Raine Creevy
Raine Creevy was a companion of the Seventh Doctor and travelled with Ace. She was a safecracker from 1989.
Biography
Early life
Raine was born on 7 November 1967 to Markus Creevy and Raina Kerenskaya, with the Seventh Doctor acting as her obstetrician. (AUDIO: Thin Ice) Some of her earliest memories were hearing her parents tell her stories about the Doctor, which she enjoyed and never gave her nightmares. The Doctor always remembered her birthday and left her presents whilst she was growing up. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century)
As a child, Raine holidayed on the Red Sea and learnt to scuba-dive. (AUDIO: Animal) She also learnt fencing in school. She often found herself stuck between her parents due to their frequent arguments, which were exacerbated by Markus having numerous affairs. His treatment of her mother caused her to resent him. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century)
Raine was told that she would have to attend university in London as her parents wanted to keep an eye on her, so she studied at King's College. She found that, in her experience, attending lectures was not considered a mandatory part of being a student. (AUDIO: Animal) At some point, she learnt how to fly a helicopter and picked up a few safe-cracking techniques from somebody that her father knew. She became a skilled safe-cracker and utilised a stethoscope that she stole from a medical student she met at a party in Holland Park.
Raine cut contact with her father following her mother's death and refused to have anything to do with him due to his extramarital affairs. Markus lost a substantial amount of money after Black Monday and was unable to provide her with any sort of inheritance. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century)
Meeting the Doctor
In 1989, Raine was hired to steal various treasures by the Doctor, although she was unaware of his identity. She stole the final item during a party on 13 October and found the Doctor inside a safe, after which they escaped together and she learnt that he had employed her to recover items that her father had been forced to sell. Raine forgave her father and agreed to assist him, the Doctor and Ace.
Raine travelled with the Doctor to Kafiristan and, per his plan, pretended to betray him by going with Colonel Felnikov and the Metatraxi to steal a weapon from RAF Spadeadam. After the Metatraxi killed the guard robots and departed, Raine revealed her deception and opened the vault so that the Doctor could destroy the weapon. She exchanged class-based insults with Ace, but accepted the offer to travel with them in the TARDIS. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century)
Travels with the Doctor
Raine's first journey with the Doctor and Ace was to Margrave University in 2001 where, with Brigadier Bambera and UNIT, they defeated a Numlock plot. While at first Ace and Raine did not get along, they soon put aside their differences when they realised they had more in common than they realised. However, her curiosity about the future lead her to discover that by this point, her father had died. Upset by the revelation, she decided to stay in Margrave for a short time, and the Doctor and Ace left without her, promising to come back to pick her up in a week's time. (AUDIO: Animal)
Determined to find out the truth about her father's death, Raine journeyed to Johannesburg to retrieve some documents left to her that had fallen into the possession of someone else. While attempting to steal them from a safe in a hotel, she was kidnapped by the Metatraxi and placed inside the safe with a life support unit that slowed her metabolism. The safe was stashed aboard the starship Vancouver, as part of a plot by the Metatraxi to get revenge on the Doctor. The Vancouver was assigned to guard a vast shipment of grain from Earth to the planet Safenesthome, where onboard, the Doctor was posing as the ship's medical officer, and Ace as its captain. They discovered her quite by accident, but after freeing her, she helped them defeat the Metatraxi, as well as a species called Grubs, a brother-race of the Metatraxi, that were devouring the grain for themselves. Once that situation was resolved, she continued travelling with Ace and the Doctor. (AUDIO: Earth Aid)
While she left the Doctor's company at some point, she rejoined him as a companion much later in his personal timeline, while Ace was on Gallifrey. She met Dr Elizabeth Klein. (AUDIO: Dominion)
Klein asked after Raine after encountering the Doctor travelling on his own. He answered by saying "she's... elsewhere". (AUDIO: Persuasion)
Appearance
Raine was "a slip of a girl". She thought that black pearls looked good on her, possibly because she had a photograph of her mother wearing some. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century)
Personality
Raine believed that she had an innate ability to read people. She did not like people that she termed "cocky smartarses", even if they were closely related to somebody that she knew. (AUDIO: Dominion) Markus told the Doctor that there was no arguing with her.
Raine enjoyed drinking Manhattans, (AUDIO: Crime of the Century) coffee and tea with luxury biscuits. (AUDIO: Dominion) She had never tasted mint tea before meeting Sayf Udeen, but liked the smell and thought it would be a nice change from English breakfast. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century)
Raine dismissed the music of the 21st century as "just noise". She found couples who called one another "honey" and "love" sickening. (AUDIO: Animal)
Behind the scenes
- A character named Raine Cunningham was intended for a companion of the Seventh Doctor following Ace's departure in the unmade Season 27 of Doctor Who (which would have aired in 1990 had the series not been cancelled). A feature in DWM 255 gave the character the name Kate Tollinger, but according to an interview with script editor Andrew Cartmel in DWM 433, the character was always intended to be named Raine. The character was revived in the second season of Big Finish Productions' The Lost Stories, which followed the stories intended for Season 27. However the character has been renamed Raine Creevy, as Cartmel had since discovered someone named Raine Cunningham existed in real life.
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