All's Fair (audio story)

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All's Fair was the second story in the audio anthology Everywhere and Anywhere, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Max Kashevsky and featured Jacob Dudman as the Eleventh Doctor, Safiyya Ingar as Valarie Lockwood and Mia Tomlinson as Roanna.

Publisher's summary

Chicago's World's Fair, 1893. An ideal date for a pair of loved-up engineers.

However, there are certain things you don't want to happen on a date. An impossible reunion derailing things. Abominations stalking the streets. Your date dying at the end...

Plot

Valarie and Roanna go on their first date at Chicago's World's Fair in 1893 whilst the Doctor works on the Arkheion device in the TARDIS. After receiving an update from the Doctor, Valarie is approached by Hayden, a man who knows her and the Doctor and claims to be her husband. She and Roanna take him to the TARDIS where he further explains that he is a normal human and presents a photograph of his and Valarie's wedding at Niagara Falls with a note on the back telling him to find her at the fayre on this day. When he first met her, she knew all about him and now he finds that the roles have been reversed and asks the Doctor for help.

The Doctor leaves Valarie and Roanna and goes with Hayden to the Lockwood Foundation office where he meets his assistant, Maria, and learns that Hayden's inventions are anachronisms explained to him by Valarie. Hayden takes him to his Valarie, who has been on life support for some time, and a number of people locked in the basement who have become monsters thanks to an alien mutation which the Doctor names "the Surge". Valarie was trying to find a cure when one of the affected, Roanna, drained power from her cybernetics whilst attempting to escape the facility, an attempt during which she killed a nurse.

Frank, the nurse's husband, attempts to assassinate Roanna to change time and save his wife, but Valarie saves her and they flee towards the TARDIS whilst the now-monstrous Frank gives chase. The Doctor realises what is happening based on the few words Roanna is able to say and goes with Hayden in his car to save the two of them, running Frank over and allowing the group to take refuge in the TARDIS. Frank starts draining the TARDIS, so the Doctor decides to send out a pulse using the telepathic circuits to render him unconscious and is surprised when Frank dies despite him not having enacted his plan yet. Analysing him with Maria, he determines that Frank died from draining too much power.

Maria sends Valarie and Hayden to the Doctor and, once they are gone, shoots Roanna and disconnects the older Valarie's life support. The Doctor has identified a Fulcrum Corporation delivery system implanted into the monsters and takes the others with him to save Roanna, having realised that Maria is actually Mrs Hendricks downloaded into another robotic body. Mrs Hendricks has already sent Roanna back in time to become the monster, however, and reveals that she is working with somebody to wipe out the Daleks, who have no knowledge of the Doctor. She takes the Surge serum from the monster Roanna and teleports it away to be put on the market by her affiliate as a way to make people immune to the Daleks' gunsticks.

Mrs Hendricks teleports away and the Doctor, Valarie and Hayden run away from Roanna, who escapes into the city.

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