Thatcher Davis

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Thatcher Davis is the main protagonist of The Mandela Catalogue, a Lieutenant from the Mandela County Police Department who has been around since the start of the alternate invasion. He serves as the main protagonist of Act 1 and Act 2.
He is portrayed by Thorne Baker.
==Description==
Thatcher Davis is a fair-skinned man with dyed, blond hair and dark roots, facial piercings and green eyes. He has facial hair as well.
He also really cares about his friend Ruth more than himself as in Vol. 4, he wrote a list for her, called her a guardian angel, saying that he missed her a lot and cried for her.
==Biography==
=== Intruder Alert ===
Davis gave the command to not have the evidence of 6 released to the public. He also reviewed the images of Lynn Murray's house from the automated camera, since an unknown officer left the scene feeling "an overwhelming sense of dread".
=== Exhibition ===
Davis was the on-site officer who collected Mark Heathcliff's personal camcorder and presented the footage from it. We see more of this in Vol. 333. 
=== My Movie.mp4 ===
The Mandela County Police Department were spammed with emails from an unnamed sender, containing the same video labeled "My Movie.mp4". Davis is ridiculed for proposing it as genuine evidence.
=== The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 333 ===
A live broadcast from the Mandela County Police Department is being shown on television, commemorating the promotion for Sergeant Ruth Weaver and Lieutenant Thatcher Davis.
Thatcher receives a call from a school receptionist, asking if he can check on a missing student of theirs, Mark Heathcliff, to make sure he is alright.
We are shown Mark's home as Thatcher approaches and repeatedly knocks on the door, to no response. He busts down the door and we cut to an investigation of Mark's house. We first see the analogue television in Mark's room before Thatcher turns their flashlight on and discovers Mark's body with multiple .50 caliber casings beside the bed. Thatcher finds a cassette player, a Holy Bible, and a notebook on top of the television.
From security footage inside the MCPD station, we can hear Ruth telling Thatcher he doesn't need to keep working on a bullshit case considering he was just promoted and Thatcher tells her he has evidence to go over.
We are shown a video tape from MandelaTECH company representative Dave Lee to Thatcher Davis. Thatcher sent Dave multiple tapes to hopefully recover and Dave was only able to recover about two minutes of a film named "The Might of the Subconscious" and " a weird bootleg version of the beginner's bible."
Cut to a emergency operator phone call between Jude Murray and Thatcher Davis. Jude is panicked and scared, saying someone is inside his house and that he doesn't know how he got inside being that his doors and windows have been locked for months. Thatcher tells Jude to calm down and asks some questions. Thatcher asks if the person is threatening him or his family and Jude claims they just stare from the corner of the room, not taking anything. Jude begins breaking down, thinking his wife has been hurt and Thatcher tells him to calm down.
Thatcher asks if the man looks like anyone Jude knows, Jude says no. Thatcher becomes surprised and Jude says he has never seen anyone in his life that looks anything like him. Thatcher says that doesn't make sense and Jude becomes confused. Thatcher says he is going to send one of their officers and tells Jude to not hang up. Thatcher contacts Ruth Weaver and she says she just got a 10-15 (prisoner in custody/message delivered) and is about to head to the place, frustrating Thatcher somewhat. Ruth asks if Thatcher got a similar call, Thatcher believing he's dealing with a home intruder.
Davis gets back on Jude's line and asks for his address, to no response indicating that Jude's been killed. Ruth calls back Davis and asks for back up. Davis asks where everyone else is and Ruth says the officer who was at Jude's house fled almost immediately. Davis asks the address and we see a familiar slideshow of a hallway. Davis reports that nothing came out of the automated cameras and he will need to resort to an in-home inspection with Weaver.
We see from Thatcher's body camera as he and Weaver explore the house. Ave Maria is clearly heard playing as the two explore and Thatcher tells Weaver to stay behind him as they approaches the music. Thatcher discovers a static television in a bedroom and approaches, discovering a hanging body. Ruth asks if they have anyone to deal with it and Thatcher, annoyed, responds they don't because everyone left. He apologizes before calling in a 10-56 (suicide).
