Martha Jones
Doctor Martha Jones is a 21st century human. She is a member of UNIT and former companion to the Doctor. Martha's first encounter with extraterrestrial life forms was as a twenty-four year old medical student in 2008, when the hospital she worked at was transported to the Moon. She then accompanied the Doctor on several adventures through time and space, her most notable achievement being when she saved the world during the Year That Never Was. Martha eventually decided to leave the TARDIS after accepting that her romantic feelings towards the Doctor were unrequited. Qualifying as a doctor, she joined UNIT where she dedicated herself to combatting alien threats to the Earth.
Biography
Early Life
Martha Jones was born in 1984 to Francine and Clive Jones. Martha had an older sister named Tish Jones and a younger brother Leo Jones. In 2007, Martha lost her cousin Adeola Oshodi during the Battle of Canary Wharf. Martha studied medicine and worked as a student doctor at the Royal Hope Hospital under Mr Stoker in London, England. Her parents eventually split up when her father had an affair with a younger women named Annalise, with Martha forced to play peacekeeper amidst constant family arguments. (DW: Smith and Jones)
Joining the Doctor
In 2008, Martha was working at the Royal Hope Hospital on the day it was transported to the Moon by the Judoon. Remaining calm while those around her panicked, Martha worked alongside the Tenth Doctor (who was posing as a patient named John Smith) to track down the Plasmavore, "Florence Finnegan", that the Judoon were searching for. As the oxygen in the hospital ran out, Martha gave her last breaths to recusitate the unconcious Doctor, who prevented Florence's plan while the Judoon returned the hospital to Earth. Later that evening, a recovered Martha was approached by the Doctor, who revealed that he was a Time Lord and invited her to join him for a single trip through time and space in his the TARDIS. She accepted, although the Doctor insisted that he had not brought her aboard as a replacement for his previous companion, Rose Tyler. (DW: Smith and Jones)
On her first adventure, the Doctor took Martha back in time to Elizabethan London where she met famous writer William Shakespeare. Shakespeare became somewhat enamored with Martha, referring to her as his "Dark Lady". Together, Martha, Shakespeare and the Doctor used a "spell" to defeat a race of witch-like aliens known as the Carrionites who were trying to change reality. (DW: The Shakespeare Code) Martha's next adventure took her to the futuristic New Earth where they landed in an area known as the Undercity. Upon learning that the Doctor had also visited New Earth with Rose, Martha became concerned that she was little more than a "rebound" companion. She was then separated from the Doctor after being kidnapped into the Motorway where she was attacked by the Macra. Upon being saved by the Doctor, Martha witnessed the death of the enigmatic Face of Boe and his final words "You Are Not Alone". As they departed New Earth, Martha learned about the Doctor's home planet and the Last Great Time War. (DW: Gridlock) The Doctor extended Martha's trip in the TARDIS once more taking them to 1930s New York, where they learned that the population of Hooverville were being transformed into Pig Slaves as part of the Cult of Skaro's plans to build a race of human Daleks. Martha was forced to kill the Pig Slaves in self-defence, but expressed remorse that they had once been human like herself. (DW: Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks)
Upon the Cult of Skaro's defeat, the Doctor returned Martha home merely twenty-four hours after she left. He prepared to say goodbye, but overheard a TV news story about a man "changing what it meant to be human" and so decided to accompany her to the opening night of Prof. Richard Lazarus device that could rejuvenate a human to youth. Upon discovering the disastrous effects of Lazarus' work, Martha, the Doctor, and Martha's sister Tish helped to trap and kill the monster Lazarus had become. Afterward, the Doctor offered Martha one more trip, but she refused on the basis that she no longer wanted to be just a passenger. The Doctor then invited her onboard the TARDIS as a full-time companion. (DW: The Lazarus Experiment)
Full-time companionship
