Parker

**Constable Parker** is a member of the Wellington Police Force who regularly assists the Wellington Police Paranormal Unit. He appears in *Wellington Paranormal*.

## Biography

### *Wellington Paranormal* Series 1

Parker is first seen congratulated by Sergeant Maaka in the briefing room for recovering five out of seven reported stolen pairs of pants, but is told off for wearing pants that aren’t uniform whilst his partner, Stevenson, was at home selling pants online.

Parker later assisted the Paranormal Unit into defeating Bazu'aal, a demon who possessed a tramp and attempted to sacrifice Officer Minogue at the Bucket Fountain, a portal to Hell. The cops were able to perform an exorcism on the tramp, saving Minogue. Parker was subsequently possessed by Bazu'aal, but was returned to normal sometime later.

Parker became injured after attempting to stop some kids throwing marbles in Khandallah, which resulted in him getting shot and having to wear his arm in a sling. Shortly afterwards, officers Donovan and Laupepe arrested a businessman who was obviously a zombie. The zombie infected the two officers and Parker had him locked in the jail with two other people, who were also infected with the zombie virus.

Parker and the Paranormal Unit then headed to Courtenay Place, where the zombie officers were hunting for brains. The four set up a plan involving Parker being used as bait for the zombies. O’Leary and Minogue lured the zombie cops to Parker, who pretended to assault Maaka in plain clothes. The zombies attacked Maaka instead and he tried to lead them into the police car, only to accidentally get locked in with them. O’Leary used the radio to control the zombie cops and they immediately left the car, leaving Maaka unharmed. Realising the zombies obeyed radio commands; the Paranormal Unit and Parker made the two zombies dance and took selfies with them before arresting them and taking them back to the station.

### *Wellington Paranormal* Series 2

Constable Parker expressed growing interest in joining the Paranormal Unit and volunteered to help them when ten anglers went missing in Wellington Harbour. Maaka suspected the disappearances were caused by taniwha. At the beach, Maaka asked Parker to camp on the shore to keep an eye out and equipped him with a “pre-warning system” consisting of a mug of Milo connected to sensors. Meanwhile, the Paranormal Unit sailed out to the water and saw a huge taniwha on the sonar heading towards the shore. They frantically drove back to find Parker and the TV crew gone. The unit followed the huge tracks to a cave, where they found the missing anglers alive, and rescued them. A huge taniwha surfaced and the unit followed it to Oriental Bay. The Paranormal Unit took time to pay their respects to Parker, only for him to appear and admit that he left the tent to say hello to his mother because it was getting cold and the tide was coming in. The four cops then witnessed two taniwha surface and start mating. Maaka concluded that they were unlikely to cause any future harm.

O’Leary and Minogue went to a corner shop to investigate a stolen bag of potato chips. As the shopkeeper described how the bag mysteriously floated out the shop, another bag left the store in the same way. At the station, Parker, as the police force’s IT expert, inspected the CCTV footage and managed to screenshot three teenage girls appearing in a reflection. O’Leary recognised their uniform as the one of her old school, St. Carrietta’s Girls High School. The officers investigated and discovered that the three girls were witches who were using their powers for shoplifting and bullying other students.

Parker put his IT skills to use again when the Paranormal Unit had to investigate a 1985 Nissan 300ZX - Z31 that they realised was haunted. He used Google to help the team find out about the car’s history.

Sometime afterwards, Parker accidentally pepper sprayed his eye while trying to use it to add extra flavour to his chili con carne. This resulted in Maaka having to warn the other members of the police force to not use pepper spray as a condiment.

### *Wellington Paranormal* Series 3

Minogue arrested an invisible being (which would later turn out to be a child’s imaginary friend) and brought it to the interrogation room. Parker used heat-vision goggles to see what it was and was horrified to see a large monster with tentacles. The team were left unable to see the monster when the goggle's batteries ran out, and Parker accidentally let it escape by opening the door to cool the room down. The monster overpowered the Paranormal Unit and ran out the station, severing one of its tentacles on the door. Parker took the now-visible tentacle to the evidence locker and gradually turned invisible after coming in contact with the monster’s blood. Parker took all his clothes off to check how invisible he was, and eventually regained visibility whilst still naked in the station.

Parker volunteered to help the Paranormal Unit investigate a missing vlogger in Remutaka Forest, but was turned down. He went on his own accord in a ghillie suit and on the second night he found the unit, intoxicated and handcuffed together having accidentally consumed Psilocybin mushrooms. A large creature suddenly appeared and abducted Parker. The Unit realized it was a Maero, who turned out to be a female capable of human speech. She explained that she was looking for other members of her own kind, hopefully male, and was disappointed to learn that Parker was a human. She admitted to having eaten the missing camper and the unit asked Parker to arrest her. Angry, she hung Parker from a tree and ran away, with the handcuffed cops unable to catch up with her. The unit had to admit defeat.

The Paranormal Unit arrested Joe Blakes and realised he was a shapeshifter who transformed into people's worst fears to feed off them. After he used his power to escape the station, Parker volunteered to help the unit, even though he admitted to being afraid of everything. O'Leary and Minogue tracked Blakes into Fear Factory, the haunted house attraction where he worked, and a nervous Parker waited outside until the two officers were overwhelmed. Parker came face-to-face with Blakes, who overwhelmed himself attempting to transform into Parker’s many fears, and collapsed into a pool of buttons. Parker was commended for resolving the case.

Parker assisted O'Leary in helping Wiremu, a man at risk of unintentional abduction by the ghosts of his deceased friends.

A meteorite crash landed in a road in Naenae and gave several residents superpowers, three of which formed a vigilante group called the Revengers. Parker later gained the superpower of magnetism when he accidentally touched the meteorite at the station. Maaka sent Parker to use his powers to take down The Revengers, but he was unable to direct the magnetism towards anyone but himself and got knocked out by a bin. He lost his magnetism when another superhuman, George, fought against Revenger Power Man Bill and caused a burst of energy that depleted everyone’s powers.

Parker successfully confiscated a large amount of illegal fireworks. Before they could be safely destroyed, a sentient fatberg began absorbing people and pets across Wellington. Maaka and Parker blew up the fatberg with the fireworks.

## Other Appearances

### *Important COVID-19 messages from Wellington Paranormal*

Parker makes an appearance in *Important COVID-19 messages from Wellington Paranormal* when the Paranormal Unit hold a meeting remotely, with Parker staying at home with his mother.

## Appearances

* *Wellington Paranormal*
	+ "Demon Girl"
	+ "Zombie Cops"
	+ "Taniwha"
	+ "Fear the Briannas"
	+ "Haunted Nissan"
	+ "Mobots"
	+ "Invisible Fiend"
	+ "Te Maero"
	+ "Fear Factory"
	+ "The Sevens Ghosts"
	+ "Revengers"
	+ "Fatberg"
* *Important COVID-19 messages from Wellington Paranormal*

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1  "Important COVID-19 messages from Wellington Paranormal: Ep 10: Paranormal Briefing" - New Zealand Police
Yates, Paul (writer) & Clement, Jemaine (writer & director) (11 July 2018). "Demon Girl". *Wellington Paranormal*. Episode 1. TVNZ 2.
Yates, Paul (writer) & Clement, Jemaine (writer & director) (15 August 2018). "Zombie Cops". *Wellington Paranormal*. Episode 6. TVNZ 2.
Ward, Nick (writer) & Hewison, Dean (director) (16 October 2019). "Taniwha". *Wellington Paranormal*. Episode 7. TVNZ 2.
Alison, Amanda (writer) & van Beek, Jackie (director) (23 October 2019). "Fear the Briannas". *Wellington Paranormal*. Episode 8. TVNZ 2.
Yates, Paul (writer) & van Beek, Jackie (director) (13 November 2019). "Haunted Nissan". *Wellington Paranormal*. Episode 11. TVNZ 2.
Yates, Paul (writer) & Clement, Jemaine (director) (20 November 2019). "Mobots". *Wellington Paranormal*. Episode 12. TVNZ 2.
Ward, Nick (writer) & van Dammen, Tim (director) (24 February 2021). "Invisible Fiend". *Wellington Paranormal*. Episode 14. TVNZ 2.
Clement, Jemaine (writer & director) (3 March 2021). "Te Maero". *Wellington Paranormal*. Episode 15. TVNZ 2.
Yates, Paul (writer) & Clement, Jemaine (director) (10 March 2021). "Fear Factory". *Wellington Paranormal*. Episode 16. TVNZ 2.
Gonzalez-Macuer, Cori (writer) & van Dammen, Tim (director) (17 March 2021). "The Sevens Ghosts". *Wellington Paranormal*. Episode 17. TVNZ 2.
Alison, Amanda (writer) & van Dammen, Tim (director) (24 March 2021). "Revengers". *Wellington Paranormal*. Episode 18. TVNZ 2.
Bracewell, Melanie (writer) & Clement, Jemaine (director) (31 March 2021). "Fatberg". *Wellington Paranormal*. Episode 19. TVNZ 2.