Victoria "Vika" Olsen is Jack Harper's 'communication officer' and his long-sufferingly devoted and besotted but ultimately romantically unreciprocated second wife. Harper and Olsen live together in a Sky Tower and repair the network of combat drones that hunt the remaining "scavs" and guard the fusion generators ("hydrorigs") that draw seawater to extract energy. She is brainwashed into believing that they are about to complete their five-year mission on the Earth and return to the Tet to travel to humanity's new home on Saturn's moon Titan.
Together they're 'an effective team'.
Later on it is revealed that she is a clone of an astronaut, Jack's flight partner. The original Victoria and Jack were researching outer space when they were abducted by the Tet before the invasion. There are many Victoria clones on the Earth as well as Jack clones, each pair making an 'effective team' and kept busy repairing drones. Jack 49 meets another clone of Victoria, number 52, and pretends to be 'her' Jack and it works.
Character[]
Victoria is very responsible and holds their mission in the highest value. She doesn't remember her past and doesn't want to recollect when Jack asks her to recall some events from their pre-mission past. She wasn't interested in setting foot outside the tower; she threw that flower Jack gave her off the balcony in their date because she was programmed to fear infection.
Personality Virtues[]
On the one hand, she is very affectionate, romantic and sexual. She always kisses Jack hello and goodbye when he is off and when he comes from a long day on his duty repairing drones. She makes coffee for him in the morning. She makes cozy atmosphere for him, dines with him at candle light, always holds his hand and speaks affectionately and tenderly to him and sometimes has sex with him in the pool of the Tower.
Personality Flaws[]
On the other hand, she is quite controlling, always reminds Jack what he should and what he mustn't do according to the instructions from who she believes to be Sally, the mission director, and who in fact is the Tet. Victoria keeps Jack under control, 'watches over him', as he said himself, and requires absolute obedience when he's in the field. She protects him and does a coordinator's work for him.
Jealousy[]
The clone Victoria was quite jealous to Jack when she grasped his hand as he was speaking to the woman he had saved from a spaceship crash, who turned out to be his real wife, Julia. Though normally being well-balanced and logical, the clone Victoria was frantic and impulsive after Jack had disobeyed her and had escaped with Julia. Evidently, she loathed adultery. She just called Tet and declared they were 'no longer an effective team', not giving him any chance to explain himself.
Love-driven Evils[]
The flashback scene hints that the original Victoria was attracted to Jack even before they were cloned. Although the clone refuses to reveal whether (like Jack) she still has memories of her human life, it is implied that she also retained some of her original self's memories and knew who Julia was, but lied to Jack because she had a crush on him. Alternatively, it is likely that this remembrance (subconsciously or otherwise) fuels her instinctive dislike of Julia and her sense of betrayal when Jack reveals that she is his wife — she would rather have a false reality where she and Jack are together as lovers than the truth.
Physical appearance[]
Victoria wears a grey sleeveless dress with a symbol of the Tet on her left dress and a iron dress belt or a white sleeveless dress with a symbol of the Test on her left dress and a iron dress belt.But some of her white sleeveless dresses don't have iron dress belt.Ex: When Julia and Jack return, her white dress doesn't have iron dress belt.Vika also wears a black sleeveless dress in her date with Jack.She always wear a black high-heeled shoes.She has a green eyes with reddish-brown hair.
In the scene of Vika's death, she turned back her head and in lovingly and fearfully said: "Jack..." then screamed before incinerated by a Drone in Tower 49. Her clothes, body, and heeled shoes were incinerated along with all else of her, with nothing remaining except vapor and ash.
Biography[]
Early life[]
In 2017, 60 years before the action of the movie, Victoria and Jack were among the crew members sent on a mission to explore Saturn and they discovered the Tet in its proximity. They headed to it and their spaceship was attracted gravitationally to the Tet. They were thrusted into the station where the Tet erased their memory and made armies of clones based on their DNA. The original astronauts were most likely killed after their DNA was extracted.
In the movie[]
In 2077 Victoria and Jack worked on drone repairs, then Jack saved Julia after a spaceship crash and started disobeying the regulations of the Tet. After he escaped with Julia at night Victoria went frantic and reported the case to the Tet, which brought about her death (a drone crashed into the Tower killing her and shooting at Jack and Julia). There were other copies of Vika on the Earth working with other copies of Jack, their destiny is unknown.
Trivia[]
- Her favorite phrases are "Another day in paradise!" and "We are an effective team"
- Her favorite drink green tea, always seen on her dashboard.
Behind the Scenes[]
Victoria was portrayed by Andrea Riseborough in Oblivion.