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'''Drake''' was a [[human]] who worked for [[the Department]]. He was [[Head of Public Order]], but got involved in alien affairs. He had a cybernetic [[hand]] and a dragon-headed [[cane]]. He seemed to have an evil, secret agenda and was rather a man of mystery.
[[Inspector]] '''Drake''' was a [[21st century]] [[human]] who worked as [[Head of Security]] for [[the Department]].
 
Despite his job, Drake frequently infringed upon [[June Turner]]'s remit as [[Head of the Alien Activity Section]] and developed several devices that utilised [[alien]] technology with the aim of controlling the population. After failed attempts to capture [[K9 Mark 2|K9]] for his technology, Drake revived [[Operation Black Hunger]] as a weapon against those he deemed undesirable and [[Lomax]] replaced him with [[Thorne]] when June made this known.


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
=== Early plots ===
=== Early life ===
When [[K9 Mark 2]] tracked a [[Jixen]] warrior to [[Dauntless Prison]] in [[2050]], he was detected by a Department Officer. Drake told him to monitor it. When K9 passed the exclusion zone he ordered him to "exclude it". ([[TV]]: ''[[Liberation]]'')
Drake worked for [[the Department]] for many years ([[TV]]: {{cs|Black Hunger (TV story)}}) and became [[Head of Security]], a position which meant he often worked with [[June Turner]], [[Head of the Alien Activity Section]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Korven (TV story)}}) According to [[Starkey]], he committed "horrible, nameless [[crime]]s" during his career. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Fear Itself (TV story)}}) At some point, he had his left hand replaced with a [[cyborg|cybernetic]] one ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Bounty Hunter (TV story)}}) which gave him increased strength. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Fear Itself (TV story)}})


Drake requested an update on the recent alien activity from Inspector [[June Turner]]. She declined, stating she did not report to him. When Drake asked her about information sharing, she said that when she felt he needed to know something she'd share it with him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Korven]]'')
Amongst Drake's projects was [[Operation Black Hunger]], which he developed with the aim of wiping from the [[street]]s of [[London]] those that he considered undesirable. However, it was shut down because of [[the Hunger]]'s instability. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Black Hunger (TV story)}}) After a [[Mede]] [[Mede starship|starship]] crashed to [[Earth]], Drake stole it and imprisoned the Medes in the hopes of getting information from them which would allow him to replicate their [[invisibility]] technology for the purpose of [[espionage]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Alien Avatar (TV story)}}) He also had the [[Inhibitor]] built with [[cerilium]] to use to [[mind control|control]] people and put it in the [[gazette]] without mentioning the [[alien]] [[mineral]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Sirens of Ceres (TV story)}})


As a publicity stunt to boost public order. Drake had a fake bomb attached to the speed clutch in the control centre of a Ferris wheel, making it go faster. [[Starkey]] and K9 watched as Drake and several patrols of [[CCPC]]s arrived. He told the public if his forces tried to stop the wheel, the bomb would detonate. K9 destroyed the bomb, stopping the wheel. Drake asked why June didn't tell him of K9, whom he thought dangerous. When she disagreed, Drake went to [[Lomax (The Bounty Hunter)|Lomax]], who said he would consider whose jurisdiction K9 fell under.
=== K9's arrival ===
When Drake was alerted to the sighting of an [[Unidentified Flying Object]] outside [[Dauntless Prison]], he ordered it to be observed and had it shot down once it entered the Department exclusion zone. The object, [[K9 Mark 2|K9]], was damaged, but Drake did not know what it was that had been shot down ([[TV]]: {{cs|Liberation (TV story)}}) nor was he aware of K9 for some time. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Bounty Hunter (TV story)}})


Drake was contacted by [[Ahab]], a bounty hunter trying to capture K9. Drake used the Department's CCTV devices across London to find K9 for him. However when they found K9, Ahab betrayed Drake, neutralised his CCPC guards and took K9 to Gryffen's house. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bounty Hunter]]'')
Drake noticed an increase in [[alien]] arrivals and requested an update from June in the hopes of getting an explanation. She refused to provide one given that she did not report to him and said that she worked on a need-to-know basis, meaning she would not tell him anything unless she felt it imperative. He agreed that he would work on the same principle. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Korven (TV story)}})


