A character subpage for the Criminal Case game, focusing on major characters from the fourth season.
Mysteries of the Past focuses on the corruption of the Concordian Police Department despite its neutral alignment with the Concordian Flying Squad, so members of the Concordian Police Department also have their own folder. Likewise, the latter half of the season has the Rochester family as major antagonists, so they also have a folder of their own.
Major spoilers abound.
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The Concordian Flying Squad
Arthur Wright
- Da Chief: He plays nice with high authority, but he'll subvert them if it means catching crooks.
- Gold Digger: Discussed. When Arthur mentions about courting a certain Bernandine Rochester, Maddie fears that the chief is more attracted to the young lady's wealth than her own person.
- The Men First: He keeps mementos of former officers who died under his charge. He hopes to use technology to minimize risk for officers.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He's under a lot of pressure with corrupt officials all around (whom he relies upon to keep the Flying Squad in operation), but he can buy the main characters time through his negotiations.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: He's dressed to the nines, and constantly fixing his tie.
- Slave to PR: Arthur is constantly wining and dining with high officials.
Madeline "Maddie" O'Malley
- The Alcoholic: She can't attend one gathering without becoming drunk at the end.
- Drives Like Crazy: Is apparently very reckless with her MadMobile.
- Lady Drunk: Loves her absinthe, and when she finds a collection of liquor bottles, bemoans that they are not full. Later gets absolutely plastered at a party. After Prohibition is enacted, she snarks that getting splashed in the face with a whiskey punch was the closest thing to a drink she'd had in weeks. Once it ends, she gets so plastered she needs a miracle hangover cure.
- Relationship Upgrade: Gradually grows close with Charlie over the course of Mysteries of the Past. At first she requested for him to fake-date her, then they started living together, and finally, soon after Maddie announces her pregnancy, they get engaged.
- Trademark Favorite Drink: Absinthe.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Admonishes Rose for playing poker with Vinnie Costa before he died. Rose remarks that that allowed her to keep her eye on him and not be bored at the same time.
Isaac Bontemps
- Crazy-Prepared: The final case has him wear one of Rose's bulletproof vests and he survives being shot by Lawson this way. The shock from Isaac surviving Lawson's bullet was the opening needed to kill Lawson.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Always up for a good brawl.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: His good and fatherly demeanor is exemplified with his love of his pipe.
- High-Class Glass: He's the most highbrow out of all the Squad members — what with his love for chess, pipes and gourmet food — and he wears a monocle to reflect that.
- Smart People Play Chess: Isaac loves the game, and it plays a role in two of the cases.
- The epilogue of "Sweet Revenge" has Isaac finding a chess set at Rockley Rochester's chocolate factory with the pieces broken. Charlie discovers it's the pieces are made of chocolate with an edible metal coating, and he helps Isaac repair them. Once restored, he returns the set to Rockley, who gives Isaac his own chocolate chess set in gratitude.
- "Checkmate" becomes a case where It's Personal when the victim, Casper Rove, is a young chessmaster than Isaac played chess-by-mail with. When Casper is murdered before being able to play a chess-playing robot, the Chessmaton, he makes it his mission to find his Casper's killer. Afterwards, the robot's inventor, Celine Georges, asks Isaac to play against the robot as Casper had also mentioned to her about how good Isaac's ability is. (He manages to beat the robot with a three move checkmate.)
- Straight Man: With the foibles of his squad on full display, Bontemps is always the straight-laced one.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Is extremely afraid of horses. He gets over it after Case 40 when he rides a pony.
Richard "Dick" Wells
- Mushroom Samba: Trips out on mushrooms.
- No Social Skills: His profile says he is bad at speaking to people, and his idea of an introduction is to ask the player to participate in a human experimentation.
- Playing with Syringes: A surprisingly benevolent example, as he makes medications in his spare time, even asking the player to help him test them.
