A subpage from the Criminal Case game, focusing on major characters from the fifth season.
Major spoilers abound.
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New Grimsborough PD in The Conspiracy
David Jones
- See Grimsborough PD folder
Eduardo Ramirez
- See Grimsborough PD folder
Cathy Turner
- See Recurring Characters in Grimsborough folder
Diane Parker
- Black Boss Lady: She's black and the chief of police.
- Da Chief
- Happily Married: To historian and former archaeology professor Ray Parker.
Gloria Hayes
- Amicable Exes: Despite being divorced, Jake Hayes and herself are on friendly terms as shown in Case 41. Exploited by Ad Astra when they kidnap Jake and Carter to divert the Grimsborough PD's attention from their prison break to rescuing them.
- Damsel in Distress: She was kidnapped by the Rocket Cow Killer in Case 6.
- Mama Bear: Shown in spades in Case 22 when her son and Olive Powell go missing. Luckily they turn out to be fine, goofing around in Marcus Butler's studio. Played much straighter in Case 55 when Carter had been kidnapped.
- Good Parents: She's trying to be one. During her first meeting with the player, she reasons they can get to know each other while they go help get a gift for her son's upcoming birthday.
- Plucky Girl: Nothing can put Gloria's determination down for long.
Gabriel Herrera
- Beta Couple: He has a girlfriend, Sofia, who he has a very happy relationship with.
- Big Brother Instinct: Every time Julian Ramis makes an appearance, Gabriel goes out of his way to care for him, as he's had a rough life and untreated depression. He even manages to convince the Dean of Grimsborough University to give Julian a chance at a better future.
- He also shows this towards Amir, particularly when Rupert is murdered and Jasper had been hiding things from the PD, leaving Amir devastated.
- Hates Being Nicknamed: He makes the player clear that he prefers to be called by his first name instead of "Gabe" as how Jones called him when he presented him to the player for the first time.
- Long-Distance Relationship: His relationship with Sofia Quadrelli. Turns out to be a good one without much trouble.
- The Mole: In Old Town, Gabriel poses as a member of The Higher Truth to infiltrate the cult and tell the Grimsborough PD what they're up to.
- Nice Guy: The team really is fond of Gabriel's open-minded and loving nature.
- The Profiler: His role in the Grimsborough PD.
Martine Meunier
- All Women Are Lustful: She loves the male form.
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: She's the beauty to Rita's brawn and Cathy's brains.
- Beware the Nice Ones: While she's usually very friendly, one of her appearances has her having a bitter argument with another French man over wine.
- The Bus Came Back: Returned to her home country at the end of The Conspiracy, so she makes a guest appearance in City of Romance.
- Find the Cure!: In Case 28, Martine is put in critical condition after being bitten by a Demon Fish, which pressures Rupert to find an antidote to the venom quickly.
- Gratuitous French: Occasionally slips into this from time to time. Justified in the sense that she's actually French and that most of it is grammatically correct. Bonus points for the fact that Pretty Simple is actually French.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: She and Rita are shown to be very good friends.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Whether it's dead bodies or horror movies, Martine is fascinated by the macabre. Her tattoo even means "death is nothing".
Rita Estevez
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: She's the brawn to Cathy's brains and Martine's beauty.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Decides to take Amir's enhanced serum to stop the Neohuman army, knowing full well that she will die shortly after.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Martine, to the point where Rita threatens to set a river on fire if something happens to her.
- Power Dyes Your Hair: Her hair turns blue after the taking the human enhancement serum.
- Precious Puppy: In Case 26, she adopts a Doberman puppy, Hector.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: In Case 4, she wears a white and pink dress, lipstick, red hairband, and heart brooch during her date with her boyfriend Marcus Cannon.
- Sleeves Are for Wimps: Wears a tank top and is the toughest-looking member of the PD.
- Spicy Latina: Hispanic, tough, wears a tank top, and feisty when the situation calls for it.
- Vasquez Always Dies: She ends up performing a Heroic Sacrifice during the Once a Season Tonight, Someone Dies climax.
