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|enemy            = [[Fendahl]]
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|setting          = [[Fetch Priory]], [[2010s]]
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|writer            = [[Tim Foley]]
|writer            = Tim Foley
|director          = [[Scott Handcock]]
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|sound            = [[Mark Hendrick]]
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|publisher        = Big Finish Productions
|publisher        = Big Finish Productions
|release date      = [[26 March (releases)|26 March]] [[2019 (releases)|2019]]
|release date      = 26 March 2019
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|isbn              = ISBN 978-1-78703-473-0
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|series            = [[Big Finish Torchwood series|Big Finish ''Torchwood'' series]]
|series            = ''[[Torchwood - Monthly Range]]''
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'''''Night of the Fendahl''''' was the twenty-fifth story in the [[Big Finish Torchwood series|''Torchwood'' audio series]] by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Tim Foley]] and featured [[Eve Myles]] as [[Gwen Cooper]].
'''''Night of the Fendahl''''' was the twenty-fifth story in the ''[[Torchwood - Monthly Range]]'' by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Tim Foley]] and featured [[Eve Myles]] as [[Gwen Cooper]].


It was Big Finish's first use of the [[Fendahl]], introduced in the 1977 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' television story ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]''.
It saw Big Finish's first use of the [[Fendahl]], as well as [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]]'s first association with them.


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
[[Gwen Cooper]] arrives at a house in [[Fetch Priory]] to take the part as the lead in a horror [[movie]] production (supposedly unbeknownst to her, the film is actually an illegal pornographic murder but was not advertised as such, as a way for luring in victims). [[Derek Jennings]] introduces her to the [[Film crew|filmcrew]] and they get comfortable, although they note that she seems rather "out of it". The [[generator]] for the power in the house goes out and Derek tells [[Ged Gently]] to go upstairs and fix it. Meanwhile Gwen talks with [[Phil Patterson]] but suddenly goes funny. She calms down and while she and Phil talk, she again exhibits strange behaviour.
[[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] arrives at [[Fetch Priory]] to play the role of the final victim in a [[horror film]] about the [[Fendahl]] produced by [[Marco Fendelman|Marco]] and directed by [[Derek Jennings|Derek]]. She is introduced to the two of them, as well as [[actor]] [[Phil Patterson|Phil]] and [[technician]] [[Ged Gently|Ged]], before the [[generator]] goes out and she goes with Phil to get dressed for her scene in which she will be [[sacrifice]]d on an [[altar]]. The crew note that she seems "out of it" and she exhibits strange behaviour like ignoring a call from [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]] before acting as though she is on the [[telephone]] with him. Meanwhile, Ged is killed by a Fendahleen as he looks into the [[sabotage]]d generator.


Ged finds the generator has been sabotaged and before he can warn the others he is killed by a [[Fendahleen]]. Gwen, Derek and Phil talk and Derek reveals how they found out about Fetch Priory and the [[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|incident that took place several years ago in 1977]]. While they prepare to shoot the movie, Phil has a change of heart and tries to warn Gwen to leave, saying she's smart and that what they do is [[Murder|not good]] but Gwen declines, saying she is here to play the part. [[Marco Fendelman|Marco]] takes Phil outside and warns him that Gwen agreed to the terms and he mustn't get attached to their victims. They then resume shooting.
Derek tells Gwen and Phil how a private security firm's reports on the Fetch Priory incident upon which the film is based were sent to the production company's [[website]] and about how twelve Fendahleen and a core are required to feed the Fendahl, although the film reimagines the real-life story as one in which the Fendahl succeeds. Phil tries to warn Gwen away twice before filming upon learning about [[Anwen Williams|Anwen]], but she chooses to remain and Marco takes Phil outside to remind him not to get attached to the victims. On Phil's third attempt to warn her, she again refuses to leave and he calls her a terrible mother for not realising what is happening.


