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|audio anthology = ''[[Doom Coalition 4]]'' | |audio anthology = ''[[Doom Coalition 4]]'' | ||
|number = 4.2 | |number = 4.2 | ||
|main character = [[River Song|River]] | |main character = [[River Song|River]] | ||
|featuring = [[Liv Chenka|Liv]], [[Helen Sinclair|Helen]], [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Veklin]] | |||
|enemy = [[Padrac | |enemy = [[Padrac]] | ||
|setting = | |setting = [[Capitol|The Capitol]] | ||
|writer = [[Matt Fitton]] | |writer = [[Matt Fitton]] | ||
|director = [[Ken Bentley]] | |director = [[Ken Bentley]] | ||
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|prev = Ship in a Bottle (audio story) | |prev = Ship in a Bottle (audio story) | ||
|next = The Side of the Angels (audio story) | |next = The Side of the Angels (audio story) | ||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story in the audio anthology ''[[Doom Coalition 4]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Matt Fitton]] and featured [[Alex Kingston]] as [[River Song]], [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Nicola Walker]] as [[Liv Chenka]] and [[Hattie Morahan]] as [[Helen Sinclair]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story in the audio anthology ''[[Doom Coalition 4]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Matt Fitton]] and featured [[Alex Kingston]] as [[River Song]], [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Nicola Walker]] as [[Liv Chenka]] and [[Hattie Morahan]] as [[Helen Sinclair]]. | ||
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Having stolen Volstrom's [[passkey]]s, River explores the Capitol, using [[River Song's sonic screwdriver|her sonic screwdriver]] on the [[camera]]s. She finds a Matrix window and sees that a vortex sphere had been sent to save Liv and Helen and deposited them in London. She contacts her "favourite girls", who are stealing a [[skimmer]], and, to get Liv's trust, tells Helen to tell her the truth of her identity. She leaves for her room to ensure that Padrac does not find her out, concerned that her time will be up once the Eleven arrives. | Having stolen Volstrom's [[passkey]]s, River explores the Capitol, using [[River Song's sonic screwdriver|her sonic screwdriver]] on the [[camera]]s. She finds a Matrix window and sees that a vortex sphere had been sent to save Liv and Helen and deposited them in London. She contacts her "favourite girls", who are stealing a [[skimmer]], and, to get Liv's trust, tells Helen to tell her the truth of her identity. She leaves for her room to ensure that Padrac does not find her out, concerned that her time will be up once the Eleven arrives. | ||
Padrac interferes in the vote by giving another speech, which Jerasta says to Volstrom is unprecedented. She receives a message from [[Presidential Aide (Songs of Love)|a presidential aide]] informing her that the President's TARDIS is trapped in the [[transduction barrier]]. | Padrac interferes in the vote by giving another speech, which Jerasta says to Volstrom is unprecedented. She receives a message from [[Presidential Aide (Songs of Love)|a presidential aide]] informing her that [[presidential TARDIS|the President's TARDIS]] is and has been trapped in the [[transduction barrier]] for days and that [[Time Ring]]s might be their only option. Jerasta tells them that Padrac is manipulating the council, unaware that the Sonomancer is listening in. | ||
'' | The Sonomancer tells Padrac what has happened and opens a channel to the presidential TARDIS where Jerasta is now on board. On Padrac's orders, the Sonomancer destroys the TARDIS, killing the President, Jerasta and all inside before wiping out those who vote against him. He promotes Volstrom to [[High Chancellor|Chancellor]] and tells him to secure the Capitol's exits. | ||
River calls Liv and Helen and uses a biodata lock to teleport them out of their skimmer to Gallifrey. Volstrom sees them and reveals that he is a double agent working for [[Ollistra|Cardinal Ollistra]] and that he has managed to evacuate only [[Alekall|Councillor Alekall]] before the Sonomancer's purge. The four head to [[Bay γ|Arrival Bay γ]] where Commander Veklin, a [[spy]] pretending to be a captain, is within the Doctor's TARDIS planning to return to Ollistra. | |||
The Sonomancer shows Padrac that River has manipulated the cameras in her room to make it seem that she is in there when she is not. Having found where she really is, she leaves the Matrix. | |||
After being told by Veklin to look into the Matrix to find the Doctor, River pretends to hold Volstrom captive with a [[staser]] to trick Padrac and the Sonomancer whilst Veklin dematerialises the TARDIS with Liv and Helen inside. River tries to escape using [[River Song's vortex manipulator|her vortex manipulator]] but it fails to work due to the state of the Time Vortex and the Sonomancer transports herself and River into the Matrix to [[torture]] her. Padrac asks that she instead continue looking for the Resonance Engine and River tries to tell her that he does not really love her. | |||
[[The Eleven]], who sabotaged the Presidential TARDIS for the Sonomancer, arrives in the Capitol in [[the Eleven's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] and tells Padrac and Volstrom that he learnt in his "old haunts" that Veklin is a spy for Ollistra and that she likely has an accomplice. | |||
From the Matrix, River connects to the Doctor's TARDIS and talks to Veklin, Liv and Helen, telling them that she can serve as a door to transport the Doctor to them. She tells Helen to fight to be who she wants to be and Liv to make sure that the Doctor and Helen look after her just as she does them. She talks to the Doctor, who remembers her name and how he met her in his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth]], [[Fifth Doctor|fifth]], [[Sixth Doctor|sixth]] and [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnations]], and says that she believes she is almost at her final destination. River sends the Doctor through into the TARDIS, remaining in the Vortex whilst it collapses. He takes over control from Veklin, who says that they are on the way to Ollistra. | |||
The Sonomancer tells Padrac that the Doctor and River have escaped. The Eleven reveals that he picked up a [[sub-space communication]] on the same path that Veklin used on the Crucible with Volstrom's communication code, outing him as a traitor. The Eleven shoots him, triggering a [[regeneration]], and tells the Sonomancer to trace the Doctor's TARDIS so that he might hunt the Doctor down. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||