The Sinestran Kill (audio story)

The Sinestran Kill
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Ann
Main enemy:	Sinestrans
Main setting:	London, 1978
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Andrew Smith
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Jamie Robertson
Sound:	Jamie Robertson
Cover by:	Anthony Lamb
Release details
Release number:	8.1
Part of:	The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 8: Volume 1
Release date:	16 January 2019
Format:	2 parts, 1 CD
Production code:	BFPTOMCD059
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78703-293-4
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The Sinestran Kill was the first story in the eighth series of the Fourth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Andrew Smith and featured Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Jane Slavin as Ann Kelso.

Publisher's summary

When the Doctor decides to trace an anomalous energy signature on twentieth century Earth, he stumbles into an assassination attempt.

Gangland thugs are trying to murder a seemingly innocent shopkeeper, and it’s only the intervention of the Doctor and Ann Kelso – a WPC who happens to be on the scene – that prevents a tragedy.

But why do the gangsters want the shopkeeper dead? And what does this have to do with alien technology?

The first stages of a grand conspiracy are about to be revealed. And finding the answers will take Ann Kelso on a journey like no other.

Plot

Part one

to be added

Part two

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Ann Kelso - Jane Slavin
• Hugo Blake - Ewan Bailey
• Jimmy Lynch - Nicholas Khan
• Tony Reynolds - Leon Williams
• DCI Scott Neilson - Frank Skinner
• Kathy Blake - Glynis Barber

References

• The Doctor tracks the use of a warped field damper, which is 300 years too early for 1978.
• A DNA coder transforms DNA, making it perfect for disguise. It can be disrupted by a stun gun.
• Ann is WPC 166, which the Doctor says are his three lucky numbers.
• Neilson was in UNIT Special Branch for five years.
• The Sinestrans use a cordolaine signal, which the Doctor notes is a Sontaran invention.

Notes

• Andrew Smith, who served as a metropolitan police officer in the anti-terrorism group for five years, incorporated elements of his time there into this story.

Continuity

• The Doctor is again believed to be a Time Agent. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
• The Doctor is working on assembling K9 Mark II in his box, (TV: The Invasion of Time) and learns his brain is positioned "arrow A to the front." (TV: Destiny of the Daleks)
• The cordolaine signal is associated with the Sontarans. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky)

External links

• Official The Sinestran Kill page at bigfinish.com