HBO’s The Last of Us expands Bill & Frank’s gay romance om the game - Polygon

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• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
• IS BILL OM ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAY?
• UNIFORMCHIEF SUPERTENNT CHARL BROWNLOWPLAYED BY PETER ELLIS A FATHER TO HIS MEN: HE SPOKE UP FOR TONY STAMP WHEN HE FACED BEG THROWN OUT OF THE FORCE AFTER HE FATALLY JURED A MAN A R CRASH. AVERTED ON OTHER OCSNS WHEN HE SEEMED HAPPY TO THROW HIS SUBORDAT TO THE WOLV FOR THE SAKE OF GOOD PR. BENEVOLENT BOSS: AT HIS RE BROWNLOW WAS A PRIME EXAMPLE BETTER TO DIE THAN BE KILLED: THE POLICE EQUIVALENT. AFTER THE DON BEECH SNDAL, BOTH CONWAY AND MONROE MA HIM SEE THAT WAS BETTER TO RIGN THAN BE DISMISSED. DA CHIEF: THE ORIGAL ONEDK JOCKEY--> NEPOTISM: A NNG GAG WAS THAT BROWNLOW ONLY GOT TO CHIEF SUPER THANKS TO HIS NNECTNS TO THE MASONS, AND THAT WHILE HE'S NOT TOTALLY PETENT HE'S CERTALY OUT OF TOUCH WH MORN POLICG. SHUT UP, HANNIBAL!: IN HIS FAL SCENE HE GAVE HIS SMUG SNAKE ARCH-ENEMY GUY MANNN ONE OF THE WARNG HIM NOT TO MS WH THE SUN HILL PPERS AS THEY WERE THE BT ON HE'D EVER WORKED WH VRLIC BT BUDS: IT IS DIFFICULT TO SCRIBE HIS RELATNSHIP WH CHIEF INSPECTOR DEREK CONWAY AS ANYTHG OTHER THAN THIS.CHIEF SUPERTENNT GUY MANNNPLAYED BY NICK MIL ARCH-ENEMY: TO CHARL BROWNLOW, DUE TO BOTH PETG FOR THE POSN OF BOROUGH COMMANR. ALSO STMENTAL THE REFORMATN OF THE ENTIRE CID PARTMENT AT SUN HILL FOLLOWG THE DON BEECH SNDAL THAT PRECIPATED CHARL BROWNLOW'S FORCEFUL RIGNATN. COMMUTG ON A B: MANNN ONLY APPEARED A HANDFUL OF EPISOS BETWEEN 1999-2001. HE WOULD TYPILLY ARRIVE AT THE STATN TO MAKE A NUISENCE FOR BROWNLOW, THEN LEAVE FOR MONTHS ON END BEFORE BEG SEE AGA. HIS TOTAL NUMBER OF EPISOS IS 13. SMUG SNAKE: COULD NEVER HI HIS GLOATG LIGHT AT BEG APPOTED BOROUGH COMMANR. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOE?: AFTER REFORMG THE ENTIRE CID PARTMENT AND BULLYG CHARL BROWNLOW TO RIGNG HE WAS SUCCEED HIS POSN OF BOROUGH COMMANR AND PROMPTLY DISAPPEARED WHOUT TRACE. IT WAS NEVER EXACTLY EXPLAED HOW AND WHEN HE WAS SUCCEED AS BOROUGH COMMANR BUT SUPT. CHANDLER MA AN OFF-HAND REMARK ABOUT MANNN LLECTG HIS "RRIAGE CLOCK".SUPERTENNT JOHN HEATONPLAYED BY DANIEL FLYNN COCINTAL DODGE: HOW HE AVOID BEG SHOT ONE EPISO. DA CHIEF RED-HEAD HERO KICKED UPSTAIRS: HE LEFT SUN HILL TO MOVE TO A SPECIALIST UN.SUPERTENNT ADAM OKAROPLAYED BY CYRIL NRI BENEVOLENT BOSS: PROBABLY THE MOST EMPATHETIC OFFICER OF HIS RANK TO APPEAR ON THE SHOW, ALTHOUGH HE ULD STILL LIVER A GOOD "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH WHEN ANGERED. DA CHIEF: AND BLACK, TOO. KICKED UPSTAIRS: HE BEME THE BOROUGH COMMANR. POLIL OVERRRECTNS: AS AN OTHERWISE WELL RPECTED AND PETENT LEAR, MOST PEOPLE SAW THIS AS HIS BIGGT FLAW. HE WAS OFTEN CRICISED FOR TRYG TOO HARD TO DO THGS TO IMPRS THE PEOPLE HIGHER UP AT THE EXPENSE OF HIS OFFICERS OR DOG THGS THE RIGHT WAY. WORKG WH THE EX: GA GOLD. THOUGH THEY ARE AMIBLE EX.SUPERTENNT TOM CHANDLER (DECEASED)PLAYED BY STEVEN HARTLEYHERETICS, THEY ED TO LL THEM. OUTSIRS. WHATEVER IS, THIS THG... 'S SI ME.—SUPT. TOM CHANDLER ARCH-ENEMY: HAD THREE, DCI MEADOWS, DC WEBB AND PC TAVER BAD BOSS: AND HOW! DA CHIEF: A TLY VILLAO EXAMPLE DIRTY COP FAIR COP HE-MAN WOMAN HATER: ONE OF HIS FG TRAS AND WHAT EVENTUALLY LED TO HIS EXTREMELY DARK BACKSTORY REVEAL AND HIS EVENTUAL DOWNFALL. RAPED AT LEAST 3 WOMEN, WH ABSOLUTELY NO REGRET. THE OTHER WOMEN HE HAD RELATNSHIPS WH, SUCH AS DS DEBBIE MCALLISTER AND DC KATE SPEARS, HE ED AS NO MORE THAN TOOLS TO BE EXPLOED. TYRANT TAK THE HELM: IN HDSIGHT AT LEAST: HIS FIRST EPISO HE N EASILY E ACROSS AS AN IMPROVEMENT ON BROWNLOW. VILLAO BREAKDOWN: HIS ENTIRE FAL EPISO, WHICH ENDS WH HIM SHOOTG HIMSELF THE HEAD. WE MEET AGA: HIM AND D TAVERCHIEF INSPECTOR DEREK CONWAY (DECEASED)PLAYED BY BEN ROBERTSSOMETIM YOU JT WANT TO LOCK YOURSELF SI YOUR OFFICE, AND TELL THE RT OF THE WORLD TO FOXTROT OSR.—CHIEF INSP DEREK CONWAY BELEAGUERED BURECRAT: WHEN ASKED TO JTIFY OVER-TIME FOR THE TROOPS. DA CHIEF: IT WAS UALLY CONWAY WHO ALT WH STATN MORALE OR GIVG THE TROUBLEMAKERS A BOLLOCKG IF THEY REALLY MSED UP. DEADPAN SNARKER: HE RED EPLY ABOUT THE JOB BUT CONWAY'S CYNIL REALISM MEANT HE WAS ONE OF THE BT TO EVER GRACE SUN HILL. DK JOCKEY: A FACT HE BEMOANED. HENPECKED HBAND: HIS WIFE ONCE EMBARRASSED HIM BY TAKG BROWNLOW TO TASK FOR NOT PROMOTG HIM. LONG RUNNER: APPEARED 402 EPISOS OVER 14 YEARS. LIMED ADVANCEMENT OPPORTUNI: CONWAY TRIED FOR PROMOTN SEVERAL TIM, BUT WAS RIGNED TO THE FACT THAT HE WAS NEVER GOG TO PROGRS BEYOND CHIEF INSPECTOR, AS HE DIDN'T F THE MORN IMAGE OF POLICG. FURTHERMORE, WHEN CH SUPT. BROWLOW WAS ON THE BRK OF EHER RIGNATN OR DISMISSAL BEE OF THE DON BEECH SNDAL, GUY MANNN SUGGTED THAT CONWAY SHOULD GIVE BROWNLOW THE METAPHORIL UP GRâCE BY SUGGTG THAT CONWAY WOULD GET BROWNLOW'S JOB; CONWAY SAW STRAIGHT THROUGH , KNOWG THAT MANNN HAD NO TENTN OF PROMOTG HIM. HOWEVER: HE RETAED THE SAME RANK OF CHIEF INSPECTOR BUT DURG 1993-94 HE WAS THE HEAD OF HIS OWN PARTMENT AWAY OM BROWLOW AND CHIEF INSPECTOR CATO WHEN HE WAS THE CLO. IN 1995-96 HE WAS ACTG SUPERTENNT FOR 12 MONTHS WHEN BROWNLOW WAS AWAY AT THE YARD WH DAC HICKS. NUMBER TWO: TO BROWNLOW AND BRIEFLY TO CHANDLER. REMEMBER THE NEW GUY?: ALTHOUGH HE WASN'T IMPLIED TO HAVE BEEN AT THE STATN OM THE VERY START, CONWAY'S BUT EPISO 1988'S SERI 4 BROWNLOW TALKS TO HIM AS THOUGH HE WAS ALREADY WORKG THERE. HE WASN'T TRODUCED TO THE STATN OR S RELIEF AS A NEW REC OR TRANSFER. VRLIC BT BUDS: WH BROWNLOW.INSPECTOR ANDREW MONROE (DECEASED)PLAYED BY COL TARRANT A FATHER TO HIS MEN: HE STEADILY EVOLVED TO THIS. ALTHOUGH A TOUGH AND STRICT LEAR WH OCSNAL SHAS OF SERGEANT ROCK, PECIALLY HIS EARLY DAYS, HE WAS ALSO KNOWN TO STICK UP FOR HIS RELIEF WHEN THEY NEED , PECIALLY WHEN HE WAS BEG GIVEN ORRS OM ABOVE. A DAY THE LIMELIGHT: UNLIKE MANY CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW, MONROE DIDN'T ACTUALLY GET MANY EPISOS THAT REALLY FOCED ON HIM. HOWEVER, WAS KNOWN THAT HIS DITN TO DUTY TOOK S TOLL ON HIS FAY LIFE, AND ONE 2000 EPISO SPECIFILLY FEATUR MONROE ALG WH HIS DGHTER BEG UGHT UP A SHOPLIFTG AND DG ALG SUATN. IT IS A VERY RARE EPISO WHICH WE GA AN SIGHT TO MONROE AND HIS FAY. THE 1993 EPISO 'BROKEN' FEATUR MONROE ALONGSI GUT STAR BRIAN GLOVER, WHO PORTRAYS A ROUGH EX-MER UNN TYPE. MONROE'S CHARACTER IS OPENED UP BEE KEN FARLEY, GLOVER'S CHARACTER, REF TO TST THE POLICE BEE OF THE MERS' STRIK. ONE SCENE PARTICULAR IS SURPRISGLY POWERFUL AS MONROE'S BACKGROUND AS A MER HIMSELF WHO ALWAYS DO THE RIGHT THG NVC FARLEY TO ASSIST HIM. BY-THE-BOOK COP: ONE OF THE MOST FG EXAMPL THE SERI. WOE BETI ANYONE UNR HIS MAND WHO WAS ANYTHG LS. CHARACTERIZATN MARCH ON: AS NOTED BELOW, MONROE WAS ALLY TRODUCED AS A SLAVEDRIVER WHO IS RIDICULED BY THE RT OF THE RELIEF. AFTER A YEAR OR TWO, HIS CHARACTER SOFTENS UP AND HE BE A MUCH MORE RPECTED, IF HARD-PHG, INSPECTOR WHOSE RELATNSHIP WH THE RELIEF IS RATHER LIKE THAT OF A STERN TEACHER WH HIS CLASS. THE CINT WHICH LED TO DS ROACH QUTG HAPPENED AFTER THIS CHANGE CHARACTER HAD BEGUN AND FEELS ALMOST LIKE THE EPISO WAS BROADST OUT OF SEQUENCE. IT WAS THE FAL EPISO WH THE 'ORIGAL' MONROE CHARACTER. DEADPAN SNARKER: NOT TO THE SAME EXTENT AS CHIEF INSPECTOR CONWAY OR DI BURNSI, BUT HE OFTEN HAD A SUPPLY OF DRY W READY. DO NOT CALL ME "PL": KD OF. OFFICERS OF EQUAL RANKS N LL EACH OTHER BY THEIR PERSONAL NAM AS N YOUR SUPERRS. ASI OM SOME EARLY-INSTALLMENT WEIRDNS WHERE CONWAY, BROWNLOW AND BURNSI LLED HIM ANDY, FOR THE TWELVE YEARS HE WAS AT SUN HILL HIS NAME WAS ALWAYS ANDREW. DROPPED A BRIDGE ON HIM: ONE OF SEVERAL TO DIE THE 2002 FIRE. NO EXPLANATN WAS GIVEN FOR HOW HE WAS UGHT UP THE FIRE, GIVEN THAT HE WAS NOT ANYWHERE NEAR THE EXPLOSN AT THE TIME. HEROIC BSOD: DPE BEG ONE OF SUN HILL'S MOST DISCIPLED OFFICERS, THE AFOREMENTNED EPISO VOLVG HIS DGHTER SE HIM HAVG ONE OF THE. THE AWKWARD AND SENSIVE NATURE OF THIS PERSONAL SE LEADS HIM TO SNAP AND GET UNCHARACTERISTILLY DISTRSED AND VISIBLY UPSET. IT BE APPARENT THAT ALTHOUGH MONROE LOV HIS FAY ARLY, HIS DITED WORK ETHIC AND DISCIPLE AFFECTS HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS CHILDREN. