Alan Burns

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Alan Burns was a character in QIA.

## Biography

### Life prior to joining the QIA

Alan lived in Australia with his daughter Eryn. Since his wife had died when Eryn was young, Alan raised her as a single parent, working in his own bait shop and often taking Eryn fishing. One night in 2003, however, Alan was mugged by a teenager named Ross, who slashed Alan's throat and supposedly killed him - however, thanks to the Reclaimers' intervention (a result of Eryn's later affiliation with them), he was in fact saved. ("Reclamation")

### The QIA

Years later, Alan was the linguist for the London Field Team, and therefore the predecessor of Sarah Cunnington. He retired shortly before Sarah joined to take his place, due to almost having a heart attack while on a mission ("Luxembourg"), although Ethan came to suspect his retirement had in fact only come about because Director Hall wanted to bring in Sarah Cunnington ("Revelations").

Alan returned to the London Hub for the memorial service honouring Drew Glenn in January 2020, where he met Sarah, his replacement, for the first time ("Luxembourg").

Alan, under orders from Hall, murdered Patrick Kearney in his police cell, and tracked down and attempted to kill traitor Ethan Taylor, althought the latter got away. ("Revelations")

Eleven days later, Sarah approached Alan and asked him to look into the Malaysia mission for her, as she suspected it had some connection to what happened in Cassius' village ("Hafiz"). What she didn't realise at the time, however, was that Alan had not only been there himself, he had been there to murder John Danziger, an American archaeologist, in retaliation for Danziger having shot and killed Eryn.

Alan was unable to find out any information, which he seemed to regard as odd, given the people he had asked. However, he was unable to spend too long pursuing the matter as soon afterwards he was temporarily drafted back into the QIA by Brent Hall to help with the fallout from the February 2020 Incident; Alan joined Hafiz's team, and was invaluable in helping out with missions such as the one in Moscow. ("Misdirection")

Alan was revealed as working for Cassius; he was the one who took Cassius' prisoner and Alan's old friend, Tom Burt, to a warehouse in Osogbo, where he proceeded to brutally torture him as a consequence for him getting Eryn killed in Malaysia. However, before he was able to fatally wound Tom, Alan was shot and killed by Sarah. ("Reclamation")

## Appearances

### Season One

"Luxembourg", "Hafiz", "Misdirection", "Revelations", "Reclamation"

### Season Three

"Resurrection" *(uncredited)*, "Ghosts" *(uncredited, hallucination)*

## Trivia

Alan was in the Bahamas during Chris Darby's funeral, and was therefore unable to attend ("Luxembourg").

Alan lives in a large house in Hampstead. His hobby is to go fishing, although he laments the lack of good fishing spots in London. ("Hafiz")

Alan recruited Tom into the QIA. ("Reclamation")