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of the children in Father’s world. He loved running errands for everyone.
    Dr. Wong: He was an herbal doctor in Chinatown who was featured in the episode “China Moon.” He had been prescribing and providing herbal medicine for Father’s condition as well as other community members’ ailments for over twenty years.
    Mong and his young son, Edward: Mong was a Vietnamese grocer who was taught English by Father’s family below.
    Mong helped them with groceries for William’s kitchen.
    Rolley: This young black man, featured in the episode, “Chamber Music,” was brought to the tunnels by one of the Helpers from above as a boy. He was a savant pianist, who could play any classical piano piece he heard by ear perfectly. When Ms. Kendrick, his piano teacher below, was killed by acquaintances of his trouble-making older brother, Rolley blamed himself. As a result, he battled with heroin addiction on the streets as a young adult, until Vincent found him again and told him that everyone still wanted and loved him below. He rejected that first overture, because he couldn’t forgive himself yet. When he was finally shot in a failed robbery attempt in the episode “In the Forests of the Night,” he took refuge in the tunnels, where Vincent found him critically
    wounded. Father performed surgery and removed the bullets, and Rolley finally overcame his addiction and stayed home below.
    Brooke: She was a young girl in her late teens. Her boyfriend, Steven, was a teenage boy who was killed by the assassin, Snow, when he went into the tunnels hunting for Vincent in the episode “Snow.” Brooke was devastated by this loss.
    Eric Peterson & his sister, Ellie: These were children who were rescued by Catherine and Vincent from a bad foster home in the episode “A Children’s Story.” Kipper reported talking to an abused child from that home to Vincent.
    Vincent then told Catherine, and she was able to take action to have the home closed down. Eric and Ellie were in imminent danger, though, because the corrupt director of the foster home was selling the children in his care to a “Fagan.” Eric and Ellie were hidden and then adopted by Vincent’s community. Ellie died of the plague in the episode “Ashes, Ashes.”
    Kristopher Gentian: He was a deceased painter whose ghost visited Catherine and Vincent in the episode “When the Bluebird Sings.” He interacted with them in corporeal form, so they could discover his paintings which were hidden in a forgotten warehouse. Catherine, being a logical-minded lawyer, had a really difficult time believing that he was actually dead. She thought that his death must have been staged in order to increase the value of his paintings.
    However, among the paintings found in that warehouse was a spectacular huge portrait of Catherine and Vincent carefully wrapped with her name on it. When she and Vincent uncovered it in Vincent’s chamber, she assumed that Kristopher had painted it after meeting them. Vincent pointed out to her, though, that Kristopher’s paintings were all oil paintings, including this one, which would take many months to properly dry. She had to accept the obvious fact that this was a prophetic painting done long before he ever set eyes on either one of them and painted before his death.
    Jonathan Smythe: He was the antique book store owner
    who was Kristopher’s friend from the time the artist was a child. He had identified Kristopher’s body after he froze to death one winter outside on the streets. When Catherine and Vincent found the paintings Kristopher led them to, she had them shown and sold at a local gallery with the help of her friend, Jenny Aronson, and then she gave the generated funds to Mr. Smythe. He used the funds for cemetery upkeep of Kristopher’s grave.
    Jonathan Pope: He was Gabriel’s henchman who performed a number of errands for Gabriel. This included bailing Elliott Burch out of jail after Gabriel had framed him for murder in the episode