On another break, Phil and Gwen chat some more and he again tries to warn her but after she rebuffs him, he angrily storms off after telling her she's a terrible [[mother]]. They resume filming, but Gwen suddenly improvises a frightening speech and the [[Mannequin|mannequins]] used in the film transform into [[Fendahleen]]. Derek and the crew are frightened out of their wits and try to escape while Gwen attempts to summon more Fendahleen. Derek gets trapped from [[Fendahl Core|gazing directly at Gwen's eyes]] and the others escape. Marco, however, reveals everything is going according to plan after they escape and demands they meet the Fendahl core in the house's basement. Meanwhile, Gwen, possessed by the core, taunts Derek, revealing his dark lust for [[violence]] and [[rape]] against women and transforms him into a Fendahleen. Phil calls his family and tries to speak with his daughter for help but his ex-wife cuts the line. Marco sets up and meets the Fendahl core. He reveals that he is actually descended from [[Fendelman|Dr. Fendelman]] and wants to become the Fendahl core, believing he is powerful enough and so deserves it. The Fednahl core reveals it gave the files from the 1977 incident to [[John Hartman]] who would give them to his daughter [[Yvonne Hartman|Yvonne]] who would deposit them in the Torchwood archive upon which Gwen Cooper would stumble, initiating the chain of events. The core tells Marco to come close so that he may possess it, however, it is a ruse, and it reveals that he is blinded by his [[sexist]] views and derogatory attitude towards women and he is transformed into a Fendahleen. The core orders the other Fendahleen to search for Phil.
Gwen improvises a speech about the opening of the void as the [[camera]]s roll and lies on the altar to be sacrificed by Phil, who has killed several other women but is unable to kill Gwen. The supposed [[mannequin]]s standing in for [[cultist]]s are revealed to be Fendahleen and Marco locks Gwen, Derek and Phil in with them as he lets in two further Fendahleen: Ged and [[Adam Colby|Colby]]. Derek is unable to move after looking in Gwen's eyes and learns that the Fendahl moved down Gwen's family tree to take control of her and has been watching him as he and Marco made their films about [[rape]] and [[violence]]. He becomes a Fendahleen.


Phil finds the [[car]] [[Key|keys]] for the [[vehicle]] they arrived in and attempts to flee but is cornered by some Fendahleen. He manages to escape a second time, and makes it to the car, only to find the [[Motor unit|motor's]] dead. Gwen as the core enters the car, only to become herself again. She explains that the Fendahl preys on the weak and that it tried to prey on her and so she reversed it by using it back. She further explains how she read the case file and sickening things the men were doing at the house, luring in young women to make murder porn and then distributing said films on the black market, so she took it upon herself to use the Fendahleen to exact revenge for such disgusting acts. She then reveals Phil has been lying and that his son, who he claimed he wanted to get home to see, left him because he didn't like how he hit his wife. He begs Gwen for forgiveness and to take him back to Cardiff with her and she consents but only if he can move, which he realizes he cannot because he looked into Gwen's eyes while she was possessed by the core. She reveals that the Fendahleen will die once the sun comes up anyway, that she is going back to Cardiff to track down every buyer of their disgusting films to bring them to the police and have justice. She drives away just as the Fendahleen catch up and they transform a screaming Phil, unable to move, into a Fendahleen.
Marco asks the Fendahl Core to abandon Gwen's body for his through [[sex]] as he sees women as the weaker sex and believes that he has earnt the power of the Core because of his efforts, but it removes his [[eye]]s and transforms him into a Fendahleen. It follows Phil into his car and Gwen takes control of her body back by refusing to be a victim, revealing that she had been using the Fendahl to shut down Marco and Derek's operations since the Fendahl used her to send [[John Hartman|Hartman]]'s files to them and that the Fendahleen will disappear in the [[sunlight]] without the Core. She knows that he beat [[Zara (Night of the Fendahl)|the mother]] of [[Johnny Patterson|his son]] and he tries to excuse having killed multiple women, but she does not listen.
 
Gwen offers to take Phil back to [[Cardiff]] with her so long as he is able to move, knowing that he looked into the eyes of the Fendahl Core. As she leaves to track down everybody who bought films from Marco and Derek, the Fendahleen catch up with Phil and transform him into one of them.


