History Characters / WakingTheDead

* GoodisNotSoft: Hell no! A perfect example of this is when he offers a rapist dying of testicular cancer morphine in return for telling him where his victims are buried, [[KicktheSonofaBitch then breaks the vial of morphine in front of him]].

* KnifeNut: Stabbed his father to death with a carving knife and later does the same to his girlfriend before [[WoundedGazelleGambit non-fatally stabbing himself in order to make it look like self-defence]].

* DepravedBisexual: Is in a relationship with a woman in her final episode, but there's a lot of FoeYay between her and Peter.

* WholePlotReference: His plan is the same as Franklin Clarke’s in [[Literature/Poirot The ABC Murders]]: Commit a series of seemingly unconnected murders in order to make a specific murder look like the work of a random madman.

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The in-between of the Boyd-Grace-Spencer trio. Spencer was generally more level headed and calm than Boyd, and formed friendships with most people who worked opposite him. But he had an abrasive side and would not hesitate to show it when angered. He also had no patience for lying suspects or shoddy police work.

* DamselInDistress: Had a very bad habit of being captured by the VillainOfTheWeek and used as a hostage. In the pilot episode alone, she's captured and then nearly BuriedAlive in a rubbish dump.

* FortheEvulz: Her entire ''raison de'tre'', to the point that Creator/HeathLedger's [[Film/TheDarkKnight Joker]] would be impressed.
* GoOutwithASmile: Gives her trademark PsychoticSmirk before her DisneyVillainDeath.

* TheUnfettered: To [[Series/{{Sherlock}} Jim Moriarty]] like proportions, to the point that you find yourself wondering if she might have been an inspiration. There are no goals she won't go to to achieve her goals.

A shadowy religious figure who recruits mentally-ill young women to commit murders on his behalf. [[spoiler:He's ultimately revealed to be Adam Duke, a rich playboy out to beat the rap for murdering his father after he tried to throw him out of the house for cheating on his wife with his mentally-ill lover Faye Harding [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces on the kitchen table]].]]

* BerserkButton: Trying to take his house from him seems to be his. He murders his father for trying to throw him out and starts contemplating killing Faye when she tells him she doesn’t want them to live there because it's where he had sex with his fiancee.

* TheCasanova: He’s established as a serial womaniser early in the episode, flirting with an attractive waitress in front of his equally beautiful fiance, Briony.
* TheChessmaster: After murdering his father for trying to throw him out of the house, he makes his psychotic loves take the rap and under the alias of the Shepherd, gets in contact with various mentally ill women whom he brainwashes into committing murder so that it looks like his girlfriend was one of them and she can get a conditional release, whilst setting up Matt Carney as the Shepherd. Bonus points for being taught how to play Chess by his father as a kid.

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: He’s pale, with long brown hair and a face that barely moves, in addition to being a Diabolical Mastermind who murdered his father and stepmother and commits other murders via his proxies.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: It seems he wouldn’t hurt a child, given that the fact that he rescues Joshua Bloom from the house fire his sister started.
* EvilBrit: Very evil and speaks with a received pronunciation accent.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Has a baritone voice.

* FreudianExcuse: ''Very'' Freudian. His mother is absent and the script says that she died giving birth to him. He was raised by a womanising workaholic who raised him to be as ruthless as he was and had unreasonably high expectations for him.
* AGlassOfChianti: He and Faye are sipping champagne in the house he inherited from the father he murdered and planning their future before the police arrive to look for Faye. As they search the house for her, he smugly looks on, sipping his drink.

* InadequateInheritor: Seen as this by his high-achieving father because of his wastrel lifestyle and halfhearted and failed attempts at gaining employment. He proves to be even more ruthless than his father.
* IndirectSerialKiller: Murdered his father himself but carries out the rest of his murders via proxies, until he kills Faye that is.

