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-'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first release in the ''[[Torchwood Soho (audio series)|Torchwood Soho]]'' audio series. It starred [[Norton Folgate]] and [[Andy Davidson]].
+'''''Parasite''''' was the first release in the ''[[Torchwood Soho (audio series)|Torchwood Soho]]'' audio series. It starred [[Norton Folgate]] and [[Andy Davidson]].
 == Publisher's summary ==
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 == Plot ==
 === ''The Man From Room 13'' ===
-''to be added''
+At [[Room 13]], [[Norton Folgate]] answers a [[telephone]] call concerning another dead [[Nazi]] and hands it over to his boss, [[Lizbeth Hayhoe]], who deals with it and lets them know that Norton is "good enough" to speak with them. The Nazi, who had belonged to [[Project Hermod]], had been killed after Norton informed the [[monastery]] that he had been travelling to of his arrival in search of a [[crystal skull]]. Norton is bored of dealing with petty Nazis, having come close to taking over the [[Torchwood Institute]] but ending up stuck in Room 13, and Lizbeth tells him to sit still, behave and celebrate the dead Nazi with [[crumpet]]s.
+[[Gideon Lyme]] attempts to catch the attention of [[Brenda (Parasite)|a waitress]], who ignores him until Norton sits with him and asks for [[tea]] and [[scrambled eggs]] with no more nasal hair in Lyme's than in his. Norton leaves with Lyme, who says that he is a [[reporter]] on [[Fleet Street]], and heads to work where he finds that there is a power cut and Lizbeth is using the fag-end of [[candle]]s to see. She tells him that something suspicious and likely bound for gangland is being shipped to the [[United Kingdom|UK]] through the [[Suez Canal]], something that she suspects is extraterrestrial. Norton, however, is flippant and leaves for "dreamland".
+Norton goes to [[Margate]] and asks [[Belle Epoch]] about the [[Stagnant Pond]]'s activities, learning from her that the Stagnant Pond were aware of the packages and that they intend to steal them before they reach their rivals. Norton sneaks his [[watch]] into Belle's pocket and threatens to blow a [[whistle]] to attract the attention of plainclothes [[police officer]]s, forcing her to disclose that the pickup will be happening at [[Margate Pier]].
+The two head to Margate Pier and find that the pickup is late. Eventually, the motorboat arrives but is driven by someone other than [[Konstantin Gregor|Konstantin]]; it is driven by a creature which crashes into the pier and, aflame, chases Norton and Belle, unperturbed when Norton shoots it in the [[head]], [[heart]] and major organs. Norton pulls out a [[disintegrator gun]] and uses its last shot to kill the creature. He determines that the package has been intercepted and leaves with Belle.
+Lizbeth arrives at Room 13 and finds that Norton has arrived early and prepared a [[bacon roll]] with which he hopes to keep her from telling him off. She reads him a [[memo]] from [[Reginald Rigsby]] bemoaning Norton's behaviour and then scolds him herself for getting his hands dirty, having gone beyond Room 13's remit and gaining little to nothing from the excursion. However, Norton theorises that others were interested in the package and that Konstantin had been working with the alien, the other men involved having been shot. He asks Lizbeth to get more resources from Rigsby in order to investigate, which she agrees to do.
+Norton returns to the [[café]] where Lyme is waiting and tells him that he was recently overlooked for a promotion. When Belle comes in looking for Norton, who is flirting with Lyme, Lyme invites him to [[14 Lancaster Gardens|his home]] the following night as he rushes off to speak with Belle. The [[landlady (Parasite)|landlady]] kicks Belle and Norton out and Belle tells him that there has been no sign of Konstantin.
+Norton tells Lizbeth what he has learnt and asks [[Clarke (Parasite)|Miss Clarke]] for a report on Konstantin, whom they believe to be in possession of the package and likely to be a target of the Stagnant Pond. A whistle heralds a delivery which Norton hopes to be Konstantin's location coaxed from the [[Metatraxis]] by Miss Clarke, but it turns out to be the forms that they have to fill in and a message that she is going home and can action it tomorrow. Lizbeth tells him that he should be nicer to the clerks and that they have to find Konstantin before anyone else in [[London]] does.