- Professor Guinea Pig: Has no qualms in testing his theories on himself. For example, he deliberately kept himself awake for three days to study the effect of sleep deprivation on human beings.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: When he throws on his hat, and wears a jacket not covered in blood, he's actually quite handsome.
- Tested on Humans: Like Dr. Metcalf, but a significantly more benevolent version. He invents new surgical and medical procedures.
Viola Pemberton
- Broken Pedestal: Once she finally realizes that her father wants nothing to do with her, and only got close to Viola so he can further his clan's ambitions.
- Gene Hunting: She tests out Charlie's DNA testing machine on a lark, only to discover her father isn't actually her father. She's determined to find the real father, despite her mother's objections.
- Heroic Bastard: Revealed to be the product of an illicit affair (the woman she grew up with is her mother, her father is Horatio Rochester). Nonetheless, she's firmly on the side of good as part of the Flying Squad, even after reuniting with her true father.
- Retcon: Her age is first shown as 55 in her character bio, but was changed to 42 in her quasi-suspect profile.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: She has a very ornate way of speaking. Justified in her case, as she is a Shakespearean actress in her free time.
- Sweet Tooth: Is revealed to be well-known for her love of candy in Case 9 of Mysteries of the Past, tries to beg candy off of Issac and only declines sampling the chocolate found at the crime scene in because A) it's evidence and B) it's contaminated.
- Tested on Humans: A non-nefarious version, as she dabbles in chemistry in her free time. She makes many different perfumes and likes the rest of the squad to test them out. Maddie...is less than thrilled.
- Unwitting Pawn: Horatio Rochester predictably uses Viola to steal the confiscated Anti-Free Press bill. Viola has a My God, What Have I Done? when she realized her mistake.
Charles "Charlie" Armand Dupont
- Heroic Sacrifice: To keep from exposing Diego as a traitor with Lawson present, Charlie admits to being one. Diego's forced to kill Charlie to keep his cover. This is the final case.
- Nice Guy: Is kind and helpful to everyone on the squad.
- Ship Tease: Flirts with Maddie much more when she asks him to playact as her husband to get Maddie's nagging mother off of her back. Eventually, they move in together.
- Spanner in the Works: Ends up foiling the Get-Rich-Quick Scheme of Joseph Prior (who died in "Talk of the Town") and Larry Rochester who murdered Deputy Mayor Sandra Hwang when she wouldn't let Leopold Rochester take the fall for his son by saying he'll put in the work to establish the "Concordia Telephone Company" as a real enterprise (using the recovered funds) if Diego would help with the financial end of it. Meaning the bondholders for the Concordia Telephone Company won't feel cheated.
Evelyn "Evie" Holloway
- Cute Bookworm: The youngest member of the Squad, Evie is a naive and bright-eyed researcher who rarely leaves her library.
- The Ditz: She's somewhat scatterbrained and prone to misplace her stuffs.
- Relationship Upgrade: She starts dating Katherine Woolf in the Wolf Street arc.
- Sitcom Archnemesis: With Ratsputin, who often chews on her books.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Her twin Nicholas. If it wasn't for his brown hair and five o'clock shadow, they'd be Half-Identical Twins.
- Took a Level in Badass: Discussed and subverted. Evie attempted to prove she was more capable than 'just a nerd' by stowing away to help in the shootout with Maddie, Isaac, and Rose. But because she's got no skill, she just ends up getting badly injured.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: She has trouble grasping some of the more horrible things people do.
Rose Zhao
- Action Girl: Just like Isaac, she's not one to hold back when it comes to combat. Especially shown in Case 29 during the duel against Vittorio and his gang.
- Artificial Limbs: Her right arm is prosthetic, and so is her rat Ratsputin's right front leg.
- Enemy Mine: Forms one with Catastrophe Joan, whom she has a bitter history with when she once worked as a Bounty Hunter, in order to bring down Vittorio Capecchi and his goons when they challenged the Flying Squad to a shoot-out.
- Handicapped Badass: Lost an arm in a street fight and operates with a prosthetic. Doesn't stop her from being a fearsome member of the Squad.
