The deceased mother of Mr Redpath, her body was on view in an open casket at the Cardiff funeral parlour of Mr Sneed when her son came to pay his last respects. The parlour stood on a space / time rift which ran through the city, and an alien race named the Gelth began to break through to Earth through this fault. Reduced to a gaseous state, they sought new bodies and were able to inhabit those of the dead for a brief time. One reanimated Mrs Peace, making her kill her son then storm out into the night. The old lady had been due to see Charles Dickens give a talk that night, and a trace of this memory remained, so that the living corpse turned up at the venue. The local gas supply was strong enough to draw the Gelth out of their host body, leaving only the dead shell once more. The aliens initially came across as refugees, small in number, seeking a peaceful new existence on Earth, but it turned out that they actually intended to commit mass murder to create hosts for themselves.
Mrs Peace's body was taken over again, along with the corpse of her son, and the Doctor and Rose Tyler were forced to take refuge in the morgue whilst Dickens fled the premises. He worked out that flooding the house with gas would draw the creatures from their hosts, whilst a servant girl named Gwyneth sacrificed herself to destroy them and the reanimated corpses.
Played by: Jennifer Hill. Appearances: The Unquiet Dead (2005)
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