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The following is a list of characters who first appeared in the first series of school drama ''Waterloo Road'', in order of first appearance. The series ran for eight episodes from March 9 to April 27, 2006. The first episode introduces the main cast, which consists of members of staff at the school. Headed up by newly promoted Headmaster Jack Rimmer, Deputy Head Andrew Treneman and Head of Pastoral Care Kim Campbell, the main cast also includes English teachers Izzie Redpath, Tom Clarkson and Lorna Dickey and French teacher Steph Haydock. Head of English Grantly Budgen and school secretary Estelle Cooper feature as supporting characters, along with Izzie's children Chlo and Mika and Chlo's boyfriend Donte Charles. Chlo and Mika's father Jimmy Grainger also appears, as does Donte's father Clarence Charles and Grantly's wife Fleur. Pupils Yasmin Deardon and Janeece Bryant are introduced in episode two, and Lewis Seddon appears from episode three. ==Jack Rimmer== Jack Rimmer, played by Jason Merrells, is the first head teacher featured in ''Waterloo Road'', holding the position from the first episode until early in the third series. Previously the Deputy Head and a History teacher at the school, he becomes when Brian Vaisey suffers a mental breakdown and leaves the school. He hires Andrew Treneman externally to take his place as Deputy Head, and the latter convinces him to work to turn the school's fortunes around. Merrells describes his character as "disillusioned" and with flaws, but "redeemable". Although sceptical about many of Andrew's ideas, Jack agrees to introduce the Cooler and a house system to introduce a greater sense of discipline and competition within the school. Although determined to save the school in the face of LEA closure, Jack's personal life at times threatens to harm the school; he is briefly accused of fathering a pupil's child, is unable to sack Steph Haydock when she threatens to portray their one-night stand as sexual harassment, and even finds himself caught in a love triangle with his secretary Davina Shackleton and pupil Brett Aspinall. Jack, used to the rough conditions at Waterloo Road, is also prepared to use violence and unorthodox tactics when he sees it necessary; this causes more disagreement with Andrew, but the two unite when Jack expels Lewis Seddon by overturning the tables in the Cooler without touching Lewis himself. Jack has a great amount of respect for his Head of Pastoral Care Kim Campbell, who he considers to be the best teacher in the school. When Kim is sexually threatened by Lewis, Jack puts his own job on the line to secure Kim's by refusing to accept the LEA's decision to overturn Lewis' expulsion. Knowing the rare level of respect the parent community also holds for Kim, he instigates a gathering of evidence against Lewis' mother's benefit fraud and uses this to blackmail Lewis out of the school. Lewis later returns and attempts to set Jack on fire, but he is saved by Steph and the two resume their relationship (ruining Jack's prospects with LEA inspector Heather Davenport). In the second series, Jack soon finds himself at odds with ex-pupil Roger Aspinall, whose funding for transforming the school into an Academy has been accepted. Still only Acting Head, there is little Jack can do when Roger decides to fire his old nemesis Grantly Budgen and his lack of support for Roger's actions leads to the latter deciding to appoint Andrew as Acting Head. However, Jack's fortunes soon improve. Andrew is forced to call on him to appease protests from the local community, and he is re-appointed as Acting Head. His relationship with his new secretary Davina, formerly Roger's PA, blossoms and she leads him to discover that a large part of Roger's fortune comes from the pornography industry. He reasserts his authority at the school, starting by reinstating Grantly. When the interviews for the permanent headship take place, despite Jack's hold over Roger the job is given to external candidate Lyndsay Woodham. However, after Lyndsay witnesses Jack handling an incident with a pupil she turns the job down and Jack is appointed permanently. Steph, still hoping her relationship with Jack will become permanent, attempts to de-rail Jack and Davina's relationship by revealing the latter's previous relationship with Brett, but the two soon reconcile. After Roger's investment in the school is bought out by American fundamentalist Jerry Preston, Jack is conflicted but still allows the construction work for the Academy to continue. He also faces conflict with Lewis and his family parking their burger van outside the school gates, selling both fast food and hard drugs to the pupils, and is furious to learn that Andrew is leaving the school to take a job in Rwanda. Jack takes control of his problems when Lewis divulges the location of the Seddons' drug factory, and finally ejects Jerry and Roger from the school after seeing the religious bias being introduced to the school. However, his success is short lived when he is confronted by a knife-wielding Jed Seddon in the school playground. Izzie Redpath runs to his aid, but is stabbed in the confrontation and dies in Jack's arms. Jack is haunted by Izzie's death, increasingly reliant on therapy, prescription medication and Davina's support to carry on. He appoints Eddie Lawson as Deputy Head, and also allows Lewis to return to the school as a canteen assistant. Izzie's fiancé Tom Clarkson blames Jack for Izzie's death, causing more tensions in the school. Jack throws himself into securing gifted and talented pupils, misappropriating government funding to pay families to send their children to Waterloo Road. After another drunken one-night stand with Steph, a guilty Jack proposes to Davina. Davina learns the truth and breaks up with Jack, leaving him devastated. Eddie eventually learns of Jack's use of funding, and an emergency Board of Governors meeting is called. Facing suspension and an enquiry, Jack instead opts to resign immediately and save the school from further uncertainty. After making his peace with Tom and sharing a final kiss with Davina, Jack leaves Waterloo Road to re-build his life. Later in series 3, Jack meets up with Davina after securing a post in Dubai. He hopes that Davina will come with him, but she is now in a relationship with Tom and so refuses. Merrells opted to leave ''Waterloo Road'' early in the third series because he felt the character of Jack had been exhausted, and the writing was becoming repetitive and "more and more soapy". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Waterloo Road characters (series 1)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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