Drake (Liberation)
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)"])
