Everybody Loves Irving (audio story)

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Everybody Loves Irving was the sixty-second Bernice Summerfield audio story released by Big Finish Productions. It was the third story of the Legion series.

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Bernice and Braxiatel have never quite seen eye-to-eye...but now he wants to make amends. He's taking her on a leisure drive across Legion's deadly surface to an Ikerian settlement not far from Legion City. Their mission: shopping.

The Ikerians are renowned traders, dealing in everything from the finest art to cut-price battlecruisers. They're willing to do a good deal too. After all, they know Irving Braxiatel of old... and better than this Brax knows himself.

Everywhere they go and everyone they deal with, Braxiatel's reputation precedes him. He has good friends and even better enemies... but one thing's for certain. Everybody loves Irving.

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Irving takes Benny across Legion on a surface trawler to Ikeria City where he purchases a launch silo and a Sartak Explorer Mark VI from Lord Galot, an old friend of the Braxiatel that Benny knew and who has a tracker placed on their trawler. The next day, Irving takes Benny to the silo and leaves her to explore and see what work needs doing whilst he contacts structural engineers, providers of solar panels and an interior designer.

Ruth approaches Peter and tries to get to know him, but he tells her that Antonio says that something is wrong with her and that he does not like Peter being around her. He leaves, telling Ruth that she will never meet Antonio. Jack makes an attempt to ask Peter about him and plants a video bug in his apartment. Later, Ruth and Jack watch and see Peter apparently talking to himself, but decide not to tell Benny about it for now.

Benny finds that the computer, EOIN, at the silo has an extensive file on Irving, but it denies her access. The Surlioids arrive in their spacecraft and Benny assumes that they are attacking until they inform her that they are plumbers, sent by Galot. After Benny almost drowns in the bath because of the heating valve failing, interior designer Julezand arrives and furnishes the place, although Benny finds the result ostentatious. At dinner, she and Irving toast to new frontiers.

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  • The second series theme is played as incidental music when Benny asks for "funky" music.
  • The title of the story is a reference to the American sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.

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