Toby Kinsella: Difference between revisions

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During [[World War II]], he was involved in the [[Home-Army Fourth Operational Corps]]. In [[1941]], he personally recruited Professor [[Edward Travers]] to the corps. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Night of the Intelligence (novel)|Night of the Intelligence]]'') He was also 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]]'')

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]]'')

In [[November]] [[1963]], he met [[Rachel Jensen|Professor Rachel Jensen]] for the first time after he tricked her into investigating Sir [[Gideon Vale]] and the Starfire project. At the time, he was trying to keep Counter-Measures operational, a job made harder when the work it did could not be fully revealed. The Starfire Affair turned out to be a genocidal plot by [[The Light (1963: The Assassination Games)|alien infiltrators, the Light]], who had people in various key positions in the British government (and murdered Stephen Mulryne in front of him). Counter-Measures and the [[Seventh Doctor]] thwarted the plot and Sir Toby, while keeping out the alien nature, was able to use this to get the government to agree to re-establish Counter-Measures. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963: The Assassination Games (audio story)|1963: The Assassination Games]]'')

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.

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]]'')

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.

Kinsella warned his team to evacuate their base by 2pm as a priority. He worked out that Heaton wanted to destroy all evidence that he was a member of the Light. Kinsella tried to then make a deal with Heaton to stop his actions. He used one of Alison's machines to make Heaton brain-dead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Clean Sweep (audio story)|Clean Sweep]]'')

By [[1973]] he was still working with military intelligence, when he was informed by [[Routelage]] of a murder a spy. He was caught in a fire when he was being pursued. He then went to the Opera House which [[Hassan Al-Nadyr]] was visiting. He was still hunting the Light and attempted to kill one during the performance this caused some panic. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Who Killed Toby Kinsella? (audio story)|Who Killed Toby Kinsella?]]'') He didn't die in the attack and trapped [[Mikhail (Who Killed Toby Kinsella?)|Mikhail]]. He had planned his demise. Because of his actions in the past Mikhail wanted Toby to suffer. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dead Don't Rise (audio story)|The Dead Don't Rise]]'')

He noticed a strange transmission in TV and radio programmes, learning upon what they contained he became very concerned. He reported that people saw "bears" in [[Hyde Park]]. Upon seeing the footprints he declared them to belong to a [[Yeti]]. He informed the team about the [[Great Intelligence]] and asked Allison to find [[Edward Travers]]. He went missing during a Yeti hunt but appeared again to stop a Yeti killing Rachel and Gilmore. After Travers connected with the Intelligence the connection between Kinsella and Travers became stronger. Kinsella used his and Travers' wills to fight back and overthrow the connection to [[Norma Vine]]'s mind. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time of the Intelligence (audio story)|Time of the Intelligence]]'')

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