Kate Gray

WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS

Kate Gray (sometimes spelt 'Grey') is the protagonist of the murder mystery games made by Haiku Games.

Game Appearances

 * 1) Adventure Escape: Murder Manor
 * 2) Adventure Escape: Cult Mystery
 * 3) Adventure Escape: Framed for Murder
 * 4) Adventure Escape: The Christmas Killer
 * 5) Adventure Escape: Starstruck
 * 6) Adventure Escape: Murder Inn
 * 7) Adventure Escape Mysteries: Trapmaker: A Kate Gray Mystery
 * 8) Adventure Escape Mysteries: Trapmaker 2: Tracing the Past
 * 9) Adventure Escape Mysteries: Trapmaker 3: The Final Trap
 * 10) Adventure Escape Mysteries: Paradise Mystery
 * 11) Adventure Escape Mysteries: Puzzle Pack
 * 12) Adventure Escape Mysteries: Picture Perfect
 * 13) Adventure Escape Mysteries: The Echo Bay Murders

Physical Appearance
Kate's physical appearance has differed throughout games to games.

In the first two games, Kate had long auburn hair that reached her waist and green eyes. Her hair was wavy and parted at the middle. She wore a purple shirt with a black jacket and a pair of denim jeans. This outfit later will also appear in Murder Inn, and Trapmaker 2 and 3.

In Framed, her character design went through several changes. She now had long wavy auburn hair with side bangs swept to the left. She wore a white shirt with a blue jacket and a pair of black leggings and also wore a white necklace.

In Xmas Killer, she wore a cream shirt with a sap green cardigan and a pair of leggings.

In Starstruck, she wore a black top with a plum coloured jacket and black jeans with a brown belt. She also wore a watch on her left hand and a silver necklace.

In Murder Inn, her outfit was the same like the first two games. A purple shirt with a black jacket and a pair of jeans.

In Trapmaker 1, Kate wore a blue top with a black jacket and a pair of dark blue denim jeans with an auburn belt. She also wore her badge as a form of necklace.

In the other two games of the Trapmaker trilogy, she wore her classic outfit of purple shirt, black jacket and a pair of jeans. This time around, she also wore her badge as a form of a necklace.

In Paradise Mystery, Kate wore a sleeveless white button-up top and a pair of denim shorts. She occasionally wore sunglasses, though most of the time they were just hanging in the middle of her shirt and she also wore a blue pearl necklace.

In Picture Perfect, she wore a blue top with umbrella sleeves and a pair of black leggings. Her choice of footwear was a pair of blue heels which were shown in the cycling minigame and also mentioned after her and Murphy hiked. She also wore a gold necklace with a floral design.

In The Echo Bay Murders, Kate wore a black leather jacket, a white tank top, dark green cargo pants, and brown boots. She mentions that she wishes she had worn heels after not being able to reach something on a high shelf, implying that her regular footwear are heels.

It was mentioned that Kate had a very different style when she was a teenager. In her passport picture, Kate wore a green and golden gradient eyeshadow and bright pink lipstick. Her hair was kept in two braids with a green hair tie.

Biography
Kate is presumably in her early 30s as it is mentioned that she’s been in the police force for 10+ years. She is possibly 32. While the fact that Trapmaker 2 does show a plaque showing she’s been head detective since 2014 which would be impossible if she was in her early 30s, that is most likely a reference to the first Kate Gray game which was released in 2014. The games don’t seem to follow the exact year they’re set since none of the characters (except Kate who got a character redesign after the first two games) seem to age. In Echo Bay Murders, she is said to look about the same age as Ava McWilliams, who is 36 years old.

Not a lot is known about Kate’s childhood. However, she was attacked by a pug when she was a child as stated in Picture Perfect.

In either high school or college, she dated Connor. They ended up breaking up at some point before she became a police officer, but when they see each other again, they seem to be on very good terms.

She met Aaron Murphy in the Police Academy. They seemed to have lost touch for awhile until Murphy, now a lieutenant, called her to help on a case in ‘Xmas Killer’.

Kate has been working in the Metropolitan Police Department for 10 years or more. When she was a rookie, she had doubts on whether she was cut out to be a part of the force since it wasn't what she expected, she always felt hazy and she didn't feel like she fit in. Her mentor, Commander or Chief (it changes from game to game) Sylvia, helped reassure her.

Kate became the head detective in 2014. As of the latest game The Echo Bay Murders, she has been head detective for 7 years (this is debatable though as that wouldn't be possible as stated above and the years each game is set in doesn't seem to matter). As head detective, she deals with everything from murder to narcotics to arson, though investigating homicides seems to be her main job.

Murder Manor
This was supposedly the year where Kate became the head detective. When Kate was travelling in her car. Her car's tire got ruptured in front of a manor. While Kate was trying to fix it, two strangers invited her to stay in for the night. Kate accepted the invitation and decided to stay till the next morning. Kate met various guests in the manor. After the dinner was set and the guests sat down to eat, the lights went out. After a while, a guest was found dead. Kate told everyone to calm down and that she should handle it. She investegated every guest in the manor and looked through their room for evidence. The murderer turned out to be the manor's owner's son.

