June Turner
Inspector June Turner was the mother of Jorjie Turner and an agent of the Department. She was Alistair Gryffen's primary contact with his employer.
Biography
Early life
June Turner lived in London in the 21st century and had a daughter, Jorjie. (TV: Regeneration [+]Loading...["Regeneration (TV story)"]) Jorjie once said that June was her only parent (TV: The Last Precinct [+]Loading...["The Last Precinct (TV story)"]) and June said that she had nobody other than her daughter. (TV: The Custodians [+]Loading...["The Custodians (TV story)"]) June was an inspector for the Department and worked as Head of the Alien Activity Section. (TV: The Korven [+]Loading...["The Korven (TV story)"]) She kept her career a secret from Jorjie, who grew up believing that she had a "boring job" in IT. (TV: Liberation [+]Loading...["Liberation (TV story)"])
June's job involved working closely with Inspector Drake, the Head of Security. (TV: The Korven [+]Loading...["The Korven (TV story)"]) She did not believe that aliens who came to Earth should be allowed to wander London and tried to have them returned to their planets without success, so she had them imprisoned in Dauntless Prison and catalogued to protect future generations. (TV: Liberation [+]Loading...["Liberation (TV story)"]) When Jorjie was about twelve, June, like the rest of the Department, supported the replacement of human police officers with the Cybernetic Civic Pacification Corps. She opposed the use of alien technology in the CCPC officers, however. (TV: The Last Precinct [+]Loading...["The Last Precinct (TV story)"])
June employed the services of Alistair Gryffen, installed at a police station (TV: Regeneration [+]Loading...["Regeneration (TV story)"]) owned by the Department following the creation of the CCPC, (TV: The Last Precinct [+]Loading...["The Last Precinct (TV story)"]) to research alien technology such as the Space-Time Manipulator. (TV: Regeneration [+]Loading...["Regeneration (TV story)"]) She was aware of his role in the Great Cataclysm but did not believe that it was solely his fault. (TV: Aeolian [+]Loading...["Aeolian (TV story)"])
Hunting K9
June was aware of an explosion at Gryffen's mansion and correctly believed that it was connected to the appearance of K9 Mark 2, who was caught on surveillance the following day and whom she believed to be a weapon, albeit an ugly and ungainly one with a "terrible design". She ordered Gryffen to find, capture and hand K9 over to the Department and threatened to pull him off the time-space project if he failed to do so, something she claimed she would hate to do but would if necessary. She was also aware of the arrest and escape of Starkey and asked whether Gryffen had seen him, unaware that Gryffen was harbouring him. (TV: Regeneration [+]Loading...["Regeneration (TV story)"])
After Starkey and Darius Pike were imprisoned in Dauntless Prison, June informed them that Thorne had the right to do so without charging them and promised to release them immediately if they gave up the location of K9. A Jixen later attacked the prison in search of Starkey and Thorne, (TV: Liberation [+]Loading...["Liberation (TV story)"]) who had become part-Meron, (TV: The Eclipse of the Korven [+]Loading...["The Eclipse of the Korven (TV story)"]) refused to let June leave his office even when she saw that K9 had arrived. She promised that his career was over and went after K9, finding that Jorjie had befriended him, Starkey and Darius and helped the alien prisoners escape. She then helped kill the Jixen with her arm unit. (TV: Liberation [+]Loading...["Liberation (TV story)"])
Founding the K9 Unit
June took Jorjie shopping for clothes, an activity that they did not often do together but which she enjoyed, before heading to work. She tried to call Jorjie later without success and hoped that her unavailability was due to her being busy with her homework. Her voice message was interrupted by Drake, whose questions about the recent surge in alien arrivals she avoided answering by claiming that she had no reason to share any information on the subject with him but would do so if that changed. Drake agreed to operate on the same principle. (TV: The Korven [+]Loading...["The Korven (TV story)"])
