Thicker Than Water (audio story)

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Thicker Than Water was the seventy-third story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Paul Sutton and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush and Maggie Stables as Evelyn Smythe, Gabriel Woolf as Rossiter and Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.

A sequel to Arrangements for War, this story is set following Evelyn's first departure from travelling with the Doctor, which is presented in flashbacks in this episode and was briefly alluded to in The Juggernauts.

Publisher's summary

Three years after Világ was all but laid waste by the Killorans, the Doctor is back alongside a different companion. And a lot has changed.

Now elected Principal Triumvir, head of a tripartite government, Rossiter is working to secure a peaceful future for the planet by researching the technology the Killorans left behind. But he has to contend with opposition from his daughter, Sofia, who heads a public campaign demanding the destruction of all alien artefacts.

Politics has caused a rift between father and daughter, and as if that weren't enough, Sofia doesn't approve of her new stepmother either. Emotions soon boil over into violence — violence that seems to have gripped the entire city.

Friendships bind people close, but they say that blood is...

Plot

Part one

After saving a colony's biodomes, Mel scolds the Doctor for his rudeness and mentions in passing that she would like to meet Evelyn, with whom the Doctor credits the softening of his temperament. The Doctor decides to take Mel to Világ and recounts how he took Evelyn back there to see the planet's rebuilding following the Killoran invasion, after which she chose to stay with Principal Triumvir Rossiter and the upset Doctor did not give her a proper goodbye.

Two years after Evelyn's return to Világ, she is the chairperson of a controversial committee researching Killoran technology, a mission which is opposed by her stepdaughter, Sofia. Evelyn suffers from frequent headaches and, after storming off of Galen Today in a debate with Sofia and her ally, Sebastian Lawrence, promises her husband that she will take time to relax. After giving a speech at Memorial Park, she is approached by the Doctor and Mel, but the meeting is interrupted when shots are fired and a gas is released. Mel and Evelyn are captured by the attackers.

Part two

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Part three

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Part four

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Cast

Uncredited

Crew

References

Notes

Continuity

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