Craig Owens

Craig Owens
Main aliases:	The Sofa Man Not-Mum
Species:	Human
Place of origin:	Earth
Appearances:	DW: The Lodger DW: Closing Time DW: Up All Night
Main actor:	James Corden

Craig Owens lived and worked in Colchester, England. In 2010, he rented a room to the Doctor (DW: The Lodger) and later helped him defeat the Cybermen. (DW: Closing Time)

Biography

First adventure with the Doctor

Craig placed an advert for a flatmate in a local shop window. The Doctor turned up on his doorstep later that day, thanks to a helpful note from a future Amy Pond. Since Amy was stuck in the TARDIS with no way to land it on her own and the Doctor knew the trouble was in the upstairs flat of Craig's building, he wanted to live there.

The Doctor turned up with a paper bag of cash and no luggage. Craig said he was "weird", but after trying one of the Doctor's impromptu omelets, agreed to let him stay. Craig learned to live with his strange habits and quirks, but was irritated at the Doctor's success at football and his interruption of an evening with Sophie.

Craig defied the Doctor's recommendation not to touch the dry rot on his living room ceiling. It knocked him out but he was saved by the timely intervention by the Doctor. When he woke, Craig learned the Doctor had gone to a planning meeting at his workplace and was working there. He looked in the Doctor's room and found a strange spinning contraption made of trash. After seeing the Doctor talk to a cat about the upstairs flat, he confronted the Doctor on the past three days and his resentment of his popularity, especially with Sophie. The Doctor headbutted Craig to telepathically explain his predicament and gain Craig's help confronting the enemy upstairs. Craig learned about the Doctor's origin on Gallifrey, his previous incarnations, Amy Pond, that the contraption was a scanner, that he had a TARDIS and that the upstairs flat was actually a disguised time ship.

Amy told them someone was currently upstairs and they realised it was Sophie. After saving her and learning the ship's intention, the Doctor was chosen as its pilot. Craig realised the ship had refused his help because it needed someone to pilot it away and he wanted to stay. He put his hand on the ship's controls and said what made him want to stay, blurting out his love for Sophie. Sophie told him she loved him too and they kissed.

After their escape from the ship, Craig and Sophie decided to visit Paris and begin a serious relationship. The Doctor tried to leave quietly, but they noticed and stopped him to say goodbye. Craig gave him his keys to the flat, and the Doctor said he would visit them. Having been inside his head, Craig knew the Doctor would never visit them again, but wanted him to keep them as a memento.

After the Doctor left, Craig remembered their time together fondly. He kept a photograph of him on his fridge and spelled out "THE DOCTOR ROCKS" with magnetic letters. (DW: The Lodger)

Return of The Doctor

Some time later, Craig and Sophie had moved and had a child, Alfie. However, they had yet to wed. (DW: Closing Time)

Because Sophie was exhausted from constanting taking care of Alfie, she decided to take a holiday with a freind. This meant he would be left to care for their son, alone. Though she left emergency numbers in case he had trouble, Craig called them all, saying he didn't need their help. By this point Craig had put Alfie to bed. However, when answering a knock at the door, Craig found the Doctor outside; he thought he had been called by Sophie. Once the Doctor cleared up his confusion, Craig tried to keep him quiet as he began inspecting the house. However, he was unable to prevent him from waking Alfie.

Explaining his situation to the Doctor, Craig told him about his doubts. Strangely, he heard the Doctor tell him he could speak "baby" and that Alife prefered to be called "Storegeddon, Dark Lord of All" over his real name. The Doctor explained he was off to see the Alignment of Exodor and that he was on a farewell tour. However, before he could question the Doctor further, Craig was shushed. He then spent the entire night singing to Alfie to try getting him to sleep; Alfie thought he was crying and didn't get any sleep.

The next day, Craig found the Doctor working in a local shop. Realising the Doctor was investigating, Craig insisted on helping him. They discovered Cybermen had been kidnapping people and converting them with power stolen by a Cybermat. Capturing the Cybermat, Craig entered a life-and-death battle with the little machine once it stopped playing possum. He comicly subdued it with the Doctor's help. Though the Doctor tried pushing him away by explaining how dangerous he is, Craig conforted him by explaining how Earth would be in ruins if he didn't help.

The next morning, Craig found the Doctor had left to find the Cybermen without any help. Following "the idiot" back to the department store, Craig learned the Doctor had gone to the changing rooms to search. Finding the tunnel the Doctor uncovered, Craig followed it down to the Cybership. The Cybermen tried turning him into their Cyber-Controller, but when Alfie began to cry, the upsurge of emotions allowed him to overcome the conversion. The emotional feedback made the Cybermen and their ship explode. He escaped with the Doctor via a teleport.

Getting a new attire, Craig learned one of the staff had mistaken himself and the Doctor for a gay couple. Before he could clear up her confusion, Craig saw the Doctor had left already. Returning home, Craig found the Doctor used what was left of his time to clean up the mess created from their fight with the Cybermat. As a parting gift for the Doctor, Craig gave him a Stetson. When Sophie returned, both were shocked by Alfie's first word: "Doctor". (DW: Closing Time)