Silent Singer



The alter-ego of Jeremy Goode, Silent Singer appears to Jeremy at times of stress.

Characterization
While angry Jeremy sees a figure he calls the Silent Singer, a man dressed in braided pigtails and with sharp teeth who pretends to singing silently into a walking cane.

Series 2
Silent Singer came to be when Jeremy was a patient at Ravenhill who brought Kenchington her breakfast every morning. Reading the complicated equations on a her blackboard, he corrects a figure, balancing the equations, impressing Kenchington. They work on the equations together for months before Jeremy goes up for review. Having been cured and about to be released, Jeremy makes up the Silent Singer from a girl walking by the window.

They deny his release, allowing him to stay. However, the Silent Singer actually becomes real in his head and he is not released for seven years. He claims that the locket contains "the secret of eternal life" and does not tell Finney any more. When left alone in the interview room, Jeremy picks up the book but finds all the pages blank and appears to have a mental breakdown as a result.