=== Magdalene Academy ===
In bid to generate publicity for the Department, Drake had a fake [[bomb]] attached to the [[speed clutch]] of a [[Ferris wheel]] and appeared before the [[news]] [[camera]]s with the [[CCPC]], only for the crowd to turn against him when he failed to act. The scheme was ruined when [[Starkey]] and K9 saved the day, after which he claimed that they were dangerous and admonished June for keeping K9 a secret from him given how useful his [[technology]] could be. He was approached by [[Ahab (The Bounty Hunter)|Ahab]] and formed an alliance with him to capture K9, but Ahab betrayed him and took K9 himself. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Bounty Hunter (TV story)}})
Drake came up with a plan for full control over the population of London using [[cerulium]] that had fallen to [[Earth]]. He tested this on several schoolgirls attending [[Magdalene Academy]] with [[cerulium bracelet]]s that were offered them by an [[android]] posing as a schoolgirl, [[Melaina]]. He also had an experimental device called the [[Inhibitor]] created. When [[Jorjie Turner]] threw a stone at a CCPC, Drake decided they needed discipline and ordered the CCPCs to use the Inhibitor on them; but it misfired, destroying the CCPC. Later, Drake suggested sending Jorjie to Magdalene Academy to deal with her rebellious behaviour. K9 managed to blast the bracelets off the students. When Drake realised his plan had failed, he deactivated Melaina. ([[TV]]: ''[[Sirens of Ceres]]'')


=== Facing Fear ===
=== Targeting K9 ===
When an alien [[Fear (entity)|entity]] caused fear and panic throughout London from its hiding place inside an old wardrobe in a junkyard, Drake secured the junkyard with his own private army of CCPCs. When Starkey, Darius, Jorjie and K9 got past the CCPCs and decided to investigate, Drake arrived. They then went to hide in the wardrobe and when they got out Drake came and asked them if they saw the alien. As they left, Drake shouted at the wardrobe saying he was not afraid of it, and the [[Jixen|alien]] hand then popped out of the door and back in again. The operation was disbanded by June when she was unable to find proof of the entity's existence. When Starkey was arrested by CCPCs when he investigated the wardrobe and found out it was a person's fear which made them see the hole, Drake went to him in his cell. When Drake failed to make Starkey fear him, he started to show signs of paranoia and suggested that Starkey was working with the alien. Starkey insisted that it was Drake's fear, but he refused to acknowledge it and ordered the CCPCs to "toss him in the gutter where he belongs". Drake decided to destroy the creature, dropping a bomb into the bottomless pit and destroying the wardrobe with his cybernetic hand. However, the entity seemed to survive the attacks, and vanished soon after. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Itself]]'')
[[Lomax]] ruled that K9 came under June's jurisdiction rather than Drake's and, as a further way of protecting K9, June formed the [[K9 Unit]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Bounty Hunter (TV story)}}) Still wanting K9's technology, Drake devised [[Operation Orthrus]], a plan to build [[Orthrus|a duplicate]] of K9 as a way of framing him and giving Drake cause to apply to the [[Public Safety Council]] for an [[arrest warrant]]. Building Orthrus took 15,000 man-hours. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)}})


=== Teasing June Turner ===
Drake had a CCPC test the [[Inhibitor]] when Starkey, [[Jorjie Turner]] and K9 intervened in [[Vibeka]]'s [[arrest]], only for it to fail as cerilium had to be willingly accepted. He had [[Melaina]] built and used her to distribute [[cerilium bracelet]]s at [[Magdalen Academy]], a [[school]] which he convinced June to send Jorjie to. Jorjie accepted a bracelet, but Drake saw through her ruse when she regained control and deactivated Melaina after K9 shot the girls' bracelets. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Sirens of Ceres (TV story)}})
As severe storms raged in [[London]], June rang Jorjie (who was staying in Gryffen's house) to check if she was safe. Drake noted how she was lucky to have time for personal calls and when he asked her who she was calling, June suddenly hung up claiming it was electrical interference. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Gryffen]]'')


