Tasneem Hafiz

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## Tasneem Hafiz

### Relatives

Ted Lambert (husband)Zoya Lambert (daughter)

Sadiya Hafiz (mother)

Farhan Hafiz (father)

Shourav Hafiz (brother)

Tareq Hafiz (brother)

Kameel Hafiz (brother)

Hadi Hafiz (brother)

## Physical description

### Hair Colour

Black

Tasneem Hafiz, usually referred to only as Hafiz, is a main character in QIA. She is the Captain of the London Field Team.

## Biography

Hafiz has four younger brothers: Shourav, Tareq, Kameel and Hadi. Her mother Sadiya, who continually expresses disappointment in Hafiz, is the only person who calls her by her first name.

### The Academy

Hafiz attended the Academy in 2011, graduating in July of that year with a job offer from the London Hub. Hafiz's time at the Academy was mostly solitary; although she had a couple of friends among her fellow cadets (including Meghan Tyler and Blake Kishell), she generally kept herself to herself. In spite of friction caused by Kishell's unreciprocated feelings towards her, she still greatly impressed even her toughest instructor, Andrew Wesker. ("Hafiz")

### QIA Career

Hafiz was integral in proving the existence of time-travel to new recruit Sarah Cunnington.

#### Berlin mission

*(see main article: Berlin 1933 Mission)*

During the mission to Berlin, Hafiz remained back in the Stadtpalais hotel with Agent Burt. Later, during the interrogaton of the Reclaimer assassin, she was knocked unconscious during the Reclaimers' rescue of their associate, and only came to after the terrorists had all gone. ("Berlin")

Following the mission and Captain Darby's murder, Hafiz was temporarily promoted to the rank of Acting Captain, and led her first mission shortly after.

#### Glasgow mission

*(see main article: Glasgow 2017/2019 Mission)*

While returning from a present-day mission to Glasgow to turn Reclaimer collaborator Donald MacKenzie with Agent Taylor, Hafiz's car was ambushed by an unknown assailant. MacKenzie was shot and killed, while Hafiz suffered severe injuries and was later taken to the Princess Grace Hospital in Marylebone. ("Glasgow", "Paris")

In late October 2019, Hafiz was promoted to the rank of Captain, officially replacing Darby. ("Home")

#### Moorfields

*(See main article: Moorfields 1811 Mission)*

After Hafiz found out that Sarah, undercover in Bethlem Hospital posing as a patient, had become part of documented history, she was instructed by Director Hall not to intervene any longer, as per the remit of the QIA. Hafiz refused, and managed to convince him to send Tom in as well, who up until that point had not been involved in the mission. ("Elizabeth")

Hafiz later expressed her anger at Hall and even threatened to quit ("Bedlam").

#### Arm injury

During the Dubai mission, Robert Tunneson touched Hafiz on the arm prior to his capture, causing momentary pain. Later, the pain still seemed to be bothering her ("Dubai", "Jilani"), and she was initially treated by Doctor Leigh Selvin ("Jilani", "Tom"). The injury further affected her during the New Philadelphia 2263 Mission, this time almost incapacitating her ("Dorody"). Upon the team's return, Hafiz was hospitalised, though later released ("Tom"). Dietrich Kruger had no luck in identifying either the reason for the injury, or a way to treat it ("Resistance"), and after her bouts of pain increased in both severity and frequency, Kruger had to sedate her ("Hafiz"). However, following Sarah's successful capture of Tunneson, the Reclaimer agreed to heal her injury before being taken into captivity, and she made a full recovery soon afterwards. ("Misdirection")

#### Demotion and Reinstatement

Hafiz was demoted to the rank of Agent, and replaced as Captain by Joe Graham ("Luxembourg"). She was later reinstated, following the February 2020 incident ("Sides").

