Editing Jody Lockhart

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|image             = Jody Lockhart.png
|species           = Human
|job               = Actress
|origin            = [[Australia]], [[Earth]]
|only              = The Iytean Menace (game)
}}
'''Jody Lockhart''' was a late-[[20th century]] [[Australia]]n actress who became a [[companion]] to the [[Time Lord]]&nbsp;[[Rollo]].

== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Steven was born in [[1963]]. In [[1985]], she was a "rising young actress", and took a trip to [[London]]. While in a perfectly ordinary office building, she walked into [[Rollo's TARDIS]], presently [[chameleon circuit|disguised]] as an elevator. In her confusion, Jody bumped against the dematerialisation switch and thus effectively abducted herself. Rollo subsequently promised to return her to her own time and place, but "something always seem[ed] to prevent him from taking care of the matter". Thus, Jody began acting as a [[companion]] to him, becoming all the more accustomed to the life of a time-traveller because she erroneously believed that her long absence must, by now, have already ruined her career one way or the other — seeming not to comprehend that Rollo could take her back to the same day she left, no matter how many times Rollo tried to explain. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)|namedpart=Player Characters}})

=== The Iytean investigation ===
On one occasion, during which Jody was still just 22 (meaning she had been travelling in [[Rollo's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] for less than a year), [[Rollo]] and his [[companion]]s were summoned to [[Gallifrey]] to be briefed by Lady [[Rowella]] about a new assignment. The discovery of an [[energy weapon]] on [[1980s]] [[Earth]] as an heirloom from its [[Alan Fraser|human owner]]'s Victorian ancestor [[Colonel]] [[Malcolm Fraser]] had the Invasion worried about alien, and potentially time-active, activity in [[1885]] [[London]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)|namedep=The Summons}})

There, they discovered that Colonel Fraser had been buying a steady supply of alien artefacts from a pair of crooks called [[Jack Bannister]] and [[Bert Jenkins]], who had secretly discovered a buried [[Iytean starship]] while trying to dig a tunnel into a [[bank]] two years prior. Unbeknownst to them, the ship had been a police vessel transporting an [[Iytean]] criminal. With the Iyteans being [[symbiont]]s, the criminal had hitched a ride in Jenkins's body then transferred itself to Fraser's acquaintance [[Doctor]] [[Henry Jellicoe]], causing him to periodically lose control of his body and adopt the malevolent persona of "[[Ned Hines]]". With the help of the Colonel's granddaughter [[Julia Fraser]], and that of [[Thomas Carruthers]], the son of his old friend [[Sir]] [[Reginald Carruthers]] (who had been murdered by Hines), the time-travellers were able to unravel the mystery and eventually neutralise the Iytean as well as ensure the starship would not be rediscovered and thereby derail Earth history any further. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)}})

Before leaving 1885, Rollo went on one last outing in the city, and had lunch with a writer called [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], telling him about the adventure. It was only when he returned to the TARDIS and told [[Verika]], another one of his companions, about the encounter that he learned he had just inspired Stevenson to write ''[[The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]''. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)|namedep=The Hunters Home From the Hill}})

== Personality ==
Jody was "very temperamental" and ""inclined to petulance", swinging on a dime from one emotional extreme to the other. She was fundamentally good-hearted, and enthusiastic about using [[time travel]] to make the universe a better place, but was also insecure at heart; she required frequent praise and attention from her friends lest she grow uncertain or simply bored, and would "spend a lot of time sulking" if she felt put down by others. Despite all these qualities and her apparent naiveté with regards to the logic of time-travel, however, she was also a highly talented actress, adept at masking or faking her emotions and playing any role required of her. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)|namedpart=Player Characters}})

== Physical appearance ==
Jody had blue eyes, blond shoulder-length hair, and "a bewildered look about her" which only left her when she was genuinely focused on a specific, clear-cut task — though it did not, otherwise, necessarily reflect a genuine state of inner confusion. She originally joined [[Rollo's TARDIS]] wearing "a fancy evening gown and high-heeled shoes", but found this outfit "impractical for day-to-day tasks of dealing with [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], [[Dalek]]s, and similar problems", adopting a variety of other outfits both chronologically and practically suitable to any given one of the locales she found herself visiting. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)|namedpart=Player Characters}})

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