=== Framing K9 ===
After two [[tramp]]s reported on [[Darius Pike]]'s attack by the [[Shadow (Fear Itself)|Shadow]] inside a [[wardrobe]], the terrified Drake demanded that June deal with it and took the case as his own after her scans found no trace of any aliens. He interrogated Starkey, whom he believed to be hiding something, about the alien, but Starkey told him that the alien was in his [[imagination]] and he released him. Despite the fact that K9 was inside the wardrobe, Drake ordered a [[bomb]] to be dropped into the wardrobe to kill the alien and then destroyed the wardrobe with a punch of his cybernetic fist. The Shadow told him that he would be with him forever. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Fear Itself (TV story)}})
Drake later devised yet another scheme, this time targeting K9. He made a [[Doppelgänger|duplicate]] of K9, who he called [[Orthrus]], to frame him. When June addressed protesters outraged at the Department's introduction of microchips, Drake ordered the CCPCs to arrest them. Orthrus arrived and caused chaos, shooting Drake. As June tended to Drake, he told her K9 had gone mad and that he would be happy to find out why. June told Drake (who made a "speedy" recovery) of how she tried to negotiate a peaceful solution which would stop a potential "bloodbath" should Drake have decided to "go in all guns blazing". Drake had the CCPCs bring Darius to him. Drake said he admired his "pragmatism", he then asked Darius to be his operative on the inside. In order to provoke Darius, Orthrus came in the middle of the night and severely damaged [[Mariah]]. When Drake arrived, June questioned him about how he smiled before he was shot, he replied it was due to many reasons, such as courage. In the morning, Drake arrived with two CCPC's with a warrant to arrest K9. When Jorjie demanded to see the warrant one CCPC grabbed her arm, causing Darius to put a bucket on its head in her defence. Gryffen then wired the other one to his antique radio causing it to dance. As the kids and K9 ran Drake pulled off the bucket and blamed Gryffen, he said they were just being themselves and taunted Drake, who angrily pulled the wire off the dancing CCPC. Drake and his CCPCs then walked in; Drake was furious at the destroyed Orthrus. June then interrupted and informed him that Operation: Orthrus was not approved by the Department and was terminated; he refused to accept this and angrily left. ([[TV]]: ''[[Jaws of Orthrus]]'')


=== Threat of the Anubians ===
Drake found June making a personal call to Jorjie during a [[storm]] which was knocking out communications across [[London]] and sarcastically commented on how fortunate she was to have the time to make such a call. When he asked who she was talking to, she claimed that she was experiencing electrical interference and ended the call. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Fall of the House of Gryffen (TV story)}})
When a [[Anubian spacecraft|UFO]] entered [[Earth]]'s orbit, Drake ordered it to be destroyed with orbital missles. June told him to stop as it hadn't been fully analysed and she argued it may be Spacerock. Drake however didn't tolerate trespassers, when June asked if they come in peace he replied "Then they leave in pieces". The ships suddenly disappeared, Drake was shocked by this as the computer tells him it has burnt up in the atmosphere. Later, June detected an alien presence in the [[Gryffen House]] and called for back up, the [[Anubian]]s took action against the Department and started materialising hypnotic headbands to all Department officers. Drake initiated Code Red Alert and called for all agents, but fell victim to the Anubians' control as well. When the crisis was resolved and the Anubians were arrested by the Department, June cheerfully said there was "no hurry" in taking the headband off Drake. ([[TV]]: ''[[Curse of Anubis]]'')


