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'''''The Poison of Peladon''''' was the second story in the ''[[Peladon (audio anthology)|Peladon]]'' audio anthology, produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Lizzie Hopley]] and featured [[Alex Kingston]] as [[River Song]], [[Jane Goddard]] as [[Alpha Centauri (The Curse of Peladon)|Alpha Centauri]] and introduced [[Deborah Findlay]] as [[Thalira|Queen Thalira]]. | '''''The Poison of Peladon''''' was the second story in the ''[[Peladon (audio anthology)|Peladon]]'' audio anthology, produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Lizzie Hopley]] and featured [[Alex Kingston]] as [[River Song]], [[Jane Goddard]] as [[Alpha Centauri (The Curse of Peladon)|Alpha Centauri]] and introduced [[Deborah Findlay]] as [[Thalira|Queen Thalira]]. | ||
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Thalira refuses Gobran's insistence that she retire to her chambers for her own safety, saying that to leave the throne would be to decrease stability. Gobran again suggests that she make him regent in order to strengthen the monarchy when they are interrupted by Alpha Centauri, who says that Thalira should return to Solana in the temple. Ribble arrives and hears about Thalira's granddaughter for the first time. | Thalira refuses Gobran's insistence that she retire to her chambers for her own safety, saying that to leave the throne would be to decrease stability. Gobran again suggests that she make him regent in order to strengthen the monarchy when they are interrupted by Alpha Centauri, who says that Thalira should return to Solana in the temple. Ribble arrives and hears about Thalira's granddaughter for the first time. | ||
''to | River and Father Mendica smell something strange in the tunnels and find that the wailing belongs to the [[telepathy|telepathic]] [[Subsumer]]s, beings who absorb poison and chemical waste and who have been supplied as [[slave]]s by the Arcturans. River decides to drink some of the water to see if it is toxic. | ||
River returns to the throne room with Father Mendica and confronts Thalira about the Subsumers, whom Thalira says she knows nothing about. Ribble too denies any knowledge, although River has learnt that the Subsumers have been used by the Arcturans as slaves for years. Gobran confirms that Ribble had supplied them, but had been shown permits and believed that they were a willing workforce. The water that leaves the dam is taming the Peladonians and was used to tame the Aggedors, who burst into the throne room, wounding Gobran, Father Mendica and Ribble before leaving. The three delegates head back to the ships. | |||
Gobran is dying and tells Thalira and River that the substance in the water is something that [[Gobran's mother|his mother]] gave him to help with [[sleep]] and which he wanted River to be blamed for. He dies, telling River to protect the Queen. They head to the temple and find Alpha Centauri there; Alpha Centauri gives Solana dollemberry juice rather than water. River goes to speak to Ribble, who would have the most to gain from a republican uprising on Peladon. Ribble denies releasing the Aggedors and suggests that Thalira might be responsible for the poison; River gives him a head start before she has him imprisoned, having hidden a [[tracking device]] in his system. | |||
Father Mendica's ship has departed. Alpha Centauri contacts River from the zoo, where the Aggedors are now in a larger cage and are no longer docile. River finds Father Mendica, having sent his ship off without him, and has him remove his short, revealing that he has the clan tattoos of the [[Karg Mafia]], dissolutionists who wish to spread chaos. | |||
Alpha Centauri informs Thalira that there was an alien trace on the Aggedors' lock, a trace belonging to Father Mendica. Following River's instructions, Alpha Centauri arrives and uses their lockpick to free the Subsumers. The Subsumers kill and absorb Father Mendica. | |||
The inspection is at an end and Alpha Centauri says that she will write a favourable report, including the fact that Thalira will be installing a new chancellor with diverse contacts among the people of Peladon. Thalira plans to be honest with her people and tell them about Gobran poisoning them. River invites Alpha Centauri to join her in hunting down Ribble, but they turn it down, choosing to stay on Peladon. They say goodbye, River telling them to think of her when she hears the sound of [[bell]]s. There will be, Alpha Centauri says, rather a Pavlovian response. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
* [[River Song]] - [[Alex Kingston]] | * [[River Song]] - [[Alex Kingston]] | ||
* [[Thalira|Queen Thalira]] - [[Deborah Findlay]] | * [[Thalira|Queen Thalira]] - [[Deborah Findlay]] | ||
* [[Gobran]] - [[Aaron Neil]] | |||
* [[Alpha Centauri (The Curse of Peladon)|Alpha Centauri]] - [[Jane Goddard]] | * [[Alpha Centauri (The Curse of Peladon)|Alpha Centauri]] - [[Jane Goddard]] | ||
* [[Mendica|Father Mendica]] - [[Ariyon Bakare]] | * [[Mendica|Father Mendica]] - [[Ariyon Bakare]] | ||
* [[Ribble|Ambassador Ribble]] - [[Justin Salinger]] | * [[Ribble|Ambassador Ribble]] - [[Justin Salinger]] | ||