Empathy Games (audio story)

Empathy Games
Main character(s):	Leela
Featuring:	Fourth Doctor
Main enemy:	Co-ordinator Angell
Main setting:	Paxis Majoritis, Synchronis
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Nigel Fairs
Director:	Nigel Fairs
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Nigel Fairs
Sound:	Nigel Fairs
Cover by:	Simon Holub
Release details
Number of parts:	2
Release number:	3.4
Release date:	October 2008
Format:	1 CD Download
Production code:	BFPDWCC12
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-353-8
The Companion Chronicles
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Empathy Games was the fourth story of the third series of The Companion Chronicles, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Nigel Fairs, narrated by Louise Jameson (in-character as Leela) and featured the Fourth Doctor and Leela.

Publisher's summary

The present: Leela is doomed, trapped inside a prison cell of a dead race.

The past: After a disaster aboard the TARDIS, the Fourth Doctor and Leela arrive at the capital city of Synchronis, a world renowned for peace and civility. But an attack by a vicious creature leaves the Doctor in a coma, and Leela is persuaded to fight in the forthcoming Empathy Games, where she discovers that nothing on this world is as it seems.

Plot

Part One

to be added

Part Two

to be added

Cast

• Leela - Louise Jameson
• Co-ordinator Angell - David Warner

Crew

• Cover Art - Simon Holub
• Writer, Music, Sound Design & Director - Nigel Fairs
• Executive Producer - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
• Producer - David Richardson
• Script Editor - Jacqueline Rayner

Worldbuilding

• In the fire which destroys the secondary console room, the edges of the Doctor's scarf are burned.
• The Waters of Empathy is one of the 700 Wonders of the Universe.
• When an elder of the Sevateem dies, it is customary for other warriors to guard their body in order to protect their soul from evil spirits until sunrise.

Notes

• This audio drama was recorded on 22 July 2008 at the Moat Studios.
• This story takes place between TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang ^[+]Loading...["The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)"] and Horror of Fang Rock ^[+]Loading...["Horror of Fang Rock (TV story)"].
• This story was told from Leela's perspective.

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Continuity

• Leela refers to her imprisonment by the Z'nai in her previous Companion Chronicles story, AUDIO: The Catalyst ^[+]Loading...["The Catalyst (audio story)"].
• The Doctor tells Leela that he once saw an entire planet destroyed by fire many years earlier. He is referring to the events of TV: Inferno ^[+]Loading...["Inferno (TV story)"].
• The secondary control room is completely destroyed. The Doctor tells Leela that there are plenty of other control rooms, prompting him to start using the original control room again. This explains the fact that in TV: The Invisible Enemy ^[+]Loading...["The Invisible Enemy (TV story)"], the Doctor is using the original control room.
• Leela refers to Xoanon, the insidious creator of her society introduced alongside her in TV: The Face of Evil ^[+]Loading...["The Face of Evil (TV story)"].
• Time Lords have the ability to place themselves in a coma voluntarily, as first seen in TV: Spearhead from Space ^[+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"].
• The Doctor leaves Leela a psychic message telling her to "Wait for [him]". The Twelfth Doctor left the same message in the subconscious of Bill Potts when she was dying in TV: World Enough and Time ^[+]Loading...["World Enough and Time (TV story)"].
• Leela recalls hunting with Tomas on her home planet during their childhood. Tomas appeared in TV: The Face of Evil ^[+]Loading...["The Face of Evil (TV story)"].

External links

• Official Empathy Games page at bigfinish.com
• Empathy Games at the Doctor Who Reference Guide