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** Possibly also at work in Series 2 between Cawood and Ann Gallagher, who has just lost her mother.

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** 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]].

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* SanitySlippage: Catherine has moments of this, [[spoiler:hallucinating her daughter's body a couple of times]].times. She does eventually find peace by the end of the series]].
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* HappilyMarried: To Daniel Cawood by series 3, making Catherine her mother-in-law.

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



* 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.

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* 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.
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* HappilyMarried: To Daniel Cawood by series 3, making Catherine her mother-in-law.
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--> '''Sgt. Catherine Cawood:''' "I'm Catherine, by the way. I'm 47, I'm divorced, I live with my sister whose a recovering heroin addict. I've two grown up children, one dead, one who don't speak to me and a grandson."

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--> '''Sgt. Catherine Cawood:''' "I'm Catherine, by the way. I'm 47, I'm divorced, I live with my sister whose who's a recovering heroin addict. I've two grown up children, one dead, one who don't speak to me and a grandson."
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Given his impulsive nature, he does not consider that [[spoiler:trying to kill Catherine and burn her grandson alive, and continuing to harass them from prison--where all his contacts are be logged and later investigated--is not going to end well.]]

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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Given his impulsive nature, he does not consider that [[spoiler:trying to kill Catherine and burn her grandson alive, and continuing to harass them from prison--where all his contacts are be logged and later investigated--is not going to end well.]]
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Given his impulsive nature, he does not consider that [[spoiler:trying to kill Catherine and burn her grandson alive, and continuing to harass them from prison--where all his contacts are be logged and later investigated--is not going to end well.]]
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:He clearly did ''not'' consider all the consequences of arranging Ann's kidnapping, nor what a couple of violent kidnappers would do. Not only does he get caught and end up in prison, but his wife and children have to leave their home due to threats and harassment.]]

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* ActionGirl: She has the moments.

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* ActionGirl: She has her moments, and isn't afraid to wade right into danger.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:In Series 1, when she fights off Tommy, rescues Ann from
the moments. cellar and manages to get her to the safety of the police car before collapsing from her wounds.]]

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* ActionGirl: She has the moments.



* CowboyCop: Sgt. Cawood has streaks of this. A notable example is when she refuses a direct order to wait for backup, and pursues a drug dealers van ''on foot'', smashing a window with her baton before they escape.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: She is the "responsible" to her sister, Clare's, "foolish", although she can behave impulsively and hotheadedly at times.



* MamaBear: Hurt Ryan in front of her (although he's technically her grandson) and she'll hunt you down.
* [[MrExposition Mrs Exposition]]: Catherine in the series opening scene, when she attempts to establish contact with a suicidal man threatening to set himself on fire.
--> '''Sgt. Catherine Cawood:''' "I'm Catherine, by the way. I'm 47, I'm divorced, I live with my sister whose a recovering heroin addict. I've two grown up children, one dead, one who don't speak to me and a grandson."
* MyGreatestFailure: Catherine feels this way about being unable to stop her daughter's suicide after she was raped by Tommy.



* ParentalSubstitute: To Kirsten [=McAskill=]. It's subtle in their interactions, but hinted at strongly by [=McAskill=]'s husband in how distraught he says she was after Cawood dressed her down in their final conversation. Ironically, the same relationship between the women works as [[LikeASonToMe Like a Daughter to Me]] on Cawood's side, with [=McAskill=] as a surrogate daughter.

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* ParentalSubstitute: NeverMessWithGranny: Catherine can hold her own at times.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Catherine, who is usually tough and not very emotional, breaks down in tears at her alcoholic sisters feet after Clare starts drinking again and begins acting belligerent.
* ParentalSubstitute:
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To Kirsten [=McAskill=]. It's subtle in their interactions, but hinted at strongly by [=McAskill=]'s husband in how distraught he says she was after Cawood dressed her down in their final conversation. Ironically, the same relationship between the women works as [[LikeASonToMe Like a Daughter to Me]] on Cawood's side, with [=McAskill=] as a surrogate daughter.



