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happened. He told her that his hands were destructive and were not made for love. Catherine countered by telling Vincent that his hands were her hands, and that they were beautiful to her. She finally helped Vincent to work through that crisis and overcome the pain it had caused.
    Bernie Spirko: He was a reporter Paracelsus manipulated and used to take pictures of Vincent defending Catherine from attacks that Paracelsus had arranged. Paracelsus used the pictures that Bernie Spirko took to lure Father to him with threats of publishing the pictures. He then kidnapped Father to impersonate him and deceive Vincent. Paracelsus’ evil plan was to provoke the Beast within Vincent to the surface, so he could try to manipulate Vincent into killing an innocent person. His goal was to destroy Vincent and Father’s world, and he nearly succeeded.
    Margaret Chase: She was Father’s first wife. Her father had their marriage annulled when Father was labeled a “Communist” and blacklisted in the medical community above, and he lost everything. In the episode “Song of Orpheus,” Margaret looked for Father when she learned that she was dying from pancreatic cancer, and they spent the last seven days of her life together below. Father had been devastated by the annulment of their marriage, and he was grief stricken when she died after such a short reunion, but he was able to resolve that unfinished chapter of his life.
    Jessica: She was a world-famous photographer who was very close friends with Father when she had lived below many years earlier. Father had not seen her since Winter Fest five years earlier, and they had discontinued corresponding by letter for more than a year. Jessica came to Little Jacob’s Naming Ceremony when one of the Helpers told her about Vincent’s tragic loss of Catherine and about the rescue of Vincent’s baby. Father felt that he was falling in love with Jessica, and he even considered leaving the tunnels to pursue his relationship with her. Mary was heartbroken that she hadn’t spoken up about her feelings for Father before Jessica turned up again, and Mary went to Vincent and told him of her fear of losing Father. She told Vincent that she had made a “terrible mistake.”
    Tom Gunther: He was the real estate developer to whom Catherine was engaged in the first episode of the series “Once Upon a Time in the City of New York.” His real estate company was a client of Catherine’s father’s law firm. He was very uncharitable in his attitude toward anyone less fortunate than himself, and this attitude caused Catherine to abruptly leave him at a party he hosted to “wine and dine” the City Planning Commission, during which he promoted an architectural project he was working on. He dragged her away from a friend who needed her listening ear, and he told Catherine to use better judgment deciding whom to talk to. It was when Catherine left that party without him that she was abducted by the criminals who slashed her face, broke her ribs, and then dumped her in Central Park to die, where Vincent found her and saved her. When she left Vincent’s care and returned to the world above, she broke off her engagement to Tom Gunther.
    Steven Bass: He was a dying ex-fiance of Catherine’s, who had a brain tumor. Before his illness, Catherine had broken off their engagement when his controlling personality began crushing her freedom. In the episode “Down to a Sunless Sea,” he came back into Catherine’s life after five years without contact with her, and he asked for her friendship during the final months of his life. After imprisoning her in a mansion he purchased, he tried to force her to live with him. When she attempted to flee, he knocked her out and tied her to a dining room chair. She finally managed to escape from the chair and then had to run through a glass door, cutting herself in the process, to escape from the house and from him. Driven to obsessed madness by his brain cancer, he chased