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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first story in the audio anthology ''[[The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Simon Barnard]] and [[Paul Morris]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Miranda Raison]] as [[Constance Clarke]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first story in the audio anthology ''[[The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Simon Barnard]] and [[Paul Morris]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Miranda Raison]] as [[Constance Clarke]]. | ||
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Hilary leaves the train together with Keith, who promises to take her to the station. When they are out, though, Tim stops her and "induces" her to tell her what really happened: there were voices, Hilary says, exploiting her frustration, driving her towards the killing. Satisfied, Keith breaks the contact and leaves her to die at the hands of their misterious assailants. | Hilary leaves the train together with Keith, who promises to take her to the station. When they are out, though, Tim stops her and "induces" her to tell her what really happened: there were voices, Hilary says, exploiting her frustration, driving her towards the killing. Satisfied, Keith breaks the contact and leaves her to die at the hands of their misterious assailants. | ||
' | On the train, the Doctor realises they stand on a [[reality nexus]], a point of convergence between [[Parallel universe|parallel universes]], who are collapsing one on each other: they have actually seen different version of the same train and passengers, and Hilary has been victim of the influence of a "dark" version of herself. The station they should be headed for must be a point of control, which the Doctor decides to try and reach, aided by Keith, now back to the train. Constance remains on the train, together with the other passengers, but she is forced to leave with Tim after another passenger, [[Alice Lloyd|Alice]], is driven insane as Hilary, and attacks Norman killing him. | ||
The Doctor and Keith reach the station, and find another version of Norman, with a different uniform; the station is built with a style which reminds the Doctor of the work of the [[Parallel Sect]], an old species capable of moving through parallel universes. They designed this place as a control room, with the purpose of keeping up the shields between the universe, and also created the Normans (a species of robots) so that they act as caretakers. Here Keith reveals himself to be an avatar of [[the Master]]: he has taken control of the Normans and ordered them to disable the shields, thus allowing him transit in any dimension he wishes. However, to avoid dimensions to collapse, he has to introduce a safety protocol, which would heavily damage him: he intends to force the Doctor to do it for him. | |||
Constance and Keith reach the station, and trick the local Norman to go and look for other versions of the passenger as they move on; short after, though, Tim is forced to stay behind because he feels himself attacked by his dark self. Constance enters the station and sees the Doctor confront the Master; the latter one immediately threatens her with the [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]], thus forcing the Doctor to agree to his terms. However, the Doctor convinces Norman to revolt against the Master, noticing that the orders he is giving him go against his original programming. Norman then reinstates the shields, initiating a process which could, however, destroy the station. To stabilise it, the Doctor would need a [[Relative Dimensional Stabiliser|dimensional stabiliser]] - which Constance promptly find in Tim's jacket. | |||
As the Master/Keith escapes, he is approached by Tim, who on his turn is revealed to be [[the Valeyard]] in disguise. He came her to restore himself after his last encounter with the Doctor, but the Master's intervention nearly cost him his life. Now, however, he is once again in shape, and he threatens the Master to leave and stop meddling with the Doctor and himself. When Keith protests, the Valeyard kills Keith before leaving. With the dimensions restored, the fog clears, and the Doctor and Constance come back to the TARDIS and leaves, despite not knowing Tim's real identity. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
