June Turner

June Turner
Species:	Human
Job:	Head of the Alien Activity Section, archivist
Affiliated with:	The Department, K9 Unit
Place of origin:	Earth
Children:	Jorjie Turner
First appearance:	Regeneration
Appearances:	see list
Main actor:	Robyn Moore

Inspector June Turner was Head of the Department's Alien Activity Section and Jorjie Turner's mother.

Believing that Earth needed to be protected from the likes of Inspectors Drake and Thorne as well as aliens, June remained with the Department despite her misgivings and formed the K9 Unit to protect K9 following his arrival in the 21st century. She helped the unit combat and rescue aliens, was demoted to working for the Research Division for refusing to follow Lomax's orders and fought the CCPCs during the Korven's invasion.

Biography

Early life

June Turner lived in London in the 21st century and had a daughter, Jorjie. (TV: Regeneration ^[+]Loading...["Regeneration (TV story)"]) Jorjie once said that June was her only parent (TV: The Last Precinct ^[+]Loading...["The Last Precinct (TV story)"]) and June said that she had nobody other than her daughter. (TV: The Custodians ^[+]Loading...["The Custodians (TV story)"]) June was an inspector for the Department and worked as Head of the Alien Activity Section. (TV: The Korven ^[+]Loading...["The Korven (TV story)"]) She kept her career a secret from Jorjie, who grew up believing that she had a "boring job" in IT. (TV: Liberation ^[+]Loading...["Liberation (TV story)"])

June's job involved working closely with Inspector Drake, the Head of Security. (TV: The Korven ^[+]Loading...["The Korven (TV story)"]) She did not believe that aliens who came to Earth should be allowed to wander London and tried to have them returned to their planets without success, so she had them imprisoned in Dauntless Prison and catalogued to protect future generations. (TV: Liberation ^[+]Loading...["Liberation (TV story)"]) When Jorjie was about twelve, June, like the rest of the Department, supported the replacement of human police officers with the Cybernetic Civic Pacification Corps. She opposed the use of alien technology in the CCPC officers, however. (TV: The Last Precinct ^[+]Loading...["The Last Precinct (TV story)"])

June employed the services of Alistair Gryffen, installed at a police station (TV: Regeneration ^[+]Loading...["Regeneration (TV story)"]) owned by the Department following the creation of the CCPC, (TV: The Last Precinct ^[+]Loading...["The Last Precinct (TV story)"]) to research alien technology such as the Space-Time Manipulator. (TV: Regeneration ^[+]Loading...["Regeneration (TV story)"]) She was aware of his role in the Great Cataclysm but did not believe that it was solely his fault. (TV: Aeolian ^[+]Loading...["Aeolian (TV story)"]) Although June had doubts about the Department, she stayed on to do what she could to ensure a safe future for Jorjie (TV: Black Hunger ^[+]Loading...["Black Hunger (TV story)"]) and urged them to be more open and transparent. (TV: Lost Library of Ukko ^[+]Loading...["Lost Library of Ukko (TV story)"])

Hunting K9

June was aware of an explosion at Gryffen's mansion and correctly believed that it was connected to the appearance of K9 Mark 2, who was caught on surveillance the following day and whom she believed to be a weapon, albeit an ugly and ungainly one with a "terrible design". She ordered Gryffen to find, capture and hand K9 over to the Department and threatened to pull him off the time-space project if he failed to do so, something she claimed she would hate to do but would if necessary. She was also aware of the arrest and escape of Starkey and asked whether Gryffen had seen him, unaware that Gryffen was harbouring him. (TV: Regeneration ^[+]Loading...["Regeneration (TV story)"])

After Starkey and Darius Pike were imprisoned in Dauntless Prison, June informed them that Thorne had the right to do so without charging them and promised to release them immediately if they gave up the location of K9. A Jixen later attacked the prison in search of Starkey and Thorne, (TV: Liberation ^[+]Loading...["Liberation (TV story)"]) who had become part-Meron, (TV: The Eclipse of the Korven ^[+]Loading...["The Eclipse of the Korven (TV story)"]) refused to let June leave his office even when she saw that K9 had arrived. She promised that his career was over and went after K9, finding that Jorjie had befriended him, Starkey and Darius and helped the alien prisoners escape. She then helped kill the Jixen with her arm unit. (TV: Liberation ^[+]Loading...["Liberation (TV story)"])

