is hypnotised by the rogue artificial intelligence WOTAN in The War Machines. Halfway through that last adventure, she abruptly departs for a rest in the country after being hypnotised, and never reappears. At the story's conclusion, Polly (who, with Ben Jackson, took Dodo's place as a companion) explains to the departing Doctor that Dodo has decided to remain in the 20th century. Webcast In the 2020 webcast Farewell, Sarah Jane, written by Russell T Davies, Dodo is mentioned as being present at the funeral of Sarah Jane Smith. For Dodo to survive into the 21st century would contradict the varying accounts of her death (see below). Other media Dodo's life prior to joining the Doctor and the circumstances under which she joined him in the TARDIS were elaborated on in the Past Doctor Adventures novel Salvation, in which the TARDIS, departing after she has entered it, travels to New York City in Dodo's present, resulting in Dodo working with the Doctor and Steven to investigate mysterious beings who appear to be gods. In the Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Man in the Velvet Mask, Dodo has sex and is infected with an alien virus which slowly corrupts her. Dodo's life after she left the Doctor was not dealt with in the programme. The spin-off novel Who Killed Kennedy by David Bishop reveals that Dodo suffered a nervous breakdown and was unable to remember her adventures with the Doctor, drifting in and out of psychiatric institutions. Becoming involved with a journalist who was investigating the truth behind UNIT, Dodo is murdered by a pawn of the Master. Her funeral is attended only by her lover James Stevens and an unidentified man who, based on the limited description provided, may be either the Second or Seventh Doctor. However, in the 20th-anniversary version of the novel, a new timeline is created where the assassin is stopped by her lover when he travels back in time from the future after an intervention by the Doctor, implied to be the Twelfth such incarnation. James Stevens passes away in 2015, by which time Dodo is also deceased. However, the canonicity of the novels in relation to the television series is open to question. She is revealed to be alive and well in the 2020 The Sarah Jane Adventures audio special Goodbye Sarah Jane Smith, where she attends Sarah Jane's funeral and helps defeat a race of