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Main article: Jim Keats
DCI Jim Keats (Daniel Mays) appears as the main antagonist of the third series, as an officer sent from the Discipline and Complaints Department (D&C) to assess Fenchurch East CID as part of Operation Countryman. During episode one, Keats quietly vows to Hunt that he will "dismantle the station around him" and that he knows "what Hunt really did", along with informing Alex Drake that he'll "help her" and that he knows "what she is going through".
Upon finding that Drake requested old files and statements regarding the death of Sam Tyler, Keats informs Drake that he thinks Hunt killed Tyler. Keats also claims in his debut episode to have an extensive knowledge of the Bible. During episode two, Keats tries to drive a wedge between Hunt and his team. He does this by managing to convince Sharon Granger to resign and convinces Ray Carling to risk his life to make up for "mistakes made in the past". The true extent to which he is willing to take his vendetta is revealed when, upon discovering the badly-injured Viv James in the aftermath of a prison riot, he actually watches James die, placing a hand either side of his head, rather than attempt to provide medical assistance, Keats claiming that James was dead when he found him to increase the negative impression of Hunt he has been trying to create. In the final episode it is strongly implied that Keats is in fact the devil,[1] a detail confirmed by the writers and actor in an interview on the BBC website.[2] As he calls the lift (the door code to which is 666) to transport Ray, Chris and Shaz to a better place, one can hear some screams from where the lift came from and the lift comically says "Lift Going Down". He also attempts to corrupt Ray, Chris and Shaz into abandoning Gene and joining him (a choice that, it is implied, would have seen them taken down to hell, a detail again confirmed by the writers in an interview on the BBC website [2]), but they refuse and, along with Alex, "go to the pub", passing on from their lives in the 1980s. Defeated, Keats slinks away, but not before remarking that he and Gene will see one another again, likely meaning that Keats intends to keep trying to turn the next officers to enter Gene's world against him.
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Sergeant Viv James (Geff Francis) first appears in series one as a uniformed sergeant working in the front office of Fenchurch East Police Station. During episode seven, Shaz Granger is stabbed by Gil Hollis and in retaliation, Gene Hunt allows Chris Skelton and Ray Carling to violently assault Hollis while he is cuffed and in police custody. James pleads with the officers to stop, and eventually receives an apology from Hunt.
During episode six of the third series, James enters HMP Fenchurch East in order to quell a major prison riot along with his colleagues, and on their retreat he is left behind and taken hostage by those inside. It is later revealed that he arranged with Jason Sacks, the orchestrator of the riot, to bring in a firearm in return for another prisoner to admit to the crime his nephew is being held for, allowing his release. During the episode, James is shot and while the riot is underway he single-handedly defends the wing his cousin is held on. He is later shot again by Jason Sacks and as he lies dying, he is found by DCI Jim Keats, who makes no attempt to help him, but places his hands either side of his head while he dies, claiming when the rest of the team arrives that James was already dead when he got there; Gene informs the rest of the team to claim that James was simply injured in the riot without revealing his role in it.[3] In the finale Chris mentions a dream he had of Viv surrounded by flames; given the episode's revelations about the characters all being in an afterlife, who Keats is and how Viv died, the implication is that Viv has ended up in Hell.
[edit] | Tags: Nina Akaboa | 3>
Nina Akaboa (Nicole Charles)[4] appears in episode three of the first series as a prostitute who has been raped aboard Leonard Roseberry-Sykes luxury yacht. As Nina is afraid to report the crime, her sex-worker colleague Trixie Walsh reports the rape claiming it to be against herself rather than Nina.
While in Fenchurch East Police Station for an unrelated matter, Nina eventually reveals to DS Ray Carling that it is her who was raped by Ryan Burns, a waiter working on the yacht.
[edit] | Tags: Geoffrey Bevan | 3>
Detective Inspector Geoffrey "Geoff" Bevan (Nicholas Gleaves) is a corrupt Manchester Criminal Investigation Department (CID) copper who's returns with Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) Derek Litton to hunt Frank Hardwicke, the comedian who saw DI Bevan kill a young black man in cold blood. Bevan is eventually shot as he flees the gala, and as he is dying Gene tells him the truth about the world he is in.
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Bill (Bill Moody)[5] appears in episode six of the second series as an owner of a scrap-yard who attends a neighbourhood watch meeting set up by Stanley Mitchell. While at the meeting, he reveals to DCI Gene Hunt and DI Alex Drake that he has been beaten and run over by local crime-lord, Trevor Riley's men.
After DCI Hunt is attacked by Riley's men in the process of an investigation, Hunt restrains Riley and takes him to Bill's scrap yard and destroys a car with Riley inside it as a form of interrogation
[edit] | Tags: David Bonds | 3>
David Bonds (Christopher Fairbank)[6] appears in episode two of the first series as the owner of a public house on the Isle of Dogs. David, his wife Elaine and son George refuse to move from the premises despite the compulsory purchase order as part of the compulsory purchase order as part of the Docklands Development.
[edit] | Tags: Elaine Bonds | 3>
Elaine Bonds (Amelda Brown)[7] appears in episode two of the first series as the wife of the above character, David Bonds and the mother of the character below, her son George.
