Colonel Wragge

The Colonel belongs to the world of order, duty, and plain speech, and he approaches the disturbances around his home the way he would approach a tactical problem — with suspicion of anything he cannot see or shoot. His daughter's involvement sharpens his helplessness, since protecting her is precisely what his training cannot accomplish here. He matters because his very rigidity makes him the perfect foil for Silence's methods, and because his household becomes the proving ground where rational authority must yield to stranger expertise.