Corporal Anna-Louise Bach is the point-of-view character for most of Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo. She is too acid-tongued for her own good and has been placed in a dead-end job because she failed to show respect to incompetent superiors. She supervises the crew of the New Dresden Police Department's monitoring room. When the presence of a living person on the space station Tango Charlie is suspected, this crew activates the station's few functioning cameras and observes the girl. Bach is a sad, lonely figure.

She is attracted to vacuous, muscular men and drifts from one unfulfilling love affair to another. She empathizes with the isolation of the girl and acts out of morality and emotion, rather than regard for public opinion.

The little girl calls herself Charlie.

Why she has remained a child for more than thirty years is a mystery, although the disease Neuro-X might be...