Annie Sawyer

Anna "Annie" Clare Sawyer
Biographical information
Born	1985
Died	2007
Passed over	2010 (returned later that year) 2012
Physical description
Species	Ghost Human (formerly)
Gender	Female
Hair colour	Black
Eye colour	Brown Blue (when angered)
Skin colour	Mixed-race
Family information
Family members	Carmen Sawyer (mother) Max Sawyer (father) Eve Sands (adoptive daughter) Sisters
Affiliation
Occupation	Pub worker (formerly) Student (formerly)
Television Portrayal
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"Give me back my f*cking baby!"

―To The Old Ones

Anna "Annie" Clare Sawyer is a very insecure ghost who haunts the House she and her fiancée lived in while she was alive, and she is unwilling to leave it. Annie appears in the clothes she was wearing when she died which change subtly depending on her state of mind.

Biography

Early Life

Annie dies soon after being pushed down the stairs. ("Flotsam and Jetsam")

Annie was a fashion student at university where she met the supposed love of her life, Owen Norayan. The two of them formed a relationship a bought a house together. One night, Owen found a thong in Annie's underwear drawer that he had never seen before, being paranoid, he thought that it was a byproduct of an affair she was having with a guy at her work, despite Annie protesting to this and sincerely denying it. Owen refuses to accept her denial and calls her a bitch before throwing her down the stairs. Annie's head is smashed on a tile and blood begins to spread from her head. She dies. ("Ghost Town") Despite her "death", Annie returned as a ghost, apparently not having completed her unfinished business. Owen moves out of their house, but she stays there, annoyed at all of the new residence that it receives over the years. Soon enough, it is rented out to John Mitchell (a vampire) and George Sands (a werewolf). Annie is shocked to find two people that can actually see her and the three of them bond and form a relationship as a supernatural trinity, and Annie eventually builds enough confidence to be able to be seen by other people, despite desperately missing Owen, for she is completely unaware that he killed her, thinking that she merely fell down the stairs and cracked her head open. ("Flotsam and Jetsam")

Series 1

Owen looks straight through Annie. ("Flotsam and Jetsam")

Annie is shown living with Mitchell and George and is extremely happy that other people, besides these two, can see her. The latter is annoyed that she keeps making cups of tea that she cannot drink, but Annie tells him that it's part of her old routine and feels normal. It is announced that Owen, Annie's former fiance, is coming over as he owns the house, and Annie is told by her housemates to hide upstairs. She does so and is horrified to see that Owen arrives with his new girlfriend and Annie's old rival: Janey Harris. Annie's annoyed once they leave, not having had a chance to meet Owen and reconnect with him. The ghost steals George's mobile and later texts Owen, telling him to come over. When he arrives, Annie is angered to find that he has Janey with him and hides in worry, he soon enters the living room where she is, however, when he looks at where she is standing, he cannot see her. Annie is shocked to discover that she can no longer be seen by normal people due to Owen's arrival shattering her confidence. Owen soon leaves as George arrives home, mad at Annie for taking his phone, but she is distraught, annoyed at Janey for being the one who gets to be with Owen whereas she is stuck in the clothes that she died in, George comforts his friend before revealing how he became to be a werewolf. Later, after Lauren, a girl who Mitchell turned into a vampire, killed Becca, a St. Jude's Hospital employee, Mitchell blames himself for not saving her. Annie, who realizes he could have turned her into a vampire, asks George if he thinks Mitchell should have "saved her", but George tells Annie that he thinks he did. ("Flotsam and Jetsam")

Tully tries to sexually assault Annie. ("Tully (episode)")

George returns home with a new arrival - Lee Tully; another werewolf. Annie takes quite a shine to Tully who seems to charm her, and she allows him to move in with them, despite George's wishes. Mitchell and Annie initially like Tully, at first, but as Mitchell grows to become more and more annoyed by him, George begins to gain greater admiration for him. Annie makes breakfast for Tully as she used to do for Owen, saying that it makes her feel more normal, she watches him eat, saying that it is, again, what she used to do with her fiance. When Tully arrives home one day, he begins to hit on Annie, who becomes uncomfortable. He approaches her violently, in an attempt to sexually assault her, and Annie disappears in fear. She hides outside until Mitchell arrives home, and calls out for him. At hearing what Tully has done, Mitchell demand George ask him to leave, but George refuses this, now seeing Tully as his role model and reminding them that they wanted him there in the first place. Later that night, George disowns Tully after learning that he's the one who made him into a werewolf, and returns home to Mitchell and Annie, the former of which has received a DVD from Lauren which he plays in front of the other two. It shows a man having sex with himself (with Lauren, who, as a vampire, doesn't show up on film) who gets seemingly killed by nothing, Annie is disgusted by this. ("Tully (episode)")

