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

WARNING: The unauthorised reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Your downloads are monitored. Internet piracy is a crime and is punishable by up to 5 years in prison, a fine of £250,000 or death.

Come on, we've all done it. We've all downloaded a cheeky little something we shouldn't have. After all, what's the harm, eh? You never get caught. No-one knows. No-one knocks at your door and tells you you're about to die.

Turns out, there's something hiding in the internet. It knows what you've done. And it's going to stop you.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Tosh takes a train to London to meet with Stephen, a former employee of Torchwood One who has become aware of a series of twenty-seven disappearances in which all but one of the victims shared a birthday and died at the exact same time. The disappearance of the exception, Nikki, was recorded as a voice message for her girlfriend Janet, in which she claimed that she saw somebody and heard a voice telling her that she was going to die. Although Nikki does not share her birthday with the other victims, Janet does and she used Janet's ID to illegally download music on Choosic, a torrent site which the other victims also used.

Janet's account inexplicably became Stephen's whilst he was investigating and he fears that he will be the next to disappear, having seen a man invisible to others watching him with his head cocked to one side. He takes Tosh to his home where she uses the technology he salvaged from Torchwood Tower to look into the victims, finding that some sort of computer virus has caused people with other birthdays to disappear and that it is now targeting those with Stephen's. They head to the nearby home of Max, another Choosic user who shares Stephen's birthday and who has been suffering from headaches just like him.

The virus starts using Max as an interface to communicate with Tosh and Stephen and is trapped inside by Tosh isolating the torrent, after which she downloads it onto a data stick and Max dies. It hurts Stephen to blackmail Tosh into freeing it, but she decrypts its encoding and downloads its infected torrents from the internet before updating her profile settings to change her birthday to become the virus's target. She locks the virus away in a hidden cache in the Torchwood systems which only she can access and returns to Cardiff per her agreement with Jack to return the same day, thanking Stephen and advising him to make a new life without Torchwood.

Although Tosh told Stephen to forget her number and move on, he leaves her several messages asking about the possibility of them entering a romantic relationship and fails to get a response due to her having been killed. Unaware of this, he wishes her a good life in his final message to her. The virus is apparently deleted when Tosh's profile is erased, but it says that Torchwood is never the end.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Nikki left a message for her girlfriend, Janet Wicks.
Tosh mentions that Torchwood recently dealt with a water dragon in Cardiff Bay.
Tosh gets a call from Owen, who asks her about Kyraxian blasters.
Stephen offers Tosh tea or coffee.
Toshiko had a brother whose death the computer virus blamed on her, saying that she had abandoned him.
Max listens to internet pornography downloaded onto his computer through headphones.
The virus is a product of Erebus Audio Ltd.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Textless cover art

This story was originally released on CD and download.

The nature of this audio means that a lot of clips from other Torchwood productions are used:

The introduction to this audio is the same as that of Zone 10, followed by a distortion used to segue into the actual story.
The Torchwood Theme at the beginning is heavily distorted and switches between the main one and the one from the audio story The Victorian Age.
When Stephen mentions the mission of Torchwood One, saying "If it's alien, it's ours", the voice of Yvonne Hartman is briefly heard.
After one of the phone messages left for Tosh by Stephen, an extract of her final message from the television story Exit Wounds is heard.
A part of the next time trailer for the audio story The Office of Never Was cuts in briefly.
A part of the interview with the cast of this story cuts in briefly.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

All the victims with a given birthday died at exactly the same time. The Sontarans would go on to use a similar method of assassination using the ATMOS devices. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem)
Stephen and Tosh discuss Torchwood One and the Battle of Canary Wharf. Stephen uses the phrase "If it's alien, it's ours." (TV: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday)
Stephen is aware of Toshiko's feelings for Owen Harper. (TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts et al.)
Tosh says some people considered her a criminal before Jack released her. (TV: Fragments)
Several months later, Stephen calls Toshiko to see if she is okay after hearing news of multiple explosions in Cardiff. He never gets an answer. (TV: Fragments / Exit Wounds)

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

Official torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor page at bigfinish.com

