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Tamsin Drew is a fictional character in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, played by Niky Wardley. She initially enters the narrative as a companion of the Eighth Doctor, until she is turned against him by the Meddling Monk and becomes his companion.

Character history

The character's first appearance is in the episode Situation Vacant. Tamsin comes from Dulwich where she was an actor. Before she meets the Doctor, her career is going badly due to her age. She answers an advertisement for a companion to a time traveler, approaching it as a type of audition and affects the persona of Juliet Walsh, a professional, strong, career-driven woman. Although he didn't place the ad, the Eighth Doctor spots it as being intended for him and plays along. Tamsin finds herself auditioning alongside three other characters: Theo Lawson, Asha Qureshi and Hugh Bainbridge, for the role of the Doctor's new companion. "Juliet" is the first of the possible companions to be eliminated and Tamsin goes home upset.

Asha, Theo and Hugh are all found to have malicious reasons for wanting to join the Doctor. After they are sorted out, "Juliet" reveals herself to the Doctor as Tamsin Drew and he decides to take her with him.

The Doctor and Tamsin's first adventure takes place on the devastated world of Corinth Minor in Nevermore, where they meet war criminal Morella Wendigo. After sorting matters there, they arrive at Kells Abbey in 1006 in The Book of Kells. The Doctor is surprised to meet an old foe, the Monk. It turns out the Monk is the one who placed the ad for a companion in an effort to steal the Book of Kells.

In the two-parter Deimos/The Resurrection of Mars, the Doctor and Tamsin arrive on Deimos Moonbase, which has become a museum containing Ice Warrior artefacts. A group of Ice Warriors, led by Lord Slaadek, has been awakened prematurely by the Monk.

The Doctor and Tamsin board the rocket, but Gregson fails to make it. The rocket takes off, killing Gregson and two Ice Warriors. Knowing the sabotage will eventually be reversed, the Doctor is about to use a remote device to detonate the explosives, but then he receives a "text message" from his previous companion Lucie Miller, whom the Monk has placed on the base as part of his plans.

After falling out with the Doctor for wanting to save Lucie, but seemingly not caring about Gregson, Tamsin meets the Monk, who takes her in his TARDIS to show what the Doctor's interference would have caused. The Monk takes Tamsin to the aftermath of the Ice Warriors' attack on Halcyon around the 33rd century, convincing her that the Doctor was responsible for the billions of deaths there, and subsequently showing him apparently collaborating with the Ice Warriors in killing 600 people on a passenger rocket.

Returning to the base, Tamsin meets Lucie, who has been turning up the ambient temperature to slow down the Ice Warriors so that the Doctor can meddle with the re-ioniser and correct what the Monk was doing, preventing the deaths of the thousands of human colonists on Mars.

When Lord Slaadek threatens the life of the Doctor, Lucie agrees to decrease the temperature again so that the Doctor will live. The Doctor, unable to reverse the effects, brings the re-ioniser "to a very sudden halt with a very loud bang" by reducing a critical feedback in the ionisation beam, giving everyone about five minutes to escape. At the last minute, the Doctor also makes the process alter Mars into an Earth-like atmosphere rather than that of the Mars of long before.

Tamsin tells the Doctor she has "had enough" of what she considers him only looking out for his friends and the Web of Time, and condemning the fate of Halcyon in the future to the Ice Warriors. She leaves with the Monk. The duo sets off to find "some old friends who also [had] a score to settle with the Doctor" to "combine their talents".

In the two-part episode Lucie Miller/To the Death, Tamsin helps the Monk collect human artefacts on Earth while the planet is being invaded by the Daleks. The Monk tells her they are collecting art for humanity when it recovers and that the Daleks are helping humanity. After Tamsin learns of the Monk's involvement in the invasion and that he has been lying to her, she helps the Doctor try to stop the Daleks. Shortly after, the Daleks surround her, the Monk and the Doctor. While the Monk is spared for aligning with the Daleks and the Doctor is considered a valuable prisoner, the Daleks disregard Tamsin as "surplus", and immediately exterminate her. The Monk mourns Tamsin's death, as he has developed strong feelings for her. Seeing this, the Doctor berates the Monk for allowing her to be the first of billions to die because of his actions in aiding the Daleks, and for not realising what he had done had guaranteed her eventual murder.

Other appearances

The Eighth Doctor mentions Tamsin by name (along with other audio companions) before regenerating into the War Doctor in the 2013 mini-episode, "The Night of the Doctor".^[1]

List of appearances

Big Finish Eighth Doctor audio adventures

References

1. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/doctor-who/28221/a-guide-to-the-eighth-doctor-audio-adventures | title=A guide to the Eighth Doctor Audio Adventures | work=Den of Geek | date=15 November 2013 | accessdate=17 November 2013 | last=Blair | first=Andrew}}

External links

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