Richard Hunter

Richard Hunter arrives as the kind of man who seems to have it together: composed, established, romantically interested in Kat Edison but never grasping at her. He's older, self-assured, and running a bar rather than chasing headlines, which sets him apart from the magazine's frantic energy. He courts her patiently, aware she's still working out who she wants to be.

Sam Page plays him with an easy, unhurried warmth that avoids the usual older-love-interest smugness. The writing lets him be genuinely supportive rather than a test for the heroine to pass, and Page's calm charisma makes his patience feel like real character rather than a plot device waiting to complicate itself.