** She is also the closest thing her grandson, Ryan, has to a mother.
* SanitySlippage: Catherine has moments of this, [[spoiler:hallucinating her daughter's body a couple of times]].
* TherapyIsForTheWeak: Catherine definitely takes this view. She refused therapy even after her daughter died, and only agrees to see a police therapist in this series as the only other option given to her is mandatory medical retirement.



* RecoveredAddict

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* RecoveredAddictFoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: She is the "foolish" to her police officer sister, Catherine's, "responsible."
* RecoveredAddict: Until she backslides in Series 2.



->'''Played By:''' James Norton

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->'''Played By:''' James Norton
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* [[GunmanWithThreeNames Psychopath with Three Names]]: Tommy Lee Royce has three names and [[spoiler:is a sociopathic rapist and murderer.]]



* BreakTheHaughty: Series 1 only. She's a spoiled, not very nice rich girl, but being [[spoiler:kidnapped, raped, and drugged]] made her a much kinder and more badass person.
* DamselInDistress: She spends most of the first series like this. [[spoiler: Subverted when Catherine partially frees her before being attacked by Tommy. Ann frees herself and knocks Tommy off Catherine and helps drag her away to safety.]]



* PrisonRape

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* PrisonRapePrisonRape: He becomes a victim of this when he's [[spoiler:in prison.]]



* WellIntentionedExtremist

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* WellIntentionedExtremistWellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Kevin never intended for Ann to get hurt, and simply wanted the ransom money so he could better provide for his wife and children]].




* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite being too proud to admit it, he's horrified upon learning that [[spoiler:Tommy raped Ann.]]
* 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]].



AlasPoorVillain

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AlasPoorVillain* AlasPoorVillain
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Lewis, one of the kidnappers, calls out Kevin on not getting his hands dirty with the actual kidnapping, and that a police officer is dead because of his scheming.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: After she's dead, anyway. Mostly it rolls into his internal narrative about [[NeverMyFault life, and Catherine Cawood in particular, being out to get him]].

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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: After she's dead, anyway. Before that, he beat her up. Mostly it rolls into his internal narrative about [[NeverMyFault life, and Catherine Cawood in particular, being out to get him]].



* PaperThinDisguise: His masterful disguise consists of reading glasses and a hat. [[ClarkKenting It works, though.]]

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



** We learn at the end of Series 2 that he has a slew of [[MonsterFangirl fiancees]], any number of whom he may have groomed to interfere with Ryan's safety.

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** We learn at the end of Series 2 that he has a slew of [[MonsterFangirl fiancees]], fiancées]], any number of whom he may have groomed to interfere with Ryan's safety.
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* BerserkButton: Anyone, but ''especially Ryan'', referring to Tommy Lee Royce as Ryan's dad.
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* HeroWorship: Subtext in her relationship with Sgt. Cawood until the night she gets drunk, when she [[InVinoVeritas literally compares her boss to God]]. She's far more mortified about that the next morning than she is about needing Plan B.

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* HeroWorship: Subtext in her relationship with Sgt. Cawood until the night she gets drunk, when she [[InVinoVeritas literally compares her boss to God]]. She's far more mortified about that the next morning than she is about [[ButLiquorIsQuicker needing Plan B.B]].

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* BerserkButton: Anyone, but ''especially Ryan'', referring to Tommy Lee Royce as Ryan's dad.



* NearDeathExperience: After being brutally attacked by Royce, Catherine hallucinates seeing her daughter, as an innocent child rather than as the suspended corpse she has been hallucinating all of Series 1, beckoning her to follow her into the light.

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* NearDeathExperience: After being brutally attacked by Royce, [[spoiler:by Royce]], Catherine hallucinates seeing her daughter, as an innocent child rather than as the suspended corpse she has been hallucinating all of Series 1, beckoning her to follow her into the light.



* PaperThinDisguise: His masterful disguise consists of reading glasses and a hat.

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* PaperThinDisguise: His masterful disguise consists of reading glasses and a hat. [[ClarkKenting It works, though.]]