#### Sarah as a Fugitive

In the midst of the February 2020 incident, Hafiz and Enora were called off the Santorini 2007 mission to address an apparent Code 11. They were sent to Osogbo in Nigeria, just in time to witness Sarah shoot and kill Alan Burns. Although Sarah claimed that she had only done so to save Tom, who had been critically injured, and that Hall was the real enemy, Hamilton arrived soon after, to arrest Sarah for the murder of Chris Darby. Although she was angry at Sarah for having kept this a secret from her for so long, Hafiz nonetheless allowed Sarah to escape, telling her to not return until she had proof of her claims, and of her innocence. ("Reclamation")

Six weeks later, she had another opportunity to arrest Sarah, during the Toledo mission, but again she let her go ("Sides"). She was later threatened prosecution as a collaborator by Hall unless she began actively pursuing Sarah's arrest. ("Fugitive")

In spite of this, Hafiz continued to work on proving Hall's guilt instead, even going as far as paying an informant, Ioan Hughes, a large amount of money to dig up dirt on him, though this came to nothing ("Northolt"). After Sarah's arrest, Hafiz convinced Hall to let her have a trial, but was not permitted to act as her defence, since she was called as a material witness for the prosecution ("Justice").

After Sarah was found guilty of quantum terrorism, Hafiz launched a desperate plan to save her from the Void. She tried calling Draper for help, but the Vice-President told her that he would only be able to do something if Hafiz was able to find evidence that Hall was guilty. To buy Sarah some time, Hafiz made a truce with Rupa and then went to see Tom in hospital, to try and link his recent shooting with Hall. Upon realising that he had been having an affair with Emma Foster and that Emma had videoed the two of them having sex in order to later blackmail him, she forced Emma to give her the tape that would reveal Tom's shooter. Using this, Mike was able to identify the shooter as Marcus Anderson, but soon realised that Anderson was on his way to finish Tom off. After intercepting Anderson before he could kill Tom, she struggled with the would-be killer, but accidentally shot and killed him. With no tangible evidence linking him to Hall and Anderson dead, Hafiz convinced Mike to fabricate evidence showing that Hall had called Anderson several times. This evidence was enough to allow Draper to order Hall's arrest and overturn all charges for Sarah, who was later allowed to return to the Hub as a full QIA Agent again. ("Hall")

#### Difficulties with Leadership

Hafiz was ordered by new Director Erik Draper to return to the Toledo mission with Agent Franklin, in order to bring in Diego Romas before Hall could get his hands on him. Although questioning whether this was a good idea, since it would risk huge Paradox, she nonetheless completed the mission ("Change").

In June 2020, Hafiz was put on a task force to investigate the Academy bombing, where she was reunited with Blake Kishell, whom she had not seen since her days as a cadet herself. While Kishell still harboured feelings for her and this at first led to some awkwardness, they eventually talked out their past and parted as friends ("Academy").

### Relationship with Ted

Hafiz began dating Ted in November 2019 ("Mary"). At first she didn't think particularly long-term, but after he proposed to her in June 2020, she worried as he was not a Muslim, and therefore marriage was almost out of the question. Nonetheless, she accepted. ("Change")

Despite delaying it for as long as possible, Hafiz was eventually forced to introduce Ted to her family, which went mostly well other than her mother, who very vocally opposed their intention to marry. However, after this run-in with Sadiya, Ted offered to convert to Islam so that they could legitimately marry. ("Denny")

While Erik and Enora were away in Geneva, Hafiz was left in overall charge of the Hub. It was during this time that the team were investigating Hall's whereabouts, for which Hafiz allowed Anna to illegally reposition a Russian satellite. The intelligence led to the Omagh mission, where Hafiz was able to arrest traitor Heike Skulstad and obtain the NT-063 weapon. However, in retaliation, Hall abducted Ted and forced an exchange, back at the Omagh barracks: the weapon for Ted. Faced with an impossible decision, Hafiz agreed, saving Ted's life but losing the weapon back to Hall again. ("Ted")

As a result of this, Hafiz moved the wedding up and she and Ted got married on 25th September 2020. They planned to go on honeymoon in Ankara in October. ("Life")

### Post-QIA

Following on from the decisions and unauthorised operations she had been ordered while Erik was away in Geneva, the temporary Director - and now President of the QIA - fired her at the end of September 2020. ("Death")

Her last assignment was to speak with Louise Harris about Sarah's 'death', but - still feeling bitter about being fired - she defied her orders and told her about Hall, unaware that the conversation was being recorded by one of Erik's listening bugs. ("Season Two Epilogue")

