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|individual name = Dalek Caan
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|voice actor = Nicholas Briggs
|affiliation = Cult of Skaro
|affiliation2 = Davros
|affiliation3 = New Dalek Empire
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'''Dalek Caan''' was one of four [[Dalek]]s in the [[Cult of Skaro]]. Like the other members of the Cult, he was tasked to think creatively, like the Daleks's enemies, to find new ways of defeating them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')


'''Dalek Caan''' was one of the four [[Dalek]]s making up the [[Cult of Skaro]]. Like the other members, he thought like the Daleks' enemies in order to find new ways of defeating them. Caan's most notable achievement was breaching the Time Lock placed upon the Time War, which [[Davros]] said "cost him his mind" but allowed him to see into the future. Caan seems to have been killed, along with the other remnants of the New Dalek Empire, when the Crucible was destroyed.
After two defeats by the [[Tenth Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'', ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]'') Caan was thought to be the only Dalek remaining in [[N-Space|the universe]]. To create a new Dalek empire, he accomplished what was thought to be impossible: he breached the [[time-lock]] surrounding the [[Last Great Time War]] and extracted [[Davros]], the creator of the Daleks, just before he could be destroyed by the [[Nightmare Child]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Third Wise Man (short story)|The Third Wise Man]]'') This action cost Caan his mind but allowed him to see into the infinite complexity of time and manipulate the timelines. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'', ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') Caan was presumably killed, along with virtually the entire [[New Dalek Empire]] which he founded, when he betrayed his own kind. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')


==History==
== Biography ==
===Battle of Canary Wharf===
=== Origins ===
Dalek Caan was one of the three [[Standard Dalek]]s who were created to follow the Cult's leader, the [[Dalek Supreme|supreme]] [[Dalek Sec]]. During the [[Last Great Time War]] between the Daleks and the [[Time Lord]]s, the Cult took the [[Genesis Ark]] and fled the war into [[the Void]], resurfacing later in [[London]] in [[2007]].
Originally, Dalek Caan was a [[bronze Dalek]] and the [[Attack Squad Leader]] of the [[Thirtieth Assault Group]], before being chosen to be part of the Cult of Skaro - a secret order established by the [[Dalek Emperor]] prior to the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Legend (short story)|Birth of a Legend]]'') Its four members "dared to have names." According to the [[Tenth Doctor]], who initially believed them to be a legend, "their job was to imagine, [to] think as the enemy thinks... all to find new ways of killing," none of which was denied by the Cult. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')


Arriving in 2007, Caan, Thay, and Sec scanned the brain waves of [[Rajesh Singh|Dr. Singh]] and discovered another species had invaded [[Earth]]. Upon discovering it was [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybermen]], the [[Cyber-Leader (Pete's World)|Cyber-Leader]] declared war while the Cult claimed it to be "pest control". Caan took part in the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] while the Genesis Ark (accidentally activated by [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]]) released millions of Daleks onto Earth. Because they had been through the void, they were covered in [[void stuff]]. The [[Tenth Doctor]] was able to open the rift the Cybermen had come through and reverse it, sucking in all beings covered in void stuff. As the Daleks were sucked into the Void, Dalek Caan and the rest of the Cult activated an [[emergency temporal shift]] and escaped. ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]''/''[[Doomsday]]'')
=== Last Great Time War ===
During the Time War, the Cult, including Caan, avoided the front lines of battle and instead stole the [[Genesis Ark]], a prison ship that was constructed by the Time Lords to imprison millions of Daleks via [[dimensional transcendentalism]]. The Cult took the Genesis Ark and fled the war by escaping into [[the Void]] by using a unique and extremely advanced [[Void Ship]]. Their plan was to free their imprisoned brethren from the Ark and re-establish the [[Dalek Empire]] on Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')


===The Final Experiment===
=== Battle of Canary Wharf ===
The Cult ended up in [[New York City]] in [[1930]] and recruited [[Diagoras|Mr. Diagoras]], the head of construction for the [[Empire State Building]]. He kidnapped people for their research and for what they called the "[[Final Experiment]]". During their time in 1930, Dalek Caan served as the Cult's connection to Diagoras. Eventually, Caan took Diagoras to see their leader Sec who merged with Diagoras in his casing to become the first [[human-Dalek]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'')
[[File:Cult_of_Skaro.jpg|thumb|left|Caan with the rest of the [[Cult of Skaro|Cult]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')]]
Dalek Caan and the other three Cult members emerged from the Void with the Genesis Ark in [[London]] in [[2007]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'') There, they sought to find a time traveller whom they could trick or force to open the Genesis Ark for them.


