Subject was in the bath.
| Full Name | Sheridan Crane |
| Family | Crane, daughter of Alistair |
| Played by | McKenzie Westmore |
| Status | Clean. In love with Luis. |
| Father | Alistair Crane (adversarial) |
| Brother | Julian Crane |
| Distinguishing | Only Crane who is clearly not a villain |
Crane Family · The Exception
Sheridan Crane
Daughter of Alistair Crane, the most powerful and least pleasant man in Harmony. Sheridan inherited the money but none of the malice. Her father regards this as a personal failure.
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Sheridan and Luis shared a three-episode bath sequence this week. It was romantic. Both emerged clean. The Gazette reported it as "The Bath That Rocked A Nation" and stands by this characterisation.
Her father Alistair continues to oppose the relationship with Luis. He has tried many methods. None have worked. The bath persisted for three episodes regardless. Alistair has a lot of resources and he has deployed all of them on this problem, and it has not mattered.
The Crane Exception
In a family defined by scheming, manipulation, and the casual exercise of inherited power over everyone who can't fight back, Sheridan is the anomaly. She is warm. She is principled. She loves Luis in a way that her father has spent years trying to prevent, because he understands, and he is correct about this, that the Lopez-Fitzgerald connection humanises her and removes her from his sphere of influence.
Her brother Julian is a complicated man who often fails her. Her father is a straightforwardly terrible one. Sheridan has managed, somehow, to emerge from the Crane household as a person the audience is permitted to root for. The Gazette regards this as a genuine achievement and the kind of character work that makes Passions worth watching.
What Alistair Knows
Alistair's opposition to Luis is not merely snobbery, though it is also that. He has specific reasons related to the Lopez-Fitzgerald family's knowledge of Crane crimes, reasons that Sheridan has only partial visibility into. The full picture of what Alistair has done to both families is one of the show's longest-running threads, and the Gazette is not going to spoil all of it here. Some things are worth discovering in sequence.