Emily Chaudhry
Colonel Emily Chaudhry was a UNIT officer and companion of the Doctor.
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Early life[[edit] | [edit source]]
Emily Chaudhry had a posh accent which Eleanor Grainger believed she had been taught in order to hide the lower-class reality. (PROSE: Incongruous Details [+]Loading...["Incongruous Details (short story)"]) Although she could have had a career in the media, she instead chose to join the British Army.
Chaudhry was drafted into UNIT as its political officer and had a meeting with top brass. She researched the organisation's history (PROSE: Defining Patterns [+]Loading...["Defining Patterns (short story)"]) and visited the White Rabbit for the first time when she was told about UNIT by someone called John. (PROSE: Incongruous Details [+]Loading...["Incongruous Details (short story)"])
Early career[[edit] | [edit source]]
On her first day at UNIT, Chaudhry was warned[by whom?] to avoid Code Blues and keep away from the Doctor in order to survive. (PROSE: Incongruous Details [+]Loading...["Incongruous Details (short story)"]) Her job put her in constant contact with the likes of Francis Currie, whom she disliked. (AUDIO: The Coup [+]Loading...["The Coup (audio story)"], et al.) She befriended Colonel Brimmicombe-Wood, who called her a "proper English rose" until she drank him[statement unclear] under the table at a Christmas party. (AUDIO: The Longest Night [+]Loading...["The Longest Night (audio story)"]) She greatly respected and trusted him, but denied being attracted to him. (AUDIO: The Wasting [+]Loading...["The Wasting (audio story)"])
In the 1990s, Chaudhry met and worked with at least two of the first five incarnations of the Doctor and was thus aware of regeneration. (PROSE: Defining Patterns [+]Loading...["Defining Patterns (short story)"]) In 1999, she sent the Fifth Doctor to be assist Liz Shaw in studying a bust of Nero. (PROSE: Flashpoint [+]Loading...["Flashpoint (short story)"]) She later covered the incident up. By the early 2000s, she had become godmother to the son of the White Rabbit's barmaid. (PROSE: Defining Patterns [+]Loading...["Defining Patterns (short story)"])
Travels in the TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the 2000s, Chaudhry met Lieutenant Will Hoffman on his first day at UNIT and was initially unimpressed with him. After spotting the TARDIS, she and Hoffman met the Sixth Doctor and helped him defeat the Darkness using light, after which they joined him in the TARDIS on the condition that they go immediately back to UNIT HQ. (PROSE: The Terror of the Darkness [+]Loading...["The Terror of the Darkness (short story)"]) Chaudhry had secretly been desperate to see what was inside the ship.
The TARDIS received a distress call which Chaudhry begrudgingly agreed that they had to answer. They landed in London in 1940 where Edward Grainger shot Chaudhry, but she survived thanks to alien technology that she was wearing and joined the Doctor and Hoffman in returning a Mim to the Mimsphere. Chaudhry found the planet squalid and thoroughly unremarkable and, upon returning to UNIT, they searched for Grainger's report and found a number of records from the '40s missing. To find them, the Doctor took her and Hoffman to 1957. (PROSE: Incongruous Details [+]Loading...["Incongruous Details (short story)"])
In 1957, Chaudhry realised that the files that UNIT would inherit would be held in Westminster by the Ministry of Defence. She and Hoffman waited outside whilst the Doctor met Ronnie Tillyard, who had been erasing records of his adventures to keep the information from falling into the wrong hands. Chaudhry, Hoffman and the Doctor helped Ronnie complete his mission before going back to the TARDIS to return to the 2000s. (PROSE: Defining Patterns [+]Loading...["Defining Patterns (short story)"])
Return to UNIT[[edit] | [edit source]]
Chaudhry and Hoffman were present as witnesses when Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart wrote and signed a report on an incident in the London Underground involving the Third Doctor and Jo Grant. Whilst it was dated 2006, (PROSE: Jigsaw [+]Loading...["Jigsaw (short story)"]) one account indicated that Hoffman's death occurred in 2005. (PROSE: Rise of the Dominator [+]Loading...["Rise of the Dominator (novel)"])
