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| Prisoner Zero |
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 Name: Prisoner Zero
Format: Television
show
Time of Origin: Precise planet and
time of origin unknown, but it was able to escape to Earth
in 1996 and remain hidden for twelve years.
Appearances: "The Eleventh Hour"
Doctors: Eleventh Doctor
Companions: Amy Pond and Rory
Williams
History: Although
most of its history is unknown, Prisoner Zero was nevertheless
clearly a highly dangerous and arrogant being, leaving at least
eight people in comas simply so that it could draw on their minds
in case it needed to use them as disguises, and perfectly
willing to let an entire planet die with it rather than allowing
itself to simply be taken away and executed when faced with a
situation where death was certain.
In
its natural state, Prisoner Zero was an inter-dimensional multi-form
resembling a massive snake-like creature, regularly appearing
as though it was attached to a ceiling in its natural state,
leaving its full appearance a mystery as its ‘tail’ was
never depicted.
Although capable of shifting its natural appearance
into smaller particles so that it could retreat down drains and
through grates, Prisoner Zero’s main power was its ability
to form psychic links to other beings - although it took several
months to establish this kind of link - and then use their dreams
to form the basis of a new appearance for itself. With this disguise,
it could walk among the local population of whatever planet it
was on without being detected, although this method of disguise
had its flaws (The most obvious being that sometimes its ‘donors’ -
the people it was using as hosts - could dream about multiple
creatures, such as a man dreaming that he was walking a dog or
a woman dreaming about spending time with her children, with
the result that Prisoner Zero could sometimes use the wrong voice
to speak out of one of its new mouths).
At
some point, Prisoner Zero was captured by a race known
as the Atraxi - their natural state is unknown, although their
spaceships resembled giant eyes surrounded by crystal rings -,
and locked away in a high-security prison until it managed to
escape to the small English village of Leadworth through a crack
in reality. Although the newly-regenerated Eleventh Doctor attempted
to close the crack, he was forced to depart when the damaged
TARDIS threatened
to explode, his subsequent attempted short hop into the
future taking him forward in time by twelve years rather
than the five minutes he’d been intending.
During the twelve years that The Doctor spent ‘travelling’,
Prisoner Zero was able to conceal itself in a room in the house
belonging to Amelia Pond and her Aunt Sharon, preventing anyone
else noticing the room by using a perception filter to stop them
noticing it even existed. Under unspecified circumstances, it
was also able to form mental links to eight people around Leadworth,
leaving its eight subjects in comas so that it could use their
appearances to wander around the city (Although its disguises
were occasionally flawed, such as when it posed as a man walking
his dog and had the man growl and bark while the dog just stared).
The Atraxi eventually tracked Prisoner Zero to Earth
when The Doctor reappeared, the Atraxi having been homing in
on his ship to track the disguised Prisoner Zero, subsequently
setting up a force field around Earth with the intention of incinerating
the planet in order to destroy Prisoner Zero if it didn’t
surrender itself. Aided by the now-grown-up Amy Pond and her
boyfriend Rory
Williams - a nurse at the hospital where Patient
Zero’s victims were located who had noticed it wandering
around in its disguises -, along with another young man called
Jeff, The Doctor was able to write an elaborate computer virus
on Rory’s mobile phone and transmit it across the world.
With the virus resetting all the counters in the world to ‘Zero’,
the Atraxi were able to trace the source of the virus back to
the phone, the phone also containing photos that Rory had taken
of Prisoner Zero’s disguises.
Although Prisoner Zero tried to escape by activating
a long-dormant potential link it had created with Amy - disguising
itself as The Doctor and a young Amy, apparently due to her continued
dreams that the ‘Raggedy Doctor’ would come for her
-, The Doctor was able to outwit it once again. Taking advantage
of Prisoner Zero’s link to Amy, The Doctor was able to
link himself to Amy’s mind and divert her thoughts away
from her dreams of him and her younger self to focus instead
on the moment when she had witnessed Prisoner Zero’s natural
form in the concealed room. Despite Prisoner Zero’s attempt
to remain in its current shape, The Doctor’s actions resulted
in it transforming into “a perfect impersonation of [itself]”,
allowing the Atraxi to detect Prisoner Zero and take it away
for execution (Although The Doctor subsequently called the Atraxi
back to warn them that attempting to destroy a Level Five planet
was a clear violation of Article 57 of the Shadow Proclamation,
challenging them to scan Earth’s history and confirm that
it was defended). |
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| Amy Meets Prisoner Zero |
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| The Atraxi |
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| Prisoner Zero |
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| The Doctor Taunts Prisoner
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