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: A STRICT GUV'NOR SURE BUT HE RED FOR HIS RELIEF LONG RUNNER: THE LONGT-SERVG INSPECTOR AT SUN HILL. HE APPEARED 584 EPISOS OVER THE URSE OF 12 YEARS. SMUG SNAKE: HE OFTEN ME ACROSS AS THIS THE EARLY PART OF HIS TENURE AS INSPECTOR, EARNG THE IRE OF SUN HILL'S LONG-TERM DETECTIVE SGT TED ROACH AND EVENTUALLY BEG THE TRIGGER FOR ROACH'S RIGNATN 1993. TYRANT TAK THE HELM: HE WAS IALLY PORTRAYED THIS WAY, THOUGH HE ULTIMATELY EMERGED AS MORE OF A BA-AND-SWCH TYRANT. WORKG-CLASS HERO: A FORMER MER WHO WORKED HIS WAY UP TO INSPECTOR.INSPECTOR GA GOLDPLAYED BY ROBERTA TAYLOR BTAL HONTY FEET-FIRST INTRODUCTN: STUBBG OUT A CIGAR, NO LS. GOOD IS NOT NICE LIGHT FEME DARK FEME: EXACTLY HOW FEME GA IS VARI, NSIRG HER LOVE FOR SMOKG, DRKG, BOXG AND HER SHORT HAIR BED WH HER GENERAL TOUGH ATTU, BUT SHE TRODUC HERSELF AS THE DARK TO 'GOODY GOODY' JUNE ACKLAND'S LIGHT HER BUT EPISO, CRICISG JUNE FOR BEG TOO POLILLY RRECT AND WISHY-WASHY WH HER APPROACH TO POLICG. ON THE OTHER HAND, SHE IS THE LIGHT TO IRENE RADFORD'S DARK, WH THE LATTER'S SWAN SONG EPISO BEG ALL ABOUT HOW THEY'RE TWO SIS OF THE SAME . ONE IS LIGHT AND THE OTHER IS DARK, WH IRENE BEG THE OBV DARK DUE TO HER STAT AS A CRIME LORD. ONE OF THE BOYS: INSPECTOR GOLD LOVED DRKG, SMOKG AND BOXG. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: SHE ULD BE SEEN AS ONE TO SMHY, NSIRG HOW CLOSE THEIR WORKG AND PERSONAL RELATNSHIPS BEME, AND HOW SHE WAS AN OLR SENR OFFICER OF THE POLICE WHO HE LOOKED UP TO HIS LATER YEARS AS A SERGEANT.PC/SGT/INSP DALE "SMHY" SMHPLAYED BY ALEX WALKSHAW BREAKOUT CHARACTER: IN THE 2000S ERA OF THE SHOW. CARTWRIGHT CURSE: SMHY TENDS TO BE VERY UNLUCKY LOVE. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: AND A LOT OF TOO. ITS VERY EASY TO FET THAT WHEN HE WAS FIRST TRODUCED 1999, 'PC' DALE SMH WAS PORTRAYED AS BEG A BIGOT AND A BULLY, WHO WAS BROUGHT TO THE SHOW MALY TO SHAKE UP THE EXISTG ST DYNAMIC. HE EVENTUALLY LEFT TO JO (AS WAS LLED THEN) SO19, THE ARMED RPONSE DUS OF THE MET, AND MANAGED TO END BOB CRYER'S REER BY AN UNFORTUNATE GUNSHOT. WHEN HE RETURNED AS A REGULAR CHARACTER 2003, SERGEANT DALE SMH WAS GENERALLY SHOWN TO BE A VERY MORAL AND TOTALLY SYMPATHETIC CHARACTER, AND CERTALY BY THE TIME WAS AXED 2010 HE HAD MORE OR LS BEE THE FACTO "STAR" OF THE SERI. AN TERTG FACT IS THAT HE WAS SHOWN TO BE VERY MUCH BOB CRYER'S PROTéGé, WH THE TWO SHARG AN ALMOST FATHER/SON BOND. CRYER WAS THE ONE WHO SUPPORTED SMHY'S APPLITN TO SO19, AND OVER THE URSE OF THEIR SHARED TIME ON THE SERI WAS CLEAR THAT CRYER WAS SMOOTHG DOWN THE ROUGH EDG ON THIS YOUNGER OFFICER. BY THE TIME HE BEME A SERGEANT/INSPECTOR, SMHY HAD MELLOWED TO BEE MORE OR LS A YOUNGER VERSN OF CRYER. IT'S PERSONAL: THE WHOLE FD WH PC GABRIEL KENT. ONLY KNOWN BY HIS NICKNAME: ALMOST EVERYONE LLS HIM SMHY. GOG BACK TO EARLIER EPISOS WHERE HE IS SOMETIM REFERRED TO AS DALE N BE QUE JARRG. WORF HAD THE FLU: HE MIGHT HAVE PERFORMED BETTER HIS FIGHT AGAST SERGEANT STONE THE RT STORYLE HAD HE NOT BEEN ALL OVER THE PLACE EMOTNALLY AT THE TIME AND BASILLY ASKG FOR SOMEONE TO PUNISH HIM AFTER BEATG UP JASON DEVL. IN THE LATER EPISO 'TOMBSTONE', HE AND CALLUM HAVE ANOTHER LTLE SCUFFLE AGA AND HE ACTUALLY SORT OF GETS THE BETTER OF .PC/SGT JUNE ACKLANDPLAYED BY TDIE GOODW ALONE AMONG THE COUPL: HER NICKNAME (SELF-TLED, EVEN) WAS "GOOD OLD DEPENDABLE SEXLS JUNE", FOR HER FE LACK OF LUCK THE LOVE PARTMENT. FALSE SOULMATE: JIM CARVER. LONG RUNNER: TDIE GOODW WAS (AND REMAS) THE LONGT SERVG MEMBER OF THE ST, HAVG BEEN THE ORIGAL 1983 PILOT EPISO (EVEN THE SEND LONGT SERVG CHARACTER, REG HOLLIS, ONLY APPEARED FOR THE FIRST TIME A YEAR LATER, WHILE THE THIRD, TONY STAMP, HADN'T EVEN BEE A REGULAR UNTIL 1988). LOVE HURTS: POOR JUNE IS UNLUCKY LOVE. AVERTED THAT SHE WAS WRTEN OUT OF THE SERI HAVG FALLY FOUND A STABLE RELATNSHIP. MARRIED TO THE JOB POWER TR: PART OF THE CRYER-BOYN-ACKLAND TEAM OF THE LATE 1990S AND EARLY 2000S. THERE WAS EVEN AN EPISO TLED THE THREE SERGEANTS REVOLVG AROUND THE TR. REALLY GETS AROUND: JUNE HAD FLGS WH AT LEAST FIVE DIFFERENT LLEAGU AT SUN HILL. WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY?: THERE WAS SOME GREE OF THIS BETWEEN HER AND ROY GALLOWAY THE FIRST TWO SEASONS. WORKG WH THE EX: JIM CARVER, AGA. TEAM MOM: EHER THIS OR TEAM BIG SISTER, ACRDG TO A BATE THE 1996 EPISO "A GOOD NIGHT OUT".SERGEANT BOB CRYERPLAYED BY ERIC RICHARDYOU'D GET ALL YOUR PAPERWORK DONE A LOT QUICKER IF YOU ED THE PUTER.—SGT JUNE ACKLANDI'M PERFECTLY HAPPY WH MY QUILL AND PARCHMENT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.—SGT BOB CRYER BERSERK BUTTON: YOU ULDN'T GET A MORE STRAIGHT-LACED PPER THAN BOB CRYER. BUT IF ANYBODY MENTNED HIS TROUBLED SON PATRICK, WH WHOM CRYER HAD SOME PARENTAL ISSU (MOST SPECIFILLY I HAVE NO SON!), HE WAS LIABLE TO GET VERY MOODY WH THEM. BREAKOUT CHARACTER: BOB CRYER BEME IMMENSELY POPULAR AND BETWEEN 1988 AND 1998 HE WAS ALWAYS THE LAST CHARACTER THE TRO TL TO BE SHOWN. BY-THE-BOOK COP: A PRIME EXAMPLE, THOUGH NOT TO THE EXTENT OF MONROE DON'T LIKE GUNS — CRYER WAS NEVER PARTICULARLY FORTABLE WH BEG ONE OF THE STATN'S AUTHORISED FIREARMS OFFICERS, PARTICULARLY AFTER AN CINT WHERE HE ACCINTALLY SHOT AND KILLED A (TECHNILLY) UNARMED ROBBER. HE OFTEN ADVISED YOUNGER OFFICERS AGAST GOG ON FIREARMS TRAG URS. IRONILLY, HE WAS WRTEN OUT OF THE SERI AFTER GETTG A LEG WOUND OM IENDLY FIRE. OLD-FASHNED COPPER POWER TR: PART OF THE ORIGAL RE OF CRYER-PETERS-PENNY SERGEANTS. ALSO PART OF THE CRYER-BOYN-ACKLAND POWER TR OF THE LATE 1990S AND EARLY 2000S. REASONABLE AUTHORY FIGURE: THE MAN WAS FAIR BUT FIRM TEAM DAD: VERY MUCH SOSERGEANT ALEC PETERSPLAYED BY LARRY DANNI ULD SPEND ALL AFTERNOON TRYG TO FIGURE OUT WHICH ONE OF THEM IS TOM AND WHICH ONE IS HARRY, AND I'D END UP BEG DICK!—SGT ALEC PETERS CAREER-ENDG INJURY: NEVER FULLY REVERED AFTER BEG STABBED ON DUTY. COMPLITNS OM THIS EVENTUALLY RULTED HIS PARTURE OM THE SHOW, AFTER HE WAS PROMOTED AWAY OM THE ONT LE. CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME: PETERS WAS GIVEN THE CLICHE "SK JOB" AFTER HIS STABBG BUT HE WASN'T GIVEN A SPECIFIC FAREWELL OR EX. HE BEGAN APPEARG LS AND LS AND THEN JT STOPPED APPEARG AT ALL. KICKED UPSTAIRS: HIS PARTURE STORYLE. NICE GUY: ALEC WAS GENERALLY SEEN AS A PENDABLE AND GENIAL MAN, ALTHOUGH NO-ONE QUTNED HIS SKILLS AS A SERGEANT. BUT AS FRANK BURNSI SUMMARISED TO "TOSH" L WHEN HE HEARD ALEC WAS SUPERVISG THE ARRIVAL OF FORMER SUN HILL TYPG POOL PERSONNEL SASSY BLACK WOMAN DELIA FRENCH AS A WPC:POOR OLD ALEC, HE'D BE SAFER WH A RABID ROTTWEILER!—DI FRANK BURNSI ON ALEC 'PUPPY-WALKG' DELIA FRENCH OLD-FASHNED COPPER REASONABLE AUTHORY FIGURE PASTIM PROVE PERSONALY: HIS LOVE OF GARNG. POWER TR: PART OF THE ORIGAL CRYER-PETERS-PENNY SERGEANTS TR THAT LASTED OM THE SHOW'S BEGNG 1984 UNTIL 1990.SERGEANT TOM PENNYPLAYED BY ROGER LEACH ACHEY SRS: THE GUNSHOT WOUND THAT HE RECEIV AT THE END OF SEASON THREE WOULD NTUE TO OCSNALLY FLARE UP REALLY TENSE SUATNS THE YEARS AFTERWARDS. THE ALHOLIC: BEGAN AFTER HIS GUNSHOT JURY AND ULTIMATELY ST HIM HIS JOB WHEN HE WAS UGHT DRK-DRIVG. CAREER-ENDG INJURY: LIKE FELLOW SERGEANT ALEC PETERS, PENNY FELL VICTIM TO THIS. HE WAS SHOT THE STOMACH WHILST ON DUTY AND WAS NEVER THE SAME AFTERWARDS. ALSO, MUCH LIKE PETERS, EVENTUALLY RULTED HIS PARTURE AFTER HE TURNED TO ALHOL ABE TO NUMB THE PA AND WAS UGHT DRK DRIVG. DIRECTED BY CASTMEMBER: ROGER LEACH WROTE A NUMBER OF SCRIPTS AFTER LEAVG THE SERI. JERKASS: WAS TACURN AND LD, AND WOULD NOT HATE TO CHEW OUT MEMBERS OF HIS RELIEF FOR THE SLIGHTT ACTNS. EVEN HIS FELLOW SERGEANTS, CRYER AND PETERS, NFSED THAT THEY FOUND HIM DIFFICULT AT TIM. HE WAS ALSO PHYSILLY ABIVE TO HIS WIFE. POWER TR: PART OF THE ORIGAL CRYER-PETERS-PENNY SERGEANTS TR THAT LASTED OM THE SHOW'S BEGNG 1984 UNTIL 1990. PUT ON A B: HAD TO LEAVE THE FORCE AFTER BEG UGHT DRK DRIVG. WOULD H A GIRL: HIS WIFE.SERGEANT MATTHEW BOYN (DECEASED)PLAYED BY TONY O'CALLAGHANSOME DAYS YOU'RE THE DOG AND SOME DAYS YOU'RE THE LAMPPOST. TODAY YOU'RE THE LAMPPOST.