Meanwhile Turlough (audio story)
Meanwhile Turlough was the eighth audiobook released in the Interludes series. It was released as a bonus download with the audio anthology The Dream Team. It was written by Jonathan Blum and featured the Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
There's a crisis on Greysolon. And only the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough can stop it. Except one of them may be otherwise occupied. Turlough has managed to find a crisis of his own. A very personal one. While his friends are saving the planet...he's going to have to save himself.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Whilst the Doctor and Tegan attempt to convince the Department of Network Control of the danger posed by the Hand of Freedom's zombifying computer virus, Turlough notices the tattoo of a Trion custodian emeritus on the Over-Secretary's neck and realises that he knows who he is. The Over-Secretary allows the Doctor and Tegan access to the data centre and keeps Turlough as a hostage, informing him that all Trion agents are aware that he broke the terms of his exile by leaving Earth and generating a secure line to Trion Control. When he asks Turlough to provide a reason that he should not inform them of his presence, Turlough offers to get the secrets of the TARDIS for Trion.
The Over-Secretary gives Turlough two hours to make good on his promise. Turlough returns to the TARDIS and uses the TARDIS databank to locate a component to hand over, altering the ship's architecture to shorten the journey to acquire it. Tegan finds him inside, having been sent by the Doctor to trace how the Hand of Freedom are controlling the infected after witnessing numerous people die, and he unsuccessfully tries to convince her that they will have to leave the Doctor before they end up dead. He helps her access Greysolon's network and uses the fact that he is lacking a respirator as an excuse not to go with her to the Doctor, instead heading back to the Department of Network Control with the causal rectifier.
Turlough meets with Probationary Third Deputy Undersecretary Gervais, another Trion political prisoner, and offers him freedom from Greysolon in return for him exposing the Over-Secretary as a Trion agent, but Gervais instead alerts the Over-Secretary to his presence. The Over-Secretary reveals that the Trions are stealing money from Greysolon, a job which Turlough might have one day been given on Earth had he remained, and accepts the causal rectifier. He agrees to do business with Turlough and clubs a sneezing trooper with the rectifier when he enters, surprised that the Hand of Freedom have double-crossed him so soon in his plan to overthrow the government. Turlough and the Over-Secretary find the Doctor and Tegan in a warehouse from which the virus has been neutralised.
The Over-Secretary threatens Turlough with the rectifier when he starts to expose his involvement, but Turlough gets free by sneezing in his face and the Over-Secretary is arrested. He explains to the Doctor that he gave the Over-Secretary the rectifier so that the Time Lords would go after him and he could have his vengeance. The Doctor tells him how the Time Lords put a four-dimensional force field around the War Lords' star system for building a fleet of TARDISes and explains how similar he and Turlough, who regrets what the Time Lords might have done to his home, are. Turlough, the Doctor and Tegan sit together for a while and, unsure of what his friends might think, Turlough continues his silence on why he was exiled to Earth.
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Commander Stockard brought the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough to the Over-Secretary. He dies.
- The Over-Secretary has the Third Deputy Undersecretary for Administrative Affairs escort the Doctor and Tegan to the data centre.
- The Over-Secretary is a Trion custodian emeritus.
- The Over-Secretary has a Trion identity key.
- The TARDIS has a temporal limiter and quantum accelerator.
- Turlough uses the TARDIS databank to find the animus integrator, native energy sync and FNEP FROND.
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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Over-Secretary threatens to contact Trion Control. (AUDIO: The Memory Bank [+]Loading...["The Memory Bank (audio story)"])
- Turlough notes how he's living in a "dead boy's room". (TV: Terminus [+]Loading...["Terminus (TV story)"])
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