Violet Ebner

 is a character on The Recruit. She is portrayed by Aarti Mann.

Biography
Violet works at the CIA with Owen Hendricks and Lester Kitchens. She is ambitious and believes Owen is trying to sabotage her. She is determined to make their boss, Walter Nyland, lose faith in him. In Owen's first case, she and Lester purposely misdirect him because they see him as a threat.

Violet used to be a JAG in the army base in Germany, which is where she met Lester Kitchens.

Throughout The Recruit
On Owen's first day of work, Violet and Lester Kitchens hand him a pile of graymail, and ask him to determine which threats are legitimate. After doing some digging, Owen discovers that one graymail from Max Meladze seems legitimate, as she has knowledge of code names that no one outside the CIA would know. When he brings this news to his boss, Walter Nyland, Walter questions why Violet and Lester did not discover this earlier when they were tasked with going through the graymail. Walter tells Owen to continue his investigation. Violet and Lester, who don't trust Owen, purposely misdirect him by implying that he should travel to Yemen to investigate the case, knowing that Owen had not yet been issued a black passport to provide him with diplomatic immunity.

While in Yemen, Owen is held hostage and interrogated. The people there initially doubt he is from the CIA, as he does not have a black passport, and pull out one of his nails. They eventually set him free.

Violet arranged for Amelia Salazar to help Owen with his case. In exchange, Owen would spend time with Amelia, and Amelia would secretly hand over information about Owen to Violet.

Owen is out buying breakfast with Violet and Lester. Owen and Lester talk about their trip to Lebanon. Violet is upset that two first-year guys were sent to the Middle East, while she, a more qualified lawyer, is stuck redacting memos. She wants something more challenging. Owen is then handed a stack of documents by a man from the Office of Technical Services.

When Walter hears about the documents from the Office of Technical Services, he wants to put Lester on the case, but Owen convinces him to give it to Violet instead, since she had said earlier that she wanted a challenge. However, this attempt to help Violet backfires as she doesn't want an AI case. She believes Owen purposely sabotaged her.

In South Carolina, Violet visits the lab where they had been creating an AI robot to do interrogations for the CIA. However, while testing the robot, due to a programming issue, the robot ripped an arm off a person. Violet believes this case will turn into a scandal, and is concerned now that her name is on the case.

Later, Violet discovers that as long as a test is still ongoing, incidents are not required to be reported. When she is informed by the lab employee that the robot does not run on battery and can operate indefinitely, she advises them to keep the robot on and never end the test, so the incident will never be made public.

Appearances

 * The Recruit