CH |
FIRST NAME |
LAST NAME |
DESCRIPTION |
1 | IRA | | Irish Republican Army; underground Irish nationalist organization for Irish independence from Great Britain |
| Bobby | Sands | Imprisoned IRA activist/hunger-striker, died 5/5/82 |
| Frankie | Hughes | Imprisoned IRA activist/hunger striker, died 5/12782 |
| UDR | | Ulster Defense Regiment |
| Constable | Price | Police officer in Duffy's Carrickfergus squad, canine officer |
| Constable | McCrabban | Police officer in Duffy's Carrickfergus squad, aka "Crabbie" |
| Sgt. Alan | McCallister | Police officer in Duffy's Carrickfergus squad |
| Sgt. Sean x | McCallister | Detective, Carrickfergus police squad leader. Catholic |
| Mrs. | Campbell | Duffy's attractive next-door neighbor |
| Inspector | Brennan | Duffy's superior, head of Carrickfergus squad |
| Mrs. | Bridewell | Another neighbor of Duffy's, 2 doors down |
| Matty | McBride | Forensics officer |
| Carol | | Police station secretary |
| Constables | Quinn & Davey | Police at scene of 1st murder |
| John | Doe | 1st murder victim |
| CID | | Criminal Investigation Division |
| Dr. Laura | Cathcart | Police pathologist |
2 | Adele | | Duffy's former girlfriend, schoolteacher |
| UVF | | Ulster Volunteer Force, illegal Protestant paramilitary group |
| UDA | | Ulster Defence Association, illegal Protestant paramilitary group
|
| RUC | | Royal Ulster Constabulary |
| Oscar | McDowell | Newsagent |
| Jim | Prentice | Police officer, manages informants for the group |
| Sammy | McGuinn | Duffy's barber, violinist with the Ulster Orchestra |
4 | Mrs. | McCawley | Helpful librarian at Carrick Library |
| | Jameson | Trainee police officer |
| Inspector | Mitchell | Brennan's deputy, runs RUC sub-station in Whitehead |
| Andrew | Young | 2nd murder victim, music teacher at Carrickfergus Grammar School, suspected homosexual |
6 | Lucy O'Neill | Moore | Ex-wife of imprisoned IRA activist, missing for 6 months, found dead in Woodburn Forest outside Belfast |
| Seamus | Moore | Ex-husband of Lucy Moore, in the Maze for possessing a stolen shotgun, on hunger strike |
| | DeSloot | Forest ranger who found Lucy Moore's body |
| Margaret | Tanner | Seamus Moore's mistress |
| Ned | Armstrong | Employee of Confidential Telephone |
7 | Bobby | Cameron | Neighbor of Duffy, officer in the terrorist group Ulster Freedom Fighters (division of the UDA) |
8 | Tommy | Little | 1st murder victim, occasional driver for Gerry Adams & Sinn Fein, and maybe more |
| Sinn Fein | | Left-wing Irish republican political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. |
| Gerry | Adams | Irish Republican politician active in Sinn Fein from the 1970s, in charge from 1983 to 2018 |
10 | Heather | Fitzgerald | Constable of the Carrickfergus station |
11 | Walter Hays | | Former boyfriend of Tommy Little |
| Billy | White | Protestant paramilitary, UVF
commander, suspected of crimes. Tommy was going to see him the night of his murder |
| Freddy | Scavanni | Sinn Fein press officer, associated with the IRA |
12 | Davey | Childers | RUC liaison at the Maze Prison |
| Shane | Davidson | Assistant to Billy White |
| FRU | | Force Research Unit, the IRA's internal security unit |
13 | Dr. Ian | Paisley | Loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland.
Evangelical minister |
14 | George | Seawright | Scottish-born unionist politician in Northern Ireland and loyalist in the UVF (assassinated in 1987).
Councilor for the DUP |
| DUP | | Democratic Unionist party, unionist political party in Northern Ireland favoring British identity |
15 | Claire | O'Neill | Lucy Moore's sister |
| Raymond | McCreesh | IRA prisoner in the Maze on hunger strike, died on May 21, 1981 |
| Patsy | O'Hara | IRA prisoner in the Maze on hunger strike, died on May 21, 1981 |
| Tony | O'Rourke | Editor, Sunday World newspaper |
| Inspector | Todd | Special Branch |
19 | Anthony | Blane | Billy White's lawyer |
22 | Peter | Evans | MI5 agent |