Kevin Mitchum
Age: 35 (at the time of the series premiere)

Born and raised outside of Seattle in a sleepy little town. Kevin Mitchum's mother and father had a difficult relationship. Being the wife of a cop is never easy, and his parents had their problems. Kevin never really saw a loving relationship. It was more of a partnership. His father would go off to Seattle every day to work and his mother would spend much of her time drinking. Kevin idolized his charismatic father. His father truly was a hero on the force, and his stories of crime stopping kept his son mesmerized. He longed to be the cop that his father was.

He finally became a cop in a small town nearby, but he was not his father, and he could never get any further than being a beat cop. Kevin's longtime girlfriend wound up leaving him for his best friend, another cop on the force, which completely humiliated Kevin. It shook him to the core. Soon, his rival made sergeant. Now his friend had his girl and was well on his way to having the career that Kevin could only dream of. At this lowest time in his life, when he started to wonder if he could make it as a cop at all, he came across the job notice for Hope Island on the bulletin board at the station house. Anxious to get away from his rival and the memories of his girlfriend, Kevin applied for the job and got it.

Here on Hope, Kevin gets to be beat cop, truancy patrol, detective, chief, dog catcher, and just about everything else, and he loves it. Let's face it--here, he is king of his domain. Would he ever have this in a big city? Never. This island suits his sense of pace. The only problem is that just as he has in the past, he manages to get in his own way, because when he's "on the job", he takes it all way too seriously and often screws up. He does his job too well--taking copious notes on even the most banal of cases. But when there is someone in need, he never hesitates. He is the kind of person you would want around if you ever found yourself in trouble. When it is all about reactions, he never falters. It's only when he has to think about things that he gets in his own way. He's a good man, a kind man, but a somewhat rigid man--not unlike his father and Father Mac, whom he admires very much and has a strong relationship with.

Kevin has a heart of gold and is loyal. He loves Molly, but has a fear of intimacy from seeing his parents struggle in their marriage and then getting jilted by his girlfriend--for his best friend no less.

There is a duality in him. Where in his job there is an almost blind commitment to every aspect of his position, in his personal relationships, he has difficulty expressing himself and committing. It will take a special person to help Kevin find his way in the world, and Molly is that person. He has not had a good role model to show him the way when it comes to love and marriage. He will, ultimately, have to commit on blind faith, but when he does, he will make the same commitment to it as he does to everything he does in life.

Kevin's mother, Mildred, is dead, and his father lives in Seattle and suffers from Alzheimer's. Although not a member of Daniel's church, he and Daniel will form a close friendship.