After Sec became a Dalek-human, he showed feelings that their creator, [[Davros]], was wrong about removing emotions and that the deaths at [[Hooverville]] were wrong. Caan and the other members felt that the plan Sec had for the new Daleks was unacceptable; it would change everything that makes a Dalek a Dalek and the Daleks would no longer be supreme. Feeling Sec was no longer a Dalek, Caan led a mutiny with [[Dalek Jast]] and [[Dalek Thay]] to imprison Sec, having poured a different gene solution into the Dalek-humans than Sec had wanted, making the new bodies 100 percent Dalek.
The Daleks scanned [[Rajesh Singh]]'s brain and learned another species, the [[Cybusman|Cybermen]], had invaded [[Earth]]. The [[Cyber-Leader One|Cyber-Leader]] declared war while the Cult declared "pest control". Dalek Caan took part in the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]], in which the Genesis Ark released a very large number of Daleks onto Earth. Because they had been through the void, they were covered in [[void stuff]]. The [[Tenth Doctor]] opened the rift the Cybermen had come through and reversed it, sucking in all beings covered in "Void stuff". As all the newly freed Daleks were sucked into the Void, Dalek Caan and the three other Cult members activated an [[emergency temporal shift]] and escaped. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')


Dalek Caan made himself [[Dalek Controller|Controller]] and became connected with the Dalek-human army. When Thay and Jast ordered the new Daleks to destroy the Doctor, they questioned orders and the Doctor explained that he got in the way of the gamma strike which brought them to life, his [[DNA]] becoming mixed with theirs, giving them a little freedom. When a battle broke out between the Daleks and the Dalek-humans, Jast and Thay were destroyed. Caan saw the new Daleks as failures and killed the entire species.
=== The Final Experiment ===
The Cult ended up in [[New York City]] in [[1930]]. They recruited [[Diagoras|Mr Diagoras]], the head of construction for the [[Empire State Building]]. He kidnapped people for their research and for the "[[Final Experiment]]". Dalek Caan served as the Cult's liaison with Diagoras. Caan took him to their leader, Dalek Sec, who assimilated Diagoras in his casing to become the first [[human-Dalek|Dalek-human hybrid]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]'')


Caan was the last member of the Cult and, by extension, the only survivor of the entire Dalek race, and so he was the last of the '''entire''' Dalek species. The Doctor confronted him and offered Caan help and compassion, as he didn't want to cause a genocide. Caan activated an emergency temporal shift and escaped. ([[DW]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'')
[[File:Evolution of the Daleks.jpg|thumb|right|Dalek Caan attacks a Hooverville with Dalek Jast. ([[TV]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]'')]]
After Dalek Sec became a Dalek-human, he decided that their creator, [[Davros]], was wrong about removing emotions. In search of the Doctor, Caan attacked the humans at [[Hooverville]] alongside [[Jast]] and personally exterminated [[Solomon (Daleks in Manhattan)|Solomon]] when he tried to speak to the Daleks, much to Sec's shock. Caan was then forced to restrain his [[urge]] to kill the Doctor when Sec ordered that he be brought to him alive. However, Dalek Caan and the other members decided the plan Sec had for the new Daleks was unacceptable; it would change everything that made a Dalek a Dalek and they would no longer be supreme. Daleks Caan, [[Dalek Jast|Jast]] and [[Dalek Thay|Thay]] mutinied, imprisoned Sec, and poured a different [[gene]] solution into the Dalek-humans to the one Sec had wanted. The resulting force of hybrid "Dalek-humans" would have turned out exactly like Daleks, against Dalek Sec's plans, had the Doctor not intervened.


==="Insanity"===
Dalek Caan made himself [[Dalek Controller]] and connected with the Dalek-human army. When Dalek Thay and Dalek Jast ordered the new Daleks to destroy the Doctor, the hybrids questioned orders. The Doctor explained that he got in the way of the gamma strike which had brought them to life. His [[DNA]] had become mixed with theirs, giving them a dose of Time Lord freedom. A battle broke out between two Cult members and the Dalek-humans. Jast and Thay were destroyed. Only Caan remained; realising that the hybrids had been tampered with, he exterminated the entire race of "Dalek-humans".
[[file:Cult_of_Skaro.jpg|thumb|Caan with the rest of the [[Cult of Skaro|Cult]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')]]


Dalek Caan teleported to the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]], despite it being time locked. Once there, he found and saved [[Davros]], something which the Doctor himself had failed to do. After the Daleks moved Earth to the [[Medusa Cascade]] in 2009, Dalek Caan resided on the Dalek spaceship, giving cryptic information to Davros.
Caan was thus left the last member of the Cult. The Doctor and Caan himself believed him to be the last of the ''entire'' Dalek species. The Doctor confronted him and offered Caan help and compassion because he didn't want genocide. Unwilling to accept the help of the Doctor, Caan activated an emergency temporal shift and escaped. ([[TV]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]'')


The [[Supreme One|Supreme Dalek]] on board the spacecraft claimed that Caan was insane, a notion which Davros dismissed, claiming that nothing would be possible without Caan. This shows Davros had a certain amount of respect for Caan. However, Davros acknowledged that he had become mad due to the strain of time-traveling directly into the Time War, corroborated by Caan's insane laughter and talking in seemingly precognitive riddles in an almost sing-song voice. His battle armor was also badly damaged; the upper dome completely gone and the armor opened up to show the Dalek Caan mutant. The gun and sucker attachment were also permanently extended, if seemingly unusable. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'')
By one account, Caan's temporal shift left him safe in the Doctor's present era. He later chased the Tenth Doctor through time when the TARDIS' [[artron energy]] was low. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Dalek Battle Through Time Game (game)}}) However, by most accounts, Caan ended up in the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}, et al.)


