The Doctor encountered journalist Lucy Lombard (nee Fletcher) when both were investigating the Harmony Shoal Institute in New York. Lucy had a child named Jennifer, and employed an old school friend named Grant to act as her nanny. Grant felt responsible for Lucy being on her own as he had introduced her to her ex-husband. He was secretly madly in love with her himself.
The Doctor knew that the Institute was a front for an alien race of parasites - and also that Grant had superhuman powers thanks to an incident in his childhood when he had swallowed an alien crystal. Because of these powers, he had adopted a superhero persona - the Ghost - and fought crime and assisted emergency services.
When Lucy got home from an incident at the Institute, she was surprised to find the Doctor there. He had been visiting Grant. Attempts to find out who he was failed, despite her tormenting an annoying squeaky toy to irritate him. Whilst failing to spot how Grant felt about her, Lucy held a torch for the Ghost. A dinner was arranged, in which Grant had to appear in his disguise and nanny the baby at the same time. This coincided with the Harmony Shoal aliens attacking, intent on taking the Ghost's body as a host for one of their kind - and a crashing spaceship containing the Doctor and his assistant Nardole. Lucy did eventually discover that Grant and the Ghost were one and the same person.
Played by: Charity Wakefield. Appearances: The Return of Doctor Mysterio (2016).
- The 2016 Christmas Special was inspired by DC comic books. Lucy Lombard is very loosely based on Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane from the Superman comics - hence the alliterative name.
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