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Carlie Roberts was a marine geologist, specialising in the Mariana Trench.

Biography[]

Carlie originally worked at Torchwood One, working with Ianto Jones. Though Carlie was interested in Ianto, he was with Lisa Hallett at the time and didn't act on her feelings. After the fall of Torchwood she was stationed in Tokyo. (AUDIO: Submission) She was once all over Ianto at a party. (AUDIO: New Girl)

In or around the 2000s[nb 1] she was investigating a cry for help in the Mariana Trench. Ianto Jones contacted her from Torchwood Three and requested her assistance. Together they were able to get the USS Calvin and the Octopus Rock from UNIT to investigate. When they reached the trench, they were attacked by Sam Doyle, a human who had been infected by an alien parasite and who made the cry. The parasite fed on memories and wanted another human for a host. After the Octopus Rock was scuttled, Carlie and Ianto stayed in it while Gwen Cooper and Jack Harkness went to investigate the Guernica a previously crashed submarine. Though they were able to escape onto the Guernica, the parasite followed them and infected Carlie. Using her body, the parasite tried to kill Gwen, but it died when the submarine continued to rise and separated it from the hydrogen sulphide it needed to survive. Though Carlie was almost killed in the process, Ianto was able to save her with CPR. Following the adventure, Carlie planned to make further expeditions into the Mariana Trench to find out what else was there. (AUDIO: Submission)

Footnotes[]

  1. The first two episodes of Torchwood: The Lost Files are supposedly set no earlier than 2011, as Joanna Carew was born in 1930 and is 81 years old by the time of The Devil and Miss Carew, and dialogue places Submission "more than 50 years" after the successful return of the Trieste's crew from the depths of the Mariana Trench in 1960. This, however, conflicts with Ianto Jones being alive and the Hub still existing at the time of The Devil and Miss Carew and Submission, placing those two stories before the 2009 setting of Children of Earth: Day One (in which the Hub is destroyed); with Miracle Day being set in 2011 according to a text message display in episode 2, Rendition; and with Esther Drummond mentioning in The New World, the first episode of Miracle Day, that Gwen Cooper had not been seen in the past twelve months.
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