—SGT MATTHEW BOYN ASSHOLE VICTIM: HE MAY HAVE HAD HIS HEROIC MOMENTS OVER THE YEARS, BUT BETWEEN HIS HOMPHOBIA TOWARD SGT GILMORE, HIS SIDG WH EDDIE SANTI WHEN ROSIE FOX TRIED TO REPORT HIM FOR HARASSMENT AND THE FACT THAT HE HAD TWICE GOTTEN AWAY WH SLEEPG WH UNRAGE GIRLS (ONE OF THEM THE DGHTER OF A LLEAGUE, SOMETHG HE KNEW FULL WELL EVEN IF SHE HAD LIED ABOUT HER AGE), HE WAS PRETTY HARD TO LIKE BY THE TIME HE WAS KILLED. THE CASANOVA: IT GOT HIM TO TROUBLE MORE THAN ONCE, PECIALLY WHEN HE UNWTGLY SLEPT WH AN UNRAGE GIRL. COWBOY COP CRIMAL DOPPELGäNGER: ONE EPISO SAW A GROUP OF VILLAS DRSED POLICE UNIFORMS SHAKG DOWN ILLEGAL POKER GAM AND ONE OF THEM WAS MASQUERADG AS BOYN. DEADPAN SNARKER: WAS ALWAYS READY WH A WHERG QUIP. HIDN DEPTHS: TURNED OUT TO BE VERY GOOD AT PATBALL. OH, CRAP!: BOYN'S REACTN WHEN HE REALISED THE GIRL HE HAD SLEPT WH THE NIGHT BEFORE WAS ONLY 15. POTY-HAIRED BOSS: WAS SEEN AS THIS BY THE RELIEF NEAR THE BEGNG OF HIS TENURE, PECIALLY WHEN HE SLUNK OFF TO SEE A WOMAN AND REFED TO ANSWER GEE GARFIELD'S URGENT ASSIST LLS, WHICH LAND GEE HOSPAL. IT NEARLY END HIS REER, EARNED HIM THE IRE OF NEARLY EVERYONE AT SUN HILL, AND TOOK HIM QUE A WHILE TO GA ANY RPECT BACK. POWER TR: PART OF THE CRYER-BOYN-ACKLAND TEAM OF THE LATE 1990S AND EARLY 2000S. THERE WAS EVEN AN EPISO TLED THE THREE SERGEANTS REVOLVG AROUND THE TR.SERGEANT CALLUM STONEPLAYED BY SAM CALLIS THE BIG GUY: HE WAS A RATHER LARGE AND TOUGH OFFICER, AND UALLY SERVED AS THE MCLE WHENEVER HE AND HIS FELLOW OFFICERS PATROLLED THE STREETS OR TOOK ON CRIMALS. FOIL: TO SMHY WHEN THEY TERACTED THE LATE 2000'S. STONE IS SENTIALLY LIKE HOW SMHY WAS HIS EARLY REER. AGGRSIVE, SENSIVE, BLUNT AND WILLG TO DO DIRTY THGS TO GET A GOOD RULT. SMHY DIDN'T LIKE SOME OF STONE'S APPROACH TO ROLVG THGS, AS HE HAD MELLOWED OUT AND BEE MORE RPECTFUL OF THE L BY THOSE YEARS. OF URSE, WAS STONE'S WILLGNS TO DO THGS LIKE LIE TO THE URT THAT HELPED SMHY PE A PRISON SENTENCE/FIRG THE 2009 RT STORY-LE. NATURALLY, AS THE SHOW ME TOWARDS THE END OF S N, STONE WENT THROUGH THE SAME ARC THAT SMHY DID BEFORE HIM, WHERE HE WOULD BE NONTED BY LLEAGU (LIKE MICKEY WEBB) ABOUT HIS BLUNTNS AND DODGY WAYS OF DOG THGS, AND HE GREW MORE OF A NSCIENCE. JERKASS HAS A POT: HE MAY BE BLUNT AND NOT ABOVE G SOMEWHAT DIRTY TACTICS TO GET A GOOD RULT, BUT HIS METHODS PROVE TO BE EFFECTIVE MORE OFTEN THAN NOT. INSPECTOR GOLD OFTEN MEND HIM FOR HIS WORK AND SAW HIM AS A GOOD PPER, SPE OBJECTNS OM HER IEND AND LLEAGUE SMHY. HE WAS ALSO THE ONE WHO HELPED SMHY SEE SENSE AND STOP HIM OM GRASSG HIMSELF UP OVER BEATG UP A CRIMAL WHO ATTACKED STEVIE MOSS. SIGNIFINT DOUBLE CASTG: WHILE A LOT OF ACTORS PLAYED MOR ROL BEFORE BEG WELL KNOWN OFFICERS AT SUN HILL, IS PECIALLY NOTABLE FOR SAM CALLIS. HE HAD QUE THE RECURRG ROLE 2004 AS KARL RADFORD, THE PRIT OF THE EVIL RADFORD FAY A FEW YEARS BEFORE G BACK AS CALLUM STONE. VRLIC BT BUDS: WH SMHY, AT FIRST. THEY BEE GENUE IENDS BY THE END OF THE SHOW.PC REG HOLLISPLAYED BY JEFF STEWART CANNOT KEEP A SECRET / GOSSIPY HENS: IF REG HEARS SOME GOSSIP, BEFORE LONG EVERYONE THE STATN WILL KNOW ABOUT . CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: SERVED AS ONE OF THE RELIEF'S ODDBALLS AND AT FIRST WAS REGARD AS SOMETHG OF AN ANNOYANCE, OVER TIME HE GAED A LOT OF RPECT OM HIS LLEAGU. DROPPED A BRIDGE ON HIM / WRTEN-IN ABSENCE — HE WAS WRTEN OUT OF THE SERI WH ONLY A UPLE OF L OF DIALOGUE OM ANOTHER CHARACTER SAYG WHERE HE'D GONE, SEVERAL EPISOS AFTER HIS FAL APPEARANCE ON SCREEN. EMBARRASSG MIDDLE NAME — PERCIVAL. HIDN DEPTHS LONG RUNNER: SEND ONLY TO JUNE ACKLAND THIS REGARD, AND ONLY BY A SMALL MARG. HE JOED ONE YEAR AFTER THE SHOW STARTED AND STUCK AROUND UNTIL 2008. NICE GUY: REG WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE IENDLIT CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW AND HAD A STERN MORAL PASS, EVEN IF PEOPLE TEND TO FD HIM IRRATG AT POTS. NO SOCIAL SKILLS PASTIM PROVE PERSONALY: HE LLECTED MOL TRAS. PLATONIC PROSTUTN: REG ONCE VISED A PROSTUTE, BUT ONLY WANTED TO TALK TO HER. HE STILL PAID HER THOUGH. TYRANT TAK THE HELM: WHEN HE GOT TO MAND THE OFFICERS' TEAM DURG THE PATBALL GAME AGAST THE RANKS.PC CATHY BRADFORDPLAYED BY CONNIE HYCATHY BRADFORD? SHE'S GOT ABOUT AS MUCH MUNY SPIR AS ADOLF HLER!—JIM CARVER MANIPULATIVE BASTARD LOVE MAK YOU CRAZY — OH DEAR GOD... SLASHER SE STALKER WH A CSH: TO DC BRANDON KANE, BEFORE CROSSG TO YANRE WHEN SHE KILLED HIS WIFE.PC POLLY PAGEPLAYED BY LISA GEOGHAN THE CUTIE BREAK THE CUTIE: THE DAVE QUNAN LOVE STORYLE. NOT AS YOU KNOW THEM — SHE WAS WRTEN OUT OF THE SERI 2002, FOLLOWG HER ROLE THE 'DAVE QUNAN' EX STORYLE. THEN SHE WAS BROUGHT BACK A WHOLE YEAR LATER, HAVG SUPPOSEDLY BEEN "ON LEAVE" FOR ALL THAT TIME, ONLY TO IMMEDIATELY BE PLUNGED TO A STORYLE WHERE SHE MED MURR AND LOST HER JOB AS A P. AND THEN SHE WAS BROUGHT BACK AGA A FEW MONTHS LATER AS A "CIVILIAN" WORKER AT THE STATN, WHERE WHAT LTLE DIGNY THE CHARACTER STILL HAD LEFT WAS SYSTEMATILLY REMOVED, BEFORE SHE WAS FALLY DUMPED FOR GOOD EARLY 2004. TO ANYONE WHO GREW UP WATCHG THE OPTIMISTIC AND LOVEABLE WPC PAGE OF 1992-2001, WAS LIKE WE WERE WATCHG THE SAME ACTRS PLAYG A PLETELY DIFFERENT PERSON. DTCTIVE ROMANCE: DAVE QUNAN AGA. WI-EYED IALISTPC LEELA KAPOORPLAYED BY SEEMA BOWRI ABORTED ARC: VERY NEAR TO THE START OF JOHNATHAN YOUNG'S TIME AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF THE SERI (2005), THERE IS AN EPISO WHERE PC KAPOOR AND PC VALENTE WORK TOGETHER TO UNVER THE RPTN OF A UNIFORMED SERGEANT OVER AT BARTON STREET NICK. THE EPISO EVEN ENDS WH A SEQUEL HOOK, WH PC VALENTE RMG HER THAT HE'LL SUPPORT HER IF SHE CHOOS TO FOLLOW-THROUGH WH HER ALLEGATN, ALTHOUGH WILL LIKELY DRAG BOTH OF THEM THROUGH THE MUD (PPERS WHO GRASS ON OTHER PPERS, EVEN ON WHO ARE GENUELY THE WRONG, TEND TO BE LOOKED ON VERY UNFAVOURABLY BY THEIR LLEAGU). GIVEN THE HEAVILY SERIALISED NATURE OF THE PROGRAMME AT THAT STAGE, YOU MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED THIS STORYLE TO BE FOLLOWED UP FURTHER EPISOS, EXPLORG THE FALLOUT OF THIS AFFAIR. BUT WASN'T. IT WAS DROPPED PLETELY. THE (OFF SCREEN) OUTE DID GET A BELATED MENTN PC KAPOOR'S FAL EPISO TWO YEARS LATER, THOUGH. BY-THE-BOOK COP: SEE ABOVE EXAMPLE. SHE ME TO THE SERI HAVG ALREADY GRASSED ON A RPT LLEAGUE AT A PREV NICK, AND WH ALL THE EMOTNAL BAGGAGE ATTACHED TO THAT.PC GABRIEL KENT (DECEASED)PLAYED BY TODD CARTY BEG EVIL SUCKS — REVEALED WHEN HE TAK ANDREA DUNBAR HOSTAGE:ANDREA: HOW N YOU RRY THE WEIGHT OF ALL YOU'VE DONE AROUND WH YOU? HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT?GABRIEL: I DONT. DIRTY COP: HIS WHOLE CHARACTER WAS THIS. HE WOULD RORT TO LERALLY ANYTHG TO ACHIEVE WHAT HE SET OUT TO DO. RAPG FELLOW OFFICERS AND MAKG THEM SEEM LIKE LIARS FOR ? CHECK. HIRG GANGS OF THUGS TO BEAT UP CRIMALS THE LAW ULDN'T TOUCH? CHECK. HIRG A SNIPER TO KILL PEOPLE FOR THE SAME REASON, THEN BETRAYG SAID SNIPER WHEN THGS WENT WRONG? CHECK. HIDN DEPTHS — AS MUCH OF A DIRTY COP AS HE ULD BE, HE WAS SURPRISGLY A VERY SKILLED, PETENT OFFICER WHEN HE FOLLOWED ALL THE L. JERKASS: HE'S A VERY MSED UP HUMAN BEG WHO NSTANTLY HURT AND KILLED PEOPLE. JERKASS HAS A POT: IT WAS HARD NOT TO CHEER HIM ON WHEN HE BEAT UP A KNOWN PAEDOPHILE WHO ED A LOOPHOLE THE LAW TO STAY EE. NEVER MY FLT: HE BLAM EVERYTHG WRONG WH HIM AND EVERYTHG THAT SUCKED HIS LIFE ON JUNE ACKLAND, WHO GAVE UP HER SON FOR ADOPTN DUE TO BEG RAPED AS A TEENAGER. HOWEVER, A MENT OM THE REAL GABRIEL KENT (HIS BROTHER) SUGGTS THAT THIS GUY WAS PLETE TROUBLE EVEN AS A KID, AND THAT MAY HAVE NTRIBUTED MORE TO HIS STRAED RELATNSHIP WH HIS CEASED PARENTS THAN HIS ADOPTED BROTHER SUPPOSEDLY STEALG THEIR LOVE OM HIM EVER DID. THE RIVAL: WH CAMERON AND LATER SMHY OVER PC KERRY YOUNG. VIGILANTE MAN: ESPECIALLY WHEN WORKG ON THE COLE LANE TATE WH LRA BRYANT.PC CASS RICKMAN (DECEASED)PLAYED BY SUZANNE MADDOCK FAIR COP THE INFILTRATN: WHEN CASS WENT UNRVER A GANG. NO SOCIAL SKILLS OOP NORTH — A SER.PC TONY STAMPPLAYED BY GRAHAM COLE ASCEND EXTRA: WENT OM SPEAKG AN OCSNAL WORD SEASON THREE TO BEG THE FOC OF MULTIPLE EPISOS SEASON FIVE. BEME ONE OF THE SHOW'S MOST PROMENT CHARACTERS. BADASS DRIVER: DRIVER OF SUN HILL'S AREA CAR, AND PROUD OF . BIG EATER JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD — ACTUALLY A FUNDAMENTALLY CENT PERSON, ALTHOUGH FELY NOT THE MOST SENSIVE MAN AROUND AT TIM. POSIVELY PAL PARISON TO JERKASS TYP LIKE TOM CHANDLER AND GABRIEL KENT HOWEVER. KICKED UPSTAIRS — HE LEFT THE SERI AFTER ACCEPTG A JOB TEACHG ADVANCED DRIVG SKILLS AT HENDON. TEAM DADPC KERRY YOUNG (DECEASED)PLAYED BY BETH CORDGLY CRYG WOLF: TECHNILLY, SHE DO EVERYTHG SHE N TO PREVENT OM GETTG OUT, BUT AFTER GABRIEL KENT MANIPULAT HER TO THKG SMHY RAPED HER, WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WORD SPREAD ACROSS THE WHOLE STATN. SHE ENDS UP DROPPG THE ACCATN, BUT BACK TO BE HER HARD AFTER KENT SHORTLY AFTER RAP HER FOR REAL AND NO ONE BELIEV HER, SO SHE N'T REPORT HIM FOR . OF URSE, THIS WAS ALL PART OF KENT'S MASTER PLAN. FALSE RAPE ACCATN: SHE MA ONE AGAST SMHY, OUT OF GUILT BEE SHE CHEATED ON HER BOYIEND, BUT THEN RETRACTED . REALLY GETS AROUND — WHERE DO WE START? PC LE ASHTON, PC CAMERON TA, PC GABRIEL KENT, SGT DALE SMH... SHOOT THE SHAGGY DOGPC D TAVER (DECEASED)PLAYED BY PL USHER ASSHOLE VICTIM THE ATONER COWBOY COP — BEFORE SCENDG TO DOWNRIGHT DIRTY P. DIRTY COWARD DIRTY COP DROPPED A BRIDGE ON HIM: HE DIED OFF-SCREEN, BEG KILLED BY A FELLOW MATE CTODY. ODD FRIENDSHIP: HIM AND REG HOLLIS. OOP NORTH: ANOTHER SER.PC/DC/DS JIM CARVERPLAYED BY MARK WGETT THE ALHOLIC: SPIRALLED OUT OF NTROL WHEN HE HAD TO RETURN TO UNIFORM. IT LED TO A MURR CHARGE AND ALMOST ST HIM HIS JOB. BERSERK BUTTON: JIM WAS ALWAYS