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|number         = 214
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|companions       = [[Melanie Bush|Mel]], [[Ace]]
|companions     = [[Ace]], [[Melanie Bush|Mel]]
|enemy             = [[Speravore]]s, [[Gloria Swannicker|Gloria]]
|enemy           = The [[Sperivore]]s
|setting           = [[Ricosta]], c. [[2000000|2,000,000]]
|setting         = [[Ricosta]], circa [[2000000]]
|writer           = Matt Fitton
|writer          = [[Matt Fitton]]
|director         = [[Ken Bentley]]
|director        = [[Ken Bentley]]
|producer          = [[David Richardson]]
|music           = [[Fool Circle Productions]]
|music             = [[Fool Circle Productions]]
|sound           = [[Fool Circle Productions]]
|sound             = Fool Circle Productions
|cover           = [[Tom Webster]]
|cover             = [[Tom Webster]]
|publisher       = Big Finish Productions
|epcount          = 4
|release date   = [[12 July (releases)|12 July]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]]
|publisher         = Big Finish Productions
|format         = 4 parts, 2 CDs
|release date     = 12 July 2016
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|isbn           = ISBN 978-1-78178-889-9
|production code   = BFPDWCD214
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the two hundred and fourteenth story in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly range]]. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]], and [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] reunited after ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]''.
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the two hundred and fourteenth story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Matt Fitton]] and featured [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Bonnie Langford]] as [[Melanie Bush]] and [[Sophie Aldred]] as [[Ace]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
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* [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] - [[Bonnie Langford]]
* [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] - [[Bonnie Langford]]
* [[Ace]] - [[Sophie Aldred]]
* [[Ace]] - [[Sophie Aldred]]
* [[Gloria Swannicker|Gloria]]/[[Valla|Secretary]] - [[Ginny Holder]]
* [[Gloria Swannicker|Gloria]] / [[Valla|Secretary]] - [[Ginny Holder]]
* [[Nathan Later|Lefty Lonnigan]] - [[Des McAleer]]
* [[Nathan Later|Lefty Lonnigan]] - [[Des McAleer]]
* [[Nathan Later]] - [[Stephen Hagan]]
* [[Nathan Later]] - [[Stephen Hagan]]
* [[Atomon (A Life of Crime)|Atomon]]/[[Sperovore banker|Sperovore Banker]]/[[Steward (A Life of Crime)|Steward]] - [[Harry Myers]]
* [[Atomon (A Life of Crime)|Atomon]] / [[Sperovore banker|Sperovore Banker]] / [[Steward (A Life of Crime)|Steward]] - [[Harry Myers]]
* [[Mayor (A Life of Crime)|Mayor]]/[[Sperovore auditor|Sperovore Auditor]]/[[Sperovore financer|Sperovore Financer]] - [[John Banks]]
* [[Mayor (A Life of Crime)|Mayor]] / [[Sperovore auditor|Sperovore Auditor]] / [[Sperovore financer|Sperovore Financer]] - [[John Banks]]


== References ==
== Crew ==
 
* Cover Art - [[Tom Webster]]
* Director - [[Ken Bentley]]
* Executive Producers - [[Nicholas Briggs]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]
* Music and Sound Design - [[Fool Circle Productions]]
* Producer - [[David Richardson]]
* Script Editor - [[Alan Barnes]]
* Writer - [[Matt Fitton]]
 
