Chloe Gates

**Chloe Gates** is the younger daughter of Jools Gates and DCI Tony Gates and the sister of Natalie Gates. She only appears in series 1.

## Background

Chloe is the younger daughter of DCI Tony Gates and Jools Gates. She is seven years old in series 1, two years younger than her older sister, Natalie Gates. Some time prior to the events of series 1, she and her sister start attending Edge Park Preparatory School. The fees for the school are paid for in full by Jackie Laverty, who claims it is a gift for Tony, who doesn't realise that the money comes from a money laundering operation Jackie is involved in.

Throughout the series, Chloe is shown to have a very close bond with her father.

## Series 1

### A Disastrous Affair

Chloe is first seen asleep in the bedroom she shares with her sister, Natalie, when Tony comes back from the black tie event where he received his Officer of the Year award. She is later seen excitedly greeting Tony when he gets home from work, and then watches as Natalie performs the piano piece she learnt that day at school.

### The Assault

Chloe is seen watching the school concert with Tony and Jools, during which Natalie plays the piano. She is later seen when Gates reads a bedtime story to her and Natalie, and is reluctant to go to sleep, begging Tony to read them another story and then asking for a drink but complaining that she doesn't like water. Tony later comforts her when she has a bad dream.

### In the Trap

When Steve Arnott visits Gates at home, Jools mentions that Natalie and Chloe are at clubs. At the end of the episode, Gates picks Natalie and Chloe up from school. They are both happy to see him.

### Terror

Natalie and Chloe can be heard playing in the background whilst Gates looks through the mapping database, trying to find where he was held by the OCG in the previous episode. Chloe can be heard complaining when Jools tells them it is time for bed.

The next evening, Tony is seen reading to Natalie and Chloe again, though he is interrupted by Nige Morton, which annoys him. Tony drops Natalie and Chloe to school the next morning.

Later on that morning, Tony tells Kate Fleming that when it cost £9000 to send Natalie and Chloe to their school, and that he tried to get a loan to cover it because they were in danger of losing their places, but then Jackie paid it without telling him, saying it was a gift. Tony says that he knows he should have said no, but he wanted to be different from his dad who never did anything for his kids.

### The Probation

Natalie and Chloe are at school when members of the OCG break into their house and murder their dog, Sammy. Jools picks them up early and takes them to her mum's. Later on in the episode, Tony goes round there and spends an hour playing What's the Time Mr Wolf with Natalie and Chloe. Later on, Tony kills himself, convincing Steve to claim that he was killed in the line of duty so his family can have his Death in Service pay-out.

The last time Natalie and Chloe are seen is at Tony's funeral, along with Jools, her mother and Nige.

## Trivia

* The book that Gates reads to Natalie and Chloe is Jed Mercurio's The Penguin Expedition, published in 2003.