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| '''Dr. Martha Jones''' (later '''Martha Smith-Jones''' after marrying [[Mickey Smith]]) was a British freelance alien hunter who began her career as a medical student before becoming a companion to [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] and later a medical officer with [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]], who was also attached briefly to [[Torchwood 3]]. | | '''Dr. Martha Jones''' (later '''Martha Smith-Jones''' after marrying [[Mickey Smith]]) was a British freelance alien hunter who began her career as a medical student before becoming a companion to [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] and later a medical officer with [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]], who was also attached briefly to [[Torchwood 3]]. |
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| ==Biography==
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| ===Early Life===
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| [[File:Martha, Street.jpg|thumb|left|Martha talks to her family on the phone. ([[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'')|200px]]
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| Martha Jones was born in [[1986]] to [[Francine Jones|Francine]] and [[Clive Jones]]. Martha had an older sister called [[Tish Jones|Tish]], a younger brother, [[Leo Jones|Leo]], and later a niece, [[Keisha Jones]]. Leo accidently pushed Martha off the swing when she was a child and she broke her arm. Going in the ambulance and having her arm plastered fasinated Martha and she was determined to be a doctor. Martha's parents divorced when Martha was quite young, and she, along with her brother and sister, grew up with their mother, where Martha slept in the smallest room ([[NSA]]: ''[[Wooden Heart]]''). A few of Martha's memories and pictures of Martha as a young child were briefly noted by the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Lazarus Experiment]]'')
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| In [[2007]], Martha lost her cousin [[Adeola Oshodi]] during the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]]. Martha studied medicine and worked as a student doctor at the [[Royal Hope Hospital]] under [[B. Stoker|Mr Stoker]] in [[London]], [[England]]. Martha was constantly forced to play peace-keeper amidst constant family arguments. ([[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'')
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| ===With [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]]===
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| ====First Meeting====
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| [[File:Martha, Doctor, Street.jpg|thumb|right|Martha meets [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] on the street. ([[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'')|200px]]
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| In [[2008]], Martha was working at the Royal Hope Hospital on the day it was transported to [[the Moon]] by the [[Judoon]]. Remaining calm while those around her panicked, Martha worked alongside [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] (who was posing as a patient named [[Aliases of the Doctor#John Smith|John Smith]]) to track down the [[Plasmavore]], "[[Florence Finnegan]]", that the Judoon were searching for.
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| As the oxygen in the [[hospital]] ran out, Martha gave her last breaths to resuscitate the unconscious Doctor, who prevented Florence's plan while the Judoon returned the hospital to Earth. Later that evening, a recovered Martha was approached by the Doctor, who revealed that he was a [[Time Lord]] and invited her to join him for a single trip through time and space in the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. She accepted, although the Doctor insisted that he had not brought her aboard as a replacement for his previous companion, [[Rose Tyler]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'')
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| ===[[Series 3 (Doctor Who) |Travels]] ===
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| [[File:Martha.jpg|thumb|left|Martha's first adventure ([[DW]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code]]'')|200px]]
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| On her first adventure, the Doctor took Martha back to meet [[William Shakespeare]]. Shakespeare became somewhat enamored with Martha, referring to her as his [[Wikipedia:Shakespeare's sonnets#The Dark Lady|"Dark Lady"]]. Together, Martha, Shakespeare and the Doctor used a "spell" to defeat a race of witch-like aliens known as the [[Carrionite]]s who were trying to change reality. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code]]'')
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| Martha's next adventure took her to the futuristic [[New Earth (planet)|New Earth]] where they landed in an area known as the Undercity. Upon learning that the Doctor had also visited New Earth with Rose, Martha became concerned that she was little more than a "rebound" companion. She was then separated from the Doctor after being kidnapped into [[the Motorway]] where she was attacked by the [[Macra]]. Upon being saved by the Doctor, Martha witnessed the death of the enigmatic [[Face of Boe]] and his final words "You Are Not Alone". As they departed New Earth, Martha learned about the [[Gallifrey|Doctor's home planet]] and the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Gridlock]]'')
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| The Doctor extended Martha's trip in the TARDIS once more taking them to 1930s [[New York City]], where they learned that the population of [[Hooverville]] were being transformed into [[pig slave]]s as part of the [[Cult of Skaro]]'s plans to build a race of human [[Dalek]]s. Martha was forced to kill the pig slaves in self-defence, but expressed remorse that they had once been human like herself. ([[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'' / ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'')
