Edge-Town: Dani Fitzpatrick

Past-Life: Dani's life in television was about as dull and route as one can imagine. As the resident forensic lab-rat on the popular ABC series Forensics Tactical Squad: FTS(famous for starring washed-up Jeff Fahey, before he was replaced by Billy Baldwin) Dani was known for only three things:

1. Exposition while wearing short skirts, with frequent geek references so that the writers could prove their hipness(I.E. "Wow this reminds of The Thing directed by John Carpenter)

2. Her skills with the martial arts, which seems to be a skill all asian girls have, even when they've been raised by a middle-class Irish American couple.

3. Being both gay and into bondage, both of which are treated as kinda sweeps-week exploitation and not much more.

Of course none of these things made enough of an impression to keep her on the show, so at the end of season four not only did her girlfriend die(natch) at the hands of a diobolical serial killer(The baker, who's victims suffered cooking related traps) but she died as well when during her quest for revenge she met a booby-trapped shotgun.

TV guide said her death "shocked them" which says a lot about TV guide.

Now-Life: Of course Dani didn't figure that your life isn't over when you die on television, but rather just getting started for real. Namely she's now alive, free, and completely on her own in the teeming megapolis that is Edge-Town, and she rather likes it. Sure there's a few hundred more problems that she has to deal with(like paying rent for the first time! Or learning how to catch a bus without arriving at the farrrrrr side of town) but to her credit she's taking it all in stride, and actually seems to enjoy the crazy, hectic, and mega-urban enviroment of the place.

Hell she's even got a new girlfriend(Gabriella Vargas) who's all kinds of fun, and has a pretty swanky job at one of the hippest bars in the city(6th Heaven on Dog Street) and lots of new friends.

Of course said bar is also the target of extortion by the biggest gangboss in the city(Ehura Mazda the Assyrian war goddess) and as a result is about to learn that the way the fine staff, and regulars at the bar deal with gangsters is with bullets, fists, knives, and anything else they can get their hands on.

But hey! That's just life in the big city.