Craig Owens

Craig Owens lived and worked in Colchester, England. He once rented a room out to the Eleventh Doctor. (DW: The Lodger)

First adventure with the Doctor
Craig placed an advert for a flatmate in a local shop window. The Doctor turned up on his doorstep later that day due to a helpful note from Amy Pond in the future. Since Amy was stuck in the TARDIS with no way to land it on her own, and the Doctor found the source to be in the upstairs flat of Craig's building, he wanted to live there.

The Doctor turned up with a paper bag full of £3000 and no luggage. Craig said he was "weird", but after trying one of the Doctor's delicious, impromptu omelettes, he decided to let him stay. Craig learned to live with his strange habits and quirks, but was irritated at the Doctor's success at football and his interruption of a moment with Sophie.

Craig defied the Doctor's recommendation not to touch the dry rot forming on the ceiling of his living room. He was knocked out by it but was saved by the timely intervention by the Doctor. When he woke, Craig was shocked to learn that the Doctor went to a planning meeting at his workplace and was working there. His suspicions of the Doctor grew after he looked in his room and found a strange spinning contraption made out of bits of trash. After seeing the Doctor talk to a cat about the upstairs flat, he confronted the Doctor on the past three days and how he was resentful at his popularity, especially with Sophie. The Doctor butted Craig's head to telepathically explain his predicament and gain Craig's help confronting the enemy upstairs. Craig learned about the Doctor's origin on Gallifrey, his previous incarnations, Amy Pond, that the contraption was a scanner, that he had a TARDIS, and that the upstairs flat was actually a disguised time ship.

Amy told them that someone was upstairs, and they realised it was Sophie. After saving her and learning the ship's intention, the Doctor was chosen as its pilot. Craig realised that the ship had refused his help because it needed someone to pilot it away and he wanted to stay. He put his hand on the ship's control and at the Doctor's request remembered what made him want to stay, blurting out his love for Sophie. Sophie told him she loved him too, and they kissed.

Following their escape from the ship, Craig and Sophie decided to visit Paris and begin a serious relationship. The Doctor tried to leave quietly, but they noticed and stopped him to say goodbye. Craig gave him his keys to the flat, and the Doctor said he would visit them. Having been inside his head, he knew the Doctor would never visit them again, but wanted him to keep them as a memento.

After the Doctor left, Craig remembered their time together fondly. He kept a photograph of him on his fridge and spelled out "THE DOCTOR ROCKS" with magnetic letters. (DW: The Lodger)

Return of an old friend
Over a year later, Craig and Sophie had moved, and had a child together, Alfie. On the same day Sophie went on holiday with a friend, the Doctor came knocking on his door. Craig noticed that the Doctor was acting strange, but was unable to find out why.

The next day, Craig found the Doctor working in a local shop. Realising that the Doctor was investigating, Craig insisted on helping him. They discovered a group of Cybermen, and Craig was almost turned into their Cyber-Controller, but when Alfie began to cry, the upsurge of emotions allowed him to overcome the conversion. The enotional feedback caused the Cybermen and their ship to explode.

As he and the Doctor parted, Craig gave him a Stetson. When Sophie returned, both were shocked by Alfie's first word: "Doctor". (DW: Closing Time)