The Empty Child

Home Planet: Earth
Life Form: Humanoid
Episodes: The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances

The Empty Child was actually a young boy called Jamie, who’d been killed in an air raid during the London Blitz (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), wearing his gas mask at the time. Captain Jack Harkness, a Time Agent purposely crashed a Chula Ambulance, with effective Chula nanogenes inside. These nanogenes first came into contact with Jamie when he was dead. They reanimated him, but still with all the injuries and the gas mask stuck on his face. These nanogenes then thought that that was what humans were supposed to look like. The nanogenes then went to other people, whoever Jamie touched, and they ‘repaired’ them as well, still with injuries and gas mask. Whenever anybody with the ‘disease’ touched anyone, then they too would become like them, turning into gas mask zombies. The reason behind them all saying ‘Are you my mummy?” was due to Jamie wanting his mummy before he died, so he still thought that. When he found his mother, Nancy, who first claimed to be his sister, the nanogenes realised they had got human DNA wrong, and they turned Jamie back to his original state, alive, including everyone else who had been turned the same way!