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| [[File:Martha, dalek.PNG|thumb|right|Martha meets a [[Dalek]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'')|200px]]
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| Upon the Cult of Skaro's defeat, the Doctor returned Martha home merely twelve hours after she left. He prepared to say goodbye, but overheard a TV news story about a man "changing what it meant to be human" and so decided to accompany her to the opening night of [[Richard Lazarus|Prof. Richard Lazarus]] device that could rejuvenate a human to youth. Upon discovering the disastrous effects of Lazarus' work, Martha, the Doctor, and Martha's sister Tish helped to trap and kill the monster Lazarus had become. Afterward, the Doctor offered Martha one more trip, but she refused on the basis that she no longer wanted to be just a passenger. The Doctor then invited her on-board the TARDIS as a full-time companion. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Lazarus Experiment]]'')
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| The Doctor and Martha answered a distress signal in the [[42nd century]] [[Torajii]] system; they found a crew and their ship falling towards the sun. The sun was actually a sentient being that was possessing the crew members and killing them off one-by-one. Believing she was going to die, Martha called her mother on an [[Superphone|upgraded mobile phone]] given to her by the Doctor. Eventually, Martha and the Doctor were able to render assistance and depart safely. ([[DW]]: ''[[42]]'')
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| [[File:Martha_1913.PNG|thumb|left|Martha as a servant in [[1913]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'')|195px]]
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| In order to escape the [[Family of Blood]], who were hunting the Time Lord, the Doctor used the [[Chameleon Arch]] to turn himself into a human being with no memories of his time as the Doctor. He became [[John Smith (Tenth Doctor)|John Smith]], a teacher at an [[England|English]] boys school in [[1913]], where Martha took a job as a maid. Martha watched helplessly as Smith fell in love with a nurse named [[Joan Redfern (TV character)|Joan Redfern]], expressing pain that he "had to go and fall in love with a human... and it wasn't me".
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| When the Family of Blood finally tracked them down, wreaking havoc on the town and school, Martha convinced John Smith to sacrifice his human life and love by reverting back to being the Doctor. The Doctor returned, defeating the Family of Blood, and leaving a heartbroken Joan, to rejoin Martha in the TARDIS. ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' / ''[[The Family of Blood]]'')
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| Martha and the Doctor travelled to an old house in [[Wester Drumlins]] where they encountered the [[Weeping Angel]]s. They were sent back to 1960s London by the Angels, where Martha assisted the Doctor in helping [[Sally Sparrow]] recover the TARDIS in the future. During this time, Martha was forced to take a job in a shop to support herself and the Doctor while they waited for the TARDIS to return and save them. ([[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]'')
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| [[File:Martha hides.jpg|thumb|right|Martha on the run from [[The Master (Harold Saxon)|Mr. Saxon]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')|200px]]
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| Following a short pit-stop in [[Cardiff]], the TARDIS took Martha and the Doctor to the end of the universe and the planet [[Malcassairo]], where they met [[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack Harkness]]. They also encountered the last of humanity in the universe, being assisted by [[Yana|Professor Yana]]. Whilst assisting Yana, Martha noticed that he possessed a watch of similar design to the Doctor's Chameleon Arch, which prompted him to open it. The human Yana was transformed back into the Doctor's Time Lord nemesis, [[the Master]], and escaped in the TARDIS. ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
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| Martha, Jack, and the Doctor used Jack's [[Vortex manipulator]] to travel back to 21st century Earth on the day after [[Aliases of the Master#Mr Saxon|Harold Saxon]] was voted Prime Minister. They figured out that Mr. Saxon was in fact an alias of the Master, who had been living on Earth for months since his departure from Malcassairo. The Master, who had been manipulating Martha's family since she became a full-time companion, had Francine, Clive, and Tish arrested while Leo managed to escape. As her family, Jack, and the Doctor were all taken prisoner aboard the [[Valiant]], Martha teleported back to Earth with a mission to defeat the Master. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
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| ===[[The Year That Never Was]]===
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| [[File:52.jpg|thumb|left|210px|Martha with [[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] saying goodbye to Captain Jack. ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')]]
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| When Martha was given the task by the Doctor she was aware of what she had to: spread the word of the Doctor. Among her many travels, she visited the ruins of [[New York City]], fusion camps in China, and toxic pits in Europe. She travelled from England to rebel camps in Europe where she met the Brigadier's son Calvin. She went to Japan and was put into a concentration camp. She survived the Japan Massacre when it was burned. After a year travelling around the world she met up with [[Tom Milligan]]. ([[NSA]]: [[The Story of Martha]]) She spent a year on Earth telling everyone to think of the Doctor at a specific time so that the Master could be defeated. This plan worked, the Doctor returned to his unaged form and the Master was shot by his wife [[Lucy Saxon]]. As a result of the destruction of the Master's [[Paradox Machine]], only Martha, her family, and everyone else who was on board the [[Valiant]] retained their memories of that year spent with the Master.
