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|range = Connections (audio anthology) | |range = Connections (audio anthology) | ||
|number in range = 2 | |number in range = 2 | ||
|audio anthology = | |audio anthology = Connections (audio anthology) | ||
|number = 2 | |number = 2 | ||
|doctor = Eighth Doctor | |doctor = Eighth Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Liv Chenka|Liv]], [[Helen Sinclair|Helen]] | |companions = [[Liv Chenka|Liv]], [[Helen Sinclair|Helen]] | ||
|featuring = | |featuring = | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = [[Love vampire]]s | ||
|setting = | |setting = [[Space station (The Love Vampires)|Space station]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = James Kettle | ||
|director = [[Ken Bentley]] | |director = [[Ken Bentley]] | ||
|producer = [[David Richardson]] | |producer = [[David Richardson]] | ||
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|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|epcount = 1 | |epcount = 1 | ||
|release date = | |release date = 6 December 2022 | ||
|format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>2nd of 3 stories | |format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>2nd of 3 stories | ||
|production code = BFPDWDR0802 | |production code = BFPDWDR0802 | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to | [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]], [[Liv Chenka|Liv]] and [[Helen Sinclair|Helen]] arrive at the bridge of a [[Becoming]] [[space station]] on alert. [[Rica]] appears to [[Three (The Love Vampires)|Three]], unseen by anybody else, and bites his neck; [[Fifteen (The Love Vampires)|Fifteen]] tells the Doctor, Liv and Helen that the same thing has happened to thirteen other people and that all of them are now dead. | ||
Three is frozen and driven back when the light of a nearby [[white dwarf]] makes a [[shadow]] in the shape of a [[cross]], making the Doctor believe that they are indeed dealing with [[vampire]]s. He goes with Fifteen to find [[wood]] to make [[stake]]s, learning that Fifteen believes that the vampires take the form of the victims' first loves on the way, whilst Liv tries to find a way to inoculate everybody. Helen helps Liv by finding [[setosol]] and [[Jean (The Love Vampires)|Jean]] appears to her and bites her. | |||
The Doctor and Fifteen make stakes out of a wooden [[double bass]]. When Three loses control and his body starts throwing out contaminants, Fifteen stakes him and he crumbles to [[dust]]. The Doctor, who has already seen [[the Realist]], decides to offer himself to the vampires to draw them out. Liv sees [[Petko]], who died back on [[Kaldor]] and whom she had hoped to explore the universe with; before he can bite her, the Doctor brings her to her senses by breathing on her after consuming [[garlic tablet]]s. He then goes looking for the Realist. | |||
Liv sees that Helen has been bitten and Twenty-One keeps Fifteen from killing her, taking command, but she goes into [[cardiac arrest]] when Liv gives her a shot to try to help her. The Realist reminisces with the Doctor about [[Gallifrey]] and admits that she and her siblings feed on [[love]]. The Doctor tells Twenty-One to vent the station's [[fuel]] to turn the white dwarf [[supernova]] and reveals that the Realist is a false [[memory]] that he used to bring the vampires out. The white dwarf is destroyed and its light fades. Helen stabilises and Twenty-One decides to take a break from [[science]]. | |||
Hungry, the Doctor suggests that they next go to the [[Trattoria del Domenico]] in [[20th century]] [[Naples]]. Liv and Helen give him a look when he mentions their [[garlic bread]]. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[The Realist]] / [[Rica]] - [[Paksie Vernon]] | * [[The Realist]] / [[Rica]] - [[Paksie Vernon]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* [[One (The Love Vampires)|One]], [[Two (The Love Vampires)|Two]] and [[Four (The Love Vampires)|Four]] through to [[Fourteen (The Love Vampires)|Fourteen]] are dead. | |||
* [[Jean (The Love Vampires)|Jean]] was born on [[17 October]] [[1932]] and was six months older than Helen. | |||
* Fifteen has a [[double bass]]. | |||
* Helen mentions [[Van Helsing]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
'' | * ''The Love Vampires'' was recorded remotely and at [[the Soundhouse]] in [[June (production)|June]] [[2022 (production)|2022]]. | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The [[Eighth Doctor]] states that the [[vampire (mythology)|vampires of popular mythology]] are inspired by the true creatures, in this story the [[love vampire]]s. Previous stories, such as the classic serial {{cs|State of Decay (TV story)}}, the [[VNA]] novel {{cs|The Pit (novel)}}, and the [[Faction Paradox]] novel {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}}, also continually went with this idea, but held the position that there was a true [[vampire]] species, descended from the [[Great Vampire]]s who fought against the [[Time Lord]]s in the [[Eternal War]]. | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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