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|number | |audio anthology = Doom Coalition 1 | ||
|doctor | |number = 1.1 | ||
|companions | |doctor = Eighth Doctor | ||
|enemy | |companions = [[Liv Chenka|Liv]] | ||
|featuring | |enemy = [[The Eleven]] | ||
|setting | |featuring = [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Padrac]] | ||
|writer | |setting = [[Capitol]] | ||
|director | |writer = Matt Fitton | ||
|music | |director = [[Ken Bentley]] | ||
|sound | |music = [[Wilfredo Acosta]] | ||
|publisher | |sound = [[Wilfredo Acosta]] | ||
|cover | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date | |cover = [[Tom Webster]] | ||
|format | |release date = 12 October 2015 | ||
|production code | |format = 1 X 1 hour | ||
|isbn | |production code = | ||
| | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-620-8 | ||
| | |series = ''[[Doom Coalition (audio series)|Doom Coalition]]'' | ||
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|producer = [[David Richardson]] | |||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first story of ''[[Doom Coalition 1]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Matt Fitton]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Nicola Walker]] as [[Liv Chenka]] and introduced [[Mark Bonnar]] as [[the Eleven]] and [[Robert Bathurst]] as [[Padrac|Cardinal Padrac]]. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
[[The Eleven]]. A [[Time Lord]] whose previous [[personality|personalities]] live on in his [[mind]]: arguing, plotting, jostling for supremacy... He is also [[Gallifrey]]'s most dangerous [[criminal]]. And he has escaped. | |||
[[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] is recalled to his homeworld to lead the hunt. As they search the [[Capitol]]'s corridors of power, [[Time Lord Academy|the Academy]] [[hall]]s and the [[prison cell|cells]] of the highest security [[penitentiary]], [[Liv Chenka|Liv]] realises the worst monsters may be among the Doctor's own people. | |||
For inside his fractured mind, the Eleven has a plan. And its deadly consequences will extend through space and time... | |||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | The [[Seventh Doctor]] visits [[the Eleven]], whom he has stopped and trapped, before he is locked away by the [[Time Lord]]s. [[Padrac|Cardinal Padrac]] calls the Doctor, letting him know that [[Romana II|the President]] has one final task for him, and the Eleven is frozen, shouting that it will be child's play to escape. | ||
[[Castellan (The Eleven)|The Castellan]] briefs [[Kiani]] on the security and protocols before her interview with the Eleven, who has been especially defrosted, as part of her [[thesis]] with permission from Cardinal Padrac. | |||
On [[Destrana]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Liv Chenka]] manage to escape from the natives, who had tied them up and planned to eat them to celebrate their freedom from an [[interdimensional spider god]]. | |||
Kiana interviews the Eleven, whom the Castellan, watching over a [[camera]], believes is toying with her. She asks about his [[regenerative dissonance]], wondering if it was caused by some [[trauma]], and talks to a number of his previous incarnations. | |||
The Doctor and Liv manage to locate [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. | |||
Feeling that the Eleven is getting [[boredom|bored]] with Kiani, the Castellan sends a guard detail to the [[cell]]. The monitor feed suddenly cuts out and the Castellan finds Kiani unconscious and the Eleven missing, ordering someone to inform Cardinal Padrac. | |||
The Doctor and Liv enter the TARDIS which dematerialises without warning, having been summoned to Gallifrey. They meet Cardinal Padrac and [[Farina]] who tell them about the Eleven's escape. Unbeknownst to them, the Eleven has killed two guards in the [[tunnel]]s and taken two [[staser]]s. When Liv says that she can see the Eleven escape in the footage, the Doctor realises that he used an [[eye filter]]. | |||
Whilst Liv and Cardinal Padrac search Kiani's quarters at the [[Time Lord Academy]], the Doctor and Farina visit Kiani to determine her involvement in the escape of the Eleven, who kills [[captain (The Eleven)|a captain]] and takes some of his possessions. The Doctor realises that they are wasting their time with Kiani, whom the Eleven has left alive for that very purpose. | |||