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| Although the Doctor wanted her to stay with him, she decided that her family needed her more. She also expressed the need to 'get out' of what she viewed to be an unhealthy relationship of her hoping the Doctor would finally notice her, and so stayed on Earth to complete her training as a doctor. In order to keep in touch however, she gave the Doctor her [[superphone]] saying that she would call him in the future when she needed him. ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
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| ===[[UNIT]] career===
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| ====Work with [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]]====
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| [[File:4.jpg|thumb|190px|Martha as she appears in [[Torchwood]]]]
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| Martha was recruited to work for [[UNIT]]. She and Captain Jack both assumed that [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] put in a good word for her. At the request of Captain Jack, she visited [[Torchwood Three]] in [[Cardiff]] as a UNIT officer. Here, she became embroiled in their investigation of a private medical organization called [[the Pharm]]. Torchwood sent her into the Pharm as an undercover agent, but during the course of her investigation she was discovered and captured and the [[Mayfly|Mayflies]] were put into her body. [[Owen Harper]] saved her life using an alien surgical device (although she was clinically dead for a few seconds afterwards) but [[Aaron Copley]] killed him. Just as Copley was about to shoot Martha he was shot in the head by [[Jack Harkness]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[Reset (TV story)|Reset]]'')
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| [[File:Samantha Jones.jpg|thumb|left|190px|Martha as "Samantha Jones" ([[TW]]: ''[[Reset (Torchwood story)|Reset]]'')]]
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| Martha witnessed Owen's return from the dead as an un-dead being, by means of the [[resurrection gauntlet]] and gave him a posthumous physical. "[[Durac|Death]]", a force possessing Harper, made the gauntlet attack Martha and age her into an old woman. After Owen defeated the Death being, she reverted to normal ([[TW]]: ''[[Dead Man Walking]]''). She mended Harper's injured hand when, in a fit of self-destruction after Jack decided to relieve him of duty at Torchwood, he deliberately wounded it.
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| Once Owen Harper was promoted back to Doctor, she left for [[UNIT]], a few days after she had joined on. ([[TW]]: ''[[A Day in the Death]]'')
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| She did not attend [[Gwen Cooper]]'s wedding because of work, ([[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website]]'') though she did attend both Owen and Tosh's funerals.
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| Back at UNIT, she got engaged to her boyfriend, [[Thomas Milligan]], though he left Britain for a while to go to [[Africa]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'' / ''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
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| ====Reunion with the Doctor====
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| [[File:11.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Martha reuinting with the Doctor ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'')]]
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| Martha called the Doctor just as she, together with UNIT, were about to attack the [[ATMOS Factory]] which secretly formed a key part of a [[Sontaran invasion of Earth|Sontaran invasion plan]]. At the time, she worked under the by-the-book [[Mace|Colonel Mace]] who was in charge of the operation. Later that day she warned [[Donna Noble]] to keep her family safe because of what had happened to her own family at the hands of the Master. A few minutes later she was kidnapped by two solders under [[Sontaran]] control and taken to a [[cloning pool]], where they started copying her body. She then was put to sleep but kept alive as a [[Martha Jones (clone)|Clone]] was about to aid the Sontarans and needed access to her memories. ([[DW]]: [[The Sontaran Stratagem]])
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| Martha's clone died soon after the Doctor rescued the real Martha, but Martha was able to convince it to help her as they shared the same memories. The clone, before it died, said that Martha had all these things that she wanted to do in life and she should do them. While chatting with the Doctor and Donna inside the TARDIS after the defeat of the Sontarans, Martha turned down the Doctor's offer to let her travel again with him. As soon as she made her refusal an unknown force took control of the ship, preventing her from leaving and dragged the TARDIS into the [[Time Vortex]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]'').