[edit] | Tags: George Bonds | 3>
George Bonds (Stephen Wight)[8] appears in episode two of the first series as the son of the two above characters. It later transpires that his father and George plotted to kill Danny Moore, with George eventually detonating a suicide bomb amidst a street party celebrating the Royal Wedding.
[edit] | Tags: Ryan Burns | 3>
Ryan Burns (Leo Bill)[9] appears in episode three of the first series as a rapist and murderer committed out of religious extremism. After killing Delfine Parks, he goes on to rape Nina Akaboa aboard Leonard Roseberry-Sykes' yacht, Sunborn where he works as a waiter.
While attempting to rape and murder a third prostitute, the CID team arrive and arrest Burns. Now knowing that Trixie Walsh reported Nina's rape as if it were against herself and that Nina is too scared to testify, Burns would fail to be convicted. Due to this, DS Ray Carling plants cocaine-filled garden gnomes in Burns' car, leading to him being imprisoned for drugs offences.
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Micky Dillon (Neal Barry)[10] appears in episode five of the second series as a local burglar.
Revealed to be an ex-member of George Staines' gang during the 1970s.
He is the prime suspect of burglaries in the area, and suspected to have burgled the house of DI Alex Drake's future husband's parents, Bryan and Marjorie Drake.
[edit] | Tags: Bryan Drake | 3>
Bryan Drake (Rory Macgreor)[11] is the husband of Marjorie Drake and the father of Peter Drake.[11] They reside in a house at number 2 Stanley Road.[11] Having never trusted banks, he keeps his wages at home.[11]
On the morning of 8 November 1982,[12] he and his family are robbed by a burglar who wears a mask of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher[11] to conceal his identity as George Staines[11] (or, as he is known to the Drakes, their friend Gaynor Mason).[11] Bryan struggles to defend his family but is shoved by Staines/Mason and strikes his right temple[11] on the table edge.[11] The wound leaves him deaf for the rest of his life.[11]
He is visited in hospital that day by his future daughter-in-law, DI Alex Drake. After looking to see that the nurses are out of earshot, Alex talks candidly to him about the future, knowing that he cannot hear her.[11] She acknowledges that she has finally learned that she cannot change the events in her past.[11] [The conversation takes place thirteen months after she failed to prevent her own parents' deaths.][13]
In coping with his deafness, Bryan takes up painting which he tells his daughter-in-law is the best thing he ever did.[11] He paints a picture of his grand-daughter, Molly which he gives to Molly's mother, Alex.[11] After Bryan's son, Peter, abandons Alex and six month-old Molly, Bryan is the one person who makes Alex believe that it is not the end of her life and career.[11]
[edit] | Tags: Marjorie Drake | 3>
Marjorie Drake (Sophie Stanton)[11] is the wife of Bryan Drake and the mother of Peter Drake.[11] They reside in a house at number 2 Stanley Road.[11]
On the morning of 8 November 1982,[12] she and her family are robbed by a burglar who wears a mask of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher[11] to conceal his identity as George Staines[11] (or, as he is known to the Drakes, their friend Gaynor Mason).[11] Staines/Mason steals approximately £1.000 and some jewellery, including the necklace she was wearing.[11]
Marjorie is confused by the familiarity and sympathy with which she is treated by DI Alex Drake who is, unknown to her, her future ex-daughter-in-law;[11] DCI Gene Hunt explains that DI Drake "takes her community relations very seriously."[11]
In 1996, Marjorie becomes a grandmother with the birth of Peter's daughter, Molly.[14]
[edit] | Tags: Louise Gardiner | 3>
DC Louise Gardiner (Zoe Telford) is an undercover officer from a nearby precinct who infiltrates a gang of ruthless criminals, the Staffords, under the name Sarah Huddersfield. The gang is run by Terry (Peter Guinness) and Daniel Stafford (Bryan Dick) who are a father and son team who seem to be moving from robbery and other violent crimes into major drug dealing. Gardiner is in place just before the son is released from prison with her mission to help bring down the gang.
Gardiner's superior, DCI Wilson, has a grudge against the father after he was run over by an Austin Allegro during an attempt to stop a bank robbery and appears to have left Gardiner in place with little backup and disregard to her needs for protection during her undercover mission.
[edit] | Tags: Gnome Thief | 3>
Gnome Thief (Callum Dixon)[15] is the misnomer by which an otherwise unidentified drugs courier is referred to in the credits.[15] He and his cohort have cocaine hidden inside of garden gnomes[15] which they attempt to throw into the river when caught by DCI Gene Hunt and his CID team.[15]
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Gil Hollis (Matthew Macfadyen, husband of series star, Keeley Hawes) is a charity fund-raiser who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Hollis claims to have had all the charity money stolen in a robbery in episode 1.7, "Charity Begins at Home". DCI Gene Hunt and DI Alex Drake figure out that he staged the robbery himself after Hunt realises that Hollis' assailants would have had to drive past the hooligans who saw no second car and notices the blood smears under the suction cups of Hollis' window Garfield, and Drake recognises the scent of portable toilet chemicals on Hollis' blood-stained shirt. At the end of the episode, Hollis fires several rounds into Luigi's wine bar where the CID are drinking, prompting an angry Hunt to declare that, "I am not dying in a trattoria!". Hollis explains the staged robbery as a plan to win back his wife and children who had left him for putting starving Africans ahead of his own family's welfare. Unarmed WPC Sharon "Shaz" Granger gives chase when Hollis takes flight. With his pocketknife, Hollis retrieves the rolled notes he had hidden in the ends of pipes and throws it all away. When Shaz arrests him, she falls on his knife, resulting in clinical death. Hunt and DC Chris Skelton are particularly enraged; Hunt orders the handcuffed Hollis to his knees and allows Chris to brutally beat him up. DS Ray Carling and Hunt himself join in the retaliatory attack on the "cop killer", ignoring Sergeant Viv James's calls for restraint. They stop only when Alex's CPR efforts revive Shaz at the last minute.