Rupert Winchester
- Brits Love Tea: Rupert is British and loves a good cup of tea, even trying to get the PD to switch from coffee when he first arrived.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: He gets unexpectedly killed off in Case 32. And to make it more jarring, it happens only in the second case of that particular district rather than the finale.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With his lab intern, Amir Devani.
- Rambling Old Man Monologue: Has a tendency to go on one on these at times.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He gets this in Case 18 after he attended Dreamlife's tech convention (where a murder just occurred) without telling anyone, right after the team began to grow concerned for his addiction to the virtual reality game they were promoting.
Amir Devani
- The Bus Came Back: He returns in the finale alongside Jasper to thank the player for all the happy memories they shared together.
- Drowning My Sorrows: He gets drunk in Case 32 after Rupert is killed and Jasper is suspected of his murder.
- Heroic BSoD: He takes Rupert's murder the hardest out of the entire team.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Rupert Winchester.
- Twofer Token Minority: He's gay and assumed to be Indian-American.
- You Are in Command Now: He becomes Lab Chief upon Rupert Winchester's death.
Mia Loukas
- Born Detective: Managed to solve a missing persons case as a child by finding a hairclip on a barn. Although she's not a detective, she plays a role in finding hidden crime scenes or plots to the police.
- Daddy's Girl: Implied to have been very close to her sheriff father as a child, who influenced her to become a police officer. Although their first appearance consists of them arguing, they eventually manage to reconcile. Which makes his death much worse.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: Her father is not very fond of her long-distance boyfriend Brock.
- External Combustion: At the end of Spring Fields, she's killed this way. Doubles as a Murder by Mistake; the bomb was intended for the player.
- Heroic BSoD: She breaks down when her father is killed, and more so when the killer blames the victim for ruining his life, to the point she runs away and hides in a church.
- Ms. Exposition: Mia mostly appears to inform the player of a murder, give them new leads on a case or report relevant events. It's not until Spring Fields where she gets a prominent appearance.
- Murder by Mistake: The car bombing wasn't intended to kill her, but rather the player. And to make it worse, it was her boyfriend who made the bomb.
- Spanner in the Works: A tragic example. Ad Astra had rigged the player's car with a bomb, and it was supposed to go off as soon as the ignition was turned on. They didn't expect Mia to be the one to activate it, killing her and leaving the player alive to investigate both her murder and Ad Astra's plans.
- Trauma Conga Line: Poor Mia has to face having an argument with her father in the first case of Spring Fields, then him being killed and berated by his murdered, and then blown to death, by her boyfriend, no less. And to make it worse, all of this happens in just the span of six cases.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Downplayed. She's introduced early in Maple Heights, but doesn't get enough prominence until two arcs later in Spring Fields, and then she's killed at the end of the latter arc. And even then, she doesn't get too much development.
Recurring Characters in The Conspiracy
Judge Judith Powell
- Beware the Nice Ones: Normally a calm, reasonable woman, Judge Powell ends up furious with her daughter in Case 22 for making threats to the victim, and getting flagged as a suspect. Jones remarks that he would never want to be on her bad side.
- Good Parents: Judge Powell mentions having a teenage daughter, and while she loves her, is willing to let her face the consequences if she acts out of line.
- Last-Name Basis: Her full name is actually never mentioned in-game. The developers later revealed in a Q&A it's actually Judith.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She makes strong arguments for why murder is never justified whenever she's on screen.
Carter Hayes
- Adorably Precocious Child: He is surprisingly smart and insightful for a 12-year-old, and is able to help the team find clues in a murder investigation as well as devise a plan to trap the Rocket Cow Killer, which ends up succeeding.
- Harmful to Minors: In the Additional Investigation of Case 54, he is kidnapped along with his father, who in Case 55, he sees his dad get shot and killed right in front of him.
- Morality Pet: For James Savage, surprisingly enough. While James usually doesn't like being in the company of others, he genuinely enjoys Carter's visits and lets him play with his dog.