=== Imprisoning the Mede ===
With [[Orthrus]] complete, Drake had the K9 double shoot him at a protest against Department [[microchip]]s and requested an [[arrest warrant]] from the [[Public Safety Council]]. He did not approve of June negotiating with K9 to give himself up to the authorities and had the CCPC bring Darius to him so that he would have an ally when he went to make the arrest, offering Darius a brighter future in return for his assistance. Darius betrayed him, however, and K9 destroyed Orthrus. Afterwards, June informed him that she had met with the Public Safety Council and had the warrant recalled due to Drake bypassing approvals to get [[Operation Orthrus]] off the ground. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)}})
Drake then hatched a plan. He had a [[Mede]] [[Mede starship|starship]] along with its two pilots captured. The ship's molecular refractor gave the ship the ability to dematerialise and with that he could use it to spy anywhere and not be seen by anyone, even by Lomax. The attempted replication of their technology caused [[chenium]] pollution which leaked into the [[River Thames]]. In June's office Drake talked to a CCPC through a Department computer, who told him the Medes were withholding information they needed. Drake ordered them to be more persuasive. June arrived and asked why he was there and spoke to him about his special security unit. She told him how she sent her squad to investigate possible alien activity but were turned back by Drake's unit. She warned that alien threats were above all other Department operations, and if her squad is blocked again she would inform Lomax. Drake was then contacted by the CCPC who told him the aliens wouldn't stop talking. Drake then told June he wouldn't "upset" her squad again. He then told her he had business to attend to and she left. In Drake's office June found the missing schematics for a fallen angel on his computer. When Drake arrived she asked him his interest in the ship, he replied the entire Department wanted to know where it was located. When she asked him about the featured detail on the top, he replied he had no idea and told her to leave as he has business to attend to. Before she did so she warned him he best not be revealed to be in possession of the ship. Drake then contacted the CCPC who told him the aliens weren't cooperating. He then authorised the use of torture. The Medes attempted to communicate with K9 and the gang by using their avatar forms to direct him to the source of the pollution through the sewers while Darius and Jorjie went to the processing factory and were captured. June found and went to the factory. She used her higher authorisation to shut down the project. She and the gang went to the Department prison and released the Medes, returning their technology and apologising for Drake's actions. They removed the pollution from the River Thames and returned home with their spaceship. ([[TV]]: ''[[Alien Avatar]]'')


=== Chaos of the Aeolians ===
=== Alien encounters ===
When the [[Aeolian]]'s mating call caused storms across the [[United Kingdom]], Drake suspected Gryffen as he almost single-handedly caused the Great Cataclysm. June argued that he was part of a group of scientists who all agreed with the experiment, a "crazy, irresponsible experiment" as noted by Drake, exactly the same as the catastrophe affecting Britain. Drake considered arresting Gryffen for being a "mad scientist". He managed to find the Aeolian in the [[Holy Cross Cathedral]] and went there along with four CCPCs. Starkey and K9 told him she was an Aeolian merely looking for her mate. Despite their objections, Drake ordered the CCPCs to stun her. They fired at her, knocking her out. K9 told Drake that as the feedback loop hooks up with gravity the Earth will shatter like a wine glass, Drake however refuses to listen to a "robot dog and a juvenile delinquent". As Starkey tried to contact the Aeolians mate using the church organ. Drake ordered the CCPCs to take the Aeolian out but when K9 threatened to "liquidate" him and his "gangsters" he ordered them to stand down. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aeolian (TV story)|Aeolian]]'')
Drake was keen to have the [[Anubian spacecraft]] destroyed even before he and June had received a threat analysis, but it disappeared before he could do so and June incorrectly surmised that it had likely been a [[meteor]]. He and [[Department Technician (Curse of Anubis)|a technician]] were controlled by [[Nehetka]] and [[Geb (Curse of Anubis)|Geb]]'s control headbands when one of their [[urn]]s appeared in the [[camo]] and, following the [[Anubian]]s defeat, June was in no hurry to remove them. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Curse of Anubis (TV story)}})


=== Theft of the Major Oak ===
After three days of depriving the [[Mede]]s of [[food]] and [[drink]], Drake authorised the [[CCPC]] to [[torture]] them and denied June's insinuations that he was behind the disappearance of the [[Mede starship]] after his elite team turned her hunter-killers away from the project site and she found him looking at a schematic of the ship. June and the [[K9 Unit]] shut down the project and released the Medes, to whom June apologised for Drake's actions. Although Drake had been acting on his own in stealing the starship and torturing the Medes, June had no evidence against him. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Alien Avatar (TV story)}})
After the [[Centuripede]] stole the [[Major Oak]] from a [[Sector SE14 Delta|museum]], Drake was sent with orders from Lomax as the thief was classed as an A-Level threat "which means it's time to let the big boys play". June (who was looking at the alien substance) argued that this wasn't his jurisdiction even as Drake picked up a piece of the alien substance. He later went to kill the aliens in the sewers, but June warned Gryffen, who alterted K9 and the team. He put a gas bomb set to detonate in four minutes. However, everyone including the aliens escaped. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Oak Tree]]'')


