Josh Carter
Joshua Carter, also known as Josh, 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 served under Sergeant Warren Culder. (AUDIO: This Sleep of Death) He was a Second Lieutenant in 2009 (AUDIO: The Chiswick Cuckoos) and was later promoted to Captain. He had several clashes with Colonel Vikram Shindi over his recklessness. (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)
Josh attended Phoebe Breckenridge's Hallowe'en party and was unable to see the Grey Man that scared her and the other guests. When Kate failed to check in, he and Osgood joined her at Ealdon House and discovered that the phenomenon was caused by resonance to which Josh was immune thanks to his Auton skeleton. He let Shindi know about the cause and passed on Osgood's suggestion that his soldiers wear particular helmets to protect against it. (AUDIO: Invocation)
Because of an Auctioneer travel capsule, Josh and Osgood accidentally travelled to a parallel universe where the two of them were in a sexual relationship, making both of them uncomfortable. He was able to trick the other Osgood into thinking that he was her Josh for a time and was forced to take her back to his universe. After Osgood helped her other self leave, she and Osgood chose not to talk about their other selves' relationship. (AUDIO: False Negative)
The Cyber-invasion
After Sam was returned by Julia Hartley-Price, Josh took Kate back to UNIT HQ and arranged the transport of the Auctioneers' virtual reality technology to the UNIT facility (AUDIO: Game Theory) on Fortress Island.
Josh joined Osgood and Shindi in using the virtual technology to enter a parallel universe and discovered that they were in London after finding the ruins of Piccadilly Circus. He correctly theorised that they could increase their own abilities with their imagination and, unlike Osgood and Shindi, was immune to the virtual cyber-conversion and woke up in control. He and Kate watched as the Cybermen arrived through the dimension bridge. (AUDIO: Telepresence)
Josh and Kate escaped the Cyber-Controller and armed themselves with weapons from the armoury including an emotion gun which Josh found was effective against the Cybermen. They defeated several of them before Josh was attached by a mobile conversion unit and told Kate to leave him and go after the Cyber-Controller. (AUDIO: Code Silver)
After taking control of the conversion unit, Josh indisposed Osgood and the Cybermen and escaped Fortress Island with Kate and the War Master. Their helicopter was guided to the Whitehouse Gallery where they acquired the corrosion virus and freed Sam and Shindi from cyber-control before heading back to Fortress Island. Josh and Shindi tried to maintain the field placed around the island to keep the Cybermen powerless and fought against flying reinforcements from the mainland until Sea Wolf took over. (AUDIO: Master of Worlds)
Old threats
Josh flew Osgood and Sergeant Brundle to the Well with the Wirrn egg left behind by the Master and later gave Shana Siddiqui a brief tour of the facility. He was the sole survivor of the team that fought the Wirrn in the lower levels, his Auton scent being considered off-putting by the creatures, and went on to save Kate from the Wirrn Queen in Windermere and get her to safety. (AUDIO: Hosts of the Wirrn)
When Vara and Norei landed near the Tower of London, Josh welcomed them and was left unconscious by their song. He recovered and, after notifying NATO on Shindi's command, searched UNIT's records for the Kalvyri and found a report on their previous visit to Earth, written by Mike Yates. He and Osgood disobeyed their orders and helped Vara sacrifice herself to destroy Jarrak's fleet with the harmonic cannon and save Norei; Shindi disapproved of Josh's insubordination. (AUDIO: Breach of Trust)
Josh joined Kate and Osgood in travelling to Mundholm to investigate the Pandora Institute, whose methods he was greatly sceptical of. After finding Seth Hyer over Miles McLellan's body, Josh had a one-on-one session with Seth in which he was made to confront his fears about being controlled. He and Osgood found that Miles's time of death meant that Seth had been in two places almost simultaneously and, having exposed him, briefly came under his control until Kate assured them that they were worthy and that Josh was a good soldier. (AUDIO: Open the Box)
New incursions
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After Sergeant Warren Calder's suicide, Josh went with Kate and Osgood to Abbey Marston and resurrected him to learn of the location of the Silurian plague that he claimed to have stolen. The Static took over Osgood and forced Josh to look at photographs and names of people who died within a fifty-mile radius to resurrect them and allow the Static to steal new bodies, but he managed to escape after Kate released sleeping gas. When Osgood was restored and set explosives to go off when the telephone rang, Josh helped bring back the Brigadier. (AUDIO: This Sleep of Death)
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)
Personality
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Appearance
When Josh was not in uniform, he wore a suit. (AUDIO: Invocation)
