Bev Tarrant

Beverly "Bev" Tarrant was an art thief who came to work at the Braxiatel Collection.

Early life
Bev was born in or around the 57th century. (AUDIO: The Judas Gift) Her mother, a society woman, had her learn how to play the violin as she wanted to have a talented daughter that she could show off. (PROSE: Hiding Places)

Life of crime
Hoping to sell it to a buyer on Coralee, Bev and her lover Rappell led an illegal salvage team in stealing the ziggurat on Kar-Charrat, unwittingly releasing a Dalek which wiped out all of the team bar her. She was injured and saved by the Seventh Doctor and Ace, whom she joined in investigating the Kar-Charratans. She was horrified when they took over Rappell's body and, once the Daleks were defeated, she departed in her spacecraft. (AUDIO: The Genocide Machine)

Bev stole a priceless idol and was chased by border police, in the course of which she burnt out her hyper-drive and ended up stranded on Duchamp 331. There she met the Doctor and Ace again and gave them her assistance, in the course of which she saved the life of Elsa Salvadori, only for her to sacrifice herself to the Krill. She joined the time travellers in the TARDIS, setting off an alarm in a 20th century art gallery that they visited before dropping Bev off. (AUDIO: Dust Breeding)

The Doctor eventually "dumped" Bev in the 26th century where she resumed her life as a thief for almost a decade, striking up a number of brief partnerships with others in her line of work. (AUDIO: The Judas Gift) Circa 2601, she made an attempt to raid a tomb on Bellotron and met Bernice Summerfield and Commander Ryan, helping them escape the Brill and being impersonated by a Rutan. Afterwards, Bev and Benny sat down to discuss their respective experiences with the Doctor. (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bellotron Incident)

Axis occupation
Bev travelled to the Braxiatel Collection (PROSE: The Fall) and was known to be the best pilot there. (PROSE: Passing Storms) During the Fifth Axis occupation, she became the unofficial leader of the resistance and agreed that Benny should be killed due to the possibility that she could be a traitor to them. They were, however, stopped by Vosta Dankasta. (PROSE: The Fall) Bev and Vosta later joined Benny in her rooms for a drink and informed her that the Axis was building a communications centre. (PROSE: Lockdown Conversations: 1)

With the Collection reshaping itself, Bev got lost and was almost possessed by Irving Braxiatel's Watcher. She was, however, saved by Benny. (PROSE: Fear of Corners) She attempted to detonate a bomb to destroy the Axis's statue of Volf Gator but was knocked out by an extension of the statue created through its bond with Braxiatel's TARDIS. (PROSE: Paths Not Taken)

Bev was permitted by Martlak to transport artwork deemed by Braxiatel to be unsuitable to the Finliri. In truth, she would fly an Ormond-Seltec flyer to them, sell it and return with an escape pack before repeating the process, severely affecting the Axis' security patrols and providing the Resistance with funds. This was eventually discovered and she was arrested (PROSE: Passing Storms) and tortured by Bernard Moskof's men. (PROSE: Lockdown Conversations: 4)

Joseph rescued Bev from her imprisonment and she began to plan a large-scale assault, beginning with a bombing which killed one of Moskof's friends. She accepted Clarissa Jones' help, agreeing to her condition that she and Moskof be allowed to leave following the Resistance's victory. Joining forces with mercenaries brought by Jason Kane, Bev led the Resistance in a successful final attack and afterwards spoke with Jason and Benny. (AUDIO: Death and the Daleks)

Post-liberation
Following the occupation, Bev became Braxiatel's personal assistant. (AUDIO: The Tartarus Gate) She attended the 2603 Christmas party with Benny, Jason, Ms Jones, Hass and Yakkle (PROSE: ...Be Forgot) and felt out of place in the spring when students returned to the Collection. (PROSE: Misplaced Spring) She and Brax checked up on Benny as she rewrote her speech for the First Annual Braxiatel Collection Archaeology Conference and she later told Brax how the speech went when he failed to attend, saying that it was brilliant. (PROSE: Final Draft)

Bev and Adrian went on a mission to Viveka to return certain controversial artefacts which were taken by the Fifth Axis, although Benny was of the belief that Bev lacked the sensitivity to be trusted with such a diplomatic mission. When the Erinanceans tried to destroy them, Bev suggested that they be returned to the Collection for their safety, something that the humans agreed with. During the mission, Bev tried to convince Adrian that Benny had no romantic interest in him. (PROSE: Reparation)

After Adrian changed his mind about joining Bev on a mission to Earth, instead deciding to help Benny, Bev drugged him and took him with her to help her find the Purpura Pawn. In the course of the mission, she was shot and was saved by Adrian. (PROSE: The Purpura Pawn) She went with him in search of Ms Jones after she kidnapped Peter Summerfield, going to a seaside town where she realised that she had feelings for him and had nightmares about killing a man. (PROSE: Hiding Places) They found Ms Jones on Thuban and Bev shot her when she turned her gun on Adrian, which Braxiatel assured her was the right thing to do. (PROSE: Parallel Lives (IV))

The history machine
Bev and Adrian started to become a serious couple, although Bev remained jealous of Benny and laughed when she told her that nobody seemed to care that Wolsey had died. She was present at the press conference at which Doggles activated the history machine (PROSE: Inappropriate Laughter) and caused history to divide and overlap. (PROSE: Dead Mice) In the first world, she blamed Benny for what happened and later worked with her to help the children at the day-care escape the clades, ultimately being killed by them. (PROSE: Siege Mentality)