* IronicEcho: His father’s motto was “You’re only as strong as your weakest link” and he believed that his father saw him as his weakest link, leading to him murdering him when he attempted to kick him out of the house. He later decides that Faye is his weakest link and disposes of her, remembering what his father said to him over a game of chess. He also may have seen his father as his weakest link because he was the only person with the power to push him around.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Everything he does over the course of the episode is to avoid going to gaol for the murder of his father and stepmother and there’s no-one, not even his own doting girlfriend whom he isn’t willing to throw under the bus to get away with murder.

* MeaningfulName: “Adam” was the name of the first man so given his father’s personality, he most likely named his first son after God’s first creation out of narcissism. He’s nearly driven out of his home by his father, like Adam being driven out of Eden by God. His surname is Duke, and by the end of his storyline, [[TheBadGuyWins he’s got what he wanted]], inheriting his father’s BigFancyHouse, making him a metaphorical lord of the manor, like a Duke.

* MyGreatestFailure: He claims to see letting Faye into the house as his, because she was [[TheMentallyDisturbed mentally ill]], obsessed, and being sane and well-educated, he should have known not to let her in, and his mistake led to his father and stepmother being murdered, resulting in him seeing himself as his father’s “weakest link”. Subverted: He’s lying and he killed his father.

* PrecisionFStrike: “Shit”, which he mutters after seeing Faye’s glass of champagne on the Sitting Room table and realising that Boyd will have noticed it too and been tipped off by it that she is there. Could count as an Ironic Echo as his father called him a “little shit” before trying to kick him out of the house for having sex with Faye in it.

* SelfMadeOrphan: Fatally stabbed his father in the neck and sent his lover to murder his stepmother.

* WouldntHurtAChild: Seems to be the case, given that he rescued Joshua Bloom from the fire he got her to start, as no other reason is given in the episode.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Initially intends to have Faye move into his mansion to be his “Queen” but decides she’s a loose end because as she’s his accomplice, she’s the only other person who knows his entire plan. He also thinks that she might be difficult to control as she wants to move out of the country while he wants to live in the mansion he inherited from his father as a means of consolidating his victory. When she leaves her champagne on the Sitting Room table, tipping off Boyd that he is there, he makes up his mind that she’s a liability and fatally stabs her before framing it as self-defence. His father taught him “[[BadassCreed You’re only as strong as your weakest link]]” and he saw Faye as his weakest link.

* WickedCultured: Speaks the Queen English, comes from a wealthy family, has a BigFancyHouse, knows The Bible and drinks [[AGlassOfChianti champagne.

* CaptainErsatz: Of Moriarty and Hannibal Lecter, in the sense of being a criminal mastermind and the arch-enemy of the hero. Her final episode is basically one big homage to Literature/SilenceoftheLambs.

* DiabolicalMastermind: She bludgeoned her boss, [[WardensAreEvil Governor Reading]] ([[KicktheSonofaBitch who was actually an even worse person than her]]) to death, then secretly murdered one former inmate a year for seven years, while also manipulating Penny Cain into becoming an Angel of Mercy, leading to 13 more murders and following the police reinvestigating Reading's death, Linda had a doctor assigned to the case abducted by one of her former prisoners, and that's in her first episode alone!

* TheUnfettered: To [[Series/Sherlock Jim Moriarty]] like proportions, to the point that you find yourself wondering if she might have been an inspiration. There are no goals she won't go to to achieve her goals.

A shadowy religious figure who recruits mentally-ill young women to commit murders on his behalf. [[Spoiler:He's ultimately revealed to be Adam Duke, a rich playboy out to beat the rap for murdering his father after he tried to throw him out of the house for cheating on his wife with his mentally-ill lover Faye Harding [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrong places on the kitchen table]].]]

* TheCasanova: He’s established as a serial womaniser early in the episode, flirting with an attractive waitress in front of his equally beautiful fiancée.

* MyGreatestFailure: He claims to see letting Faye into the house as his, because she was mentally ill, obsessed, and being sane and well-educated, he should have known not to let her in, and his mistake led to his father and stepmother being murdered, resulting in him seeing himself as his father’s “weakest link”. Subverted: He’s lying and he killed his father.

* SmugSmiler: Gives a smug smile having killed Faye and telling Boyd “She’s got nothing to say.”

* WhatHappenedtotheMouse: Not only does he [[TheBadGuyWins get off Scott-free at the end of his two-parter]], but although the team are traumatised by Mel's death for the rest of the series, he's never brought up again, despite being indirectly responsible for her death, nor does he ever reappear. And with the series cancellation in 2011, [[KarmaHoudini it doesn't look like he ever will]].
* WickedCultured: Speaks the Queen English, comes from a wealthy family, has a Big Fancy House, knows The Bible and drinks champagne.

* SmartPeoplePlayChess: It's part of her whole MagnificentBitch vibe.

A shadowy religious figure who recruits mentally-ill young women to commit murders on his behalf. [[Spoiler:He's ultimately revealed to be Adam Duke, a rich playboy out to beat the rap for murdering his father after he tried to throw him out of the house for having sex on his kitchen table]].

* BerserkButton: Trying to take his house from him seems to be his. He murders his father for trying to throw him out and starts contemplating killing Faye when she tells him she doesn’t want them to live there.

* FailedaSpotCheck: He forgot to pour away Faye’s glass of champagne before letting the police in.

* AGlassoOfChianti: He and Faye are sipping champagne in the house he inherited from the father he murdered and planning their future before the police arrive to look for Faye. As they search the house for her, he smugly looks on, sipping his drink.

* ManipulativeBastard: When his abusive father tries to throw him out of the house for having sex with his crazy ex-lover, Faye Harding on the kitchen table, he fatally stabs him in the neck then sends his girlfriend to kill his stepmother, then convinces her to take the rap for both killings so that she will go to a home on account of her mental illness, sparing both of them gaol. Then he throws a pan of boiling water in his face to make it look like she attacked him to, before assuming the identity of the Shepherd and manipulating various mentally ill women into committing murders in order to make it look like Faye was one of his disciples and that his parents’ killings were random. Then when Faye is released on the grounds of diminished responsibility, he kills her too to cover his tracks.

* SlasherSmile: Sports one of these as Boyd looks away at Faye’s dead body in the swimming pool, having got away with murder.

Felix was the pathologist that replaced Frankie for Season 5. By Season 5 she had already been with the team for some time. Felix didnt have the humour that Frankie had but gave the information to the team in a more insightful way. She would regularly gather evidence at crime scenes. In the finale of Season 5 she discovers Stella is the mole on the team but is injured by a gas bomb meant for Spence. She makes a full recovery but doesnt return for Season 5 and her departure is never explained.

* ConsultingaConvictedKiller: Is on the receiving end of this in ''Endgame''.

* FaceofanAngelMindofaDemon: Is a pretty attractive woman and a psychopathic serial killer.

* GoOutwithaSmile: Gives her trademark PsychoticSmirk before her DisneyVillainDeath.
* HannibalLecture: She's fond of these and gives the TropeNamer a run for his money.

* It’sAllAboutMe: Only cares for her own power and intellectual stimulation.

* KicktheDog: If dogs were footballs, she'd be Marta Vieira da Silva.
* ManipulativeBitch: Her entire schtick. She uses others like pawns on a chessboard to achieve her goals, only rarely killing people personally.

* SmartPeopleSpeaktheQueensEnglish: Dangerously intelligent and with an RP accent.

* TomtheDarkLord: Linda Cummings is a very normal-sounding name for an EvilGenius. Then again "Cummings" does rhyme with "[[MeaningfulName cunning]]".
* TheUnfettered: To [[Series/Sherlock Jim Moriarty]]-like proportions, to the point that you find yourself wondering if she might have been an inspiration. There are no goals she won't go to to achieve her goals.