Founding the K9 Unit

June took Jorjie shopping for clothes, an activity that they did not often do together but which she enjoyed, before heading to work. She tried to call Jorjie later without success and hoped that her unavailability was due to her being busy with her homework. Her voice message was interrupted by Drake, whose questions about the recent surge in alien arrivals she avoided answering by claiming that she had no reason to share any information on the subject with him but would do so if that changed. Drake agreed to operate on the same principle. (TV: The Korven ^[+]Loading...["The Korven (TV story)"])

After K9 and Starkey ruined an attempt by Drake to get good publicity for the Department, Drake accused June's section of being incompetent and ignorant of K9, prompting her to reveal that she knew K9's name and whereabouts and that she believed that he could be an asset. Lomax ordered them to continue with their work whilst he decided which of them had jurisdiction over K9, so June paid a visit to Gryffen and learnt that Ahab was hunting K9 for murder. Angered by Drake's attempt to work with Ahab, June formed the K9 Unit to protect K9 and to ensure that Gryffen kept Jorjie safe. (TV: The Bounty Hunter ^[+]Loading...["The Bounty Hunter (TV story)"])

The K9 Unit meant that K9 was protected from Drake, but June believed that Starkey was responsible for Jorjie's increasingly rebellious behaviour which culminated in her throwing a stone at a CCPC. June managed to keep her out of pre-hearing detention and agreed with Drake's suggestion that she send her to Magdalen Academy to save her from a criminal record, a decision she was surprised to learn that Starkey took no issue with. She correctly suspected that Drake's Inhibitor contained alien technology, which she believed would be embarrassing for the Department if it were to be made public that such technology was being used on citizens. (TV: Sirens of Ceres ^[+]Loading...["Sirens of Ceres (TV story)"])

When the Shadow came to Earth, riots began in London and June's section was inundated with false alarms of alien threats. She believed that two tramps report of Darius being attacked by the Shadow was another such false alarm and teased Drake, who claimed that she was not taking her job seriously enough, for being afraid. She agreed to investigate the wardrobe containing the Shadow and found no evidence of an alien presence, prompting Drake to take on the case as his own. June suggested that he take stress leave. (TV: Fear Itself ^[+]Loading...["Fear Itself (TV story)"])

June worried about Jorjie when a storm started taking out communications across London and planned to send a courier to Gryffen's mansion to pick her up, but Gryffen suggested that she would be safer to remain at his and she agreed so long as he exercised parental control over her. She called Jorjie to check in some time later and was admonished by Drake for taking a personal call, so she pretended to lose contact due to electrical interference, a trick Jorjie herself often used. Once the storm subsided, she called Jorjie to let her know that she was on her way to pick her up. (TV: The Fall of the House of Gryffen ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of the House of Gryffen (TV story)"])

The announcement of microchips with security applications was met with a protest and June witnessed Drake being shot by Orthrus, a copy of K9. She employed Jorjie's help to try and convince K9 to give himself up to the Department before the Public Safety Council issued an arrest warrant and gave Drake the power to raid the mansion, but she came to believe that K9 was innocent after Jorjie pointed out Drake's odd behaviour at the protest. She uncovered Operation Orthrus and convened a special council meeting at which K9 was exonerated and Drake's plan to frame K9 terminated. (TV: Jaws of Orthrus ^[+]Loading...["Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)"])

Alien visitors

June supervised the excavation of a Celtic ruin and became controlled by the Bodach through her dreams, becoming their avatar to recover the Eye of Oblivion to put the world to sleep using an obelisk. Jorjie used the Bodach mask June was wearing to enter her nightmare and scare her by giving herself a tattoo with Darius's name, giving her the opportunity to pinch her and wake her up. Back in control of her body, June removed the Eye of Oblivion from the obelisk and ran away so that K9 could blow the obelisk up. She found Jorjie at the mansion and was relieved to find that she had no tattoo. (TV: Dream-Eaters ^[+]Loading...["Dream-Eaters (TV story)"])

June urged Drake not to shoot down the Anubians' spacecraft, which she believed could simply be space debris, until they received a threat analysis, but the point was rendered moot when the pyramid became invisible. She found Jorjie, Gryffen and Starkey under Nehetka and Geb's control when she visited the mansion and attempted to call a containment team to stop the Anubians. They managed to get her under their control to exploit her knowledge of the Department for their invasion, but K9 defeated them with Darius's help and June had them arrested. She was in no hurry to return Drake's free will, however. (TV: Curse of Anubis ^[+]Loading...["Curse of Anubis (TV story)"])

