Vera Juarez: Difference between revisions
No edit summary Tag: 2017 source edit |
No edit summary Tag: 2017 source edit |
||
| Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== Early life === | === Early life === | ||
Vera Juarez came from [[San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Immortal Sins (TV story)|Immortal Sins]]'') and had [[Vera Juarez's brother|a brother]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of the Road (TV story)|End of the Road]]'') She | Vera Juarez came from [[San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Immortal Sins (TV story)|Immortal Sins]]'') and had [[Vera Juarez's brother|a brother]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of the Road (TV story)|End of the Road]]'') She claimed that she was once [[Catholicism|Catholic]] before she "got better" and studied [[medicine]] at [[Columbia University|Columbia]] where she had a college mentor who made her want to give back to the world like she did. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dead of Night (TV story)|Dead of Night]]'') | ||
Vera | Vera got a job as a [[surgeon]] at [[City General Hospital]] in [[Washington DC]] and had a friend at [[Royal Free Hospital]]. She had a failed [[marriage]] with [[Vera Juarez's ex-husband|a man]] who worked at [[Cedarbrook]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'') and who called her asking for [[drug]]s and [[sex]] after their [[divorce]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rendition (TV story)|Rendition]]'') In [[2010]], Vera had to make the difficult decision to let [[Vera Juarez's mother|her mother]] [[death|die]] after she suffered a massive [[stroke]] and made a commencement speech about her college mentor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dead of Night (TV story)|Dead of Night]]'') | ||
=== The Miracle === | === The Miracle === | ||
| Line 27: | Line 27: | ||
Vera realised that the hospital's usual procedure had to be reversed to free up [[bed]]s and joined a medical panel to discuss the response to the Miracle after hearing that the [[Dean of Medicine]] had gone to one despite having no knowledge of how what was happening. She deduced that the mass production of [[painkiller]]s would have to begin immediately and attracted the attention of [[Jilly Kitzinger]], who gave her a sample of [[PhiCorp]] painkillers and advised her to petition for access to surplus drugs reserved for the civil defence programme. After getting the help of her panel to assist Rex and [[Gwen Cooper]] in creating [[ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid|EDTA]] to save Jack's life aboard an [[aeroplane]] over the [[Atlantic Ocean]], she took the painkillers to Rex at the [[airport]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rendition (TV story)|Rendition]]'') | Vera realised that the hospital's usual procedure had to be reversed to free up [[bed]]s and joined a medical panel to discuss the response to the Miracle after hearing that the [[Dean of Medicine]] had gone to one despite having no knowledge of how what was happening. She deduced that the mass production of [[painkiller]]s would have to begin immediately and attracted the attention of [[Jilly Kitzinger]], who gave her a sample of [[PhiCorp]] painkillers and advised her to petition for access to surplus drugs reserved for the civil defence programme. After getting the help of her panel to assist Rex and [[Gwen Cooper]] in creating [[ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid|EDTA]] to save Jack's life aboard an [[aeroplane]] over the [[Atlantic Ocean]], she took the painkillers to Rex at the [[airport]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rendition (TV story)|Rendition]]'') | ||
Vera found Rex inside her home after returning from a panel meeting and the pair had [[sex]] after she redressed his wound, trusting that he was not a [[traitor]] as the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] claimed he was, but she kicked him out when he attempted to get her to [[spy]] on PhiCorp by playing on the fact that their apparent knowledge of the Miracle could have kept her from letting her mother die. Despite this, she changed her mind and let Gwen into PhiCorp's headquarters whilst attending a presentation Jilly invited her to. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dead of Night (TV story)|Dead of Night]]'') | |||
Rex called Vera to ask about [[Ellis Hartley Monroe]]'s "Dead is Dead" campaign and how he could acquire prescription drugs in [[Los Angeles]] with no questions asked, a request which she was unable to help with. She disagreed with [[Bisme Katusi]]'s suggestion that emergency patients be moved to an abandoned hospital and, once it was implemented, she found the state of the facility and its makeshift wards disgraceful and tried to get Katusi to tell her what the long-term plan was. She was also disgusted by [[Oswald Danes]] competing for popularity against Hartley Monroe using an abandoned baby. ([[TV]]: ''[[Escape to LA (TV story)|Escape to LA]]'') | |||
=== Death === | === Death === | ||
Revision as of 15:23, 27 August 2023
Dr Vera Juarez was a surgeon at City General Hospital in the 21st century and an associate of the Torchwood team. She was also Rex Matheson's lover and his personal doctor/spy for info gathering.
