Darren Thomas, who first appears as the rock on which his wife, Leslie Morgan, can lean in her time of loss, as she hears of her sister's death in the woods and a Little Red Riding Hood costume (presumably in reverse order), is soon himself all at sea, trying to hold on to the shattered fragments of his marriage, when it is discovered that he was blackmailing Amy. Amy, however, was not alone; she was joined by Kristina Curtis and Charlotte Boyd, one of whom killed Darren's brother, Owen, in a 2005 hit-and-run, and the other two covered it up.