After Drake's special security unit turned away June's hunter-killer squad sent to investigate alien traces, she confronted and threatened him at the Alien Technology Archive and came to suspect that he had stolen a Mede starship to develop vanishment technology for espionage purposes. She visited Gryffen to get his help to stop Drake and learnt that Jorjie had gone to follow the trail of chenium created by Drake's manufacture of Qualon 37 to replicate the Medes' technology. June saved her and Darius from being arrested by CCPCs and apologised to the captive Medes for how they were treated. (TV: Alien Avatar ^[+]Loading...["Alien Avatar (TV story)"])

Freak weather led to June being called into work by Drake, who believed that Gryffen was responsible due to the similarities to the Great Cataclysm. She visited Gryffen to confirm that this was not the case and learnt that the cause was an Aeolian's mating call which was answered by a mate in the Orpheus constellation. The two Aeolians were reunited and the situation resolved, after which K9 asked the group what love was. Like the others, June was unable to give an answer. (TV: Aeolian ^[+]Loading...["Aeolian (TV story)"])

June raced to the London Museum after detecting magnetic interference which affected the CCPCs. She used her override to regain control and found that the Major Oak had been stolen by an alien, a theft which Lomax put Drake in charge of investigating due to it being considered an A-level threat. Her technicians were unable to identify the deposit left behind by the alien so she contacted Gryffen, who was already working on it. The alien was ultimately found to be a Centuripede which left Earth with its young with the K9 Unit's help. (TV: The Last Oak Tree ^[+]Loading...["The Last Oak Tree (TV story)"])

Thorne's ascension

June investigated the disappearance of the Imploder after a sanitation worker reported that aliens were responsible for the Imploder's microbes killing his colleague. She questioned Drake's interest in and knowledge of the matter and learnt that he had revived Operation Black Hunger to get rid of human undesirables, a scheme she warned him would bring an end to his career. Once the threat of the escaped microbes was resolved, she made a report to Lomax, who made the decision to reassign Drake and replace him with Thorne. (TV: Black Hunger ^[+]Loading...["Black Hunger (TV story)"])

When June contacted Gryffen to try to get in touch with Jorjie, she learnt that her daughter had been transported back in time to 1963 by the Space-Time Manipulator. To bring her back, she agreed to hold an antenna out of the window in a storm to power up the STM with lightning, Gryffen being unable to due to his agoraphobia. The plan worked and Jorjie, Starkey and K9 were returned to the 21st century. Gryffen kissed June on the cheek in celebration. (TV: The Cambridge Spy ^[+]Loading...["The Cambridge Spy (TV story)"])

June was surprised by Thorne's eagerness to hold an open day at the Department's headquarters and was notified by the Alien Technology Inventory that he had uplifted an Ukkan library card which was subsequently taken from him. She visited Lomax and was told to warn Thorne that he would be forced to resign unless he recovered the library card within twelve hours. Jorjie, Darius and K9 informed her that Starkey was inside the library card and could only be freed by Yssaringintinka using the plinth, which she proceeded to take from Thorne's office. (TV: Lost Library of Ukko ^[+]Loading...["Lost Library of Ukko (TV story)"])

June visited Gryffen to recover Birdie, whom she believed Gryffen was responsible for altering in addition to sheltering, but he and Starkey informed her that Thorne had been grafting human intellect into CCPCs. She told Thorne, who was confident that there was no evidence of the experiments aside from Birdie, that she would make his involvement known if she found evidence. Ultimately, the K9 Unit freed Birdie so that Thorne could not find and destroy him to cover up his actions. (TV: Mutant Copper ^[+]Loading...["Mutant Copper (TV story)"])

When the Little Green Men wiped the mind of its players and started turning them into Etydions, June hurried to Gryffen's mansion to check on Jorjie and headed to the Green Room Entertainment headquarters with Starkey and K9 to find out how to investigate. She met with John and threatened him with K9 into providing information on what she found out was Thorne's operation to gain control of the public. When John demanded money to stop the broadcast before the children became Etydions, June ordered Thorne to pay it and then appealed to the Etydion to save her only daughter. (TV: The Custodians ^[+]Loading...["The Custodians (TV story)"])

June did not believe that Taphony's escape was anything more than an internal security matter until Thorne informed her that her escape was engineered from outside the prison and that she was a maximum security inmate. Taphony was transported away by a portal created by Gryffen. (TV: Taphony and the Time Loop ^[+]Loading...["Taphony and the Time Loop (TV story)"])

After Darius brought Freddie Maxwell's Crashclub to Gryffen's attention, Gryffen contacted June in the hopes that she would shut it down. However, she told him that the Department had "bigger fish to fry" and Starkey believed that she would not do anything unless the K9 Unit were able to collect actual evidence of Freddie using banned technology. (TV: Robot Gladiators ^[+]Loading...["Robot Gladiators (TV story)"])