===The Prophecy===
=== Rescuing Davros ===
Following the movement of Earth to the [[Medusa Cascade]], Caan made a prophecy, speaking of the coming of a "three fold man", of "The Doctor's soul" being revealed, and that the "[[Children of Time]] would gather" and "one would die". The "three fold man" referred to the Doctor, the [[Meta-Crisis Doctor]], and the "Doctor-Donna", the latter two having been created when [[Donna Noble]] touched [[The Doctor's hand|the Doctor's spare hand]], which had moments before been used as a repository for the Doctor's [[Regeneration]] energy, resulting in the Meta-Crisis Doctor's creation, and Donna subsequently receiving the mind of a Time Lord. The "Children of Time" were [[Rose Tyler|Rose]], [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]], [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]], [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]], [[Captain Jack Harkness|Captain Jack]], and [[Martha Jones|Martha]] who had all traveled with the Doctor at some point beforehand. The Doctor's soul was revealed as being a man who refused to use weapons but molded his companions into weapons as Davros claimed when Jack, Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie and separately Martha were threatening to end a great deal of lives in order to stop the Daleks and their plans. Their threats were all foiled when the Supreme Dalek had them teleported to the vault. The Meta-Crisis Doctor and Donna arrived to try and stop Davros, who incapacitated them both. However, Donna's Time Lord mind, having lain dormant, was "jumpstarted" by Davros's attack. Using her human ingenuity coupled with her Time Lord knowledge, she deactivated the Reality Bomb and disabled Davros and his Daleks.
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The emergency temporal shift took Dalek Caan to the first year of the [[Time War]], making him the first being to have breached the [[time lock]]. The [[Could've Been King]]s tore apart his casing. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dalek Caan (short story)|Dalek Caan]]'') He saved [[Davros]] from death in the jaws of the [[Nightmare Child]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Third Wise Man (short story)|The Third Wise Man]]'') but at a great cost: Dalek Caan saw the whole of time and space, gaining the ability to see both the past, present and future with great clarity. He and Davros then created the [[New Dalek Empire]] using cells from Davros' own body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') Witnessing the whole of time and space drove Caan mad and he realised just how destructive his race was. He secretly began to plan for the Daleks to meet their end at the hands of the Doctor. He told no one about his secret plan to undermine the new empire he helped create by assisting the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') In the presence of Davros and the new Daleks, he almost constantly chuckled from inside his wrecked battle armour and presented precognitive riddles in an almost sing-song voice. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') Meanwhile, the New Dalek Empire forged forward with a plot to [[stolen planets|steal planets]], align them inside the [[Medusa Cascade]], and use them to power a [[reality bomb]] in conjunction with the ''[[Crucible]]'' [[Crucible energy core|energy core]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')


Davros demanded to know why Caan had not foreseen their defeat, which Caan replied to with mad giggling. The Doctor deduced that Caan had foreseen these events, and manipulated the timelines, bringing events to their conclusion. Caan did not admit to this, but said he "only helped." When a stunned Davros accused Caan of betraying the Daleks, Caan replied that he had seen the Daleks: He had witnessed the evil of his kind throughout all of time of space and how many innocent lives were massacred at the hands of his race, and had decreed ''no more''.
The [[Supreme One|Supreme Dalek]] of the New Empire regarded Dalek Caan as an insane "abomination", but Davros defended him and demanded respect for Caan. Neither knew that Caan was working against them all. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'')


Dalek Caan pressured the Meta-Crisis Doctor to destroy the Daleks, which he did, as they were too much of a threat to the Multiverse. Through the Meta-Crisis Doctor's machinations, the Crucible itself began to explode. Caan was last seen on the exploding Crucible with Davros, reminding the Doctor before he left that "One will still die." His fate, like that of Davros, remains unrevealed though he likely died in the explosion given that he felt the Daleks needed to be destroyed and showed no signs of trying to escape. Dalek Caan, like Dalek Sec before him, felt remorse for his actions of murder, and possibly mourned for the victims of the Daleks.
=== The Prophecy ===
Following the movement of [[Earth]] to the [[Medusa Cascade]], Caan prophesied of the coming of a "three-fold man", of "the Doctor's soul" being revealed, that the "[[Children of Time]] would gather" and "one would die". The "three-fold man" referred to the Doctor, the "[[Meta-Crisis Doctor]]", and the "Doctor-Donna". The last two were created when [[Donna Noble]] touched [[The Doctor's hand|the Doctor's spare hand]], which had recently been used as a repository for the Doctor's [[regeneration energy]]. This created the Meta-Crisis Doctor. Donna subsequently received the mind of a Time Lord. The "Children of Time" were [[Rose Tyler]], [[Jackie Tyler]], [[Mickey Smith]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Captain Jack Harkness]] and [[Martha Jones]], who had each travelled with the Doctor. The Doctor's soul was revealed as a man who refused to use weapons but moulded his companions into them; Jack, Sarah Jane, Mickey, Jackie and Martha each threatened destruction to stop the Daleks. Their threats were all foiled when the Supreme Dalek had them teleported to [[The Vault (The Stolen Earth)|the Vault]].