#### Alternate Timeline

In the original timeline, which was later lost after the team failed to prevent Amy Stoker from being abducted as a child, Hafiz moved to St Alban's with Ted and became a teacher in a girls' private school. As a result, she did not return to the QIA and Tom took over as Captain. However, in November 2022, after Sarah and Ethan were brought back out of the Void, Enora came to ask her for help with Sarah, who was suffering extreme psychological damage as a result of being tortured in the Void for so long, and Sarah came to temporarily live with her and Ted in St Alban's. ("Resurrection", "Missing")

### Return to the QIA

Hafiz had a huge falling out with Enora, regarding Louise. ("Resurrection")

However, she later returned to the QIA after Enora persisted, having secretly missed it. During this time, she also gave birth to her and Ted's daughter, Zoya. ("Tasneem")

During a visit to London by Andrew Wesker, Hafiz and the others were forced to watch as Erika Tod forced Wesker to commit suicide. Driven by rage and grief, she in turn executed Erika, though this was later covered up as an act of self-defence. ("Thursday", "York")

Hafiz and Ted, along with Enora, attended Wesker's funeral in Washington two weeks later ("York").

#### St Paul's Bombing

During the Bath mission in which Fran Grenouille attempted to detonate a bomb inside a church that would have killed almost fifty people, Hafiz succeeded in using QIA technology to return the bomb to its point of origin. However, this turned out to be the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, where the the Linearists were holding an anti-QIA rally. The resulting explosion killed them all, and worse, this was documented - both at the church in 2022 and in the present day - on camera. An arrest warrant was subsequently issued and, with Anna's help, Hafiz tried to flee the country with Ted and Zoya, but she was caught and arrested. However, she was later released by Beverly Charlton, via Rupa Shaw, in time to help save the life of Amber Harvey from a Pariah, and as a result was officially pardoned. ("Prey", "Predator", "Power")

While Sarah was in prison, she asked Hafiz to help her return a favour to unpleasant guard Harry Hendricks, which involved Hafiz getting hold of some bank account numbers. Although Hafiz was shocked by this request, she succeeded thanks to Anna, though Sarah later decided not to give the infornation to Hendricks. ("Bell")

After Sarah was attacked, resulting in the scar she would wear as Fran, and Jumped to Ethan's flat, Hafiz asked Jack to put her back in the cell, to avoid her getting into trouble for escaping. However, realising that prison was destroying her friend, Hafiz redoubled her efforts to prove Sarah's innocence, and succeeded in a roundabout way after getting footage of Bridget Stanton being murdered by Fran, which she then used to convince Amber Harvey of Sarah's innocence. Unfortunately this ended up being unnecessary as Sarah - in the wake of finding out that Carlos Sánchez was in fact her son Noah and being just too late to stop his murder at, supposedly, the hands of Brent Hall, Hafiz had to try and talk Sarah down, who had escaped from prison and was hellbent on killing Hall in revenge. After Sarah accidentally killed Zoey, she saw Hafiz's reaction in her eyes and left with Jacob Dorody. ("Destiny", "Ascension")

### Potential Future

In a possible future, Hafiz will be present in Geneva on New Year's Eve 2026, and will fail to prevent the Blinding, in which Gaby Marshall will destroy the Eye. Consequently, the QIA will shortly afterwards fall and Novus will seize control of most of the world, leading to a dark dystopian future. Hafiz, along with Blake Kishell, Sam Lucas and Iulya Dalca, will found the Freedom Movement. By this point she will also be in a relationship with Blake. After being alerted to Gaby's presence and the fate of her parents, Hafiz and the others hatch a plan to use Gaby to change history; in 2033, she, Blake and Iulya go to the London Hub with Gaby and send her back in time to *cause* the Blinding, giving their lives to do so. ("And All That Could Have Been")

## Relationships

### Sarah Cunnington

Hafiz gets on well with Sarah and considers her a friend. From "Glasgow" until "Reclamation", Sarah lived with her.

