The Silent Priest (audio story)

The Silent Priest was the third story in the audio anthology Broken Memories, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by David K Barnes and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

In search of solace from the Time War, the Eighth Doctor is caught between rival criminals and the law in the city of Sunset.

Who is the mysterious Priest with the key to ending the violence? And if the Doctor really has visited Sunset before, why can't he remember?

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The Priest is on an isolated mission for its order as part of its education. The mission lasts 500 years.
The Eighth Doctor states the Priest's pronoun is "they".

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The Doctor's TARDIS is still that of the Victorian parlour, using the same sounds it made during Doctor Who ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"] and other early adventures.
The Priest works for The Church, of whom the Eighth Doctor has heard. The Eleventh Doctor also met The Church, once during the Crash of the Byzantium in The Time of Angels ^[+]Loading...["The Time of Angels (TV story)"] and later in The Time of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"], where they are known as The Church of the Papal Mainframe. The Eleventh Doctor first met the Silence who were actually an evil spin-off sect of The Church, set on kidnapping the daughter of Amy Pond and Rory Williams, in order to turn her into the Doctor's assassin, as seen in A Good Man Goes to War ^[+]Loading...["A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)"] and The Impossible Astronaut ^[+]Loading...["The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)"].
The Doctor notes that a meeting with the Priest not only makes you forget your sins, but makes you feel less guilty and enables you to take the action needed had the guilt not held you back. The end of this adventure sees this Doctor understanding what has to be done, likely leading him towards his regeneration in The Night of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Night of the Doctor (TV story)"].
The Eighth Doctor has recently given up picking up the pieces of the Time War, with his recent adventures being Lies in Ruins ^[+]Loading...["Lies in Ruins (audio story)"] and The Shoreditch Intervention ^[+]Loading...["The Shoreditch Intervention (audio story)"]. This also echoes the Eighth Doctor's own words of "[not being] part of the War" as spoken to Cass Fermazzi in The Night of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Night of the Doctor (TV story)"].
The Doctor mentions the Time War has been destroying, rewriting and erasing whole chunks of history. He witnessed this happen to the planet Drakkis in The Sontaran Ordeal ^[+]Loading...["The Sontaran Ordeal (audio story)"], which saw a planet known for its eternal peacetime, rewritten in a new timeline to be ravaged by the War and contaminated by temporal flux. It even attracted the Sontarans.
When the Priest murders Albion Graves, the Doctor and Kavita Aradhaha are astounded by how they seems to "draw power" from seemingly nowhere. The Doctor hypothesises that maybe they're drawing from the air, or maybe even the TARDIS herself. Amy Pond witnessed the same thing happen to Joy in The Impossible Astronaut ^[+]Loading...["The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)"].