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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
=== Pimlico (1) === | === Pimlico (1) === | ||
''to be | [[Andy Davidson|Andy]] unexpectedly finds himself in [[1950s]] [[London]] and instantly calls out for [[Norton Folgate|Norton]], expecting him to be responsible. [[Lizbeth Hayhoe|Lizbeth]] appears and, followed by [[gun]]fire, tells him to take cover. Hiding from the [[bullet]]s, she tells him that she is dead and asks what his excuse for being there is. | ||
Lizbeth leads Andy through an old bomb site and they hide behind a wall. With both of them having been taken out of time, they each believe themselves to be Norton's assessor and Lizbeth reasons that she must be dead by this time or else Norton would have simply contacted her by [[telephone]]. After cutting through a house, Andy realises that the shooters are guiding them somewhere rather than trying to kill them. Like Andy, Lizbeth is flesh and blood rather than a hard-light [[pharadyne projection]] and is sobered by the knowledge that she will die in the '50s, having planned to own a bad [[tea shop]] in her twilight. The two spot Norton in a chauffeur-driven car and are shot at as they approach him, the car being blown up. [[Gideon Lyme|Lyme]] helps them both up and they flee. | |||
Lyme tells Andy and Lizbeth that they are in the [[Pimlico Depopulation Zone]], a severely damaged part of London which has had its population relocated and is to be redeveloped by the [[New Towns Department]]. He takes them into a building full of [[tramp]]s who identify themselves as the [[Torchwood Emergency Continuity Board]] and inform them that the Pimlico Depopulation Zone has been infiltrated by an alien force that they are trying to contain. They tell them that they must hunt down Norton, the "rogue agent". | |||
Andy does not believe that Norton would allow London to become invaded, but Lizbeth thinks that he would do if there were something in it for him. Lyme says that the Pimlico Zone has become Norton's base of operations and that he must not be allowed to use it to establish a [[bridgehead]], but Andy and Lizbeth must first rest to recover from their [[temporal displacement]]. | |||
Andy and Lizbeth are taken to [[Pinkerton's Lodging Rooms]] and meet [[Pinkerton|Miss Pinkerton]], who serves them inedible food which the other lodgers eat without complaint. The [[window]]s are barred, the [[door]] is locked and the other lodgers seem just as rundown as the Emergency Continuity Board, prompting Lizbeth to go upstairs and whisper to Andy to join her in thirty seconds. In that time, the lodgers say "[[Ashenden]]" and order Andy to be silent when he questions them. | |||
Andy enters Lizbeth's room, which is better than his, and they wonder why Lyme has put them there. Lizbeth suggests that he and the Emergency Continuity Board might not trust them because they had been summoned by Norton and that whatever Norton is involved in might have entered Pinkerton's. Lizbeth spots an armed operative outside and they decide to escape. Andy returns to his room and falls asleep as the radio crackles before he is awoken by [[rock]]s being thrown at his window. He opens it up, expecting to see Norton, but instead sees something "not good". | |||
Lizbeth enters Andy's room and tells him that the radio interference is [[hypnosis|hypnotic]], which is how the safehouse has been infiltrated. They theorise that the force is using the radio to subdue the lodgers and keep them from warning Torchwood and Andy says that he believes he saw Norton outside outside his window. He says that he heard scuttling in his [[wardrobe]], which Lizbeth opens and finds that it is empty. However, there is [[slime]] on the shelf and a hole in the back of the cupboard. | |||
''to be completed'' | |||
=== O Little Town of Ashenden (2) === | === O Little Town of Ashenden (2) === | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
''to be | === Arts and literature === | ||
* Andy was just about to "finally" see the new [[James Bond]] film. Lizbeth is surprised that they make films about "that brutal idiot". | |||
* Lizbeth listens to the [[Light Programme]] on the [[radio]]. | |||
=== Food and drink === | |||
* Lizbeth was toasting [[crumpet]]s when she was summoned. | |||
* Miss Pinkerton says that her lodgers ask for [[kipper]]s for breakfast. She says that the smell covers up the smell of the drains. | |||
* Miss Pinkerton gives Andy and Lizbeth [[bubble and squeak]]. Andy asks Lizbeth if it is made entirely out of [[cabbage]] and fish [[bone]]s. | |||
* Andy decides to drown his bubble and squeak with [[mustard]], reasoning that it could not make it any worse. | |||
=== Individuals === | |||
* Lizbeth was flirting with the new [[typist]] when she was summoned. | |||
* Lizbeth once had a [[red setter]] who understood nearly everything that she said to him. | |||
* Lizbeth's sister, [[Margaret Hayhoe|Margaret]], would likely have arranged her [[funeral]], choosing the [[hymn]]s and [[flower]]s and not inviting any of the [[Women's Royal Naval Service|Wrens]] that she looked after during [[World War II]]. Lizbeth says that she will turn her into [[glue]] if she has had [[Lizbeth Hayhoe's dog|her dog]] destroyed. | |||
* Lizbeth mentions [[John Reith|Lord Reith]]. | |||
=== Locations === | |||
* Lizbeth leads Andy through an old [[bomb]] site which was destroyed by the [[Luftwaffe]]. | |||
* Miss Pinkerton owns [[Pinkerton's Lodging Rooms]]. There are bars on the [[window]]s and Miss Pinkerton has the only [[key]] to the front door, which she keeps locked. Lizbeth's room has wallpaper which is covered in [[mould]]. | |||
* [[Ashenden]] is a new [[commuter town]] on the [[Sussex Coast]]. | |||
=== Technology === | |||
* Lizbeth says that she should be a hard-light [[pharadyne projection]]. | |||
=== Torchwood === | |||
* Torchwood has an [[Torchwood Emergency Continuity Board|Emergency Continuity Board]], a bunch of old men in dusty old suits who are convened when the leader of [[Torchwood One]] goes missing. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
'' | * Lizbeth knows that she must be dead. Andy says that he might have met her briefly but [[mushroom creature|would not have recognised her]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ashenden (audio story)|Ashenden]]'') | ||
* Andy says that Norton and Lyme were an item when they last met. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ashenden (audio story)|Ashenden]]'') | |||
* Lizbeth mentions her sister, [[Margaret Hayhoe|Margaret]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Madam, I'm (audio story)|Madam, I'm]]'') | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