ANGERED BY THE MISTREATMENT OF WOMEN, PARTICULARLY WOMEN HE HAD A SOFT SPOT FOR, LIKE WHEN PHIL YOUNG ASSLTED NORIKA DATTA AND HE THREATENED TO KILL YOUNG REVENGE, AND HE HAD TO BE STOPPED OM LUNGG AT BURNSI WHEN THE LATTER LLOLY REFERRED TO VIV MARTELLA AS A "SILLY BCH" MOMENTS AFTER SHE WAS SHOT AD. AND DON'T THREATEN JUNE ACKLAND. JT DON'T. DEADPAN SNARKER: ALWAYS GOOD FOR A QUIP OR TWO. FALSE SOULMATE: JUNE ACKLAND LEAD YOU CAN RELATE TO: PC JIM CARVER WAS ON HIS PROBATN PERD WHEN THE SHOW STARTED, WH HIM LEARNG THE ROP AT THE SAME SPEED AS THE DIENCE. LIMED ADVANCEMENT OPPORTUNI: IN TEN YEARS CID, HE WASN'T REMEND FOR PROMOTN ONCE, AND HAD TO RETURN TO UNIFORM. HE DID, FALLY, GET AN OFFSCREEN PROMOTN TO DETECTIVE SERGEANT WH THE GREATER MANCHTER POLICE. LONG RUNNER: HE MA HIS BUT THE 1983 PILOT AND FALLY LEFT SUN HILL 2005. HE RETURNED FOR A FEW GUT APPEARANC 2007. WHAT DID I DO LAST NIGHT?: IN THE 1999 EPISO "LOCK IN", A SEVERELY HUNER JIM WOKE UP NEXT TO A AD PROSTUTE AND ULDN'T REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED. HE WAS ACCED OF MURRG HER BUT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY CLEARED. WORKG WH THE EX: JUNE ACKLAND. PC VICKY HAGENPLAYED BY SAMANTHA ROBSON BADASS DRIVER: THE FIRST FEMALE AREA CAR DRIVER AT SUN HILL, WHICH LED TO A RIVALRY WH TONY STAMP. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: SHE ULD BE A BCH AT TIM, CLUDG TO PEOPLE WHO HAD DONE NOTHG TO SERVE SUCH AS ROSIE FOX. BUT SHE SHOWED QUE A B OF TEGRY AS A P, PARTICULAR THE FACT THAT SHE HAD BACKED UP A SPECT'S REPORT OF POLICE BTALY AGAST A LLEAGUE AT HER LAST STATN, SOMETHG THAT THE SUN HILL RELIEF OPENLY DISLIKED HER FOR, PECIALLY MIKE JARVIS. SHE WAS ALSO RPONSIBLE FOR TURNG EDDIE SANTI FOR THE MURR OF JSI ORTON SPE THEIR RELATNSHIP AT THE TIME, AND SHE WAS ONE OF THE FEW OFFICERS WHO NSISTENTLY SUPPORTED JIM CARVER DURG HIS SLI TO ALHOLISM.PC EDDIE SANTI (DECEASED)PLAYED BY MICHAEL HIGGS ALL GIRLS WANT BAD BOYS: HE WAS POPULAR WH THE LADI, SPE OF HIS JERKASS NATURE. ARCH-ENEMY: ROSIE FOX. DAVE QUNAN TOO. ASSHOLE VICTIM: CONSUMMATE LIAR: IN HIS FAL FEW EPISOS, ALMOST EVERY SENTENCE HE UTTERED WAS A LIE OF SOME KD. COWBOY COP: BEME A DIRTY COP AND KILLER COP LATER ON. HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER: HATED BY ALL: BY HIS FAL FEW APPEARANC, HE HAD ALIENATED PRETTY MUCH THE WHOLE RELIEF. JERKASS KARMA HOUDI: HE KILLED JSI ORTON, BUT WAS ACQUTED HIS MURR TRIAL. THOUGH HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY MURRED TO PREVENT HIM TTIFYG AN UNRELATED TRIAL. KILLER COP KILLED MID-SENTENCE: "LOOK, IF YOU'RE GONNA DO PL..." NEVER MY FLT: WHILE STG A PRISON CELL AWAG HIS TRIAL FOR MURRG JSI ORTON, EDDIE PLAED THAT ROSIE WAS TO BLAME FOR ALL HIS PROBLEMS. STALKER WH A CSH: TO ROSIE FOX. TOOK A LEVEL IN JERK ASS: WAS ORIGALLY A JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD AND HAD SOME HEROIC MOMENTS DURG HIS TENURE, BUT OVERTIME ALL OF HIS POSIVE QUALI GRADUALLY EROD TO NOTHG. WHAT DO SHE SEE HIM?: VICKY HAGEN. WOULD H A GIRLPC/DS ROSIE FOX (DECEASED)PLAYED BY CAROLE CATZ THE CHEW TOY: SHE NEVER SEEMED TO GET A BREAK. ON HER FIRST DAY AT SUN HILL, EDDIE SANTI ACCINTALLY RAN OVER HER BIKE. AFTER REJECTG HIS ADVANC, HE STARTED HARASSG AND TIMIDATG HER, AND TRIED TO RAPE HER AFTER A SUCCSFUL UNRVER OPRERATN, MANAGG TO TURN MOST OF THE RELIEF AGAST HER THE PROCS. HER BELATED ACCATN OF SEXUAL ASSLT (AND THEN DROPPG THE CHARGE DUE TO LACK OF EVINCE) AGA MA HER APPEAR THE WRONG, AND TURNED MORE OF THE RELIEF AGAST HER. WHILST SEARCHG FOR A VLENT CRIMAL ON A ROOF, EDDIE WALKED OFF AND ROSIE WAS TAKEN HOSTAGE, ONLY FOR EDDIE TO BLAME HER FOR LEAVG HIM. EVEN AFTER DAVE QUNAN BACKED UP HER STORY ABOUT EDDIE ABANDONG HER ON THE ROOF, SHE FELT SHE HAD TO TRANSFER AWAY. WHEN SHE RETURNED TO SUN HILL WH AMIP, EDDIE RRIED ON WHERE HE LEFT OFF, MAKG HER LOOK PARANOID AND OBSSIVE, THOUGH SHE DID FALLY MANAGE TO NNECT HIM TO JSI ORTON'S ATH AND ARRTED HIM. HOWEVER, SHE WAS MURRED SHORTLY BEFORE TTIFYG AT EDDIE'S MURR TRIAL TO PREVENT HER TTIFYG AT ANOTHER UPG TRIAL. INFORMED ATTRACTIVENS: WHILE SHE WAS QUE PRETTY, ALL THE MEN AT SUN HILL WERE POSIVELY SWOONG OVER HER WHEN SHE FIRST ARRIVED. LIMED ADVANCEMENT OPPORTUNI: SHE LEFT SUN HILL A WPC. SHE RETURNED A YEAR LATER AS A DS WH AMIP, HAVG SEEMGLY PASSED HER SERGEANT'S EXAMS, PLETED TECTIVE TRAG AND SECURED A TRANSFER TO AMIP SHORT ORR. ALTHOUGH SHE WAS SAID TO BE A RELATNSHIP WH A SUPERR. ONLY KNOWN BY HER NICKNAME: SHE WAS ALWAYS "ROSEBUD" STEAD OF "ROSIE" TO EDDIE SANTI. PROPERLY PARANOID: SHE WAS NVCED THAT EDDIE WAS VOLVED JSI ORTON'S ATH, WH GOOD REASON. SHORT-RUNNER: LASTED NE EPISOS TOTAL. SMUG SNAKE: SOME OF HER LLEAGU AT SUN HILL THOUGHT SO. SUICI, NOT MURR: IN HER SE SHE WAS MURRED AND WAS MA TO LOOK LIKE SUICI. YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE ME!: HER (TTHFUL) ALLEGATNS AGAST EDDIE WERE DISBELIEVED BY ALMOST EVERYONE.PC STEVE LOXTONPLAYED BY TOM BUTCHER NOBLE BIGOT WH A BADGE: PLAYED WH THAT HIS BIGOTRY DID AFFECT HIS JOB, BUT NOT SO MUCH HIS WORKG RELATNSHIPS. HE GOT TROUBLE FOR RACIAL PROFILG MORE THAN ONCE, CLUDG AN ILLEGAL STOP-AND-SEARCH OF AN OFF-DUTY BLACK POLICE OFFICER WHICH ULTIMATELY END HIS REER. THAT SAID, HE DID SEEM TO GET ALONG WH HIS NON-WHE LLEAGU, AND WHEN PRSED PC GARY MCCANN ULDN'T SEEM TO RELL LOXTON TREATG HIM AS ANYTHG OTHER THAN PART OF THE TEAM.PC LE ASHTONPLAYED BY STT NEAL BURY YOUR GAYS: ONE OF THE FEW WHO MANAGED TO LEAVE SUN HILL ALIVE AND WELL. THE B CAME BACK: A RARE EXAMPLE THE SHOW OF A CHARACTER BEG PUT ON A B, THEN RETURNG TO BEE A REGULAR AGA. THE CHEW TOY DIRTY COWARD: SMHY ACCED HIM OF THIS AFTER LE FAILED TO BACK HIM UP DURG A KNIFE ATTACK. MAMA'S BOY NAïVE NEWER STRAIGHT GAY: DON'T REALLY ACT LIKE THE STEREOTYPE.PC DAVE QUNANPLAYED BY ANDREW PL ARCH-ENEMY: TO EDDIE SANTI. DTCTIVE ROMANCE: HIS FLG WH POLLY PAGE, THOUGH MUCH MORE TO HER THAN HIM. HOLIER THAN THOU: DAVE'S TENNCY TO ACT LIKE THIS GRATED WH LLEAGU LIKE SANTI, PECIALLY LIGHT OF HIS OWN CHEQUERED HISTORY AT SUN HILL (SEE BELOW). PUT ON A B: LEFT THE SHOW AFTER ACCEPTG A TRANSFER TO SO10.PC HONEY HARMAN (DECEASED)PLAYED BY KIM TIDDY ACTN GIRL: SHE'S PHYSILLY F AND HAS IMPRSIVE JUDO SKILLS, AND ON HER FIRST DAY TACKLED A MURR SPECT AND SAVED GARY BT OM BEG SHOT. BEWARE THE NICE ON: SHE MAY BE A REALLY NICE, D-MANNERED GIRL NORMALLY, BUT SHE'S NOT FENCELS.PC NICK KLEPLAYED BY RENE ZAGGER DGS ARE BAD: A RECURRG ISSUE THE CHARACTER HAS TO FACE IS HIS VULNERABILY TOWARDS G DGS AS HE VELOPED A NASTY CRACK HAB. PUT ON A B: MORE LIKE FORCED TO CHANGE HIS ENTIRE LIFE AND PUBLIC INTY ORR TO REMA SAFE, TH RULTG HIM MOVG FAR AWAY OM SUN HILL. THE RIVAL: WH PHIL HUNTER SHORTLY BEFORE HIS PARTURE. THEIR MUTUAL ANIMOSY ALMOST RULTED KLE BEG FOUND AND KILLED BY CRIMAL DENNIS WEAVER BEE OF PHIL.PC ANDREA DUNBAR (DECEASED)PLAYED BY NATALIE ROBB STAR-CROSSED LOVERS: ANDREA, AN UNRVER JOURNALIST, BEGS A SECRET ROMANCE WH DI NEIL MANSON OM CID. THE MOLE: WHILE NOT A VILLA PER SE, SHE DO ENTER THE POLICE AS AN UNRVER JOURNALIST LOOKG FOR STORI FOR HER BOSS TO E FOR THE PRS AND PRT THE NEWSPAPER. THIS WAS REVEALED THE MIDDLE OF THE ALAN KENNEDY TRIAL, AND WHEN SHE IS QUTNED ON URT DUE TO HER PAST VOLVEMENT WH ONE OF THE VICTIMS BEFORE SHE BEME A POLICE OFFICER, ENDS UP SKG THE PROSECUTN'S SE.PC STEVE HUNTERPLAYED BY JAM LLOYD FOOLISH SIBLG, RPONSIBLE SIBLG: ZIG-ZAGGED BETWEEN HIM AND HIS BROTHER. PHIL IS MORE TELLIGENT AND PETENT AT HIS JOB PARED TO STEVE WHO'S DUMB MOMENTS OFTEN LAND HIM TROUBLE, BUT HIS BAD BOY ANTICS AND ABILY TO KEEP HIS TROERS CLASH WH HIS BROTHER, WHO AT LEAST TRI TO BE SENSIBLE ON THE JOB, EVEN IF HIS NAIVETY OFTEN PREVENTS THIS. SENSIVE GUY AND MANLY MAN: NAIVE, SPIRUAL, AND EMOTNALLY DRIVEN, STEVE NTRASTS STRONGLY TO HIS TOUGH JACK-THE-LAD BROTHER, PHIL. SMART JERK AND NICE MORON: PHIL IS A RELATIVELY SMART OFFICER OF CID WHO N BE A B ABRASIVE AND MALIC AT TIM, WHILE HIS BROTHER IS A PLETE NICE GUY WHO ALSO ISN'T THE BRIGHTT P THE FORCE.PC/DC GARY BTPLAYED BY CIARAN GRIFFHS JERKASS HAS A POT: GARY IS PLETELY UNACCEPTG OF HIS FATHER'S ATTEMPTS AT REMPTN, EVEN WHEN HE TRI TO HELP WH A POLICE SE. IN FAIRNS, SOMETHG LIKE WNSG YOUR OWN MOTHER SUFFER ABE OM A MAN MAK UNRSTANDABLE WHY YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO FIVE THEM SO EASILY. LIKE FATHER, UNLIKE SON: GARY MAK HIS PERSONAL MISSN TO MAKE SURE HE'S NOTHG LIKE HIS FATHER, WHO ABED HIS MOTHER WHEN THEY WERE TOGETHER. GARY WANTS NOTHG TO DO WH HIM AT ALL, AND WHEN HIS FATHER SISTS THEY'RE MORE ALIKE THAT HE R TO ADM, GARY GIV HIM A PUNCH TO THE FACE FOR HIS TROUBL.CID
• IS BILLY BRECKENRIDGE GAY?