After K9 and Starkey ruined an attempt by Drake to get good publicity for the Department, Drake accused June's section of being incompetent and ignorant of K9, prompting her to reveal that she knew K9's name and whereabouts and that she believed that he could be an asset. Lomax ordered them to continue with their work whilst he decided which of them had jurisdiction over K9, so June paid a visit to Gryffen and learnt that Ahab was hunting K9 for murder. Angered by Drake's attempt to work with Ahab, June formed the K9 Unit to protect K9 and to ensure that Gryffen kept Jorjie safe. (TV: The Bounty Hunter [+]Loading...["The Bounty Hunter (TV story)"])
The K9 Unit meant that K9 was protected from Drake, but June believed that Starkey was responsible for Jorjie's increasingly rebellious behaviour which culminated in her throwing a stone at a CCPC. June managed to keep her out of pre-hearing detention and agreed with Drake's suggestion that she send her to Magdalen Academy to save her from a criminal record, a decision she was surprised to learn that Starkey took no issue with. She correctly suspected that Drake's Inhibitor contained alien technology, which she believed would be embarrassing for the Department if it were to be made public that such technology was being used on citizens. (TV: Sirens of Ceres [+]Loading...["Sirens of Ceres (TV story)"])
When the Shadow came to Earth, riots began in London and June's section was inundated with false alarms of alien threats. She believed that two tramps report of Darius being attacked by the Shadow was another such false alarm and teased Drake, who claimed that she was not taking her job seriously enough, for being afraid. She agreed to investigate the wardrobe containing the Shadow and found no evidence of an alien presence, prompting Drake to take on the case as his own. June suggested that he take stress leave. (TV: Fear Itself [+]Loading...["Fear Itself (TV story)"])
June worried about Jorjie when a storm started taking out communications across London and planned to send a courier to Gryffen's mansion to pick her up, but Gryffen suggested that she would be safer to remain at his and she agreed so long as he exercised parental control over her. She called Jorjie to check in some time later and was admonished by Drake for taking a personal call, so she pretended to lose contact due to electrical interference, a trick Jorjie herself often used. Once the storm subsided, she called Jorjie to let her know that she was on her way to pick her up. (TV: The Fall of the House of Gryffen [+]Loading...["The Fall of the House of Gryffen (TV story)"])
The announcement of microchips with security applications was met with a protest and June witnessed Drake being shot by Orthrus, a copy of K9. She employed Jorjie's help to try and convince K9 to give himself up to the Department before the Public Safety Council issued an arrest warrant and gave Drake the power to raid the mansion, but she came to believe that K9 was innocent after Jorjie pointed out Drake's odd behaviour at the protest. She uncovered Operation Orthrus and convened a special council meeting at which K9 was exonerated and Drake's plan to frame K9 terminated. (TV: Jaws of Orthrus [+]Loading...["Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)"])
Alien visitors
June supervised the excavation of a Celtic ruin and became controlled by the Bodach through her dreams, becoming their avatar to recover the Eye of Oblivion to put the world to sleep using an obelisk. Jorjie used the Bodach mask June was wearing to enter her nightmare and scare her by giving herself a tattoo with Darius's name, giving her the opportunity to pinch her and wake her up. Back in control of her body, June removed the Eye of Oblivion from the obelisk and ran away so that K9 could blow the obelisk up. She found Jorjie at the mansion and was relieved to find that she had no tattoo. (TV: Dream-Eaters [+]Loading...["Dream-Eaters (TV story)"])
June urged Drake not to shoot down the Anubians' spacecraft, which she believed could simply be space debris, until they received a threat analysis, but the point was rendered moot when the pyramid became invisible. She found Jorjie, Gryffen and Starkey under Nehetka and Geb's control when she visited the mansion and attempted to call a containment team to stop the Anubians. They managed to get her under their control to exploit her knowledge of the Department for their invasion, but K9 defeated them with Darius's help and June had them arrested. She was in no hurry to return Drake's free will, however. (TV: Curse of Anubis [+]Loading...["Curse of Anubis (TV story)"])
