Line #5 Characters/WakingTheDead


1	'''This entry contains spoilers for all aired UK episodes and so should be avoided if you are a fan of the show from outside the UK.'''
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7	!!''DSI (Detective Superintendent) Peter Boyd''
8	->'''Played by:''' Trevor Eve
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12	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 angryu 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.
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14	Boyd is also somewhat of a Main/DeadpanSnarker, once involved three suspects in a Pub Quiz parody and was also arrested for drink driving. Has a weakness for pretty women.
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16	His son, Luke, missing since the early 1990s, returned in Season 7, but ultimately committed suicide by drugs overdose. The precise impact on Boyd is as yet unclear. It was revealed in Season 8 that the "suicide" was murder, which led to a dramatic cliffhanger as Boyd was given the option to exact revenge. He and Grace are known to bicker LikeAnOldMarriedCouple.
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18	* 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. He loved Mel Silver like a daughter and suffered HeroicBSOD [[spoiler:after her death]].
19	* BadassLongcoat: A tough, no-nonsense Detective Superintendent who wears a long coat.
20	* BrutalHonesty: Boyd never minces his words when it comes to his personal feelings on the teams work, or on the statements provided to him by suspects and witnesses.
21	* TheCasanova: Has a weakness for pretty women.
22	* TheChessmaster: Is highly intelligent and often uses trickery to catch criminals. {{Lampshaded}} by [[ArchEnemy Linda Cummings]] who tells him that he's not a piece in her game, [[WorthyOpponent but her opponent]].
23	* DeadpanSnarker: Often snarks at his team, or at villains.
24	* Defective Detective: Was once arrested for drink driving.
25	* EnragedByIdiocy: Prepare for a dressing down at best if Boyd catches you engaging in sloppy police work. Just about every officer working under him feels his wrath at some point in the show.
26	* 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]].
27	* HairtriggerTemper: It doesn't take much to set him off.
28	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Boyd is abrasive, harsh, brutally honest and will not hesitate to butt heads with suspects or his own team if need be. But despite that, he is keenly interested in delivering justice to the victims of violent crime, is extremely loyal and trusting of his team and will always pull through for them in the end.
29	* LetOffByTheDetective: In "Sins" he lets [[spoiler: Cathy Reading get off Scott-free with murdering her father, after discovering that he raped and impregnated her.]]
30	* ManipulativeBastard: When it came to interrogations, Boyd was a master of getting suspects to say the exact things needed to either incriminate themselves or others. Best shown in "Duty And Honour", where he forces [[UndyingLoyalty Lomax]] to watch his treacherous bosses interview and fools said boss into betraying him, making Lomax give him up on the spot.
31	* ManlyFacialHair: Combines this with PermaStubble.
32	* MarriedToTheJob: Deconstructed over the course of the series. Boyd has little to no work-life balance and is never shown to have friends or family outside the job. However, it soon becomes clear that Boyd suffers from an immense amount of guilt over the disappearance and eventual death of his son Luke, and uses work to fill the void left behind.
33	* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Of the Boyd-Spencer-Grace trio that lasted the whole show, he was the mean one. Boyd was extremely harsh and stern with just about everyone and did not suffer fools gladly, happily chewing out anyone who did not measure up to his standards.
34	* RabidCop: He'll do anything to get the job done.
35	* 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. This can occasionally backfire on him, particularly in the Series 8 episode "End Of The Night" where he is not only thrown off the case but nearly thrown out of the force as well.
36	* TokenGoodCop: As revealed in "Black Run", back when he first joined the CID he found himself to be this, with the rest of the officers in the station being [[DirtyCop nothing more than a gang who extorted and ran rackets through their area]], with his DCI Eddie Vine being the most corrupt of them all. Following Boyd's attempts to bring him down through the system failing, Vine took Boyd aside and forced him to accept a protection payment making it clear he would be murdered if he didn't get with the program. Boyd instead burned the money, and, realising that he couldn't stop him through the system, [[StartOfDarkness manipulated evidence to incriminate Vine]] for the murder of his ex-partner ([[FramingTheGuiltyParty which Vine actually did]]) leading to him getting life in prison and ensuring Boyd's transfer. These experiences went a long way into shaping [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight Boyd into the officer he is presently]]. As we see in the episode, the station is still as corrupt as ever even if the majority of their power was destroyed with Vine's arrest.
