Fran Grenouille

Fran Grenouille is a character and antagonist in QIA. She is the future self of series protagonist Sarah Cunnington.
== Biography ==
=== Past ===
(See also main article: Sarah Cunnington)
Fran has a brutal scar from her mouth to her right ear, which was inflicted on her (as Sarah) in HMP Bronzefield by Brontë Ferguson, under instruction by Harry Hendricks. ("Berlin", "Destiny")
==== Ascension ====
Between November 2022 and February 2023, Fran orchestrated a number of child abductions throughout time, including those of Amy Stoker, James Carson and Bridget Stanton, for the sole purpose of 'nudging' time so that Alicia Karalis, a reclusive Greek millionaire, would attend a masquerade party in Dorset, in August 2022. Fran then attended this party, where she encountered her own past self - something that surprised her, as she said she did not remember that happening before - and then proceeded to murder Alicia, disguised with a Plague Doctor mask ("Masquerade"). She later orchestrated the finding of a data disc, including the corrupted folder designated ¥o¬ CØ~1, among the possessions bequeathed by Alicia to her distant relative, Max Georghiades. ("Eleven")
In the moments leading up to the murder of Alicia Karalis, Fran also expressed a certain tenderness towards Carlos Sánchez, even indicating that she had some form of relationship with him, though he had no idea what she was talking about. ("Masquerade") This was later explained since by this point, Fran would have recognised him as her son, Noah Cunnington. ("Lorenzo")
While she imprisoned most of her abduction victims in Portchester Castle in the fifteenth century, she took Bridget, alone, to eight-century Denmark. ("Ghosts")
Fran later orchestrated the bombing of the Linearists outside St Paul's cathedral by first attempting to bomb a church in 2022, knowing that the London team would prevent it and send the bomb back to where it had come from - the Linearist rally. It would later transpire that her motivation for doing this would be for Sarah to be arrested for the bombing, which in turn would lead to her Ascension ("Prey"). As part of this agenda, she also enlisted the services of Bridget and, it seems, a future version of Ethan Taylor ("Predator"). She was also manipulating Cameron Campbell to achieve this end ("Power"). Later, Fran murdered Bridget in an attempt to prevent her identifying Fran as the real St Paul's bomber ("Destiny") and sent Miranda Davenport to kill Campbell - Miranda's own father. ("Ascension")
In June 2023, having already helped Enora Gallou bring an end to The Circle, Fran returned to collect on the favour she claimed Enora now owed her. Her request was simple - Enora was to suppress a quantum infraction in York in 2008, so that a Reclaimer operative could prevent it instead. In 2008, after the operative - Miranda - had killed the two assassins sent to murder Esther Wilson, Fran sent her to take Esther home while she spoke with Carlos alone. However, she subsequently murdered him, solely to put her own past self Sarah onto the path that would lead to her Ascension - her transformation into Fran. ("Destiny", "Ascension")
==== Mary Bowman ====
Fran came to Mary Bowman in 1807, a few months after she had first met her (as Sarah) during the Spitalfields 1807 Mission, and befriended her, still using the name Sarah. Using Mary's susceptibility and fear of her uncle, Fran manipulated Mary into falling in love with her, although it is unclear whether Fran was just using her, or if she held genuine affection. She convinced Mary to come away with her, even though doing so would be highly dangerous, but Mary was stopped from going to the arranged meeting place by her uncle, and was instead later put in Bethlem. ("Spitalfields")
==== The Red Right Hand ====
At some point prior to 2022, an organisation called The Red Right Hand was founded by Ayana Sarkar with the goal of following (and, to an extent, worshipping) Fran. The organisation began to gain real traction in 2022, leading to conflict with Brent Hall and culminating in Hall murdering Ayana's son Ayoub, and then ordering the death of Ayana herself. Fran used this incident to turn Hall's lieutenant Miranda Davenport to her side. ("The Blood-Dimmed Tide")
==== Interim ====
During the London Field Team's Belfast 1972 mission, Captain Chris Darby was forced to relocate an IRA bomb to a supposedly empty house. However, in doing so he inadvertently killed a baby, Lisa, who has some connection with Fran. ("Reclamation")
She later abducted her younger self and retrieved Daniel MacKenzie from Louise herself; Fran then sent Jack Harringer, who was working for her at the time, to take Daniel to Sophie King in Dublin, and to then go and meet Emil Salastas in 1937 and pick up a dossier of unrevealed information. ("Season One Epilogue", "Fugitive")
She then interfered in the Athens 1994 mission, where she confronted Darby and warned him that payback was coming for what he did to Lisa. ("Reclamation") 
Fran has a house in Béziers, France, which is where Jacob Dorody, in 2023, delivered to her the sword Joyeuse, which he had recovered from Norway in 1942. ("Glittertind")
=== Future (Fran's present) ===
In the twenty-third century, Fran will also be known as The Divine, the spiritual leader and overall commander of Novus - the future name of the Reclaimers. ("Nicole")
In "Death", it transpired that Fran had sent Jacob Dorody to 1943, where he posed as Charles Staniforth's supervisor at Bletchley Pak; Dorody ultimately killed Charles and returned to 2264, bringing Fran a translated encoded message that seemed to confirm something important (and relating to the Berlin mission) - enough to make her decide to return to the 21st century. It was on this same night as well that Jonah West and Silea Coal stormed the Citadel, looking to save Nic Black (an older version of Nicole Harris); Dorody killed Silea and presented Fran with her weapon, the sword Joyeuse. ("Death")
This may or may not have been the reason she intervened in that mission, rescuing the captured Dorody and murdering Captain Chris Darby. ("Berlin")
In 2027, Fran will engage in a fight to the death with Enora Gallou, now working for Brent Hall, who appears to have become her bitter enemy ("Auxerre"). While the actual outcome of this fight is unclear, shortly afterwards, Fran pursued Hall to the London Hub, where she beat him and cut off his arm with the sword Joyeuse. However, she was then seemingly shot dead by Gaby Marshall, apparently an ally of both Hall and Leigh Selvin, but after Gaby and Hall left, Fran was revealed to have survived thanks to Ansar Jilani's Formula. ("The Blood-Dimmed Tide")
== The Circle ==
Fran is considered 'the Enemy' (capitalised) by The Circle, who regard her Ascension as 'the Fundamental Crisis'. They also believe that she will bring about a 'Great Cataclysm'. As such, they indoctrinated Carlos Sánchez - in actuality, Fran's son Noah Cunnington - to hate her, with the intention of one day murdering her.
In 2023, Fran conspired (and manipulated) Enora Gallou to bring about the end of The Circle, feeding her enough information to find and expose The Tower, leading to the arrest of most of the organisation's members. Shortly afterwards, Fran murdered both Arvin Costlemach and Claudia Horne. ("Circle")
== Murder Victims ==
The following is an incomplete list of people that Fran is known to have directly killed:
* Chris Darby ("Berlin")
* Alicia Karalis ("Masquerade")
* Claudia Horne ("Circle")
* Arvin Costlemach ("Circle")
* Bridget Stanton ("Destiny")
* Carlos Sánchez/Noah Cunnington ("Ascension")
* Frank Nadler ("Season Three Epilogue")
== Appearances ==
=== Season One ===
"Berlin", "Spitalfields" (flashbacks), "Reclamation" (flashbacks), Season One Epilogue
=== Season Two ===
"Fugitive", "Auxerre", "Nicole", "Death"
=== Season Three ===
"Season Three Prologue", "Ghosts", "Masquerade", "Eleven", "Prey", "Power", "Glittertind", "Circle", "Destiny", "Ascension", "The Blood-Dimmed Tide" 
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