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|main character = [[Winifred Bambera|Bambera]], [[Jean-Paul Savarin|Savarin]], [[Louise Rix|Rix]] | |main character = [[Winifred Bambera|Bambera]], [[Jean-Paul Savarin|Savarin]], [[Louise Rix|Rix]] | ||
|featuring = [[Lydia Kingsley|Dame Lydia]] | |featuring = [[Lydia Kingsley|Dame Lydia]] | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = [[The Omniarch]] | ||
|setting = | |setting = [[St James's Palace]], [[29 December]] [[1999]]-[[1 January]] [[2000]] | ||
|writer = [[Robert Valentine]] | |writer = [[Robert Valentine]] | ||
|director = [[Scott Handcock]] | |director = [[Scott Handcock]] | ||
|producer = [[Emily Cook]] | |producer = [[Emily Cook]] | ||
|music = [[Borna Matosic]] | |music = [[Borna Matosic]] | ||
|sound = [[David Roocroft | |sound = [[David Roocroft]] | ||
|audio anthology = ''[[Visitants (audio anthology)|Visitants]]'' | |audio anthology = ''[[Visitants (audio anthology)|Visitants]]'' | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to | As [[Vabados City]] in [[Valge Maja]] is besieged and the civil war looks set to cause [[World War III|a third world war]], [[Fidelia Esperanza]], President of the [[United Nations Security Council|Unified Nations Security Council]], calls for a conference to be held on neutral ground to bring an end to the bloodshed. [[The Omniarch]] of the [[Zeta Hydran|Zeta Hydri]] decides that now is the time for her invasion of [[Earth]]. | ||
[[Lydia Kingsley|Dame Lydia]] puts [[Winifred Bambera|Bambera]] in charge of security for the conference at [[St James's Palace]] instead of [[Elizabeth II|the Queen]]'s [[Birch (The Last Line of Defence)|Colonel Birch]], causing some tension, and also brings in [[UNIT Internal Security]]. [[Louise Rix|Rix]] liaises with [[NASA]] and various other space agencies and telecommunications companies to resolve the issue of half of the world's [[satellite]]s being non-operational and, when they all become operational again, she tells [[Jean-Paul Savarin|Savarin]] that something might have entered Earth's orbit during the blackout. She is correct and [[human]] allies of the Zeta-Hydri send them the location of the secret conference. | |||
During the conference, the [[Hoplite Frequency]] is initiated, leaving the delegates unconscious, and Bambera and Savarin put in cancelling [[earpiece]]s to combat it. The Zeta Hydri arrive in their [[spacecraft]] and attack Bambera, who runs and asks Rix to find out how the Zeta Hydri got a hold of the frequency. She is captured and taken before the Omniarch and learns that Dame Lydia has been working with her; Dame Lydia commands Bambera to call for a surrender, but she refuses and Esperanza is executed. | |||
Birch, an [[MI6]] agent, takes Rix to the [[Vauxhall Building]] and explains that he has been feeding Bambera information in the hopes that she would help the cause, being unsure if he could trust UNIT. He has learnt from [[Prisoner 1]], a Zeta Hydran, of the Omniarch's plans who reveals that his kind can stun people using sound projection. Rix records the data and uses it against the prisoner, accidentally turning him into [[soup]]. Birch congratulates her and they head to the palace through a [[World War II]] secret passageway in the basement of a [[wine]] merchant's on [[St James's Street]] and bump into Savarin. They switch off the Hoplite Frequency and transmit the sound projection, but Birch is mortally wounded. | |||
Bambera escapes [[UNIT trooper (The Last Line of Defence)|her guard]] and is reunited with Savarin and Rix. The Zeta Hydri suffer because of the sound projection and Lydia tries to escape in a [[helicopter]], but Birch sabotages it and the helicopter crashes, after which Bambera arrests her. | |||
The Valge Majan rebels agree to a ceasefire to begin discussing terms of peace and UNIT cover up the Zeta Hydri invasion by claiming that the spacecraft was an untethered [[balloon]] from a film set. Bambera informs Savarin and Rix that [[UNIT Central Control]] have deemed UNIT-UK's headquarters and undefendable and that a new base will be built at the [[Tower of London]]. The trio celebrate the ushering in of the new [[millennium]] with [[champagne]]. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Birch (The Last Line of Defence)|Colonel Birch]] - [[Ian Abeysekera]] | * [[Birch (The Last Line of Defence)|Colonel Birch]] - [[Ian Abeysekera]] | ||
* [[The Omniarch]] - [[Lesley Ewen]] | * [[The Omniarch]] - [[Lesley Ewen]] | ||
* [[Esperanza|President Esperanza]] - [[Chandrika Chevli]] | * [[Fidelia Esperanza|President Esperanza]] - [[Chandrika Chevli]] | ||
* [[UNIT trooper (The Last Line of Defence)|UNIT Trooper]] - [[Timothy Blore]] | * [[UNIT trooper (The Last Line of Defence)|UNIT Trooper]] - [[Timothy Blore]] | ||
* [[Delegate (The Last Line of Defence)|Delegate]] - [[David Menkin]] | * [[Delegate (The Last Line of Defence)|Delegate]] - [[David Menkin]] | ||
* [[Zeta Hydran 1]] - [[Jason Forbes]] | * [[Zeta Hydran 1]] - [[Jason Forbes]] | ||
* [[Zeta Hydran 2]] - [[Nathaniel Curtis]] | * [[Zeta Hydran 2]] - [[Nathaniel Curtis]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
''to | * Savarin mentions the [[Y2K bug|Millennium Bug]]. | ||
* [[UNIT Internal Security]] assist with the conference security. | |||
* It was believed by the public that the conference would be held in [[Brasília]] or [[Geneva]]. | |||
* [[Samantha (The Last Line of Defence)|Samantha]] works at [[Jodrell Bank Observatory]]. | |||
* [[MI6]] are based at the [[Vauxhall Building]]. | |||
* [[Zeta Hydra IV]] is about 285 [[light-year]]s away. | |||
* [[MI6]] and the [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] used a secret passageway between a [[wine]] merchant's on [[St James's Street]] and [[St James's Palace]]. According to legend, it was used by [[James II]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
'' | * The [[Hoplite Frequency]] is used. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Frequency (audio story)|The Frequency]]'') | ||
* Rix mentions [[Helena McNamara]]'s death. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dark Side of the Moon (audio story)|Dark Side of the Moon]]'') | |||
* Savarin suggests Rix tries "reversing the polarity". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'' et al) | |||
* Bambera informs her team, Unit will be moving into the [[Tower of London]] in the new year. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'' et al) | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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[[Category:Visitants audio stories]] | [[Category:Visitants audio stories]] | ||
[[Category:Stories set in London]] | |||
[[Category:Stories set in 1999]] | |||
[[Category:Stories set in 2000]] | |||
