The Red Lady (audio story): Difference between revisions

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|audio anthology  = ''[[Doom Coalition 1]]''

|enemy            = [[Caleera|The red lady]]

|writer          = [[John Dorney]]

|release date    = [[12 October (releases)|12 October]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]]

'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story of ''[[Doom Coalition 1]]''.

It introduced [[Hattie Morahan]] as new [[companion]] [[Helen Sinclair]], a character inspired by [[Verity Lambert]], as well as the [[Caleera|red lady]] whose identity and true nature would not be discovered until ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]''. This would be the last story in which the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Liv Chenka]] travelled alone until ''[[Their Finest Hour (audio story)|Their Finest Hour]]''.

At a party, Helen receives a call from Professor Pritchett, who tells her about what he has heard over the phone. She rushes to see him and learns that Kennedy died in his study holding a child's drawing and he shows her the red lady in a [[tapestry]], which Helen is barely able to see. She keeps him from destroying it and says that she will lock it away the following day.

Liv notices the red lady in all of the written pieces, leading Helen to tell her about the recurring image and Kennedy's [[death]]. Liv and Helen go to the collection where they find Professor Pritchett, who has become obsessed with the red lady and insists that she is moving closer. They take him to the Doctor and tell him about the red lady. The Doctor and Liv look back at the first documents they read that mentioned her and find that they have changed, now saying that she is closer. Helen, however, has not looked at any pieces that nobody else has.

On the way home with Helen, Professor Pritchett runs off upon seeing the red lady in a shop window. The Doctor has posed as a policeman and learnt that Kennedy died holding a child's drawing and that he is survived by [[Rachel (The Red Lady)|a cousin]]. At the museum, Helen hears Professor Pritchett being killed as she tries to knock down the locked door to the collection.

The Doctor and Liv meet Dr McCallum's cousin, Rachel, who tells them that he was blind and that the works had never been looked upon since they were made. The Doctor, Liv and Helen find that the red lady has disappeared from the tapestry that Professor Pritchett had looked at and that the documents the Doctor and Liv had looked at had her even closer. They realise that the red lady had killed [[Francis McCallum's mother|McCallum's mother]] and [[Francis McCallum's father|father]].

Liv picks up the parchment and, entranced, says that she can see the red lady's [[eye]]s. The Doctor looks at his own parchment and, realising that Dr McCallum must have blinded himself, Helen covers their eyes with their [[scarf|scarves]]. Despite this, they still sense her presence. The Doctor determines that the artists had trapped the red lady with their art and draws a [[stick figure]] of her whilst Liv writes a [[poem]], saving them.

Helen tells Professor Garland that she cannot explain how Dr McCallum's collection has vanished and is fired. She returns home, where the Doctor and Helen wait for her, having hidden the art away. He uses the pattern analyser to play the tablet, which is a message for the Doctor from [[Galileo Galilei]] in [[1639]], and invites Helen, soon to be arrested for art theft, to join them in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. She accepts, saying that she thinks she might be making a huge mistake.

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