol. If he didn’t know, then that means both Cassandra and Amanda kept it from him and Gogol.
