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|number = 3.3 | |||
|number | |range = The Lives of Captain Jack (audio series) | ||
|range | |series in range = The Lives of Captain Jack: Volume Three | ||
|series in range = The Lives of Captain Jack: Volume Three | |||
|number in series = 3 | |number in series = 3 | ||
|main character | |main character = [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[River Song|River]] | ||
|featuring | |featuring = Jackie Tyler | ||
|featuring2 | |featuring2 = Ninth Doctor | ||
|enemy | |enemy = | ||
|setting | |setting = | ||
|writer | |writer = James Goss | ||
|director | |director = [[Scott Handcock]] | ||
|sound | |sound = [[Richard Fox]] & [[Steve Foxon]] | ||
|music | |music = [[Blair Mowat]] | ||
|producer | |producer = [[James Goss]] | ||
|publisher | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date | |release date = 25 March 2020 | ||
|format | |format = 1 Episode on 1 CD (3rd of 3 stories); Download | ||
|production code = BFPHARKNESS03CD | |production code = BFPHARKNESS03CD | ||
|isbn | |audio anthology = The Lives of Captain Jack: Volume Three | ||
|series | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-83868-189-0 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-190-6 (digital) | ||
|prev | |series = ''[[The Lives of Captain Jack (audio series)|The Lives of Captain Jack]]'' | ||
|next | |prev = Mighty and Despair (audio story) | ||
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'''''R&J''''' was the third and final audio story in the anthology ''[[The Lives of Captain Jack: Volume Three]]''. It was written by [[James Goss]] and starred [[John Barrowman]] as [[Captain]] [[Jack Harkness]] and [[Alex Kingston]] as [[River Song]]. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
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* [[Assassin Pilot]] - [[Jonny Glynn]] | * [[Assassin Pilot]] - [[Jonny Glynn]] | ||
* [[Boeshane Nurse]] - [[Laura Dalgleish]] | * [[Boeshane Nurse]] - [[Laura Dalgleish]] | ||
* [[Student (R&J)|Student]] - [[Harley | * [[Student (R&J)|Student]] - [[Harley Viveash]] | ||
=== Uncredited === | === Uncredited === | ||
* [[Ninth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Jacob Dudman]] | * [[Ninth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Jacob Dudman]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* River is an [[archaeologist]]. | |||
* Jack meets River while getting a [[Kronkburger]] for [[Ninth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]]. | |||
* River masquerades as Queen [[Elizabeth I]]. | * River masquerades as Queen [[Elizabeth I]]. | ||
* River has a [[staser]] rifle. | |||
* Jack's vortex manipulator has a [[fast return switch]]. | |||
* River pretends to be Jack's boss and says she will put him on [[Aaron Blinovitch|Blinovitch]] Incursion Duty. | |||
* Jack replaces [[Bernice Summerfield]] as River's [[lecturer]]. | * Jack replaces [[Bernice Summerfield]] as River's [[lecturer]]. | ||
* River mentions the Doctor left her a note on how to make a [[time flow analog]]. | * River mentions the Doctor left her a note on how to make a [[time flow analog]]. | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This story makes the suggestion that the knocking on the door of the spaceship at the end of the universe in ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'' was Jack and River playing a prank. | * This story makes the suggestion that the knocking on the door of the spaceship at the end of the universe in ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'' was Jack and River playing a prank on [[Orson Pink]]. Jack also refers to a woman waiting to play chess, likely meaning [[Ashildr]], which would suggest the planet Orson Pink is stranded on is [[Gallifrey]]. | ||
* This was John Barrowman's last appearance in a Big Finish audio drama before he was blacklisted by the BBC, in the wake of a reignited discussion of the nature of him flashing cast and crew members on-set. He had recorded the story ''[[Absent Friends (Torchwood audio story)|Absent Friends]]'' but Big Finish cancelled its release following the allegations. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* A [[nun (R&J)|nun]] informs River that the [[Face of Boe]] has recently died. ([[TV]]: ''[[Gridlock (TV story)|Gridlock]]'') | * A [[nun (R&J)|nun]] informs River that the [[Face of Boe]] has recently died. ([[TV]]: ''[[Gridlock (TV story)|Gridlock]]'') | ||
* In [[1941]] [[London]], Jack is expecting a [[Time Agent]] to show up he can do business with. He assumes River is one, and remarks that she's arrived sooner than expected. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'') | * In [[1941]] [[London]], Jack is expecting a [[Time Agent]] to show up he can do business with. He assumes River is one, and remarks that she's arrived sooner than expected. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'') | ||
* Jack | * Jack and River both have vortex manipulators. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'', ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'' etc.) | ||
* Professor "Hack Jarkness" | * Jack and River both brandish their [[sonic blaster]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances (TV story)|The Doctor Dances]]'', ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'') | ||
