Tortured and facing her own execution, Evey refuses to submit to her captors and is released, finding herself in V's lair. She takes solace in a note hidden in her cell written by Valerie Page, a woman imprisoned in the cell next to V, detailing her hopes despite her impending death. Emboldened by Evey and V, he satirizes Sutler on his show, leading to his execution and Evey's arrest. Mary's, and used the resulting public fear to embed Norsefire in power, while the company manufacturing the cure enriched party members such as Prothero and Lilliman.Įvey takes shelter with her former boss, talkshow host Gordon Dietrich, who shares with her his collection of illegal materials such as subversive paintings, an antique Quran, and homoerotic photographs. Peter Creedy, head of the secret police, faked a terrorist attack by releasing the virus at targets including St. Although dozens of political prisoners died during experimentation, an amnesiac in cell "V" developed mutated immunities and disfigurements as well as physical enhancements and eventually destroyed Larkhill during his escape. Assigned to capture V, Chief Inspector Eric Finch uses Surridge's journal and information from former covert operative, William Rockwood (actually V in disguise), to learn that, two decades earlier, Surridge led biological weapon research and human experimentation at the Larkhill Detention Facility on behalf of Norsefire, creating the "St Mary's Virus". Evey flees after betraying V, hoping to be forgiven by Norsefire. Delia Surridge, and, with Evey's assistance, Anthony Lilliman the Bishop of London. V kills Norsefire propagandist Lewis Prothero, Dr. Evey is knocked unconscious aiding V's escape and he takes her with him to avoid her arrest and likely execution. On November 5, V hijacks the state-run television network to address the nation, claiming credit for the attack and encouraging the populace to resist Norsefire by joining him outside the Houses of Parliament on Guy Fawkes Night in one year's time. One evening a Guy Fawkes masked vigilante, " V", rescues her from assault by the secret police and has her witness as his bombs destroy the Old Bailey. In the near future, Britain is ruled by the Norsefire political party, a fascist and authoritarian regime led by High Chancellor Adam Sutler, which controls the populace through propaganda, and imprisons or executes those deemed undesirable, including immigrants, homosexuals, and people of alternative religions.Įvey Hammond is the daughter of activists who died in prison and her brother was killed in the St Mary's school terrorist attack fourteen years earlier.
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