 === ''Meet Mr Lyme'' ===
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 == References ==
-*Norton Folgate's heater requires [[sixpence]]s to power the meter.
+* A [[Nazi]] has been killed in the [[Ganges]], downstream from a dark [[monastery]] where Norton heard on the grapevine that he would be searching for a [[crystal skull]].
-*Andy's vortex manipulator has a "psychic mode", which can locate people.
+* Torchwood used to send keen ex-[[Women's Royal Naval Service|Wrens]] to Lizbeth before becoming wise to her [[sexuality]].
-*Norton is aware of [[Quatermass (series)|Quatermass]].
+* Lizbeth intends to stay at Room 13 long enough to get a [[pension]], a [[cottage]] in [[Hebden Bridge]] and "a bitter old bull dyke called Marjorie" to "bicker out [her] twilight with".
+* Lizbeth suggests that she and Norton toast some [[crumpet]]s.
+* Norton asks for two [[tea]]s and two [[scrambled eggs]] with no more nasal hair in Lyme's than in his. He later orders two teas, two [[ham sandwich]]es and no [[snot|bogey]] in the [[pickle]].
+* [[Gideon Lyme's aunt|Lyme's aunt]] has a [[London]] [[biscuit tin]] with [[Tower Bridge]], [[Big Ben]] and a guardsman.
+* Some say that the [[smog]] is caused by [[Battersea Power Station]].
+* Lyme jokes that Norton has solved [[racism]] and the [[smog]].
+* Lyme says that there would be [[riot]]ing in the streets after one day without the [[BBC]] and [[electricity|electrical]] lighting.
+* Lyme works on [[Fleet Street]].
+* Norton mentions ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]''.
+* Norton mentions [[Princess Margaret]].
+* The packages are being shipped to the [[United Kingdom|UK]] through the [[Suez Canal]].
+* Norton knows of a Project Hermod member in [[Panama]].
+* [[Belle Epoch|Belle]] used to eat [[jellied eels]] at [[Margate Pier]] as a girl.
+* Norton blew up [[Leicester Square]], but "saved the other half".
+* Norton uses the last shot of a [[disintegrator gun]] and says that doing so always feels like finishing off a duty-free bottle of [[crème de menthe]].
+* Norton makes Lizbeth a [[bacon roll]] and notes that it is proper [[bacon]] with no bits. He says that it has "more sauce in it than [[Danny La Rue]]".
+* Rigsby's [[memo]] says that he was having dinner at [[Chequers]] and that writing it meant that he missed out on the Lord Chancellor's recitation of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]].
+* Norton says that Rigsby learnt his management style from [[Ming the Merciless|Emperor Ming]].
+* Rigsby attended [[Eton College]] and had a [[fagging|fag]]. He was [[head boy]].
+* With the end of [[rationing]], Norton has found that he does not enjoy having so many [[sugar]]s in his tea.
+* Lyme lives in Room 3 at [[14 Lancaster Gardens]].
+* Norton calls Lizbeth "[[Joan Littlewood]]".
+* [[Clarke (Parasite)|Miss Clarke]] is a [[clerk]]. Norton says that he would kiss her [[bunion]]s if she managed to coax [[Konstantin Gregor]]'s location out of the [[Metatraxis]].
+* Norton's heater requires [[sixpence]]s to power the meter.
+* Andy's vortex manipulator has a "psychic mode" which can locate people.
+* Norton is aware of [[Quatermass (series)|Quatermass]].
 == Notes ==
-*As has been the case for numerous audio spin-offs of ''Torchwood'' set in different eras, this set introduces a 1950s ''Torchwood'' theme. Previous themes have been the Victorian theme for adventures set in Victorian London, and a 1970s disco theme for ''[[The Dollhouse (audio story)|The Dollhouse]]''.
+* As has been the case for numerous audio spin-offs of ''Torchwood'' set in different eras, this set introduces a 1950s ''Torchwood'' theme. Previous themes have been the Victorian theme for adventures set in Victorian London, and a 1970s disco theme for ''[[The Dollhouse (audio story)|The Dollhouse]]''.
 == Continuity ==