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Crozier was a scientist who committed his life to perfecting the control and alteration of behaviour. In return for funding, he dedicated himself to saving Lord Kiv.

Biography[]

Crozier was born after 2339 (PROSE: Mindwarp) and, at an unusually young age, became a doctor and a scientist. (TV: Mindwarp) By his late thirties, he had a daughter named Cordelia, who followed in his footsteps and became a scientist herself. (AUDIO: Antidote to Oblivion)

At some point, Halogi-Kari employed Crozier to augment the brains of the Ratts to act as hosts for the Wraiths, though this was unsuccessful. (PROSE: At Childhood's End)

Crozier was summoned to Thoros-Beta to help Lord Kiv in 2379 in return for funding for his work, also being threatened with death should he be unsuccessful in saving the Mentor's life. He was assisted by Kiv's most trusted servant, Matrona Kani. In his attempts to discover how to transfer Kiv's mind into another body, he experimented upon the Raak, making it docile against its nature. He also attempted to alter Yrcanos's mind to the financial benefit of the Mentors.

When the Sixth Doctor arrived on Thoros-Beta, Crozier subjected him to the brain-alteration helmet to interrogate him. This affected the Doctor's personality and seemingly made him sympathetic to the Mentors, becoming Crozier's assistant.

The first operation performed by Crozier moved Kiv's brain into the body of a similar Mentor, as a temporary measure till a more permanent host body could be found. Kiv's second body held his still-expanding brain for a bit longer but was not a perfect solution - not least due to the fact that the mind of its original owner, a fisherman, kept influencing Kiv's business decisions. Crozier than began searching for a more suitable host for Kiv, and on Kani's suggestion, he decided to examine the Doctor's companion, Peri Brown. By this point the Doctor seemed to have recovered from the effects of Crozier's earlier interrogation, and he told that scientist that he would prefer that Peri to not be experimented on. Crozier promised to wait until the Doctor found a better potential host, but as soon as the Time Lord was gone, Peri was brought to the lab anyway.

Crozier and Matrona Kani prepare Peri for brain surgery

Crozier and Matrona Kani prepare a gagged Peri for brain surgery. (TV: Mindwarp)

The examination of the unsuspecting Peri found her to be a most promising candidate, and Crozier, allowing the young American to believe that she had been selected for an arranged marriage, expressed approval of her spirit and strength. He thus decided to attempt the experiment he had wanted to achieve from the very beginning: Instead of surgically transplanting Kiv's brain into Peri's body, Crozier would instead transfer the contents of the Mentor Leader's mind directly into Peri's own brain. This process would erase Peri's original mind and effectively brainwash her into becoming Kiv. When the final tests found Peri to be perfectly fit and healthy, Crozier had her gagged and strapped to an operating table, whereupon he ordered Kani to shave Peri's head completely bald in preparation for the surgical operation on her brain.

According to the Matrix, Crozier was successful in transferring Kiv's mind into Peri's brain, and he proclaimed that he had "altered the basis of all future life", establishing a mind transfer process that could be repeated and would ensure that the consciousness of Kiv would never die. When Kiv awoke in Peri's form, Crozier welcomed her to her new body. However, seconds later, Yrcanos burst in, and upon realising he had arrived too late to save Peri from the mind-alteration experiment, he killed both Peri/Kiv (TV: Mindwarp) and Crozier. (PROSE: Mindwarp) However, the Tremas Master later claimed that Yrcanos saved Peri from the experiment, with Crozier's fate left unknown. (TV: The Ultimate Foe)

Due to the Time Lords, multiple timelines existed, (AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox) including one in which the transfer was a failure and Crozier was killed by Sil, who lied to Crozier's daughter, Cordelia, and told her that the Doctor was to blame. (AUDIO: Antidote to Oblivion) In at least one timeline, Crozier's mind transference failed because his earlier interrogation of the Doctor had allowed Mandrake to escape the Doctor's mind and enter Crozier's computer, and from there it was Mandrake's consciousness that was transferred to Peri's body, overwriting that of Kiv's. (AUDIO: The Widow's Assassin)

According to one account, Cordelia carried on her father's work in transferring Kiv's brain to new host bodies, though was unable to replicate the process of the transference of brainwaves that Crozier had achieved before his death. (PROSE: Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor)

Physical appearance[]

Crozier operates

Crozier in his laboratory. (TV: Mindwarp)

In 2379, Crozier was in his late thirties. He had blond hair and blue eyes so pale that they were almost colourless. (PROSE: Mindwarp)

Personality[]

Crozier devoted his life to perfecting the control and manipulation of behaviour. His manner was abrupt and showed a dismissal of anything and everything aside from his scientific passions, which included his fixation upon his study of the brains of creatures that possessed or could be given the power of reason. He held contempt for those that he deemed to be barbarians, including the Krontep. He felt no remorse for operating on the brain of the unwilling Peri, regarding her as nothing more than "a perfect specimen" for his experiments, and was totally indifferent to her terror. (PROSE: Mindwarp)


Behind the scenes[]

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