Apparently, the companion who "died" was Donna, whose memories of her travels with the Doctor had to be erased to save her from burning out from the Time Lord knowledge that she carried. Should Donna ever remember her travels, the full knowledge would return, and destroy her. The Doctor told her family that the Donna she had become was dead. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
The Meta-Crisis Doctor and Donna arrived to try and stop Davros, who incapacitated them both. However, Donna's Time Lord mind, having lain dormant, was "jump-started" by Davros' attack. Using her human ingenuity coupled with her Time Lord knowledge, she: deactivated the reality bomb by closing all of the [[Z-Neutrino]] energy relay loops by using an [[internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop]]; disabled Davros with a [[bio-electric dampening field]] with a [[retrogressive arc inversion]] and his Daleks with a [[trip stitch circuit-breaker]] in the [[psycho-kinetic threshold manipulator]]; and locked the Daleks' weaponry in a [[self-replicating energy blindfold matrix]] through [[macrotransmission of a K-filter wavelength]].


==Personality==
When Davros demanded to know why Dalek Caan had not foreseen their defeat, Caan replied with mad giggling. The Doctor realised that Caan ''had'' foreseen these events, and had even manipulated the timelines, binding Donna and the Doctor together to fulfil them. Caan said he "only helped" and that "this would always have happened". When Davros accused Caan of betraying the Daleks, Caan replied that rather, he had witnessed the evil of his kind throughout all of time and space, and how many innocent lives were massacred by his race. Even as Davros rebuilt the Daleks, Caan privately had decreed "no more".
[[file:Dalek_cult_of_skaro_-_caan.jpg|thumb|Dalek Caan's recognition code. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')]]
Dalek Caan had a mind of his own and could think for himself, as that was part of the Cult of Skaro pact-for Daleks to imagine and think as their enemies thought. Unlike most Daleks who always obeyed their superiors orders, Caan was independant and capable of making his own decisions as well as disobeying higher ranking Daleks. He was the first one to question the Dalek Sec-Hybrid and convinced Daleks Jast and Thay to overthrow him. ([[DW]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'')


After flying into the Time War, Dalek Caan lost his sanity and had a habit of giggling madly. However he was able to forsee the future with perfect accuracy due to the fact that he had seen the whole of time and space. Davros noted that even the Supreme Dalek didn't dare to contradict Caan's prophecies. However, though Caan had never lied about the future he did not always reveal the whole truth. Though he had foreseen that the Doctor and his companions would defeat the Dalek's he made no effort to stop them. Caan also made prophecies in an almost sing-song voice.
Dalek Caan pressured the Meta-Crisis Doctor to destroy the Daleks forever, which he did by blasting back the [[Dalekanium power feed]]s. Caan, being unable to move, remained aboard the exploding ''Crucible'' with Davros, reminding the Doctor before he left that "one [would] still die." He was then consumed by the flames, ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') though he had previously predicted that he would "dance through the fire". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dalek Caan (short story)|Dalek Caan]]'')


Despite his madness Caan was cunning enough to fool Davros throughout the whole Medusa Cascade incident and betray him, revealing that he was helping the Doctor. Ironically in helping the Doctor defeat the Daleks, he truly thought like his enemy did: thinking like the Doctor on how to defeat the Daleks and how to help the Doctor do it. Caan was also manipulative and the Doctor noted that he had been manipulating the timelines ever since he rescued Davros from the Time War. Caan was also shown to be quite humble, at least after his change of heart, telling the Doctor that the defeat of the Daleks was inevitable and that he had only helped rather than been directly responsible for it. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]]'')
Apparently, the companion who "died" was DoctorDonna, whose memories of her travels with the Doctor had to be erased to save her from burning out from the Time Lord knowledge that she carried. Should Donna ever remember her travels, the knowledge would destroy her. The Doctor told her family that the Donna she had become was dead. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')


Despite, or perhaps, from a Dalek's point of view, because of his insanity, Caan felt regret for everything the Daleks had done and therefore decided to help the Doctor defeat them. Most Daleks were incapable of feeling any emotions apart from hatred but Caan was an exception and was capable of feeling remorse. Having seen the whole of time and space when he returned to the Time War, he realised that the Daleks and their creator were little more than evil monsters. Disgusted with them, and himself for being one of them, Caan decided to try to put an end to the Daleks and made no effort to save himself when the Crucible was about to explode; instead he sadly warned the Doctor that one of his companions would die. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]]'') Ironically he was the first member of the Cult of Skaro to consider turning against Dalek Sec. ([[DW]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'')
=== Legacy ===
Through the projections of [[the Matrix]], the [[Time War]]-era [[Time Lord]]s became aware of post-war Dalek activity, including Caan's incursion into the Time War. They were alarmed by how a single bronze Dalek, even if it had enhanced mental capacity, was able to break through a time lock and so began to investigate the matter. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')
 