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| [[File:Martha hath.PNG|thumb|left|200px|Martha in the Hath camp. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'')]]
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| Martha walked out of the TARDIS onto the planet [[Messaline]], remarking to Donna that even though she didn't want to travel with the Doctor any more, she loved the first steps of exploration on a new planet. On Messaline the Doctor was immediately taken hold of and his hand put in a machine to form his daughter, [[Jenny]]. Soon after, they were attacked by the [[Hath]]. Martha was separated from the Doctor and Donna and taken by the Hath. She saw an injured one named [[Hath Peck]] whom Martha helped, earning the Haths' trust, who then showed her a map of where they were.
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| The Doctor was shown a corresponding map, and caused new passages and tunnels to appear on both maps, much to the Haths' surprise, who thought Martha was responsible. The Doctor then called her, and told her where they were heading. Martha found a way onto the planet's surface and took Hath Peck with her. On the surface Martha slipped into something like a pool of quicksand, but Hath Peck saved her life, sacrificing his own, to Martha's distress. Martha then saw the temple and was reunited with the Doctor, Donna and Jenny there. They discovered what the Humans and Hath were fighting over; the Source which would make the planet's surface habitable again.
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| [[File:Martha goodbye.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Martha says goodbye to the Doctor for the second time. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'')]]
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| As the Hath and the Humans came running up the Doctor released the Source. However General Cobb was enraged and shot at the Doctor, wounding Jenny instead. When the Doctor said that there was a possibility she would come back to life, Martha shook her head and confirmed she was dead. Later, the Doctor took Martha back to Earth where she cheerfully said farewell to him and Donna, and was reunited with her fiancé, [[Thomas Milligan]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'').
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| ====Later UNIT Adventures====
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| =====Torchwood Reunions=====
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| Despite not being able to attend Gwen's wedding, Martha was available to attend Owen and [[Toshiko Sato|Toshiko]]'s funerals ([[BBCR]]: ''[[Lost Souls]]'')
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| She later phoned Captain Jack after her she was stationed at the CERN Facility in [[Switzerland]]. Some of the staff had gone missing. The [[Torchwood 3]] team went to Switzerland to investigate what happened. They found out that the person who was responsible was [[Harrington|Dr. Harrington]] the souls where released in the rightful body and saved. ([[BBCR]]: ''[[Lost Souls]]'')
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| =====Fighting the [[Dalek]]s=====
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| Martha moved to New York after promotion to the post of Medical Director on [[Project Indigo]], a teleport device created using recovered Sontaran technology. Whilst she was working at the Manhattan HQ of UNIT in [[New York City]], Earth was transported to the [[Medusa Cascade]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'')
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| [[File:Martha Key.jpg|thumb|left|190px|[[Sanchez|General Sanchez]] gives Martha the [[Osterhagen key]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'')]]
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| During a Dalek attack on the base, [[Sanchez|General Sanchez]] orders Martha to use Project Indigo -- a teleportation device -- to escape HQ in order to track down the Doctor. Sanchez also gives her the [[Osterhagen Key]] and orders her to use it should the need arise. Initially, Project Indigo, which had never been tested, teleported Martha to her home in London where she was reunited with her mother. Martha later theorised that her emotions controlled it, sending her home.
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| [[Harriet Jones]] meanwhile had created a [[Sub-wave communications|low-level signal]] and utilised it to contact her, [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]] to work together to assist Earth and defeat the Daleks. Together they all contacted the Doctor and summoned him to help them to fight the Daleks. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'')
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| However, unsure of whether the Doctor would come, Martha made the decision to use the Osterhagen Key and departed from her mother, teleporting to [[Germany]] and a secret UNIT base -- one of several Osterhagen Key activation points on the planet.
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| Martha and two other UNIT operatives in other parts of the world prepared to activate the Osterhagen Project, but prior to its final activation she contacted the [[Crucible]] telling the [[Dalek]]s and [[Davros]] that she would use the key to destroy the Earth rather than let it fall into suffering at the hands of the Daleks. However she was teleported to the ship, meeting and re-encountering [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]], [[Rose Tyler]], [[Mickey Smith]], [[Jackie Tyler]], [[Jack Harkness]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Donna Noble]]. They each helped defeat the Daleks and destroyed the Crucible. Martha and the others assisted the Doctor to pilot [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] towing Earth back to its solar system. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
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| After the Earth was returned to its proper place, Martha departed the TARDIS with Jack Harkness, who could be heard offering her a job with Torchwood.
