Vengeance (audio story)
Vengeance was the third and final story in the audio anthology Master!, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured Eric Roberts as the Bruce Master, Chase Masterson as Vienna Salvatori, Laura Aikman as Lila Kreeg and Nicholas Briggs as the Daleks.
Publisher's summary
The Daleks are returning. Their plan, long in the making, is complete. Earth will be theirs once more.
But someone stands against them. Someone with his own reasons for revenge – and Vienna and Lila are caught in the crossfire. Because Earth's greatest hope against the Daleks lies with the Bruce Master.
Plot
Various news channels report on the approach of a flying saucer and hundreds of Daleks towards Earth, the Daleks chanting "descend!" and firing their weapons. The Dalek Supreme broadcasts a message to Earth authorities informing them of their return and threatening to exterminate any and all resistance. The Bruce Master says that the position of Master of Earth has, however, already been taken and tells Lila that he cannot wait to catch up with them.
The Daleks demand that everybody returns to their homes to await their instructions. Vienna uses Artie's cranial unit to crack a code lock and enter a technology store where she hopes to be able to repair him, but he is beyond repair. She asks him who the contractor is and, when he says that it is confidential, she starts looking inside of him to find an answer.
In the Vauxhall Building, the Master and Lila watch the Daleks clear the streets. The Master assures Lila that they are safe and activates shielding made of promethium alloy, a security measure which has not yet been tested. He refuses to allow Lila to leave and holds her at gunpoint, demanding to know if she had been the one to hire Vienna, which she fervently denies. He believes this for now.
Vienna enters a bunker, identified as the location of the contractor, and meets Magnus Drake, who claims to be one of the real ones.
London City's government building is captured by the Daleks, but the Dalek Litigator tells the Dalek Supreme that power is held by corporations in this era, the most powerful ten of which the Litigator has identified. The Supreme orders that their leaders be assembled and argues with the Litigator when he says that they should be looking for Magnus Drake, the Supreme telling him that he does not have authority and his presence is only tolerated. Warning him not to interfere with his invasion, the Supreme tells the Litigator that he can go and search for Drake.
Drake has access to the Drake Interplanetary mainframe and has been keeping an eye on everything that the Master and Lila have been doing. He has been improving Lila's Project Yellow Brick designs and shows Vienna that he has a number of clones to which his stored memories can and have been uploaded to if the live Drake dies. He informs Vienna that the Master is still alive and that she will not be being paid, as well as that the Daleks are on their way. He directs her to a secret passage which will lead her to the Vauxhall Building where she can complete her task. Once she has gone, a Dalek demands that he go to the government building.
Lila has realised that the Daleks' plan was to allow humanity to rebuild only to return and steal everything that they have built, including all of her own discoveries. The Master tells her that the Daleks once killed him and that he will fight them, planning on having his vengeance.
The leaders of humanity, including Drake and Li Zhao, are brought into the government building.
to be completed
Cast
- The Bruce Master - Eric Roberts
- Vienna Salvatori - Chase Masterson
- Lila Kreeg - Laura Aikman
- Magnus Drake - Alistair Petrie
- The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs
- Artie - Andrew James Spooner
- Li Zhao - Susan Hingley
References
Locations
- The Daleks congregate at Trafalgar Plaza.
Science and technology
- Magnus Drake used warp fields and time corridors.
Notes
- The Dalek Litigator is mentioned to be a reference to the Dalek Litigator from PROSE: The Dalek Generation in the 'Behind the Scenes' of the story. Writer Matt Fitton stated in issue 144 of Big Finish's magazine Vortex that the Dalek Litigator of Vengeance and the Dalek Litigator of The Dalek Generation are the same individual, confirming that the Dalek Litigator of Vengeance's true identity is the Dalek Time Controller.
Continuity
- The Daleks announce and repeat over the airwaves that "Daleks are the Masters of Earth." (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Stolen Earth, AUDIO: Masters of Earth)
- Magnus Drake is a Dalek duplicate. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks) He mentions his belief that "the Black Dalek", who acts as the Dalek Supreme of the invasion, is "in charge" of the Daleks' military strategies. (COMIC: Duel of the Daleks)
- The Dalek Litigator was the one who prosecuted the Master at his trial. (TV: Doctor Who)
- The Master mentions that the Daleks actually succeeded in killing him. (TV: Doctor Who)
- The Bruce Master once again says life is wasted on the living. (TV: Doctor Who)
- The Dalek Litigator mentions that the Master was on trial for crimes against the Dalek race. (TV: Doctor Who, PROSE: The Eight Doctors) This included the Master betraying the Draconian gambit and the army on Spiridon (TV: Frontier in Space)
- The Dalek Litigator escapes using an emergency temporal shift. (TV: Evolution of the Daleks)
- The Master is returned to the Time Vortex. (AUDIO: The Lifeboat and the Deathboat, Day of the Master, Mastermind)
External links
- Official Vengeance page at bigfinish.com
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