Line #52 Characters/HappyValley


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3	!Main Characters
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5	[[folder:Catherine]]
6	!!Sergeant Catherine Cawood
7	->'''Played By:''' Sarah Lancashire
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9	* ActionGirl: She has her moments, and isn't afraid to wade right into danger.
10	* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:In Series 1, when she fights off Tommy, rescues Ann from the cellar and manages to get her to the safety of the police car before collapsing from her wounds.]]
11	* BrokenBird: More obvious at some moments than others.
12	* BroughtDownToBadass: She used to be a 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, with a medal from the Queen to prove it.
13	* 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.
14	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: She is the "responsible" to her sister, Clare's, "foolish", although she can behave impulsively and hotheadedly at times.
15	* LanternJawOfJustice: DistaffCounterpart edition, complete with cleft chin.
16	* MamaBear: Hurt Ryan in front of her (although he's technically her grandson) and she'll hunt you down.
17	* [[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.
18	--> '''Sgt. Catherine Cawood:''' "I'm Catherine, by the way. I'm 47, I'm divorced, I live with my sister who's a recovering heroin addict. I've two grown up children, one dead, one who don't speak to me and a grandson."
19	* MyGreatestFailure: Catherine feels this way about being unable to stop her daughter's suicide after she was raped by Tommy.
20	* NearDeathExperience: After being brutally attacked [[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.
21	* NeverMessWithGranny: Catherine can hold her own at times.
22	* 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.
23	* ParentalSubstitute:
24	** 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.
25	** Possibly also at work in Series 2 between Cawood and Ann Gallagher, who has just lost her mother. By Series 3, Ann marries her son Daniel, making Catherine her mother-in-law.
26	** She is also the closest thing her grandson, Ryan, has to a mother.
27	* 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]].
28	* 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.
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32	[[folder:Clare]]
33	!!Clare Cartwright
34	->'''Played By:''' Siobhan Finneran
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36	* TheAlcoholic: With the obligatory [[OffTheWagon backslide]] in series 2.
37	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: She is the "foolish" to her police officer sister, Catherine's, "responsible."
38	* RecoveredAddict: Until she backslides in Series 2.
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41	[[folder:Tommy]]
42	!!Tommy Lee Royce
43	->'''Played By:''' Creator/JamesNorton
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45	* 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.
46	* BigBad: Although he's not entirely competent, he's the most recurring nemesis to Catherine in the series.
47	* CopKiller: [[spoiler:He murders Kirsten [=McAskill=] in cold blood.]]
48	* 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 logged and later investigated--is not going to end well.]]
49	* 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]].
50	* NeverMyFault: He twists everything he has ever done as being someone else's fault, an act of self-defense or NotWhatItLooksLike. [[spoiler:In their final confrontation, Catherine LampShades this and makes it absolutely clear that he's a monster.]]
51	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Whenever he gets in a fight, he tends to keep beating his opponent long after the fight itself is over.
52	* 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, 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.]]
53	* PsychopathicManchild: He's incredibly dangerous, but also lazy, impulsive and immature.
54	* [[GunmanWithThreeNames Psychopath with Three Names]]: Tommy Lee Royce has three names and [[spoiler:is a sociopathic rapist and murderer.]]
55	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: He seems to think so but 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.]]
56	* 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.
57	** We learn at the end of Series 2 that he has a slew of [[MonsterFangirl fiancées]], any number of whom he may have groomed to interfere with Ryan's safety.
58	* WouldHitAGirl: Being a SerialRapist, he has no problem beating women and his sadistic tendencies mean he actually enjoys it.
59	* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:He tries to murder his own young son. He later tries to groom him but fails.]]
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62	[[folder:Ann]]
63	!!Ann Gallagher
64	->'''Played By:''' Charlie Murphy
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66	* BoundAndGagged: For much of Series 1.
67	* 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.
68	* 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.]]
69	* FairCop: In Series 2 and 3.
70	* HappilyMarried: To Daniel Cawood by Series 3 during the TimeSkip, making Catherine her mother-in-law.
71	* 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]].
72	* FollowingInTheirRescuersFootsteps: After being rescued by Catherine in Series 1, she is inspired to become a police officer.
73	* 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 achieves her goal of becoming a Detective and joins [=CID=].
74	* 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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77	[[folder:Nevison]]
78	!!Nevison Gallagher
79	->'''Played By:''' George Costigan
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81	* 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.
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84	[[folder:Kevin]]
85	!!Kevin Stephen Weatherhill
86	->'''Played By:''' Steve Pemberton
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88	* BewareTheQuietOnes
89	* 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.]]
90	* NeverMyFault: [[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.]]
91	* PrisonRape: He becomes a victim of this when he's [[spoiler:in prison.]]
92	* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness
93	* VillainousBreakdown
94	* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[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]].
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97	[[folder:Ashley]]
98	!!Ashley Cowgill
99	->'''Played By:''' Joe Armstrong
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101	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite being too proud to admit it, he's horrified upon learning that [[spoiler:Tommy raped Ann.]]
102	* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Ashley is murdered in a drive-by by his superiors--the police later suspect it is Darius Knezevic himself--after he agrees to provide the police with information on them in exchange for a reduced sentence for his complicity in the kidnapping]].
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105	[[folder:Lewis]]
106	!!Lewis Whippey
107	->'''Played By:''' Adam Long
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109	* AlasPoorVillain
110	* 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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113	!West Yorkshire Police
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115	[[folder:Shafiq]]
116	!!Constable Shafiq Shah
117	->'''Played By:''' Creator/ShaneZaza
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120	[[folder:Badal]]
121	!!Praveen Badal
122	->'''Played By:''' Ramon Tikaram
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125	[[folder:McAskill]]
126	!!Constable Kirsten [=McAskill=]
127	->'''Played By:''' Sophie Rundle
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129	* FairCop

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