Torchwood Employment Profile

Full Name: Matthew John Alden-Farrow

Codename: "Mattaf"

Age: 29

Employment Status: Commander, Torchwood 5

Personal Life/Character

Agent Mattaf could be described as a competent commander, worthy of command and well suited to be at the head of Torchwood 5's team.

Except he isn't.

Given the position due to a series of events involving an explosion, the deaths of the majority of his colleagues and a computer malfunction, Mattaf has a record consisting almost entirely of failures.

Born in Milton Keynes in 1980, Mattaf proved to be very unpopular in school and was often bullied for his severe lack of social skills and general nerdiness. When he was 18, he was head-hunted by Torchwood due to his above average exam results in Science, History and Information Technology. He completed basic training with flying colours and began working at Torchwood 5 in 1999. However, it quickly became clear that although his theory training was exemplary, he often struggled to put it into practice in the field, for example, on one occasion he allowed an alien fugitive to escape capture, claiming he thought it was a "severely disfigured child". Similarly, in 2001 he was reprimanded for attacking and severely injuring an "alien", which later turned out to be a severely disfigured child.

In 2004, an accident at Torchwood 5 led to the annihilation of the entire staff of the base, except for four agents, among them Agent Mattaf. Agent Mattaf was chosen for command, as the now severely malfunctioning computer decided he was the only surviving employee that wasn't a complete moron.

Mattaf still has a severe number of character flaws - he and his team seem to spend more time (and money) partying than they do investigating alien sightings. However, there are a number of cases when the staff haven't completely screwed up. Unfortunately, none of them are on record, as Mattaf is very bad at filing paperwork.

Operational History

Very little information is available on Mattaf's Operational History, due to his notoriously bad habit of not filing any paperwork. However, a small number of case files are present.

The first known operation involving Mattaf was the Toclafane invasion and attempted world takeover by Prime Minister Harold Saxon. Mattaf and his team documented their attempts to escape Milton Keynes, which was overrun by the Toclafance. The eventually managed to find transport, successfully made their way to Torchwood 3 in Cardif, and successfully reactivated the base, which had been abandoned by the Torchwood 3 operatives, who were on a mission in the Himalayas at the time of the invasion. It is debatable as to whether or not this mission actually counts as part of Mattaf's operational history, as technically the events were wiped from history thanks to the paradox being reset. Mattaf retains some faint memories of the events, though he puts this down to a rather a good party that happened the night before.

In 2009, Mattaf responded to an urgent message sent be Arthur "Zeg" Wilson, a full 12 hours after the message was left. His response was answered under duress by Megan Smith, commander of Torchwood House. Through coded speech, Mattaf was able to acsertain that Torchwood House had been captured by an unknown enemy. Unfortunately, the enemy was able to twig that Megan was communicating with Mattaf using code, and mistakenly assumed that Mattaf was one of Torchwood's "top agents". Mattaf and his team quickly responded, and headed north to Torchwood House. Currently, it is unknown whether Mattaf and his team arrived.