Josh Carter
Joshua "Josh" Carter was a member of UNIT under Kate Stewart's leadership.
Biography
Early life
Josh Carter studied electrical engineering (AUDIO: Armageddon) with Anthony Burmaster, who was always better than him. (AUDIO: Call to Arms) He attended Sandhurst Military School, where he had a reputation for being "disruptive, ill-disciplined [and for] question[ing] authority", although he claimed that he only liked to test boundaries and think outside of the box. He did not complete his training. (AUDIO: Vanguard)
Joining UNIT
Upon joining UNIT, Josh had several clashes with Colonel Vikram Shindi over his personality. (AUDIO: Vanguard) In 2009, he was working for UNIT as a Second Lieutenant (AUDIO: The Chiswick Cuckoos) and was later promoted to Captain. (AUDIO: Vanguard)
Stopping a Nestene invasion
Kate sent him on a search to find the Autons in the UK after he was concerned about Osgood going on a field mission. (AUDIO: Earthfall)
He went undercover as a Devlin Futuretech employee to get more information. He saved Jacqui McGee from being killed by an Auton. He then, with the help of Osgood, to hack the mainframe and stop the Nestene from combining. Simon Devlin then converted him into an Auton-like creature. (AUDIO: Bridgehead)
The Nestene Consciousness planned to use him to destroy UNIT. Osgood managed to overcome this control. He gained super strength allowing him to bend metal a couple of inches thick. (AUDIO: Armageddon)
Tengobushi incident
He helped Kate to investigate the disappearance of a UNIT scientist, when he discovered that Lyme Industries was involved. He went undercover with Kate to retrieve UNIT property from Lyme's hands. After Osgood was attacked by the Tengobushi, he helped to get her out of her flat. (AUDIO: Power Cell)
Whilst Kate and Osgood went to Geneva, he was ordered to investigate the aliens that attacked them. After Sam told him that Anna Burges was killed to find out where Osgood had gone, he went to Geneva and managed to save her from being killed by a Tengobushi. After Kate and Osgood entered the Tengobushi ship, he tried to follow but couldn't get through the forcefield. However, using the firepower of the Geneva UNIT force,s he broke his way through to rescue Kate, Osgood and Grant Avery. (AUDIO: Death in Geneva)
He used his Auton strength to remove a Tengobushi assassin from the plane he was on after it killed the pilots. He was then tasked with abducting Lyme. During the Tengobushi attack, Osgood was trapped in the Archive, Josh managed to get her away but managed to get her first to the Jewellery room and then to command centre. He was then asked to evacuate Peter Latchen from the Tower along wit the rest of the UNIT troops. (AUDIO: The Battle of the Tower)
They went to UNIT base under the Rock of Gibraltar and he was placed under arrest by Latchen. With Osgood's help he escaped and flew an experimental aircraft to rendezvous with Sam Bishop to stop Lyme and her plans. He stayed behind to destroy the generator that Lyme created. (AUDIO: Ice Station Alpha)
Investigating the Silence
He trained Kate in how to use her gun. He was part of the attack on Helena Faversham's house to find the Silents and he wanted to kill them on sight. After escaping one of them, he was captured by them. (AUDIO: House of Silents)
He thought that Kenneth LeBlanc was a visionary, much to Bishop's disarray. He was conditioned by the Silents to help them. He went to LeBlanc's house to offer his help. Using his influence with UNIT and with the Silents' help, he got the Prime Minister to resign and call and election. (AUDIO: Square One)
At the end of LeBlanc's campaign, he became extremely engaged in him winning. Osgood came to see him and stole his laptop using the same memory manipulation technique that the Silents used. He was later ordered by the Silents to assassinate LeBlanc, but when the time came he hesitated. Osgood managed to stop him. (AUDIO: Silent Majority)
After he recovered from the LeBlanc debacle, he was posted to stores as light work. He found some of the stuff from the Silents mission. After Osgood and Bishop came back to Earth, he picked them up from the middle of the Atlantic. (AUDIO: In Memory Alone)
Jastrok's revolution
Osgood attempted to contact Josh to send reinforcements to the Lake District to deal with the Silurians and Captain Burmaster later told him about his supposed sabotage of the Silurian nest at Scafell, causing it to go critical. He arrived with reinforcements just before the explosion and met Mike Yates and John Benton. (AUDIO: Call to Arms)
Using the call sign Hawk Four, Josh airlifted Kate, Osgood and Sam to safety after the destruction of the Silurian research base in Greece. (AUDIO: Retrieval)
