Samuel Benjamin

Guyana dude from the Delta. a tall black man in his mid-thirties with short hair and clean-shaven cheeks.
His character
Samuel always has a keep your head down attitude.
 
Chapter 1: Samuel had a good view from his flat on the 12th floor. It was a Prospect flat, small, but comfortable enough if you kept it tidy, which he did. 
Does not want the snip!
Something about his job means he gets a project flat
Has a cat, called Enid
Samuel is a driver for the Evermarch Temple
Samuel's flat
The view from his window:
Samuel had a good view from his flat on the 12th floor.
Girlfriend: Desdemona - her friends Renzo and Cindy
The red cross lady is Lisa Beech, Evermarch Resource Manager of the Red Cross Office
The guy he got off the hook was Darren Marks
His relationship with her: (Chapter 10)
After a few of days, Samuel realised that the problems with having Desdemona in his flat were legion. She would cook for him, but she was, at best, an average chef. She was too out of sorts to do any cleaning, or even to clean up after herself and she could not be relied on to stay indoors when he was out at work. She was a liability and upset the equilibrium in the flat and in Samuel’s life. It was manageable when she came to stay one night, two at the most, but anything more than that and she became a bother. She did more talking than he was used to too. He preferred his slow-moving, soothing conversations with Edna, who never answered back or started arguments. Des was always asking for his opinions on things so she could find something to disagree on.
CHARACTER GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT:
# Sam does something cowardly. Des dumps him and moves in with Renzo and Cindy
# Later Cindy comes to Sam to say Renzo is dead and Des in the hands of that baddie O’Henry (whoever he is!)
# Sam goes to get her - think up so clever breaking bad style moment where he out thinks the baddies
# Sam and Des seek the shelter of the church somehow
# And its all fine for a while, but TT has his evil stuff going on
# Des falls into the hands of Acton
# … see how we are set by the time we get to here. Either Sam or Randy or both with bump off Acton 
So we paint Sam as a bit of a chicken to begin with, but he does some stuff and becomes brave. Classic stuff!
Old Notes:
there has to be something with him and Des. Yeah, that bad man comes after her. He's a right bastard. 
They fend him off, he's a baddie until end of book, but then is a goodie being tough and fighting off other baddies
Samuel tells TT.
TT has baddie killed (So we have that new fella. He's trouble. Maybe a sort of Breaking Bad moment where Sam has to go get her from a gang hideout etc. Maybe has to get Randy in later to bust some heads)
but when Des falls into the hands of Acton he has to deal with it etc
Will have to think, but Sam is the man in the Delta and is a witness to a lot of stuff.
I think he is a bit cowardly (in Des's eyes) but he becomes brave and takes on some baddies etc
Category:Paradise
Category:Paradise Characters