Annie sees Owen kill her. ("Ghost Town")

Annie appears lonely to George and Mitchell who decide to introduce her to another ghost to date and so they go to a night club and find Gilbert - a man who died back in the 80s. Gilbert takes Annie to her own gravestone in order to allow her to confront her death and subsequently explore why she has remained on Earth. Annie takes this on and when doing so, she finds Owen in her bathroom, unclogging the toilet, and finding the thong that she hid there. She is shocked by this and flashes back to the fight and and Owen had on the night of her death, how he found the thong and thought she was cheating on him with a guy at work. Despite Annie's many protests to this, Owen pushes her down the stairs, killing her, leading to Annie's realization that she was murdered by the man she loves. She goes to Gilbert for consolation who decides that she needs to be cheered up through "Gilbert fun", however, Annie does not take such a shine to 80s people cliches as he does. Besides this, Annie and Gilbert continue to bond and Gilbert ends up falling in love with Annie, in doing this, Gilbert completes his unfinished business and sees his door, he then passes over to the other side, saying goodbye to Annie. George later arrives home, telling Mitchell and Owen that he had sex with Nina, his crush from work, but then hears from Mitchell that Annie was killed by Owen. George is upset that he cannot be the one to have the big news for once, but Annie is consoled by her friends. ("Ghost Town")

"Everything that Owen and I had... can go to ash." ("Another Fine Mess")

Annie is distraught over having to coming to terms with the fact that she was murdered by the man she loved. Due to this, she becomes a "poltergeist" and things around her start moving without her touching them. Annie becomes deeply depressed and begins talking in pessimistic phrases, which is not aided when Mitchell is accused of being a paedophile after accidentally giving Bernie, a neighbourhood child, the sex DVD that Lauren gave him, thinking that it was a Laurel and Hardy DVD. Owen comes over, Janey Harris in tow, to tell the guys that they have to move out as he can't be renting to accused paedophiles, even if he doesn't believe that this accusation is true. He reveals that he plans to move back in with Janey, angering Annie further. The ghost later takes every item that she saved in her relationship with Owen and burns it on the garden barbecue, thus letting go of him and everything she had with him. When Bernie is hit by a car, Annie walks outside to see the cause of the neighbourhood ruckus, and is surprised to discover that she can now be seen by others once again. ("Another Fine Mess")

Annie tells Owen what's what. ("Where The Wild Things Are")

Annie decides that her unfinished business is to haunt Owen and so she begins jotting down some things that she plans on saying to him ("I am darkness... I am death!" etc), with some help from George. Owen later comes around, responding to a call from the guys, and he is met by a dark house containing nothing but an angered Annie. She approaches him, saying the lines that she planned and seeming to scare him, thinking she is successful before returning t the stairs. Owen crawls over to her and asks her if that's the best she's got, shocking Annie, Owen insults her before leaving. Annie decides that she has to warn Janey of Owen's murderous ways and so goes to her and Owen's home where Janey is shocked and scared to see her, believing her to be dead. She runs upstairs in fear of Annie, thinking that she is hallucinating or something, despite Annie's multiple warnings that Owen is a dangerous man. Soon, Owen himself returns home and Janey goes running to him, telling him what happened. He sees Annie but assures Janey that it's just stress, hugging her whilst turning to the ghost, basically calling her nothing. George later finds Annie crying on the sofa, having given up, but he convinces her that if she's done that, then she's truly dead, convincing her to go and save Mitchell from the other vampires. She does so, and later, Owen returns to Annie's House where she is waiting for him with Mitchell and George in tow, she reveals that Mitchell is a vampire and that George is a werewolf, before whispering the "secret of the dead" into her fiance's ear. This then causes him to go insane and check himself into an asylum. After this happens, a door appears to Annie, however, once she says her goodbyes, Herrick barges in and stakes Mitchell. At this, Annie ignores death's door and accompanies her friend to the hospital. ("Where The Wild Things Are")