The Eleven uses the captain's [[biodata]] and security pass, linked to a [[High Council]] seal, to break into the [[presidential suite]] and the [[president's office]]. | |||
Cardinal Padrac tells Liv about [[Romana II|President Romanadvoratrelundar]] before finding more [[biochip]]s in Kiani's room. Whilst Farina sees this as damning, the Doctor believes that they were planted by somebody wanting to take down Romana's progressive regime. The Eleven broadcasts a message across Gallifrey, declaring himself [[Acting Lord President]] under the [[In absentia in chaotica protocol|''in absentia in chaotica'' protocol]]. | |||
[[Time grenade]]s materialise around the Capitol and primary power is lost, releasing criminals from the prison, but the Doctor, Farina and Kiani manage to escape thanks to Kiani's knowledge of the facility. Whilst the Doctor realises that the Castellan has been [[hypnosis|hypnotised]] since before he was an [[ensign]], Liv and Cardinal Padrac enter the Academy through a secret tunnel and the Eleven takes the cardinal hostage. Liv takes Cardinal Padrac's place and tells him to alert the Doctor. | |||
Once Farina and her [[Celestial Intervention Agency|CIA]] [[agent]]s have infiltrated the president's office with [[lock burner]]s, the Eleven uses the [[Sash of Rassilon]] to neutralise them, killing the agents and putting the [[mind probe]] on Farina to extract her knowledge. As the Castellan breaks into the office, the Eleven takes Liv to the [[Omega Vault]] and smashes the [[Urn of Rassilon]], leaving with the [[Regeneration Codex]]. Kiani determines that the Eleven will steal a TARDIS and flee Gallifrey. | |||
Reaching the Eleven in time, Kiani successfully persuades the Eleven to take her as his [[companion]] instead of Liv, but he kills her with a [[biodata disseminator]] before fleeing in [[The Eleven's TARDIS|a stolen TARDIS]]. | |||
Cardinal Padrac informs the Doctor that the Eleven's TARDIS cannot be traced but that a [[temporal anomaly]] became apparent on [[1960s]] [[Earth]] at the instant of his departure. Feeling guilty for the Eleven's escape, the Doctor says that it is his responsibility to recapture him and invites Liv to join him, which she accepts. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[The Eleven]] - [[Mark Bonnar]] | * [[The Eleven]] - [[Mark Bonnar]] | ||
* [[Castellan (The Eleven)|Castellan]] - [[Ramon Tikaram]] | * [[Castellan (The Eleven)|Castellan]] - [[Ramon Tikaram]] | ||
* | * [[Farina|Lady Farina]] - [[Caroline Langrishe]] | ||
* [[Padrac]] - [[Robert Bathurst]] | * [[Kiani]] - [[Bethan Walker]] | ||
* The [[Seventh Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]] | * [[Padrac|Cardinal Padrac]] - [[Robert Bathurst]] | ||
* [[Captain (The Eleven)|Captain]] - [[John Banks]] | |||
* [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]] | |||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
''to | === Individuals === | ||
* [[The Eleven]] presides over the throne of [[Rassilon]]. | |||
** One of their [[incarnation]]s more willing to [[kill]] was [[the Three]]. | |||
** [[The Six]] was by far their most violent [[personality|personalities]], and also one of the most unstable. | |||
* The Doctor knew [[Padrac]] in [[Time Lord Academy|the Academy]]. | |||
* [[Niv Debner]] leads the [[Temporal Marauders]]. | |||
* [[Dita]], [[Landa]] and [[Shimona]] are [[Celestial Intervention Agency|CIA]] agents. | |||
=== Language === | |||
* [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]] is used as an exclamation as a name in vain. | |||
=== Law === | |||
* The Eleven uses the [[in absentia in chaotica protocol|''in absentia in chaotica'' protocol]], which dates back to [[Pandak II]], to declare himself [[Acting Lord President]] as the best-placed official to take on the mantle in the president's absence. | |||
* [[The One (Time Lord)|The One]] was inducted onto the [[High Council]] to make up the numbers to pass through [[inheritance law]]s and [[temporal taxation bill]]s. | |||
=== Locations === | |||
* The Doctor and Liv visit [[Destrana]]. | |||
* The Castellan tells Kiana that visiting the Eleven is not a trip to the [[xeno-zoo]]. | |||
* The Eleven is held at the [[Capitol prison facility]], on which Kiani wrote a [[dissertation]] called ''[[Imprisonment Post-Shada: Punishment or Parole]]''. The room where the Eleven is interviewed has a five level security lock on the inner and outer cell doors and is phased from [[Gallifreyan Mean Time]] by 0.35 seconds. | |||