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 |image             = Torchwood cascade (audio story).jpg
-|series            = [[Big Finish Torchwood series|Big Finish ''Torchwood'' series]]
+|series            = ''[[Torchwood - Monthly Range]]''
 |story number      = 3.4
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+|range             = BFTW
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-|main character    = [[Toshiko Sato]]
+|main character    = [[Toshiko Sato|Tosh]]
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 |setting           = [[London]], [[2000s]]
-|writer            = [[Scott Handcock]]
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 |producer          = [[James Goss]]
 |publisher         = Big Finish Productions
-|release date      = [[7 June (releases)|7 June]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]]
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-'''''torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor''''' was the sixteenth story in the [[Big Finish Torchwood series|''Torchwood'' audio series]] by [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish Productions.]] It was written by [[Scott Handcock]] and featured [[Naoko Mori]] as [[Toshiko Sato]].
+'''''torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor''''' was the sixteenth story in the ''[[Torchwood - Monthly Range]]'' by [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish Productions.]] It was written by [[Scott Handcock]] and featured [[Naoko Mori]] as [[Toshiko Sato]].
 == Publisher's summary ==
-<tt>{{uc:Warning}}: The unauthorised reproduction or distribution of this [[copyright]]ed work is illegal. Your [[download]]s are monitored. [[Internet piracy]] is a crime and is punishable by up to 5 years in [[prison]], a fine of [[Pound Sterling|£]]250,000 or [[death sentence|death]].</tt>
+<tt>{{uc:Warning}}: The unauthorised reproduction or distribution of this [[copyright]]ed work is illegal. Your [[download]]s are monitored. [[Internet piracy]] is a crime and is punishable by up to 5 years in [[prison]], a fine of [[£]]250,000 or [[death sentence|death]].</tt>
-Come on, we've all done it. We've all downloaded a cheeky little something we shouldn't have. After all, what’s the harm, eh? You never get caught. No-one knows. No-one knocks at your door and tells you you’re about to die.
+Come on, we've all done it. We've all downloaded a cheeky little something we shouldn't have. After all, what's the harm, eh? You never get caught. No-one knows. No-one knocks at your [[door]] and tells you you're about to die.
-Turns out, there's something hiding in the [[internet]]. It knows what you’ve done. And it’s going to stop you.
+Turns out, there's something hiding in the [[internet]]. It knows what you've done. And it's going to stop you.
 == Plot ==
-''to be added''
+[[Toshiko Sato|Tosh]] takes a [[train]] to [[London]] to meet with [[Stephen Hines|Stephen]], a former employee of [[Torchwood One]] who has become aware of a series of twenty-seven disappearances in which all but one of the victims shared a [[birthday]] and died at the exact same time. The disappearance of the exception, [[Nikki Beckford|Nikki]], was recorded as a voice message for her girlfriend [[Janet Wicks|Janet]], in which she claimed that she saw somebody and heard a voice telling her that she was going to die. Although Nikki does not share her birthday with the other victims, Janet does and she used Janet's ID to illegally download [[music]] on [[Choosic]], a torrent site which the other victims also used.
+Janet's account inexplicably became Stephen's whilst he was investigating and he fears that he will be the next to disappear, having seen a man [[invisibility|invisible]] to others watching him with his head cocked to one side. He takes Tosh to his home where she uses the technology he salvaged from [[One Canada Square|Torchwood Tower]] to look into the victims, finding that some sort of [[computer virus]] has caused people with other birthdays to disappear and that it is now targeting those with Stephen's. They head to the nearby home of [[Maximilian Ford|Max]], another Choosic user who shares Stephen's birthday and who has been suffering from [[headache]]s just like him.
+The virus starts using Max as an interface to communicate with Tosh and Stephen and is trapped inside by Tosh isolating the torrent, after which she downloads it onto a [[data stick]] and Max dies. It hurts Stephen to [[blackmail]] Tosh into freeing it, but she decrypts its encoding and downloads its infected torrents from the [[internet]] before updating her profile settings to change her birthday to become the virus's target. She locks the virus away in a hidden cache in the Torchwood systems which only she can access and returns to [[Cardiff]] per her agreement with [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] to return the same day, thanking Stephen and advising him to make a new life without Torchwood.
