Steve Hopley

Steve Hopley was an employee at Joyriders.

He was a bit younger than forty and liked eighties rock. He was good with technology.

He was an alcoholic. His wife threatened to never let him see her or their kids again if she ever smells booze on his breath again.

He found a solution by using the alien body-swapping device to binge-drink in a transplant's body. He did it in secret from his boss, Garry Fletcher, whom he was mortally afraid of. To do that, he figured out how to set a timer on a transfer back from the transplant's body. He didn't mind that Fletcher considered him stupid.

Exploring the machine's functions, one Tuesday in October 2016, he accidentally did a full transfer of John O'Donnell's consciousness into Ram Singh's body. After that, he briefly transferred himself into April MacLean's body and drank so much vodka that she came to school completely drunk. Not only was Ram's consciousness now permanently transferred into O'Donnell's body and vice versa, but Steve's tampering with the timer accidentally woke Ram too early. Ram almost managed to fool Steve into thinking he was O'Donnell. Only Fletcher's arrival postponed the looming disaster. (PROSE: Joyride)