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He was at [[school]] with [[Professor]] [[Jeffrey Broderick]]. During his school days, Kinsella engineered a fight between the [[rugby]] team captain and a boy who had stolen some of his food. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Artificial Intelligence (audio story)|Artificial Intelligence]]'') | He was at [[school]] with [[Professor]] [[Jeffrey Broderick]]. During his school days, Kinsella engineered a fight between the [[rugby]] team captain and a boy who had stolen some of his food. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Artificial Intelligence (audio story)|Artificial Intelligence]]'') | ||
During [[World War II]], he was involved in a eugenics programme to create "super soldiers"; the plan was that if Germany won, the soldiers could be used to retake Britain. (He later said: "There was a war on! A lot of people did things they weren't proud of!") He was himself one of the test subjects with [[Mary Cleaver]], his wife, but she faked the miscarriage of his son, [[Ray Cleaver]], and divorced him. After the war, Sir Toby would remove all traces of himself from these files. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sins of the Fathers (audio story)|Sins of the Fathers]]'') [[Charles Waverly]] was part of the project with him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Manhunt]]'') Years later, after Gilmore had accused him of only "pushing papers around" during the war, Toby knocked a man out and | During [[World War II]], he was involved in a eugenics programme to create "super soldiers"; the plan was that if Germany won, the soldiers could be used to retake Britain. (He later said: "There was a war on! A lot of people did things they weren't proud of!") He was himself one of the test subjects with [[Mary Cleaver]], his wife, but she faked the miscarriage of his son, [[Ray Cleaver]], and divorced him. After the war, Sir Toby would remove all traces of himself from these files. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sins of the Fathers (audio story)|Sins of the Fathers]]'') [[Charles Waverly]] was part of the project with him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Manhunt]]'') Years later, after Gilmore had accused him of only "pushing papers around" during the war, Toby knocked a man out and implied he'd seen action. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Peshka (audio story)|Peshka]]'') | ||
After the war, he and Waverly continued to be part of the eugenics programme which was now preparing for nuclear war. By this point it was clear that the original creations had psychosis and the [[Wilcock Institute]] was trying to both "care" for the originals and create versions without this problem. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sins of the Fathers (audio story)|Sins of the Fathers]]'') | After the war, he and Waverly continued to be part of the eugenics programme which was now preparing for nuclear war. By this point it was clear that the original creations had psychosis and the [[Wilcock Institute]] was trying to both "care" for the originals and create versions without this problem. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sins of the Fathers (audio story)|Sins of the Fathers]]'') | ||
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When pretending to be from the Department of Public Building and Works, Sir Toby was disparaging of the outgoing [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] Sir [[Alec Douglas-Home]], saying that they had been "trying to work out what Earl Home thinks so we can agree with him before he's said it". He admitted that referring to Douglas-Home as "Earl Home", a title that he had dropped by [[1964]], was a hard habit for him to break. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Pelage Project (audio story)|The Pelage Project]]'') | When pretending to be from the Department of Public Building and Works, Sir Toby was disparaging of the outgoing [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] Sir [[Alec Douglas-Home]], saying that they had been "trying to work out what Earl Home thinks so we can agree with him before he's said it". He admitted that referring to Douglas-Home as "Earl Home", a title that he had dropped by [[1964]], was a hard habit for him to break. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Pelage Project (audio story)|The Pelage Project]]'') | ||
He made many deals to set up Counter-Measures and keep it going, and discouraged [[Ian Gilmore]] from seeking any more resources from the [[Ministry of Defence]]: he felt Counter-Measures (and himself) would look more credible if they could handle themselves. After their first post-Shoreditch mission, investigating [[Heinrich Shumman]]'s [[teleportation]] experiments, he agreed to put [[Rachel Jensen]] in charge rather than Gilmore. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Threshold (audio story)|Threshold]]'') Taking up Counter-Measures meant he lost his place in the nuclear war Citadel bunkers, a fact he was annoyed | He made many deals to set up Counter-Measures and keep it going, and discouraged [[Ian Gilmore]] from seeking any more resources from the [[Ministry of Defence]]: he felt Counter-Measures (and himself) would look more credible if they could handle themselves. After their first post-Shoreditch mission, investigating [[Heinrich Shumman]]'s [[teleportation]] experiments, he agreed to put [[Rachel Jensen]] in charge rather than Gilmore. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Threshold (audio story)|Threshold]]'') Taking up Counter-Measures meant he lost his place in the nuclear war Citadel bunkers, a fact about which he was annoyed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fifth Citadel (audio story)|The Fifth Citadel]]'' | ||
