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|series=[[Short Trips (series)#In print|Short Trips short stories]]
name=The Great Escapes|
|main character = [[Lucie Miller]]
series=[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]|
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main character=[[Lucie Miller]]|
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|writer = Simon Guerrier
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|anthology = Short Trips: Defining Patterns
writer=[[Simon Guerrier]]|
|release date = March 2008
publication=''[[Short Trips: Defining Patterns]]''|
|prev = Closing the Account (short story)
prev=Closing the Account (short story)|
|next=Loose Change (short story)
next=Loose Change (short story)|
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'''''The Great Escapes''''' was the tenth short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: Defining Patterns]]''. It was written by [[Simon Guerrier]]. It featured [[Lucie Miller]].
'''''The Great Escapes''''' was the tenth short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: Defining Patterns]]''. It was written by [[Simon Guerrier]]. It featured [[Lucie Miller]].
== Summary ==
== Summary ==
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Lucie is in prison with [[Albumen]] and another [[Illixtrian (The Great Escapes)|Illixtrian]] on the [[Illixtrian]]s' planet. Lucie has seen the Doctor get shot by the machine guards, but she refuses to believe he is dead and instead plots the trio's escape.
 
The first time the trio try to escape, Albumen is killed by the machine guards. The other Illixtrian and Lucie try without success to escape several more times. They aren't killed because they are scheduled for public execution.
 
As Lucie and the Illixtrian are led to their execution, Lucie has started to come to terms with the Doctor being dead...


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Lucie Miller]]
* [[Lucie Miller]]
* [[Albumen]]
* [[Albumen]]
* [[Illixtrian (The Great Escapes)|Illixtrian]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The prison cell Lucie is imprisoned in contains two [[Illixtrians]].
* The Doctor and Lucie have met [[Harry Houdini]].
* The Doctor and Lucie have met [[Harry Houdini]].
* Lucie's [[Patricia Ryder|Aunti Pat]] puts horseradish on chocolate digestives.
* Lucie's [[Patricia Ryder|Auntie Pat]] puts [[horseradish]] on [[chocolate]] digestives.
* The Doctor and Lucie have visited [[Cleopatra]]. Lucie learned how to fight from the captain of Cleopatra's guard.
* The Doctor and Lucie have visited [[Cleopatra]].
* The Doctor and Lucie saved [[Mim]] delegates on [[Northern New Mars]].
* The Doctor and Lucie saved [[Mim]] delegates on [[Northern New Mars]].
* Illixtrian food includes [[arvil grass]], [[iqar cake]] and [[umli]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Lucie talks about her Auntie Pat, whom she met in [[BFA]]: ''[[Horror of Glam Rock]]''.
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== Timeline ==
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* ''The Great Escapes'' takes place after [[BFA]]: ''[[Brave New Town]]''.
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* ''The Great Escapes'' takes place before [[BFA]]: ''[[The Skull of Sobek]]''.
 
 
 
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The Great Escapes was the tenth short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Defining Patterns. It was written by Simon Guerrier. It featured Lucie Miller.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Lucie is in prison with Albumen and another Illixtrian on the Illixtrians' planet. Lucie has seen the Doctor get shot by the machine guards, but she refuses to believe he is dead and instead plots the trio's escape.

The first time the trio try to escape, Albumen is killed by the machine guards. The other Illixtrian and Lucie try without success to escape several more times. They aren't killed because they are scheduled for public execution.

As Lucie and the Illixtrian are led to their execution, Lucie has started to come to terms with the Doctor being dead...

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added