Masquerade (audio story)

France, the year 1770: by special invitation, the famous "Doctor", friend of Voltaire, arrives at the lonely estate of the lovely Marquise de Rimdelle – once a hostess to the highest of high society, now isolated by the strange, pernicious mist that lingers round the countryside.

But there's more in that fog than mere vapour, confesses the Marquise's strange niece to the Doctor's ward, Nyssa. She senses some uncanny machine circling the fringes of the estate, in the space between the shadows. Watching. Always watching. She's given it a name: "the Steamroller Man".

Meanwhile, the man in the cellar talks to the Doctor; a dead man, trapped behind the cellar walls. The Steamroller Man is coming, he says; coming to smash the place down. It seems the Doctor has been drawn into a very dangerous liaison...

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

References

The Doctor tells Nyssa and Hannah that the Marquise de Rimdelle's estate room is decorated in the rococo style.
Voltaire was expelled from the French court by Louis XV in 1758.
The Doctor describes Traken and Gallifrey as "lovely worlds, both of them."

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Notes

This story was recorded on 8 and 9 May 2013 at The Moat Studios.
Subscribers whose subscriptions included this story also received the audio short story Late Night Shopping.

Continuity

The Doctor tells the Marquise De Rimdelle that he has visited Paris before, at which time he saw the Mona Lisa. (TV: City of Death)
The Doctor initially cannot recall how he met Hannah. (AUDIO: Moonflesh)
The Doctor refers to Catherine de Medici and tells the Marquise that he was present for the St Bartholomew's Day massacre in Paris on 24 August 1572. (TV: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve)
Nyssa recalls tending the Grove as a child on Traken. (TV: The Keeper of Traken)
Hannah tells Helen that she is a member of the Order of the Crescent Moon. (AUDIO: Moonflesh)

External links

Official Masquerade page at bigfinish.com