- More Dakka: Likes bigger and better guns.
- Multiple-Choice Past: She has different stories about how she lost her arm. It's either from a street fight, dog mauling or an accident due to a failed weapon testing.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Owns a rat named Ratsputin. Like her, Ratsputin has a prosthetic limb.
- Stout Strength: A big woman, and was quite skilled in street brawls.
Diego Del Lobo
- Ambiguously Bi: His attraction to women is unambiguous, as evidenced by his constant flirting with Maddie early on, but in "Hold Your Tongue", he is seen hitting on Mayor Castletown in order to get him off of Maddie's and the player character's backs. It's never made clear if he is attracted to men or if it was just a one-time thing.
- Calling Card: He uses the symbol of a wolf as a mark on anything he created as a forgery. This helps when someone steals a counterfeit plate he made to identify the funny money.
- The Charmer: He never misses the chance to try and sweet talk Madeline. He'll flirt with Evie in a pinch, too.
- Drowning My Sorrows: When he was flagged as a suspect after joining the Squad, Diego gets himself wasted because he thinks the rest of the Squad still doesn't trust him.
- The Gambling Addict: Mentions gambling, and losing some money, a few times. Also keeps a playing card (a ten of hearts) in his pocket.
- Gentleman Thief: He's a pickpocket and an art thief, in addition to being a forger, but he blends in well with Concordia's high society while attending Mr. Alastor's balls.
- Guest-Star Party Member: Not in the same way as Lawson: the Flying Squad has enlisted his help in forgeries. This lends itself to handwriting analysis.
- Hopeless Suitor: He frequently flirts with Maddie, but she regards his efforts as annoying than anything else. Then Maddie starts dating Charlie, thus sealing Diego's status as a hopeless suitor.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He's quite disappointed when he found out that Maddie had started going out with Charlie, but he's willing to let it go as long as she's happy, and even prepares a portrait of the couple for their wedding gift.
- The Man Behind the Man: When Charlie offers to make the Concordia Telephone Company a real enterprise to avoid the fallout of their bonds being part of a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme, he asks Diego to help with the financial aspects of running the company.
- Overly Long Name: His full name is Diego Alejandro Montoya Esteban del Lobo.
- Present Company Excluded: Once he was caught reminiscing about a caper he pulled, until he remembered that he's currently within earshot of (then-Chief of Justice) Justin Lawson. Lawson was not amused.
- The Profiler: Not one per se, but when he analyzes handwriting, he picks up on little details about the writer.
- Put on a Bus: After helping orchestrate a jailbreak in Case 55, Justin Lawson ordered that Diego be sacked from the Flying Squad. Diego decides to take his leave so as not to endanger his squadmates from Lawson's wrath.
- Shipper on Deck: Once Evie chooses to be with Katherine, and Charlie and Maddie start growing closer to one another, Diego is incredibly supportive of either couple.
Recurring Characters in Mysteries of the Past (Contains Spoilers)
Judge Satoshi Takakura
- The Bus Came Back:
- He briefly returns from retirement to judge Finley Flanagan, mainly because Justin Lawson was a suspect in that case. He goes back to retirement, however.
- Upon Justin Lawson's ascension as Deputy Mayor at the end of the Grim Chapel arc, Takakura is pulled out of retirement again and returns to being judge.
- Celibate Hero: He never married, and even though he was close friends with a very desirable young woman in the form of Yuri Ishida, he never took any romantic interest in her.
- Jade-Colored Glasses: Years of serving as a judge have turned him from a Wide-Eyed Idealist into a cynic, hence his plan to retire.
- My Greatest Failure: He explains that the sentencing of Archie Rochester is a perfect example of the crimes he failed to uphold, as the rich and powerful get slaps on the wrist.
- Sacrificial Lion: He is the victim of Case 55, showing just how much disarray Concordia is in after Justin Lawson's inauguration as mayor.
