Raine Creevy
Raine Creevy was a companion of the Seventh Doctor and travelled with Ace. She was a safecracker from 1989.
Biography
Early life
Raine was born on 7 November 1967 to Markus Creevy and Raina Kerenskaya, with the Seventh Doctor acting as her obstetrician. (AUDIO: Thin Ice) Some of her earliest memories were hearing her parents tell her stories about the Doctor, which she enjoyed and never gave her nightmares. The Doctor always remembered her birthday and left her presents whilst she was growing up. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century)
As a child, Raine holidayed on the Red Sea and learnt to scuba-dive. (AUDIO: Animal) She also learnt fencing in school. She often found herself stuck between her parents due to their frequent arguments, which were exacerbated by Markus having numerous affairs. His treatment of her mother caused her to resent him. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century)
Raine had a classical education which included Greek mythology. (AUDIO: Earth Aid) She was told that she would have to attend university in London as her parents wanted to keep an eye on her, so she studied at King's College. She found that, in her experience, attending lectures was not a mandatory part of being a student. (AUDIO: Animal) At some point, she learnt how to fly a helicopter.
Following her mother's death, Raine cut contact with her father and refused to have anything to do with him due to his extramarital affairs. Markus lost a substantial amount of money after Black Monday and was unable to provide her with any sort of inheritance as a result.
Thanks to somebody that her father knew, Raine picked up several safecracking techniques. She became a skilled safecracker and utilised a stethoscope that she stole from a medical student she met at a party in Holland Park. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century) She once stole a set of platinum false teeth from West Kensington. (AUDIO: Earth Aid)
Meeting the Doctor
In 1989, Raine was hired to steal various treasures by the Doctor, although she was unaware of his identity. She stole the final item during a party on 13 October and found the Doctor inside a safe, after which they escaped together and she learnt that he had employed her to recover items that her father had been forced to sell. Raine forgave her father and agreed to assist him, the Doctor and Ace.
Raine travelled with the Doctor to Kafiristan and, per his plan, pretended to betray him by going with Colonel Felnikov and the Metatraxi to steal a weapon from RAF Spadeadam. After the Metatraxi killed the guard robots and departed, Raine revealed her deception and opened the vault so that the Doctor could destroy the weapon. She exchanged class-based insults with Ace, but accepted the offer to travel with them in the TARDIS. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century)
Early adventures
Raine's first journey was to Margrave University in 2001 where she and Ace went undercover as students with Winifred Bambera's help to investigate Raymond W. Scobie and his group of activists. She assisted Willa Hawthorn, admitting to being a spy to protect her cover and letting her speak to Scobie following his arrest, and found a way for the evacuees to escape the university using the river. After the defeat of the Numlocks, Raine looked up her father on a search engine and learnt that he had died by 2001; to come to terms with this, she asked the Doctor and Ace to return for her in a week. (AUDIO: Animal)
Rejoining the Doctor in his personal future, after Ace had left for Gallifrey,[1] Raine continued her travels. They were drawn to the Tolian homeworld and escaped to Earth circa the 1980s via an interdimensional corridor, meeting another Doctor and Elizabeth Klein and helping UNIT with the dimensional crisis. Her distrust of the Other Doctor was vindicated when he revealed that he was the Master and, after his defeat, she helped break Pete Wilson's conditioning by making him think of his son. (AUDIO: Dominion)
Investigations
Having parted ways with the Doctor, Raine developed her computer skills due to a newfound respect for technology. She felt that she there was more to her father's death than met the eye and decided to investigate, becoming aware of documents which ought to have been left to her but somehow ended up in somebody else's possession. To retrieve them, she flew to Johannesburg, visiting the Botanical Gardens whilst she was there, and cracked into a safe in a five-star hotel.
Raine found herself locked in the safe that she intended to rob by the Metatraxi to be used as bait in an elaborate trap as part of their plot to get revenge on the Doctor for their humiliation. She was fitted with a life support unit, which slowed her metabolism so that she required almost no air, and an oxygen cylinder. The safe was then smuggled aboard the Lilliput in a container by Victor Espinosa. (AUDIO: Earth Aid)
Continued adventures
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The Vancouver was assigned to guard a vast shipment of grain from Earth to the planet Safenesthome, where onboard, the Doctor was posing as the ship's medical officer, and Ace as its captain. They discovered her quite by accident, but after freeing her, she helped them defeat the Metatraxi, as well as a species called Grubs, a brother-race of the Metatraxi, that were devouring the grain for themselves. Once that situation was resolved, she continued travelling with Ace and the Doctor. (AUDIO: Earth Aid)
Fate
When the Doctor was reunited with Klein, he told her only that Raine was "elsewhere". (AUDIO: Persuasion)
Appearance
Raine was "a slip of a girl" (AUDIO: Crime of the Century) with dark hair and attractive, elegant features. (PROSE: The Girl Who Stole the Stars) She thought that black pearls looked good on her, possibly because she had a photograph of her mother wearing some. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century)
Personality
Raine believed that she had an innate ability to read people. She did not like people that she termed "cocky smartarses", even if they were closely related to somebody that she knew. (AUDIO: Dominion) Markus told the Doctor that there was no arguing with her (AUDIO: Crime of the Century) and the Doctor described her as "quite charming". (AUDIO: Earth Aid)
Raine enjoyed drinking Manhattans, (AUDIO: Crime of the Century) coffee and tea with luxury biscuits. (AUDIO: Dominion) She had never tasted mint tea before meeting Sayf Udeen, but liked the smell and thought it would be a nice change from English breakfast. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century) She always wanted to wear a space suit. (AUDIO: Earth Aid)
Raine dismissed the music of the 21st century as "just noise". She found couples who called one another "honey" and "love" sickening. (AUDIO: Animal)
Behind the scenes
- A character named Raine Cunningham was intended for a companion of the Seventh Doctor following Ace's departure in the unmade Season 27 of Doctor Who (which would have aired in 1990 had the series not been cancelled). A feature in DWM 255 gave the character the name Kate Tollinger, but according to an interview with script editor Andrew Cartmel in DWM 433, the character was always intended to be named Raine. The character was revived in the second season of Big Finish Productions' The Lost Stories, which followed the stories intended for Season 27. However the character has been renamed Raine Creevy, as Cartmel had since discovered someone named Raine Cunningham existed in real life.
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