Josh and Osgood used a mini-submersible to get close enough to the besieged Great Britain to transmat to UNIT HQ. He and Yates met with Jastrok under truce in Westminster Abbey and later, with Osgood and Benton, confronted Kalana at a nuclear base. Josh fought her in single combat to buy the others time to save Jo Jones and disarm the warheads, after which he reflected Kalana's fear trigger back at her and defeated her. (AUDIO: United)
The Auctioneers
Using the name "Simon Carter", Josh travelled to Monte Bosque with Kate, Osgood and Shindi to look into the alien technology that, according to the missing Sam's intelligence, had fallen into the hands of Maria Gonsalves. They found that it was a Dalek and, after the mutant escaped, Josh and Shindi went in search of it and thought that it died in a tank explosion. Osgood realised that this was not the case, however, and it began to reassemble itself in the armoury. Josh and Shindi found its gunstick and damaged the Dalek, leading it to destroy itself. The group were then rescued by UNIT North America, having learnt of the Auctioneers. (AUDIO: The Dalek Transaction)
After seeing an apparition of a Grey Man at a Halloween party that he was attending and being the only one not terrified by it, Josh spoke to Osgood about the incident. After hearing some unsettling messages from Kate, Josh persuaded Osgood to accompany him up to Ealdon House in a UNIT helicopter. Once there Osgood discovers the apparitions of the Grey Man are caused by a particular resonance in the house and Josh is immune to this because of his Nestene skeleton. Alice Donelly had also discovered this resonance in the house years before and she wanted to harness it as a weapon before Kate’s father stopped her. With an unknown alien presence drawing near, responding to a message Alice left years ago, the team deciphered and completed the message, averting the crisis. (AUDIO: Invocation)
Josh and Osgood became trapped in a sideways dimension after an experimental travel capsule took them there by mistake. Here UNIT was run by a fascist state with different versions of the team, including himself. He was startled to discover this world's Josh and Osgood were very much an item and he had some trouble avoiding her advances. Eventually, he made it back to his own universe but with the wrong Osgood in tow. He was forced to keep up the pretence of being in love with her but this only made the others more suspicious. When the Osgood of his univese returned, Josh without thinking planted a large kiss on her lips before realising his mistake. Soon the other Osgood attempted to escape again in the capsule. Josh and the team were saved when the capsule just managed to disappear before the dimensional gateway imploded. Heading to Kate's office, this left the real Josh and Osgood's relationship ambiguous. (AUDIO: False Negative)
Carter arranged the transport of the virtual reality technology to a UNIT safe facility. (AUDIO: Game Theory)
He went with Osgood and Shindi into the virtual world to discover who created them. He theorised that the people of this world might live underground. In the world they were attacked by mutated dogs. He theorised that they could alter the world using their imagination. The hive wanted to convert him but they couldn't because of the Auton plastic. (AUDIO: Telepresence)
He helped Kate to theorise what the Cybermen were planning. He got emotional at seeing the amount of people that were killed in the battle. On Kate's orders he used a radiation gun on a Cyberman. He then helped her to dissect a Cyberman, but was attacked to be converted. After a Cyberconversion unit came after him and Kate, he sacrificed himself to allow Kate to escape. (AUDIO: Code Silver)
He used the conversion unit to knock out the Cybermen on the base and took the War Master with them. He later created a bigger version of Kate's and the Master's weapon to destroy the Cybermen on Fortress Island. (AUDIO: Master of Worlds)
Alien incursions
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He was tasked with delivering Osgood to UNIT's facility The Well. When the Wirrn escaped from the container he crashed the helicopter. He welcome Shana Siddiqui to the Well and showed her all the security information she needed. He was then tasked with rescuing Osgood when the Wirrn escaped. He found the Wirrn annoying and discovered that his auton plastic stopped him from being infected. (AUDIO: Hosts of the Wirrn)
He was cautious when a capsule landed at the tower. He was knocked unconcious when making first contact. Kate got him to search the records for the Kalvyri's previous incursion to Earth. Vara tried to guilt him with the death of her child. He disobeyed an order and allowed Osgood to give Vara her weapon. (AUDIO: Breach of Trust)
He joined an investigation of the Pandora Institute. He was sceptical of what the Institute could do. He later heard the screams of Miles McLellan shortly before he died, this was during a meditation session. As part of his session with Seth Hyer, he tackled his fears, this allowed Seth to control him. He had a fear of control. He told Osgood what he experienced. When Seth tried again, Kate told him that he was a good soldier because he wanted to be not because she told him he could. (AUDIO: Open the Box)
The Vulpreen invasion
When Adam Merchant accidentally travelled through the Arch, Josh and his men went to the Void World and rescued him and the Eleven. He helped track the Eleven following his escape and invoked the Lionheart Protocol after he kidnapped Kate, resulting in his temporary capture aboard a UNIT aeroplane. The Eleven managed to escape, however, after Merchant threw himself and the Eleven into the ocean. (AUDIO: The Enemy Beyond)
Josh was left in charge of UNIT whilst Kate and Osgood went to Australia to assist Harry Sullivan and Naomi Cross following the discovery of an Ice Warrior ship in the Northern Territory. (AUDIO: Fire and Ice)
Josh joined Kate in trying to stop the Eleven from stealing jewels sold by the Auctioneers, but failed to prevent him from obtaining the Heartstone from the West London Safe Deposit Centre and the Idol's Eye from Engleby Hall. Josh met with Jacqui for information and she bribed a member of Ava Drake's gang into planting a bug which resulted in Josh and Kate almost being trapped in a paralysis field left for them in the Caledonian Gallery. They managed to escape and saved Jacqui from drowning after the Eleven had her thrown into the sea. (AUDIO: Eleven's Eleven)
When the Eleven learnt of the Arch's new hiding place in the Under Gallery, Josh entered the J. M. W. Turner painting in which it was stored and, with Kate, tried to slow the Eleven down whilst Osgood and the Curator headed for the Arch. The Eleven ultimately incapacitated him and was arrested after the Curator defeated him with a stick. (AUDIO: The Curator's Gambit)
Josh and Jimmy Tan were tasked with watching the Eleven when Hasper insisted that he was the only one who could repair the damaged Arch, through which Jacqui had fallen. Osgood, Jimmy, the Eleven and the Arch were teleported away by Hasper to his TARDIS, but Josh tracked them down after Osgood crushed a sample of the Arch. Osgood, Jimmy and Jacqui were returned. (AUDIO: The Man From Gallifrey)
With Kate having invited Jimmy to join UNIT, Josh was assigned to train him. (AUDIO: Power of the Dominators)
Osgood and Jacqui were transported across time by a temporal anomaly and Josh and Kate attempted to follow, but instead arrived in 1997 where they met Brigadier Winifred Bambera. Josh returned to the 2010s on Kate's orders to prepare a trap for the Eleven and was told by Jacqui that Osgood had died in the future, but it was soon revealed that this was untrue and she returned to Josh's delight. (AUDIO: The War Factory)
After Kate was taken captive by the Vulpreen, Josh prioritised the destruction of the Arch over her rescue, a stance that he knew she would agree with. He and Osgood managed to get past the Vulpreen and travelled to the Void World where they were reunited with Kate and returned with her to Earth before the Arch was bombed. The bombing, however, energised the Arch and freed the Vulpreen from their prison. (AUDIO: Ten Minutes in Hell)
Kate, visiting Jacqui in Tromsø, ordered that Josh be informed after the Starseeker was destroyed. (AUDIO: The Vulpreen Encounter)
Josh sent Naomi information on new arches in Alberta and Beijing to give to Kate once she was recovered. Kate sent him to Tromsø to travel through the arch and save Jacqui following her capture, but Axons emerged from it. (AUDIO: By Jacqui McGee)
Josh told Osgood about the Axons and that the trees nearby had begun to grow rapidly, which Osgood found was due to the presence of Axonite. Two of his soldiers, Marsden and Burgess, were drained of energy by Axos which allowed Osgood to deduce their weakness to hydrogen. Josh and his soldiers fought the Axons to allow Naomi and the Eleven to pass through the Canadian arch and later released liquid hydrogen into the ground to poison Axos. (AUDIO: Axos Unleashed)
When the Vulpreen invasion of Earth began, Josh led the soldiers in surrounding and attempting to destroy the hundreds of arches. Lord Varliss recognised Josh through the arches' visual relay and tried unsuccessfully to kill him. He later joined Kate and Jimmy in planted explosives around the asteroid ship and stayed behind to detonate them after the timer was broken, but Daniel Hoyer chose to take his place. Back on Earth, Josh and Osgood helped Kate escape from Varliss and learnt that the Vulpreen were being assisted by Missy. (AUDIO: Time of the Vulpreen)
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