+Although Tosh told Stephen to forget her number and move on, he leaves her several messages asking about the possibility of them entering a romantic relationship and fails to get a response due to her having been killed. Unaware of this, he wishes her a good life in his final message to her. The virus is apparently deleted when Tosh's profile is erased, but it says that Torchwood is never the end.
 == Cast ==
 * [[Toshiko Sato]] - [[Naoko Mori]]
-* [[Stephen Heinz|Stephen]] - [[Robbie Jarvis]]
+* [[Stephen Hines|Stephen]] - [[Robbie Jarvis]]
-* [[Max (torchwood cascade CDRIP.tor)|Max]] - [[Ashley Kumar]]
+* [[Maximilian Ford|Max]] - [[Ashley Kumar]]
-* [[Nikki (torchwood cascade CDRIP.tor)|Nikki]] - [[Rachel Handshaw]]
+* [[Nikki Beckford|Nikki]] - [[Rachel Handshaw]]
-== References ==
+== Worldbuilding ==
+* Nikki left a message for her girlfriend, [[Janet Wicks]].
+* Tosh mentions that Torchwood recently dealt with a [[water dragon]] in [[Cardiff Bay]].
+* Tosh gets a call from [[Owen Harper|Owen]], who asks her about [[Kyraxian blaster]]s.
+* Stephen offers Tosh [[tea]] or [[coffee]].
 * Toshiko had a [[Toshiko Sato's brother|brother]] whose death the [[Computer virus (torchwood cascade CDRIP.tor)|computer virus]] blamed on her, saying that she had abandoned him.
-* Stephen Heinz worked at [[Torchwood One]] before the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]]; he has been paid off by the crown in return for his silence in the matter. Tosh met Stephen about a year before the battle while collaborating on a project for Torchwood.
+* Max listens to internet [[pornography]] downloaded onto his computer through [[headphone]]s.
-* Toshiko advises Stephen to forget Torchwood at the end of their adventure, telling him the lifestyle is not healthy, and to delete her number and forget she exists to help him move on.
+* The virus is a product of [[Erebus Audio Ltd]].
 == Notes ==
-* The voice of [[Yvonne Hartman]] is briefly heard when Stephen mentions the mission of Torchwood One.
+[[File:Torchwood Cascade Textless.jpg|thumb|Textless cover art]]
+* This story was originally released on CD and download.
+The nature of this audio means that a lot of clips from other Torchwood productions are used:
+* The introduction to this audio is the same as that of ''[[Zone 10 (audio story)|Zone 10]]'', followed by a distortion used to segue into the actual story.
+* The Torchwood Theme at the beginning is heavily distorted and switches between the main one and the one from the audio story ''[[The Victorian Age (audio story)|The Victorian Age]]''.
+* When Stephen mentions the mission of Torchwood One, saying "If it's alien, it's ours", the voice of [[Yvonne Hartman]] is briefly heard.
+* After one of the phone messages left for Tosh by Stephen, an extract of her final message from the television story ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'' is heard.
+* A part of the next time trailer for the audio story ''[[The Office of Never Was (audio story)|The Office of Never Was]]'' cuts in briefly.
+* A part of the interview with the cast of this story cuts in briefly.
 == Continuity ==
-* Stephen and Tosh discuss [[Torchwood One]] and the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]''/''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
+* All the victims with a given birthday died at exactly the same time. The [[Sontaran]]s would go on to use a similar method of assassination using the [[ATMOS]] devices. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'')
+* Stephen and Tosh discuss [[Torchwood One]] and the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]]. Stephen uses the phrase "If it's alien, it's ours." ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]] ''/ ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
 * Stephen is aware of Toshiko's feelings for [[Owen Harper]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)|Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'' et al.)
+* Tosh says some people considered her a criminal before [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] released her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'')
 * Several months later, Stephen calls Toshiko to see if she is okay after hearing news of multiple explosions in Cardiff. He never gets an answer. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'' / ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'')
 == External links ==
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+{{bigfinish|releases/v/torchwood_cascade_cdrip-tor-1498|torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor}}
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