Craig Owens Craig Owens ( born 1983 ) lived and worked in Colchester , England . In 2010 , he rented a room to the Eleventh Doctor . ( TV : " The Lodger " ) In April 2011 , Craig helped him defeat the Cybermen . ( TV : " Closing Time " ) With the Doctor ' s help , Craig was able to confess his feelings to his friend Sophie . She moved in with him and they had a son , Alfie . Craig was valued as a friend so much by the Doctor , that he forwent a literal once - in - a - lifetime chance to see the Alignment of Exodor , on his farewell tour , to clean up the damage he caused to Craig ' s home on their second adventure . Biography . Before meeting the Doctor . Craig shared a flat at 79A Aickman Road with his friend Mark , and worked in a call centre . By 2009 , he met Sophie , to whom he was romantically attracted ; they build up a friendship and spent Fridays together , usually consisting of " pizza , booze , telly . " Craig wanted to confess his feelings , but could never find the courage to tell Sophie . First adventure with the Doctor . When Mark received an inheritance from a previously unknown uncle and moved out , Craig placed an advert for a flatmate in a local shop window . The Doctor turned up on his doorstep later that day , thanks to a helpful note from a future Amy Pond . Since Amy was stuck in the TARDIS with no way to land it on her own and the Doctor knew the trouble was in the upstairs flat of Craig ' s building , he wanted to live there . The Doctor turned up with a paper bag of cash and no luggage . Craig said he was " weird " , but after trying one of the Doctor ' s impromptu omelette s , agreed to let him stay . Craig learned to live with his strange habits and quirks , but was irritated at the Doctor ' s success at football and his interruption of an evening with Sophie . Craig defied the Doctor ' s recommendation not to touch the dry rot on his living room ceiling . It knocked him out but he was saved by the timely intervention by the Doctor . When he woke , Craig found the Doctor had gone to a planning meeting at his workplace and was working there . He looked in the Doctor ' s room and found a strange , spinning contraption made of trash . After seeing him talk to a cat about the upstairs flat , Craig confronted the Doctor on the past three days and his resentment of his popularity , especially with Sophie ; ordering him to leave . The Doctor headbutted Craig to telepathically explain his predicament and gain Craig ' s help confronting the enemy upstairs . Craig learned about the Doctor ' s origin on Gallifrey , his earlier incarnations , Amy Pond , that the strange spinning contraption was a scanner , his TARDIS and that the upstairs flat was really a disguised time ship . Amy told them that someone was currently upstairs and they realised it was Sophie . After saving her and learning the ship ' s intention , the Doctor was chosen as its pilot . Craig realised the ship had refused his help because it needed someone to pilot it away and he wanted to stay . He put his hand on the ship ' s controls and said what made him want to stay , blurting out his love for Sophie . Sophie told him she loved him too and they kiss ed . After their escape from the ship , Craig and Sophie decided to visit Paris and begin a serious relationship . The Doctor tried to leave quietly , but they noticed and stopped him to say goodbye . Craig gave him his keys to the flat and the Doctor said he would visit them . Having been inside his head , Craig knew the Doctor would never visit them again , but wanted him to keep them as a memento . After the Doctor left , Craig remembered their time together fondly . He kept a photograph of him on his fridge and spelled out " THE DOCTOR ROCKS " with magnetic letters . ( TV : " The Lodger " ) Return of the Doctor . Some time later , Craig and Sophie had moved into a new house ( after checking both the top floor and the neighbours ) and had a child , Alfie , although they had not wed . He also suffered nightmares about the Doctor ' s " noticing face " , as a side - effect of having the Doctor ' s memories forced into his head . ( TV : " Closing Time " ) Because Sophie was exhausted from constantly taking care of Alfie , she took a holiday with a friend . This meant Craig would have to care for their son alone . Sophie left emergency numbers in case he had trouble and Craig called them all , saying he didn ' t need their help . By this point Craig had put Alfie to bed . Craig answered a knock at the door to find the Doctor outside . He thought Sophie had called him . Once the Doctor cleared up his confusion , Craig tried to keep him quiet . However , he was unable to prevent him from waking Alfie . Craig told the Doctor about his doubts and the Doctor told him he could speak " baby " and Alfie preferred to be called " Stormageddon , Dark Lord of All " . The Doctor said he was off to see the Alignment of Exodor and that he was on a farewell tour . Before he could question the Doctor further , Craig was shushed . He spent the entire night singing to Alfie to try getting him to sleep ; Alfie thought he was crying and neither got any sleep . The next day , Craig found the Doctor working in a local shop . Realising he was investigating , Craig insisted on helping . They discovered Cybermen had been kidnapping people and converting them with power stolen by a Cybermat . Craig entered a life - and - death battle with the little Cybermat once it stopped playing possum and subdued it with the Doctor ' s help . Though the Doctor tried pushing him away by explaining how dangerous he is , Craig comforted him by explaining how Earth would be in ruins if he didn ' t help . The next morning , Craig found the Doctor had left to find the Cybermen without his help . Following " the idiot " back to the department store , Craig learned the Doctor had gone to the changing rooms to search . Finding the tunnel the Doctor uncovered , Craig followed it to the Cybership . The Cybermen tried turning him into their Cyber - Controller , but when Alfie began to cry , the upsurge of emotions allowed him to overcome the conversion . The emotional feedback made the Cybermen and their ship explode . He escaped with the Doctor via a teleport . Craig learned one of the staff had mistaken himself and the Doctor for a gay couple . Before he could clear up her confusion , the Doctor had left . Craig returned home to find the Doctor used what was left of his time to clean up the mess created by their fight with the Cybermat . As a parting gift for the Doctor , Craig gave him a Stetson . When Sophie returned , both were shocked by Alfie ' s first word : " Doctor " . ( TV : " Closing Time " ) At some point , Craig was taken to the Black Archive by UNIT to have his record as a companion of the Doctor taken . His memories of the visit were subsequently erased and he was sent on his way . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) Personality . The Eleventh Doctor stated that Craig possessed a strong will , and he was able to resist the Cybermen ' s upgrading process , albeit only because he heard his son crying . Despite the difficulties of being a father , Craig loved Alfie very much . He was initially nervous about revealing his feelings for Sophie but during his first meeting with the Doctor they admitted their feelings for each other in a dangerous situation . Like the Doctor , Craig sometimes used the word " Geronimo " , saying it just before slamming his hand onto the control panel of the fake upstairs apartment . ( TV : The Lodger , " Closing Time " ) Craig was uncomfortable about the Doctor ' s presence during their first meeting , considering him to be a laugh but also weird , and was jealous about the Doctor ' s superior football abilities and Sophie ' s apparent interest in him . However , after the Doctor allowed him to see inside his head using his telepathic abilities , Craig , although initially shocked , grew to trust and respect him . ( TV : " The Lodger " ) During their second meeting , Craig was much more comfortable around the Time Lord , considering him to be a friend and trusting him enough to bring his son on their mission to stop the Cybermen since he believed that the Doctor would keep them both safe . One of the staff members in a shop thought that the Doctor and Craig were a gay couple because they got along so well . ( TV : " Closing Time " ) External links .