Lucie Miller

First begrudgingly, then enthusiastically, Lucie Miller was a companion of the Eighth Doctor. On her first day as a data entry clerk at Hulbert Logistics, she found herself inside the Doctor's TARDIS, having been transmatted there by a faction of Time Lords to protect her from what they believed would be multiple uses on her of a quantum crystalliser by the Celestial Intervention Agency. Unable to remember why she had been sent to the Doctor, and with the TARDIS unable to return her to 2006 Blackpool, she was forced to travel with him while he determined the reason for her being placed in what he dubbed a "witness protection scheme". Along the way, they met her Auntie Pat in 1974, defeated mind-swapping immortals, Cybermen, and an adrenaline-hungry entity, ended a time loop commenced by a grieving man, and repeatedly evaded the clutches of the Headhunter, asked to retrieve her by Hulbert Logistics. Upon foiling both the Cybermen and CIA, Lucie, now able to go home at her leisure, committed to continuing in the TARDIS.

Lucie's adventures with the Doctor abruptly ended when he careened off a cliff with the resurrected Morbius. Mourning his presumed death, she returned to her regular life in Blackpool, her memories of him intact after she spurned an offer from the Time Lords to wipe them. A few months later, the Headhunter visited her in the middle of the night, kidnapping her into the Doctor's TARDIS to help retrieve Morbius's stellar manipulator, which the Doctor had taken with him off the cliff and onto the planet Orbis. Though his memories of her had been wiped, a consequence of spending centuries on Orbis, she helped him to remember her in a sense, and their travels resumed with little changed.

While in Blackpool a year too early celebrating Christmas with the Doctor and Haygoth, the former Zygon warlord who had been in Auntie Pat's form for Lucie's entire life and had pleaded with the Doctor to keep this a secret, Lucie was hit by a car driven by a Zynog desperate for a stable form. The Zynog entered her comatose mind, coaxing her to die and let him steal her body. In the process, he indirectly revealed the truth about Auntie Pat's identity and the associated deception, breaking Lucie's trust in the Doctor. Once she was conscious, Haygoth and the Zynog both having died, she decided to leave the Doctor again, this time for good and of her own volition.

Answering a classified ad she had stumbled upon, Lucie ended up as a companion of the Monk. Their initial travels, including a near-encounter by her of the Doctor in the Abbey of Kells in 1066, excited her anew, but repulsed by the Monk's amorality and willingness to meddle with history, she departed his TARDIS as well. Eager to interfere with the Doctor's attempts to stop a pack of Ice Warriors on Deimos awakened by the Monk centuries too early, the Monk sent her to a human colony on the moon just before it and the Ice Warriors inside were destroyed. She learned of the Doctor's presence on a rocket leaving the moon and asked him for help, causing the destruction of the colony to be averted and him to return to the surface to properly stop the Ice Warriors.

Lucie was not keen to travel with the Doctor again, though she did accept his request to celebrate a Christmas less problematic than that in Blackpool. At a Christmas dinner in the TARDIS organized by him, she met Susan Campbell and her son Alex and helped to stop a rampaging Blitzen fish the First Doctor had bought Susan. Having struck up a friendship with Alex, she got him to agree to hitchhike Europe with her—albeit in Alex's native 22nd century—as she had wanted to do after leaving the Doctor in Blackpool.

Lucie and Alex's tour of Europe became a tour of the world. At a full moon party in Thailand, she was one of many guests infected by a virus unleashed on Earth by the Daleks as a precursor to a second invasion. While she survived where many others died, she was left with immobile legs and a blindness in her right eye. Her newfound disability certainly did not stop her from leading the resistance against the Dalek occupation; in fact, her passionate struggle led to her death, piloting a Dalek flying saucer near to the warp engine planned to replace Earth's core and exploding the Doomsday Bomb, one of the Monk's many possessions. Just before she sacrificed her life, she castigated the Daleks for all they had done, telling them to remember the name of the person who ruined their plans.

Biography

Early life

Lucie was born in Blackpool on 31 July 1988 (AUDIO: Brave New Town) to Mary Miller, née Ryder, and her father. (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks, Horror of Glam Rock) Through her father, she was descended from Freddie Miller. (AUDIO: All the Fun of the Fair)

Lucie's childhood was eventful, to say the least. In 1992, an incident at a party she would not elaborate on to Selta left her with a lifelong distaste for jelly. (AUDIO: Orbis) After watching Peter Pan, she developed a phobia of crocodiles, fearing them so much, they appeared in her dreams whenever she was feeling anxious. (AUDIO: The Skull of Sobek) Receiving a pair of roller skates from her mother for her thirteenth birthday, she was challenged by Susie Dugdale to race a milk float down Waterloo Road. She broke a wrist, but found the experience fantastic. (AUDIO: The Revolution Game) At some point, she joined the Girl Guides, being trained in first aid, including CPR. (AUDIO: Flashpoint)

Every Christmas Eve, Lucie would lay out a trail of toast crumbs to her house, believing this helped Father Christmas's reindeer find their way. On Christmas Day, her great grandmother would get drunk on cooking sherry, her father would debate her uncle and their neighbours, going "hammer and tongs", over the best actor to play James Bond, and her Auntie Pat would visit on her moped, bringing cheap Czech beer which tasted like battery acid and slowly made everyone insensible. The central heating, always turned up too high, gave everyone blinding headaches by 4:00 p.m., making their exit outside for fresh air at sunset feel like being born again. (AUDIO: Death in Blackpool)

Lucie had a boyfriend into extreme sports. When he tried to interest her in them as well, she left him in short order, disliking the hobby. (AUDIO: Dead London) Another boyfriend was diabetic, having energy crashes she remembered well. (AUDIO: Death in Blackpool)

Forced travels with the Doctor

Lucie became a temporary worker. (AUDIO: The Dalek Trap) Desiring to live, or at least work, in London, she applied for a job as data entry clerk at Hulbert Logistics. She was hired, the results of her aptitude test during the hiring process impressing Todd Hulbert, the company's director. Unbeknownst to her, Hulbert Logistics was in the business of conditioning people from non-military backgrounds to pilot combat machines in the guise of corporate offices, and it was being manipulated by the Celestial Intervention Agency with a quantum crystalliser to bring about the Cybermen's extinction. (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks, Human Resources)