Izzy Ramsay
- Broken Pedestal: She views Savannah Blake as this after she discovers she was misappropriating charity money for earthquake victims for her offshore bank account.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Is she ever.
- The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: And in almost all of her appearances, she's correct about everything, including the Rocket Cow Killer's MO and Dreamlife's true plans.
- Comically Missing the Point: In the final case, she sides with the neohumans as the saviors of Grimsborough due to the mayor being corrupt and the dome being part of a conspiracy, blissfully unaware that the neohumans were part of the conspiracy.
- Ludd Was Right: Against electricity and mobile phones because according to her, they cause cancer. Yet she still plays the electric guitar.
- Mysterious Parent: In her first appearance, the victim turns out to be her father, despite trying to claim he died in the 1960s. She doesn't refute this and is simply left in shock.
Rosamund Wilcox (The Rocket Cow Killer )
- Arc Villain: For the Fairview arc.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Seems like a reasonably concerned woman when it's about her students,but it turns out she's actually the Rocket Cow Killer.
- Distaff Counterpart: Of The Puppeteer from Pacific Bay. Both serial killers targeted "abusive parents" (meaning any parent who had an argument with their child), and believed that they're doing those children a huge favor when they're actually ruining their lives. Both also appear as suspects alongside one of their victims' children. However, both have different excuses to kill parents. The Puppeteer was just a spoiled brat who is repeatedly rebellious to his parents to the point of killing them for not letting him do what he wants. Meanwhile, Wilcox is a product of an Abusive Parent and believes she's protecting the children's self-interest.
- The Bus Came Back: She returns in Case 52 as a suspect.
- Disproportionate Retribution: She murders the parents of students who argued with them, even if it's for something minor or in Julian's case expected.
- Evil Principal: A high school principal who poisons the parents of her students. Yeah, calling her a good principal seems wrong, don't ya think?
- Freudian Excuse: Suffered at the hands of Abusive Parents at a young age, though Judge Powell doesn't think it justifies her actions at all.
- Friend to All Children: As she kills parents who have had arguments with their children, she certainly likes to think she's this. She'd probably be great friends with Freddie Alonzo.
- Kick the Dog: When she appears again in Case 52, she reveals that she had tormented fellow psychiatric patient Zoe Kusama with death threats to spite the Grimsborough PD, and even plotted to kill her at some point. This is in spite of Zoe having done nothing to wrong her.
- Knight Templar: She killed any parent who merely argued with their child, deeming them abusive and swearing to protect their children from the "abuse."
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Her M.O is lacing Rocket Cow with amlodipine, a blood thinner when mixed with said drink becomes fatal.
Meera Kat
- Arc Villain: For the Money Mile arc.
- Asshole Victim: Meera’s defining personality traits are "selfish" and "callous".
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Heavily implied to have killed and made literal artwork of her childhood cat Florence.
- Lack of Empathy: Oh so much so. She has no regard for the earthquake victims, using the disaster to further her career and even disregarded Ruby Armstrong's pleas for help, leaving her in the rubble whilst taking photographs of the disaster.
- Mad Artist: The depraved depths Meera would go to put her art out there is inexhaustible.
- Villain with Good Publicity: She's literally bailed out of jail by her fans after her "stunt" stealing artwork.
Zoe Kusama
- All of the Other Reindeer: Poor Zoe was not treated well at the psychiatric hospital she stayed in, with Kai Gruber accusing her of being Rozetta's accomplice, another patient tormenting her for laughs, an orderly accusing her of being a cold-blooded murderer and a therapist tried to force her to take sedatives against her will.
- Amnesiac Lover: Until she recovers her memory in case 18, Zoe shows no memory of herself, nor where she is. One specific thing is that she doesn't remember being in a relationship with Jones. She doesn't even know who he is.
- Big Damn Kiss: With Jones in Case 18 when she regains her memory of him
- Blessed with Suck: It's discovered posthumously that prolonged testing with Berzelium ended up giving her telekinetic powers.