After Drake's special security unit turned away June's hunter-killer squad sent to investigate alien traces, she confronted and threatened him at the Alien Technology Archive and came to suspect that he had stolen a Mede starship to develop vanishment technology for espionage purposes. She visited Gryffen to get his help to stop Drake and learnt that Jorjie had gone to follow the trail of chenium created by Drake's manufacture of Qualon 37 to replicate the Medes' technology. June saved her and Darius from being arrested by CCPCs and apologised to the captive Medes for how they were treated. (TV: Alien Avatar [+]Loading...["Alien Avatar (TV story)"])
Freak weather led to June being called into work by Drake, who believed that Gryffen was responsible due to the similarities to the Great Cataclysm. She visited Gryffen to confirm that this was not the case and learnt that the cause was an Aeolian's mating call which was answered by a mate in the Orpheus constellation. The two Aeolians were reunited and the situation resolved, after which K9 asked the group what love was. Like the others, June was unable to give an answer. (TV: Aeolian [+]Loading...["Aeolian (TV story)"])
June raced to the London Museum after detecting magnetic interference which affected the CCPCs. She used her override to regain control and found that the Major Oak had been stolen by an alien, a theft which Lomax put Drake in charge of investigating due to it being considered an A-level threat. Her technicians were unable to identify the deposit left behind by the alien so she contacted Gryffen, who was already working on it. The alien was ultimately found to be a Centuripede which left Earth with its young with the K9 Unit's help. (TV: The Last Oak Tree [+]Loading...["The Last Oak Tree (TV story)"])
Thorne's ascension
Info from The Cambridge Spy, Lost Library of Ukko, Mutant Copper, The Custodians, Taphony and the Time Loop, Angel of the North, The Last Precinct and Hound of the Korven needs to be added
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)"])
While Freddie Maxwell operated Crashclub, an illegal business in which robots were made to fight each other, June informed Gryffen that she could not stop it as the Department had "bigger fish to fry". However, the K9 Unit was able acquire to sufficient evidence for Crashclub to be shut down. (TV: Robot Gladiators)
Korven invasion
After disobeying Lomax's orders, June was demoted to Constable, working in the Department Research Division. She witnessed the death of K9 and was delighted to see him return to life again. (TV: The Eclipse of the Korven)
Alternate timelines
At the mobile HQ, June was alerted to the escape of a prisoner, who Thorne noted was a maximum security inmate associated with Project Taphony. Arriving at the manor on Gryffen's 38th birthday, June found that he had freed the inmate, Taphony, a Time Blank that had rapidly aged him while draining the energy from Jorjie. Though Taphony wished for a mother and friends, June told her that absorbing Jorjie would not make her Taphony's mother. When June and the others. When June and the others offered themselves in Jorjie's place, Taphony chose to leave via the STM vortex, restoring Gryffen and saving Jorjie. As a result of Taphony's departure, time reversed by a day and so June, along with everyone else bar K9, lost their memory of Taphony. (TV: Taphony and the Time Loop)
Other information
June liked to go clothes shopping with Jorjie. Jorjie thought it was so she could supervise the clothes she bought but June looked on it more as "advising, strongly advising". (TV: The Korven)
Personality
June was a staunch believer in obeying the law, although she would disobey a law she felt wrong or unjust. She was moral and despised the immoral actions of Drake, Thorne and Lomax. She believed imprisoning aliens in the Dauntless Prison was right for the future, safeguarding the world's children, (TV: Liberation) although she did meet more peaceful aliens such as the Medes, whom she released from their harsh treatment, (TV: Alien Avatar) and Yssaringintinka. (TV: Lost Library of Ukko) She was strict with her daughter out of love and concern rather than malice; June admitted at one point she would never stop worrying, and she told Drake she had stayed in the Department to prevent his world from ever existing. (TV: Black Hunger)
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