Rupa Shaw

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## Rupa Shaw

### Aliases

Adriana Velez ("Sides")Hermione Granger ("Witchfinder")

### Affiliation

London Metropolitan Police (formerly)The QIA (formerly)

### Rank

Detective Chief InspectorAgent (formerly)

## Physical description

### Hair Colour

Black

Rupa Shaw (née Kalsi) is a former main character in QIA. She is a Detective Chief Inspector for the London Metropolitan Police, and a former Agent of the London Field Team.

## Biography

### Career with the Met Police

#### Past Cases

Rupa has had a prolific career with the Met, notably including cases such as the Banks case and other cases against Owen Roark, Martine Landy, the O'Callaghans and Cynthia Gladstone. ("Resistance")

#### Kearney Case

Though it was just a simple abduction case at first, Rupa was in charge of investigating Patrick Kearney when he took Ethan Taylor at gunpoint from the Princess Grace Hospital in January 2020, due to the overtime pay. She pursued a lead to Hammersmith Grove, where she spoke with Sarah Cunnington but got no further, at first. However, just as she was leaving she heard a gunshot, then witnessed Kearney fleeing the scene. After pursuing him, she was able to take him into custody, and then returned to Sarah's flat to again talk to Sarah and Hafiz, after seeing the corpse of Drew Glenn ("Tom"). After several intense interviews with both Sarah and Hafiz, Rupa let them go, although she seemed quite shaken up - possibly due to Kearney having been murdered by an unseen assassin while in his cell ("Luxembourg").

#### Investigation into the London Hub

It later transpired that Superintendent Kevin Powell had ordered Sergeant Talia Stewart to remove evidence from the Kearney case file. Rupa suspected this was due to Powell being paid off by someone. Together with Talia and her colleague, DI Greg Hoskins, Rupa therefore began a new, off-the-books investigation into the case, starting by surveilling Beale's, and then by sending in Hoskins undercover as a journalist. After Hoskins was present during the London Hub's lockdown, Rupa decided to get a small force together of officers she trusted, and to go in. ("Resistance") Together, they raided the Hub and confiscated all computer equipment. During the raid, Rupa saw the Hub Chamber, but was not told what it was or its purpose. She also met with Director Brent Hall, who offered her a job, although she refused. ("Walker")

After the raid, Rupa was called into Powell's office, where she was told that the QIA was an elite counterterrorism agency that operated above the law, and was ordered to cease all investigations into the matter. Frustrated at this, she instead decided to come at the case from a different angle, and began a fresh hunt for the missing Kate Lewis, girlfriend of Ethan Taylor. ("Hafiz")

After realising there were no leads on Lewis, Rupa instead turned the focus of her investigation onto Sarah Cunnington, the only other person directly involved in the Kearney case. During the course of this new line of enquiry, Rupa questioned Cunnington's old boss, Sean Herron, where she learned about Sarah's blackouts. She then interviewed Alison Coran, and finally went to see Eleanor Darby, whom she told her theory that Sarah had killed him by blacking out while driving them both during their trip to Berlin. However, in a strange twist, later that night Kate Lewis turned up, breaking into Rupa and Damien's flat, for reasons as yet unknown. ("Misdirection")

Kate took Rupa in the back of a van to Dryburn Moor in Northumberland, where there is a secret Hub. Kate used this to take Rupa to Luxembourg in 1973, proving to her both the existence of time-travel, and that Sarah is capable of doing so as well. ("Reclamation")

### Career with the QIA

#### Recruitment

Following her Jump to Luxembourg, Kate told Rupa that Hall wanted to recruit her. While she resisted this at first, after Powell fired her (citing the illegal search of the London Hub), she eventually agreed and joined the QIA on 27th February 2020. Rupa became an Agent with the London Field Team, where she took over tactical duties from Enora Gallou, with the cover story of being on protection detail for antiques at Beale's. ("Rupa")

Rupa soon clashed with her superior, Captain Hafiz, especially over their different approaches to dealing with fugitive Sarah Cunnington. In spite of their constant disagreements, Rupa saved Hafiz's life during the Prague mission. This didn't stop her from informing Hall that Hafiz had let Sarah go - again - during the Toledo mission ("Sides", "Rupa").

Rupa later interrogated Tereza Porizkova, who had been arrested during the Prague mission, leading to intelligence that would form the basis of the Rome mission ("Fugitive").

#### 1645

During the Bury part of the Marcos mission in the year 1645, Rupa was captured by townspeople, who took her dark skin to be a sign that she was a witch ("Unnatural"). She was interrogated, tortured and degraded under orders of Matthew Hopkins, and eventually sentenced to hanging by Judge John Godbolt. However, thanks to the efforts of her colleagues, both she and Marcos were eventually freed from the gallows. ("Witchfinder")

#### Sarah's Trial

Rupa was appointed as the prosecutor in Sarah's trial, following her arrest, where she gave scathing arguments against the defendant, ultimately getting her convicted on the quantum terrorism charge ("Justice"). Afterwards, Hafiz - desperate to prove Hall's guilt and Sarah's innocence - asked for a truce, and a favour, on the understanding that if she was wrong, Hafiz would probably end up in the Void as well as Sarah. Rupa agreed, and called in a favour from former colleagues Talia Stewart and Greg Hoskins, who temporarily detained Sarah's prisoner transport van. After learning that Hafiz had been right all along, and that Hall was guilty, Rupa arrested the Director herself. Upon Sarah's return to the Hub, after she had been exonerated by Erik Draper, Rupa conceded that Sarah had been pardoned, bringing her pursuit of her to an end. ("Hall")

