History Characters / HappyValley

->'''Played By:''' Shane Zaza

* FollowingInTheirRescuer'sFootsteps: After being rescued by Catherine in Series 1, she is inspired to become a police officer.

* PaperThinDisguise: His masterful disguise consists of reading glasses, a beanie hat and a copy of ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. [[ClarkKenting It works, though.]] [[spoiler:During a prison escape, his well-groom, well-dressed appearance and shouting "police" is enough to get people out of his away and out of the courthouse. It's then subverted as he immediately changes into completely different clothes provided by his cohorts and escapes the city disguised as a bicycle messenger.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:He tries to murder his own young son.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: His masterful disguise consists of reading glasses, a beanie hat and a copy of ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. [[ClarkKenting It works, though.]] [[spoiler:During a prison escape, his well-groomed and well-dressed appearance and shouting "police" is enough to get people out of his away and out of the courthouse. It's then subverted as he immediately changes into completely different clothes provided by his cohorts and escapes the city disguised as a bicycle messenger.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Originally a privileged rich girl, she reveals deep reserves of strength and eventually becomes a Police Community Support Officer with an eye toward becoming a detective in later life. By the middle of Series 3, she does become detective although she still has much to learn.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Ashley is murdered in a drive-by by his superiors, after he agrees to provide the police with information on them in exchange for a reduced sentence for his complicity in the kidnapping]].

* PaperThinDisguise: His masterful disguise consists of reading glasses, a beanie hat and a copy of ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. [[ClarkKenting It works, though.]] [[spoiler:During a prison escape, his well-groomed and well-dressed appearance and shouting "police" is enough to get people out of his away and out of the courthouse. It's then subverted as he immediately changes into completely different clothes provided by his cohorts and escapes dressed as a bicycle messenger. His helmet, wrap-around sunglasses and outfit completely change his appearance so as not to be immediately recognized.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: His masterful disguise consists of reading glasses, a beanie hat and a copy of ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. [[ClarkKenting It works, though.]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Complicated and Catherine makes it clear that she doesn't see Tommy as someone redeemable. [[spoiler:After escaping custody, he breaks into Catherine's home intending to kill her and burn the place down. After seeing Ryan's room and looking through their photo albums, he comes to realize that Catherine was there for Ryan and she was the parent that he needed. In their final confrontation, he gives her a dying declaration that takes down the head of the Halifax Mafia, then sets himself on fire. He later dies in the hospital.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Originally a privileged rich girl, she reveals deep reserves of strength and eventually becomes a Police Community Support Officer with an eye toward becoming a detective in later life. By the middle of Series 3, she does become detective.

* FairCop: In Series 2.
* HappilyMarried: To Daniel Cawood by Series 3, making Catherine her mother-in-law.

* SanitySlippage: Catherine has moments of this, [[spoiler:hallucinating her daughter's body a couple of times. She does eventually finds peace by the end of the series]].

* TookALevelInBadass: Originally a privileged rich girl, she reveals deep reserves of strength and eventually becomes a Police Community Support Officer with an eye toward becoming a detective in later life. By the middle of Series 3, she does make detective.

** Possibly also at work in Series 2 between Cawood and Ann Gallagher, who has just lost her mother. By Series 3, she marries her son Daniel, becoming Ann's mother-in-law.

* SanitySlippage: Catherine has moments of this, [[spoiler:hallucinating her daughter's body a couple of times. She does eventually find peace by the end of the series]].