Tomorrow's Fish and Chips (short story)
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Tomorrow's Fish and Chips was a short story published in Into the Unknown.
Summary
Ibrahim returned home after a trip to the destruction of the Crystal Palace in 1936 with Habitat. He shows Helena a copy of the Daily Mirror he's brought from 1936. Later, when Ibrahim is showering to get rid of the the smell of smoke, Helena switches the Daily Mirror with a copy of the Daily Express from the same day, hoping Ibrahim won't notice. Her reason: the second page of that day's Daily Mirror had a photograph of a woman greeting Jewish refugees to London, a woman who looked exactly Helena.
Characters
Worldbuilding
- Ibrahim does a Leslie Phillips impression.
Notes
- This is one of the only stories in the Erimem series where Erimem doesn't appear at all.
Continuity
- Helena is shown to have a secret collection of newspaper articles with information on her past activities. (PROSE: The Three Faces of Helena)
- On 30 November 1936, the Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire. (COMIC: The Eagle of the Reich, The Crystal Palace) By one account, this was done by a hatched phoenix. The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams came to the Palace at this time, although they had intended to visit it in 1851, and met up with Winston Churchill. (COMIC: The Eagle of the Reich) Another account indicated that the fire was started by the Tenth Doctor and Heather McCrimmon in order to defeat Victumas and the Dominion Sisterhood. (COMIC: The Crystal Palace)
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