The Final Phase (audio story)

The Final Phase
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Romana, K9
Main enemy:	The Daleks The Dalek Supreme Cuthbert
Main setting:	Fortune II in the Proxima System Proxima Major
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Nicholas Briggs
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Music:	Alistair Lock
Sound:	Alistair Lock
Release details
Release number:	2.07
Release date:	July 2013
Format:	1 CD, 2 Parts
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-060-2
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The Final Phase was the seventh story in the second series of The Fourth Doctor Adventures.

Publisher's summary

'The raw power of the very fabric of reality itself. And you dare to think you can conquer it?'

Cuthbert's plan for the Proxima System is reaching its final phase.

The Doctor and Romana have been separated. The Doctor is aiding the Proximan fight-back. Romana and K9 are prisoners of the Daleks.

And as the countdown to the opening of the Quantum Gateway begins, the Daleks reveal their true intentions.

Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Romana - Mary Tamm
• K9 - John Leeson
• Cuthbert - David Warner
• Mr Dorrick - Toby Hadoke
• Chidak - Dominic Mafham
• The Daleks / The Dalek Supreme - Nicholas Briggs
• Halka - Jane Slavin
• Security Man/Warrior - John Dorney

References

• Halka refers to the Doctor as a "simpleton."
• Cuthbert refers to President Sheridan Moorkurk as a "sanctimonious bitch."
• K9 is equipped with a stealth mode. He has never previously used it as "no one ever asked."
• After searching for years, Cuthbert and Mr Dorrick discovered a dimensional fissure in the universe in the Proxima System. It was only two atoms across but the Conglomerate were able to expand it exponentially. Cuthbert refers to as the Quantum Gateway and intends to use it to travel into the past. It exists in a separate universe from Normal Space.
• Cuthbert's experiments with the Quantum Gateway caused Proxima Major to be shifted out of its orbit.
• The Daleks intend to use the Quantum Gateway for the "conquest of infinity." Their dimension ship is necessary in order to do so.
• Cuthbert describes the Daleks as "squawking, mobile, metal, robotic things good at impressing people."
• Cuthbert refers to Romana and K9 as "the harpy and the metal mutt."
• After the Doctor is believed to have been killed, Romana tells Mr Dorrick that she and the Doctor initially had an adversarial relationship but that they had gradually become good friends without even noticing it.
• Romana accuses Cuthbert of being "terminally stupid."

Notes

• This story contains Mary Tamm's final performance as Romana before her death on 24 July 2012.
• This audio drama shares its title with Episode Four of TV: The Space Museum.

Continuity

• Cuthbert tells the Dalek Supreme of his previous encounter with the Doctor on Earth. (AUDIO: The Sands of Life / War Against the Laan)
• Cuthbert refers to Romana as "Ramona" repeatedly. (AUDIO: The Dalek Contract)
• The Doctor tells Chidak that "all-out war with the Daleks is not an attractive prospect" for the Time Lords. (TV: The End of the World, et. al)
• Romana tells Mr Dorrick that she was assigned to the Doctor. (TV: The Ribos Operation)
• The Doctor refers to the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066. During his first incarnation, he and his companions Vicki Pallister and Steven Taylor defeated a plot by the renegade Time Lord the Monk to alter history by allowing the Saxons to defeat the Normans in the battle, thereby preventing the Norman Conquest of England from occurring. (TV: The Time Meddler)
• During her second incarnation, Romana would later encounter the Daleks for a second time on their homeworld Skaro. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks)

External links

• Official The Final Phase page at bigfinish.com