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

• 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.
  • She is travelling incognito, relaying only very discrete messages to Kurt.

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)

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).