Galbraith

> *I don't want to use force, so I look forward to your conscientiousness.*
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> Galbraith to Irles Nacht

**Galbraith** is a character in ***Always Visible*** (*Another Prayer for the Dying Horror Genre*). He's a grown man who works as a police inspector in Portland.

Throughout the course of the story, his path crosses with the Yonce family, in particular with their daughter Delia, after whose death he begins the pursuit of her killer. **Galbraith** is the main character of "Tempo De Construção Novamente" and "Qualquer ou Uma Grande Recompensa". He also appears briefly in "Uma Moldura Quebrada". **Galbraith** never appears in "Que Difícil é Ser Escravo de Deus!".

## Appearance

**Galbraith** is a 31-year-old man whose name is of Gallic origin. He has short black hair and a neat mustache under his nose. Those around him describe him as a very tall man with a military bearing.

He wears a strict gray suit with a white checkered shirt and a black tie, and he has two copies of this suit. He never wears anything else during the performance, except when he puts on a medical gown at the request of the scientists.

At the beginning of the work, **Galbraith** is shown as a slightly lazy and phlegmatic character, but the more his fate intersects with Delia Yonce, the more unhinged his behavior becomes.

## Personality

> *I really don't like this state of affairs myself, but you can rest assured...*
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> —Galbraith's reaction regarding death of Delia Yonce

As an immigrant from Gloucester, he has a strange attitude towards American culture, almost despising it, although upon returning to England he also cannot find a place for himself in his homeland, due to which **Galbraith** is essentially a "man without a country."

He has little interest in literature and films, but in his heart he is partial to the fine arts, but he never managed to realize his dream, because as a child he was oppressed by his father, and as an adult, due to his profession as a police inspector, he cannot afford such a hobby.

It is described that **Galbraith** loves to smoke, buying a lot of cigarettes at once, in addition, he loves to drink alcoholic beverages, happily drinking both cheap whiskey and expensive fruit liqueur. **Galbraith** loves coffee, but hates tea. Upon arrival in England, he becomes very particular about the quality of food that is offered to him in osterias and restaurant.

He usually behaves quite calmly, but depending on the situation, **Galbraith** can suddenly lose his temper, but such outbursts of anger quickly pass. It is implied that he is somewhat cowardly in nature, and some characters outright tell him that **Galbraith** is naive and timid. He often makes illogical actions, because of which **Galbraith** then has to get out for a long time.

He hates family life, being, as he himself says, an "ideological bachelor" (**Galbraith** is a virgin), but at the same time, for some reason, he is imbued with sympathy for Delia Yonce, and upon the fact of her death, he loses his temper and is going to do whatever no matter how to take revenge on her killer. **Galbraith** was probably predisposed to adopt Delia, being otherwise unable to have children.

## Biography

**Galbraith** was born in 1960 in Gloucester, England. He had known doctor Baselard since childhood, who visited his father's house, where future inspector lived until college age, after which, for reasons not described in the story, **Galbraith** moved to Portland, USA, where he entered the police academy where he meets Pharqraut, with whom he chooses the profession of police inspector

## *Always Visible (Another Prayer for the Dying Horror Genre)*

In September, at the request of Pharqraut, he visits hospitalized mister Yonce, after which he becomes familiar with the case of his friend, after which **Galbraith** begins to see strange visions on the streets of Portland, and the next day after the hallucination in the passage Pharqraut is shot by unknown men in black .

After a meeting at mister chief inspector Schaeymoure's home, he is called to the Parkrose Neighborhood the next day on the suicide of Ivette Yonce. At the scene, he interrogates her daughter Delia Yonce, but he does not have time to escort her, as Schaeymoure calls him again for an audience. Leaving Delia in the custody of an F.B.I. agent, **Galbraith** arrives at the police station, where mister chief inspector gives him a full day off, which he spends first getting drunk at a bar and then watching movie "Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein" at a bootleg German cinema.

The next day he learns that Delia Yonce has died after surgery. **Galbraith** finds the address of the man who led the operation and arrives at the place where he miraculously discovers the right person, doctor Baselard, whom he, it turns out, had the honor of seeing in his childhood. When the inspector finds a photograph of Duncan, a victim of brain surgery, doctor Baselard leaves the apartment and flees America for England, while **Galbraith** himself, on the advice of Schaeymoure, visits the Columbia River Correctional Institution, where he asks for an audience with Jordan Thurlow, the man who was suspected of harassing the late Delia Yonce.

