Empathy Games (audio story)

	Fourth Doctor
	Leela
	Co-ordinator Angell
	Paxis Majoritis, Synchronis
	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
	Nigel Fairs
	Nigel Fairs
	Louise Jameson
	3.4
	October 2008
	1 CD
	BFPDWCC12
	ISBN 978-1-84435-353-8
The Companion Chronicles
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Publisher's summary

The present: Leela is doomed, trapped inside a prison cell of a dead race.

The past: After a disaster aboard the TARDIS, the Fourth Doctor and Leela arrive at the capital city of Synchronis, a world renowned for peace and civility. But an attack by a vicious creature leaves the Doctor in a coma, and Leela is persuaded to fight in the forthcoming Empathy Games, where she discovers that nothing on this world is as it seems.

Cast

• Leela - Louise Jameson
• Co-ordinator Angell - David Warner

References

• The Z'nai on the prison planet are all long since dead.
• Leela has been kept alive by the machines designed to torture her for a significant period of time, possibly years. She claims that she aches for death.
• In the fire which destroys the secondary console room, the edge of the Doctor's scarf are burned.
• Synchronis has no war, poverty, murder or hunger. It is known for its magnificent architecture.
• The Synchronians have blue skin and white hair.
• The Waters of Empathy is one of the 700 Wonders of the Universe.
• Co-ordinator Angell has a long white beard and dark eyes.
• The Synchronian warriors are known as Cathartics.
• When an elder of the Sevateem dies, it is customary for other warriors to guard their body in order to protect their soul from evil spirits until sunrise.
• After being attacked by a giant rodent, the Doctor places himself in a coma in order to heal his injuries.
• The Doctor describes Leela as "very bright, quick to learn."
• As a child, Leela saw her mother struck down and killed by an animal on Mount Kremnon while protecting her.

Notes

• David Warner (Co-ordinator Angell) previously played the Doctor in NOTDWU: Sympathy for the Devil and NOTDWU: Masters of War and Sir Isaac Newton in AUDIO: Summer. He would later play Mycroft Holmes in AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel, Lord Azlok in TV: Dreamland, Professor Boston Schooner in AUDIO: Deimos, Autarch Siris in AUDIO: Children of Seth and Cuthbert in AUDIO: The Sands of Life.
• This audio drama was recorded on 22 July 2008.

Continuity

• Leela refers to her imprisonment by the Z'nai. (AUDIO: The Catalyst)
• The Doctor tells Leela that he was once saw an entire planet destroyed by fire many years earlier. (TV: Inferno)
• The secondary control room is completely destroyed. The Doctor tells Leela that there are plenty of other control rooms, prompting him to start using the original control again. (TV: The Invisible Enemy)
• Leela refers to Xoanon. (TV: The Face of Evil)
• Time Lords have the ability to place themselves in a coma voluntarily. (TV: Spearhead from Space)
• Leela recalls hunting with Tomas on her home planet during their childhood. (TV: The Face of Evil)

External links

• Official Empathy Games page at bigfinish.com
• Empathy Games at the Doctor Who Reference Guide