Darkness Falls

Darkness Falls (DF) is the fifth game set in the Elsaverse. It represents a drastic change from previous games created by Tora Productions, as it was released in episodic manner and not as a full game; also, although there is erotic content in Darkness Falls, the goal is not to build a romantic relationship with the main female character, but to solve crimes playing as a detective from the Sangrive Police Department. As developers stated, the elevator pitch for this game is, "CSI meets the X-Files in the Elsaverse."

Darkness Falls first season was produced in parallel with Coming to Grips with Christine, another game set in a different fictional universe, with each game releasing a chapter once every two months; the also episodic novella AAA was added later to this tight schedule, and this workload eventually led the team to suffer some light crunch issues near the end of the development cycle, although they achieved to deliver the three titles on their initially promised deadlines. DF first chapter was released on April 1, 2018 for Tora Productions' $10 patrons, going public a couple of weeks later; the first season was completed on December 1, 2018 after five chapters, and it was publicly released as a whole game on January 15, 2019. Two exact months later, on March 15, 2019, the first chapter of the second season was released for $10 patrons, but then Tora Productions' writer, Tlaero, suddenly announced her retirement on April 19, 2019, and the game was put on hold; as the second chapter of this second session, and seventh overall, was already produced, it was released for patrons on May 15, 2019. All those seven episodes were released in Tora Productions' classic HTML format; the Ren'Py port came out on July 28, 2021, and the whole Darkness Falls series is also included in the Elsaverse Omnibus Vol.1 bundle that was released on August 5, 2021.

Darkness Falls starts on a Saturday, one day after the incident covered in the short story FM: Alpha (2017), and its story gets intertwined with the games Redemption for Jessika (2016) and Finding Miranda (2016), as well as with the novella AAA, adding a whole new level of depth to the Elsaverse. This time setting, however, also constraints some of the investigations in the first season, as the canon was already set for some cases. The second season was totally free of those limitations, as there weren't any stories already written after the events on Saving Chloe (2018), but only two episodes were released before the game getting cancelled, with the short story Won: Darkness Within (2019) wrapping up one of the pivotal storylines of that second season.

Premise
The player takes the role of Nathaniel Blake, a hardened Sangrive police detective who has just been assigned a new partner: a young and brilliant female detective, called Michelle Won, who has a secret, turbulent past she's still not ready to share. Daily tensions of the job and the new work dynamics will be aggravated by some serious and apparently unrelated crimes with one thing in common: they seem humanly impossible to explain. And when the impossible becomes the only possible explanation, a very specific someone from Internal Affairs who seems to be in the know won't make things any easier for Blake.

Season 1
Darkness Falls first session consists of 4 cases that make for 5 chapters, with the last case being a double episode season finale. The story covers a three weeks span, from Michelle Won's first day at work, to Blake's and Won's realization of powers's existence.

Case 1: Fire and Ice
Darkness Falls first episode starts with Blake daydreaming about his former partner, who was forced to leave his job due to his drug addiction. Blake is then summoned to the Captains's office to meet his new partner: Michelle Won, a young detective who has been transferred from another city, named Downriver, where her colleagues accused her of having caused the death of her former partner by not helping him during an ambush. Their first case is to identificate a woman's corpse who has been found naked, with an unusual grimace of terror on her face, and burnt fingerprints. They speak with the assistant pathologist, Jannike, a weird young woman with an obvious lack of social skills, who confirms that the victim was not raped, and died of a heart attack: looking at her face, Won conjectures that she actually died from a panic attack. Detectives go to a food court in a business park, where they think the woman may have eaten for the last time; it's the same food court where Miranda and Lucas had lunch the day before in the game Finding Miranda (2016). Blake and Won talk to Sylvia, who is there on duty, and the police officer confirms that the victim's name is Lucile: she was the woman that was threatened by a gunman, as it was seen in Finding Miranda and FM: Alpha (2017). Watching the incident's footage, Won takes an interest in Xara, as she finds it striking how that blind woman was able to move with such confidence and to defuse the situation with the gunman.

