Charles Staniforth

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## Biographical information

### Marital status

Betrothed to Mollie Barton (until her death)

## Physical description

### Gender

Male

Charles Staniforth was a character in QIA. He was a codebreaker who worked at Bletchley Park in 1943, until his murder in July.

## Biography

### Bletchley Park

Charles began working at Bletchley Park as a codebreaker on 22nd January 1943 ("Sides").

#### Relationship with Mollie Barton

On 4th February, Charles met a WREN, Mollie Barton ("Fugitive"); the two later began developing a romantic relationship.

Driven by jealousy over their relationship, Charles was beaten unconscious by a groundsman, Reg, on 18th March ("Hall"). After his recovery, Charles learned that Reg had disappeared, and suspected that he might in fact be dead. ("Academy")

On 2nd May, in spite of warnings from his superior, Charles asked Mollie to marry him ("Denny"). However, after not hearing from her for several days, he was devastated to find she had been murdered, her throat slit, in her bed. ("Family")

#### Tested Loyalties

In late March, Charles began to receive mysterious encoded messages, separate to his regular work ("Lampeter"). After Mollie's murder, he was ordered to return to work by his superior, whom he came to strongly suspect had ordered her death, though he had no proof. ("Titanic", "Magdalena")

On the 21st June, Charles decoded a dangerous message ("Echelon"); believing it to be a patriotic act despite appearances, Charles subsequently attempted to hand over confidential information detailing military postings and flight plans concerning Southern France to an unknown contact. However, after making the drop he discovered that this had merely been a test set up by his supervisor, and as a result Charles was arrested. ("Ted")

Charles was given one last chance, and one last communique to decipher. When he did so, he was horrified by the ramifications of whatever it was he had discovered, and he took his findings directly to his superior, who seemed unsurprised. Moments later, his superior shot him dead after telling him that "no man in 1943 should learn the truth you have now learned". ("Life", "Death")

## Charles' Superior

Charle's superior at Bletchley has noticeable facial burns, which Charles assumes to be war wounds. He works from a first-floor office in the mansion. ("Unnatural")

In "Death", his superior is revealed to have been Jacob Dorody all along; after murdering Charles, Dorody Jumps back to the year 2264 where he delivers the final message that Charles had decoded to his own superior, Fran Grenouille.

## Unanswered Questions

* How does Charles' story relate to the rest of the QIA narrative?
* What happened to Reg?
	+ *It is heavily implied that Reg was killed on orders of Charlie's superior ("Academy", "Titanic")*

## Trivia

Charles appears in every episode of Season Two, but is uncredited in all instances bar "Death".

Charles' name was not identified until "Fugitive".