| Toby Logan | |
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| Details | |
| Season | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
| Occupation | Paramedic IIB Consultant |
| First Appearance | I'm an Adult Now |
| Last Appearance | - |
| Affiliation | Maya (Mother) Olivia Fawcett (Ex-Girlfriend) |
| Appeared In | All Episodes |
| Status | Alive |
| Actor | Craig Olejnik John Fleming (young Toby) |
Toby Logan is a former paramedic with telepathic abilities. With his abilities, he decides to use them to help the police and IIB solve crimes.
Personality
Toby is a kind person and willing to help others in need. He is also confident in his abilities. Toby likes to do physical activities such as jogging and basketball. He also owns a motorbike as of Season 2.
After getting over the fact that he and Olivia are officially over, Toby began a bunch of one night stands with a bunch of different women. He finally settled down with the one woman he couldn't read, Tia.
Background
Toby (then named William, last name unknown) grew up on the run with his mother Maya from people who wanted their abilities. He had a younger brother. When he was five years old, Victor Cloonie came to the trailer where Maya and her sons were hiding and took Toby's infant brother. Fearing that her elder son would also be taken, Maya burned the trailer and told him to change his name to Toby Logan.
In desperation, she jumped into a river with him and they became separated. Toby was rescued from drowning by Frank Cardea, a friend of Maya's. Toby has no other memories of his early childhood, and did not remember his birth name until Frank reminded him.
Frank took Toby, who was unable to shut out other people's thoughts, to a psychiatrist, Dr. Ray Mercer. Ray taught him how to control his abilities and became Toby's confidant and mentor. Toby was in the foster care system until he turned 18. He suffered some abuse in foster care, and frequently got in trouble with other foster kids (such as Len Gazicki). At 15, he spent three months living on the streets, and was arrested for destruction of property in Yavapai County, Arizona. He spent some time in juvie. Despite all this, he dreamed of becoming a doctor and graduated high school.
As a young man, he dated Lori Black in Vancouver and revealed to her his gift. He made some attempts to make money using his telepathy, with limited success. Because he still had difficulty controlling his gift and was afraid of becoming a career criminal (as Len had), he broke up with Lori and moved away from Vancouver.
Toby decided that the best way to change his path was to help people, so he enrolled in paramedic college. Around this time, he met Osman Bey, who became his best friend and paramedic partner. He also met Dr. Olivia Fawcett whom he dated, but broke up with.
Season 1
Toby is in the car with Oz discussing about paramedic duties when, Toby gets a flash of a woman in trouble in a car accident. Toby discovers the car near them and goes to help pull the woman out just in time before the car explodes. Toby knowing that the Anna's child was taken and mentions it to Detective Marks. Toby decides to visit the kid's daycare and soon finds a car with a dead cop body in it. Realizing the partner of the dead cop was the kidnapper and murder, Toby investigates and finds that Henderson took them to the cabin. Toby manages to them down and save them.
In Emotional Rescue, Toby gets jealous of Olivia's new fling and decides to sabatoge the dates. In A Voice In the Dark, Toby discovers a homeless man's link to a missing girl and saves her. In Some Kinda Love, Toby goes out with Mina Delia Croce before she is killed and works to find her killer. In Lisa Says, Toby helps a young boy named Daniel who is involved with the wrong crowd. During this time, Toby reveals to Oz his ability. In Foggy Notion, Toby helps a blind woman find her brother's killer. In Iris, Toby meets Iris Frost, a young girl with aparent healing abilities. Realizing she is in danger, Toby rushes to help her. He soon realizes that Iris is a telepath like him. Later that evening, he reveals to Charlie Marks that he can read minds. In One Way or Another, Toby faces dislike from Charlie, who now knows Toby can go into her mind. With the recent victim of a rape case, Toby knows shes lying and begins doing some investigation of his own. He eventually saves Charlie from the real perp of the rapes and puts a stop to it.
In Inside Man, Charlie asks Toby for his help on case where the only survivor was the son of the family murdered. In Missing, Oz asks Toby for his help to find a missing person so Oz can get the reward money for his parents. In Beginning To See The Light Toby is trying to save a man when he dies and Toby witnesses what he is seeing as he passes away. Toby decides to find the woman that the man was thinking about before he died. Toby eventually figures out that the woman was the man's daughter he hadn't seen in a while.
In My Sister's Keeper, Toby is called to be a witness for a murder case that Toby was involved in. Toby finds out that his real name is William from a man that Oz and Toby had brought to the hospital the other day. In The Journey, Toby reveals to Olivia his telepathic abilities and they begin looking for his mother while avoiding Victor Cloonie. Charlie risked her life to save Toby and got shot.
Season 2
It's a year and a half later and Toby has finally come to terms with his telepathic powers and is still working with his paramedic partner Osman Bey. In Lady in the Lake, Toby and Oz are called to a scene of a unconsious woman by the lake. They bring her to the hospital where Toby decides to help her figure out who she is. They retrace her steps and this is when Toby meets Michelle McCluskey and Dev Clark for the first time. In Crime Seen, Toby reveals to Michelle he can read minds and Michelle uses him on her current case. Toby checks if the group that Nick Auletti knows if he is a cop or not.
In the episodeIn His Sights, Michelle asks Toby to help with a assasination threat, so Toby and Oz head to the scene as paramedics.
Season 3
When Toby goes into a bank, his ability reads the man he bumps into as he is leaving. Knowing the bank is about to be robbed, Toby decides to head back into the bank to attempt to warn the guard. But too late, the robber head into motion and Toby becomes a hostage. During the hostage situation, Toby begins reading the guards and keeping people calm. He soon finds out the robber's names and with the injured bank guard, he sends a message to Michelle.
Season 4
In Blast from the Past, Toby and Michelle head to Vancouver to investigate a string of high tech thieves. During the case, Toby runs across a former ex-girlfriend Lori Black, whom he had previously told about his gift. When Toby gets too close to the group of thieves, he is grabbed by the group and interrogated for information the cops have on them.
Season 5
In the first episode of the season, Toby visited Michelle who had a baby recently. He and Tia moved in together.
Ability
Toby was born with the ability to read people's minds. First and foremost, Toby can hear what people are thinking at that moment. This ability takes different styles depending how deep the thought is. If someone is remembering a moment when speaking, Toby gets a visual image of what the person saw, heard and did. Toby tends to remember these facts and it comes in handy when solving mysteries.
As a child, he was unable to shut out others' thoughts at all, until Ray Mercer helped him. As a teen, he struggled with separating his identity from how others perceived him. By the time he became a paramedic, he had a good level of control, but would still overhear others' thoughts without meaning to. Once he began using his telepathy to help people, his maximum range increased to between 100 and 200 feet, and his control also improved significantly.
Under certain circumstances, Toby can see auras and the movement of energy that people feel (like musicians and people in meditative states). When relaxed, he can also make his own aura visible to himself.
He can converse telepathically but only with other telepaths. He was able to resist Elizabeth Simmonds' power to influence people's minds. He cannot always clearly read the minds of people with mental illnesses (such as dementia or schizophrenia), nor those of some 'geniuses' such as Magnus Elphrenson or people with eidetic memories (who remember facts faster than he can). He is unable to read Tia Tremblay because of her epilepsy medication.
If Toby overuses his ability, it can cause severe headaches, a symptom of excess electrical activity that could be life-threatening. However, by Season 3 he gets this problem under control.
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