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|series                 = ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio stories
|name = The Final Amendment
|story number           = 39
|series= [[Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series]]
|range                  = BSSR
|story number = 39
|series in range        = Series 8 (BFBS)
|season number=8
|series number in range = 8
|number=5
|number in series      = 5
|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield]]
|number                = 5
|featuring = [[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart]]<br />[[Adrian Wall]]<br />[[Irving Braxiatel]]<br />[[Jason Kane]]<br />[[Seventh Doctor]]
|main character         = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]
|setting = [[Earth]], [[2606]]
|featuring             = Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart
|writer = [[Joseph Lidster]]
|featuring2            = Jason Kane
|director = [[Edward Salt]]
|featuring3            = Bernice Summerfield (The Two Jasons){{!}}Benny
|producer = [[Matthew Cochrane]] and [[David Darlington]]
|enemy                  = Bernard Jones, [[Fiona Dickens (clone)|Fiona Dickens]]
|publisher = [[Big Finish Productions]]
|setting               = [[Earth]], [[2608]]
|release date = [[October]] [[2007]]
|writer                 = Joseph Lidster
|format = 1 CD
|director              = [[Gary Russell]]
|production code = BFPCD39
|producer              = [[Simon Guerrier]]
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-276-0
|music                  = [[Thea Cochrane]] and [[David Darlington]]
|prev = The End of the World (audio story)
|sound                  = David Darlington
|next = The Wake (audio story)
|cover                  = [[Adrian Salmon]]
|publisher              = Big Finish Productions
|release date           = October 2007
|format                 = 1 Episode on 1 CD
|production code       = BFPCD39
|isbn                   = ISBN 978-1-84435-276-0
|prev                   = The End of the World (audio story)
|next                   = The Wake (audio story)
|series2                = ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]''
|prev2                  = The End of the World (audio story)
|next2                  = Missing Adventures (anthology)
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the thirty-ninth ''[[Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series|Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio story released by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was the fifth story of the eighth season.
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the thirty-ninth ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio story released by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was the fifth story of the eighth season.
 
== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
Forget the war and death and boring stuff like that with another trip to the [[Braxiatel Collection]]!
Forget the [[war]] and [[death]] and boring stuff like that with another trip to the [[Braxiatel Collection]]!


"A welcome return of an old favourite!" – [[Earth Empire]] News
"A welcome return of an old favourite!" – [[Earth Empire]] News
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"Something of a curate's egg." – Fandomania
"Something of a curate's egg." – Fandomania


Joined by friends old and new, [[Jason Kane]] returns for his 15th series! Will [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] find out about him and [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]]? Or about him and [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]]? What is the mysterious connection between [[Joseph the Porter|Joseph]] and [[Doggles]]? Will [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]] ever reveal his sinister plans?
Joined by friends old and new, [[Jason Kane]] returns for his 15th series! Will [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] find out about him and [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]]? Or about him and [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]]? What is the mysterious connection between [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]] and [[Doggles]]? Will [[Irving Braxiatel|Brax]] ever reveal his sinister plans?


