![]() In 1987, after twenty years of research, Dr. The owners shot the architect after viewing it. Grief describes it as being designed by the worst architect ever. The building is physically described as being " something between a German castle and a French chateau, straight out of a Grimm's fairy tale". Grief, who then turned it into a school for the rebellious sons of the super-rich. Twenty years prior to Alex's mission there, the building was bought by Dr. It was taken over by the Germans in the Second World War and became a leisure centre for their senior staff. ![]() It was originally built as a private home for an unnamed lunatic in 1857, and became a lunatic asylum after the man died. Before she can, she is sedated by an MI6 agent, rather than knocked out by Alex himself.Point Blanc is located on a mountainside in the French Alps. He never does save her from a train or get propositioned by her, because she goes directly to the mansion to blow Alex's cover. At gunpoint, Fiona protests that it was all a game, but Alex simply leaves in anger. Alex is forced to take cover under some brambles so that he can ambush and disarm them all. That morning, she and her boyfriend ("Rafe" in the TV series) invite Alex to go hunting, but rather than Alex leaving initially, Alex never meets up with Fiona and her friends at all they instead start shooting at him straightaway. Stellenbosch.ĭifferences in the TV series Season One įiona's involvement differs from the Point Blanc novel in that she shows no outward hostility to Alex at first, initially toying with him and trying to "help" by spilling all her family secrets to him at dinner, such as her own drug charges, her father's near-miss with fraud charges, and her mother being sedated while at dinner. However, as Alex leaves the home Fiona walks out determined to cause trouble one last time, forcing Alex to knock her unconscious before she blows his cover to Mrs. She tells Alex that he may kiss him for which Alex politely refuses and he says that he would rather kiss the horse that had saved him. After climbing out, Fiona apologises to Alex for her treatment of him because he saved her, that's when her shirt falls open and she suddenly gains a romantic interest in Alex. They just make it out of the tunnel, the train barely missing them, and they fall into the river. As he helps her up, he feels a vibration letting him know the train is on its way. Alex races back to her and discovers she’s broken her ankle. As they race through the tunnel, Fiona falls off her horse after losing her balance when a cobweb hits her in the face. Later, Alex and Fiona go riding, and Fiona takes a short cut through a single train tunnel, Alex reluctantly following her as he couldn’t find his way back to the house without her. ![]() When Alex returns to the house and sees Fiona, she says it was just a “game” and walks away without apologizing. Rufus, Fiona’s boyfriend, claims Fiona put them up to it. ![]() After a while, annoyed at the way they laugh at him and the brutality he witnesses, he leaves, only to be chased and shot at by the group. She makes no attempt to help him feel welcome, and spends her time with him bragging about her wealth, lifestyle, and holidays around the world, all the while making it clear how she thinks Alex is stupid and a waste of her time - for instance, she says that she doesn't like sharing the pool with "nasty city boys".įiona invites him to hunting and shooting with her and her friends, Alex reluctantly agreeing. She is very extremely selfish and inevitably snobbish, immediately disliking Alex Rider for being a Londoner.įiona takes an immediate disliking to Alex as soon as he arrives at their family home in Lancashire, saying that having to pretend he is her brother is a “ghastly” notion. She is the result of growing up in an upper-class lifestyle. She starts off by hating Alex and then loves him after he saves her from the train in the tunnel.įiona is the vain, spoilt and arrogant daughter of Sir David Friend. When she looked at Alex arrogance flashed in her eyesįiona is described as being tall and well-shaped, with pale skin, black hair, and dark eyes, “ closer to the woman she would become than the girl she had been.” She attends private school, and is home for her Easter holiday when she meets Alex.
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