Percival Quick Percival Quick was a London police man in the 19th century . Percival ' s father was also a policeman . ( AUDIO : " The Year of the Bat " ) PC Quick served under Sergeant Kyle in the Metropolitan Police Service in London in 1889 . He investigated the murder of Joseph Buller and reported his findings to the pathologist Professor George Litefoot . ( TV : " The Talons of Weng - Chiang " ) Quick was later promoted to Sergeant , and frequently called on Litefoot and Henry Gordon Jago in their new capacity as paranormal investigators in the 1890s . ( AUDIO : " The Bloodless Soldier " , et . al ) He helped Litefoot to stop a rogue gentleman ' s club that cheated its patrons out of their estate . ( AUDIO : " The Bellova Devil " ) He saved Liefoot from being killed by a doll of Jago inhabited by the mind of Dr Heinrich Tulp . ( AUDIO : " The Similarity Engine " ) He informed Jago and Litefoot of Ellie Higson ' s death . ( AUDIO : " Litefoot and Sanders " ) He informed Litefoot that he had been sacked as the police pathologist due to his allegedly immortal relationship with Ellie , who had risen from the dead as a vampire . He later told Litefoot that he was rehired due to Mrs Hudson telling the Metropolitan police commissioner that Litefoot was caring for a waif whom he had taken in from the streets . ( AUDIO : " The Ruthven Inheritance " ) He helped Jago and Litefoot investigate the disappearance of Eleanor Naismith . During the investigation , he was attacked by a jackdaw . ( AUDIO : " The Man at the End of the Garden " ) He warned Litefoot about structural instabilities in his house , after a sphere landed therein . Following the appearances of large metal spheres all over London , he informed Litefoot that the Metropolitan Police Service was issuing a cover story that they were a part of a stunt by a group of Bohemian artists . Litefoot raised the possibility that this may , in fact , be the case . According to Quick , the police have interviewed the Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde to that end and were confident that he had nothing to do with it . ( AUDIO : " Chronoclasm " ) He was married . He told Leela that while he had faced some dangerous criminals in his time , " none of them hold a candle to [ his ] missus in a temper . " ( AUDIO : " Jago in Love " ) He had read Wilde ' s best selling novel " The Picture of Dorian Gray " . When he found Litefoot in the mortuary , he showed the Professor a recent set of mysterious bodies that have turned up recently . ( AUDIO : " Beautiful Things " ) He was intrigued into why Jago was only wearing one shoe in Litefoot ' s laboratory . Later he investigated Kempston and Hardwick . ( AUDIO : " The Hourglass Killers " ) He informed Litefoot of a set of murders that seemed to be random . He later arrested Litefoot for the murder of Jago . ( AUDIO : " Military Intelligence " ) He was upset at the apparent death of Jago at the hands of the Colonel . He thought that someone was manipulating the police . He informed Ellie that they were rushing through Litefoot ' s trial . After the trial he managed to get the police confused into the whereabouts of Jago and Litefoots by sending messages saying that they were at different police stations . He then helped to stop the Colonel . Following the destruction of the Colonel ' s base he had to help Jago and Litefoot escape being captured by the police . ( AUDIO : " The Trial of George Litefoot " ) He was taken by Patsy to see a body . He then investigated the Beast of Blethnal Green . ( AUDIO : " The Monstrous Menagerie " ) After Jack the Ripper escaped , he brought his new victims to Litefoot ' s mortuary . He later inquired into another body she found but was in fact was a man dragging a body . He saved Ellie from being killed by Jack the Ripper . ( AUDIO : " The Wax Princess " ) After Jago and Litefoot were given a royal pardon by Queen Victoria in 1894 , Quick was promoted to Inspector . ( AUDIO : " The Wax Princess " ) Following a spate of murders involving the removal of brain s , he met Strax of the Paternoster Gang . He recognised Vastra as the name of the " Great Detective " . ( AUDIO : " The Haunting " ) He asked Jago and Litefoot to investigate a funfair which was where the last place a set of recently dead people . He suggested that they take Ellie out on the investigation . He was concerned