Helena Frye

General

• Police detective
• Investigated the murder of Five of Cups owner Bernardo Holyoke
• Investigating the murder of Monica Grand, a.k.a. The Advisor.
• "Friend" of Pietro Salk and Kurt McAllister

• Is known to not publicly disclose all the details of any crime (a very common thing for law enforcement agencies to do) and actively lied about the high-tech goods found at the Five of Cups in this Sentinel article

• According to the Viard Album Secret Message, Helena Frye is a member of The Third Power
  • If true, we cannot trust the police, and it means that when players asked Sylvia Salk to talk to Helena about Monica Grand, she immediately informed V, who came and killed Monica
  • This is possibly supported by unknown persons at the Gillit Road Station fiasco, as overheard by Kurt: "...want to know how Frye managed to get the police involved in this. Would've thought that the third wouldn't want to risk..."
• But the working theory is that all this was a set-up: that Frye is actually legitimate, and either working covertly or openly against the Third Power, and that the Viard message was designed to ruin the planned raid at Gillit Road
  • That's Kurt's theory on it all, anyway, and he has met her two or three times in the process of exonerating himself.

• Sometime in mid-to-late June 2006, she seems to have taken off to the wilds of Gladstone and Silburn-Griggs.
  • Travelling incognito, she began relaying only very discrete messages to Kurt.
  • She has pieced together the scope of the great executive cover-up within the city, determining the Academy is the source of Third Power support, and someone high within the academy and the police doesn't want their plans to be uncovered.

"Helena... do you trust her?" asked Violet cautiously. "I think so. She's helped us before, told us about the Third Power's portal, and she seems to be capable of working outside of Council or Police authority." Positively happy about it, I thought. "She's got the team and the access to find Scarlett. We don't have anyone else to go to." --Kurt, 19-JAN-07

• In late Januray, 2007, After Scarlett was kidnapped, Kurt contacted Helena asking for help.
  • The conversation was productive, and Kurt sent her all information regarding the Library of Babel site.

References

• Perplex City Sentinel
  • article, "Five of Cups Owner Found Dead" (link)
  • article, "Holyoke Housed Stolen Academy Equipment" (link)
  • article, 10-AUG-05 "Holyoke Case Closed" (link)
  • article, 19-SEP-05 "PCBC Economist Found Murdered in Point Dwelling" (link)
  • article, 19-JAN-06 "Police Raid Disrupted, Claim PCPD Sources" (link)

• Kurt's blog, The Path Of Least Time
  • entry, 05-JAN-06 "Gillit Road" (link)
  • entry, 18-JAN-06 "Helena Frye and the Third Power" (link)
  • entry, 20-FEB-06 "The Clean Rooms" (link)
  • entry, 08-MAR-06 "Relationships" (link)
  • entry, 23-JUN-03 "Exterior Monologue" (link)
  • entry, 29-JUN-06 "Subterranean" (link)
  • entry, 23-AUG-06 "Vanished Into..." (link)
  • entry, 19-JAN-07 "Maing the Call" (link)
  • entry, 20-JAN-07 "A Break" (link)

The Third Power They are an ancient society of very secret intentions. Pietro Salk tipped the ice-berg, and it cost him his life. The Police has brought them to their knees during Operation Bayonet, but they have been around a long time, and they aren't likely to be stopped so easily. They have Operatives on Earth, as well is in Perplex City. V appears to be a #2 man, but who does #2 work for? Anthony Granier | V | Roberto Solitano | Caine Johansson | Miranda Katsoulis | Unnamed operatives on Earth

To Prevent And Detect Perplex City's Finest: The Perplex City Police Department! Police Chief Eoin Morgan runs a tight office. Media leaks almost never happen, and the bad guys are always caught. Right? Helena Frye seems to be one of the good guys (nevermind rumors to the contrary).