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38	!!''Dr. Grace Foley''
39	->'''Played by:''' Creator/SueJohnston
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43	A Forensic Profiler with 30 years experience, Foley is [[TeamMom mother to the team]] and tends to be used in a "tea and sympathy" role. She also had a brief bout with stomach cancer and she had to leave the unit briefly for the operation. She also became pregnant years ago when falling in love with the head of her first murder case. Saying it didn't end well would be an understatement considering she only found out he was married after she got pregnant, and then he died in a car crash while drunk at the wheel, while Grace miscarried. The loss of her unborn child continues to haunt her.
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45	* DudeNotFunny: Due to the dark nature of her job, she has a tendency to crack jokes at inappropriate moments, sometimes resulting in this reaction from others.
46	* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Has this relationship with Boyd.
47	* NiceGirl: Grace was the friendliest member of the team and had a great deal of tact and insight when it came to talking to suspects and witnesses alike. She was also extremely pleasant to anyone who worked with her, frequently providing sympathy for people who end up on the wrong side of Boyd's temper.
48	* TeamMom: Served as the unofficial mother to the whole team, and frequently supported them during times of crisis. In turn, nearly everyone on Boyd's team including Boyd himself trusts her absolutely.
49	* UndyingLoyalty: Grace is with Boyd through thick and thin and their bond forms the core of the team. Even in the episode where she temporarily leaves after a nasty fight with Boyd she still returns to interview a suspect as a favour and needs little persuading to rejoin permanently. She even risks life and limb to help him with the cases on numerous occasions. In return, Boyd is utterly devoted to her and frequently relies on her expertise to help his crack particularly problematic suspects.
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52	!!''DI Spencer "Spence" Jordan''
53	->'''Played by:''' Wil Johnson
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57	Frequently involved in GoodCopBadCop stuff with Boyd as the Bad Cop.
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59	He finds out in Season 3 that his father is alive, despite thinking he was dead since he was a child.
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61	At the end of Season 5, he was shot in a {{CliffHanger}} ending, but emerged to have fully recovered in Season 6, getting a tattoo around the scar.
62	In Season 8 he transfers out of the unit to CID but still liases with them for "Endgame". In Season 9 he has transferred back into the unit.
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64	* BlackAndNerdy: He's black and highly intelligent.
65	* GoodCopBadCop: Played the good cop opposite Boyd, frequently being more reasonable and level headed in his approach to suspects and untangling the truth.
66	* TheLancer: Spencer served as Boyd's right hand man throughout the series, and outside of Grace was his main confidante. The two would frequently tackle suspects together in interviews and Spencer would always accompany Boyd on arrests.
67	* 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 and when he's made his mind up about something, he can't be dissuaded with anything other than hard evidence.
68	* VitriolicBestBuds: It's hard to describe his relationship with Boyd as anything other than this. The two were sometimes at odds with each other and had some nasty bust ups over the course of the show, with Spencer even leaving the team at one point after feeling sidelined one time too many. However it also becomes clear that the two have a deep respect for one another and will nearly always help each other out when the other is in trouble. Boyd outright saves Spencer's life at the end of "Cold Fusion" and Spencer fights to prove Boyd's innocence in the Series 9 finale "Waterloo".
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71	!!''DC Amelia "Mel" Silver''
72	->'''Played by:''' Claire Goose
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76	Mel was a feisty young achiever who worked hard to be promoted. She was also best-friends with Frankie. She was adopted as a child and tried to get into contact with her biological mother, but couldnt reveal her true identity as her mother had a new family. She was killed in the fourth season finale after being thrown off a roof and landing on the windscreen of the car Boyd and Grace were driving. Her shocking death shook the team to the core and it took Boyd over two series to come to terms with it. Her Jewish background would prove relevant in the later "Yahrzeit" episode, when an item of jewellery was sent to her last workplace. She'd been working on a case going back to [=WW2=] with an American Mossad agent.