== Personality ==
Dalek Caan had a mind of his own and thought for himself. That was part of the [[Cult of Skaro]] mandate: to imagine and think as their enemies thought. Unlike most Daleks, who always obeyed their superiors, Caan was independent and made his own decisions and disobeyed higher-ranking Daleks. However, Caan still believed in the notion of Dalek purity and supremacy, perhaps more than the other members of the Cult of Skaro, which may have influenced his betrayal of his superior, who had both disagreed with the idea and forsook his own purity. He was the first to question the Dalek Sec-hybrid and convinced Dalek Jast and Dalek Thay to overthrow him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]'')
 
After flying into the Time War, Dalek Caan lost his sanity and giggled madly. He foresaw the future with perfect accuracy because he had seen the whole of time and space. Davros noted that even the Supreme Dalek didn't dare to contradict Caan's prophecies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') Though Caan had never lied about the future he did not always reveal the whole truth. Though he had foreseen that the Doctor and his companions would defeat the Daleks, he made no effort to stop them. Caan made prophecies in an almost sing-song voice. Caan revealed that not only did he foresee certain events, but he manipulated the timelines to help fulfil them by reuniting the Doctor and [[Donna Noble]]. He also pushed the [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor]] to destroy the Daleks and thus fulfil his prophecy of their destruction.
 
Dalek Caan was cunning enough to fool Davros throughout the War in the Medusa Cascade and betray him. In helping the Doctor defeat the Daleks, he truly thought as his enemy did: thinking like the Doctor on how to defeat the Daleks and even how to help the Doctor do it. Caan was also somewhat manipulative and the Doctor noted that he had been manipulating the timelines ever since he had rescued Davros from the Time War. However, Caan was also quite humble, at least after his change of heart, telling the Doctor that the defeat of the Daleks was foreseeable and that he had only helped rather than been directly responsible for it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
 
Dalek Caan felt regret for everything the Daleks had done and decided to help the Doctor defeat them. Most Daleks were only capable of feeling hatred or fear, but Caan was an exception and felt remorse for the slaughter the Daleks had committed throughout time and space. After he returned to the Time War, Caan realised that the Daleks and their creator were evil monsters. Disgusted with them and himself for being one of them, Caan chose to put an end to the Daleks and made no effort to save himself when the ''Crucible'' exploded. Instead, he warned the Doctor one of his companions would die. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
 
== Other information ==
During the [[Last Great Time War]], the [[Dalek Time Strategist (The Shadow Vortex)|Dalek Time Strategist]], knowing the future of the Daleks, mentioned Caan and the Cult of Skaro as a whole to the [[Eighth Doctor]], dubbing Caan "the False Prophet". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)|Restoration of the Daleks]]'')
 
Dalek Caan, as with all Daleks that originated from the [[Last Great Time War]], possessed [[Dalek writing|markings]] below his [[eyepiece]] to identify him. Caan was the fourth one to speak out of the Cult when they introduced themselves to the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
 
Caan breached the time lock being the only being to do so. It cost him his sanity, leading the [[Supreme Dalek]] to call him an abomination. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'')
 
Caan was the last to die out of the cult. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
 
Caan's voice was originally the deepest of the [[Cult of Skaro]]. However, after the Cult revolted against [[Dalek Sec]], Caan's voice changed to the same pitch as Sec's. Caan took over as leader of the cult following this. ([[TV]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]'')
 
Given the Doctor and Caan's comments, like [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]] and her son [[Adam Lloyd|Adam]], Caan gained the ability to manipulate timelines as well as [[precognition]] from breaking through the [[time lock]]. While he admitted to using this to reunite [[Donna Noble]] and the [[Tenth Doctor]], he said he only helped, that the events would've happened even without him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* In the script for ''Doomsday'', Caan's role is designated "Dalek 4". In ''Daleks in Manhattan''/''Evolution of the Daleks'', Caan is designated "Bronze Dalek #1". Finally, ''The Stolen Earth''/''Journey's End'' uses the given name "Dalek Caan".
* Dalek Caan holds the record for most appearances by an individual Dalek with six episodes.
* Dalek Caan was believed by the [[Tenth Doctor]] to be the only Dalek in existence, following the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]''. At that point, the Doctor still erroneously considered the [[Dalek Asylum]] to be merely a legend. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] would learn that this "dumping ground" did exist, containing some Daleks old enough to have encountered the [[First Doctor]].
* Dalek Caan is the second Dalek since [[Dalek Sec]] to realise the evil of his kind and turn on them completely by his own free will and without help from genetic manipulation.
* In ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]'' and ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]'', Caan's recognition code changes between Thay's and Jast's. This is a production error. All three Daleks share the same outward appearance, minus the recognition code sections on their casings, which are relatively small and easy to overlook. It is likely that the production crews confused the Dalek builds during filming and did not catch their mistakes.
* The explanation behind Dalek Caan's change in voice is revealed in [[David Tennant]]'s corresponding video diary for ''Evolution of the Daleks''. It features a conversation with the voice of the Daleks, [[Nicholas Briggs]], who explains he initially chose a gruff portrayal for Caan because Caan only had one line in his debut. It was hard on his voice to continue the gruff portrayal when Caan had a larger role in the series, and so he worked out a solution with [[executive producer]] [[Russell T Davies]] to have Dalek Caan's voice go up to a much higher register when he usurped Dalek Sec as the commander of the Cult of Skaro, as his personality changed with the new rank.
* Caan, along with Thay and Jast, is erroneously depicted as a [[Elite Guard Dalek|black-domed Dalek]] on the "[[Cult of Skaro]]" card from ''[[Doctor Who: Battles in Time]]''.


