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blinded by the bomb The Silks threw into a building Vincent was in. The Silks captured Vincent, but then he escaped from them. He couldn’t see where he was going to get back into the tunnels, and The Silks were hunting for him to try to recapture him. Isaac and Catherine finally found Vincent, and Catherine took him home. She asked Isaac not to ask any questions and not to say anything about what he had seen.
    Detective Greg Hughes: He was a police detective, trusted by Joe, who tried to help Catherine in the episode “The
    Watcher.” In that episode, a stalker nearly killed Catherine by locking her in the trunk of his car and then rolling it into a lake. Vincent barely got to Catherine in time, tore the trunk lid off the car, and then managed to pull her back from the brink of death as she was drowning. Greg also aided Diana and Joe in the episode “Invictus” by locating Gabriel’s mansion from the Italian tile pattern which Diana had drawn a picture of when she was kidnapped and taken to Gabriel’s mansion blindfolded.
    Detective James Faber: He was a police detective who worked on the Gregory Coil case in the episode “The Reckoning.” James found Diana’s profiling methods perplexing. He didn’t consider that to be “real” police work.
    Detective Nick: This detective was never given a last name in the series. Joe consulted him right after Catherine’s body was found in her apartment in the episode “Walk Slowly.”
    Nick told Joe that Catherine’s case had too many unknown variables in it. He said that he knew his limitations as a detective, and he suggested that Joe needed to consult with Unit 210 Detective Diana Bennett. That was how Diana came to be involved in Catherine’s case. I have given Nick the last name of Dunlap.
    Cameron Benson and friend, Dale Mercer: These coldblooded murderers were featured in the episode “Hollow Men.” They were young men from wealthy families who targeted teenage prostitutes and slashed their throats. Vincent witnessed them killing their fourth victim when he was above one night in Central Park. It happened so quickly, without warning, that he was helpless to stop them. Vincent was devastated over the girl’s death and horrified by the pleasure these young men took in killing her. He went to Catherine immediately. She phoned in the anonymous tip on the killing and told Vincent that they had killed three other young girls before this one. When Catherine tried to bring them to justice, their wealthy families paid a slick lawyer to get them released. So, Vincent started patrolling their hunting ground above at night to try to prevent them from killing any more girls. This caused them to go after Catherine in retribution, and Vincent ended up having to kill them to save Catherine
    from being shot to death by them.
    Lisa Campbell: She was a world-famous ballerina who grew up in the tunnels. Vincent was in love with Lisa as a teenager, and he accidentally injured her with his claws when confusing adolescent hormones overwhelmed him. Lisa saw Vincent as a playmate and was totally unaware of the effect she was having on him when she danced for him in the Great Hall. One day when she danced to him and kissed him on the cheeks, he embraced her. She became alarmed by his desire for her and pulled away. Vincent didn’t let go of her in time, and he accidentally clawed her back. Soon after that incident, Lisa left the tunnels to pursue her career as a ballerina. Vincent felt that it was his fault that Lisa left the tunnels, and he never forgave himself for injuring her.
    In the episode “Arabesque,” Lisa ended up in trouble and took refuge in the tunnels. Her presence brought up this incident in Vincent’s mind, and Lisa dismissed it altogether as being simply “child’s play” and unimportant. Catherine came to realize that Lisa had been the source of some deep pain for Vincent which she couldn’t reach. Vincent finally went to Catherine and told her about what had