Ellie Higson Ellie Higson was a barmaid at the Red Tavern in London during the 1890s who became a good friend and ally of two of its regulars , Henry Gordon Jago and Professor George Litefoot . ( AUDIO : " The Mahogany Murderers " , " Jago & Litefoot " ) She was born around 1865 . ( AUDIO : " The Bloodchild Codex " ) She had at least two brothers , Johnny Higson ( AUDIO : " The Night of 1000 Stars " ) and Private Jim Higson . ( AUDIO : " The Bloodless Soldier " ) Her mother had died by the 1890s . ( AUDIO : " The Bloodless Soldier " ) Jim served in the British Army and was greatly looking forward to his return on leave , only for him to be killed shortly thereafter , while stopping a monster , who had once been his commanding officer , from running loose in London . ( AUDIO : " The Bloodless Soldier " ) After her brother ' s death , she decided to continue working despite her grief . ( AUDIO : " The Bellova Devil " ) She was deeply affected by the death of her younger brother , leading her to seek the services of the spiritualist Mrs Vanguard , who claimed to be able to communicate with the dead . However , Ellie ' s trusting nature almost had her trapped in an ethereal state when her body was taken over by temporal refugees from the 49th century , who were using Mrs . Vanguard for their own ends . Together with a similarly trapped Jago , they were able to reclaim their bodies and expel the invaders before the temporal tunnel was collapsed . ( AUDIO : " The Spirit Trap " ) Later on , Ellie became a pawn in a game of revenge between Jago and Litefoot and Gabriel Sanders , a vicious vampire prowling the streets of London , who had crossed swords with the two men and sworn revenge . He attacked and fed from Ellie , leaving her for dead . ( AUDIO : " Litefoot and Sanders " ) However , she later revived as a fledgling vampire herself . Because of her strong will , and assistance from Professor Litefoot , she was able to resist her growing blood hunger , and satisfy herself with black pudding and morgue - procured blood . ( AUDIO : " The Necropolis Express " ) Professor Litefoot also managed to devise a means that might suppress her vampiric instincts , by replacing her blood via transfusion , and this seemed to allow her natural human physiology to reassert itself , albeit slowly , with her heart beating slowly , and sluggishly pumping blood around her body . She was able to assume a relatively normal lifestyle with the thick smog that covered London allowing her to leave the house during the daylight hours , until Sanders returned to try and recruit his progeny . ( AUDIO : " The Theatre of Dreams " ) Despite feeling him calling to her , she was able to resist for a short time , until she escaped from the house and was drawn to the estate Sanders was recuperating at . There , she was able to save Litefoot from being killed by a member of a family Sanders had been using for centuries in a program of selective breeding to improve in an effort to create a new species for him to hunt , to provide more of a distraction then humans currently did . When Sanders was finally vanquished by the three of them , his death , and the fact she had never killed and drank from a normal innocent human , seemed to finally cure her of her vampirism , and her connection to Sanders himself . ( AUDIO : " The Ruthven Inheritance " ) Jago asked if she had some clothes to give to Leela . She later helped Leela in her investigations . ( AUDIO : " Dead Men ' s Tales " ) She was surprised that the Red Tavern was wrecked whilst Litefoot was having tea , instead of when some soldier were on leave . Ellie thought that Leela was a good friend . ( AUDIO : " Chronoclasm " ) She loved Brighton . ( AUDIO : " Jago in Love " ) She was delighted to be invited to attend the premiere of Oscar Wilde ' s play " A Woman of No Importance " at the Haymarket Theatre with Jago and Leela using tickets supplied by Professor Claudius Dark . ( AUDIO : " Beautiful Things " ) She went to find Kempston and Hardwick with Leela . They went with Winnie O ' Connor , to the train where Jago and Litefoot were trapped in a time loop . ( AUDIO : " The Lonely Clock " ) In order to distract Kempston and Hardwick she pretended to be Leela . Once this was discovered Jago , Quick and Ellie went into Kempston and Harwick layer to find information to help the Doctor . ( AUDIO : " The Hourglass Killers " ) She saw that Litefoot was nervous about something