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78	* 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 and ultimately killed by TheDragon of a VillainOfTheWeek.
79	* NaiveNewcomer: In the prequel radio drama ''The Unforgiven'' we meet a newly joined Mel Silver, who is nowhere near as savy or as street smart as her TV counterpart. She gradually looses this status over the course of the drama, particularly when she's abducted by the SerialKiller the team are hunting.
80	* LikeADaughterToMe: Mel served as this for Boyd, who supported her rise through the ranks and was utterly delighted when she achieved the rank of Sergeant. Her death utterly devastates him and he never gets over it even by the end of the series.
81	* SacrificialLion: A brave cop who got thrown off a roof by a disturbed suspect.
82	* TrueCompanions: Was this with the entire team, but particularly with Boyd and Spencer. Her death nearly destroys the team and she casts a [[ReplacementGoldfish long shadow over all of her subsequent replacements.]]
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84	!!''DS Stella Goodman''
85	->'''Played by:''' Félicité du Jeu
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89	Born in the UK to an French mother and English father, her police officer father was killed and she moved to France, spending most of her childhood there.
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91	Entering the Cold Case Squad after Mel Silver's death, she was unwittingly spying on them for her godfather. However, her loyalty is now unquestioned.
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93	Bi-lingual in French and English, Goodman is acknowledged to be the most attractive member of the team by most sources and usually has dyed red hair, but this is not always the case. However, she remains single, although her ownership of a cat is not confirmed one way or the other.
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95	She is a qualified firearms officer.
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97	Stella has been used in a RabidCop role, in one case threatening an Algerian suspect with [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique nastiness]] and claiming she had a relative paralysed in a terrorist attack. Boyd congratulated her on a successful deception- she inferred it that possibly wasn't. She was shot by a suspect and died in the first episode of the eight series.
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99	* ChillyReception: Was not given the warmest of welcomes by the team at the beginning of her tenure, as Boyd, Spencer and even Grave were still in mourning for Mel Silver and the relationship between Boyd and Spencer had broken down. It took until the very end of the episode for her to be fully accepted as a member of the team.
100	* Main/FairCop: Her attractivness was commented upon by just about everyone she came into contact with. This would sometimes be exploited by both herself and by Boyd to manipulate suspects.
101	* FieryRedhead: Had red hair throughout her tenure and possessed a formidable temper, as both Boyd and suspects who annoyed her found out. She even slapped a suspect in the face after they pushed her to breaking point.
102	* TheMole: Was manipulated into spying on the team by her adoptive father Bill Drake in the series 5 finale, and even tried to destroy evidence acquired by the team after he convinced her it was in the public good. It took a full apology, giving up Bill Drake and helping Boyd rescue Spencer to get the team to forgive her.
103	* WeUsedToBeFriends: Throughout series 5 Stella was shown to get on very well with Felix Gibson and often went to her to ask for advice and vent about issues she was having. However after her betrayal of the team resulted in Felix falling victim to a gas attack, Felix was the only member of the team who explictly refused to forgive her and their relationship ended on bad terms.
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106	!!''DS Katrina Howard''
107	->'''Played by:''' Stacey Roca
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111	Howard appears in the beginning of Season 8, where she helps the team in solving a case. She has a history of insubordination. After Stella dies Katrina is transferred into the team as her replacement, at Boyds request. She doesnt have a major role within the team though, and she doesnt return for Season 9 and isnt even mentioned again. She is replaced by Sarah Cavendish.
