Toby Kinsella Sir Tobias " Toby " Kinsella was a British civil servant during the 1960s , and oversaw the Intrusion Countermeasures Group ( ICMG ) . He was known for being inscrutable , manipulative , and ambiguous , and for his good taste in art and wine . In 1965 , Rachel described Sir Toby as " pig - headed " and " difficult to get along with " . ( AUDIO : " Changing of the Guard " ) She later claimed that lying came as naturally as breathing to him ( AUDIO : " The Forgotten Village " ) while Ian Gilmore said he was " reliably unreliable " . ( AUDIO : " " ) Sir Toby was Catholic . ( AUDIO : " Artificial Intelligence " , " The Fifth Citadel " ) He was at school with Professor Jeffrey Broderick . During his school days , Kinsella engineered a fight between the rugby team captain and a boy who had stolen some of his food . ( AUDIO : " Artificial Intelligence " ) During World War II , he was involved in the Home - Army Fourth Operational Corps and personally recruited Professor Edward Travers ( PROSE : " Night of the Intelligence " ) , as well as in a eugenics programme to create " super soldiers " ; the plan was that if Germany won , the soldiers could be used to retake Britain . ( He later said : " There was a war on ! A lot of people did things they weren ' t proud of ! " ) He was himself one of the test subjects with Mary Cleaver , his wife , but she faked the miscarriage of his son , Ray Cleaver , and divorced him . After the war , Sir Toby would remove all traces of himself from these files . ( AUDIO : " Sins of the Fathers " ) Charles Waverly was part of the project with him . ( AUDIO : " Manhunt " ) Years later , after Gilmore had accused him of only " pushing papers around " during the war , Toby knocked a man out and implied he ' d seen action . ( AUDIO : " Peshka " ) After the war , he and Waverly continued to be part of the eugenics programme which was now preparing for nuclear war . By this point it was clear that the original creations had psychosis , and the Wilcock Institute was trying to both " care " for the originals and create versions without this problem . ( AUDIO : " Sins of the Fathers " ) In the government , he knew many intelligence secrets ( such as the fact that it was in actuality the Cambridge Nine instead of the Cambridge Five ) and tied to high - ranking figures like General Peters . ( AUDIO : " Artificial Intelligence " , " State of Emergency " ) One of his oldest friends was Dr Elizabeth Bradley , who worked with the Secret Service . ( AUDIO : " The Fifth Citadel " ) Other old friends including Stephen Mulryne , who went on to become Defence Secretary . ( AUDIO : " " ) When pretending to be from the Department of Public Building and Works , Sir Toby was disparaging of the outgoing Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas - Home , saying that they had been " trying to work out what Earl Home thinks so we can agree with him before he ' s said it " . He admitted that referring to Douglas - Home as " Earl Home " , a title that he had dropped by 1964 , was a hard habit for him to break . ( AUDIO : " The Pelage Project " ) In November 1963 , he met Professor Rachel Jensen for the first time after he tricked her into investigating Sir Gideon Vale and the Starfire project . At the time , he was trying to keep Counter - Measures operational , a job made harder when the work it did could not be fully revealed . The Starfire Affair turned out to be a genocidal plot by , who had people in various key positions in the British government ( and murdered Stephen Mulryne in front of him ) . Counter - Measures and the Seventh Doctor thwarted the plot and Sir Toby , while keeping out the alien nature , was able to use this to get the government to agree to re - establish Counter - Measures . ( AUDIO : " " ) He made many deals to set up Counter - Measures and keep it going , and discouraged Ian Gilmore from seeking any more resources from the Ministry of Defence : he felt Counter - Measures ( and himself ) would look more credible if they could handle themselves . After their first post - Shoreditch mission , investigating Heinrich Schumann ' s teleportation experiments , he agreed to put Rachel Jensen in charge rather than Gilmore . ( AUDIO : " Threshold " ) Taking up Counter - Measures meant he lost his place in the nuclear war Citadel bunkers , a fact about which he was annoyed . ( AUDIO : " The Fifth Citadel ) " The second Counter - Measures duty was to ensure Broderick ' s artificially intelligent Sentient Engine Generator 2 computer ( Sen - Gen ) project was working smoothly . Sir Toby was aware Broderick was using Jensen ' s own research for Sen - Gen and was amused