The second Counter-Measures duty was to ensure Broderick's artificially intelligent Sentient Engine Generator 2 computer ([[Sen-Gen]]) project was working smoothly. Sir Toby was aware Broderick was using Jensen's own research for Sen-Gen and was amused by the idea of Jensen finding out, and even gave Broderick recordings of her voice. Unknown to his old school friend, he was secretly having him watched by [[Julian St. Stephen]], and was also making use of Gilmore's old ties to Sen-Gen's Dr Cervenka. When it was discovered that Sen-Gen was driving people insane, he publicly shut the project done. In secret, he callously broke Broderick's mind so the government could use him to make another such computer. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Artificial Intelligence (audio story)|Artificial Intelligence]]'') | The second Counter-Measures duty was to ensure Broderick's artificially intelligent Sentient Engine Generator 2 computer ([[Sen-Gen]]) project was working smoothly. Sir Toby was aware Broderick was using Jensen's own research for Sen-Gen and was amused by the idea of Jensen finding out, and even gave Broderick recordings of her voice. Unknown to his old school friend, he was secretly having him watched by [[Julian St. Stephen]], and was also making use of Gilmore's old ties to Sen-Gen's Dr Cervenka. When it was discovered that Sen-Gen was driving people insane, he publicly shut the project done. In secret, he callously broke Broderick's mind so the government could use him to make another such computer. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Artificial Intelligence (audio story)|Artificial Intelligence]]'') | ||
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In 1965, Sir Toby took on an assistant, [[Templeton (Counter-Measures)|Templeton]], who he picked for knowing the "right people". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Manhunt (audio story)|Manhunt]]'') | In 1965, Sir Toby took on an assistant, [[Templeton (Counter-Measures)|Templeton]], who he picked for knowing the "right people". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Manhunt (audio story)|Manhunt]]'') | ||
Shortly after, he found Charles Waverly was trying to usurp control Counter-Measures. When Gilmore was accused of murdering Waverly, Sir Toby helped Gilmore avoid the authorities while appointing Waverly's main, James Astor, as an interim Counter-Measures member in order to draw out the truth. (He deliberately kept the truth and news of the manhunt from Rachel Jensen, and the murder was "officially" a suicide.) While he knew [[Emma Waverly]] was one of the eugenic creations, he was horrified to discover Astor ''was'' Emma — the experiment giving her the ability to shapeshift — and witness the transformation himself. He forbid Counter-Measures from pursuing Emma, secretly took files on the programme from [[Catherine Waverly]], and then ''allegedly'' witnessed her suicide soon after he learned she knew he was in the programme. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Manhunt (audio story)|Manhunt]]'') | Shortly after, he found Charles Waverly was trying to usurp control Counter-Measures. When Gilmore was accused of murdering Waverly, Sir Toby helped Gilmore avoid the authorities while appointing Waverly's main, James Astor, as an interim Counter-Measures member in order to draw out the truth. (He deliberately kept the truth and news of the manhunt from Rachel Jensen, and the murder was "officially" a [[suicide]].) While he knew [[Emma Waverly]] was one of the eugenic creations, he was horrified to discover Astor ''was'' Emma — the experiment giving her the ability to shapeshift — and witness the transformation himself. He forbid Counter-Measures from pursuing Emma, secretly took files on the programme from [[Catherine Waverly]], and then ''allegedly'' witnessed her suicide soon after he learned she knew he was in the programme. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Manhunt (audio story)|Manhunt]]'') | ||
Counter-Measures were next used as a cover and way of helping him handle a renegade Cold War bunker: its reactor had leaked, poisoning the people inside, and his an old friend Dr Elizabeth Bradley was threatening to drive it into meltdown unless the UK disarmed its nuclear weapons. Sir Toby pretended to all characters that he was unaware of the situation, using different lies for different people, and tried to talk Bradley into standing down. In the end, when it was clear how dangerous the reactor was, he pretended to talk to the government on her behalf and, behind Jensen's back, had the army bury the citadel in cement. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fifth Citadel (audio story)|The Fifth Citadel]]'') | Counter-Measures were next used as a cover and way of helping him handle a renegade Cold War bunker: its reactor had leaked, poisoning the people inside, and his an old friend Dr Elizabeth Bradley was threatening to drive it into meltdown unless the UK disarmed its nuclear weapons. Sir Toby pretended to all characters that he was unaware of the situation, using different lies for different people, and tried to talk Bradley into standing down. In the end, when it was clear how dangerous the reactor was, he pretended to talk to the government on her behalf and, behind Jensen's back, had the army bury the citadel in cement. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fifth Citadel (audio story)|The Fifth Citadel]]'') | ||
Sir Toby was himself manipulated when the [[Soviet Union]] conned the UK intelligence community into thinking a psychic chess player wanted to defect. To his horror, it turned out the "psychic", [[Shurik Barkov]], was just good at chess — his sister, [[Anya Barkov]], was the psychic and had been engineered to be a "bomb". A riot almost broke out in London until Anya was shot. In revenge, Sir Toby left Shurik to starve to death in a locked room. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Peshka (audio story)|Peshka]]'') | Sir Toby was himself manipulated when the [[Soviet Union]] conned the UK intelligence community into thinking a psychic [[chess]] player wanted to defect. To his horror, it turned out the "psychic", [[Shurik Barkov]], was just good at chess — his sister, [[Anya Barkov]], was the psychic and had been engineered to be a "bomb". A riot almost broke out in London until Anya was shot. In revenge, Sir Toby left Shurik to starve to death in a locked room. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Peshka (audio story)|Peshka]]'') | ||
