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{{Infobox Individual
| individual name = June Turner
|image        = June Turner.jpg
| image          = [[file:June_Turner.jpg|250px]]
|alias       =  
| alias           = <ul><li>Inspector</li><li>Mum</li></ul>
|species     = Human
| species           = [[Human]]
|job          = Head of the Alien Activity Section
| home planet    = [[Earth]]
|job2        = archivist
| home era       = Mid [[21st century]]
|affiliation  = The Department
| appearances     = [[June Turner - List of Appearances|Full List of Appearances]]
|affiliation2 = K9 Unit
| actor           = [[Robyn Moore]]
|origin      = [[Earth]]
|child       = Jorjie Turner
|first        = Regeneration (TV story)
|appearances = {{appears}}
|actor       = Robyn Moore
}}
}}
[[Inspector]] '''June Turner''' was [[Head of the Alien Activity Section|Head]] of [[the Department]]'s Alien Activity Section and [[Jorjie Turner]]'s mother.


'''June Turner''' was the mother of [[Jorjie Turner]] and an agent of [[The Department]] in [[2050]] where she operated as [[Gryffen|Professor Gryffen]]'s primary contact with his employer.
Believing that [[Earth]] needed to be protected from the likes of [[Drake (Liberation)|Inspectors Drake]] and [[Thorne]] as well as [[alien]]s, June remained with the Department despite her misgivings and formed the [[K9 Unit]] to protect [[K9 Mark 2|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 [[CCPC]]s during the [[Korven]]'s invasion.


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
===Early life===
=== Early life ===
June gave birth to her daughter, [[Jorjie Turner]] in either [[2035]] or [[2036]]. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Dream-Eaters]]'')
June Turner lived in [[London]] in the [[21st century]] and had a daughter, [[Jorjie Turner|Jorjie]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Regeneration (TV story)}}) Jorjie once said that June was her only parent ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Last Precinct (TV story)}}) and June said that she had nobody other than her daughter. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Custodians (TV story)}}) June was an [[inspector]] for [[the Department]] and worked as [[Head of the Alien Activity Section]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|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]]: {{cs|Liberation (TV story)}})


In [[2048]], she made the decision to replace human law enforcement officers with [[CCPC]]s. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Last Precinct]]'')
June's job involved working closely with [[Drake (Liberation)|Inspector Drake]], the [[Head of Security]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Korven (TV story)}}) She did not believe that [[alien]]s who came to [[Earth]] should be allowed to wander London and tried to have them returned to their [[planet]]s without success, so she had them imprisoned in [[Dauntless Prison]] and catalogued to protect future generations. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Liberation (TV story)}}) When Jorjie was about twelve, June, like the rest of the Department, supported the replacement of [[human]] [[police officer]]s with the [[Cybernetic Civic Pacification Corps]]. She opposed the use of alien technology in the CCPC officers, however. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Last Precinct (TV story)}})  


She was a single mother by [[2050]], it was implied that Jorjie's father was deceased. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Last Precinct]]'') Until then, Jorjie didn't know she worked for the Department, thinking she had a "boring job in I.T.". ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Liberation]]'')
June employed the services of [[Alistair Gryffen]], installed at a [[police station]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Regeneration (TV story)}}) owned by the Department following the creation of the CCPC, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Last Precinct (TV story)}}) to research alien technology such as the [[Space-Time Manipulator]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Regeneration (TV story)}}) She was aware of his role in the [[Great Cataclysm]] but did not believe that it was solely his fault. ([[TV]]: {{cs|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]]: {{cs|Black Hunger (TV story)}}) and urged them to be more open and transparent. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Lost Library of Ukko (TV story)}})


===Meeting [[K9 Mark 2]]===
=== Hunting K9 ===
June worked for the Department as the head of the Alien Activity section and supervised [[Alistair Gryffen]]'s work with a [[Space-Time Manipulator]]. After the night of the explosion at the [[Gryffen Manor]], she arrived to question him. She showed him the profile of [[Starkey|Stark Reality]] who was arrested at the night of the explosion, Gryffen (who was hiding Starkey) acted oblivious as to the fact he escaped. She showed him a recording of [[K9 Mark 2]] (who Gryffen was also hiding), she remarked him as "ugly" and that he had a "terrible design". This angered K9 who rised out of his hiding place behind June, as Gryffen argued about his design to reassure K9, he was put down by Starkey before she could notice. She also gave the Professor the directive to catch and turn the robot dog over to the Department and that if he failed or refused his funding for the STM project will be terminated, it will be dismantled and passed on to a more co-operative researcher. Gryffen told her there was no need to do that, she told him she hoped not and that she'd hate to take it away from him, but would if she had to. She then left. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'')
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]]: {{cs|Regeneration (TV story)}})


