The Passenger (audio story)

The Passenger
Main character(s):	Ollistra, Eleventh General, Rasmus
Featuring:	Leela, Veklin, Vibax, Gilla
Main enemy:	Cato Kelgoth
Main setting:	Gallifrey
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	David Llewellyn
Director:	Sam Clemens
Producer:	Heather Challands
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Toby Hrycek-Robinson
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	1.2
Part of:	Allegiance
Release date:	23 August 2022
Format:	1 CD Download 2nd of 4 stories
Production code:	BFPGALLCD24
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-835-6 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-836-3 (digital)
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The Passenger was the second audio story in the audio anthology Allegiance, the thirteenth series of Gallifrey. It was written by David Llewellyn and featured Louise Jameson as Leela, Carolyn Pickles as Ollistra, Ken Bones as the Eleventh General, Chris Jarman as Rasmus and Beth Chalmers as Veklin.

Publisher's summary

Cardinal Rasmus arrives in the War Room and vies for control with Ollistra. But first, they have a mystery to solve: a sole survivor from a Dalek attack has returned home - but is he a hero, or a threat?

Plot

Leela, having been trained for several weeks by the General, is sent to intercept an unusual Dalek ship approaching Gallifrey with only an apparently amnesiac Time Lord aboard and safely pilots it down to Area 5. The General, accompanied by Veklin, questions the Time Lord, who identifies himself as Cato Kelgoth and claims that he used a ship left over from the destruction of Zygor to escape the Daleks' massacre of the crew of the Candassia. Ollistra confirms that Cato Kelgoth is a real person, but Rasmus is uncertain that he is who he claims to be and suggests that they check with the data contained in the Matrix.

The Matrix confirms Kalgoth's identity and verifies most of his account, but damage to his timeline caused by artron energy makes it impossible to verify everything. He tells the War Council of an unstable weapon that he remembers being in the Dalek ship and Ollistra tasks Vibax with following Kelgoth's instructions to deactivate it. Area 5 is destroyed by the weapon and Kelgoth reveals that he built it himself to get revenge on Ollistra and the General and was actually having Vibax prime it to wipe out the facility. As he seemed to be developing a friendship with Leela, Rasmus insists that she be the one to interrogate him instead of Veklin.

Kelgoth tells Leela that most of those killed aboard the Candassia were killed when the Gallifreyan dreadnought Gorgon, sent by Ollistra and the General, fired on them to keep the Battle TARDISes from being captured by the Daleks. The General continues the interrogation and concludes that, as a trial or execution would draw attention to his and Ollistra's own actions, Kelgoth should be made human by a Chameleon Arch and exiled to Earth at a random point in time. However, Ollistra has Veklin secretly assassinate him by staser after he has been made human and erases him from everybody's memories.

Cast

• Cardinal Ollistra - Carolyn Pickles
• The General - Ken Bones
• Cardinal Rasmus - Chris Jarman
• Cato Kelgoth - Nicholas Rowe
• Leela - Louise Jameson
• Commander Veklin - Beth Chalmers
• Lady Vibax / Gilla - Corrinne Wicks
• Guard / Archivist / Phaedra - Charlotte Harris

Worldbuilding

• The General wants the Dalek ship studied at a Death Zone research base.
• Cato belongs to the Weapons and Ordnance Corps.
• Rasmus has returned from Zenobia and mentions Zenobia II.
• The Mahajetsu and Candassia are missing Weapons and Ordnance spaceships.
• Ollistra threatens to send Cato to Shada.
• Rasmus mentions Borusa.
• Veklin contacts the Chancellery Guard.

Notes

• David Llewellyn was asked to write a story focusing on the dynamics between Ollistra, the General and Rasmus. (BFX: The Passenger)
• The Gorgon's attack on the Candassia was based on the attack on Mers-el-Kébir during the Second World War. (BFX: The Passenger)

Continuity

• Rasmus mentions that he and the Doctor go back a long way. (AUDIO: Dark Universe, Deeptime Frontier, Dreadshade, Restoration of the Daleks, Light the Flame)

External links

• Official The Passenger page at bigfinish.com