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|series = ''[[Gallifrey (audio series)|Gallifrey]]'' | |series = ''[[Gallifrey (audio series)|Gallifrey]]'' | ||
|number = Chapter Two | |number = Chapter Two | ||
|main character = [[Romana II]], [[Leela]], [[K9 Mark I]], | |main character = [[Romana II]], [[Leela]], [[K9 Mark I]], | ||
|featuring = K9 Mark II{{!}}K9 Mark II | |||
|featuring = Irving Braxiatel | |featuring = Irving Braxiatel | ||
|featuring2 = Narvin | |featuring2 = Narvin | ||
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'''''Square One''''' (identified on the cover simply as '''Chapter Two''') was the second story of the [[Series 1 (Gallifrey)|first series]] of [[Big Finish]]'s ''[[Gallifrey (audio series)|Gallifrey]]'' audio series. It was written by [[Stephen Cole]]. | '''''Square One''''' (identified on the cover simply as '''''Chapter Two''''') was the second story of the [[Series 1 (Gallifrey)|first series]] of [[Big Finish]]'s ''[[Gallifrey (audio series)|Gallifrey]]'' audio series. It was written by [[Stephen Cole]]. | ||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
[[Romana II|Romana]] | [[Romana II|Romana]] and [[Leela]] are in the [[Presidential TARDIS]], trying to navigate through the shifting [[time field]] but unable to get through a [[defence shield]] until [[K9 Mark II]] can supply them with the correct codes. As [[time distortion]] occurs, Leela says that "it is happening again". | ||
At an earlier time, Romana and the [[High Monan]] reach an understanding about the [[Monan invasion of Gryben|debacle]] on [[Gryben]]. Afterwards, Romana checks with K9 that the communication between the two was secure as [[Hossak|Liaison Officer Hossak]] will be speaking to the [[High Council]] tomorrow about the [[temporal summit]] and nobody can know what Romana is planning to do. | At an earlier time, Romana and the [[High Monan]] reach an understanding about the [[Monan invasion of Gryben|debacle]] on [[Gryben]]. Afterwards, Romana checks with K9 that the communication between the two was secure as [[Hossak|Liaison Officer Hossak]] will be speaking to the [[High Council]] tomorrow about the [[temporal summit]] and nobody can know what Romana is planning to do. | ||
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K9 Mark II receives Leela's request for communication and the two units exchange their mistresses' messages in code. Romana tells Leela that there has been no sign of temporal manipulation and that she will make a personal appearance soon. Leela decides to stay close to Lexi by performing the [[fire dance]]. | K9 Mark II receives Leela's request for communication and the two units exchange their mistresses' messages in code. Romana tells Leela that there has been no sign of temporal manipulation and that she will make a personal appearance soon. Leela decides to stay close to Lexi by performing the [[fire dance]]. | ||
At another summit, Braxiatel speaks with a Monan and is interrupted by Romana, who says that Leela has been in contact and that she is heading to the planetoid in person. She announces to the group that she is departing and that Braxiatel will speak for her from now on. | At another summit, Braxiatel speaks with a Monan and is interrupted by Romana, who says that Leela has been in contact and that she is heading to the planetoid in person. She announces to the group that she is departing and that Braxiatel will speak for her from now on. Meanwhile, Narvin speaks with Hossak, implying that the time that she spent with the Monans after [[Archetryx]] had left her with Monan sympathies, before going to speak with Pule. | ||
Narvin | Leela dances for Flinkstab as Narvin and Pule talk, the latter being given a drink by a servitor. Pule's drink explodes in his face, killing him, and Narvin is accused of his murder. There is mass panic, in which Hossak leaves and Leela looks for Baano, Lexi and Flinkstab, whom K9 says he has not seen. There is then temporal distortion. | ||
Leela and the dancers are shown to their rooms, which Leela recognises and claims that she and the others have been settled there all day. She can, unlike K9 and the dancers, remember Pule's death but is unable to convince the others despite having the anomalous holo-prints. | |||
Romana travels to the planetoid in the Presidential TARDIS and transmits her codes, but is told by a servitor that she ought to have first made her intentions known to the delegates. This makes her realise that there must have been another [[time slip]]. Leela too has realised that this is the case and, after hearing an alert warning of the materialisation of a TARDIS, she goes to meet Romana; Baano does not believe her and goes to fetch security. | |||
[[ | Hossak greets Romana and says that she was not expected and that she could not have spoken with the delegates as they have not yet met. Romana tells her of the time slip, suggesting that it has been caused by one of the Temporal Powers to ensure that discussions go their way and that she is able to remember it due to being in the TARDIS at the time. Hossak runs off to inform the delegates of her arrival and to have quarters prepared for her and Romana, abandoned, goes wandering and is attacked by a servitor. She runs and is saved by Leela, who defeats the attacker and finds that it is actually Baano. | ||
To have been able to disguise herself as a servitor, Baano must have had help from a delegate and Romana and Leela believe that it could reasonably have been Flinkstab. Baano had been the one to frame Narvin for killing Pule and had attacked Romana opportunistically, perhaps hoping to frame her this time. Romana and Leela collect K9 Mark I and confront Flinkstab, who denies working with Baano but confesses to accidentally killing [[Dancer (Square One)|a dancer]] on [[Coralee]] during a [[sex]] game. As he breaks down, Baano wakes up and agrees to tell Romana and Leela everything that she knows and who she was really working for in return for help escaping. | |||