This information, however, is not enough to solve the case, as the gunman was inmediately arrested after the incident and wasn't involved in Lucile's death. When the detectives question him, Patrick Bower says that he only wanted to teach Lucile a lesson for ignoring his romantic advances, and confesses that he just did what a red-haired man, whose name he never asked, told him to do. Detective Won then shows him a picture of Charles Reyes she has on her phone, and Patrick confirms that he is the man who convinced him to shoot Lucile. However, the investigation comes to a dead end: at this point, no one has any information about Charles' actual identity, and Won only has this picture taken at Mayhem's concert that Gary, the prosecutor, has been moving around his contacts since last afternoon. As Lucile died of a natural cause, and there's no clue about who left her naked body abandoned, Blake files this case with the rest of his unsolved cases; Won, who was about to go home, sees this and offers to stay and go over some of those 30 other cases, as a sign of dedication, work ethics and goodwill towards her new partner.

Case 2: Dead Man's Switch
The second chapter takes place the following Tuesday. Blake and Won are ordered to go to a software company, where a coder has been found hanged after apparently committing suicide. However, the detectives soon detect that he was probably murdered, and Won thinks that the security guard who found the body is indeed the main suspect. On their way to interview the company's CEO, Won meets one of her informants, a young female hacker named Joan, who tells them that a colleague of hers is missing and has released some sensitive data, which could imply that he is dead. It seems obvious that this hacker is the same guy who died last night, and the released data contains a video of his CEO having sex with one of his assistants. When Blake interviews the CEO, he confirms that the dead man was blackmailing him with that video, but he was dealing with it in a reasonable way. The actual motive for the crime turns out to be a stupid argument the coder had with the security guard, who choked the victim and then tried to make it look like a suicide. The guard eventually confesses and, with the case solved, Blake takes Won to his favourite food truck, where they eat ramen without noticing a mysterious figure spying on them. In the AAA novella, it will be explained that this person is Anastasia Bertradino, who was trying to assess the detectives' worth.

Case 3: Bomb Track
The third episode of the first season of Darkness Falls shows how the Sangrive Police Department reacted to the bombing at Mayoral rally that was narrated in Redemption for Jessika. That Thursday starts calm, with Won playing poker with Jannike, the weird assistant pathologist who seemed unable to interact normally with living people, and Blake flirting with Eve, the department's shy admin. When he comes to see his partner, Won tells Blake that she has found Xara and signed up for her martial arts lessons, as Won likes to be around the interesting people in the city. Then the bomb goes off, and when the Captain gives assignments to detectives and officers, Blake and Won don't receive any task. Surprised, Won protests and asks to help in any way she can; after Blake assures that everything will be okay, the Captain reluctantly agrees to send them to the scene. When they arrive at the bombing site, the decorated detective leading the investigation, Karen Thorntree, seems concerned for Blake's well-being; when he insists he's okay, Detective Thorntree instructs them to interview the key witnesses of the attack, Jessica Springfield and Marc. Won realizes that the bombing is a sore spot for Blake and his old colleagues are trying to protect him, but she understands he's not ready to talk about it and acts supportively. Then, Won asks Jessica and Marc about the incident, and when they mention Charles Reyes, Blake suddenly remembers the still anonymous (for them) main suspect from their first case, although he doesn't understand why his mind has made that connection, as the Reyes family has never been investigated for any crime and he doesn't even know how Charles actually looks like. However, when Won shows Jessica the picture of the man who covinced Patrick Bower to shoot Lucile, Jessica confirms that he is indeed Charles. AAA will explain that Amanda Reid, who was near them disguised as a reporter, was trying to put Charles' image in Blake's mind.

After receiving their report, Detective Thorntree orders Blake and Won to go and talk to Charles' father, Morland Reyes, to make some digging. Morland denies all accusations about his son being related with the bombing, providing an alibi for Charles and stating that Jessica is not exactly a trustful witness; he also tries to make the detectives suspicious of his daughter Chloe, and asks them to let him know about her current whereabouts, since he doesn't know where is she. During their conversation, it's revealed that Blake's daughter, Brenda, with whom he has a cold relationship, is also a police officer. The conclussions that Blake and Won get from the interview are that Morland could actually be the mastermind behind the bombing, and that they should covertly look for Chloe, to get more information from her and protect her from her father.

