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|image = The Last Day part one.jpg | |image = <gallery> | ||
|number in range = 14 | The Last Day part one.jpg|Part One | ||
|main character = [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]], [[Melanie Bush|Mel]], [[Hex]], [[Sally Morgan|Sally]], [[ | The Last Day part two.jpg|Part Two | ||
|featuring = [[ | </gallery> | ||
| | |number in range = 14/15 | ||
| | |main character = [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]], [[Melanie Bush|Mel]], [[Hex]], [[Sally Morgan|Sally]], [[Roz Forrester|Roz]], [[Chris Cwej|Chris]] | ||
|only release = [[28 December (releases)|28 December]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] | |featuring = [[Decayed Master]], [[Hob]], [[Kane (Dragonfire)|Kane]], [[Garundel]], [[Finsey]], [[Cassie Morgan-Schofield|Cassie]], [[Lysandra Aristedes|Lysandra]], [[Vienna Salvatori|Vienna]], [[Narvin]], [[Dark Citizen (Dark Universe)|Dark Citizen]] | ||
|enemy = [[Seventh Doctor]] | |||
|setting = [[President Ace's Earth|Alternate Earth]], [[Gallifrey]], [[Dark Universe]] | |||
|only release = [[28 December (releases)|28 December]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] (Part 1) | |||
[[25 June (releases)|25 June]] [[2024 (releases)|2024]] (Part 2). | |||
|writer = [[Matt Fitton]] & [[Guy Adams]] | |writer = [[Matt Fitton]] & [[Guy Adams]] | ||
|director = [[Sam Clemens]] | |director = [[Sam Clemens]] | ||
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|runtime = | |runtime = | ||
|format = | |format = | ||
|release date = [[28 December (releases)|28 December]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] | |release date = [[28 December (releases)|28 December]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] (Part 1), [[25 June (releases)|25 June]] [[2024 (releases)|2024]] (Part 2) | ||
|production code = BFPDWDR0704 | |production code = BFPDWDR0704 (Part 1); BFPDWDR0705 (Part 2) | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-83868-894-3 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-895-0 (digital) | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-83868-894-3 (physical, Part 1); ISBN 978-1-83868-895-0 (digital, Part 1); ISBN 978-1-80240-179-0 (physical, Part 2); ISBN 978-1-80240-180-6 (digital, Part 2) | ||
|series = ''[[The Seventh Doctor Adventures]]'' | |series = ''[[The Seventh Doctor Adventures]]'' | ||
|prev = Naomi's Ark (audio story) | |prev = Naomi's Ark (audio story) | ||
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'''''The Last Day | '''''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]]. | ||
''Part One'', containing the first six parts of the story, was released on [[28 December (releases)|28 December]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]], and ''Part Two'', containing the final six parts of the story, was released on [[25 June (releases)|25 June]] [[2024 (releases)|2024]]. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
=== Part seven === | |||
When the Quantum Possibility Engine reappears, Mel informs Hob that it is in an [[hour]]-long [[time loop]] which she claims she can deactivate for him, giving her the opportunity to escape with it an hour into the past when it vanishes again. She unwittingly activates its voice control, which uses the voice of the Doctor, and learns that the planet will soon collapse without its protection as it is running low on power without any [[temporal paradox]]es. Meanwhile, [[Chris Cwej|Chris]] and [[Roz Forrester|Roz]] fly to the planet to meet Benny and don [[time-shielding suits]] to protect themselves. | |||
Utilising the batsnakes against Hob and the Ogrons, Mel joins her past self and Benny to strengthen the Quantum Possibility Engine by saving Benny's life. However, her past self is killed by falling debris, after which Roz arrives and shoots Hob. The three of them reach the strengthened Quantum Possibility Engine and Roz informs Chris by radio that they are to travel to Earth to rendezvous with Ace, who told her when she enlisted her help that she would die in any and all timelines. Deeming it worth it to save the universe, Roz had agreed to help her save the universe. | |||
=== Part eight === | |||
Sally is attempting to goad [[Klant|Commandant Klant]] when Chris and Roz arrive using a [[Time Ring]] and free her from the prison, explaining that they are working with "the right Ace" and are from the correct future. They use the Quantum Possibility Engine to restore the memories supplanted by the Krasi diffuser's field which they intend to get rid of, causing a paradox which the engine will feed on. Despite Chris and Roz's insistence, Sally leaves in the ''Pegasus'' to save Cassie from President McShane and Roz sends Chris to join her with the Time Ring to disable the Krasi diffuser when the Quantum Possibility Engine fails. Roz then kills Stenn. | |||