In another world, Bev was killed and Braxiatel hypnotised Adrian into accepting responsibility. (PROSE: Dead Mice) Others had her planning to leave the Collection after Adrian ended their relationship in order to focus on Benny and Peter, (PROSE: Acts of Senseless Devotion) almost being killed by the Crystal of Lexam and subsequently agreeing that it and the other Martian artefacts should be returned to Sset, (PROSE: Night of the Living Martian) warning Paul Stevens of the danger of a missing statue, (PROSE: Showing Initiative) carrying out a secret mission for Braxiatel and killing Hass (PROSE: A Murderous Desire) and miscarrying Adrian's child. (PROSE: One of My Turns)

Once the history machine saga was dealt with, Bev felt that she could vaguely recall things that had not happened, as did Benny. Feeling that they had both done terrible things to one another, they finally settled their differences. (PROSE: After Life)

Taking charge
Bev and Adrian became an official couple, (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Lost Museum) although they fell out after Bev believed that one of his friends made a move on her. When Braxiatel departed, she was the one who managed to get control of the Collection's weather systems and bring sunshine. (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Crystal of Cantus) She later put Jason in charge of the system and, with Adrian, instigated a search for Benny when she disappeared. (AUDIO: The Tartarus Gate)

Wanting to keep up the pretence that the Collection was operating perfectly fine without Braxiatel, Bev sent Braxiatel's invitation to the Quire. She dealt with a ghost of her former boss, who kept following Jason, by shooting it in the chest (PROSE: Work in Progress) and was reunited with former criminal acquaintance Anton, who tried to sell her his copy of The Tears of Laughter, before learning of his connections to the Fifth Axis and turning him in to the authorities. (PROSE: The Tears of Laughter) She learnt that Julius and another Killoran had been sent to the Collection by an extremist group that disapproved of her relationship with Adrian and of Peter's heritage, after which she kept an eye on Adrian and was saved by him when Julius attacked her. (PROSE: Outside the Wall)

After the attempt on Adrian's life, their relationship was strained. (PROSE: The Inconstant Gallery)

When there was an infection on the Collection she strode around the collection naked due to the heat. She had to negotiate with many different powers. She used the infection as a way to intimated the other powers by thinking they were debauched and kissed Benny in front of them. (AUDIO: Summer of Love) She tried to step into his shoes and negotiate a truce between the warring Draconians and the Mim, but was unsuccessful, eventually forced to accept the help of the Collection's founder. (AUDIO: The Judas Gift)

Off the Collection
Bev's time at the Collection came to an abrupt end when the Draconians sent an diplomatic party to supposedly foster an alliance with them. It was actually a ploy to deliver a ceremonial item. The item, a gauntlet later revealed to be the "Judas Gift", was presented to Bev and after putting it on, she fell into a brief coma and was forced to relive her memories of her time as a thief. She had fallen in love with a man named Ethan, only to be betrayed by him, and she had left him to die. It was revealed that the Draconian ambassador, Kothar, had familial ties with Ethan and was seeking revenge. Bev faked her own death aboard a shuttle and escaped the Collection, leaving a farewell message to everyone aboard the Collection, warning them that someone was using the Draconians for their own ends. She left a goodbye for her lover, Adrian Wall, asking Bernice to meet her at a specific place. Braxiatel discovered this message but neglected to pass it on, since it was his own manipulations that were affecting the whole Draconian/Mim conflict. (AUDIO: The Judas Gift)

Bev assisted Bernice Summerfield in fleeing the Collection with her son Peter, following the death of her husband Jason Kane. (AUDIO: The Wake)

She rescued Adrian Wall, who was being held captive by Braxiatel, and the two went into business together. She sent Bernice a message to help on a daring raid on Vingus Bank and Braxiatel's personal vault. She had to pretend to be a pornographic actress to get in the bank. In the safety deposit box, she was almost caught but her role playing meant she could think of the number of the actress' box. She was the notorious criminal the Matted Stoat and was raiding utility firms in order to cut the bank off to get into the vault. (AUDIO: Glory Days)

When Braxiatel's mechanoids began kidnapping people around the galaxy Bev joined Adrian, Bernice, Peter and Robyn in their search for the truth. They traced the kidnappings back to a hidden location on the Moon and discovered that Doggles was responsible for controlling the mechanoids. Bev was knocked unconscious by Robyn when the android discovered what Braxiatel's plans were. (AUDIO: Resurrecting the Past)

Bev then took a responsibility on the Collection too look after the refugees so that they were protected from the Deindum. She with Adrian, Benny, Peter and Doggles went to the Deindum ship to rescue Brax from their clutches so that they could use his knowledge to defeat them. (AUDIO: Escaping the Future)

In the wake of the Deindum War, Bev and Adrian got married, spending their honeymoon on Valentine's World. They set up and became the leaders of a refugee camp on the planet. She later became pregnant with several Killoran pups. (PROSE: Adorable Illusion)

Appearance
Bev had scars from her torture by the Fifth Axis. She grew her hair and fingernails in order to hide them. (PROSE: Misplaced Spring)