Paula Frias

Inspector Paula Frias is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Monti) of the portuguese Netflix series Turn of the Tide. She is a investigator of the Judiciary Police, who is determined to stop the drug trades in the Azores.
She is portrayed by Maria João Bastos.
== History ==
Not much is known about Paula's past before the series, other than she became an investigator for the Judiciary Police. During this, she married a man and had a daughter named Sara. When she saw that half a ton of cocaine had ended in Azores, Paula chose to go there to stop the drugs from being spread, used, or sold.
While on the plane to Rabo de Peixe, one of the islands of the Azores, a child tried to talk to her about the chances of death of several possible causes, with one of them being that one out of seven people died of heart attacks. Paula, annoyed by the kid, counted several of the passangers aboard the plane, with the seventh being his father, in order to convince him to stop talking.
Paula then went to the police department in Rabo de Peixe with an officer named Francisco. She then saw the chief of police, Banha, interrogating Francesco Bonino, an italian mafioso who was believed to have been the one to release the cocaine to the Azores. There, Bonino told Banha that there were less than half of a ton in cocaine that was transported in his boat.
Paula, however, didn't believe him, as she found weird that someone would try to transport only half a ton of cocaine when they could have easily transported about three tons. She and the other officers then went to a party at Banha's house, where he met Eduardo, who, unknown to Paula, was there to give two kilos of cocaine to Banha's daughter, Bruna.
Eduardo then realized that he was in a middle of a party filled with police officers, so he tried to tell his friend, Rafael, to leave the party. However, Rafael, unaware of that, decided to consume cocaine in Banha's house's bathroom, which lead to him spilling the cocaine in the carpet of the bathroom.
In order to stop Paula from finding the cocaine, Eduardo decided to go to the bathroom first before Paula and cleaned the bathroom of the cocaine. The two then got out of the house. That evening, Paula went to the morgue, where she saw several corpses of people who died from drug overdose.
Paula, in order to stop more deaths by cocaine, decided to send a police squad to seize all the cocaine in Rabo de Peixe. After finding out about this, Eduardo and his friends tried to escape from Rabo de Peixe, but they were stopped by the police before they could. The police then investigated Eduardo's boat, but they were unable to find any drugs, so Paula and the other officers decide to leave.
By the end of that day, 360 kilos of cocaine were seized by the police, and while everyone was celebrating that accomplishment, Paula stayed focused on making sure that all the cocaine was found, and told Francisco to bring her Bonino to further interrogate him.
After this, there was an earthquake on Rabo de Peixe, but she didn't feel much of it's impact as she was having sex with her husband during that time. While Francisco was explaining geometry to Paula's daughter, Paula was able to get a warrant that would make her able to bring Bonino out of prison and allow the police to find more about the cocaine.
After this, Bonino showed them the place where he says he put all the cocaine, which was now empty. Paula came to believe that Bonino was lying because his superiors told him to keep quiet. The police then found a body, and they brought it to a morgue to have it analyzed.
The stretcher bearer at the morgue told Paula and Francisco that the corpse had it's arm cut off and the death was a result of a car crash. After finding out that the corpse was of Gianluca Rossi, the nephew of a sicilian mafia godfather. Paula then came to question who may have killed Giancula, as she thought it would be stupid for Bonino to have killed him given his connections to a mafia godfather.
Later, the azorean regional secretary met Paula at a bar, where he told her that she needed to end the drug trafficking in a few days or she would be replaced by someone else, as the government didn't want to ruin the azorian's reputation by making it know as a place with constant drug trafficking.
After finishing talking to the secretary, Francisco would go talk to Paula, and she asked him how she was called by the other officers, with him responding by saying that they call her Frigid Paula. Paula then came to understand that the police officers may have sexist traits, as not only was she annoyed by them calling her Frigid Paula, but also because she remember one of Banha's jokes about how a woman wanted a man who couldn't hit her but was good in bed and the other officers had forgotten about making a fresh pot of coffee before she came in to do it, not even the officer that was supposed to do it wanting to do it himself.
Later, Paula and Francisco went to Eduardo's house after finding out that he was the owner of the car that killed Giancula. They then interrogate Eduardo, and while the latter refused to tell them anything and said that they should go find the car to have more proof. Paula agreed, but told Eduardo that he should tell them everything before it was too late for him.