!!"[[spoiler:Adam Duke]] / "the Shepherd"

A shadowy religious figure who recruits mentally-ill young women to commit murders on his behalf. [[Spoiler: He's ultimately revealed to be Adam Duke, a rich playboy out to beat the rap for murdering his father after he tried to throw him out of the house for having sex on his kitchen table]].

* BrilliantbutLazy: He’s unemployed and in his thirties, living with his disappointed father but comes up with a brilliant plan which he carries out without a hitch, making him one of the series’ deadliest and most cunning adversaries.
* TheCasanova: He’s established as a serial womaniser early in the episode, flirting with an attractive waitress in front of his equally beautiful fiancé.

* AGlassofChianti: He and Faye are sipping champagne in the house he inherited from the father he murdered and planning their future before the police arrive to look for Faye. As they search the house for her, he smugly looks on, sipping his drink.

* IntheBlood: His father, Gary Duke, seems to have been a narcissistic sociopath as well, if his actions in life are anything to go by, seducing his colonel’s wife in the army and then killing his colonel, emotionally abusing his son and beating him and trying to throw him out of the house just for having sex with his psychotic ex on the kitchen table. Gary must have ''really'' liked that kitchen table.
* InadequateInheritor: Seen as this by his high-achieving father because of his wastrel lifestyle and half-hearted and failed attempts at gaining employment. He proves to be even more ruthless than his father.

* KnifeNut: Stabbed his father to death with a carving knife and later does the same to his girlfriend before non-fatally stabbing himself in order to make it look like self-defence.

* MeaningfulName: “Adam” was the name of the first man so given his father’s personality, he most likely named his first son after God’s first creation out of narcissism. He’s nearly driven out of his home by his father, like Adam being driven out of Eden by God. His surname is Duke, and by the end of his storyline, he’s got what he wanted, inheriting his father’s Big Fancy House, making him a metaphorical lord of the manor, like a Duke.

* SmartPeopleSpeaktheQueensEnglish: Having presumably been privately educated, he speaks with an upper crust English accent in contrast with his father’s Northern accent, although his flashback shows his child self speaking with the same accent as his father. He also probably rivals Linda Cummings as one of the team’s most potent and cunning enemies.

* TheStoic: [[VillainousValor Nobody can call the guy a wimp]]. He threw boiling water in his face to make himself look like a victim of Faye Harding and later stabbed himself for the same reason!

* VillainoftheWeek: Albeit one with [[SmallRoleBigImpact a lasting effect]].

* WouldHitaGirl: Would STAB a girl!
* WouldntHurtaChild: Seems to be the case, given that he rescued Joshua Bloom from the fire he got her to start, as no other reason is given in the episode.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Initially intends to have Faye move into his mansion to be his “Queen” but decides she’s a loose end because as she’s his accomplice, she’s the only other person who knows his entire plan. He also thinks that she might be difficult to control as she wants to move out of the country while he wants to live in the mansion he inherited from his father as a means of consolidating his victory. When she leaves her champagne on the Sitting Room table, tipping off Boyd that he is there, he makes up his mind that she’s a liability and fatally stabs her before framing it as self-defence. His father taught him “You’re only as strong as your weakest link” and he saw Faye as his weakest link.

* WouldHitaGirl: Would [[UptoEleven STAB]] a girl!

A textbook example of RabidCop, Boyd is just as passionate as he is ruthless in his pursuit of justice. His willingness to bend or outright break rules and tendency to get angry with and harass the people he interrogates has often brought him trouble. That said, he has a tendency to get angry with pretty much everyone.

!!"Linda Cummings / "the Beast"

* BeardofAsskicking:

* Arch-Enemy: She is this to Boyd and considers him hers, after deciding he was the WorthyOpponent she had been looking for.
* Axe Crazy: Subtle but it’s there.
* Badass Boast: “I know my endgame before I make my first move.”
* Boxed Crook: In ''Endgame'', she's a prisoner in a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane.