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Dalek Caan was one of four Daleks in the Cult of Skaro. Like the other members of the Cult, he was tasked to think creatively, like the Daleks's enemies, to find new ways of defeating them. (TV: Doomsday)

After two defeats by the Tenth Doctor, (TV: Doomsday, Evolution of the Daleks) Caan was thought to be the only Dalek remaining in the universe. To create a new Dalek empire, he accomplished what was thought to be impossible: he breached the time-lock surrounding the Last Great Time War and extracted Davros, the creator of the Daleks, just before he could be destroyed by the Nightmare Child. (TV: The Stolen Earth, PROSE: The Third Wise Man) This action cost Caan his mind but allowed him to see into the infinite complexity of time and manipulate the timelines. (TV: The Stolen Earth, Journey's End) Caan was presumably killed, along with virtually the entire New Dalek Empire which he founded, when he betrayed his own kind. (TV: Journey's End)

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Origins[[edit] | [edit source]]

Originally, Dalek Caan was a bronze Dalek and the Attack Squad Leader of the Thirtieth Assault Group, before being chosen to be part of the Cult of Skaro - a secret order established by the Dalek Emperor prior to the Last Great Time War. (PROSE: Birth of a Legend) Its four members "dared to have names." According to the Tenth Doctor, who initially believed them to be a legend, "their job was to imagine, [to] think as the enemy thinks... all to find new ways of killing," none of which was denied by the Cult. (TV: Doomsday)

Last Great Time War[[edit] | [edit source]]

During the Time War, the Cult, including Caan, avoided the front lines of battle and instead stole the Genesis Ark, a prison ship that was constructed by the Time Lords to imprison millions of Daleks via dimensional transcendentalism. The Cult took the Genesis Ark and fled the war by escaping into the Void by using a unique and extremely advanced Void Ship. Their plan was to free their imprisoned brethren from the Ark and re-establish the Dalek Empire on Earth. (TV: Doomsday)

Battle of Canary Wharf[[edit] | [edit source]]

Caan with the rest of the Cult. (TV: Doomsday)

Dalek Caan and the other three Cult members emerged from the Void with the Genesis Ark in London in 2007. (TV: Army of Ghosts) There, they sought to find a time traveller whom they could trick or force to open the Genesis Ark for them.

The Daleks scanned Rajesh Singh's brain and learned another species, the Cybermen, had invaded Earth. The Cyber-Leader declared war while the Cult declared "pest control". Dalek Caan took part in the Battle of Canary Wharf, in which the Genesis Ark released a very large number of Daleks onto Earth. Because they had been through the void, they were covered in void stuff. The Tenth Doctor opened the rift the Cybermen had come through and reversed it, sucking in all beings covered in "Void stuff". As all the newly freed Daleks were sucked into the Void, Dalek Caan and the three other Cult members activated an emergency temporal shift and escaped. (TV: Doomsday)

The Final Experiment[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Cult ended up in New York City in 1930. They recruited Mr Diagoras, the head of construction for the Empire State Building. He kidnapped people for their research and for the "Final Experiment". Dalek Caan served as the Cult's liaison with Diagoras. Caan took him to their leader, Dalek Sec, who assimilated Diagoras in his casing to become the first Dalek-human hybrid. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan)

Dalek Caan attacks a Hooverville with Dalek Jast. (TV: Evolution of the Daleks)

After Dalek Sec became a Dalek-human, he decided that their creator, Davros, was wrong about removing emotions. In search of the Doctor, Caan attacked the humans at Hooverville alongside Jast and personally exterminated Solomon when he tried to speak to the Daleks, much to Sec's shock. Caan was then forced to restrain his urge to kill the Doctor when Sec ordered that he be brought to him alive. However, Dalek Caan and the other members decided the plan Sec had for the new Daleks was unacceptable; it would change everything that made a Dalek a Dalek and they would no longer be supreme. Daleks Caan, Jast and Thay mutinied, imprisoned Sec, and poured a different gene solution into the Dalek-humans to the one Sec had wanted. The resulting force of hybrid "Dalek-humans" would have turned out exactly like Daleks, against Dalek Sec's plans, had the Doctor not intervened.

Dalek Caan made himself Dalek Controller and connected with the Dalek-human army. When Dalek Thay and Dalek Jast ordered the new Daleks to destroy the Doctor, the hybrids questioned orders. The Doctor explained that he got in the way of the gamma strike which had brought them to life. His DNA had become mixed with theirs, giving them a dose of Time Lord freedom. A battle broke out between two Cult members and the Dalek-humans. Jast and Thay were destroyed. Only Caan remained; realising that the hybrids had been tampered with, he exterminated the entire race of "Dalek-humans".

