Beauty and the Beast

by Laurel Cain Haws

  Joseph “Joe” Maxwell: He was an Assistant District Attorney and Catherine’s boss who nicknamed her “Radcliffe.” He and Catherine became very close friends. In fact, at one point Catherine made the comment that Joe had an heart like

  Vincent’s. The former District Attorney, John Moreno, turned out to be an inside player for Gabriel and was responsible for Catherine’s kidnap by Gabriel. After Gabriel’s death and John Moreno’s exposure, Joe was made the Acting District Attorney, effective until the next election which had not occurred by the end of the series.

  Mary: She was a mature nurse and midwife, about Father’s age, who was also in love with Jacob Wells (Father). However, she never made her feelings known to him, thinking that it was somehow selfish to want him for herself alone. She came to the tunnels following the deaths of her child and her husband and had been there almost from the beginning of Father’s world.

  Rebecca: She was a young adult woman who made candles for Father’s world’s unique holiday, Winter Fest, featured in the episode, “Dead of Winter,” which also honored the Helpers who helped to bring light metaphorically into their world. These beautiful candles were tall yellow-orange tapers with white tips.

  William: He was the community cook for Father’s world, and he absolutely loved cooking for everyone.

  Chinese Clergy Man: This character, never named, was featured in the episode, “China Moon.” He performed a marriage ceremony in Father’s Council chamber in that episode. I have given him the name Kevin Chin.

  Snow: This man was an assassin Gabriel sent to kill Vincent, so he could keep the baby without fear of reprisal by Vincent. Snow was outwitted by Vincent, who led him to the Stalactite/Stalagmite Cave, where Snow fired his weapon, and was crushed to death by stalactites falling because of his own percussive shots.

  Peter: He was Catherine’s deceased mother’s gynecologist, who had delivered Catherine. He had a wife named Susan. Peter had been an Helper to the world below from the beginning, because he went to medical school with Father, and they remained good friends even after Father was blacklisted in the world above. In the episode “Ashes, Ashes,” Father’s world was trying to stem an outbreak of pneumonic plague brought into their world by a stowaway Russian immigrant, Dmitri, whom they tried to help. It was then that Catherine and Peter, who had been family friends all of her life, first realized that they shared the knowledge of Father’s world. They collided when Catherine was sent to meet an unknown Helper, who turned out to be Peter, driving a supply van with vaccine and antibiotics against the plague for the sick below. He was never given a last name in the series, so I have given him the last name of Wellington.

  Jamie: She was a petite girl in her late teens who was also an archer and best friends with Mouse. She had a cute spitfire personality and was a very hard worker.

  Tony Ramos: He was an orphaned Gypsy boy Catherine and Vincent helped to be restored to his family in the episode “Everything is Everything.” Tony’s evil uncle had framed Tony’s father for stealing from the family business, and in a Gypsy trial Tony’s entire family was considered dead by the clan. When Tony’s parents were killed, he made the trip to New York City by himself from Chicago, to try to prove his father’s innocence, and be restored to his grandparents. His grandparents, Milo and Eva Ramos, were devastated over not being able to acknowledge their grandson but feared chaos in the clan if they broke their Gypsy laws. Vincent confronted Milo, who was the king of their clan, and convinced him to hold a new trial for his grandson, Tony. Milo relented and arranged the new trial, at which time Tony’s wits prevailed, and he was able to prove that it was his uncle who was the thief. Tony was restored to his family and felt that he owed a debt to Catherine for taking him into her home and helping him.

  Dr. Marx: He was the New York City Coroner who was called in to collect Catherine’s body. He played a game of cat-and-mouse with Joe Maxwell, trying to avoid his questions about Catherine’s case. He was never given a first name. I have given him the name David.

  New York Cabby: This is another Helper who was never given a name. He surveilled and gave rides to people needed by Father’s world in times of crisis. He was the one who corralled Diana, and at one time he also shanghaied Joe when Father was trying to find Vincent after the Compass Rose incident. I have given him the name Chuck Johnson.

  Sarah: She was a middle-aged woman in the world below who aided with special tasks like practical nursing. She took a special interest in the eccentric members of Father’s community.

  Jenny Aronson: She was Catherine’s close friend who owned a publishing company specializing in books on art which she edited. She helped to book art exhibits at local galleries because of her influence with the gallery owners.

  Kipper: He was one of the children in Father’s world. He loved running errands for everyone.

  Dr. Wong: He was an herbal doctor in Chinatown who was featured in the episode “China Moon.” He had been prescribing and providing herbal medicine for Father’s condition as well as other community members’ ailments for over twenty years.

  Mong and his young son, Edward: Mong was a Vietnamese grocer who was taught English by Father’s family below.

  Mong helped them with groceries for William’s kitchen.

  Rolley: This young black man, featured in the episode, “Chamber Music,” was brought to the tunnels by one of the Helpers from above as a boy. He was a savant pianist, who could play any classical piano piece he heard by ear perfectly. When Ms. Kendrick, his piano teacher below, was killed by acquaintances of his trouble-making older brother, Rolley blamed himself. As a result, he battled with heroin addiction on the streets as a young adult, until Vincent found him again and told him that everyone still wanted and loved him below. He rejected that first overture, because he couldn’t forgive himself yet. When he was finally shot in a failed robbery attempt in the episode “In the Forests of the Night,” he took refuge in the tunnels, where Vincent found him critically

  wounded. Father performed surgery and removed the bullets, and Rolley finally overcame his addiction and stayed home below.

  Brooke: She was a young girl in her late teens. Her boyfriend, Steven, was a teenage boy who was killed by the assassin, Snow, when he went into the tunnels hunting for Vincent in the episode “Snow.” Brooke was devastated by this loss.

  Eric Peterson & his sister, Ellie: These were children who were rescued by Catherine and Vincent from a bad foster home in the episode “A Children’s Story.” Kipper reported talking to an abused child from that home to Vincent.

  Vincent then told Catherine, and she was able to take action to have the home closed down. Eric and Ellie were in imminent danger, though, because the corrupt director of the foster home was selling the children in his care to a “Fagan.” Eric and Ellie were hidden and then adopted by Vincent’s community. Ellie died of the plague in the episode “Ashes, Ashes.”

  Kristopher Gentian: He was a deceased painter whose ghost visited Catherine and Vincent in the episode “When the Bluebird Sings.” He interacted with them in corporeal form, so they could discover his paintings which were hidden in a forgotten warehouse. Catherine, being a logical-minded lawyer, had a really difficult time believing that he was actually dead. She thought that his death must have been staged in order to increase the value of his paintings.

  However, among the paintings found in that warehouse was a spectacular huge portrait of Catherine and Vincent carefully wrapped with her name on it. When she and Vincent uncovered it in Vincent’s chamber, she assumed that Kristopher had painted it after meeting them. Vincent pointed out to her, though, that Kristopher’s paintings were all oil paintings, including this one, which would take many months to properly dry. She had to accept the obvious fact that this was a prophetic painting done long before he ever set eyes on either one of them and painted before his death.

  Jonathan Smythe: He was the antique book store owner

  who was Kristopher’s friend from the time the artist was a child. H
e had identified Kristopher’s body after he froze to death one winter outside on the streets. When Catherine and Vincent found the paintings Kristopher led them to, she had them shown and sold at a local gallery with the help of her friend, Jenny Aronson, and then she gave the generated funds to Mr. Smythe. He used the funds for cemetery upkeep of Kristopher’s grave.

  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 acqua
intance 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,