* Captain Ersatz: Of Moriarty and Hannibal Lecter, in the sense of being a criminal mastermind and the arch-enemy of the hero. Her final episode is basically one big homage to Literature/SilenceoftheLambs.
* Cold Ham: Exudes a powerful presence, being able to dominate every scene she's in whilst never even raising her voice.
* Consulting a Convicted Killer: Is on the receiving end of this in ''Endgame''.
* The Chessmaster: A metaphorical and literal example, viewing people as pawns in her games and even using a literal chessboard as a VisualMetaphor for her plans in both episodes in which she appears.
* Criminal Mind Games: She's driven by a love of complex games, and even manipulates people [[BoxedCrook from her cell]].
* Deadpan Snarker: Matches Boyd in this department, as another way of emphasising her status as his EvilCounterpart.

* Diabolical Mastermind: She bludgeoned her boss, [[WardensAreEvil Governor Reading]] ([[KicktheSonofaBitch who was actually an even worse person than her]]) to death, then secretly murdered one former inmate a year for seven years, while also manipulating Penny Cain into becoming an Angel of Mercy, leading to 13 more murders and following the police reinvestigating Reading's death, Linda had a doctor assigned to the case abducted by one of her former prisoners, and that's in her first episode alone!
* Disney Villain Death: Falls to her death from the top of a building.
* The Dreaded: Even hardened inmates are terrified of her in her role as a prison guard, ''and'' a prisoner, referring to her as "[[HeWhoMustNotBeNamed the Beast]]."
* Evil Brit: With the series being set in Britain, this is a given, but she definitely has the accent and the vibe.
* Evil Genius: Is one of the most evil criminals the team face and probably the most intelligent.
* Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Is a pretty attractive woman and a psychopathic serial killer.
* Faux Affably Evil: Is unfailingly courteous and charming, even when threatening to murder you or someone you love.
* For the Evulz: Her entire ''raison de'tre'', to the point that Creator/HeathLedger's [[Film/TheDarkKnight Joker]] would be impressed.
* Go Out with a Smile: Gives her trademark PsychoticSmirk before her DisneyVillainDeath.
* Hannibal Lecture: She's fond of these and gives the TropeNamer a run for his money.

* It Amused Me: Her main motive.
* It’s All About Me: Only cares for her own power and intellectual stimulation.
* Karma Houdini: She [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to her death]] with [[GoOutWithaSmile a mocking grin]] after outwitting Peter.

* Manipulative Bitch: Her entire schtick. She uses others like pawns on a chessboard to achieve her goals, only rarely killing people personally.

* Psycho Lesbian: Is in a sexual relationship with a female patient in the asylum where she's interned after being caught and manipulates her into thinking that another patient wants to attack and hurt Linda, causing her girlfriend to attack the other patient in order to protect her.
* Psychopathic Womanchild: Tends to get very giddy off her malevolence, and her evil plans are all just intellectual games for her personal amusement.
* Psychotic Smirk: Her default expression after her true nature is revealed.

* Smart People Play Chess: It's part of her whole MagnificentBitch vibe.
* Smart People Speak the Queen’s English: Dangerously intelligent and with an RP accent.
* Smug Smiler: Gives a mocking smile whenever everything's going according to plan, [[TheChessmaster which is usually the case for her]].
* The Sociopath: A pretty textbook high-functioning example, completely devoid in the smallest ounce of empathy or remorse, viewing other people purely as toys and means to an end, manipulative, easily bored and constantly craving intellectual stimulation, highly intelligent, grandiose, completely fearless, charismatic and able to present a charming facade.
* Soft-Spoken Sadist: Never raises her voice once.
* Tom the Dark Lord: Linda Cummings is a very normal-sounding name for an EvilGenius. Then again "Cummings" does rhyme with "[[MeaningfulName cunning]]".
* The Unfettered: To [[Series/Sherlock Jim Moriarty]]-like proportions, to the point that you find yourself wondering if she might have been an inspiration. There are no goals she won't go to to achieve her goals.
* Villainous Cheekbones: Being played by Ruth Gemmell, she has high, sharp, graceful cheekbones.
* Wicked Cultured: Well-spoken, well-educated and a metaphorical and literal [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]].
* Worthy Opponent: Has this opinion of Boyd.

