Adeola Oshodi
Adeola Oshodi, known familiarly as "Adi", was a technician at Torchwood One in Canary Wharf, where she worked on its free energy project. She died as the result of Cyberman infiltration of Torchwood Tower which preceded the Battle of Canary Wharf in 2007. (TV: Army of Ghosts [+]Loading...["Army of Ghosts (TV story)"]) She was a cousin of Martha Jones, with whom she shared a resemblance, (PROSE: Made of Steel [+]Loading...["Made of Steel (novel)"], TV: Smith and Jones [+]Loading...["Smith and Jones (TV story)"]) through her father, who was the brother of Martha's mother, Francine Jones. (PROSE: The Torchwood Archives [+]Loading...["The Torchwood Archives (novel)"])
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
At a Torchwood party, Yvonne Hartman told Adeola that Pippa always arrived fashionably late. (AUDIO: New Girl [+]Loading...["New Girl (audio story)"])
She was finding a place to make a romantic liaison with a co-worker named Gareth Evans when she was seized and cyber-converted by Cybermen who had slipped through the Void through a breach in space-time. Her "upgrade" was internal, through EarPod-like earpieces linked with cyber-filament directly to her brain. She was killed definitively when her "earpieces" were overloaded by a signal from the Tenth Doctor. Baffled as to how they could be controlled with simple communications devices, Yvonne Hartman yanked the device out of Adeola's ear only to find, much to her disgust, a string of squelching wet brain tissue which she promptly dropped with a splat. (TV: Army of Ghosts [+]Loading...["Army of Ghosts (TV story)"])
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
When the Royal Hope Hospital she worked was relocated to the Moon in the 2000s,[nb 1] Martha recalled to the Tenth Doctor, among the alien appearances of recent years, "those Cybermen things." She noted that her cousin worked at Canary Wharf and never came home. The Doctor gave her his condolences and noted that he was present at the battle, (TV: Smith and Jones [+]Loading...["Smith and Jones (TV story)"]) but opted not to reveal his role in her death. (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"])
Martha recalled Adeola again when faced with the return of the Cybermen. Remembering that the Doctor was present at the Battle of Canary Wharf, she asked him if he had seen her, noting that she looked "a bit" like her. Internally, the Doctor recalled the memory of when he was forced to terminate Adeola, but avoided answering the question, saying that things got "pretty chaotic" and that a lot of people died before apologising again. (PROSE: Made of Steel [+]Loading...["Made of Steel (novel)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Actress Freema Agyeman played the parts of both Adeola and Martha. The confirmation that the two characters were related first became public in the Made of Steel novella. It was released before Martha's first televised appearance in Smith and Jones, although Made of Steel takes place after and introduces the character.
- Russell T Davies stated in an interview that had he known Freema Agyeman would be such a good choice of actress for the upcoming new companion he would have rewritten Army of Ghosts so that Adeola survived.
- Other examples of an actor guest-starring in the series in one role, only to return later as a recurring character in another role include Peter Purves, Nicholas Courtney, Ian Marter, Lalla Ward, Colin Baker, Eve Myles, Peter Capaldi and Karen Gillan.
- The script for Army of Ghosts gives Adeola's age as 25.
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ According to the episode The Sound of Drums, Martha Jones' present day during series 3 of Doctor Who takes place over a six-day period, with the Saxon Master being elected three days after Smith and Jones, and the Toclafane invading Earth five days after Smith and Jones. However, sources differ on which dates these stories are set. According to PROSE: The Paradox Moon, the Toclafane invasion happens on 23 June 2007, placing the events of Smith and Jones on 18 June. According to AUDIO: Hysteria, Smith and Jones takes place in 2008, with a UNIT mission log in AUDIO: Recruits referring to the recovery of moon rocks from Royal Hope Hospital in March 2008. A newspaper clipping in PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters places Smith and Jones on a Sunday 4 June, thus placing the Toclafane invasion on Friday 9 June. In the real world, these dates do not fall on a Sunday and Friday in either 2007 or 2008.
