Vampire of the Mind (audio story)
Vampire of the Mind was the two hundred and twelfth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It featured the Sixth Doctor and the Decayed Master as played by Alex Macqueen, and was the second part of a "Multi-Master" trilogy.
Publisher's summary
Somewhere off the South Coast of England, there's a lonely island. On that island stands a solitary castle, long since abandoned – haunted, they say. But the truth is, that castle houses something far worse than mere ghosts.
The castle is what lies at the end of a trail followed by the Doctor in search of several missing scientists – all of them connected to the top secret Dominus Institute and its elusive CEO, Sir Andrew Gobernar…
But the Doctor will soon discover that he's the one being haunted, by a ghost from his past… or perhaps, his future.
Plot
Part one
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Part two
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Part three
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Part four
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Cast
- The Doctor - Colin Baker
- The Decayed Master - Alex Macqueen
- Professor Threadstone - John Standing
- Heather Threadstone - Kate Kennedy
- Boatman/Guard/Blank - Neil Edmond
- Landlady/Blank - Catriona Knox
- Andrew Gobernar/Blank - Elliot Levey
Uncredited
References
- The island is home to one of the prisons where UNIT held the Master.
- The Master chose "Dominus" (Latin) and manipulated Gobernar simply for the names, meaning "master," as part of the trap for the Doctor.
- Jo Grant was sent on an escapology course.
- The Master believes himself to be suffering from post-regeneration amnesia. In actuality, he has not regenerated at all, having instead had his body switched with a future incarnation of himself.
Notes
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Continuity
- While tied up, the Doctor tells himself that he should have taken the escapology lessons that Jo took. (TV: Terror of the Autons)
- The Doctor mentions that the Master's TARDIS might be a grandfather clock, (TV: The Deadly Assassin et al) an iron maiden (TV: The King's Demons) or a horsebox. (TV: Terror of the Autons)
- The mind leach absorbs the Doctor's short term memory, causing him to forget what this incarnation of the Master looked like. The Seventh Doctor once again met this body of the Master for the "first time" in AUDIO: UNIT: Dominion.
- The Doctor cites his UNIT password as "Buffalo", which he still uses in his ninth incarnation. (TV: World War Three)
External links
- Official Vampire of the Mind page at bigfinish.com
Footnotes
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