Characters

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Main Characters

Dr Tony Hill played by Robson Green

Doctor Antony Hill is a bumbling genius. His belongings and thoughts are equally jumbled and untidy, but this is one of the main aspects of his genius. He works as clinical psychologist and teaches psychology students on the side. He agreed to help Carol and the police simply for the challenge. His brain never rests for long, he always needs something to puzzle on.

Socially inept with ‘normal people’, he gains rare insight into the minds of the criminally insane and is unrivalled in the profession of profiling. A mixture of completely immersing himself in the criminal’s mind and textbook knowledge rarely steers him wrong. He deals with stresses by trying to look at situations with a detached atmosphere and discharges pent up aggression by playing violent computer games. He sometimes borders on psychotic himself, but is held back by a strong sense of morality.

DI Carol Jordan played by Hermione Norris

Carol Jordan is a police officer with ambition. In high stress situations she is usually cool headed and does not let the horrors of her job get to her, though every now and then she struggles with morality and a feeling of guilt from her cases that went wrong. Capable and open to new ideas, she is the one who first seeks Tony’s help. She lives only with a cat, most probably because her job is her life. She often tries with relationships but they fail due to her avaricious personality. Romance is hinted between her and Tony, but neither have acted on their mutual attraction.

ACC John Brandon played by Tom Chadbon

‘Chief’ Brandon is a shrewd copper who made it to the top through hard work. He doesn’t always trust Tony’s judgments, but trusts Carol implicitly. He is an expert in dealing with the media and higher officials, and bends the rules to help Carol in her investigations.

DS Don Merrick played by Alan Stocks

Don is almost a stereotypical copper- pigheaded, reliable and very passionate about justice. Though not the brightest crayon in the box, he is a very determined man and sometimes prompts breakthroughs. His one failing is he is easily prejudiced against one suspect, and finds it hard to consider other’s views when he believes he is right. If a criminal is caught and being violent, Don has absolutely no qualms about hitting the rotter back.

DS Kevin Geoffries played by Mark Letheren

A very good policemen in many respects, Kevin is only holding onto his place on the team by a thread. This was due to being caught giving information to and sleeping with Penny Burges, a lady rather promiscuous from the press.

Criminals and Murdurers

Angelica Bain played by Tom Fisher

Angelica is a trans-sexual (man to woman) who is in search of the ultimate sexual partner. She built ancient torture devices such as the rack from designs she found on websites, then abducted various strong men from a gym near her house. She wanted them to blend pain and sexual pleasure, and was very disappointed in them because they all died screaming. Then she found Tony. He convinced her that he wanted to be part of what she was doing, and knocked her out with handcuffs. She is now living in a mental institution and is visited regularly by Tony, who is now her psychologist.

 

Maggie Thomas played by Elaine Claxton

Maggie was caught after murdering several teenage girls and was Tony’s patient for a couple of years. He hoped to cajole her into remembering where she had buried the dead bodies, but during his visits established a unique relationship. Maggie fell in love with Tony and was insanely jealous of any other woman who came near him, and was desperately depressed that she couldn’t please him by remembering where she had buried the girls. Tony accidentally dropped a paperclip and left it in her room, and as he was too busy to come to see her again she felt rejected. Having finally remembered where the girls were, she used the paperclip to cut herself and wrote a map on the wall then punctured her jugular with it. Her years of being plagued by ‘the ghosts of those she had killed’ were finally over.

 

Jack (Jacko) Vance played by John Michie

Jacko Vance is a very interesting character in the fact that he is a very successful man in monetary wealth. The only problem is he is obsessed with the fact that his first wife ran away from him when he was incapacitated in hospital. He did beat her, but in his mind she had abandoned him. An ex-footballer, he became a TV personality married to a famous wife (who was actually having an affair with her female personal assistant). He seduced late teenage girls, leading them to his converted monastery. There he raped them, smashed their cheekbones to mirror the injury that put him in hospital and shackled them in a cupboard until they starved.