When [[Darius Pike]] and Starkey were imprisoned in [[Dauntless Prison]] while tracking a [[Jixen]] warrior. She came in and told the Governor of the prison, [[Thorne]], that they weren't to be harmed. Thorne was asserted his authority, June then took out Darius' [[Vid-com]] from his pocket and contacted Gryffen who asked her why the Department was imprisoning aliens. She told him that that the aliens would be catalogued and if any of their species committed crimes the Department would then know who to look out for. He argued that what if they're innocent, she replied they couldn't just be allowed to roam through London. Gryffen suggested to have them sent home, June told him that they tried and failed and then hung up. She then offered a proposal to Starkey, if he told her where to find K9 she'll have Starkey and Darius released. While Darius was willing, Starkey refused and so June left them to "enjoy" sharing a cell with [[Mr. Wiffy]]. When the Jixen ran riot through the prison Thorne locked himself and June in his office. However when she found out K9 was in the prison she demanded that Thorne release the locks, she took the locking device and unlocked the door herself. She promised Thorne that he would "never darken these doors again", as she left Thorne promised she would pay for this one day. When Darius, Starkey and the aliens were freed by Jorjie, they were stopped by June who told them they were blocked by a forcefield and ordered the aliens to return to their cells. Jorjie revealed to her that she helped the aliens, June was shocked to see Jorjie here, just as Jorjie was to find she worked for the Department. The Jixen arrived and attacked Starkey and June, K9 tried to fight it but exhausted his firepower. June gave Jorjie the forcefield device and told her to arm it to self-destruct. Darius grabbed it and June tells him to attach it to the Jixen. When the Jixen advanced on him he threw it to Starkey who managed to attach it to the Jixen, killing it.([[K9TV]]: ''[[Liberation]]'')
After Starkey and [[Darius Pike]] were imprisoned in [[Dauntless Prison]], June informed them that [[Thorne]] had the right to do so without [[criminal charge|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]]: {{cs|Liberation (TV story)}}) who had become part-[[Meron]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|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]]: {{cs|Liberation (TV story)}})


After going clothes shopping with Jorjie she left her to go home and stay safe, Jorjie instead went to give Starkey some food. Jorjie didn't recieve her calls as she was occupied hunting the [[Korven]] along with the rest of the team. When June gave her a message she was interrupted by Inspector [[Drake]] who requested an update on the recent alien activity from her, she declined as she was Head of the Alien Activity section and Drake was the Head of Security, stating she didn't report to him. When Drake asked her about Information-Sharing she replied that it worked on a need to know basis, when she felt he needed to know something she'd share it with him. Drake then told her he would do the same as they're "one big happy Department". ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Korven]]'')
=== 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 (Liberation)|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]]: {{cs|The Korven (TV story)}})


===The K9 Unit===
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 (The Bounty Hunter)|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]]: {{cs|The Bounty Hunter (TV story)}})
After Drake's publicity stunt failed and Starkey and K9 were thought to be heroes he blamed the incompetence of June's section as she is responsible of monitoring alien activity and K9 was clearly of alien origin. She said she knew his name, that he came through a time-space portal and that Gryffen was currently examining it. When Drake said she was aware of a dangerous alien yet she failed to alert his section, she said she didn't alert him because K9 wasn't dangerous and on the contrary his technology could be of great value to the Department. Drake agreed and decided to have him apprehended and dismantled so he could learn it's secrets. June said his section had no jurisdiction as K9 posed no security threat. Drake consulted [[Lomax (K9)|Lomax]], he replied by saying he would consider the matter, and ordered them in the meantime to keep doing what they're doing. June assumed he now agreed K9 is under her control, Drake simply agreed to keep doing what he's doing. She came to [[Gryffen Manor|Gryffen's house]] and told Gryffen to inform her if Drake came looking for K9. Gryffen told her of his encounter with [[Ahab]] and that the kids are hiding K9. She asked him to have Jorjie come home with her, he said he didn't know where she was as they agreed he wouldn't be told so he wouldn't reveal their location even under pressure. She was shocked that her daughter was with a dissident, a petty thief and a suspected murderer and also fearful of what could happen if she was caught in a battle between Ahab and K9. When she found out they were in the sewers she decided to go down there and look but was contacted by Drake who told her that Ahab betrayed him and took K9 and the kids to Gryffen's house. He explained he had an arrangement with Ahab which would have gave the Department access to K9's technology. She decided from now on all matters concerning K9 would be handled by her section and she couldn't afford for Drake to keep doing what he's doing. She arrived at Gryffen's house after they defeated Ahab, saying that K9 is under the control of the Department. Her section and not security, she gave Gryffen responsibility of K9 and made K9 and the team the Official "K9 Unit". ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Bounty Hunter]]'')


