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|image = Death and the Daleks cover.jpg | |||
series= | |range = BSSR | ||
number= 19| | |series in range = Series 4 (BFBS) | ||
main character= [[Bernice Summerfield]]| | |series number in range = 4 | ||
featuring= | |number in series = 4 | ||
enemy= | |story number = 19 | ||
|number = 4 | |||
|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | |||
|featuring = Jason Kane | |||
|featuring2 = Adrian Wall | |||
|featuring3 = Irving Braxiatel | |||
release date= | |featuring4 = Joseph (Steal from the World) | ||
format= 2 CDs | |featuring5 = Bev Tarrant | ||
production code= | |featuring6 = Clarissa Jones{{!}}Ms Jones | ||
isbn= ISBN | |featuring7 = Crofton | ||
|featuring8 = Isaac Summerfield II | |||
|featuring9 = Mushtaq Anson{{!}}Anson | |||
|featuring10 = Bernard Moskof{{!}}Moskof | |||
|featuring11 = Peter Summerfield | |||
|enemy = [[Dalek]]s | |||
|setting = [[Braxiatel Collection]] and [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]], [[2602]] | |||
|writer = Paul Cornell | |||
|director = [[Gary Russell]] | |||
|producer = [[Gary Russell]] | |||
|music = [[David Darlington]] | |||
|sound = David Darlington | |||
|cover = [[Adrian Salmon]] | |||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |||
|release date = February 2004 | |||
|format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | |||
|epcount = 2 | |||
|production code = BFPCD19 | |||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-043-8 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-83868-491-4 (digital) | |||
|series = ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio stories | |||
|prev = The Poison Seas (audio story) | |||
|next = The Grel Escape (audio story) | |||
|series2 = ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' | |||
|prev2 = Life During Wartime (anthology) | |||
|next2 = The Big Hunt (novel) | |||
}} | |||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the final audio story of the fourth season of the ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' series. It was a direct sequel to the short story anthology ''[[Life During Wartime (anthology)|Life During Wartime]].'' | |||
It was unusual, though not unique, in that it began with a "previously on Bernice Summerfield" segment, which brought listeners up to speed with the details of the [[Fifth Axis]] Occupation of the [[Braxiatel Collection]] covered in ''[[Life During Wartime (anthology)|Life During Wartime]]''. | |||
Written by Benny's creator [[Paul Cornell]], this story revisited the planet [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]], the planet where she first met the Doctor. This story also revealed greater details about the [[Fifth Axis]], a group first introduced in ''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript (novel)|The Doomsday Manuscript]]'', the first full length Big Finish ''Bernice Summerfield'' novel published in 2000. It also debuted [[Isaac Summerfield II|Benny's father]] on audio. | |||
It was an unusual length, the first 2 CD Bernice Summerfield audio story since ''[[Just War (audio story)|Just War]]'' and the only original ''Bernice Summerfield'' audio story to be 2 CDs long as of March 2018. | |||
The second CD also includes the bonus story ''[[Closure (audio story)|Closure]], ''originally released as part of the audio anthology ''[[Buried Treasures (audio anthology)|Buried Treasures]].'' | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
The [[Braxiatel Collection]] has been occupied by the [[Fifth Axis]], who seem to be led by a figure from | The [[Braxiatel Collection]] has been occupied by the [[Fifth Axis]], who seem to be led by a figure from [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice's]] past. Behind this mysterious man lies the evil [[time travel|time-travelling]] power of the [[Dalek]]s. | ||
As | As Bernice's friends rise up to end the occupation, Bernice embarks on a desperate rescue mission, to [[Heaven (Love and War)|somewhere]] she last went long ago. | ||
Braxiatel confronts his destiny, [[Jason Kane|Jason]] risks all for his love, and lives are shattered and lost, as the battle of the Braxiatel Collection reaches its epic conclusion. | [[Irving Braxiatel|Braxiatel]] confronts his destiny, [[Jason Kane|Jason]] risks all for his love, and lives are shattered and lost, as the battle of the Braxiatel Collection reaches its epic conclusion. | ||
Our heroes will live free or die... | Our heroes will live free or die... | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | === Part one === | ||
After downloading [[Fifth Axis]] security data to her [[pass card]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] sees her father, [[Isaac Summerfield II|Isaac]], on a screen and removes her disguise, but he claims not to know her and tells her that he leads the Fifth Axis fleet. He raises the alarm and she runs away to [[Jason Kane|Jason]], telling him that she believes him to be under [[mind control]] and giving him the pass card to have analysed. The next day, she visits [[Irving Braxiatel|Braxiatel]], who has been repeatedly questioned by [[Mushtaq Anson|Marshal Anson]] about the whereabouts of [[Irving Braxiatel's TARDIS|his time capsule]], and updates him on what she has learnt. | |||
Jason shows Benny that Isaac's transmissions seem to be relayed from [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]]. She manipulates Anson into letting her go there on an [[archaeology|archaeological]] mission and says farewell to [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], telling him that she loves him in case he is killed whilst she is away. After saying goodbye to [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], Benny heads off with Jason, whom she is surprised to learn has been given permission to join her. They follow the signal to the [[Heavenite]] arch where, after fleeing from [[Dalek]]s, they find Isaac being used as a [[battle computer]] and release him, but they are caught and questioned. The Daleks confirm that they kidnapped Isaac from the [[20th century]] to exploit his knowledge. | |||
[[Bernard Moskof|Lieutenant Moskof]] interrogates [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]] about the [[Braxiatel Collection Revolutionary Council]], but [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]] knocks him out and rescues her, having been told by Jason not to worry about the Axis learning of their security data having been compromised as the resistance will receive the new codes once transmitted. During a food [[riot]], Bev tells [[Clarissa Jones|Ms Jones]] about Moskof's actions, but she remains largely sympathetic towards him and asks her to allow her and Moskof to escape the Collection together. Adrian is informed by Moskof that he and the other [[Killoran]]s are to be deported to the [[Fifth Axis homeworld]], but they protest and Braxiatel tells the resistance to rebel tonight. | |||
Using the energy contained in Jason's fat suit, Benny gets herself and Jason out of their prison cell and they go back for Isaac, escaping by [[hoverbike]] as the Daleks chase them on [[transolar disc]]s. They reach the Fifth Axis [[spaceship]] they arrived in and fly back to the Collection, Isaac comforting Benny when the Fifth Axis [[archaeologist]]s they left behind are firebombed by the Daleks. Benny sends a coded message to Joseph for Braxiatel to warn him of the Daleks ("doubtless anyone listening expects kind sentiments"), leading Braxiatel to dematerialise his time capsule, previously disguised as his office, with Anson still inside. The Daleks, Benny says, must not take her or her friends alive. | |||
=== Part two === | |||
Isaac is able to escape the pursuing Daleks in [[hyperspace]] and, when they arrive on the Collection, he and Benny go to find Peter whilst Jason gets in contact with his [[mercenary|mercenaries]], whom Bev has called in to assist in the liberation. Anson escapes when Braxiatel hands him over to Adrian, who then leads the Killorans against the Axis and joins Jason. [[Crofton|Mister Crofton]] dies in Jason's arms, telling him that he helped the revolution for [[Jane Crofton|his wife]] and asks him to ensure that his [[will]] is honoured. Moskof rejects Ms Jones when she suggests that they leave the Collection together and pretends to have been using her as a hostage the entire time when the rebels come to [[hanging|hang]] her as a [[traitor]]. When he is cornered by Benny and Isaac, he shoots himself rather than be [[arrest]]ed. | |||
Braxiatel demands the Fifth Axis's [[surrender]] and has the irregulars capture and detain their surviving [[soldier]]s. At Isaac's suggestion, Braxiatel takes him, Benny, Jason and Bev to the Dalek control centre in his capsule, but Isaac falls back under Dalek control and sends the capsule down a [[time contour]] to be seized by the Daleks. Braxiatel tries to kill Isaac upon realising that the Daleks' goal had always been to acquire his capsule, but Benny and Adrian stop him and Isaac gets control of himself once again. They are pursued down the time contour by a [[DARDIS|Dalek time machine]] and Benny suggests that Braxiatel materialise the capsule at the control centre as planned to introduce the Fifth Axis to their true masters. | |||
The two time machines materialise and the Fifth Axis attack the Daleks, believing them to be inferior beings due to them being [[alien]]s and managing to kill several of them by aiming for the [[eyestalk]]s per Isaac's instruction, but not before Anson is killed. The Axis are then made to surrender to Benny and her friends and enter Braxiatel's time capsule. Benny tells Jason that she wants them to resume their relationship and Jason kills the final Dalek whilst Braxiatel uses the Daleks' time capsule and his own technology to put together something similar to the Dalek battle computer, which he then has Isaac use to decimate the Fifth Axis; he sends some fleets into [[black hole]]s, some towards a [[Draconian]] fleet and manipulates others into damaging their own homeworld's defences. | |||
Braxiatel travels in his capsule to negotiate with a number of spacefaring powers for their protection and invites aliens back to the Collection to examine what is left of Fifth Axis culture. He also hires Bev as his [[personal assistant]]. Benny catches up with Isaac, who stays to help with the reconstruction, and declines his offer to go back to the 20th century with him but promises to visit him in Braxiatel's capsule. She visits Ms Jones when she comes out of hiding to resume her job and invites her to join her, Jason and Bev at [[Café Vosta]]. | |||
The story of the end of the Fifth Axis occupation is told every [[Liberation Day]] to help remember those who died. On one such day, Benny presents the centrepiece of the [[Garden of Whispers]] as stipulated by Mister Crofton's will: two burgundy [[crystal]] [[lily|lilies]] which will remain there forever in memory of him and his wife. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Jason Kane]] - [[Stephen Fewell]] | * [[Jason Kane]] - [[Stephen Fewell]] | ||
* [[Adrian Wall]] - [[Harry Myers]] | * [[Adrian Wall]] - [[Harry Myers]] | ||
* [[Joseph ( | * [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]] - [[Steven Wickham]] | ||
* [[Bev Tarrant]] - [[Louise | * [[Bev Tarrant]] - [[Louise Faulkner]] | ||
* [[Clarissa Jones|Ms Jones]] - [[Beverley Cressman]] | * [[Clarissa Jones|Ms Jones]] - [[Beverley Cressman]] | ||
* [[Crofton|Mister Crofton]] / [[Dalek|The Daleks]] - [[Nicholas Briggs]] | * [[Crofton|Mister Crofton]] / [[Dalek|The Daleks]] - [[Nicholas Briggs]] | ||
* [[Isaac Summerfield]] - [[Ian Collier]] | * [[Isaac Summerfield II|Isaac Summerfield]] - [[Ian Collier]] | ||
* [[Mushtaq Anson|Marshal Anson]] - [[Michael Shallard]] | * [[Mushtaq Anson|Marshal Anson]] - [[Michael Shallard]] | ||
* [[Bernard Moskof]] - [[Andrew Westfield]] | * [[Bernard Moskof]] - [[Andrew Westfield]] | ||
== | == Crew == | ||
* Cover Art - [[Adrian Salmon]] | |||
* Producer & Director - [[Gary Russell]] | |||
* Executive Producer - [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] | |||
* Music & Sound Design - [[David Darlington]] | |||
* Writer - [[Paul Cornell]] | |||
* Daleks created by [[Terry Nation]] | |||
== Worldbuilding == | |||
=== Art === | |||
* Braxiatel has a [[J. M. W. Turner]] [[painting]]. | |||
=== | === Daleks === | ||
* The Daleks use Isaac Summerfield as a [[Dalek Battle Computer]]. | * The Daleks use Isaac Summerfield as a [[Dalek Battle Computer]]. | ||
=== [[ | === Foods and beverages === | ||
* Benny sees her father | * Braxiatel drinks [[lapsang souchong]] and eats [[Kunzle cake]]s. | ||
* Benny mocks the Daleks stating they couldn't "exterminate [their] way out of a [[tomato]]". | |||
=== Individuals === | |||
