Madame Karabraxos was the wealthiest woman in the universe at one time. She had founded a bank which had the most complex security systems in place - chief of which was an alien creature known as the Teller, which could psychically probe people and identify even the slightest guilty thought. In day to day charge of the bank was Ms Delphox - really a series of clones of Karabraxos, as she could trust no-one else to take on this important role.
The Doctor and Clara were tasked by a mysterious stranger with robbing the main vault of the bank. They were assisted by a young man named Psi, who had electronic implants in his brain that enabled him to interact with the bank's technology, and a woman named Saibra, who could take on the appearance of anyone whom she made physical contact with.
On breaking into the main vault, they discovered Madame Karabraxos herself. She had a second Teller creature imprisoned there along with all her accumulated treasures, the mate of the one in the bank. She was using it as a hostage to force the Teller to work for her.
The Doctor freed both and took them to a new home, as they were the last of their kind.
It transpired that the stranger who had sent them on their mission was the Doctor himself, from their immediate future. He had then had his memory of doing this wiped, so that there would be nothing for the Teller to latch on to.
He had been asked to arrange all this by the elderly Karabraxos, who in her final days had come to regret having enslaved the creatures.
Played by: Keeley Hawes. Appearances: Time Heist (2014).
- As she was a clone, Hawes played Ms Delphox as well as Madame Karabraxos.
- She recently played the mother of Richie Tozer in RTD's It's A Sin.
- She's about to be seen in a new TV adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos, the John Wyndham novel previously filmed as Village of the Damned.
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