== Worldbuilding ==
* Gloria gives 500 [[grotzit]]s to the Mayor.
* Gloria gives 500 [[grotzit]]s to the Mayor.
* Mel lost her ship, the ''[[Nosferatu III]]'', when it was impounded.
* Mel lost her ship, the ''[[Nosferatu III]]'', when it was impounded.
* The Ricosta currency is the dollar. The Mayor regrets not adopting the grotzit when he had the opportunity.
* Lefty Lonnigan is a [[cyborg]]. He received his nickname because only the left side of his body is still [[human]]. He was injured over 20 years ago.
* Lefty Lonnigan is a [[cyborg]]. He received his nickname because only the left side of his body is still [[human]].
* Gloria offers Mel a glass of [[Gadalaxian champagne]].
* Gloria offers Mel a glass of [[Gadalaxian champagne]].
* Ace refers to the Mayor as "fur-face" and "fuzzball".
* She uses a Time Lord neurotoxin.
* Lefty compares [[Ricostan]]s to [[ferret]]s, though Gloria believes that they more closely resemble [[raccoon]]s.
* Lefty compares [[Ricostan]]s to [[ferret]]s, though Gloria believes that they more closely resemble [[raccoon]]s.
* Ace has read about [[regeneration]].
* Ace has read about [[regeneration]].
* Mel considers Glitz to be his ne'er-do-well.
* Ace compares Lefty to [[Long John Silver]].
* Ace compares Lefty to [[Long John Silver]].
* Gloria tells the Doctor that not even she can make beige and paisley look good.
* The [[Speravore]]s are one of the wealthiest species in the [[Andromeda (galaxy)|Andromeda Galaxy]], if not the wealthiest. They run Sperovore Investment (or S.I.) Holdings.
* The [[Sperivore]]s are one of the wealthiest species in the [[Andromeda (galaxy)|Andromeda Galaxy]], if not the wealthiest.
* Lefty once robbed a bank on [[Andromeda IX]]; when being fed on by the Sperovores, he realises that he would have escaped with the money if he'd taken a different turn at a particular point.
* Lefty once robbed a bank on [[Andromeda IX]].
* Sperovores are quantum eaters: they feed on quantum potential futures, choices from the multiverse, and break down the walls of reality. They eat criminals, with every moment relived at death as they dissolve 1 molecule at a time.
* Gloria refers to Mel as "Little Miss Carrot Curls".
* They follow a [[psychic spore]] to keep track of a quantum trace.
* Mel has the scent of many realities with many different futures, which she sometimes dreams of.
* Ace explains that [[potential energy]] moves between every point in the [[multiverse]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This story was recorded on [[2 February (production)|2 February]] and [[3 February (production)|3 February]] [[2016 (production)|2016]] at [[The Moat Studios]].
* This story was recorded on [[2 February (production)|2]] and [[3 February (production)|3 February]] [[2016 (production)|2016]] at [[the Moat Studios]].
* Barring time travel, this story presumably takes place circa [[2000000]], contemporary with the other [[Sabalom Glitz]] stories ''[[The Mysterious Planet]]'' and ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]''.
* In a reference to the Doctor's faked regeneration, Mel asks Gloria, "What did you do? Bung on a hat and a wig? Fake some special effects?" This is an in-joke referring to the fact that [[Sylvester McCoy]] played the [[Sixth Doctor]] during his regeneration into his seventh incarnation in ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'' as [[Colin Baker]] declined to return.
* In a reference to the Doctor's faked regeneration, Mel asks Gloria, "What did you do? Bung on a hat and a wig? Fake some special effects?" This is an in-joke referring to the fact that [[Sylvester McCoy]] played the [[Sixth Doctor]] during his regeneration into his seventh incarnation in [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'' as [[Colin Baker]] declined to return.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
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* Mel tells Gloria that she met Glitz on [[Iceworld]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
* Mel tells Gloria that she met Glitz on [[Iceworld]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
* Ace refers to the fact that the Doctor stole the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'')
* Ace refers to the fact that the Doctor stole the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'')
* Lefty refers to [[Ravolox]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]''), Iceworld ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'') and [[Vandor Prime]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mission: Impractical (novel)|Mission: Impractical]]'')
* Lefty refers to [[Ravolox]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'') Iceworld ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'') and [[Vandor Prime]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mission: Impractical (novel)|Mission: Impractical]]'')
* A [[Foamasi]] representative is visiting Ricosta. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive (TV story)|The Leisure Hive]]'')
* A [[Foamasi]] representative is visiting Ricosta. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive (TV story)|The Leisure Hive]]'')
* Mel tells Gloria that she is aware that the Doctor can regenerate from personal experience. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Brink of Death (audio story)|The Brink of Death]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'')
* Mel tells Gloria that she is aware that the Doctor can regenerate from personal experience. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Brink of Death (audio story)|The Brink of Death]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'')
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* Ace recalls that Glitz used to hang around [[Iceworld's ice cream parlour]] when she worked there as a waitress. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
* Ace recalls that Glitz used to hang around [[Iceworld's ice cream parlour]] when she worked there as a waitress. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
* Ace again refers to Mel as "[[Donut]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
* Ace again refers to Mel as "[[Donut]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
* Mel mentions that she has recently encountered the [[Porcian]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[You Are the Doctor (audio story)|You are the Doctor]]'') and visited the [[Grand Betelgeuse Hotel]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (audio story)|The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel]]''). The Doctor determines that the two humans who escaped from [[Chimbly]] and [[Keith (You Are the Doctor)|Keith]] were Mel and Glitz ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[You Are the Doctor (audio story)|You are the Doctor]]'') and that the woman going by the name of Ms Zingiber, whom [[Norris (Come Die With Me)|Norris]] claimed had visited immediately before the Doctor and Ace's arrival and who later stayed at the Grand Betelgeuse Hotel, was Mel ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Come Die With Me (audio story)|Come Die With Me]]'', ''[[The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (audio story)|The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel]]'').
* Mel mentions that she has recently encountered the [[Porcian]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[You Are the Doctor (audio story)|You are the Doctor]]'') and visited the [[Grand Betelgeuse Hotel]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (audio story)|The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel]]'') The Doctor determines that the two humans who escaped from [[Chimbly]] and [[Keith (You Are the Doctor)|Keith]] were Mel and Glitz ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[You Are the Doctor (audio story)|You are the Doctor]]'') and that the woman going by the name of Ms Zingiber, whom [[Norris (Come Die With Me)|Norris]] claimed had visited immediately before the Doctor and Ace's arrival and who later stayed at the Grand Betelgeuse Hotel, was Mel ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Come Die With Me (audio story)|Come Die With Me]]'', ''[[The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (audio story)|The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel]]'').
* The Doctor notes that Mel has a memory like an [[elephant]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'', ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The One Doctor (audio story)|The One Doctor]]'', ''[[Unregenerate! (audio story)|Unregenerate!]]'', ''[[The Warehouse (audio story)|The Warehouse]]'')  
* The Doctor notes that Mel has a memory like an [[elephant]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'', ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The One Doctor (audio story)|The One Doctor]]'', ''[[Unregenerate! (audio story)|Unregenerate!]]'', ''[[The Warehouse (audio story)|The Warehouse]]'')
* Ace tells Mel that the Doctor has been giving her lessons in flying the TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[You Are the Doctor (audio story)|You Are the Doctor]]'', ''[[Come Die With Me (audio story)|Come Die With Me]]'', ''[[The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (audio story)|The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel]]'', ''[[Dead to the World (audio story)|Dead to the World]]'')
* Ace tells Mel that the Doctor has been giving her lessons in flying the TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[You Are the Doctor (audio story)|You Are the Doctor]]'', ''[[Come Die With Me (audio story)|Come Die With Me]]'', ''[[The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (audio story)|The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel]]'', ''[[Dead to the World (audio story)|Dead to the World]]'')
* Ace uses [[Nitro-9]] against the Sperivores. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'', ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', et. al)
* Ace uses [[Nitro-9]] against the Sperivores. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'', ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', et. al)
* [[The Nine]] would later pretend to be a regeneration of the [[Eighth Doctor]] in order to deceive [[Liv Chenka]] and [[Helen Sinclair]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crucible of Souls (audio story)|The Crucible of Souls]]'')


