Horatio Gray

**Horatio Gray** is a supporting character in *Night Terrace*. He is portrayed by Australian actor and comedian Andrew Hansen.

## Biography

### Background

He was interviewed for a position at the D.E.P.A.R.T.M.E.N.T. where he accidentally created a hydrogen bomb while using the coffee machine. (*Horatio's Travels*: "Messages")

### At the D.E.P.A.R.T.M.E.N.T.

Horatio worked at the D.E.P.A.R.T.M.E.N.T. as a scientist, engineer and inventor, creating various gadgets for field agents like Anastasia Black. During his time there, Anastasia and other agents learned that in the future, Horatio would vanish, but when the time came, nothing happened - he seemed to just keep on working there. (*NT* Two: "The Edification of Anastasia Black")

### Retirement and travel

In reality, Horatio had leased one of the Night Terrace houses. On his first night in the house, he phoned Continuum Pizza to place an order and the house travelled through time into the past. He called Anastasia and tried to leave a message on her answering machine, but the house travelled again, this time back to its original position at the time of his initial inspection of the house. He met himself and as a result his past self decided not to rent the house, causing the first of many paradoxes. (*NT* Two: "The Retirement of Horatio Gray"); (*NT* One: "Moving House")

Horatio travelled throughout the past, meeting such important figures as Vincent Van Gogh, Albert Einstein, Duke Franz Ferdinand and many others. He inadvertently caused or disrupted most of human history, creating a huge number of paradoxes. (*Horatio's Travels*)

### In Gaul & Adventures with Eddie

Eventually the Cosmic Immortals intervened to make sure Horatio landed in Gaul during the time of Julius Caesar - close to Anastasia's Night Terrace. Eddie Jones accidentally entered the wrong house, and travelled with Horatio to other parts of history, including the battle of the Spanish Armada in 1588, where the house sunk to the bottom of the sea. When the pair recovered the house, it travelled to the primeval Earth, where Anastasia had been sent by the Cosmic Immortals. She revealed that Horatio's destiny was to travel back in time and form the core of the Earth, completing his interference in human history, and once Eddie returned to Anastasia's house, he dialled the appropriate number (000) and disappeared into the distant past. (*NT* Two: "The Retirement of Horatio Gray")

This travel stretched the link between all the houses, forcing them to smash together and create an alternate reality. Idealised versions of Horatio appeared in this paradise universe, along with versions of Auguste Night and Darren. He vanished when the Night Terrace reality was destroyed. (*NT* Two: "Home Again")

## Relationships

He wanted to meet his great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother Mary, possibly for temporally incestuous reasons. (*NT* Two: "The Retirement of Horatio Gray")

## Appearances

* *Night Terrace* season one
	+ “Moving House” (cameo)
* *Night Terrace* season two
	+ “Ancient History” (cameo)
	+ “The Edification of Anastasia Black” (referenced)
	+ “The Retirement of Horatio Gray”
	+ “Home Again”
* *Horatio's Travels*
	+ “Relativity”
	+ “History”
	+ “The Houseguests”
	+ “Settling Down”

## Navigation

 *Auguste Night* · ***Horatio Gray***