The Taint (novel)
Publisher's summary
The TARDIS has finally brought the Doctor and Sam back to Earth -- and straight into danger.
It is 1963. Six very different people have been gathered together for study by parapsychologist Charles Roley in his stately home outside London. All of them claim to have been possessed by the devil, and all have shared similar delusions -- they describe the same bizarre 'death cave' riddled with demons.
Roley's experiments are having a gradual yet terrifying effect on his subjects, and the Doctor and Sam discover the connections between those tainted with the madness are more disturbing than anyone could guess.
For the Doctor, too, has seen the cave they describe -- on a dead world, billions of years ago.
Characters
- Meets Fitz while buying a dying begonia, tries to haggle for a lowered price and eventually succeeds.
- Tells Fitz if he doesn't want to learn, he had 'best go to university, then.'
- Plays "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" on a recorder; Fitz responds by playing "Please, Please Me", which the Doctor calls, 'Rubbish.'
- Samantha Jones
- Fitz Kreiner
- This is Fitz's first appearance.
- Fitz kisses Sam, she thinks it's like kissing an ashtray.
- Fitz strips a concussed Sam and then sleeps in the same bed as her, she wakes up and screams, obviously upset.
- Charles Roley
References
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Notes
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Continuity
Alien Bodies, Unnatural History,
