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| {{Infobox Individual
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| |individual name= The Wire
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| |image= [[image:WirePerspectiveShot.jpg|250px|]]
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| |home planet= [[Hermethica]]
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| |home era= [[1953]]
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| |appearances= [[TS]]: ''[[Tardisode 7]]''<br>[[DW]]: ''[[The Idiot's Lantern]]''
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| |actor= [[Maureen Lipman]]
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| {{quote|Now, are you sitting comfortably? Good, then we'll begin.|The Wire.|The Idiot's Lantern}}
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| '''The Wire''' was a criminal from the planet [[Hermethica]]. Sentenced to death and executed by its people, it managed to preserve itself as an energy being that escaped to Earth in 1953, through the communications device of one of its executioners, who was illegally recording the execution.
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| It concealed itself in [[television]] signals, transferring itself from set to set. It fed off the mental signals of the brains of [[Human]]s, paralysing them and then sucking out their energy with electrical tendrils ([[DW]]: ''[[The Idiot's Lantern]]''). This process would leave the victim mindless, as well as faceless. [[Rose Tyler]] suffered this fate when she started investigating the phenomenon. The victim's consciousness was retained intact, as seen when The Wire showed the Doctor a sampling of its victims on the televisions in Magpie's shop. The Wire used the image of a female [[wikipedia:Continuity Announcer|BBC continuity announcer]] to communicate with the outside world. It hoped to use this energy to manifest itself in its corporeal form once more.
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| The Wire stole the face of [[Mr Magpie]], who owned an [[Magpie Electricals|electrical shop]], and gave it back to him, giving him plans for then-future technologies (such as a portable television small enough to carry in one hand) and promising freedom to him after the completion of its simple two-phase plan: First, have Magpie sell cheap [[television]] sets all over North [[London]] so it could feed. Second, have Magpie connect the Wire (inside the portable television) to the television transmission tower at [[Alexandra Palace]] on [[Queen Elizabeth II]]'s coronation day, [[June]] 2nd, [[1953]]. Connected to the tower, the Wire could both transmit itself to the estimated three million viewers watching in the vicinity and transmit back energy it could use to re-constitute its corporeal body.
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| However, [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] was able to trap the Wire on a Betamax tape using a makeshift video recorder. The Wire's victims were then restored to normality. The Doctor seemed confident that the Wire would remain trapped, but said that he would tape over it, just to be safe. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Idiot's Lantern]]'')
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| The Wire may have returned in the aptly named [[The Beetee Incident|The Beetee Incident.]]
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| :''All additional information is recorded on page 92 of the book [[Creatures and Demons]] and in [[The Ultimate Monster Guide]].''
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| {{Series 2 aliens}}
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| {{Wikipedia|List of Doctor Who villains}}
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| [[Category:Criminals|Wire, The]] | | [[Category:Criminals|Wire, The]] |
| [[Category:Energy beings|Wire, The]] | | [[Category:Energy beings|Wire, The]] |
| [[Category:Tenth Doctor enemies|Wire, The]] | | [[Category:Tenth Doctor enemies|Wire, The]] |
| [[Category:Individuals of unknown species|Wire, The]] | | [[Category:Individuals of unknown species|Wire, The]] |