 

Paul Gregory played by Daniel Ryan

Paul Gregory was the first criminal that Tony was wrong about. A pedophile who had been acquitted by a jury due to lack of evidence, he had gone about his everyday life and secretly raped. He was killed by Trudy Hibbert’s mother (Nicola) who was very annoyed at what he had done to her little girl.

Nicola Hibbert played by Christine Mackie

Nicola Hibbert’s motive for murder was very straightforward- she believed she was dispensing true justice. A pedophile, Paul Gregory, who molested and killed her daughter, Trudy Hibbert, was released by a jury due to lack of evidence. Nicola went on a rampage, stuffing newspaper clippings about the trial down the throats of the jurors before strangling them. She left Paul Gregory to last, seeing him as the ultimate goal. She felt no remorse for what she had done, she saw it simply as upholding the law.

Unnamed Serial Kidnapper

All this killer was interested in was control. He dressed up as various unassuming people such as a telephone repair man or a university student, and nabbed unsuspecting girls. He thought he was far too clever to be caught by the police and taunted them with notes stuck on trees and mutilated dolls.

Joanna Draper played by Caroline O'Neill

Joanna Draper was a student of religion, but got a little carried away. She had been killing in the delusion she is slaying the infidels. She lived in a completely hallucinogenic world, believing a priest is by her side instructing her to do things, and that a simple steak knife is a mighty sword. When the police burst in to the room to save her latest victim, she dropped the fire torch she was holding and was incinerated.

 

 

Other Characters

DC Annie Reiss played by Doreene Blackstock

Penny Burgess played by Kaye Wragg

Penny is a tabloid journalist with very few morals. She was bribing DS Kevin Geoffries with sexual favours in return for exclusive knowledge about a murder case. After Kevin was almost fired for this, however, her information source dried up.

Stevie McTeer played by Mark Bonnar

Michael Jordan played by Ben Price

Beth Morris played by Lou Gish

Long time secret lover of celebrity Amanda Vance, Beth was murdered by Jack Vance when he saw her as a threat to his happy family image.

Jason played by Kenny Doughty

Amanda Vance played by Doon Mackichan

Amanda is a well known television celebrity who was in a show marriage with Jack Vance, who turned out to be a rather nasty murderer.

Graham Dowling played by Alan Williams

Donna Perry played by Frankie Hough

DS O'Brien played by Joe Tucker

O'Brien was a very good cop who always followed his gut instinct. He felt so strongly about a case that he planted evidence to hurry up the charges, but was found out and fired. He told his story to Penny Burgess, which didn't much help his standing in the eyes of the other police.

Hannah Kielty played by Holly Scourfield

Jean Lawson played by Susan Brown

David Lawson played by Albert Welling

Sonia Brookes played by Rebekah Manning

Spencer Watts played by Lloyd Owen

Jean Leppard played by Diana Nolan

Christine Mackie played by Nicola Hibbert

Oliver Hibbert played by Steve Huison

Oliver Hibbert was the father of the murdured Trudy Hibbert. His wife, Nicola, was a murdurer.

Laura Webster played by Amber Batty

Laura was one of Tony’s star students, but the stress of her friend Hatty’s abduction drove her to drink. Completely drunk she first seduces a (though unbeknownst to her) murderer, then stumbles to Tony’s flat and attempts to have her way with him. He resists, and when she has sobered up she decides to accuse him of rape. He is proven innocent, and Laura is taken into mental care.

Hattie played by Caitlin Mottram

A student from Tony's university and friend of Laura Webster, Hattie was abducted and almost killed by a psycopath.

Linda Osbourne played by Fiona Macpherson

Gavin Cochran played by Christopher Fulford

George Cochran played by Nicholas Tizzard

Andrew Frame played by Charlie Davis

Denny Abrhams played by Stuart Goodwin