The Cognition Shift (audio story)

The Cognition Shift

Key crew

Publisher:

Big Finish Productions

Writer:

Lisa McMullin

Director:

Scott Handcock

Producer:

Scott Handcock

Music:

Ioan Morris

Sound:

Joe Meiners

Release details

Number of parts:

Release number:

5.4

Part of:

Hearts of Darkness

Release date:

28 October 2020

Format:

1 CD
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4th of 4 stories

Production code:

BFPDWWMAR05

ISBN:

ISBN 978-1-83868-240-8 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-241-5 (digital)

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The Cognition Shift was the fourth and final story in the audio anthology Hearts of Darkness, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Lisa McMullin and featured Derek Jacobi as the War Master and Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor.

Plot

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Cast

The Doctor / The Master - Derek Jacobi
The Master / The Doctor - Paul McGann
Captain Morski - Colin McFarlane
The Scaramancer - Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo
Dorada - Sandra Huggett
Peeler - Amanda Shodeko
Bandit - Alex Jordan

References

to be added

Notes

to be added

Continuity

The Scaramancer relives the Master forcing her to abandon her sister at the Siege of Saracassar. (AUDIO: The Scaramancer)
The Doctor mentions that him and the Master chose their names. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
The Master in the Doctor's body says "I am the Master and you will obey me". (TV: Terror of the Autons, et all)

External links

Official The Cognition Shift page at bigfinish.com

Big Finish's Time War audios

The War Doctor

Only the Monstrous	The Innocent • The Thousand Worlds • The Heart of the Battle

Infernal Devices	Legion of the Lost • A Thing of Guile • The Neverwhen

Agents of Chaos	The Shadow Vortex • The Eternity Cage • Eye of Harmony

Casualties of War	Pretty Lies • The Lady of Obsidian • The Enigma Dimension

Forged in Fire	Light the Flame • Lion Hearts • The Shadow Squad

Warbringer	Consequences • Destroyer • Saviour

Battlegrounds	The Keeper of Light • Temmosus • Rewind

He Who Fights With Monsters	The Mission • The Abyss • The Horror

Comrades-in-Arms	A Mother's Love • Berserker • Memnos

Enemy Mine	The Hybrid's Choice • Fear Nothing • Exit Strategy

The Eighth Doctor: Time War

Volume One	The Starship of Theseus • Echoes of War • The Conscript • One Life

Volume Two	The Lords of Terror • Planet of the Ogrons • In the Garden of Death • Jonah

Volume Three	State of Bliss • The Famished Lands • Fugitive in Time • The War Valeyard

Volume Four	Palindrome • Dreadshade • Restoration of the Daleks

Cass	Meanwhile, Elsewhere • Vespertine • Previously, Next Time

Reflections	Nowhere, Never • The Road Untravelled • Cass-cade • Borrow or Rob

The War Master

Only the Good	Beneath the Viscoid • The Good Master • The Sky Man • The Heavenly Paradigm

The Master of Callous	Call for the Dead • The Glittering Prize • The Persistence of Dreams • Sins of the Father

Rage of the Time Lords	The Survivor • The Coney Island Chameleon • The Missing Link • Darkness and Light

Anti-Genesis	From the Flames • The Master's Dalek Plan • Shockwave • He Who Wins

Hearts of Darkness	The Edge of Redemption • The Scaramancer • The Castle of Kurnos 5 • The Cognition Shift

Killing Time	The Sincerest Form of Flattery • A Quiet Night In • The Orphan • Unfinished Business

Self-Defence	The Forest of Penitence • The Players • Boundaries • The Last Line

Escape from Reality	The Wrath of Medusa • The Shadow Master • The Adventure of the Deceased Doctor • The Master of Dorian Gray

Solitary Confinement	The Walls of Absence • The Long Despair • The Life and Loves of Mr Alexander Bennett • The Kicker

Rogue Encounters	Runtime • Manhunt • The Sublime Porte • Alone

Gallifrey

Time War

Volume One	Celestial Intervention • Soldier Obscura • The Devil You Know • Desperate Measures