[edit] | Tags: Derek Litton | 3>
Detective Chief Inspector Derek Litton, QPM (Lee Ross) is the Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) of the Regional Crime Squad. He and DCI Gene Hunt have a long-standing rivalry, the reason for which is unknown. The two departments fight after Gene and Detective Inspector Sam Tyler recover firearms stolen by factory workers, a job that falls under Litton's department. Later in a hostage situation Litton and Gene both have to work together to stop the hostages being killed. However, Litton's methods threaten Sam's and his own life, when Gene kicks him in the stomach and drops him out of the fire zone, proceeding to take a bullet which was blocked by one of his many hip flasks. Litton returns in Ashes to Ashes along with DI Geoffrey "Geoff" Bevan (Nicholas Gleaves), hunting comedian Frank Hardwicke (Roy Hudd) on suspicion of having robbed a police widows' benefit fund (in reality, Hardwicke had witnessed Bevan killing a young black man). Litton was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (distinguished service) some time in the intervening decade, flaunting it to Gene's detectives in Ashes to Ashes.
[edit] | Tags: Luigi | 3>
Luigi (Joseph Long) is the owner of a basement trattoria directly opposite the façade of the Fenchurch East police station. Given its proximity, the CID dine and/or drink there after work, and DI Alex Drake resides in a flat upstairs. An Italian immigrant, he is at times either visibly irritated, exasperated, or amused by DS Ray Carling's and DC Chris Skelton's ethnic humour and DCI Gene Hunt's general abuse. He detects that Hunt and Drake are attracted to each other, and repeatedly encourages Hunt to pursue those feelings. He is quite fond of his neighbour, Drake. He cooks her veal scaloppine using his late mother's special recipe for the sauce which he does not serve to the other police officers who frequent his trattoria. "Pearls before swine," he explains.[16]
In episode 1.6, "Over the Hill", Hunt coerces Luigi to open the trattoria in pre-dawn hours in order that Hunt and Drake can hold a small, impromptu birthday party for eight-year-old murder witness, Donny Cale (Asa Butterfield). Like Drake, he lives in a flat above the restaurant and, after the food is served, tells Hunt to lock up so that he can go back upstairs to bed.
In the final act of episode 1.7, "Charity Begins at Home", Gil Hollis fires several shots into Luigi's restaurant from in front of the police station, leading a determined Hunt to declare that, "I am not dying in a trattoria!"
As of November 1982, Hunt has a substantial bar tab at Luigi's.[17]
Luigi is notified by telephone in November 1983 that an unliked cousin has died and left him a significant inheritance, prompting Luigi to return to Italy.[18]
[edit] | Tags: Charlie Mackintosh | 3>
Detective Chief Superintendent Charlie "SuperMac" Mackintosh (Roger Allam) is Gene Hunt's superior. His first appearance is in episode 2.1. He knew details of murdered PC Sean Ervine who was apparently drawn in by Soho's many strip clubs. It was eventually revealed that Mackintosh was having an affair with Ervine's wife, Ruth.[19]
When DI Drake theorises that the initials SM in Ervine's hidden diary indicate a meeting with Mac, she breaks into his office to see if a corresponding entry is also in Mac's diary.[20] Mac had erased the entry, but Alex is able to easily raise the impression with a pencil rub.[21]
Gene initially idolises Mackintosh who is one of the few people in the world Gene respects. At first he appears to be a benevolent character but it soon becomes clear that he is utterly corrupt and greedy. Mackintosh takes bribes but is careful not to spend the money overtly. Rather, he saves for his retirement by investing in art and property through a cover corporation run by the murderer and rapist Ralph Jarvis, who was Mackintosh's classmate in police training and whom Mackintosh cleared of murder in 1977.
He sees Gene as a protégé and eventually compels him to join the Masonic lodge that he and Ray Carling belong to. It is ultimately revealed that Gene has grown to distrust Mackintosh, considering him "bent as a ten bob bit" and he only joined the Masons in order to unravel Mackintosh's plans. Furthermore he holds the Masons in disdain and is "sick to his stomach" to have joined them, having seen their corrupt methods. Mackintosh has let various criminals loose on the streets on account of them being Masons, something which Gene disapproves of.
Mackintosh holds Alex in contempt but views her as a threat. He twice tells Hunt that Drake is 'poisoning' the team. When Hunt refuses to silence Drake, Mackintosh frames her for corruption and suspends her, pending criminal prosecution.
Having sworn to bring down SuperMac as his corruption becomes more apparent to Gene and Alex, Gene finally asks SuperMac if he can live with himself. SuperMac draws his sidearm and kills his accomplice who was about to walk free and aims at his own head. Even after Gene's intervention, he manages to shoot himself fatally, albeit in the chest. His last words are a warning to Gene of an oncoming threat called "Operation Rose".
