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 |featuring              = Sam Bishop{{!}}Sam
 |featuring2             = Jacqui McGee{{!}}Jacqui
-|enemy                  = [[Klep-Clotch Slitheen]]
+|enemy                  = [[Slitheen Edward]]
 |setting                = [[Edinburgh Castle]], [[August]]
 |writer                 = [[Donald McLeary]]
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 '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the fourth and final story in the audio anthology ''[[Lady Christina: Series One]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Donald McLeary]] and featured [[Michelle Ryan]] as Lady [[Christina de Souza]], [[Warren Brown]] as [[Sam Bishop]] and [[Tracy Wiles]] as [[Jacqui McGee]].
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 == Plot ==
-When [[Slitheen Robin|Robin]] is oddly nice to her, [[Elaine (Death on the Mile)|Elaine]] calls her old friend [[Jacqui McGee]]. Elaine meets with her at [[Heriot-Watt University|their old university]] [[café]] and asks her to help find out why Robin is uncharacteristically happy all the time. Jacqui finds Robin and tries to get him to play his [[bagpipes]], but he declines.
+When [[Slitheen Robin|Robin]] is oddly nice to her, [[Elaine (Death on the Mile)|Elaine]] calls her old friend [[Jacqui McGee]]. Elaine meets with her at [[Heriot-Watt University|their old university]] [[café]] and asks her to help find out why Robin is uncharacteristically happy all the time. Jacqui finds Robin and tries to get him to play his [[bagpipes]], but he declines. Later, Elaine finds that Robin has disappeared with all of his equipment and asks Jacqui to track him down.
-[[Christina de Souza|Christina]] steals a [[necklace]] at the [[Albert Hall]] and meets [[Slitheen Edward|Sir Edward Scott Cameron]], who offers her a new mission: stealing [[George II]]'s [[war chest]] from [[Edinburgh Castle]]. She travels there in [[the 200]] and uses [[truth venom]] to learn how to get in, but she is stopped by [[Biggs]] whilst attempting to drive in in a bin lorry. She knocks him out and tells [[Slitheen Janice|Janice Matheson]] that she is working for a cooking [[magazine]].
+[[Christina de Souza|Christina]] steals a [[necklace]] at the [[Albert Hall]] and meets [[Slitheen Edward|Sir Edward Scott Cameron]], who offers her a new mission: stealing [[George II]]'s [[war chest]] from [[Edinburgh Castle]]. She travels there in [[the 200]] and uses [[truth venom]] to learn how to get in, but she is stopped by [[Biggs]] whilst attempting to drive in in a bin lorry. She knocks him out and tells [[Slitheen Janice|Janice Matheson]] that she is working for a cooking [[magazine]], giving her the opportunity to find the secret anteroom and use a [[matter displacement manipulator]] to dig up the chest.
-[[UNIT]] has detected exotic energies at Edinburgh and sent [[Sam Bishop|Sam]] to ensure that no [[alien]] activity disrupts [[Slitheen Handley|Captain Handley]]'s [[Military Tattoo]]. Handley and his men subdue and capture him.
+Upon acquiring the chest, Sir Edward, Handley, Robin and Janice reveal that they are [[Raxacoricofallapatorian]]s of the [[Clan Gleff-Cotch Slitheen]] and that they have captured [[Sam Bishop|Sam]], who was sent to Edinburgh after [[UNIT]] detected exotic energies there. They remove their [[skin suit]]s and prepare to kill Christina and Sam to take the treasure to pay their off-world debts, but Jacqui walks in and kills two of them with [[pickled onion]]s and [[gherkin]]s. The remaining Gleff-Cotches escape using the matter displacement manipulator and detonate a device to liquify the rock beneath the castle, making it an active [[volcano]].