Volume Two	Havoc • Partisans • Collateral • Assassins

Volume Three	Hostiles • Nevernor • Mother Tongue • Unity

Volume Four	Deception • Dissolution • Beyond • Homecoming

War Room

Allegiance	The Last Days of Freme • The Passenger • Collateral Victim • The First Days of Phaidon

Manoeuvres	Collaborators • Remnants • Transference • Ambition's Debt

Susan's War

Prequel	Prequel to Susan's War

Susan's War	Sphere of Influence • The Uncertain Shore • Assets of War • The Shoreditch Intervention

Family Ties	The Lost Son • The Golden Child

Shadow of the Daleks

Shadow of the Daleks 1	Aimed at the Body • Lightspeed • The Bookshop at the End of the World • Interlude

Shadow of the Daleks 2	Echo Chamber • Towards Zero • Castle Hydra • Effect and Cause

Classic Doctors, New Monsters	The Sontaran Ordeal • Day of the Vashta Nerada

Short Trips	A Heart on Both Sides • All Hands on Deck • Death Will Not Part Us • Salvage

Other	The Rulers of the Universe • Lies in Ruins

The Master stories

Early life

Television	The Sound of Drums

Prose	Birth of a Renegade • The Legacy of Gallifrey • The Dark Path • The Schizoid Earth • Divided Loyalties • Gallifrey: A Rough Guide • Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir • Harvest of Time • Rebel Rebel

Comic	Flashback

Audio	The Toy • Masterful

Webcast	The Legend of... the Master?

"Inventor"

Audio

The Destination Wars • The Home Guard • The Psychic Circus • Blood of the Time Lords

War Chief

Television	The War Games

Prose	The Legacy of Gallifrey • Timewyrm: Exodus

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Television	Doctor Who

Prose	First Frontier • Happy Endings • Housewarming • Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe

Bruce
Master

see template

Android/
Echo

Webcast	Scream of the Shalka

Prose	Scream of the Shalka • The Feast of the Stone • Sometime Never... • The Deadstone Memorial • The Gallifrey Chronicles • Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor

"Preacher"

Comics

The Fallen • The Glorious Dead

Reborn
Master

see template

"Merlin"

Prose

The Creation of Camelot • The Fellowship of Quan • The Radio Waves

Pryce

Television

The Curse of Fatal Death

Child
Master

Comics

The Then and the Now • Pull to Open • Outrun • Downtime • First Rule • The Organ Grinder • Kill God • Fast Asleep

see template

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Audio

The Lumiat • Masterful • Time Lord Immemorial

Spy Master

see template

Unclear
incarnation

Prose
.

Enjoy the Game • Harvest of Time

Other
realities

Barusa's universe

Prose

The Chronicles of Doctor Who?

Unbound Master

see template

Inferno Earth

Prose

The Face of the Enemy

The Warrior's universe

Audio

Aftershocks • Who Am I? • Time Killers

From stories
considered
not part
of the DWU
by this Wiki

"DWM"

Prose

Winning Designs

"Battle"

Games

Battle for the Universe

"Exclusive!"

Prose

Exclusive!

"DWMS"

Comics

The Next 20 Years

According to one account, the Master had the appearance of Roger Delgado while on Gallifrey. According to another, he had Anthony Ainley's likeness. According to another one, the one with James Dreyfus's appearance was the incarnation who ran away from Gallifrey.

Divided Loyalties, A Brief History of Time Lords and The Legions of Death feature, or otherwise acknowledge, the War Chief, but in the process contradicted the notion put forward by other stories that he was an incarnation of the Master.

One account suggests that the incarnation portrayed by Roger Delgado may be the same as the one portrayed by Peter Pratt while some others distinguish them.

According to one account, the incarnation portrayed by Gordon Tipple is the one portrayed by Anthony Ainley, while some others state that the Ainley one was already lost by then.

While fighting to extend his life at the end of his regeneration cycle, many bodies were possessed by the Beevers incarnation, but all kept somehow reverting to his real being until he finally regenerated into the MacQueen one. Hence, these sections cannot be strictly chronological

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