The Dying Light (audio story)

The Dying Light
Doctor:	Second Doctor
Companion(s):	Jamie, Zoe
Main enemy:	Quadrigger Stoyn
Main setting:	Sanctuary
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Nick Wallace
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Music:	Richard Fox & Lauren Yason
Sound:	Richard Fox & Lauren Yason
Read by:	Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Terry Molloy
Cover by:	Damien May
Release details
Release number:	8.06
Release date:	19 December 2013
Format:	2 Parts, 1 CD
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-088-6
The Companion Chronicles
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The Dying Light was the seventy-fourth release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the sixth story of season 8. It was written by Nick Wallace and featured Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot. It was the second story of a Companion Chronicles trilogy released by Big Finish Productions in November 2013—January 2014 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show. This trilogy was centered around the character of Quadrigger Stoyn introduced in The Beginning. The trilogy was concluded in Luna Romana.

Publisher's summary

The TARDIS materialises on a dying world circling a dying sun, where the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are welcomed to Sanctuary — an entire monastery carved out of a mountain.

But little here is quite what it seems.

Quadrigger Stoyn has waited through the centuries. And it is time for the Doctor to pay for his first terrible mistake.

Plot

Part one

to be added

Part two

to be added

Cast

• Jamie McCrimmon – Frazer Hines
• Zoe Heriot – Wendy Padbury
• Quaddriger Stoyn – Terry Molloy

References

• Stoyn tells Jamie that he and the Doctor are from the same species. However, the Doctor defied their laws and ran away from them.
• Stoyn longs to return home.
• The Doctor long ago specifically 'instructed' the TARDIS not to let Stoyn inside even if he has the key.

Notes

• This story was recorded on 7 November 2012.

Continuity

• Jamie mentions that he, the Doctor and Zoe witnessed a volcanic eruption on Dulkis. (TV: The Dominators)
• Stoyn refers to the fact that Jamie left Scotland in April 1746 (TV: The Highlanders) and visited the Moon in 2070 (TV: The Moonbase) and that Zoe left Space Station W3 in 2079 (TV: The Wheel in Space) and subsequently visited Earth (TV: The Invasion).
• Listing Zoe's travels, Stoyn also mentions Null-Space. (AUDIO: The Ghosts of N-Space, PROSE: The Ghosts of N-Space)
• Stoyn claims that it has been thousands of years since he last saw the Doctor. (AUDIO: The Beginning)
• Stoyn tells Jamie and Zoe that he and the Doctor came from a "race of gods" but the Doctor committed "blasphemy" by leaving their society. (AUDIO: The Beginning)
• The six squares used in Stoyn's beacon resemble the components of a hypercube. After the beacon is disabled, the Doctor pockets the squares, implying that they are the same hypercube components later used by the Second Doctor to contact the Time Lords. (TV: The War Games)

External links

• Official The Dying Light page at bigfinish.com