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113	!!''DSI (Detective Superintendent) Sarah Cavendish''
114	->'''Played by:''' Eva Birthistle
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118	Irish born Sarah was a BrokenBird transferred to the unit at the beginning of series nine to replace Katarina Howard. She was moved from Counter-Terroism after an operation she was leading went wrong which led her to become the ScapeGoat. Boyd had no say in her transfer. Her DarkAndTroubledPast caused problems during cases including her DrowningHerSorrows. Sarah learned to play by the rules which often put her at odds with Boyd`s way of getting results and resulted in her reporting him and causing his sacking. In a desperate state she tries to make amends and spies on a suspect, discovering his crimes, which leads to her being strangled and her body planted in Boyd`s shed in an attempt to frame him.
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120	Sarah was one of the youngest Superintendents in the history of the Met having received this level by her early-thirties and a high flyer until the incident.
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122	* TheAtoner: {{Deconstructed}}. Desperate to earn Boyd's forgiveness after shafting him to the met review board, she resorts to spying on the corrupt [[DirtyCop Assistant Commisioner Nicholson]] and places herself in an extremely dangerous situation which results in her being murdered. Grace specifically points out that her desperation made her more willing to take foolish risks.
123	* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: In her final few episodes, she shafts Boyd to the met review board after Boyd endangered Grace's life during one of the cases, despite bonding with him over the course of the series. It ends their friendship and Sarah dies trying to get Boyd to forgive her.]]
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131	!!''Frankie Wharton''
132	->'''Played by:''' Holly Aird
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136	An original member of the team. She was TheCoroner who was unafraid to speak her mind, usually with Boyd. She brought humor to the team and was good friends with Mel, knowing her before joining the team. After Mel died Frankie was traumatised and chose to leave the unit, returning to research. She was replaced by Felix Gibson in season 5.
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138	!!''Felix Gibson''
139	->'''Played by:''' Esther Hall
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143	Felix was the pathologist that replaced Frankie for Season 5. By Season 5 she had already been with the team for some time. Felix didn't 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 doesn't return for Season 5 and her departure is never explained.
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147	!!''Eve Lockhart''
148	->'''Played by:''' Tara Fitzgerald
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152	Took over from Felix. Eve, TheCoroner, was involved in mass grave excavation in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars. She had her own SpinOff called "The Body Farm" after the end of ''Waking The Dead''. However, It only ran for one series due to poor ratings.
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158	!!Linda Cummings / "the Beast"
159	->'''Played by:''' Ruth Gemmell
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161	A former model prison guard turned SerialKiller and DiabolicalMastermind.
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163	* ArchEnemy: She is this to Boyd and considers him hers, after deciding he was the WorthyOpponent she had been looking for.
164	* AxeCrazy: Subtle but it’s there.
165	* BadassBoast: “I know my endgame before I make my first move.”
166	* BoxedCrook: In ''Endgame'', she's a prisoner in a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane.
167	* ButchLesbian: Is shown to be in a sexual relationship with a woman in prison and was a prison guard. As Grace points out, her personality profile more matches that of a male serial killer than a female one, going out and killing or masterminding murders on her own rather than as an accomplice.
168	* 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.
169	* ColdHam: Exudes a powerful presence, being able to dominate every scene she's in whilst never even raising her voice.
170	* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: Is on the receiving end of this in ''Endgame''.
171	* TheChessmaster: 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.
172	* CriminalMindGames: She's driven by a love of complex games, and even manipulates people [[BoxedCrook from her cell]].
173	* DeadpanSnarker: Matches Boyd in this department, as another way of emphasising her status as his EvilCounterpart.
174	* DepravedBisexual: Is in a relationship with a woman in her final episode, but there's a lot of subtext between her and Peter.
175	* DiabolicalMastermind: She bludgeoned her boss, [[WardensAreEvil Governor Reading]] ([[AssholeVictim 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!
176	* DisneyVillainDeath: Falls to her death from the top of a building.
177	* TheDreaded: Even hardened inmates are terrified of her in her role as a prison guard, ''and'' a prisoner, referring to her as "[[HeWhoMustNotBeNamed the Beast]]."
