Matt Doe

Matt Doe was a private in the Intrusion Counter-Measures Group, though he believed it was simply a propaganda tool, thinking it was Great Britain's reaction to intelligence that suggested the Soviet Union was working on para-psychology. As such, he saw this new position as "cushy" job, even despite knowing about the rumours that claimed the counter-measures were to combat unknown and mysterious dangers. He was armed with a L1A1 Self Loading Rifle.

His underestimation of his unit ended during the Shoreditch Incident, which he hoped was simply a nightmare after watching a Renegade Dalek murder two of his good comrades-in-arms, Matthews and MacBrewster. He recognised that the intervention of a "little scientist" had changed things, remembering the advice to "aim for the eyepiece" when he heard something in the fog that night at Totter's Lane. Soon, however, he realised this new sound was organic before slipping on its slime, his gun also falling into it. Unknown to him, this creature was called a Slyther, and it emerged in front of him. The creature killed Doe, his scream heard by the nearby Seventh Doctor. Before the Doctor could investigate the private's scream and gunshots, however, he focused on the Time Lord messenger who had arrived. (PROSE: The Slyther of Shoreditch)