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|series=[[Short Trips (series)#In print|Short Trips short stories]] | |series=[[Short Trips (series)#In print|Short Trips short stories]] | ||
|main character=[[Lucie Miller]] | |main character = [[Lucie Miller]] | ||
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|setting= | |setting= | ||
|writer= | |writer = Simon Guerrier | ||
|anthology= | |anthology = Short Trips: Defining Patterns | ||
|prev=Closing the Account (short story) | |release date = March 2008 | ||
|prev = Closing the Account (short story) | |||
|next=Loose Change (short story) | |next=Loose Change (short story) | ||
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* [[Illixtrian (The Great Escapes)|Illixtrian]] | * [[Illixtrian (The Great Escapes)|Illixtrian]] | ||
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* The Doctor and Lucie have met [[Harry Houdini]]. | * The Doctor and Lucie have met [[Harry Houdini]]. | ||
* Lucie's [[Patricia Ryder|Auntie Pat]] puts [[horseradish]] on [[chocolate]] digestives. | * Lucie's [[Patricia Ryder|Auntie Pat]] puts [[horseradish]] on [[chocolate]] digestives. | ||
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The Great Escapes was the tenth short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Defining Patterns. It was written by Simon Guerrier. It featured Lucie Miller.
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Lucie is in prison with Albumen and another Illixtrian on the Illixtrians' planet. Lucie has seen the Doctor get shot by the machine guards, but she refuses to believe he is dead and instead plots the trio's escape.
The first time the trio try to escape, Albumen is killed by the machine guards. The other Illixtrian and Lucie try without success to escape several more times. They aren't killed because they are scheduled for public execution.
As Lucie and the Illixtrian are led to their execution, Lucie has started to come to terms with the Doctor being dead...
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor and Lucie have met Harry Houdini.
- Lucie's Auntie Pat puts horseradish on chocolate digestives.
- The Doctor and Lucie have visited Cleopatra.
- The Doctor and Lucie saved Mim delegates on Northern New Mars.
- Illixtrian food includes arvil grass, iqar cake and umli.
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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
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