Martha Jones

Martha Jones is a female television character who features in Doctor Who.

Biography

Martha Jones was a female human who lived on Earth in the 21st century. (Episode: Smith and Jones)

As a doctor, she came to operate in a hospital in London when the entire building was abducted by the Judoon who placed it in an air pocket on the Moon. The alien enforcers were searching for a criminal and used their brutal tactics to investigate the people in the building. During this time, she was introduced to the Doctor who uncovered the Judoon's target which was an alien criminal that was a Plasmavore. The Tenth Doctor then invited Martha to his TARDIS and offered her a tour of the entire space-time continuum with her accepting the offer. (Episode: Smith and Jones)

The Doctor took Martha to 1599 where they met William Shakespeare, who flirted with her and called her his 'Dark Lady'. The three of them used a 'spell' to defeat a trio of witch-like Carrionites who were using Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Won as a spell to bring other Carrionites to Earth; Martha's use of the word 'Expelliarmus' when Shakespeare was unable to think of the right word to end on proved vital in defeating them. The Carrionites, along with the play, were sealed away. (Episode: The Shakespeare Code) Martha's next trip was to New New York, where they landed in the Undercity. Learning the Doctor had also visited New Earth with Rose, Martha worried she was a 'rebound' companion. Martha was kidnapped by a couple driving through the Motorway who wanted a third passenger to use an express lane; the three of them were later almost killed by the Macra, but escaped when the Doctor opened up the Motorway. After the two were reunited, Martha witnessed the death of the Face of Boe and heard his final words, "You are not alone". Before they departed New Earth, The Doctor told Martha about his home planet and the Last Great Time War. (Episode: Gridlock)

The Doctor extended Martha's trip in the TARDIS yet again, going to 1930 New York City, where the two of them became entangled in a mystery and found the population of Hooverville being transformed into pig slaves (Episode: Daleks in Manhattan) as part of the Cult of Skaro's plans to build a race of human-Daleks. (Episode: Evolution of the Daleks) Martha and a group of Hooverville residents were abducted and nearly converted into human-Daleks. (Episode: Daleks in Manhattan) However, the Doctor created a loud noise which allowed the humans to escape. After the Doctor was escorted back to the Daleks to help them, the Doctor handed Martha his psychic paper and Martha went with Tallulah and Frank to the top floor of the Empire State Building, pretending to be engineers and an architect, and realised the Daleks had taken over the Empire State Building while working with Mr Diagoras and placed Dalekanium on the mast to power their experiment. While the Doctor got in the way of the lightning strike hitting the mast, Martha and Frank connected metal rods from the outside of the building to the lift shaft as the lightning struck the building, killing the pig slaves inside the lift which were chasing after the Doctor. (Episode: Evolution of the Daleks)

After the Cult of Skaro's defeat, the Doctor returned Martha home to twelve hours after she had left. He overheard a TV news story about a man promising to 'change what it means to be human', and escorted her to the presentation of Prof. Richard Lazarus' rejuvenation device. Uncovering the disastrous effects of Lazarus' work, the Doctor, Martha, and her sister Tish helped to kill the monster Lazarus had become. Afterwards, the Doctor offered Martha one more trip, but she refused. She no longer wanted to be just a passenger, and so the Doctor invited her on board the TARDIS, as a full-time companion. (Episode: The Lazarus Experiment) They next answered a distress signal in the 42nd century Torajii system: a ship falling towards the sun. The sun was a sentient being possessing the crew members and killing them off, and Martha herself was nearly jettisoned entirely from the ship when she took refuge in an escape pod. She later played an instrumental role in saving the ship when the Doctor found himself possessed as well. During this adventure, Martha had a brief romance with one of the ship's crew, Riley Vashtee. He wanted her to stay but she chose to remain with the Doctor. (Episode: 42)

To escape the Family of Blood, who were hunting him, the Doctor used the Chameleon Arch to turn himself into a human with no memory or knowledge of the Doctor, containing his true self inside a fob watch. Before doing so, the Doctor recorded a video of instructions for Martha to follow so she might reference them in the future. He then became John Smith, a teacher at an English public school in 1913, where Martha took a job as a maid at the school to keep an eye on him, hiding the TARDIS in a shed. Martha watched helplessly as Smith fell in love with the school nurse, Joan Redfern, as he had not mentioned falling in love in his instructions. exclaiming he "had to go and fall in love with a human and it wasn't [her]". When the Family of Blood tracked them down after student Tim Latimer opened the fob watch, wreaking havoc on the town and school, Martha convinced John Smith to sacrifice his human life and love by reverting to the Doctor. He defeated the Family of Blood, left a heartbroken Joan and rejoined Martha in the TARDIS. (Episode: The Family of Blood)

