Meanwhile, Elsewhere (audio story)
Meanwhile, Elsewhere was the first audio story in the audio anthology Cass, the fifth series of The Eighth Doctor: Time War. It was written by Tim Foley and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Emma Campbell-Jones as Cass Fermazzi and Sonny McGann as Alex Campbell.
Publisher's summary
The Doctor and Alex arrive on a tropical beach where something's amiss.
Meanwhile, elsewhere... a desperate pilot runs for his life.
Meanwhile, elsewhere... it's Cass Fermazzi's first day on an errand-class starship.
Meanwhile, elsewhere... it's the beginning of the end of everything.
Plot
The Doctor and Alex land on a tropical beach where the Doctor detects a hyperstatic temporal incursion which will tear apart the planet.
Cass reports to the Vice for her first commission on an errand-class ship and is shown to her room where Pester, a robot, is also staying. Despite her being an engineer, the Vice has her clean up Squidface's cat sick and she encounters Hieronyma Friend, the sole passenger, who gives her a device to take to the flight deck to ensure that the ship does not crash. On her way, she suddenly finds herself in a forest with Alex; when she returns, she tells the Vice, who has heard similar reports from other members of the crew and says that the ship has no passenger.
On the ship, Alex meets Friend and the Doctor joins Cass on the flight deck, attempting to help save the life of the sick Captain Mex. The captain dies, however, and Garaban flies burst from his corpse, indicating that he visited Garaba despite it being thirty-thousand light-years away; the Doctor explains that portals are opening all over the ship and Bliss manages to find a way to detect them. They join Alex and Friend and learn that the latter is a temporal diplomat from the Council of the Last and that she gave Cass a dimension slider, putting the ship outside time to stabilise it. She was travelling with a temporal creature which was erased from time, but it has escaped its vortextual storage unit.
to be completed
Cast
- The Doctor - Paul McGann
- Cass Fermazzi - Emma Campbell-Jones
- Alex Campbell - Sonny McGann
- Hieronyma Friend - Jaye Griffiths
- Vice - Nicholas Boulton
- Mex - Greig Johnson
References
- Cass has several brothers, enough to man a flight deck. The siblings once rescued a Mini 60 from the scrap shores.
- Cass got drunk and beat up several Martians the night before departure.
- Cass jokingly mentions ballet.
- Squidface is a cat.
- Stanley saw an icy blast near the engines.
- Trisk reports sand in the mess hall.
- Alex looks for wood nymphs
- The Doctor and Alex have been to Woodstock.
- Garaba is thirty-thousand light-years from the ship's position.
- The Doctor and Cass encounter a hippopotamus-esque creature from Bissle III.
- Friend is on her way to Gulta and believes that the skirmishes near the Morning Realm.
- Friend gives Cass a dimension slider.
Notes
to be added
Continuity
- The Doctor introduces himself to Cass by saying, "I'm a doctor, but probably not the one you were expecting". (TV: The Night of the Doctor)
- Cass mentions Hudson Sage. (AUDIO: Vespertine)
External links
- Official Meanwhile, Elsewhere page at bigfinish.com
