Whispers of Terror (audio story): Difference between revisions

The Doctor and Peri arrive in the middle of this, and are quickly brought to Gantman. He explains that an associate of Krane, Beth Pernell, is coming to the museum to broadcast the speech, which will provide support for her own presidential bid.  Almost immediately, however, something goes wrong:  A strange collection of voices and other noises begins to haunt Peri and others in the museum...and a man is killed.

Beth Pernell arrives on the scene at the worst possible time, intent on making her broadcast.  However, the Doctor and Peri discover that her intentions are not what they seem.  After capturing the creature, they at last piece together her plan:  She is subtly altering the speech to make it appear to support her, when in fact it was delivered in direct opposition to her.  The Doctor captures the sound creature; but it is tortured, and then unintentionally released, by Pernell.  It allies itself with the Doctor to bring an end to her scheme by first preventing the broadcast, and then by allowing it to happen--but with changes that further make it clear that Beth is not to be trusted or elected.  In addition, the edited broadcast makes it clear that Krane’s death was no suicide, but rather, a murder plotted by Beth and carried out by her accomplice, Hans Stengard.  Pernell flees the museum, but dies when her vehicle explodes, a final gift from the sound creature.  The creature--or rather, Krane’s echo--now restored to sanity by the Doctor, opts to remain in the museum, being supremely suited to helping Gantman with his curation duties.  The Doctor and Peri then depart in the TARDIS, leaving the blind Gantman to remark, appropriately, “Well, now I’ve heard everything.”