Justin Lawson
- Big Bad Slippage: Justin is introduced as an idealistic district attorney who hopes to build a better future for Concordia where no more crime will exist, and slowly climbs his way up until he becomes Mayor while maintain his camaraderie with the Flying Squad. However, once he takes the office as Mayor, he becomes a despotic tyrant, believing that dictatorship is the only way to curb the rampant corruption and crime in Concordia. He ends up becoming the main villain the Flying Squad has to beat to restore freedom in the city.
- Cynicism Catalyst: The death of his betrothed a few days before their wedding (and the slap on the wrist her killers received) was his inspiration for becoming a lawyer in the first place. This, and the corrupt politicians and police officers he has to deal with on a regular basis—which leads to his attempted murder at the hands of a newly initiated Police Commissioner is implied to cause his eventual Jumping Off the Slippery Slope.
- Guest-Star Party Member: He occasionally assists the Flying Squad in the Additional Investigations, but never officially joins their team, unlike Diego del Lobo.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He's one of the nicest people around, especially considering everyone else in high society is varying shades of Jerkass. Sadly subverted upon becoming mayor, when he imposes extreme and oppressive methods in the name of justice.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: He shows signs of extremism when the Court fails to bring Mr. Alastor to justice, and the sheer amount of corruption displayed by city officials causes him to become increasingly frustrated and paranoid. He finally snaps when he's almost assassinated by a corrupt former officer who was released from prison by the even more corrupt police commissioner, and this causes him to become a tyrant when he's sworn in as mayor.
- Keystone Army: Just as the Flying Squad anticipated, the Justice Corps gave up without a fight after Lawson was shot dead by Isaac.
- Knight Templar: His drive for justice and paranoia about police corruption leads him to form the Justice Corps and seize power when he becomes Mayor.
- The Lost Lenore: His betrothed, Abigail. He still carries her obituary in his wallet.
- Mayor Pain: After becoming mayor, he quickly turns Concordia into a police state, doing away with civil liberties and forming a State Sec.
- Meaningful Name: Justin Lawson is a lawyer who possesses a strong sense of justice. Taken to a monstrous extreme when as Mayor he imposes martial law as a result of not just the attempt on his life but the murder of then-Mayor Castletown.
- Properly Paranoid: His distrust of the police was reinforced when Commissioner Mulroney, being bribed by Malcolm Rochester, released Eleanor Halsted to kill him (she eventually kills Mayor Castletown). This causes him to believe only a force loyal to him will be able to bring true justice. After he seemingly kills Isaac, he is successfully killed by the recovering Isaac, who wore one of Rose's bulletproof vests.
- Rage Quit: Mr. Alastor getting off the hook in spite of his crimes caused Lawson to leave the Flying Squad's ship in anger and disgust. However, when Judge Takakura thinks about retiring for good, Justin returns to say he wants to succeed Takakura.
- Sympathy for the Devil: In the end, the Squad acknowledge that Lawson was ultimately trying to do what's good for Concordia, if only he wasn't being extreme about it.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: He is initially introduced as a friendly and kind-hearted District Attorney who wishes to uphold justice in the city and protect innocent citizens. After Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, all traces of this kindness has disappeared, and he is shown to be an austere and merciless tyrant who is willing to bring back the death sentence, which had been abolished, to punish criminals.
- Tyrant Takes the Helm: As mayor of Concordia, Justin imposed an oppressive regime that includes forming a militia loyal to him alone called the Justice Corps, abolishing the free press, arresting people arbitrarily, and executing suspected lawbreakers.
- Waistcoat of Style: Natural for the time period.
- We Can Rule Together: He expressed disappointment in the Flying Squad (and especially the player character) in that they could have helped him usher Concordia into a peaceful, crime-free era.
- You Are in Command Now: Becomes the judge of Concordia upon Judge Takakura's retirement. After "Unsafe Haven", he becomes Deputy Mayor upon the murder of Sandra Hwang at Larry Rochester's hands in "The Heart of the Matter".
