DR. who: who is RIVER?

[joeorc]

In a deleted scene from the series 4 finale Journey's End, the Doctor gave a piece of the TARDIS to the half-human Doctor clone so that the latter could grow his own. When the clone remarked that growing a TARDIS would take hundreds of years, Donna Noble provided him with a method of speeding up the process.

What's the Rani's speciality:

let's see:

Her major interest is in tinkering with other species biochemistry-she was exiled from Gallifrey after some of her Lab Mice , as a result of an experiment, grew to enormous size and ate the President's pet cat and according to the Master "took a chunk out of him too". A past relationship between the Rani and the Doctor is hinted at, but never elaborated upon. It is established they are the same age.

update: what happened to the Rani:

the Master escaped the Rani's TARDIS in The Mark Of The Rani by splitting the console room from the rest of it, leaving the Rani adrift in a space-time bubble until she encountered a benign entity that created a distorted pocket reality where the Romans possessed 20th century technology due to their access to the databanks of a duplicate of the Doctor's TARDIS console. The Rani tried her hand at political machinations in this reality before the intervention of the Doctor, at which point she escaped in her repaired TARDIS.