=== The Hunger ===
When an [[Aeolian]]'s [[mating call]] caused [[storm]]s which reminded Drake of the [[Great Cataclysm]], he called June into work and decided to pull Gryffen in for questioning. June pointed out that he had no grounds too, however, and visited Gryffen herself. Drake confronted the Aeolian at the [[Holy Cross Cathedral]] and had the CCPC shoot her when Starkey and K9 refused to do so. K9 threatened to "liquidate" Drake and the CCPCs if they shot the Aeolian again once she recovered, leading Drake to stand the CCPCs down and retreat. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aeolian (TV story)}})
Drake had [[the Hunger]] created to revolutionise cleaning. The Hunger were ordinary yeast cells spliced with alien microbes. However his true intentions were to use the hijacked Fallen Angel technology to control society, believing that future generations would thank him. After a test of the Hunger in the tunnels beneath London, the [[imploder]] (used to control the Hunger) was stolen by Darius. At the scene of the accident June scanned the empty hazard suit and detected a possible alien trace. Drake arrived wondering where the device was and firmly demanded the worker to tell him where it was. Drake asked what June was doing there, June asked him the same question as this was merely a city sanitation issue. He told her that disappearance of state property was a very serious problem. June asked him how he heard about it so quickly, he replied that he was "eternally vigilant".


When K9 and the others found the device, he advised them to remove it from the House. Drake told the worker he did not talk to anybody, especially June. He told Drake something had changed the technology, and it would harm whoever had it. Drake asked why should he care, as they were criminals and deserved it. Gryffen was shocked at the analysis, he had never seen anything like it. On the sample of Starkey's shirt, the smaller microbes were attacked by the bigger ones, hunted and consumed, nano-technology never seen before. This microbe's dormancy [[gene]] was turned off, so they were always hungry which meant they could literally eat the whole world.
[[Lomax]] deemed the [[Centuripede]] to be an A-level threat and sent Drake to [[London Museum]] to deal with it following its theft of the [[Major Oak]], which June was already investigating. After taking and analysing a sample left behind by the Centuripede, Drake locked onto the K9 Unit's heat signals to follow them to the [[nest]] in the [[sewer]]s until K9 masked them. He then activated a [[bomb]] containing [[tetragliceride]] and left the sewers. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Last Oak Tree (TV story)}})


June told Drake she received an analysis from the microbes in the imploder. She knew of his project with the microbes that was closed down because it was too unstable. Drake told her he'd solved it with the use of the Imploder, an electromagnetic containment device allowed to store and transport the Hunger. She revealed that her analysis told her that he genetically altered the swarm to remove its self-limiting and dormancy characteristics. Drake told her it was to make it more efficient and he refused to believe it could get out of control. She told him they didn't know who has it, Drake told her not to panic. She warned him if the swarm got out, it would be the end of his career, and Drake noted how she'd like that. June argued with his opinion that the people were the problem, saying that the planet was surrounded by alien menaces which need to be defeated. Drake agreed but said that first they needed to find the alien technology to take control of the human problem first, revealing the true purpose of Black Hunger and his intentions.
=== Downfall ===
Drake decided to revive [[Operation Black Hunger]], having [[the Hunger]] altered to make it more efficient and using the [[Imploder]] to contain and transport it, and allowed it to be used by [[sanitation]] workers to clear up rubbish in the tunnels beneath [[London]]. The Imploder was stolen by Darius and Drake, unconcerned that it could kill the thief, unsuccessfully attempted to keep its nature a secret from June, later assuring her that the Hunger was under control. She pointed out that it would be the end of his career if the Hunger was released.


June argued that they'll curse him for taking away their freedom to be themselves. She told Drake that the reason she stayed in the Department was to make sure he doesn't succeed and that she didn't want her daughter growing up in his world. Drake was determined to see her leave before he did. The CCPCs reported to Drake at Department HQ that intruders had been sighted, two juveniles and a robotic dog in Sector NW12. Drake ordered a Department officer to set the imploder to self-destruct; when he asked about the CCPCs and the two juveniles Drake angrily ordered him to proceed. The imploder was set to self-destruct in five minutes.
Admitting to June that Operation Black Hunger was, in part, intended as a way of killing those he considered indesirable, Drake sent the CCPC to recover the Imploder, which had ended up in the possession of Starkey, Jorjie and K9. He ordered the Imploder's self-destruct to be activated despite the [[death]]s it would cause, but Jorjie managed to stop it and K9 absorbed the Hunger. With the situation resolved, June reported Drake's actions to Lomax, who ruled that Drake would be moved to other duties and replaced as [[Head of Security]] by [[Thorne]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Black Hunger (TV story)}})


