Aaron Murphy

## Aaron Michael Murphy

> “You know your job wouldn’t be half as much fun without me, Ms. Gray.”
>
> Aaron Murphy to Katherine Gray, Trapmaker 2

Aaron Murphy is a lieutenant at the Metropolitan Police Department. He is a colleague and friend of Kate Gray.

## **Appearances**

1. The Christmas Killer
2. Murder Inn
3. Trapmaker: A Kate Gray Murder Mystery
4. Trapmaker 2: Tracing the Past
5. Trapmaker 3: The Final Trap
6. Picture Perfect
7. The Echo Bay Murders
8. On Thin Ice

## **Physical Appearance**

Murphy is tall and slender, has short light brown hair swept to the side, blue eyes and fair skin. He also has a some short stubble.

He is usually seen wearing his uniform: A dark-blue long-sleeve collared shirt, a black tie, dark blue cargo pants, a black leather utility belt, a radio and and his badge. He also has a watch.

In Murder Inn, we see him in two casual outfits. One is a red winter coat with a white shirt and grey pants. The other is a green sweater and grey pants.

In The Echo Bay Murders, he wears a white recoloured version of his sweater outfit in Murder Inn.

In Vanishing Act, he wears a blue denim jacket, a white t shirt, a grey-white pants and brown shoes

## Biography

During his college days, he became friends with Jay, Emma, Miki, and Rohan. He often meets up with them in December at Jay's family inn. Murphy’s major was electrical engineering, but he decided to become a police officer because he prefers helping people.

While at the academy, he met Kate Gray. They presumably lost touch for at least ten years until Xmas Killer.

After the events of Xmas killer, Murphy and Kate resumed their old friendship. He is currently a part of Kate's team at the Metropolitan Police Department and is often assisting her with case investigations.

## **Personality**

Murphy is very nice and likeable, which sometimes leads him to be brought on cases to lighten things up. He also cares a lot about Kate. Despite being framed as clueless and dumb, the biggest two examples being the Trapmaker games and Kate’s various remarks, his electrical engineering degree and lieutenant rank in his 30s show otherwise.

## **Relationships**

### Kate Gray

Murphy and Kate have a weird relationship. They are allegedly good friends and colleagues, having known each other for at least ten years. However, for some inexplicable reason, she's oddly mean to him on many occasions (with Xmas Killer being the exception as she's actually nice to him the whole game, which was also Murphy's first appearance). In Xmas Killer, Murphy states that they met in the Police Academy.

Murphy has a very obvious crush on Kate and it seems like it’s mutual. But for some reason, Kate seems to be ignoring it. When Murphy was about to get captured in Trapmaker 2, he exclaimed *"I never though this would be the end of us. I imagined a beach, a vacation"* and then tries to tell her one last thing. When Murphy was woken up from being unconscious in Trapmaker 3, his memory of how he got there was foggy and he asked Kate if they were finally on a date. Trapmaker also calls Murphy Kate's *"boyfriend"*. In Picture Perfect, she cuts Murphy short before he can say that their investigation at the park was almost like a date. In The Echo Bay Murders, Kate reassures him that there isn't anything going on between her and Darius and they make plans to go to a sushi restaurant together.

In On Thin Ice, Kate realizes that she wants their sushi date to be more than a friendly dinner between colleagues and Murphy agrees to have a real date at the sushi restaurant.

## **Trivia**

* He likes basketball
* His shoe size is 11.5.
* He is very good at making charts
* His job as a lieutenant is never addressed apart from him introducing himself as one. He ranks above Sergeant Jacob making Jacob’s actions in the games he appears in odd. In real life, a lieutenant’s job is management based and the question of why he solves cases with Kate despite it not being his job remains mostly unanswered although the games do try and come up with a reason. In Xmas Killer and Trapmaker 1, he only is involved because he was the one supervising the scene. Murder Inn wasn’t a case related to either of their jobs. In Trapmaker 2, Kate brought him along and in Picture Perfect, Sergeant Jacob told Kate to bring him along. In Echo Bay, he’s not involved at all in the case.
* Kate claims he was a gymnast in college.
* His middle name is Michael.
* Everyone including his college friends call him by his last name.