* Kiani is put in [[Cell 5-γ-9]], a maximum security cell. | |||
=== Objects === | |||
* The items the Eleven steals include the [[Rod of Rassilon]], the [[Sash of Rassilon]] and the [[Urn of Rassilon]], which he destroys. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This story was recorded at [[The Moat Studios]]. | * This story was recorded at [[The Moat Studios]]. | ||
* When the Eleven opens the door into the tunnel using the music lock, it opens with a sound of Medic's healing gun from ''Team Fortress 2'' videogame. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Liv believes she has met some of the Doctor's old friends from Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') | * [[Padrac]] says that [[Romana II|the President]] has one more task for the Seventh Doctor before he leaves [[Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | ||
* Farina mentions the reforms which occurred President Romana's first term of office, which allowed non-Gallifreyans to study | * [[Kiani]] wrote her first year dissertation on imprisonment post-[[Shada]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'') | ||
* Padrac refers to some of the Doctor's former companions becoming "warriors, leaders [and] defenders of worlds." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Savages (TV story)|The Savages]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'' | * The Doctor tells [[Liv Chenka|Liv]] that the [[Time Lord]]s have often pointed guns at him upon his arrival. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'', etc.) | ||
* The Doctor refers to previous conspiracies on Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') | * Liv refers to the [[Seventh Doctor|"hat and umbrella" incarnation]] of the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Robophobia (audio story)|Robophobia]]'') | ||
* Liv believes she has met some of the Doctor's old friends from [[Gallifrey]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') | |||
* Liv says she has met the [[Dalek]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Traitor (audio story)|The Traitor]]'', etc.) | |||
* [[Farina]] mentions the reforms which occurred President [[Romana]]'s first term of office, which allowed non-Gallifreyans to study at the [[Time Lord Academy]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pandora (audio story)|Pandora]]'') | |||
* The Eleven refers to [[Cahlough Academy]] students. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bloodletters (novel)|The Bloodletters]]'') | |||
* Padrac refers to some of the Doctor's former companions becoming "warriors, leaders [and] defenders of worlds." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Savages (TV story)|The Savages]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'', etc.) | |||
* The Doctor refers to previous conspiracies on Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'' etc.) | |||
* The [[Celestial Intervention Agency|CIA]] attempt to use the [[mind probe]] on [[the Eleven]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') | |||
* The Eleven is scornful of the Daleks' capabilities when compared to those of the Time Lords. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') | |||
* The Eleven has the ability to turn off [[temporal grace]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | |||
* The Eleven uses a tune to open a secret door. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') | |||
* Padrac says the Doctor leaving Gallifrey was more urgent than him just being bored. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'', ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'', etc.) | |||
* Padrac mentions that the [[Stormblood|Chief Archivist]] has gone missing. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scenes From Her Life (audio story)|Scenes From Her Life]]'', ''[[The Crucible of Souls (audio story)|The Crucible of Souls]]'') | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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* Transcript for [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1abJDYkDXZ5wpvFGeIDfQumkwa4gUMqQcqA2TLLeySHM/edit?usp=sharing The Eleven] | |||
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Latest revision as of 12:03, 4 June 2024
- You may be looking for the titular character or the audio anthology.
