Beauty and the Beast (3 page)

Jonathan Pope: He was Gabriel’s henchman who performed a number of errands for Gabriel. This included bailing Elliott Burch out of jail after Gabriel had framed him for murder in the episode “Beggar’s Comet,” so Gabriel could then manipulate Elliott into betraying Vincent. Jonathan Pope also coordinated the kidnapping of Diana Bennett to take her to Gabriel to see Vincent’s sick baby, so she would pass that information to Vincent in the episode “The Chimes at Midnight.”

Kanin and Olivia Evans with baby Luke: This family living in Father’s World was featured in the episode “A Gentle Rain.” Kanin was an architect and stone cutter who had accidentally killed a child while driving drunk in the world above when he was twenty. He then jumped bail and escaped to the world below, but no one there knew about his past. His life below was exemplary, and he cut and constructed beautiful chambers in the tunnels and caves for all of the community members. He never took another drink after the accident which killed the child, but he also never faced his mistake until Catherine was given his file and told to find him. By that time, sixteen years later, he had married Olivia, who had been born below, and they had a baby son, Luke. Catherine helped Kanin to turn himself in and face the consequences of his actions, so both he and the mother of the boy who was killed could heal.

Samantha and Geoffrey: These two orphans were not brother and sister, but they were constant companions and competed with each other in everything. They were both quite brilliant and had even begun beating Father at chess.

Oriental woman: This woman, never named, was a surgical

nurse who assisted Father in treating seriously injured community members. She assisted Father when he performed surgery on Rolley after he was shot in the episode “In the Forests of the Night.” I have given her the name Angela with a Japanese surname of Choshi.

Lana: She was a girl child who caught sight of the Subway Slasher, Jason Walker, in the tunnels in the episode “Terrible Savior.” She sounded the alarm to the community. Jason Walker was a vigilante Catherine had been investigating, and Vincent helped her try to catch him and stop his killings.

Narcissa: She was a very superstitious elderly black woman who chose to live apart from the others. She knew the tunnels probably better than anyone. Vincent loved to visit her because she had an uncanny ability to read people and their intentions with a kind of sixth sense, and she was very sensitive to spiritual and supernatural phenomenon.

Bennie: He was a very cheerful young man who was a bicycle messenger in the world above. He was also an Helper who delivered messages for the people of Father’s world.

Nathan and son Gregory Coil: Nathan Coil was a community member who was killed in a cave-in in the tunnels when they were looking for a gas leak around twenty years earlier. He had a son, Gregory, who witnessed his father’s death when he was seven years old and became mentally unstable as a result. He was institutionalized, but then budget cuts caused him to be released from the mental hospital. In the episode “The Reckoning,” he ended up killing everyone who survived that tragedy, painting their faces with his father’s ashes, and then finished by burying Father alive. He had blamed Father for his own father’s death, because he had seen his buried father’s hand move post-mortem. In his seven-year-old mind that meant that Father had left him to die without helping him. He then committed suicide by leaping off the Serpentine Stairwell into The Abyss. Diana solved this case so Father was found and saved by Vincent.

Elizabeth: She was an elderly painter, featured in the episode “Ozymandias,” who had taken it upon herself to be the community’s historian through her murals on manmade tunnel walls, where the surface was smoother. She was one of the community’s recluses, who chose to live apart from the others. The tunnels she painted were in a level above Father’s community. Mouse would bring her paints that he found discarded above, and Mary and Sarah would check on Elizabeth to be sure that she was safe and healthy.

Jason “Jase” Walker: This man owned a self-defense school called “The White Hats” and became a vigilante known as the Subway Slasher. He stayed anonymous by dressing in a costume with deadly claws, based on the stories he had heard about Vincent from transients and the homeless who had been rescued by Vincent. Jase died falling off the Catwalk Bridge when Vincent tried to catch him for trying to hurt Catherine, and then he became a legend because of his unexplained disappearance.