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Edward Markham (Adam James)[22] is a banker in the City,[22] and local playboy whom DCI Gene Hunt suspects of being behind the recent flood of drugs into London.[23]
He is first seen singing along with his Walkman at a party aboard The Lady Di[22] on the morning of 20 July 1981[24] He manages to avoid the uniformed police officers raiding the party.[22] Accusing Alex (whom he thinks is a prostitute) of calling the police, he angrily pulls her about and intimidates her[22] until the flashy arrival of DCI Hunt, DS Ray Carling, and DC Chris Skelton in Hunt's Audi Quattro.[22]
Gene Hunt's first line in the series is directed to Markham whom he tells, "Today, my friend, your diary entry will read, 'Took a prozzie hostage and was shot by three armed bastards.'"[22] Alex uses her hostage negotiating skills to convince him to surrender, lest he be shot by Hunt and his men.[22] His head is twice slammed into the Quattro by Carling during the arrest.[22] In custody, Carling confiscates Markham's Walkman and gives it to WPC Shaz Granger.[22]
Despite Hunt's certainty that Markham is a drugs kingpin, Drake immediately sees him for what he truly is: a low-level front-man for a real drugs lord,[22] as he lacks the requisite inclination toward delegation.[22] "Top flight crime lords," she explains to Hunt, "expect their minions to do their donkey work. They expend their energy only when it's absolutely necessary. Crime lords don't gloat at police stations, Gene. They don't spend money on expensive lawyers and then do all the talking themselves, and they are not out to impress Northern flatfoots like you."[22]
While his boss, Arthur Layton, is in custody, Markham attempts to shut down their supply line through a series of nine payphone calls and a message picked up[22] on Charterhouse Lane[22] near Tower Bridge.[22] He is picked up again - now clad in a cliché 1980s ensemble of double-breasted pinstripe suit, blue shirt with white collar & cuffs, and yellow 'power tie'[22] - and agrees to speak with Hunt ... alone.[22] He is released shortly thereafter, having purported to give Hunt the entire network.[22]
Drake sets a trap to prove Markham works for Layton.[22] She has Skelton and Granger stake out the message drop, having planted an envelope for Markham to take to Layton.[22] While Skelton goes to urinate,[22] Markham captures Granger.[22] After beating Skelton,[22] Markham and his henchmen leave with Shaz as insurance that CID will not interfere.[22] Drake's plan to connect Markham to Layton works, however, as the car in which Markham takes Granger is found to be registered to Layton.[22]
CID find Markham, Layton, their gang, and Granger at a large drugs deal at the docks near Tower Bridge.[22] During the ensuing gunfight, Markham attempts to flea in Layton's Mercedes[22] which Hunt immobilises with a well-placed shot to its radiator;[22] whereupon, Markham fleas on foot.[22] Having taken time to gather up several kilograms of cocaine,[22] he is caught by Skelton.[22] Markham's cocky attitude backfires when he taunts the armed Skelton about not being the sort of man who can pull a trigger;[22] Skelton shoots him in the foot.[22]
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Gaynor Mason (born George Staines[11] on 13 February 1949)[11] (Sara Stewart)[11] is a pre-operative transsexual.
As a boy, Staines hates school, never feeling that he fits in, and never smiles in any of his school photographs.[11] His favourite treats are his mother's flapjacks which he eats whilst playing old songs for her to sing, such as Cole Porter's "Don't Fence Me In".[11]
As an adult, he leads a gang of vicious criminals in the 1970s[11] and does not think twice about knee-capping his victims.[11] He cuts off the left leg of a henchman named Charlie for talking about him.[11]
In 1980,[11] Staines stages his own death, and hires "Metal" Micky Dillon to identify the charred corpse of a tramp on whom Staines had planted his sovereign ring.,[11][11]
Staines flees to Spain for gender reassignment surgery.[11] After receiving breast implants and cosmetic surgery to her face, she is blackmailed by her surgeons who demand more money or they will inform the authorities about her identity.[11] She returns to Britain as a blonde woman, adopts the name Gaynor Mason, and sells cosmetics door-to-door.[11]
In 1982,[25] Gaynor becomes friends with Bryan and Marjorie Drake who live a couple of streets away from her childhood home.[11] She gives their fourteen-year-old son, Peter, a football shirt and tells him that she might take him to a match someday.[11]
Needing money to pay for the next phase of the gender reassignment surgery, Staines/Mason reverts to her former life of crime.[11] Using her natural male voice[11] and adopting Metal Mickey's modus operandi of wearing a mask of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher[11] to conceal her identity, Staines robs the Drakes on the morning of 8 November 1982,[12] stealing approximately £1.000 and some jewellery, including the necklace Marjorie was wearing.[11] Bryan struggles to defend his family but is shoved by Staines and strikes his right temple[11] on the table edge.[11] The wound leaves him deaf for the rest of his life.[11]
After robbing the Drakes, Staines visits her mother in the guise of Mason[11] in order to bid her good-bye.[11] Feeling sorry for her,[11] Mason hides £500 of the stolen money in a tin of her flapjacks.[26]
After finding Staines' fingerprints at the Drakes' home,[11] and believing that Mason is Staines' companion rather than Staines himself, DCI Gene Hunt offers Mason money to lure Staines to one of Staines' old haunts, the Peacock pub.[11] That night, however, she encounters Peter Drake who recognises her necklace as the one stolen from around his mother's neck the day before.[11] Fearing for his life when she chases him, Peter cracks Mason's skull with a brick,[11] retrieves the necklace,[11] and runs away mistakenly thinking he killed her.[11]