when Litefoot was examining the Brontach . ( AUDIO : " The Backwards Men " ) He took the fish that Patsy found on the Themes . He was later taken down the sewers to find a body . ( AUDIO : " Jago & Litefoot & Patsy " ) As a result of his promotion , he wore civilian clothes . On one occasion , his wife almost did not recognise him out of uniform and nearly hit him with an ornamental champer pot which she kept beside the door . He later arrested Patsy when she was acting strangely . When he learnt where Patsy had placed the barrels , he went to find Litefoot and Jago at the Red Tavern . Finding only Ellie there , she told him that they had gone to Paddington station . He closed the pub and took Ellie to the station . He jumped onto the train that Jago was driving to find out what he was doing , but could get in to it because Jago had locked the carriage he ' d jumped onto . He managed to stop the train and to then sedate them . ( AUDIO : " Higson & Quick " ) He gave Litefoot a Police Whistle . He saved Ellie from being attacked . ( AUDIO : " Mind Games " ) He wanted to know from Ellie if the Professor was back from his cruise , as there was a body that needed his attention . ( AUDIO : " The Flying Frenchman " ) He helped Jago and Litefoot to find Fowler . ( AUDIO : " Return of the Nightmare " ) He was asked by Carruthers Summerton to involve them in a mysterious locked room murder . ( AUDIO : " The Case of the Missing Gasogene " ) After Jago ' s funeral , he asked Litefoot to examine a strange corpse , though he later regretted doing that . He then helped to defend the Red Tavern when it was attacked by Zombies . When Luke Betterman asked him to throw some poisoned darts he couldn ' t hit any of the Zombies . He later accompanied Ellie and Litefoot to the cemetery to dig up Jago ' s coffin . ( AUDIO : " The Mourning After " ) Soon afterwards , he asked Litefoot to investigate a murder . He later showed him , Jago and Summerton to another murder scene which was a room that had been turned upside down . He then went to the Museum of Curiosities to arrest Summerton . Roberts told him of a weird being underneath the Thames , who turned out to be . ( AUDIO : " The Museum of Curiosities " ) He was hypnotised by The Master . Later at the Red Tavern , he told Litefoot and Ellie about a mysterious creature . He managed to trap the the creature in a house which with Jean Bazemore ' s help blew it up to kill it . The Master was giving him tasks to do . ( AUDIO : " Jago & Son " ) He later went to the theatre where the Master made him faint . He later arrested the Clockwork Maurice . ( AUDIO : " Maurice " ) Quick had to bring a dried husk of a man to Litefoot ' s mortuary . The Master got him to bring pieces of Jago and Litefoot ' s DNA to him . ( AUDIO : " The Woman in White " ) In his plans , the Master got him to activate the machines which he used to absorb life essences from humans . He then took the Master ' s last victim to Litefoot . Quick suggested to them that they asked for the Doctor to diagnose why they were feeling exhausted . He delivered the mirrors to both Jago ' s office and Litefoot ' s mortuary . Madame Sosostris managed to get him to reveal the Master ' s plans . ( AUDIO : " Masterpiece " ) He invited Litefoot and Quick to view the exsanguinated body of Melchester . Later searching for Litefoot , he discovered that he had been placed in a painting . ( AUDIO : " Picture This " ) Quick asked Litefoot to investigate a strange body that was flicking in and out of existence . ( AUDIO : " The Flickermen " ) After seeing another death caused by a vampire , he started tracking the murders . ( AUDIO : " School of Blood " ) He told Litefoot of another murder and showed him the body . After Ellie was attacked , he helped to get her out of the building . ( AUDIO : " Warm Blood " ) He took two bodies which were killed without external injuries . ( AUDIO : " The Stuff of Nightmares " ) Parallel Earth . On a parallel Earth , he didn ' t know who Jago was . ( AUDIO : " Chapel of Night " ) He later asked Litefoot to look at a body that was fading away . ( AUDIO : " Too Much Reality " ) Behind the scenes . PC Quick ' s first name was not mentioned on - screen in " The Talons of Weng - Chiang " . Quick was given the name " Percival " when the character was introduced as a regular in the " Jago & Litefoot " series .