All's Fair (audio story)
All's Fair was the second story in the audio anthology Everywhere and Anywhere, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Max Kashevsky and featured Jacob Dudman as the Eleventh Doctor, Safiyya Ingar as Valarie Lockwood and Mia Tomlinson as Roanna.
Publisher's summary
Chicago's World's Fair, 1893. An ideal date for a pair of loved-up engineers.
However, there are certain things you don't want to happen on a date. An impossible reunion derailing things. Abominations stalking the streets. Your date dying at the end...
Plot
Valarie and Roanna go on their first date at Chicago's World's Fair in 1893 whilst the Doctor works on the Arkheion device in the TARDIS. After receiving an update from the Doctor, Valarie is approached by Hayden, a man who knows her and the Doctor and claims to be her husband. She and Roanna take him to the TARDIS where he further explains that he is a normal human and presents a photograph of his and Valarie's wedding at Niagara Falls with a note on the back telling him to find her at the fayre on this day. When he first met her, she knew all about him and now he finds that the roles have been reversed and asks the Doctor for help.
The Doctor leaves Valarie and Roanna and goes with Hayden to the Lockwood Foundation office where he meets his assistant, Maria, and learns that Hayden's inventions are anachronisms explained to him by Valarie. Hayden takes him to his Valarie, who has been on life support for some time, and a number of people locked in the basement who have become monsters thanks to an alien mutation which the Doctor names "the Surge". Valarie was trying to find a cure when one of the affected, Roanna, drained power from her cybernetics whilst attempting to escape the facility, an attempt during which she killed a nurse.
Frank, the nurse's husband, attempts to assassinate Roanna to change time and save his wife, but Valarie saves her and they flee towards the TARDIS whilst the now-monstrous Frank gives chase. The Doctor realises what is happening based on the few words Roanna is able to say and goes with Hayden in his car to save the two of them, running Frank over and allowing the group to take refuge in the TARDIS. Frank starts draining the TARDIS, so the Doctor decides to send out a pulse using the telepathic circuits to render him unconscious and is surprised when Frank dies despite him not having enacted his plan yet. Analysing him with Maria, he determines that Frank died from draining too much power.
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Cast
- The Doctor - Jacob Dudman
- Valarie Lockwood - Safiyya Ingar
- Roanna - Mia Tomlinson
- Hayden Lockwood - Christopher Ragland
- Maria - Liz Guterbock
- Frank - Jack Myers
Worldbuilding
- Tesla and Ferris are inventors.
- The Doctor says that Hayden has "dodgy kidneys".
- Valarie is surprised to learn that she can pull off a bowler hat.
- Hayden drives a Model V.
- The Doctor rhetorically asks if speeding tickets have been invented.
- The Doctor mentions powerstations and Tamagotchis.
Notes
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Continuity
- The Doctor has been working on the Arkheion device he acquired in Spirit of the Season [+]Loading...["Spirit of the Season (audio story)"].
- The Doctor rhetorically asks Hayden if he got his designs from Tiaanamat, which appeared in The Rings of Akhaten [+]Loading...["The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)"].
- The Doctor notices the similarity between Valarie and Hayden's relationship and his own with River Song, whom he first met in Silence in the Library (TV story [+]Loading...["Silence in the Library (TV story"] before marrying her earlier self in The Wedding of River Song [+]Loading...["The Wedding of River Song (TV story)"].
- Hayden knows that Gallifrey is gone. It was sealed in a pocket dimension in The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"].
External links
- Official All's Fair page at bigfinish.com