* Benny sees her father, Isaac Summerfield, who appears to be posing as the leader of the [[Fifth Axis]]. | |||
* This is the first confirmation that [[Irving Braxiatel]] is a [[Time Lord]] as he has a [[TARDIS]]. | * This is the first confirmation that [[Irving Braxiatel]] is a [[Time Lord]] as he has a [[TARDIS]]. | ||
* Bernice mentions [[Winston Churchill]], [[Napoléon Bonaparte]] and [[Alexander the Great]]. | * Bernice mentions [[Winston Churchill]], [[Napoléon Bonaparte]] and [[Alexander the Great]]. | ||
* [[Mira (Ship of Fools)|Mira]] is one of Jason's irregulars. | |||
=== | === Planets === | ||
* Benny and Jason track the transmission to the planet [[Heaven]]. | * Benny and Jason track the transmission to the planet [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]]. The planet Heaven was the place where Benny first met the [[Seventh Doctor]] in ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]''. | ||
=== | === Species === | ||
* Marshal Anson mentions the [[Hoothi]] when speaking of Heaven. | * Marshal Anson mentions the [[Hoothi]] when speaking of Heaven. | ||
* Joseph delivers a message from Bernice to Braxiatel which reads | * Joseph delivers a message from Bernice to Braxiatel which reads "'''D'''oubtless '''A'''nyone '''L'''istening '''E'''xpects '''K'''ind '''S'''entiment" to alert him to who are really pulling the strings. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* To keep the secret of the | [[File:Axis of Evil cover.jpg|thumb|Fake "Axis of Evil" cover.]] | ||
* To keep the secret of the Daleks' involvement in this audio, Big Finish released a fake cover for this audio (on their website) under the title ''The Axis of Evil''. | |||
* This audio drama was recorded on [[14 December]] [[2003]]. | * This audio drama was recorded on [[14 December (production)|14 December]] [[2003 (production)|2003]]. | ||
* This story debuts a new theme tune composed by [[Simon Robinson]] for [[Series 5 (BFBS)|series 5]] and onwards until Simon composed a secondary version. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Bernice voices a | * Bernice voices a "previously on Bernice Summerfield" detailing the events of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Life During Wartime (anthology)|Life During Wartime]]''. | ||
* Benny mentions [[Heaven]] and the [[Hoothi]]. ([[ | * Benny mentions [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]] and the [[Hoothi]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'') | ||
* The Daleks use a battle computer as the [[Renegade Dalek]]s did in [[Shoreditch]], [[London]] in [[1963]]. ([[ | * The Daleks use a battle computer as the [[Renegade Dalek]]s did in [[Shoreditch]], [[London]] in [[November]] [[1963]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') | ||
* Bernice mentions the Daleks making duplicates, which they last experimented with in [[ | * Bernice mentions the Daleks making duplicates, which they last experimented with in [[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]''. | ||
* Bernice also mentions when she first met the [[Vardan]]s. ([[ | * Bernice also mentions when she first met the [[Vardan]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') | ||
* Bernice mentions the [[Movellan]]s, when saying they were able to defeat the Daleks for centuries, making the universe look like a disco. She also mentions their weakness, of removing the hipside powerpacks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]'') | |||
* Braxiatel listens to ''[[The Magic Flute]]'' to relax, as [[Romana II]] did during her Presidency. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Weapon of Choice (audio story)|Weapon of Choice]]'') | |||
* '' | * Bernice mentions that the Daleks' once manipulated [[Earth Empire|one empire]] against [[Draconian Empire|another]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') | ||
* '' | * [[Parasiel]] attended the lecture Benny delivered on the occupation, the framing story of this adventure. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Goddess Quandary (audio story)|The Goddess Quandary]]'') | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
{{bigfinish|releases/v/death-and-the-daleks-58|Death and the Daleks}} | |||
{{dwrefguide|bs_a12.htm|Death and the Daleks}} | |||
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