Mason's gender and identity are revealed after she comes around in hospital.[11] In attempting to escape, she takes down Hunt and DS Ray Carling before being kneed in the groin by DC Chris Skelton.[11] She ultimately confesses in exchange for CID not telling her mother the truth and breaking her heart.[11]
She discourages Carling from resigning from the police and enlisting in the Army, telling him, "I want to go to sleep at night knowing there's [sic] cops like you helping keep good people like my mum safe."[11]
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Colin Mitchell[27] (c. 1949[28]-c. 7 or 8 Nov. 1982)[29] (Jason Haigh)[17] is the son of Stanley Mitchell and the husband of Donna Mitchell[17] Colin's mother is dead from cancer.[17] He and Donna live beyond their means, trying to maintain appearances.[17] He buys Donna a lovely house and car, none of it meaning anything to himself.[17] At Donna's urging, Colin takes a job with the loan shark, Trevor Riley, whereupon his father, Stanley, cuts him out of his life.[30]
Colin takes out a life insurance policy[17] with the intention of disappearing and being declared dead, in order for he and Donna to start a new life together.[17] He and Donna each have separate reservations to fly to Turkey[17] with him flying on 8 November 1982[17] and she following on 10 January 1983.[17] They plan to later send for Stanley.[17] Colin informs Stanley that he's left Riley's employ, and is taken back by Stanley.[17] Colin then tells Stanley about the insurance scam that he and his wife Donna have planned to start their new life away from Riley.[17] A furious Stanley pushes Colin[17] who falls and fatally cracks his skull.[17] Hoping to give meaning to Colin's death,[17] Stanley attempts to frame Riley[17] by applying Riley's trademark spiral brands to Colin's arm[17] before driving the corpse to the wasteland by the canal in Colin's car[31] and dumping the body.[17] Unwilling to stuff his own son's body in the car boot, Stanley gently seats him in the passenger seat,[17] proping him with folded blankets as if to make him comfortable even in death.[32]
He is reported missing by Donna.[17] Days later,[17] on 8 November 1982[33] his body is discovered floating in the canal by DCI Gene Hunt[17] on the day he was to have flown to Turkey.[17] The coroner opines that the low volume of water in his lungs suggests that he was killed on dry land,[17] and notes the blunt force trauma to his right frontal lobe.[11] The two facts suggesting murder to DI Alex Drake;[17] while Hunt agrees with the possibility, he offers the alternative theory that Mitchell was drunk, fell, hit his head and fell in the river.[17] Drake and the coroner agree that the scabbing on Mitchell's wrist wounds suggest they were received at the same time as the head wound.[17]
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Donna Mitchell[34] (Daisy Haggard)[17] is the wife-cum-widow of Colin Mitchell[17] Having grown up lower class, on the same council estate as Trevor Riley[35] she and Colin live beyond their means to maintain appearances.[17] Viewing Colin as smarter than Riley, she wants them to share in Riley's wealth;[17] at Donna's urging, Colin takes a job with Riley. Colin buys her a lovely house and car, none of it meaning anything to himself.[17]
In order to get away from Riley,[17] she and Colin each have separate reservations to fly to Turkey[17] with him flying on 8 November 1982[17] and she following on 10 January 1983.[17] They plan to send for Colin's father, Stanley.[17] In exchange for Riley's promise that he would not touch Colin,[17] Donna allows Riley to copulate with her;[36] Riley films the assignation.[17]
She reports Colin missing.[17] Days later,[17] when DS Ray Carling and DC Chris Skelton notify her of Colin's death,[17] she insists that he is "just missing"[17] and will not be convinced until the two show her Colin's body.[17] Thereafter, she cannot stop wailing,[17] and Carling and Skelton put her in Hunt's office not knowing what else to do with her.[17] DI Alex Drake calms her down[17] and asks if Colin had any problems with Trevor Riley.[17] Donna insists that Riley would never do such a thing.[17]
After DS Ray Carling discovers the flight tickets in Colin's car,[17] she admits to Drake and Hunt that she knew Colin had taken out a life insurance policy and was to disappear when she filed the missing person's report[17] She takes in Colin's father, Stanley when he discharges himself from hospital[17] after being beaten by Riley's men at Bill's wrecking yard.[17] After Drake and Carling deduce Stanley's guilt, she and Hunt pretend to arrest Donna,[17] successfully coercing a confession out of Stanley.[17]
[edit] | Tags: Stanley Mitchell | 3>
Stanley Mitchell[37] (Tom Georgeson)[17] is the father of Colin Mitchell[17] Some time prior to 1982, Stanley's wife develops cancer.[17] In an effort to get the best for her, Stanley gets money from loan shark Trevor Riley to pay for a private hospital.[17] His efforts were for nought.[17] His slow repayment prompts Riley and his men to scar Stanley with spiral brands around his left forearm.[17]
When Stanley's son, Colin, goes to work for Riley, Stanley cuts him out of his life.[17] Colin later tells him he's quit and is taken back by Stanley.[17] Colin then tells Stanley about the insurance scam that he and his wife Donna have planned to start their new life away from Riley.[17] A furious Stanley pushes Colin[17] who falls and fatally cracks his skull.[17] Hoping to give meaning to Colin's death,[17] Stanley attempts to frame Riley[17] by applying Riley's trademark spiral brands to Colin's arm[17] before driving the corpse to the wasteland by the canal in Colin's car[31] and dumping the body.[17] Unwilling to stuff his own son's body in the car boot, Stanley gently seats him in the passenger seat,[17] propping him with folded blankets as if to make him comfortable even in death.[32] After Donna files a missing person's report with the police, Stanley makes a telephone inquiry with the police as well.[17]