Lady Minerva Highmore
- Advertised Extra: Shows up in the preview images for Mysteries of the Past in the place usually taken by the seasons' chief of police. She mainly shows up in Elysium Fields, where she was a suspect in two of the cases, then made minor appearances in subsequent districts. She may become more prominent later, but considering that the actual chief of police is clearly not going anywhere anytime soon, her position seems rather odd. Although, considering that she does indeed take a more significant role later on in the story, this could be considered a subversion.
- Anonymous Benefactor: To the Resistance; sending them supplies and her own money to help them in their uprising. After the resistance's base is compromised, she even offers her manor as their new hideout.
- Cool Old Lady: Friendly, knows everyone, and loves to celebrate.
- Spit Take: She was enjoying her "Dancing queen" drink, when she was asked about a photo that showed her in her youth as a dancer, alongside the victim Marta Ulanova. She does not want anyone to know about that aspect of her past.
Cornelius Castletown
- Alliterative Name: Cornelius Castletown.
- Boom, Headshot!: He dies via a crossbow bolt to the back of his head.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Enacts prohibition to prevent drunken brawls. He is on the other end of it in "Arrow of Injustice," when his "faults" get him killed by an arrow through the head.
- Large and in Charge: Portly dude, and in charge of the city.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Subverted. We can see that he tries. But he bungles his handling of a few cases, and is fond of sweeping grand movements when surgical precision would serve better.
- Slave to PR: Claims this, as he constantly goes to social events, contests, and the like.
Sandra Hwang
- Corrupt Politician: Downplayed. She's a highly ambitious woman whose top priority is to elevate herself in the high society. She's willing to compromise justice and would often interfere with the investigation to suck-up with the "elite" suspects. Then Larry Rochester reveals that her corruption goes beyond that — Sandra Hwang apparently accepts bribes from the Rochesters to turn a blind eye from their misdeeds.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Even though she's apparently corrupt, she refuses to let an innocent man rot in jail, and she threatens to arrest Larry Rochester for allowing his own father to take the fall for his crime. She gets murdered for it.
- Married to the Job: She doesn't seem to have a life outside her career and everything she does is done in order to advance her social standing. She has a husband, but their marriage is on the rocks because Sandra values her work more than her family, and ditched her 20th Marriage Anniversary to attend a work-related party.
Seamus O'Neill
- Bludgeoned to Death: While trying to defuse a bomb that was meant to blow him and Giulietta sky high, he ended up getting his head broken open with a standing ashtray.
- Redemption Equals Death: While Seamus isn't evil, he was a wanted criminal due to his Accidental Murder of Vittorio Capecchi, and being appointed leader of the Irish gang. Later, right after revealing that he and Giulietta were dismantling the gangs from the inside, he is murdered.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Giulietta Capecchi. She's the heiress of the Italian gang, which is at odds with the Irish. He ends up killed by an Irish gang member for being romantically involved with her.
- Unwitting Pawn: Not only does he get sold into slavery along with other Irish immigrants, he also gets tricked into releasing the Scarlet Slayer after her arrest.
Katherine Woolf
- Ambiguously Bi: She's in a relationship with a woman, but she's very flirty with men, going beyond simple flirting for a story.
- The Charmer: She loves to sweet talk.
- Damsel in Distress: For most of Capitol Peak, she is incarcerated as a member of the Resistance, and soon after that Lawson declares that there will be a mass public execution. Fortunately, Katherine was rescued at the end of the penultimate case.
- Friend in the Press: Occasionally works with the Flying Squad police force, using her expertise to assist with their investigations.
- Relationship Upgrade: Confirmed in the Wolf Street section that she's dating Evie.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Chews out the Flying Squad for not working faster on the Scarlet Slayer prostitute slayings.
Vittorio Capecchi
- Arc Villain: Despite having a recurring role, he gets more prominent during the Coyote Gorge arc.
- Affably Evil: He is beyond civil and welcoming to the Flying Squad. But he is an Italian mobster, and a ruthless one at that.
