One Way or Another (audio story)

One Way or Another
Main character(s):	Kate, Osgood
Featuring:	Josh, Jimmy, Harry, Naomi
Main enemy:	Varliss
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	John Dorney
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	Heather Challands
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Release details
Part of:	Masters of Time
Release date:	12 July 2023
Format:	1 Episodes on 1 CD (1st of 4 stories)
Production code:	BFPUNS12
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-629-1 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-630-7 (digital)
UNIT: Nemesis
← Previous	Time of the Vulpreen
Next →	Traitors' Gate

One Way or Another was the first story in the audio anthology Masters of Time, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by John Dorney and featured Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart, Ingrid Oliver as Petronella Osgood, James Joyce as Josh Carter, Chris Lew Kum Hoi as Jimmy Tan, Christopher Naylor as Harry Sullivan and Eleanor Crooks as Naomi Cross.

Publisher's summary

Kate leads an attack on a Vulpreen prison camp, unaware that UNIT friends are being held there. As paths converge, Kate and Osgood have different perspectives on the attack, and specific dangers to overcome.

Plot

Lord Varliss is in control of Earth after leaving swathes of it in frozen time and holding most of UNIT in prison camps, including Josh and Jimmy, but Kate is leading a resistance movement and the captive Osgood refuses to give him any information on getting into the Black Archive. Kate, Harry, Naomi and postman Bert infiltrate a Vulpreen base where Super Arches which allow for transportation without a receiving arch are being made and plant a bomb.

Harry and Naomi meet up with Osgood and they liberate Josh and Jimmy and the other prisoners before going to remove the frozen time that Varliss has put in place to trap Kate. Once they are successful, Jimmy is recaptured and Josh gets away from the base with Kate, whom he informs of Varliss's alliance with Missy. Osgood freezes Harry and Naomi to protect them from the bomb and Varliss takes her and Jimmy with him to the Tower of London using the Super Arch's field, allowing Kate one minor victory.

The bomb detonates and destroys the base, after which Kate, initially believing that her friends have been killed, learns that Osgood and Jimmy have survived and goes to rescue them.

Cast

• Kate Stewart - Jemma Redgrave
• Osgood - Ingrid Oliver
• Harry Sullivan - Christopher Naylor
• Naomi Cross - Eleanor Crooks
• Varliss - Alisdair Simpson
• Bert Hockley / Jesden / Vulpreen Commander - Glen McCready
• Captain Josh Carter - James Joyce
• Lieutenant Jimmy Tan - Chris Lew Kum Hoi

Crew

• Script Editors - John Dorney and Andrew Smith
• Writer - John Dorney
• Senior Producer John Ainsworth
• Director - Ken Bentley
• Executive Producers - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
• Music and Sound Design - Howard Carter
• Producer - Heather Challands

Worldbuilding

• Bert Hockley is a postman.
• Kate takes out the base's power with an electromagnetic pulse.
• Missy has helped the Vulpreen create Super Arches.
• Varliss knows about the Black Archive.
• Time glitches have been happening across the planet.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• The Vulpreen were previously allied with the Eleven. (AUDIO: The Enemy Beyond, etc.)
• Josh informs Kate that the Vulpreen are now allied with Missy. (AUDIO: Time of the Vulpreen)
• Osgood mentions the asteroid ship. (AUDIO: The Vulpreen Encounter)

External links

• Official One Way or Another page at bigfinish.com