Sync (audio story)

Sync
Main character(s):	Suzie Costello
Featuring:	Blon
Main setting:	Cardiff, 2006
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Lisa McMullin
Director:	Scott Handcock
Producer:	James Goss
Music:	Blair Mowat
Sound:	Richard Fox @ FoxYason Studios
Cover by:	Lee Binding
Release details
Story number:	5.3
Release number:	27
Release date:	22 May 2019
Format:	1 Episode on 1 CD
Production code:	BFPTWCD27
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78703-477-8
Official trailer
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Sync was the twenty-seventh story in the Torchwood audio series by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Lisa McMullin and featured Indira Varma as Suzie Costello.

Publisher's summary

Torchwood vs Monsters!

Margaret Blaine is the Mayor of Cardiff. She's also an alien who'll do anything to get off the planet Earth. When a spaceship crashes outside Cardiff, it seems like the answer to her prayers. But she's not the only person at crash site.

Suzie Costello works for Torchwood, but strictly to her own agenda. When a spaceship crashes outside Cardiff, it seems like the answer to her prayers. But she's not the only person at the crash site.

Bonded by an alien device, Margaret and Suzie find themselves on the run from Torchwood, the police, and six warp missiles that'll destroy them, Cardiff, and most of the Western Hemisphere.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Susie Costello - Indira Varma
• Margaret Blaine - Annette Badland
• Pilot - Raj Ghatak

References

• Blon identifies the spaceship as Elyrian.
• Slitheen skin suits, and indeed Raxacoricovarlonpatorians within, can withstand getting run over by cars.
• Blon first thinks that Suzie is a UFO spotter, then that she's a collector of alien artefacts, and probably a conspiracy theorist as well. She asks Suzie if she has a tin foil hat.
• When Suzie uses a laptop, Blon remarks, "How CSI." She also wonders if the computer has solitaire.
• Blon's first hunt was in the dark.
• Owen Harper has a key to Suzie's home. When he calls, she tells him there's left-over pasta bake in her refrigerator, which he's welcome to eat.
• The pilot believes his ship was shot down by the Dorgon.
• The pilot promises to tell all of Elyria of the kindness of Earth's people, promptly before his death.
• Blon and Suzie contemplate friendship.

Notes

• Uniquely, the trailer for this story was presented by Indira Varma and Annette Badland in character as Suzie Costello and Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen respectively, as opposed to Big Finish executive producer Nicholas Briggs. After reciting the Big Finish slogan, We Love Stories, they both laugh maniacally.
• The image of Blon on the cover is infact a reuse of a promotional image depicting Kist Magg Thek Lutiven-Day Slitheen from TV: Revenge of the Slitheen.
• Blon says "I'm a minor political celebrity, get me out of here", referencing the TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
• This story was recorded on 25 September 2018 at the Moat Studios.

Continuity

• Blon acts as the Mayor of Cardiff, while disguised as "Margaret Blaine". (TV: Boom Town)
• The device that bonds Suzie and Blon together is similar to the device Captain Jack Harkness would use to bond the Ninth Doctor and Blon together later. (TV: Boom Town)
• Blon has a personal teleport (TV: Boom Town)
• Blon excretes a poisonous gas as a defence mechanism (TV: Boom Town)
• Blon says her family will eat her alive if they see her (TV: Boom Town)
• Cardiff lies on an interdimensional rift (TV: Boom Town et al)
• Blon tells Suzie about her first hunt, just as she would again later to the Ninth Doctor. (TV: Boom Town)
• Owen has a key to Suzie's place. The two were later established to have been involved in a sexual relationship. (TV: They Keep Killing Suzie)

External links

• Official Sync page at bigfinish.com