Talent Scout The Talent Scout was a employee of SERVEYOUinc company that got merged with a telepathic Entity and gained psychic , shapeshifting and later time - travelling abilities . He had several encounters with the Eleventh Doctor , Alice Obiefune , John Jones and ARC that for him happened in a different order than for the Doctor . Biology and abilities . After emerging from the Entity , Talent Scout ' s body did not have cell s . The Eleventh Doctor described it as a big glob of stuff . ( COMIC : " The Infinite Astronaut " ) The Talent Scout could create a life - force enhancement field that gave people what they wanted . The process required their agreement , after which he could take complete control over them , in which case they started emitting a shining golden glow from their eyes and mouths . Such an enhancement would burn out their internal organs , causing premature death , if not reversed . The effects could be reversed by sounds using a correct reverse reprogramming frequency , with headache as the only remaining side effect . ( COMIC : " What He Wants . . . " ) He could also assume shapes of different people including those , images of which he read from his victims ' minds . In particular , at different times he was posing as the mothers of Alice Obiefune ( COMIC : " The Eternal Dogfight " ) and of the Doctor . ( COMIC : " The Comfort of the Good " ) Biography . Working as a chief scout for SERVEYOUinc , he led a team onto a celestial body , which was a single telepathic Entity . The Entity was the size of the Moon and was situated in a " backwater zone of space " . The chief scout ' s task was to find out if SERVEYOUinc could use the Entity in any way . He claimed he could feel that the organism wanted to learn and sadistically instructed his team to electrocute it because he wanted to hear it scream . As a reaction to the pain , the Entity sucked in the Talent Scout . He was trapped and remained comatose within the Entity . He was presumed dead by his team and and the Entity with him inside was transported to SERVEYOUinc City . ( COMIC : " Four Dimensions " ) After more than a decade , the Eleventh Doctor ' s thoughts of a time machine , which were read by a piece of the Entity on Rokhandi , ( COMIC : " The Friendly Place " ) woke the Talent Scout in the main portion of the Entity in SERVEYOUinc City . The Scout killed the SERVEYOUinc ' s CEO , Enoch Thorne . When the Doctor arrived to talk to Thorne , the Scout , having learned through the Entity what the Doctor wanted , tempted him with the ability to keep people around him completely safe and made him the Chief Executive Officer of SERVEYOUinc . This was the first time the Scout met the Doctor . ( COMIC : " The Rise and Fall " ) The Scout served as the new CEO ' s closest adviser . When Alice Obiefune helped the Doctor shake off the Scout ' s control , which ended in the destruction of SERVEYOUinc City , the Scout hid away in the Doctor ' s TARDIS . ( COMIC : " The Other Doctor " ) When a potential temporal paradox caused the TARDIS to eject the Doctor into space in a non - corporeal form , the Talent Scout tried to tempt each of the Doctor ' s companions but failed . Alice and ARC threw him out the TARDIS doors and into space . But he promised to return . ( COMIC : " Four Dimensions " ) In 1931 Mississippi Delta , the Talent Scout was offering people to give them whatever talent they wanted turning them into a mindless mob with a golden glow coming out of their eyes and mouths . For the second time in two meetings , he managed to coerce the Doctor into joining his ranks . However , Alice , John Jones and Robert Johnson managed to get the upper hand by using the data from the Doctor ' s sonic screwdriver , pimped - up Bessie and TARDIS as an amplifier . The Talent Scout exploded but was not destroyed . ( COMIC : " What He Wants . . . ) " When the Doctor left Alice alone in her flat in 2015 , the Talent Scout exploited Alice ' s grief over the still recent passing of her mother by copying Ada Obiefune ' s appearance from the photo Alice held in her hands . He then transported Alice to the " Great Wheel " joining the Doctor , ARC and Jones . ( COMIC : " The Eternal Dogfight " ) Although the Doctor immediately understood this could not be Ada , it took some time till Alice faced the reality . She realised the truth because the Talent Scout did not recognise Jones , Ada ' s favourite singer . After Alice denounced him , the Talent Scout teleported away after telling the Doctor they ' d meet again and talk about what the Doctor wanted . ( COMIC : " The Infinite Astronaut " ) In 2014 , the Talent Scout briefly appeared to the Eleventh Doctor in London in the form of a Time Lord . ( COMIC : " After Life " ) When the TARDIS got disappointed in the Doctor , she found and gave herself to the nearest Time Lord she could find , to the Talent Scout . When the Doctor managed to get to the TARDIS in London around 2015 , the Scout met him in the form of the Doctor ' s mother and made the TARDIS kick the Doctor out . While the Scout was nursing dreams of cosmic empires inside the TARDIS , Jones , ARC and Alice helped the Doctor take back the control of the TARDIS . They brought the Talent Scout to the Entity , again a free celestial body in space . ARC and Jones decided to call him Dave and tempted him to think about what he wanted . As he did so , the Entity reabsorbed him . He was given his own space within the Entity to dream about his success forever . ( COMIC : " The Comfort of the Good " )