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{{Infobox Story SMW

|image                 = Private Enemy.jpg

|series                 = ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]''

|story number           = 55

|range                  = BSBS

|series in range        = Epoch (audio anthology)

|series number in range = 1

|number                = 3

|main character         = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]

|enemy                  = [[The Epoch]]

|setting               = [[Zordin|Atlantis]]

|writer                 = Tony Lee

|director               = [[Gary Russell]]

|music                 = [[Steve Foxon]]

|sound                 = [[Steve Foxon]]

|cover                 = [[Alex Mallinson]]

|publisher             = Big Finish

|release date           = September 2011

|format                 = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>3rd of 4 stories

|production code       = BFPBSBOX001

|isbn                   = ISBN 978-1-84435-598-3

|prev                   = The Temple of Questions (audio story)

|next                   = Judgement Day (BFBS audio story)

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'''''Private Enemy No. 1''''' was the fifty-fifth ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio story released by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was the third story of the ''[[Epoch (audio anthology)|Epoch]]'' series.

[[Zordin|Atlantis]] is in disarray. The [[Historian]]s are hiding [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]], [[Leonidas]] and [[Ruth]] within their safe house – but the world is changing more than they could have ever imagined.

 

With the authorities looking for her since the Great Leader's destruction, [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] is in a [[Historian]] [[safe house]] for her own safety and [[Leonidas|Leo]] goes out to try to put together a [[fish finger]] [[sandwich]] for her and learns of the Hierophants. He realises that he is being followed by Gaudium and warns [[Cordin]], a fellow Historian who is accosted by her and ordered to give Benny's location to [[the Epoch]]; when he pleads ignorance, he has a seizure and becomes a Hierophant called Macabre whilst retaining Cordin's [[memory|memories]].

 

 

Using [[Leonidas's ring|Leo's diamond ring]], Benny, Ruth and Leo cut their way into the call centre. Benny decides to try sending out a message and gets a call from [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], who tells her to hurry to the spire and that he is the only person other than her who remembers when Atlantis was [[Zordin]]. Darion joins them and Benny has him look at a [[map]] of the city to point out inaccuracies with the city as he now remembers it; he notices at least fifteen errors, including the location of the Senate, and urges them to leave before [[curfew]], which he remembers being introduced by [[Kraken (The Kraken's Lament)|the King]] four years ago. After the building loses power, they return to the safe house.

 

At [[dinner]], Leo kisses Benny, but she takes a moment to express her concerns for his safety and to make sure that they were not kissing for the wrong reasons. She kisses him and they have [[sex]]. In the morning, Leo goes to the Senate without Benny, whom he [[drug]]ged to keep her asleep. By the time Benny and Ruth arrive at the Senate, now known as the House of Representatives, the Epoch have turned Leo and the other Historians into Hierophants. New buildings keep appearing around the city and Benny and Ruth head back to the call centre in the hopes of rebooting the Great Leader, who had never caused such destruction, but it has disappeared and been replaced with a spire.

 

Benny and Ruth find an empty room at the top of the spire and see that nothing, the substance between [[matter]] and [[antimatter]], is surrounding the city. Leo, now called Traulus, joins them and speaks on behalf of the Epoch; he asks her to become their sole and unquestioning Hierophant, in return for which the world will return to however she likes it and Leo and Acanthus will be restored. She can tell from his [[body language]] that he is lying and that the Epoch cannot stop the nothing, so she and Ruth wait for the end whilst Traulus disappears. They sing "the sky's no limit".

* [[Ruth]] - [[Ayesha Antoine]]

* [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] - [[David Ames]]

* [[Acanthus|Heskith]] - [[John Montgomery]]

 

 

* Line Producer - [[David Richardson]]

== Worldbuilding ==

* Darion says that Benny is like [[Darion's mother|his mother]], "but hotter".

* Darion says that [[Macabre's father]] was a Hierophant.

* The [[House of Representatives]] is replaced by an open-air [[amphitheatre]] and moved to the location of a [[market]].

* Benny and [[Jason Kane|Jason]] once had to save the universe with a [[car battery]], a copy of ''[[The Beano]]'' and a [[potato]].

* Benny mentions being dumped by a [[Eighth Doctor|lover]] and being left with [[Wolsey|his cat]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'')

* Benny mentions the death of [[Jason Kane]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The End of the World (audio story)|The End of the World]]'')

* Benny remembers [[Gormune]] from [[Raster]], who told her that she was toxic and had to be removed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Year Zero (audio story)|Year Zero]]'')

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