June arrived and asked who gave the order to secure the tunnels. Drake told her he found the imploder and he needed to make sure it was neutralised. The explosion would sterilise the area and take the people who stole the imploder with it. K9 detected that the imploder would detonate and Jorjie deactivated it by bashing it with a piece of rubbish. The Department technician reported the swarm was still at large and the tunnel led into the River Thames. As K9, Starkey and Jorjie made their way out of the tunnels, the swarm multiplied.
== Personality ==
Drake believed that one should strive for nothing less than perfection. He wanted an obedient population without [[free will]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Sirens of Ceres (TV story)}}) and without those he deemed dissident or undesirable. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Black Hunger (TV story)}}) He was willing to use [[alien]] technology to [[mind control|control]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Sirens of Ceres (TV story)}}) and kill people to achieve this goal. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Black Hunger (TV story)}})


K9 had an idea to let the swarm attack him, so he could fire a beam which would suck the swarm into his mouth. June told Drake he almost killed everyone, to which he replied that calculated risks must be taken to protect society. June argued that he almost destroyed it, which she pointed out in her report, that he went too far and June vowed to take him down.
Drake claimed that he was not afraid of anything, but he was terrified of the [[Shadow (Fear Itself)|Shadow]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Fear Itself (TV story)}}) [[Alistair Gryffen]] described him as being "sly like a [[fox]]" ([[TV]]: {{cs|Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)}}) and a "dunce" ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aeolian (TV story)}}) and [[Jorjie Turner]] and [[Darius Pike]] believed that he was insane. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)}}) Whilst [[June Turner]] believed that he could get carried away, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aeolian (TV story)}}) she denied that he was mad. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)}})


[[Lomax (The Bounty Hunter)|Lomax]] decided that, although Drake served with the Department for many years, and this was not Drake's first breach of orders but his most serious to date, he would be moved on to other duties. He then gave the job as head of security to Inspector [[Thorne]], the former governor of [[Dauntless Prison]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Black Hunger]]'')
== Appearance ==
Drake had white skin and dark hair and usually wore a black [[suit]] with a dark [[tie]]. He had a cybernetic [[hand]] and used a [[dragon]]-headed [[cane]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Bounty Hunter (TV story)}})


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Latest revision as of 17:50, 8 September 2024

Inspector Drake was a 21st century human who worked as Head of Security for the Department.

Despite his job, Drake frequently infringed upon June Turner's remit as Head of the Alien Activity Section and developed several devices that utilised alien technology with the aim of controlling the population. After failed attempts to capture K9 for his technology, Drake revived Operation Black Hunger as a weapon against those he deemed undesirable and Lomax replaced him with Thorne when June made this known.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Early life[[edit] | [edit source]]

Drake worked for the Department for many years (TV: Black Hunger [+]Loading...["Black Hunger (TV story)"]) and became Head of Security, a position which meant he often worked with June Turner, Head of the Alien Activity Section. (TV: The Korven [+]Loading...["The Korven (TV story)"]) According to Starkey, he committed "horrible, nameless crimes" during his career. (TV: Fear Itself [+]Loading...["Fear Itself (TV story)"]) At some point, he had his left hand replaced with a cybernetic one (TV: The Bounty Hunter [+]Loading...["The Bounty Hunter (TV story)"]) which gave him increased strength. (TV: Fear Itself [+]Loading...["Fear Itself (TV story)"])

Amongst Drake's projects was Operation Black Hunger, which he developed with the aim of wiping from the streets of London those that he considered undesirable. However, it was shut down because of the Hunger's instability. (TV: Black Hunger [+]Loading...["Black Hunger (TV story)"]) After a Mede starship crashed to Earth, Drake stole it and imprisoned the Medes in the hopes of getting information from them which would allow him to replicate their invisibility technology for the purpose of espionage. (TV: Alien Avatar [+]Loading...["Alien Avatar (TV story)"]) He also had the Inhibitor built with cerilium to use to control people and put it in the gazette without mentioning the alien mineral. (TV: Sirens of Ceres [+]Loading...["Sirens of Ceres (TV story)"])

