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Time Zero
(Justin Richards) |
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 Name: Unknown; generally went by the name Beatrix ‘Trix’ MacMillan
while travelling with The Doctor, although she was referred to as Patricia
Joanne Pullman on one occasion and a call to her mother suggested that
her real surname was MacAlister
Format:
Book.
Time of Origin: Earth, apparently the present
(Although her involvement with Sabbath when The Doctor first met her leaves
this open to debate)
Appearances:
Technically started travelling in the TARDIS in "Time
Zero",
but her presence was only discovered by the others at the conclusions of "The
Last Resort"; subsequently remained as a full-time companion until "The
Gallifrey Chronicles"
Doctor: Eighth
Doctor.
Fellow
Companions: Fitz Kreiner, Anji Kapoor, K9, implied
that she met The
Brigadier.
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Timeless
(Stephen Cole) |
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History: The details of Trix's life before becoming
involved with The Doctor have never been made clear, with even such
details as her real name and country of origin being a mystery (Although
this is partly due to the fact that Sabbath’s role in her presence
when she and The Doctor first met raises certain questions about
where she originally came from). However, what is known for certain
is that she was a con artist, possibly involved in sex work at some
point. In ''The
Gallifrey Chronicles'' she at one point evades arrest
by police, who know her by the name "Patricia Joanne Pullman" and
are seeking her for the murder of Anthony Charles Macmillan (suggesting
that the name she uses while travelling in the TARDIS is an alias).
When she first met The Doctor, she was posing as a descendant
of Tsar Nicholas II, a role that The Doctor's then-nemesis Sabbath
had hired her to play. At the end of the novel, she stowed away in
the TARDIS without The Doctor’s knowledge, making brief appearances
in some subsequent stories - mostly to provide advice and information
to others who had somehow become lost inside the ship, preferring
to remain inside due to the TARDIS representing the only ‘stable
point’ in the increasingly uncertain universe created by Sabbath’s
actions - but managing to avoid detection by The Doctor and his companions
until "Timeless''. Despite the unorthodox manner of her arrival,
The Doctor apparently eventually came to accept her presence on the
ship, recognising the value of her skills at disguise on more than
one occasion and trusting her to do the right thing when it counted.
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Sometime Never...
(Justin Richards) |
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Possessing several character flaws and fleeing her unpleasant
past, Trix is among The Doctor's more troubled companions. She was
initially rather materialistic - a trait which causes particular
problems in ''Emotional
Chemistry'' when she sought to steal a valuable
locket rather than contact The Doctor for help - as well as deceptive.
Although her expertise in the art of disguise has proved useful at
several points in her adventures with The Doctor - such as when he
had her infiltrate the Tower of London prior to the Battle of Bosworth
Field in "Sometime
Never..." - it also left her vulnerable
to the allure of an alien that offered her the ability to remake
her body at will in ''Halflife”. Despite this she often demonstrated
a significant amount of compassion for the people she met in her
travels, most notably in "Sometime Never" when she befriended
the princes Richard and Henry the day before history recorded that
they would be found dead, requesting that they call her ‘Aunt
Beatrice’ and telling them a modified version of Cinderella
to comfort them on what could be their last day alive. On another
occasion she gave a man a winning lottery ticket from the future
as compensation for his recent troubles when he became caught up
in the schemes of Sabbath’s allies ("Timeless").
Although her disguise expertise proved of vital assistance
to The Doctor on several occasions, it also left her vulnerable to
some outside influence, such as when an alien offered her the ability
to rewrite her body at will despite the fact that this would require
her to act as a host for the life-form in question ("Halflife").
Her knack for disguise was explained as a result of her not wanting
to feel conspicuous, an attitude that was further reflected by Trix
showing discomfort when dealing with physical injuries, and apparently
trying to forget some unspecified accident that befell her father.
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The Gallifrey Chronicles
(Lance Parkin) |
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Although excited at the opportunities travel in the TARDIS offered
her, Trix was never a selfish woman, offering comfort and advice
to temporary visitors to the ship even when she was hiding from The
Doctor during her initial time in the TARDIS ("Reckless
Engineering", "The
Last Resort"), causing her to feel insulted when The Doctor
asked her why she’d help him deal with a problem when there
was no profit in it (Although this hostility was later revealed to
have been prompted by The Doctor’s contact with a ‘ghost’ being
generated by an alien ship rather than his own feelings about Trix’s
presence) ("The
Deadstone Memorial").
In
''The Gallifrey Chronicles'' it was revealed that she had been collaborating
with The Doctor's former companion Anji Kapoor (who left the TARDIS
shortly after Trix was discovered), passing Anji information about
the future on her returns to contemporary Earth in the form of copies
of future issues of the Financial Times, thus enabling Anji to invest
accordingly in her job as a stockbroker. Also in that novel, she
began a romantic relationship with her fellow companion Fitz Kreiner,
and the pair made plans to stop travelling with The Doctor and settle
for a while on contemporary Earth using some of the proceeds acquired
by Trix’s partnership with Anji. However, the novel ended before
revealing whether they eventually went through with this plan, the
conclusion showing Trix and Fitz accompanying The Doctor as he jumped
into the mountain headquarters of the alien race known as the Vore.
At present, the most likely conclusion is that she and Fitz survived
and subsequently parted company with the Eighth
Doctor as he left
to restore his formerly missing memories, most likely retaining the
now-returned K9
Mark II - given his absence from the Ninth
Doctor’s
life - as a housewarming present. |
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