Annie frees the vampire munchies. ("Bad Moon Rising")

Mitchell is taken to hospital after his staking by Herrick and treated by the doctors, who see him as somewhat of a phenomenon. Annie accompanies George here, who worries about the fact that she ignored her door, saying that she may not get another chance again. Annie does not care, but soon panics over this matter and "rent-a-ghosts" home. When she's there, she is met by another ghost who was killed in the vampires' feeding banks, where they keep various humans locked up, never killing them, for the purpose of drawing blood. So enraged and disgusted by this, Annie barges into the vampires base, a vampire tries to stop her, but she pushes him away with a mere wave of her hand, proceeding to go downstairs and free all of the people locked up by the vampires. Meanwhile, Mitchell recovers and stages a meeting with Herrick, but George has other plans and leads Herrick down into a lockable room in the hospital. Annie and Mitchell quickly make their ways there but are intercepted by Nina, who wants to know what's going on with George. She follows Annie and Mitchell to the room, not knowing who Annie is, and finds George on the verge of a transformation, He pushes Nina back and tells them to lock the door, they do so and George becomes his wolf self, before tearing Herrick literally limb from limb. It appears Annie does not get another chance to pass through her door and onto purgatory. ("Bad Moon Rising")

Series 2

Annie on her first day of work. ("Cure and Contagion")

Annie must comfort Nina, who is worried that she may be a werewolf as when George pushed her back, he scratched her. Annie promises to go with Nina to the room that George transformed in to kill Herrick and stays with her all night, it is confirmed that Nina is in fact a wolf. The ghost decides that now she can be seen, she would like to become more involved with the real world and wants to get a job. Mitchell and George wonder what a ghost would be good at doing and Annie reveals that she used to work as a bartender. She goes down to the local pub, New Found Out, and has an interview with Hugh, who gives her the job. Annie begins to work as a bartender but the customers appear scarce. Soon enough, someone enters the pub, a charming man named Saul, who Annie takes a liking to. Not being able to serve the drink he wants, Annie takes him back to her house and soon provides drinks to the entire neighbourhood when the water goes off. Mitchell comments that they've finally "done it", meaning that they've become normal humans. ("Cure and Contagion")

Saul tries to drag Annie through his door. ("Serve God, Love Me and Mend")

Annie continues to date Saul, much to Hugh's annoyance. George points out to Annie that Hugh fancies her, however, Annie protests that he's more like her brother to her, George assures her that the only person who would like to hear that is her actual brother. Meanwhile, Saul is being tormented by various radios and televisions which are corrupted by those from purgatory, who want Annie on the other side and decide to use Saul to achieve this. Annie goes back to Saul's place after a date with him where he tries to assault her sexually (as the television tells him to do), scared, Annie "rent-a-ghosts" away. She arrives at the house where Mitchell and George are concerned that someone saw her disappear, and Annie figures that she better go back and check on him. Saul, however, is being convinced to drink and drive, and Annie next visits him at the hospital where he resides after a crash. Annie arrives at his bedside, but he soon dies, becoming a ghost. Saul's door appears and he attempts to grab Annie and drag her through it, this struggle continues for a while with George outside the room trying to get in. Eventually, Saul fights the voices telling him to do things and forces the door shut with him inside, and Annie outside, saving her. Later, after this frightening experience, Annie returns to Hugh at the pub, however, she is devastated to learn that she can, once again, no longer be seen by humans. ("Serve God, Love Me and Mend")

George is made to tell Hugh of Annie's leaving. ("Long Live The King")

Annie comforts George after his breakup with Nina and asks for his help in return - and explanation to Hugh as to why she has gone. George explains to Hugh that Annie moved away the previous night, saddening the bartender who says that all of his relationships end badly, such as that of his last girlfriend, Kirsty. At this, Annie decides that she must use George to convince Kirsty to take Hugh back, after discovering how lonely she is and feeling sorry for her. She makes George go out on a date with her where he is to act like the worst boyfriend in the world, however, all of the things George does to make her hate him, she loves. Annie is confused at this but eventually, they manage to reunite Kirsty and Hugh, making the two of them realize how much they miss each other, and they give it another go. Annie seems happy at having done this, but it has merely reminded George of the loss he has suffered, and Annie comforts him. ("Long Live The King")

