The Caged Assassin (audio story)
The Caged Assassin was the fourth story of the thirteenth series of The Fourth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Matthew Sweet and featured Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Christopher Naylor as Harry Sullivan and Eleanor Crooks as Naomi Cross.
Publisher's summary
It's very unusual to find a tiger in the TARDIS. But it's even more unusual to find one heavily dosed in radiation. But this is far from the most unusual occurrence the Doctor, Naomi and Harry are going to encounter today. Because they are about to meet Charles Jamrach, supplier of exotic animals to the rich and royal, who is unaware that his famous menagerie conceals a deadly terror. A strange creature out for blood...
Plot
Part one
After burying Top the Wombat, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Alexa Wilding head to Shadwell where the Doctor is complaining that a pie he purchased tastes of cat. The Doctor saves street urchin Tom Peck from the grip of a tiger which he takes back to Harry and Naomi in the TARDIS, the instruments of which identify the tiger as radioactive. Charles Jamrach, the tiger's owner, is pointed to the TARDIS by Tom and demands the tiger's return so that he can gift it to the Queen, something the Doctor refuses to do until he has checked it over in a stasis field. Jamrach shows the three travellers his menagerie aboard a ship in a warehouse in the East End and explains that the tiger's escape was inexplicable and at the same time that his wombats burrowed out. Inside the tiger's cage are scorch marks left by an energy weapon.
Rossetti, a wombat enthusiast, visits Jamrach and is fascinated by the Doctor and Naomi, who speak with him whilst Harry investigates the wombat cage. He is rendered unconscious by Alexa after hearing high-pitched voices in the walls and learns upon returning to consciousness that the wombats have returned, meaning that Rossetti is able to take one which he names Top. Alexa distracts the Doctor, but he realises this and finds that the new Top has stunned Naomi and is being painted by Rossetti whilst other wombats dig up their Wombat Queen's casket from the garden. However, the body inside is not that of their Queen and Top declares that London will be obliterated as a result.
Part two
to be added
Cast
- The Doctor - Tom Baker
- Naomi Cross - Eleanor Crooks
- Harry Sullivan - Christopher Naylor
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Mark Gatiss
- Alexa Wilding / Wombat Queen / Tom - Isabella Inchbald
- Charles Jamrach / Wombat Commodore - Michael Fenton-Stevens
- Top the Wombat - Glen McCready
Crew
to be added
Worldbuilding
- Top the Wombat choked to death on a Cox's Orange Pippin.
- Dante buried an armadillo and Jesse the Owl.
- A kangaroo died by matricide.
- The Doctor complains that his pie tastes of cat.
- The Doctor mentions George Eliot.
- The Doctor mentions Burke's Peerage.
- Naomi mentions The Italian Job.
- Harry is reminded of Portsmouth Naval College.
- Billy works for Johan Christian Karl Jamrach.
- Jamrach's father lived in Hamburg and was head of the River Police.
- Llamas spit.
- Rossetti uses chlorodyne to help him sleep.
Notes
to be added
Continuity
to be added
External links
- Official The Caged Assassin page at bigfinish.com
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