President McShane reveals that she asked Cassie to choose between Hex and Sally to see what they would do and she does not actually intend to kill either of them. She intends to send them both away because of the threat they pose to the status quo and to her making use of Cassie, but she collapses thanks to the Quantum Possibility Engine damaging the Krasi diffuser. When she comes around, she starts receiving the real Ace's memories and acts uncharacteristically, making Hex choose to stay with her and work out where in Ace's timeline she diverged. Sally joins them and shoots President McShane even when Chris arrives and asks her not to; President McShane then [[regeneration|regenerates]]. | |||
=== Part nine === | |||
In the Dark Universe, Ace goes with the Mother to join Garundel in a [[bar]] and then fetches Kane, who is scouting the area and who believes that Ace chose her companions because she deems that deserving of the unpleasant journey. Whilst Kane examines the Mother's apparently faulty goggles and deduces that they are recalibrating to make sense of the new universe, Ace and Kane meet the person they have come to find: an alternative Doctor. | |||
Ace explains to the group that the Doctor used the power of the Dark Citizens, the Time Lords of the Dark Universe, to take over his universe and that they need this universe's Doctor to help undo it. This alternative Doctor, however, has gone [[insanity|insane]] as the only resident of the Dark Universe. Garundel and the Mother are keen to hand him over to a Dark Citizen when she arrives, but Kane disagrees and tells her to take Garundel instead. | |||
Kane accuses Ace of using him so that she can retain the moral high ground by not choosing to hand someone over to the Dark Citizen, but she insists that she is just saving the universe. The two of them go with the Mother and the alternative Doctor through a portal back to their universe, Kane going first and then the Mother. The alternative Doctor congratulates Ace on only having lost one member of the party, but she remarks to herself that she has only lost one so far. | |||
=== Part ten === | |||
On [[Brillip]], Benny and Mel use a shard of a mirror fragment in a chunk of [[Dalekanium]] to change the destination of the Dark Universe portal and are eventually joined by Ace, the alternative Doctor, the Mother and Kane. Benny, Ace and the alternative Doctor use a Time Ring and meet with Hex, Sally, Cassie and Chris whilst Kane returns to [[Proamon]] to raise an army and the Mother goes after the Master. Hex explains that President McShane began regenerating, but she has disappeared and they exploit the fact that Ace has the same palm print and retina to exit the area and busy the authorities before they can arrive and question the President's absence. | |||
Cassie redirects power to Jersey for the Quantum Possibility Engine and Sally and the Doctor stay with her whilst Ace, Hex and Chris go looking for President McShane and the Krasi diffuser without success. With more power, the Quantum Possibility Engine informs Roz that the diffuser is on the roof and warns her of the arrival of a group of [[Sontaran sphere]]s led by a Stenn from another reality shortly before they destroy the building. Everyone's memories are restored and [[UNIT]] sends out a message asking for the Doctor's help, giving the alternative one flashes of his other self's memories. | |||
On the roof, Ace, the alternative Doctor, Hex, Sally, Chris, Cassie find that President McShane has taken Cassie's form for her new [[incarnation]]. President McShane calls for Stenn's help, but the Sontarans all vanish from the skies as reality is restored. Roz appears thanks to the Quantum Possibility Engine and President McShane fades away as she tries to contact Gallifrey. The alternative Doctor removes a shard of mirror from the diffuser and declares that she has a message for the Dark Doctor, whom he is coming after to thwart. | |||
=== Part eleven === | |||
The Doctor and the Master are interrupted during a game of [[snap (card game)|snap]] by an alert that an invasion force commanded by Kane and including [[Drahvin]]s, [[Bane (Invasion of the Bane)|Bane]] and [[Carrionite]]s is attacking Gallifrey. The Dark Citizens offer to destroy the fleet and the Master advises him to do so, but the Doctor refuses as he knows that his friends are aboard and the Master privately speaks with the leader of the Dark Citizens. They obey the Doctor as part of a self-imposed rule to make ultimate power less boring. | |||