178	* EvilBrit: With the series being set in Britain, this is a given, but she definitely has the accent and the vibe.
179	* EvilGenius: Is one of the most evil criminals the team face and probably the most intelligent.
180	* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Is a pretty attractive woman and a psychopathic serial killer.
181	* FauxAffablyEvil: Is unfailingly courteous and charming, even when threatening to murder you or someone you love.
182	* FortheEvulz: Her entire ''raison de'tre'', to the point that Creator/HeathLedger's [[Film/TheDarkKnight Joker]] would likely be impressed.
183	* GoOutWithASmile: Gives her trademark PsychoticSmirk before her DisneyVillainDeath.
184	* HannibalLecture: She's fond of these and could probably give the TropeNamer a run for his money.
185	* IndirectSerialKiller: Generally prefers to get others like Penny Cain and Michael Kelleher to commit murders on her behalf but isn't afraid of getting her own hands dirty.
186	* ItAmusedMe: Her main motive.
187	* ItsAllAboutMe: Only cares for her own power and intellectual stimulation.
188	* KarmaHoudini: She [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to her death]] with [[GoOutWithaSmile a mocking grin]] after outwitting Peter.
189	* KnightOfCerebus: ''Sins'', her debut episode is one of the darkest episodes of an already dark series and when she makes her reappearance in ''Endgame'', the stakes are higher than ever, and everyone in the team is [[TheDreaded terrified by her involvement]].
190	* KickTheDog: If dogs were footballs, she'd be Marta Vieira da Silva.
191	* ManipulativeBitch: Her entire shtick. She uses others like pawns on a chessboard to achieve her goals, only rarely killing people personally.
192	* {{Narcissist}}: Calling her self-aggrandizing would be an understatement.
193	* PsychoLesbian: 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.
194	* PsychopathicWomanchild: Tends to get very giddy off her malevolence, and her evil plans are all just intellectual games for her personal amusement.
195	* PsychoticSmirk: Her default expression after her true nature is revealed.
196	* {{Sadist}}: Of the emotional kind.
197	* SadisticChoice: Tries to force Peter to murder Penny Cain by threatening to kill Grace if he doesn't.
198	* SmartPeoplePlayChess: It's part of her whole MagnificentBitch status.
199	* SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish: Dangerously intelligent and with an RP accent.
200	* SmugSmiler: Gives a mocking smile whenever everything's going according to plan, [[TheChessmaster which is usually the case for her]].
201	* TheSociopath: 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.
202	* SoftSpokenSadist: Never raises her voice once.
203	* TomTheDarkLord: Linda Cummings is a very normal-sounding name for an EvilGenius. Then again "Cummings" does rhyme with "[[MeaningfulName cunning]]".
204	* 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 lengths she won't go to to achieve her goals.
205	* VillainousCheekbones: Being played by Ruth Gemmell, she has high, sharp, graceful cheekbones.
206	* WickedCultured: Well-spoken, well-educated and a metaphorical and literal [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]].
207	* WorthyOpponent: Has this opinion of Boyd.
208	* YouKilledMyFather: [[KicktheDog Reveals]] that she got Penny Cain to murder Boyd's son.
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210	!![[spoiler:Adam Duke]] / "the Shepherd"
211	->'''Played by:''' Laurence Penry-Jones
212	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 MillionairePlayboy out to beat the rap for [[SelfMadeOrphan 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]].]]
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214	* AbusiveParents: 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.
215	* TheBadGuyWins: He gets away with everything in the end.
216	* 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, Briony.
217	* BigFancyHouse: 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.
218	* 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.
219	* TheCasanova: He’s established as a serial womaniser early in the episode, flirting with attractive waitress Faye Harding in front of the equally beautiful Briony.
220	* TheChessmaster: After murdering his father for trying to throw him out of the house, he makes his psychotic lover, Faye, 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 Faye 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.
221	* ChessMotifs: Has a chessboard in his house for him to practice on himself with, {{foreshadowing}} how he manipulates everyone else like pieces on a chessboard.