Case 4.1: Fade Away
The first part of this double episode starts on a Friday, a couple of weeks after the bombing; up to that point, none of Blake and Won's inquiries have been sucessful to even link Morland to the attack, and the Sangrive Police Department as a whole have been unable to make any progress in their search for the actual perpetrators. Blake has taken the morning off to go to a graveyard, where he meets Miranda, who was already there, waiting for him. Although her presence is a bit of a surprise for Blake, they seem to have a friendly relationship since they met in some Blake's previous case, most likely the one that resulted in Miranda's coma. Miranda tells him that she is feeling better thanks to her new boyfriend, and asks Blake to talk to someone about his own problem. When Miranda leaves, it's revealed that the grave Blake has come to visit belongs to a woman called Samantha Blake, who died exactly two years ago.

Next, Detective Blake is ordered to go to a crime scene, where Won is already present: someone has just killed a street prostitute. The victim has been stabbed, but the wound is quite strange: although there is no longer a blade in her body, the skin is torn only inward, as if the weapon had never been removed from the victim's body. The only witness, another prostitute, affirms that a hooded man threw a knife at the victim's chest from some distance; then, the knife just vanished into thin air. Pathologists are equally baffled by the wound, and a visit to an armory to talk to a weapons expert only reveals that a guy who fits with the suspect's description wanted to buy a battle axe but eventually purchased a military knife that could cause a similar entry wound, when thrown. The problem is that it would be impossible to take the knife out of the body without causing a totally different wound. Blake and Won end the day with no meaningful progress, and fearing that they might be dealing with a potential serial killer.

On his way home, Blake sees Jannike, the assistant pathologist, walking in the rain, and he offers her a ride in his car. The young woman, who is attracted to him, is annoyed by other cops' comments about her social awkwardness, and confesses to Blake that she is a nymphomaniac who only feels at ease among corpses, as that's the only moment when her sexual urges seem to recede. She then invites him to her apartment for a long sex session, and Blake experiences a strange sensation: every time he is about to climax, Jannike's body seems to give him a small electric shock that keeps him from orgasming, making the encounter to last much longer than usual for him. Meanwhile, the murderer has killed again.

Case 4.2: Fade Away
The second part of this season finale starts the next morning, when Blake goes to a new crime scene: this time, three young girls have been murdered. Two of them have wounds similar to that of the prostitute that was killed the previous day, while the other has been beheaded, most likely with a battle axe. Checking the victims' identities, Won realizes that one of them is a neighbour of her. Blake and Won go to tell the sad news and comfort the victim's sister, who tells them that, the night before, the three friends went to a party at "El Cuerpo" nightclub. Detectives go there and talk to Serena, who was the DJ of the previous day's party, and the bouncer, Vince, who confirms that the three victims left the club with a shady, hooded guy in a rented limousine. Blake and Won visit the limo rental office, where a terrified driver first tries to run away from them. Won runs after him and the man clumsily trips and falls off; after being caught, he confesses that he drove his client to "El Cuerpo", waited for him untl he picked up three girls at the club, and then left everyone at the crime scene still alive; however, the guy threatened to kill him if he told anyone about him.

Thanks to the credit card the suspect used to pay for the limo, and with the help of her hacker friend, Joan, Won gets the name of the serial killer, Brandon Henderson, and his address. As they wait for him to show up at home, Won seems uneasy, as if this waiting were reminding her of a past trauma, and Blake decides it's time to tell her about his own. He explains that his wife, Samantha, cheated on him because he was not there enough due to his job; soon after they divorced, she ended up dying in a bizarre incident involving a bomb: to get the insurance money, someone planted an explosive device in the company next door to where she was working at, and she was a collateral victim of the explosion. Blake somehow feels guilty about it, as the divorce pushed Samantha to get that job, and he was the one who found her body. Won feels honored for him sharing his story with her, but at that same moment the suspect appears and the detectives run after him. They manage to corner Brandon and ask him to surrender, but he refuses to do so and drags out a knife, and both Blake and Won shoot him. However, the murderer, who is a young man who complains because pretty girls force him to be a virgin, dissappears for a few instants, dodging the bullets: apparently, he has the power to dissipate himself for a short time. He then throws a knife at Blake, sticking it into his chest; almost magically, the knife vanish into thin air, and appears again at Brandon's hands. This is what he presumably did with the prostitute the day before; fortunately, Blake is wearing a vest under his shirt, as Won suggested to him that morning. But he is wounded nonetheless, and now Brandon is going to attack Won.