Cult Mystery
After a while, Kate visited her old friend, Melissa, who was invited to a date from a guy she met online. She warned Melissa to be careful but Melissa just made fun of her saying that she's too cynical. Two weeks later, when Kate decided to visit Melissa's house again because she was getting worried that Melissa hasn't answered her calls and hasn't responded to any text messages she sent her. When she went into her house, she found out that she hasn't been home for weeks and decided to look for evidence for Melissa's disappearance. Which eventually led her to met Darius and find a hidden compound. The compound in question was a cult. She was able to sneak into the cult and pass their tests. After passing their test, Kate decided stay undercover and investigate more and how Melissa was involved. During her investigations, Kate met the stranger she had came across, Darius, who also was investigating the cult and decided to help her. During their investigation, they discovered a dead body, who was one of the missing woman Darius had been looking for. Kate called the police for a proper investigation of the murder. Both of them then managed to enter in security surveillance system and then found out who murdered the woman and when she was murdered. Kate found out that it was Seth all along, the leader of the compound. Kate then began her mission of catching Seth. With the help of Darius and some dogs that she had made friends with, Kate was able to catch Seth and rescue Melissa.

Framed for Murder
Kate's old commander, Sylvia, calls her in her College Campus office one day. She had been locked out of her inner office and there was a dead body in there. After finding her way inside the inner office, Kate investigates the crime scene and figures out that the dead body is of an art student named Caesar. Sylvia told Kate that Caesar was one of the students who had been involved in drug dealing in the campus. After investigating more further, all the evidence points to Sylvia as the killer. Kate told Sylvia that this does not look good for her. They both then agreed to keep the murder a secret. Sylvia then guessed that the culprit used the spare key to get in, and figured if they get the spare key from the Security Office, nobody will be able to see the body. Sylvia proposed the idea that while she creates a distraction, Kate steals the spare key from the office. At the Security Office, Officer Carla and Professor Lansky are seen talking about how the Campus Security cannot handle all Vandals attacking the Campus. Soon to be added.....

Personality
Kate is kind and very intelligent. She is very skilled at her job and often focuses too much on in, leading her to be quite a workaholic. In Paradise Mystery, Jacob says that she has never taken a day off in three years (except for a sick day 2 years before). She had to be ordered to take a break before her vacation days expire.

Aaron Murphy
Murphy and Kate are good friends and colleagues. In 'Xmas Killer', Murphy states that they met in the Police Academy. Murphy has a very obvious crush on Kate and it seems like it’s mutual. But for some reason, Kate seems to be ignoring it. When Murphy was about to get captured in Trapmaker 2, he exclaimed "I never though this would be the end of us. I imagined a beach, a vacation" and then tries to tell her one last thing. When Murphy was woken up from being unconscious in Trapmaker 3, his memory of how he got there was foggy and he asked Kate if they were finally on a date. Trapmaker also calls Murphy Kate's "boyfriend". In Picture Perfect, she cuts Murphy short before he can say that their investigation at the park was almost like a date. In The Echo Bay Murders, Kate reassures him that there isn't anything going on between her and Darius and they make plans to go to a sushi restaurant together.

Melissa
Melissa is Kate's best friend. In Cult Mystery, Kate saves her from a dangerous cult and some time after that, in Paradise Mystery, the two go on a vacation together.

Penny Smith
Penny and Kate are good friends and are very close. Kate is also friends with Penny’s father, Bill, and saves him in “Framed”. Penny looks up to Kate and is shown to have a desire to impress her.

Connor
Connor and Kate used to be a couple. They presumably dated in either high school or college considering that Connor didn't know she became a police officer. They had lost contact for years until 'Picture Perfect', where they greeted each other happily. After the case is solved, Kate, Murphy and Connor went out for drinks together.

Sylvia
A former police chief and Kate's old mentor. Sylvia appeared in 'Framed' where she is framed for the murder of a student. Kate keeps a framed photograph of her and Sylvia from when Kate was still a rookie on her desk.

Trivia

 * Kate loves sunflowers as stated in 'Starstruck'.
 * Kate says she still has nightmares from going undercover to join a cult to save her friend. A lie detector said she was telling the truth. She also has bad memories of it in the elevator when tasked with doing a puzzle she did back then.
 * Kate was once attacked by a pug as a kid. She is shown to still be scarred from that experience in 'Picture Perfect' as she avoids going near Ginger's pug.
 * She does not like snakes or spiders, though her encounters in the game are with dangerous variations of those animals.
 * Kate really likes coffee.
 * For some reason, Kate’s full first name Katherine is only seen in Xmas Killer on the FBI login page. Her passport directly contradicts this with her given first name being listed as Kate so it’s unclear whether Katherine or Kate is correct.
 * Kate has a pet goldfish that she keeps at her desk at the police station. It appears in 'The Christmas Killer' and 'Trapmaker 2'.
 * In Xmas Killer, Sgt. Jacob’s refers to her as “lieutenant”. This is most likely a mistake on the development team’s part as some other ranks are inconsistent in other games. Plus, in Trapmaker 3, he seems to have rank over Kate and if Kate was a lieutenant at some point, it wouldn’t make sense for him to boss her around as a lieutenant would rank above him.
 * Kate apparently is somewhat well-known (in her city at least). In 'Trapmaker 2', a cop from a nearby town says to her, "But I have heard of you, Kate Gray. Big-shot detective to that rich and famous actress, Perla?"
 * She stated that she was claustrophobic in Paradise Mystery.
 * In Murder Inn, Kate mentions that she’s always wanted to learn to snowboard.
 * Its been noted that her favourite dessert are donuts.