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|companions            = [[Peri Brown|Peri]]
|companions            = [[Peri Brown|Peri]]
|featuring              = [[Victoria Waterfield|Victoria]]  
|featuring              = [[Victoria Waterfield|Victoria]]  
|enemy                  = [[Leiss]], [[Weska]], [[Dominicus (Power Play)|Dominicus]]
|enemy                  = [[Leiss]], [[Dominicus (Power Play)|Dominicus]]
|setting                = [[England]], early [[21st century]];<br/>[[Earth]], circa [[BC|500,000,000 BC]]
|setting                = [[England]], early [[21st century]];<br/>[[Earth]], circa [[BC|500,000,000 BC]]
|writer                = [[Gary Hopkins]]  
|writer                = [[Gary Hopkins]]  
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Victoria is confused by the Doctor's [[regeneration|new body]] and comes to her senses, going with him through a [[time corridor]] to an old [[battlecruiser]] which the Doctor suspects is owned by Dominic, who has evidently been manipulating Dysart. A hypnotised Peri offers them a tour of what she believes to be the power station, not realising that they are in a [[spaceship]] on prehistoric Earth because of a [[hallucinogen]], and the Doctor sends Victoria with her whilst he confronts Dominic, actually named Dominicus. Dominicus reveals that he has been dumping nuclear waste in the distant past so that it is harmless by the time of the [[21st century]] and claims that he is doing so for the good of humanity.
Victoria is confused by the Doctor's [[regeneration|new body]] and comes to her senses, going with him through a [[time corridor]] to an old [[battlecruiser]] which the Doctor suspects is owned by Dominic, who has evidently been manipulating Dysart. A hypnotised Peri offers them a tour of what she believes to be the power station, not realising that they are in a [[spaceship]] on prehistoric Earth because of a [[hallucinogen]], and the Doctor sends Victoria with her whilst he confronts Dominic, actually named Dominicus. Dominicus reveals that he has been dumping nuclear waste in the distant past so that it is harmless by the time of the [[21st century]] and claims that he is doing so for the good of humanity.


Concerned for Victoria, Marion and Sean trace her to the power station and are captured and imprisoned with David by the Pleyarec.
Concerned for Victoria, Marion and Sean trace her to the power station and are captured and imprisoned with David by the Pleyarec. Leiss admonishes Weska when he scans them and identifies them as human and soon claims that he has [[execution|executed]] all three of the prisoners, which Weska takes issue with.


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Peri realises that she and Victoria are [[hallucination|hallucinating]] after they talk about their travels with the Doctor and they return to him, but they are trapped inside an [[energy barrier]] by Dominicus. The Doctor deduces that he is stockpiling the nuclear waste to power his spaceship and directs Dysart to release them when he arrives on the ship in search of his assistant, after which Dominicus reveals that he has been contracted to leave Earth uninhabitable. Dysart attacks Dominicus so that the Doctor, Peri and Victoria can return to the 21st century, but Dominicus kills him and takes Peri captive before trapping the Doctor and Victoria in the time corridor for eternity. Within the temporal void, the Doctor and Victoria cling to one another.


=== Part four ===
=== Part four ===

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Power Play was the fifth story release in the third series of The Lost Stories, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was adapted by Gary Hopkins, from his original script, and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown and Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield.

Publisher's summary

It's been many years since Victoria Waterfield travelled through time and space fighting monsters and dictators. Now she's back on Earth fighting for the future of the planet. But are her environmental campaigns so far removed from those former adventures in the vortex?

As trucks carrying nuclear waste start to vanish into the air, her friends are kidnapped by a dangerous alien police force and a nuclear power plant runs dangerously close to meltdown...Victoria spies a familiar blue box.

The Doctor. After all this time, the Doctor has come back.

And now...Victoria Waterfield is going to kill him...

