Luigis

Just had a thought - have we had confirmation anywhere so far to tell us who exactly Judy is? I have been assuming, so far, that Judy is the girlfriend of Molly's Dad.

ALEX: What did Evan get you for your birthday, Molls?
MOLLY: A Blackberry.
ALEX: Oh yeah? I'll get you some more while you're at school and you can make a birthday crumble.
MOLLY giggles as they share the joke.
ALEX: Did your dad manage to...?
MOLLY: No. He's in Canada with Judy.
ALEX: Hmm.
MOLLY: So, this guy, Taylor...
<Thanks and credit to Al for borrowing the text from her transcript>

I was just wondering as we are now in S2 and there is interesting speculation regarding the possibility that the mysterious, rose-leaving stranger is Mr Drake / Molly's Dad.

Also - is Mr Drake actually Molly's Dad? Again, no confirmation yet, just an assumption that Alex married a "Mr Drake" and had a child with him. As a woman of the nineties (when Molly was born) it is not necessarily the case that Alex was married to the natural father?

So - this Judy - do we assume she is a girlfriend or could she be a Canadian relation (perhaps his sister?) remember, Molly calls Evan by his first name and does not use "uncle" or "godfather" so did not refer to Judy as "auntie".

Will Judy be significant to the story or is she a minor character?

What are your thoughts?

I'd never really given Judy any thought but you do make some good points here!

I think Judy is the woman Mr Drake is now with due to the way Alex goes "Mmmmm " im response to Molly's reply.

Wether the relationship is what broke up their marriage though we don't know...he might have got together with Judy after he and Alex broke up.

And we don't know if they are divorced do we? Not everyone gets divorced.

It would explain why she'd apparently made the decision not to change her name back to Price.

Unless she just thought Drake sounded better.

I always thought that Judy might have been related to Gene...

.... You couldn't elaborate on that, could you? That sort of leaves everything to the imagination and apparently mine's not as developed as yours

I've never really given her much thought, I've always just assumed that she's Mr Drake's new partner. I only think she's a minor character to let us know that Alex and Peter definately aren't together anymore, I don't think she's signifcant because she was only mentioned briefly at the beginning and I don't see how she could be significant without complicating things too much (even for ashes!)

Or she wanted to keep it that way for Molly's sake (depending on when the breakup occurred).

I think Judy is just nothing more than Pete(r)'s current partner/girlfriend/whatever. I doubt we viewers will ever see her or hear about her any more.

In 2.5 Alex said something to Peter's dad about him telling her her life wasn't over when Molly was born etc, and just from the way she said it I kinda of assumed Molly was quite young. But I don't know.
But yeah I agree that Judy probably isn't anything more than a girlfriend of Peter. At least that's all I considered her to be. Like jazz said I think making Judy significant would just be TOO complicated and minor-detail-ish.

According to Alex in 2.5, Molly was six months old when Peter "disappeared never to be heard from again."

I agree. I believe there are some questions that will never be answered and there are so many that DO need to be answered that this one will fall by the wayside.