Biography
Early life
Vera Juarez came from San Antonio (TV: Immortal Sins) and had a brother. (TV: End of the Road) She claimed that she was once Catholic before she "got better" and studied medicine at Columbia where she had a college mentor who made her want to give back to the world like she did. (TV: Dead of Night)
Vera got a job as a surgeon at City General Hospital in Washington DC and had a friend at Royal Free Hospital. She had a failed marriage with a man who worked at Cedarbrook (TV: The New World) and who called her asking for drugs and sex after their divorce. (TV: Rendition) In 2010, Vera had to make the difficult decision to let her mother die after she suffered a massive stroke and made a commencement speech about her college mentor. (TV: Dead of Night)
The Miracle
On 19 March 2011, Vera learnt that there had been no deaths at City General, St Jude's, Cedarbrook or the Royal Free Hospital and was able to treat Rex Matheson's otherwise fatal injury as a result of the Miracle, which she told Esther Drummond about when she visited him. She protested against Victor Louis Santini removing the head of a suicide bomber at a session where she briefly met Jack Harkness and later failed to prevent Rex from leaving the hospital on account of the severity of his injuries. (TV: The New World)
Vera realised that the hospital's usual procedure had to be reversed to free up beds and joined a medical panel to discuss the response to the Miracle after hearing that the Dean of Medicine had gone to one despite having no knowledge of how what was happening. She deduced that the mass production of painkillers would have to begin immediately and attracted the attention of Jilly Kitzinger, who gave her a sample of PhiCorp painkillers and advised her to petition for access to surplus drugs reserved for the civil defence programme. After getting the help of her panel to assist Rex and Gwen Cooper in creating EDTA to save Jack's life aboard an aeroplane over the Atlantic Ocean, she took the painkillers to Rex at the airport. (TV: Rendition)
Vera found Rex inside her home after returning from a panel meeting and the pair had sex after she redressed his wound, trusting that he was not a traitor as the CIA claimed he was, but she kicked him out when he attempted to get her to spy on PhiCorp by playing on the fact that their apparent knowledge of the Miracle could have kept her from letting her mother die. Despite this, she changed her mind and let Gwen into PhiCorp's headquarters whilst attending a presentation Jilly invited her to. (TV: Dead of Night)
Rex called Vera to ask about Ellis Hartley Monroe's "Dead is Dead" campaign and how he could acquire prescription drugs in Los Angeles with no questions asked, a request which she was unable to help with. She disagreed with Bisme Katusi's suggestion that emergency patients be moved to an abandoned hospital and, once it was implemented, she found the state of the facility and its makeshift wards disgraceful and tried to get Katusi to tell her what the long-term plan was. She was also disgusted by Oswald Danes competing for popularity against Hartley Monroe using an abandoned baby. (TV: Escape to LA)
Death
After the new categories of life were released and the medical panels were disbanded, Vera decided to join Torchwood — a rag-tag band made up of ex-Torchwood Three and ex-CIA members — to stop the Miracle. Vera went under cover inspecting an overflow camp, despite Rex's concerns, but was shot at the leg and the shoulder and put into a module with Category 1 individuals by Colin Maloney after threatening to prosecute him for not looking after the patients in the overflow camp correctly. The modules were actually ovens and the Category 1 patients were being burnt alive. Maloney switched on the module, burning alive all the patients, including Vera. (TV: The Categories of Life)
Legacy
Vera's death was later exposed by Rex and Esther following their escape from the camp. While this prompted the White House to launch an official investigation into the San Pedro camp, the policy for handling category ones was left unchanged. (TV: The Middle Men)
Vera was survived by her brother, who received a phone call from Rex Matheson, expressing his condolences. (TV: End of the Road)
| ||||||||||