222	* ConsummateLiar: 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.
223	* CreepyChild: In the flashback of him playing Chess with his Dad, he gives this vibe.
224	* DeadpanSnarker: 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.”
225	* {{Determinator}}: Goes so far as to throw a pan of boiling water in his face to make himself look like a victim, and later to non-fatally stab himself. He certainly has high levels of endurance, that’s for sure.
226	* DiabolicalMastermind: In his role as the Shepherd, he manipulates mentally ill women into committing murders in order to cover his own tracks.
227	* TheDogBitesBack: 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.
228	* TheDreaded: Greatly feared by the people who know him as the Shepherd.
229	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: He’s pale, with long brown hair and a face that [[UncannyValley barely moves]], in addition to being a Diabolical Mastermind who murdered his father and stepmother and commits other murders via his proxies.
230	* EvenEvilHasStandards: It seems he wouldn’t hurt a child, given that the fact that he rescues the infant Joshua Bloom from the house fire his sister started on his orders.
231	* EvilGenius: {{Lampshaded}} by Boyd, who points out that the reason he made his plan so complex is to [[EvilGloating emphasise his genius]].
232	* EvilSoundsDeep: Has a baritone voice and when he speaks over the phone using a voice distorter, it sounds even deeper. Funnily enough, the script indicates that his phone voice was meant to be a CreepyHighPitchedVoice, ala [[Series/TheMentalist Red John]].
233	* FailedASpotCheck: He forgot to pour away Faye’s glass of champagne before letting the police into the house, tipping off Boyd that he has company.
234	* FauxAffablyEvil: Comes across as polite, charming and willing to help in every scene in which he appears but is actually the murderer.
235	* 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 [[GoneHorriblyRight raised him to be as ruthless as he was]] and had unreasonably high expectations for him.
236	* AGlassOfChianti: A glass of ''champagne'' actually. He and Faye are sipping bubbly 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 [[SmugSmiler smugly looks on]], sipping his drink.
237	* AGodAmI: 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]].
238	* TheHedonist: 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.
239	* HeroKiller: By proxy. One of his minions kills Mel.
240	* IdleRich: Is rich and unemployed, leaving him with plenty of time to form his evil schemes.
241	* 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.
242	* 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 Gary.
243	* IndirectSerialKiller: Murdered his father himself but carries out the rest of his murders via proxies, until he kills Faye that is. After stabbing his father, he sent Faye to kill Lindsay Duke but Faye couldn't do it and Lindsay died from a heart attack after grabbing the electric fence.
244	* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: 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.
245	* IronicEcho: His father’s motto was “[[BadassCreed You’re only as strong as your weakest link]]” and he believed that Gary 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 Gary 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.
246	* ItsAllAboutMe: Everything he does over the course of the episode is to avoid going to gaol for the murder of his father and stepmother, Lindsay, 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.
247	* KarmaHoudini: 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.
248	* KnightOfCerebus: Not that the show was ever exactly lighthearted to being with but he [[HeroKiller causes the death of one of the main characters]], resulting in it developing a sadder tone and leaving the team traumatised.
249	* {{Leitmotif}}: A very grand, haunting one which plays whenever the main characters are discussing “the Shepherd” or his plans are unfolding onscreen.
250	* LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has long brown hair and is described in the script as “delicately handsome.”
251	* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: In addition to [[BerserkButton screwing Faye on his Dad's kitchen table]], Faye says they made love in every room in the house, including in his parents' bedroom. She's schizophrenic so she may have imagined it because she admits to having difficulty differentiating between her hallucinations and reality.
252	* ManipulativeBastard: When his abusive father tries to throw him out of the house, 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.
253	* 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 Dad’s BigFancyHouse, making him a metaphorical lord of the manor, like a Duke.
254	* MillionairePlayboy: Had an attractive fiance and a lover on the sly and while his family's net worth is never stated, the fact that his Dad is (or was) a corporate exec with a mansion and a swimming pool suggests that it's in the seven digits.