A faction of Time Lords unaffiliated with the CIA caught wind of Lucie's hiring. Believing that her past had been altered by the CIA using another quantum crystalliser so she would not become a dictator who negatively influenced Earth's expansion into space, the faction transmatted her away from Hulbert Logistics to protect her from the effects of a second crystalliser. She was sent to the Doctor's TARDIS to ensure the CIA did not discover she had been removed from time, (AUDIO: Human Resources) a perceptual barrier being placed on her that prevented her from knowing too much about what had happened. (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks)

Lucie appeared in the console room of the Doctor's TARDIS as he was guiding it through the disruption caused by her transmatting. She was upset at having been prevented from beginning a job she considered so important, she was wearing brand-new tights. After a testy conversation, the Doctor readily agreed to return her to 2006 Blackpool. His attempt failed due to something getting in the way, the TARDIS instead materialising on Red Rocket Rising in the future. (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks)

After an argument with the Doctor, Lucie decided to leave Red Rocket Rising as a refugee by boarding a Dalek command ship "to get as far away from [the Doctor] as [she] could", refusing to listen to Tom Cardwell's warnings about the Daleks. After the Daleks discovered Lucie's association with the Doctor, they took her to find him and then imprisoned her and the Doctor on board the ship. Lucie escaped after explosives Tom Cardwell had set up caused the ship's power source to fail, preventing a neutronic explosion. Lucie became caught in a war between humans, Daleks and Professor Martez' "Mutant Daleks". After both factions of Daleks wiped each other out, Lucie went to a street party to celebrate. Eventually, she got bored, and with a week until anyone would arrive, went to see if the TARDIS had left yet. It had not; the Doctor had tried to leave repeatedly but kept being brought back to Red Rocket Rising. He realised that because of the "witness protection scheme" Lucie had been placed in, he and Lucie were stuck with each other. (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks)

At a service station in Bramlington in 1974, Lucie unexpectedly ran into her "Auntie Pat", Patricia Ryder, then the drummer of Methylated Spirits. She explained she was Pat's niece from the future; Pat was sceptical, but grew to like her. She accidentally revealed that Pat's dreams of becoming a successful musician were fruitless. Meanwhile, she, the Doctor, and the others in the service station, including the Tomorrow twins, stopped the hungry race known as the Only Ones. (AUDIO: Horror of Glam Rock)

Lucie and the Doctor travelled to an unidentified planet where humans from the future were posing themselves as Ancient Greek gods and had been cloning themselves for a thousand years. (AUDIO: Immortal Beloved)

On Phobos, Lucie and the Doctor defeated an entity feeding on the fear generated by a group of people participating in extreme sports. (AUDIO: Phobos)

After being left for dead by the thief Nick Zimmerman, the Doctor and Lucie tracked him down and found him in a time loop that had repeated for so many millennia, it was eroding the edges of the Time Vortex. The time loop attracted vortisaurs and time-consuming Tar-Modowks, who Lucie and the Doctor contended with while bringing Zimmerman to justice. Afterward, Lucie was captured by the Headhunter and brought to Hulbert Logistics. (AUDIO: No More Lies)

Lucie came to in the offices of Hulbert Logistics without any memory of her travels with the Doctor. Confused, she went about her first workday, not realising she had been brainwashed until the Doctor, who had infiltrated the company, her back to normal. They discovered that Hulbert Logistics's offices were inside a giant robot on Lonsis and that a quantum crystalliser had been placed inside.

Amidst a retaliatory attack by the Cybermen, whom Hulbert Logistics had been contracted by the Shinx to fight against, Lucie and the Doctor traveled to Straxus, a Time Lord allied with the High Council, to inquire into the presence of the crystalliser. They were told of the CIA's interference in Lucie's timeline. Lucie, upset at being "a made-up person", pulled a gun on Straxus, snatched the crystalliser, and ordered Straxus to return to Hulbert Logistics with them instead of Gallifrey as he had wished.

Back at Hulbert Logistics, Lucie ran into the Headhunter, who offered to help her get back at the Time Lords. Before they could take action, the Doctor arrived, informing Lucie that the Time Lord faction had relied on faulty intelligence from a double agent in the CIA. In fact, the future dictator was her colleague Karen Coltraine, who had been interviewed on the same day. The Doctor and the Cybermen both requested the crystalliser, the Headhunter advising Lucie that she could do whatever she liked. Realising that just because she could did not mean she should, Lucie gave the crystalliser to the Doctor. In short order, every Cyberman was entirely disabled, the crystalliser burned out by the stress of guaranteeing an unlikely outcome. Straxus and the Headhunter separately departed, Lucie sending Straxus off with a request for the CIA to kiss her posterior. (AUDIO: Human Resources)

Travelling on her own terms

Free of the restrictions keeping her from returning to Blackpool, Lucie decided to travel with the Doctor on her own terms. (AUDIO: Human Resources, The Dalek Trap) They had adventures involving mucus rain and people with five heads. Out of excitement, she began recording a diary, something she was unsure of having done before. (AUDIO: The Dalek Trap)

The Doctor, not quite himself, materialised the TARDIS on the Cradle of Darkness, a planetoid inside the black hole which was once the Canthares supernova. Struggling with the amnesia caused by the Darkness which gave the Cradle its name, Lucie met Jik, Raz, and three Daleks, all similarly amnesiac, and the Daleks, like the Doctor, servants of the Darkness. The Daleks ordered the Doctor to use the box containing the Darkness to power their ship, allowing them to escape. The Darkness's creatures attacked, forcing Lucie and the Doctor to run into the TARDIS with the box. Somewhat lucid, the Doctor asked Lucie to choose between saving everyone, even the Daleks, and saving no one. The influence of the Darkness on her memories was such, Lucie forgot much of this adventure, including her choice to save everyone, not long after. (AUDIO: The Dalek Trap)

To celebrate what Lucie assumed was her birthday, the Doctor took her to a random destination: Castus Sigma, a desolate planet with a lower gravity than Earth's. Soon after leaving the TARDIS, they noticed an advertisement for the Retro Roller Derby, a roller derby with significant stakes. Delighted by the prospect of indulging her love of rollerskating, Lucie demanded that they stay.

