Emily Whitaker

Emily was a Korina female, and current companion to the Doctor. She was introduced in The Winter of Discontent. With red skin and dark hair, she stood out from the humans native to 1960s Earth, and used a shimmer device to disguise herself. For this reason, neither the Doctor nor the Kyrens initially identified her as non-human.

Emily was an outcast; her homeworld was gone, and she travelled to Earth. At the time of the Kyren invasion, Emily was a doctor at the Albion Hospital in London. One of her patients at the time was the Doctor.

Emily proved instrumental in defeating the Kyrens. She had been provided with the code for the Kyren Fragmenter by a stranger on the street (who turned out to be the Doctor from the future), and recalled it when the Doctor needed it to end the Kyren invasion.

￼After the invasion, the Doctor offered Emily a place aboard the TARDIS. She accepted, but asked for a few weeks to help those injured in the invasion.

While the Doctor was gone, she attended the funeral of her friend Verity Roberts, and was offered a job as chief medical officer at MAID. She declined this, though, preferring to travel the universe.

During Emily's visit to Caprius, she was separated from the Doctor when she fled a Triped. Having collapsed in a sandstorm, she was taken to be part of the King's collection of concubines.