Jenny Flint Jenny Flint was the human maid and wife of the Silurian Madame Vastra . Operating from London in the late 19th century , they assisted the Doctor against various threats while also performing their own investigations . Biography . Early life . Prior to meeting Vastra , Jenny had grown accustomed to a life of solitude — she was ostracised by her family due to her " preferences in companionship . " ( WC : " " ) Her childhood was spent working in a match factory . ( PROSE : " Assassin on the Railroads " ) The Ninth Doctor ( COMIC : " The Lost Dimension " ) " saved her life " when she and Vastra first met ( TV : " The Name of the Doctor " ) and by 1888 , she was living with Madame Vastra in London . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " ) The Battle of Demons Run . Among the many allies the Eleventh Doctor had recruited for the Battle of Demons Run , she along with her lover were among the few to survive the attack of the Headless Monks . She comforted Amy Pond afterwards . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " ) Two days after the battle at Demons Run , Jenny and Vastra waited for the Sontaran Commander Strax to fully recover from the wound he ' d suffered . When Strax awoke , he initially believed himself to be dead and was resistant to believe that he hadn ' t died honourably in battle . Jenny accused him of merely fainting . Jenny and Vastra asked him if he ' d like to return to Victorian London with them . At first he refused , but accepted their offer at the last minute and left with them as Demons Run was being evacuated . ( WC : " " ) Gene - spliced humans . Following the foiled assassination plot of Queen Victoria by Silas Ruckford and his committing suicide , Vastra noticed that Ruckford ' s boots had soil from equatorial climate . Jenny pointed Vastra to a newspaper article which announced the grand opening of the Brazil ian Rainforest exhibit at the Crystal Palace , which the Queen was going to attend . While at the Palace , Jenny ' s suspicions were roused when one of the Palace ' s workers , Tommy Corrigan , told her that the creator of the exhibit , Lady Cornelia Basildon - Stone had spent a lot of money removing all the glass in the Palace roof and then replaced it . That evening , after Vastra believed Lady Basildon - Stone was behind Ruckford ' s attempted attack , Vastra climbed the outside of the Crystal Palace . Meanwhile , Tommy showed Strax and Jenny a secret way into the Palace via a disused service tunnel . The Sikh warrior Ajeeth used a form of gas from the genetic splicer to turn the police on guard at the Palace into human - wasp hybrid s to serve Lady Basildon - Stone as her " drones " . After Jenny killed Ajeeth , saving Strax ' life , Jenny , Strax and Tommy followed the pipes that had released the gas into the boiler room . Upon realising the boiler was in fact holographic camouflage which hid a more advanced machine , the genetic splicer , Strax used a device to deactivate the camouflage . When Jenny said that they needed to find a way to shut the machine down , Strax did so by throwing a grenade into it . Lady Basildon - Stone ' s plan to become queen and forge a new empire failed ; she fell to the ground and died , and her hybrid egg s subsequently perished . ( COMIC : " The Crystal Throne " ) Defeating the Great Intelligence . By Christmas 1892 , Jenny and Vastra were married . Jenny and Vastra , alongside the Sontaran Strax , summoned the Doctor to the London of their time , asking for his assistance . The Doctor refused , claiming he had " retire d . " ( TV : " The Great Detective " ) Jenny was involved in the defeat of Walter Simeon and the Great Intelligence . She and Vastra confronted Simeon . She later found Clara Oswald looking for the Doctor and took her to see Vastra . Clara explained the situation with one word for each question Vastra asked due to the fact that Vastra and Jenny had made her do the " One Word Test . " Jenny later trapped the Ice Governess behind a force field and stayed with Vastra and Strax to guard the Latimer family , while the Doctor and Clara led the Ice Governess up to the Doctor ' s TARDIS . Jenny was also present for Clara ' s funeral after the Ice Governess kill ed her by pulling her off a cloud . ( TV : " The Snowmen " ) Sweetville . In 1893 , Mr Thursday came to Vastra so she could look at a photo of his deceased brother , Edmund . Realising Edmund ' s eyes showed an optogram of the Doctor , the trio headed north , where Jenny infiltrated Sweetville to find the