Walking through the desert, Lucie and the Doctor encountered Sash and the injured George. The duo split up, Lucie traveling to a medical centre in a buggy with Sash and George while the Doctor followed on foot. Lucie's choice embroiled her in a complex plot involving the Derby, the nearby dam, the native Jengu, and their draining by Heliocorp, the corporation sponsoring the Derby, for cheap solar energy. The lower gravity, which had helped Lucie win the Derby in the guise of Sash, ensured she could survive a perilous jump from the dam onto the Doctor's flyer. (AUDIO: The Revolution Game)

Lucie and the Doctor visited Horton's Orb, a planet full of dangerous static which could take the form of sentient creatures. Making an aided escape into a stately house, they learned that the planet's few inhabitants, all residing in the house, were digging tunnels so the house could be expanded. Lucie attended a party with the wealthier residents, attracting the fancies of Frances Horton, daughter of Darius, the house's patriarch. She encouraged Berrigan, Frances's sister, to follow his heart instead of his parent's wishes.

Exiled to work the mines, the Doctor learned, telling Lucie of the same, that the static was a byproduct of the terraforming of Horton's Orb. They and the Horton siblings stopped the terraforming, in the process discovering that the Darius the siblings knew was a robot; the real Darius was the house itself, the static's growth fuelled by his guilt at contributing to the death of Grace, his first wife. Anyone who failed to fit into Darius's order was killed by creatures allowed into the house. (AUDIO: The House on the Edge of Chaos)

Straight after leaving Horton's Orb, the Doctor forcibly piloted the TARDIS to the island of Fandor. Here, he and Lucie learned the truth about their recent travels: the Darkness was the Fendahl, and it had manipulated the Doctor into flying the TARDIS in a pentagram-shaped path so it could return to Earth to drain humans of their psychic energies. Lucie escaped being sacrificed by the islanders to celebrate Lammas Eve, and she prevented the Doctor from destroying himself and the TARDIS to stop the Fendahl. Instead, they threw its skull into the supernova used for this purpose by the Fourth Doctor, (TV: Image of the Fendahl) the Blinovitch Limitation Effect being triggered on a massive scale when the skulls touched. (AUDIO: Island of the Fendahl)

Many decades before her time, Lucie and the Doctor met the conman John Smith. He miraculously managed to commandeer the TARDIS, banishing the Doctor to the future. As he exploited the TARDIS for his latest scheme, sending many more people to join the Doctor, Lucie located her ancestor, Detective Freddie Miller, in the belief he could help. Her suspicion was vindicated when he manipulated John into bringing the TARDIS to the Doctor, whereupon the Doctor reasserted his control of it. (AUDIO: All the Fun of the Fair)

Lucie and the Doctor arrived in the village of Little Morton in 2005, just before its 150-year old barracks were to be destroyed, and discovered an anachronistic havinium-based battery in the vicinity. Investigating, they connected the battery to Major Charles Montgomery, leader of the barracks, and, in turn, to the Quitoxin whose slow invasion he had formerly been aiding. When developers threatened to unintentionally dig up the Quitoxin's ship, attracting attention from its mind-controlled soldiers, the soldiers and Quitoxin were stopped by Lucie, the Doctor, and Joe Avery, a Lance Corporal less vulnerable to the control. (AUDIO: The Young Lions)

Noticing abnormal energy readings coming from Elms Rest Home, in England in 1974, Lucie and the Doctor set out to investigate, Lucie going undercover as a care worker. The readings and associated blackouts weren't related to the ongoing energy crisis, but were instead a consequence of the use by Cecile Chambers by a thought-influencing alloy from the Mandalus Galaxy. When Cecile's illegitimate son Matt, in the alloy's thrall, became overwhelmed by his anger at being abandoned as a child, Lucie encouraged him to see reason, thereby doing his father proud. (AUDIO: The Curse of the Fugue)

Lucie and the Doctor visited a viewing platform above the thunderstorm-plagued planet of Cerberin. Promptly after they met Elric, the son of a judge who crusaded against interplanetary gangs, the platform was attacked by one of the gangs, out to, at minimum, capture Elric. Denied the opportunity to flee into the TARDIS, Lucie and Elric escaped in a life pod to Cerberin's surface, making their way to a radio beacon with the help of Jable Rake, a former gang member desperate to atone for what he had done. Lucie shocked a gang member to death to save her and Elric from being shot, an act she felt conflicted about. (AUDIO: Flashpoint)

Lucie and the Doctor encountered a town whose aesthetics were stuck in 1991. The town's population were Autons who saw themselves as human. To allow the Autons to live their lives in peace, Lucie and the Doctor helped to bury the barrage of control signals from the Nestene Consciousness. (AUDIO: Brave New Town)

Lucie and the Doctor arrived on Indigo 3 during the blooming of its wildflowers, being drawn by concerning events to a church honouring the Skull of Sobek. While they investigated the death of Brother Tangent, Lucie joining the monastic order in the process, Lucie was chosen by the Old Prince as his champion in the latest round of proxy combat between him and his archrival General Snabb. He was able to place her under his control, despite her fear of crocodilians like him, by seducing her with pleasant memories of his home planet. She fought the Doctor, General Snabb's champion yet very much lucid, before being brought back to her senses. (AUDIO: The Skull of Sobek)

Lucie and the Doctor bumped into Karen and the Headhunter in 19th century Sweden. The Headhunter had been retained by Yashin, a Russian industrialist, to provide him with the Black Diamond so he could use its energies to gain an edge over his competitors. Through a plan filled with deception and intrigue, Lucie and the Doctor stole the Black Diamond, saving the pocket universe inside from destruction. (AUDIO: Grand Theft Cosmos)

Lucie met her Auntie Pat again, this time in 1984. Pat was running a hotel in the Lake District with her husband, Trevor. This confused Lucie as she knew nothing of Trevor. He was, in fact, a rehabilitated Zygon, pursued by his former colleagues, who kidnapped Lucie and stole her form. The Zygons killed Pat, but they were defeated by Trevor and the Doctor. The Doctor told Lucie of Pat's death and the Web of Time, reasoning how Pat could die but Lucie could still have met her. Unknown to Lucie, the Doctor found Trevor, who had survived the explosion that defeated the Zygons. Trevor shifted his shape into that of Pat, vowing to remain as her and live her life for her. The Doctor promised not to tell Lucie that the Auntie Pat she knew was never really her. (AUDIO: The Zygon Who Fell to Earth)

Evading a Time Scoop sent by the Time Lords, the TARDIS materialised on Euretz, a space freighter owned by the Zarodnix Corporation. As soon as they exited, Lucie and the Doctor were set upon by Trell policemen augmented with technology and working for Zarodnix. Lucie escaped before she could be captured, hiding in a waste pipe until she was noticed by the freighter's crew. She suspected the waste had thrown the Trell and Haspira, a Sister of Karn disguised as a Zarodnix mercernary, off her scent.