Annie is faced with her death. ("Educating Creature")

When Annie walks past the scene of a murder, the ghost of the victim attempts to drag her through his door, however, she is rescued by Sykes, an enigmatic ghost airman from WWII. Annie asks him to teach her how to avoid further attacks from any ghosts and he offers to help her tame her abilities. He starts with simple things, such as turning off the TV with telekinesis, and moves on to more difficult things. The final stage of Sykes' training involves Annie coming to grips with how she died, and for this to happen, Annie sees herself fall down the stairs again. As her dead body lies there, it begins to talk to her, and she realizes that it's one of the men with sticks and rope. She tells it that it may have her face, but it's merely a magician whose coming to the end of its act. Annie uses this confidence to vanquish the ghost disguised as her and her body disappears. Annie is proud to have overcome this and Sykes tells her that it is now her choice as to when she crosses over, but Annie wonders why she ever would want to. Sykes tells her that eventually she'll start seeing loved ones age and die with herself having no life; she asks him why he hasn't yet crossed over and he reveals that his mistake led to many people's death in the war and he's scared that they have not yet forgiven him. ("Educating Creature")

Annie embraces motherhood. ("The Looking Glass")

A ghost named Kathleen stops by with her baby, who's also a ghost, in order to see Annie, who she says is famous for resisting death's door so many times. She says that she's going on a date with a ghost fireman before leaving her baby with Annie without the latter having any say in the matter. Annie seems to have no idea what to do with the child and George and Mitchell become confused as to why it is there, but Annie eventually overcomes this and begins to bond with him, naming him herself as she never found it out from Kathleen. Eventually, Kathleen returns to Annie and asks for her baby back, with a reluctant Annie handing him over. She begins to name a list of things he likes, but Kathleen tells Annie that, being his mother, she already knows these things, adding that she knows she's a crap mum, but she's the only one he's got. Annie is saddened to see the baby leave. ("The Looking Glass")

Annie presents her mother with a paper rose, thus proving her presence. ("In The Morning")

Annie goes to a showcase of a psychic, Alan Cortez, who seems to have lost his "sixth sense" and not be talking to ghosts anymore. Annie yells abuse at the stage, figuring that no one else can hear her, however, she is halted by someone who seems to work at the theatre, surprised that she can see her. It is revealed that she is a ghost, as are other people who Alan has stopped communicating with, and Annie wonders why. She discovers that Alan can hear her, but not see her, or hear anyone else. Through this bond, Annie talks Alan through his show, giving him information on a ghost she's interviewing, thus allowing him to pass over. The next person to stand up in the audience seeks Alan's help to talk to Annie - Carmen Sawyer, Annie's mother. Carmen, Annie and Alan go to a room behind the stage where Annie proves her presence by making a rose out of paper, handing it to her mother as she apparently used to make thousands when she was young, until she perfected them. Annie and Carmen make amends and Alan regains his ability to talk to the ghosts of the theatre, and begins to help them as he used to. ("In The Morning")

Kemp begins to help Annie cross over. ("Damage")

Nina returns to tell George of a program that wants to help cure werewolves of their affliction, but George sees this as hokum and refuses to go with her, despite that scientific viewpoint of the religious runner, Patrick Kemp. Before Kemp leaves, Annie writes him a message asking him if he can help her pass over to purgatory. Kemp says that he can and returns the next day with Hennessey, a psychic, in tow. Annie uses Hennessey to communicate to Kemp who offers to take her to his facility. Annie spends a while contemplates this and soon finds an abnormal Mitchell arrive home, who has been back on the blood. Noticing this change in their friend, Annie and George leave to go to the CenSSA facility, run by Kemp. Annie does not tell George that she is there to pass over, but seems like she is going in order to support him through being cured of his werewolfism. Annie and George arrive and are surprised to discover that the co-runner of the facility is none other that Lucy Jaggat, otherwise known as Mitchell's girlfriend. ("Damage")

Annie is forced through death's door. ("All God's Children")

