Absolution (BFM audio story)

Absolution (BFA audio story)

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Absolution
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Charley Pollard, C'rizz
Main enemy:	The Absolver
Main setting:	Utebbadon-Tarria
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Scott Alan Woodard
Director:	Barnaby Edwards
Music:	Simon Robinson
Post production:	Simon Robinson
Cover by:	Alex Mallinson
Release details
Release number:	101
Release date:	October 2007
Format:	4 episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	8YD
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-183-1
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Absolution was the one hundred and first monthly Doctor Who audio release produced by Big Finish Productions. It was the last story to feature C'rizz played by Conrad Westmaas. C'rizz joins a small group of companions who died whilst travelling with the Doctor, these include Katarina, Adric, Hex, Roz Forrester, Lucie Miller and Tamsin Drew.

Publisher's summary

Confession. Penance. Absolution.

The TARDIS breaks down in a forbidden sector of space. Ghostly voices cry out for salvation and only C'rizz, the Doctor's Eutermesan companion, can answer their call - for only he knows the secret of the Absolver. But will he use it to rescue his friends or save the universe?

The Doctor's sins are catching up with him and the infernal beast Borarus is hungry. Time is running out and Judgement Day is at hand.

Welcome to Hell.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Charley Pollard - India Fisher
• C'rizz - Conrad Westmaas
• Aboresh - Robert Glenister
• Cacothis - Christopher Villiers
• Lolanthia - Natalie Mendoza
• Straith - Tony Barton
• Phelgreth - Geoff Breton

References

The Doctor

• The Doctor can identify human blood types by taste.

Individuals

• Charley's blood type is AB negative.

Religion

• C'rizz is a member of the Church of the Foundation.
• According to the Doctor, every culture in every galaxy has a concept of Hell.

Species

• Hellions are transdimensional parasites who home in on chaotic eddies in the probability stream.

The TARDIS

• There is another console room in the TARDIS that hasn't been used for centuries, smaller and dustier than the main one. It seems that this is a different from the one seen in the TV: The Masque of Mandragora.

Notes

Illustration by Cliff Robinson from DWM 388.

• This story was previewed in Doctor Who Magazine issue 388 with an illustration by Cliff Robinson.
• This is the final audio drama to feature C'rizz, as played by Conrad Westmaas.
• Robert Glenister (Aboresh) previously played Salateen in TV: The Caves of Androzani.
• Christopher Villiers (Cacothis) previously played Hugh Fitzwilliam in TV: The King's Demons.
• This audio drama was recorded on 26 and 27 June 2007 at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

• Shortly before his death, C'rizz refers to his mate L'da, whom he killed in the Kromon biosphere as she had been transformed into a Kromon queen. (AUDIO: The Creed of the Kromon)
• After C'rizz's death, Charley tells the Doctor that she wants to go home. The Doctor tells her that "that's back aboard the R101", where she met him for the first time in her personal timeline on 5 October 1930. (AUDIO: Storm Warning)
• Later in his personal timeline, the Doctor would meet C'rizz on one further occasion when he and Lucie Miller encountered his younger self while he was travelling with him and Charley in an American frontier town in the 1870s. This encounter was observed by the Sixth Doctor and his companion Evelyn Smythe. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)

External links

• Official Absolution page at bigfinish.com
• Absolution at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Absolution at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide