Crash and Burn (episode)
Crash and Burn was the third special season pass storyline in the Lost in Time video game made by Eastside Games.
Synopsis
Join the 10th Doctor and Martha Jones as they investigate a crashed test ship!
Plot
In a Testing Lab on Kerb!am, a project is going wrong. A manager is frustrated that it failed again, asking what the scanners say. An employee tells him that there is no evidence of tampering, another employee tells him that the power levels are at correct threshold. The manager then asks what could be the cause of the pilotless ship's failure. The first employee suggest it could be the plastic alloy cohesion failing. The manager tells them to find out as he wants to know what’s going on. The second employee says they don’t know but will keep searching. The manager says they better do because all of their jobs are on the line if they screw up, and that he needs the data and an expert. At that instant, the TARDIS materialises in the lab.
The manager asks who they are and what they’re doing in his factory. Martha Jones asks the Tenth Doctor where he dropped them off this time. The Doctor tells her not to worry, and tells the manager to look at his psychic paper. The manager is convinced he is a mechanical engineer sent by corporate. The Doctor whispers that psychic paper never fails. The manager asks him what he said, the Doctor replies that he said he never fails at his job, as he’s an expert, asking what's wrong. The manager says to follow him to the prototype shuttle. Martha asks the Doctor what they’re going to do, and he replies to just go with the flow, confident that he can fix whatever is wrong.
The Doctor's tactic does not work, which disappoints him, saying that something is off and they’re missing energy. Martha begins to question him, but the manager interrupts them, asking what they did. The Doctor starts to explain, but the manager tells him this is the first time it has not exploded and that he's doing amazing. The Doctor, surprised, rolls with it, saying that he knew it would worl, and that he now only needs to figure out where the energy is going. The manager is confused, and the Doctor asks him if he has checked the readings and there isn’t enough energy to run it. The manager says that his employees always said that the readings were within the threshold.
The manager asks if there is a power drain to the shuttle. The Doctor confirms, saying someone is redirecting it, but he can’t find where or why. Martha suggest they could follow the cables, but the Doctor says that they can’t with the kind of shielding the platform uses. Martha asks what the Doctor has in mind, and the Doctor asks the manager to ask his employees, since they clearly lied to him. The manager says he will call them, then stops up, asking when this happened. The Doctor asks him what he talks about. The manager says that the employees who monitored the tests passed away two months ago.
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Characters
Notes
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- The storyline's title and synopsis weren’t given in-game. However, the synopsis was given in a post by the Lost in Time Instagram account on 15 July 2024,[1] while the title was given by the game's creator in a Twitter post on 26 July 2024.[2]
Continuity
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