When DCI Gene Hunt and DI Alex Drake arrive to notify him of Colin's death, Stanley either assumes or pretends to assume that the pair have come to talk with his fledgling but elderly neighbourhood watch group about community safety.[17] After the meeting, Hunt and Drake deliver the news of his son's death,[17] and ask about the spiral brands on Colin's arm.[17] Stanley tells the two of Trevor Riley,[17] a loanshark for whom Colin worked.[17]
Stanley and his cohorts attempt to defend Bill from Riley's men who visit him at his junk yard with the intent of branding him for speaking out about Riley to Hunt and Drake.[17] Stanley and the others are savagely beaten for their efforts.[17] He checks himself out of hospital and is taken in by his daughter-in-law, Donna.[17]
After Drake and Carling deduce Stanley's guilt, she and Hunt pretend to arrest Donna,[17] successfully coercing a confession out of Stanley.[17]
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Daniel Moore (Rupert Graves)[38] is on the board of the London Docklands Development Corporation trying to redevelop London's East End.[38] Born in the East End, himself, Moore is a self-made man worth a million pounds or more, and is a personal friend of "the old handbag herself" (i.e., Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher).[38]
On Monday, 27 July 1981 [39] a dynamite bomb at the Royal Docks explodes, killing a dog.[38] A note soon arrives at Fenchurch East CID, made of letters cut out from magazines, reading "Forget the dog, next time it's Moore. London Liberation Front"[38] WPC Sharon "Shaz" Granger suggests that the Moore in question is Daniel Moore, prompting Hunt to call her a "lobotomised Essex Girl."[38]
Nevertheless, Hunt and Drake proceed to Moore's office.[38] Drake is intrigued to be meeting "a real, living, breathing 'Thatcherite' businessman,"[38] with whom she promptly begins to flirt in front of Hunt.[38] Moore declines Hunt's offer of protection.[38]
Moore stops by CID[38] to take Drake for a ride in his DeLorean DMC-12, in which he asks her out to dinner that evening.[38] They discover an alarm-clock bomb hidden under the seat[38] with a note to frighten Moore, "On wedding day, you die,"[38] but it frightens Drake quite a bit more, causing her to pound on car and scream uncontrollably "Get me out, get out!" while remembering the car bombing that killed (or, rather, will kill) her parents.[38] Though they both laugh after the bomb only rings without exploding, Drake's laughs turn to sobs.[38] Moore accepts Hunt's earlier offer of police protection in the person of Drake,[38] and the two dine together at Luigi's,[38] where Moore asks her what she would like to do that night; she responds him, "I would really like to see if you could surprise me. I would love to know if that is possible."[38]
Surprise her he does, by taking her to the Blitz nightclub in Covent Garden where 'Boy' George O'Dowd checks Alex's coat.[38] The two dance and kiss, but go no further that night.[38] The next night, however, after being rebuked by her mother, Drake seeks to "piss off that portion of [Drake's] id that conjured up [her] mother;" Drake tarts herself up to seduce Moore, knowing that her mother would never approve of the Thatcherite, and that no one in the real world will know that she fantasised about shagging him.[38] When Moore's elevator opens, however, Drake finds him in flagrante delicto with another woman, and departs.[38]
Moore invites CID to a street party on 29 July in the Bonds' neighbourhood[38] to celebrate both the royal wedding and the redevelopment of the Docklands which, he claims, will not only provide a job to every man there,[38] but make money for the property owners.[38] Alone, later, Moore makes Drake an open offer of a job[38] before George Bonds shouts to the crowd, "We are all prostitutes,"[38] and detonates his suicide bomb, killing only himself.[38]
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Boy George (born George Alan O'Dowd, 14 June 1961) (actor uncredited); still a year and a half away from becoming a household name with Culture Club; is a Blitz Kid working in the coat check at Blitz nightclub in Covent Garden when Danny Moore takes DI Alex Drake dancing[38] there on the night of Monday, 27 July 1981.[39] Drake recognises him when he takes her coat and welcomes her to Blitz, happily responding to him, "Thanks, George!"[38]
WPC Sharon "Shaz" Granger is presumably acquainted with Boy George, as she frequents the club and considers some of the Blitz regulars to be her best friends.[38]
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Delfine Parks (c. 1959[40]-c. June 1981)[41] is described by DCI Gene Hunt as being Black, in her early twenties, and approximately 5'2" (158 cm)[15] Parks is a regular church-goer and a member of the choir[15] where she meets fellow choir member, Ryan Burns[15] whom he is courting and who gives her his Saint Christopher medal.[15]
After work one evening, she has something to eat and tells her mother she is going to church although there was no choir practice that night.[15] When she and Burns meet up, she rejects him; out of rage, he rips the St. Christopher medal off of her neck, slashes, strangles and kills her.[15] Delfine's body is found in June 1981,[41] beaten and strangled by Burns who slashes her breast and leaves a lesion on the side of her neck,[15] all in an unorganised fashion.[15]
