Crime Traveller - Holly Turner

Holly Turner

(Played by Chloe Annett) Holly is the daughter of Professor Frederick Turner a prominent physicist whose specialist field was that of time travel. After years of research and work, Turner was able to develop a working time machine. Turner used the machine to carry out experiments on time and the laws and rules by which it abides, such as 'you can't change the past' and 'time won't allow paradoxes'. The only other person Turner ever told about the machine was his daughter Holly. When Turner failed to return to the machine in time on his last trip and was trapped in a loop of infinity, Holly took over work on the machine and continued to maintain and perfect it to continue his experiments. In order to do this Holly needed money and as she didn't dare apply for a grant for fear of someone discovering the machine. So she went to work for the CID as a science officer and it was here that she met detective Jeff Slade. The two were friendly from the start but when Holly used the machine to help Slade out after a case had gone badly wrong and got Slade in trouble, Slade found out about the machine. This resulted in their relationship becoming closer and they began spending time together outside work. Holly is clearly attracted to Slade as he is to her but like him she chooses to not to reveal this to him, probably because she thinks that if the machine were not around then Slade wouldn't give her a second glance. Like Slade, Holly tends to keep herself to herself, possibly more so than he does because she is so terrified that someone may find out about the machine. Whilst she feels that Slade relies to much on the machine to solve his cases, she does seem to like the fact that she now has someone to talk to about the machine and she no longer has to keep all the financial worries that it's upkeep brings completely to herself.