Jonathan Quayle Higgins III, VC is a fictional character in the 1980–1988 crime drama television series, Magnum, P.I.
Brimmer was an arrogant and self-assured character who used these personality traits as a foil to Ellery Queen (Jim Hutton).
Higgins obeyed an honour code among the cadets by not revealing the true identity of the culprit at the cost of being rejected himself by Sandhurst for an officer's commission.
Unable to face his father, he enlisted into the ranks of the West Yorkshire Regiment and he was awarded the Victoria Cross.
[6] He owns two highly trained and intelligent Doberman Pinschers, Zeus and Apollo (whom he often refers to as "The Lads").
Occasional episodes show Higgins utilizing less common weapons, such as a 19th-century brass cannon and a samurai sword.
The rich, eccentric (and perpetually travelling) Masters was largely an offstage character on the show, though frequently referred to.
The idea that Higgins could secretly be Masters became a long running gag in the series after Thomas told his friends T.C.
[8] John Hillerman has stated, "Higgins in any situation thinks he's the only sane person around while everyone else is raving mad."
When asked how he could disobey, Higgins replied, "I was obeying a higher law that does not permit me to shoot unarmed refugees looking for a home.
In the reboot, Higgins has a more active past in British military intelligence, having been a field operative (Magnum's CIA ex-fiancé Hannah identifies her as "the first woman to infiltrate the Russian Secret Police").
She was also "widowed" in the field when her fiancé, a fellow operative, was murdered by a contract killer she later unmasked as her mentor.