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|image           = Moving Target cover.jpg
|image             = Moving Target cover.jpg
|series         = [[Big Finish Torchwood series|Big Finish ''Torchwood'' series]]
|series           = ''[[Torchwood - Monthly Range]]''
|number         = 2.4
|number           = 10
|main character = [[Suzie Costello]]
|story number      = 2.4
|featuring      =
|range            = BFTW
|enemy           =  
|number in range  = 10
|setting         = [[Cardiff]], [[29 November]] [[2006]]
|main character   = [[Suzie Costello|Suzie]]
|writer         = [[Guy Adams (writer)|Guy Adams]]
|enemy             = [[The Referee]]
|director       = [[Scott Handcock]]
|setting           = [[United Kingdom]], [[29 November]] [[2006]]
|music           = [[Blair Mowat]]
|writer           = Guy Adams
|sound           = [[Steve Foxon]]
|director         = [[Scott Handcock]]
|cover           = [[Lee Binding]]
|music             = [[Blair Mowat]]
|publisher       = Big Finish Productions
|sound             = [[Steve Foxon]]
|release date   = [[6 June (releases)|6 June]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]]
|cover             = [[Lee Binding]]
|format         =  
|publisher         = Big Finish Productions
|production code = BFPTWCD10
|release date     = 6 June 2016
|isbn           = ISBN 978-1-78575-213-1
|format           =  
|prev           = Ghost Mission (audio story)
|production code   = BFPTWCD10
|next           = Broken (audio story)
|isbn             = ISBN 978-1-78575-213-1
|prev             = Ghost Mission (audio story)
|next             = Broken (audio story)
|soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/torchwood-moving-target-trailer
|soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/torchwood-moving-target-trailer
|trailer = TORCHWOOD Moving Target
|trailer           = TORCHWOOD Moving Target
}}'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the fourth audio story in the second season of the [[Big Finish Torchwood series|Big Finish ''Torchwood'' series]]. It featured [[Indira Varma]] as [[Suzie Costello]].
|producer          = [[James Goss]]
}}
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the tenth story in the ''[[Torchwood - Monthly Range]]'' by [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish Productions.]] It was written by [[Guy Adams]] and featured [[Indira Varma]] as [[Suzie Costello]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
[[Suzie Costello]] would never describe herself as a hero. Not even if she were the last woman on [[Earth]]. Turns out, she's the second last woman on Earth, and that'll just have to do.
[[Suzie Costello]] would never describe herself as a [[hero]]. Not even if she were the last woman on [[Earth]]. Turns out, she's the second last woman on Earth, and that'll just have to do.


With the Earth frozen in time, Suzie becomes locked in a battle to save the planet and the life of [[Alex (Moving Target)|Alex]], the last woman alive. Hunted by alien warriors, and, with every hour that doesn't pass, the stakes are only getting higher.
With the Earth frozen in [[time]], Suzie becomes locked in a battle to save the [[planet]] and the life of [[Alex (Moving Target)|Alex]], the last woman alive. Hunted by [[alien]] [[warrior]]s, and, with every hour that doesn't pass, the stakes are only getting higher.


Suzie Costello would never describe herself as a hero. But she would say she's someone who always makes the right choices. Wouldn't she?
Suzie Costello would never describe herself as a hero. But she would say she's someone who always makes the right choices. Wouldn't she?


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
''to be added''
[[Suzie Costello|Suzie]] wakes up to find the world frozen, which she initially worries might have been caused by the [[time distortion generator]] that she took from [[the Hub]], and goes outside to investigate. She meets [[Alex (Moving Target)|Alex]], the only other person unaffected, and they are shot at by an [[alien]] as they head towards the Hub, after which they learn from [[the Referee]] that [[Bronkbluff Safaris Ltd]] are using [[Earth]] as a hunting ground. Because [[the Committee]] has given humanity the status of [[pest]], the company has been allowed to make Alex the target of a hunt, although Suzie should have been frozen like everybody else. Alex hits the hunter with a [[lorry]] and a second hunter is sent.
 
Using Alex as bait, Suzie lures and brutally kills the second hunter before taking its [[gun]]. They hide from a hunter from the [[Flaviate Cluster]] on the [[invisible lift]], but they are unable to get into the Hub as it is in [[lockdown]] and the hunter tries to drown Alex in the bay before Suzie kills them. They steal a [[car]], with Alex telling Suzie that she is [[pregnancy|pregnant]] as they drive away, and Suzie starts reading the Bronkbluff introductory pack printed for her by the Referee after they are chased by and kill another hunter. They continue to evade and kill the hunters, travelling as far away as [[Bristol]], despite the Referee telling Suzie that the hunt will go on until Alex dies.
 
Suzie and Alex drink [[vodka]] together and argue about Suzie's motives for helping, leading to a fight which results in Alex cutting herself on [[glass]] and Suzie walking off. The Referee tells her that Alex is [[future-proof]] and can be killed with minimal impact to the [[timeline]] as her pregnancy is [[ectopic pregnancy|ectopic]] and she will kill herself by [[drug overdose]] in a few weeks upon learning of [[Kevin (Moving Target)|her fiancé]]'s infidelity. With only one [[bullet]] left, Suzie kills Alex and ends the hunt, causing time to resume. She calls [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] and promises to tell him what has happened once she gets to work.


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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* [[The Referee]] - [[Nicholas Burns]]
* [[The Referee]] - [[Nicholas Burns]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
* Suzie tries to call [[Jack Harkness|Jack]].
* Suzie has taken a [[time distortion generator]] from [[the Hub]].
* Alex pulled [[Foster (Moving Target)|Foster]]'s [[trousers]] down.
* Alex works in [[PR]].
* Suzie rides a [[bicycle]].
* Alex is in a relationship with [[Kevin (Moving Target)|Kevin]].
* Alex and Kevin once had [[sex]] in a disabled [[toilet]].
* Kevin is in [[Brussels]].
* [[Bailey (Moving Target)|Bailey]] is a friend of Alex.
* Alex has played ''[[Call of Duty]]''.
* [[Alex's sister (Moving Target)|Alex's sister]] is a [[surgeon]].
* Alex had an [[ectopic pregnancy]].
* Suzie and Alex go to [[Bristol]].
* Suzie and Alex drink [[vodka]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
[[File:Moving Target Textless.jpg|thumb|Textless cover art]]
* This story was recorded at [[The Moat Studios]].
* This story was recorded at [[The Moat Studios]].


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
*Suzie alludes to [[Suzie's father|her father]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[They Keep Killing Suzie (TV story)|They Keep Killing Suzie]]'')
* Suzie alludes to [[Suzie's father|her father]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[They Keep Killing Suzie (TV story)|They Keep Killing Suzie]]'')
*The Referee has knowledge of Suzie's future. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'', ''[[They Keep Killing Suzie (TV story)|They Keep Killing Suzie]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Long Time Dead (novel)|Long Time Dead]]'')
* The Referee has knowledge of Suzie's future. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'', ''[[They Keep Killing Suzie (TV story)|They Keep Killing Suzie]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Long Time Dead (novel)|Long Time Dead]]'')
* The [[Eighth Doctor]] previously elaborated that the [[Web of Time]] could adapt to the deaths of those who would have made little impact. [[Lucie Miller]]'s [[Patricia Ryder|Auntie Pat]] was said to have lived a quiet, unobtrusive life, and had no children, so, according to the Doctor, "[[History]] could blink and miss her." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (audio story)|The Zygon Who Fell to Earth]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
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