These Stolen Hours (audio story)
These Stolen Hours was the eighth story of the tenth season of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips series. It featured the Sixth Doctor and Charley.
Publisher's summary
Charley knows all too well how precious memories can be. She remembers her travels with the Doctor, her Doctor. She remembers watching him die.
A time disturbance leads the Doctor and Charley to a remote research station. Unable to form memories, the crew believe someone is doing their work while they sleep. The truth, however, is far more insidious.
Plot
Charley has been working for the Viyrans for countless years, being kept in stasis until such times as the Viyrans need her to act as a human liaison. She has been awoken to give her testimony of her visit to a particular space station during her travels with the Sixth Doctor.
Inside the TARDIS, Charley is disappointed that they have landed on a research station instead of the airships of Jupiter, but promptly forgets about the Jovian skyline upon seeing the thousands of stars through the station's transparent walls. The Doctor, having detected a distress signal, walks around until he is stopped by a researcher who assumes that he has come from HQ and tells him about how the researchers seem to have all done two weeks' worth of work overnight without remembering doing so. She determines that somebody else must have done it for them.
Charley suggests that everybody might have done the work before forgetting, something that the woman considers for a moment before apparently forgetting the suggestion. Dr Martin Chisleworth tells the Doctor and Charley that for weeks he has been trying to get through to the researchers on this matter without any success and takes the pair to meet Professor Artemis Vane. The Doctor believes that the phenomenon has been caused by a parasite and switches off the lights, allowing them to see crab-like creatures latched onto the researchers' mouths, noses and eyes, phasing through time and feeding off of the electrical impulses associated with the perception of time.
The Doctor admonishes Charley when she suggests some sort of pest control and starts building something with Artemis. Marty tells Charley that he believes the Doctor plans to flood the station with chronon particles to sour the crabs' food supply and close the rip in time through which the crabs arrived following their departure. She asks Marty about his relationship with Artemis, believing that the professor seems to know him very well considering they only knew each other for two weeks. Marty simply says that Artemis is very observant.
Due to a misunderstanding, Marty is electrocuted whilst holding wires for the Doctor, greatly frightening Artemis. The Doctor brings him around after a few minutes and they take him to the medical bay where Artemis takes care of him, giving Charley the impression of someone used to attending a sick bed.
To be completed.
Characters
References
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Notes
- This story was recorded on 14 February 2019 at WiseBuddah.
- Performed in the style of The Companion Chronicles, this story was told from Charley's perspective.
- This story is available as a download only.
Continuity
- Charley remembers when she saw her Doctor die (AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was) before being rescued by a younger Doctor. (AUDIO: The Condemned)
- Charley also refers to working for "them". (AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet, The Lamentation Cipher)
External links
- Official These Stolen Hours page at bigfinish.com
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