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A Life of Crime was the two hundred and fourteenth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush and Sophie Aldred as Ace.

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

Come to Ricosta! Tropical climate, untouched beaches, fabulous cuisine... and no extradition treaties. The perfect retirement planet for a certain type of "business person" — such as Ms Melanie Bush, formerly the co-owner of the Iceworld emporium, now on the run from her former criminal associate's criminal associates...

Some other former associates of Ms Bush are abroad in this space Costa del Crime, however. Not long ago, the time and space traveller known as the Doctor arrived here, alongside his sometimes-criminal associate, the reformed juvenile offender Ace. But now the Doctor's gone missing — and Melanie Bush is about to learn that on the planet Ricosta, the wages of sin... are death.

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Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Gloria gives 500 grotzits to the Mayor.
  • Mel lost her ship, the Nosferatu III, when it was impounded.
  • Lefty Lonnigan is a cyborg. He received his nickname because only the left side of his body is still human. He was injured over 20 years ago.
  • Gloria offers Mel a glass of Gadalaxian champagne.
  • She uses a Time Lord neurotoxin.
  • Lefty compares Ricostans to ferrets, though Gloria believes that they more closely resemble raccoons.
  • Ace has read about regeneration.
  • Ace compares Lefty to Long John Silver.
  • The Speravores are one of the wealthiest species in the Andromeda Galaxy, if not the wealthiest. They run Sperovore Investment (or S.I.) Holdings.
  • Lefty once robbed a bank on Andromeda IX; when being fed on by the Sperovores, he realises that he would have escaped with the money if he'd taken a different turn at a particular point.
  • Sperovores are quantum eaters: they feed on quantum potential futures, choices from the multiverse, and break down the walls of reality. They eat criminals, with every moment relived at death as they dissolve 1 molecule at a time.
  • They follow a psychic spore to keep track of a quantum trace.
  • Mel has the scent of many realities with many different futures, which she sometimes dreams of.
  • Ace explains that potential energy moves between every point in the multiverse.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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