In November 2019, Hafiz and Sarah went on a double-date; Hafiz went with Ted and Sarah went with Ted's friend, Joshua. ("Mary")

Hafiz risked her career (and potentially getting arrested) to go against Hall's orders not to interfere after Sarah became part of Bethlem's history, and with the rest of the team mounted a rescue operation. ("Elizabeth")

Once she realised that Sarah was in love with Ethan, she arranged a romantic date for them both in Paris during their mission there ("Enora"), but after their subsequent break-up she remained fiercely loyal to Sarah ("Ethan", "Dubai")

After sustaining her arm injury at the (literal) hands of Robert Tunneson, Sarah's concerns grew, and when the injury became so debilitating that she had to be sedated, Sarah decided to hunt down Tunneson to obtain a cure ("Hafiz").

After learning the truth about Chris Darby's murder, Hafiz was furious with Sarah for having kept this from her for so long. Nonetheless, she decided to give Sarah the benefit of the doubt and allowed her to escape custody, warning her not to return until she had proof of her innocence. ("Reclamation")

Hafiz continued to defend her friend, letting her go again in Toledo ("Sides"), and trying to prove Hall's guilt ("Northolt"). Upon Sarah's arrest, Hafiz persuaded Hall to allow her a trial, though she was called by the prosecution to testify against her ("Justice"). After Sarah was convicted, Hafiz fabricated evidence against Hall to frame him (ironically, for a crime he was in fact genuinely guilt of), leading to his arrest and Sarah's pardon. ("Hall")

During the Titanic mission, Hafiz began to grow concerned about Sarah's health, being heavily pregnant, and sent her home early even though the mission had not yet been completed ("Titanic"). Tensions between them grew during the subsequent Nottingham mission, on which Hafiz expressly did not want Sarah ("Nottingham"). However, they later talked it out and agreed that it was Sarah's decision alone. ("Magdalena")

Hafiz continued to support Sarah through many subsequent hardships, including the loss of her baby and before and after her two-year stretch in the Void ("Life", "Death", "Resurrection"). Sarah reciprocated too; in December 2022, after learning that a successful mission in Bristol would result in Hafiz's daughter Zoya never being born, Sarah caused a further infraction to ensure the mission failed and Hafiz got to keep her life with Zoya. ("Tasneem")

Hafiz continually fought for Sarah during her time in prison, and even eventually managed to find evidence to exonerate her for the St Paul's bombing, but by that point Sarah, believing that Hall had murdered Carlos - in fact Sarah's son Noah - she was forced to try and stand between Sarah and Hall, fearing that if she were to kill him, she would truly become Fran. After Sarah accidentally killed Zoey Hallett, she was unable to hide her pain and disappointment from Sarah, who ran from the scene with Jacob Dorody, presumably to the future. ("Destiny", "Ascension")

### Ethan Taylor

Hafiz respects Ethan and has an excellent working relationship with him. Once she became aware of Sarah's feelings for him, she arranged a date between them both in Paris, with his help. ("Enora")

However, after he dumped Sarah on Christmas Eve, Hafiz immediately began displaying hostile behaviour towards him. ("Dubai")

### Tom Burt

Hafiz has worked with Tom since 2013, and gets on well with him. When suspicions of being a traitor were cast on him, even being backed up with digital evidence, Hafiz refused to believe it was true and defended him at every turn. As such, when Hall ordered Tom's arrest, Hafiz insisted she be the one to bring him in, and after she and Sarah directly confronted him over it, and he swore his innocence, she told him to take an impromptu family holiday to avoid QIA authorities while she determined the truth ("Tom").

### Enora Gallou

At first, Hafiz was sceptical about Agent Gallou, although she was soon impressed with her performances on missions. By the time of the February 2020 Incident, the two of them had an excellent, friendly working relationship. ("Misdirection")

Indeed, as of "Sides", Enora now lives with Hafiz in Hammersmith Grove; Hafiz also considers Enora and Tom to be the only people at the QIA left that she can trust.

After she was fired, Hafiz also had a big falling out with Enora concerning Sarah's sister Louise, so that by November 2022, when Sarah was brought back out of the Void and Enora came to ask Hafiz for help with Sarah, who was suffering extreme psychological damage as a result of her experiences, Hafiz almost refused. ("Resurrection")

### Rupa Shaw

Since she joined the Field Team, Hafiz and Rupa - the former DCI who was investigating the murder of Patrick Kearney and subsequently the London Hub - have had a very hostile relationship. This has only been compounded by Hafiz's insistence that Sarah is innocent of her charges, and the Captain's continual efforts to block attempts to arrest Sarah. ("Sides")

After Sarah's arrest and conviction, Hafiz convinced Rupa to call a truce and give her an opportunity to stall Sarah's incarceration while she tried to prove Hall's guilt. ("Hall")

### Denny Franklin

Hafiz has been openly critical of Denny since he joined the Field Team, claiming he was not ready for the pressures of his new role ("Sides").

