Name:
Mrs Flood
Main Aliases:
The Rani
Chinchappa
The Governor
A Rani
Species:
Place of Origin:
Job:
Squadron Leader
Prison governor
First Appearance:
Other Appearances:
73 Yards
The Legend of Ruby Sunday
Empire of Death
The Robot Revolution
Lux
The Well
Lucky Day
The Story & the Engine
The Interstellar Song Contest
Wish World
The Reality War
Main Actor:
Anita Dobson
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Mrs Flood was a neighbour of Ruby, Carla, and Cherry Sunday. Despite ostensibly being a normal human neighbour, after the Fifteenth Doctor undid the goblins’ alterations to the timeline, she was in possession of the knowledge that The Doctor’s blue box was a TARDIS.
Mrs Flood woke up on 24 December 2023 to find the TARDIS on the pavement outside her home, 4 Minto Road. She immediately accused her neighbor Abdul of placing it there, despite him denying it. The two briefly greeted Ruby Sunday as she arrived with groceries. Mrs Flood explained to Ruby it was a police box, which she claimed to have not seen on the streets of London in fifty years.
Sometime later, she witnessed the Fifteenth Doctor run out of the Sunday family’s flat and into the box, which disappeared before her eyes. The sight of it disappearing caused her to drop her groceries.
It was at this point The Doctor travelled back to Christmas Eve 2004 to repair the cracked timeline caused by the goblins; while everything was seemingly restored, Mrs Flood inexplicably gained the knowledge of what a TARDIS was, contrasting her earlier understanding of the box.
When The Doctor returned to 2023, she saw him and warmly waved, watching him once again disappear into the TARDIS. When it returned, she observed as he hesitantly approached the Sundays’ front door. Grabbing his attention, she remarked he seemed to be a “busy man” with his “box of tricks”, but noted his sadness. The Doctor remarked he was worried he was bad luck for the Sundays, and bid her a Merry Christmas. He declined to give his name, claiming he was just passing by, to which Mrs Flood told him to take care as he re-entered the box.
Shortly after, Ruby Sunday emerged and asked if she saw where the man went. Mrs Flood encouraged her to enter the box and wished her luck as she set off with the man. Abdul ran out into the street, marveling at the disappearing box, but Mrs. Flood simply gave him a kiss on the cheek and bid him a merry Christmas. Noticing the audience, she wryly remarked, “Never seen a TARDIS before?” and winked. (The Church on Ruby Road)
Later, after Ruby had located her birth mother, Louise Miller, and brought her to meet Carla and Cherry, Mrs Flood narrated to her audience that Ruby’s story had a happy ending, while standing on the roof of Ruby’s building at night in a furry white hooded coat, carrying a white parasol in her left hand and a suitcase with “PENZANCE” written on it in her right. Flood concluded that The Doctor’s story conversely ended in “absolute terror”, before declaring “night night” to whomever she was narrating too. (Empire of Death)
Still wearing the same outfit, she next turned up in the Royal Albert Hall, interrupting a Prom when she appeared on stage and frightened the rightful presenter away. Putting down her umbrella, as it had “stopped snowing”, she cheerfully addressed the audience. When they distrusted her insistence that she was a perfectly ordinary woman, she unconvincingly doubled down on her claim of being nothing more than a “nice, quiet, friendly soul” — then began to muse on her much more extraordinary neighbours, and, growing quieter and more meditative, on the many wonderful stories which were sometimes “whispered” to her by “the breeze” — such as the Legend of Ruby Sunday. (Untitled 2)
AS BELINDA CHANDRA’S NEIGHBOUR
Mrs Flood became the neighbour of Belinda Chandra by 24 May 2025. In the early morning, when Belinda was kidnapped by the Missbelindachandrabots, asked Mrs Flood to tell several people of her whereabouts and the death of a cat. Mrs Flood only responded by telling Belinda Chandra to “take care”. When the Fifteenth Doctor arrived too late to stop Belinda Chandra from being transmatted onto the robots’ ship, Mrs Flood noticed him, her demeanour becoming stern, before going to leave, albeit not before telling the audience that “you ain’t seen me.” (The Robot Revolution)
In Miami, Florida, 1952, she appeared after Lux was defeated to show Tommy Lee, Renée Lowenstein and Logan Cheever the dematerialisation of the Doctor’s TARDIS, cryptically telling them it was a limited-run show that would end on May 24. (Lux)
Mrs Flood was known to a Lombardic platoon as a Squadron Leader named “Chinchappa”. Mo Gilliben reported to her after encountering the Midnight entity in Colony Base 15 on Planet 6-7-6-7, recommending Shaya Costallion and Cassio Palin-Paleen for posthumous recognition. When Mo mentioned The Doctor’s advice to nuke the site from orbit and never return, she asked what Mo knew about him, and specifically if he was carrying a Vindicator. When Mo confirmed this, she said this was “just as [she] predicted,” and “very good news.” (The Well)
When Conrad Clark was imprisoned, she claimed to be the prison governor and gave him the keys to his cell after telling him that he did see The Doctor in his TARDIS. (Lucky Day)
PERSONALITY AND TRAITS
Claiming to be a “nice, quiet, friendly soul”, (Untitled 2) Mrs Flood appeared to be an ordinary elderly human woman. She often sat in a chair outside her front door to watch the street, and acted prickly towards Abdul regarding the TARDIS blocking the pavement. (The Church on Ruby Road). When interacting with her neighbours, she usually spoke with a middle-class London accent, but switched to Received Pronunciation while reacting to the impending manifestation of Sutekh and afterwards. (The Legend of Ruby Sunday, Empire of Death)
BI-REGENERATION
She attended the 803rd Interstellar Song Contest, observing as the Fifteenth Doctor arrived and used the Vindicator. She obtained the final coordinates she needed, but decided to stick around to watch the show — which soon proved to be the wrong choice as she was sucked out into space when Kid and Wynn Aura-Kin hijacked the contest and disabled the air shield, however, she and the other members of the audience remained alive frozen in suspended animation thanks to the Doctor increasing the mavity field to place them in mavitic suspension at just the right altitude.
She was the last to be revived from being frozen, and realised instantly that her brain stems had been too badly frozen, killing her current body. She triggered her regeneration in front of Mike and Gary Gabbastone, only to inadvertently bi-generate, with her sterner next incarnation emerging from her. The new Rani instantly castigated her past self for the “inelegant” move, for which Mrs Flood apologised. Dismissing her predecessor as now simply being “a Rani”, the new Rani, whom Flood called “ma’am” with playful deference, took charge and immediately moved to bring The Doctor “absolute terror” with Mrs Flood in tow. (The Interstellar Song Contest)
THE RANI’S PLAN
When Conrad Clark was imprisoned, Mrs Flood claimed to be the prison governor and gave him the keys to his cell after telling him that he did see the Doctor in his TARDIS. (TV: Lucky Day [+])
She remained being subordinate to her next incarnation as their plans on Wish World continued, such as told to make Conrad Clark a sandwich. She celebrated with her other self drinking champagne as the reality collapsed and the Doctor went to his doom. (Wish World) After resurrecting Omega, her successor was swallowed whole, and Mrs Flood escaped to whereabouts unknown using the Bone Palace’s transmit system. (The Reality War)