* River is destined to kill the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'') | |||
* Jack meets River at a time when she believes the Doctor will destroy the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') | |||
* River is held in Stormcage for the murder of the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]'' etc.) | |||
* Jack has a sonic lockpick hidden on his person. He previously used this with Jackie Tyler. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Crush (audio story)|Crush]]'') | |||
* River stands in for Queen Elizabeth I while she is on honeymoon, and comments that shape changers love the Elizabethan era. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') | |||
* Jack encounters River while he is working as a time agent, using his real name Javic. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Month 25 (audio story)|Month 25]]'') | |||
* River calls Jack "Jack Harkness" before he takes up the name. He comments that it is a nice name. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'', ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'') | |||
* River was due to attend a lecture by Professor Summerfield ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'' etc.), who had spent the last four weeks talking about Sumaran bricklaying. ([[TV]]: ''[[Snakedance (TV story)|Snakedance]]'') The lecture is instead taken by Professor "Hack Jarkness", who discusses the possibility that some examples of ancient [[graffiti]] are in fact "time travellers leaving each other notes". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]'', ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') | |||
* River attends university while waiting for a friend to call. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') | |||
* Jack can't die. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'' etc.) | |||
* Jack asks River what kind of psychopath she is, to which she responds she's trying to work it out. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'', ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') | |||
* Jack encounters River during her time as a child on the streets on [[New York City]] in [[1969]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') | * Jack encounters River during her time as a child on the streets on [[New York City]] in [[1969]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') | ||
* Jack meets River near the end of her time with the Doctor. She is sad and says either she or the Doctor will die. ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'') | |||
* River finds Jack in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] in [[Roald Dahl Plass]] during the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]''. He's struggling to refuel the ship with the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift]] using an "[[tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator|alien surfboard]]". The Doctor is on a "date" with [[Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen|a Slitheen]]. River successfully fuels up the TARDIS for him, just as the Rift opens and an [[earthquake]] hits. ([[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]'') | * River finds Jack in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] in [[Roald Dahl Plass]] during the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]''. He's struggling to refuel the ship with the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift]] using an "[[tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator|alien surfboard]]". The Doctor is on a "date" with [[Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen|a Slitheen]]. River successfully fuels up the TARDIS for him, just as the Rift opens and an [[earthquake]] hits. ([[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]'') | ||
** River is annoyed to have found the "wrong" Jack in this time period, hoping to come across the Jack who lives in [[Cardiff]] and works for [[Torchwood Three]], beneath the plaza. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'') | ** River is annoyed to have found the "wrong" Jack in this time period, hoping to come across the Jack who lives in [[Cardiff]] and works for [[Torchwood Three]], beneath the plaza. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'') | ||
* Jack begins to say his nickname from the Boeshane peninsula, before being cut off. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') | |||
* River meets Jack while he's chained up by the [[The Master|Master]] during the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'', giving him a hacksaw to cut himself free. | |||
* River says she and the Doctor got married in a collapsing timeline. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'') Jack says he wouldn't be caught dead in one of those, which is precisely what has previously happened to a version of him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Captain Jack (audio story)|The Death of Captain Jack]]'') | |||
* River meets Jack at Gallipoli, shortly after he has lost a close friend. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[What Have I Done? (audio story)|What Have I Done?]]'') | |||
* River knows that she cannot die before she goes to a restaurant. ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'', ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') | |||
