Prisoners of Fate (audio story)

Twenty-five years ago, with Richter's Syndrome running rampant throughout the galaxy, the brilliant biochemist Nyssa, formerly of Traken, bade a painful farewell to her young family... and set off into the space, in search of a cure for this deadly disease.

She never returned.

Now, her grown-up son continues her work on the penal colony of Valderon, still desperate to make the breakthrough that eluded his presumed-dead mother.

So when the TARDIS lands on Valderon, bringing the Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa to its fortress prison, the scene is set for a painful reunion... but not only for Nyssa. The Doctor's past is about to catch up with him too...

Plot

Part One

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Part Two

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Part Three

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Part Four

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Cast

The Doctor - Peter Davison
Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
Turlough - Mark Strickson
Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
Sibor - Sarah Douglas
Galen/First Watchman - Alastair Mackenzie
Mahandra/Maxis/Computer - Anjella Mackintosh
Kartis/Lasarti/Second Watchman/Patient - Jez Fielder

References

The Doctor's first TARDIS shows him his future incarnations and calls them rhetorician, the schemer and the idealist.

Notes

This story was recorded on 9 and 10 January 2013.
Clips from numerous previous audio dramas are heard in Part Four, including Bloodtide, The Crimes of Thomas Brewster, Flip-Flop, Protect and Survive, The Cannibalists, The Resurrection of Mars and Army of Death.
The title is taken from a quote from Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "Men are not prisoners of fate but only prisoners of their own minds."

Continuity

Adric mentions his mother having talked to him about Omega (TV: Arc of Infinity), Cybermen and his namesake (TV: Earthshock) and her visit to the 17th century. (TV: The Visitation)
Adric mentions his mother meeting Turlough on Earth, at Brendon Public School, with a Brigadier, and a creature called Mawdryn. (TV: Mawdryn Undead)
Turlough mentions Purity (AUDIO: The Whispering Forest), Vektris (AUDIO: Kiss of Death) and the Sontarans. (AUDIO: Heroes of Sontar)
Turlough refers to Nyssa being rejuvenated by Hermogenite. (AUDIO: The Emerald Tiger)
When the Doctor is discussing time-sensitive races who could possibly see into the future, he refers to the Tharils (TV: Warriors' Gate), the Jagaroth (TV: City of Death), the Xeraphin (TV: Time-Flight) and the Time Lords (TV: The Deadly Assassin).
Nyssa tells the Doctor that she met him at a later point in his personal timeline while he was regenerating into his sixth incarnation. (AUDIO: Winter)
The Richter's Syndrome story arc that began in AUDIO: Cobwebs concludes in this story.

External links

Official Prisoners of Fate page at bigfinish.com