Annie, George and Nina continue to stay at the CenSSA facility and Hennessey realizes through her dialogue with George that Annie has not yet told her friends that she is there in order to pass over. Kemp later begins the process of allowing Annie to pass over via prayer, however, Annie tells Hennessey that she's changed her mind and that she does not want to enter purgatory before saying goodbye to her friends. Hennessey tries to alert Kemp of this but the old man does not care, he instead stabs Hennessey and order to create one of death's doors, he then continues to pray and Annie begins to be sucked through the door, she protests and screams as George and Nina watch the scene via surveillance footage, but Annie is forced through the door and the door closes, much to the heartbreak of George. After the event of that day and Mitchell's many murders, he, George and Nina move stay at a house in the countryside where they are soon met by Lucy. She attempts to make amends with the three of them, however, she was followed there by Kemp, who stabs Lucy with a stake, killing her. Kemp approaches Nina to murder her but Annie steps out of Lucy's door and grabs him, dragging Kemp through the purgatory. Mitchell, George and Nina are shocked by this and soon see Annie on their TV screen, she explains that the people on the other side are mad at what she did to Kemp and are sorting out her punishment, the three of them vow to get her back. ("All God's Children")

Series 3

Mitchell, George and Nina move out of their beloved house in Bristol to go to Barry Island where they move into an old B&B, Honolulu Heights. Soon after they buy the house, Annie appears on a TV screen again, telling them that she is still being punished for what she did to Kemp and being kept in a cell up until she's taken to hell. Mitchell decides to take action and get Annie back and so he and George wait for a patient in the hospital to die so that Mitchell can go through his door with him and enter purgatory. There, Mitchell meets Lia who takes him to different moments of her past before revealing herself to be a murder victim of his from the Box Tunnel 20. Mitchell tries his best to repent but Lia instead predicts that he will be killed by a werewolf, worrying the vampire. She proceeds to walk into Annie's cell and free her, telling her that she's allowed to leave and that when she enters again through her own door, things will be much better. Annie is reunited with Mitchell but not so happy to see that they've moved to Wales, however, she soon moves past this after a reunion with George and Nina, and the four friends appear happy ever after. ("Lia (episode)")

Now that Mitchell has saved Annie from purgatory, she feels in his dept and appoints herself as his "guardian angel", first deciding to help him with his job interview. She and Mitchell go down to the Barry hospital where he is interviewing for a custodial position and Annie keeps on telling him not-so-useful hints which he responds to, confusing the woman who's interviewing him as she cannot see Annie. The whole thing ends as an atrocity, but Annie still feels that she has to help Mitchell in a way and the two take a stroll along the pier where she explains that she cannot be seen and that she needs to help him as he's all she's got, being the only one who can see her. Annie is later thrilled when it turns out that Mitchell in fact got the job. ("Adam's Family")

Annie is shocked when she's walking the street and discovers a dead woman who can see her – and she has a body. Annie runs home but is followed by the zombie where the disruption alerts the rest of the household. They eventually invite her in, discovering her name is Sasha and that she doesn't in fact know that she's a decaying, yet living, corpse. Annie and Mitchell go to the hospital where they find out that these people were kept as zombies due to the fact that purgatory was occupied by Mitchell saving Annie at the times of their deaths, they then find footage on doctors doing experiments on them. Annie soon takes it upon herself to help Sasha, believing that the dead should stick together. She takes Sasha to see her ex-boyfriend, Gethin, who is frightened of her and stabs her in the stomach, with a trophy. Annie pulls the trophy out of Sasha who admits that she knows she's dead and that there's no point fighting it anymore. To lift her spirits, Annie covers Sasha in a lot of makeup in order to take her on a girls' night out along with Nina. When at the club, Sasha collapses on the dance floor and Annie and Nina take her home where she's put on bed rest, the decay finally having caught up with her. Sasha soon dies and her ghost tells Annie that she must seize the day and thanks her for being her friend. Annie bids her friend farewell and takes her last piece of advice to heart. ("Type 4")

