The character of Wal would have added a touch of glamour to the show had she been given a role greater than passing on messages at the start and end of each episode. Originally from Scunthorpe, she provides the backbone of Arachnid Films' office. Highly competent and organised, she keeps the company ticking over while Lottie and Hawksworth gallivant around the world on their various missions. This is not appreciated as the others only ever ask her to make coffee, but while they are out of the office she reads Tolstoy and is studying Eastern European languages, which play no role in the series. She is not unaware that more is going on with Lottie and Hawksworth than meets her eye, but as she has a well-paid job she doesn't consider it any of her business: as she tells her colleague Albert, 'I say nothing and I see the world'. Quite when she sees the world is unknown and it certainly doesn't happen during the television series, where she is only seen outside the office set thrice: once to visit a milk bar with Albert, once to visit a barn to make a film about a weapons inventor, and once to visit a stately home - during which Lottie asks her to pretend to be a sexually-assaulted nun. As far as she is concerned, the only downsides of the job are being unappreciated by everyone, and Albert's constant attempts to flirt with her.