and told him to go to Quick . She helped Jago and Agatha Worthing find Litefoot after he was kidnapped . ( AUDIO : " Military Intelligence " ) She didn ' t believe that Litefoot had committed Jago ' s murder . She helped Agatha and Quick find the Colonel to stop Litefoot from being persecuted . When this failed she joined them all to the stop the Colonel . After the destruction of his base , she had to help Jago and Litefoot escape from being captured by the police . ( AUDIO : " The Trial of George Litefoot " ) She managed to get a message to Litefoot and Jago that the Doctor that they could use his house at 107 Baker Street . ( AUDIO : " The Monstrous Menagerie " ) She was chased with Jago by a big creature . Remorse got her to remember her bad memories . She knew some basic magic tricks . She told of a story of one of her bar pundits who died in the Red Tavern , a person who was always drunk after his wife and kid died in a fire . He smelt of soot so she went to Litefoot for help . She remembered one of her former flames who abandoned her . She realised that the creature was the remorse they were feeling . ( AUDIO : " The Night of 1000 Stars " ) She knew of Frederick Abberline . She overheard Abberline ' s conversation of Jago and Litefoot . She suggested investigating the New Regency Theatre . She was latter taken by the Ripper , before Quick rescued her . ( AUDIO : " The Wax Princess " ) She found the Scorchie s creepy and had misgiving about them . When Litefoot didn ' t join her in the pub she asked Appleby to investigate . As he didn ' t come back , she came back to the theatre and used the discarded fireworks back stage and burnt all of the Scorchies . ( AUDIO : " Encore of the Scorchies " ) Jago and Litefoot took her to a funfair . She suggested that Jago should rent of Wednesday machines so that Quick could investigate what they were doing . ( AUDIO : " The Backwards Men " ) She thought something was wrong with Jago and Litefoot when they ordered water at the Red Tavern instead of beer . She then spied upon them to find out why they were acting strangely . She later told this to Quick who closed to pub to allow them both to go to Paddington station . At the station , she was trapped in a carriage of the train that Jago was driving . She realised that it was the Darkling Façade that stopped them from drinking so secretely gave them alcohol , to stop them . ( AUDIO : " Higson & Quick " ) She wanted to know about Mr Rees ' act and wanted to watch it , but didn ' t like it . She was attacked outside the theatre by a brainwashed theatregoer . ( AUDIO : " Mind Games " ) She wanted Jago and Litefoot to write to her whilst they were on a cruise . ( AUDIO : " The Flying Frenchman " ) She didn ' t think that Jago and Litefoot would be back so quickly . Fowler trapped her in the pub whilst he waited for the beast to come after him . ( AUDIO : " Return of the Nightmare " ) She later reunited the Sixth Doctor with Jago and Litefoot when he wanted to show Flip Jackson the New Regency . She was worried at Jago ' s good fortune . The Valeyard could tell that she was a vampire . He later asked her to play Sarah Jane Smith in one of his rewrites . She used the customers in the Red Tavern to invade the New Regency Theatre in an attempt to stop the Valeyard . ( AUDIO : " Stage Fright " ) She was introduced to Carruthers Summerton at the Red Tavern . ( AUDIO : " The Case of the Missing Gasogene " ) At Litefoot ' s house she was present at the delivery of the Yesterday Box , and heard the story of when both Jago and Litefoot ha previously encountered it . She later had to barricade Litefoot ' s attic from some Bat Nannies . ( AUDIO : " The Year of the Bat " ) She attended Jago ' s funeral and arranged the wake . When zombie s later attacked the Red Tavern she helped Quick to stop them gaining entrance . She was also a dab hand at darts . ( AUDIO : " The Mourning After " ) She served Jago and Litefoot both beef pies at the Tavern . Betterman ran into her at the Tavern and told her that he was abducted and bound . She went with Betterman to where he was locked up to help him find more about his captor . He suggested to her that they should capture his captor . She found him dead . When they found information of Sibelius Crow she became intrigued on the other exhibits and found a Scorchie and one of the Colonel ' s Machine . She realised that Summerton had no mention of her or Quick . ( AUDIO : " The Museum of Curiosities " ) She was delighted when Jean Bazemore told her that she believed that Women might be able to get degrees in the future . ( AUDIO : " Jago & Son " ) She tried to stop a fight in the Red Tavern shortly before Jago came it saying that Litefoot had disappeared . She was a dab hand at lock picking and joined Jago in searching Maurice Ravel ' s flat . Inside she saw something weird in a tank . She explored the room and knocked out the impersonator . ( AUDIO : " Maurice " ) She didn ' t want Jago and Litefoot talking about Vampires in the Red Tavern . ( AUDIO : " The Woman in White " ) Litefoot took her to the theatre where they saw a new act Mrs Sosostris . She later served who asked her about Jago and Litefoot , and corrected her Metabolic Imbalance . She saw in the mirror in Jago ' s office a version of Jago that was dilapidated . The Master used her as a bargaining chip . ( AUDIO : " Masterpiece " ) About a year later , Ellie Higson was visited by the Eleventh Doctor , who had her pass on a message for Jago and Litefoot to join him for Ginger beer at the Red Tavern . ( AUDIO : " The Jago & Litefoot Revival " ) Her vampiric tendencies returned and she went to the Scarlet Gallery . She murdered Melchester and stole a painting . Ellie wanted to see the Old One as she wanted to embrace her vampire side . The painting she stole depicted the death of her brother . ( AUDIO : " Picture This " ) She told Litefoot about the local myth of the Flickerman and took him to meet an old friend , Pete Stepney . After visiting the fair she killed one of the locals . ( AUDIO : " The Flickermen " ) After she thought Jago was looking into her she went to the Old One to ask him to give her another way to prove herself to him . She then killed Lucilla Fredericks to please her master . ( AUDIO : " School of Blood " ) She committed another murder a few streets away from the Red Tavern . After Jago followed her , she followed him to Litefoot ' s house . She told him about a potential vampire uprising . She confronted Litefoot and Jago about the murder of her brother . The Old One betrayed Ellie and order her to be killed . She then asked Litefoot to kill her as he didn ' t want the Old One ' s servants to do it . She learnt the truth of her brother ' s death but was attacked and lost a lot of blood . ( AUDIO : " Warm Blood " ) She had a dream where she was the Old One and had Jago and Litefoot as her servants and order them to kill Quick . She tried to stop Cara from torturing Litefoot . ( AUDIO : " The Stuff of Nightmares " ) Ellie cried profusely at Litefoot ' s funeral . She later told his younger self that it was a beautiful service but that she disapproved of his decision to have the hymn " All Things Bright and Beautiful " played during the service . ( AUDIO : " The Final Act " ) Ellie ' s vampiric nature wasn ' t completely expunged , which allowed her live far beyond her natural life expectancy . By 1968 , Ellie had become landlady of the Red Tavern , and owned her own chain of restaurants . ( AUDIO : " The Age of Revolution " ) It was in that year when she was once again reunited with Jago and Litefoot , who had been left in the Red Tavern in 1968 by the Sixth Doctor . ( AUDIO : " Voyage to the New World " ) She and Litefoot investigated a rival restaurant that was stealing her business . She later became concerned when her shelf started selling a strange caviar and acting strangely . When he started hiccuping tadpoles she was concerned that the police might quarantine her restaurant . She was on the board of the Royal Ballet . ( AUDIO : " The Case of the Gluttonous Guru " ) She worked with Litefoot in his bookshop on a day off . While there , she discovered a book authored by Litefoot himself and hid it from him . Becoming caught up in yet another investigation , she stopped Thomas Bloodchild from manifesting . ( AUDIO : " The Bloodchild Codex " ) Ellie saved Jago and Litefoot from Magnus Greel by stepping into Greel ' s distillation chamber , using her unnaturally long lifespan to overload Greel ' s time cabinet and kill him and Guinevere Godiva . Litefoot theorised that Ellie ' s long lifespan had saved her from being totally drained , and suggested that she may once again begin to age like a normal human . ( AUDIO : " The Final Act " ) Parallel Earth . On a parallel Earth , she didn ' t know who Jago and Litefoot were . ( AUDIO : " Chapel of Night " )