Femme Fatale (short story)

Femme Fatale
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Sam
Main setting:	Paris, 1934 New York City, 3 June 1968
Key crew
Writer:	Paul Magrs
Release details
Part of:	More Short Trips
Short Trips short stories
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Femme Fatale was the eighteenth short story in the Short Trips anthology More Short Trips. It was written by Paul Magrs. It featured the Eighth Doctor and Sam.

Summary

Iris Wildthyme has recently regenerated. She is on Earth, hanging out with Andy Warhol and his crowd at the Factory. One of her friends is a writer named Valerie Solanis.

The Doctor and Sam visit this time and place. They are surprised to see Iris. They have come because Sam has always wanted to meet Andy Warhol.

Valerie, whose play has been rejected by Warhol, decides to kill him. She shoots him in the presence of Iris, the Doctor, and Sam. The Doctor tries to stop Valerie, but she manages to wound Warhol.

Sam realises that the real Valerie was in Paris trying to sell her book, and that the Valerie who shot Warhol must have been a clone.

Characters

• Eighth Doctor
• Samantha Jones
• Iris Wildthyme
• Valerie Solanis
• Andy Warhol

References

• Iris is currently in her sixth incarnation.
• After her regeneration, Iris spends some time in Warhol's Factory.
• Iris wrote a book called Wildthyme: Confessions of a Time Lady.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• The Doctor and Iris' adventure on Hyspero took place eight thousand years away from 1968. (PROSE: The Scarlet Empress)
• The Doctor mentions finding Iris' journals on her bus and recognising them as a plagiarised version of his own life. (PROSE: The Scarlet Empress)