The crew called the police, leading Lucie to be arrested and interrogated by Rosto, a Trell unaffiliated with those from Zarodnix. Though spikier than usual, motivated by a racism she later apologized for, she did piece together what had happened for him. He retreated to prepare his report and ask for permission to keep Lucie aboard the freighter until she could be transferred to a prison.

Straxus, on the trail of the Doctor, used a Time Ring to travel to Lucie's cell. Learning the Doctor had been captured, he returned to Gallifrey, refusing to take a "lesser species" with him. Soon after, she was visited by Haspira and taken to her ship, Haspira fooling Lucie into believing she was the human police officer Lucie had requested for. Having put together that Haspira was the mercenary looking for Lucie, Rosto frantically stopped Lucie from being teleported to Karn. The two both convinced Lucie to trust them, Rosto succeeding by showing her an earring identical to Haspira's he had found in the cargo hold.

Haspira gassed Lucie and Rosto and escaped to Karn, them locating her and giving chase in her ship. Arriving in Karn's orbit, they found themselves face-to-face with Straxus, who warned them not to interfere. Lucie stole Straxus's Time Ring before he could leave, enabling her and Rosto to interrogate him and learn the universe was in a state of emergency.

The intensity of the energy field surrounding Karn was increased, sending the ship towards a bumpy landing on its surface. After an argument about who would escape by Time Ring, Straxus desperate to use it to avoid landing on Karn, he revealed Cristophe Zarodnix, leader of his self-named corporation, was the leader of the Cult of Morbius, a group attempting to resurrect the tyrannical Time Lord Morbius. Lucie was teleported by the Sisterhood to Karn, whereupon she and the Doctor were forced into a dispersal chamber (AUDIO: Sisters of the Flame) so the Cult could be prevented from capturing a Time Lord, especially one familiar with Morbius. (AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius)

Before entering the chamber, Lucie and the Doctor were told of Zarodnix and his obsession with Morbius. They escaped the chamber by alerting the Sisterhood that the Cult had already found a Time Lord: Straxus, whose Time Ring Lucie was wearing. Learning that Zarodnix was constructing a mine, the Doctor realised he had located a piece of Morbius's brain in the deepest canyon on Karn. Further, he determined that Zarodnix's plan was to genetically fuse Morbius with Straxus, creating a hybrid Time Lord more the former than the latter. The Doctor's TARDIS was retrieved, and Lucie suggested preventing it from materialising on Euretz; given their timelines had already been crossed, this was an idea given serious thought by the Doctor.

Before Lucie and the Doctor could travel back in time, they were picked up by the Time Scoop and taken to a holding area in Gallifrey's Capitol. Bulek, Coordinator of the CIA, was waiting for them. Lucie and the Doctor pressed Bulek to lower the transduction barriers so they could rescue Straxus. They had been kept up, Bulek explained, because Trell ships sent by Zarodnix were attacking them to send a message.

The resurrected Morbius made himself known, introducing himself by video to the High Council. Annoyed by the Doctor's teasing, Morbius demonstrated his stellar manipulator by leeching energy from the Eye of Harmony, gradually making TARDIS travel impossible. The barriers lowered, Lucie and the Doctor managed to make it to Karn, arriving in the prison of Morbius' palace ten years after his reign began. The Doctor decided he would stop Morbius by switching off the manipulator, worn by Morbius around his neck.

While the Doctor telepathically asked the Sisterhood to teleport him away once he had disabled the manipulator, Lucie brought Straxus, Straxus, emaciated after a decade of being drained to ameliorate an imperfect fusion, water. He told her he knew he was always taken to Morbius by Rosto because Rosto sometimes said, "Lucie Miller." This shocked her to no end, especially given how big of "a rat" she had been to Rosto.

Lucie, the Doctor, and Rosto arrived in the throne room, the Doctor fooling Morbius into thinking he was Straxus. The Doctor retrieved the manipulator and began to shut it off, prompting Morbius to fight back. They struggled towards the balcony and fell off the edge, Lucie screaming the Doctor's name. The manipulator dormant, the Time Lords corrected the timeline, erasing the Zarodnix Corporation's presence on Karn, Morbius's empire included, and returning Straxus to full health.

Assuming the Doctor was dead, Lucie demanded he be brought back to life. Straxus and Bulek refused, Bulek proclaiming that his fall off the cliff was now a fixed point in time. Bulek noted that Lucie needed to be returned to her correct timeline; made distraught by this, she sobbingly suggested being put with the Doctor at the bottom of the cliff. She refused Straxus's offer to wipe her memories of the Doctor, declaring that she never wanted to forget him and that she could not respect the Time Lords because of their lack of care for him. (AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius)

Resumed travels with an amnesiac Doctor

Back in Blackpool some time later, Lucie was visited in the middle of the night by the Headhunter. (AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius) The Headhunter shot her with a time bullet, kidnapping her into the Doctor's TARDIS and taking her to the planet Orbis. Where Lucie wanted to find the Doctor, the Headhunter wanted the remote activator for the stellar manipulator, which he had taken with him when falling off the cliff. Lucie met the Doctor, living among the local Keltans and having forgotten about her after centuries on Orbis. By slapping him in anger at being confused for a Cockney, she imbued him with chronon particles, reinvigorating dormant neurons and restoring some of his memories. A further series of slaps, given after each letter of her name, provided him with a hazy familiarity with her.

