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'''''To the Death''''' was the tenth and final release for the fourth series of ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures (audio series)|Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'', and the conclusion of a two-part story which began in [[Lucie Miller (audio story)|''Lucie Miller'']]. It featured the deaths of three [[companion]]s. It had a very personal impact on the [[Eighth Doctor]] and led him on a dark path that formed a plot thread for the anthology ''[[Dark Eyes (audio anthology)|Dark Eyes]]''. | '''''To the Death''''' was the tenth and final release for the fourth series of ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures (audio series)|Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'', and the conclusion of a two-part story which began in [[Lucie Miller (audio story)|''Lucie Miller'']]''; ''it also served at the concluding release for the ''Eighth Doctor Adventures'' entirely. It featured the deaths of three [[companion]]s. It had a very personal impact on the [[Eighth Doctor]] and led him on a dark path that formed a plot thread for the anthology ''[[Dark Eyes (audio anthology)|Dark Eyes]]''. | ||
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The Doctor tells the Dalek time controller that he was once had an opportunity to avert the [[creation of the Daleks]] but did not take it. If he has a single chance to escape, he warns the time controller that he will travel back in time and correct this mistake. | The Doctor tells the Dalek time controller that he was once had an opportunity to avert the [[creation of the Daleks]] but did not take it. If he has a single chance to escape, he warns the time controller that he will travel back in time and correct this mistake. | ||
The captured Dalek saucer which Susan, Lucie and Alex pilot to the mineshaft construction area is brought down using the magnetrap. In his attempts to sabotage the magnetrap control, Alex is exterminated. However, the controls are destroyed in the blast, allowing the saucer to fly once again. | The captured Dalek saucer which Susan, Lucie and Alex pilot to the mineshaft construction area is brought down using the magnetrap. In his attempts to sabotage the magnetrap control, Alex is exterminated, devastating Susan, Lucie and the Doctor. However, the controls are destroyed in the blast, allowing the saucer to fly once again. | ||
Although Susan | Although Susan and the Doctor remain prisoners of the Daleks, Lucie escapes to the saucer. She plans to pilot the saucer to the mineshaft and detonate the doomsday weapon in order to destroy the time warp engine. Although it costs Lucie her life, the plan is successful. This results in all of the Daleks, including the Dalek time controller, and their fleet being dragged into the time warp. At the moment they would be killed in the resulting destruction, the Doctor and Susan are rescued by the Monk, who materialises his TARDIS around them. After returning them to the Doctor's TARDIS, the Monk confesses to them that it was he who rescued the Dalek Time Controller and released the virus on Earth and that he delayed the Doctor's arrival by projecting a false time spore into the Vortex. Incensed, the Doctor screams at the Monk, declaring that the universe would be a better place if he had been killed in the time warp explosion instead of Lucie. He refuses to forgive him and orders him to leave. The Monk slinks back into his TARDIS and dematerialises. | ||
The Doctor and Susan | The Doctor utters to Susan about the instance at the beginning of their travels with Ian and Barbara that he nearly killed a injured man that was holding them up, and that it was only direct action that stopped him, a statement which Susan is concerned by. The Doctor tells Susan that this experience has changed him as the evil of the Daleks and the "rampant amorality" of the Monk have convinced him that he must play a more active role in protecting the universe from evil. He expresses disdain for the [[Laws of Time]] and questions whether saving Lucie, "one of the noblest souls in the universe," would adversely effect the [[Web of Time]]. When Susan voices her concern, the Doctor asks her to accompany him to ensure that her presence will serve to curb these dark impulses, stop him from taking the Laws of Time into his own hands. She declines his offer; however, as he departs, she expresses a sad hope that she shall see her grandfather again one day. | ||
When he is alone in the TARDIS, the Doctor listens to a recording which Lucie had made using the [[temporal interocitor]]. He listens, broken, to Lucie's late wish to travel with him again. He claims that he will travel back in time one day and save Lucie before the detonation of the doomsday weapon. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
