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Elliot Tannenberg is an assassin who was paid in high esteem by Ray Quinn to kill Joe Goldberg for the murder of his daughter, Love Quinn. When Elliot finally meets Joe, he socializes and offers Joe a second chance at life, but this time as a man named Jonathan Moore. He was played by Adam James.
Biography[]
Backstory[]
An assassin, Elliot Tannenberg, was regularly contracted by Ray Quinn to do his dirty business, but slowly grew disillusioned and tired of his job. One day, Quinn hired Elliot to assassinate Joe Goldberg, his son-in-law, for killing his daughter Love and exposing her as a serial killer.
Season 4[]
Elliot tracks Joe down in a London café, but rather than kill him, he tells him that he wants to retire without killing anyone else. After extorting Joe for money, he gives him the falsified identity of Jonathan Moore, a respected professor who Elliot presumably murdered in the past. However, he also demands that Joe kill Marienne Bellamy, an ex-lover of Joe's who is the only one who knows his identity. Unbeknownst to Elliot or Joe himself, Joe develops a split personality and kidnaps Marienne, but sends Elliot a photo of her necklace as proof he killed her. Elliot then retires from a life of crime and moves to an unspecified country.
Under his split personality, Joe murders his colleague Malcolm Harding. Disassociating in the morning, he is shocked to find Malcolm's corpse and disposes of it before hallucinating text messages from Malcolm's real killer. Joe later calls Elliot and accuses him of setting up a murder near him. Elliot flatly denies it and throws away his phone. He is not seen for the rest of the season.
Joe later gets into a relationship with Kate Galvin, who proceeds to use his influence to clear his record, allowing Joe to resurface in New York. Whether Elliot faces any consequences for letting Joe live is unknown.
