A mysterious Fortune Teller lured Donna Noble away from the the Doctor when they visited a market on the planet Shan Shen. When Donna proved reluctant, the woman offered a free reading as she had red hair. This proved to be a trap - an attempt to alter Donna's personal history so that she never met the Doctor. As the Fortune Teller spoke to her, a large black insect attached itself to her back. This was a Time Beetle, which had the power to alter timelines. The woman then encouraged Donna to think back to a time before her first encounter with the Doctor - the day she had gone for a job with HC Clements. An alternate timeline was established in which Donna had gone for a different job, and so had never met the Doctor during the events of her Christmas Eve wedding. She was not there to stop him when he drowned the Racnoss Queen, resulting in him dying himself. Earth was then left vulnerable to all the subsequent alien attacks - including the crash of the Titanic spaceship, the Adipose, and the Sontarans. Rose Tyler was able to help Donna avert this timeline and put history back on course. This destroyed the Time Beetle, whilst the Fortune Teller fled. The Doctor later surmised that she and the creature had been in the employ of the Trickster, who sought to create chaos from the Doctor's demise.
Played by: Chipo Chung. Appearances: Turn Left (2008).
- Chung had appeared in the 11th, pre-finale, episode of the previous season, disguised under heavy prosthetics as Chantho in Utopia.
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