The Doctor and Martha answered a distress signal in the 42nd century Torajii system, they found a crew and their ship falling towards the sun. The sun was actually a sentient being who was possessing the crew members and killing them off one-by-one. Believing she was going to die, Martha called her mother on an upgraded mobile phone given to her by the Doctor. Eventually, Martha and the Doctor were able to render assistance and depart safely. (DW: 42) In order to escape the Family of Blood, who were hunting the Time Lord, the Doctor used the Chameleon Arch to turn himself into a human being with no memories of his time as the Doctor. He became John Smith, a teacher at an English boys school in 1913, where Martha took a job as a maid. Martha watched helplessly as Smith fell in love with a nurse named Joan Redfern, expressing pain that he "had to go and fall in love with a human... and it wasn't me". When the Family of Blood finally tracked them down, wreaking havoc on the town and school, Martha convinced John Smith to sacrifice his human life and love by reverting back to being the Doctor. The Doctor returned, defeating the Family of Blood, and leaving a heartbroken Joan to rejoin Martha in the TARDIS. (DW: Human Nature / The Family of Blood)
Martha and the Doctor travelled to an old house in Wester Drumlins where they encountered the Weeping Angels. They were sent back to 1960s London by the Angels, where Martha assisted the Doctor in helping Sally Sparrow recover the TARDIS in the future. During this time, Martha was forced to take a job in a shop to support herself and the Doctor while they waited for the TARDIS to return and save them. (DW: Blink) Following a short pit-stop in Cardiff, the TARDIS took Martha and the Doctor to the end of the universe and the planet Malcassairo, where they met Captain Jack Harkness. They also encountered the last of humanity in the universe, being assisted by Professor Yana. Whilst assisting Yana, Martha noticed that he possessed a watch of similar design to the Doctor's Chameleon Arch and prompted him to open it. The human Yana was transformed back into the Doctor's Time Lord nemesis, the Master, and escaped in the TARDIS. (DW: Utopia) Martha, Jack, and the Doctor used Jack's Vortex manipulator to travel back to 21st century Earth on the day after Harold Saxon was voted Prime Minister. They figured out that Mr Saxon was in fact an alias of the Master, who had been living on Earth for months since his departure from Malcassairo. The Master, who had been manipulating Martha's family since she became a full-time companion, had Francine, Clive, and Tish arrested while Leo managed to escape. As her family, Jack, and the Doctor were all taken prisoner aboard the Valiant, Martha teleported back to Earth with a mission to defeat the Master. (DW: The Sound of Drums))
The Year That Never Was
Martha pretended to make a weapon that would kill the Master. She said that she had witnessed the Toclafane burn the islands of Japan. She spent a year on earth telling everyone to think of the Doctor at a specific time so that the Master could be defeated. This plan worked and the Master was shot by his wife Lucy Saxon. As a result of the destruction of the Master's Paradox Machine, only Martha, her family, and everyone else who was on board the Valiant remembered that year spent with the Master. Although the Doctor wanted her to stay with him, she decided that her family needed her more, and stayed on Earth to complete her training as a doctor.however, she gave the Doctor her enhanced mobile phone, saying that she would call him in the future when she needed him. (DW: Last of the Time Lords)
UNIT
The Doctor put in a good word for Martha at UNIT. At the request of Captain Jack, as a UNIT officer, she visited Torchwood 3 in Cardiff, where she became embroiled in their investigation of a private medical organization called The Pharm. Torchwood sent her into the Pharm as an undercover agent, but during the course of her investigation she was discovered and captured and the Mayflies were put into her body. Owen Harper saved her life using an alien surgical device but Aaron Copley killed him. Just as Copley was about to shoot Martha he was shot in the head by Jack Harkness. (TW: Reset) Martha witnessed Owen's return from the dead as an undead being means of the resurrection gauntlet and gave him a posthumous physical. "Death", a force possessing Harper aged Martha into an old woman. After the Death being vanished, she reverted to normal (TW: Dead Man Walking) She mended Harper's injured hand after, in a fit of self-destruction, he deliberately wounded it, after Jack decided to relieve him of duty at Torchwood. When Owen Harper was promoted back to Doctor, she left for UNIT, a few days after she had joined on (TW: A Day in the Death). She didn't go to Gwen Cooper's wedding because of work (Torchwood website).