Paula and Francisco would then go to a bar, where Paula told him that only time will tell if Eduardo is wrong. Francisco then payed for her drink, and told her that people would start to respect her more if she stopped being so cold. That night, they would have dinner togheter, and Fracisco told Paula that Sílvia, Rafael's girlfriend, recently suffered from a drug overdose.
The next day, Paula would go to interrogate Sílvia, but she told her that she didn't know who gave her the cocaine and that she learned her lesson about not consuming drugs, forcing Paula to allow her to leave the police station. Paula would later go to investigate the coast close to a beacon where there was a shootout.
While anylising the body of one of the people killed in the shootout, Francisco showed her two kilos of cocaine that he found in the lighthouse, and told her that there were no witnesses to the shootout. Later, Paula would go to investigate the murder of Jeremias Melo, Eduardo's father.
Paula would then try to interrogate Bruna to find where were Eduardo and his friends, but Banha stopped her from continuing the interrogation on his daughter. Paula would then come to see that many of the events happening in Rabo de Peixe had some connection to Eduardo. Paula and Francisco would then bring Eduardo to the police station after fidning him in the graveyard where his father and mother were burried.
They would then interrogate Eduardo, Sílvia, and their friend Carlinhos, but they all made up a story that they went fishing while all the things that happened were occoring, and while they try to convince both Eduardo and Carlinhos to tell them the truth, they refused to say anything and leave, but Paula knew that they were hiding something and swore that she would catch them.
After this, Paula contacted the director of the Judiciary Police, and he gave her a search warrant so she could find out what Eduardo and his friends were doing. They then go to a bottle filler factory for tuna that belonged to Feliciano, a friend of Eduardo's uncle Joe. When they get there, Paula tells Joe that he would reduce his sentence if he tells them where the cocaine was, but Joe refused. Paula then asked Joe if he wanted Eduardo to end up like him, and told him to talk to Eduardo and tell him to go to the factory.
Later, Paula and Francisco said their goodbyes, and Paula told Francisco that she was going to get divorced once she went back to Lisbon and thanked him for everything. Paula then went to her room, and found Eduardo at her balcony. Paula first tried to arrest him, but after Eduardo told her that he could help her in arresting the real drug traffickers, she agreed to allow him to bring them to the traffickers.
Eduardo then went to an abandoned building where he tried to convince the mafia boss Monti to give him Carlinhos in exchange for the rest of the cocaine. Paula and the rest of the police force would then appear and attack Monti and Bonino, and while they were able to catch Bonino, Monti was able to escape and severely injured Francisco, although wheter or not it is fatal is yet to be seen.
== Personality ==
Paula is a cold and no-nonsense woman determined to stop the drug trafficking in the Azores. Unlike most of the members of the Judiciary Police, Paula doesn't stop and give up for a moment during the investigation to celebrate her accomplishments. Because of her cold nature, the other officers in the Judiciary Police joke about it by calling her "Frigid Paula". 
Paula also has problems with the chief of the police on Ponta Delgada, António Banha, due to Banha consistently making jokes during the investigation, which made Paula see him more as an annoyance than an ally. This only got worse when she tried to interrogate his daughter Bruna to see if Bruna knew anything about Eduardo and his friends, leading Banha to demand her to stop the interrogation.
Paula believes that the first way to achieve forginess is with regret, which is why she saw Eduardo as remorseless when he refused to talk about what happened to his car or Giancula. Despite her cold exterior, Paula is shown to be caring towards others, mainly her partner Francisco, as she is not only grateful for everything he did for her, but also cares about his well being and tries to bring him to a medic when he got shot by Monti.
While her personal life remains mostly a mistery, she seems to have problems with her husband, describing her marriage as an unhappy one, and plans on getting divorced when she gets back to Lisbon. Paula also has a great sense of justice, and wants to stop drug trafficking in the Azores to avoid more people getting killed by drug overdoses. She is also shown to be reasonable when it is needed, as she decided to work with Eduardo and help him in rescuing Carlinhos and stop Monti, since she knew that the drug trafficking wouldn't stop with Monti still on the loose.
== Gallery ==
Rabo de Peixe TOTT.jpg
TOTT Poster.jpg|Paula in the series' poster.
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