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Mrs. Parks is the mother of the late Delfine Parks[15] She still hears Delfine's voice in her church choir[15] and hopes to never stop hearing it.[15]
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Caroline Price, LL.B., (1945 - 10:00, 10 October 1981)[42] (Amelia Bullmore)[22] is Alex Drake's mother and Tim Price's wife. A high-profile defence solicitor,[15] she practices with her barrister husband.[43] She is considered by Gene Hunt to be "lefty", and is particularly opposed to police corruption and incompetence. She is one of a group of lawyers who have been trying to lay the foundation for slavery reparations.[43] She and Tim are friends of liberal police reformer, Lord Leslie Scarman.[44] The Prices keep a spare key to their townhouse under a concrete turtle to the left of the front steps; young Alex is familiar enough with the hidden key to retrieve it in adulthood.[45] At 21:00,[46] 26 July 1981[47] news coverage includes footage of Caroline's press conference following the acquittal of a man against whom the Metropolitan Police were discovered to have fabricated evidence.[38]
In episode 1.4, "The Missing Link", it is revealed that Caroline has been having an affair with their associate Evan White, and had been involved in a government cover-up. From the top of the stairs, young Alex sees Caroline and Evan kissing.
On Tuesday, 28 July 1981,[39] Caroline arrives at the Fenchurch East police station to represent George Bonds,[38] a teenaged bombing suspect whose confession DI Alex Drake is concerned will be excused by the courts if obtained without a solicitor; Drake has referred George to Caroline in order to meet the woman whom only Drake knows to be her mother.[38] Just as she storms into CID, Caroline is appalled to find a woman bent over a desk, skirt up, yelling at DCI Gene Hunt, "Would you please just stamp my arse?!"[38] After gasping, "Mum," and correcting herself to say, "Bum," a nervous Drake offers her hand to her unsuspecting mother, telling her how pleased she is to meet her and how she admires her, which Caroline assumes to be police sarcasm before demanding to speak with her client, George.[38] George denies knowing the source of the dynamite, and Drake and Caroline orally spar over Caroline's accusation that the police would plant the dynamite to frame George and clear the case;[38] Drake eventually calls the condescendingly smug Caroline "a rude bitch";[38] and theorises that George may be her parents' killer in less than eleven weeks' time, suggesting that, "He may repay you by blowing you to kingdom come," at which time, Hunt, taken aback, turns to face her.[38]
Caroline surprises Drake by waiting for her outside of the police station and asking to have a drink.[38] Over wine at Luigi's, Caroline apologises for embarrassing "a fellow female in a male profession".[38] Drake encourages Caroline to tell her about the latter's daughter, Alex Price (i.e., Drake's younger self).[38] Caroline describes her as, "Bright as a penny, but easily distracted."[38] When Drake declines her request to betray her colleagues' trust and report their actions to Caroline,[38] the latter chastises former, stating, ironically, "Thank God, the only thing my daughter shares with you is her name. I'd be ashamed if she grew up to be like you."[38] In order to "piss off that portion of [Drake's] id that conjured up [her] mother," Drake tarts herself up to seduce Moore, knowing that her mother would never approve of the Thatcherite, and that no one in the real world will know that she fantasised about shagging him.[38] When Moore's elevator opens, however, Drake finds him in flagrante delicto with another woman and departs.[38]
The next day, 29 July 1981, when all of young Alex's classmates have stayed home to watch the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer with their respective parents, Caroline leaves her daughter alone at school, and admonishes a faculty member, "Make sure she concentrates. She's easily distracted."[38] Instead of spending the day with her daughter, she returns to Fenchurch East to tend to her client, George, from whom CID have obtained a confession.[38] Caroline Price's arrival and accusation that Drake is incompetent prompts the retort, "At least I'm not out trying to score cheap points off coppers while my daughter is stuck at school on her own for the royal wedding," and the more confusing, "I have felt guilty about that all my life, but not any more; she is your daughter!"[48]
That night, Drake writes writes "Mum Dad" on the final day of her butcher paper wall calendar, 10 October 1981, and draws a red crux ordinaria to mark their forthcoming deaths.[49] She considers the possibilities that she can save their lives and that her reason for being in 1981 is to do so.[38] As if on cue, Caroline drops by to see how Drake is following being nearly killed by George's suicide bomb that afternoon.[38] Drake admits to being "a mess"; Caroline offers words of encouragement.[38] Unlike Drake and the audience, Caroline is unaware of the irony of Caroline comforting her daughter in the wake of witnessing a bombing.[50] Caroline assures Drake that she had no idea that George was capable of such an act.[22] Drake invites her in, but is very happy that Caroline has to decline because it is in order to pick up Drake's younger self from school.[38]
Caroline and Drake gradually develop mutual respect and fondness over the course of the first series. In episode 1.6, "Over the Hill", adult Alex leaves eight-year-old murder witness, Donny Cale, in Caroline's care overnight while young Alex is away on a school trip. Caroline confides in adult Alex on that she is going to take two years off work in order to spend time with her daughter, and says how much she loves young Alex.
