Project Destiny (audio story)
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Publisher's summary
1999: Leaving her infant son behind, a young mother named Cassandra Schofield departs Bolton, seeking a better life amid the lights of London.
2004: Despite the best efforts of the time-travelling Doctor, 'Cassie' Schofield dies on Dartmoor, a vampirised victim of the sinister organisation called The Forge.
2021: All grown up, and a nurse at St Gart's Hospital, Thomas Hector Schofield, known as 'Hex', meets and becomes a companion to that time-travelling Doctor… but remains unaware that his alien friend knew his mother, and watched her die.
1854: In the Crimean War, Hex takes a bullet, and is seriously injured. The Doctor promises to return him to St Gart's.
2025: Now. In a London ravaged by a deadly contagion… destiny awaits.
Cast
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Ace - Sophie Aldred
- Hex - Philip Olivier
- Sir William Abberton (Nimrod) - Stephen Chance
- Captain Lysandra Aristedes - Maggie O'Neill
- Sergeant Jarrod - Philip Dinsdale
- Helen/The Oracle - Ingrid Oliver
References
- The Forge archive is reinforced with Dalekanium.
- It requires just a drop of family-blood to regenerate Cassandra Schofield's dusty remains into a body.
- The "contagion" aliens exist as a hive mind.
- Nimrod refers to Nimrod as "Dracula" and Lysandra as "Rambo".
- In 2025, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is a woman.
- The Doctor's files concerning "Project: Twilight" are listed under "T" in the TARDIS' filing cabinet.
Notes
- According to writers Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, this story was at one point written with Elizabeth Klein as the director of the Forge. This had to be rewritten after the character was brought back to serve as the Doctor's companion in BFA: A Thousand Tiny Wings.[1]
- This audio drama was recorded on 26 and 27 April 2010.
Continuity
- Ace looks for the TARDIS key in the cubby-hole above the "P" in "Police Box" on the roof of the TARDIS. (BFA: The Angel of Scutari, DW: Doctor Who (1996))
- The events of BFA: Project: Lazarus (to which this story serves as a sequel) are in the past but are in the Doctor's personal future. Nimrod informs the Doctor that he was present at the destruction of the Forge's alpha facility in 2008. The Doctor attempts to prevent Nimrod from telling him too much about his personal future so as not to disrupt the Web of Time.
- The Seal of Rassilon is displayed above the inner doors of the TARDIS. (DW: Doctor Who (1996))
- The Fourth Doctor previously visited London in 2025 in the company of Leela. On that occasion, he encountered the Daleks. (BFA: Energy of the Daleks)
- The Forge's files on Hex state that he was present during the Charnage Hospital incident in the north of France during World War I in 1917. (BFA: No Man's Land)
- Nimrod refers to Internal Counter-Intelligence Service (ICIS), a British ultra-nationalistic group which served as a rival organisation to UNIT until it was closed down in 2005 following its involvement in ethnic cleansing and an attempted coup. (BFU: The Coup, BFU: The Longest Night, BFU: The Wasting)
Timeline
- Project: Destiny occurs immediately after BFA: The Angel of Scutari
- Project: Destiny occurs immediately before BFA: A Death in the Family
External links
- Official Project: Destiny page at bigfinish.com
- Project:Destiny at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