* Abusive Parents: He isn’t one but he has one in the form of his father, Gary Duke, who was emotionally and potentially physically abusive to him his entire life.
* The Bad Guy Wins: He gets away with everything in the end.
* Berserk Button: Trying to take his house from him seems to be his. He murders his father for trying to throw him out and starts contemplating killing Faye when she tells him she doesn’t want them to live there.
* Big Fancy House: Lives in one of these with his wealthy father and after killing him, inherits the house. It was one his main motives as he seems to have a kind of Freudian attachment to the house.
* Brilliant but Lazy: He’s unemployed and in his thirties, living with his disappointed father but comes up with a brilliant plan which he carries out without a hitch, making him one of the series’ deadliest and most cunning adversaries.
* The Casanova: He’s established as a serial womaniser early in the episode, flirting with an attractive waitress in front of his equally beautiful fiancé.
* The Chessmaster: After murdering his father for trying to throw him out of the house, he makes his psychotic loves take the rap and under the alias of the Shepherd, gets in contact with various mentally ill women whom he brainwashes into committing murder so that it looks like his girlfriend was one of them and she can get a conditional release, whilst setting up Matt Carney as the Shepherd. Bonus points for being taught how to play Chess by his father as a kid.
* Chess Motifs: Has a chessboard in his house for him to practice on himself with, {{foreshadowing}} how he manipulates everyone else like pieces on a chessboard.
* Consummate Liar: Pretends to be visiting Faye in hospital because he’s in love with her when really he’s doing it to meet other mentally ill women for him to brainwash and later murders Faye to keep her quiet.
* Creepy Child: In the flashback of him playing Chess with his Dad, he gives this vibe.
* Deadpan Snarker: He gets one moment of this while Boyd and the team are searching his house for Faye: “I would help if I knew what you were looking for.”