Following Sasha's advice, Annie and Mitchell have now started a relationship, however, they realize that, with her being a ghost, they cannot have sex. Annie comes up with a few alternative solutions for the problem by suggesting "heavy petting" and dirty talk (exampling the latter to him, rather embarrassingly). After this idea doesn't go so well, Annie points out to Mitchell that she can taste what he's eating when she puts her hands on him, she then takes this to mean that if he has sex with a girl as Annie places her hands on her, she will feel what she feels. Annie and Mitchell go to a bar and pick up a girl for Mitchell, when they arrive home, George is thrilled to see that the two of them are together, revealing also that Nina is pregnant, but not so thrilled to discover a random girl with them. Mitchell and the girl begin to have sex and Annie attempts to feel what she feels, however, Mitchell's eyes go black and he bears his fangs, ready to feed. Annie pulls him off of the girl who leaves, insulted, and Mitchell tells Annie that he's content in being in a sexless relationship. Annie and Mitchell later show up at the dog fights with McNair and slay a bunch of vampires as Nina, George, Tom and McNair transform around them. From this night, they discover that Nina's baby can survive the transformation. ("The Pack")

Annie is shocked when George in Nina return home with an amnesiac Herrick, who seems not to remember a thing of being a vampire. Upon seeing him, Mitchell tries to steak Herrick, however, Annie and Nina him off of the scared ex-vamp. To make matters worse, a social services worker named Wendy shows up to asses Nina's "Uncle Billy" (Herrick) and see whether or not he is compatible for the household. As this is going on, Cara, a vampire from Bristol, shows up to see Herrick, and Annie accidentally reveals that he's upstairs in the attic. Cara runs upstairs, but when Herrick doesn't recognise her, she stakes herself and dies. Wendy soon asks Nina why "Billy" has no file and Nina, panicking, accuses Wendy of losing it and threatening to tell her manager. Wendy leaves and Nina offers to keep it their little secret, the former begins to cry in her car but Annie teleports in and comforts her (although, Wendy is unaware of this). ("The Longest Day")

Annie comforts George who learns that his father, George Sands Snr., has passed away. She is later confused when Detective Nancy Reid shows up to question Mitchell about the event of the Box Tunnel 20 Massacre in Bristol. Annie is confused as to why anyone would question Mitchell about this and follows Nancy back to the police station where she is surprised to discover that one of the Box Tunnel 20 victims is Lia, the ghost that set her free in purgatory. She tells Mitchell of this but he denies all knowledge of knowing who Lia is, and Annie, blinded by her love for Mitchell, believes him, before he tells her that Daisy was involved in the massacre. Annie returns to the investigation and leaves Nancy a post-it note telling her to ask Mitchell about Daisy, and Nancy does so. Herrick tells Nancy, when she's in the house to question Mitchell, that he believes Mitchell carried out the massacre as he found a scrapbook of the event under the floorboards. Nancy takes this book and attempts to leave, but Mitchell intercepts her and takes it back, before burning it. Nancy takes this to mean that Mitchell is undoubtedly guilty. ("Daddy Ghoul")

As Nancy continues her investigation of the Box Tunnel 20 Massacre, still convinced that Mitchell is guilty, Annie takes it upon herself to learn of the true culprits. She asks Mitchell who assures her that it was Daisy and telling Annie that vampires have their own way of punishing each other as if a policeman were to take their picture; they'd be exposed due to their trait of not being able to show up in images. Annie follows Nancy around again in order to learn more about the investigation and is soon led to a warehouse that is storing the actual carriage in which the massacre took place. Cooper, Nancy's superior, reveals to her that Mitchell is guilty and provides evidence, shocking and appalling Annie, however, it is then revealed that Cooper intends on covering it up, being a vampire himself. He advances on Nancy who runs away, he soon catches up with her and offers her an "evolutionary promotion" and attempts to recruit her before being staked in the chest by Annie who exclaims that Nancy's not interested. Nancy next heads to Honolulu Heights and arrests Mitchell for his crimes, and Annie tells her love to go, needing him to take responsibility for what he has done in order to forgive him. Mitchell is taken to the police station where his photograph is taken... ("Though the Heavens Fall")

