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 |doctor            = Fourth Doctor
 |companions        = [[Anya Kingdom|Ann]], [[K9 Mark II]]
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 |setting           = [[DrashigWorld]]
 |writer            = Phil Mulryne
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 '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story in the [[Series 8 (4DA)|eighth series]] of ''[[The Fourth Doctor Adventures]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Phil Mulryne]] and featured [[Tom Baker]] as the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Jane Slavin]] as [[Anya Kingdom|Ann Kelso]] and [[John Leeson]] as [[K9 Mark II]].
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 The Doctor uses [[Third Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]] to activate and ignite a gas tap and frighten the Emerald Drashigs away with [[fire]], allowing him to escape with Lord Braye and Vanessa and fuse the controls of a [[Romalian alloy]] door behind them. He contacts and updates the centre, where K9 is charging his power cell using the park's [[catalytic fusion reactor]], before pressing Lord Braye and Vanessa about the [[electro-encephalogram]] he saw in the lab; they explain that Vanessa has been connecting to the Emerald Drashigs' [[brain]]s to find a way to allow tourists to experience what they do when they hunt. Because of these experiments, she has a connection to them and can sense that they are in the teleport pad room where they find them using the device.
-K9 assimilates a [[map]] of the park and reaches 77% capacity. Ann has to disconnect him and hide with him, Trencher and Wayland, however, when the Emerald Drashigs arrive via the teleport pad. K9 blasts the roof with his laser to bury them in rubble and leads the group along the atmospheric distribution tunnels to the [[armoury]]. Trencher informs the Doctor of their destination using her communicator and the Doctor, having realised that the connection between Vanessa and the Emerald Drashigs goes both ways, warns her that the Drashigs will be on their way there. The Emerald Drashigs dent the tunnel from the outside to trap the group and Wayland tries to get away, but the Emerald Drashigs get through and kill him. Ann, K9 and Trencher manage to squeeze through the dent.
+K9 assimilates a [[map]] of the park and reaches 77% capacity. Ann has to disconnect him and hide with him, Trencher and Wayland, however, when the Emerald Drashigs arrive via the teleport pad. K9 blasts the roof with his laser to bury them in rubble and leads the group along the atmospheric distribution tunnels to the [[armoury]]. Trencher informs the Doctor of their destination using her communicator and the Doctor, having realised that the connection between Vanessa and the Emerald Drashigs goes both ways, warns her that the Drashigs will be on their way there. The Emerald Drashigs dent the tunnel from the outside to trap the group and Wayland tries to get away, but the Emerald Drashigs get through and kill him. Ann, K9 and Trencher manage to squeeze through the dent and reach the armoury.
-The Doctor intends to go back to the lab to try and find a way to help the three but refuses to say why, explaining that Vanessa is leaking information unintentionally through their connected minds.
+The Doctor accesses the lab's [[security camera]]s and proves his theory by showing Vanessa releasing the Emerald Drashigs from their enclosure. He sends Lord Braye to the armoury with a message to meet him at the back entrance and heads to the central power generator with Vanessa, who senses the Emerald Drashigs' alpha being killed after breaking into the armoury and tries to become their new alpha. They reject her, however, and she gives her life to allow the Doctor to reroute DrashigWorld's power to the neuro-headpiece and use it to amplify their thoughts and broadcast them back to them. He then meets up with Ann, K9, Trencher and Lord Braye and takes them to the TARDIS to leave DrashigWorld, which will now be left to the Drashigs.
-Trencher, Ann and K9 manage to make it to the armoury.
-The Doctor, suspecting something, finds and shows them a video of Vanessa, unconscious, opening the enclosure and letting the Drsahigs out. He explains that the connection is two-way and the Drashigs have been using Vanessa for their own means.
-Trencher and Ann prepare weapons to fight the Drashigs.
-The Doctor pulls Lord Braye aside and out of ear-shot from Vanessa and tells Braye that he is giving him a job and entrusting the lives of everyone to him. He is to deliver a message.
-Trencher and Ann get ready to fight as the Drashigs are drawing nearer to their location.
-The Doctor regrets fusing the door controls while Vanessa, in a fit of pain, senses the Drashigs, preparing to attack the armoury. The Doctor says they must hurry.
-Trencher explains that only one Drashig will hunt, and they need to carefully aim their grenade. After a moment of silence, the Drashig bursts forth.
-Vanessa senses one of the Drashigs has been killed.
-Trencher and Ann are successful and have managed to kill the alpha but Trencher sympathises with the creature in death, saying it didn't choose to be the way it is. They hear the cries of the other Drashigs mourning their dead leader. K9 reveals that the emerald Drashigs are retreating.
-Back in Vanessa's lab, the Doctor finds the neuro-headpiece she was using to inter-face with the Drashigs. He explains there's a central power generator that he needs to re-route the power from, temporarily disabling the entire park's systems.
-K9 detects something else approaching them. They then hear a knock. It is Lord Braye. He says the Doctor sent him with a message for them.
-Vanessa and the Doctor prepare to re-route power, despite it meaning the end of Drashigworld. Suddenly Vanessa, again in pain, reveals the Drashigs are coming for them.
-Trencher and the others head round the back but stop when they hear the Drashigs. She tells them not to move. The Drashigs pass them and Trencher reveals that they weren't displaying hunting behaviour and were intent on going somewhere else.
-Vanessa reveals they have 60 seconds before the power will be re-routed. The Doctor tells her to stall the Drashig by communicating with them mentally. She tells the Drashigs that no one has to die. Sympathising that they have lost their alpha, she says she can be their new alpha. They refuse unless she kills for them. The Doctor tries to remind her of her humanity. She is almost successful but is rejected at the last moment. Manual over-ride is accessed but at the cost of Vanessa's life.
-Trencher, Ann and K9 continue on their way when the power goes off. They reassemble as a line, all holding each other's shoulders and Ann holds K9's tail as he guides them to the exit.
-The Doctor quickly mourns Vanessa, then puts on neuro-headpiece and uses the power to connect with the Drashigs across the whole park. The Doctor is almost over-powered by the Drashig's killing instincts but manages to broadcast a new signal over the entire park.
-The four manage to make it out of the tunnels but notice that the wetland's Drashigs have escaped. They note it is acting strange but then the Doctor arrives and explains that the thoughts that tormented Vanessa have now been put into the heads of every Drashig in the park, causing them to break down.
-They make their way back to the TARDIS and Ann asks the Doctor if they can take the others with them, to which, despite being tempted to leave Lord Braye, he affirms that they will. Trencher is not sure what to do with herself now that she cannot work at the park anymore but the Doctor assures her that it's a big cosmos and she has lots of choices. They see the Drashigs acting even more bizarrely and the Doctor explains they are being attracted to Vanessa's equipment which is broadcasting a signal causing them to seek out the source. He also explains that they will continue to do so until the equipment burns itself off but by that time they will be safely off the planet. When asked what will happen now, the Doctor says the Drashigs can now properly inhabit the planet and it will truly be called "Drashigworld" now.
 == Cast ==