K9's arrival[[edit] | [edit source]]

When Drake was alerted to the sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object outside Dauntless Prison, he ordered it to be observed and had it shot down once it entered the Department exclusion zone. The object, K9, was damaged, but Drake did not know what it was that had been shot down (TV: Liberation [+]Loading...["Liberation (TV story)"]) nor was he aware of K9 for some time. (TV: The Bounty Hunter [+]Loading...["The Bounty Hunter (TV story)"])

Drake noticed an increase in alien arrivals and requested an update from June in the hopes of getting an explanation. She refused to provide one given that she did not report to him and said that she worked on a need-to-know basis, meaning she would not tell him anything unless she felt it imperative. He agreed that he would work on the same principle. (TV: The Korven [+]Loading...["The Korven (TV story)"])

In bid to generate publicity for the Department, Drake had a fake bomb attached to the speed clutch of a Ferris wheel and appeared before the news cameras with the CCPC, only for the crowd to turn against him when he failed to act. The scheme was ruined when Starkey and K9 saved the day, after which he claimed that they were dangerous and admonished June for keeping K9 a secret from him given how useful his technology could be. He was approached by Ahab and formed an alliance with him to capture K9, but Ahab betrayed him and took K9 himself. (TV: The Bounty Hunter [+]Loading...["The Bounty Hunter (TV story)"])

Targeting K9[[edit] | [edit source]]

Lomax ruled that K9 came under June's jurisdiction rather than Drake's and, as a further way of protecting K9, June formed the K9 Unit. (TV: The Bounty Hunter [+]Loading...["The Bounty Hunter (TV story)"]) Still wanting K9's technology, Drake devised Operation Orthrus, a plan to build a duplicate of K9 as a way of framing him and giving Drake cause to apply to the Public Safety Council for an arrest warrant. Building Orthrus took 15,000 man-hours. (TV: Jaws of Orthrus [+]Loading...["Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)"])

Drake had a CCPC test the Inhibitor when Starkey, Jorjie Turner and K9 intervened in Vibeka's arrest, only for it to fail as cerilium had to be willingly accepted. He had Melaina built and used her to distribute cerilium bracelets at Magdalen Academy, a school which he convinced June to send Jorjie to. Jorjie accepted a bracelet, but Drake saw through her ruse when she regained control and deactivated Melaina after K9 shot the girls' bracelets. (TV: Sirens of Ceres [+]Loading...["Sirens of Ceres (TV story)"])

After two tramps reported on Darius Pike's attack by the Shadow inside a wardrobe, the terrified Drake demanded that June deal with it and took the case as his own after her scans found no trace of any aliens. He interrogated Starkey, whom he believed to be hiding something, about the alien, but Starkey told him that the alien was in his imagination and he released him. Despite the fact that K9 was inside the wardrobe, Drake ordered a bomb to be dropped into the wardrobe to kill the alien and then destroyed the wardrobe with a punch of his cybernetic fist. The Shadow told him that he would be with him forever. (TV: Fear Itself [+]Loading...["Fear Itself (TV story)"])

Drake found June making a personal call to Jorjie during a storm which was knocking out communications across London and sarcastically commented on how fortunate she was to have the time to make such a call. When he asked who she was talking to, she claimed that she was experiencing electrical interference and ended the call. (TV: The Fall of the House of Gryffen [+]Loading...["The Fall of the House of Gryffen (TV story)"])

With Orthrus complete, Drake had the K9 double shoot him at a protest against Department microchips and requested an arrest warrant from the Public Safety Council. He did not approve of June negotiating with K9 to give himself up to the authorities and had the CCPC bring Darius to him so that he would have an ally when he went to make the arrest, offering Darius a brighter future in return for his assistance. Darius betrayed him, however, and K9 destroyed Orthrus. Afterwards, June informed him that she had met with the Public Safety Council and had the warrant recalled due to Drake bypassing approvals to get Operation Orthrus off the ground. (TV: Jaws of Orthrus [+]Loading...["Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)"])

