The Shadow Squad (audio story)

The Shadow Squad
Doctor:	War Doctor
Featuring:	Tamasan, Rasmus
Main enemy:	Dalek Time Strategist
Main setting:	Atherea
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Andrew Smith
Director:	Louise Jameson
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Jack Townley
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	1.3
Part of:	Forged in Fire
Release date:	22 June 2021
Format:	1 CD Download 3rd of 3 stories
Production code:	BFPDWWARB01
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-548-5 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-549-2 (digital)
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The Shadow Squad was the third and final story in the audio anthology Forged in Fire, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Andrew Smith and featured Jonathon Carley as the War Doctor, Adèle Anderson as Commodore Tamasan and Chris Jarman as Cardinal Rasmus.

Synopsis

Tamasan is unconvinced of the War Doctor’s loyalties, though when their paths collide, both agree that the destruction of the Dalek Time Strategist could be the best route to victory. But on Atherea, the Daleks may have found a way to annihilate all plans to defeat them before they are even begun…

Plot

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Cast

• The War Doctor - Jonathon Carley
• Commodore Tamasan - Adèle Anderson
• Trestor - Kit Young
• Draven / Shira / Sentinel - Tracy Wiles
• Robo-pilot - Louise Jameson
• Cardinal Rasmus - Chris Jarman
• Dalek Time Strategist / The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

Worldbuilding

• The Temporal Eradicator was a Dalek time engineer that became fractured across the Time Vortex, requiring a vortex stabiliser, but it constantly fades in and out of existence.
• The Eradicator travels along timelines and assassinates over 100 individuals who would've caused Dalek defeats.
• The Eradicator is kept within a time chamber where it finds time traces and sees alternate timelines. The War Doctor describes it as feeling "wrong."
• The War Doctor removes the Eradicator's stabeliser, dispersing it across the Vortex before activating it's self-destruct so that it never existed.

Notes

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Continuity

• The Doctor mentions having recently seen an underground base. (AUDIO: Lion Hearts ^[+]Loading...["Lion Hearts (audio story)"])
• All Daleks have a self-destruct. (TV: Dalek ^[+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"])
• The Doctor states that he is "between names", due to him having recently given up the title of "the Doctor" in AUDIO: Light the Flame ^[+]Loading...["Light the Flame (audio story)"], and has yet to accept any of his other titles. Amongst those other titles was "the Warrior". (PROSE: The Stranger ^[+]Loading...["The Stranger (short story)"])
• The Doctor shows no mercy towards the Temporal Eradictor, erasing it from history. This further proves that this version of the Doctor is unlike all of his other selves. (TV: The Day of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])

• His seventh incarnation however was once incredibly manipulative and often played people like chess pieces in order to gain an advantage. (PROSE: Love and War ^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"], et al) This was a preview for the Tenth Doctor's transformation into the Time Lord Victorious following the death of the crew of the Bowie Base One, which would in turn lead to him committing genocide against the Kotturuh and leading the Battle of Mordeela in the Dark Times. (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead ^[+]Loading...["The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)"], All Flesh is Grass ^[+]Loading...["All Flesh is Grass (novel)"], et al)

External links

• Official The Shadow Squad page at bigfinish.com