Craig Owens
Craig Owens lived and worked in Colchester, England. He rented a room out to the Eleventh Doctor.
Biography
Craig placed an advert for a flatmate in a local shop window. The Doctor turned up on his doorstep later that day due to a helpful note from Amy Pond in the future. Since Amy was stuck in the TARDIS with no way to land it on her own, and the Doctor found the source to be in the upstairs flat of Craig's building, he wanted to live there.
The Doctor turned up with a paper bag full of £3000 and no luggage. Craig said he was "weird", but after trying one of the Doctor's delicious, impromptu omelettes, he decided to let him stay. Craig learned to live with his strange habits and quirks, but was irritated at the Doctor's success at football and his interruption of a moment with Sophie.
Craig defied the Doctor's recommendation not to touch the dry rot forming on the ceiling of his living room. He was knocked out by it but was saved by the timely intervention by the Doctor. When he woke , Craig was shocked to learn that the Doctor went to a planning meeting at his workplace and was working there. His suspicions of the Doctor grew after he looked in his room and found a strange spinning contraption made out of bits of trash. After seeing the Doctor talk to a cat about the upstairs flat, he confronted the Doctor on the past three days and how he was resentful at his popularity, especially with Sophie. The Doctorbutted Craig's head to telepathically explain his predicamen and gain asCraig's help confronting the enemy upstairs. Craig learned about the Doctor's origin on Gallifrey, his previous incarnations, Amy Pond, that the contraption was a scanner, that he had a TARDIS, and that the upstairs flat was actually a disguised time ship.
Amy told them that someone was upstairs, and they realised it was Sophie. After saving her and learning the ship's intention, the Doctor was chosen as its pilot. Craig realised that the ship had refused his help because it needed someone to pilot it away and he wanted to stay. He put his hand on the ship's control and at the Doctor's request remembered what made him want to stay, blurting out his love for Sophie. Sophie told him she loved him too, and they kissed.
Following their escape from the ship, Craig and Sophie decided to visit Paris and begin a serious relationship. The Doctor tried to leave quietly, but they noticed and stopped him to say goodbye. Craig gave him his keys to the flat, and the Doctor said he would visit them. Having been inside his head, he knew the Doctor would never visit them again, but wanted him to keep them as a memento.
After the Doctor left, Craig remembered their time together fondly. He kept a photograph of him on his fridge and spelled out "THE DOCTOR ROCKS" with magnetic letters.
Behind the fridge was one of the cracks, which began to emit the mysterious Time Field and expand. Craig's ultimate fate is unknown, as with it expanding, it could erase him from history. (DW: The Lodger) The subsequent closing of the cracks has rendered this possibility moot.
- The telepathic exchange he shared with the Doctor is implied to have imparted some advanced technological knowledge.
