H. V. Lance

H. V. Lance is a stocky, very scowly man whom the party recognises as the deputy chief of staff for the mayor, and they call him Mr. Lance MEN E1·01:06:07. He looks around very nervously and pulls out a small file MEN E1·01:06:31. Mark Bition hands that file to The Fix MEN E1·01:07:19.

H. V. Lance is the mayor's deputy chief of staff, a stocky, scowly man MEN E1·01:06:07. In MEN_04 he is first a radio voice ("This is Deputy Chief of Staff Lance." MEN E4·01:06:35) who orders his men to "kill everybody in every car on the road!" MEN E4·01:07:05 MEN E4·01:06:35. He panics at Imelda's lie on the radio with "Oh my god! Did we do it in public? Can anyone see us?" MEN E4·01:10:52, and later reports too many pain couriers at Oblongata Station MEN E4·01:10:52 MEN E4·01:45:04.

In MEN_05 he waits at Cerebell Pacific with a piece of machinery and asks "Looking for something?" MEN E5·00:56:45; Siobhan reads him as hypervigilance, and Imelda answers that she is always looking to get into something MEN E5·00:56:45 MEN E5·00:57:05 MEN E5·00:57:07. When Imelda tells him that the mayor lied about who he was, he asks "You're saying the mayor's a traitor?" MEN E5·00:58:28 MEN E5·00:58:32. She turns his suspicion on himself and kisses him, and he says "I've never felt more alive in my life!" MEN E5·01:00:16 MEN E5·00:58:03. He says the DA told him to come with the machine and not connect it, mentions that someone killed the chief of police, and confesses that he slipped an amendment through to requisition copper supplements MEN E5·01:01:13 MEN E5·01:04:03 MEN E5·01:05:40. He runs out with Imelda, who says she is in love with him MEN E5·01:05:56.

In MEN_06 Imelda sends him to be lookout, and he goes up into the bell tower crying "There are threats everywhere!" MEN E6·00:09:58 MEN E6·00:09:16. He warns "Ms. Pulse, we got incoming!" MEN E6·00:22:49 when Dan's car arrives, and fires at gangsters in the street MEN E6·00:22:49 MEN E6·01:03:07. Told that Imelda wants an open relationship, he answers "the joke's on you. My kink is being incredibly suspicious of my partner!" MEN E6·01:10:00. He is at the diner afterwards and, in Siobhan's epilogue, elopes with Imelda MEN E6·01:39:39 MEN E6·01:53:35.