Dead Woman Walking (audio story)

Dead Woman Walking
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Featuring:	Ace
Main enemy:	Galobian trigger worm, Galobian companion worms
Main setting:	Gathrossa
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writers:	Roland Moore
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Producer:	Alfie Shaw
Music:	Richard Fox @ FoxYason Studios
Sound:	Richard Fox @ FoxYason Studios
Read by:	Sophie Aldred
Cover by:	Mark Plastow
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	10.4
Release date:	30 April 2020
Format:	MP3 Download
Production code:	BFMSTDL64
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78703-729-8
Official trailer
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Dead Woman Walking was the fourth story of the tenth season of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips series.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor's meddling has taken a tremendous emotional toll on Ace over their many adventures. However, this time, it may just cost her life.

Landing in the middle of a civil war, the Doctor hoped to discreetly meddle and then slip away unnoticed. Instead, he's managed to infect Ace with an organic bomb. A bomb with a most unusual trigger.

If Ace dies, so does the planet.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Seventh Doctor
• Ace
• Tovar
• Atlas
• Sniper

Worldbuilding

• Ace and the Doctor refer to and use Nitro-9.
• Ace talks to the planet's citizens about Perivale, Daleks, and the Kandyman.

Notes

• This story represents how the Doctor willingly puts his companions in danger for the greater good, as well as downright manipulating them in the process. This incarnation did so in TV: Ghost Light, Survival, PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation, Love and War, Birthright, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Head Games, and Just War.
• This story was recorded on 9 November 2018 at the Soundhouse.
• This story is available as a download only.

Continuity

• The Seventh Doctor says he "had no wish to die in a street in a hail of gunfire." He would later regenerate due to being caught in the middle of a gang shootout and getting himself shot. (TV: Doctor Who)
• The Doctor says "I'm sorry" and "I'm really so sorry" to Ace when he believes she is going to die and there is nothing he can do to save her. His tenth incarnation would later commonly use the phrase "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry", in similar circumstances. (TV: The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts, Silence in the Library)
• The Doctor uses the focused thoughts of the entire planet to kill the parasitic worms. Martha Jones also used the combined psychic energy of the people of Earth to recharge the Tenth Doctor. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)

Cover gallery

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  Textless cover (Version 1)

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  Textless cover (Version 2)

External links

• Official Dead Woman Walking page at bigfinish.com