By Jacqui McGee (audio story): Difference between revisions
Vincent VG (talk | contribs) (Adding categories) |
No edit summary |
||
| (11 intermediate revisions by 4 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{title dab away}} | {{title dab away}} | ||
{{real world}} | {{real world}} | ||
{{Infobox Story | {{Infobox Story SMW | ||
|image = | |image = | ||
|series = ''[[Nemesis (audio series)|UNIT: Nemesis]]'' | |series = ''[[Nemesis (audio series)|UNIT: Nemesis]]'' | ||
|anthology = | |anthology = Objective: Earth (audio anthology) | ||
|range = Nemesis (audio series) {{!}} UNIT: Nemesis | |range = Nemesis (audio series) {{!}} UNIT: Nemesis | ||
|series in range = Objective: Earth (audio anthology) | |series in range = Objective: Earth (audio anthology) | ||
|series number in range = 3 | |series number in range = 3 | ||
|number in series = 2 | |number in series = 2 | ||
|main character = [[Kate Stewart]], [[Petronella Osgood|Osgood]] | |main character = [[Kate Stewart|Kate]], [[Petronella Osgood|Osgood]] | ||
|featuring = | |featuring = Jacqui McGee{{!}}Jacqui | ||
|featuring2 = Jimmy Tan | |featuring2 = Naomi Cross{{!}}Naomi | ||
| | |featuring3 = Jimmy Tan{{!}}Jimmy | ||
|enemy = [[ | |featuring4 = Yang Li{{!}}Li | ||
|setting = | |featuring5 = Krillen | ||
|writer = | |featuring6 = Josh Carter{{!}}Josh | ||
|enemy = [[Varliss]] | |||
|setting = [[Tromsø]], [[Alberta]] and [[Beijing]], [[2010s]] | |||
|writer = Lisa McMullin | |||
|director = [[Ken Bentley]] | |director = [[Ken Bentley]] | ||
|producer = [[Heather Challands]] | |producer = [[Heather Challands]] | ||
| Line 21: | Line 24: | ||
|sound = Howard Carter | |sound = Howard Carter | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 15 November 2022 | ||
|production code = BFPUNS11 | |production code = BFPUNS11 | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-83868-627-7 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-628-4 (digital) | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-83868-627-7 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-628-4 (digital) | ||
| Line 27: | Line 30: | ||
|prev = The Vulpreen Encounter (audio story) | |prev = The Vulpreen Encounter (audio story) | ||
|next = Axos Unleashed (audio story) | |next = Axos Unleashed (audio story) | ||
}} | |||
''''' | '''''By Jacqui McGee''''' was the second story in the audio anthology ''[[Objective: Earth (audio anthology)|Objective: Earth]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Lisa McMullin]] and featured [[Jemma Redgrave]] as [[Kate Stewart]], [[Ingrid Oliver]] as [[Petronella Osgood]], [[James Joyce (actor)|James Joyce]] as [[Josh Carter]], [[Chris Lew Kum Hoi]] as [[Jimmy Tan]], [[Eleanor Crooks]] as [[Naomi Cross]] and [[Tracy Wiles]] as [[Jacqui McGee]]. | ||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
As [[Kate Stewart]] and the [[UNIT]] team race to escape a [[Vulpreen]] assassination squad, [[Jacqui McGee]] uploads the most important report of her career. | As [[Kate Stewart]] and the [[UNIT]] team race to escape a [[Vulpreen]] assassination squad, [[Jacqui McGee]] uploads the most important report of her career. | ||
Vulpreen | Vulpreen [[Krillen|Commander Krillen]] is coordinating a hostile operation across planet [[Earth]]. But are the Vulpreen planning an immediate attack, or do they have something more sinister in mind? | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | [[Kate Stewart|Kate]], [[Petronella Osgood|Osgood]], [[Jimmy Tan|Jimmy]] and [[Jacqui McGee|Jacqui]] flee from the [[Vulpreen]], who release [[hunter drone]]s on [[Krillen|Commander Krillen]]'s orders. Kate sends their coordinates to [[Naomi Cross|Naomi]] and Jimmy steals a Vulpreen [[gun]] which he uses against a drone. Jacqui leads them to a [[fjord]] and distracts the Vulpreen whilst Osgood manages to create an air tunnel using the [[oxygen]]-recycling technology from her and Jimmy's air tanks and a drone's [[vacuum propulsion]], allowing her, Kate and Jimmy to breathe underwater and escape. When the tunnel breaks, the current carries them away. | ||