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HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE

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UNIFORMCHIEF SUPERTENNT CHARL BROWNLOWPLAYED BY PETER ELLIS A FATHER TO HIS MEN: HE SPOKE UP FOR TONY STAMP WHEN HE FACED BEG THROWN OUT OF THE FORCE AFTER HE FATALLY JURED A MAN A R CRASH. AVERTED ON OTHER OCSNS WHEN HE SEEMED HAPPY TO THROW HIS SUBORDAT TO THE WOLV FOR THE SAKE OF GOOD PR. BENEVOLENT BOSS: AT HIS RE BROWNLOW WAS A PRIME EXAMPLE BETTER TO DIE THAN BE KILLED: THE POLICE EQUIVALENT. AFTER THE DON BEECH SNDAL, BOTH CONWAY AND MONROE MA HIM SEE THAT WAS BETTER TO RIGN THAN BE DISMISSED. DA CHIEF: THE ORIGAL ONEDK JOCKEY--> NEPOTISM: A NNG GAG WAS THAT BROWNLOW ONLY GOT TO CHIEF SUPER THANKS TO HIS NNECTNS TO THE MASONS, AND THAT WHILE HE'S NOT TOTALLY PETENT HE'S CERTALY OUT OF TOUCH WH MORN POLICG. SHUT UP, HANNIBAL!: IN HIS FAL SCENE HE GAVE HIS SMUG SNAKE ARCH-ENEMY GUY MANNN ONE OF THE WARNG HIM NOT TO MS WH THE SUN HILL PPERS AS THEY WERE THE BT ON HE'D EVER WORKED WH VRLIC BT BUDS: IT IS DIFFICULT TO SCRIBE HIS RELATNSHIP WH CHIEF INSPECTOR DEREK CONWAY AS ANYTHG OTHER THAN THIS.CHIEF SUPERTENNT GUY MANNNPLAYED BY NICK MIL ARCH-ENEMY: TO CHARL BROWNLOW, DUE TO BOTH PETG FOR THE POSN OF BOROUGH COMMANR. ALSO STMENTAL THE REFORMATN OF THE ENTIRE CID PARTMENT AT SUN HILL FOLLOWG THE DON BEECH SNDAL THAT PRECIPATED CHARL BROWNLOW'S FORCEFUL RIGNATN. COMMUTG ON A B: MANNN ONLY APPEARED A HANDFUL OF EPISOS BETWEEN 1999-2001. HE WOULD TYPILLY ARRIVE AT THE STATN TO MAKE A NUISENCE FOR BROWNLOW, THEN LEAVE FOR MONTHS ON END BEFORE BEG SEE AGA. HIS TOTAL NUMBER OF EPISOS IS 13. SMUG SNAKE: COULD NEVER HI HIS GLOATG LIGHT AT BEG APPOTED BOROUGH COMMANR. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOE?: AFTER REFORMG THE ENTIRE CID PARTMENT AND BULLYG CHARL BROWNLOW TO RIGNG HE WAS SUCCEED HIS POSN OF BOROUGH COMMANR AND PROMPTLY DISAPPEARED WHOUT TRACE. IT WAS NEVER EXACTLY EXPLAED HOW AND WHEN HE WAS SUCCEED AS BOROUGH COMMANR BUT SUPT. CHANDLER MA AN OFF-HAND REMARK ABOUT MANNN LLECTG HIS "RRIAGE CLOCK".SUPERTENNT JOHN HEATONPLAYED BY DANIEL FLYNN COCINTAL DODGE: HOW HE AVOID BEG SHOT ONE EPISO. DA CHIEF RED-HEAD HERO KICKED UPSTAIRS: HE LEFT SUN HILL TO MOVE TO A SPECIALIST UN.SUPERTENNT ADAM OKAROPLAYED BY CYRIL NRI BENEVOLENT BOSS: PROBABLY THE MOST EMPATHETIC OFFICER OF HIS RANK TO APPEAR ON THE SHOW, ALTHOUGH HE ULD STILL LIVER A GOOD "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH WHEN ANGERED. DA CHIEF: AND BLACK, TOO. KICKED UPSTAIRS: HE BEME THE BOROUGH COMMANR. POLIL OVERRRECTNS: AS AN OTHERWISE WELL RPECTED AND PETENT LEAR, MOST PEOPLE SAW THIS AS HIS BIGGT FLAW. HE WAS OFTEN CRICISED FOR TRYG TOO HARD TO DO THGS TO IMPRS THE PEOPLE HIGHER UP AT THE EXPENSE OF HIS OFFICERS OR DOG THGS THE RIGHT WAY. WORKG WH THE EX: GA GOLD. THOUGH THEY ARE AMIBLE EX.SUPERTENNT TOM CHANDLER (DECEASED)PLAYED BY STEVEN HARTLEYHERETICS, THEY ED TO LL THEM. OUTSIRS. WHATEVER IS, THIS THG... 'S SI ME.—SUPT. TOM CHANDLER ARCH-ENEMY: HAD THREE, DCI MEADOWS, DC WEBB AND PC TAVER BAD BOSS: AND HOW! DA CHIEF: A TLY VILLAO EXAMPLE DIRTY COP FAIR COP HE-MAN WOMAN HATER: ONE OF HIS FG TRAS AND WHAT EVENTUALLY LED TO HIS EXTREMELY DARK BACKSTORY REVEAL AND HIS EVENTUAL DOWNFALL. RAPED AT LEAST 3 WOMEN, WH ABSOLUTELY NO REGRET. THE OTHER WOMEN HE HAD RELATNSHIPS WH, SUCH AS DS DEBBIE MCALLISTER AND DC KATE SPEARS, HE ED AS NO MORE THAN TOOLS TO BE EXPLOED. TYRANT TAK THE HELM: IN HDSIGHT AT LEAST: HIS FIRST EPISO HE N EASILY E ACROSS AS AN IMPROVEMENT ON BROWNLOW. VILLAO BREAKDOWN: HIS ENTIRE FAL EPISO, WHICH ENDS WH HIM SHOOTG HIMSELF THE HEAD. WE MEET AGA: HIM AND D TAVERCHIEF INSPECTOR DEREK CONWAY (DECEASED)PLAYED BY BEN ROBERTSSOMETIM YOU JT WANT TO LOCK YOURSELF SI YOUR OFFICE, AND TELL THE RT OF THE WORLD TO FOXTROT OSR.—CHIEF INSP DEREK CONWAY BELEAGUERED BURECRAT: WHEN ASKED TO JTIFY OVER-TIME FOR THE TROOPS. DA CHIEF: IT WAS UALLY CONWAY WHO ALT WH STATN MORALE OR GIVG THE TROUBLEMAKERS A BOLLOCKG IF THEY REALLY MSED UP. DEADPAN SNARKER: HE RED EPLY ABOUT THE JOB BUT CONWAY'S CYNIL REALISM MEANT HE WAS ONE OF THE BT TO EVER GRACE SUN HILL. DK JOCKEY: A FACT HE BEMOANED. HENPECKED HBAND: HIS WIFE ONCE EMBARRASSED HIM BY TAKG BROWNLOW TO TASK FOR NOT PROMOTG HIM. LONG RUNNER: APPEARED 402 EPISOS OVER 14 YEARS. LIMED ADVANCEMENT OPPORTUNI: CONWAY TRIED FOR PROMOTN SEVERAL TIM, BUT WAS RIGNED TO THE FACT THAT HE WAS NEVER GOG TO PROGRS BEYOND CHIEF INSPECTOR, AS HE DIDN'T F THE MORN IMAGE OF POLICG. FURTHERMORE, WHEN CH SUPT. BROWLOW WAS ON THE BRK OF EHER RIGNATN OR DISMISSAL BEE OF THE DON BEECH SNDAL, GUY MANNN SUGGTED THAT CONWAY SHOULD GIVE BROWNLOW THE METAPHORIL UP GRâCE BY SUGGTG THAT CONWAY WOULD GET BROWNLOW'S JOB; CONWAY SAW STRAIGHT THROUGH , KNOWG THAT MANNN HAD NO TENTN OF PROMOTG HIM. HOWEVER: HE RETAED THE SAME RANK OF CHIEF INSPECTOR BUT DURG 1993-94 HE WAS THE HEAD OF HIS OWN PARTMENT AWAY OM BROWLOW AND CHIEF INSPECTOR CATO WHEN HE WAS THE CLO. IN 1995-96 HE WAS ACTG SUPERTENNT FOR 12 MONTHS WHEN BROWNLOW WAS AWAY AT THE YARD WH DAC HICKS. NUMBER TWO: TO BROWNLOW AND BRIEFLY TO CHANDLER. REMEMBER THE NEW GUY?: ALTHOUGH HE WASN'T IMPLIED TO HAVE BEEN AT THE STATN OM THE VERY START, CONWAY'S BUT EPISO 1988'S SERI 4 BROWNLOW TALKS TO HIM AS THOUGH HE WAS ALREADY WORKG THERE. HE WASN'T TRODUCED TO THE STATN OR S RELIEF AS A NEW REC OR TRANSFER. VRLIC BT BUDS: WH BROWNLOW.INSPECTOR ANDREW MONROE (DECEASED)PLAYED BY COL TARRANT A FATHER TO HIS MEN: HE STEADILY EVOLVED TO THIS. ALTHOUGH A TOUGH AND STRICT LEAR WH OCSNAL SHAS OF SERGEANT ROCK, PECIALLY HIS EARLY DAYS, HE WAS ALSO KNOWN TO STICK UP FOR HIS RELIEF WHEN THEY NEED , PECIALLY WHEN HE WAS BEG GIVEN ORRS OM ABOVE. A DAY THE LIMELIGHT: UNLIKE MANY CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW, MONROE DIDN'T ACTUALLY GET MANY EPISOS THAT REALLY FOCED ON HIM. HOWEVER, WAS KNOWN THAT HIS DITN TO DUTY TOOK S TOLL ON HIS FAY LIFE, AND ONE 2000 EPISO SPECIFILLY FEATUR MONROE ALG WH HIS DGHTER BEG UGHT UP A SHOPLIFTG AND DG ALG SUATN. IT IS A VERY RARE EPISO WHICH WE GA AN SIGHT TO MONROE AND HIS FAY. THE 1993 EPISO 'BROKEN' FEATUR MONROE ALONGSI GUT STAR BRIAN GLOVER, WHO PORTRAYS A ROUGH EX-MER UNN TYPE. MONROE'S CHARACTER IS OPENED UP BEE KEN FARLEY, GLOVER'S CHARACTER, REF TO TST THE POLICE BEE OF THE MERS' STRIK. ONE SCENE PARTICULAR IS SURPRISGLY POWERFUL AS MONROE'S BACKGROUND AS A MER HIMSELF WHO ALWAYS DO THE RIGHT THG NVC FARLEY TO ASSIST HIM. BY-THE-BOOK COP: ONE OF THE MOST FG EXAMPL THE SERI. WOE BETI ANYONE UNR HIS MAND WHO WAS ANYTHG LS. CHARACTERIZATN MARCH ON: AS NOTED BELOW, MONROE WAS ALLY TRODUCED AS A SLAVEDRIVER WHO IS RIDICULED BY THE RT OF THE RELIEF. AFTER A YEAR OR TWO, HIS CHARACTER SOFTENS UP AND HE BE A MUCH MORE RPECTED, IF HARD-PHG, INSPECTOR WHOSE RELATNSHIP WH THE RELIEF IS RATHER LIKE THAT OF A STERN TEACHER WH HIS CLASS. THE CINT WHICH LED TO DS ROACH QUTG HAPPENED AFTER THIS CHANGE CHARACTER HAD BEGUN AND FEELS ALMOST LIKE THE EPISO WAS BROADST OUT OF SEQUENCE. IT WAS THE FAL EPISO WH THE 'ORIGAL' MONROE CHARACTER. DEADPAN SNARKER: NOT TO THE SAME EXTENT AS CHIEF INSPECTOR CONWAY OR DI BURNSI, BUT HE OFTEN HAD A SUPPLY OF DRY W READY. DO NOT CALL ME "PL": KD OF. OFFICERS OF EQUAL RANKS N LL EACH OTHER BY THEIR PERSONAL NAM AS N YOUR SUPERRS. ASI OM SOME EARLY-INSTALLMENT WEIRDNS WHERE CONWAY, BROWNLOW AND BURNSI LLED HIM ANDY, FOR THE TWELVE YEARS HE WAS AT SUN HILL HIS NAME WAS ALWAYS ANDREW. DROPPED A BRIDGE ON HIM: ONE OF SEVERAL TO DIE THE 2002 FIRE. NO EXPLANATN WAS GIVEN FOR HOW HE WAS UGHT UP THE FIRE, GIVEN THAT HE WAS NOT ANYWHERE NEAR THE EXPLOSN AT THE TIME. HEROIC BSOD: DPE BEG ONE OF SUN HILL'S MOST DISCIPLED OFFICERS, THE AFOREMENTNED EPISO VOLVG HIS DGHTER SE HIM HAVG ONE OF THE. THE AWKWARD AND SENSIVE NATURE OF THIS PERSONAL SE LEADS HIM TO SNAP AND GET UNCHARACTERISTILLY DISTRSED AND VISIBLY UPSET. IT BE APPARENT THAT ALTHOUGH MONROE LOV HIS FAY ARLY, HIS DITED WORK ETHIC AND DISCIPLE AFFECTS HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS CHILDREN. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: A STRICT GUV'NOR SURE BUT HE RED FOR HIS RELIEF LONG RUNNER: THE LONGT-SERVG INSPECTOR AT SUN HILL. HE APPEARED 584 EPISOS OVER THE URSE OF 12 YEARS. SMUG SNAKE: HE OFTEN ME ACROSS AS THIS THE EARLY PART OF HIS TENURE AS INSPECTOR, EARNG THE IRE OF SUN HILL'S LONG-TERM DETECTIVE SGT TED ROACH AND EVENTUALLY BEG THE TRIGGER FOR ROACH'S RIGNATN 1993. TYRANT TAK THE HELM: HE WAS IALLY PORTRAYED THIS WAY, THOUGH HE ULTIMATELY EMERGED AS MORE OF A BA-AND-SWCH TYRANT. WORKG-CLASS HERO: A FORMER MER WHO WORKED HIS WAY UP TO INSPECTOR.INSPECTOR GA GOLDPLAYED BY ROBERTA TAYLOR BTAL HONTY FEET-FIRST INTRODUCTN: STUBBG OUT A CIGAR, NO LS. GOOD IS NOT NICE LIGHT FEME DARK FEME: EXACTLY HOW FEME GA IS VARI, NSIRG HER LOVE FOR SMOKG, DRKG, BOXG AND HER SHORT HAIR BED WH HER GENERAL TOUGH ATTU, BUT SHE TRODUC HERSELF AS THE DARK TO 'GOODY GOODY' JUNE ACKLAND'S LIGHT HER BUT EPISO, CRICISG JUNE FOR BEG TOO POLILLY RRECT AND WISHY-WASHY WH HER APPROACH TO POLICG. ON THE OTHER HAND, SHE IS THE LIGHT TO IRENE RADFORD'S DARK, WH THE LATTER'S SWAN SONG EPISO BEG ALL ABOUT HOW THEY'RE TWO SIS OF THE SAME . ONE IS LIGHT AND THE OTHER IS DARK, WH IRENE BEG THE OBV DARK DUE TO HER STAT AS A CRIME LORD. ONE OF THE BOYS: INSPECTOR GOLD LOVED DRKG, SMOKG AND BOXG. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: SHE ULD BE SEEN AS ONE TO SMHY, NSIRG HOW CLOSE THEIR WORKG AND PERSONAL RELATNSHIPS BEME, AND HOW SHE WAS AN OLR SENR OFFICER OF THE POLICE WHO HE LOOKED UP TO HIS LATER YEARS AS A SERGEANT.PC/SGT/INSP DALE "SMHY" SMHPLAYED BY ALEX WALKSHAW BREAKOUT CHARACTER: IN THE 2000S ERA OF THE SHOW. CARTWRIGHT CURSE: SMHY TENDS TO BE VERY UNLUCKY LOVE. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: AND A LOT OF TOO. ITS VERY EASY TO FET THAT WHEN HE WAS FIRST TRODUCED 1999, 'PC' DALE SMH WAS PORTRAYED AS BEG A BIGOT AND A BULLY, WHO WAS BROUGHT TO THE SHOW MALY TO SHAKE UP THE EXISTG ST DYNAMIC. HE EVENTUALLY LEFT TO JO (AS WAS LLED THEN) SO19, THE ARMED RPONSE DUS OF THE MET, AND MANAGED TO END BOB CRYER'S REER BY AN UNFORTUNATE GUNSHOT. WHEN HE RETURNED AS A REGULAR CHARACTER 2003, SERGEANT DALE SMH WAS GENERALLY SHOWN TO BE A VERY MORAL AND TOTALLY SYMPATHETIC CHARACTER, AND CERTALY BY THE TIME WAS AXED 2010 HE HAD MORE OR LS BEE THE FACTO "STAR" OF THE SERI. AN TERTG FACT IS THAT HE WAS SHOWN TO BE VERY MUCH BOB CRYER'S PROTéGé, WH THE TWO SHARG AN ALMOST FATHER/SON BOND. CRYER WAS THE ONE WHO SUPPORTED SMHY'S APPLITN TO SO19, AND OVER THE URSE OF THEIR SHARED TIME ON THE SERI WAS CLEAR THAT CRYER WAS SMOOTHG DOWN THE ROUGH EDG ON THIS YOUNGER OFFICER. BY THE TIME HE BEME A SERGEANT/INSPECTOR, SMHY HAD MELLOWED TO BEE MORE OR LS A YOUNGER VERSN OF CRYER. IT'S PERSONAL: THE WHOLE FD WH PC GABRIEL KENT. ONLY KNOWN BY HIS NICKNAME: ALMOST EVERYONE LLS HIM SMHY. GOG BACK TO EARLIER EPISOS WHERE HE IS SOMETIM REFERRED TO AS DALE N BE QUE JARRG. WORF HAD THE FLU: HE MIGHT HAVE PERFORMED BETTER HIS FIGHT AGAST SERGEANT STONE THE RT STORYLE HAD HE NOT BEEN ALL OVER THE PLACE EMOTNALLY AT THE TIME AND BASILLY ASKG FOR SOMEONE TO PUNISH HIM AFTER BEATG UP JASON DEVL. IN THE LATER EPISO 'TOMBSTONE', HE AND CALLUM HAVE ANOTHER LTLE SCUFFLE AGA AND HE ACTUALLY SORT OF GETS THE BETTER OF .PC/SGT JUNE ACKLANDPLAYED BY TDIE GOODW ALONE AMONG THE COUPL: HER NICKNAME (SELF-TLED, EVEN) WAS "GOOD OLD DEPENDABLE SEXLS JUNE", FOR HER FE LACK OF LUCK THE LOVE PARTMENT. FALSE SOULMATE: JIM CARVER. LONG RUNNER: TDIE GOODW WAS (AND REMAS) THE LONGT SERVG MEMBER OF THE ST, HAVG BEEN THE ORIGAL 1983 PILOT EPISO (EVEN THE SEND LONGT SERVG CHARACTER, REG HOLLIS, ONLY APPEARED FOR THE FIRST TIME A YEAR LATER, WHILE THE THIRD, TONY STAMP, HADN'T EVEN BEE A REGULAR UNTIL 1988). LOVE HURTS: POOR JUNE IS UNLUCKY LOVE. AVERTED THAT SHE WAS WRTEN OUT OF THE SERI HAVG FALLY FOUND A STABLE RELATNSHIP. MARRIED TO THE JOB POWER TR: PART OF THE CRYER-BOYN-ACKLAND TEAM OF THE LATE 1990S AND EARLY 2000S. THERE WAS EVEN AN EPISO TLED THE THREE SERGEANTS REVOLVG AROUND THE TR. REALLY GETS AROUND: JUNE HAD FLGS WH AT LEAST FIVE DIFFERENT LLEAGU AT SUN HILL. WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY?: THERE WAS SOME GREE OF THIS BETWEEN HER AND ROY GALLOWAY THE FIRST TWO SEASONS. WORKG WH THE EX: JIM CARVER, AGA. TEAM MOM: EHER THIS OR TEAM BIG SISTER, ACRDG TO A BATE THE 1996 EPISO "A GOOD NIGHT OUT".SERGEANT BOB CRYERPLAYED BY ERIC RICHARDYOU'D GET ALL YOUR PAPERWORK DONE A LOT QUICKER IF YOU ED THE PUTER.—SGT JUNE ACKLANDI'M PERFECTLY HAPPY WH MY QUILL AND PARCHMENT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.—SGT BOB CRYER BERSERK BUTTON: YOU ULDN'T GET A MORE STRAIGHT-LACED PPER THAN BOB CRYER. BUT IF ANYBODY MENTNED HIS TROUBLED SON PATRICK, WH WHOM CRYER HAD SOME PARENTAL ISSU (MOST SPECIFILLY I HAVE NO SON!), HE WAS LIABLE TO GET VERY MOODY WH THEM. BREAKOUT CHARACTER: BOB CRYER BEME IMMENSELY POPULAR AND BETWEEN 1988 AND 1998 HE WAS ALWAYS THE LAST CHARACTER THE TRO TL TO BE SHOWN. BY-THE-BOOK COP: A PRIME EXAMPLE, THOUGH NOT TO THE EXTENT OF MONROE DON'T LIKE GUNS — CRYER WAS NEVER PARTICULARLY FORTABLE WH BEG ONE OF THE STATN'S AUTHORISED FIREARMS OFFICERS, PARTICULARLY AFTER AN CINT WHERE HE ACCINTALLY SHOT AND KILLED A (TECHNILLY) UNARMED ROBBER. HE OFTEN ADVISED YOUNGER OFFICERS AGAST GOG ON FIREARMS TRAG URS. IRONILLY, HE WAS WRTEN OUT OF THE SERI AFTER GETTG A LEG WOUND OM IENDLY FIRE. OLD-FASHNED COPPER POWER TR: PART OF THE ORIGAL RE OF CRYER-PETERS-PENNY SERGEANTS. ALSO PART OF THE CRYER-BOYN-ACKLAND POWER TR OF THE LATE 1990S AND EARLY 2000S. REASONABLE AUTHORY FIGURE: THE MAN WAS FAIR BUT FIRM TEAM DAD: VERY MUCH SOSERGEANT ALEC PETERSPLAYED BY LARRY DANNI ULD SPEND ALL AFTERNOON TRYG TO FIGURE OUT WHICH ONE OF THEM IS TOM AND WHICH ONE IS HARRY, AND I'D END UP BEG DICK!—SGT ALEC PETERS CAREER-ENDG INJURY: NEVER FULLY REVERED AFTER BEG STABBED ON DUTY. COMPLITNS OM THIS EVENTUALLY RULTED HIS PARTURE OM THE SHOW, AFTER HE WAS PROMOTED AWAY OM THE ONT LE. CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME: PETERS WAS GIVEN THE CLICHE "SK JOB" AFTER HIS STABBG BUT HE WASN'T GIVEN A SPECIFIC FAREWELL OR EX. HE BEGAN APPEARG LS AND LS AND THEN JT STOPPED APPEARG AT ALL. KICKED UPSTAIRS: HIS PARTURE STORYLE. NICE GUY: ALEC WAS GENERALLY SEEN AS A PENDABLE AND GENIAL MAN, ALTHOUGH NO-ONE QUTNED HIS SKILLS AS A SERGEANT. BUT AS FRANK BURNSI SUMMARISED TO "TOSH" L WHEN HE HEARD ALEC WAS SUPERVISG THE ARRIVAL OF FORMER SUN HILL TYPG POOL PERSONNEL SASSY BLACK WOMAN DELIA FRENCH AS A WPC:POOR OLD ALEC, HE'D BE SAFER WH A RABID ROTTWEILER!—DI FRANK BURNSI ON ALEC 'PUPPY-WALKG' DELIA FRENCH OLD-FASHNED COPPER REASONABLE AUTHORY FIGURE PASTIM PROVE PERSONALY: HIS LOVE OF GARNG. POWER TR: PART OF THE ORIGAL CRYER-PETERS-PENNY SERGEANTS TR THAT LASTED OM THE SHOW'S BEGNG 1984 UNTIL 1990.SERGEANT TOM PENNYPLAYED BY ROGER LEACH ACHEY SRS: THE GUNSHOT WOUND THAT HE RECEIV AT THE END OF SEASON THREE WOULD NTUE TO OCSNALLY FLARE UP REALLY TENSE SUATNS THE YEARS AFTERWARDS. THE ALHOLIC: BEGAN AFTER HIS GUNSHOT JURY AND ULTIMATELY ST HIM HIS JOB WHEN HE WAS UGHT DRK-DRIVG. CAREER-ENDG INJURY: LIKE FELLOW SERGEANT ALEC PETERS, PENNY FELL VICTIM TO THIS. HE WAS SHOT THE STOMACH WHILST ON DUTY AND WAS NEVER THE SAME AFTERWARDS. ALSO, MUCH LIKE PETERS, EVENTUALLY RULTED HIS PARTURE AFTER HE TURNED TO ALHOL ABE TO NUMB THE PA AND WAS UGHT DRK DRIVG. DIRECTED BY CASTMEMBER: ROGER LEACH WROTE A NUMBER OF SCRIPTS AFTER LEAVG THE SERI. JERKASS: WAS TACURN AND LD, AND WOULD NOT HATE TO CHEW OUT MEMBERS OF HIS RELIEF FOR THE SLIGHTT ACTNS. EVEN HIS FELLOW SERGEANTS, CRYER AND PETERS, NFSED THAT THEY FOUND HIM DIFFICULT AT TIM. HE WAS ALSO PHYSILLY ABIVE TO HIS WIFE. POWER TR: PART OF THE ORIGAL CRYER-PETERS-PENNY SERGEANTS TR THAT LASTED OM THE SHOW'S BEGNG 1984 UNTIL 1990. PUT ON A B: HAD TO LEAVE THE FORCE AFTER BEG UGHT DRK DRIVG. WOULD H A GIRL: HIS WIFE.SERGEANT MATTHEW BOYN (DECEASED)PLAYED BY TONY O'CALLAGHANSOME DAYS YOU'RE THE DOG AND SOME DAYS YOU'RE THE LAMPPOST. TODAY YOU'RE THE LAMPPOST.