Caan was thus left the last member of the Cult. The Doctor and Caan himself believed him to be the last of the entire Dalek species. The Doctor confronted him and offered Caan help and compassion because he didn't want genocide. Unwilling to accept the help of the Doctor, Caan activated an emergency temporal shift and escaped. (TV: Evolution of the Daleks)

By one account, Caan's temporal shift left him safe in the Doctor's present era. He later chased the Tenth Doctor through time when the TARDIS' artron energy was low. (GAME: Dalek Battle Through Time Game [+]Loading...["Dalek Battle Through Time Game (game)"]) However, by most accounts, Caan ended up in the Last Great Time War. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"], et al.)

Rescuing Davros[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Dalek Caan (short story)

The emergency temporal shift took Dalek Caan to the first year of the Time War, making him the first being to have breached the time lock. The Could've Been Kings tore apart his casing. (COMIC: Dalek Caan) He saved Davros from death in the jaws of the Nightmare Child, (PROSE: The Third Wise Man) but at a great cost: Dalek Caan saw the whole of time and space, gaining the ability to see both the past, present and future with great clarity. He and Davros then created the New Dalek Empire using cells from Davros' own body. (TV: The Stolen Earth) Witnessing the whole of time and space drove Caan mad and he realised just how destructive his race was. He secretly began to plan for the Daleks to meet their end at the hands of the Doctor. He told no one about his secret plan to undermine the new empire he helped create by assisting the Doctor. (TV: Journey's End) In the presence of Davros and the new Daleks, he almost constantly chuckled from inside his wrecked battle armour and presented precognitive riddles in an almost sing-song voice. (TV: The Stolen Earth) Meanwhile, the New Dalek Empire forged forward with a plot to steal planets, align them inside the Medusa Cascade, and use them to power a reality bomb in conjunction with the Crucible energy core. (TV: Journey's End)

The Supreme Dalek of the New Empire regarded Dalek Caan as an insane "abomination", but Davros defended him and demanded respect for Caan. Neither knew that Caan was working against them all. (TV: The Stolen Earth)

The Prophecy[[edit] | [edit source]]

Following the movement of Earth to the Medusa Cascade, Caan prophesied of the coming of a "three-fold man", of "the Doctor's soul" being revealed, that the "Children of Time would gather" and "one would die". The "three-fold man" referred to the Doctor, the "Meta-Crisis Doctor", and the "Doctor-Donna". The last two were created when Donna Noble touched the Doctor's spare hand, which had recently been used as a repository for the Doctor's regeneration energy. This created the Meta-Crisis Doctor. Donna subsequently received the mind of a Time Lord. The "Children of Time" were Rose Tyler, Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith, Sarah Jane Smith, Captain Jack Harkness and Martha Jones, who had each travelled with the Doctor. The Doctor's soul was revealed as a man who refused to use weapons but moulded his companions into them; Jack, Sarah Jane, Mickey, Jackie and Martha each threatened destruction to stop the Daleks. Their threats were all foiled when the Supreme Dalek had them teleported to the Vault.

The Meta-Crisis Doctor and Donna arrived to try and stop Davros, who incapacitated them both. However, Donna's Time Lord mind, having lain dormant, was "jump-started" by Davros' attack. Using her human ingenuity coupled with her Time Lord knowledge, she: deactivated the reality bomb by closing all of the Z-Neutrino energy relay loops by using an internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop; disabled Davros with a bio-electric dampening field with a retrogressive arc inversion and his Daleks with a trip stitch circuit-breaker in the psycho-kinetic threshold manipulator; and locked the Daleks' weaponry in a self-replicating energy blindfold matrix through macrotransmission of a K-filter wavelength.

When Davros demanded to know why Dalek Caan had not foreseen their defeat, Caan replied with mad giggling. The Doctor realised that Caan had foreseen these events, and had even manipulated the timelines, binding Donna and the Doctor together to fulfil them. Caan said he "only helped" and that "this would always have happened". When Davros accused Caan of betraying the Daleks, Caan replied that rather, he had witnessed the evil of his kind throughout all of time and space, and how many innocent lives were massacred by his race. Even as Davros rebuilt the Daleks, Caan privately had decreed "no more".

Dalek Caan pressured the Meta-Crisis Doctor to destroy the Daleks forever, which he did by blasting back the Dalekanium power feeds. Caan, being unable to move, remained aboard the exploding Crucible with Davros, reminding the Doctor before he left that "one [would] still die." He was then consumed by the flames, (TV: Journey's End) though he had previously predicted that he would "dance through the fire". (COMIC: Dalek Caan)

Apparently, the companion who "died" was DoctorDonna, whose memories of her travels with the Doctor had to be erased to save her from burning out from the Time Lord knowledge that she carried. Should Donna ever remember her travels, the knowledge would destroy her. The Doctor told her family that the Donna she had become was dead. (TV: Journey's End)

Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

Through the projections of the Matrix, the Time War-era Time Lords became aware of post-war Dalek activity, including Caan's incursion into the Time War. They were alarmed by how a single bronze Dalek, even if it had enhanced mental capacity, was able to break through a time lock and so began to investigate the matter. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

