The Lonely Clock (audio story)
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The Lonely Clock is the fifteenth Big Finish Productions audio drama in the Jago and Litefoot series and the third episode of Series Four.
Publisher's summary
The enemy is revealed and Jago and Litefoot are on a train to nowhere. Can Leela and Ellie save them, in a race against the clock?
Plot
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Cast
- Henry Gordon Jago - Christopher Benjamin
- George Litefoot - Trevor Baxter
- Leela - Louise Jameson
- Ellie Higson - Lisa Bowerman
- Winnie O'Connor - Victoria Alcock
- Mr Kempston - Christopher Beeny
- Mr Hardwick - Mike Grady
- Boots - Alex Mallinson
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References
- Winnie O'Connor (who is using the name Winnie Smith) stabbed her fiancée Sandy twice with a dinner knife in Room 44 of a hotel. Mr Kempston claims to have felt the deadly blows. He gives her his business card, which is made out of glass, and engages her to meet Jago, Litefoot and another young woman named Winnie off their train.
- Litefoot believes that a malevolent force is interfering with time. Jago and he see Leela and Ellie standing still on the train platform, leading them to conclude that something has halted the flow of time.
- From the flecks of blood on her sleeve and the manner in which she has been trying to remove her wedding ring, Leela determines that Winnie has murdered her fiancée.
- Leela mentions the ravens at the Tower of London, though at first she believes that they are crows.
- Ellie has taught Leela how to pour drinks at the Red Tavern.
- Jago and Litefoot discover the corpse of a woman on the train. After performing a cursory examination, Litefoot determines she has been dead for six to seven hours (as rigor mortis has set in) and has recently moved up in the world as she is wearing an expensive dress yet has callouses on her hand. They discover Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick's card on her person.
- Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick's solicitors' firm is located at 24 Gilmore's Building on the Strand. Charing Cross Station is the nearest Tube station to their firm.
- Leela cannot read English.
- Jago believes that the train may have been hijacked by the Fenians. However, Litefoot is more sceptical as he fails to see how stealing a train would serve to bring down the British Empire.
- Winnie has been given a time cracker, which appears to be a glass clock and can cause spatio-temporal discontinuities. It has a range of four epistotic intervals. However, neither Winnie or Leela understand this terminology. Winnie's counterpart on the train tells Jago and Litefoot that she has already killed herself once tonight, in a manner of speaking, with the time cracker. She was the corpse which Litefoot had examined earlier.
- In his younger days, Jago performed at the Glasgow Theatre.
- Winnie's fiancée Sandy is in actuality Mr Hardwick. Whereas Mr Kempston is more prone to resort to mind control to achieve his aims, Mr Hardwick claims that he prefers "the gentle art of persuasion." Mr Kempston and he arranged the temporal paradox caused by the co-existence of two versions of Winnie in the same period to attract the attention of Professor Claudius Dark.
- Jago and Winnie observe Leela and Ellie running towards the platform to prevent the other Winnie from being killed by the train. They see a man wearing a top hat and an opera cloak with red lining who seems to be trying to steal the other Winnie's reticule. Jago recognises him as Professor Dark and determines that he was actually attempting to prevent her from using the time cracker.
- Professor Dark warns Jago and Litefoot that the threat posed by the Sandmen is much greater than that posed by Weng-Chiang, whom the three of them and Leela fought in 1889. He reveals to them that he is none other than the Doctor.
Story notes
- Victoria Alcock (Winnie O'Connor) previously played Angela Whittaker in TV: Planet of the Dead.
Continuity
- Jago refers to Abigail Woburn. (AUDIO: Jago in Love)
- Leela once again refers to members of the Metropolitan Police Service as "blue guards." (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang, AUDIO: The Renaissance Man, AUDIO: Energy of the Daleks, AUDIO: The Foe from the Future)
- Jago compares the time cracker to the Koh-i-Noor. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
- Professor Claudius Dark tells that Jago that he almost died on the stage of the Palace Theatre several times. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
- Leela mentions the test of the Horda. (TV: The Face of Evil)
External links
- Official The Lonely Clock - Series Four Box Set page at bigfinish.com