Thatcher's camera begins malfunctioning and as he goes to tell Ruth he finds her missing as well. A door opens and footsteps are heard. Thatcher calls out to them, "Hello?" and they respond back, in Thatcher's voice, "Hello?" Thatcher tells them to identify themselves and the same follows. Thatcher tells the individual that they are on a police investigation and that they need to identify themselves and the person begins mimicking Thatcher and Jude's voice from the earlier phone call. Thatcher shouts asking for a response and the entity is heard rapidly approaching.
In a deep, breathless voice, they begin to sing Amazing Grace and after a moment a long, pale arm is seen reaching around the corner. Thatcher is heard jumping out a closed window and running. He tells Ruth to meet him at the station if she is still there.
Thatcher calls in a 10-78 (requesting backup) to any available units, including from surrounding counties in Bythorne and Werksha county. Security footage shows Amazing Grace playing in select rooms, getting closer to Thatcher's office.
From Thatcher's chest camera we see what is thought at first to be an alternate (It turns out that it wasn't an alternate of an actual person, but an alternate that Stanley created, based off of what infant Adam Murray imagined a friend would be like.) approaching him as Amazing Grace continues playing. The "Friend" Alternate begins to repeat bastardized mimickery of the humans they have encountered, including Ruth. The "Friend" Alternate floats towards Thatcher and he yells that he will shoot. A busy signal tone plays as "uh oh! bad decision, thatcher!" is displayed.
With closed captions on, the names of victims appear on screen, "Cesar Torres", "Ruth Weaver", and "Mark Heathcliff". The Friend Alternate manually stretches its mouth into a forced smile and laughs. Thatcher shoots the Friend Alternate, to no avail. A distorted face is seen and "THERE'S NOT ENOUGH ROOM FOR THE TWO OF US LIEUTENANT" is displayed. Thatcher's camera collects additional footage of a Ruth Alternate and the Friend Alternate twitching who was likely also the Ruth Alternate briefly.
=== every day gets brighter ===
Thatcher records himself ranting about the immense struggle and pain he and everyone else in Mandela County has been going through and how he knows the MCPD will get the blame when more people eventually go missing.
Thatcher also reveals that the Friend Alternate featured in The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 333 simply left him alone but stole his identity. He promises to kill it, no matter what.
Thatcher partly wishes he hadn't survived his encounter.
=== The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 4 ===
Thatcher Davis makes his live-action appearance for the first time in Vol. 4, played by Thorne Baker. 
We see Thatcher supposedly in hiding in his home drawing a rough sketch of The Home Intruder.
In the beginning of the Chapter of Vol. 4 named remembrance, we see a very odd version of Thatcher, who says "This is Lieutenant Thatcher Davis. It seems like I made a mistake. Everything's clear here at the station. Calling off all units. Over." It then smiles in an uncanny way before saying "Afraid of your own reflection lieutenant? Dead or alive you're no use to these people. A man without a purpose in a world that doesn't need him. A scared boy with a gun. Sound familiar?" An image of Mark's house appears.
Later on, Thatcher writes a letter to Ruth Weaver while watching footage from 1992, venting his frustrations and saying that he regrets leaving her behind and causing her subsequent death. 
Dave Lee states he will "put in the good word" for Evelin to get hired at the Mandela County Police Department. Evelin does show up at the station, but Thatcher is obviously not there. 
=== Mandela Catalyst ===
Shortly after Dave's death, Gabriel shows up on the roof of Thatcher's house and tells him to wake up. Gabriel tells Thatcher that he is his intuition and asks if he could "hear the screaming". Thatcher doesn't respond, as far as we're aware.
Thatcher then drives to Adam Murray's residence, snapping a photo of the BPS van parked outside before entering. He begins recording and looks around Adam's bedroom using a flashlight. There's notably a bottle of bleach on the ground. Thatcher then whips around, startled by the sudden playing of a radio behind him. When he faces Adam's bed again, he discovers Adam sat on the floor next to it, sickly and emaciated. The camera locks onto Adam and zooms in for a moment before he screams in agony, as all of his bones are breaking at once. This was confirmed by Ty Osborne. Thatcher drops his camera and backs up, while Adam begs him to kill him before screaming in pain again. 