-''to be completed''
+Christina, Sam and Jacqui escape in the 200 and avoid the [[lava bomb]]s and the military's [[cannon]]s and Christina uses a beam to divert the [[lava]] with a trench. The amount of energy used causes the 200 to crash into the [[sea]], but Christina puts it into amphibious mode and, after Jacqui receives a [[text]] from Elaine, flies to Elaine and Robin's fifth-floor flat. They break through the window and Christina kills the Slitheen Robin with [[vinegar]], after which the Slitheen Edward escapes with the treasure using the matter displacement manipulator. He returns to the Slitheen [[spacecraft]], a converted monument to [[William Wallace|Wallace]], and takes off.
+The 200 gives chase and smashes into the Slitheen ship, causing both vehicles to fall and crash into [[Arthur's Seat|King Arthur's Seat]], the war chest opening to reveal only paper [[money]] inside. The Slitheen Edward is mortally wounded and turns the hill into an active volcano as well. With the matter displacement manipulator destroyed by Sam to prevent the Slitheen Edward from escaping, Christina uses the 200's beam to move Edinburgh Castle and put it on the hill to plug the volcano. She gets Sam, Jacqui and Elaine off of the bus, saying that it is about to explode, and flies into the sea. Sam, Jacqui and Elaine hear an underwater explosion, but UNIT reports indicate that the explosion was caused by [[fireworks]] and that the 200 has been spotted near [[Skye Bridge]].
+Christina decides to head to [[Reykjavik]] where a collection of [[sapphire]]s is on display, one of which potentially comes from [[Metebelis III|Metebelis]].
 == Cast ==
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 * [[Sam Bishop]] - [[Warren Brown]]
 * [[Jacqui McGee]] - [[Tracy Wiles]]
-* [[Elaine (Death on the Mile)|Elaine]] / [[Slitheen Janice|Janice]] / [[Slitheen Janice]] - [[Melissa Collier]]
+* [[Elaine (Death on the Mile)|Elaine]] / [[Slitheen Janice|Janice / Slitheen Janice]] - [[Melissa Collier]]
-* [[Slitheen Robin|Robin]] / [[Slitheen Robin]] - [[Richard Hansell]]
+* [[Slitheen Robin|Robin / Slitheen Robin]] - [[Richard Hansell]]
-* [[Slitheen Edward|Sir Edward Scott Cameron]] / [[Slitheen Edward]] / [[Biggs]] - [[Ewan Bailey]]
+* [[Slitheen Edward|Sir Edward Scott Cameron / Slitheen Edward]] / [[Biggs]] - [[Ewan Bailey]]
-* [[Slitheen Handley|Handley]] / [[Slitheen Handley]] - [[Christopher Ryan]]
+* [[Slitheen Handley|Handley / Slitheen Handley]] - [[Christopher Ryan]]
 * [[Policeman (Death on the Mile)|Policeman]] - [[Gareth Corke]]
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 * Christina uses [[truth venom]].
 * Christina did [[ballet]] for several years.
+* Christina has a [[matter displacement manipulator]], or MDT.
+* Christina mentions [[fidget spinner]]s.
+* Christina is distantly related to [[George II]]. She says that she has his eyes.
 * The disguised Slitheen suffer from [[gas exchange]].
+* The [[Raxacoricofallapatorian]]s belong to the [[Clan Gleff-Cotch Slitheen]] of the northern Gleff-Cotches.
 * [[Vinegar]] is used to kill Slitheen.
 * The "[[Slitheen Edward]]" is the [[grandmother]] of the "[[Slitheen Robin]]".
-* Christina mentions [[fidget spinner]]s.
+* Christina says that she is not [[Bill Gates]].
+* The 200 has a [[SatNav]].
+* Sam says that [[Petronella Osgood|Osgood]] has her work cut out for her.
 == Notes ==
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 == Continuity ==
-* Sam mentions the [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce]] massacre at [[Downing Street]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'', ''[[World War Three (TV story)|World War Three]]'')
+* Sam mentions the [[UNIT]] massacre at [[Downing Street]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'', ''[[World War Three (TV story)|World War Three]]'')
 * Christina claims that [[the 200]] was a "gift". ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'')
 * Christina plans to check a collection of sapphires, one of which is reportedly from somewhere called [[Metebelis III|Metebelis]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Worldwide Web (audio story)|Worldwide Web]]'')