Lola Buckley

Lola Buckley, or formerly known as Lilian Walsh is one of the two protagonists of Wanted, alongside Chelsea Babbage. She used to work as a counter lady until she was kidnapped and on the run with Chelsea.

Description
Lola is described to be a tall Caucasian lady, standing around 1.7m (5 ft 6 inches). She has a shoulder-length blonde hair and blue eyes.

From “Chelsea and Lola” to “Run Lola Run”, Lola wore a blue hoodie with a light blue shirt underneath and a navy-blue long pant.

By “Us and Them”, Lola wore a blue stripped cardigan with grey shirt underneath and long navy-blue long pant. She also wears a dark blue hat and a sunglasses.

Personality
Lola is a tough and very streetwise lady with a no-nonsense attitude. According to her workmates, she is considered to be uncooperative and disrespectful toward her work managers. Despite having rough mannerism, Lola have a big heart, friendly and shows her sense of wicked humours.

When the gunman, Chris, threatened to shoot her and Chelsea, Lola remains calm and tries to escape while protecting Chelsea, despite just meeting her. She proves to be courageous even when being threatened or feeling scared, Lola shows bravery when confronting her kidnapper, Chris, and even Ray. Lola would even fly to Bangkok and head into the building to rescue her son, David, knowing that the Morrison and his men are inside are dangerous and well-armed, despite being wanted.

She shown to be resourceful and well prepared as Lola have several connections all over the places, knowing who to turn to when on the run.

Lola can be humourous as she tends to lighten Chelsea’s mood by teasing her. She shown to be playful when playing pool with bar goers while waiting for the computer to be free, even suggesting to a young man who was on a computer about picking a woman online.

She shown to be resilient and didn’t let anyone or anything deter her from achieving her goals.

Underneath her tough persona, Lola can be shown to be vulnerable when she was younger as she was being manipulated by her partner’s mother, Beverly, by forcing her to lie that she falls down the stair in order to cover up that Jackson was abusing her. Her father, Jim, even told her that he never seen her cried before, but she replied by saying she did, but he never saw her cried.

She cries when her father got murdered while she was at Thailand and even become worried about her sister, Donna.

Before the events of Wanted
Lilian and her sister Donna were raised by their father, Jim Walsh. One day, the mother attempted to leave and Lola tried to stopped her, but got locked up inside the wardrobe. Donna taught Lilian everything since their father haven’t being around much.

In 1994, Lillian was attacked by her de facto partner, Jackson Delaney, who was shoving her head into the sink, which caused her to retaliate by grabbing a knife and slit his throat instinctively, causing him to beg her to help him. Knowing she is pregnant; she disappeared and changed her identity. The investigating officers assumed Lillian was killed by her partner’s family, the Delaney since she was last seen around October 1994. She gave birth to her son, David Walsh, and raised him as they constantly travelled everywhere. For twenty years, Lola never told her son about his father’s actions.

She briefly lives in New Zealand with Cliff for short time before returning back to Australia. She lives in a rented house and began to work as a store cashier. She usually catches the bus every morning for the past 18 months.

Family
Jim Walsh:

Peg Walsh:

Donna Walsh:

David Buckley:

Lola is protective over her son, David, by constantly calling him and tracking down his movement. She is willing to save his life by putting herself in danger.

Friends
Chelsea Babbage:

Cliff:

Lola and Cliff used to have a close relationship and lived together in New Zealand with her son, David. Then Lola left Cliff without a word and had him having grudge against her. They still have a tense relationship as when she met him again, Lola begged Cliff to tend to David's wounds.

Allies
Kane:

Tan:

Will Johnson:

Alistair Poussin:

Enemies
Chris Murphett:

Terry Boke:

Ranger Susan:

Anton Maric:

Kel Morrison:

Beverly Delaney:

Josh Levine:

Vincent:

Bryce:

Lance Greiner:

Karl Brady:

Susan Carpenter:

Sophine:

Maxine Middleton:

Hamish:

Trivia

 * During Season Two, Episode Two, Lola reveals her Blood Type is O Negative.

Season One
Episode 1: Lola and Chelsea

Episode 2: Run Lola Run

Episode 3: Us and Them

Episode 4: Badlands

Episode 5: Detour

Episode 6: Dead End

Season Two
Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Season Three
Episode 1: Lock Up

Episode 2: Drive

Episode 3: Snakeskin

Episode 4: Stuck

Episode 5: Divide

Episode 6: Outlaws