Clive Finch
Clive J Finch — known as CJ in his youth — was a human conspiracy theorist who collected information on the Doctor and ran a conspiracy website, Doctor Who?.
History
Childhood
Clive was born around either 1961 (PROSE: Rose) or 1965 and was known as CJ in his youth. (PROSE: The Persistence of Memory) In 1963, when Clive was two years old, his father, Second Lieutenant Gary Jonathan Finch, was killed by an Imperial Dalek during the Shoreditch Incident and had his death covered up by the military. (PROSE: Rose)
As a child, Clive was interested in a variety of mysteries, including Big Foot, Sasquatch, the Mary Celeste, yeti, the Bermuda Triangle, the Loch Ness Monster, the Roswell crash and the panthers of Dartmoor. (PROSE: The Persistence of Memory)
Meeting the Doctor
On 24 December 1975, when Clive was fourteen, he encountered the Twelfth Doctor at a newsagent's and followed him into his TARDIS after noticing that he was using coins from 1987. As it was Christmas Eve, the Doctor decided to give him a quick trip.
At Clive's request, they travelled to Loch Ness in the summer of 1979 to find the Loch Ness Monster and, after an adventure involving a plot by the Monk to depopulate and sell the Earth, the Doctor returned Clive home and blurred his memories of the incident. (PROSE: The Persistence of Memory)
Clive went on to investigate his father's death and learn of the Daleks and the Doctor, the latter of whom he made his lifelong mission to fully understand and to solve the mystery of their numerous incarnations across time. (PROSE: Rose)
Adult life
Clive studied at Durham University where he was a part of a UFO society. After the society booked the same venue as a Reclaim the Night Enclave, he and his friends left, but Caroline tracked him down to a bar and apologised. They talked through the night and entered into a relationship, getting married and having two sons, Ben and Michael. (PROSE: Rose) By 2005, the family were living on Juke Street (TV: Rose, GAME: Security Bot) and Clive was working as an estate agent. (PROSE: Rose) Sometime during February, Clive and his family visited Thorpe Park. (PROSE: Rose)
By 2005, Clive was maintaining a website, Doctor Who?, focused on the mysterious Doctor who kept appearing throughout recorded history. Some of the hundreds of readers of his website who sent in their experiences about the Doctor addressed Clive directly; Josiah Rowe offered to find a scanner so he could send Clive a photograph and a letter from his grandfather from the First World War, A. Fergus asked if the Doctor was some sort of vigilante, and rewboss disagreed with Clive about the Doctor being the centre of a conspiracy. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
After Rose Tyler met the Ninth Doctor, she contacted Clive and went to visit him for more information. Clive told her that "the Doctor" was held to be a title handed down from father to son, but he believed that the Doctor was an immortal alien. He showed Rose photographs and drawings of the incarnation she had met, taken at several different points in history. (TV: Rose) He also showed her photographs of other figures also known as "the Doctor" before asking her to take him with her to meet hers, causing Rose to make her excuses and leave. (PROSE: Rose)
Death
Shortly after his meeting with Rose, Clive and his family went on a shopping trip and were in Queen's Arcade when the Autons were activated. Clive was amazed to realise that the stories he had heard about the Doctor were true and was approached by an Auton which drew its gun on him. Clive stared at it with a look of cold submissiveness, knowing he was about to be killed, (TV: Rose) and was shot. His family fled for their lives, screaming. (TV: Rose, PROSE: Rose)
Legacy
Some of Clive's possessions were taken by UNIT and later found in the Black Archive by Cleo Proctor and Shawna Thompson. (AUDIO: Recruits)
Behind the scenes
According to Russell T Davies in The Writer's Tale, Mackenzie Crook was nearly cast to play Clive.
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