Devin Wells: He was Father’s natural son featured in the episode “Promises of Someday.” Devin’s mother was Grace, the woman who found Father almost frozen to death a year after he lost everything in the world above. Grace had taken Father below to the tunnels. Father lost Grace when she died in childbirth with Devin. Father raised Devin with the other children in the tunnels, and Devin was very close to Vincent, but Father never told Devin that he was his own biological son, because he didn’t want to make the mistake of setting him apart from the other children with special treatment.

When Devin was fourteen, and Vincent was twelve, Devin decided that he wanted a pocket knife. He had always been headstrong and somewhat irresponsible, and he and Father had always had struggles with each other as a result of that. Father told Devin that knives were dangerous and that he couldn’t have one. Devin collected bottles and picked up every piece of change he found lying on the ground above, until he had enough money for the pocket knife, and then he bought one anyway. Someone tattled on Devin to Father, and Devin assumed it was Vincent. Vincent was innocent and denied it, and they got into a tussle with one another. Devin bloodied Vincent’s nose, and Vincent raked Devin across the left cheek with his claws. Devin carried three deep scars into

adulthood from that fight. When Devin found out that it wasn’t Vincent who had told on him to Father, he felt terrible and wanted to do something special for Vincent. Vincent had never been on a merry-go-round, because he couldn’t go above ground. So, Devin collected a group of the children, and they took Vincent and broke into the merry-go-round in Central Park one night and rode it. They were nearly caught by a mounted policeman, and Father hit the roof. Father accused Devin of deliberately putting Vincent in danger, and Devin didn’t defend himself. Instead, Devin ran away, leaving everyone frantic thinking that he had been lost in a section of the tunnels called The Maze and had died.

In fact, Devin became a “pretender,” traveling around the world, assuming multiple identities, and quickly learning just as many trades. When he turned up in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office as a Deputy District Attorney, and Catherine learned who he really was, and that he was totally without a legitimate law degree, she gave him the option of resigning rather than exposing him, which would have devastated both Vincent and Father. When Catherine told Vincent that she agreed with Father, that Devin was irresponsible, Vincent responded by telling her that Devin had been the only one “irresponsible” enough to dream dreams that included him.

When Devin was first reunited with Vincent after coming back to New York City, he said, “I’ve been everywhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La, but what I dream about is an hole-in-the-ground—weird, huh?”

Vincent replied, “Not so weird, when that hole-in-the-ground is home!”

Father finally revealed to Vincent that Devin was his own natural son. So, before Devin took off again, Vincent and Catherine conspired to get Devin and Father together at the carousel in Central Park, so Father could overhear Devin explaining to Catherine what had really happened at the carousel and why. Father then told Devin that he was his actual father, and they were reconciled.

Patrick Hanlin: He was Gabriel’s lawyer from the law firm of Malloy, Davidson, and Hanover Norton Trust. Patrick was a law school acquaintance of Joe’s, who was killed by Gabriel in a car explosion, because he went to Joe with a small black notebook of information on Gabriel’s organization which was written in code. Joe was also seriously injured, because he was close to the explosion when it happened. Joe gave the notebook to Catherine while he was recovering in the hospital. That little-black-book became the instigating reason Catherine was kidnapped by Gabriel’s people in the first place, before Gabriel discovered she was carrying Vincent’s child

Charles the “Dragon Man”: In the episode “Brothers,” Devin found this man being abused in a carnival and rescued him with Catherine’s help. Charles had the disfiguring disease, neurofibromatosis, with multiple soft and connective tissue fibromas. His own brother, Eddie, had kept him in a cage, billed as “The Hideous Dragon Man,” his entire life. When Devin rescued him, Charles was covered with wounds and bruises from being beaten by his brother. Charles was enormous in size and didn’t know his own strength. When Devin took him into the tunnels for sanctuary, Charles was very frightened, because he had never been out of his cage or around other people. He ended up accidentally breaking Father’s wrist when he attempted to treat Charles’wounds, and he injured Mouse when he startled Charles. Because Vincent was also different, Charles allowed Vincent to treat his wounds, and Vincent convinced Charles that there was no need for him to continue wearing his hood to hide his face while he was below with their community. Devin then took Charles from the tunnels to a secluded cabin in the mountains to help him learn how to socialize with others safely. He was never given a last name in the series. I have given him the last name of Mason.

