Erasure (audio story)
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Erasure was the fourth story of the eighth season of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips series.
Publisher's summary
The Celestial Intervention Agency, a shadowy, unspoken of part of the Time Lord hierarchy. Beloved and loathed in equal measure by various Presidents and High Councils the millennias over. But they serve a very important function: they keep the time lines safe and clear - they do the darker, dirtier jobs that most Time Lords would prefer not to know even need doing.
CIA Sub-Coordinator Narvin has always taken his oath to uphold the Worshipful Laws of Gallifrey very seriously. But when he is sent on a mission to investigate the planet Bellascon, even he hasn't reckoned with the force of nature that is the Fourth Doctor, who has - one might say - his own way of dealing with things, and his own views on people like Narvin. But somehow the two must overcome their instincts and work together to stop the web of time being erased forever...
Plot
To escape from an earthquake, Narvin enters the cellars of Heartshaven with an unconscious Leela, and begins to tell her a story about the first time he went off world and met the Doctor.
He recalls being called to a mission by Vansell to go to Bellascon, where the people had begun time experiments that were interfering with the Web of Time. The elite families there had begun to go back in time to 'correct' mistakes, and erase other people in order to increase their personal wealth and affect the present day.
When Narvin arrives, he is awed by the natural scenery, and meets the Doctor and Adric, identifying them by using a psychic pulse. He is astonished by how rude the Doctor is as the Doctor calls him, Vansell, and the rest of the CIA idiots. He wants to arrest the Doctor for being a renegade, and dislikes Adric, but decides that they can help him achieve his aim on Bellascon.
He accompanies them both to a meeting with the Bellascon scientists. He feels out of his depth as he is faced with another culture, and observes the Doctor interacting with the scientists. One of then, Riyan Cleeb, gives the Doctor a data disc with all the information about the Chronon Device. Narvin wants to destroy the technology, and threatens the scientists that he is authorised to use the Oubliette of Eternity on the planet. The Doctor is appalled by the idea of it, and calls Narvin an idiot again. Narvin threatens the Doctor with the Oubiette too.
A Time Eddy
Characters
Crew
- Narrated - Seán Carlsen
- Cover Art - Lee Binding
- Writer & Director - Gary Russell
- Executive Producers - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
- Music & Sound Design - David Roocroft
- Producer & Script Editor - Ian Atkins
Worldbuilding
- Vansell gives Narvin a Time Ring.
Notes
- This story was recorded on 13 November 2017 at Bang Post Production.
- Unlike most Short Trips, which are typically presented as narrated stories, similar to audiobooks, this one is presented as a nested narrative by a character in a manner similar to The Companion Chronicles. Specifically, Narvin tells the story of his first encounter with the Doctor to an unconscious Leela.
- Lalla Ward makes an uncredited cameo at the end of the story.
Continuity
- Narvin refers to the time when the Doctor saved the Time Lords from Omega, (TV: The Three Doctors) the Decayed Master (TV: The Deadly Assassin) the Sontarans, (TV: The Invasion of Time) and the Killer Cats of Gin-Seng. (AUDIO: The Last Fairy Tale)
External links
- Official Erasure page at bigfinish.com
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