Point of Entry (audio story)

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Point of Entry was the sixth story in the first series of The Lost Stories, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was adapted by Marc Platt, from the original script by Barbara Clegg, and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown.

Publisher's summary

The 16th Century. Playwright Kit Marlowe is attempting to write Doctor Faustus when a darkness descends on his life, in the cadaverous form of a Spaniard called Velez. The monstrosity is in search of a stone blade that was brought from South America...

After a near-disastrous collision with an asteroid in space, the TARDIS makes an emergency landing in Elizabethan England.

These two events are connected. The Omnim are ready. And the point of entry approaches...

Plot

Part one

Struggling to make any progress with his latest play, Kit Marlowe is visited by Don Lorenzo Velez, whom he had sought out, and is offered a mirror to find whatever it is he desires through astral projection. In return for this, which he intends to use to help him write his new play, he agrees to seek news of a stone blade from the New World which was stolen from a Spanish treasure ship and which Velez claims he will be able to learn of through his friends at court and in Europe.

The Doctor and Peri visit Rogue Asteroid Delta-359XQ2, the latest hazardous cosmic anomaly on their tour, and find that it is acting as an intermediary in the exchange of messages. Deciding to investigate, the Doctor tries to send a signal from the TARDIS and the asteroid changes course, heading straight for the ship. The Doctor loses control and the TARDIS is dragged to a room full of theatrical costumes, one of which Peri puts on to blend in, at the Bell Inn in London in the summer of 1590. They walk around the city and hear one of the voices they heard at the rogue asteroid, a voice which the Doctor believes has used them, so they head back towards the inn.

Seeing Mad Jack in the stocks with his tongue mutilated for stealing bread, the Doctor and Peri take him with them and Kit agrees to help despite Alys being unwilling. Kit introduces them to his friend Tom and they learn that a figure who was watching them outside was Velez, whose influence on the writing of Doctor Faustus Kit is unwilling to elaborate upon. Kit departs and the Doctor leaves Peri and Jack in Tom's care whilst he goes out to investigate, but Jack is discreetly captured by Velez and Iguano and Alys orders Peri and Tom to leave at closing time. In the hopes of finding the Doctor and Kit, they head to Velez's house.

to be completed

Part two

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Cast

Worldbuilding

Notes

Interior art illustrating a scene from the story.

Continuity

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