Hossak welcomes the delegate to the first day of the summit and is interrupted by Romana, Leela and K9. Romana accuses V'rell of being a part of a Monan faction allied with [[Free Time]] and of planning to have Pule assassinated and the Time Lords made to look guilty, after which the Monans would lead the other Temporal Powers against Gallifrey. V'rell says that the Time Lords restructured the hyperspatial links keeping the Monan Host world stable which they could use to release [[entropy]] into the systems and destroy the planet. Although he believes that the truth has finally been broadcast, K9 reveals that there has been no broadcast and Narvin accuses V'rell of lying. | |||
Hossak takes out a device which Romana says that she has been using to take the delegates back to square one whenever the summit, for which she feels responsible as chairperson and a peacekeeper, goes wrong. Hossak takes Romana, Leela and V'rell outside, knocking out the latter, and reveals that she has rewound time three times: after Pule's death, after Lexi's death and after an engineer activated the servitors too soon and detected the source of time distortion which she used to power them. K9 Mark I being connected to the network and in the vicinity allowed the holo-prints to continue to exist and Leela to retain her memories. | |||
As Romana is a [[temporal paradox]], being out of sync in time and in a past that she was not part of, she will cancel herself out when time is rewound and cease to exist, something that Hossak is happy to let happen for the good of the summit. However, Romana tells her that the real summit occurred quietly elsewhere with the heads of state and that this was a public front designed to draw out enemies. Hossak is angered that she was denied the opportunity to save the universe, but theorises that the Temporal Powers would be thrown into chaos if Romana were to be erased and she could then broker peace. | |||
Hossak releases [[pellet]]s concealed on her person and activates the device. Romana and Leela flee to the TARDIS with the unconscious V'rell and dematerialise, but are unable to escape the defence field without the codes. K9 Mark II is not able to send them the codes before the distortion occurs, but once it does they find that they are still capable of remembering all that has happened. The link between Hossak's device and the servitors was, Romana concludes, broken when they entered another dimension and the time field has instead frozen everybody on the planetoid. K9 transmits the codes. | |||
Narvin protests against Romana's actions in holding two summits, believing that it made him look like a fool. However, she says that she has given him full credit as somebody who helped her flush out the Powers' enemies. He protests at V'rell having been handed over to the Monan Host for a trial as he will no doubt make the Time Lords' alterations to their hyperspatial links public knowledge, but Romana, who knows that Narvin gave the orders for said operation, has given information to the [[High Monan]] on how to remove them, blaming unknown Gallifreyan elements. Narvin suggests that the High Monan might have been fully aware of the operation and of V'rell's plans, a suggestion that Romana agrees is possible. | |||
Romana visits Leela, whose K9 has been refitted, and informs her that Hossak will be put on trial and punished. Nothing will officially happen to Flinkstab, but the Nekkistani will be made aware of the dancer's death on Coralee, and Baano, against whom there is no evidence, will go free. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* K9 Mark I is programmed in beginner, intermediate and specialised [[dance|dancing]]. | * K9 Mark I is programmed in beginner, intermediate and specialised [[dance|dancing]]. | ||
* Leela performs the [[fire dance]] of the [[Sevateem]]. | * Leela performs the [[fire dance]] of the [[Sevateem]]. | ||
* There are multiple [[Presidential TARDIS]]es, all of which Romana says have no personality. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Romana mentions the Time Lords' refusal to use force on [[Gryben]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Weapon of Choice (audio story)|Weapon of Choicd]]'') | * Romana mentions the Time Lords' refusal to use force on [[Gryben]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Weapon of Choice (audio story)|Weapon of Choicd]]'') | ||
* The events of | * The events of ''[[The Apocalypse Element (audio story)|The Apocalypse Element]]'' are mentioned. | ||
* It | * It is mentioned that [[Irving Braxiatel|Cardinal Braxiatel]] has been busy elsewhere; though it's possible that this is because he was organising the real summit, another possible explanation for his absence is revealed in ''[[The Inquiry (audio story)|The Inquiry]]''. | ||
* One of the delegates at the summit is a [[Virgoan]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Stop the Pigeon (short story)|Stop the Pigeon]]'') | * One of the delegates at the summit is a [[Virgoan]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Stop the Pigeon (short story)|Stop the Pigeon]]'') | ||
* The timecode on the holo-prints was made with a [[beryllium chip]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | * The timecode on the holo-prints was made with a [[beryllium chip]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | ||
* [[Flinkstab]] murdered a dancing girl on [[Coralee]], the [[human]] colony visited in | * [[Flinkstab]] murdered a dancing girl on [[Coralee]], the [[human]] colony visited in ''[[Storm Harvest (novel)|Storm Harvest]]''. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||