255	* MindRape: How he gains control of his victims.
256	* 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 [[SelfMadeOrphan he killed his father]].
257	* {{Narcissist}}: Before his true identity is revealed, he’s profiled as one of these by Grace. He has a huge God complex, taking on the name “the Shepherd”, as in [[AGodAmI the Lord is thy Shepherd]] to manipulate women into committing killings on his behalf, and he murdered his father so that he took take his house and inherit his fortune, thereby usurping his father’s power, which is described as grandiose and Machiavellian by Boyd.
258	* OedipusComplex: He murders his father to take his power. His mother is absent so thankfully this is a version that lacks the [[BrainBleach sexual component]].
259	* OverlordJr: Son of a ruthless corporate exec whom he murders and whose house, fortune and presumably business he inherits.
260	* PsychoKnifeNut: Stabbed his father and lover with a carving knife and stabbed himself non-fatally with the same knife he used to kill Faye to [[WoundedGazelleGambit make it look like self-defence]].
261	* PsychopathicManchild: Boyd notes that he and Faye go about their plan “very childishly.”
262	* TheRedBaron: Is known as “the Shepherd” by his minions, as that’s the name he tells them to call him by.
263	* SelfMadeOrphan: His mother is already dead, he fatally stabbed his father in the neck and sent his lover to murder his stepmother.
264	* SlasherSmile: Sports one of these as Boyd looks away at Faye’s dead body in the swimming pool, [[KarmaHoudini having got away with murder]].
265	* SmartPeoplePlayChess: 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 story line, manipulates everyone else like pieces on a chessboard.
266	* 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.
267	* SmugSmiler: Gives a smug smile having killed Faye and telling Boyd “[[EvilGloating She’s got nothing to say]].”
268	* TheSociopath: 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.
269	* TheStoic: [[VillainousValour 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!
270	* TheUnfavourite: He was his father’s only child but his father considered him a disappointment.
271	* TheUnfettered: 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.
272	* VillainOfTheWeek: Albeit one with [[SmallRoleBigImpact a lasting effect]].
273	* WellDoneSonGuy: Started off as one of these, until he made up his mind that he would never have his father’s respect.
274	* 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]].
275	* 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.
276	* WickedCultured: Speaks the Queen English, comes from a wealthy family, has a BigFancyHouse, knows The Bible and drinks [[AGlassOfChianti champagne]].
277	* WouldHitAGirl: Would STAB a girl!
278	* WouldntHurtAChild: Seems to be the case, given that he rescued Joshua Bloom from the fire he got his sister Natasha to start, as no other reason is given in the episode.
279	* WoundedGazelleGambit: 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.
280	* 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.
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282	!!Mr. Irani
283	->'''Played by:''' Paul Bhattacharjee
284	A powerful Indian businessman.
285	* BerserkButton: Having his plans even slightly thwarted will send him into a murderous rage.
286	* {{Blackmail}}: Forced the brother of one of the victims of his fraudulent medicines to take the fall for one of his murders by threatening to kill his family if he didn't.
287	* ColdBloodedTorture: Tortured a police officer.
288	* CopKiller: And killed him.
289	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Deals fake medicine internationally.
290	* {{Greed}}: His entire driving force.
291	* DrugsAreBad: They're how he made his empire and he aims to establish a base in London.
292	* HeKnowsTooMuch: His goal in the episode in which he appears is to silence anyone who has information on his illicit dealings.
293	* LeaveNoWitnesses: He's willing to kill any [[AMillionIsAStatistic number of people]] to protect his profits.
294	* SharpDressedMan: As a wealthy businessman, he always wears a suit.
295	* TheSociopath: A high-functioning version, like Linda Cummings and Adam Duke.
296	* WouldHitAGirl: Strangles the widow of one of his victims to death.
297	* WouldHurtAChild: Doesn't care that his counterfeit medicine caused the deaths of thirty children in Gujarat.
298	[[/folder]]
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