—SGT MATTHEW BOYN ASSHOLE VICTIM: HE MAY HAVE HAD HIS HEROIC MOMENTS OVER THE YEARS, BUT BETWEEN HIS HOMPHOBIA TOWARD SGT GILMORE, HIS SIDG WH EDDIE SANTI WHEN ROSIE FOX TRIED TO REPORT HIM FOR HARASSMENT AND THE FACT THAT HE HAD TWICE GOTTEN AWAY WH SLEEPG WH UNRAGE GIRLS (ONE OF THEM THE DGHTER OF A LLEAGUE, SOMETHG HE KNEW FULL WELL EVEN IF SHE HAD LIED ABOUT HER AGE), HE WAS PRETTY HARD TO LIKE BY THE TIME HE WAS KILLED. THE CASANOVA: IT GOT HIM TO TROUBLE MORE THAN ONCE, PECIALLY WHEN HE UNWTGLY SLEPT WH AN UNRAGE GIRL. COWBOY COP CRIMAL DOPPELGäNGER: ONE EPISO SAW A GROUP OF VILLAS DRSED POLICE UNIFORMS SHAKG DOWN ILLEGAL POKER GAM AND ONE OF THEM WAS MASQUERADG AS BOYN. DEADPAN SNARKER: WAS ALWAYS READY WH A WHERG QUIP. HIDN DEPTHS: TURNED OUT TO BE VERY GOOD AT PATBALL. OH, CRAP!: BOYN'S REACTN WHEN HE REALISED THE GIRL HE HAD SLEPT WH THE NIGHT BEFORE WAS ONLY 15. POTY-HAIRED BOSS: WAS SEEN AS THIS BY THE RELIEF NEAR THE BEGNG OF HIS TENURE, PECIALLY WHEN HE SLUNK OFF TO SEE A WOMAN AND REFED TO ANSWER GEE GARFIELD'S URGENT ASSIST LLS, WHICH LAND GEE HOSPAL. IT NEARLY END HIS REER, EARNED HIM THE IRE OF NEARLY EVERYONE AT SUN HILL, AND TOOK HIM QUE A WHILE TO GA ANY RPECT BACK. POWER TR: PART OF THE CRYER-BOYN-ACKLAND TEAM OF THE LATE 1990S AND EARLY 2000S. THERE WAS EVEN AN EPISO TLED THE THREE SERGEANTS REVOLVG AROUND THE TR.SERGEANT CALLUM STONEPLAYED BY SAM CALLIS THE BIG GUY: HE WAS A RATHER LARGE AND TOUGH OFFICER, AND UALLY SERVED AS THE MCLE WHENEVER HE AND HIS FELLOW OFFICERS PATROLLED THE STREETS OR TOOK ON CRIMALS. FOIL: TO SMHY WHEN THEY TERACTED THE LATE 2000'S. STONE IS SENTIALLY LIKE HOW SMHY WAS HIS EARLY REER. AGGRSIVE, SENSIVE, BLUNT AND WILLG TO DO DIRTY THGS TO GET A GOOD RULT. SMHY DIDN'T LIKE SOME OF STONE'S APPROACH TO ROLVG THGS, AS HE HAD MELLOWED OUT AND BEE MORE RPECTFUL OF THE L BY THOSE YEARS. OF URSE, WAS STONE'S WILLGNS TO DO THGS LIKE LIE TO THE URT THAT HELPED SMHY PE A PRISON SENTENCE/FIRG THE 2009 RT STORY-LE. NATURALLY, AS THE SHOW ME TOWARDS THE END OF S N, STONE WENT THROUGH THE SAME ARC THAT SMHY DID BEFORE HIM, WHERE HE WOULD BE NONTED BY LLEAGU (LIKE MICKEY WEBB) ABOUT HIS BLUNTNS AND DODGY WAYS OF DOG THGS, AND HE GREW MORE OF A NSCIENCE. JERKASS HAS A POT: HE MAY BE BLUNT AND NOT ABOVE G SOMEWHAT DIRTY TACTICS TO GET A GOOD RULT, BUT HIS METHODS PROVE TO BE EFFECTIVE MORE OFTEN THAN NOT. INSPECTOR GOLD OFTEN MEND HIM FOR HIS WORK AND SAW HIM AS A GOOD PPER, SPE OBJECTNS OM HER IEND AND LLEAGUE SMHY. HE WAS ALSO THE ONE WHO HELPED SMHY SEE SENSE AND STOP HIM OM GRASSG HIMSELF UP OVER BEATG UP A CRIMAL WHO ATTACKED STEVIE MOSS. SIGNIFINT DOUBLE CASTG: WHILE A LOT OF ACTORS PLAYED MOR ROL BEFORE BEG WELL KNOWN OFFICERS AT SUN HILL, IS PECIALLY NOTABLE FOR SAM CALLIS. HE HAD QUE THE RECURRG ROLE 2004 AS KARL RADFORD, THE PRIT OF THE EVIL RADFORD FAY A FEW YEARS BEFORE G BACK AS CALLUM STONE. VRLIC BT BUDS: WH SMHY, AT FIRST. THEY BEE GENUE IENDS BY THE END OF THE SHOW.PC REG HOLLISPLAYED BY JEFF STEWART CANNOT KEEP A SECRET / GOSSIPY HENS: IF REG HEARS SOME GOSSIP, BEFORE LONG EVERYONE THE STATN WILL KNOW ABOUT . CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: SERVED AS ONE OF THE RELIEF'S ODDBALLS AND AT FIRST WAS REGARD AS SOMETHG OF AN ANNOYANCE, OVER TIME HE GAED A LOT OF RPECT OM HIS LLEAGU. DROPPED A BRIDGE ON HIM / WRTEN-IN ABSENCE — HE WAS WRTEN OUT OF THE SERI WH ONLY A UPLE OF L OF DIALOGUE OM ANOTHER CHARACTER SAYG WHERE HE'D GONE, SEVERAL EPISOS AFTER HIS FAL APPEARANCE ON SCREEN. EMBARRASSG MIDDLE NAME — PERCIVAL. HIDN DEPTHS LONG RUNNER: SEND ONLY TO JUNE ACKLAND THIS REGARD, AND ONLY BY A SMALL MARG. HE JOED ONE YEAR AFTER THE SHOW STARTED AND STUCK AROUND UNTIL 2008. NICE GUY: REG WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE IENDLIT CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW AND HAD A STERN MORAL PASS, EVEN IF PEOPLE TEND TO FD HIM IRRATG AT POTS. NO SOCIAL SKILLS PASTIM PROVE PERSONALY: HE LLECTED MOL TRAS. PLATONIC PROSTUTN: REG ONCE VISED A PROSTUTE, BUT ONLY WANTED TO TALK TO HER. HE STILL PAID HER THOUGH. TYRANT TAK THE HELM: WHEN HE GOT TO MAND THE OFFICERS' TEAM DURG THE PATBALL GAME AGAST THE RANKS.PC CATHY BRADFORDPLAYED BY CONNIE HYCATHY BRADFORD? SHE'S GOT ABOUT AS MUCH MUNY SPIR AS ADOLF HLER!—JIM CARVER MANIPULATIVE BASTARD LOVE MAK YOU CRAZY — OH DEAR GOD... SLASHER SE STALKER WH A CSH: TO DC BRANDON KANE, BEFORE CROSSG TO YANRE WHEN SHE KILLED HIS WIFE.PC POLLY PAGEPLAYED BY LISA GEOGHAN THE CUTIE BREAK THE CUTIE: THE DAVE QUNAN LOVE STORYLE. NOT AS YOU KNOW THEM — SHE WAS WRTEN OUT OF THE SERI 2002, FOLLOWG HER ROLE THE 'DAVE QUNAN' EX STORYLE. THEN SHE WAS BROUGHT BACK A WHOLE YEAR LATER, HAVG SUPPOSEDLY BEEN "ON LEAVE" FOR ALL THAT TIME, ONLY TO IMMEDIATELY BE PLUNGED TO A STORYLE WHERE SHE MED MURR AND LOST HER JOB AS A P. AND THEN SHE WAS BROUGHT BACK AGA A FEW MONTHS LATER AS A "CIVILIAN" WORKER AT THE STATN, WHERE WHAT LTLE DIGNY THE CHARACTER STILL HAD LEFT WAS SYSTEMATILLY REMOVED, BEFORE SHE WAS FALLY DUMPED FOR GOOD EARLY 2004. TO ANYONE WHO GREW UP WATCHG THE OPTIMISTIC AND LOVEABLE WPC PAGE OF 1992-2001, WAS LIKE WE WERE WATCHG THE SAME ACTRS PLAYG A PLETELY DIFFERENT PERSON. DTCTIVE ROMANCE: DAVE QUNAN AGA. WI-EYED IALISTPC LEELA KAPOORPLAYED BY SEEMA BOWRI ABORTED ARC: VERY NEAR TO THE START OF JOHNATHAN YOUNG'S TIME AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF THE SERI (2005), THERE IS AN EPISO WHERE PC KAPOOR AND PC VALENTE WORK TOGETHER TO UNVER THE RPTN OF A UNIFORMED SERGEANT OVER AT BARTON STREET NICK. THE EPISO EVEN ENDS WH A SEQUEL HOOK, WH PC VALENTE RMG HER THAT HE'LL SUPPORT HER IF SHE CHOOS TO FOLLOW-THROUGH WH HER ALLEGATN, ALTHOUGH WILL LIKELY DRAG BOTH OF THEM THROUGH THE MUD (PPERS WHO GRASS ON OTHER PPERS, EVEN ON WHO ARE GENUELY THE WRONG, TEND TO BE LOOKED ON VERY UNFAVOURABLY BY THEIR LLEAGU). GIVEN THE HEAVILY SERIALISED NATURE OF THE PROGRAMME AT THAT STAGE, YOU MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED THIS STORYLE TO BE FOLLOWED UP FURTHER EPISOS, EXPLORG THE FALLOUT OF THIS AFFAIR. BUT WASN'T. IT WAS DROPPED PLETELY. THE (OFF SCREEN) OUTE DID GET A BELATED MENTN PC KAPOOR'S FAL EPISO TWO YEARS LATER, THOUGH. BY-THE-BOOK COP: SEE ABOVE EXAMPLE. SHE ME TO THE SERI HAVG ALREADY GRASSED ON A RPT LLEAGUE AT A PREV NICK, AND WH ALL THE EMOTNAL BAGGAGE ATTACHED TO THAT.PC GABRIEL KENT (DECEASED)PLAYED BY TODD CARTY BEG EVIL SUCKS — REVEALED WHEN HE TAK ANDREA DUNBAR HOSTAGE:ANDREA: HOW N YOU RRY THE WEIGHT OF ALL YOU'VE DONE AROUND WH YOU? HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT?GABRIEL: I DONT. DIRTY COP: HIS WHOLE CHARACTER WAS THIS. HE WOULD RORT TO LERALLY ANYTHG TO ACHIEVE WHAT HE SET OUT TO DO. RAPG FELLOW OFFICERS AND MAKG THEM SEEM LIKE LIARS FOR ? CHECK. HIRG GANGS OF THUGS TO BEAT UP CRIMALS THE LAW ULDN'T TOUCH? CHECK. HIRG A SNIPER TO KILL PEOPLE FOR THE SAME REASON, THEN BETRAYG SAID SNIPER WHEN THGS WENT WRONG? CHECK. HIDN DEPTHS — AS MUCH OF A DIRTY COP AS HE ULD BE, HE WAS SURPRISGLY A VERY SKILLED, PETENT OFFICER WHEN HE FOLLOWED ALL THE L. JERKASS: HE'S A VERY MSED UP HUMAN BEG WHO NSTANTLY HURT AND KILLED PEOPLE. JERKASS HAS A POT: IT WAS HARD NOT TO CHEER HIM ON WHEN HE BEAT UP A KNOWN PAEDOPHILE WHO ED A LOOPHOLE THE LAW TO STAY EE. NEVER MY FLT: HE BLAM EVERYTHG WRONG WH HIM AND EVERYTHG THAT SUCKED HIS LIFE ON JUNE ACKLAND, WHO GAVE UP HER SON FOR ADOPTN DUE TO BEG RAPED AS A TEENAGER. HOWEVER, A MENT OM THE REAL GABRIEL KENT (HIS BROTHER) SUGGTS THAT THIS GUY WAS PLETE TROUBLE EVEN AS A KID, AND THAT MAY HAVE NTRIBUTED MORE TO HIS STRAED RELATNSHIP WH HIS CEASED PARENTS THAN HIS ADOPTED BROTHER SUPPOSEDLY STEALG THEIR LOVE OM HIM EVER DID. THE RIVAL: WH CAMERON AND LATER SMHY OVER PC KERRY YOUNG. VIGILANTE MAN: ESPECIALLY WHEN WORKG ON THE COLE LANE TATE WH LRA BRYANT.PC CASS RICKMAN (DECEASED)PLAYED BY SUZANNE MADDOCK FAIR COP THE INFILTRATN: WHEN CASS WENT UNRVER A GANG. NO SOCIAL SKILLS OOP NORTH — A SER.PC TONY STAMPPLAYED BY GRAHAM COLE ASCEND EXTRA: WENT OM SPEAKG AN OCSNAL WORD SEASON THREE TO BEG THE FOC OF MULTIPLE EPISOS SEASON FIVE. BEME ONE OF THE SHOW'S MOST PROMENT CHARACTERS. BADASS DRIVER: DRIVER OF SUN HILL'S AREA CAR, AND PROUD OF . BIG EATER JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD — ACTUALLY A FUNDAMENTALLY CENT PERSON, ALTHOUGH FELY NOT THE MOST SENSIVE MAN AROUND AT TIM. POSIVELY PAL PARISON TO JERKASS TYP LIKE TOM CHANDLER AND GABRIEL KENT HOWEVER. KICKED UPSTAIRS — HE LEFT THE SERI AFTER ACCEPTG A JOB TEACHG ADVANCED DRIVG SKILLS AT HENDON. TEAM DADPC KERRY YOUNG (DECEASED)PLAYED BY BETH CORDGLY CRYG WOLF: TECHNILLY, SHE DO EVERYTHG SHE N TO PREVENT OM GETTG OUT, BUT AFTER GABRIEL KENT MANIPULAT HER TO THKG SMHY RAPED HER, WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WORD SPREAD ACROSS THE WHOLE STATN. SHE ENDS UP DROPPG THE ACCATN, BUT BACK TO BE HER HARD AFTER KENT SHORTLY AFTER RAP HER FOR REAL AND NO ONE BELIEV HER, SO SHE N'T REPORT HIM FOR . OF URSE, THIS WAS ALL PART OF KENT'S MASTER PLAN. FALSE RAPE ACCATN: SHE MA ONE AGAST SMHY, OUT OF GUILT BEE SHE CHEATED ON HER BOYIEND, BUT THEN RETRACTED . REALLY GETS AROUND — WHERE DO WE START? PC LE ASHTON, PC CAMERON TA, PC GABRIEL KENT, SGT DALE SMH... SHOOT THE SHAGGY DOGPC D TAVER (DECEASED)PLAYED BY PL USHER ASSHOLE VICTIM THE ATONER COWBOY COP — BEFORE SCENDG TO DOWNRIGHT DIRTY P. DIRTY COWARD DIRTY COP DROPPED A BRIDGE ON HIM: HE DIED OFF-SCREEN, BEG KILLED BY A FELLOW MATE CTODY. ODD FRIENDSHIP: HIM AND REG HOLLIS. OOP NORTH: ANOTHER SER.PC/DC/DS JIM CARVERPLAYED BY MARK WGETT THE ALHOLIC: SPIRALLED OUT OF NTROL WHEN HE HAD TO RETURN TO UNIFORM. IT LED TO A MURR CHARGE AND ALMOST ST HIM HIS JOB. BERSERK BUTTON: JIM WAS ALWAYS ANGERED BY THE MISTREATMENT OF WOMEN, PARTICULARLY WOMEN HE HAD A SOFT SPOT FOR, LIKE WHEN PHIL YOUNG ASSLTED NORIKA DATTA AND HE THREATENED TO KILL YOUNG REVENGE, AND HE HAD TO BE STOPPED OM LUNGG AT BURNSI WHEN THE LATTER LLOLY REFERRED TO VIV MARTELLA AS A "SILLY BCH" MOMENTS AFTER SHE WAS SHOT AD. AND DON'T THREATEN JUNE ACKLAND. JT DON'T. DEADPAN SNARKER: ALWAYS GOOD FOR A QUIP OR TWO. FALSE SOULMATE: JUNE ACKLAND LEAD YOU CAN RELATE TO: PC JIM CARVER WAS ON HIS PROBATN PERD WHEN THE SHOW STARTED, WH HIM LEARNG THE ROP AT THE SAME SPEED AS THE DIENCE. LIMED ADVANCEMENT OPPORTUNI: IN TEN YEARS CID, HE WASN'T REMEND FOR PROMOTN ONCE, AND HAD TO RETURN TO UNIFORM. HE DID, FALLY, GET AN OFFSCREEN PROMOTN TO DETECTIVE SERGEANT WH THE GREATER MANCHTER POLICE. LONG RUNNER: HE MA HIS BUT THE 1983 PILOT AND FALLY LEFT SUN HILL 2005. HE RETURNED FOR A FEW GUT APPEARANC 2007. WHAT DID I DO LAST NIGHT?: IN THE 1999 EPISO "LOCK IN", A SEVERELY HUNER JIM WOKE UP NEXT TO A AD PROSTUTE AND ULDN'T REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED. HE WAS ACCED OF MURRG HER BUT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY CLEARED. WORKG WH THE EX: JUNE ACKLAND. PC VICKY HAGENPLAYED BY SAMANTHA ROBSON BADASS DRIVER: THE FIRST FEMALE AREA CAR DRIVER AT SUN HILL, WHICH LED TO A RIVALRY WH TONY STAMP. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: SHE ULD BE A BCH AT TIM, CLUDG TO PEOPLE WHO HAD DONE NOTHG TO SERVE SUCH AS ROSIE FOX. BUT SHE SHOWED QUE A B OF TEGRY AS A P, PARTICULAR THE FACT THAT SHE HAD BACKED UP A SPECT'S REPORT OF POLICE BTALY AGAST A LLEAGUE AT HER LAST STATN, SOMETHG THAT THE SUN HILL RELIEF OPENLY DISLIKED HER FOR, PECIALLY MIKE JARVIS. SHE WAS ALSO RPONSIBLE FOR TURNG EDDIE SANTI FOR THE MURR OF JSI ORTON SPE THEIR RELATNSHIP AT THE TIME, AND SHE WAS ONE OF THE FEW OFFICERS WHO NSISTENTLY SUPPORTED JIM CARVER DURG HIS SLI TO ALHOLISM.PC EDDIE SANTI (DECEASED)PLAYED BY MICHAEL HIGGS ALL GIRLS WANT BAD BOYS: HE WAS POPULAR WH THE LADI, SPE OF HIS JERKASS NATURE. ARCH-ENEMY: ROSIE FOX. DAVE QUNAN TOO. ASSHOLE VICTIM: CONSUMMATE LIAR: IN HIS FAL FEW EPISOS, ALMOST EVERY SENTENCE HE UTTERED WAS A LIE OF SOME KD. COWBOY COP: BEME A DIRTY COP AND KILLER COP LATER ON. HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER: HATED BY ALL: BY HIS FAL FEW APPEARANC, HE HAD ALIENATED PRETTY MUCH THE WHOLE RELIEF. JERKASS KARMA HOUDI: HE KILLED JSI ORTON, BUT WAS ACQUTED HIS MURR TRIAL. THOUGH HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY MURRED TO PREVENT HIM TTIFYG AN UNRELATED TRIAL. KILLER COP KILLED MID-SENTENCE: "LOOK, IF YOU'RE GONNA DO PL..." NEVER MY FLT: WHILE STG A PRISON CELL AWAG HIS TRIAL FOR MURRG JSI ORTON, EDDIE PLAED THAT ROSIE WAS TO BLAME FOR ALL HIS PROBLEMS. STALKER WH A CSH: TO ROSIE FOX. TOOK A LEVEL IN JERK ASS: WAS ORIGALLY A JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD AND HAD SOME HEROIC MOMENTS DURG HIS TENURE, BUT OVERTIME ALL OF HIS POSIVE QUALI GRADUALLY EROD TO NOTHG. WHAT DO SHE SEE HIM?: VICKY HAGEN. WOULD H A GIRLPC/DS ROSIE FOX (DECEASED)PLAYED BY CAROLE CATZ THE CHEW TOY: SHE NEVER SEEMED TO GET A BREAK. ON HER FIRST DAY AT SUN HILL, EDDIE SANTI ACCINTALLY RAN OVER HER BIKE. AFTER REJECTG HIS ADVANC, HE STARTED HARASSG AND TIMIDATG HER, AND TRIED TO RAPE HER AFTER A SUCCSFUL UNRVER OPRERATN, MANAGG TO TURN MOST OF THE RELIEF AGAST HER THE PROCS. HER BELATED ACCATN OF SEXUAL ASSLT (AND THEN DROPPG THE CHARGE DUE TO LACK OF EVINCE) AGA MA HER APPEAR THE WRONG, AND TURNED MORE OF THE RELIEF AGAST HER. WHILST SEARCHG FOR A VLENT CRIMAL ON A ROOF, EDDIE WALKED OFF AND ROSIE WAS TAKEN HOSTAGE, ONLY FOR EDDIE TO BLAME HER FOR LEAVG HIM. EVEN AFTER DAVE QUNAN BACKED UP HER STORY ABOUT EDDIE ABANDONG HER ON THE ROOF, SHE FELT SHE HAD TO TRANSFER AWAY. WHEN SHE RETURNED TO SUN HILL WH AMIP, EDDIE RRIED ON WHERE HE LEFT OFF, MAKG HER LOOK PARANOID AND OBSSIVE, THOUGH SHE DID FALLY MANAGE TO NNECT HIM TO JSI ORTON'S ATH AND ARRTED HIM. HOWEVER, SHE WAS MURRED SHORTLY BEFORE TTIFYG AT EDDIE'S MURR TRIAL TO PREVENT HER TTIFYG AT ANOTHER UPG TRIAL. INFORMED ATTRACTIVENS: WHILE SHE WAS QUE PRETTY, ALL THE MEN AT SUN HILL WERE POSIVELY SWOONG OVER HER WHEN SHE FIRST ARRIVED. LIMED ADVANCEMENT OPPORTUNI: SHE LEFT SUN HILL A WPC. SHE RETURNED A YEAR LATER AS A DS WH AMIP, HAVG SEEMGLY PASSED HER SERGEANT'S EXAMS, PLETED TECTIVE TRAG AND SECURED A TRANSFER TO AMIP SHORT ORR. ALTHOUGH SHE WAS SAID TO BE A RELATNSHIP WH A SUPERR. ONLY KNOWN BY HER NICKNAME: SHE WAS ALWAYS "ROSEBUD" STEAD OF "ROSIE" TO EDDIE SANTI. PROPERLY PARANOID: SHE WAS NVCED THAT EDDIE WAS VOLVED JSI ORTON'S ATH, WH GOOD REASON. SHORT-RUNNER: LASTED NE EPISOS TOTAL. SMUG SNAKE: SOME OF HER LLEAGU AT SUN HILL THOUGHT SO. SUICI, NOT MURR: IN HER SE SHE WAS MURRED AND WAS MA TO LOOK LIKE SUICI. YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE ME!: HER (TTHFUL) ALLEGATNS AGAST EDDIE WERE DISBELIEVED BY ALMOST EVERYONE.PC STEVE LOXTONPLAYED BY TOM BUTCHER NOBLE BIGOT WH A BADGE: PLAYED WH THAT HIS BIGOTRY DID AFFECT HIS JOB, BUT NOT SO MUCH HIS WORKG RELATNSHIPS. HE GOT TROUBLE FOR RACIAL PROFILG MORE THAN ONCE, CLUDG AN ILLEGAL STOP-AND-SEARCH OF AN OFF-DUTY BLACK POLICE OFFICER WHICH ULTIMATELY END HIS REER. THAT SAID, HE DID SEEM TO GET ALONG WH HIS NON-WHE LLEAGU, AND WHEN PRSED PC GARY MCCANN ULDN'T SEEM TO RELL LOXTON TREATG HIM AS ANYTHG OTHER THAN PART OF THE TEAM.PC LE ASHTONPLAYED BY STT NEAL BURY YOUR GAYS: ONE OF THE FEW WHO MANAGED TO LEAVE SUN HILL ALIVE AND WELL. THE B CAME BACK: A RARE EXAMPLE THE SHOW OF A CHARACTER BEG PUT ON A B, THEN RETURNG TO BEE A REGULAR AGA. THE CHEW TOY DIRTY COWARD: SMHY ACCED HIM OF THIS AFTER LE FAILED TO BACK HIM UP DURG A KNIFE ATTACK. MAMA'S BOY NAïVE NEWER STRAIGHT GAY: DON'T REALLY ACT LIKE THE STEREOTYPE.PC DAVE QUNANPLAYED BY ANDREW PL ARCH-ENEMY: TO EDDIE SANTI. DTCTIVE ROMANCE: HIS FLG WH POLLY PAGE, THOUGH MUCH MORE TO HER THAN HIM. HOLIER THAN THOU: DAVE'S TENNCY TO ACT LIKE THIS GRATED WH LLEAGU LIKE SANTI, PECIALLY LIGHT OF HIS OWN CHEQUERED HISTORY AT SUN HILL (SEE BELOW). PUT ON A B: LEFT THE SHOW AFTER ACCEPTG A TRANSFER TO SO10.PC HONEY HARMAN (DECEASED)PLAYED BY KIM TIDDY ACTN GIRL: SHE'S PHYSILLY F AND HAS IMPRSIVE JUDO SKILLS, AND ON HER FIRST DAY TACKLED A MURR SPECT AND SAVED GARY BT OM BEG SHOT. BEWARE THE NICE ON: SHE MAY BE A REALLY NICE, D-MANNERED GIRL NORMALLY, BUT SHE'S NOT FENCELS.PC NICK KLEPLAYED BY RENE ZAGGER DGS ARE BAD: A RECURRG ISSUE THE CHARACTER HAS TO FACE IS HIS VULNERABILY TOWARDS G DGS AS HE VELOPED A NASTY CRACK HAB. PUT ON A B: MORE LIKE FORCED TO CHANGE HIS ENTIRE LIFE AND PUBLIC INTY ORR TO REMA SAFE, TH RULTG HIM MOVG FAR AWAY OM SUN HILL. THE RIVAL: WH PHIL HUNTER SHORTLY BEFORE HIS PARTURE. THEIR MUTUAL ANIMOSY ALMOST RULTED KLE BEG FOUND AND KILLED BY CRIMAL DENNIS WEAVER BEE OF PHIL.PC ANDREA DUNBAR (DECEASED)PLAYED BY NATALIE ROBB STAR-CROSSED LOVERS: ANDREA, AN UNRVER JOURNALIST, BEGS A SECRET ROMANCE WH DI NEIL MANSON OM CID. THE MOLE: WHILE NOT A VILLA PER SE, SHE DO ENTER THE POLICE AS AN UNRVER JOURNALIST LOOKG FOR STORI FOR HER BOSS TO E FOR THE PRS AND PRT THE NEWSPAPER. THIS WAS REVEALED THE MIDDLE OF THE ALAN KENNEDY TRIAL, AND WHEN SHE IS QUTNED ON URT DUE TO HER PAST VOLVEMENT WH ONE OF THE VICTIMS BEFORE SHE BEME A POLICE OFFICER, ENDS UP SKG THE PROSECUTN'S SE.PC STEVE HUNTERPLAYED BY JAM LLOYD FOOLISH SIBLG, RPONSIBLE SIBLG: ZIG-ZAGGED BETWEEN HIM AND HIS BROTHER. PHIL IS MORE TELLIGENT AND PETENT AT HIS JOB PARED TO STEVE WHO'S DUMB MOMENTS OFTEN LAND HIM TROUBLE, BUT HIS BAD BOY ANTICS AND ABILY TO KEEP HIS TROERS CLASH WH HIS BROTHER, WHO AT LEAST TRI TO BE SENSIBLE ON THE JOB, EVEN IF HIS NAIVETY OFTEN PREVENTS THIS. SENSIVE GUY AND MANLY MAN: NAIVE, SPIRUAL, AND EMOTNALLY DRIVEN, STEVE NTRASTS STRONGLY TO HIS TOUGH JACK-THE-LAD BROTHER, PHIL. SMART JERK AND NICE MORON: PHIL IS A RELATIVELY SMART OFFICER OF CID WHO N BE A B ABRASIVE AND MALIC AT TIM, WHILE HIS BROTHER IS A PLETE NICE GUY WHO ALSO ISN'T THE BRIGHTT P THE FORCE.PC/DC GARY BTPLAYED BY CIARAN GRIFFHS JERKASS HAS A POT: GARY IS PLETELY UNACCEPTG OF HIS FATHER'S ATTEMPTS AT REMPTN, EVEN WHEN HE TRI TO HELP WH A POLICE SE. IN FAIRNS, SOMETHG LIKE WNSG YOUR OWN MOTHER SUFFER ABE OM A MAN MAK UNRSTANDABLE WHY YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO FIVE THEM SO EASILY. LIKE FATHER, UNLIKE SON: GARY MAK HIS PERSONAL MISSN TO MAKE SURE HE'S NOTHG LIKE HIS FATHER, WHO ABED HIS MOTHER WHEN THEY WERE TOGETHER. GARY WANTS NOTHG TO DO WH HIM AT ALL, AND WHEN HIS FATHER SISTS THEY'RE MORE ALIKE THAT HE R TO ADM, GARY GIV HIM A PUNCH TO THE FACE FOR HIS TROUBL.CID

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