Perkins (Mummy on the Orient Express)

Perkins
Species:	Humanoid
Job:	Engineer
Appearance:	Mummy on the Orient Express
Main actor:	Frank Skinner

Perkins was the Chief Engineer on the space-faring Orient Express. He assisted the Twelfth Doctor in combating the Foretold, starting a timer whenever the Foretold attacked. He handed the Doctor a passenger manifest, a plan of the train and a list of stops for the previous six months. Later, he examined the history of the passengers to see if there was a pattern to the Foretold's attacks. While solving why it took the Foretold exactly sixty-six seconds to kill its victims, Perkins revealed that moving energy out of phase took "about a minute", and the Doctor realised that the Foretold had been using technology to take its victims out of phase. After the threat was over, the Doctor subtly offered him a chance to travel with him, but Perkins declined. (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express)

Behind the scenes

• Perkins' character was based on a real person of the same name, a friend of writer Jamie Mathieson, from whom he extracted information about the Orient Express. (DWM 478)
• On 14 December 2014, Frank Skinner appeared in character as Perkins in a video wishing Doctor Who fans a Merry Christmas.