=== Presto ===
When Sarah and Evelin are checking on the MandelaTech shop cameras, the footage cuts off to a recording of Thatcher's car returning to the Mandela Police Station, with Adam inside, coughing and breathing heavily.
Later on the video, the footage appears once again, this time inside of the Police Department, with Thatcher asking Adam questions about his past and trying to get information of his doings and his encounters, while assuring that he's no longer upset about his participation with the BPS Group, as he's mainly interested on possible information about Alternates.
=== The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 5 ===
Jude Murray hears knocking on the door. When he opens it and meets ''Thatcher.'' he introduces himself and according to him a routine check is being carried out in homes to look for the destruction of mirrors and TVs in Mandela County . But Jude responds that he is taking care of that house and that he is aware of the issue. Before leaving, Thatcher tells him to have a good day with his family.
==mandelapolice.com==
The following is a tape recorded by Thatcher explaining his stress and troubles sleeping, which can be found at mandelapolice.com (invalid)
https://mandelapolice.neocities.org/archive (THATCHER WEBSITE)
https://mandelapolice.neocities.org/ (MAIN WEBSITE)
https://mandelapolice.neocities.org/hiring (HIRING)
https://mandelapolice.neocities.org/about (ABOUT)
https://mandelapolice.neocities.org/login (LOGIN)
https://mandelapolice.neocities.org/news (NEWS)
https://mandelapolice.neocities.org/3wisemonkeys (3 WISE MONKEYS/lies and deceit) "you never had any idea what you were doing you cowards
the grand year of 92. leaving me"
==Trivia==
*Thatcher Davis is likely named after King David, who is notorious for having slayed the giant Goliath at a very young age in the Book of Samuel in the Bible, similar to what Thatcher is attempting to do with the massive Alternate he encountered and that antagonizes him for the latter half of Volume 333, another thing pointing towards this is the fact that there are many, many things taken from the Christian religion, with Alex Kister himself being a Christian.
*Thatcher Davis is also most likely named after the Thatcher Effect. The Thatcher effect or Thatcher illusion is a phenomenon where it becomes more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside-down face, despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face. This would be a reference to Alternates.
*Thatcher has a nose ring piercing.
*Presuming the bodycam footage of Vol. 333 with the glitches is the same Thatcher has in Vol. 4, it is possible Thatcher would recognize the "uh oh, bad decision!" card as the same as the one on Mark Heathcliff's camcorder as the uh oh! card was found in the actual footage from the camcorder in the same font and beeping sounds.
*Thatcher is seen drawing a picture of The Intruder/6 in a rough sketch style.
*Thorne Baker, the actor for Thatcher Davis, was also the developer for the fan-game "Maple County." Baker also has also has his own musical project, Teenage Disaster, which also has heavy roots in horror media.
*In an interview with Wendigoon, Alex confirmed that Thatcher could be considered one of, if not the main protagonist of the series.
*Thatcher Davis is the protagonist with the most appearances with 9 appearances.
*In a scrapped scene intended for mandela catalyst, we can see Thatcher using a christian cross against Adam Murray, this implies that Thatcher, just like Mark Heathcliff, is religious. However, the scene was scrapped, so its unknown if this still applies.
*Thatcher words in "two years later" fragment: "But darkness followed me home, Weaver" are similar to text on Mark's camcorder.
==Gallery==
Withhold.png|Lt. Davis's Note on some investigation
Item 017.png|Investigation Note at Mark Heathcliff's Bedroom with the collector being Lt. Thatcher Davis
News Peak.png|A photo of Thatcher from the cover of a magazine dated March 1995
Thatcher Employee.png|Thatcher Davis as Employee Of The Month
File:Rest In Peace.png|A picture of Thatcher and Ruth
File:Thatcher Davis.png|Thatcher Davis, on some sort of investigation.
File:Employeeofthemonth (1).webp|Ditto, but higher quality
File:2024-07-03.png|"Thatcher" (likely an Alternate who copying him) comes to question Jude Murray
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