- Bald of Evil: He always wears a straw boater, so it's hard to see. But when you see his corpse, he's got male pattern baldness.
- Cruel and Unusual Death:He ends up with a cactus shoved down his throat, he choked on his own blood from the cactus cutting up the inside of his mouth.
- Dating Catwoman: Had a mutual affair with Fiona Flanagan, the female half of the head of the Irish mob. Of course, at the time, they weren't really enemies, although Vittorio's mother never approved of the relationship.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He's a ruthless mob leader, but he genuinely adores his two daughters, and even charged into a burning house to save one of them from a fire.
Giulietta Capecchi
- Abusive Parents: Averted with her father. He might be a gangster, but he deeply loves his daughter. Her mother on the other hand... would go as far as killing her own daughter for betraying the Italian gang.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: One of the most fair females in the franchise.
- Daddy's Little Villain: Sometimes. She's keen on taking over the mobster life after her father dies, but she decides against it.
- Meaningful Name: In English, her name translates to Juliet
, which is fitting, considering her "illicit" relationship with a member of the opposing Irish gang. - Rebel Leader: The head of the Resistance against Lawson's regime.
- Self-Harm: In case 36, the team finds a bloody knife in her bag and when they confront her again, she's wrapped her arms in bandages, implying this trope.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Her being an heiress of the Italian gang means that she can't openly pursue her romance with the Irish Seamus.
Marla de Paradis
- Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: She's the gentle girl to Isaac's brooding boy.
- Dude Magnet: Is the target of several men's affections including her deceased fiancée Barnaby Wilson (, Kev O'Connell and most notably, Isaac.
- Lady in Red: Her signature outfit being her red Cabaret Dress.
- The Lost Lenore: When we first meet her, she's a suspect for the murder of her fiancee Barnaby.
- Love Interest: Of Isaac Bontemps.
- Nice Girl: Always known to be a sweet and caring person when being spoken to or questioned for murder and near the end, is willing to take Colette and Paris as her children after they both lost their parents.
- Official Couple: She and Isaac end up together during case 44.
- Promotion to Parent: At the end of Case 57, she ends up becoming the adopted mother for Colette and Paris Baldwin.
Honorable Dora Umbright
- Captain Ersatz: Her name, appearance, and personality are based on Dolores Umbridge.
- Co-Dragons: To Justin Lawson with Inspector Jaubert.
- Hanging Judge: Sentenced Adelia Baldwin to 15 years in prison while ignoring her sympathetic motive to commit murder.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: She had no problem holding Maddie's baby hostage in order to weaken the Flying Squad but didn't show to cause any harm to him.
The Rochester Family
Horatio Rochester
- Cain and Abel: He resents the fact that his younger brother, Leopold, is so greatly loved by the people of Concordia while he himself is always painted as the bad guy. To really complete the metaphor, he kills Leopold.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: As the patriarch of the richest family in town, Horatio runs a couple of businesses, and he's willing to use the mafia to secure the best business deals for himself.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He proclaims himself The Man Behind the Man throughout the gang war between the Irish and Italians from the start of the Sinner's End saga to the end of Crimson Banks.
Leopold Rochester
- Cain and Abel: Leo is a gentle and kindly man who only wants the best for Concordia, and is willing to betray his family when their influence threaten to harm the common people. His brother Horatio is a Corrupt Corporate Executive who is willing to dirty his hands with bribery and murder to ensure that his family could seize power over the city. To really complete the metaphor, he gets murdered by Horatio.
- Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: Leopold's good-hearted persona is called into question when he publicly endorses a shady telephone company, which many people invest into. When the company is revealed to be fake/non-existent, the Squad assume that he's just as corrupt as the rest of his family after all. But his name is eventually cleared when it is revealed that he has nothing to do with the scam. Larry was the one who came up with the fake company scheme and lied to his father about it. Leopold endorsed the company because he trusted his son. He was genuinely surprised when the player told him about the scam, but he willingly took the fall to protect Larry from arrest.
