#it's funny to me that the only bird sec is not the mastermind here

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Sorting Red Notice

Spoiler warning.

Nolan Booth is a meticulous planner who brings along disguises and explosive devices to his heists. Most of the plans are developed by him, including the prison break, and he does not like deviations from his plan. His plans are also of the long-winded variety, such as provoking a prison fight by revealing Hartley's a cop to get a key he'll need in the future and building a structural weakness into a wall. Booth has a Snake Secondary performance he uses to charm, disseminate and bluff.

Booth's primary was burned by his father's treatment of him, but he quickly and eagerly latches onto Hartley as his friend. That makes him either a Snake or a Badger. It would be easy to assume he's a Petrified Snake Primary, and he probably performs it, but he's actually a Badger without a community. He's the one who keeps asserting that him and Hartley are not only friends but partners and a team. When he has the opportunity of abandoning the egg and rescuing Hartley, he chooses Hartley. A Snake Primary would also probably be less forgiving of Hartley's betrayal, whereas with the addition of Sarah, Booth now has a bigger community.

Initially, I thought Hartley was a Lion. He's seems so upfront and to the-point, confronting Bishop and plainly stating that he plans to arrest her. Of course, the reveal that he's working with Bishop throws this into a completely new light. He models a Lion Secondary as part of his gruff cop persona to gain Hartley's trust with his seeming transparency. Indeed, when he tries to improvise he usually fails, such as when he steals a car to pursue Booth and promptly crashes it. Out of the three leads, Hartley is the only one who clearly prefers working on a team, first with the Interpol agents then with Booth, even if in both cases he's using them. His role in the ploy is to learn the location of the third egg from Booth, and he does this not through manipulation or open confrontation, but by ingratiating himself with Booth and earning his trust. When viewing his interactions with Booth as interrogations, Hartley identifies shared goals and establishes rapport, using the truth about his father to gain trust. He's a Badger, who needs to mean it and almost can't help but develop a genuine friendship with Booth, almost despite his better judgment.

Like Booth, he's also a loyalist but he's a Snake Primary instead. Despite genuine friendship with Booth, he betrays him and leaves him in the jungle with little remorse. A Badger probably would've felt some measure of remorse leaving Booth helpless. Hartley's loyalties lie with Sarah, and by betraying Booth he's choosing Sarah, but by the end Booth has made his way into Hartley's circle.

It would be easy to assume that Sarah Black is a Bird Secondary and the mastermind behind the plan to dupe Booth and steal the eggs. Indeed, she most likely has a Bird Secondary model to help with the heists, but she does very little actual planning during the course of the movie and is far more reactive. She doesn't think to prevent the agent from triggering the alarm, but when he does has no problem adapting to the situation. She also takes such glee in performing and pretending, delighting in their con in a way Hartley doesn't. Making her a mischievous and playful Snake Secondary.

Her secondary slightly obscures her primary, as Sarah is a more mysterious character. However, unlike the other two, she's no loyalist. A Glory Hound Lion, she explains her motivations as being ambition, always focused on winning and being the best.

Nolan Booth: Badger, Petrified Snake Primary performance/Bird, Snake Secondary performance

John Hartley: Snake/Badger, Lion Secondary performance

Sarah Black/The Bishop: Lion/Snake, Bird Secondary model