Aboard Kane's ship, Mel hacks into [[the Matrix]] with the help of Cassie on Earth and enters it in a TARDIS with the alternative Doctor, Hex, Sally, Benny and Ace. Chris and Roz, meanwhile, remain on the ship with Kane and the Mother. The Matrix takes a form resembling the [[Victorian era]] and separates Hex and Sally from the rest of the group as they discuss putting their lives at risk given that they have children. The couple meet the [[exile]]d chancellor before he regenerates into a monstrous Dark Citizen and run from him and others like him, finding the rest of the group stuck trying to get through the closed [[Seventh Door]]. | |||
=== Part twelve === | |||
The Master opens the Seventh Door and lets the alternative Doctor, Ace, Mel, Benny, Hex and Sally through to Gallifrey as he and Ace had planned, after which he lowers the [[transduction barrier]] so that Kane can storm the Capitol. The Dark Citizens offer to change time so that the Master never came to Gallifrey to open the door, but the Doctor refuses as it would mean the deaths of his friends. They then offer to assist Kane and return [[Xana]] to him, an attempt at manipulation which offends him and makes him more determined to thwart them. Intending on leaving Gallifrey, the Master awards himself a new regeneration cycle and prepares to steal a [[Type 90]] TARDIS inside of which he finds the Mother. She finally gets her revenge by abandoning him on [[Skaro]] to be captured by the Daleks. | |||
Mel realises that the Dark Citizens are feeding off of the lost potential of the Time Lords exiled to the Matrix and reformats it to cut them off, warning those inside to exit via the Seventh Door. Roz, knowing that she is dead in the true timeline, sacrifices herself by detonating a bomb to keep the Dark Citizens from feeding on her as an [[anachronism]], causing them great pain. After a moment mourning her, Ace confronts the Doctor, who has realised that everything he has done was a mistake, and has Chris and the alternative Doctor bring him the mirror. The alternative Doctor commands the Dark Citizens to follow him back into the Dark Universe and Kane uses his touch to freeze the mirror. | |||
Everybody is returned to where they belong and the Doctor and Ace discuss everything that has happened, with Ace unable to forgive the Doctor for his actions at the moment despite the timeline being restored. [[Waiter (The Last Day)|A waiter]] spills the Doctor's drink onto him, so he returns to the TARDIS to get changed and receives a message from [[Narvin]] for any incarnation of [[the Doctor]]; he informs the Doctor that the Master has been killed by the Daleks and requests, per a note the Master left in his biodata extract, that he go to retrieve his remains. The Doctor, after noting that he only heard the message because his drink was split due to Ace moving his cup, dematerialises the TARDIS. Ace, reflecting on what she has just done, hopes that she will have somebody there to stop her should she ever become as manipulative as him. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
* [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]] | * [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]] | ||
* [[Ace]] / [[Dee McShane|President Ace]] - [[Sophie Aldred]] | * [[Ace]] / [[Dee McShane|President Ace]] - [[Sophie Aldred]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Mel Bush]] - [[Bonnie Langford]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Benny Summerfield]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]] | ||
* [[Hex Schofield]] - [[Philip Olivier]] | * [[Hex Schofield]] - [[Philip Olivier]] | ||
* [[Sally Morgan]] - [[Amy Pemberton]] | * [[Sally Morgan]] - [[Amy Pemberton]] | ||
* [[Chris Cwej]] - [[Travis Oliver]] | |||
* [[Roz Forrester]] - [[Yasmin Bannerman]] | |||
* [[Decayed Master|The Master]] - [[Geoffrey Beevers]] | * [[Decayed Master|The Master]] - [[Geoffrey Beevers]] | ||
* [[Kane (Dragonfire)|Kane]] - [[Edward Peel]] | * [[Kane (Dragonfire)|Kane]] - [[Edward Peel]] | ||
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* [[Vienna Salvatori|Vienna]] - [[Chase Masterson]] | * [[Vienna Salvatori|Vienna]] - [[Chase Masterson]] | ||
* [[Cassie Morgan-Schofield]] - [[Lizzie Annis]] | * [[Cassie Morgan-Schofield]] - [[Lizzie Annis]] | ||
* [[Dark Citizen]] / [[Krasi President (The Last Day | * [[Dark Citizen (Dark Universe)|Dark Citizen]] / [[Krasi President (The Last Day)|Krasi President]] / [[Gina Peters|Miss Peters]] / [[Time Lord 2 (The Last Day)|Time Lord 2]] / [[Computer (The Last Day)|Computer Voice]] - [[Lin Sagovsky]] | ||
