Professor Emile Moorhouse was an expert in alien mythology who was lured onto the space-going Orient Express. One of his specialisms was the study of the entity known as the Foretold. It would appear within the vicinity of an ancient tattered pennant, striking its victims dead within 66 seconds of them first observing it. It was invisible to everyone else.
Moorhouse and other experts, including the Doctor, were brought on to the Orient Express - a recreation of the luxurious Euro-Asian train - by a secretive organisation which sought to capture the Foretold and study it, in the hope of weaponising its technology.
Moorhouse himself saw the Foretold - which appeared to be a corpse-like mummy - and was able to describe it to the Doctor before dying.
It turned out that the creature's choice of victims depended on the state of their health. A warrior, it was programmed by alien tech to seek out the weakest members of a group first. Moorhouse had suffered from mental health problems following a serious road accident.
Played by: Christopher Villiers. Appearances: Mummy on the Orient Express (2014).
- Villiers had previously played the headstrong Hugh Fitzwilliam in 1983's The King's Demons.
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