The Final Phase (audio story)

The Final Phase
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Romana, K9
Main enemy:	Daleks, Dalek Supreme, Cuthbert
Main setting:	Fortune II in the Proxima System, Proxima Major
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Nicholas Briggs
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Music:	Alistair Lock
Sound:	Alistair Lock
Cover by:	Alex Mallinson
Release details
Release number:	2.07
Release date:	July 2013
Format:	1 CD, 2 Parts
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-060-2
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The Final Phase was the seventh story in the second series of The Fourth Doctor Adventures. Together with the previous story The Dalek Contract these two stories form a single narrative told over both releases. This was Mary Tamm's final audio story with Tom Baker.

Publisher's summary

'The raw power of the very fabric of reality itself. And you dare to think you can conquer it?'

Cuthbert's plan for the Proxima System is reaching its final phase.

The Doctor and Romana have been separated. The Doctor is aiding the Proximan fight-back. Romana and K9 are prisoners of the Daleks.

And as the countdown to the opening of the Quantum Gateway begins, the Daleks reveal their true intentions.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Romana - Mary Tamm
• K9 - John Leeson
• Cuthbert - David Warner
• Mr Dorrick - Toby Hadoke
• Chidak - Dominic Mafham
• The Daleks / The Dalek Supreme - Nicholas Briggs
• Halka - Jane Slavin
• Security Man/Warrior - John Dorney

References

The Doctor's items

• The Doctor believes that he left his Five Hundred Year Diary in the TARDIS' Cloister Room. However, Romana tells him that it is in the swimming pool.

Individuals

• Halka refers to the Doctor as a "simpleton."
• Cuthbert refers to President Sheridan Moorkurk as a "sanctimonious bitch."
• K9 is equipped with a stealth mode. He has never previously used it as "no one ever asked."
• Cuthbert describes the Daleks as "squawking, mobile, metal, robotic things good at impressing people."
• Cuthbert refers to Romana and K9 as "the harpy and the metal mutt."
• After the Doctor is believed to have been killed, Romana tells Mr Dorrick that she and the Doctor initially had an adversarial relationship but that they had gradually become good friends without even noticing it.
• Romana accuses Cuthbert of being "terminally stupid."
• Cuthbert tells Romana that he is a "self-made man." He later explains to the Doctor that the seeds of the Conglomerate were sown in the mists of time and that he was the one responsible for doing so. Consequently, the Doctor believes that his existence may represent a temporal paradox.
• Although the Doctor tells Romana that he can return her to Gallifrey, she elects to continue travelling in the TARDIS.

Locations

• After searching for years, Cuthbert and Mr Dorrick discovered a dimensional fissure in the universe in the Proxima System. It was only two atoms across but the Conglomerate were able to expand it exponentially. Cuthbert refers to as the Quantum Gateway and intends to use it to travel into the past. It exists in a separate universe from N-Space.
• Cuthbert's experiments with the Quantum Gateway caused Proxima Major to be shifted out of its orbit.

Planets

• After the destruction of the Quantum Gateway, Proxima Major begins to slowly shift back into its original orbit.

Vehicles

• The Daleks intend to use the Quantum Gateway for the "conquest of infinity." Their dimension ship is necessary in order to do so.

Notes

• This story contains Mary Tamm's final performance as Romana before her death on 24 July 2012.
• This audio drama shares its title with Episode Four of TV: The Space Museum.
• This audio story was recorded on 9 February 2012 at Audio Sorcery.

Continuity

• The Doctor goes to look for his Five Hundred Year Diary. (TV: The Power of the Daleks)
• Cuthbert tells the Dalek Supreme of his previous encounter with the Doctor on Earth. (AUDIO: The Sands of Life / War Against the Laan)
• Cuthbert refers to Romana as "Ramona" repeatedly. (AUDIO: The Dalek Contract)
• Romana tells Mr Dorrick that she was assigned to the Doctor. (TV: The Ribos Operation)
• The Doctor refers to the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066. During his first incarnation, he and his companions Vicki Pallister and Steven Taylor defeated a plot by the renegade Time Lord the Monk to alter history by allowing the Saxons to defeat the Normans in the battle, thereby preventing the Norman Conquest of England from occurring. (TV: The Time Meddler)

• During her second incarnation, Romana would later encounter the Daleks for a second time on their homeworld Skaro. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks) After leaving the TARDIS and returning to Gallifrey, she was held prisoner by the Daleks for two decades before escaping with the help of the Sixth Doctor. (AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element) Later still, the Daleks invaded the Gallifrey of an alternative timeline while Romana was serving as its Supreme Leader (AUDIO: Arbitration, Extermination).
• During the Daleks' second invasion of Gallifrey, Romana would once again encounter the Dalek Supreme. (AUDIO: Ascension)

External links

• Official The Final Phase page at bigfinish.com