The Gentlemen Thieves (audio story)
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The Gentlemen Thieves was the third and final story in the audio anthology The Casebook of Paternoster Row, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle and featured Neve McIntosh as Madame Vastra, Catrin Stewart as Jenny Flint and Dan Starkey as Strax.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Madame Vastra reviews the case of a 'one-man crime wave' - break-ins and burglaries, committed by the same handsome and daring thief, even when they were committed at exactly the same time.
Unravelling the secrets of these doppelganger ne’er-do-wells, the Gang touch on the fringe of a bigger conspiracy. But as Vastra recalls the past, the dangers of the present are closing in.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Madame Vastra[nb 1] - Neve McIntosh
- Jenny Flint[nb 1] - Catrin Stewart
- Strax - Dan Starkey
- Rackham - Cassian Bilton
- Lord Ives - Gareth Armstrong
- Officer Hornung - Leighton Pugh
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Also plays the shapeshifter who's been impersonating Jenny (who briefly transforms into Vastra).
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Lord Ives calls the Sontaran duplication arch a "Magic Copying Cabinet", or "MCC".
- One of the Ives clones is killed with a blow dart, which melts him instantly.
- Vastra instructs Rackham to use his cricket skills to destroy the beam diffuser on Lord Ives's machine.
- Ives uses a selective molecular cascader, identified by Strax, to destroy some of his own clones with emergency metabolic dissolution.
Organisations[[edit] | [edit source]]
- They've started the New Ives School for Boys. The original Lord Ives inherited it from Sir Archibald Ives, his father, and plans to populate it with copies of his son Francis.
- One of the Ives clones has also tried starting a cricket team entirely composed of Rackham clones.
Other[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Strax accuses Lord Ives of fraternal genocide.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Hornung informs the Paternoster Gang that "Touchwood" is on the scene, having recently been formed. (TV: Tooth and Claw [+]Loading...["Tooth and Claw (TV story)"] et al.)
- Vastra has been consulting the Case Files in order to bolster her conclusions about the true identity of the woman she married. (AUDIO: Anne of a Thousand Light Years [+]Loading...["Anne of a Thousand Light Years (audio story)"], Pater Noster [+]Loading...["Pater Noster (audio story)"])
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official The Gentlemen Thieves page at bigfinish.com
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