Plot

Part one

Victoria and David follow a waste truck which disappears into thin air and head back to Marion Tudor's demonstration outside of Matthew Dysart's nuclear power planet in the English countryside to tell her what they have seen. On the way, Victoria spots the TARDIS and gets David to stop the Jeep so that she can investigate, hoping to be reunited with the Second Doctor and Jamie after several decades. She bangs on the door, but Leiss and Weska of the Pleyarec police capture the two of them with a stasis net and imprison them, believing David to be the Doctor.

The Doctor and Peri wake up on the floor of the control room and deduce that they must have been knocked out by an external attack by the Pleyarec, whom the Doctor believed he had managed to escape after a tumultuous journey trying to avoid them. They find the unattended Jeep outside and meet Marion, who is looking for Victoria and David and invites the two of them for tea at the protestors' camp. There, she and Sean explain that they are protesting Dysart's use of a transuranic element at the plant. When an earthquake hits, the Doctor declares that the plant is going into meltdown.

Part two

The earthquake subsides as the Doctor, Peri, Marion and Sean begin to drive away, so Marion tries to arrange a meeting with Dysart to discuss the incident and succeeds only in getting one with his assistant, Dominic, who tells her and Peri that nothing went wrong at the plant. Marion leaves and Dominic gives Peri a tour so that she can provide an objective report to placate the protestors, apparently taking a liking to her upon learning that she is a recently-arrived traveller. When she tries to leave, Dominic stuns her.

The Doctor and Sean investigate the disappearing waste trucks and are almost hit by one when it appears out of nowhere, after which they go to the TARDIS to examine mud splattered by the vehicle and find Ediacara biota, an example of prehistoric life. Returning to the camp, the Doctor is reunited with Victoria, who has been released under hypnosis to identify the Doctor since Leiss learnt that David was human, and promises to talk to her later given that she does not recognise him.

After breaking into the plant in search of Peri, the Doctor finds that the waste trucks are controlled remotely and is caught by Dysart. Dysart threatens the Doctor with prosecution for trespass and tells him that Dominic is too busy to meet with him, but he is interrupted by a report of a woman breaking into the plant with a gun. The Doctor initially assumes that it is Marion, only to find himself held at gunpoint with Victoria, who declares her mission to find and destroy the Doctor.

Part three

Victoria is confused by the Doctor's new body and comes to her senses, going with him through a time corridor to an old battlecruiser which the Doctor suspects is owned by Dominic, who has evidently been manipulating Dysart. A hypnotised Peri offers them a tour of what she believes to be the power station, not realising that they are in a spaceship on prehistoric Earth because of a hallucinogen, and the Doctor sends Victoria with her whilst he confronts Dominic, actually named Dominicus. Dominicus reveals that he has been dumping nuclear waste in the distant past so that it is harmless by the time of the 21st century and claims that he is doing so for the good of humanity.

Concerned for Victoria, Marion and Sean trace her to the power station and are captured and imprisoned with David by the Pleyarec. Leiss admonishes Weska when he scans them and identifies them as human and soon claims that he has executed all three of the prisoners, which Weska takes issue with.

Peri realises that she and Victoria are hallucinating after they talk about their travels with the Doctor and they return to him, but they are trapped inside an energy barrier by Dominicus. The Doctor deduces that he is stockpiling the nuclear waste to power his spaceship and directs Dysart to release them when he arrives on the ship in search of his assistant, after which Dominicus reveals that he has been contracted to leave Earth uninhabitable. Dysart attacks Dominicus so that the Doctor, Peri and Victoria can return to the 21st century, but Dominicus kills him and takes Peri captive before trapping the Doctor and Victoria in the time corridor for eternity. Within the temporal void, the Doctor and Victoria cling to one another.

Part four

to be added

Cast

Crew

Worldbuilding

Notes

  • This is the first time that Deborah Watling has reprised her role as Victoria for Big Finish Productions outside of The Companion Chronicles.
  • This is an adaptation of a script for an unproduced TV story called Meltdown. (BFX: Power Play)
  • This story was recorded on 20 and 21 April 2011 at The Moat Studios.
  • This story was originally released on CD and download.

Continuity

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