Devina Collins Devina Collins was the wife of Lloyd Collins and the mother of Jess and Maxwell Collins . When the Twelfth Doctor was stuck in 1972 without a working TARDIS , he lived with the Collins and became good friends with Devina . ( COMIC : " Moving In " ) History . In 1948 , Devina came to Great Britain on the " Windrush " . During the voyage , she met Lloyd Collins and fell in love . Buying a house in Brixton , London , they married and had two children : Jess and Maxwell . In 1972 , six months after her daughter encountered the Twelfth Doctor , Devina went to Kings College Hospital when she heard Lloyd was being kept there . She met the Doctor , who was there with Jess . The Doctor told her to comfort Lloyd while he and Jess investigated the alien cadaver that Lloyd ' s disease originated from . As the Doctor and Jess were gone , Lloyd began transforming into a Hakuai monster . When they returned he had fully transformed . Lloyd went berserk and Devina and the Doctor were knocked off their feet . Lloyd then grabbed Jess and flew out a window . Devina and the Doctor followed Lloyd until he landed on the roof of a building . Using one of his devices , the Doctor let Devina and Jess psychically communicate with Lloyd and remind him who he really was . When that didn ' t work , the Doctor took things into his own hands and cured Lloyd and everyone else that had been infected at the cost of sacrificing his TARDIS . Two days later , the Doctor visited Jess and told her that his TARDIS would repair itself , but it would take a while . Devina overheard this and invited the Doctor to live with them while he was stuck on Earth . ( COMIC : " The Pestilent Heart " ) The next day , Devina walked in on the Doctor trying to improve her stew . Devina insisted her stew couldn ' t be better , and when the Doctor tried to make it better with umamium particle s and molecular excitation , it turned green and exploded . With the kitchen splattered in green stew , Devina almost kicked the Doctor out , but he quickly cleaned it all up and handmade a new stew which Devina found acceptable . ( COMIC : " Moving In " ) Devina asked the Doctor , Jess and Maxwell why they came back from their trip to the National Gallery so late . The Doctor claimed it was a " late . . . art thing " . ( COMIC : " Bloodsport " ) After Jess and the Doctor saw Walter from across the street behaving strangely , on Christmas Eve , the Doctor saw Walter throw a snowglobe through his window . The Doctor , Jess and Devina broke in to help Walter , but no - one else was in the house but Walter . Through the guilt of losing his mother Carmen in 1971 and being left alone for too long , Walter imagined the fictional character Obadiah Grimm murdering the Doctor , Jess and Devina with the touch of his hand . Walter was taken away in an ambulance to treat his mental illness . Devina felt ashamed that she forgot about the anniversary of Carmen ' s death on Christmas Eve , and promised to follow Walter to the hospital to make sure he got the care he needed . After Devina returned from the hospital , she worked with Jess to prepare a breakfast on Christmas morning , where the whole street was invited as a reminder that they were a community and to remember Carmen . ( COMIC : " Be Forgot " ) In 1973 , the Collins family were knocked out by Katya Dabrowski and her men , and taken to an apartment in central London . They were greeted by , who told them the Doctor was a threat to them and a powerful and deceitful alien . Ensuring the Collins family that the Doctor would never hurt them again , the Master used the artron energy in their body as a means of opening a portal to a time locked dimension , which they were also sent to . Jess , Devina and Lloyd were separated from Maxwell . A tentacle in the dimension caused Jess ' leg to necrotise , making it harder for her to walk . A tentacle in the dimension caused Jess ' leg to necrotise , making it harder for her to walk . While trying to escape from alien creatures across a ridge , Jess and Devina saw them age Lloyd to dust . Maxwell reunited with Jess , and a being called Kiadine , who the Time Lord s had imprisoned on this world , reversed what had happened to Lloyd . The Master found Kiadine , and was offered his temporal powers , and the Doctor and the Master fought with each other over the power of the chronon storm , when the Collins family pulled the Doctor back , standing together against the Master . The Master attacked them , and this blast was repelled with the same artron energy in the bodies of the Collins family that had brought the Master to the dimension . The temporal effects on Jess and Maxwell were also reversed . The Master survived this attack and left , and with no - one left to keep time in check , the Doctor and the Collins family evacuated . After Gabriel ' s funeral , the Doctor said goodbye to the Collins family and left in a fully repaired TARDIS , believing he had outstayed his welcome . ( COMIC : " Doorway to Hell " )