Tim (Didn't You Kill My Mother?)
Tim was a sentient Dalek time machine built by the Cult of Skaro on their homeworld during the Last Great Time War, in order to infiltrate the TARDISes on Gallifrey.
Like TARDISes, he was dimensionally transcendental, and his control room strongly resembled theirs. He could take on a humanoid form within his own dimensions, with a personality and motives of his own.
After the Time War, Tim sought to stop the renewed invasion of the universe by the Resurrected Dalek Empire and manipulated Arabella Hendricks, the Eleventh Doctor and Valarie Lockwood to this end.
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Tim was created on Skaro during the Time War by the Cult of Skaro, being designed to infiltrate the ranks of TARDISes.
After the Time War, he met Arabella Hendricks, who recognised him (from later on in his timeline) as her consultant. Tim helped her develop the Surge as a counter to the threat of the New Dalek Paradigm, however realised it would not be refined and distributed adequately in time for the inevitable invasion. Tim devised a plan to self-destruct to alter history to enable the Surge to be given to Hendricks much earlier so an army could be raised against the Daleks, however he was unable to instigate the plan as he could not self-destruct without the order of a commander. (AUDIO: Didn't You Kill My Mother? [+]Loading...["Didn't You Kill My Mother? (audio story)"])
Meeting the Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]
Though he believed that the Doctor never actually fought in the Time War, due to the Doctor erasing records about himself, Tim heard many legends about him from Earth so sought out the Eleventh Doctor to be his commander.
Tim brought Mrs Hendricks, Valarie Lockwood and the Doctor inside him, dressed up as an office, removed some of their memories, and pretended to be an impartial arbiter alongside "Mr Doctor". He tried to force the Doctor to make a choice between the two on who was right, as a test to see if the Doctor would carry out his plan. The Doctor refused to make the choice however.
After explaining his true identity to the Doctor and restoring everyone's memories, Tim explained his plan to stop the Daleks however the Doctor refused to carry it out. After Valarie and Hendricks drew his attention Tim turned on Hendricks, erasing her, which the Doctor used as a opportunity to rig parts of Tim’s interior to destruct. This distraction enabled him and Valarie to escape Tim in the TARDIS. (AUDIO: Didn't You Kill My Mother? [+]Loading...["Didn't You Kill My Mother? (audio story)"])
Manipulating Valarie[[edit] | [edit source]]
Following the Dalek invasion of Medrüth and the Doctor’s capture by the Daleks at Darinthia, Tim arrived on Darinthia and contacted Valarie, offering safety from the Daleks landing on the planet. Valarie and Roanna hurried to Tim, with Roanna dying in the process after fighting through Daleks using the Surge. Valarie furiously realised Tim could have landed closer and had let Roanna die, which he conceded he’d done so she could accept the offer that he’d made to the Doctor to change history, promising all the deaths could be undone. She demanded more details of the outcome his change distributing the Surge earlier would bring, which he conceded was still a war against the Daleks lasting billions of years. Valarie used his telepathic circuits to contact the captive Doctor, confirming he was trapped with no escape, and so reluctantly agreed to be Tim’s commander in the plan.
Tim took Valarie back in time to Hendricks’ office on Earth and self destructed to put time in flux so she could give her the Surge. Disguised as Tim, Valarie chose to keep events on track, giving Hendricks the Darthinthian Blight to experiment on. Tim was furious at her deception, believing she’d doomed the universe to the Daleks. In his last moments before the self destruct destroyed his console room, Valarie used Tim to contact the Doctor’s TARDIS, with her garbled messages being the phone calls which had been afflicting the ship’s navigation through her travels with the Doctor. The messages did bring the TARDIS to Tim, enabling Valarie to escape intending to use the temporal flux to avert the invasion of Medrüth directly. Tim’s final explosion however threw the TARDIS off course, landing instead on Darinthia prior to the Doctor’s capture. (AUDIO: The Last Stand of Miss Valarie Lockwood [+]Loading...["The Last Stand of Miss Valarie Lockwood (audio story)"])