And just who the hell is [[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart]]?
And just who the hell is [[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart]]?
== Plot ==
After receiving an anonymous note asking for help, [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] travels to the [[White Rabbit (Bedrock XII)|White Rabbit]] on [[Bedrock XII]] and finds that the note is from [[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart]]. Kadiatu knocks her out with a [[tranquiliser patch]] and takes her to [[Fiona Dickens (clone)|President Fiona Dickens]] on [[Earth]], where Benny learns from Fiona's son [[Howard Dickens|Howard]] that [[clone]]s of herself, [[Jason Kane|Jason]] and their friends star in a [[GalNet]] show. When Jason calls her and tells her that he has done something wrong, Benny is too upset with him to engage and tells him that they will speak once she returns to the [[Braxiatel Collection]].
Benny and Kadiatu drink at the [[Hag's Head]] in the [[Undercity]] where Benny realises that all of the patrons are [[human]]; Kadiatu explains that [[alien]]s are being excluded and that Fiona seems to have been possessed or replaced, having previously been an ineffectual leader but now sending her political opponents to the [[Lunar Penal Colony]]. Unbeknownst to the two of them, Fiona is listening to them through a bug that she had a [[robot]] place on Benny and reveals to Howard that she is a clone. She has [[Howard Dickens (clone)|a clone of Howard]] incapacitate him and sends clones of Benny and Kadiatu after them, planning on getting them out of the way so that she can replace as many [[minister]]s as possible and start a [[war]].
After Kadiatu kills [[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart (The Final Amendment)|her clone]], Benny notices that [[Bernice Summerfield (The Two Jasons)|her own clone]] is upset and realises that she is [[sentience|sentient]]. The Benny clone gets the two of them to subdue her and take her back to the [[palace]], telling them about how [[Bernard Jones]] of the [[Stonehauser Medical Facility]] injected the clone of Fiona with his own [[racism|racist]] beliefs. After Jones died two months ago, the clone's conditioning activated and she replaced [[Fiona Dickens|the real Fiona]]. Benny's clone sends the real Benny to GalNet where the real Fiona and Howard are being held whilst she and Kadiatu confront Fiona, who kills the clone of Howard in an attempt to implicate Kadiatu and her alien [[DNA]].
Her plan having failed due to Kadiatu being aware of the deception, Fiona sends a message to the clones to send them after Benny; [[Bev Tarrant (The Final Amendment)|clones of Bev]], [[Adrian Wall (The Final Amendment)|Adrian]] and [[Seventh Doctor (The Final Amendment)|the Doctor]], joined by a [[robot]] of [[Irving Braxiatel (The Final Amendment)|Braxiatel]] who explains that he is "caught up in the adventure", hunt her until Kadiatu reminds Fiona who she really is and what Jones has made her do. She calls the clones off before falling to her death. The clones are given new jobs and Kadiatu takes Benny back to Bedrock, after which she returns to the palace and agrees to take the real Fiona and Howard with her on her adventures in her [[time machine]].
In the White Rabbit, Benny gets a call from [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]] and goes outside whilst the [[barman]], [[John Wilson (The Final Amendment)|John Wilson]], watches the inauguration of Benny's clone as President of Earth. He hears Benny cry out and calls out to her to check if she is alright.


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
* [[Bernice Summerfield]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]]
* [[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart]] - [[Sara Carver]]
* Narrator - [[Nicholas Briggs]]
* [[Fiona (The Final Amendment)|Fiona]] - [[Ann Bryron]]
* [[Fiona Dickens (clone)|Fiona]] - [[Ann Bryson]]
* [[Howard (The Final Amendment)|Howard]] - [[Richard Glaves]]
* [[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart|Kadiatu]] - [[Sara Carver]]
* [[Adrian Wall]] - [[Harry Myers]]
* [[Bev Tarrant (The Final Amendment)|Bev]] - [[Louise Faulkner]]
* [[Irving Braxiatel]] - [[Miles Richardson]]
* [[Jason Kane|Jason]] - [[Stephen Fewell]]
* [[Jason Kane]] - [[Stephen Fewell]]
* [[Howard Dickens|Howard]] - [[Richard Glaves]]
* [[Joseph (android)|Joseph]] - [[Steven Wickham]]
* [[Adrian Wall (The Final Amendment)|Adrian]] - [[Harry Myers]]
* [[Seventh Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]] (uncredited)
* [[Irving Braxiatel (The Final Amendment)|Braxiatel]] - [[Miles Richardson]]
* [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]] - [[Steven Wickham]]<ref>Although credited as playing Joseph, Wickham actually plays [[Doggles (The Final Amendment)|a clone]] of [[Doggles]].</ref>
 
=== Uncredited cast ===
* [[Seventh Doctor (The Final Amendment)|Seventh Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]]
 
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Events ===
* [[Actor]]s protested against the use of [[clone]]s in the [[Equity Uprising]] in [[New Newport]].


== References ==
=== Foods and beverages ===
=== Foods and beverages ===
* Benny drinks a [[gin and tonic]].
* Benny and Kadiatu have a [[alcohol|drink]] in the [[undercity]].
* Benny and Kadiatu have a [[alcohol|drink]] in the [[undercity]].


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* Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart is a descendant of [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] from the [[22nd century]].
* Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart is a descendant of [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] from the [[22nd century]].
* Kadiatu was once [[Earth's Champion]].
* Kadiatu was once [[Earth's Champion]].
* [[Bernard Jones]] died on the [[Stonehauser Medical Facility]].
* [[Terry Columbus]] is a [[reporter]].
=== Planets ===
* Benny mentions [[Terra Alpha]].