Jacqui is captured by Krillen and, with the others having seemingly disappeared, she is taken to the arch. He asks [[Varliss|Lord Varliss]] for four [[flying blade]]s to help find Kate and for the arches to be realigned to get Jacqui out of her friends' reach. Jacqui resists but is taken to [[China]] where the Vulpreen are fighting Chinese [[soldier]]s. Confined to a [[compression cube]] a second outside of time, she uses the [[transmitter]] that Kate gave her for the [[UNIT Cloud]] to record a message. | |||
Having seen the arch land from the [[Forbidden City]], [[tour guide]] [[Yang Li]] comes across the bodies of the soldiers and runs from Krillen and his men into the [[Temple of Heaven]]'s Hall of Prayer. She shows them the hidden passageway to the Forbidden City and is locked away in the compression cube with Jacqui, being kept alive for information on [[Beijing]]. Jacqui has found that time runs more quickly on one side of the room than the other and learns which city she is in from Li. | |||
Naomi has lost contact with Kate but knows from [[GPS]] tracking that she has managed to get to the mainland. [[Josh Carter|Josh]] sends her information on arches in Beijing and [[Alberta]], the same province that [[the Eleven]] is currently being held in, to show Kate when she finds her. Kate contacts her and sends coded coordinates of the arch to Josh so that his operatives can search for Jacqui. Naomi spots the flying blades heading for Kate, Osgood and Jimmy's [[Jeep]] and rescues them with the [[helicopter]]'s winch. | |||
Osgood and Naomi head to Alberta and Kate is contacted by Krillen, who offers to exchange her for Jacqui at [[Tromsø]] in six hours. Jacqui blinks in [[Morse code]] to tell Kate about her recordings in the UNIT Cloud, letting her know that she is in China, and helps Li escape the cube by utilising the time differential when a Vulpreen comes to collect them. Li jumps through the arch and arrives in [[Canada]] where she is sighted by Krillen and flees. Later, Osgood and Naomi follow her footprints and find her and give her a [[survival suit]] to warm her up. | |||
Krillen prepares to take Jacqui through the arch, but Kate and Jimmy stop him and demand that he hand her over. An alarm sounds when Naomi is caught in a [[temporal snare]] in Alberta and Jacqui threatens to use a [[temporal grenade]] that she took from a Vulpreen to destroy the arch. She tells Kate and Jimmy to leave and detonates the grenade, ageing herself and Krillen and preventing the Vulpreen from using the arch to get to Osgood and Naomi. Jacqui dies in Kate's arms. | |||
Osgood saves Naomi from the snare with a [[chrono-gauge]] and, as [[UNIT Canada]] soldiers approach, the arch glows brightly as does the one in Beijing. Golden creatures emerge from the arches and Kate recognises them as [[Axon]]s. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
| Line 43: | Line 58: | ||
* [[Jacqui McGee]] - [[Tracy Wiles]] | * [[Jacqui McGee]] - [[Tracy Wiles]] | ||
* [[Naomi Cross]] - [[Eleanor Crooks]] | * [[Naomi Cross]] - [[Eleanor Crooks]] | ||
* | * [[Jimmy Tan]] - [[Chris Lew Kum Hoi]] | ||
* [[Yang Li]] - [[Suan-Li Ong]] | * [[Yang Li]] - [[Suan-Li Ong]] | ||
* | * [[Krillen|Commander Krillen]] - [[David Holt]] | ||
* | * [[Josh Carter]] - [[James Joyce (actor)|James Joyce]] | ||
* | * [[Varliss|Lord Varliss]] - [[Alisdair Simpson]] | ||
== | === Uncredited === | ||
''to be | * [[Vulpreen deputy|Vulpreen Deputy]] - [[Daniel Easton]] ([[BFX]]: ''By Jacqui McGee'') | ||
== Worldbuilding == | |||
* Kate activates [[Protocol 370]]. | |||
* The Vulpreen use [[hunter drone]]s. | |||
* Osgood uses her [[inhaler]]. | |||
* Naomi stops in [[Trondheim]] to refuel. | |||
* The [[Forbidden City]] was the imperial palace and winter residence of the [[Emperor of China]] for more than five centuries and was the epicentre of political life from the [[Ming Dynasty]] through to the [[Qing Dynasty]]. | |||
* Osgood always wanted to see the [[fjord]]s. | |||
* Osgood mentions the [[Animoi]]. | |||
* Jimmy loves [[whitewater rafting]]. | |||
* Varliss is just beyond [[Jupiter]]'s orbit. | |||
* The Vulpreen use [[time grenade]]s and [[temporal snare]]s. | |||
* [[Yang Li]] talks to [[Yang Li's mother|her mother]] over the [[telephone]]. | |||
* The arch landed near the [[Temple of Heaven]]. | |||
* [[The Eleven]] gave the Vulpreen [[compression cube]]s, a [[Time Lord]] invention. | |||
* [[China]] no longer has emperors. | |||
* An arch has landed near [[Fort McKay]] in [[Canada]]. | |||
* The Eleven is currently on a secure island in the middle of [[Lake Claire]] in [[Alberta]]. | |||
* Kate credits [[Fiona Lethbridge-Stewart|her mother]] with teaching her evasive manoeuvres. | |||
* Jacqui blinks in [[Morse code]]. | |||
* China agrees to cooperate with UNIT to an unprecedented degree in return for military assistance against the Vulpreen. Kate tells Josh not to tell [[NATO]]. | |||
* When Jimmy says that [[James Bond]] would never be seen in a [[tuk-tuk]], Kate asks if he is never seen ''[[Octopussy]]''. | |||
* [[UNIT Canada]] keep an eye on the arch in Alberta. | |||
* Osgood uses a [[chrono-gauge]] to analyse the snare. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
| Line 56: | Line 95: | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
''to | * Naomi mentions that Osgood and Jimmy were on the ''[[Starseeker]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Vulpreen Encounter (audio story)|The Vulpreen Encounter]]'') | ||
* Osgood mentions the [[Animoi]], who crashed into the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] a few years ago. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tempest (audio story)|Tempest]]'') | |||
* Kate gave Jacqui a [[UNIT Cloud transmitter]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Vulpreen Encounter (audio story)|The Vulpreen Encounter]]'') | |||
* Jacqui has been held prisoner by the Vulpreen before. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curator's Gambit (audio story)|The Curator's Gambit]]'', ''[[The Man From Gallifrey (audio story)|The Man From Gallifrey]]'') | |||
* Jacqui once said that she was not sure that she would be able to sacrifice her own life. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death on the Mile (audio story)|Death on the Mile]]'') | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
| Line 63: | Line 106: | ||
{{BFU}} | {{BFU}} | ||
{{TitleSort}} | {{TitleSort}} | ||
[[Category:Objective: Earth audio stories]] | [[Category:Objective: Earth audio stories]] | ||
[[Category:Stories set in Norway]] | [[Category:Stories set in Norway]] | ||
[[Category:Stories set in China]] | [[Category:Stories set in China]] | ||
[[Category:Stories set in Canada]] | |||
Latest revision as of 21:51, 6 April 2024
By Jacqui McGee was the second story in the audio anthology Objective: Earth, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Lisa McMullin and featured Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart, Ingrid Oliver as Petronella Osgood, James Joyce as Josh Carter, Chris Lew Kum Hoi as Jimmy Tan, Eleanor Crooks as Naomi Cross and Tracy Wiles as Jacqui McGee.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
As Kate Stewart and the UNIT team race to escape a Vulpreen assassination squad, Jacqui McGee uploads the most important report of her career.
Vulpreen Commander Krillen is coordinating a hostile operation across planet Earth. But are the Vulpreen planning an immediate attack, or do they have something more sinister in mind?
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Kate, Osgood, Jimmy and Jacqui flee from the Vulpreen, who release hunter drones on Commander Krillen's orders. Kate sends their coordinates to Naomi and Jimmy steals a Vulpreen gun which he uses against a drone. Jacqui leads them to a fjord and distracts the Vulpreen whilst Osgood manages to create an air tunnel using the oxygen-recycling technology from her and Jimmy's air tanks and a drone's vacuum propulsion, allowing her, Kate and Jimmy to breathe underwater and escape. When the tunnel breaks, the current carries them away.
Jacqui is captured by Krillen and, with the others having seemingly disappeared, she is taken to the arch. He asks Lord Varliss for four flying blades to help find Kate and for the arches to be realigned to get Jacqui out of her friends' reach. Jacqui resists but is taken to China where the Vulpreen are fighting Chinese soldiers. Confined to a compression cube a second outside of time, she uses the transmitter that Kate gave her for the UNIT Cloud to record a message.
