Jackie Reid
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DI Jackie Reid is a fictional character
in the ITV
series Taggart
. WPC Reid made her first appearance in 1990 in Death Comes Softly. In 1994 Jackie was promoted to Detective Sergeant much to the dismay of Jim Taggart
. She is the longest running character in the show.
) died of terminal cancer while Jackie was by his bedside. They married on 1 January 2001 and divorced in 2003. Their divorce came out in "Halfway House" when DC Stuart Fraser (Colin McCredie
) told DI Robbie Ross (John Michie
) that they had separated and filed for divorce. She is from the fictional village of Garsden in Lanarkshire
.
Jackie is still currently with the Taggart investigation team and is planning to stay for as long as it takes. She was trained in self-defence, which is why she defended herself both times when she faced deadly confrontations with two killers. In "Penthouse and Pavement" in 2003, she caught the person that killed Jason Randall and Debbie Thompson and the killer tried to attack her, but she banged his face against the shutters of a shop repeatedly, leaving him with a bloody nose. Then in "Lifeline" in 2008, the killer broke into Jackie's home unexpectedly when she came home from buying dinner for one. They discussed the past and why he was after her. He tried to grab her to attack her, but she grabbed his arm, and twisted it, leaving him badly injured on the floor, weeping. He killed Laurence Carpenter, Derek McGrath and Philip Taylor, each in separate ways. Although they all involved cars.
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
in the ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
series Taggart
Taggart
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network...
. WPC Reid made her first appearance in 1990 in Death Comes Softly. In 1994 Jackie was promoted to Detective Sergeant much to the dismay of Jim Taggart
Jim Taggart
Detective Chief Inspector James "Jim" Taggart was the main character in Taggart from 1983 to 1995. He was played by Mark McManus until his death in June 1994, with the last episode featuring Taggart being broadcast in January 1995.-Character:...
. She is the longest running character in the show.
Storylines
In the Taggart episode "A Death Foretold" in 2005, Jackie's ex-husband Brian Holmes (Brian CowanBrian Cowan
Brian Cowan is a British actor, known for his role as Robert Davenport in long running continuous narrative drama Family Affairs.-References:...
) died of terminal cancer while Jackie was by his bedside. They married on 1 January 2001 and divorced in 2003. Their divorce came out in "Halfway House" when DC Stuart Fraser (Colin McCredie
Colin McCredie
Colin McCredie is a Scottish actor, best known for his role as DC Stuart Fraser in the STV drama, Taggart....
) told DI Robbie Ross (John Michie
John Michie
John Michie is a Scottish television and film actor, best known for his role as DI Robbie Ross in the STV Scottish detective television series Taggart and for playing Karl Munro in Coronation Street.-Early life:...
) that they had separated and filed for divorce. She is from the fictional village of Garsden in Lanarkshire
Lanarkshire
Lanarkshire or the County of Lanark ) is a Lieutenancy area, registration county and former local government county in the central Lowlands of Scotland...
.
Jackie is still currently with the Taggart investigation team and is planning to stay for as long as it takes. She was trained in self-defence, which is why she defended herself both times when she faced deadly confrontations with two killers. In "Penthouse and Pavement" in 2003, she caught the person that killed Jason Randall and Debbie Thompson and the killer tried to attack her, but she banged his face against the shutters of a shop repeatedly, leaving him with a bloody nose. Then in "Lifeline" in 2008, the killer broke into Jackie's home unexpectedly when she came home from buying dinner for one. They discussed the past and why he was after her. He tried to grab her to attack her, but she grabbed his arm, and twisted it, leaving him badly injured on the floor, weeping. He killed Laurence Carpenter, Derek McGrath and Philip Taylor, each in separate ways. Although they all involved cars.