Sargasso (audio story)
Sargasso was the twenty-eighth story in the Torchwood - Monthly Range by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Christopher Cooper and featured Kai Owen as Rhys Williams.
Publisher's summary
Torchwood vs Monsters!
The seas of planet Earth are choked by plastic. Plastic that no-one has a use for and no-one can get rid of.
Rhys Williams finds himself stranded on a container ship in a sea of debris. People on board are dying. Because, luckily, someone's found a solution to Earth's polluted waters. The Nestene Consciousness can never have too much plastic.
Plot
Rhys is travelling from Milford Haven to the Port of Wilmington aboard the Corinthian Tide when, in the North Atlantic garbage patch, the engines stop. Whilst looking for Captain Banaczik, he and Kaitlin find the ship covered in rubbish and come across the corpse of a man apparently crushed by plastic. Many of the surviving crewmen attempt to escape the ship, but their lifeboat is attacked and sunk by sentient rubber ducks which Rhys believes could be alien. Kaitlin, however, is sceptical and does not believe him about Torchwood.
to be completed
Cast
- Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
- Kaitlin - Sydney Feder
- Captain Anika Banaczik - Chloe Ewart
- Yonich - Robert Jezek[1]
- Sailor - Wilf Scolding[1]
References
Businesses
- Kaitlin's family owns Bakin Petrochemicals.
Culture
- Rhys is listening to James Brown.
- Rhys remembers David Attenborough talking about the North Atlantic garbage patch on television.
- Kaitlin refers to the real possibility of "some asshole with bad hair" blowing the world to hell.
- Rhys refers to Kaitlin as a millennial.
- The Nestene attack with rubber ducks.
Locations
- The Corinthian Tide travels from Milford Haven to the Port of Wilmington.
Science
- Still conditions in the ocean are called dead calm.
Technology
- The Nestene Consciousness takes control of a plastic computer keyboard.
Notes
- Though unremarked within the story, the North Atlantic garbage patch is located in the Sargasso Sea. The story is named for this location.
- This is the first audio story Robert Jezek has contributed to in the Doctor Who universe since AUDIO: Zagreus over 15 years prior.
- This story was recorded on 17 December 2018 at The Soundhouse.
Continuity
- Rhys says he is just a lorry driver. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang et al)
- Rhys refers to Gwen leaving Torchwood behind, (AUDIO: Herald of the Dawn) and bringing up their daughter away from it all. (TV: The New World, AUDIO: Thoughts and Prayers)
- When the Praxeus pathogen would later begin to seize control of Earth through its plastic waste, the Thirteenth Doctor would briefly suspect the Autons while visiting the Indian Ocean garbage patch. (TV: Praxeus)
External links
- Official Sargasso page at bigfinish.com
Footnotes
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