=== Television series ===
=== Television series ===
* ''[[Hollyoaks|Hollyoaks: Life on Phobos]]'' is broadcast after the ''Jason Kane Adventures''.
* ''[[Hollyoaks|Hollyoaks: Life on Phobos]]'' is broadcast after the ''Jason Kane Adventures''.
=== Toys ===
* Howard has [[toy]]s of [[Clarence]], [[Emile Mars-Smith|Emile]], [[Minko]] and [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* [[Joseph Lidster]] was initially asked to include [[Iris Wildthyme]] and started to work on a storyline in which she took [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] to the [[21st century]] where [[time]] had changed and a human resources supervisor had taken over [[Earth]], making it [[political correctness|politically correct]]. Iris was removed after [[Simon Guerrier]] became concerned that the entire series relied on the availability of particular actors. ([[REF]]: ''[[Bernice Summerfield: The Inside Story]]'')
* The original title of ''The Last Amendment'' was amended to ''The Final Amendment'' following a consultation between Guerrier and [[John Ainsworth]]. ([[REF]]: ''[[Bernice Summerfield: The Inside Story]]'')
* The clone of [[Irving Braxiatel|Braxiatel]] tells the clone of Benny that he is in love with her, that she is the daughter he always wanted and that he wants her to call him "daddy". The same dynamic was between Francis Urquhart (played by [[Ian Richardson (actor)|Ian Richardson]]) and Mattie Storin (played by [[Susannah Harker]]) in ''[[wikipedia:House of Cards (British TV series)|House of Cards]]''.
* Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart's ship makes a [[TARDIS]]-like dematerialisation sound.
* Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart's ship makes a [[TARDIS]]-like dematerialisation sound.
* This marks the first appearance of [[the Doctor]] in a ''Bernice Summerfield'' audio drama, albeit in the form of a cameo. Prior to the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s appearances in the third and fourth series of ''[[Jago and Litefoot]]'' in the guise of Professor Claudius Dark, it was the only appearance of the Doctor from the proper timeline in any Big Finish audio spin-off series. However, in the interim, two versions of the Sixth Doctor from different [[alternate timeline|alternative timelines]] appeared in the fourth series of ''[[Gallifrey (audio series)|Gallifrey]]''. They were known as the [[Burner Doctor]] and [[Theta Sigma (Forever)|Theta Sigma]] and were featured in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Forever (audio story)|Forever]]'' respectively.
* This marks the first appearance of [[the Doctor]] in a ''Bernice Summerfield'' audio drama, albeit a [[clone]].
* This story was originally released on CD.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart first appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit]]''. Benny "helped" her (with the whole mad psychosis thing) in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Also People]]'' and they last encountered each other in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days]]''.
* Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart first appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit (novel)|Transit]]''. Benny "helped" her (with the whole mad [[psychosis]] thing) in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Also People (novel)|The Also People]]'' and they last encountered each other in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]''.
* Benny mentions that Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart came to her wedding to Jason in [[Cheldon Bonniface]] on [[24 April]] [[2010]]. Kadiatu points out that it was hardly an exclusive event, given that [[Sherlock Holmes]] also attended. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]'')
* Benny mentions that Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart came to her [[Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding|wedding]] to Jason in [[Cheldon Bonniface]] on [[24 April]] [[2010]]. Kadiatu points out that it was hardly an exclusive event, given that [[Sherlock Holmes]] also attended. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
* Benny has been to the Undercity before in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin]]'' (which is in the "future") which she and Kadiatu have both seen.
* Benny has been to the Undercity before in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'' (which is in the "future") which she and Kadiatu have both seen.
* [[Dorothy McShane|Time's Vigilante]], who met and knew both Benny and Kadiatu, also became Earth's Champion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Set Piece (novel)|Set Piece]]'')
* The pub that Kadiatu and Benny meet up in is the [[White Rabbit (London)|White Rabbit]], moved there generations ago. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]'', ''[[A Death in the Family (audio story)|A Death in the Family]]'')
* Benny notes when governments go wrong, mentioning the Nazis, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'') the [[British government]] in the [[21st century]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fearmonger (audio story)|The Fearmonger]]'', ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Trading Futures (novel)|Trading Futures]]'') and [[Terra Alpha]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol (TV story)|The Happiness Patrol]]'')
* When Benny gets in a fight with her [[Bernice Summerfield (clone)|clone]], she starts to sing Happy Place. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Worst Thing in the World (audio story)|The Worst Thing in the World]]'')


