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|main character = [[Leela]] | |main character = [[Leela]] | ||
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|enemy = [[ | |enemy = [[Zeno (Mother Tongue)|Zeno]] | ||
|setting = [[Nateus]] | |setting = [[Nateus]] | ||
|writer = [[Helen Goldwyn]] | |writer = [[Helen Goldwyn]] | ||
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|next = Unity (audio story) | |next = Unity (audio story) | ||
|epcount = 1 | |epcount = 1 | ||
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'''''Mother Tongue''''' was the third audio story in ''[[Time War: Volume Three]]'', the twelfth series of ''[[Gallifrey (audio series)|Gallifrey]]''. | '''''Mother Tongue''''' was the third audio story in ''[[Time War: Volume Three]]'', the twelfth series of ''[[Gallifrey (audio series)|Gallifrey]]''. | ||
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Leela and Drah use a [[vehicle]] far in advance of the technology used elsewhere, having been built from knowledge given by a visitor. Drah does not wish to speak of the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]], which is currently far away from Nateus but getting closer, and says that they need to remain hidden and keep the people ignorant of the war. Leela believes that this is pointless as the [[Dalek]]s will find them and destroy them, but she suddenly shifts away again. | Leela and Drah use a [[vehicle]] far in advance of the technology used elsewhere, having been built from knowledge given by a visitor. Drah does not wish to speak of the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]], which is currently far away from Nateus but getting closer, and says that they need to remain hidden and keep the people ignorant of the war. Leela believes that this is pointless as the [[Dalek]]s will find them and destroy them, but she suddenly shifts away again. | ||
Leela sees Sholan playing a fighting game with Kraumer and, when Sholan loses, she tells him that he must practise more in order to become invincible for the coming war. He says that there will never be war on Nateus, but agrees to fight harder. Leela then shifts ahead fifteen years into the war, when Nateus is | Leela sees Sholan playing a fighting game with Kraumer and, when Sholan loses, she tells him that he must practise more in order to become invincible for the coming war. He says that there will never be war on Nateus, but agrees to fight harder. Leela then shifts ahead fifteen years into the war, when the Trell are weakening and Nateus is led by Lord Warrior, whom she assumes is Kraumer. | ||
' | Renucha "tests" Sholan's knowledge by asking him about what the Trell can do and how somebody might be able to take them away, something which would require the planet itself to be moved. She then says that she is going to teach the students how to make a communications device. | ||
Leela visits the gardener of the Trell, who tells her that Sholan is long dead and that she destroyed him. She shifts again and finds herself stalking a [[Mirren]] with a younger Sholan and telling him that he needs to harden his heart and become a hunter. Although he wants only to capture the Mirren and keep it at the Citadel, she forces him to shoot it between the eyes. | |||
Renucha completes her communications device able to reach beyond the Vortex, ostensibly to contact allies. She is about to test it when Kraumer orders her to switch it off and destroy it, which she promises to do outside. Once Sholan and Kraumer are gone, Renucha uses the device to contact a [[Battle TARDIS]], identifying herself as [[Zeno (Mother Tongue)|Lady Zeno]] and sending a message for the [[War Council]] letting them know that she knows a way to obtain the protection of the Trell. Before she can say anymore, she experiences a time shift into the future where the relocation of the Trell is about to commence and tells Drah that she is a [[Time Lord]]. Lord Warrior then kills Drah. | |||
Leela finds herself with the dying Drah, who tells her that Renucha is actually a Time Lord and that she has to stop her and Lord Warrior. After telling her to go to the gardener, she dies. Leela then shifts back in time and finds herself running with Sholan and Kraumer from a [[Rudnig]] that she shot with an arrow. Leela and Kraumer cross a rope bridge whilst Sholan fends off the Rudnig with a branch, stunning it. It claws at the rope and Sholan and Kraumer fall, Sholan hitting his face against the wall and getting the scar that Lord Warrior has. Whilst Leela is able to get Sholan to safety, Kraumer falls. Sholan is angry at Leela for always having tried to make him somebody that he was not and says that she has finally succeeded. As he is now next in line to the throne, he will now be known as Lord Warrior. | |||
Leela shifts ahead and finds herself with the gardener, watching Nateus getting attacked. She learns that the gardener is Kraumer, having survived the fall, and that Lord Warrior and Renucha must be stopped from betraying Nateus. | |||
The Trell speak to Leela and tell her to "let him go". | |||
Zeno tells Lord Warrior that she has lived the attack on Nateus many times but has never been able to see how it ends, always shifting back into the past. They go to Drah's lodge to use a [[transmat]] to get off-world. Leela and the gardener find them and an [[earthquake]] hits as Lord Warrior and Zeno disappear. Leela says that she has to go back in time to let Sholan make his own choice and asks the Trell to send her back to the bridge. When the bridge breaks, Leela allows Sholan to sacrifice himself to save Kraumer, telling him that his heart is his strength and that he must listen to it. She wails as her son hits the water below. | |||
Leela finds that the future is much the same, but Drah is alive and Nateus remains hidden. Zeno has gone mad and is attacking the Trell, having been told to destroy them as the Time Lords cannot move the planet. Leela throws herself into the open Earth with Zeno. The Trell tell Leela that she has the choice between eternal peace in death or to risk forgetting about Sholan and to return to life. She chooses to live. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Drah]] - [[Sarah Douglas]] | * [[Drah]] - [[Sarah Douglas]] | ||
* [[Renucha]]<ref>Maxine Evans in fact plays [[Zeno (Mother Tongue)|Lady Zeno]] for most of the episode, who has transferred her consciousness into Renucha as a "Visitor" to Nateus.</ref> - [[Maxine Evans]] | * [[Renucha]]<ref>Maxine Evans in fact plays [[Zeno (Mother Tongue)|Lady Zeno]] for most of the episode, who has transferred her consciousness into Renucha as a "Visitor" to Nateus.</ref> - [[Maxine Evans]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Sholan|Warrior]] - [[Wilf Scolding]] | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
* Leela remembers the death of [[Neela|her mother]] and how [[Sole (The Face of Evil)|her father]] once removed a branch which impaled her arm. | * Leela remembers the death of [[Neela|her mother]] and how [[Sole (The Face of Evil)|her father]] once removed a branch which impaled her arm. | ||
* Drah says that Leela is the widow of [[Reem]]. | * Drah says that Leela is the widow of [[Reem]]. | ||
* Nateus is surrounded by [[dark energy]]. | |||
* Sholan kills a [[Mirren]]. | |||
* Zeno becomes [[Custodian of the Trell]]. | |||
* Leela shoots a [[Rudnig]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
'' | * Leela fell from {{Jacobi}}'s [[the Master's TARDIS|TARDIS]] in ''[[The Devil You Know (audio story)|The Devil You Know]]''. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