- White Sheep: The Rochesters are a family of entitled and corrupt politicians and/or businessmen who thinks that their money allows them to do whatever they want, and attempts to use their influence to take over Concordia. However, Leopold has been consistently described as a gentle soul who is very unlike the rest of his family. He disagrees with his family's plans and even helped the Flying Squad remove Malcolm Rochester from the Senator's office.
Archie Rochester/ Mr. Alastor
- Asshole Victim: A mastermind of multiple murders who then ends up getting murdered in Case 51.
- Bratty Half-Pint: He's the youngest Rochester introduced in the season, and is one of the most obnoxious of them all. The other members of the family are usually willing to pretend to be polite when interacting with the player, even as they plot to break the law behind the player's back. Not so with Archie, who is rude and petty.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: His ultimate fate, courtesy of a lobbyist.
- Hate Sink: Aside from being a perpetual Jerkass, he shows no redeeming qualities, and his crimes are motivated by petty reasons, such as masterminding six murders in Elysium Fields just to win Giulietta's heart, which thankfully failed.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Archie is first introduced as a somewhat spoiled, yet mostly soft-spoken and unobtrusive character. He gets briefly sent off to Switzerland for orchestrating a series of proxy murders as Mr. Alastor by the end of the Elysium Fields arc. When he returns 2 arcs later, he has become exceedingly egoistical and big-headed, being quick to sing praises to himself and throw insults at others for no reason at all.
Larry Rochester
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Downplayed. Larry is an unemployed drunk who apparently throws a fit when Deputy Mayor Sandra Hwang tried to offer him a job, and he even defaces Sandra's portrait in response. By contrast, his brother is an innovative businessman who can at least make his own living instead of just resting on his family's wealth. However, Rockley is eccentric and can be just as irresponsible as Larry when it comes to spending money.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: He may be a useless moocher most of the time, but he is actually devious enough to fool the entire nation of Concordia into investing for a fake company, and manipulated his own father to take the fall. Then he murdered the Deputy Mayor when she tried to stand against his evil schemes.
Malcolm Rochester
- Abusive Parents: He beats Archie with a belt as a form of discipline.
- Arc Villain: Forms one with his uncle Horatio Rochester and the commissioner Thaddeus Mulroney during the Ivory Hill arc.
- Hookers and Blow: What he gets up to in his free time.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He bribed Commissioner Mulroney into letting Eleanor Halstead out to kill Justin Lawson, which brought back his distrust of the Concordian Police. Thanks to her killing Mayor Castletown, Lawson was able to seize power and impose martial law over the city with his secret police arresting anyone he considers a threat to Concordia's peace and justice.
Bernadine Rochester
- Official Couple: She and Chief Wright end up dating.
- Riches to Rags: After the downfall of the Rochesters, she becomes a vagrant and is forced into hiding from Lawson's regime.
- White Sheep: While she can be a bit haughty, she's actually quite a decent person, and her feelings for Chief Wright are genuine. In fact, she refused to use her relationship with Wright to spy on the Squad, even under threat of being sent to the asylum.
Rockley Rochester
- Alliterative Name: Rockley Rochester.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's eccentric, but he is college-educated and runs the bank fairly well, if not as good as his cousin.
- Captain Ersatz: With his brightly coloured suit, top-hat, eccentric personality, and his ownership of a famous confectionery company, Rockley is definitely based on Willy Wonka.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Downplayed. Rockley is a successful businessman who briefly took on his late cousin's position as a banker and is definitely the more dutiful brother compared to his drunken layabout brother Larry. However, Rockley can be reckless in spending his money, and his father considers him quite irresponsible with finances nonetheless.
- White Sheep: He's nothing but friendly, and in fact, enthusiastically carries on his father's dream of sponsoring inventors.
Veronica Rochester
Archie's mother and Malcolm's husband.
Clarissa Rochester
- Lipstick Lesbian: Very feminine and involved with her maid Francine. That's what gets her killed.