The next day, 10 October 1981,[51] Caroline and young Alex are to be driven by Tim to a railway station for a three-day trip. Caroline is unaware that her client Arthur Layton (Sean Harris) was hired by Tim to plant a bomb in the car. The bomb detonates at or about 10:00 a.m.,[52] killing both Tim and Caroline but sparing young Alex who had alighted to fetch her escaped balloon whilst the road was blocked. Both young and adult Alex witness the horrifying explosion.
Approximately thirteen months later, Caroline haunts adult Alex in her dreams after Alex sees fellow time-traveller, Martin Summers, kill his younger self, thereby demonstrating that the timeline is not fixed. Alex's vision of Caroline chastises a guilt-ridden Alex for having failed to save her life.[53] Later in the episode, however, Alex asks her mother what she can do and Caroline responds that Alex will keep fighting and go back to Molly "because you're her mother".
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Timothy Price, QC[54] (1942 - 10:00, 10 October 1981)[55] (Andrew Clover, not credited until episode 8, "Alex's Big Day" in order to hide the Clown Angel of Death's true identity) is the father of Alex Drake (née Alexandra Price) and both the husband and law partner of Caroline Price. He is a high-profile barrister defending accused criminals and is involved with numerous anti-establishment movements. In episode 1.4, "The Missing Link", CID discover that Tim had represented members of the Revolutionary Worker's Front to get them off criminal charges, and was also involved in a government cover-up along with Caroline. They are friends of police reformer, Lord Scarman.[56]
His young daughter, Alex Price, enjoys playing in his office as he works, and runs about in his court wig; the inside lid of his wig case contains a picture she drew of their family (episode 1.8, "Alex's Big Day"). He reads to her at night from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, producing different voices for the different characters.
It is revealed in episode 1.4, "The Missing Link" that Tim has been cuckolded by Caroline with their associate, Evan White. The two break off the affair and are unaware when Tim learns of it.
On Friday, 9 October 1981, he is visited by DI Alex Drake (whom he is unaware is his daughter), who warns him that someone is out to kill Caroline and him and pleads with him to change his routine and/or seek police protection. He assures adult Alex that people are always threatening to kill him and that he will not be intimidated. Having failed to reason with him, Drake arrests Tim and Caroline on trumped-up drugs possession charges in order that they will not be killed by a car bomb the next morning. The two are released early the next morning, 10 October 1981, before Drake arrives for duty. (episode 1.8, "Alex's Big Day").
That morning, Tim Price borrows Evan White's blue Ford Escort in order to drive Caroline and Alex to the railway station. While the Prices and Gene Hunt and adult Alex are stopped on either side of a lorry turning around in the middle of the road at 10:00 in the morning, young Alex exits the Escort to fetch a balloon which has escaped through her open window, and adult Alex exits Hunt's Quattro to save her parents' lives. In front of adult Alex's horrified eyes, Tim appears to change into the Clown and wink at her. Adult Alex has only enough time to process the sight and ask, "Dad?" before the car explodes, killing both Tim and Caroline in view of Alex's young and adult eyes.
Subsequently, a video is found in which Tim explains that, having discovered Caroline's affair with Evan White, Tim does not want to live a "life of quiet desperation". He intends to kill himself, Caroline, and "our beloved daughter, Alexandra."
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Trevor Riley (Sam Spruell),[17] having grown up lower class on the same council estate as Donna Mitchell[35] is a former seller of designer knock-offs.[17] In 1982, he is the principal of Trevor Riley Financial,[17] a loan shark posing as a legitimate financial investments broker.[17] He and his minions rule by intimidation and violence. They burn spiral scars onto victims' arms.[17] Three of them beat Bill with baseball bats[57] and drag him under the wheels of their car.[58]
Donna Mitchell allows Riley to copulate with her[17] in exchange for Riley's promise that he will not touch her husband and his employee, Colin Mitchell.[36] Riley films the assignation.[17]
Riley is smart enough to have kept his operation under CID's radar.[59] until the death of Colin Mitchell[17] who had been killed by his own father, Stanley.[17] Stanley attempts to frame Riley for the death[17] by applying Riley's trademark spiral brands to Colin's arm[17] and naming Riley when Hunt and Drake question him about Colin's death.[17] Riley is unintimidated by Hunt and tosses him the business card of his solicitor.[17] He asks Hunt if, hypothetically, he were to have killed Colin, why would he have signed the crime with his supposedly trademark spiral brands?[17] He threatens to charge Hunt with harassment, Hunt staples Riley's necktie to the desk.[17] Although despising Riley, Drake agrees that the branding looks like a frame.[17]
Riley's men visit Bill at his junk yard with the intention of branding him for speaking out about Riley to Hunt and Drake.[17] They beat Stanley and the others who attempt to defend Bill.[17] This prompts Hunt to break into Riley's office at night in search of evidence.[17] They find the VHS tape of Riley's liaison with Donna Mitchell, locked in a file cabinet. | Tags: References,Citations,Websites related to: Dia Zerva Dia Zerva |