Back at UNIT, her boyfriend, Thomas Milligan and Martha got engaged. However the Doctor feels a slight pang. (DW: The Sontaran Stratagem), though he left Britain for a while to go to Africa (DW: The Poison Sky)
Martha called the Doctor just as she, together with UNIT, was about to attack the ATMOS Factory which secretly formed a key part of a Sontaran invasion plan. At the time, she worked under the by-the-book Colonel Mace who was in charge of the operation. Later that day she warned Donna Noble to keep her family safe because of what had happened to her own family at the hands of the Master. A few minutes later she was kidnapped by two solders under Sontaran control and taken to her to a cloning pool, where they started copying her body. She then was put to sleep but kept alive as a her Clone was about to aid the Sontarans and needed access to her memories. (DW: The Sontaran Stratagem) Martha's clone died soon after the Doctor rescued the real Martha. While chatting with the Doctor and Donna inside the TARDIS after the defeat of the Sontarans, Martha turned down the Doctor's offer to let her travel again with him. As soon as she had made her refusal unknown force took control of the ship and dragged it into the Vortex (DW: The Poison Sky).
Martha walked out of the TARDIS onto the planet Messaline, remarking to Donna that even though she didn't want to travel with the Doctor any more, she loved the first steps of exploration on a new planet. On Messaline the Doctor was immediately taken hold of and his hand put in a machine to form his daughter, Jenny. Soon after, they were attacked by the Hath. Martha was separated from the Doctor and Donna and taken by the Hath. She saw an injured one named Hath Peck whom Martha helped, earning the Haths' trust, who then showed her a map of where they were. The Doctor was shown a corresponding map, and caused new passages and tunnels to appear on both maps, much to the Haths' surprise, who thought Martha was responsible. The Doctor then called her, and told her where they were heading. Martha found a way onto the planet's surface and took Hath Peck with her. On the surface Martha slipped into something like a pool of quicksand, but Hath Peck saved her life, sacrificing his own, to Martha's distress. Martha then saw the temple and was reunited with The Doctor, Donna and Jenny there. They discovered what the Humans and Hath were fighting over; the Source which would make the planet's surface habitable again. As the Hath and the Humans come running up the Doctor released the Source, however General Cobb was jealous and shot at the Doctor, wounding Jenny instead. When the Doctor said that there was a possibility she would come back to life, Martha shook her head and confirmed she was dead. Later, the Doctor took her back to Earth where she cheerfully said farewell to him and Donna, and was reunited with her fiancé, Thomas Milligan (DW: The Doctor's Daughter).
Martha had got promoted to an American contingent to help UNIT with Project Indigo. But when the Earth was transported into the Medusa Cascade the whole world went into panic. UNIT sent Martha to use technology that would help the Earth. General Sanchez gave her a parting gift of the Indigo prototype and the Osterhagen Key. Martha's emotions took control and sent her to her mother's house. Harriet Jones meanwhile had created a low level signal and it contacted her laptop. Together they all contacted the Doctor and summoned him to fight the Daleks.(DW: The Stolen Earth) Martha departed from her mother and teleported to Germany. She witnessed German Daleks shouting extermanatein in German, but luckily for her she was hidden in the undergrowth. She went to an abandoned German fort and was confronted by a German woman who approached Martha into the fort. As she had a pistle. Matha slowly backed away into tyhe lift as the woman lowered her Gun. Martha then contacted other divisions of Unit and got through to a Chinese woman and a Liberian man. They all gave her Martha's permission to activate the Osterhagen Key. Martha got through to the Crucible and told the Daleks that she would use the key to destroy the earth and they would have one less planet to destroy. But she was teleported to the ship an met up with The Doctor, Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith, Jackie Tyler, Jack Harkness, Sarah Jane Smith and Donna Noble. The each helped conquer the Daleks and destroyed the crucible while they al went into the Tardis and helped them move the earth back. Upon departing the TARDIS with Jack, he discouraged her from going back to UNIT and told her she had other options, sounding like he was about to ask her to join Torchwood permanently. Mickey ran after them and, given his experiences fighting aliens and with the parallel Torchwood and his friendship with Jack, could well join Torchwood Cardiff as well. (DW: Journeys End)
Alternate realities
Donna's World
If Donna Noble had turned right for a job interview instead of turning left, Martha would have been working in the Royal Hope Hospital and met Sarah Jane and Luke Smith, as well as Maria Jackson and Clyde Langer As the hospital was moved to the moon, the oxygen ran out, and so everyone in the hospital, including Martha, was left to die of suffocation. She gave the last oxygen tank to fellow student Oliver Morgenstern before dying, and he was the only survivor. (DW: Turn Left)
Other information
- Martha spent about two years travelling with the Doctor. 3 months in 1913 (Human Nature/The Family of Blood), at least amonth in 1964 (Blink), a Year that was the year that never was (The Last of the Time Lords).