After an audience with Jordan Thurlow, **Galbraith** begins to prove to his superiors that he needs to pursue Dr. Basil, to which they react as stupid and meaningless speeches. Then mister chief inspector himself arrives directly at his apartment, who reveals to **Galbraith** the details that Schaeymoure himself personally knows killer of Delia Yonce and warns that doctor Baselard could have killed Duncan with the tacit consent of the patient (which should indicate that Delia Yonce herself asked Baselard to kill her).

Soon after this, in mid-October, **Galbraith'**s superiors allow him to continue the search for Delia's killer and book a hotel in London, where he immediately flies. Upon arrival in England, he notices that a young man is following him, and then a certain gray-haired man arrives at his hotel room, introducing himself as a computer specialist, whom **Galbraith** suspects of having a connection with doctor Baselard.

After the mysterious guest leaves, **Galbraith** goes to the restaurant, but on the way the taxi driver drops him off in the steppe, where the inspector witnesses a recreated scene of mister Yonce shoots the dog of Jordan Thurlow and almost killing the rapist himself with his daughter. The taxi driver soon picks up **Galbraith** and upon arrival at the restaurant gives him his phone number. At the end of an unsuccessful meal, the inspector calls the taxi driver's number and ends up in his home police department, where lieutenant Nelissen tells him that Jordan Thurlow died in Columbia River Correctional Institution from throat cancer and that Baselard's assistants removed a strange tumor from the uterus of the late Delia Yonce, which was given to Oregon College of Oriental Medicine as a medical exhibit.

At the end of this telephone conversation **Galbraith** again notices the mysterious young stranger who had been following him since the morning. **Galbraith** gets into a taxi and goes to his hotel, which inexplicably caught fire while the inspector was away. Right there, **Galbraith** receives a stampless envelope from the postman, after which the inspector decides to go to "Makoto Computerization Institute", which the morning guest told him. During this trip, **Galbraith** reads the letter and notices that time around him has moved forward two months, to December 27th.

He then solves a puzzle given to him by the unnamed author of the letter, after which he finally arrives at the address where he discovers that this "Makoto Computerization Institute" is an underground institute where scientists in England and Japan have jointly created an D.O.O.R., an eternal supercomputer that simulates virtual reality. After visiting the institute, **Galbraith** rises to the surface and, humming a song from the movie "Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein", waits for a taxi...

## Creator's comment

> *In the movie "Omen IV: The Awakening", there was a character who was investigating cases regarding the title character. I decided to expand on this idea, adding depth to this man and also sparing his life.*
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## Quotes

* *"In the garden elder, and in Vancouver earl."*
* *"Ah, you go with the mysticism again. Some kind of spirit, you once said..."*
* *"Of course, because our smaller brothers stemming from garbage."*
* *"Lord, where am I drifting?"*
* *"Go take your narcotics away somewhere else, Pharqraut, you know me..."*
* *"England scent!"*
* *"Easy, tiger! If you don't know how to work with children and only attack them, then stay where you are and don’t interfere. It's clear?"*
* *"Approved. Now you listen to me. If I have now been ordered to leave, then I do not dare disobey the orders of my superiors, but I want you let this eat into your mind - if it's in your stupid head the idea to be rude to this girl will come again, I swear what am I will scrape you out from earth. You got that?"*
* *"Stay here, but I need to go to the city. We'll take care of you."*
* *"What, you mean it's a Delia started menstruating? In ten years?"*
* *"You killed this woodcutter twenty-four years ago. And this morning there was a little girl under your X-acto knife. She walked towards her destiny, could change the course of history, but unfortunately..."*
* *"The same person is behind both of these deaths - doctor Baselard, who was worked in the hospital I mentioned. I say "was" because this morning, just after the death of the child, the doctor packed his things and left for England, in order, I am sure, to avoid prosecution."*
* *"Your words, Jordan, will help my investigation."*
* *"You're a joke though, Jordan! I have never heard such a definition of the arrows of the Cupid from anyone at all!"*
* *"I see that some parts of my story upset you. Sorry for this, but these are facts."*
* *"Okay, this is D-E-L-I-A. Ideal."*
* *"I can think of no worse deed than demonization of the child."'*

## Trivia

* **Galbraith** is directly based on Earl Knight from "Omen IV: The Awakening", played by Michael Lerner. However, the way his appearance is described is much more similar to doctor Watson from the Igor Maslennikov's "Sherlock Holmes", played by Yury Mefodievich Solomin.
* If the character in the film was a private insestigator, then **Galbraith** is a police inspector.
* His hallucinations mostly have something in common with Adrian Lyne's "Jacob's Ladder", and the entire third act with Soviet movie "Zerograd" by Karen Shakhnazarov.