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| |image = The Last Day part one.jpg | | |spoil = yes |
| |number in range = 14 | | |image = The Last Day part two.jpg |
| |main character = [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]], [[Melanie Bush|Mel]], [[Hex]], [[Sally Morgan|Sally]], [[Lysandra Aristedes|Lysandra]] | | |number in range = 15 |
| |featuring = [[Vienna Salvatori|Vienna]], [[Decayed Master]], [[Hob]], [[Kane (Dragonfire)|Kane]], [[Garundel]], [[Finsey]], [[Cassie Morgan-Schofield|Cassie]], [[Dark Citizen (Dark Universe)|Dark Citizen]] | | |doctor = Seventh Doctor |
| |enemy = [[Seventh Doctor]] | | |companion = Ace |
| |setting = [[President Ace's Earth|Alternate Earth]], [[Gallifrey]] | | |companion2 = Melanie Bush{{!}}Mel |
| |only release = [[28 December (releases)|28 December]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] (Part 1) | | |companion3 = Bernice Summerfield{{!}}Benny |
| | |companion4 = Hex |
| | |companion5 = Sally Morgan{{!}}Sally |
| | |companion6 = Lysandra Aristedes{{!}}Lysandra |
| | |companion7 = Roz Forrester |
| | |companion8 = Chris Cwej |
| |writer = [[Matt Fitton]] & [[Guy Adams]] | | |writer = [[Matt Fitton]] & [[Guy Adams]] |
| |director = [[Sam Clemens]] | | |director = [[Sam Clemens]] |
| |producer = [[Emma Haigh]] | | |producer = [[Emma Haigh]] |
| |music = [[Joe Kraemer]] | | |music = |
| |sound = [[Steve Foxon]] | | |sound = |
| |cover = [[Oliver Chenery]] | | |cover = |
| |publisher = Big Finish Productions | | |publisher = Big Finish Productions |
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| |release date = [[28 December (releases)|28 December]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] (Part 1) | | |only release = [[June (releases)|June]] [[2024 (releases)|2024]] |
| |production code = BFPDWDR0704 | | |production codes = BFPDWDR0705 |
| |isbn = ISBN 978-1-83868-894-3 (physical, Part 1); ISBN 978-1-83868-895-0 (digital, Part 1) | | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-80240-179-0 (physical); ISBN 978-1-80240-180-6 (digital) |
| |series = ''[[The Seventh Doctor Adventures]]'' | | |series = ''[[The Seventh Doctor Adventures]]'' |
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| '''''The Last Day''''' was an audio story comprising the fourteenth and fifteenth releases of ''[[The Seventh Doctor Adventures]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Matt Fitton]] and [[Guy Adams]] and starred [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the [[Seventh Doctor]]. | | '''''The Last Day Parts 7-12''''', also called '''''The Last Day 2''''' or '''''The Last Day Part Two''''', was an audio anthology including the final six parts of the story ''The Last Day'' and comprising the fifteenth release of ''[[The Seventh Doctor Adventures]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Matt Fitton]] and [[Guy Adams]] and featured [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the [[Seventh Doctor]]. |
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| ''Part One'', containing the first six parts of the story, was released on [[28 December (releases)|28 December]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]].
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| == Publisher's summary == | | == Publisher's summary == |
| === Part one ===
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| There is always injustice to fight. There is always a new danger for the universe. But what if [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] found a way to put things right, once and for all? Would it really be so terrible to take a stand? Would the end justify the means? And would his friends agree? The Seventh Doctor’s last day is coming... | | There is always injustice to fight. There is always a new danger for the universe. But what if [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] found a way to put things right, once and for all? Would it really be so terrible to take a stand? Would the end justify the means? And would his friends agree? The Seventh Doctor’s last day is coming... |
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| == Plot ==
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| === Part one ===
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| On [[Ungar]], [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] runs from the [[voice]] of a carnivorous [[hotel]] and is rescued by [[Ace]] in [[the TARDIS]], neither of which she entirely recognises. The ship struggles to fly through the broken universe, which was caused by somebody taking complete control of it and which Ace believes could be responsible for Mel's [[memory]] problems. Mel remembers [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] and Ace explains that she is gathering people to save the universe since the Doctor is lost. She agrees to help and Ace leaves her in a [[desert]] where she soon meets [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]].
