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|audio anthology = | |audio anthology = Susan's War (audio anthology) | ||
|range = Susan's War (audio anthology) | |range = Susan's War (audio anthology) | ||
|number in range = 4 | |number in range = 4 | ||
|number = 4 | |number = 4 | ||
|epcount = 1 | |||
|main character = [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] | |main character = [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] | ||
|featuring = Eighth Doctor | |featuring = Eighth Doctor | ||
|featuring2 = Audrey Dudman{{!}}Alex | |featuring2 = Audrey Dudman{{!}}Alex | ||
|featuring3 = First Doctor | |featuring3 = First Doctor | ||
|enemy = [[Dalek]] | |featuring4 = Veklin | ||
|setting = [[ | |featuring5 = Rasmus (Deeptime Frontier) | ||
|writer = | |enemy = [[Dalek|The Daleks]] | ||
|setting = [[Shoreditch]], [[7 August]] [[1963]] | |||
|writer = Alan Barnes | |||
|director = [[Lisa Bowerman]] | |director = [[Lisa Bowerman]] | ||
|producer = [[David Richardson]] | |producer = [[David Richardson]] | ||
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|sound = Howard Carter | |sound = Howard Carter | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 16 April 2020 | ||
|format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>4th of 4 stories | |format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>4th of 4 stories | ||
|production code = BFPSUSANTWCD | |production code = BFPSUSANTWCD | ||
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|series = ''[[Susan's War (audio anthology)|Susan's War]]'' | |series = ''[[Susan's War (audio anthology)|Susan's War]]'' | ||
|prev = Assets of War (audio story) | |prev = Assets of War (audio story) | ||
| | |next = The Lost Son (audio story) | ||
}} | |||
'''''The Shoreditch Intervention''''' was the fourth and final story in the audio anthology ''[[Susan's War (audio anthology)|Susan's War]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Alan Barnes]] | '''''The Shoreditch Intervention''''' was the fourth and final story in the audio anthology ''[[Susan's War (audio anthology)|Susan's War]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Alan Barnes]]. | ||
Set in [[1963]], ''The Shoreditch Intervention'' included a number of elements from TV stories, namely ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' and ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', and featured another meeting between [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] and the [[Eighth Doctor]]. It also featured a brief cameo by [[David Bradley]] as the [[First Doctor]] through dialogue inserted from another story and ended with Susan being taken to the [[War Room]]. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
When [[Veklin's TARDIS|Susan's TARDIS]] is intercepted, she is given a highly classified mission. | When [[Veklin's TARDIS|Susan's TARDIS]] is intercepted, she is given a highly classified mission. | ||
[[Earth]], [[1963]] is a nexus point in the [[Time War]], but the timelines must be negotiated carefully. Mods and rockers are not the only dangers on the streets of [[Shoreditch]]. | [[Earth]], [[1963]] is a nexus point in the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]], but the timelines must be negotiated carefully. Mods and rockers are not the only dangers on the streets of [[Shoreditch]]. | ||
In Susan's past, the [[Dalek]] | In Susan's past, the [[Dalek Empire|Daleks]] are waiting. But so is [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]]! | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
[[Susan Foreman|Susan]] arrives on a [[planet]] that she was not expecting and meets [[Lehena (Dalek duplicate)|Lehena]], who says that she does not represent the disbanded [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] and whispers one of Susan's names to her. Lehena shows her that they are in the past of [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]] and asks if she would avert the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]] if she could, saying that she and [[First Doctor|her grandfather]] were responsible for bringing it about in [[1963]]. | [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] arrives on a [[planet]] that she was not expecting and meets [[Lehena (Dalek duplicate)|Lehena]], who says that she does not represent the disbanded [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] and whispers one of Susan's names to her. Lehena shows her that they are in the past of [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]] and asks if she would avert the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]] if she could, saying that she and [[First Doctor|her grandfather]] were responsible for bringing it about in [[1963]]. | ||
Outside of a [[café]] in 1963, [[Franko (The Shoreditch Intervention)|Franko]] teases [[JP (The Shoreditch Intervention|JP]] about his [[motor scooter]], despite [[Audrey Dudman|Alex]] telling him not to, and accepts his challenge of a race. At the drop of Alex's scarf, the race begins. | Outside of a [[café]] in 1963, [[Franko (The Shoreditch Intervention)|Franko]] teases [[JP (The Shoreditch Intervention)|JP]] about his [[motor scooter]], despite [[Audrey Dudman|Alex]] telling him not to, and accepts his challenge of a race. At the drop of Alex's scarf, the race begins. | ||
