The Final Amendment (audio story)

The Final Amendment
Main character(s):	Bernice Summerfield
Featuring:	Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart Adrian Wall Irving Braxiatel Jason Kane Seventh Doctor
Main setting:	Earth, 2606
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Joseph Lidster
Director:	Gary Russell
Producer:	Matthew Cochrane and David Darlington
Release details
Story number:	39
Release number:	5
Release date:	October 2007
Format:	1 CD
Production code:	BFPCD39
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-276-0
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The Final Amendment was the thirty-ninth Bernice Summerfield audio story released by Big Finish Productions. It was the fifth story of the eighth season.

Publisher's summary

Forget the war and death and boring stuff like that with another trip to the Braxiatel Collection!

"A welcome return of an old favourite!" – Earth Empire News

"A moving parable on what it is to be human in these ever-changing times." – BFM

"Glorious, crukking filth! Hooray!" – Moonmaker

"Something of a curate's egg." – Fandomania

Joined by friends old and new, Jason Kane returns for his 15th series! Will Benny find out about him and Bev? Or about him and Adrian? What is the mysterious connection between Joseph and Doggles? Will Brax ever reveal his sinister plans?

And just who the hell is Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
• Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart - Sara Carver
• Fiona - Ann Bryron
• Howard - Richard Glaves
• Adrian Wall - Harry Myers
• Irving Braxiatel - Miles Richardson
• Jason Kane - Stephen Fewell
• Joseph - Steven Wickham
• Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy (uncredited)

References

Foods and beverages

• Benny and Kadiatu have a drink in the undercity.

Individuals

• Bernice mentions Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester.
• Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart is a descendant of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart from the 22nd century.
• Kadiatu was once Earth's Champion.

Television series

• Hollyoaks: Life on Phobos is broadcast after the Jason Kane Adventures.

Notes

• Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart's ship makes a TARDIS-like dematerialisation sound.
• This marks the first appearance of the Doctor in a Bernice Summerfield audio drama, albeit in the form of a cameo.

Continuity

• Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart first appeared in PROSE: Transit. Benny "helped" her (with the whole mad psychosis thing) in PROSE: The Also People and they last encountered each other in PROSE: The Dying Days.
• Benny mentions that Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart came to her wedding to Jason in Cheldon Bonniface on 24 April 2010. Kadiatu points out that it was hardly an exclusive event, given that Sherlock Holmes also attended. (PROSE: Happy Endings)
• Benny has been to the Undercity before in PROSE: Original Sin (which is in the "future") which she and Kadiatu have both seen.
• The pub that Kadiatu and Benny meet up in is the White Rabbit, moved there generations ago. (AUDIO: The Harvest, A Death in the Family)
• Benny notes when governments go wrong, mentioning the Nazis, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus), the British Government in the 21st century (AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks) and Terra Alpha. (TV: The Happiness Patrol)
• When Benny gets in a fight with her clone, she starts to sing Happy Place. (AUDIO: The Worst Thing in the World).

Adventures of Jason Kane and Bernice Summerfield - TV series

In the TV series excerpts there are several references to previous stories:

• The Oracle of the Lost and Bernice's cancer: PROSE: Tears of the Oracle
• The effects of her cancer and the Mary-Sue: PROSE: Return to the Fractured Planet
• The TV Jason says he deals in PROSE: Death and Diplomacy
• Irving Braxiatel and his plans: AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus

External links

• Official The Final Amendment page at bigfinish.com
• The Final Amendment at the Doctor Who Reference Guide