Lucie and the Doctor gathered with the Keltans on the beach to watch as Crassostrea claimed Orbis for the Molluscari. The Doctor was unsure what to do, so the Headhunter butted in, suggesting that the Keltans surrender. Lucie fought with Selta over who to listen to, apologizing when Selta began to cry. The Doctor sent Selta off to stall for time, and Lucie, furious at the Headhunter, made to punch her. In the ensuing fracas, she was shot with a second time bullet.

The Headhunter recovered the activator, crusted in coral, from the seabed, but since only a Time Lord could switch it off, she was forced to give it to the Doctor. Suspicious of anything associated with Morbius, the Doctor refused to help her, walking away and leaving Lucie to her fate. Lucie ran after him, pleading with him to change his mind. He refused to do so, only turning back when it became apparent something bad was happening to the Keltans. Crassostrea, the two found, was eating the Keltans before spawning eggs. She presented him with his TARDIS, also retrieved from the seabed, and ordered him to leave with Lucie.

The Doctor promised to switch off the activator if the Headhunter would unshoot Lucie. She did so, and instead, he intensified it to its full strength. Orbis was consumed by the manipulator, the Doctor prevented from stopping this by the now-jammed activator. The Headhunter tossed the activator into the ocean, escaping into the TARDIS with Lucie, and after he had been shot with a time bullet by Lucie, the Doctor. The shooting was reversed, the Headhunter teleported away, and the Doctor returned Lucie to Earth. (AUDIO: Orbis, Hothouse)

On Earth in the near future, Lucie and the Doctor became familiar with Alex Marlowe, a rockstar turned politician, and his League of Nature. Lucie joined the League to learn more about Marlowe, discovering that he was transforming humans into Krynoids to make better breeds of crops and plants. She and the Doctor stopped Marlowe's Krynoids before they could spread their spores, mutating every human into a Krynoid. Subsequently, she asked the Doctor if she could travel with him again, the Doctor agreeing. (AUDIO: Hothouse)

She then travelled to 19th century where she met with Hans Tod and helped him rescue Teufel not know he was planning to kidnap Hans and Greta Tod to use as weapons in a war. (AUDIO: The Beast of Orlok)

She later fell out of a spaceship when it was attacked by the Wirrn, when her emergency jetpack ran out of fuel. When she was rescued and brought to a planet, she found that a Wirrn had infected Farroll in order to stop the attack the Wirrn was doing against the GalSec colonists. (AUDIO: Wirrn Dawn)

The Doctor aimed to take her to the Moulin Rouge in 1899 but instead got dragged off course to Vichy France during the Second World War. When she was abducted by the Baroques she was forced to act on stage, to see one of the deaths of the Max Paul. It was later revealed to Lucie that he didn't die due to him being reanimated every time he died. (AUDIO: The Scapegoat)

The Doctor and Lucie then landed on a floating city in space. There she encountered a race of robots, some of which wanted to kill her. She helped the assembler robots to try and find the reset switch to stop the cannibalist robots. (AUDIO: The Cannibalists)

She visited 2015 England where she met Karen Coltraine again, who had apparently just been fired by the Headhunter and who told Lucie about the Eightfold Truth. They brainwashed her into thinking that the Doctor was manipulating her. The Queen of the Eight Legs climbed onto Lucie's back whilst she was brainwashed. (AUDIO: The Eight Truths) The Queen's control of Lucie started to weaken due to Lucie's will. She discovered that the stellar manipulator was keyed to her DNA and it was the Queen's plan to have it follow the TARDIS to Earth. When the Queen started her plan she moved Lucie's mind to the stellar manipulator which she used to create a vision of heaven. The Doctor managed to capture Lucie's mind via the TARDIS and implanted it back in her body. When this happened the Queen lost control, and Lucie was able to stop her plan. (AUDIO: Worldwide Web)

Lucie asked the Doctor to take her home to spend Christmas in Blackpool in 2009, however he accidentally took her to 2008. She found out the truth about her Auntie Pat being a Zygon. Learning that the Doctor had purposefully deceived her made Lucie decline the Doctor's offer to continue travelling with him. (AUDIO: Death in Blackpool)

Travels with the Monk and reconciliation with the Doctor

Lucie later travelled with the Monk after responding to an advert he placed in 2010 for a companion. (AUDIO: Situation Vacant, The Resurrection of Mars)

Lucie initially found her travels with the Monk "fun". She met Caligula and the Sensorites, and watched a final of Thordon's Got Talent. After that, they crash landed in medieval Ireland — in Lucie's words, the Monk's "directional whatsit was up the spout" — hanging around in the Abbey of Kells until the Monk could finish repairs, using the illumination skills of the monks to draw a new circuit for the directional unit. (AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars)

She encountered the Doctor's companion Tamsin Drew at the Abbey of Kells in 1006, but did not meet the Doctor face to face, and so didn't realise the "apothecary" Tamsin was travelling with was the Doctor. He, in turn, had no idea who she was, as she was disguised as a monk under the name Lucianus at the time. (AUDIO: The Book of Kells)

After Kells, Lucie and the Monk went to the planet Questus, where the Monk had travelled back in time to kill the parents of a dictator in an avalanche to prevent the dictator's birth. At this point, after being dragged out of the avalanche, she tired of the Monk's meddling, telling him, "I don't want to hang around with a murderer, 'cause even if want to try and avoid wars and stuff, I mean, it's not worth it if you have to kill people." After this, the Monk "dumped" her on Deimos Moonbase in the 23rd century. (AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars)

The Doctor rescued Lucie, asking her to raise the ambient temperate of the base to slow down the Ice Warriors while he meddled with the settings of the atmospheric re-ioniser, correcting the Monk's meddling with Ice Warrior history and preventing the deaths of the human colonists on Mars. Lucie ran into the Doctor's new companion, Tamsin, who told Lucie that the Doctor was responsible for deaths of the 600 people on the passenger rocket.

When Lord Slaadek threatened the life of the Doctor, Lucie agreed to decrease the temperature again so that the Doctor would live. The Doctor, unable to reverse the effects, brought 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 made the process alter Mars into an Earth-like atmosphere rather than that of the Mars of long before.

