Ellie Maxted is the original Runner 4. She was a Social Anthropologist before the apocalypse, specializing in drug use and colonization in Latin America. She expresses regret over not going into biological sciences instead of social anthropology, but her expertise in the previous Viking apocalypse proves invaluable. She was friends with Cynthia Hill many years earlier, "before Facebook and in the absence of Buzzfeed quizzes." Ellie is Muslim.
History[]
Spring 2019 Virtual Race[]
Ellie appears in the Training Mission 2: Station to Station and Virtual Race Mission as "Passenger 93". She won her ticket to the New Oban Express in a Mastermind contest and joins Halima and "Passenger 5" on the trip to New Oban at the onset of the Zombie outbreak.
Season Three[]
In "Mambo Number Five," Maxine and Sam recall that they rescued Ellie from the university. Because of the confusion between Ellie's and Ellis' names, Maxine suggested using numbers. Ellie picked number 4 for herself.
Season Four[]
Ellie returns to New Canton to help split them into smaller settlements and provide information about the Viking apocalypse. She joins Runner 5 on an expedition to the nearby university library to retrieve books on hypnosis. She reveals that she treks out to the library every other day to rescue books from rot and looters, always picking a few random books to grab.
Season Five[]
In "Want You Gone," Ellie escapes from the Ministry during a propaganda tour, so she can help Abel retrieve and use a Viking artifact. Zoe takes her place.
Season Six[]
Season Seven[]
Season Eight[]
Personality[]
Ellie loves knowledge and learning.
Ellies loves books and does her best to protect and preserve them, believing that any information lost in the apocalypse may be lost forever.
Relationships[]
Sam Yao[]
Sergeant Ellis[]
Ellie and Sergeant Ellis were friends.
Runner Five[]
Appearances[]
- M59 Mambo Number Five (flashback)
- M05 Better The Devil You Know
- M09 Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
- M13 History Repeating
- M14 Church Of The Poison Mind
- M28 Honey Honey
- M29 Monster
- M30 We Are Golden
- M31 Want You Gone
- M32 Inspector Norse
- M21 My Little Runaway
- M30 Rescue Me
New Adventures[]
- M1 Morning Star
- M2 Evening Star
- M3 Sulphur Sky
- M4 Midnight Depths
- M1 The Fellowship of Sacrifices (unvoiced)
- M2 The Sleeping Towers (unvoiced)
- M3 The Return of the Queen
- M4 The Edge of the World
- M5 The Farthest Shore
Trivia[]
- Alternate universe versions of Ellie appear in several New Adventures.
- Professor Ellie Maxted joins the investigation of a space colony that has gone dark in Venus Rising.
- Ellie defies God in Endless Sea.
Gallery[]
(Season 8 Mission 1: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea)