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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the third story in the [[Series 8 (4DA)|eighth series]] of ''[[The Fourth Doctor Adventures]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Simon Barnard]] and [[Paul Morris]] and featured [[Tom Baker]] as the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Jane Slavin]] as [[Ann Kelso]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the third story in the [[Series 8 (4DA)|eighth series]] of ''[[The Fourth Doctor Adventures]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Simon Barnard]] and [[Paul Morris]] and featured [[Tom Baker]] as the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Jane Slavin]] as [[Ann Kelso]]. | ||
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[[Fourth Doctor|The Doctor]] pilots [[the TARDIS]] from [[1852]] [[London]] to [[Nottinghamshire]] in the same year, materialising in [[Newstead Abbey]]'s [[hedge maze]] and leaving [[K9 Mark II|K9]] inside to charge. They attempt to follow a [[plague doctor]] and meet [[Hettie Jacobs|Hettie]], a [[maid]] who denies having seen anybody and is called away by [[butler]] [[Hobhouse]], who mistakes the Doctor for a [[physician]] and invites him and Ann into the abbey. [[Wildman|Colonel Wildman]] shows them to the unwell [[Ada Lovelace]], for whom the Doctor prescribes rest and Ann fetches a cold compress from the [[scullery]]. Whilst Ann is escorted there by Hobhouse and sees Hettie washing Ada's muddy [[nightgown]], the Doctor is given a tour of the grounds by Wildman and learns that Ada believes she is going [[insanity|insane]]. | [[Fourth Doctor|The Doctor]] pilots [[the TARDIS]] from [[1852]] [[London]] to [[Nottinghamshire]] in the same year, materialising in [[Newstead Abbey]]'s [[hedge maze]] and leaving [[K9 Mark II|K9]] inside to charge. They attempt to follow a [[plague doctor]] and meet [[Hettie Jacobs|Hettie]], a [[maid]] who denies having seen anybody and is called away by [[butler]] [[Hobhouse]], who mistakes the Doctor for a [[physician]] and invites him and Ann into the abbey. [[Wildman|Colonel Wildman]] shows them to the unwell [[Ada Lovelace]], for whom the Doctor prescribes rest and Ann fetches a cold compress from the [[scullery]]. Whilst Ann is escorted there by Hobhouse and sees Hettie washing Ada's muddy [[nightgown]], the Doctor is given a tour of the grounds by Wildman and learns that Ada believes she is going [[insanity|insane]]. | ||
The Doctor tasks Ann with keeping an eye on the house and, having suspicions, acquires a [[map]] from Wildman. He joins Ada in playing [[cribbage]] at the [[ | The Doctor tasks Ann with keeping an eye on the house and, having suspicions, acquires a [[map]] from Wildman. He joins Ada in playing [[cribbage]] at the [[Papplewick Arms]], where she has been [[gambling]] since [[William King|Lord King]] [[exile]]d her to Newstead Abbey for landing him in [[debt]] with a failed gambling syndicate. On their way back in Wildman's [[carriage]], the [[horse]] is spooked by a figure which Ada believes to be the [[ghost]] of her father, [[George Gordon Byron|Lord Byron]], whom only she had been able to see until now. They head to Lord Byron's [[tomb]] at [[Church of St Mary Magdalene, Hucknall|St Mary's]] and see him again; he calls out for Ada and beckons her to him, giving her a message in [[binary]] and disappearing when plague doctors arrive. | ||
''to | Ann discovers that Ada is missing and looks at her [[notebook]]s despite Hobhouse's protestations, finding drawings and numbers which she and Hobhouse have little time to interpret before they are forced to hide in the [[wardrobe]] from somebody. Unsure of how Ada left the building and how whoever entered her [[bedroom]] got out, Ann finds a secret passageway to the [[garden]]s and she and Hobhouse see a woman selling Ada's notebooks to a man with a non-[[Great Britain|British]] [[accent]]. The Doctor and Ada return soon after, having fled from the plague doctors, and are met by Wildman who accuses the Doctor of leading Ada astray. When the Doctor tells him that they went to St Mary's, both Ada and Wildman claim that there is no such [[church]] and it no longer appears on his map. | ||
=== Part two === | === Part two === | ||
''to | The Doctor and Ann are locked up whilst Wildman has Hobhouse fetch the [[constabulary]] and explain to Ada that they travelled to London to meet [[Charles Wheatstone]]. However, they found that his house and entire [[street]]s had vanished after sightings of plague doctors and their investigations led them to Newstead Abbey. Ada does not believe them and departs, but Hobhouse releases them and points them towards [[Edvard Scheutz]], a [[Sweden|Swedish]] rival of [[Charles Babbage]] who has been paying Hettie to steal Ada's notebooks for him to gain the upper hand since Ada refused to assist him. The Doctor recognises the content of Ada's notebooks as [[Block Transfer Computation]]s and Scheutz reads out one of them, summoning a horde of plague doctors to the building. | ||
The plague doctors explain that they have come from the [[Block Transfer Wars]] between [[human]]ity and computers in [[7073]] to cure the [[Finlar contagion]], which the Doctor deduces has been sent back to change history by corrupting Ada's code. Escaping from the plague doctors after they make Scheutz disappear, the Doctor, Ann and Hobhouse join Ada, Hettie and Wildman at the races and find everybody fleeing from Lord Byron, who leaves once the plague doctors arrive to cauterise what he, the contagion, has damaged. The plague doctors make Hettie vanish and the Doctor gets Ada to use the Block Transfer Computation placed in her mind by the contagion to create a doorway, allowing them to escape from the plague doctors to the maze which she has inadvertently been altering in her sleep to resemble the atomic structure of the contagion. | |||
When Lord Byron appears, the Doctor sets fire to the maze with [[Third Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]] and leaves Lord Byron to the plague doctors, correcting the [[timeline]]. Everything that the plague doctors took away returns, including Hettie, and Ada and her acquaintances all forget about everything that has happened as a result of the contagion's presence. They watch the TARDIS dematerialise from the maze and discuss what they should have as a centrepiece, with Ada dismissing the idea of a [[statue]] of her father as she does not need any more reminders of him. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||