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: Reg Cranfield was initially assumed to be the policeman from ''AUC'', hence the original proposed merger; however, upon inspecting ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'', it seems pretty explicit that Fred Rawlings was the individual from ''AUC''. | : Reg Cranfield was initially assumed to be the policeman from ''AUC'', hence the original proposed merger; however, upon inspecting ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'', it seems pretty explicit that Fred Rawlings was the individual from ''AUC''. | ||
{{quote|This wasn’t his regular beat. He’d swapped shifts at the last minute with his drinking buddy, PC Rawlings, who claimed he was coming down with the flu. Reg wasn’t convinced. Fred was as healthy as a horse; he’d never had so much as a sniffle in all the time they’d known each other. Sergeant Clough reckoned it all had something to do with what had happened last night, when Fred had returned to the nick as white as a sheet, blabbering on about ‘people in the mist who weren’t really there’. More likely he’d stopped off for one too many bracers at the Rose and Crown, but Fred had swapped with him plenty of times over the past few months so he could go and visit his dad.|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]''}} | {{quote|This wasn’t his regular beat. He’d swapped shifts at the last minute with his drinking buddy, PC Rawlings, who claimed he was coming down with the flu. Reg wasn’t convinced. Fred was as healthy as a horse; he’d never had so much as a sniffle in all the time they’d known each other. Sergeant Clough reckoned it all had something to do with what had happened last night, when Fred had returned to the nick as white as a sheet, blabbering on about ‘people in the mist who weren’t really there’. More likely he’d stopped off for one too many bracers at the Rose and Crown, but Fred had swapped with him plenty of times over the past few months so he could go and visit his dad.|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]''}} | ||
: From this, it is pretty clear that Reg and Fred are absolutely not the same | : From this, it is pretty clear that Reg and Fred are absolutely not the same individual, but two separate individuals both named in homage to the disputed actors of the original policeman, as well as essentially serving the same job. | ||
: But as I have previously said, Fred is absolutely the same character as the policeman as Bernard Whittham is. <div style="background-color:#0E234E; border: solid 0.5px gold; display: inline; white-space: nowrap;">[[doctorwho:user:Epsilon the Eternal|<span style="background:#0E234E; color:white"><code>Epsilon</code></span>]][[doctorwho:user talk:Epsilon the Eternal|📯]] [[doctorwho:special:Contributions/Epsilon the Eternal|📂]]</div> 12:16, 28 August 2021 (UTC) | : But as I have previously said, Fred is absolutely the same character as the policeman as Bernard Whittham is. <div style="background-color:#0E234E; border: solid 0.5px gold; display: inline; white-space: nowrap;">[[doctorwho:user:Epsilon the Eternal|<span style="background:#0E234E; color:white"><code>Epsilon</code></span>]][[doctorwho:user talk:Epsilon the Eternal|📯]] [[doctorwho:special:Contributions/Epsilon the Eternal|📂]]</div> 12:16, 28 August 2021 (UTC) | ||
::Oh, and this section of the novel takes place ''explicitly'' on [[23 November]], the day after [[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', and is set in Totter's Lane, thus making Fred Rawlings pretty obviously the policeman in question. | ::Oh, and this section of the novel takes place ''explicitly'' on [[23 November]], the day after [[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', and is set in Totter's Lane, thus making Fred Rawlings pretty obviously the policeman in question. | ||
