History Characters / NancyDrew2019

* FakeAmerican: Is played by British actress Maddison Jaizani. [[spoiler:Also, Bess is actually British, and her American passport is a fake]].

* {{Asexual}}: Implied by her admission of never feeling close to anyone of any gender and backing away from expressing interest.

* AdaptationalSexuality: See AmbiguouslyGay and {{Asexual}} below.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Is either this or she's {{Asexual}}. In the second episode, she admits that she has never really felt close to anyone of any gender. Later on, she is seen about to ask another woman out on a date via text before she chickens out and changes her mind.

[[folder:Chief E.O. McGinnis]]
!!Chief E.O. McGinnis

* JustGotOutOfJail: Spent time in prison for manslaughter when she was still a minor. [[spoiler: The victim, Tiffany Hudson, was the witness who testified against him]].

* {{Bookworm}}: His garage is filled with literature [[given to him by Tiffany]], having taken up the interest while he was in prison.

* {{Bookworm}}: Implied to be a huge lover of literature. [[spoiler:It is this shared interest that build a friendship between herself and Nick]].

* TheAtoner: [[Testified at Nick's trial for manslaughter and has regretted it ever since, enough so that she kept in contact with him and even left him five million dollars in bearer bonds]].

* RichBitch: Implied to be a very picky eater and drinker, and describes Horseshoe Bay as "the town from Jaws, but without the shark." [[Subverted by the third episode, when it's revealed she has been keeping contact with Nick, left him a lot of money, and applied for an old B&B she owned to be listed as a landmark site]].

[[folder:Dead Lucy]]
!!Lucy Sable, aka Dead Lucy
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Stephanie Van Dyck

* [[BloodSplatteredWeddingDress Bloodstained Sea Queen Dress]]: Her dress was covered in blood the night she died, and the dress has been in the possession of [[spoiler:Carson and Kate Drew]] ever since, until [[spoiler:Carson]] destroyed it.
* CanonForeigner: She doesn't exist in any of the books.
* CreepyChildrenSinging: The first lines of the show are a creepy nursery rhyme about Dead Lucy, spoken by the equally creepy voices of children.
-->'''Children's Nursery Rhyme:''' Lucy Sable once was able to look upon the sea. But someone got her in the water, now that's where she'll always be. Count to five, enjoy the view. Hope the killer doesn't get you! One, two, three, four, five. You'll never get out of here alive!
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: The last scene in the pilot is one of these appearing right behind Nancy — it's implied to be Dead Lucy.
* WightInAWeddingDress: Well...it's not a wedding dress, but Dead Lucy was wearing a white dress of a "Sea Queen"[[labelnote:Note]]Appears to be Horseshoe Bay's version of a prom queen or a homecoming queen.[[/labelnote]] when she died, and as a ghost, she appears wearing the same dress.

* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Implied to be Nick's motive for murdering Tiffany Hudson. It is later revealed that Nick bore no ill will toward her, and in fact, considered her a friend]].

* TheInformant: [[Is spying on the other suspects to Tiffany's murder for the police chief]].

* AmbiguouslyGay: Is either this or she's {[Asexual}}. the second episode, she admits that she has never really felt close to anyone of any gender. Later on, she is seen about to ask another woman out on a date via text before she chickens out and changes her mind.

* AdaptationalSexuality: See AmbiguouslyGay below.
* AmbiguouslyGay: In the second episode, she admits that she has never really felt close to anyone regardless of their gender. Later on, she is seen about to ask another woman out on a date via text before she chickens out and changes her mind.

* JustGotOutOfJail: Ned was released from prison before the beginning of the show. [[spoiler: This fact, as well as the fact that Tiffany Hudson, the witness who testified against him at his trial, is the murder victim, paints him as one of the chief suspects for her murder. However, it's later revealed that he never knew who testified against him, so has no real reason to go after her]].

* AlliterativeName: His name is '''N'''ed '''N'''ickerson. Or, if you prefer given that he prefers to go by 'Nick', '''Nick''' '''Nick'''erson.

* AlliterativeName: His name is '''N'''ed '''N'''ickerson.

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-->'''Children's Nursery Rhyme:''' Lucy Sable once was able to look upon the sea. But someone got her in the water, now that's where she'll always be. Count to give, enjoy the view. Hope the killer doesn't get you! One, two, three, four, five. You'll never get out of here alive!

* ImpoverishedPatrician: Implied. She is officially described as a rich "city girl," but near the end of the first episode, Bess is revealed to be living in a van.

* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Everybody just calls him 'Ace'.

* AdaptationNameChange: Goes by Nick instead of Ned in the show.

* JustGotOutOfJail: Ned was released from prison before the beginning of the show. [[spoiler: This fact, as well as the fact that Jennifer Hudson, the witness who testified against him at his trial, is the murder victim, paints him as one of the chief suspects for her murder. However, it's later revealed that he never knew who testified against him, so has no real reason to go after her]].

* YourCheatingHeart: She was having an affair with Ryan Hudson behind his wife's back, and it's implied that they had been seeing each other since she was still in ''high school''. He makes it clear to her in the second episode that even though his wife is now dead he has no intention of making their relationship public.

* AmbiguouslyGay: In the second episode, she admits that she has never really felt close to anyone regardless of their gender. Later on, she is seen about to ask another woman out on a date via text before she changes her mind.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Implied. She is officially described as a rich girl, but near the end of the first episode she is seen living in a van.

* AdaptationNameChange: Goes by Nick instead of Ned.
* AlliterativeName: '''N'''ed '''N'''ickerson.

* AdaptationNameChange: Her name if Fayne in the books but it's Fan in the show, probably due to the change in ethnicity.