Mastermind (audio story)

Mastermind
Main character(s):	The Master
Featuring:	Matheson, Sato
Main setting:	The Vault, 21st century
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Jonathan Morris
Director:	Ken Bentley
Music:	Daniel Brett
Sound:	Neil Gardner
Read by:	Geoffrey Beevers, Daphne Ashbrook, Yee Jee Tso
Cover by:	Anthony Lamb
Release details
Release number:	8.01
Release date:	10 July 2013
Format:	1 Part, 1 CD
Production code:	BFPDWCC69
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-083-1
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Mastermind was the sixty-ninth release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the first story of season 8. It was written by Jonathan Morris and featured the Master. The other characters in this story were played by Daphne Ashbrook and Yee Jee Tso, actors who had starring roles in the Doctor Who movie.

Publisher's summary

The Vault — an archive of alien artefacts securely stored deep beneath the Angel of the North.

There's also a prisoner in the Vault. An extraterrestrial known as the Bruce Master. He has been on Earth for some time, but now he's under lock and key.

This is his story.

Or, as Captain Ruth Matheson and Warrant Officer Charlie Sato discover... perhaps it is theirs.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Master - Geoffrey Beevers
• Ruth Matheson - Daphne Ashbrook
• Charlie Sato - Yee Jee Tso

References

• The Master boarded the RMS Titanic in 1912, unaware of its eventual fate, and escaped in a lifeboat when it sank.
• Excalibur is held in the Vault.

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Notes

• This story was recorded on 11 May 2012.

Continuity

• Charlie refers to the Thames Mead Massacre in London in 2012. (AUDIO: The Curse of Davros)
• Charlie refers to the Master's aliases of Professor Emil Keller (TV: The Mind of Evil), Reverend Magister (TV: The Dæmons) and Professor Thascalos (TV: The Time Monster).
• The Master tells Charlie that he is "known as the Master...universally." (TV: Terror of the Autons)
• The Master references the events of TV: Doctor Who and PROSE: Forgotten.
• The Master refers to his current form as a "Morphant Deathworm." (PROSE: The Eight Doctors; COMIC: The Fallen)
• After stealing the body of Don Maestro's son Michael, the Master is elated at having "a new body at last." (TV: The Keeper of Traken)
• After falling under the Master's influence, Charlie and Ruth were sent to Fortress Island, which had become a retirement home for ex-UNIT operatives who posed a security risk. They were later brought back into active service by Captain Mike Yates, who needed their help to investigate what had happened to the Vault since they had left. (AUDIO: The Screaming Skull)

External links

• Official Mastermind page at bigfinish.com