The Final Amendment (audio story)

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The Final Amendment was the thirty-ninth Bernice Summerfield audio story released by Big Finish Productions. It was the fifth story of the eighth season.

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Forget the war and death and boring stuff like that with another trip to the Braxiatel Collection!

"A welcome return of an old favourite!" – Earth Empire News

"A moving parable on what it is to be human in these ever-changing times." – BFM

"Glorious, crukking filth! Hooray!" – Moonmaker

"Something of a curate's egg." – Fandomania

Joined by friends old and new, Jason Kane returns for his 15th series! Will Benny find out about him and Bev? Or about him and Adrian? What is the mysterious connection between Joseph and Doggles? Will Brax ever reveal his sinister plans?

And just who the hell is Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart?

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After receiving an anonymous note asking for help, Benny travels to the White Rabbit on Bedrock XII and finds that the note is from Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart. Kadiatu knocks her out with a tranquiliser patch and takes her to President Fiona Dickens on Earth, where Benny learns from Fiona's son Howard that clones of herself, Jason and their friends star in a GalNet show. When Jason calls her and tells her that he has done something wrong, Benny is too upset with him to engage and tells him that they will speak once she returns to the Braxiatel Collection.

Benny and Kadiatu drink at the Hag's Head in the Undercity where Benny realises that all of the patrons are human; Kadiatu explains that aliens are being excluded and that Fiona seems to have been possessed or replaced, having previously been an ineffectual leader but now sending her political opponents to the Lunar Penal Colony. Unbeknownst to the two of them, Fiona is listening to them through a bug that she had a robot place on Benny and reveals to Howard that she is a clone. She has a clone of Howard incapacitate him and sends clones of Benny and Kadiatu after them, planning on getting them out of the way so that she can replace as many ministers as possible and start a war.

After Kadiatu kills her clone, Benny notices that her own clone is upset and realises that she is sentient. The Benny clone gets the two of them to subdue her and take her back to the palace, telling them about how Bernard Jones of the Stonehauser Medical Facility injected the clone of Fiona with his own racist beliefs. After Jones died two months ago, the clone's conditioning activated and she replaced the real Fiona. Benny's clone sends the real Benny to GalNet where the real Fiona and Howard are being held whilst she and Kadiatu confront Fiona, who kills the clone of Howard in an attempt to implicate Kadiatu and her alien DNA.

Her plan having failed due to Kadiatu being aware of the deception, Fiona sends a message to the clones to send them after Benny; clones of Bev, Adrian and the Doctor, joined by a robot of Braxiatel who explains that he is "caught up in the adventure", hunt her until Kadiatu reminds Fiona who she really is and what Jones has made her do. She calls the clones off before falling to her death. The clones are given new jobs and Kadiatu takes Benny back to Bedrock, after which she returns to the palace and agrees to take the real Fiona and Howard with her on her adventures in her time machine.

In the White Rabbit, Benny gets a call from Adrian and goes outside whilst the barman, John Wilson, watches the inauguration of Benny's clone as President of Earth. He hears Benny cry out and calls out to her to check if she is alright.

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Adventures of Jason Kane and Bernice Summerfield - TV series[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the TV series excerpts there are several references to previous stories:

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  1. Although credited as playing Joseph, Wickham actually plays a clone of Doggles.