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** We learn at the end of Series 2 that he has a slew of [[MonsterFangirl fiancees]], any number of whom he may have groomed to interfere with Ryan's safety.
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* HeroWorship: Subtext in her relationship with Sgt. Cawood until the night she gets drunk, when she literally compares her boss to God.

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* HeroWorship: Subtext in her relationship with Sgt. Cawood until the night she gets drunk, when she [[InVinoVeritas literally compares her boss to God.God]]. She's far more mortified about that the next morning than she is about needing Plan B.
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* NearDeathExperience: After being brutally attacked by Royce, Catherine hallucinates seeing her daughter, as an innocent child rather than as the suspended corpse she has been hallucinating all of Series 1, beckoning her to follow her into the light.


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* HeroWorship: Subtext in her relationship with Sgt. Cawood until the night she gets drunk, when she literally compares her boss to God.
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* RecoveringAddict

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* RecoveringAddictRecoveredAddict

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* LanternJawOfJustice: DistaffCounterpart edition, complete with cleft chin.



* ReplacementParent: To Kirsten [=McAskill=]. It's subtle in their interactions, but hinted at strongly by [=McAskill=]'s husband in how distraught he says she was after Cawood dressed her down in their final conversation. Ironically, the same relationship between the women works as [[LikeASonToMe Like a Daughter to Me]] on Cawood's side, with [=McAskill=] as a surrogate daughter.

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* ReplacementParent: LanternJawOfJustice: DistaffCounterpart edition, complete with cleft chin.
* ParentalSubstitute:
To Kirsten [=McAskill=]. It's subtle in their interactions, but hinted at strongly by [=McAskill=]'s husband in how distraught he says she was after Cawood dressed her down in their final conversation. Ironically, the same relationship between the women works as [[LikeASonToMe Like a Daughter to Me]] on Cawood's side, with [=McAskill=] as a surrogate daughter.


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* RecoveringAddict

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* ReplacementParent: To Kirsten [=McAskill=]. It's subtle in their interactions, but hinted at strongly by [=McAskill=]'s husband in how distraught he says she was after Cawood dressed her down in their final conversation. Ironically, the same relationship between the women works as [[LikeASonToMe Like a Daughter to Me]] on Cawood's side, with [=McAskill=] as a surrogate daughter.
** Possibly also at work in Series 2 between Cawood and Ann Gallagher, who has just lost her mother.



* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted hard in Series 1.




AlasPoorVillain



->'''Played By:'''

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->'''Played By:'''
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* PaperThinDisguise: His masterful disguise consists of [[ClarkKenting reading glasses]] and a hat.

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* PaperThinDisguise: His masterful disguise consists of [[ClarkKenting reading glasses]] glasses and a hat.


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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted hard in Series 1.

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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: After she's dead, anyway. Mostly it rolls into his internal narrative about [[NeverMyFault life, and Catherine Cawood in particular, being out to get him]].



* PaperThinDisguise: His masterful disguise consists of reading glasses and a hat.

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* PaperThinDisguise: His masterful disguise consists of [[ClarkKenting reading glasses glasses]] and a hat.
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* TheAlcoholic: With the obligatory backslide in series 2.

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* TheAlcoholic: With the obligatory backslide [[OffTheWagon backslide]] in series 2.
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* FairCop: In Series 2.


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* FairCop
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* BroughtDownToBadass: She used to be a detective, before her daughter's suicide caused her to have a breakdown and she was subsequently demoted. Now she's just the best uniformed copper around.

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* BroughtDownToBadass: She used to be a detective, detective with the Major Incident Team, before her daughter's suicide caused her to have a breakdown and she was subsequently demoted. Now she's just the best uniformed copper around.around, with a medal from the Queen to prove it.
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* BrokenBird: More obvious at some moments than others.


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* TheAlcoholic: With the obligatory backslide in series 2.
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* LanternJawOfJustice: Of the extremely rare female persusasion, complete with cleft chin.

