Breach of Trust (audio story)
Breach of Trust was the second story in the audio anthology Revisitations, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by David K Barnes and featured Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart and Ingrid Oliver as Petronella Osgood, James Joyce as Josh Carter and Ramon Tikaram as Vikram Shindi.
Publisher's summary
An alien vessel arrives on Earth, its occupants seeking refuge, and Osgood takes them in.
But there is reason to mistrust this cry for help. The files show that UNIT has faced the Kalvyri before. What else they reveal will set Kate at odds with her most trusted friends.
Plot
A capsule from space crashes outside the Tower of London and opens to reveal two singing women inside, with violet skin and three mouths. Josh welcomes her to Earth, but the song hurts him. Kate leaves a disastrous dinner with Richard and is harrassed by a drunk man on her way back to the Tower, where Shindi admonishes Osgood and Josh for making contact with the aliens without him. Shindi has the aliens observed in the cells whilst Osgood works on a translator.
Despite Osgood's misgivings, Kate enters the cell and uses her tone of voice to try to earn the two women's trust. Osgood completes the translator, allowing them to understand that the women, Vara and her daughter Norei, are Kalvyri. Vara was part of a resistance against the dictator Jarrak and came into possession of a list of worlds that he planned to invade, Earth among them, so Shindi puts all UNIT bases on standby and has Josh warn NATO. Vara says that a Kalvyri weapon currently stored in the Black Archive is the only hope that humanity has against them.
Osgood locates the weapon, a black box, amongst the oldest artefacts in the archive but cannot find any information on it or the Kalvyri. Kate tells Osgood to work with Vara on the device with soldiers present, believing that Vara is lying about something; Vara explains to Osgood that the weapon is a harmonic cannon capable of focusing a Kalvyri's song to devastating effect. At Kate's command, Josh looks through the old records and finds a report by Mike Yates detailing how Kalvyri suspected of being in league with "you-know-who" killed several UNIT soldiers until the Third Doctor neutralised them, having had his offer of peace declined.
In light of the report, Kate stops Osgood and Vara after they power up the harmonic cannon and Josh has his men restrain Vara and Norei, whom Osgood still trusts. When Shindi informs them that forty Kalvyri ships have arrived, Kate has Josh bring Vara and the harmonic cannon to the ops room, leaving Norei with Sergeant Crosbie, and questions why so few have arrived.
to be completed
Cast
- Kate Stewart - Jemma Redgrave
- Osgood - Ingrid Oliver
- Colonel Vikram Shindi - Ramon Tikaram
- Captain Josh Carter - James Joyce
- Vara / Norei / Technician - Lizzie Stables
- Jarrak / Richard / Man / Technician 2 / Soldier / Sergeant - Richard Earl
References
- UNIT has bases in Athens, Cairo and Cape Town.
- Josh finds a report written by Mike Yates detailing how the Third Doctor neutralised Kalvyri believed to be in league with "you-know-who".
- The harmonic cannon dates back to the Ninth Gryndidian Empire.
- Sergeant Crosbie is good with children and has three of his own. Josh leaves Norei with him.
- Kate utters Spock's famous quote about how "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few".
Notes
to be added
Continuity
- Kate mentions her children. (HOMEVID: Downtime, TV: Death in Heaven)
- Following a failed invasion of Earth, the Kalvyri's Harmonic Cannon was stored in the Black Archive as articule 12. (TV: Day of the Doctor)
- Osgood recalls the previous Sontaran and Cybermen encounters. (AUDIO: The Sontaran Project, Code Silver)
External links
- Official Breach of Trust page at bigfinish.com