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| [[File:DW414.jpg|thumb|Martha as a Freelance alien fighter ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
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| ===After UNIT===
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| Martha did not take Jack's offer to work for Torchwood, staying with UNIT by the time the [[456]] incident began, though on her honeymoon. ([[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]'')
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| She decided to go into "freelance" alien fighting with [[Mickey Smith]], who she had married. One adventure saw Martha and Mickey battle a Sontaran, [[Jask]]. Unknown to them, Jask had them cornered and was about to kill them, when the Doctor stepped in and knocked out Jask, saving them. The Doctor was dying and was going to regenerate soon so he was visiting each of his companions to help them a final time as part of his "reward." Saving Martha and Mickey was his final gift to them. Martha spotted the Doctor and after alerting Mickey, called out to him, but he walked away without saying a word. As the TARDIS left, Martha embraced her husband sadly, both possibly realizing what the Doctor's appearence like that meant. ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
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| Martha would occasionally go back to UNIT, however, filling in for her friend [[Malcolm Taylor (Planet of the Dead)|Malcolm Taylor]] as London's Scientific Advisor. ([[IDW]]: ''[[Don't Step on the Grass]]'') She even saw fit to call in [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] to assist the Japanese branch of UNIT with investigating a mysterious beverage. This was Martha's first interaction with the [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]] of the Doctor. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Golden Ones]]'')
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| ===[[Donna's World]]===
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| If [[Donna Noble]] had turned right for a job interview instead of turning left, Martha would have been working in the [[Royal Hope Hospital]] and met [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]] and [[Luke Smith]], as well as [[Maria Jackson]] and [[Clyde Langer]].
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| As the hospital was moved to the moon, the oxygen ran out, and so everyone in the hospital, including Martha, was left to die of suffocation. She gave the last oxygen tank to fellow student [[Oliver Morgenstern]] before dying, and he was the only survivor. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
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| == Family ==
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| *[[Francine Jones]] - Mother
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| *[[Clive Jones]] - Father
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| *[[Tish Jones]] - Sister
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| *[[Leo Jones]] - Brother
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| *[[Adeola Oshodi]] - Cousin (Deceased)
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| *[[Keisha Jones |Keisha Jones]]- Niece
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| *[[Mickey Smith]] - Husband
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| ==Personality==
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| Martha was a friendly, intelligent, brave and good-spirited person. The Doctor was impressed with her theory about having air on the Moon, and he asked her to join him in the hospital balcony to see if they could breathe. ([[DW]]: [[Smith and Jones]]) Although the Doctor asked more of her than any other companion (watching after him while he was human, walking the world for a year), she rose to every challenge.
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| Throughout her travels with the Doctor, Martha developed a crush on him and always wondered if the Doctor liked her back. Martha was jealous of [[Joan Redfern (TV character)|Joan Redfern]] when the Doctor made himself human and fell in love with her, and said he "had to go and fall in love with a human, and it wasn't me". ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]''/''[[The Family of Blood]]'')
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| In [[The Year That Never Was]], Martha admitted that she loved the Doctor, but after [[Harold Saxon|the Master's]] defeat, Martha told the Doctor that she no longer had any romantic feelings for him. Indeed, she is later engaged to Tom, and for unexplained reasons marries [[Mickey Smith]] instead. ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
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| Although she was often made to be jealous of Rose Tyler, Martha seemed genuinely happy for the Doctor when he and Rose were re-united. She got along very well with Donna Noble.
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| ==Other Information==
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| *The length of time Martha spent travelling with the Doctor during her first adventures in the TARDIS has never been defined, but is known to include approximately three months spent in [[1913]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' / ''[[The Family of Blood]]''), a year in [[The Year That Never Was|an alternate timeline]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]''), and two months trapped in [[1969]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]''). However, Martha notes that it's only four days since she met him, on the day of Leo's 21st birthday party. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]])''
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| *While investigating the Pharm for Torchwood, she posed as an applicant to join a medical study. While doing so, she adopted the name [[Samantha Jones]]. Coincidentally, [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]] had earlier had a companion named [[Sam Jones]] in several books.
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| *There is an account that suggests that at one point she and the Doctor were separate -- for only a few hours from Martha's perspective, but for nearly three years from the Doctor's viewpoint. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Infinite Quest]]'')
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| *There is an unconfirmed piece of information that suggests Martha was born in [[1984]], making her 25 in [[2009]]. (''[[Doctor Who (IDW)|Doctor Who]]'' comic, IDW Publishing)
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| *Martha is fluent in German, although she speaks it with a noticeable English accent ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'').