Doctor . Picking locks inside the match factory , Jenny found the Doctor stiffened , his skin bright red from the red leech ' s " crimson horror " . Jenny freed the Doctor from his imprisonment and he guided Jenny to a machine where he was cured of the affliction . After finding and reviving a version of Clara from the 21st century who was travelling with the Doctor , the three of them were saved from Mrs Gillyflower ' s pilgrims by Vastra and Strax . Before Mrs Gillyflower could launch a rocket containing red leech poison , Vastra and Jenny prevented the venom from being put in the rocket . Angered by being unable to poison the world , Mrs Gillyflower attempted to shoot the Doctor and his friends . Strax shot at Mrs Gillyflower , causing her to fall to her death . Afterwards , Mrs Gillyflower ' s daughter , Ada crushed the leech Mrs Gillyflower was feeding off of , Mr Sweet . ( TV : " The Crimson Horror " ) Trenzalore . In a dream - induced conference call with Jenny , Strax , Clara from 2013 and Professor River Song in the Library , Vastra showed that the murderer , Clarence DeMarco had said " The Doctor has a secret , you know . He has one he will take to the grave . And it is discovered . " along with the space - time co - ordinates to Trenzalore , where his tomb was . The call was interrupted by Jenny ' s murder at the hands of the Whisper Men . River woke up Vastra and Strax , keeping the link with Clara . To get the attention of the Doctor , the Great Intelligence used the Whisper Men to take Strax , Vastra and Jenny ' s body to Trenzalore . Jenny was revived and River , unheard to the Intelligence , spoke the password to enter the tomb , the Doctor ' s name . Inside the tomb , the Intelligence entered the Doctor ' s timeline , the time wind s shattering him into a million pieces , each echo of the Intelligence undoing every one of the Doctor ' s victories . Jenny died in the new timeline without the Doctor , while Strax had forgotten his friendship with Vastra and became aggressive , forcing her to kill him . Clara reversed these effects by entering the timeline after the Intelligence , saving the Doctor wherever he went . The Doctor then decided to save Clara by entering his timeline himself , telling the Paternoster gang that the TARDIS could return them home with the fast return protocol if he didn ' t return . ( TV : " The Name of the Doctor " ) Meeting the New Doctor . Along with Vastra and Strax , Jenny arrived at the Thames , where a Tyrannosaurus Rex had suddenly appeared without explanation . She managed to calm the beast and contain it within a small area within the Thames using several sonic devices , before , much to her and Vastra ' s amazement , the dinosaur spat out the TARDIS . There she was reunited with Clara as well as the Doctor , who had newly regenerated into his twelfth incarnation , and was going through post - regenerative madness . Taking him back to the house she and Vastra shared , the trio did their best to get the Doctor to sleep off his trauma . That night , however , Vastra and Jenny discovered that the dinosaur had been reduced to nothing more than smoke and ash via spontaneous combustion , and joined with the Doctor in taking on the case . The next morning , Clara discovered a cryptic ad in a newspaper which led them to Mancini ' s Family Restaurant , which served as an organ - harvesting factory for a ship - load of Clockwork Droid s that had crashed there millions of years earlier . After receiving a distress signal from Clara , who was trapped inside the crashed space ship with the Doctor , she and Vastra cut through the clockwork decoys populating the restaurant and made their way down to the crashed ship . Jenny and Vastra , assisted by Strax , fought off the clockwork robots as they attacked the Doctor and Clara , forcing the droids ' control node to evacuate in his escape capsule , quickly followed by the Doctor . They fought off the droids , but over time the robots began to overwhelm them . Jenny and her companions were saved when the control node fell — or was pushed — out of his escape capsule . Victorious , Jenny and the others returned to their house , where Clara returned to travelling with the Doctor . Meanwhile , Jenny , Vastra and Strax also returned to life as normal on Paternoster Row . ( TV : " Deep Breath " ) Poltergeist and puppetry . During a December in the 1890s , Jenny helped to investigate reports of a poltergeist that was breaking plates in an old house . The haunting turned out to be a false alarm when