List of The Last Ship characters

Dr. Rachel Scott, M.D., Ph.D. is the leading paleomicrobiologist aboard the USS ''Nathan James'' (DDG-151) alongside Doctor Quincy Tophet. She worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization to create a cure for the virus that had wiped out most of the human race. Little is known about her personal life, however it is confirmed that she had a boyfriend whose fate is unknown; furthermore, she and Tex had a very close relationship. In the Season 2 finale she is shot dead after finding a way to spread the cure by person-to-person contact. In Season 3 she is on a stamp in a rationbooks as a way to remember her commitment. As well, Scott's efforts to create the "contagious cure" as it is called succeeded in stopping the pandemic. Her killer is later revealed to have been arrested and imprisoned for her murder. In the series finale, she reappears briefly when Chandler sees everyone he has lost along the way following the sinking of the ''Nathan James''. She is portrayed by Rhona Mitra.

Accord to her Department of the Navy personnel file, Scott is a British citizen with US permanent resident status who is born in London, England. She had attended the University of Oxford (mistakenly listed as Oxford University) and is awarded a BS in chemistry, with honors, in 1999. Four years later, she received her MD degree by the University of Cambridge (mistakenly listed as Cambridge University). Later, she went to America to receive PhDs from Yale University in the fields of virology (in 2005) and public health (in 2007) followed by jobs at the World Health Organization (2007–2008), Doctors Without Borders (2008–2010), and the Centers for Disease Control (2010-)

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