June was shocked to find that Jorjie threw a stone at a CCPC, she confronted her about this in her bedroom. She was even more shocked that she was complaining of a headache after nearly getting killed. Jorjie said the CCPC was using a [[Inhibitor|strange weapon]], June had no idea why Jorjie did it, why someone who had all the freedom they could possibly have do such a thing. Jorjie said she wasn't rebelling against anything, she was rebelling against the right to rebel. When June suspected Starkey, Jorjie said she could think for herself and the CCPCs don't arrest for that, yet. She said she was just bored as it was a Sunday, June warned that she should have a better explanation once Drake dragged her to juvinile court. June talked to Drake about the weapon, he said it was a submission device called the inhibitor. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Sirens of Ceres]]'')
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]]: {{cs|Sirens of Ceres (TV story)}})


After disobeying Lomax's orders, June was demoted to Constable, working in the Department Research Division. She was met by Darius, who was sent to inform her of the new threat to Earth posed by a strange phenomenon in the STM. This was shortly before the CCPCs were given new orders that human personnel had no authority, she saved Darius by grabbing a large gun and destroying the two CCPCs threatening them. They then went through the base evading the CCPCs, who were subdjugating all humans, they made their way to [[Gryffen Manor]]. They arrived at the STM control panel, soon after, Gryffen, who went to the Millenium Dome, used the STM's voice activated termination code to destroy the Korven invasion force. Darius was able to pull June back just as the STM exploded, saving her life. After they regained concioussness, June thanked Darius what he done. Darius insisted it was just what he does but June told him there was something more to him than that and if the Department survived, she could use someone like him in her ranks. She later witnessed the death of K9 and was delighted to see him return to life again. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Eclipse of the Korven]]'')
When the [[Shadow (Fear Itself)|Shadow]] came to [[Earth]], [[riot]]s began in London and June's section was inundated with false alarms of alien threats. She believed that two [[tramp]]s 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]]: {{cs|Fear Itself (TV story)}})


==Other Information==
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]]: {{cs|The Fall of the House of Gryffen (TV story)}})
*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". ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Korven]]'')


==Personality==
The announcement of [[microchip]]s 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]]: {{cs|Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)}})
As a member of the Department, June was a staunch believer in obeying the law, although she could choose to disobey a law if she felt it was wrong or unjust. She was of high moral character, and as such despised the immoral actions of Drake, Thorne and Lomax. She believed that the imprisoning aliens in the [[Dauntless Prison]] was right for the future, safeguarding the world's children's children. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Liberation]]'') Although she did meet more peaceful aliens such as the [[Medes]], who she released from their harsh treatment, ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Alien Avatar]]'') and [[Yssaringintinka]]. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Lost Library of Ukko]]'') She was often quite strict with her daughter, much to Jorjie's annoyance, but this was out of love and concern rather than malice; June admitted at one point she would never stop worrying, and she revealed to Drake that she had stayed in the Department to prevent his world from ever existing. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Black Hunger]]'')


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=== Alien visitors ===
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June supervised the [[excavation]] of a [[Celt]]ic ruin and became controlled by the [[Bodach]] through her [[dream]]s, 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]]: {{cs|Dream-Eaters (TV story)}})
[[Category:21st century individuals|Turner June]]
 
