Josh Carter

Joshua "Josh" Carter was a member of UNIT under Kate Stewart's leadership.

Early life
Carter studied Electrical Engineering. (AUDIO: Armageddon)

Joining UNIT
Carter didn't complete his training at Sandhurst Military School, Colonel Shindi noted that he had a reputation at Sandhurst for being "disruptive, ill-disciplined, [and] question[ing] authority." Carter claimed that liked to test the boundaries and think outside the box. Upon his recruitment to UNIT, Carter had several clashes with the Colonel over his personality. (AUDIO: Vanguard)

Stopping a Nestene invasion
Kate sent him on a search to find the Autons in the UK after he was concerned about Osgood going on a field mission. (AUDIO: Earthfall)

He went undercover as a Devlin Futuretech employee to get more information. He saved Jacqui McGee from being killed by an Auton. He then, with the help of Osgood, to hack the mainframe and stop the Nestene from combining. Simon Devlin then converted him into an Auton-like creature. (AUDIO: Bridgehead)

The Nestene Consciousness planned to use him to destroy UNIT. Osgood managed to overcome this control. He gained super strength allowing him to bend metal a couple of inches thick. (AUDIO: Armageddon)

Tengobushi incident
He helped Kate to investigate the disappearance of a UNIT scientist, when he discovered that Lyme Industries was involved. He went undercover with Kate to retrieve UNIT property from Lyme's hands. After Osgood was attacked by the Tengobushi, he helped to get her out of her flat. (AUDIO: Power Cell)

Whilst Kate and Osgood went to Geneva, he was ordered to investigate the alien's that attacked them. After Sam told him that Anna Burges was killed to find out where Osgood had gone he went to Geneva and managed to save her from being killed by a Tengobushi. After Kate and Osgood entered the Tengobushi ship e tried to follow but couldn't get through the forcefield, but using the firepower of the Geneva UNIT forces he broke his way through to rescue Kate, Osgood and Grant Avery. (AUDIO: Death in Geneva)

He used his Auton strength to remove a Tengobushi assassin from the plane he was on after it killed the pilots. He was then tasked with abducting Lyme. During the Tengobushi attack Osgood was trapped in the Archive, Josh managed to get her away but managed to get her first to the Jewellery room and then to command centre. He was then asked to evacuate Peter Latchen from the Tower along wit the rest of the UNIT troops. (AUDIO: The Battle of the Tower)

They went to UNIT base under the rock of Gibraltar, he was locked under arrest by Latchen. With Osgood's help he escaped and flew an experimental aircraft to rendezvous with Bishop to stop Lyme and her plans. He stayed behind the to destroy the generator that Lyme created. (AUDIO: Ice Station Alpha)

Investigating the Silence
He trained Kate in how to use her gun. He was part of the attack on Helena Faversham's house to find the Silents and he wanted to kill them on sight. After escaping one of them, he was captured by them. (AUDIO: House of Silents)

He thought that Kenneth LeBlanc was a visionary, much to Bishop's disarray. He was conditioned by the Silents to help them. He went to LeBlanc's house to offer his help. Using his influence with UNIT and with the Silents help he got the Prime Minister to resign and call and election. (AUDIO: Square One)

At the end of LeBlanc's campaign he became so engaged in him winning. Osgood came to see him and stole his laptop using the same memory manipulation technique the Silents used. He was later ordered by the Silents to assassinate the LeBlanc, but when the time came he hesitate but Osgood managed to stop him. (AUDIO: Silent Majority)

When he came back from recovery from the LeBlanc debacle, he was posted to stores as light work. He found some of the stuff from the Silents mission. After Osgood and Bishop came back to Earth, he picked them up from the middle of the Atlantic. (AUDIO: In Memory Alone)

The Silurian invasion
He stayed at UNIT HQ when Osgood reported on the Silurians started. Osgood tried to get a message to him but didn't succeed, but later Burmaster managed to and he came up to rescue them. (AUDIO: Call to Arms)

He later came to evacuate Sam, Kate and Osgood from a Silurian Nest in Greece. (AUDIO: Retrieval)

Managing to get back to London, he helped Mike Yates to run the UNIT defence of the UK. He went with Yates to meet Jastrok in Westminster Abbey who wanted their surrender. He went to the nuclear base where Kalana was setting off the weapons and fought her in hand to hand combat, knowing that his Auton enhancements would help. He managed to reflect the Fear Trigger back on Kalana. (AUDIO: United)