List of Ashes to Ashes characters
[8] He holds back the crowds during the 6 September 1997 funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales,[9] and retires from the police service in disgrace at an unspecified date sometime thereafter, but it is revealed in the series finale that he was a detective inspector (DI).
[11] It is generally believed that from his hospital bed, he sees the BBC News report of DI Alex Drake's disappearance, although the bedridden viewer's identity has not been definitively shown.
[18] That same day, he abducts her in Soho with a rag soaked in chloroform or a similar substance and straps her to a medical table for interrogation while concealing his identity with a surgical mask and letting her scream into an open radio microphone.
In the final act of episode 1.7, "Charity Begins at Home", Gil Hollis fires several shots into Luigi's restaurant from in front of the police station, leading a determined Hunt to declare that, "I am not dying in a trattoria!"
While in Fenchurch East Police Station for an unrelated matter, Nina eventually reveals to DS Ray Carling that it is her who was raped by Ryan Burns, a waiter working on the yacht.
[10] On the morning of 8 November 1982, he and his family are robbed by a burglar who wears a mask of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher[10] to conceal his identity as George Staines[10] (or, as he is known to the Drakes, their friend Gaynor Mason).
[10] On the morning of 8 November 1982, she and her family are robbed by a burglar who wears a mask of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher[10] to conceal his identity as George Staines[10] (or, as he is known to the Drakes, their friend Gaynor Mason).
[30] DC Louise Gardiner (Zoe Telford) is an undercover officer from a nearby police station who infiltrates a gang of ruthless criminals, the Staffords, under the name Sarah Huddersfield.
The gang is run by Terry (Peter Guinness) and Daniel Stafford (Bryan Dick) who are a father and son team who seem to be moving from robbery and other violent crimes into major drug dealing.
However, Litton's methods threaten Sam's and his own life, when Gene kicks him in the stomach and drops him out of the fire zone, proceeding to take a bullet which was blocked by one of his many hip flasks.
Having sworn to bring down SuperMac, Gene and Alex target Jarvis' mansion in the country, finding Mac's pension of artwork and walking into his party of underage virgin girls.
"[35] While his boss, Arthur Layton, is in custody, Markham attempts to shut down their supply line through a series of nine payphone calls and a message picked up[35] on Charterhouse Lane[35] near Tower Bridge.
[35] He is picked up again - now clad in a cliché 1980s ensemble of double-breasted pinstripe suit, blue shirt with white collar & cuffs, and yellow 'power tie'[35] - and agrees to speak with Hunt ...
[10] She discourages Carling from resigning from the police and enlisting in the Army, telling him, "I want to go to sleep at night knowing there's [sic] cops like you helping keep good people like my mum safe.
[50] Moore invites CID to a street party on 29 July in the Bonds' neighbourhood[50] to celebrate both the royal wedding and the redevelopment of the Docklands which, he claims, will not only provide a job to every man there,[50] but make money for the property owners.
"[50] After gasping, "Mum," and correcting herself to say, "Bum," a nervous Drake offers her hand to her unsuspecting mother, telling her how pleased she is to meet her and how she admires her, which Caroline assumes to be police sarcasm before demanding to speak with her client, George.
[50] The next day, 29 July 1981, when all of young Alex's classmates have stayed home to watch the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer with their respective parents, Caroline leaves her daughter alone at school, and admonishes a faculty member, "Make sure she concentrates.
"[18] That night, Drake writes "Mum Dad" on the final day of her butcher paper wall calendar, 10 October 1981, and draws a red crux ordinaria to mark their forthcoming deaths.
[13] Riley comes back that night,[13] but the attempts by DS Ray Carling and DC Chris Skelton to warn Hunt and Drake are foiled by dead radop batteries.
[31] She tells DCI Gene Hunt and DI Alex Drake occurred at a party aboard Leonard Roseberry-Sykes' luxury yacht Sunborn moored near Tower Bridge.
Ventriloquist Keith Harris (born 21 September 1947) (portrayed by himself in archival footage and new audio) and his puppet, Orville the Duck, provide insight to DI Alex Drake concerning her condition in 2008.
[10] Drake talks to her television, telling Orville that he should be happy that she's made it to the hospital, and appears to take no note of the fact one or two parties were able to send flowers in time to arrive before her ambulance.
[35] On the same morning as her arrival in the past, 7 July 1981,[37] DI Alex Drake notices Layton's name on the side of a Betamax video cassette on a shelf in the Fenchurch East police station's electronics storage room.
[35] Layton's criminal record includes convictions for fencing stolen property through his junk business in Shadwell,[35] but Drake believes him to be the kingpin behind a drugs smuggling operation in the city.
[35] While in custody, his subordinate, Edward Markham, attempts to shut down their supply line through a series of nine payphone calls and a message picked up[35] on Charterhouse Lane[35] near Tower Bridge.
For twenty-seven years, Alex will mistakenly remember Evan - rather than Gene Hunt (a stranger to her) - as having been the man rushing toward her in a black overcoat and wrapping himself around her to shield her from the horrific view of her parents' burning corpses.
When adult Alex comments on Gene's destruction of evidence, to wit the unwound and broken video cassette, Hunt replies, "How would you like to go through life knowing that your Daddy tried to blow you to kingdom come?"
[110] He is dressed in an old fashioned police uniform with the epaulette number 6620 visible on his shoulders [111] and has a horrific injury to the left side of his face, the result of the shotgun blast which killed him.
[109] He is first referred to in a 2008 news report at the beginning of episode 1 prior to Alex waking up in a hospital in 1983, and then appears in person throughout the rest of the series at various points, seeming to both be in need Drake’s help and silently offer her guidance.
It is revealed in the climax of the series that the ghost is a 19-year-old Gene Hunt, who was killed on his first week on the beat on Coronation Day in 1953,[109] Alex finds his remains buried in a field in Lancashire along with his Police ID Card.
