Wiggins (Doctor Who Series Three)

First Appearance: Doctor Who Series Three Episode Three: "The Shakespeare Code"

Played By: Sam Marks


A young lute player living in 1599 Southwark- London, who was attracted to Lilith (a woman who was actually a Carrionite). He tried to impress her with his lute playing, but was torn apart by Lilith and her two "mothers"; Doomfinger and Bloodtide.


"The Shakespeare Code"

"This was like a Winter's moon, that lights the traveler's way. Her smile was like a summer bloom, that bursts then fades away. My love is light, my love is day, my love is my world."

Wiggins stood under Lilth's window in her house on All Hallow Street, where he serenaded her with his song (the quote above) and his lute playing. While he sings Lilith giggles and shows signs of reciprocating his affection: commenting that his "sweet music shows your blood to be afire" and asks "why wait we on stale custom for consummation," inviting him up inside. He grins delightedly saying that "tonight's the night", letting himself in as Lilith disappears from her balcony to wait for him.

Meeting him at the top of the stairs, Lilth asks him whether her is willing to enter, addressing him as "bold sir," which he gladly accepts. However upon entering and seeing the cauldron with other weird items hanging from the room Wiggins is disturbed and slightly scared, questioning how "one so beautiful" can't be where she lives. He apologies but expresses his feelings of disgust at the house, which he refers to as "foul." Lilith puts her finger on his lips, silencing him and telling him that his "sad words suit not upon a lover's tongue." She instigates a kiss, which she pulls away from a few minutes later, her facade lifted and revealing the true Carrionite form. He backs away terrified as she comments that "your kiss transformed me" and that as her "suitor" he should meet her "parents." She summons her two "mothers"- Mother Doomfinger and Mother Bloodtide (one appears behind him, while the other is in the rafters)- which terrifies him even further. 

All three rush at him and knock him to the ground, beginning to rip him apart as he screamed. As Doomfinger and Bloodtide continue their grotesque mutilation, Lilith declares that "Soon, at the Hour of Woven Words, we shall rise again and this fleeting world will perish." She cackles shortly after his final scream.