Annie resides in Mitchell's cell with him after he is arrested, still being an anomaly to officers who cannot seem to be able to capture his image. Annie soon leaves and discovers that a pregnant Nina has been stabbed in the kidneys by Herrick, who remembers his vampire self, and she accompanies her friend to the hospital. Whilst she is there, Annie is talked to by a dead body who tells her to get to purgatory in order to save Mitchell from his prophesised fate of being killed by a werewolf. Annie does so and is surprised to be met by Lia, who reveals that she made up the prophecy to make it self-fulfilling, as a means of revenge towards Mitchell for killing her. Meanwhile, Mitchell is released from his cell by Herrick, who killed the policemen who saw the vampire's empty photos. He locks Mitchell in a cell with George where he tells him that thanks to Mitchell's interference, Herrick remembered himself leading him to stab Nina. George is extremely maddened by this as Annie and Lia watch from purgatory and the former tells Lia that her plan for revenge isn't a great one as she not only hurt Mitchell, but she got Nina killed, who was going to have a baby. Lia, realising that Annie is right, let's her go, saying that revenge "sort of sucks". After Mitchell and George are out of the cage, the former stakes Herrick, killing him, whereas the latter returns to Honolulu Heights with Annie and Nina, who turns out to have been healed in hospital. George's explanation for her survival is that one doesn't receive major organ failure once every full moon without toughening up a little bit. The three are soon visited by Mitchell who asks George to stake him, they are next visited by Edgar Wyndam, an Old One who threatens them all. He tells Annie that she's more powerful than she can even imagine and George ends up staking Mitchell, stopping him from being taken by Wyndam. Mitchell and Annie admit to being the loves of each other's long lives and George tells the Old One that he's got a fight on his hands. ("The Wolf-Shaped Bullet")

Series 4

In series 4, Nina gave birth to Eve and was murdered by vampires shortly after, leaving Eve in George and Annie's custody. George became so protective over Eve, he shut himself with Eve in the attic for days on end. Losing Nina upset Annie a lot, as she considered her to be her best friend. Annie attempted to make George become less overprotective and let her take care of the baby, but George refused every time. Tom also came back to the house and told George where the vampires who killed Nina were hiding. George went to their hideout with Tom to succeed revenge, leaving Eve with Annie. Later, vampire Fergus takes Eve away from Annie. Annie tried, but failed, to get Eve back. George and Tom returned the next day, but they realised that the hideout was simply a trap and they became devastated when Annie told them about Eve's kidnapping. However, Griffin took George back to the vampire's real hideout as a prisoner and locked him in a cage. George discovered Eve was there too. Tom and Annie broke into the hideout and stopped the vampires from killing Eve. George also helped them by tricking his body into his werewolf transformation, transforming him into a half form. Vampire Regus revealed Eve's destiny as the War Child, the destroyer of all vampires. He also told George that he would die from major organ failure, due to George tricking his body into the transformation.

George fell to the floor, preparing to die, while Annie and Tom sat by him with his last moments. After dying and before going through the Crossover Door to be with Nina, George told Annie and Tom to take care of Eve and that he has be with Nina on the other side.  Annie is left with only Tom.  A few days later, a new trio of supernaturals; Hal, Leo and Pearl came to the house.  Later, werewolf Leo and ghost Pearl passed over to the other side together, leaving Hal with Annie and Tom. Tom and Hal became the new housemates of Annie's and attempted to keep Eve safe and live in peace at the same time.

In the finale of Series 4, a future version of Eve took Annie to purgatory and showed her future events; such as vampires taking control over the world, the fate of humanity, the death of Tom, and the return of Hal's dark side. After that, Eve told Annie that in order to stop these events from ever happening, Annie would have to kill Eve as a baby. Annie returned to the house and refused to hurt Eve. After Annie told Tom and Hal about all that had happened, they planned to blow the Old Ones up with a bomb that Tom made with cooking oil and other ingridents. However, Tom was convinced to give Eve to the vampires when the last piece of the War Child scripture was revealed: if humans are to survive, Eve must be sacrificed, so the Old Ones decided to keep Eve alive. Even though Hal came to the hideout with the bomb, Mr. Snow managed to take control over Hal and make him let go of the bomb and return to the Old Ones. Annie and Alex come to the hideout and rescue Eve. Mr. Snow handed Eve to Annie, but she knew that the Humans would die if Eve wouldn't die and Annie would have to live with the guilt of Humanity's fall. So, Tom left the hideout and Alex teleported Hal out of the hideout, leaving Annie with the bomb.