* River goes to the Boeshane peninsula during an attack. ([[TV]]: ''[[Adam (TV story)|Adam]]'', ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'') She says the wisest creature in the universe came from here and that she would love to meet them. A speculative future for Jack is that he becomes the Face of Boe, in which case River has met him many times. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') | |||
* At the [[end of the universe]], Jack says "there's a [[Ashildr|woman]] waiting for someone to play chess with" ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') and [[Twelfth Doctor|a visitor]] investigating whether any life was left. River and Jack go to bang on his door. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') | * At the [[end of the universe]], Jack says "there's a [[Ashildr|woman]] waiting for someone to play chess with" ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') and [[Twelfth Doctor|a visitor]] investigating whether any life was left. River and Jack go to bang on his door. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') | ||
* Jack chances upon River in the [[restaurant]] on [[Darillium]], and finally discovers her husband is the Doctor. River says she's been dreading coming here, as she knows it means her end. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') | * Jack chances upon River in the [[restaurant]] on [[Darillium]], and finally discovers her husband is the Doctor. River says she's been dreading coming here, as she knows it means her end. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') | ||
** Jack will later indicate to the [[Sixth Doctor]], at some point before uniting with the [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]], that he knows he's met the Doctor's wife. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Piece of Mind (audio story)|Piece of Mind]]'') | ** Jack will later indicate to the [[Sixth Doctor]], at some point before uniting with the [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]], that he knows he's met the Doctor's wife. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Piece of Mind (audio story)|Piece of Mind]]'') | ||
** When Jack sees that River's husband is the Doctor, he says "you too, huh" indicating that he is also in love with the Doctor. He said the same thing to Martha in a similar situation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') | |||
* River Song says 'snap!' to Jack Harkness on two occasions when meeting him, mirroring the Doctor when meeting his other incarnations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'', ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'') | * River Song says 'snap!' to Jack Harkness on two occasions when meeting him, mirroring the Doctor when meeting his other incarnations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'', ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'') | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:32, 9 November 2023
R&J was the third and final audio story in the anthology The Lives of Captain Jack: Volume Three. It was written by James Goss and starred John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness and Alex Kingston as River Song.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
From ancient battles to eternal wars
A pair of time-cross'd lovers take the stars
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
- River Song - Alex Kingston
- Jackie Tyler - Camille Coduri
- Snorvlast - Jacob Dudman
- Nun - Maeve Bluebell Wells
- Priest - Vikash Bhai
- Assassin Pilot - Jonny Glynn
- Boeshane Nurse - Laura Dalgleish
- Student - Harley Viveash
Uncredited[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- River is an archaeologist.
- Jack meets River while getting a Kronkburger for the Doctor and Rose.
- River masquerades as Queen Elizabeth I.
- River has a staser rifle.
- Jack's vortex manipulator has a fast return switch.
- River pretends to be Jack's boss and says she will put him on Blinovitch Incursion Duty.
- Jack replaces Bernice Summerfield as River's lecturer.
- River mentions the Doctor left her a note on how to make a time flow analog.
- River and the Doctor once went fishing "with a fish".
- Jack and River ride Triceratops during an Ice Age.
- River meets Jackie Tyler and helps her wash a duvet.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This story makes the suggestion that the knocking on the door of the spaceship at the end of the universe in Listen was Jack and River playing a prank on Orson Pink. Jack also refers to a woman waiting to play chess, likely meaning Ashildr, which would suggest the planet Orson Pink is stranded on is Gallifrey.
- This was John Barrowman's last appearance in a Big Finish audio drama before he was blacklisted by the BBC, in the wake of a reignited discussion of the nature of him flashing cast and crew members on-set. He had recorded the story Absent Friends but Big Finish cancelled its release following the allegations.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- A nun informs River that the Face of Boe has recently died. (TV: Gridlock)
- In 1941 London, Jack is expecting a Time Agent to show up he can do business with. He assumes River is one, and remarks that she's arrived sooner than expected. (TV: The Empty Child)
- Jack and River both have vortex manipulators. (TV: The Empty Child, The Pandorica Opens etc.)
