Mike Smith

Michael "Mike" Smith was a sergeant in the Royal Air Force under Group Captain Gilmore.

He was extremely prejudiced towards black people and became a member of a fascist organisation known as the Association.

Biography
Mike's father died in 1943 during one of the Royal Navy's Arctic convoys supplying the Soviet Union via Murmansk. Mike was only a young boy when World War II came to an end. His mother would struggle to keep their home, turned into a boarding house, clean and not looking worn down.

In the aftermath of the war, when a young Mike played on bombsites near Shoreditch, Mike met George Ratcliffe, the founder of the Association. Ratcliffe gifted Mike a chocolate bar that "friends" he had in Germany had sent him. Over the years, he had many further meetings with Ratcliffe, who imparted upon him his ideology. Ratcliffe warned of bankers and communists working in league with each other and of a ploy by the British government to reduce wages by replacing white workers with black immigrants. This aided in the rise of Smith's prejudices.

Smith would join the Royal Air Force and rose to the rank of sergeant. He served for eighteen months in Malaya by 1963, where he was often bored but also witnessed at least one sudden death. He also witnessed a bar fight in Singapore almost turn murderous.

Mike Smith was still a "local man" of Shoreditch, which was the reason he was drafted into the Intrusion Counter-Measures Group, founded in 1963 to monitor the increasingly strange events happening in the area. (PROSE: The Shoreditch Incident) During the investigations, where Smith was in civilian clothing for secrecy's sake, Ratcliffe made contact hours before the assassination of John F. Kennedy and revealed "there'll be a new American President by this evening". (This was something Ratcliffe had learned about from the Renegade Daleks' battle computer) Fully convinced Ratcliffe had hidden knowledge and was worth listening to after this successful prediction, Smith agreed to work with him. (PROSE: Remembrance of the Daleks)

During the Shoreditch Incident in November 1963, Smith was working as an informant for Ratcliffe. He had a romantic interest in Ace, but when she discovered he was a spy she was disgusted with him. Smith tried to explain his actions by saying "It's just that you have to look after your own. Keep the outsiders out just to give your own people a fair chance."

He knew some of the Daleks' plans on Earth at the time and that they were seeking the Hand of Omega. Over the course of the Seventh Doctor's investigations, Smith was outed as an informant. He was detained, but later escaped to the Renegade Daleks' base.

There, Smith and Ratcliffe were betrayed by the Renegades. They were saved from extermination by an attack on the Renegades by the Imperial Daleks. Stealing the Time Controller from the Renegade Daleks, the two fled, pursued by the Girl, who quickly killed Ratcliffe. Escaping to his mother's boarding house, Smith ran into Ace where, after failing to convince her to join his crusade, he held her at gunpoint. Answering a knock at the door, Smith was attacked and killed by the Girl. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)

Smith was denied a military funeral and buried privately by his family five days after his death. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)

Legacy
Group Captain Gilmore later told Ace that British Army soldiers were basically good and that Smith was an aberration. (AUDIO: 1963: The Assassination Games)

The Doctor later discovered Ace beating up a teddy bear in her room aboard the TARDIS, yelling that it betrayed her. When she went to the bath, he sneaked in and found "Mike Smith" written on the bear. (PROSE: Legacy)

Mike, albeit not by name, was later referenced in a a book covering the history of N-Space when it discussed the Shoreditch Incident. The book recounted him to be a double agent uncovered by the Doctor. According to the book, Smith had been "unwittingly" working for the Renegade Daleks. (PROSE: The Whoniverse)