Chaudhry covered up the battle against the Silurians at Tower Bridge and claimed that the damage was caused by simple subsidence. Prior to the conference regarding UNIT's handover to ICIS in the UK, she became aware of Sergeant French's capture and torture of Francis Currie to cover up the fact that ICIS attacked a Silurian diplomatic party. Sir Alistair, with Chaudhry's knowledge, made this known by introducing Orgath to the press. When Captain Andrea Winnington shot Orgath, ICIS was discredited and putting an end to the handover. (AUDIO: The Coup [+]Loading...["The Coup (audio story)"])
The rise of ICIS[[edit] | [edit source]]
Chaudhry held a press conference concerning the supposed transport of nuclear warheads when, in actuality, Brimmicombe-Wood was moving a spaceship hidden in a petrol tanker. When Brimmicombe-Wood and the ship went missing, Chaudhry investigated various disasters with Hoffman's help and met the acting CO, Colonel Robert Dalton, whom she initially distrusted. With help from Sir Alistair, they found that Professor Meade's experiments were responsible, after which Chaudhry gave Dalton files on the London Underground Incident and Project Inferno to teach him the truth of UNIT. (AUDIO: Time Heals [+]Loading...["Time Heals (audio story)"])
Chaudhry and Dalton went to Southend to investigate the unusual deaths of several immigrant workers after a mutilated body washed up at Foulness. Chaudhry found that the case was connected to Chinese gangs and learnt from Hoffman that they had twice attempted to smuggle Goran Dhampir into the country, later finding that Kevin Lee had called him in to kill a Vârkolak. She ultimately staked the Vârkolak with one of Barney Hendrick's measuring sticks, turning it to dust. (AUDIO: Snake Head [+]Loading...["Snake Head (audio story)"])
That night, Chaudhry was called by Hoffman following the bombing of Vita Futura and witnessed his death. She met with Currie to find out who was behind the bombing, as well as the one at Westminster tube station, and was attacked by him, causing her to realise that people were being brainwashed. She and Dalton found that Major Philip Kirby, Winnington's father, was responsible and that he was acting in the interests of ICIS. The bombing of 10 Downing Street, (AUDIO: The Longest Night [+]Loading...["The Longest Night (audio story)"]) which killed Dalton, left Chaudhry in a coma for two weeks.
Upon awakening, Chaudhry allied herself with Sir Alistair to take down ICIS and learnt from Currie that UNIT had been framed for the murder of those infected by a flu-like infection. She located and apparently freed Brimmicombe-Wood from Markham army base, but realised that he had knowledge that he should not have, forcing him to reveal that he was the CO of ICIS. After a shootout between UNIT and ICIS, Chaudhry went to Russia with Alistair to ensure that the cure made by Harry Sullivan's people and the Silurians was released into the atmosphere by missile. There, she fought and arrested Brimmicombe-Wood. (AUDIO: The Wasting [+]Loading...["The Wasting (audio story)"])
As commanding officer[[edit] | [edit source]]
Over the course of a week, UNIT was exonerated and awarded new funding whilst ICIS was disbanded. Chaudhry was visited in hospital by Sir Alistair, who told her that, with his input, she would be offered the position of CO of UNIT. She expected this and asked Sir Alistair to serve as her unofficial scientific advisor, which he accepted. (AUDIO: The Wasting [+]Loading...["The Wasting (audio story)"])
Chaudhry had Christmas dinner with the Eighth Doctor, Sir Alistair, Charlotte Pollard and several of her UNIT colleagues. Sir Alistair thought that she was looking "very well" and that UNIT was indeed in the right hands. She was the last to arrive. (PROSE: Faithful Friends: Part 3 [+]Loading...["Faithful Friends: Part 3 (short story)"])
Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]
Edward Grainger believed that Chaudhry had "wonderful eyes". (PROSE: Incongruous Details [+]Loading...["Incongruous Details (short story)"])
Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]
Although Chaudhry spoke with a posh accent and was aware that she seemed the sort of woman to dine on fancy dishes as the Ivy, she preferred to drink pints and eat pork scratchings at the White Rabbit. (AUDIO: The Longest Night [+]Loading...["The Longest Night (audio story)"], PROSE: Incongruous Details [+]Loading...["Incongruous Details (short story)"]) She knew her worth and that she could run UNIT efficiently. (AUDIO: The Wasting [+]Loading...["The Wasting (audio story)"]) When she realised that she was heading towards a beach, she was eager to see the attractions. (AUDIO: Snake Head [+]Loading...["Snake Head (audio story)"])
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