Paternoster Gang: Difference between revisions

|affiliation      = {{il|[[Eleventh Doctor]]|[[Sweetville]]|[[Clara Oswin Oswald]] |[[Latimer (The Snowmen)|Captain Latimer]]|[[Scotland Yard]]}}

|appearances      = [[Paternoster Gang - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]

The '''Paternoster Gang''' was a group of detectives active in [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[London]] named after their [[Paternoster Row]] home. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Great Detective (TV story)|The Great Detective]]'') The group was comprised of:

[[File:PaternosterGang-AGMGTW.jpg|left|thumb|An early Paternoster Gang, on [[Demon's Run]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later]]'')]]

The Paternoster Gang was formed sometime before [[1893]] in [[England]], after its three members came back from [[Demon's Run]] [[asteroid]] after participating in the [[Battle of Demons Run]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[The Battle of Demon's Run: Two Days Later (webcast)|The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'')

 

Soon after the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s arrival at Victorian London to retire after [[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|losing his most beloved friends]], the Paternoster Gang became known as "the Doctor's friends", and tried to convince the Doctor to return to his [[universe]]-saving career. Soon after, on [[24 December]] 1893 the three, along with the Doctor and [[Clara Oswin Oswald]], defeated the [[Great Intelligence]] and stopped his plan to take over the [[Earth]] using telepathic [[snow]]. During this adventure, Clara died, but the Doctor, who seemed to know her before, returned to normal. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'')

Some time later, a man called [[Thursday (The Crimson Horror)|Mr Thursday]] contacted with [[Vastra]] to ask her to investigate the murder of his brother, [[Edmund (The Crimson Horror)|Edmund]]. Vastra, with Jenny and Strax, investigated Edmund's dead body, and found out a strange [[optogram]] in his eye — an image of the Doctor. Jenny was sent to Sweetville to see what's wrong, only to find the Doctor fossil in an odd red liquid. The Doctor instructed Jenny how to heal him, and once it was done, the pair went out to find Clara. They found her as a puppet inside a glass dome. The group was confused at seeing Clara, now the Doctor's [[companion]], alive after seeing her die the previous [[Christmas]]. After Clara was recovered, the Doctor, Jenny and Clara were caught by [[Winifred Gillyflower]], the project's manager. They were soon saved by Vastra and Strax. Then the Paternoster Gang, along with the Doctor and Clara, stopped Gillyflower's plan to launch a rocket containing a [[red leech]] [[poison]], wiping out humanity over the Earth. Eventually, Strax shot Gillyflower, who fell to the floor and died. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Crimson Horror (TV story)|The Crimson Horror]]'')

 

[[File:Doctor-who-clara-jenny-strax-vastra-name-of-doctor.jpg|thumb|The Paternoster Gang, with the Doctor, Clara and the [[Whisper Man|Whisper Men]] on Trenzalore. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')]]

Vastra was called to talk to a [[Murder|serial killer]], [[Clarence DeMarco]], that killed fourteen women. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Clarence and the Whispermen]]'') He told her about the Doctor's biggest secret, and gave her a space-time coordinates to him, in exchange for his freedom. Vastra agreed, and arranged a [[psychic]] [[conference call]] with Jenny, Strax, Clara and [[River Song]]. There, she told them what Clarence told her, but the call was soon disturbed by the [[Whisper Man|Whisper Men]] who attacked the sleeping investigators. Jenny was murdered by them, but Vastra and Strax managed to wake up in time. Clara also woke up, and after telling the Doctor what was happening, the two travelled to coordinates Clara remembered. The coordinates were, apparently, [[Trenzalore]]. Vastra and Strax were also brought to Trenzalore by the Whisper Men.

There, the [[Great Intelligence]], who controlled the Whisper Men, opened [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the Doctor's tomb]]. He jumped into [[the Doctor's time stream]], and started to altering his history. Because of the Great Intelligence's actions, Vastra and Strax no longer knew each other. Strax attacked Vastra, and she shot and killed him. Clara reversed the recent occurrences, including Jenny's and Strax's death, by entering the timeline after the Intelligence, saving the Doctor wherever he went. The Doctor then decided to save Clara by entering his timeline himself, telling the Paternoster Gang that the TARDIS could return them home with the [[fast return protocol]] if he didn't return. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')