- Jack and River both brandish their sonic blasters. (TV: The Doctor Dances, Forest of the Dead)
- River is destined to kill the Doctor. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)
- Jack meets River at a time when she believes the Doctor will destroy the universe. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)
- River is held in Stormcage for the murder of the Doctor. (TV: The Time of Angels etc.)
- Jack has a sonic lockpick hidden on his person. He previously used this with Jackie Tyler. (AUDIO: Crush)
- River stands in for Queen Elizabeth I while she is on honeymoon, and comments that shape changers love the Elizabethan era. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
- Jack encounters River while he is working as a time agent, using his real name Javic. (AUDIO: Month 25)
- River calls Jack "Jack Harkness" before he takes up the name. He comments that it is a nice name. (TV: The Empty Child, Captain Jack Harkness)
- River was due to attend a lecture by Professor Summerfield (PROSE: Love and War etc.), who had spent the last four weeks talking about Sumaran bricklaying. (TV: Snakedance) The lecture is instead taken by Professor "Hack Jarkness", who discusses the possibility that some examples of ancient graffiti are in fact "time travellers leaving each other notes". (TV: The Time of Angels, The Pandorica Opens)
- River attends university while waiting for a friend to call. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)
- Jack can't die. (TV: The Parting of the Ways etc.)
- Jack asks River what kind of psychopath she is, to which she responds she's trying to work it out. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler, The Angels Take Manhattan, The Time of the Doctor)
- Jack encounters River during her time as a child on the streets on New York City in 1969. (TV: Day of the Moon)
- Jack meets River near the end of her time with the Doctor. She is sad and says either she or the Doctor will die. (TV: Forest of the Dead)
- River finds Jack in the Doctor's TARDIS in Roald Dahl Plass during the events of TV: Boom Town. He's struggling to refuel the ship with the Cardiff Space-Time Rift using an "alien surfboard". The Doctor is on a "date" with a Slitheen. River successfully fuels up the TARDIS for him, just as the Rift opens and an earthquake hits. (TV: Boom Town)
- River is annoyed to have found the "wrong" Jack in this time period, hoping to come across the Jack who lives in Cardiff and works for Torchwood Three, beneath the plaza. (TV: Everything Changes)
- Jack begins to say his nickname from the Boeshane peninsula, before being cut off. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)
- River meets Jack while he's chained up by the Master during the events of TV: Last of the Time Lords, giving him a hacksaw to cut himself free.
- River says she and the Doctor got married in a collapsing timeline. (TV: The Wedding of River Song) Jack says he wouldn't be caught dead in one of those, which is precisely what has previously happened to a version of him. (AUDIO: The Death of Captain Jack)
- River meets Jack at Gallipoli, shortly after he has lost a close friend. (AUDIO: What Have I Done?)
- River knows that she cannot die before she goes to a restaurant. (TV: Forest of the Dead, The Husbands of River Song)
- River goes to the Boeshane peninsula during an attack. (TV: Adam, Exit Wounds) She says the wisest creature in the universe came from here and that she would love to meet them. A speculative future for Jack is that he becomes the Face of Boe, in which case River has met him many times. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)
- At the end of the universe, Jack says "there's a woman waiting for someone to play chess with" (TV: Hell Bent) and a visitor investigating whether any life was left. River and Jack go to bang on his door. (TV: Listen)
- Jack chances upon River in the restaurant on Darillium, and finally discovers her husband is the Doctor. River says she's been dreading coming here, as she knows it means her end. (TV: The Husbands of River Song)
- Jack will later indicate to the Sixth Doctor, at some point before uniting with the Tenth, that he knows he's met the Doctor's wife. (AUDIO: Piece of Mind)
- When Jack sees that River's husband is the Doctor, he says "you too, huh" indicating that he is also in love with the Doctor. He said the same thing to Martha in a similar situation. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
- River Song says 'snap!' to Jack Harkness on two occasions when meeting him, mirroring the Doctor when meeting his other incarnations. (TV: The Two Doctors, Time Crash)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official R&J page at bigfinish.com
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