Jim Waters

Jim Waters was a criminal from mid-20th century Chicago who became a companion to the renegade Time Lord Rollo after an encounter with the Master.

Early life
Jim Waters was born in 1956 in Chicago. He grew up on the streets, and, as a young man in his 20s, "ran with a biker gang" until the rest of the gang was destroyed in a plot carried out by the Master. He survived the massacre by hiding in a coin-operated photo booth which turned out to be the disguise adopted by the TARDIS of the benevolent Time Lord Rollo. The two worked together to foil the Master's scheme, after which Jim accepted Rollo's offer to travel with him, quipping that he had little choice in the matter because "I don't want to wake up and find out what the mental ward looks like". (GAME: )

The Iytean investigation
On one occasion, Rollo and his companions were summoned to Gallifrey to be briefed by Lady Rowella about a new assignment. The discovery of an energy weapon on 1980s Earth as an heirloom from its human owner's Victorian ancestor Colonel Malcolm Fraser had the Invasion worried about alien, and potentially time-active, activity in 1885 London. (GAME: )

There, they discovered that Colonel Fraser had been buying a steady supply of alien artefacts from a pair of crooks called Jack Bannister and Bert Jenkins, who had secretly discovered a buried Iytean starship while trying to dig a tunnel into a bank two years prior. Unbeknownst to them, the ship had been a police vessel transporting an Iytean criminal. With the Iyteans being symbionts, the criminal had hitched a ride in Jenkins's body then transferred itself to Fraser's acquaintance Doctor Henry Jellicoe, causing him to periodically lose control of his body and adopt the malevolent persona of "Ned Hines". With the help of the Colonel's granddaughter Julia Fraser, and that of Thomas Carruthers, the son of his old friend Sir Reginald Carruthers (who had been murdered by Hines), the time-travellers were able to unravel the mystery and eventually neutralise the Iytean as well as ensure the starship would not be rediscovered and thereby derail Earth history any further. (GAME: )

Before leaving 1885, Rollo went on one last outing in the city, and had lunch with a writer called Robert Louis Stevenson, telling him about the adventure. It was only when he returned to the TARDIS and told Verika, another one of his companions, about the encounter that he learned he had just inspired Stevenson to write The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. (GAME: )

Personality
Jim was "intensely pragmatic", but had a strong sense of morality under his tough exterior, and, in particular, had a keen sense of loyalty to those he deemed to be friends or adopted family, as he did both his old gang and Rollo's TARDIS crew. Likewise, his cocky, optimistic exterior was only a façade masking his increasingly anxiety about just how much of the world was out of his control. (GAME: )

Physical appearance
Jim Waters was a "tall, strongly-built man" with black hair and eyes. He had strong eyebrows and a small, vertical scar on his right cheek. He habitually wore jeans and a black, leather biker's jacket, paired with heavy motorcycle boots. He also made sure to always carry "several knives" on his person. (GAME: )