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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 (audio story)|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]]'') | 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 (audio story)|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]]'') | ||
In the [[British government|government]], he knew many intelligence secrets (such as the fact that it was in actuality the [[Cambridge Nine]] instead of the [[Cambridge Five]]) and tied to high-ranking figures like [[Peters (State of Emergency)|General Peters]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Artificial Intelligence (audio story)|Artificial Intelligence]]'', ''[[State of Emergency (audio story)|State of Emergency]]'') | In the [[British government|government]], he knew many intelligence secrets (such as the fact that it was in actuality the [[Cambridge Nine]] instead of the [[Cambridge Five]]) and tied to high-ranking figures like [[Peters (State of Emergency)|General Peters]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Artificial Intelligence (audio story)|Artificial Intelligence]]'', ''[[State of Emergency (audio story)|State of Emergency]]'') | ||
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He was annoyed when some of Schumann's work was bought by industrialist [[Ken Temple]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Threshold (audio story)|Threshold]]'') and wanted to investigate what Temple was doing with it, but couldn't as the man was too connected to the government. As a result, he discouraged Counter-Measures from investigating — in a way that would ensure they would dig up something that meant he "had" to investigate Temple's [[Pelage]] site. Sir Toby personally joined the mission, pretending to be from the Department of Works. When the true extent of Temple's work — forcibly altering humans to breath pollutants as part of a mad scheme to move the species from [[Earth]] to [[Venus]] — came to light, Sir Toby was sickened and went on a personal crusade to purge the government of anyone who had backed Temple. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Pelage Project (audio story)|The Pelage Project]]'') | He was annoyed when some of Schumann's work was bought by industrialist [[Ken Temple]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Threshold (audio story)|Threshold]]'') and wanted to investigate what Temple was doing with it, but couldn't as the man was too connected to the government. As a result, he discouraged Counter-Measures from investigating — in a way that would ensure they would dig up something that meant he "had" to investigate Temple's [[Pelage]] site. Sir Toby personally joined the mission, pretending to be from the Department of Works. When the true extent of Temple's work — forcibly altering humans to breath pollutants as part of a mad scheme to move the species from [[Earth]] to [[Venus]] — came to light, Sir Toby was sickened and went on a personal crusade to purge the government of anyone who had backed Temple. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Pelage Project (audio story)|The Pelage Project]]'') | ||
Sir Toby was conservative and unhappy with the prospect of [[Harold Wilson]]'s [[Labour Party]] being in power, though he believed that they had to make the best of it. | Sir Toby was conservative and unhappy with the prospect of [[Harold Wilson]]'s [[Labour Party]] being in power, though he believed that they had to make the best of it. | ||
Due to his political sentiments, Sir Toby was invited by General Peters to be part of his coup against Wilson. Sir Toby pretended to be sympathetic and gave him notes on Schumann's teleporter so they could stage an alien attack, while ensuring Counter-Measures would investigate the teleportation site and that Gilmore would be the one who had secured [[10 Downing Street]]. After the coup was advanced enough for Peters and all his collaborators to be revealed, Sir Toby and Counter-Measures worked to shut it down. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[State of Emergency (audio story)|State of Emergency]]'') | Due to his political sentiments, Sir Toby was invited by General Peters to be part of his coup against Wilson. Sir Toby pretended to be sympathetic and gave him notes on Schumann's teleporter so they could stage an alien attack, while ensuring Counter-Measures would investigate the teleportation site and that Gilmore would be the one who had secured [[10 Downing Street]]. After the coup was advanced enough for Peters and all his collaborators to be revealed, Sir Toby and Counter-Measures worked to shut it down. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[State of Emergency (audio story)|State of Emergency]]'') | ||
In 1965, Sir Toby took on an assistant, [[Templeton (Manhunt)|Templeton]], who he picked for knowing the "right people". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Manhunt (audio story)|Manhunt]]'') | In 1965, Sir Toby took on an assistant, [[Templeton (Manhunt)|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]]'') | ||
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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. | ||
He finally admitted to his team about the programme and eugenics programming, and tried to talk Ray down from freeing the other super-soldiers at the Wilcock Institute clinic. To his horror, Templeton had the building gassed and Sir Toby has forced to kill an enraged Ray. Jensen had worked out that the soldier was Sir Toby's son but he obliquely told her to drop the issue, not wanting to admit to it in public and pretending he hadn't been affected. | He finally admitted to his team about the programme and eugenics programming, and tried to talk Ray down from freeing the other super-soldiers at the Wilcock Institute clinic. To his horror, Templeton had the building gassed and Sir Toby has forced to kill an enraged Ray. Jensen had worked out that the soldier was Sir Toby's son but he obliquely told her to drop the issue, not wanting to admit to it in public and pretending he hadn't been affected. | ||
A parliamentary inquiry was held over the Wilcock affair, forcing Sir Toby to step down. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sins of the Fathers (audio story)|Sins of the Fathers]]'') As an old hand with the establishment, he assumed it was a formality — everyone on it were people he knew — only to find it was comprised of new, up-and-coming politicians like [[William Heaton]] and he was being properly investigated. Heaton talked to him between sittings, telling him Templeton had suggested the inquiry shakeup and was after his job. The MP believed Kinsella was the better man for Countermeasures and would help him if he agreed to "help" the [[Conservative Party|Conservative]] [[Sunday Club]] — Kinsella angrily refused. | A parliamentary inquiry was held over the Wilcock affair, forcing Sir Toby to step down. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sins of the Fathers (audio story)|Sins of the Fathers]]'') As an old hand with the establishment, he assumed it was a formality — everyone on it were people he knew — only to find it was comprised of new, up-and-coming politicians like [[William Heaton]] and he was being properly investigated. Heaton talked to him between sittings, telling him Templeton had suggested the inquiry shakeup and was after his job. The MP believed Kinsella was the better man for Countermeasures and would help him if he agreed to "help" the [[Conservative Party|Conservative]] [[Sunday Club]] — Kinsella angrily refused. | ||
Rather than defend himself, he praised his team to the inquiry as "best of British" and that they shouldn't suffer. To Toby's surprise, the inquiry cleared him as taking justifiable action. Heaton told him he was considered the man for the job "for now", especially the job of keeping Jensen controlled. Kinsella remarked to himself he preferred backstabbing and scheming in Westminster to goodwill. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Changing of the Guard (audio story)|Changing of the Guard]]'') He later heard that many in the spy world had had his back over the inquiry. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Forgotten Village (audio story)|The Forgotten Village]]'') | Rather than defend himself, he praised his team to the inquiry as "best of British" and that they shouldn't suffer. To Toby's surprise, the inquiry cleared him as taking justifiable action. Heaton told him he was considered the man for the job "for now", especially the job of keeping Jensen controlled. Kinsella remarked to himself he preferred backstabbing and scheming in Westminster to goodwill. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Changing of the Guard (audio story)|Changing of the Guard]]'') He later heard that many in the spy world had had his back over the inquiry. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Forgotten Village (audio story)|The Forgotten Village]]'') | ||