[[Category:Allies of K9]]
June urged Drake not to shoot down the [[Anubian]]s' [[Anubian spacecraft|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 [[invisibility|invisible]]. She found Jorjie, Gryffen and Starkey under [[Nehetka]] and [[Geb (Curse of Anubis)|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]]: {{cs|Curse of Anubis (TV story)}})
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[[Category:Department personnel]]
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]]: {{cs|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]]: {{cs|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 [[technician]]s 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]]: {{cs|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 [[microbe]]s 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]]: {{cs|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 [[kiss]]ed June on the cheek in celebration. ([[TV]]: {{cs|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 [[resignation|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]]: {{cs|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]]: {{cs|Mutant Copper (TV story)}})
 
When the ''[[Little Green Men]]'' wiped the mind of its players and started turning them into [[Etydion]]s, 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 (The Custodians)|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]]: {{cs|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]]: {{cs|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]]: {{cs|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]]: {{cs|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]]: {{cs|The Last Precinct (TV story)}})
 
June was tasked with using [[stun mine]]s 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 [[torture]]d by Thorne. ([[TV]]: {{cs|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 hole|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]]: {{cs|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]]: {{cs|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 [[age]]d 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]]: {{cs|Taphony and the Time Loop (TV story)}})
 
== Personality ==
Although June had problems with [[the Department]] and thought that it needed to be more open and transparent, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Lost Library of Ukko (TV story)}}) she kept working for them in part to ensure that [[Drake (Liberation)|Drake]] did not succeed in building a world that she did not want for [[Jorjie Turner|Jorjie]]. Unlike Drake, she believed that the Department had to keep [[Earth]] safe from [[alien]]s rather than dissidents and "antisocial undesirables" ([[TV]]: {{cs|Black Hunger (TV story)}}) and was against shooting down [[spacecraft]] without good cause. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Curse of Anubis (TV story)}}) She believed that aliens that could not be returned to their own [[planet]]s were best imprisoned at [[Dauntless Prison]], catalogued for the sake of future generations, as opposed to being allowed out in public. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Liberation (TV story)}}) She had no issue with the [[Mede]]s returning home, however, and [[apology|apologised]] for Drake exploiting them. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Alien Avatar (TV story)}})
 
June considered Jorjie to be the only person she had in the world. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Custodians (TV story)}}) and worried a lot about her, once saying that she would never stop doing so. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Korven (TV story)}}) Jorjie once joked that she put the "mother" in "smother". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Fall of the House of Gryffen (TV story)}}) She checked up on Jorjie throughout the day whilst at work ([[TV]]: {{cs|Liberation (TV story)}}) and enjoyed the rare occasion that they went [[shopping]] for [[clothes]] together, although Jorjie interpreted these trips as a way for her to supervise what she wore. June instead said that she was "strongly advising". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Korven (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.
([[TV]]: {{cs|Liberation (TV story)}})
 
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Latest revision as of 17:43, 8 September 2024

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[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

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[[edit] | [edit source]]

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[[edit] | [edit source]]

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[[edit] | [edit source]]

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[[edit] | [edit source]]

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[[edit] | [edit source]]

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[[edit] | [edit source]]

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[[edit] | [edit source]]

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 [+]Loading...["Taphony and the Time Loop (TV story)"])

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

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)"]) She believed that aliens that could not be returned to their own planets were best imprisoned at Dauntless Prison, catalogued for the sake of future generations, as opposed to being allowed out in public. (TV: Liberation [+]Loading...["Liberation (TV story)"]) She had no issue with the Medes returning home, however, and apologised for Drake exploiting them. (TV: Alien Avatar [+]Loading...["Alien Avatar (TV story)"])

June considered Jorjie to be the only person she had in the world. (TV: The Custodians [+]Loading...["The Custodians (TV story)"]) and worried a lot about her, once saying that she would never stop doing so. (TV: The Korven [+]Loading...["The Korven (TV story)"]) Jorjie once joked that she put the "mother" in "smother". (TV: The Fall of the House of Gryffen [+]Loading...["The Fall of the House of Gryffen (TV story)"]) She checked up on Jorjie throughout the day whilst at work (TV: Liberation [+]Loading...["Liberation (TV story)"]) and enjoyed the rare occasion that they went shopping for clothes together, although Jorjie interpreted these trips as a way for her to supervise what she wore. June instead said that she was "strongly advising". (TV: The Korven [+]Loading...["The Korven (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. (TV: Liberation [+]Loading...["Liberation (TV story)"])

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