Percival Quick

PC Percival Quick served under Sergeant Kyle in the Metropolitan Police Service in London in 1889. He investigated the murder of Joseph Buller and reported his findings to the pathologist Professor George Litefoot. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)

Quick was later promoted to Sergeant, and frequently called on Litefoot and Henry Gordon Jago in their new capacity as paranormal investigators in the 1890s. (AUDIO: The Bloodless Soldier, et. al)



He was married. He told Leela that while he had faced some dangerous criminals in his time, "none of them hold a candle to [his] missus in a temper." (AUDIO: Jago in Love)

Following the appearances of large metal spheres all over London, he informed Litefoot that the Metropolitan Police Service was issuing a cover story that they were a part of a stunt by a group of Bohemian artists. Litefoot raised the possibility that this may, in fact, be the case. According to Quick, the police have interviewed the Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde to that end and were confident that he had nothing to do with it. (AUDIO: Chronoclasm) He had read Wilde's best selling novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. (AUDIO: Beautiful Things)

After Jago and Litefoot were given a royal pardon by Queen Victoria in 1894, Quick was promoted to Inspector. (AUDIO: The Wax Princess) As a result of his promotion, he wore civilian clothes. On one occasion, his wife almost did not recognise him out of uniform and nearly hit him with an ornamental champer pot which she kept beside the door. (AUDIO: Higson & Quick)

Behind the scenes
PC Quick's first name was not mentioned on-screen in The Talons of Weng-Chiang. Quick was given the name "Percival" when the character was introduced as a regular in the Jago and Litefoot series.