by the idea of Jensen finding out , and even gave Broderick recordings of her voice . Unknown to his old school friend , he was secretly having him watched by Julian St Stephen , and was also making use of Gilmore ' s old ties to Sen - Gen ' s Dr Cervenka . When it was discovered that Sen - Gen was driving people insane , he publicly shut the project done . In secret , he callously broke Broderick ' s mind so the government could use him to make another such computer . ( AUDIO : " Artificial Intelligence " ) He was annoyed when some of Schumann ' s work was bought by industrialist Ken Temple ( AUDIO : " Threshold " ) and wanted to investigate what Temple was doing with it , but couldn ' t as the man was too connected to the government . As a result , he discouraged Counter - Measures from investigating — in a way that would ensure they would dig up something that meant he " had " to investigate Temple ' s Pelage site . Sir Toby personally joined the mission , pretending to be from the Department of Works . When the true extent of Temple ' s work — forcibly altering humans to breath pollutants as part of a mad scheme to move the species from Earth to Venus — came to light , Sir Toby was sickened and went on a personal crusade to purge the government of anyone who had backed Temple . ( AUDIO : " The Pelage Project " ) Sir Toby was conservative and unhappy with the prospect of Harold Wilson ' s Labour Party being in power , though he believed that they had to make the best of it . Due to his political sentiments , Sir Toby was invited by General Peters to be part of his coup against Wilson . Sir Toby pretended to be sympathetic and gave him notes on Schumann ' s teleporter so they could stage an alien attack , while ensuring Counter - Measures would investigate the teleportation site and that Gilmore would be the one who had secured 10 Downing Street . After the coup was advanced enough for Peters and all his collaborators to be revealed , Sir Toby and Counter - Measures worked to shut it down . ( AUDIO : " State of Emergency " ) In 1965 , Sir Toby took on an assistant , Templeton , who he picked for knowing the " right people " . ( AUDIO : " Manhunt " ) Shortly after , he found Charles Waverly was trying to usurp control Counter - Measures . When Gilmore was accused of murdering Waverly , Sir Toby helped Gilmore avoid the authorities while appointing Waverly ' s main , James Astor , as an interim Counter - Measures member in order to draw out the truth . ( He deliberately kept the truth and news of the manhunt from Rachel Jensen , and the murder was " officially " a suicide . ) While he knew Emma Waverly was one of the eugenic creations , he was horrified to discover Astor " was " Emma — the experiment giving her the ability to shapeshift — and witness the transformation himself . He forbid Counter - Measures from pursuing Emma , secretly took files on the programme from Catherine Waverly , and then " allegedly " witnessed her suicide soon after he learned she knew he was in the programme . ( AUDIO : " Manhunt " ) Counter - Measures were next used as a cover and way of helping him handle a renegade Cold War bunker : its reactor had leaked , poisoning the people inside , and his an old friend Dr Elizabeth Bradley was threatening to drive it into meltdown unless the UK disarmed its nuclear weapons . Sir Toby pretended to all characters that he was unaware of the situation , using different lies for different people , and tried to talk Bradley into standing down . In the end , when it was clear how dangerous the reactor was , he pretended to talk to the government on her behalf and , behind Jensen ' s back , had the army bury the citadel in cement . ( AUDIO : " The Fifth Citadel " ) Sir Toby was himself manipulated when the Soviet Union conned the UK intelligence community into thinking a psychic chess player wanted to defect . To his horror , it turned out the " psychic " , Shurik Barkov , was just good at chess — his sister , Anya Barkov , was the psychic and had been engineered to be a " bomb " . A riot almost broke out in London until Anya was shot . In revenge , Sir Toby left Shurik to starve to death in a locked room . ( AUDIO : " Peshka " ) While quietly watching Mary Carver ' s funeral , Sir Toby became aware that his son was alive and one of the super - soldiers when Ray tore through an army group after Emma Waverly . He made sure all Wilcock Institute records with his name were destroyed and tried to keep Counter - Measures from investigating , pressuring them into " accepting " that Emma had killed the soldiers . Behind their back , he tried to contact Ray and get him to come in for treatment ; unfortunately his lies had made Jensen believe he was " compromised " and had gone to Templeton for aid , and Templeton ordered an army group to open fire on Ray immediately . He finally admitted to his team about the programme and eugenics programming , and tried to talk Ray down from freeing the other super - soldiers at the Wilcock Institute clinic . To his horror , Templeton had the building gassed and Sir Toby has forced to kill an enraged Ray . Jensen had worked out that the soldier was Sir Toby ' s son but he obliquely told her to drop the issue , not wanting to admit to it in public and pretending he hadn ' t been affected . A parliamentary inquiry was held over the Wilcock affair , forcing Sir Toby to step down . ( AUDIO : " Sins of the Fathers " ) As an old hand with the establishment , he assumed it was a formality — everyone on it were people he knew — only to find it was comprised of new , up - and - coming politicians like William Heaton and he was being properly investigated . Heaton talked to him between sittings , telling him Templeton had suggested the inquiry shakeup and was after his job . The MP believed Kinsella was the better man for Countermeasures and would help him if he agreed to " help " the Conservative Sunday Club — Kinsella angrily refused . Rather than defend himself , he praised his team to the inquiry as " best of British " and that they shouldn ' t suffer . To Toby ' s surprise , the inquiry cleared him as taking justifiable action . Heaton told him he was considered the man for the job " for now " , especially the job of keeping Jensen controlled . Kinsella remarked to himself he preferred backstabbing and scheming in Westminster to goodwill . ( AUDIO : " Changing of the Guard " ) He later heard that many in the spy world had had his back over the inquiry . ( AUDIO : " The Forgotten Village " ) The Countermeasures team were glad to have him back after having to deal with Templeton , someone they considered inferior . ( AUDIO : " Changing of the Guard " ) While Gilmore and Jensen believed he had the country ' s best interests at heart , Allison Williams remained distrustful of him and was willing to show it . Their first mission back together was to investigate a haunting at the St Anton ' s Point tower block — something the Housing Minister had told Sir Toby not to do . He commented that he himself didn ' t agree with the tower block policy . With his team , he solved the mystery and stopped an unexploded bomb . ( AUDIO : " The Concrete Cage " ) Sir Toby and others were aware of presumed Soviet agent transmissions coming from around Lower Burford . Despite that , he pushed Allison Williams to go there on leave when her father was injured . When it became clear in Westminster that the situation had deteriorated , he rushed down with Gilmore to contain the situation . The issue was down to was a Soviet satellite , Mauriner 7 , that had crashed : it was experimenting with weaponising magnetic disruption to drive people mad . As part of the investigation and containment , Sir Toby had a journalist beaten and terrorised . The crashed satellite drove Allison catatonic and a female spy almost killed Jensen when trying to keep her away . Allison ' s fate — and the fact Sir Toby had known something was wrong in Lower Burford — turned Jensen against Toby . ( AUDIO : " The Forgotten Village " ) While Allison recovered from memory loss , Sir Toby led Countermeasures to East Berlin to investigate an alien incursion and a " Project Othello " run by brain surgeon Maria Jager . Relations with Jensen were fraught . Their West German contact , Stefan Lehne , was an old friend of Sir Toby ' s but to his suspicion was starting to act obstructionist . While Countermeasures were in the east , Sir Toby worked out that Othello was a brainwashing programme and that Jager had been in the west — with Stefan compromised . When he attempted to enter East Berlin , Stefan was mind - controlled by the enemy into shooting a guard and Sir Toby callously left him to be shot while he fled into the city . Reaching Gilmore , he warned him that the " alien " had been a fake to draw Countermeasures out so Jensen could be brainwashed into an enemy agent . In order to let him escape , Gilmore let himself be captured near the Berlin Wall . Jensen saw this and , driven both by inherent distrust and the brainwashing , decided Sir Toby must be a Soviet agent — she reported him as a British spy to the border guard , and left him to be shot dead in the street . Meanwhile Templeton was part of the Othello plot and had brainwashed Allison into believing " he " was Sir Toby . ( AUDIO : " Unto the Breach " )