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| - Agnes Havisham was born under another name. She used "Agnes" as a pseudonym for Torchwood. Her mother was Scottish and an alcoholic. Her father wanted a boy and trained her from a young age to use guns. Neither were particularly pleased with her choice to join the Torchwood Institute. She also had a younger sister named Tilly, but Agnes was unable to find out what happened to her after Agnes became Torchwood Assessor. Around the turn of the 20th century, she helped set up Torchwood Three, feeling that the Cardiff Space-Time Rift posed a threat to the world. Around this time, she fought the undead, encountered Elizabethan era plague doctors and met Alice Guppy. She also met George Herbert Sanderson, who she fell in love with. Around 1901, a probe from "Planet X" was found with a faster-than-light drive. George Herbert built it into a spaceship and planned to visit Planet X. Even with this drive, the trip would take over a hundred years. Agnes agreed to become the Torchwood Assessor, meaning she would be kept in cryogenic stasis when not needed and would be able to able to see him when he returned. They were still able to communicate with each other occasionally. As Torchwood Assessor, her job was to check if Torchwood was running properly. If it wasn't, it could be shut down with the Cowper Key. She would reanimate when Torchwood was in significant danger. When not awake, she remained cryogenically frozen in a storage unit in Swindon. (PROSE: Risk Assessment)
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