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
* [[Gwen Cooper]] - [[Eve Myles]]
* [[Gwen Cooper]] - [[Eve Myles]]
* [[Phil Patterson|Phil]] - [[Bradley Freegard]]
* [[Phil Patterson]] - [[Bradley Freegard]]
* [[Derek Jennings|Derek]] - [[Gavin Swift]]
* [[Derek Jennings]] - [[Gavin Swift]]
* [[Marco Fendelman|Marco]] - [[Gerald Tyler]]
* [[Marco Fendelman]] - [[Gerald Tyler]]
* [[Ged Gently|Ged]] - [[Guy Adams (writer)|Guy Adams]]
* [[Ged Gently]] - [[Guy Adams]]
 
== Crew ==
 
* Additional Themes - [[Ben Foster]]
* Cover Art - [[Lee Binding]]
* Script Editor & Director - [[Scott Handcock]]
* Executive Producers - [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] and [[Nicholas Briggs]]
* Music - [[Blair Mowat]]
* Producer - [[James Goss]]
* Sound Design - [[Mark Hendrick]]
* Writer - [[Tim Foley]]
* Theme Music - [[Murray Gold]]
* Fendahl created by [[Chris Boucher]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* This story serves as a sequel to [[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'', and so includes many references to that story
* This story serves as a sequel to [[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'', and so includes many references to that story:
** The film crew have a glowing skull (although it is a fake)
** The film crew have a glowing [[skull]] (although it is a fake).
** The filming is taking place at [[Fetch Priory]]
** The filming is taking place at [[Fetch Priory]].
** The Fendahl gains full control by taking 13 people - 12 worm like servants and 1 core. This is similar to the requirement of Duroc to take 13 lives before being unstoppable
** The Fendahl gains full control by taking 13 people: 12 worm-like servants and 1 core. This is similar to the requirement of Duroc to take 13 lives before being unstoppable.
** It is mentioned that Fetch Priory burned down - the [[Fendahleen]] have hidden in the house since then
** It is mentioned that Fetch Priory burned down; the [[Fendahleen]] have hidden in the house since then.
** Marco is descended from [[Fendelman|Dr Fendelman]]
** Marco is descended from [[Fendelman|Dr Fendelman]].
** It is mentioned that [[Adam Colby]] is one of the owners of the land Fetch Priory was situated upon
** It is mentioned that [[Adam Colby]] is the owner of the land Fetch Priory was situated upon.
* The security files on the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'' were stored by [[John Hartman]], Yvonne's father.
* The security files on the events of ''Image of the Fendahl'' were stored by [[John Hartman]], [[Yvonne Hartman|Yvonne's]] father.
* Derek mentions that they had shot a film in the house in [[Fetch Priory]] in which their lead actress wore a [[leather]] [[bikini]]. [[Leela]], the [[Fourth Doctor|fourth]] Doctor's companion, was known for wearing a leather bikini ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS (home video)|Meanwhile in the TARDIS]], Part 2'') and was featured in ''Image of the Fendahl''.
* Phil takes the fake skull and recites a line from [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] play ''[[Hamlet]]'', "Alas, poor [[Yorick]]..."
* Gwen ignores a call from [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]].
* Phil and [[Zara (Night of the Fendahl)|Zara]] have a son, [[Johnny Patterson|Johnny]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
* Gwen is given the part of the "scientist" in the movie because, according to Derek, her dark hair makes her look the part. The previous Fendahl core, as shown in the story [[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'''' was scientist [[Thea Ransome]]. The actress who played her, [[Wanda Ventham]], was a natural blonde, but wore a dark wig as it was felt that "a girl can't be a scientist if she's blonde" ([[DOC]]: ''[[After Image (documentary)|After Image]]''). Gwen, like actress Eve Myles, is a natural brunette.
* This story was recorded on [[22 January (production)|22 January]] [[2018 (production)|2018]] at Bang Post Productions.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]] calls Gwen and their daughter [[Anwen Williams|Anwen]] is mentioned. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'' ''et al''.)


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Night of the Fendahl was the twenty-fifth story in the Torchwood - Monthly Range by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Tim Foley and featured Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper.

It saw Big Finish's first use of the Fendahl, as well as Torchwood's first association with them.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Torchwood vs Monsters!

Marco makes films. You wouldn't like them. The lighting's shoddy, the sets are cheap and the sound's appalling. But there's an audience for them. Because they're films in which bad things happen to women.