As the man is about to throw the knife at Won, an unknown woman shows up and seems to stop his arm with the power of her mind, though she fails to last it long. With Brandon ready to kill the newcomer, a blonde woman catches his attention and provokes him to throw the knife at her instead; surprisingly, she is able to dodge it. Losing energy on each try, Brandon throws and retrieves the knife several times without succeeding in hurting the blonde woman, who amazingly anticipates his every move. Finally, a third woman suddenly appears right next to Brandon and knocks him out with a crowbar. Shocked by what she has just witnessed, Won tries to talk to the three women, but the third one vanishes into thin air, and the other two ask the detective to let them escape before more cops appear, as they just wanted to help and are afraid of the consequences that they could face if their powers become of public knowledge. They promise to talk to her later, and Won eventually agrees to let them go. In the AAA novella, it's revealed that these three mysterious women are Alexis, Amanda Reid and Anastasia Bertradino, and that they have been secretly involved in other parts of the story.

After the clash with Brandon Henderson, Detective Blake is put on administration leave due to his injury. One afternoon, he is visited at home by Lara, the Internal Affairs officer who always investigates him, and whom he has a secret sexual affair with. Officially, she's there to assess whether he's fit for duty; however, her interest is not focused on Blake's wound but on his report. Blake and Won agreed to not mention on their reports the three mysterious girls that solved the situation, but both detectives stated the inexplicable things that Brandon was able to do; now, Lara says that she has already convinced Won to change her version, and asks Blake to do the same, as people shouldn't know about Brandon's unnatural abilities. Guessing that Lara knows much more than she lets on, Blake insists, and she tells him about Theresa, the waitress at the Delfinos restaurant, who can tell if someone is lying better than a lie detector. Implying that her bosses just don't want those powers to be known by the general public, Lara eventually convinces Blake to change his report too, assuring him that Won's career won't be affected, and promising to tell him something more in the future about what's going on. When Blake agrees, Lara starts to unbutton her shirt.

Season 1 Achievements
During the first season of Darkness Falls, players can get up to 7 achievements. Most of them are related with the detective skills showed by Blake, and players can get all of them in one single playthrough.


 * "Ep1": Find the two bonus points in chapter 1. One point is earned by visiting the right food court at the first try; the other one is achieved by getting all the info when questioning Patrick Bower.
 * "Ep2": Find the two bonus points in chapter 2. The first point is earned by finding all the evidences in the crime scene; for the second one, Blake must notice the dust on the CEO's desk.
 * "Ep3": Find the two bonus points in chapter 3. There's one point to be earned by flirting with Eve, and another one for getting on Morland's good side by acting politely and making him talk about Chloe.
 * "Ep4": Find the two bonus points in chapter 4. One point is earned by getting a statement from the prostitute; the other one is achieved by accepting Jannike's invitation.
 * "Ep5 Consistency": Most of Blake's answers to Won during the first 5 chapters must fall in one of the three possible categories: antagonistic, mysterious, or respectful towards her.
 * "Ep5 Detective": Treat Won's neighbour, "El Cuerpo's" manager and the limo's driver with respect, as all of them are mere witnesses and not suspects.
 * "Ep5 End": Reach the end of the first season.

