Jamie was a young boy who was caught in an air raid during the London Blitz that left him as the Patient Zero for the Empty Child Syndrome.
Biography[]
Jamie was born in 1937 to Nancy, though she made everyone believe he was her brother because of her young age, not even telling Jamie that she was his mother. (TV: The Doctor Dances)
In January 1941, Jamie was killed and had a massive head trauma on the left side, partial collapse of his chest cavity on the right and a gash on the back of his right hand. (TV: The Empty Child) He was reanimated by the Chula nanogenes that had leaked out of a crashed medical transport ship. (TV: The Doctor Dances) His only thought was to be reunited with his mother, and he wandered the streets of London, a gas mask forever merged to his face, asking everyone, "Are you my mummy?" (TV: The Empty Child) Because the nanogenes were unaware of what a human looked like, they began transforming all humans with whom they came into contact into gas mask zombies. In the end, the nanogenes were able to use DNA from both Jamie and his mother, Nancy, and restored him to normal. (TV: The Doctor Dances)
Legacy[]
In 2009, the Tenth Doctor jokingly quoted Jamie's repeated question, "Are you my mummy?" when forced to don a gas mask during a Sontaran attack. (TV: The Poison Sky)
Whilst aboard the Orient Express, the Twelfth Doctor briefly asked the Foretold the same question in an attempt to bring humour to his possible last few seconds of life. (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express)
Personality[]
As the Empty Child, Jamie's sole goal was to reunite with his mother. He searched for her obsessively through the streets of London. Beyond his desire to find his mother, one of his only displayed emotional reactions was a stated fear of the bombs dropping on the city as he begged to be allowed into the house Nancy and the other runaway children were in. (TV: The Empty Child) Once the nanogenes recognised Nancy as his mother, he was restored to normal and was happily reunited with his parent. (TV: The Doctor Dances)
Abilities[]
After having been resurrected by Chula nanogenes, (TV: The Doctor Dances) Jamie was equipped with the standard abilities of Chula warriors. He most frequently used Om-Com, a communication system that allowed the user to speak through anything with a speaker grill. Jamie could talk through phones, radios and even typewriters. He also displayed telekinesis when he caused a door to slam shut simply by pointing at it. (TV: The Empty Child)
Anyone Jamie touched would become infected by the nanogenes and become "empty". He could exert full telepathic control over all of them and coordinate their actions in the manner of a hive mind. (TV: The Empty Child) Each infected person was essentially an extension of Jamie himself. After he was restored to normal, he lost all of these abilities. (TV: The Doctor Dances)
Behind the scenes[]
Jamie afflicted by the Empty Child "plague" is used as one of "Gas Mask Zombie" enemies in the Doctor Who: Legacy mobile game.