While quietly watching Mary Carver's funeral, Sir Toby became aware that his son was alive and one of the super-soldiers when Ray tore through an army group after Emma Waverly. He made sure all [[Wilcock Institute]] records with his name were destroyed and tried to keep Counter-Measures from investigating, pressuring them into "accepting" that Emma had killed the soldiers. Behind their back, he tried to contact Ray and get him to come in for treatment; unfortunately his lies had made Jensen believe he was "compromised" and had gone to Templeton for aid, and Templeton ordered an army group to open fire on Ray immediately. | While quietly watching Mary Carver's funeral, Sir Toby became aware that his son was alive and one of the super-soldiers when Ray tore through an army group after Emma Waverly. He made sure all [[Wilcock Institute]] records with his name were destroyed and tried to keep Counter-Measures from investigating, pressuring them into "accepting" that Emma had killed the soldiers. Behind their back, he tried to contact Ray and get him to come in for treatment; unfortunately his lies had made Jensen believe he was "compromised" and had gone to Templeton for aid, and Templeton ordered an army group to open fire on Ray immediately. | ||
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Sir Toby and others were aware of presumed [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] agent transmissions coming from around [[Lower Burford]]. Despite that, he pushed Allison Williams to go there on leave when her father was injured. When it became clear in Westminster that the situation had deteriorated, he rushed down with Gilmore to contain the situation. The issue was down to was a Soviet satellite, [[Mauriner 7]], that had crashed: it was experimenting with weaponising magnetic disruption to drive people mad. As part of the investigation and containment, Sir Toby had a journalist beaten and terrorised. | Sir Toby and others were aware of presumed [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] agent transmissions coming from around [[Lower Burford]]. Despite that, he pushed Allison Williams to go there on leave when her father was injured. When it became clear in Westminster that the situation had deteriorated, he rushed down with Gilmore to contain the situation. The issue was down to was a Soviet satellite, [[Mauriner 7]], that had crashed: it was experimenting with weaponising magnetic disruption to drive people mad. As part of the investigation and containment, Sir Toby had a journalist beaten and terrorised. | ||
The crashed satellite drove Allison catatonic and | The crashed satellite drove Allison catatonic and a female spy almost killed Jensen when trying to keep her away. Allison's fate — and the fact Sir Toby had known something was wrong in Lower Burford — turned Jensen against Toby. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Forgotten Village (audio story)|The Forgotten Village]]'') | ||
While Allison recovered from memory loss, Sir Toby led Countermeasures to East [[Berlin]] to investigate an alien incursion and a "[[Project Othello]]" run by brain surgeon [[Maria Jager]]. Relations with Jensen were fraught. Their West German contact, [[Stefan Lehne]], was an old friend of Sir Toby's but to his suspicion was starting to act obstructionist. While Countermeasures were in the east, Sir Toby worked out that Othello was a brainwashing programme and that Jager had been in the west — with Stefan compromised. When he attempted to enter East Berlin, Stefan was mind-controlled by the enemy into shooting a guard and Sir Toby callously left him to be shot while he fled into the city. Reaching Gilmore, he warned him that the "alien" had been a fake to draw Countermeasures out so Jensen could be brainwashed into an enemy agent. | While Allison recovered from memory loss, Sir Toby led Countermeasures to East [[Berlin]] to investigate an alien incursion and a "[[Project Othello]]" run by brain surgeon [[Maria Jager]]. Relations with Jensen were fraught. Their West German contact, [[Stefan Lehne]], was an old friend of Sir Toby's but to his suspicion was starting to act obstructionist. While Countermeasures were in the east, Sir Toby worked out that Othello was a brainwashing programme and that Jager had been in the west — with Stefan compromised. When he attempted to enter East Berlin, Stefan was mind-controlled by the enemy into shooting a guard and Sir Toby callously left him to be shot while he fled into the city. Reaching Gilmore, he warned him that the "alien" had been a fake to draw Countermeasures out so Jensen could be brainwashed into an enemy agent. | ||
In order to let him escape, Gilmore let himself be captured near the [[Berlin Wall]]. Jensen saw this and, driven both by inherent distrust and the brainwashing, decided Sir Toby must be a Soviet agent | In order to let him escape, Gilmore let himself be captured near the [[Berlin Wall]]. Jensen saw this and, driven both by inherent distrust and the brainwashing, decided Sir Toby must be a Soviet agent — she reported him as a British spy to the border guard, and left him to be shot dead in the street. Meanwhile Templeton was part of the Othello plot and had brainwashed Allison into believing ''he'' was Sir Toby. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Unto the Breach (audio story)|Unto the Breach]]'') | ||
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