* Diabolical Mastermind: In his role as the Shepherd, he manipulates mentally ill women into committing murders in order to cover his own tracks.
* The Dog Bites Back: After years of emotional abuse from his father, he stabs him in the neck when his father tries to throw him out of the house.
* The Dreaded: Greatly feared by the people who know him as the Shepherd.
* Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: He’s pale, with long brown hair and a face that barely moves, in addition to being a Diabolical Mastermind who murdered his father and stepmother and commits other murders via his proxies.
* Even Evil Has Standards: It seems he wouldn’t hurt a child, given that the fact that he rescues Joshua Bloom from the house fire his sister started.
* Evil Brit: Very evil and speaks with a received pronunciation accent.
* Evil Genius: {{Lampshaded}} by Boyd, who points out that the reason he made his plan so complex is to [[EvilGloating emphasise his genius]].
* Evil Sounds Deep: Has a baritone voice.
* Failed a Spot Check: He forgot to pour away Faye’s glass of champagne before letting the police in.
* Faux Affably Evil: Comes across as polite, charming and willing to help in every scene in which he appears but is actually the murderer.
* Freudian Excuse: ''Very'' Freudian. His mother is absent and the script says that she died giving birth to him. He was raised by a womanising workaholic who raised him to be as ruthless as he was and had unreasonably high expectations for him.
* A Glass of Chianti: He and Faye are sipping champagne in the house he inherited from the father he murdered and planning their future before the police arrive to look for Faye. As they search the house for her, he smugly looks on, sipping his drink.
* A God Am I: Chooses the title of “Shepherd” to go about his plans, from “the Lord is thy Shepherd” and when he tells one of his proxies to commit murder, he says that [[AnswerstotheNameofGod God is telling her to do it]].
* The Hedonist: Seems to have spent his life before murdering his father partying and womanising rather than trying to find gainful employment, much to his father’s chagrin and when he’s successfully carried out his plan, he celebrates with champagne in the daytime with his girlfriend.
* Hero Killer: By proxy. One of his minions kills Mel.
* In the Blood: His father, Gary Duke, seems to have been a narcissistic sociopath as well, if his actions in life are anything to go by, seducing his colonel’s wife in the army and then killing his colonel, emotionally abusing his son and beating him and trying to throw him out of the house just for having sex with his psychotic ex on the kitchen table. Gary must have ''really'' liked that kitchen table.
* Inadequate Inheritor: Seen as this by his high-achieving father because of his wastrel lifestyle and half-hearted and failed attempts at gaining employment. He proves to be even more ruthless than his father.
* Indirect Serial Killer: Murdered his father himself but carries out the rest of his murders via proxies, until he kills Faye that is.
* Inferiority Superiority Complex: See Inadequate Inheritor above. Not living up to his abusive father’s expectations left him with feelings of low self-esteem which he overcame by becoming the grandiose god complex ridden egomaniac that he is at the time of the show.
* Ironic Echo: His father’s motto was “You’re only as strong as your weakest link” and he believed that his father saw him as his weakest link, leading to him murdering him when he attempted to kick him out of the house. He later decides that Faye is his weakest link and disposes of her, remembering what his father said to him over a game of chess. He also may have seen his father as his weakest link because he was the only person with the power to push him around.
* It’s All About Me: Everything he does over the course of the episode is to avoid going to gaol for the murder of his father and stepmother and there’s no-one, not even his own doting girlfriend whom he isn’t willing to throw under the bus to get away with murder.
* Karma Houdini: Faye is the only person who can identify him as the Shepherd and he fatally stabs her before pretending that it was self-defence, leaving Boyd powerless to arrest him.
* Knife Nut: Stabbed his father to death with a carving knife and later does the same to his girlfriend before non-fatally stabbing himself in order to make it look like self-defence.

* Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has long brown hair and is described in the script as “delicately handsome.”
* Manipulative Bastard: When his abusive father tries to throw him out of the house for having sex with his crazy ex-lover, Faye Harding on the kitchen table, he fatally stabs him in the neck then sends his girlfriend to kill his stepmother, then convinces her to take the rap for both killings so that she will go to a home on account of her mental illness, sparing both of them gaol. Then he throws a pan of boiling water in his face to make it look like she attacked him to, before assuming the identity of the Shepherd and manipulating various mentally ill women into committing murders in order to make it look like Faye was one of his disciples and that his parents’ killings were random. Then when Faye is released on the grounds of diminished responsibility, he kills her too to cover his tracks.
* Meaningful Name: “Adam” was the name of the first man so given his father’s personality, he most likely named his first son after God’s first creation out of narcissism. He’s nearly driven out of his home by his father, like Adam being driven out of Eden by God. His surname is Duke, and by the end of his storyline, he’s got what he wanted, inheriting his father’s Big Fancy House, making him a metaphorical lord of the manor, like a Duke.
* Mind Rape: How he gains control of his victims.
* My Greatest Failure: He claims to see letting Faye into the house as his, because she was mentally ill, obsessed, and being sane and well-educated, he should have known not to let her in, and his mistake led to his father and stepmother being murdered, resulting in him seeing himself as his father’s “weakest link”. Subverted: He’s lying and he killed his father.

