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|series = ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'' | |series = ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'' | ||
|audio anthology = | |audio anthology = Short Trips - Volume I | ||
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|doctor = Fourth Doctor | |doctor = Fourth Doctor | ||
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|setting = [[Planet (Death-Dealer)|Unnamed market world]] | |setting = [[Planet (Death-Dealer)|Unnamed market world]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Damian Sawyer | ||
|director = | |director = | ||
|read by = [[Louise Jameson]] | |read by = [[Louise Jameson]] | ||
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|sound = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | |sound = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 5 November 2010 | ||
|format = 1 X 10 min. | |format = 1 X 10 min. | ||
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|prev = A True Gentleman (audio story) | |prev = A True Gentleman (audio story) | ||
|next = The Deep (audio story) | |next = The Deep (audio story) | ||
}}'''''Death-Dealer''''', also known as '''''The Death-Dealer''''', was an audio story read by [[Louise Jameson]] and featuring [[Leela]] and the [[Fourth Doctor]] produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It is by far the shortest of the stories on the anthology release ''[[Short Trips - Volume I]]'' and recounts the time when Leela unwittingly paid to be killed. | }}{{Spotify|album=6vq69dSPv9AMFVvCRaFdjx|height=350}} | ||
'''''Death-Dealer''''', also known as '''''The Death-Dealer''''', was an audio story read by [[Louise Jameson]] and featuring [[Leela]] and the [[Fourth Doctor]] produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It is by far the shortest of the stories on the anthology release ''[[Short Trips - Volume I]]'' and recounts the time when Leela unwittingly paid to be killed. | |||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
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* [[Jason (Death-Dealer)|Jason]] | * [[Jason (Death-Dealer)|Jason]] | ||
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* Leela has no concept of [[money]]. The unit of currency on the unnamed world is the [[credit]]. | * Leela has no concept of [[money]]. The unit of currency on the unnamed world is the [[credit]]. | ||
* The Doctor wonders if the market world sells [[jelly baby|jelly babies]]. | * The Doctor wonders if the market world sells [[jelly baby|jelly babies]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 22:07, 6 March 2024
Death-Dealer, also known as The Death-Dealer, was an audio story read by Louise Jameson and featuring Leela and the Fourth Doctor produced by Big Finish Productions. It is by far the shortest of the stories on the anthology release Short Trips - Volume I and recounts the time when Leela unwittingly paid to be killed.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
On an arid market world, not dissimilar to a middle-eastern bazaar on Earth, the Doctor treats Leela to a day of shopping.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Leela struggles to understand the fundamentals of commerce during a shopping trip on a market world with the Doctor. Then, she spots a knife that appeals to her. Paying the merchant, she is slain by his knife. The Doctor discovers her dead body and demands answers. A local policeman explains that no laws have been transgressed; Leela has bought a legal death experience, instead of the knife. Soon, she springs back to life. Jason, the merchant, explains that the knife's edge contained not only a fast acting poison, but also restorative microscopic robots. Whole again, Leela returns to the TARDIS with the Doctor, musing on the newfound appreciation she has for life now that she has died. The Doctor, having come back from the dead himself, can appreciate her point.
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Leela has no concept of money. The unit of currency on the unnamed world is the credit.
- The Doctor wonders if the market world sells jelly babies.
- The world is populated by many different species, including humans.
- Leela threatens Jason with a janis thorn to his throat.
- The "microscopic healer robots" which restore Leela to life are not actually called nanogenes, but they work in exactly the same way.
- The Doctor hints that Leela's return from death has some commonality with regeneration.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Though advertised on the Big Finish website, the CD jacket, and elsewhere as Death-Dealer, Louise Jameson clearly calls the story The Death-Dealer when she begins her reading.
- The story employs a limited third person perspective, focused mostly on Leela, except for the period of time she is dead.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Leela had previously explored the experience of her own death in TV: The Face of Evil and would later re-examine it AUDIO: The Catalyst, Empathy Games and The Time Vampire.
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