The Galileo Trap (audio story)

The Galileo Trap was the third story in the audio anthology Doom Coalition 1, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Marc Platt and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Nicola Walker as Liv Chenka and Hattie Morahan as Helen Sinclair.

	Eighth Doctor
	Liv, Helen
	Galileo, The Eleven
	Cleaver, Fortuna
	Florence and Arcetri, 1639
	Big Finish Productions
	Marc Platt
	Ken Bentley
	David Richardson
	Wilfredo Acosta
	Wilfredo Acosta
	Tom Webster
	1.3
	Doom Coalition 1
	12 October 2015
	1 X 1 hour
	ISBN 978-1-78178-306-1
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Publisher's summary

Helen Sinclair doesn't know what hit her. One moment she was trapped in a dead-end job in 1960s London, and now she is transported back to Renaissance Italy over three centuries before. Florence is a city in turmoil. A new plague stalks the streets. A ferocious behemoth rampages through the vineyards. And Galileo Galilei, celebrated scientist, astronomer and old friend of the Doctor, is imprisoned in his own villa for heresy.

But why has Galileo summoned the Doctor? Who are the mysterious Fortuna and Cleaver? Why have they been sent to Earth? And what is Galileo's secret? Is it the last thing he saw before he went blind?

Plot

A young man flees from something to a hospital where a monk closes the doors, being at full capacity due to the plague. The man runs elsewhere but is caught and killed.

Count Licori asks Captain Cavalli about Massimo da Riva, who reportedly deals in strange creatures. Liv and Helen wander Florence and are almost run over by Count Licori before the Doctor returns to them, having had no luck finding Galileo.

To be completed.

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Liv Chenka - Nicola Walker
• Helen Sinclair - Hattie Morahan
• Galileo Galilei - John Woodvine
• Virginia - Esther Hall
• Cavalli - Gunnar Cauthery
• Count Licori - Ewan Bailey
• Cleaver - Harry Myers
• The Eleven - Mark Bonnar
• Beggar Woman - Lizzie Mounter
• Monk / Youth - John Banks

References

• The Duke of Urbino boasts that he hunted down a pack of anthropophagi, although Captain Cavalli heard that they were only men in masks.
• Count Licori threatens to throw de Riva in the River Arno.
• Helen has a box brownie camera.
• Virginia Galilei died in 1634.
• Galileo's theory of heliocentrism was inspired by Copernicus.

Notes

• This story was recorded at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

• Helen is shocked to have travelled 300 years in the past. (AUDIO: The Red Lady)
• Virginia taught the Doctor to play the recorder when she was only around 10 years old. (TV: The Power of the Daleks, etc.)
• The Doctor previously met Galileo in his first incarnation. (PROSE: The Empire of Glass)

External links

• Official The Galileo Trap page at bigfinish.com