Bonus Scene
In the original HTML game, after getting all of the 7 achievements from the first season, a bonus scene was unlocked. In the Ren'Py version, though, with the two sessions presented as one single game, the bonus scene is unlocked by getting 7 out of the 10 total achievements. The scene itself is the continuation of the first season's last scene, depicting Blake's sexual encounter with Lara after her visit. During the scene, it's stated that they only started to get physical after Blake's divorce; although it's hinted that both of them have developed some feelings for each other, they know their relationship can't be anything else than a secret sex affair, due to their respective roles in the Police.

Sex Scenes
A main difference between Darkness Falls and the previous games in the Elsaverse is the low amount of explicitly erotic content. While Blake tends to fantasize about the women he meets, picturing them naked or involved in some sexual acts, those daydreaming moments are usually dealed with just a single picture, not always explicit. Won, Lara, Jessica, Jannike, Serena, and the receptionist from the second case, are the protagonists in Blake's vivid imagination. There are only two actual sexual scenes in DF: the first one, completely optional, takes place in the fourth episode, when Jannike invites Detective Blake home; the second one is the bonus scene with Lara.

As Darkness Falls has no gallery of scenes, the bonus scene is the only one that can be replayed out of the regular game.

Season 2
Darkness Falls second season starts on a Tuesday, just two days after the final events of Saving Chloe (2018). A couple of weeks have passed since Blake's injuries during the first season's last episode; now, on his return to active duty, Blake and Won will have to solve new ordinary cases while being also assigned to any case that might involve unnatural powers. However, Tlaero's sudden retirement left the season unfinised after only two chapters that cover a couple of days of in-game time.

Case 6: Normalcy
The second season kicks off with Blake's return to active duty after recovering from the wound suffered in the previous episode's confrontation. He discusses Lara's visit with Won, and she lets him know about her own meeting with the three women with powers that helped them, and who call themselves "Triple A". Then, detectives go to talk to the Captain, who scolds them for lying in the rectified version of their reports. However, since he realizes there's something big going on, he tells them that, from then on, they will be assigned any paranormal-looking case, reporting exclusively to him; he'll then deal with Internal Affairs. Their first case of the week, however, seems like a simple one: a woman named Anju has been missing since last Friday night. After talking to the girl's grandmother, who claims that her dearest Anju is an accountant, Blake and Won discover that the missing girl is actually a stripper. When they visit her club, they meet another dancer, Cotton Candy, who seems to have a power: she is able to read people's body language and know what they are actually thinking. A mutual attraction seems to have born between the stripper and Won, who then confesses to Blake that she has no gender preferences when it comes to sex.

When they talk to the strip club's manager, the detectives learn that girls often prostitute themselves outside the club with some club clients, for which they first ask the manager to run a brief background check on the client. They discover that Anju left the club with one of those men after finishing her shift on Friday night, and that presumably that client was staying at El Rey Casino. Once at the casino, Blake and Won ask the receptionists for help; after a brief discussion, in which the receptionists mention that Morland has also been missing for a couple of days, one of them tells the detectives the suspect's room number. As they get to the room's door, Won hears muffled cries for help and bursts into the room, breaking down the door. The detectives manage to free the stripper, who had been kidnapped and abused for three days. The episode ends with Cotton Candy, or Candace, as that's her real name, showing up at the police station to congratulate Won and take her out.

Case 7: Promises
The second chapter of DF second season starts with Blake having dinner with Lara at the Delfinos. They are there for the detective to meet Theresa, the waitress who is a lie detector. In a conversation in which both officers show their mutual distrust, Theresa claims that Lara has always treated her well, and also that, when Lara says she wants to help Blake, she means it; however, when Lara asks Theresa if she knows more people with powers, she says no, and Blake gets the impression she is lying. But the most surprising event comes when Lara asks Blake that same question: he lies and says he doesn't know anyone else with powers, and Theresa covers him. The Internal Affairs investigator, however, seems to doubt her lie detector.

