Grace Holloway
Dr. Grace Holloway was a San Francisco cardiologist and the first companion of the Eighth Doctor. She was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Technological Advancement and Research.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Holloway was known as "Amazing Grace" by her colleagues at Walker General Hospital, where she worked as an on-call cardiologist. The "on-call" part of the job description was particularly annoying to her live-in boyfriend, Brian.
MEETING THE DOCTOR
On the evening of 30 December 1999, Grace was attending the opera when she was paged. She rushed to the hospital to deal with an unusual cardiac case that had come in — a middle-aged man who had suffered minor bullet wounds and who apparently had a heart defect that caused a very irregular heart beat.
Unknown to Grace, her patient had been x-rayed earlier and appeared to have two hearts. While conducting exploratory surgery with a fibre-optic camera, she could not navigate in the man's circulatory system. She inadvertently caused a fatal injury to him and he died on the operating table. Upset at losing a patient, an event witnessed by the hospital's financial supporters, Grace ordered an autopsy. Due to the incident, complicated by the corpse's subsequent disappearance from the morgue, Holloway resigned the next morning rather than be complicit in a cover-up of the events. Brian also left her, taking all his stuff — along with half the furniture.
While she was leaving the hospital, a strange man followed her, claiming to be the man who had died the night before. At first Grace refused to believe him, but was convinced when he took the remains of her probe from his chest. She learned he had undergone regeneration, which had changed his appearance and personality. He was also suffering from amnesia. Hours later, he suddenly regained his memories of being the Doctor, a Time Lord. He celebrated the return of his memories by kissing Grace.
With his memories restored, the Doctor enlisted Grace to help him defeat his enemy the Master. During this time she exclaimed she'd finally found the right guy, only to discover "he's from another planet!"
Grace was possessed for a short while by the Master, who made her betray the Doctor. She later unwillingly opened the Eye of Harmony inside the TARDIS and was killed, but the TARDIS used the Eye to bring her back to life.
After the Master's defeat, the Doctor invited Grace to travel with him as a companion, but she declined, countering that the Doctor should instead join her. After sharing a romantic kiss with her, the Doctor departed in the TARDIS and each went their separate way.
AFTER THE DOCTOR
After the Doctor's departure, Grace began examining the remnants of a substance the Master spat at her during the battle. This led her to working with an MI6-sponsored genetics lab in hopes of creating a human-Time Lord hybrid capable of regeneration. When Holloway was later reunited with the Doctor, he chastised her for this, though they ultimately reconciled and parted company with another kiss. Grace Holloway's ultimate fate is unknown, but the Doctor indicated that he was familiar with her work and that she was destined to do "great things". Holloway interpreted this as being a reference to her work with MI6 on the human/Time Lord hybrid. Her longterm impact on the Doctor is evident in that some time later, he experienced a hallucination that he and Grace were married.She survived the Cyberman invasion of Earth in 2004 and concluded that the Doctor must have stopped them.As of 2010, Grace was looking into new breakthroughs in surgery.
PERSONALITY
Grace was intelligent, feisty, independant, empathetic, and kind with a great sense of humour.
HABITS AND QUIRKS
Grace expressed an interest in Puccini's operas (playing a recording of Madame Butterfly in the operating theatre while working on the Doctor) and the art of Leonardo da Vinci (the Doctor remarks, on seeing a da Vinci print on the wall of Grace's apartment, "He had a terrible cold when he drew that").
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Holloway was known as "Amazing Grace" by her colleagues at Walker General Hospital, where she worked as an on-call cardiologist. The "on-call" part of the job description was particularly annoying to her live-in boyfriend, Brian.
MEETING THE DOCTOR
On the evening of 30 December 1999, Grace was attending the opera when she was paged. She rushed to the hospital to deal with an unusual cardiac case that had come in — a middle-aged man who had suffered minor bullet wounds and who apparently had a heart defect that caused a very irregular heart beat.
Unknown to Grace, her patient had been x-rayed earlier and appeared to have two hearts. While conducting exploratory surgery with a fibre-optic camera, she could not navigate in the man's circulatory system. She inadvertently caused a fatal injury to him and he died on the operating table. Upset at losing a patient, an event witnessed by the hospital's financial supporters, Grace ordered an autopsy. Due to the incident, complicated by the corpse's subsequent disappearance from the morgue, Holloway resigned the next morning rather than be complicit in a cover-up of the events. Brian also left her, taking all his stuff — along with half the furniture.
While she was leaving the hospital, a strange man followed her, claiming to be the man who had died the night before. At first Grace refused to believe him, but was convinced when he took the remains of her probe from his chest. She learned he had undergone regeneration, which had changed his appearance and personality. He was also suffering from amnesia. Hours later, he suddenly regained his memories of being the Doctor, a Time Lord. He celebrated the return of his memories by kissing Grace.
With his memories restored, the Doctor enlisted Grace to help him defeat his enemy the Master. During this time she exclaimed she'd finally found the right guy, only to discover "he's from another planet!"
Grace was possessed for a short while by the Master, who made her betray the Doctor. She later unwillingly opened the Eye of Harmony inside the TARDIS and was killed, but the TARDIS used the Eye to bring her back to life.
After the Master's defeat, the Doctor invited Grace to travel with him as a companion, but she declined, countering that the Doctor should instead join her. After sharing a romantic kiss with her, the Doctor departed in the TARDIS and each went their separate way.
AFTER THE DOCTOR
After the Doctor's departure, Grace began examining the remnants of a substance the Master spat at her during the battle. This led her to working with an MI6-sponsored genetics lab in hopes of creating a human-Time Lord hybrid capable of regeneration. When Holloway was later reunited with the Doctor, he chastised her for this, though they ultimately reconciled and parted company with another kiss. Grace Holloway's ultimate fate is unknown, but the Doctor indicated that he was familiar with her work and that she was destined to do "great things". Holloway interpreted this as being a reference to her work with MI6 on the human/Time Lord hybrid. Her longterm impact on the Doctor is evident in that some time later, he experienced a hallucination that he and Grace were married.She survived the Cyberman invasion of Earth in 2004 and concluded that the Doctor must have stopped them.As of 2010, Grace was looking into new breakthroughs in surgery.
PERSONALITY
Grace was intelligent, feisty, independant, empathetic, and kind with a great sense of humour.
HABITS AND QUIRKS
Grace expressed an interest in Puccini's operas (playing a recording of Madame Butterfly in the operating theatre while working on the Doctor) and the art of Leonardo da Vinci (the Doctor remarks, on seeing a da Vinci print on the wall of Grace's apartment, "He had a terrible cold when he drew that").