Denny Franklin

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## Biographical information

### Date and Place of death

24th September 1998 (30th September 2020), Toulouse, France

### Manner of death

Murdered by Brent Hall using the NT-063 weapon

## Physical description

### Hair Colour

Brown

Denny Franklin was a former main character in QIA.

## Biography

Denny was a former Agent in the London Field Team, and before that was an Agent from the Sweeper Team. During his time in the Field Team, he was the technical specialist, a role he took over from Ethan Taylor.

### Background

Prior to joining the QIA, Denny suffered occasional blackouts, but was cured of this after his first Jump ("Berlin"). This had prompted some speculation about Denny being a Natural, but shortly after joining he was assessed by Dietrich Kruger, who concluded that he was not ("Misdirection").

### Sweeper Team

#### Work with the Field Team

In February 2020, Denny assisted Agent Sarah Cunnington and the rest of the Sweeper Team during the second Dubai mission ("Hafiz", "Jack").

The very next day, Denny and the rest of the Sweeper Team was drafted in to assist with the aftermath of the February 2020 Incident. He and Pradesh Sharma joined Sarah's team, and successfully prevented infractions in both Venice and Zaragoza. Their third mission, in Lillehammer, resulted in Pradesh's death and in Denny getting seriously injured in an explosion. However, in spite of his injuries, he managed to save Sarah's life by shooting dead Trym Nesbø, who would have otherwise killed Sarah. Denny then Home Jumped, taking Pradesh's body with him. ("Misdirection")

### Field Team

At some point between February and April 2020, Denny was permanently assigned to the Field Team, replacing Agent Taylor as the technical expert, as well as filling in for Agent Burt on munitions while the latter was comatose.

During the interrogation of Diego Romas on the Toledo mission, Denny was shot by masked operatives whose target was Romas himself. These operatives were in fact a future version of Captain Hafiz and himself.

After the successful apprehension of Sebastián Marcos, Brent Hall tasked Denny with taking a sample of Marcos' blood to Henry Macht, a solicitor in Temple, on the pretense of them learning about how he had become a Natural - something that Denny was very interested in. Later that same day, Denny witnessed Hamilton bringing an unconscious Sarah in from the Hub Chamber, having just arrested her, though Hamilton threatened him into silence. The next day, Hall sent him back to Macht to picked up the results of the blood sample, where he saw the name Trym Nesbø in the client's file, giving a solid link between the Reclaimers and Hall himself. Unable to keep this information secret, Denny went straight to Hafiz. ("Northolt")

After telling Hafiz about Sarah as well, he helped prepare her defence for her trial, though he was called as a witness for the prosecution. During his testimony, he was ridiculed by Enora for his continued errors and failures on recent missions ("Justice").

After Erik Draper became Director, he sent Denny and Hafiz back into the Toledo mission, to bring Romas back to London before Hall could get his hands on him. However, since this involved intruding on their own past, they had to go in masks. During this mission, Denny accidentally shot his past self. ("Change")

### Triple Agent

Shortly after Hall's arrest, Erik Draper had secretly called Denny and asked him to break Hall out of custody in order to "prove" his loyalty, using his sister Ellie's terminal illness and mounting medical costs as justification to Hall, so that he could become a triple agent, pretending to work for Hall but in fact reporting to Draper. Although this later began to attract the attention and secret disdain from his colleagues, Denny nonetheless continued working for both sides, including enabling access for Heike Skulstad to break into the Hub's network to retrieve some files that Hall had left there, implanting a tracking device on Tom, and helping Draper to purge the Hub of those still loyal to Hall. ("Lampeter", "Adam", "Malta", "Denny")

Hall began to gradually suspect that Denny was not as loyal as he claimed to be, and so he set the young agent a final task: to murder Draper. Feeling conflicted, Denny therefore lured Draper to a flat in Camden and shot him. With Draper dead, Hafiz - who had followed him there with the rest of the Field Team, having received a tip-off from Hall - let him go, understanding he had only done it for his sister. Denny fled the scene, unaware that Hafiz and Draper had known all along what he was going to do, and had engineered the situation in order for Denny to unwittingly lead them back to Hall. ("Denny")

After fleeing, Denny risked one last visit with Ellie, but after leaving her house he was attacked and drugged from behind ("Auxerre"). He was held in Sheffield by Heike before being brought to Copenhagen by Stéfanie Roux in order to track Adam Solomon. After Hall - bringing Denny along - pursued Adam to the same city but thirty years earlier, in 1991, he revealed to Denny that Erik was still alive and that Denny had run for nothing. Growing tired of his insubordination, Hall then ordered Heike to kill Denny unless he found Adam once again, but Denny erased the tracking program, no longer caring what would happen to him. Hall was about to have Denny executed when Ethan Taylor, working off intelligence given to him by Miranda Davenport, interrupted them. Ethan was after information about a man who Hall had sent to kill Sarah, and Hall agreed to tell him what he wanted to know - if Ethan executed Denny using the sword Joyeuse which Ethan had just recovered from the year 778. ("Family")

However, Ethan had enlisted the help of Jack Harringer, who performed a quantum shift to grab Denny just after Ethan had stabbed him (using a replica of the sword) and kicked his body into the ocean; Jack brought him back to London in the year 2020, where he recovered from his injuries ("Redemption"). Denny assisted in the Omagh mission ("Ted").

He was later reinstated back onto the team. During the subsequent Toulouse mission, where he was filling in for Ethan (who was injured), Denny was murdered by Brent Hall, using the NT-063 weapon; before he died, Hall showed no remorse at all, claiming that he was pathetic and deserved it. ("Death")

## Relationships

### Sarah Cunnington

Denny had a good working relationship with Sarah while he worked under her during the February 2020 Incident ("Misdirection"). Denny remains convinced that Sarah is innocent of the charges against her ("Sides").

Denny was called by the prosecution to testify against her at her trial ("Justice").

### Tasneem Hafiz

Denny respects his new Captain, and has a good working relationship with her in spite of her believing he wasn't ready to join the Field Team.

### Tom Burt

Having filled in for him for two months, Denny was quite resentful of Tom's return after his recovery, expressing to Enora that he felt he was being sidelined once Tom returned to active duty ("Fugitive").

### Dan Hamilton

Denny has a good working relationship with his former Captain from the Sweeper Team.

### Brent Hall

As a result of some subtle manipulation by Hall, Denny has expressed his loyalties to the Director. This was greatly tested when he ordered Denny to secretly take a sample of Sebastián Marcos's blood to a solicitor, Henry Macht, but when Denny saw the name Trym Nesbø in Macht's client file, he broke Hall's trust and told Hafiz. ("Northolt")

Denny's loyalties to Hall continued even after the former Director was forced to flee the Hub after being exposed, including providing access to Heike Skulstad to obtain files from the Hub on Hall's behalf. However, it was revealed that Denny was in fact secretly working for Draper, and even though it had been Denny who had released Hall from custody, it had been done on Draper's orders. Denny continued to work as a triple agent until Hall ordered him to murder Draper, which he now believes he has done. Subsequently, Denny is now on the run, even though Draper in fact merely faked his own death to use Denny as bait to lure out Hall. ("Denny")

For these betrayals, Hall later murdered Denny using the NT-063 weapon ("Death").

## Appearances

### Season Two

(as a Starring cast member)

1Uncredited; 2Credited as a Special Guest Star

## Trivia

*Denny Franklin is portrayed by Graham Courtney for photographic performances.*