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in turlough and the earthlink dilemma, he's called an agent of rechtaht, that is, an agent of the leader of the new regime (the side that won the civil war).

in the king of terror, the doctor, tegan, and turlough visit london in the year 2000. turlough slips off alone to see the solicitor and returns "with a bloodied swollen nose and a smile on his face." take from that what you will.

eldrad must die! wildly asserts that, unbeknownst to turlough, he wasn't the only alien (or even the only trion) at brendon (?!), bc the solicitior was using it as "a proper little underground railroad, shuttling stateless exiles into safety," and that if the solicitor hadn't gotten involved, turlough would "still be a slave worker on trion" (?!). turlough describes him as "creepy." he's told that the solicitor had had his prospects "all planned out. your family back home would be seriously impressed — what's left of them." turlough briefly hallucinates meeting the solicitor in his office, but we really don't get much info on him, except that turlough addresses him as "sir."

from meanwhile turlough:

He didn't need to say that, fumed Turlough as he scuttled out. It was just pure righteous enjoyment of getting to do his job and grind someone under his heel at the same time. He knew that look from the mentor he had been assigned back on Earth, the solicitor who'd exiled him to that vicious little public school. From the schoolmasters and the senior boys. Every face he had never been able to talk back to. Just keep his eyes down, answer ‘yes, sir,’ ‘no, sir,’ and dream of precisely where in the man's back he could one day slip a knife.

meanwhile turlough also tells us that trion agents take roles that are close to seats of power on underdeveloped planets and covertly exploit them, with the sugggestion that the solicitor has the ear of politicians in london. after the war, some of these agents had "been tasked with grooming the most reedemable members of the previous opposition. the ones who would be more useful as compliant followers than as martyrs." and turlough's sentence was to be one of those getting groomed.