Dalek Caan had a mind of his own and thought for himself. That was part of the Cult of Skaro mandate: to imagine and think as their enemies thought. Unlike most Daleks, who always obeyed their superiors, Caan was independent and made his own decisions and disobeyed higher-ranking Daleks. However, Caan still believed in the notion of Dalek purity and supremacy, perhaps more than the other members of the Cult of Skaro, which may have influenced his betrayal of his superior, who had both disagreed with the idea and forsook his own purity. He was the first to question the Dalek Sec-hybrid and convinced Dalek Jast and Dalek Thay to overthrow him. (TV: Evolution of the Daleks)

After flying into the Time War, Dalek Caan lost his sanity and giggled madly. He foresaw the future with perfect accuracy because he had seen the whole of time and space. Davros noted that even the Supreme Dalek didn't dare to contradict Caan's prophecies. (TV: The Stolen Earth) Though Caan had never lied about the future he did not always reveal the whole truth. Though he had foreseen that the Doctor and his companions would defeat the Daleks, he made no effort to stop them. Caan made prophecies in an almost sing-song voice. Caan revealed that not only did he foresee certain events, but he manipulated the timelines to help fulfil them by reuniting the Doctor and Donna Noble. He also pushed the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor to destroy the Daleks and thus fulfil his prophecy of their destruction.

Dalek Caan was cunning enough to fool Davros throughout the War in the Medusa Cascade and betray him. In helping the Doctor defeat the Daleks, he truly thought as his enemy did: thinking like the Doctor on how to defeat the Daleks and even how to help the Doctor do it. Caan was also somewhat manipulative and the Doctor noted that he had been manipulating the timelines ever since he had rescued Davros from the Time War. However, Caan was also quite humble, at least after his change of heart, telling the Doctor that the defeat of the Daleks was foreseeable and that he had only helped rather than been directly responsible for it. (TV: Journey's End)

Dalek Caan felt regret for everything the Daleks had done and decided to help the Doctor defeat them. Most Daleks were only capable of feeling hatred or fear, but Caan was an exception and felt remorse for the slaughter the Daleks had committed throughout time and space. After he returned to the Time War, Caan realised that the Daleks and their creator were evil monsters. Disgusted with them and himself for being one of them, Caan chose to put an end to the Daleks and made no effort to save himself when the Crucible exploded. Instead, he warned the Doctor one of his companions would die. (TV: Journey's End)

Other information[[edit] | [edit source]]

During the Last Great Time War, the Dalek Time Strategist, knowing the future of the Daleks, mentioned Caan and the Cult of Skaro as a whole to the Eighth Doctor, dubbing Caan "the False Prophet". (AUDIO: Restoration of the Daleks)

Dalek Caan, as with all Daleks that originated from the Last Great Time War, possessed markings below his eyepiece to identify him. Caan was the fourth one to speak out of the Cult when they introduced themselves to the Doctor. (TV: Doomsday)

Caan breached the time lock being the only being to do so. It cost him his sanity, leading the Supreme Dalek to call him an abomination. (TV: The Stolen Earth)

Caan was the last to die out of the cult. (TV: Journey's End)

Caan's voice was originally the deepest of the Cult of Skaro. However, after the Cult revolted against Dalek Sec, Caan's voice changed to the same pitch as Sec's. Caan took over as leader of the cult following this. (TV: Evolution of the Daleks)

Given the Doctor and Caan's comments, like Eve and her son Adam, Caan gained the ability to manipulate timelines as well as precognition from breaking through the time lock. While he admitted to using this to reunite Donna Noble and the Tenth Doctor, he said he only helped, that the events would've happened even without him. (TV: Journey's End)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • In the script for Doomsday, Caan's role is designated "Dalek 4". In Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks, Caan is designated "Bronze Dalek #1". Finally, The Stolen Earth/Journey's End uses the given name "Dalek Caan".
  • Dalek Caan holds the record for most appearances by an individual Dalek with six episodes.
  • Dalek Caan was believed by the Tenth Doctor to be the only Dalek in existence, following the events of TV: Evolution of the Daleks. At that point, the Doctor still erroneously considered the Dalek Asylum to be merely a legend. The Eleventh Doctor would learn that this "dumping ground" did exist, containing some Daleks old enough to have encountered the First Doctor.
  • Dalek Caan is the second Dalek since Dalek Sec to realise the evil of his kind and turn on them completely by his own free will and without help from genetic manipulation.
  • In Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks, Caan's recognition code changes between Thay's and Jast's. This is a production error. All three Daleks share the same outward appearance, minus the recognition code sections on their casings, which are relatively small and easy to overlook. It is likely that the production crews confused the Dalek builds during filming and did not catch their mistakes.
  • The explanation behind Dalek Caan's change in voice is revealed in David Tennant's corresponding video diary for Evolution of the Daleks. It features a conversation with the voice of the Daleks, Nicholas Briggs, who explains he initially chose a gruff portrayal for Caan because Caan only had one line in his debut. It was hard on his voice to continue the gruff portrayal when Caan had a larger role in the series, and so he worked out a solution with executive producer Russell T Davies to have Dalek Caan's voice go up to a much higher register when he usurped Dalek Sec as the commander of the Cult of Skaro, as his personality changed with the new rank.
  • Caan, along with Thay and Jast, is erroneously depicted as a black-domed Dalek on the "Cult of Skaro" card from Doctor Who: Battles in Time.