Tamsin, whom the Monk had shown what the Doctor's meddling had caused, had "had enough" of what she considered only looking out for his friends and the Web of Time, and condemning the fate of Halcyon in the future to the Ice Warriors and left with the Monk. Lucie and the Doctor left in the Doctor's TARDIS. Afterwards, the atmosphere of the moonbase ignited and Deimos lit up, becoming an artificial sun for the human colonists.

Though Lucie was unwilling to travel with the Doctor again, she did accept his offer to celebrate a normal Christmas. (AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars) Inside the TARDIS, they had a New Year's Christmas dinner with Susan Campbell and her son Alex. The dinner grew hairy thanks to the havoc caused by Susan's old Blitzen fish. (AUDIO: Relative Dimensions)

Second Dalek occupation and death

Having struck up a friendship with Alex, Lucie convinced him to hitchhike around 22nd century Earth with her. (AUDIO: Relative Dimensions) As she explained in a distress message she sent to the Doctor via Nyssa's temporal interocitor, (AUDIO: Prisoner of the Sun) her and Alex's trip came to a horrifying halt at a full moon party on Thailand's Pi-Pi Islands. She was one of many to catch a mysterious, fatal plague, surviving with limited sight in her right eye and so little mobility, she needed a wheelchair or callipers to get around. After a harrowing trip to England, whereupon they reunited with Susan, she and Alex learned that the plague had been the deadly prelude to the second Dalek occupation of Earth.

Lucie, Susan, and Alex would come to lead the resistance against the occupation. Two years after the plague was unleashed, in an attempt to prevent the placing of a propulsion unit inside Earth's core, the resistance mounted a well-planned raid on the Daleks' mines in North America. The Monk threw a wrench in the works to satisfy his Dalek masters, allowing them to detect the raid ahead of time. Many of the resistance were killed during the hasty retreat, including Seb Andrews, whom Lucie had grown fond of. Escaping back to England in a nuclear submarine pilfered by the resistance, she heard a transmission from the Doctor, captive on a Dalek flying saucer, urging the crew not to launch missiles at the saucer. The message came too late, and the saucer was shot down. (AUDIO: Lucie Miller)

With Susan and Alex, Lucie retrieved the unconscious Doctor and brought him to the Monk's vault and the Doctor's TARDIS with it. The Monk and Tamsin were inside the vault, Lucie being displeased to see her replacement for the Doctor. She was further enraged when the Monk revealed he had assisted the Daleks, physically assaulting him and having to be pulled away by the others.

The Doctor emerged from his TARDIS, rejuvenated. Lucie, Susan, and Alex decided to destroy the warp engine planned to replace Earth's core by exploding the Doomsday Bomb, one of the Monk's many possessions, in the vicinity. Alex allowed himself to be exterminated to disable a magnetrap and Susan was captured, leaving Lucie to enter the Dalek saucer on her own. Just before setting off the Bomb, she castigated the Daleks for all they had done, telling them to remember the name of the person who ruined their plans. The engine's explosion created a time warp which sucked in the Daleks. (AUDIO: To the Death)

Legacy

Hunting on the Western Front of 1917 for the retro-genitor particles coursing through Molly O'Sullivan, the Doctor was repeatedly reminded of Lucie's death, not long prior from his perspective. He mumbled her name after collapsing from exposure to the time winds sent out by Kotris, causing Molly to wonder if she was one of his sweethearts. (AUDIO: The Great War) After escaping the Daleks with Molly, he shaved his hair and changed his outfit, (AUDIO: Fugitives) perhaps seeking a clean break from Lucie.

Lucie was one of the companions saluted by the Eighth Doctor just before his regeneration. (TV: The Night of the Doctor)

The Lost mentioned Lucie to the Tenth Doctor as one of the many losses the Doctor had endured during his life. (AUDIO: The Lost)

The Twelfth Doctor saw Lucie, among other companions, when Bernice Summerfield was hit by temporal energy in the Pyramid Eternia. (PROSE: Big Bang Generation)

Undated adventures

Lucie and the Doctor traveled to a town in the Wild West, encountering the Doctor during his travels with Charlotte Pollard and C'rizz. Inside a saloon, the Doctors played poker, their companions spectating. Unbeknownst to the group, except, perhaps, the Doctors, they were being watched by the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe, searching for an antidote which would eradicate the Texineurons in the process of killing him. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)

Psychological profile

Personality

Cocky, crotchety, and terrifyingly hot-tempered, Lucie was quick to speak her mind. Immediately after being transmatted into the Doctor's TARDIS, she criticized it for having controls held together by duct tape. (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks) Gifted with a dry yet caustic wit, she had zero issue mocking her friends and foes, be they relatively benign like Geoffrey Vantage (AUDIO: Max Warp) and Crassostrea (AUDIO: Orbis) or dangerous like the Queen of the Eight Legs (AUDIO: Worldwide Web) and the Dalek Time Controller. (AUDIO: To the Death) Many of the steely barbs of Sarcasmo, Woman of Sarcasm (AUDIO: Human Resources) involved relevant pop culture references. While Lucie and the Doctor investigated Timbo's death, she called him Sherlock and Miss Marple. (AUDIO: Max Warp) On Orbis, Selta, one of the jellyfish-esque Keltans, was called Jelly Furtado, after the musician Nelly Furtado. (AUDIO: Orbis) Watching Lord Slaadek converse with the Doctor, Lucie compared him to Touché Turtle, the main character of a Hanna-Barbera cartoon. (AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars)

For the most part, Lucie was able to contain her vexation; it largely emerged when she was upset or being antagonized. She screamed at Straxus to get away from her before he could wipe her memories of the Doctor, (AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius) assaulted the Monk after he revealed he had betrayed to the Daleks the resistance against the Dalek occupation, (AUDIO: To the Death) and her last words, delivered to the Daleks at the top of her lungs in a fit of rage at their actions over the preceding two years, were "Lucie bleeding Miller!" (AUDIO: Lucie Miller, To the Death) She was not above expressing herself through violence, slapping the Doctor, who had lost his memories of her, for confusing her for a Cockney, biting Selta after she suggested the Headhunter was correct, (AUDIO: Orbis) and twice pulling a gun on someone: once to force Straxus to accompany her and the Doctor back to Hulbert Logistics, (AUDIO: Human Resources) then to threaten the Monk into piloting the Doomsday Bomb towards the warp engine. (AUDIO: To the Death)