Lehena tells Susan that her grandfather had returned for the [[Hand of Omega]] [[Seventh Doctor|in a later incarnation]] and used it to destroy a version of [[Skaro]], a massive escalation in the build-up to the Time War. She says that Susan could use [[Susan Foreman's Time Ring|a Time Ring]] to follow her younger self in the slipstream of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], tricking the [[time lock]] and allowing her to go to [[Earth]]. | Lehena tells Susan that her grandfather had returned for the [[Hand of Omega]] [[Seventh Doctor|in a later incarnation]] and used it to destroy a version of [[Skaro]], a massive escalation in the build-up to the Time War. She says that Susan could use [[Susan Foreman's Time Ring|a Time Ring]] to follow her younger self in the slipstream of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], tricking the [[time lock]] and allowing her to go to [[Earth]]. | ||
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Franco and JP taunt each other as they race and come to the attention of the [[police]], who give chase. | Franco and JP taunt each other as they race and come to the attention of the [[police]], who give chase. | ||
Lehena gives Susan a Time Ring and a [[sonic wand]] of her grandfather's design and tasks her with convincing the Hand not to allow the Doctor to use it. Having put the Ring on, Susan disappears. Lehena shouts that it is okay to lower the [[hypnoscape]] and tells the [[Dalek]] | Lehena gives Susan a Time Ring and a [[sonic wand]] of her grandfather's design and tasks her with convincing the Hand not to allow the Doctor to use it. Having put the Ring on, Susan disappears. Lehena shouts that it is okay to lower the [[hypnoscape]] and tells the [[Dalek|Daleks]] that phase 1 of the operation is complete. The Daleks lock onto Susan's temporal trail. | ||
Susan arrives in [[London]] and is almost hit by Franco and JP, so she uses her sonic wand to make JP's scooter fall apart. She leaves to avoid the police and JP tells them that Susan had been the one riding the scooter. Franco manages to escape and returns to Alex at the café, ordering [[coffee]]s and going to play [[pinball]] to establish an [[alibi]]. Susan arrives there as well and finds that it is [[7 August]], which is later than she was hoping; she sees and confronts Franco, telling him what has happened to JP. Alex goes to see if he is alright. | Susan arrives in [[London]] and is almost hit by Franco and JP, so she uses her sonic wand to make JP's scooter fall apart. She leaves to avoid the police and JP tells them that Susan had been the one riding the scooter. Franco manages to escape and returns to Alex at the café, ordering [[coffee]]s and going to play [[pinball]] to establish an [[alibi]]. Susan arrives there as well and finds that it is [[7 August]], which is later than she was hoping; she sees and confronts Franco, telling him what has happened to JP. Alex goes to see if he is alright. | ||
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The Doctor has caught the trace of his younger self leaving Earth a few weeks into the future with Susan, [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] and [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]], planning on materialising a [[nanosecond]] after the earlier TARDIS leaves, with the [[time break]]s off, and being towed out of 1963. Although the Doctor wants to spend time with her, Susan asks him to take her back to Gallifrey to continue helping in the Time War in the name of her son. Fyodor bangs on the door of the TARDIS and warns them of the rockers, whom the Doctor believes must be controlled by the [[Renegade Dalek]]s. The Doctor prepares to dematerialise to avoid altering the past, but Susan asks for five minutes and leaves. | The Doctor has caught the trace of his younger self leaving Earth a few weeks into the future with Susan, [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] and [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]], planning on materialising a [[nanosecond]] after the earlier TARDIS leaves, with the [[time break]]s off, and being towed out of 1963. Although the Doctor wants to spend time with her, Susan asks him to take her back to Gallifrey to continue helping in the Time War in the name of her son. Fyodor bangs on the door of the TARDIS and warns them of the rockers, whom the Doctor believes must be controlled by the [[Renegade Dalek]]s. The Doctor prepares to dematerialise to avoid altering the past, but Susan asks for five minutes and leaves. | ||
''to | Susan uses her sonic wand to temporarily break the connection between the rocker and the Daleks, allowing Fyodor to restrain him with [[handcuffs]] from his [[magic]] act. She goes to save Alex from the other rocker, telling him that she knows that he is a [[Roboman]] and claiming to be here to fence the proceeds of a space train robbery. When she tries to break the Roboman connection, she learns that the control has been encrypted and that Roboman reinforcements have arrived. | ||
Having given Susan five minutes, the Doctor leaves the TARDIS and learns from Alex and Fyodor that Susan has been captured. Franco and a group of four other [[mod]]s under Dalek control arrive and tell the Doctor that the Time War Daleks will save Susan from the Renegades in return for the reprogrammed Hand of Omega. The Doctor agrees, holding out [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]] for the Daleks to give it the power to disrupt the Renegades' Roboman control. | |||
The Robomen put Susan in a [[sidecar (vehicle)|sidecar]] and transport her across London until the control signal is cut. | |||
Franco sends two mods to collect Susan and asks for the Hand of Omega. The Doctor tells him that the Hand is in a nearby [[sarcophagus]]; although he cannot detect any stellar energy, the Doctor claims that it is because of his TARDIS's [[chameleon circuit]] and the mods carry it into the TARDIS where they are joined by Susan. Franco tells the Doctor to take them out of 1963, threatening to kill Susan, Alex and Fyodor, and he obliges, taking them to the recreation of Arcadia and meeting Lehena. The Doctor identifies her as a [[Dalek duplicate]] of [[Lehena|a Time Lord]] whom he once had a crush on at [[Time Lord Academy|the Academy]]. | |||