The Eleven was the first story of Doom Coalition 1, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Nicola Walker as Liv Chenka and introduced Mark Bonnar as the Eleven and Robert Bathurst as Cardinal Padrac.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Eleven. A Time Lord whose previous personalities live on in his mind: arguing, plotting, jostling for supremacy... He is also Gallifrey's most dangerous criminal. And he has escaped.
The Doctor is recalled to his homeworld to lead the hunt. As they search the Capitol's corridors of power, the Academy halls and the cells of the highest security penitentiary, Liv realises the worst monsters may be among the Doctor's own people.
For inside his fractured mind, the Eleven has a plan. And its deadly consequences will extend through space and time...
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Seventh Doctor visits the Eleven, whom he has stopped and trapped, before he is locked away by the Time Lords. Cardinal Padrac calls the Doctor, letting him know that the President has one final task for him, and the Eleven is frozen, shouting that it will be child's play to escape.
The Castellan briefs Kiani on the security and protocols before her interview with the Eleven, who has been especially defrosted, as part of her thesis with permission from Cardinal Padrac.
On Destrana, the Eighth Doctor and Liv Chenka manage to escape from the natives, who had tied them up and planned to eat them to celebrate their freedom from an interdimensional spider god.
Kiana interviews the Eleven, whom the Castellan, watching over a camera, believes is toying with her. She asks about his regenerative dissonance, wondering if it was caused by some trauma, and talks to a number of his previous incarnations.
The Doctor and Liv manage to locate the TARDIS.
Feeling that the Eleven is getting bored with Kiani, the Castellan sends a guard detail to the cell. The monitor feed suddenly cuts out and the Castellan finds Kiani unconscious and the Eleven missing, ordering someone to inform Cardinal Padrac.
The Doctor and Liv enter the TARDIS which dematerialises without warning, having been summoned to Gallifrey. They meet Cardinal Padrac and Farina who tell them about the Eleven's escape. Unbeknownst to them, the Eleven has killed two guards in the tunnels and taken two stasers. When Liv says that she can see the Eleven escape in the footage, the Doctor realises that he used an eye filter.
Whilst Liv and Cardinal Padrac search Kiani's quarters at the Time Lord Academy, the Doctor and Farina visit Kiani to determine her involvement in the escape of the Eleven, who kills a captain and takes some of his possessions. The Doctor realises that they are wasting their time with Kiani, whom the Eleven has left alive for that very purpose.
The Eleven uses the captain's biodata and security pass, linked to a High Council seal, to break into the presidential suite and the president's office.
Cardinal Padrac tells Liv about President Romanadvoratrelundar before finding more biochips in Kiani's room. Whilst Farina sees this as damning, the Doctor believes that they were planted by somebody wanting to take down Romana's progressive regime. The Eleven broadcasts a message across Gallifrey, declaring himself Acting Lord President under the in absentia in chaotica protocol.
Time grenades materialise around the Capitol and primary power is lost, releasing criminals from the prison, but the Doctor, Farina and Kiani manage to escape thanks to Kiani's knowledge of the facility. Whilst the Doctor realises that the Castellan has been hypnotised since before he was an ensign, Liv and Cardinal Padrac enter the Academy through a secret tunnel and the Eleven takes the cardinal hostage. Liv takes Cardinal Padrac's place and tells him to alert the Doctor.
Once Farina and her CIA agents have infiltrated the president's office with lock burners, the Eleven uses the Sash of Rassilon to neutralise them, killing the agents and putting the mind probe on Farina to extract her knowledge. As the Castellan breaks into the office, the Eleven takes Liv to the Omega Vault and smashes the Urn of Rassilon, leaving with the Regeneration Codex. Kiani determines that the Eleven will steal a TARDIS and flee Gallifrey.
Reaching the Eleven in time, Kiani successfully persuades the Eleven to take her as his companion instead of Liv, but he kills her with a biodata disseminator before fleeing in a stolen TARDIS.