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| [[Hex]] wakes up from a [[dream]] about a giant [[frog]] and takes his and [[Sally Morgan|Sally]]'s youngest children, [[Damien Morgan-Schofield|Damo]] and [[Evie Morgan-Schofield|Evie]], to [[school]] on the way to the [[hospital]] where he works as a [[healthcare manager]]. He gets stuck at work and sees on the news that the [[World Administration]] are cutting [[rations]] and instituting new security measures which [[Dee McShane|the President]] will later be giving a speech on. Whilst he is on the phone with Sally, Ace, whom he recognises from his dreams, uses [[psychic paper]] to pretend to be an inspector and gets him to help move her cases into the hospital.
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| Ace tells Hex that she used to travel with him and Sally, something he has no memory of, and gives him with a beeping device after the presidential address begins, telling him that it will change the way he sees things. Watching the speech, he recognises that Ace is almost identical to President McShane. Elsewhere, [[Decayed Master|the Master]] is rescued from being buried alive by Ace, who stuns his [[superstition|superstitious]] attackers and demands his help in saving the universe.
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| === Part two ===
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| Ace infiltrates [[Kane (Dragonfire)|Kane]]'s relaxation room on [[Proamon]] and threatens him with a [[flamethrower]], forcing him to watch how she captured [[Garundel]] to join in her mission to save the universe. Kane does not believe that she is capable of killing somebody in cold blood and is proven right when she refuses his order to kill his [[guard]]s, but she claims that she would indeed kill if provoked.
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| Ace shows Kane how she and Garundel travelled to the [[Mother's Milk Benevolent Association]]'s [[orphanage]] where the children, kept silent by [[negation field]]s, tied the two of them up to be questioned by [[Finsey|Mother Finsey]]. She also met with [[Vienna Salvatori|Vienna]] in a [[restaurant]], but Vienna refused to hear her out and was killed in an attack by the [[Dark Citizen]]s, the [[reality]]-destroying enemy that Ace is trying to fight. Whilst Kane does not believe that the Dark Citizens can be defeated, the Master, who got Garundel and the Mother to join the cause, assures him that he can.
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| Kane joins the group to protect his way of life and Ace explains that the Dark Citizens are acting under the orders of the person that they need to defeat, somebody far more dangerous and feared than the Master, the Mother, Kane or Garundel. Inside the TARDIS, Ace presents this threat: the Doctor, who asks about the state of his universe.
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| === Part three ===
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| On [[Gallifrey]], the Doctor, as [[President of the High Council]], visits the captive [[Krasi President (The Last Day)|Krasi President]], watches a [[religion|religious]] [[war]] on [[Hemera]] which he decides not to put an end to and gets an update on the [[Thal]]s, who are living in peace in the absence of the [[Dalek]]s. He is contacted by President McShane, the version of Ace whom he deemed best-suited to hold the [[human]] race back from developing advanced technology per his plans to keep [[Earth]] safe, and he advises her not to worry about the other version of herself out there.
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| The Krasi President reflects on how she feared for her position when she destroyed an [[island]] on [[Krasi Major]] under the mistaken belief that the residents were making [[chemical weapon]]s when, in truth, they were making [[fertiliser]]. The Doctor claims that he has no such concerns as he is able to continually rewrite history to ensure a good outcome and is not worried about the possibility of the [[Krasi]] coming for their President, explaining that they have already made an attempt and he had them wiped out of existence. Privately, he admits to the Dark Citizens that he doubts himself.
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| Returning to the planet of the [[Tuffleshrew]]s, who cannot speak but whom he likes to talk to, the Doctor finds the [[corpse]] of the [[exile]]d [[Irving Braxiatel|Braxiatel]] and leaves him to be devoured by [[bird]]s. He visits Hemera, now at peace thanks to his interference in the planet's history, and puts one of the [[orchid]]s he admires so much in his buttonhole. He declines a [[Hemeran]]'s offer of [[lemonade]] as he is always too busy, although he always has time for orchids.
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| === Part four ===
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| Mel and Benny head across the dying planet, experiencing [[time shift]]s and avoiding [[Ogron]]s installed with [[cranial leash]]es which cause them [[pain]] until they complete their tasks, and enter a series of [[cave]]s in search of a machine Ace asked them to recover. Having a [[data pad]] connected to [[the Matrix]], Benny informs Mel that they are on the original Gallifrey and that the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] buried the machine beneath the [[Panopticon]] due to its reality-warping powers being capable of preventing its own destruction through time shifts.
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| The pair of them fall into a pit of [[batsnake]]s whilst using a [[gravity grapple]] and damage their [[torch]]es, so they use the light from Benny's data pad to keep the creatures back and light their way. They find the machine, the [[Quantum Possibility Engine]], and decide to use it to warp reality and transport themselves to the surface with it. However, it vanishes as [[Hob]] arrives with one of his Ogron [[slave]]s. The vengeful Hob orders the Ogron to kill Mel and Benny, neither of whom know who he is despite his grandiose introduction.
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| === Part five ===
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| Hex and Sally get Cassie to take Damo and Evie to school so they can talk about Ace, whom Sally believes is a figment of his imagination, and Lysandra, whose [[Global Security]] [[soldier]]s President McShane has replaced with an elite [[alien]] force. Afterwards, Hex joins [[Gina Peters|Miss Peters]] in chaperoning Cassie's class's visit to the [[Government Hub]] and is concerned to learn that Cassie has a private audience with President McShane to discuss her ideas about [[energy]]. He refuses to allow her to go and attempts to call Sally, but [[security guard (The Last Day)|a security guard]] destroys his phone and locks him up.
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| The Doctor observes the meeting with Cassie and tells President McShane that he is impressed by Cassie, whom he intends to use against Hex and Sally. President McShane then shows the imprisoned Hex Cassie drinking [[milkshake]]s on the other side of [[one-way glass]] and reveals that she has the same dreams that he does, elaborating on them in her office and reminding him of the Doctor. As the Doctor's voice tells him to relax, President McShane subjects him to a machine and he passes out.
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| Sally learns from Lysandra that they have been permanently reassigned to protecting the coast and joins her in flying ''[[Pegasus One]]'' to a secret security compound in [[Jersey]]. On the way, Sally asks Lysandra about gaps in her memory from their time together in the old days, but Lysandra brushes her concerns off for the moment. They are caught by a [[Sontaran]] and incapacitate him by hitting his [[probic vent]], although neither can explain how they recognised the Sontarans nor how they know their weakness. They help their captive colleagues escape from the Sontarans and Lysandra demands an audience with their leader, [[Stenn|Marshal Stenn]]. He kills her and threatens to do the same to Sally if she does not surrender.
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| === Part six ===
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| Using a [[stasis lock]], the Mother freezes a number of the [[Time Lord]]s remaining on the barely-populated Gallifrey and she, Ace, the Master, Garundel and Kane, wearing a [[thermal buffer suit]] to protect himself, infiltrate [[the Capitol]]. The Master argues with Ace's plan to go to the [[Vault Archives]] and instead goes to the record room to collect his [[data extract]], after which they break into the Vault Archives, only for the Master to lock everybody inside and join the Doctor in the observation room. The group find what Ace was looking for: a passage to the [[Dark Universe]] through which she forces the others to go before she follows.
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| The Doctor and President McShane use a [[reality diffuser]] and give Hex back the memories of his first few months of adventures in the TARDIS, up to when he was shot. When he becomes conscious, President McShane summons Cassie, whom she wants to join her and the Doctor in protecting Earth from the wider universe. Stenn informs her that he has Sally captive and she uses the reality diffuser to make Cassie believe that her parents are both traitors, giving her the choice of which of them is to be [[execution|executed]] for their joint [[crime]]s.
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| Mel claims that Hob will be unable to find the Quantum Possibility Engine without her and Benny, but Hob shoots and kills Benny and demands that Mel hands it over. Elsewhere, the Doctor reminisces about those he has lost and how one can never give up on trying to hold the universe together. Whenever things seem to be as bad as they can possibly be, however, he assures the person to whom he is speaking that things can always get much worse.