Though Lucie was crabby, she in no way lacked compassion. She pleaded with Matt to move past his bitterness over Cecile, (AUDIO: The Curse of the Fugue) shepherded Elric to safety from both Cerberin's deadly thunderstorms and the gangs after him, (AUDIO: Flashpoint) encouraged Berrigan to follow his heart instead of his parents' wishes, (AUDIO: The House on the Edge of Chaos) apologised to Rosto for her racism against him, (AUDIO: Sisters of the Flame) and invited the actor playing Father Christmas to her house for Christmas dinner to ensure he did not die by suicide. (AUDIO: Death in Blackpool) She also had a robust moral compass, calling Zeus a monster for treating Sarati as a vessel for Hera's mind, (AUDIO: Immortal Beloved) becoming horrified after shocking an armed gang member to death, (AUDIO: Flashpoint) taking a shot in the arm, albeit an accidental one, to keep Salway from killing the Wirrn Queen, (AUDIO: Wirrn Dawn) balking at watching the decapitation of Max Paul, (AUDIO: The Scapegoat) leaving the Monk after he prevented a dictator's existence by killing his parents in an avalanche, (AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars) and castigating the Daleks for commanding she surrender after all they had done to ruin Earth and her life. (AUDIO: To the Death) To ensure her planet's liberation, she sacrificed herself in the explosion of the Doomsday Bomb, prompting the Doctor to call her "one of the noblest inhabitants of the universe." (AUDIO: To the Death)

Lucie and the Doctor had a complicated relationship. Initially, she despised having been forced into his care, demanding to be taken back to Blackpool in 2006 and insulting him whenever she got the opportunity. (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks) Traveling with him gradually extinguished her anger, (AUDIO: Horror of Glam Rock, Immortal Beloved, Phobos, No More Lies) and by the time she was traveling of her own free will, they had become close friends, regularly exchanging good-natured banter. Such was her care for him, (AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius) she refused to believe he could be fallible, (AUDIO: Death in Blackpool) cried at the idea of never seeing him again, (AUDIO: Sisters of the Flame) and broke down when he plummeted off the cliff with Morbius, refusing Straxus's offer to wipe her memories of him. (AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius) Though she took the revelation of the Doctor's hiding Haygoth's deception hard, her departure was deliberately amicable, (AUDIO: Death in Blackpool) she would not blame him for the deaths of passengers of the rocket escaping Deimos, (AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars) and she joined him, Susan, and Alex for a Christmas dinner, tearfully hugging him before she left with Alex. (AUDIO: Relative Dimensions)

The horrors Lucie experienced under the Dalek occupation of Earth provided perspective on what the Doctor had done. Learning he was finally answering her SOS helped her keep going when many of her fellow rebels had died, and both to his face and in her second message on the temporal interocitor, she forgave him for aiding Haygoth, declaring her intention to travel with him again. (AUDIO: Lucie Miller, To the Death) On the interocitor, she did so by by performing a light-hearted, imaginary scenario wherein she forcibly rejoined the TARDIS by kicking him in the shins and pretending his expression of pain was a yes. (AUDIO: Lucie Miller) She was skeptical that it was his fault the Daleks were about to use Earth as a plague planet; even after he explained after what had happened at Amethyst Viral Containment Station (AUDIO: Patient Zero), she noted that unlike the Monk, he was not brushing off the consequences of his inaction. She refused to let him sacrifice his life to destroy the station, deciding to destroy the warp engine in his stead. Just before she died, she called him "the best bloke [she'd] ever known", the Daleks' desire to kill him further motivating her to destroy the warp engine, and sought his consent before carrying out her attack. (AUDIO: To the Death)

The Doctor was neutral towards Lucie during their first encounter, considering her "a bit more mainstream" compared to Charley, who was "posh as you like". (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor) Two regenerations later, he found it impossible to tolerate her—a feeling nurtured in no small part by her spikiness. (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks) Over time, he, too, set aside his resentment and befriended her. (AUDIO: Horror of Glam Rock, Immortal Beloved, Phobos, No More Lies) He was so taken by her, while imprisoned inside the Consensus's complex, he found companionship through building android duplicates of her. (AUDIO: Prisoner of the Sun) He was shocked at how much she had been hardened by the Dalek occupation, and he was especially crushed by her death to end it, being unable to consent to her suicide attack. He emerged from these events a broken man, screaming at the Monk to leave his TARDIS and implicitly wishing the Monk had died by suicide, musing to Susan on ditching his moral scruples, particularly when it came to the Laws of Time, and endlessly replaying the end of Lucie's imagined scenario wherein she rejoined the TARDIS, stopping her message to recite his lines. (AUDIO: To the Death)

Perhaps because of classism, Tamsin disdained Lucie as much as Lucie did her. When they first met on Deimos, Tamsin sarcastically greeted "the famous Lucie Miller." (AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars) In the Monk's vault during the second Dalek occupation of Earth, when the Doctor mentioned he was looking for Lucie, Tamsin called her a "chav extraordinaire" and rudely assumed one of her stilettos had been caught in a manhole. That said, she had enough empathy for Lucie to worriedly ask the Monk about her whereabouts (AUDIO: Lucie Miller) and begrudgingly admit that she had style. (AUDIO: To the Death)

The Monk's view of Lucie degraded over time, the crux of his issue with her being her reluctance to meddle with established events. Her departure from his TARDIS was mutually acrimonious, him calling her "an ungrateful, interfering, aggravating pest," her threatening to shove a statue made by Michelangelo "where the sun don't shine" and advising him to "shove [his] Time Lord meddling up the nearest black hole," and both believing they had fired the other. Adding insult to injury, he made her exit his TARDIS into a moonbase on Deimos which was about to be destroyed. (AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars) During the second Dalek occupation of Earth, he dismissed her work with the resistance against the Daleks as her "running wild out there with a bunch of anarchists making a nuisance of herself." (AUDIO: Lucie Miller) When she pulled a gun on him to threaten him into piloting the Doomsday Bomb towards the warp engine, he called her unhinged knowing full well her behaviour was understandable, if inadvisable. (AUDIO: To the Death) At the very least, he was gracious enough to describe her departure from his TARDIS to the Doctor as a result of her "outstaying her welcome." (AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars)