Having seen the arch land from the Forbidden City, tour guide Yang Li comes across the bodies of the soldiers and runs from Krillen and his men into the Temple of Heaven's Hall of Prayer. She shows them the hidden passageway to the Forbidden City and is locked away in the compression cube with Jacqui, being kept alive for information on Beijing. Jacqui has found that time runs more quickly on one side of the room than the other and learns which city she is in from Li.
Naomi has lost contact with Kate but knows from GPS tracking that she has managed to get to the mainland. Josh sends her information on arches in Beijing and Alberta, the same province that the Eleven is currently being held in, to show Kate when she finds her. Kate contacts her and sends coded coordinates of the arch to Josh so that his operatives can search for Jacqui. Naomi spots the flying blades heading for Kate, Osgood and Jimmy's Jeep and rescues them with the helicopter's winch.
Osgood and Naomi head to Alberta and Kate is contacted by Krillen, who offers to exchange her for Jacqui at Tromsø in six hours. Jacqui blinks in Morse code to tell Kate about her recordings in the UNIT Cloud, letting her know that she is in China, and helps Li escape the cube by utilising the time differential when a Vulpreen comes to collect them. Li jumps through the arch and arrives in Canada where she is sighted by Krillen and flees. Later, Osgood and Naomi follow her footprints and find her and give her a survival suit to warm her up.
Krillen prepares to take Jacqui through the arch, but Kate and Jimmy stop him and demand that he hand her over. An alarm sounds when Naomi is caught in a temporal snare in Alberta and Jacqui threatens to use a temporal grenade that she took from a Vulpreen to destroy the arch. She tells Kate and Jimmy to leave and detonates the grenade, ageing herself and Krillen and preventing the Vulpreen from using the arch to get to Osgood and Naomi. Jacqui dies in Kate's arms.
Osgood saves Naomi from the snare with a chrono-gauge and, as UNIT Canada soldiers approach, the arch glows brightly as does the one in Beijing. Golden creatures emerge from the arches and Kate recognises them as Axons.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Kate Stewart - Jemma Redgrave
- Osgood - Ingrid Oliver
- Jacqui McGee - Tracy Wiles
- Naomi Cross - Eleanor Crooks
- Jimmy Tan - Chris Lew Kum Hoi
- Yang Li - Suan-Li Ong
- Commander Krillen - David Holt
- Josh Carter - James Joyce
- Lord Varliss - Alisdair Simpson
Uncredited[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Vulpreen Deputy - Daniel Easton (BFX: By Jacqui McGee)
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Kate activates Protocol 370.
- The Vulpreen use hunter drones.
- Osgood uses her inhaler.
- Naomi stops in Trondheim to refuel.
- The Forbidden City was the imperial palace and winter residence of the Emperor of China for more than five centuries and was the epicentre of political life from the Ming Dynasty through to the Qing Dynasty.
- Osgood always wanted to see the fjords.
- Osgood mentions the Animoi.
- Jimmy loves whitewater rafting.
- Varliss is just beyond Jupiter's orbit.
- The Vulpreen use time grenades and temporal snares.
- Yang Li talks to her mother over the telephone.
- The arch landed near the Temple of Heaven.
- The Eleven gave the Vulpreen compression cubes, a Time Lord invention.
- China no longer has emperors.
- An arch has landed near Fort McKay in Canada.
- The Eleven is currently on a secure island in the middle of Lake Claire in Alberta.
- Kate credits her mother with teaching her evasive manoeuvres.
- Jacqui blinks in Morse code.
- China agrees to cooperate with UNIT to an unprecedented degree in return for military assistance against the Vulpreen. Kate tells Josh not to tell NATO.
- When Jimmy says that James Bond would never be seen in a tuk-tuk, Kate asks if he is never seen Octopussy.
- UNIT Canada keep an eye on the arch in Alberta.
- Osgood uses a chrono-gauge to analyse the snare.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Naomi mentions that Osgood and Jimmy were on the Starseeker. (AUDIO: The Vulpreen Encounter)
- Osgood mentions the Animoi, who crashed into the Atlantic a few years ago. (AUDIO: Tempest)
- Kate gave Jacqui a UNIT Cloud transmitter. (AUDIO: The Vulpreen Encounter)
- Jacqui has been held prisoner by the Vulpreen before. (AUDIO: The Curator's Gambit, The Man From Gallifrey)
- Jacqui once said that she was not sure that she would be able to sacrifice her own life. (AUDIO: Death on the Mile)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official By Jacqui McGee page at bigfinish.com
