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|main character = [[ | |main character = [[Suzie Costello|Suzie]], [[Emlyn Crook|Emlyn]] | ||
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'''''Bad Connection''''' was the eighty-ninth story in the ''[[Torchwood - Monthly Range]]'' by [[Big Finish Productions]]. | '''''Bad Connection''''' was the eighty-ninth story in the ''[[Torchwood - Monthly Range]]'' by [[Big Finish Productions]]. | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | [[Emlyn Crook]] answers the [[telephone]] in a [[phone booth]] on [[Penarth Pier]] and is warned by [[Suzie Costello|Suzie]] that he is in danger and must stay on the line. She temporarily alters his [[sensory receptor]]s with an unpleasant signal which allows him to see an [[Orthopteroid]] outside the booth, one which he initially believes is a [[hallucination]] and which he tries to disprove by asking a passerby if he can see it. Although the man is unable to see the Orthopteroid, he is eaten by it, proving Suzie's claim that it is a [[camouflage]]d [[alien]]. She explains that he must not attempt to talk to anybody else, look at the Orthopteroid or leave the booth until she arrives by [[taxi]]. Despite this, he leaves the booth in an attempt to save a young woman who accuses him of being a pervert for trying to get her inside with him. She manages to get by without issue, however, and Emlyn returns to the booth believing that the Orthopteroid has gone. | ||
When Emlyn realises that the Orthopteroid is on top of the booth and slowly breaking in, Suzie explains that the signal allowing him to see the creature is only functional if he remains within three feet of the telephone. | |||
''to be completed'' | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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== Worldbuilding == | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* [[Willis (Bad Connection)|Dr Willis]] is Emlyn's doctor. | |||
* Emlyn was never one for [[science fiction]] and prefers [[western film|westerns]]. | |||
* The [[Orthopteroid]] resembles a [[cockroach]]. | |||
* Emlyn uses the [[Dewey Decimal System]] to calm down. | * Emlyn uses the [[Dewey Decimal System]] to calm down. | ||