- While investigating the Pharm for Torchwood, she posed as an application to join a medical study. While doing so, she adopted the name Samantha Jones. Coincidentally or otherwise, the Doctor had earlier had a companion named Sam Jones.
- Human Naturet]] establishes that at one point the Doctor and Martha are separated -- for Martha only a few hours pass, but for the Doctor the separation lasts for nearly three years.
- According to the Doctor Who comic book published by IDW beginning in 2008 (and written by Gary Russell, Martha Jones was born in 1984 making her 25 in 2009).
- She can speak German as she speaks German in Journey's End.
- Martha is UNIT Agent number 56671. (DW: Journey's End)
Key Life Events
- Martha meets the Doctor and decides to go travelling with him (DW: Smith and Jones)
- Martha and the Doctor meet William Shakespeare and defeat the Carrionites (DW: The Shakespeare Code)
- Martha, the Doctor and Novice Hame witness the Death of The Face of Boe. (DW: Gridlock).
- Martha travels to 1930s New York and witnesses the descruction of the Cult of Skaro (DW: Daleks in Manhattan/'Evolution of the Daleks)
- Martha returns home and battles Lazarus, a man mutating into a crature, reunited with family. (DW: The Lazurus Experiment)
- Travels with the doctor "as a proper companion" and is in a spaceship heading towards the sun, helps save everyone. (DW: 42)
- Becomes a maid at a school a year before World War One looking after a human version of the doctor. she later releases the Doctor and heklps him defeat the Family of Blood. (DW: Human Nature/The Family of Blood)
- Goes to Wester Drummlins and enters an old mansion with the Doctor but is send to the 1960's by the Weeping Angel's (DW: Blink)
- Travels to the year 100 trillion and meets Jack Harkness. She then assists Yana and Changtho in The Utopia Project. The Tardis is stolen by The Master (DW: Utopia)
- Gets to 21st Century Earth and tries to save her family from the master. He orders the arrest of them but Leo escapes. She then teleports on to the Valiant. She witnesses the doctor age 900 years and jack getkilled and re-killed. (DW: The Sound of Drums)
- On an Earth ruled by "Harold Saxon" and his servants, the Toclafane, Martha spends a year fighting the occupation and ensuring the Doctor's victory. She meets Thomas Milligan (DW: Last of the Time Lords).
- Martha decides to leave the Doctor and strike out on her own (DW: Last of the Time Lords).
- Martha joins UNIT as a medical officer (Mentioned TW: Reset)
- Engagement to Thomas Milligan (Mentioned DW: The Sontaran Stratagem)]
- Does work with Torchwood she helps undercover a medical research Lab called the Pharm (TW: Reset)
- About to an autopsy on Owen Harper Jack tells her not to he resurects him with theresurection glove. The Glove then ages her to an old woman. But when wen defeated death she was young again. (TW: Dead Man Walking)
- Is Temporally Torchwoods Medical Officer beofr egoing back to UNIT after Owen Harper being made fit for his job again. (TW: A Day in the Death)
- Reunion with the Doctor and first meeting with Donna Noble DW: The Sontaran Stratagem).
- Martha once more joins the Doctor in his travels when the TARDIS gets diverted from Earth with her inside it (DW: The Poison Sky).
- When the Doctor returns her to earth, she chooses to stay rather than continue travelling. (DW: The Doctor's Daughter).
- Gets promoted by UNIT to work on Project Indigo in New York (Mentioned DW: The Stolen Earth)
- Martha is given the Osterhagen Key by General Stanchez. He is then extermanated as se teleports to her mothers house. She then recieves a Low Level Sub-wave signal and relises she must save the Earth from the Daleks(DW:The Stolen Earth).
- She defeats Davros and the Daleks with the help of The Doctor and the rest of his companions. She then returns to Earth and carries on her life. Jack seems to suggest that she should join Torchwood again. (DW: Journey's End)