Cardinal Padrac informs the Doctor that the Eleven's TARDIS cannot be traced but that a temporal anomaly became apparent on 1960s Earth at the instant of his departure. Feeling guilty for the Eleven's escape, the Doctor says that it is his responsibility to recapture him and invites Liv to join him, which she accepts.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor - Paul McGann
- Liv Chenka - Nicola Walker
- The Eleven - Mark Bonnar
- Castellan - Ramon Tikaram
- Lady Farina - Caroline Langrishe
- Kiani - Bethan Walker
- Cardinal Padrac - Robert Bathurst
- Captain - John Banks
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Eleven presides over the throne of Rassilon.
- One of their incarnations more willing to kill was the Three.
- The Six was by far their most violent personalities, and also one of the most unstable.
- The Doctor knew Padrac in the Academy.
- Niv Debner leads the Temporal Marauders.
- Dita, Landa and Shimona are CIA agents.
Language[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Arcadia is used as an exclamation as a name in vain.
Law[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Eleven uses the in absentia in chaotica protocol, which dates back to Pandak II, to declare himself Acting Lord President as the best-placed official to take on the mantle in the president's absence.
- The One was inducted onto the High Council to make up the numbers to pass through inheritance laws and temporal taxation bills.
Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor and Liv visit Destrana.
- The Castellan tells Kiana that visiting the Eleven is not a trip to the xeno-zoo.
- The Eleven is held at the Capitol prison facility, on which Kiani wrote a dissertation called Imprisonment Post-Shada: Punishment or Parole. The room where the Eleven is interviewed has a five level security lock on the inner and outer cell doors and is phased from Gallifreyan Mean Time by 0.35 seconds.
- Kiani is put in Cell 5-γ-9, a maximum security cell.
Objects[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The items the Eleven steals include the Rod of Rassilon, the Sash of Rassilon and the Urn of Rassilon, which he destroys.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This story was recorded at The Moat Studios.
- When the Eleven opens the door into the tunnel using the music lock, it opens with a sound of Medic's healing gun from Team Fortress 2 videogame.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Padrac says that the President has one more task for the Seventh Doctor before he leaves Gallifrey. (PROSE: Lungbarrow, TV: Doctor Who)
- Kiani wrote her first year dissertation on imprisonment post-Shada. (WC: Shada)
- The Doctor tells Liv that the Time Lords have often pointed guns at him upon his arrival. (TV: Arc of Infinity, etc.)
- Liv refers to the "hat and umbrella" incarnation of the Doctor. (AUDIO: Robophobia)
- Liv believes she has met some of the Doctor's old friends from Gallifrey. (AUDIO: Eyes of the Master)
- Liv says she has met the Daleks. (AUDIO: The Traitor, etc.)
- Farina mentions the reforms which occurred President Romana's first term of office, which allowed non-Gallifreyans to study at the Time Lord Academy. (AUDIO: Pandora)
- The Eleven refers to Cahlough Academy students. (PROSE: The Bloodletters)
- Padrac refers to some of the Doctor's former companions becoming "warriors, leaders [and] defenders of worlds." (TV: The Savages, The Ultimate Foe, etc.)
- The Doctor refers to previous conspiracies on Gallifrey. (TV: The Deadly Assassin, The Five Doctors etc.)
- The CIA attempt to use the mind probe on the Eleven. (TV: The Five Doctors)
- The Eleven is scornful of the Daleks' capabilities when compared to those of the Time Lords. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)
- The Eleven has the ability to turn off temporal grace. (TV: Doctor Who)
- The Eleven uses a tune to open a secret door. (TV: The Five Doctors)
- Padrac says the Doctor leaving Gallifrey was more urgent than him just being bored. (AUDIO: The Beginning, Disassembled, TV: Heaven Sent, etc.)
- Padrac mentions that the Chief Archivist has gone missing. (AUDIO: Scenes From Her Life, The Crucible of Souls)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official The Eleven page at bigfinish.com
- Transcript for The Eleven
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