Natalie Gates

**Natalie Gates** is the daughter of Jools Gates and DCI Tony Gates and the sister of Chloe Gates. She only appears in series 1.

## Background

Natalie is the daughter of DCI Tony Gates and Jools Gates. She is nine years old in series 1, two years older than her younger sister, Chloe Gates. Some time prior to the events of series 1, she and her sister start attending Edge Park Preparatory School, where she excels in piano lessons. The fees for the school are paid for in full by Jackie Laverty, who claims it is a gift for Tony, who doesn't realise that the money comes from a money laundering operation Jackie is involved in.

Throughout the series, Natalie is shown to have a very close bond with her father.

## Series 1

### A Disastrous Affair

Natalie is first seen asleep in the bedroom she shares with her sister, Chloe, when Tony comes back from the black tie event where he received his Officer of the Year award. She is later seen excitedly greeting Tony when he gets home from work. She wants to show him her piano playing after getting an A in piano at school earlier that day. She is later seen playing the piano to him, Jools and Chloe.

### The Assault

Natalie is seen performing piano at the school concert, with Tony, Jools and Chloe watching. She is later seen when Gates reads a bedtime story to her and Chloe, and then again when Jools comes up to say goodnight.

### In the Trap

When Steve Arnott visits Gates at home, Jools mentions that Natalie and Chloe are at clubs. At the end of the episode, Gates picks Natalie and Chloe up from school. They are both happy to see him.

### Terror

Natalie and Chloe can be heard playing in the background whilst Gates looks through the mapping database, trying to find where he was held by the OCG in the previous episode.

The next evening, Tony is seen reading to Natalie and Chloe again, though he is interrupted by Nige Morton, which annoys him. Tony drops Natalie and Chloe to school the next morning.

Later on that morning, Tony tells Kate Fleming that when it cost £9000 to send Natalie and Chloe to their school, and that he tried to get a loan to cover it because they were in danger of losing their places, but then Jackie paid it without telling him, saying it was a gift. Tony says that he knows he should have said no, but he wanted to be different from his dad who never did anything for his kids.

### The Probation

Natalie and Chloe are at school when members of the OCG break into their house and murder their dog, Sammy. Jools picks them up early and takes them to her mum's. Later on in the episode, Tony goes round there and spends an hour playing What's the Time Mr Wolf with Natalie and Chloe. Later on, Tony kills himself, convincing Steve to claim that he was killed in the line of duty so his family can have his Death in Service pay-out.

The last time Natalie and Chloe are seen is at Tony's funeral, along with Jools, her mother and Nige.

## Trivia

* Jordyn-Eve Davis Greene, who plays Natalie, trained at Dramaworkshop in Chawn Hill Church, Stourbridge, alongside Gregory Piper (Ryan Pilkington). She was eleven at the time the first series was filmed.
* The book that Gates reads to Natalie and Chloe is Jed Mercurio's The Penguin Expedition, published in 2003.