Even in his own life, she argues, he was a 'secondary character', on an unconvincing quest for identity, his strings pulled by others and the pressures of expectation.

When the main character falls down the bridge, he tries to yell at the secondary character for help.

A player can have one two characters and the secondary character must be registered so that the primary and secondary characters are identified.

However, by the end of the second series, he had largely been reduced to secondary character status.

Therefore, since he was a guest or secondary character, the writers felt he could be off-screen a lot.