The owner of a large house in Bristol, which was rented by Bill Potts and her friends. They were surprised that the property was so cheap. The landlord specified only that a tower room was out of bounds as unsafe.
On the first evening they moved in they discovered the landlord had entered the building, supposedly in response to their repair concerns, though no-one had called him.
The Doctor was spending the evening at the house and his suspicions led him to the basement where he discovered stored belongings of various groups of young people, dated roughly 20 years apart going back to 1957.
Odd creaking sounds coming from the woodwork proved to be caused by large woodlouse creatures, which attacked Bill's friends and sucked them into the fabric of the building. The Doctor called these Dryads, after the wood nymphs of Greek mythology. The landlord appeared to be facilitating this.
The reason for his actions was revealed when the Doctor and Bill gained access to the tower room and found a woman there, apparently made of wood. Her name was Eliza.
It transpired that her young son, John, had brought some Dryads into the house in the 1930's as she lay dying in the tower. The creatures had saved her life by turning her into wood. Ever since, John - now the landlord - had been luring young people to the house to feed the creatures so that they might sustain his mother.
Eliza eventually decided to end her existence - unhappy at the lives lost to keep her alive - and allowed the Dryads to consume her, and John joined her. The building then collapsed into rubble after freeing Bill's friends unharmed.
Played by: David Suchet. Appearances: Knock Knock (2017).
- Suchet will forever be associated with his signature role - that of Belgian sleuth Hercules Poirot. He played the part in ITV adaptations of every one of Agatha Christie's stories about the detective over a 24 year period.
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