Korven invasion

Gryffen called June to ask her to help him get to the crashed Korven ship in Canada to recover the STM's temporal stabiliser, but she believed that the mission was too dangerous and went to the mansion to explain this to him. However, Thorne had already taken Gryffen with him. Gryffen returned safely with the temporal stabiliser thanks to Starkey and K9's help. (TV: Angel of the North ^[+]Loading...["Angel of the North (TV story)"])

On a day that June believed Jorjie was at the library, Gryffen's mansion was infiltrated and fortified by Harry Pike and Halloran of the Last Precinct. She learnt that Jorjie was inside as well and attempted to negotiate her release without mentioning her relationship to her, but Pike already knew of the connection and refused to release any of his hostages, later saying that he had no choice but to reveal that alien technology had been incorporated into the CCPCs. June realised that Thorne was responsible for this addition and demanded a debrief once the situation was resolved. Once it was, she took Pike and Halloran into custody. (TV: The Last Precinct ^[+]Loading...["The Last Precinct (TV story)"])

June was tasked with using stun mines and a sleeping agent to capture Jixey in the sewers beneath London but suspended the operation after Jorjie and Darius emerged and told her that Starkey was down there with K9, who had been turned into a bomb by what Thorne claimed was his memory disc. Not wanting to be responsible for Starkey's death, she refused to listen to Thorne and questioned Lomax's orders when he demanded that she comply with the order. She went into the sewers with Jorjie to save Starkey from Jixey, whom she learnt was not a threat, and afterwards checked on Pike in prison to make sure he was no longer being tortured by Thorne. (TV: Hound of the Korven ^[+]Loading...["Hound of the Korven (TV story)"])

Because of her insubordination, Lomax demoted June to the rank of constable and had her working in the Department Research Division as an archivist. Darius visited her to warn her of the merging of a black and white hole and the CCPCs, under the control of the Korven, attempted to arrest her as they were the rest of the Department. She fought back with an advanced gun and went with Darius to Gryffen's mansion to find Jorjie, but she was not there and the Space-Time Manipulator exploded thanks to Gryffen shutting Thorne's down. Darius saved June's life and they watched K9 regenerate. (TV: The Eclipse of the Korven ^[+]Loading...["The Eclipse of the Korven (TV story)"])

Later life

June was uncertain as to whether the Department would survive Lomax's defeat but told Darius that, if it did, she would be interested in hiring him. (TV: The Eclipse of the Korven ^[+]Loading...["The Eclipse of the Korven (TV story)"])

Alternate timelines

At the mobile HQ, June was alerted to the escape of a prisoner, who Thorne noted was a maximum security inmate associated with Project Taphony. Arriving at the manor on Gryffen's 38th birthday, June found that he had freed the inmate, Taphony, a Time Blank that had rapidly aged him while draining the energy from Jorjie. Though Taphony wished for a mother and friends, June told her that absorbing Jorjie would not make her Taphony's mother. When June and the others. When June and the others offered themselves in Jorjie's place, Taphony chose to leave via the STM vortex, restoring Gryffen and saving Jorjie. As a result of Taphony's departure, time reversed by a day and so June, along with everyone else bar K9, lost their memory of Taphony. (TV: Taphony and the Time Loop)

Personality

Although June had problems with the Department and thought that it needed to be more open and transparent, (TV: Lost Library of Ukko ^[+]Loading...["Lost Library of Ukko (TV story)"]) she kept working for them in part to ensure that Drake did not succeed in building a world that she did not want for Jorjie. Unlike Drake, she believed that the Department had to keep Earth safe from aliens rather than dissidents and "antisocial undesirables" (TV: Black Hunger ^[+]Loading...["Black Hunger (TV story)"]) and was against shooting down spacecraft without good cause. (TV: Curse of Anubis ^[+]Loading...["Curse of Anubis (TV story)"])

June was a staunch believer in obeying the law, although she would disobey a law she felt wrong or unjust. She was moral and despised the immoral actions of Drake, Thorne and Lomax. She believed imprisoning aliens in the Dauntless Prison was right for the future, safeguarding the world's children, (TV: Liberation) although she did meet more peaceful aliens such as the Medes, whom she released from their harsh treatment, (TV: Alien Avatar) and Yssaringintinka. (TV: Lost Library of Ukko) She was strict with her daughter out of love and concern rather than malice; June admitted at one point she would never stop worrying. (TV: Black Hunger)

June liked to go clothes shopping with Jorjie. Jorjie thought it was so she could supervise the clothes she bought but June looked on it more as "advising, strongly advising". (TV: The Korven)