Annie and Eve's Crossover Door

After detonating the bomb, the hideout exploded and the Old Ones were defeated. While still in the fire created by the bomb, Annie saw the Crossover door and went through it. Once entering Purgatory, she found baby Eve alive and well there and met future Eve there once again. Future Eve told Annie that Mitchell, George and Nina were waiting for her on the other side and she ceased to exist because of baby Eve's death. Annie left Purgatory and finally passed over with Eve in her arms.

Abilities

Annie's ability to be seen and heard by normal people depends on her state of mind, though supernatural creatures such as werewolves, vampires and other ghosts can always see her. Annie also seems to be able to teleport short distances. When Annie discovers her cause of death, she becomes a poltergeist, which allows her to move objects without touching them and turn mechanical machines on. However, it seems that she can't control these new-found abilities, which only activate in times of extreme emotion (along with her teleportation). After denying death and not going through the door she found many new abilities such as Telekinesis. Another ability displayed by Annie is when she was able to close the death door and ward off the watchmen.

Annie's intangibility (Click for animation)

As ghost, Annie is intangible in normal situations, however vampires and werewolves can touch her, maybe is due his supernatural condition. .

Thanks to Sykes tutoring, Annie has also displayed a form of Telepathy where she is able to share George's senses, and Aura Reading, which lead her to discover a brain tumour in a passer-by.

As a ghost Annie, has a deeper understanding of death than human minds are able to understand without going insane, as in the example of Owen. When Owen learned what was beyond death, he went insane saying, "they're after me".

When another ghost named Kirby threatens the life of Eve, a furious Annie grips either side of Kirby's head and painfully destroys him leaving absolutely no trace. The exact nature of this ability is unknown, all that is known is that it was connected to the intense need Annie felt to protect Eve. Annie used her Telekenisis to send vampires further away from her and to save Eve from Mr Snow.

Relationships

John Mitchell

Mitchell originally met Annie when he and his housemate, George, moved into her house. In Series 3 after he saves her from Purgatory, the two begin a relationship, however, he is staked by George and Annie is left alone. When Annie goes through her door, it is assumed that the two are reunited.

George Sands

George is Annie's former housemate and she met up with him again after she crossed over. She adopted his daughter, Eve, after he died.

Nina Pickering

Nina was also Annie's housemate and Eve's biological mother. Annie was very upset after her death, having viewed Nina as her best friend.

Eve Sands

Annie adopted Eve after her parents died and loved her very much. Annie blew up the Old Ones with Eve in her arms and the two crossed over together to be with Eve's real parents.

Owen

He was Annie's fiance when she was alive, and also her murderer: when he found a thong in her clothes, he accused her of cheating, manhandling her and eventually pushing her down the stairs, which killed her. When Annie saw him again, it shattered her confidence and people can once again, not see her. She tried to be a wife to Owen before realising that he killed her, then she attempted to haunt him and eventually succeeded, causing him to go crazy.

Tom McNair

He becomes her housemate and a common babysitter to Eve. Annie describes him like having a pet around the house. Their relationship is that she looked after him and he looked after her. Even though they weren't emotional attached as Annie was with George, Nina and Mitchell, they were still very good friends.

Hal Yorke

At first, Hal and Annie don't seem to be the best of friends. Their personalities are extremely different, however they later become friends even though their natures are nothing alike.

Trivia

• Out of the three original main characters (George, Mitchell and Annie), Annie has been part of the main cast for the longest amount of time: four series.
• Nina mentions in Type 4, Annie is a Sagittarius.

Appearances

Pilot (first appearance) Series 1 Flotsam and Jetsam Tully Ghost Town The Black Day Where The Wild Things Are Bad Moon Rising Series 2 Cure and Contagion Serve God, Love Me and Mend Long Live The King Educating Creature The Looking Glass In The Morning Damage All God's Children Series 3 Lia Adam's Family Type 4 The Pack The Longest Day Daddly Ghoul Though the Heavens Fall The Wolf-Shaped Bullet Series 4 Eve of the War Being Human 1955 The Graveyard Shift A Spectre Calls Hold the Front Page Puppy Love Making History The War Child (final appearance)

Annie has appeared in 31 episodes in total. This makes her the character to have appeared the most out of any other character in the tv series.