The Mission (audio story)

The Mission
Doctor:	War Doctor
Featuring:	The General
Main enemy:	The Barber-Surgeon, Daleks
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Robert Valentine
Director:	Louise Jameson
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	4.1
Part of:	He Who Fights With Monsters
Release date:	13 December 2022
Format:	1 CD Download Part 1 of 3
Production code:	BFPDWWARB04
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-554-6 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-555-3 (digital)
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The Mission was the first audio story in the anthology He Who Fights With Monsters, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Robert Valentine and featured Jonathon Carley as the War Doctor, Ken Bones as The General and introduced Nicholas Le Prevost as the Barber-Surgeon.

Synopsis

As the Time War takes a dark new turn, the War Doctor is tasked by the Time War Council with locating and assassinating a Gallifreyan renegade waging their own private campaign against both the Daleks and the Time Lords. Who is the mysterious Barber-Surgeon, and can the Doctor complete his mission without becoming all that he abhors?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The War Doctor - Jonathon Carley
• The General - Ken Bones
• The Barber-Surgeon - Nicholas Le Prevost
• Vellichor / Rask - Indigo Griffiths
• Rodion - Emily-Jane McNeill
• Dalek Hunter-Killer / Nikov - Jason Merrells
• The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

References

• To destroy the abomination aboard the Time Lord flagship, the General sent in a Raston Squad. However, the Abomination 'painted the walls with Validium' before it died.
• The Doctor wonders if Romana would have sanctioned the mission as President.
• The General claims the Doctor hasn't been the same since Peladon was "consumed".
• In the recording he sent to the War Council, the Barber-Surgeon quotes the T. S. Eliot poem, The Hollow Men.
• The War Council's secret meeting is erased from the timeline.
• The supply ship which the War Doctor travels on is called the Bessie, which he takes as a sign of luck due to his old vehicle of the same name. It is a Viridian-class maintenance vessel.
• The General's briefing claims the existence of a third faction was first suspected after the Recursive Inversions at Lakertya.
• The Barber-Surgeon officially revealed himself at the Quantum Siege of Zanak according to the General's briefing.
• Captain Vellichor developed a taste for Voxnic during the Fractal Incursions, and offers some to the War Doctor. The War Doctor says he's 'not above the stuff' but sticks to tea. Vellichor also claims it makes a good antiseptic.
• The Dalek in the Kembel comms station quotes the poem The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, describing Skaro as a place "Where the sun beats and the dead tree gives no shelter."

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• The war is now called the "Last Great Time War." (TV: Dalek et all.)
• Gallifrey's and Skaro's time locks are beginning to crack. (AUDIO: Legion of the Lost)
• Vellichor mentions the Doctor's exile by the CIA. (TV: The War Games)
• The Time Lords use Raston Warrior Robots (TV: The Five Doctors) composed of validium. (TV: Silver Nemesis)
• The War Doctor remembers naming his car Bessie after an old friend. (COMIC: Change of Mind)
• Kembel is still devoid of jungle. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)

External links

• Official The Mission page at bigfinish.com