Back at the police station, the Captain assigns detectives Blake and Won which seems to be another ordinary case, although a very sensitive one: the son of some Anne Kruin's friends has been found dead in his fraternity house after a college party, and the Mayoral candidate, whose campaign is based on the police's inability to solve crimes like the bombing attack a few weeks ago, is demanding the boy's death to be investigated as a murder, although it doesn't seem likely. The mention of the case's political implications seems to seriously affect Won, and the Captain tries to support her, asking her to just do her job well, without worrying about the consequences. In their preliminary report, the pathologists indicate that the death was probably caused by a severe brain damage, which seems to put the murder hypothesis to rest, although they can't possibly understand how such a huge damage could have happened. On their way to the university, Won mentions that, just like Morland, Xara is nowhere to be found and her lessons have been suddenly cancelled, which seems odd, and she is willing to investigate it, although it can't be officially considered a case.

As soon as the detectives arrive at the fraternity house, all witnesses say that the victim, Brian Case, was in his room with a girl, whom they heard screaming before watching her leave in a hurry. Everything points to the boy suffering a seizure and the girl screaming in panic and running away; however, another witness, a girl named Brenda, mentions that the dead guy tricked her once to go up to his room, where she was nearly gang-raped by Brian and his roommate, a slightly retarded friend of him. Blake and Won then go to this other boy's home, where his mother tries to prevent them from talking to him, claiming that he has the mentality of a small child. But the boy bursts into the living room and explains that the girl they wanted "to have fun with" shrieked and then his friend died, not the other way around. Won understands that the mother is trying to cover her son's wrongdoings and asks if they have ever paid other girls for their silence, and the mother just throws Blake and Won out of the house.

With the vague description they have of the girl who was in the room that night, detectives return to the campus and interview a student who ends up confessing that she killed Brian Case: he lured her up to his room and, when she realized he was going to rape her with his friend, she screamed very loudly, blowing his brains out. The young woman, named Sarah Murray, claims that she didn't know she was capable of doing something like that, although she has always been able to convey a lot of coldness and disdain with her voice. Won tries to comfort her, and then discuss with Blake what to do: Sarah clearly has a power, so their duty is to hand her over to Lara, but Won thinks that maybe the "Triple A" could help Sarah better. The chapter ends with the player's decision on the issue.

Season 2 Achievements
In Darkness Falls second season, players can get up to three different achievements, that can be unlocked in one single playthrough.


 * "Ep6 Thorough": Find all of the clues on Aju's bedroom.
 * "Ep7 Attentive": Choose at first try the right student to question, according to the witnesses description.
 * "Ep7 Choice": Play till the end of episode 7, making the last choice.

In the 2021 Ren'Py version, these three achievements count against the 7 achievements needed to unlock the bonus scene.

Sex Scenes
Season 2 represents a slight change regarding erotic content, with more lewd pictures per chapter than in Season 1. In the first episode, Blake pictures the missing woman, Anju, on her stripper attire; later on, he daydreams about the stripper, Cotton Candy, doing a lapdance for Won, and then about both girls making out. Also, Anju is naked when they rescue her, although those pics aren't intended to be erotic.

The second chapter is way more sexually charged.

Characters
Darkness Falls has a wide cast of characters, with a core of regular names that appear in most episodes, and many minor characters that are only featured in one single case. For a full profile on them, please check their respective character wiki page.

Main Characters

 * Nathaniel Blake is the player's character (PC). An expert detective from the Sangrive Police Department, he's on his late forties, and has a high percentage of solved cases on his record. Blake has a vivid imagination and tends to daydreaming about different situations he faces, especially if they are of a lewd nature, but he is grounded and knows how to do his job. His previous partner has just been forced to retire because of a drug addiction that Blake tried to hide, and now he has just been assigned a new, young partner. It is up to the player to decide whether Blake will treat her respectfully, bluntly or detachedly; either way, Blake will eventually admit that he's impressed by Won. He has a daughter, Brenda, who is also a police officer, but their relationship seems cold and distant, which probably has something to do with the death of his ex-wife, Samantha, in a tragic accident that still haunts Blake. Other than that, not much is known about his life and hobbies, except that he likes Japanese food from a street food truck, and jazz music.