Alien encounters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Drake was keen to have the Anubian spacecraft destroyed even before he and June had received a threat analysis, but it disappeared before he could do so and June incorrectly surmised that it had likely been a meteor. He and a technician were controlled by Nehetka and Geb's control headbands when one of their urns appeared in the camo and, following the Anubians defeat, June was in no hurry to remove them. (TV: Curse of Anubis [+]Loading...["Curse of Anubis (TV story)"])

After three days of depriving the Medes of food and drink, Drake authorised the CCPC to torture them and denied June's insinuations that he was behind the disappearance of the Mede starship after his elite team turned her hunter-killers away from the project site and she found him looking at a schematic of the ship. June and the K9 Unit shut down the project and released the Medes, to whom June apologised for Drake's actions. Although Drake had been acting on his own in stealing the starship and torturing the Medes, June had no evidence against him. (TV: Alien Avatar [+]Loading...["Alien Avatar (TV story)"])

When an Aeolian's mating call caused storms which reminded Drake of the Great Cataclysm, he called June into work and decided to pull Gryffen in for questioning. June pointed out that he had no grounds too, however, and visited Gryffen herself. Drake confronted the Aeolian at the Holy Cross Cathedral and had the CCPC shoot her when Starkey and K9 refused to do so. K9 threatened to "liquidate" Drake and the CCPCs if they shot the Aeolian again once she recovered, leading Drake to stand the CCPCs down and retreat. (TV: Aeolian [+]Loading...["Aeolian (TV story)"])

Lomax deemed the Centuripede to be an A-level threat and sent Drake to London Museum to deal with it following its theft of the Major Oak, which June was already investigating. After taking and analysing a sample left behind by the Centuripede, Drake locked onto the K9 Unit's heat signals to follow them to the nest in the sewers until K9 masked them. He then activated a bomb containing tetragliceride and left the sewers. (TV: The Last Oak Tree [+]Loading...["The Last Oak Tree (TV story)"])

Downfall[[edit] | [edit source]]

Drake decided to revive Operation Black Hunger, having the Hunger altered to make it more efficient and using the Imploder to contain and transport it, and allowed it to be used by sanitation workers to clear up rubbish in the tunnels beneath London. The Imploder was stolen by Darius and Drake, unconcerned that it could kill the thief, unsuccessfully attempted to keep its nature a secret from June, later assuring her that the Hunger was under control. She pointed out that it would be the end of his career if the Hunger was released.

Admitting to June that Operation Black Hunger was, in part, intended as a way of killing those he considered indesirable, Drake sent the CCPC to recover the Imploder, which had ended up in the possession of Starkey, Jorjie and K9. He ordered the Imploder's self-destruct to be activated despite the deaths it would cause, but Jorjie managed to stop it and K9 absorbed the Hunger. With the situation resolved, June reported Drake's actions to Lomax, who ruled that Drake would be moved to other duties and replaced as Head of Security by Thorne. (TV: Black Hunger [+]Loading...["Black Hunger (TV story)"])

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

Drake believed that one should strive for nothing less than perfection. He wanted an obedient population without free will (TV: Sirens of Ceres [+]Loading...["Sirens of Ceres (TV story)"]) and without those he deemed dissident or undesirable. (TV: Black Hunger [+]Loading...["Black Hunger (TV story)"]) He was willing to use alien technology to control (TV: Sirens of Ceres [+]Loading...["Sirens of Ceres (TV story)"]) and kill people to achieve this goal. (TV: Black Hunger [+]Loading...["Black Hunger (TV story)"])

Drake claimed that he was not afraid of anything, but he was terrified of the Shadow. (TV: Fear Itself [+]Loading...["Fear Itself (TV story)"]) Alistair Gryffen described him as being "sly like a fox" (TV: Jaws of Orthrus [+]Loading...["Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)"]) and a "dunce" (TV: Aeolian [+]Loading...["Aeolian (TV story)"]) and Jorjie Turner and Darius Pike believed that he was insane. (TV: Jaws of Orthrus [+]Loading...["Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)"]) Whilst June Turner believed that he could get carried away, (TV: Aeolian [+]Loading...["Aeolian (TV story)"]) she denied that he was mad. (TV: Jaws of Orthrus [+]Loading...["Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)"])

Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]

Drake had white skin and dark hair and usually wore a black suit with a dark tie. He had a cybernetic hand and used a dragon-headed cane. (TV: The Bounty Hunter [+]Loading...["The Bounty Hunter (TV story)"])

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