* Overlord Jr: Son of a ruthless corporate exec whom he murders and whose house, fortune and presumably business he inherits.
* Precision F Strike: “Shit”, which he mutters after seeing Faye’s glass of champagne on the Sitting Room table and realising that Boyd will have noticed it too and been tipped off by it that she is there. Could count as an Ironic Echo as his father called him a “little shit” before trying to kick him out of the house for having sex with Faye in it.
* Psychopathic Manchild: Boyd notes that he and Faye go about their plan “very childishly.”
* The Red Baron: Is known as “the Shepherd” by his minions, as that’s the name he tells them to call him by.
* Self-Made Orphan: Fatally stabbed his father in the neck and sent his lover to murder his stepmother.
* Slasher Smile: Sports one of these as Boyd looks away at Faye’s dead body in the swimming pool, having got away with murder.
* Smart People Play Chess: Has a chessboard in his house with which he plays against himself, Is shown being taught how to play Chess by his father as a boy and over the course of his storyline, manipulates everyone else like pieces on a chessboard.
* Smart People Speak the Queen’s English: Having presumably been privately educated, he speaks with an upper crust English accent in contrast with his father’s Northern accent, although his flashback shows his child self speaking with the same accent as his father. He also probably rivals Linda Cummings as one of the team’s most potent and cunning enemies.
* Smug Smiler: Gives a smug smile having killed Faye and telling Boyd “She’s got nothing to say.”
* The Sociopath: Profiled in the episode in which he appears as "Grandiose, Machiavellian and narcissistic", murdered his father for his house and compels others to commit murder on his behalf without a shred of empathy or remorse, just to avoid going to gaol, even killing his lover in the end. He has no regard for anyone but himself.
* The Stoic: Nobody can call the guy a wimp. He threw boiling water in his face to make himself look like a victim of Faye Harding and later stabbed himself for the same reason!
* The Unfavourite: He was his father’s only child but his father considered him a disappointment.
* The Unfettered: Stabbed his father to death, had his stepmother killed, threw boiling water in his face to make himself look like a victim, had other people murdered just to cover his tracks, murdered his girlfriend and stabbed himself to make it look like self-defence, there are no lengths Adam won’t go to in order to win.

* “Well Done Son” Guy: Started off as one of these, until he made up his mind that he would never have his father’s respect.

* Wicked Cultured: Speaks the Queen English, comes from a wealthy family, has a Big Fancy House, knows The Bible and drinks champagne.
* Would Hit a Girl: Would [[UptoEleven STAB]] a girl!
* Wouldn’t Hurt a Child: Seems to be the case, given that he rescued Joshua Bloom from the fire he got her to start, as no other reason is given in the episode.
* Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Twice! The first when he threw boiling water in his own face to make it look like Faye attacked him, and the second when he stabbed himself, again to make it look like Faye attacked him.
* You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Initially intends to have Faye move into his mansion to be his “Queen” but decides she’s a loose end because as she’s his accomplice, she’s the only other person who knows his entire plan. He also thinks that she might be difficult to control as she wants to move out of the country while he wants to live in the mansion he inherited from his father as a means of consolidating his victory. When she leaves her champagne on the Sitting Room table, tipping off Boyd that he is there, he makes up his mind that she’s a liability and fatally stabs her before framing it as self-defence. His father taught him “You’re only as strong as your weakest link” and he saw Faye as his weakest link.
* Your Cheatin’ Heart: Cheated on his fiancé Briony with Faye Harding.

* AFatherToHisMen: Despite his harsh behaviour towards them, Boyd values his team deeply and will always try to help if one of them is in trouble.

* LetOffByTheDetective: In "Sins" he lets [[spoiler: Cathy Reading get off scot free with murdering her father, after discovering that he raped and impregnated her.]]

* DistressedDamsel: Had a very bad habit of being captured by the VillainOfTheWeek and used as a hostage. In the pilot episode alone, she's captured and then nearly BuriedAlive in a rubbish dump.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Boyd has no hesitation in bending or in some cases outright breaking the law in order to see justice done, be it illegally accessing a superior officers file when they become a suspect or breaking into someones house to obtain vital evidence.

->'''Played by:''' Sue Johnston

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