Allen Shapiro

Allen Shapiro was a high ranking member of the CIA.

Biography
In 2011, Shaprio led an armed CIA team to Angelo Colasanto's house, where he viewed evidence gathered with eye-5 contact lenses that Brian Friedkin was working for the Three Families and had framed Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond. Shapiro detained Friedkin and Colasanto's granddaughter, Olivia Colasanto, but Friedkin blew up the vehicle that he and Olivia were in, making them both category ones. After Angelo became the first human on the planet to die since Miracle Day, Shapiro made it a priority to learn how it happened. He recognised that Matheson and Drummond's partners, Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper, would be useful to the investigation, but he was openly suspicious of them. An alien device was eventually discovered under the floor where Angelo's bed had been, and Shapiro, sensing that Harkness knew what the device was, demanded that he identify it. When Harkness refused, Shapiro ordered Cooper deported to the United Kingdom. (TW: End of the Road)

Shapiro committed CIA resources to hunting for the Three Families and the cause of Miracle Day over the next two months, placing Matheson in charge of the investigation. He trusted Matheson's instincts, no matter how unusual the potential lead, and built a strong working relationship with him. When Matheson and the Torchwood team concluded that the source of the Miracle was located at opposite ends of the planet, Shapiro supported Matheson's request to travel to Buenos Aires at a time when international travel had come to a virtual halt. (TW: The Gathering)

After Matheson's plan to converge on the source was thwarted, Shapiro recognised that the Families had placed a mole within their very directorate. He ordered agent Noah Vickers to engage tracer software to locate the mole. The software identified Charlotte Willis as the traitor, just as Shapiro noticed a bag that she had left on a table beside them, and realised that the bag contained a bomb. The bomb exploded an instant later, rendering Shapiro and everyone else in the room category one, and likely killing them once the Miracle ended. (TW: The Blood Line)