The Hostess was an unnamed Doctor Who character. She went from being a supporting ally to a selfless hero in the 10th episode of the series' fourth season, "Midnight".
History[]
The Hostess worked on a space-craft orbiting the mysterious planet Midnight called the Crusader 50 and as such, she was responsible for the well-being of the passengers aboard, one of whom would be the Doctor in disguise.
The first part of the flight went rather smoothly, with the Hostess reminding the casual security measures such as not touching the doors' seals due to the lack of oxygen outisde. She then closed the portholes' shields and started to play some music along with an old black and white cartoon to entertain the passengers during 4 hours of "Fun time". The Doctor, though, quickly got tired of the loud music and stopped it with his sonic screwdriver. The Hostess tried to put the music back on but failed and this pushed the passengers to interact and learn more about each other while they waited.
At some point during the flight, amidst one of the passengers' presentation about the planet Midnight, the space-craft suddenly stopped. This confused the passengers since it shouldn't stop before arriving at destination - which they were far from reaching - but the Hostess told them not to worry and to get back to their seats and that it was a routinely delay, as the drivers stabilize the engine's features. The Doctor, intrigued, showed her his psychic paper in order to access the front of the vehicle, where the drivers should be operating. Yet, she doesn't even look at the psychic paper and tells the Doctor that he cannot enter this area. A few moments later, she comes back from the cockpit and finds everybody arguing and discussing their situation. She once again reassures them and tells them that everything is under control.
Soon, a malevolent and powerful psychic entity only known as the "Midnight Entity" will manifest outside of the ship. When the Midnight Entity starts to knock at the ship's doors, she tries to dissuade the Doctor from investigating and orders him to get back to his seat. A couple of minutes later, when the rest of the passengers are terrified and are experimenting with the Midnight Entity, she loses her patience and yells at everyone to get back to their seats. That's when the passenger Sky Silvestry yells back at her, telling her that she is the Hostess and that in this situation, she should be the one to do something. The Hostess quickly runs towards the ship's phone to call for help.
Unfortunately for them, the Midnight Entity starts to bang more violently on the doors and it successfully invades the ship after causing a blackout. The Hostess tells everyone to grab a flashlight, which they do and that is when they find Sky Silvestry, suspiciously sitting alone in a dark corner. At this point, her body had already been taken over by the mysterious alien, but nobody knows this yet. They think that Sky has gone crazy due to panic and shock. In distress, the Hostess tries to go inside the drivers' cabin but when she opens the door, she only sees blinding brightness and everyone realizes that the cabin was ripped off by the Midnight Entity when it attacked the ship. The Hostess closes back the door and everybody else starts panicking and soon, they realize that the Midnight Entity is inside Sky. They discuss what they should do and the Hostess suggests throwing Sky out due to her recent behavior. The Doctor refuses to do that but the Hostess replies by saying that if they wait for the rescue team to take them back along with Sky, then the Midnight Entity would reach civilization and could easily spread. Nonetheless, The Midnight Entity quickly sowed terror and paranoia among the passengers and convinced them that it transfered itself into the Doctor's body and that he was the true invader amongst them all. The Midnight Entity tried to have the near-insane passengers toss him out into the deadly void.
The Hostess was not entirely convinced but watched on in hapless panic as the passengers began to drag the Doctor towards the ship's exit, yet the malicious Midnight Entity made a fatal mistake as it gloated, using certain phrases and expressions unique to the Doctor - which the Hostess previously heard him say and caught onto, realizing that the Midnight Entity was still inside Sky and not the Doctor. The Hostess needed to act quickly and decisively; Whilst everybody else was dragging the Doctor, the Hostess ran towards the ship's exit first and grabbed Sky on her way there. She immediately pressed the emergency button which opened the door and she stood right in front of it while holding Sky tight to make sure she doesn't run back on the ship. Everybody else backed off, fearing the planet's deadly radiations and they all watched as the selfless Hostess counted to six - the amount of time necessary for the person on the door's threshold to be sucked out successfully, killing both herself and the evil alien as well as killing Sky Silvestry in the process, whose body had been taken over by the Midnight Entity.
After her death, the Doctor asked the other passengers if they knew what her real name was, but they could not answer. She would later be remembered by the Doctor when Davros asked him how many innocent people died due to his actions (though in the Doctor's defense, he was in no way responsible for her death, as she had willingly sacrificed herself to stop the Midnight Entity).
Trivia[]
- Ironically enough, the Hostess was the first person on the flight to suggest throwing anyone else out.
- The music the Hostess plays to distract the passengers is Raffaella Carrà's "Do it, Do it Again" (1978)
- Similarly, the cartoon she plays is called "Betty Boop and Grampy" (1935)
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