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|image = | |image = Giles in Love.jpg | ||
|main character = [[ | |main character = [[Giles]] | ||
|setting = [[London]], [[12 February|12]]-[[14 February]] [[2019]] | |setting = [[London]], [[12 February|12]]-[[14 February]] [[2019]] | ||
|featuring = [[Tasha Williams|Tasha]], [[Agamya Akhtar|Agamya]], [[Maxie Masters|Maxie]], [[Andrew Williams|Sir Andrew]] | |||
|enemy = [[Stacey Facade]] | |||
|publisher = BBV Productions | |publisher = BBV Productions | ||
|editor = [[Lucy Wood-Ives]] | |editor = [[Lucy Wood-Ives]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = James Hornby | ||
|network = YouTube | |network = YouTube | ||
|release date = | |release date = 22 January 2021 | ||
|format = 1x6 minute webcast | |format = 1x6 minute webcast | ||
|series = ''[[P.R.O.B.E. (series)|P.R.O.B.E.]]'' | |series = ''[[P.R.O.B.E. (series)|P.R.O.B.E.]]'' | ||
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|next2 = Varunastra (webcast) | |next2 = Varunastra (webcast) | ||
|fullvid = | |fullvid = | ||
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''''' | '''''Stacey Facade''''' was a video diary webcast released by [[BBV Productions]] on their YouTube channel in [[2021 (releases)|2021]], later incorporated into the ''[[P.R.O.B.E. Case Files - Volume 1]]'' DVD release. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
' | [[P.R.O.B.E. director]] [[Giles]]'s video diaries chronicle his whirldwind romance with a mysterious woman called [[Stacey Facade]], who, as the name implies, is not all she seems. | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to | On [[12 February]] [[2019]], [[P.R.O.B.E. director]] [[Giles]] records an uncharacteristically-cheerful video diary reporting that he has fallen in [[love]] for the first time in his life, with a woman called [[Stacey Facade]]. Insisting that she's his perfect woman, he seems strangely oblivious to his team's mistrust of her, indulgently construing it as jealousy. He cuts off the video diary upon receiving a text message from Stacey. | ||
On [[13 February]], he records a follow-up, recounting his dinner date with Stacey last night and their subsequent trip to the [[Royal Observatory]] where they spent the night stargazing, with Stacey proving surprisingly knowledgeable about astronomy and alien planets. He abruptly reveals that, enamoured with the idea of exploring the entire planet with Stacey, beginning with [[New Zealand]], he has decided to hand in his notice as a member of [[P.R.O.B.E.]], leaving [[Tasha Williams]] in charge until a replacement is formally appointed — and blankly ignores [[Agamya Akhtar|Agamya]]'s entreaties of reconsidering this rash decision. | |||
On [[14 February]], however, it is again Giles who records a diary, rather than Tasha, and a contrite Giles explains that it has transpired that Stacey was in fact a [[love wraith]] from the [[planet]] [[Succuba]] who used [[hypnosis|hypnotic]] [[pheromone]]s to ensnare Giles, not because she actually loved him but in order to feed on his positive [[emotion]]s. Her hold on Giles was broken when [[Maxie Masters|Maxie]] made him a drink a "concoction" she'd devised to counteract the pheromones, before deactivating Stacey's [[cloaking device]] to reveal her true alien appearance. Though [[Andrew Williams|Sir Andrew]] lets Giles take back his resignation without consequences thanks to Tasha, his daughter, arguing his case, Giles is left questioning his own reliability. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
* [[Bill Baggs]] - [[ | * [[Bill Baggs]] - [[Giles]] | ||
=== Characters === | === Characters === | ||
* [[Agamya Akhtar]] | |||
* [[Stacey Facade]] | * [[Stacey Facade]] | ||
* [[Maxie Masters]] | * [[Maxie Masters]] | ||
* [[Sir]] [[Andrew Williams]] | |||
* [[Tasha Williams]] | * [[Tasha Williams]] | ||
=== Mentioned only === | |||
* [[Liz Haggard]] | |||
* [[Archie MacTavish]] | * [[Archie MacTavish]] | ||
== Crew == | == Crew == | ||
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== Worldbuilding == | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* Giles | * [[Giles]] met [[Stacey Facade]] shortly after banishing "a pack of [[Shed Scale]]s" to "the [[Appletide Abyss]]". | ||
* | * Shared interests between Stacey and Giles include [[flower]]s and [[chocolate]]. | ||
== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Giles | * [[Giles]] recalls that [[Liz Haggard]] is currently in [[Spain]] with her [[Patricia Haggard|her own partner]] when justifying his decision to drop everything to move to [[New Zealand]] with [[Stacey Facade]]. The Haggards' imminent departure for Spain was established at the end of [[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|When to Die (home video)}}, precipitating Liz's retirement and thereafter Giles's promotion to [[P.R.O.B.E. director]]. | ||
* Giles recalls he "failed" the late [[Archie MacTavish|Archie]]. Giles's guilt over Archie's passing had been established in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Door We Forgot (short story)}} and would remain a running theme throughout subsequent ''Case Files'' as well as [[Arcbeatle Press]]'s ''[[Out of the Shadows (anthology)|Out of the Shadows]]'' anthology; the very next short, [[WC]]: {{cs|Manchester (webcast)}}, gave a first glimpse of the events of Archie's death itself. | |||
* P.R.O.B.E. is currently the [[United Kingdom]]'s "only line of defence" against hostile alien incursions, with Giles feeling his small organisation is unprepared with the magnitude of that responsibility. This was referenced in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Preternatural Days (short story)}} and implicitly riffed on the status quo established on televised ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in [[TV]]: {{cs|Resolution (TV story)}} and [[TV]]: {{cs|Spyfall (TV story)}} that [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]] and [[UNIT]] had both been disbanded or halted, something over which the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] berated [[C (Spyfall)|C]] in the latter TV story. | |||
* [[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|Lauren Anderson (home video)}}, a later ''Case File'', would return to [[Stacey Facade]] and establish what became of her after the events of this story. | |||
* The title card for this short was seen in [[WC]]: {{cs|P.R.O.B.E. CASE FILES - TRAILER (webcast)}}. | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||