The Daleks remove the hypnoscape, revealing that they are on a [[Dalek dreadnought]], and demand that the Doctor removes the illusion around the Hand of Omega. He sends Susan into the TARDIS to get his screwdriver, but she is unable to find it. The Doctor takes the screwdriver from his pocket and tells the Daleks that the Hand was never at Fyodor's and remains hidden. He uses the screwdriver to close the TARDIS doors with Susan inside and bids her farewell as [[Special Weapons Dalek]]s surround him. The TARDIS dematerialises and the Doctor is seemingly exterminated, leaving no remains. | |||
The Doctor arrives on the TARDIS, having used the Time Ring to escape extermination. Susan takes it to return to Earth to save Alex and Fyodor, but the Doctor tells her that the Dalek control was cut off the moment that they left and that they are safe. Susan asks him to fly her as far as [[Kasterborous]], for old time's sake. | |||
JP finds Alex and wakes her up, calling her "Aud" and "Audrey". They flee from Fyodor, who tells them not to come back. | |||
Susan returns to Gallifrey in [[Veklin]]'s TARDIS and tells her and [[Rasmus (Deeptime Frontier)|Rasmus]] about the Dalek ploy to unravel the [[timeline]]s. Rasmus says that her talents make her valuable to Gallifrey and that they will have to take better care of her from now on. [[Rassilon (Deception)|Rassilon]] has taken an interest in Susan and Rasmus believes that he might want to speak with her. He takes her to the [[War Room]] to see how else she can contribute. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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=== Uncredited === | === Uncredited === | ||
* [[First Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[David Bradley]] ([[BFX]]: ''The Shoreditch Intervention'') | * [[First Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[David Bradley]] ([[BFX]]: ''The Shoreditch Intervention'') | ||
* [[Veklin]] - [[Beth Chalmers]] | |||
* [[Rasmus (Deeptime Frontier)|Rasmus]] - [[Damian Lynch]] | |||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* Alex does not like [[cappuccino]]s as they go cold too quickly. | * Alex does not like [[cappuccino]]s as they go cold too quickly. | ||
* Franko tells [[Chalky]] to put a [[sixpence]] in the [[jukebox]]. | * Franko tells [[Chalky]] to put a [[sixpence]] in the [[jukebox]]. | ||
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* The Doctor recognises [[Dalek duplicate]]s through [[blink rate]]. | * The Doctor recognises [[Dalek duplicate]]s through [[blink rate]]. | ||
* [[Lehena]] was left behind by the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]]. | * [[Lehena]] was left behind by the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]]. | ||
* Lehena summons [[Special Weapons Dalek]]s to destroy the TARDIS. | |||
* Rasmus mentions [[Brancheerian (The Uncertain Shore)|the Brancheerian]], who confirmed that the Daleks have renewed their interest in Earth. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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* The Doctor claims he gave up his [[chameleon circuit]] to disguise the [[Hand of Omega]]'s container, which is why his TARDIS became stuck as a [[police box]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') | * The Doctor claims he gave up his [[chameleon circuit]] to disguise the [[Hand of Omega]]'s container, which is why his TARDIS became stuck as a [[police box]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') | ||
* The Doctor hid his [[Five Hundred Year Diary|secret diary]] in the lower compartment of the [[astral map]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web Planet (TV story)|The Web Planet]]'', et al.) | * The Doctor hid his [[Five Hundred Year Diary|secret diary]] in the lower compartment of the [[astral map]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web Planet (TV story)|The Web Planet]]'', et al.) | ||
* The Doctor tricks Susan into his TARDIS and sends her away for safety. His future incarnations would also do the same for [[Rose]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') | * The Doctor tricks Susan into his TARDIS and sends her away for safety. His future incarnations would also do the same for their companions; the [[Ninth Doctor|ninth]] for [[Rose]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') the [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh]] for [[Clara]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') and the [[Twelfth Doctor|twelfth]] for [[River Song]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') | ||
* An execution party of [[Special Weapons Dalek]]s seemingly obliterates the Doctor, ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') but he survives by teleporting at the moment he should die. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') | * An execution party of [[Special Weapons Dalek]]s seemingly obliterates the Doctor, ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') but he survives by teleporting at the moment he should die. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') | ||
* Information obtained from the [[Dalek agent (The Uncertain Shore)|Brancheerian Dalek agent]] has revealed the Daleks have a heightened interest in Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Uncertain Shore (audio story)|The Uncertain Shore]]'') | * Information obtained from the [[Dalek agent (The Uncertain Shore)|Brancheerian Dalek agent]] has revealed the Daleks have a heightened interest in Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Uncertain Shore (audio story)|The Uncertain Shore]]'') | ||
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