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|doctor = Eighth Doctor | |doctor = Eighth Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]], [[Audacity Montague|Audacity]] | |companions = [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]], [[Audacity Montague|Audacity]] | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = [[Empty Man]] | ||
|setting = [[England]], [[24 December]] [[1947]] | |setting = [[England]], [[24 December]] [[1947]] | ||
|writer = Tim Foley | |writer = Tim Foley | ||
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|prev = Twenty-Four Doors in December (audio story) | |prev = Twenty-Four Doors in December (audio story) | ||
|next = Winter of the Demon (audio story) | |next = Winter of the Demon (audio story) | ||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story in the audio anthology ''[[In the Bleak Midwinter (audio anthology)|In the Bleak Midwinter]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Tim Foley]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[India Fisher]] as [[Charlotte Pollard]] and [[Jaye Griffiths]] as [[Audacity Montague|Lady Audacity Montague]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story in the audio anthology ''[[In the Bleak Midwinter (audio anthology)|In the Bleak Midwinter]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Tim Foley]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[India Fisher]] as [[Charlotte Pollard]] and [[Jaye Griffiths]] as [[Audacity Montague|Lady Audacity Montague]]. | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
On [[Christmas Eve]], [[writer]] [[Eldridge Brinkwood]] finishes broadcasting a [[ghost story]] for his [[radio]] series, ''[[Eldridge Brinkwood's Haunted Delights]]'', and encounters a face-changing figure in the [[studio]]. [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] gets him away to a [[car]] where [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]] and [[Audacity Montague|Audacity]] are waiting and drives away, giving him and his [[companion]]s the opportunity to explain to Eldridge what has been going on since they finished their [[Christmas]] celebrations at [[107 Baker Street]]. | On [[Christmas Eve]], [[writer]] [[Eldridge Brinkwood]] finishes broadcasting a [[ghost story]] for his [[radio]] series, ''[[Eldridge Brinkwood's Haunted Delights]]'', and encounters [[Empty Man|a face-changing figure]] in the [[studio]]. [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] gets him away to a [[car]] where [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]] and [[Audacity Montague|Audacity]] are waiting and drives away, giving him and his [[companion]]s the opportunity to explain to Eldridge what has been going on since they finished their [[Christmas]] celebrations at [[107 Baker Street]]. | ||
''Whilst showing Audacity around [[the TARDIS]], Charley answers a [[telephone]] and, although she cannot hear anything on the line, she gets a strange feeling from it. The [[Cloister Bell]] rings and the two of them run to the Doctor in the [[TARDIS control room|control room]] when they see a double of Charley in the corridors. The TARDIS is being torn apart, so the Doctor materialises and rematerialises in [[1940s]] [[London]] to shake the double loose, after which he uses a [[tracking device]] for [[temporal anomaly|temporal anomalies]] which leads the trio to the studio.'' | ''Whilst showing Audacity around [[the TARDIS]], Charley answers a [[telephone]] and, although she cannot hear anything on the line, she gets a strange feeling from it. The [[Cloister Bell]] rings and the two of them run to the Doctor in the [[TARDIS control room|control room]] when they see a double of Charley in the corridors. The TARDIS is being torn apart, so the Doctor materialises and rematerialises in [[1940s]] [[London]] to shake the double loose, after which he uses a [[tracking device]] for [[temporal anomaly|temporal anomalies]] which leads the trio to the studio.'' | ||
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The car hits a [[post box]] near [[Hampstead Heath]] after something darts across the road. Charley, Audacity and Eldridge fail to find any tracks in the [[snow]] and the Doctor damages the car irreparably in his attempt to fix it, so they decide to head for the nearby home of [[Marcellus Strange]], a [[painter]] and former romantic partner of Eldridge's, and run there when the creature arrives and gives chase. They barricade the empty house against the creature and the Doctor wonders if it has latched onto Eldridge because he is not meant to exist, which he believes is possible given that the Doctor has never heard of him or his work. | The car hits a [[post box]] near [[Hampstead Heath]] after something darts across the road. Charley, Audacity and Eldridge fail to find any tracks in the [[snow]] and the Doctor damages the car irreparably in his attempt to fix it, so they decide to head for the nearby home of [[Marcellus Strange]], a [[painter]] and former romantic partner of Eldridge's, and run there when the creature arrives and gives chase. They barricade the empty house against the creature and the Doctor wonders if it has latched onto Eldridge because he is not meant to exist, which he believes is possible given that the Doctor has never heard of him or his work. | ||
Using [[Seventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]], the Doctor erects an electric field around the house to keep out the creature, which speaks to them through a [[wireless]] and demands to be given Eldridge, who is soon to die. The Doctor deduces that Marci and everybody else that Eldridge was due to meet, including people in the road, has been pushed out of the [[timeline]] by the creature. | Using [[Seventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]], the Doctor erects an electric field around the house to keep out the creature, which speaks to them through a [[wireless]] and demands to be given Eldridge, who is soon to die. The Doctor deduces that Marci and everybody else that Eldridge was due to meet, including people in the road, has been pushed out of the [[timeline]] by the creature. Eldridge decides to [[sacrifice]] himself by going outside with the creature, but the Doctor goes with him after Audacity is pushed out of phase and the three find themselves transported to an icy landscape beyond [[time]]. | ||
' | The creature drains so much of the Doctor's life that it begins to die itself and is haunted by another version of itself, which feeds on the original creature before being fed on by another double and so on. The Doctor, his youth restored, is returned to the house with Audacity and Eldridge, who is suffering from a pain in his chest and whom he, Charley and Audacity take into the TARDIS. Eldridge dies there, but the Doctor is able to take his final vestige of [[consciousness]] back in time to a pass where Marci was [[painting]]. | ||
The Doctor decides to collect Eldridge's broadcasts for his [[listening library]] and waves off Charley's concern about why the creature took her form given that she was not close to death like Eldridge was. Audacity suspects that he is hiding something and promises to look after Charley, which the Doctor says that he will too. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Marcellus Strange]] is a [[surrealism|surrealist]] [[painter]]. | * [[Marcellus Strange]] is a [[surrealism|surrealist]] [[painter]]. | ||
* Charley mentions [[Margaret Pollard|Peggy]]. | * Charley mentions [[Margaret Pollard|Peggy]]. | ||
* Eldridge received a [[letter]] from nine-year-old [[Georgie Mortimer]]. | |||
* [[Audacity Montague's mother|Audacity's mother]] told her that [[lie]]s could "hollow out" a man. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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* Audacity likens the creature to [[the Devouring]], which she encountered in {{cs|The Devouring (audio story)}}. | * Audacity likens the creature to [[the Devouring]], which she encountered in {{cs|The Devouring (audio story)}}. | ||
* Audacity mentions the [[Christmas]] party at [[107 Baker Street]] in {{cs|Twenty-Four Doors in December (audio story)}}. | * Audacity mentions the [[Christmas]] party at [[107 Baker Street]] in {{cs|Twenty-Four Doors in December (audio story)}}. | ||
* The Doctor says that the TARDIS will not be landing on Christmas any time soon. It eventually will in {{cs|The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)}}. | |||
* Charley does not understand why the [[Empty Man]] believed that she was going to die soon. According to the [[Web of Time]], she was supposed to die in {{cs|Storm Warning (audio story)}}. | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||