Harriet Arbinger was the name adopted by Sutekh's Harbinger.
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Around the time UNIT began investigating Susan Triad, they hired Harriet Arbinger, though her true nature was inapparent. She worked for them as an archivist until the day Susan Triad was poised to make a public address to the world, which was also the day the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday came to UNIT HQ, finally intent on following through on their sightings of women resembling Triad throughout history.
After Harriet was assigned to comb through the VHS of the CCTV camera on Ruby Road the night Ruby was abandoned, on which images of a malignant force had appeared, Harriet identified the shape of the TARDIS within the cloud of dust and fire. When they realised the evil force was possessing the TARDIS even in the present day, right there in UNIT HQ, Harriet began to recite a litany of the group of gods over which her master ruled on high, remaining impassive as her one-time colleagues panicked and the Fifteenth Doctor identified her as a Harbinger. Even Harriet began to cry as she announced that by Sutekh's hand, "all creation [would] fall into dust and shadow and ruin". However, as Sutekh fully manifested, his Harbinger's appearance morphed to a more skeletal form with crimson eyes and a threatening demeanour. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])
Harriet delivered Sutekh's dust of death to UNIT HQ, acting like Susan Triad and the other Angels of Death — swiftly killing the Vlinx, Kate Stewart, Rose Noble, Christofer Ibrahim, and Morris Gibbons. She then retreated into the TARDIS, piloting it on Sutekh's behalf as he flew it down to the Time Window to confront the Fifteenth Doctor, Ruby Sunday and Melanie Bush.
After the three escaped in the Remembered TARDIS, Harriet returned the TARDIS to the UNIT operations room, which Sutekh had made his throne room; she stayed there with her master until the end of his Empire of Death, using the TARDIS controls to remotely scoop the Doctor, Ruby and Mel back from 2046 after they had found the identity of Ruby's mother. When the Doctor used his whistle to activate a failsafe in the TARDIS, Harriet looked curiously at the uncovered panel, only to be blasted backwards by a beam of light-blue energy which propelled the TARDIS away from Sutekh like a jet engine. After Sutekh was defeated, Harriet, dead or alive, was nowhere to be found within UNIT HQ. (TV: Empire of Death [+]Loading...["Empire of Death (TV story)"])
Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]
Harriet appeared as a tall black woman with short hair. She wore a white shirt, a gray, sleeveless vest, and matching, loose-fitting trousers. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"]) After shedding her human persona, she appeared with a bony, skull-like upper face, fading into the still-human lower half. Her eyes were now a brilliant crimson. By the time of Sutekh's defeat, she now wore a blue, hooded cloak over her modern clothes. (TV: Empire of Death [+]Loading...["Empire of Death (TV story)"])