Empathy Games (audio story)

Empathy Games
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Leela
Main enemy:	Co-ordinator Angell
Main setting:	Paxis Majoritis, Synchronis
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Nigel Fairs
Director:	Nigel Fairs
Music:	Nigel Fairs
Sound:	Nigel Fairs
Read by:	Louise Jameson, David Warner
Cover by:	Simon Holub
Release details
Release number:	3.4
Release date:	October 2008
Format:	1 CD
Production code:	BFPDWCC12
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-353-8
The Companion Chronicles
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Empathy Games was the twelfth release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the fourth story of season 3. It was written by Nigel Fairs and featured Leela.

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.

Plot

to be added

Cast

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

References

• In the fire which destroys the secondary console room, the edges of the Doctor's scarf are burned.
• The Waters of Empathy is one of the 700 Wonders of the Universe.
• 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.
• The Doctor is able to induce himself into a coma.
• As a child, Leela saw her mother struck down and killed by an animal on Mount Kremnon while protecting her.

Notes

• This audio drama was recorded on 22 July 2008.
• This story takes place between The Talons of Weng-Chiang and Horror of Fang Rock.

Textless cover art

Continuity

• Leela refers to her imprisonment by the Z'nai. (AUDIO: The Catalyst)
• The Doctor tells Leela that he 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 room 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