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* Benny and Ace encounter Setites, followers of [[Sutekh]], whom the Doctor explains he defeated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'') The three travellers will later reunite and battle a returned Sutekh. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Triumph of Sutekh (audio anthology)|The Triumph of Sutekh]]'')
* Benny and Ace encounter Setites, followers of [[Sutekh]], whom the Doctor explains he defeated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'') The three travellers will later reunite and battle a returned Sutekh. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Triumph of Sutekh (audio anthology)|The Triumph of Sutekh]]'')
* Denon has seen Ace's portait. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'')
* Denon has seen Ace's portait. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'')
* Benny notes Ace's graffiti is older than the [[Exxilon (species)|Exxilons]] visiting Earth ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'') and the Doctor challenging [[Fenric]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'')
* Benny notes Ace's graffiti is older than the [[Exxilon (species)|Exxilons]] visiting Earth ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)|The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'') and the Doctor challenging [[Fenric]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'')
* The Doctor still has [[Cameca's brooch]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[White Darkness]]'')
* The Doctor still has [[Cameca's brooch]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[White Darkness]]'')
* Ace tells the Egyptians the story of [[Mike Smith|the traitor]] and the [[Judith Winters|girl with magic powers]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
* Ace tells the Egyptians the story of [[Mike Smith|the traitor]] and the [[Judith Winters|girl with magic powers]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
* The [[Eternal]]s Pain, Death, and Time appear in dreams, and the Doctor makes a deal with one again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'')
* The [[Eternal]]s Pain, Death, and Time appear in dreams, and the Doctor makes a deal with one again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'')
* Ace was transported in the [[time storm]] two millions years into the future to [[Iceworld]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
* Ace was transported in the [[time storm]] two millions years into the future to [[Iceworld]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
* She uses the [[Sisterhood of Karn]]'s salve in the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus]]'')
* She uses the [[Sisterhood of Karn]]'s salve in the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'')
* Pain shows Benny scenes of Ace and the Doctor with the Timewyrm ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys]]'') and Ace, [[Robin Yeadon]] and the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nightshade (novel)|Nightshade]]'')
* Pain shows Benny scenes of Ace and the Doctor with the Timewyrm ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys]]'') and Ace, [[Robin Yeadon]] and the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nightshade (novel)|Nightshade]]'')
* Ship's [[Gatekeeper (Set Piece)|gatekeepers]] give Ace the same feeling she got from the [[Garvond]]'s [[Time Soldier]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dimension Riders]]'')
* Ship's [[Gatekeeper (Set Piece)|gatekeepers]] give Ace the same feeling she got from the [[Garvond]]'s [[Time Soldier]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dimension Riders (novel)|The Dimension Riders]]'')
* Pain tells Benny her mother was killed in the first Dalek blasts, and not stunned like she thought. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising]]'')
* Pain tells Benny her mother was killed in the first Dalek blasts, and not stunned like she thought. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'')
* "[[Cruk]]" is a common swearword of Benny's time, which Ace also uses frequently. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'')
* "[[Cruk]]" is a common swearword of Benny's time, which Ace also uses frequently. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'')
* The Doctor tells Kadiatau about [[dimensional transference]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet]]'')
* The Doctor tells Kadiatau about [[dimensional transference]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'')
* Ace remembers the Doctor's three rules, ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'') him telling Fenric to kill her, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'') being influenced on the [[Cheetah World]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival]]'') falling out with the Doctor, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'') being controlled by the [[Blue]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'') and pretending to stab the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future]]'')
* Ace remembers the Doctor's three rules, ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'') him telling Fenric to kill her, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'') being influenced on the [[Cheetah World]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'') falling out with the Doctor, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'') being controlled by the [[Blue]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)|The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'') and pretending to stab the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'')
* Ace visits [[Cristián Alvarez|Cristián]] and [[Benjamin Alvarez|Ben Alvarez]] in [[2002]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'')
* Ace visits [[Cristián Alvarez|Cristián]] and [[Benjamin Alvarez|Ben Alvarez]] in [[2002]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)|The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'')


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Set Piece is the thirty-fifth New Adventures novel. It features the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield. This is the last novel to feature Ace as an ongoing companion in the Virgin New Adventures novel range. She reappears as a "guest character" in Head Games, Happy Endings and Lungbarrow.

Publisher's summary

Dead. He was dead. How the hell was she supposed to do CPR on a man with two hearts?

There's a rip in the fabric of space and time. Passenger ships are disappearing from the interstellar traffic lanes. In an attempt to find out who's behind the disappearances, the Doctor and Ace allow themselves to be captured. But when Bernice's rescue attempt goes terribly wrong, the time travellers find themselves scattered throughout history.

Ace, stranded in Ancient Egypt, struggles to survive in an environment as alien as a distant planet: the Earth 3,000 years before she was born. She manages to find employment as a nobleman's bodyguard. And then she comes face to face with the metal horrors which have pursued her through time — the creatures she saw kill the Doctor.

Plot

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Characters

References

The Doctor

Ace

Foods and beverages

Individuals

  • Time calls the Doctor her champion.
  • The Doctor first met Death on a Gallifreyan hill side.

Languages

  • Ace speaks Egyptian when stuck in Egypt, but doesn't realise it's because of the TARDIS until she's been there for several months.

Locations

Theories and concepts

  • Some of Death's "siblings" appear, including Pain and Time. All the Eternals (Time, Death, Pain) appear to be female.
  • Pain clarifies for Benny that her mother (Claire Summerfield) was killed by the first Dalek beams during the attack on their colony.
  • The Doctor notes there are places in time where history can change, and he calls these "disequilibrium points."

Time Lords

  • The Doctor showed the Brigadier how to disable a Time Lord (in case the Master ever returns to Earth); a blow to the left shoulder on a Time Lord hits a vital nerve cluster.

Timeline

  • Ace visits Denon in 1815, aged twenty-eight.

Weapons

Notes

  • Sophie Aldred wrote the afterword for this novel.
  • A prelude to this novel appeared in DWM 222.
  • The working title for this novel was Butterfly Wings.[1]
  • Since joining the Doctor at 16, this story establishes that Ace spent seven years in the TARDIS, separate from her three years in Spacefleet, and leaves at 26.

Continuity

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Footnotes

  1. DWM 252 (Licence to Kill p.30)