#### Wedding and Honeymoon

On the day before her wedding to fiancé Damien Shaw, Rupa was abducted by Reclaimers Sachin Gosrani and Thomas May, who sought to exchange her for London Hub prisoner Tereza Porizkova. The exchange was set to take place in a remote field near Canterbury, but her captors' plot was foiled by Tom and Hafiz. The Reclaimers were arrested and Rupa made it to her wedding in time. ("Lampeter")

Four days later, while on honeymoon with Damien in Malta, Brent Hall approached Rupa to offer her a job working for him. Rupa instead contacted her colleagues back in London and the Field Team arrived with the intention of arresting him. However, Hall had anticipated this and had had Miranda take Damien hostage, which he used to bargain for his safe leave. ("Malta")

During the Nottingham infraction, Rupa used her expired DCI credentials (technically still valid in 2014) to get an audience with fellow Detective Meghan Tyler in order to help prevent loss of life from the bomb. ("Nottingham")

### Return to the Metropolitan Police

In late September, Rupa was summoned to a meeting with Beverly Charlton by Talia and Hoskins. Charlton, working for Counter-Terrorism, wanted Rupa to help expose Kevin Powell as being involved with the Spanish terrorist group *la Muerte Justa*. Rupa tracked down one of the terrorists, Juan Consuelos, and learned that Powell had been involved, though through stupidity rather than deliberate effort. Nonetheless, Rupa used this to blackmail Powell into early retirement, paving the way for Charlton to take his job, and later offer Rupa her own job back, as DCI, which she accepted. ("Life", "Death")

#### Defending Sarah and the QIA

During DCI John Turner's investigation into the 'Plague Doctor' case concerning the murder of Alicia Karalis, Rupa went to see Turner on behalf of Sarah and the Hub, but ended up being threatened by him after Turner revealed he knew that, in spite of her name not appearing in the media following the Prometheus Leak, she had briefly worked for the QIA. ("Iulya")

Later, after the Prime Minister, Amber Harvey, ordered the arrests of Ethan, Iulya and Hafiz, Rupa convinced Beverly - now Chief Superintendent - to release them ("Power"). However, even she was powerless to stop the arrest of Sarah for the St Paul's bombing, and came to get her herself, though she told Sarah that she knew she was innocent. ("¥o¬ Cø~1")

### Personal Life

Rupa is married to Damien Shaw as of 21st June 2020 ("Lampeter").

## Relationships

### Sarah Cunnington

Rupa is vehemently determined to find and arrest Sarah for the charges against her ("Sides", "Rupa"). However, her feelings about her began to soften, and she even suggested to Hall that Sarah could be innocent, until Hall revealed that she had unlawfully broken Jack Harringer out of the Void. ("Northolt")

During Sarah's trial, Hall appointed Rupa as the prosecutor, a role in which she performed doggedly, eventually securing a conviction on the fourth count of the charges Sarah was charged with, that of quantum terrorism ("Justice").

After Hall was proven guilty and Sarah was pardoned of all crimes, however, Rupa acknowledged her exoneration, bringing her pursuit of her to an end ("Hall", "Change").

She later completed her full reversal of attitude, standing up for Sarah to DCI John Turner ("Iulya"). In an alternate timeline, she even risked her career to help the rest of the team break Sarah out of jail after she was arrested for the murder of Alicia Karalis ("Thursday").

Later, after the order came down to arrest Sarah for the St Paul's bombing, Rupa told Sarah that she believed she was innocent, and even begged her to tell everyone she was innocent. ("¥o¬ Cø~1", "Lorenzo"))

### Tasneem Hafiz

Rupa and Hafiz have a very antagonistic relationship, in spite of Hafiz being her superior, due mainly to Hafiz's continued efforts to defend and protect Sarah ("Sides"). However, in the years after Rupa left the QIA, they actually became friendly, even going as far as to go out for coffee and dinner dates. ("Power")

### Brent Hall

Rupa was extremely suspicious of Hall, and soon realised that he had her boss, Kevin Powell, in his pocket ("Misdirection"). However, since joining the QIA, she seems to be on much better terms with the Director ("Sides").

However, after learning that Hall was guilty of sending Marcus Anderson to kill fellow agent Tom Burt, she arrested the Director herself, in spite of him protesting that he had been framed ("Hall").

### Damien Shaw

Rupa and Damien are engaged, with their wedding set for June 2020 ("Tom").

### Kevin Powell

Even as Rupa's former superior, Kevin was someone she vilified, suspecting he was in Brent Hall's pocket. This was further proven when Powell conveniently fired her just at the same time as Hall had decided he wanted to recruit her. The two did not part amicably. ("Rupa")

Rupa was later able to get her revenge, however, after learning of Powell's involvement with the Spanish terrorist group *la Muerte Justa*, which she used to blackmail him into early retirement, eventually paving the way for her to get her old job as DCI back. ("Life", "Death")

## Appearances

### Season Two

(as a Starring cast member)

1Credit only

Rupa also appears, uncredited, in "And All That Could Have Been"

### Season Three

"Iulya", "Thursday" *(uncredited)*, "Power" *(uncredited)*, "¥o¬ Cø~1" *(uncredited)*, "Lorenzo"

## Trivia

Rupa smokes ("Tom"). She has a mole underneath her left breast ("Witchfinder").

When she and Damien fight, Rupa often makes paella. ("Rupa")

Rupa owns a cat called Wilbur ("Academy", "Lampeter"). She drives a blue Twingo ("Lampeter").

*Rupa Kalsi is portrayed by Nisha Patel for photographic performances.*