 * Michelle Won is the female protagonist, although she is not a love interest for Blake. She is a newcomer to Sangrive, after requesting a transfer from her former assignment in Downriver, where her colleagues accused her of having abandoned her partner, who was killed in an ambush; she claims that she just told him not to go there and wait for backup, but he didn't listen. Internal Affairs eventually cleared her of any wrongdoing, but she chose to move away from that place. Energetic and intuitive, she seems a bit hot tempered and prone to jump to conclussions, but she is also reflexive and resourceful, as well as a hard worker; she cares for people and is open to learn from her new, expert partner, while also being a great fan of famous Detective Karen Thorntree. During the story it is hinted that she has a turbulent and traumatic past, somehow related to politics; it seems clear that she has been in the army, and she also reveals that she is sexually attracted to both men and women, as she just sees the person, not the gender. Following her motto of keeping close to interesting people, she finds her way to befriend Jannike, and signs up for Xara's martial arts lessons.

Also starring

 * Captain is Blake's and Won's boss. His real name is never disclosed. He's been on that role for several years, and his usually scowled face reflects his grumpy attitude. However, he's quite sensitive and empathic with his subordinates, as he shows when Won seems deeply affected by the political implications of the last case. Even though he doesn't seem willing to accept the powers' existence due to their supernatural origin, the Captain is positive they actually exist, as he is sure that Blake and Won wouldn't lie on their reports; for that reason, he decides to assign every potential power-related case to both detectives, asking them to keep reporting directly to him.


 * Jannike is the assistant pathologist. She's a young and brilliant professional, but with an absolute lack of social skills. Among her many quirks, she seems to interact with corpses in a much more natural way than with living people. Apparently attracted to both Blake and Won, she calls them "Ice Man" and "Fire Lady" due to their respective personalities; they are two of the few people who treat her with respect, as most officers tend to cruelly joke about her weirdness. Won tries to befriend her, using poker to help Jannike read people's faces and intentions; however, Jannike is more experienced in social interactions than Detective Won imagines, as she is a nymphomaniac: for instance, the weapon expert from episode 4 seems to know her, and not only professionally. As Jannike confesses to Blake, her sexual urges only disappear when she deals with corpses, which is why she voluntarily distance herself from people, and also the reason why she is able to act so naturally with the dead, as she's not distracted by those urges. During her sexual encounter with Blake it's hinted that she has a power of some kind, as she seems able to send electric shocks to her sex partners to delay their orgasms.


 * Lara is the Internal Affairs investigator who always take care of Blake's incidents. She's a classy middle-aged woman, and quite good at her job, according to Blake. After Blake's divorce, they started a furtive relationship of a sexual nature, as their jobs don't allow them to establish a public and romantic one. Surprisingly, Lara is more than aware of the powers' existence, as she is sent to make Won and Blake change their initial reports on Brandon Henderson. During her conversations with Blake, Lara implies that powers are known for some higher ranks she's not allowed to disclose, who want to keep the secret hidden from the general population. In order to make Blake trust her on this, she brings him to the Delfinos restaurant to meet Theresa, the waitress who can detect lies. Lara assures that she has Theresa's best interests at heart and has never mistreated her, and Theresa agrees to that; however, when Blake states that he doesn't know any other people with powers, Theresa says he is not lying, and Lara doesn't seem to believe her.


 * Eve is the Captain's admin. She is a shy girl who seems to pass her iddle time fantasizing about Blake, who likes to flirt with her. This flirtation has slowly made Eve a little more daring, to the point of even flirt him back. In Episode 3, she admits that she likes to be oggled by Blake, and that she looks to him too.


 * Charlotte is the Head Medical Examiner, and Jannike's boss. At the start of Darkness Falls, she is on a medical leave after breaking a leg. She appears for the first time on Episode 4, still with crutches, and is introduced as extremely protective of Jannike, which is why Won starts to call her "Momma Bear", much for Jannike's enjoyment.


 * Velasquez is a police officer who works as a beat cop. He shows up several times, either at the police station or in some crime scenes. He seems to like joking around, and oggling women.

Other minor characters
This is a detailed list of other characters that, unless a minor exception, appear exclusively in on episode.