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| *Martha is UNIT number 56671. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
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| *Martha has a tattoo on her upper right arm; she is one of the only companions known to have such markings, although the [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]] of the Doctor was also seen to sport a tattoo soon after his regeneration ([[DW]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'').
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| *Martha has a particular fondness for milkshakes and early in her travels with the Doctor she asked him to help her find the ultimate milkshake. ([[IDW]]: ''[[Agent Provocateur]]''; [[IDW]]: ''[[Black Death White Life]]'').
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| *Much was made in the media of Martha being the first black companion, though the theme of racism did not frequently appear in the series. Some examples include her trepidation on landing in Elizabethan England and Shakespeare (who was attracted to her) referring to her as the "Dark Lady," the mysterious subject (though perhaps allegorical) of many of his sonnets ([[DW]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code]]''), as well as her mistreatment while living as a maid in 1913 England ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' / ''[[The Family of Blood]]''). In actual fact, [[Mickey Smith]] is the first televised black companion, but Martha was considered more official, due to her actress's name appearing in the opening sequence, and her closer companion relationship with the Doctor.
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| ==Behind the scenes==
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| *[[Freema Agyeman]] was the first black female companion on ''Doctor Who''. She was also the second main companion of the Doctor since the series revival to meet two different incarnations of the Doctor.
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| * The arm tattoo sported by Martha is Agyeman's own real-life tattoo. Although Agyeman has been described as the first major ''Doctor Who'' cast member to be so adorned, in fact [[Jon Pertwee]] was seen sporting an arm tattoo in [[DW]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''.
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| * The ''Torchwood'' audio drama ''[[Lost Souls]]'', broadcast in September 2008, takes place prior to the events of the Series 4 finale.
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| * With Martha and her phone on Earth, the Doctor can be alert of any threat to the planet. While this has been featured on ''Doctor Who'' itself, it is unsurprisingly ignored for narrative convenience in ''Torchwood'' and ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' (although, in ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'' it was revealed that the Doctor was aware of Sarah's alien defence gang, and he was aware of Torchwood 3 from Jack, so perhaps Martha didn't feel the need to call him for every disaster that threatens Earth).
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| * Martha's last scene in ''[[Journey's End]]'' was interpreted as opening the door for a possible return to ''[[Torchwood]]''. Although there were unconfirmed rumors that Agyeman was seen at a ''Torchwood'' filming location, she did not appear in the ''[[Series 3 (Torchwood)|Children of Earth]]'' miniseries although she was referenced in dialogue as being still with UNIT. Her subsequent appearance at the end of [[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' again fueled speculation of a possible future ''Torchwood'' appearance, although whether this is possible depends on her commitments to ''Law & Order: UK'', a non-BBC series in which she currently (2010) co-stars.
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| * Interestingly, the name 'Martha Jones', is an anagram of 'A Master John'. The part saying 'Master', is possibly referencing [[the Master]], that appeared in the finale of [[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Series Three ]]. And the part 'John', is coincidently the name of the actor who plays the Master in the Series Three Finale.
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| * [[Russell T Davies]] originally intended for Martha to appear in both the ''[[Children of Earth|Torchwood: Children of Earth]]'' miniseries and ''[[Enemy of the Bane]]'', the Series 2 finale of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''. Freema Agyeman's casting in the ITV series ''Law & Order: UK'' resulted initially in her ''Torchwood'' appearance being reduced to a cameo, and then eliminated completely (along with an appearance by Mickey Smith), and later her schedule also precluded Agyeman from appearing in ''Sarah Jane'', resulting in [[Nicholas Courtney]] returning as [[The Brigadier]] instead. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale|Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter]]'') Had she appeared in these two productions, she would have been the first major character to play an important role in Doctor Who and both of its direct spin-offs (even including the Doctor who to date has not appeared in ''Torchwood'').
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| *Martha seems to be a popular character for writers to have impersonated by someone else. Aside from the TV story [[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Strategem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky]]'', in which a clone was created, [[IDW]]: ''[[The Forgotten]]'', a comic story arc, and two installments of the [[BBC Writers' Comics]] online series all featured plotlines involving fake Marthas.
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| *Commentery for [[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' revealed that her honeymoon mentioned in [[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]'' was refering to her marriage with Mickey Smith, although this is never referenced on-screen.
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| ==External Links==
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| * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/characters/martha.shtml Martha Jones on the BBC's ''Doctor Who'' website]
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| * [http://www.myspace.com/marthajonesuk Martha Jones' Myspace page]
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