Bad Connection (audio story)

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Bad Connection was the eighty-ninth story in the Torchwood - Monthly Range by Big Finish Productions.

Publisher's summary

A lonely man is walking past a telephone box when he notices it's ringing. On the other end of the line is a woman telling him he’s in terrible danger.

Will someone finally listen to Suzie Costello? And will she save Emlyn Crook?

Plot

Emlyn Crook answers the telephone in a phone booth on Penarth Pier and is warned by Suzie that he is in danger and must stay on the line. She temporarily alters his sensory receptors with an unpleasant signal which allows him to see an Orthopteroid outside the booth, one which he initially believes is a hallucination and which he tries to disprove by asking a passerby if he can see it. Although the man is unable to see the Orthopteroid, he is eaten by it, proving Suzie's claim that it is a camouflaged alien. She explains that he must not attempt to talk to anybody else, look at the Orthopteroid or leave the booth until she arrives by taxi. Despite this, he leaves the booth in an attempt to save a young woman who accuses him of being a pervert for trying to get her inside with him. She manages to get by without issue, however, and Emlyn returns to the booth believing that the Orthopteroid has gone.

When Emlyn realises that the Orthopteroid is on top of the booth and slowly breaking in, Suzie explains that the signal allowing him to see the creature is only functional if he remains within three feet of the telephone.

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