Marco's latest venture is based on real events. Events which took place in Fetch Priory many years ago. It's an anthology piece, and Marco needs one final victim. But the last victim is not who anyone is expecting.

Death has returned to Fetch Priory. And Death is no-one's victim.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gwen arrives at Fetch Priory to play the role of the final victim in a horror film about the Fendahl produced by Marco and directed by Derek. She is introduced to the two of them, as well as actor Phil and technician Ged, before the generator goes out and she goes with Phil to get dressed for her scene in which she will be sacrificed on an altar. The crew note that she seems "out of it" and she exhibits strange behaviour like ignoring a call from Rhys before acting as though she is on the telephone with him. Meanwhile, Ged is killed by a Fendahleen as he looks into the sabotaged generator.

Derek tells Gwen and Phil how a private security firm's reports on the Fetch Priory incident upon which the film is based were sent to the production company's website and about how twelve Fendahleen and a core are required to feed the Fendahl, although the film reimagines the real-life story as one in which the Fendahl succeeds. Phil tries to warn Gwen away twice before filming upon learning about Anwen, but she chooses to remain and Marco takes Phil outside to remind him not to get attached to the victims. On Phil's third attempt to warn her, she again refuses to leave and he calls her a terrible mother for not realising what is happening.

Gwen improvises a speech about the opening of the void as the cameras roll and lies on the altar to be sacrificed by Phil, who has killed several other women but is unable to kill Gwen. The supposed mannequins standing in for cultists are revealed to be Fendahleen and Marco locks Gwen, Derek and Phil in with them as he lets in two further Fendahleen: Ged and Colby. Derek is unable to move after looking in Gwen's eyes and learns that the Fendahl moved down Gwen's family tree to take control of her and has been watching him as he and Marco made their films about rape and violence. He becomes a Fendahleen.

Marco asks the Fendahl Core to abandon Gwen's body for his through sex as he sees women as the weaker sex and believes that he has earnt the power of the Core because of his efforts, but it removes his eyes and transforms him into a Fendahleen. It follows Phil into his car and Gwen takes control of her body back by refusing to be a victim, revealing that she had been using the Fendahl to shut down Marco and Derek's operations since the Fendahl used her to send Hartman's files to them and that the Fendahleen will disappear in the sunlight without the Core. She knows that he beat the mother of his son and he tries to excuse having killed multiple women, but she does not listen.

Gwen offers to take Phil back to Cardiff with her so long as he is able to move, knowing that he looked into the eyes of the Fendahl Core. As she leaves to track down everybody who bought films from Marco and Derek, the Fendahleen catch up with Phil and transform him into one of them.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This story serves as a sequel to TV: Image of the Fendahl, and so includes many references to that story:
    • The film crew have a glowing skull (although it is a fake).
    • The filming is taking place at Fetch Priory.
    • The Fendahl gains full control by taking 13 people: 12 worm-like servants and 1 core. This is similar to the requirement of Duroc to take 13 lives before being unstoppable.
    • It is mentioned that Fetch Priory burned down; the Fendahleen have hidden in the house since then.
    • Marco is descended from Dr Fendelman.
    • It is mentioned that Adam Colby is the owner of the land Fetch Priory was situated upon.
  • The security files on the events of Image of the Fendahl were stored by John Hartman, Yvonne's father.
  • Derek mentions that they had shot a film in the house in Fetch Priory in which their lead actress wore a leather bikini. Leela, the fourth Doctor's companion, was known for wearing a leather bikini (HOMEVID: Meanwhile in the TARDIS, Part 2) and was featured in Image of the Fendahl.
  • Phil takes the fake skull and recites a line from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, "Alas, poor Yorick..."
  • Gwen ignores a call from Rhys.
  • Phil and Zara have a son, Johnny.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Gwen is given the part of the "scientist" in the movie because, according to Derek, her dark hair makes her look the part. The previous Fendahl core, as shown in the story TV: Image of the Fendahl'' was scientist Thea Ransome. The actress who played her, Wanda Ventham, was a natural blonde, but wore a dark wig as it was felt that "a girl can't be a scientist if she's blonde" (DOC: After Image). Gwen, like actress Eve Myles, is a natural brunette.
  • This story was recorded on 22 January 2018 at Bang Post Productions.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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