In "Forget Oblivion", Ed starts seeing the girl after he beats Sam during target practice. In "Sons of the Father", the girl's mother expresses willingness to forgive him, but he refuses to accept her forgiveness. The team was eventually cleared as they were following protocol but for the rest of the season, Ed struggles with the guilt. In Season 5, Ed is forced to shoot an eighteen-year-old girl to stop her from killing her abusive father holding her mother at gunpoint. Ed has a brother Roy, a detective with the Guns and Gangs task force. The couple begin to drift apart and there were hints at a separation but with the birth of their daughter Isabelle, they have reconciled. For example, he deliberately missed the anniversary of his in-laws and Clark's cello recital for work and a colleague's retirement party respectively. Įd has some problems with his wife of fifteen years, Sophie, and teenage son Clark due to the nature of his job, and the fact that he is strongly attached to his SRU colleagues. Though he has been trained to use lethal force, Ed is constantly troubled with the fact that he sometimes needs to use it to save the lives of others. Ed's secondary role is to act as the crisis negotiator in direct contact with the subject(s). In a deleted scene, Dean and Ed's son Clark are both cadets at the police academy.Ĭonstable (later Sergeant) Edward "Ed" Lane is the veteran of the Strategic Response Unit team, he is the team's tactical leader in the field. His leg wound forces him to retire from SRU, and a year later, he is teaching at the police academy.
In the two-part series finale, "Keep the Peace", Greg is shot in the leg as he is holding off a mad bomber while trying to defuse his bomb. A recurring theme for him is that he always reminds his teammates to "keep the peace" during any SRU-led operation.
He often puts the blame for a failed attempt to save a life solely on himself, something Ed frequently reminds him of. Greg cares not only for his team, but for the lives of the innocents and those subjects who are about to make a mistake that will ruin an otherwise good life. In the season 4 episode "A Call to Arms", he asks to move back to Toronto with his father. Father and son reconnect as Dean began to visit Toronto regularly beginning in season 3. Dean eventually goes back to Toronto on his own volition to ask his father to stop contacting him but witnesses Greg and the SRU on a call and realizes the importance of his father's job. In the Season 1 episode " Backwards Day" it is revealed that he had just seen his son for the first time in eight years, regretting that he did not do so earlier. She was still bitter and bans her ex-husband from seeing Dean for some time.
His ex-wife gained full custody of Dean and they moved to Dallas, Texas. The stressful nature of his previous job as a homicide detective took a toll on him and resulted in him turning to alcohol, resulting in his divorce and estrangement from his wife and son Dean.
He learned the art of negotiation when he was able to survive a hard life under his strict father. As such, he prefers that situations be resolved through dialogue instead of lethal force. He is also Team 1's main crisis negotiator. Sergeant Gregory "Greg" Parker is the Sergeant and leader of Team One. There are 5 teams in the SRU, Team 1 being the one mainly featured in the show. The Strategic Response Unit, modeled after the Toronto Police Service's Emergency Task Force unit, is responsible for high-risk situations that cannot be resolved by regular police officers such as armed criminals, explosives, hostage rescue and counter-terrorism including support to other police officers when requested.