* [[Ogron 1 (The Last Day | * [[Ogron 1 (The Last Day)|Ogron 1]] / [[Hemeran (The Last Day)|Hemeran]] / [[Fabbi (The Last Day)|Fabbi]] / [[Cleric (The Last Day)|Cleric]] / [[Guard (The Last Day)|Guard]] / [[Time Lord (The Last Day)|Time Lord]] - [[Alex Jordan]] | ||
* [[Narvin|Co-Ordinator]] - [[Seán Carlsen]] | |||
* [[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]] | * [[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]] | ||
== Worldbuilding == | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* The sentient | * The sentient [[hotel]]s on [[Ungar]] have started to eat their guests. | ||
* [[Hex]] and [[Sally Morgan|Sally]] have children named [[Damien Morgan-Schofield|Damien]] and [[Evie Morgan-Schofield|Evie]]. | * [[Hex]] and [[Sally Morgan|Sally]] have children named [[Damien Morgan-Schofield|Damien]] and [[Evie Morgan-Schofield|Evie]]. | ||
* Sally is a [[commanding officer|CO]]. | * Sally is a [[commanding officer|CO]]. | ||
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* Ace asks for a [[Shirley Temple (drink)|Shirley Temple]]. | * Ace asks for a [[Shirley Temple (drink)|Shirley Temple]]. | ||
* [[Irving Braxiatel]] got President McShane through [[Time Lord Academy|the Academy]]. | * [[Irving Braxiatel]] got President McShane through [[Time Lord Academy|the Academy]]. | ||
* The | * The Krasi President destroyed an [[island]] off the southern [[coast]] of [[Armitrage]] on [[Krasi Major]]. | ||
* Benny likes [[shark]]s. | * Benny likes [[shark]]s. | ||
* Lysandra works for [[Global Security]]. | * Lysandra works for [[Global Security]]. | ||
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* Miss Peters has spicy [[falafel]]s. | * Miss Peters has spicy [[falafel]]s. | ||
* Kane wears a [[thermal buffer suit]]. | * Kane wears a [[thermal buffer suit]]. | ||
* Mel once had a green [[Ford Capri]]. | |||
* [[Natalie (The Last Day)|Natalie]] lives next door to the Morgan-Schofields. | |||
* [[Bishop (The Last Day)|General Bishop]] works at [[UNIT]]. | |||
* The Doctor and the Master play [[snap (card game)|snap]]. | |||
* [[Mexia|Lord President Mexia]] installed the [[Capitol Solarium]] and gifted it to the [[High Council]]. | |||
== 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]]. | * 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 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> | * The video 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> | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
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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)}}. | * Benny refers to Mel’s previous use of the [[Quantum Possibility Engine]], as occurred in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Quantum Possibility Engine (audio story)}}. | ||
* 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]]''). | * 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]]''). | ||
* Mel remarks on how two of her co-existing in the same space is catastrophic. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wrong Doctors (audio story)|The Wrong Doctors]]'') | |||
* Chris and Roz recall meeting Benny ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Original Sin (audio story)|Original Sin]]'') and travelling with her and the Doctor. | |||
* Sally remembers meeting the Doctor ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[House of Blue Fire (audio story)|House of Blue Fire]]''), encountering [[Beowulf]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'') and encountering [[Fenric]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]'') | |||
* [[Narvin]] asks the Doctor to collect [[The Master]]'s remains from [[Skaro]] following his trial and execution. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who (TV story)}}) | |||
== Cover gallery == | == Cover gallery == | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:LastDayTextless.png| | File:LastDayTextless.png|Part One textless cover | ||
The Last Day 1 alt.jpg| | File:The Last Day 1 alt.jpg|Part One alternate cover | ||
File:The Last Day 2 textless.jpg|Part Two textless cover | |||
The Last Day 2 alt.jpg|Part Two alternate cover | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
{{bigfinish|releases/v/doctor-who-the-seventh-doctor-adventures-the-last-day-1-2626}} | {{bigfinish|releases/v/doctor-who-the-seventh-doctor-adventures-the-last-day-1-2626|The Last Day 1}} | ||
{{bigfinish|releases/v/doctor-who-the-seventh-doctor-adventures-the-last-day-2-2875|The Last Day 2}} | |||
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