=== Adventures of Jason Kane and Bernice Summerfield - TV series ===
=== Adventures of Jason Kane and Bernice Summerfield - TV series ===
In the TV series excerpts there are several references to previous stories:
In the TV series excerpts there are several references to previous stories:
* The Oracle of the Lost and Bernice's cancer: [[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle]]''
* The Oracle of the Lost and Bernice's cancer: [[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]''
* The effects of her cancer and the Mary-Sue: [[PROSE]]: ''[[Return to the Fractured Planet]]''
* The effects of her cancer and the Mary-Sue: [[PROSE]]: ''[[Return to the Fractured Planet (novel)|Return to the Fractured Planet]]''
* The TV Jason says he deals in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Death and Diplomacy]]''
* The TV Jason says he deals in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Death and Diplomacy (novel)|Death and Diplomacy]]''
* Irving Braxiatel and his plans: [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crystal of Cantus (audio story)|The Crystal of Cantus]]''
* Irving Braxiatel and his plans: [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crystal of Cantus (audio story)|The Crystal of Cantus]]''


== External links ==
== External links ==
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The Final Amendment was the thirty-ninth Bernice Summerfield audio story released by Big Finish Productions. It was the fifth story of the eighth season.

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

Forget the war and death and boring stuff like that with another trip to the Braxiatel Collection!

"A welcome return of an old favourite!" – Earth Empire News

"A moving parable on what it is to be human in these ever-changing times." – BFM

"Glorious, crukking filth! Hooray!" – Moonmaker

"Something of a curate's egg." – Fandomania

Joined by friends old and new, Jason Kane returns for his 15th series! Will Benny find out about him and Bev? Or about him and Adrian? What is the mysterious connection between Joseph and Doggles? Will Brax ever reveal his sinister plans?

And just who the hell is Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

After receiving an anonymous note asking for help, Benny travels to the White Rabbit on Bedrock XII and finds that the note is from Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart. Kadiatu knocks her out with a tranquiliser patch and takes her to President Fiona Dickens on Earth, where Benny learns from Fiona's son Howard that clones of herself, Jason and their friends star in a GalNet show. When Jason calls her and tells her that he has done something wrong, Benny is too upset with him to engage and tells him that they will speak once she returns to the Braxiatel Collection.

Benny and Kadiatu drink at the Hag's Head in the Undercity where Benny realises that all of the patrons are human; Kadiatu explains that aliens are being excluded and that Fiona seems to have been possessed or replaced, having previously been an ineffectual leader but now sending her political opponents to the Lunar Penal Colony. Unbeknownst to the two of them, Fiona is listening to them through a bug that she had a robot place on Benny and reveals to Howard that she is a clone. She has a clone of Howard incapacitate him and sends clones of Benny and Kadiatu after them, planning on getting them out of the way so that she can replace as many ministers as possible and start a war.

After Kadiatu kills her clone, Benny notices that her own clone is upset and realises that she is sentient. The Benny clone gets the two of them to subdue her and take her back to the palace, telling them about how Bernard Jones of the Stonehauser Medical Facility injected the clone of Fiona with his own racist beliefs. After Jones died two months ago, the clone's conditioning activated and she replaced the real Fiona. Benny's clone sends the real Benny to GalNet where the real Fiona and Howard are being held whilst she and Kadiatu confront Fiona, who kills the clone of Howard in an attempt to implicate Kadiatu and her alien DNA.

Her plan having failed due to Kadiatu being aware of the deception, Fiona sends a message to the clones to send them after Benny; clones of Bev, Adrian and the Doctor, joined by a robot of Braxiatel who explains that he is "caught up in the adventure", hunt her until Kadiatu reminds Fiona who she really is and what Jones has made her do. She calls the clones off before falling to her death. The clones are given new jobs and Kadiatu takes Benny back to Bedrock, after which she returns to the palace and agrees to take the real Fiona and Howard with her on her adventures in her time machine.

In the White Rabbit, Benny gets a call from Adrian and goes outside whilst the barman, John Wilson, watches the inauguration of Benny's clone as President of Earth. He hears Benny cry out and calls out to her to check if she is alright.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Uncredited cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Events[[edit] | [edit source]]

Foods and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Planets[[edit] | [edit source]]

Television series[[edit] | [edit source]]

Toys[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Adventures of Jason Kane and Bernice Summerfield - TV series[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the TV series excerpts there are several references to previous stories:

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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