Freddie found his descendant to be quite "persuasive", a sentiment which offended her when it was sardonically echoed by the Doctor. The conman John Smith was appalled by Lucie, deeming her "common as muck", in no way a lady, and taking particular note of her blunt, unfiltered language. (AUDIO: All the Fun of the Fair)

Lucie dumped one of her boyfriends for trying to get her interested in extreme sports. (AUDIO: Dead London) Despite this, she was still interested in sports, racing a milk float down Waterloo Road when challenged to do so by Susie Dugdale (AUDIO: The Revolution Game) and admitting to being "pretty good" at climbing. (AUDIO: Phobos) Her favourite contemporary musical artists were the Scissor Sisters, Pink, the Sugababes, Gnarls Barkley, Lily Allen, Gorillaz, Goldfrapp, OutKast and the Killers. (PROSE: Remain in Light) She was a serious fan of The Beatles, quoting "When I'm Sixty-Four" to the Doctor (AUDIO: Immortal Beloved) and wearing a branded T-shirt inside Sepulchre's mind. (AUDIO: Dead London)

After watching Peter Pan as a child, Lucie became herpetophobic, specifically of crocodiles. Whenever she felt anxious, such as before a test at school, she dreamt that crocodiles were climbing out of cupboards and waiting under her bed. She was unnerved by their gait, their protruding teeth, their "golden slitty eyes watching [her and] saying, 'We know where you live.'," and especially their ability to jump. (AUDIO: The Skull of Sobek) She was bestowed with a similar distaste of jelly following an incident involving the food at a party she attended in 1992. It took her a while to surmount her revulsion of the Keltans. (AUDIO: Orbis)

Habits and quirks

Lucie spoke in a Lancastrian accent, peppering her speech with colloquial adverbs like "bleeding", "blooming", "pigging", and "flipping". (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks, et al.) She was fond of greeting people with a cheery "Hiya!", (AUDIO: Immortal Beloved, Human Resources, The Skull of Sobek, Grand Theft Cosmos, Worldwide Web, Relative Dimensions, Lucie Miller) even doing it over text. (AUDIO: Deimos) When confused by terminology, she would sometimes ask, "What's that when it's at home?", substituting the word in question. (AUDIO: Brave New Town, The Resurrection of Mars)

Skills

Lucie, who made clear she was "no kind of Einstein," (AUDIO: To the Death) covered for her lack of book smarts with considerable common sense. She scored high enough on the aptitude test for Hulbert Logistics to impress Todd Hulbert himself, (AUDIO: Human Resources) easily detected and deftly rejected O'Reilly's romantic signals, and observed that Geoffrey Vantage wore foundation despite the blinding lights of Max Warp's cameras. (AUDIO: Max Warp) Though it made her throat sore, she could speak in Received Pronunciation for an extended period of time. (AUDIO: Grand Theft Cosmos) She remembered enough of her first aid training as a Girl Guide to resuscitate Elric with CPR after he was struck by lightning. (AUDIO: Flashpoint)

Per her, Lucie was "pretty good" at climbing. (AUDIO: Phobos) The lower gravity on Castus Sigma worked to her advantage, enabling her to win the Retro Roller Derby despite being a considerably less skilled roller skater than Sash. (AUDIO: The Revolution Game)

Appearance

Lucie had blue eyes, styled eyebrows, and dirty blonde hair worn in a variety of ways. (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks, et al.) After her first departure from the TARDIS, she dyed her hair brown, (AUDIO: Orbis, The Beast of Orlok, Wirrn Dawn, The Scapegoat, The Cannibalists, Worldwide Web, Death in Blackpool) not returning to her natural colour until some time after her second departure. (AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars) She was on the short side for a woman, measuring 5 feet 4 inches in heels, (AUDIO: The Cannibalists) and she often wore earrings. (AUDIO: Human Resources, The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller: Volume One, Dead London, Brave New Town, Grand Theft Cosmos, The Skull of Sobek, Sisters of the Flame, Orbis, The Beast of Orlok, Wirrn Dawn, The Scapegoat, Worldwide Web, Death in Blackpool) Evangeline Horton believed Lucie had "a fine bone structure," (AUDIO: The House on the Edge of Chaos) while Tamsin found Lucie, in disguise as Brother Lucianus, to be quite lissom. (AUDIO: The Book of Kells)

Lucie loved tights. A new pair she had worn for her first day at Hulbert Logistics ripped thanks to the shaking her transmatting caused the TARDIS; she complained to the Doctor about having "ladders in [her] ladders." (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks, Human Resources) She even wore tights as sleepwear, having a pair on when the Headhunter visited her in the middle of the night. They became sodden as a result of her ocean voyage to Orbis, later being taken by Selta to be used as a drive belt which would power the Doctor's TARDIS. (AUDIO: Orbis)

Lucie also wore dresses often, if she was less enamoured by them than tights. While visiting the Wild West with the Doctor, Lucie donned a period-accurate dress, going so far as to put feathers in her hair. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor) Preparing for a dinner in the house on Horton's Orb, she changed into an elaborate dress lent to her by Frances Horton, prompting Frances to admire her. (AUDIO: The House on the Edge of Chaos) Living in London in 2015 while the Doctor investigated the disappearance of NASA's space probe, Lucie had a dressing gown she would wear in the morning. (AUDIO: The Eight Truths)

Inside Sepulchre's mind, Lucie wore a Beatles T-shirt. (AUDIO: Dead London) In the lead-up to her death, she wore a crimson and white tartan shirt over a black bustier, as well as alabaster shorts and tan boots. She required callipers to get around as a result of the Daleks' virus reducing the mobility in her legs. (AUDIO: Lucie Miller, To the Death)

Behind the scenes

• Lucie is among the few companions to die onscreen—on-audio, in her case—and stay dead. Others include Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Oliver Harper, Adric, Evelyn Smythe, and Molly O'Sullivan.