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name=Ace of Hearts| | |name=Ace of Hearts | ||
series=[[BBC Books]] - [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]| | |series=[[BBC Books]] - [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] | ||
doctor=Seventh Doctor| | |doctor=Seventh Doctor | ||
companions=| | |companions= | ||
year=East Acton, [[London]], [[February]] [[1971]]| | |year=East Acton, [[London]], [[February]] [[1971]] | ||
writer=[[Robert Perry]] and [[Mike Tucker]]| | |writer=[[Robert Perry]] and [[Mike Tucker]] | ||
anthology=''[[Short Trips (anthology)|Short Trips]]''| | |anthology=''[[Short Trips (anthology)|Short Trips]]'' | ||
prev=Wish You Were Here (ST short story)| | |prev=Wish You Were Here (ST short story) | ||
next=The People's Temple (short story) | |next=The People's Temple (short story) | ||
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'''''Ace of Hearts''''' was the fourteenth short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips (anthology)|Short Trips]]''. It was written by [[Mike Tucker]] and [[Robert Perry]]. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]]. | '''''Ace of Hearts''''' was the fourteenth short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips (anthology)|Short Trips]]''. It was written by [[Mike Tucker]] and [[Robert Perry]]. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]]. | ||
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Ace of Hearts was the fourteenth short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips. It was written by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry. It featured the Seventh Doctor.
Summary
The Doctor takes a job as an entertainer at an annual reunion dinner hosted by Dorothy's family. After the reunion he stays over at their house for the night and creeps into Dorothy's room.
He lets baby Dorothy play with his scarf whilst he talks to her, admitting that he had betrayed her trust in him and played with her emotions after seeing how fragile she was underneath her tough exterior. He apologises to the baby for the events with Gabriel Chase and Fenric and says he is sorry for knowing he will manipulate her again: something he finds much easier to say to the baby Ace than it would be to the teenage Ace he knows.
Before leaving, the Doctor steals a baby photograph of Ace from a picture frame and replaces it with a playing card - the Ace of Hearts - so that when Kathleen Dudman comes looking for her granddaughter in the middle of the night, she realises where she has seen him before and understands who Ace really was.
Characters
References
- The Doctor remembers the events involving Gabriel Chase and Fenric.
Notes
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Continuity
- The Doctor visits the infant Ace to apologise to her for the Gabriel Chase (TV: Ghost Light) and Fenric incidents (TV: The Curse of Fenric).