At some point, while dealing with 'four things and a lizard' in 2008 London, the Doctor and Martha met Sally Sparrow, who seemed to know them, however Martha and the Doctor did not know her yet. Sally gave the Doctor and Martha a folder full of photographs and other documents; claiming that they would need it in the future. Martha and the Doctor travelled to an old house in Wester Drumlins in 2007, where Weeping Angels sent them back to London in 1969, with the TARDIS stuck in 2007. When Billy Shipton was sent back to 1969, he was welcomed by Martha and the Doctor. From there, the Doctor, with Billy's aid, helped Sally Sparrow recover the TARDIS in the future, finally enabling them to leave 1969. She briefly appeared in the video message the Doctor had made for Sally, complaining that the Doctor promised her all of space and time but she had to work in a shop to support him, before apologising for bursting in. (Episode: Blink)

Following a short pit-stop in Cardiff, and unknowingly picking up Captain Jack Harkness, the TARDIS took Martha and the Doctor to the end of the universe, and the planet Malcassairo. Martha was taken back by Jack's immortality before the two discussed the circumstances of Jack's last encounter with the Doctor, becoming increasingly jealous of Rose and concerned that she was going to be abandoned just as Jack was one day. After fleeing from the Futurekind, they stayed at Silo 16, where they encountered the last humans in the universe, who were assisted in reaching Utopia by Professor Yana, and Martha briefly befriended his assistant Chantho. An observant Martha noticed that the Professor had a watch similar to the Doctor's biodata module, prompting him to open it. The human Yana was transformed back into the Doctor's Time Lord nemesis, the Master, and escaped in the TARDIS. (Episode: Utopia)

Martha, Jack, and the Doctor used Jack's vortex manipulator to travel back to 21st century Earth, arriving the day after Harold Saxon was voted Prime Minister. Mr Saxon was in fact an alias of the Master, who had been living on Earth for months since his departure from Malcassairo; the Doctor explained that, before the Master fled Utopia, he sabotaged the TARDIS by fusing the coordinates with his sonic screwdriver so that it could only travel between 21st century Earth and the end of the universe, adding that he could've only landed up to 18 months prior to the day they picked Jack up from Cardiff. The Doctor also constructed three perception filters using TARDIS keys in order to avoid detection, the three of them declared Earth's most wanted. The Master, who had been manipulating Martha's family since she became a full-time companion, had Francine, Clive, and Tish arrested, although Leo escaped, Martha calling and warning him before the Master could find him. As her family, Jack, and the Doctor were all taken prisoner aboard the Valiant, Martha teleported back to Earth with a mission to defeat the Master. (Episode: The Sound of Drums)

After a year travelling around the world, she met fellow resistance member Tom Milligan. She had spent a year on Earth telling everyone to think of the Doctor at a specific time so the Master could be defeated. This plan worked; the Doctor, who had been previously aged several hundred years by the Master using his laser screwdriver combined with the research of Lazarus, returned to his original form and the Master was shot by his wife, Lucy Saxon. As a result of the destruction of the Master's paradox machine, only Martha, her family, and the people aboard the Valiant retained their memories of that year under the Master. Although the Doctor wanted her to stay with him, Martha felt her family needed her more. She also needed to get out of what she saw was an unhealthy relationship of her hoping the Doctor would finally notice her, and she stayed on Earth to complete her training as a doctor. To keep in touch, Martha gave the Doctor her phone, saying that she would call him when she needed him. (Episode: Last of the Time Lords)

Overview

Powers and abilities

A Dalek commented that she possessed a high degree of intelligence. (Episode: Daleks in Manhattan)

She was shown to be capable of competently speaking German. (Episode:: Journey's End)

Notes

• Martha Jones was portrayed by actor Freema Agyeman where she featured in the setting of Doctor Who starting from the episode "Smith and Jones" (2007).

Appearances

• Doctor Who: "Smith and Jones" (2007)
• Torchwood:

External Links

• Tardis Wiki Enry
• Wikipedia Entry

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