After learning that Denny had been working as a triple agent on Draper's orders, and that he had been the one 'betraying' the London Hub, she let him go after he shot Draper, allowing him to flee under the false assumption that he had murdered the Director, so that he might be used as bait to lure Hall out; however, Hafiz was not especially happy with this plan. ("Denny")

### Chris Darby

Hafiz respected Darby, and has insinuated that she was likely good friends with him. ("Manchester")

### Brent Hall

Hafiz generally had a reasonably good working relationship with Hall, even after he demoted her as Captain. However, just before Hafiz allowed Sarah to escape custody, she had the seeds of doubt planted in her mind, and is now aware that Hall may not be exactly the man she thought he was. ("Reclamation")

As time went on, Hafiz continued to become more and more convinced that Hall was a villain, even going as far as paying informant Ioan Hughes a large amount of money to dig up dirt on him, though this was ultimately unsuccessful ("Northolt"). After Sarah's arrest and conviction, Hafiz resorted to desperate measures, framing Hall for the hit on Tom (though, ironically, Hall had genuinely ordered the hit), which led to Hall's arrest and expulsion from the QIA ("Hall").

### Ted Lambert

Hafiz began dating Ted in November 2019 ("Enora"); their relationship soon became serious ("Jilani"). Indeed, in June 2020, he proposed to her and she accepted, even though he is not a Muslim ("Change"). To ensure their life - and marriage - together would be as smooth as possible, Ted later agreed to convert to Islam ("Denny") and began taking Quran lessons with Tareq, going so far as to even set a wedding date with the Imam ("Nottingham"). Due to a traumatic event in which Hafiz chose Ted over her job, they later changed their plans and married much sooner, on 25th September 2020. ("Life")

Hafiz gave birth to their daughter, Zoya, in October 2021. ("Tasneem")

### Andrew Wesker

In spite of Wesker's usual gruff attitude towards his cadets, during her time at the Academy, Hafiz impressed Wesker to the point that he recommended her for the post at the London Hub ("Hafiz"). According to Hall, such a recommendation from Wesker had never happened again either before or since ("Fugitive").

When Wesker came under suspicion after being framed for the Academy bombing, Hafiz remained his stalwart defender in spite of Ida Trent's determination that he be blamed for the attack, and was later able to prove his innocence. During the investigation, Wesker again demonstrated his fondness and respect for her. ("Academy")

In 2023, Wesker came to London and the two bonded further, during which he told her of his plans to retire. However, he was later compelled to kill himself by Erika Tod, whom Hafiz shot dead in retaliation, avenging her friend's death. ("Thursday")

### Sadiya Hafiz

Hafiz's mother has always been an overbearing presence in her life, and is the only person who calls her by her first name. Sadiya was strongly opposed to Hafiz's initial announcement that she intended to marry Ted Lambert, which later prompted Ted to decide to convert to Islam. ("Denny")

Their relationship began to very gradually soften after Hafiz - and later Ted's mother, Geraldine - stood up to Sadiya. ("Life")

## Appearances

### Season Two

Hafiz also appears in "And All That Could Have Been".

## Trivia

Hafiz smokes. ("Sarah")

She joined the QIA in 2012 ("Paris") and was promoted to the rank of Captain in late October 2019. ("Home")

She shares a flat in Hammersmith with Sarah. (As of "Glasgow")

She was the former record holder for fastest first Jump with seven and a half minutes, until it was beaten by Sarah. ("Manchester")

Hafiz was promoted to Captain in late October 2019 ("Home"), but was later demoted again back to the rank of Agent in late January 2020; she was replaced as Captain by Joe Graham ("Luxembourg"). However, in March the role was once again restored to her ("Rupa"), and she continued as Captain until she was fired from the QIA by Erik Draper six months later ("Death").

*Hafiz is portrayed by Inoka King for photographic appearances, and by Aimi Smith for vocal performances.*