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| == Cast == | | == Cast == |
| === Part one ===
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| * [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]] | | * [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]] |
| * [[Ace]] / [[Dee McShane|President Ace]] - [[Sophie Aldred]] | | * [[Ace|Ace / President Ace]] - [[Sophie Aldred]] |
| * [[Mel Bush]] - [[Bonnie Langford]] | | * [[Melanie Bush]] - [[Bonnie Langford]] |
| * [[Benny Summerfield]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]] | | * [[Roz Forrester]] - [[Yasmin Bannerman]] |
| * [[Hex Schofield]] - [[Philip Olivier]]
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| * [[Sally Morgan]] - [[Amy Pemberton]]
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| * [[Decayed Master|The Master]] - [[Geoffrey Beevers]] | | * [[Decayed Master|The Master]] - [[Geoffrey Beevers]] |
| * [[Kane (Dragonfire)|Kane]] - [[Edward Peel]] | | * [[Bernice Summerfield]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]] |
| * [[Finsey|Mother]] - [[Richenda Carey]] | | * [[Vienna Salvatori]] - [[Chase Masterson]] |
| * [[Garundel]] - [[Stuart Milligan]]
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| * [[Lysandra Aristedes]] - [[Maggie O'Neill]] | | * [[Lysandra Aristedes]] - [[Maggie O'Neill]] |
| * [[Stenn|Marshal Stenn]] / [[Klant (The Last Day)|Klant]] / [[Sontaran]]s / [[Ogron 2 (The Last Day)|Ogron 2]] - [[Dan Starkey]] | | * [[Chris Cwej]] - [[Travis Oliver]] |
| * [[Hob]] - [[Wayne Forester]]
| | * Hex Schofield - [[Philip Olivier]] |
| * [[Vienna Salvatori|Vienna]] - [[Chase Masterson]] | | * Kane - [[Edward Peel]] |
| * [[Cassie Morgan-Schofield]] - [[Lizzie Annis]]
| | * [[Sally Morgan]] - [[Amy Pemberton]] |
| * [[Dark Citizen]] / [[Krasi President (The Last Day 1)|Krasi President]] / [[Gina Peters|Miss Peters]] / [[Time Lord 2 (The Last Day 1)|Time Lord 2]] / [[Computer (The Last Day 1)|Computer Voice]] - [[Lin Sagovsky]] | | * [[Sontaran]]s - [[Dan Starkey]] |
| * [[Ogron 1 (The Last Day 1)|Ogron 1]] / [[Hemeran (The Last Day 1)|Hemeran]] / [[Fabbi (The Last Day 1)|Fabbi]] / [[Cleric (The Last Day 1)|Cleric]] / [[Guard (The Last Day 1)|Guard]] / [[Time Lord (The Last Day 1)|Time Lord]] - [[Alex Jordan]]
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| * [[Screen Announcement (The Last Day)|Screen Announcement]] / [[Recorded Announcement (The Last Day)|Recorded Announcement]] / [[Security guard (The Last Day)|Security]] / [[Soldier (The Last Day)|Soldier]] / [[Waiter (The Last Day)|Waiter]] / [[News Announcer (The Last Day)|News Announcer]] - [[Antony Hoskins]]
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| == Worldbuilding ==
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| * The sentient hotels on [[Ungar]] have started to eat their guests.
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| * [[Hex]] and [[Sally Morgan|Sally]] have children named [[Damien Morgan-Schofield|Damien]] and [[Evie Morgan-Schofield|Evie]]. | |
| * Sally is a [[commanding officer|CO]]. | |
| * Hex is a [[healthcare manager]].
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| * During their travels with the Seventh Doctor, Sally and [[Lysandra Aristedes|Lysandra]] battled the [[Sontaran]]s.
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| * Ace has an entirely [[ceramic]] [[flamethrower]].
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| * Ace asks for a [[Shirley Temple (drink)|Shirley Temple]].
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| * [[Irving Braxiatel]] got President McShane through [[Time Lord Academy|the Academy]].
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| * The Krazi President destroyed an [[island]] off the southern [[coast]] of [[Armitrage]] on [[Krasi Major]].
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| * Benny likes [[shark]]s.
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| * Lysandra works for [[Global Security]].
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| * [[Gina Peters|Miss Peters]] checks that [[Tristan (The Last Day)|Tristan]] has a sick bag.
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| * Miss Peters has spicy [[falafel]]s.
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| * Kane wears a [[thermal buffer suit]].
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| == Notes == | | == Notes == |
| * This story was recorded [[11 July (production)|11]]-[[12 July (production)|12]], [[14 July (production)|14]], [[17 July (production)|17]]-[[19 July (production)|19 July]] and [[24 August (production)|24 August]] [[2023 (production)|2023]] at [[The Soundhouse]].
| | The download version was released with the [[Interludes]] bonus story ''[[Fond Memories (audio story)|Fond Memories]]''. |
| * The trailer for the first half of the story was not released until [[22 April (releases)|22 April]] [[2024 (releases)|2024]].<ref>https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1782469930144628865</ref>
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| == Continuity ==
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| * Ace mentions that she used to work for Kane, as depicted in [[TV]]: {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}.
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| * Benny refers to Mel’s previous use of the [[Quantum Possibility Engine]], as occurred in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Quantum Possibility Engine (audio story)}}.
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| * Hex remembers his first encounter with the Seventh Doctor and Ace ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]''), as well as meeting [[Florence Nightingale]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Angel of Scutari (audio story)|The Angel of Scutari]]'') and falling in love ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Signs and Wonders (audio story)|Signs and Wonders]]'').
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| == Cover gallery == | | == Cover gallery == |
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| File:LastDayTextless.png|Part One extless cover
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| The Last Day 1 alt.jpg|Part One Alternate cover
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| </gallery>
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| == External links == | | == External links == |
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