the house was discovered to be built atop an old Bakerloo Line that caused the house to shake every time a train came through . The following month she attended the Carnival of Curiosities in search of Marlowe Hapworth ' s killer , where she ran into Clara Oswald and the Twelfth Doctor . ( PROSE : " Silhouette " ) Further investigations . When the gang discovered that Samuel Lumber ' s Dream Doorway had created a bridge between reality and the world of dream s , Jenny ventured through the door and faced her own nightmare s on the other side . She rescued Lumber from his nightmares and brought him back to safety before Vastra sealed the doorway . ( PROSE : " The Dangerous Dilemma of the Dream Doorway " ) On 12 December 1894 , Jenny accompanied Vastra and Strax to the London Zoo , where they encountered a fog laced with temporal radiation that devolved living things into their ancestors . When Vastra was affected by the fog , Jenny prevented her from acting on savage instincts by reminding her of their love . ( PROSE : " The Evolution Episode " ) Legacy . Shortly before regenerating , the Twelfth Doctor dreamt of Jenny along with some of his other companions . ( TV : " The Doctor Falls " ) Personality . Jenny had a romantic relationship with Vastra , despite the fact that she was a different species . She seemed proud to be married to the Silurian , noting that Dr Simeon had never been married . ( WC : " " , TV : " The Snowmen " ) This commitment to her marriage was further shown when the Doctor kissed her after she rescued him from Ada Gillyflower ' s cell . Although he had no intentions other than to show his gleeful gratitude , Jenny promptly slapped him while clearly looking uncomfortable at the gesture . ( TV : " The Crimson Horror " ) Jenny showed jealousy when Vastra showed interest in others . She was also quite sarcastic at times . For example , she replied , " Thank you , " to Vastra ' s comment that mammals all looked alike . Her sarcastic nature was also shown when she said , " At your service , " to Simeon . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " , " The Snowmen " ) When Vastra explained to Clara about the public image she and Jenny had to maintain , Jenny wondered aloud why she still acted like a maid in private . ( TV : " Deep Breath " ) Even though she lived with a ' lizard woman ' and a ' potato dwarf ' , Jenny was something of a realist as she still believed Clara to be dead during the events of the Crimson Horror and was deeply confused when the Doctor stated otherwise , despite the fact that the Doctor had told her before that there was another version of her somewhere in the universe . However , she seemed satisfied when she saw the truth for herself and didn ' t believe the new Clara to be an imposter . She was subsequently impressed by Clara ' s deduction of where Winifred Gillyflower was keeping her rocket and the two eventually became friends . ( TV : " The Crimson Horror " , " Deep Breath " ) Despite being a feisty and fierce warrior , Jenny could also be compassionate . She comforted Amy about the loss of her child and told her that it wasn ' t the Doctor ' s fault that Melody Pond had been kidnapped . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " ) Abilities . Jenny was quite capable in combat — she survived the Battle of Demons Run without any injury . She displayed excellent skills with a sword during the battle , and was capable of using a blaster against Headless Monk s . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " ) She also fought off attackers in hand - to - hand combat when confronted in Sweetville , and was , as the Doctor put it , " everyone ' s favourite lock - picking Victorian chambermaid . " ( TV : " The Crimson Horror " ) Behind the scenes . Spin - off ? Since their first appearance , Vastra and Jenny became popular characters in fandom , with fans wishing for a spin - off series to be made based on their adventures . Steven Moffat addressed this , saying that he considered making a spin - off when he created the two characters , but wouldn ' t have the time , though he said he would like to revisit them . Since their debut , Vastra , Jenny - and Strax - have returned for four additional episodes and three minisodes . Although no television spinoff materialised , they did receive their own short story series in the " Doctor Who Adventures " magazine called The Paternoster Gang Investigates . " The Brilliant Book 2012 " . According to " The Brilliant Book 2012 " , a book that contains based information :