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* LanternJawOfJustice: Of the extremely rare female persusasion, DistaffCounterpart edition, complete with cleft chin.
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* LanternJawOfJustice: Of the extremely rare female persusasion, complete with cleft chin.
* BroughtDownToBadass: She used to be a detective, before her daughter's suicide caused her to have a breakdown and she was subsequently demoted. Now she's just the best uniformed copper around.

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* PsychopathWithThreeNames: He's most certainly a psychopath.



* 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.




* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: After Kevin arranges the kidnapping of his daughter, Nevison offers to personally pay for the schooling of his daughter's '''and''' give Kevin the fair shake he felt he never got by leaving him in charge of the company....while Nevison spends time with his dying wife.



* NeverMyFault

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* NeverMyFaultNeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Although he initially feels immense guilt about the scheme he concocts, his imprisonment causes him to sink into denial. He shirks all responsibility and blames everyone but himself. He blames his wife for "encouraging" him, even though he was already neck-deep in the scheme by the time he confessed to her and had counseled him to go to the police. He blames Nevison for the whole ordeal although all Nevison did was refuse to give him a raise and '''supposedly''' rip his father off at some point.]]
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* BewareTheQuietOnes
* NeverMyFault
* PrisonRape
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness
* VillainousBreakdown
* WellIntentionedExtremist

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* BewareTheQuietOnes
* BigBad
* CopKiller

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* BewareTheQuietOnes
BewareTheQuietOnes: He initially appears as an underling to Ashley who speaks very little, but he's easily the most ruthless and vicious criminal in the series.
* BigBad
BigBad: Although he's not entirely competent, he's the most recurring nemesis to Catherine in the series.
* CopKillerCopKiller: [[spoiler:He murders Kirsten [=McAskill=] in cold blood.]]



* PsychopathWithThreeNames

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* PsychopathWithThreeNamesPsychopathWithThreeNames: He's most certainly a psychopath.


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* BoundAndGagged: For much of Series 1.
* TraumaCongaLine: Ann goes through an obscene amount of punishment. [[spoiler:She's kidnapped, raped and forcibly injected with low-grade heroin to keep her docile. Not to mention all the mental anguish she goes through.]]
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[[foldercontrol]]

!Main Characters

[[folder:Catherine]]
!!Sergeant Catherine Cawood
->'''Played By:''' Sarah Lancashire
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Clare]]
!!Clare Cartwright
->'''Played By:''' Siobhan Finneran
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tommy]]
!!Tommy Lee Royce
->'''Played By:''' James Norton

* BewareTheQuietOnes
* BigBad
* CopKiller
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Whenever he gets in a fight, he tends to keep beating his opponent long after the fight itself is over.
* PsychopathWithThreeNames
* PaperThinDisguise: His masterful disguise consists of reading glasses and a hat.
* PsychopathicManchild: He's incredibly dangerous, but also lazy, impulsive and immature.
* TheSociopath: Tommy is a ruthless monster and unrepentant sadist. He kills without a second thought, acts on impulse and thinks of other people only in relation to himself.
* WouldHitAGirl: Being a SerialRapist, he has no problem beating women and his sadistic tendencies mean he actually enjoys it.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:He tries to murder his own young son.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ann]]
!!Ann Gallagher
->'''Played By:''' Charlie Murphy
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nevison]]
!!Nevison Gallagher
->'''Played By:''' George Costigan
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kevin]]
!!Kevin Stephen Weatherhill
->'''Played By:''' Steve Pemberton
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ashley]]
!!Ashley Cowgill
->'''Played By:''' Joe Armstrong
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lewis]]
!!Lewis Whippey
->'''Played By:''' Adam Long
[[/folder]]

!West Yorkshire Police

[[folder:Shafiq]]
!!Constable Shafiq Shah
->'''Played By:''' Shane Zaza
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Badal]]
!!Praveen Badal
->'''Played By:''' Ramon Tikaram
[[/folder]]

[[folder:McAskill]]
!!Constable Kirsten [=McAskill=]
->'''Played By:'''
[[/folder]]

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