Douglas Cavendish: Difference between revisions

Lieutenant Cavendish was sent to investigate the explosion at the [[Det-Sen Monastery]], where he came in contact with some web made by the [[Great Intelligence]] and came under its influence.([[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime (novelisation)|Downtime]]'') Once back in [[England]], he was promoted to Captain.

When the Great Intelligence was ready to make its move in 1995, Cavendish arranged a meeting with the retired [[Brigadier]] [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] under the pretence of his files being hacked, hoping to capture him and learn he had any "souvenirs" from his service relating to the Intelligence. They met in a hotel bar, where Cavendish was passive-aggressive about Lethbridge-Stewart's time and received a barb about "jumped-up officers with tuppeny-hapenny commissions." The Brigadier grew suspicious of the line of questioning, spotted Cavendih's backup coming, and, realising Cavendish was compromised, held him at gunpoint while he escaped. Cavendish ordered the [[Chilly]]s after him. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Downtime (home video)|Downtime]]'') Cavendish later stole the pre-UNIT [[Ministry of Defence]] report of the initial [[Robot Yeti|Yeti]] encounter, which existed only on hard copy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime (novelisation)|Downtime]]'') The mind-controlled Cavendish assisted the Intelligence and its [[Robot Yeti|Yeti]] hordes in the fight at [[New World University]], where he almost caused [[Kate Lethbridge-Stewart]] to be possessed. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Downtime (home video)|Downtime]]'')

After being freed from the Great Intelligence, Cavendish suffered from trauma and resulting substance abuse. His once promising career stalled. Paranoid and disgruntled, he begun already been pilfering items as a "retirement fund" from [[the Warehouse]]. He did maintain some contact with Kate, feeling they had a connection. Eventually, he was sacked from UNIT and isolated himself in a rural cottage, alone and vulnerable and believing UNIT to be an uncaring organisation if you weren't of use to it.  

In [[October]] [[2003]], Kate received a message from Cavendish, asking her to visit him at his cottage, where he felt he was being stalked by a statue of a demon-like creature, as well as encountering a [[The Ghost (Dæmos Rising)|ghost-like figure]] in the house. It transpired that Cavendish was being influenced to summon a [[Dæmon]] named [[Mastho]] by forces from the future trying to affect the past, but he and Kate managed to stop them. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Dæmos Rising (home video)|Dæmos Rising]]'')

Cavendish encountered the Lethbridge-Stewarts again in [[2004]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime: Child of the New World (novel)|Downtime: Child of the New World]]'')