Laura Williams and Detective Jerry: Laura was a deaf young woman, first featured in the episode “An Impossible Silence,” whom an Helper found as a small child abandoned in Central Park. Vincent suspected that she had been left there by parents who couldn’t deal with her inability to hear. After the Helper brought Laura below to Father’s world,

Vincent taught her sign language, how to read lips, and how to read and write. In this episode, Laura witnessed a dirty cop murder another cop, and she went above with Catherine to testify against him when he attempted to frame an innocent man for the cop killing.

Laura is featured again in the episode “Sticks and Stones” when she gets swept up in the illegal activities of a deaf gang above. An undercover detective named Jerry, who was working with Catherine’s team to try to stop this gang, fell in love with Laura. Jerry was able to infiltrate the gang, because both of his parents were deaf, and sign was his first language. Catherine didn’t realize when she started the investigation that Laura was involved, and Laura didn’t know that the leader of the gang was a killer. Catherine went to Vincent as soon as she became aware of Laura’s involvement, but meanwhile, the leader of the gang found out who Jerry was. Vincent and Catherine were barely able to rescue Laura and Jerry before they would have been stoned to death by the gang. The detective, Jerry, was never given a last name in the series. I have given him the last name of Bookman.

Isaac Stubbs: This black man, in his mid-forties, was Catherine’s self-defense instructor. She hired him in the first episode “Once Upon a Time in the City of New York,” after she came back above to her world following her attack. He also aided her in her investigation of the Subway Slasher in the episode “Terrible Savior.” In the episode “No Way Down,”

Isaac assisted Catherine in finding Vincent, who had been injured during an attack by a gang that called themselves “The Silks.” Following that attack, Vincent and Catherine became separated. Vincent had been blinded by the bomb The Silks threw into a building Vincent was in. The Silks captured Vincent, but then he escaped from them. He couldn’t see where he was going to get back into the tunnels, and The Silks were hunting for him to try to recapture him. Isaac and Catherine finally found Vincent, and Catherine took him home. She asked Isaac not to ask any questions and not to say anything about what he had seen.

Detective Greg Hughes: He was a police detective, trusted by Joe, who tried to help Catherine in the episode “The

Watcher.” In that episode, a stalker nearly killed Catherine by locking her in the trunk of his car and then rolling it into a lake. Vincent barely got to Catherine in time, tore the trunk lid off the car, and then managed to pull her back from the brink of death as she was drowning. Greg also aided Diana and Joe in the episode “Invictus” by locating Gabriel’s mansion from the Italian tile pattern which Diana had drawn a picture of when she was kidnapped and taken to Gabriel’s mansion blindfolded.

Detective James Faber: He was a police detective who worked on the Gregory Coil case in the episode “The Reckoning.” James found Diana’s profiling methods perplexing. He didn’t consider that to be “real” police work.

Detective Nick: This detective was never given a last name in the series. Joe consulted him right after Catherine’s body was found in her apartment in the episode “Walk Slowly.”

Nick told Joe that Catherine’s case had too many unknown variables in it. He said that he knew his limitations as a detective, and he suggested that Joe needed to consult with Unit 210 Detective Diana Bennett. That was how Diana came to be involved in Catherine’s case. I have given Nick the last name of Dunlap.

Cameron Benson and friend, Dale Mercer: These coldblooded murderers were featured in the episode “Hollow Men.” They were young men from wealthy families who targeted teenage prostitutes and slashed their throats. Vincent witnessed them killing their fourth victim when he was above one night in Central Park. It happened so quickly, without warning, that he was helpless to stop them. Vincent was devastated over the girl’s death and horrified by the pleasure these young men took in killing her. He went to Catherine immediately. She phoned in the anonymous tip on the killing and told Vincent that they had killed three other young girls before this one. When Catherine tried to bring them to justice, their wealthy families paid a slick lawyer to get them released. So, Vincent started patrolling their hunting ground above at night to try to prevent them from killing any more girls. This caused them to go after Catherine in retribution, and Vincent ended up having to kill them to save Catherine