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|companions = [[Liv Chenka|Liv]], [[Helen Sinclair|Helen]] | |companions = [[Liv Chenka|Liv]], [[Helen Sinclair|Helen]] | ||
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|enemy = [[Padrac | |enemy = [[Padrac]] | ||
|setting = [[Gallifrey | |setting = [[Gallifrey]] | ||
|writer = [[John Dorney]] | |writer = [[John Dorney]] | ||
|director = [[Ken Bentley]] | |director = [[Ken Bentley]] | ||
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|prev2 = The Side of the Angels (audio story) | |prev2 = The Side of the Angels (audio story) | ||
|next2 = Their Finest Hour (audio story) | |next2 = Their Finest Hour (audio story) | ||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the fourth and final story in the audio anthology ''[[Doom Coalition 4]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[John Dorney]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Nicola Walker]] as [[Liv Chenka]] and [[Hattie Morahan]] as [[Helen Sinclair]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the fourth and final story in the audio anthology ''[[Doom Coalition 4]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[John Dorney]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Nicola Walker]] as [[Liv Chenka]] and [[Hattie Morahan]] as [[Helen Sinclair]]. | ||
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The Eleven holds Helen hostage and [[the Five]] taunts her by saying that they would have preferred Liv as a hostage. The Eleven shoots a Time Lord and steals [[Battle TARDIS (Stop the Clock)|a Battle TARDIS]]. | The Eleven holds Helen hostage and [[the Five]] taunts her by saying that they would have preferred Liv as a hostage. The Eleven shoots a Time Lord and steals [[Battle TARDIS (Stop the Clock)|a Battle TARDIS]]. | ||
'' | As the Sonomancer feels her power building, Ladonne informs Padrac that the optimum time to destroy the universe will be in twenty minutes. Padrac has the power ramped up further and receives a call from the Eleven, exposing the Doctor when he threatens to kill Helen. Padrac tears the psychic cloak and has Ladonne restrain the Doctor before refusing to allow the Eleven in, deeming him unworthy of his [[utopia]]. The Doctor manipulates the Sonomancer into looking into [[the Matrix]] to determine the truth about her relationship with Padrac. | ||
Liv and Alekall decide to blow up the Capitol shields instead of the transduction barriers whilst the Eleven fires at Helen. | |||
In the Matrix, the Sonomancer sees Padrac telling people to break her confidence down and make her hate the universe, ordering that her powers be suppressed and that she is given a lowly job at the archives, calling her pathetic, insane and worthless. She returns to consciousness and realises that the Resonance Engine will kill her but is unable to escape, fail-safes having been installed. Although she refuses to believe that Padrac has no love for her, she reaches out into the Matrix on the Doctor's suggestion. | |||
Aboard the Battle TARDIS, the Eleven and his gunshot are frozen, stopped by Helen's mind. The Sonomancer informs her that she has transferred her powers to her and that she has saved her so that Helen might save her in return. Meanwhile, Liv hears a voice that sounds like the Sonomancer or, rather, the girl that she once was and decides to return to the Doctor's TARDIS with Alekall. The Sonomancer tells Helen to fly the Battle TARDIS at the Resonance Engine, killing her and possibly killing Helen. Helen agrees to do it, feeling that she needs to matter, and destroys the Engine, leaving herself, the Eleven and the Sonomancer lost in the Time Vortex. The Doctor's TARDIS arrives and saves the Doctor and Padrac from being sucked into the Vortex. | |||
The Doctor visits Padrac, having been told that he is going to be frozen, and tells him that Alekall is reassembling the [[High Council]] and that the alien races have been placated. Padrac says that he has doomed Gallifrey, which the Doctor says is a price that he is willing to pay before leaving. Padrac complains to [[guard (Stop the Clock)|a guard]] about a discolouration on the wall which looks not unlike a woman. | |||
The Doctor meets with Liv and tells her that he has detected a trail from the temporal implosion belonging to the Battle TARDIS, meaning that Helen might be alive. Not wanting the trail to go cold, the Doctor and Liv head off in the TARDIS to find her. | |||
Padrac is locked into place to be frozen and continues to be fearful of the image of a woman, saying that it has come closer and believing it to be what is left of Caleera. She whispers to Padrac, calling him her love and saying that she has been searching for him for a long time. As Padrac is frozen, she tells him that they will be together forever, forcing him to look her in the eye. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[The Five]] boasts he is a formidable opponent who was capable of [[murder|killing]] everyone even when he was incarcerated within [[the Eleven]]. | * [[The Five]] boasts he is a formidable opponent who was capable of [[murder|killing]] everyone even when he was incarcerated within [[the Eleven]]. | ||
* Tessno joined her squad with [[Carolan]], whom the Ten forced her to kill. | * Tessno joined her squad with [[Carolan]], whom the Ten forced her to kill. | ||
* Helen flippantly suggests that she and the Eleven play [[Bridge (game)|bridge]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