- Downer Ending: A giant one. Despite her testimony against Dreamlife being completely true, she's sent for a psychiatric evaluation and ultimately sent to a psychiatric hospital. And then she's killed just 18 cases later.
- Death by Irony: She is killed by having her head bashed in, the same way she had killed Ernesto Vega. To add to the irony, her murder was also accidental, though the killer's actions are far less sympathetic than hers.
- The Dog Bites Back: In Case 34, she remembers why she disappeared when she sees Dr. Ernesto Vega, and confronts him about the experiments he'd done on her and other people. When he laughs at her and says that no one will believe her stories, she kills him in a fit of rage.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: When the player finds her, she has no memory of what happened to her or her relationship with David. Thankfully, she regains her memory of David in Case 18.
- Mind over Matter: Unintentionally; prolonged testing and exposure to Berzelium gave her slight telekinetic abilities. Unfortunately, we only discover she had them posthumously.
- Sympathetic Murderer: Given the circumstances of her crime, she was understandably sent to a psych ward.
- Trauma Conga Line: She was kidnapped and experimented on for months, she lost a lot of her memories, murdered the man who experimented on her, and was sentenced to a mental institution. From there, her psychiatrist overmedicated her (at least in her mind), got hated by another staff member over his own trauma, threatened by another patient, and was only befriended by a third patient (who we know as the Rocket Cow Killer) all as a revenge plot. Then on top of all that, she was "befriended" by one of the people involved in her experimentation, developed telekinesis, and when that "friend" found out about those powers wanted to take her for more experiments. And then on top of all THAT, when she panicked over possibly being experimented on again, she was beaten to death. All of this in the span of a year. This woman can not catch a break...
- Walking Spoiler: Everything involving Zoe is directly linked with the season's main plot, from her disappearance, ties to the dome, murder of Ernesto Vega and eventual death.
Jasper Everett
- The Bus Came Back: He returns in the finale alongside Amir to thank the player for all the happy memories they shared together.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: At the end of The Conspiracy, he and Amir get married.
- Guest-Star Party Member: When the team needs help analyzing anything involving astronomy or astrophysics, Jasper is shown doing the analysis like the regular team members.
- Undying Loyalty: Towards Amir. In fact, it's the reason Dreamlife refuses to hire him.
- What the Hell, Hero?: During Case 32, Jasper is flagged as a suspect due to having met up with Rupert while he was disguised in the dome and going for a job interview with Dreamlife, who had been responsible for Rupert's death. Amir does not take this well, and Jones calls out Jasper for keeping secrets from both the Grimsborough PD and his boyfriend.
Ray Parker
- The Bore: The victim in Case 19 literally lodged a complaint calling Ray as such, which lead to a crisis of confidence and his resignation from the university. Case 21 plays this straight when Jones falls asleep during his speech.
- Happily Married: To Chief Diane Parker.
- Snark-to-Snark Combat: Against Martha Price before she is murdered. Both give as good as they get.
Julian Ramis
- Accidental Murder: He is revealed to be Freddy Stewart's killer in Case 18 of the first season, since the rusty bow he was holding fired on its own and into Freddy's face.
- Expy: His Season 5 appearance is very similar to that of Jughead Jones.
- Not Allowed to Grow Up: Averted. He's 12 the first time we meet him, 17 the second time, and 18 the last time.
- The Eeyore: It's safe to say he's usually down, ever since he was 12.
- Trauma Conga Line: Throughout Seasons 1 and 5 Julian has to put up with a lot of crap, including killing his friend by accident, being shunned for years because of that incident, having his father murdered by the Rocket Cow Killer, and nearly getting rejected from college. Even aside from all that, Julian's life seems to be quite miserable in general.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: With all the crap he's been though, it's only heartwarming that with the help of the player and Gabriel, he finally gets into university, despite Rene Narcisse before his death calling him a delinquent who'll never get in.
- When He Smiles: Julian is never seen smiling, except when Gabriel and the player help him get into Grimsborough University.
