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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story in the audio anthology ''[[Doom Coalition 1]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[John Dorney]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Nicola Walker]] as [[Liv Chenka]] and introduced [[Hattie Morahan]] as | {{audio stub}} | ||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story in the audio anthology ''[[Doom Coalition 1]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[John Dorney]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Nicola Walker]] as [[Liv Chenka]] and introduced [[Hattie Morahan]] as [[Helen Sinclair]]. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | [[Albert Kennedy]] shows [[Walter Pritchett|Professor Pritchett]] the collection left behind by [[Francis McCallum|Dr McCallum]], comprising a diverse range of antiquities depicting [[Caleera|a woman in a red mask]]. Professor Pritchett believes that the woman looks "wrong" somehow, but that she is entrancing. | ||
[[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Liv Chenka|Liv]] arrive in [[1963]] [[London]], detecting the [[temporal anomaly]] in the hopes of locating [[the Eleven]]. | |||
[[Helen Sinclair]] confronts [[Garland (The Red Lady)|Professor Garland]] about him giving a post to [[Timothy (The Red Lady)|an ineffectual colleague]], which he explains was due to the temperament of women and that she would soon be starting a family. She slams the door on her way out. | |||
The Doctor uses a beeping device which leads him and Liv to the [[National Museum]], which she almost remembers from her day with [[Martin Donaldson]]. The Doctor says that it might be caused by [[temporal radiation]] from the anomaly. | |||
Helen tells Professor Pritchett that she did not get the promotion, for which he is sorry, and is given some of Dr McCallum's collection to work on deciphering. The Doctor and Liv identify a [[tablet]] in her office as the temporal anomaly and realise that its text is not translated by the [[translation circuit]]. When Helen finds them, she calls security and they leave. | |||
The Doctor tells Liv how worried he is about the tablet and that they will soon be breaking into the museum to steal it. Liv insists on seeing it ''in situ'' and they instead go to [[107 Baker Street]]. | |||
Professor Pritchett receives a phone call from Kennedy, who hurriedly tells him to destroy the collection before dying. He hears a woman breathing before the phone is put down, after which he calls the [[police]]. | |||
Liv talks to the Doctor about how different [[London]] is compared to the [[1940s]] and asks about famous people's professional aliases, making the Doctor realise what the writing on the tablet really is. | |||
At a party, Helen receives a call from Professor Pritchett, who tells her about what he has heard over the phone. She rushes to see him and learns that Kennedy died in his study holding a child's drawing and he shows her the red lady in a [[tapestry]], which Helen is barely able to see. She keeps him from destroying it and says that she will lock it away the following day. | |||
The next day, [[Ralph (The Red Lady)|Ralph]] tells Helen that two people are waiting for her in her office. She finds the Doctor and Liv, who tell her that the text is an [[Greece|Ancient Greek]] record and, as a gesture of good faith, use the translation circuit to translate all of the other McCallum pieces. The Doctor uses [[Eighth Doctor's pattern analyser|a pattern analyser]] to translate the tablet. | |||
Liv notices the red lady in all of the written pieces, leading Helen to tell her about the recurring image and Kennedy's [[death]]. Liv and Helen go to the collection where they find Professor Pritchett, who has become obsessed with the red lady and insists that she is moving closer. | |||
''To be completed.'' | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Liv Chenka]] - [[Nicola Walker]] | * [[Liv Chenka]] - [[Nicola Walker]] | ||
* [[Helen Sinclair]] - [[Hattie Morahan]] | * [[Helen Sinclair]] - [[Hattie Morahan]] | ||
* [[Caleera|The Red Lady]]/[[Rachel (The Red Lady)|Rachel]] - [[Caroline Langrishe]] | * [[Caleera|The Red Lady]] / [[Rachel (The Red Lady)|Rachel]] - [[Caroline Langrishe]] | ||
* [[Walter Pritchett]] - [[David Yelland]] | * [[Walter Pritchett]] - [[David Yelland]] | ||
* [[Albert Kennedy]]/[[Garland (The Red Lady)|Professor]] - [[John Voce]] | * [[Albert Kennedy]] / [[Garland (The Red Lady)|Professor]] - [[John Voce]] | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
* Professor Pritchett mentions [[John Dickson Carr]]. | |||
* Liv misquotes "[[discretion]] might be the better part of valour", which the Doctor says is a line from [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]. | * Liv misquotes "[[discretion]] might be the better part of valour", which the Doctor says is a line from [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]. | ||
* Musicians such as [[Billy Fury]], [[Tommy Steele]] and [[Tom Jones]] are popular in this period. | * Musicians such as [[Billy Fury]], [[Tommy Steele]] and [[Tom Jones]] are popular in this period. | ||
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* The story won the 2016 Scribe Award for the best tie-in fiction in the category "Audio".<ref>http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/scribe-awards---doctor-who-doom-coalition</ref> | * The story won the 2016 Scribe Award for the best tie-in fiction in the category "Audio".<ref>http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/scribe-awards---doctor-who-doom-coalition</ref> | ||
* In the behind the scenes extras, producer [[David Richardson]] cites [[Verity Lambert]] as a source of inspiration for the character of [[Helen Sinclair]], something acknowledged in the setting of the story being [[1963]]. | * In the behind the scenes extras, producer [[David Richardson]] cites [[Verity Lambert]] as a source of inspiration for the character of [[Helen Sinclair]], something acknowledged in the setting of the story being [[1963]]. | ||
* | * The Doctor says that Helen's door reads "Helen Sinclair, language scholar, [[British Museum]]", which she does not deny. However, she works at the [[National Museum]]. | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||