The Healers (audio story)

Agent Galanar is on a covert mission to find definitive proof of the menace of the Daleks. But the Border Worlds are being ravaged by a deadly plague infection. An infection the Daleks are offering to cure.

Meanwhile, the Graxis Wardens’ ecological paradise is about to be torn apart...

“Allow me to introduce to you representatives of the Dalek Empire...”

Plot

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Cast

Galanar - David Tennant
Georgi Selestru - William Gaunt
Siy Tarkov - Steven Elder
Susan Mendes / The Dalek Supreme - Sarah Mowat
Kaymee Arnod - Laura Rees
Amur Tarkov - Claudia Elmhirst
Japrice - Octavia Walters
Dan Culver - Peter Forbes
Provost Carneill - Oliver Hume
Mivas - Dot Smith
Telligan - Greg Donaldson
Saloran Haredew - Karen Henson
Sergic - Jeremy James
Seth - Sean Jackson
Bulis Mietok - Ian Brooker
Roozell - Jane Goddard
Chauley - Philip Wolff
Jake - Colin McIntyre
Crewman Antani - David Sax
The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

References

Agent Galanar is sent by Georgi Selestru on a covert mission to the Scalanias system, one of the first recorded locations of the outbreak of the NFS plague in the Border Worlds which was visited by Siy Tarkov more than 20 years earier. There are rumours that a race of alien benefactors known as the Daleks are assisting the inhabitants of that system to develop Variant-7, the proposed cure to the plague. Galanar has adopted the pseudonym of Dr. Dennis Grentram, a graduate of the Academy of Medicine on Galactic Union HQ Planet Nine. On a passenger liner heading to Scalanias v, he meets a woman named Japrice, who had been tailing him for weeks. However, Galanar is unaware that she is working for the Daleks.
Selestru tells that, due to the contentious political situation between the Galactic Union and the Border Worlds, the Border Worlds Confederation Cabinet will not allow anyone through to Velyshaa. This poses a significant problem for Selestru and Tarkov as the Galactic Union Council will not act without definitive proof of the Dalek threat as they are wary of beginning another war and potentially triggering another Great Catastrophe.
Due to the length of time that he has been missing, Tarkov has been declared dead. He is unable to find anyone to reverse the classification and, consequently, is still considered legally dead. His wife, who was named Elicia, has died in the interim. However, on return to his home, he meets his now grown daughter Amur, who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.
As the Daleks begin to extract information from the Graxis Wardens' data stories on Graxis Major, Sergic attempts to stop them and is exterminated in the process. In order to prevent further incidents, Provost Carneill suggests that the other Wardens be confined to their quarters. He explains to Frey Saxton, Dan Culver, Kaymee Arnod and Telligan that the Daleks are assisting the Border Worlds in developing Variant 7. If the spread of the NFS plague continues unabated in the Border Worlds, all life on these planets will be wiped out within 100 years. Saxton believes that Carneill is willing to sacrifice the Wardens' lives if it helps to develop a cure to the plague.
There are 60 Wardens on Graxis Major, meaning that they outnumber the Daleks ten to one.
Kaymee copied the reasons for wanting to become a Graxis Warden from her grandmother's application word for word.
All of the planets in the Graxis system are to geoformed, a process similar to terraforming developed by the Daleks. This will involve the extermination of all existing life in the system. The Wardens are to be removed and reassigned.
Galanar awakens to find that he has been kidnapped by Japrice. He, or rather his alter ego Dr. Dennis Grentram, has been recruited by the Daleks to assist in the development of Variant 7. Japrice shows him the Healing Zone, a city of sorts which was constructed so as treat the victims of the NFS plague, on the previously uninhabitable Scalanais VIII. The Dalek Supreme has ordered that Variant 7 be completed during the next work cycle. After observing the extent of suffering displayed by the NFS plague, Galanar begins to wonder if they are truly as merciless as Tarkov has made them out to be.
After Saxton, Culver, Kaymee and Telligan make their escape, Saxton summons the rest of the Wardens back to the shack. The Daleks obliterate the Warden complex on Graxis Major. However, the four of them are able to access the shack's service and maintenance tunnels and therefore survive the explosion. Saxton has underestimated the Daleks' willingness to kill and, consequently, she believes that she may have led the rest of the Wardens into an ambush. This is proven to be correct, as the Daleks exterminate each and every one of them. After examining the wreckage of the shack, Carneill determines that there is no trace of Saxton, Culver, Kaymee and Telligan's bodies but has not yet decided whether he is going to tell the Daleks that they have survived.
As the Dalek Supreme gives orders to its subordinates, it becomes clear that it is speaking in the modulated voice of Susan Mendes.

Notes

Dot Smith (Mavis) previously played General Mariah Learman in BFA: The Time of the Daleks.
David Sax (Crewman Antani) is a pseudonym of Nicholas Briggs (The Daleks).

Continuity

Susan Mendes refers to the "Victory or Death" telepathic programming planted in her mind by Kalendorf, which resulted in not only the near complete destruction of the Daleks but the Great Catastrophe in the 42nd century. (BFDE: Dalek War: Chapter Four)
The Daleks refer to the Seriphia Galaxy. (BFA: The Apocalypse Element, BFDE: Invasion of the Daleks)
The Dalek Empire's representative on Graxis Major tells Provost Carneill that the Wardens destroyed a Dalek who had exterminated Harley, Davin and the native primates. (BFDE: The Exterminators)

Timeline

The Healers occurs after BFDE: The Exterminators
The Healers occurs before BFDE: The Healers

External links

Official The Healers page at bigfinish.com
The Healers at the Doctor Who Reference Guide