- Non-Idle Rich: Unlike Larry or the other Concordians, Clarissa believes in hard work.
- Power Hair: Not to the extent of Karen Knight, but short hair and a powerful woman who knows how to make money.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Combined with Plot-Triggering Death, her murder was the first in a chain of events that led Wolf Street into a financial crisis.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She's introduced as a murder victim.
Patricia Rochester
- Boom, Headshot!: At the end of the Grim Chapel district, she gets her brains blown out by Sylvia May.
- Cloudcuckoolander: After all, she is in an insane asylum. However, she only started to lose her mind after being committed.
- Sacrificial Lamb: Sylvia May ends up killing her after she exposes the Devil to the player to avoid being exposed as his accomplice. Her death serves to demonstrate the lengths that the Devil and Sylvia would go to in their dealings, as Patricia was in no way as evil as the other Rochesters as far as is visible and is entirely harmless considering she is insane and locked up in the asylum.
- The Paranoiac: She is very paranoid and even believes that there is a conspiracy going on against her, which led to her attempting to sedate Sylvia May when she refused to believe her.
Viola Pemberton
- See Concordian Flying Squad folder
The Concordian Police Department
Talmadge Baldwin
- Abusive Parents: Wanted to send his daughter to an institution for fallen women when he found out she was pregnant with her dead fiancé's baby.
- Big Good: Zigzagged. As the Commissioner of the Police Force, he plays a role in the founding of the Flying Squad, and he expresses his support to their mission to root out the Internal Affairs within the law enforcement department. However, he himself has been suspected for murder a number of times. He ultimately plays this straight by proving to never be in the killer in any of the cases.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: He does not appreciate being treated as a suspect, largely due to the fact that he vastly outranks the Player Character.
- Tongue Trauma: His tongue gets cut off in the same case where he's murdered.
Edward Whimple
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He's just a low-ranking, and often overlooked, evidence clerk in the CPD. Then, it is revealed that he is the one behind the Irish immigrant exploitation scheme, and masterminded the fire in order to hide the evidence.
Eleanor Halsted
- Ax-Crazy: After being in prison, she eventually came to the conclusion that the only people worthy of running Concordia are the gang leaders, which led her to sniping Mayor Castletown with a crossbow and attempting to gun down Justin Lawson. Apparently prison has... certainly affected her psyche.
- Dirty Cop: Like so many on the force, she neglects her duty to uphold justice and accepts bribes for her own benefit. After she was arrested for the murder of Celine Georges, the player discovers that she has been working for the Irish Gang.
- Hired Guns: She was hired by Stanley Spark to sabotage many of the best World Fair Exhibition entries so that the latter could win, and ended up murdering Celine Georges to cover up this scheme. She is later hired to kill Justin Lawson and is released from prison to do so, but fails and kills Mayor Castletown instead.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: She was bad enough to not just be corrupt and murderous, but failing to murder Justin and succeeding in murdering Mayor Castletown put the wounded and disillusioned Deputy Mayor Justin Lawson into the right spot to seize power because of not just the attempt on his life but the recent murder of his predecessor. She gave him the final reason for him to make sure the Tyrant Takes the Helm.
Constable Ramirez
- Generation Xerox: He's the ancestor of Eduardo Ramirez from Grimsborough, and he plays almost the exact same role as his modern counterpart. They share the same last name, look similar to each other, are the butt monkeys of their respective seasons, and have an affinity with the frying pan. The difference is that Constable Ramirez got hit by a frying pan instead of using it as a weapon.
- Token Good Teammate: One of a few members of the Concordian Police Department who wasn't a Dirty Cop.
Thaddeus Mulroney
- Sketchy Successor: While Talmadge Baldwin was at least a Reasonable Authority Figure despite his flaws and mistreatment of his daughter, Thaddeus teamed up with the Rochesters in helping them rise to power by releasing Eleanor Halsted from prison and ordering her to assassinate Cornelius Castletown and Justin Lawson. She succeeded in killing the former.
