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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the third story in the audio anthology ''[[The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume Three]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Roland Moore]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Rakhee Thakrar]] as [[Bliss (The Starship of Theseus)|Bliss]], [[Adèle Anderson]] as [[Sixth Tamasan|Major Tamasan]] and [[Michael Jayston]] as [[the Valeyard]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the third story in the audio anthology ''[[The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume Three]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Roland Moore]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Rakhee Thakrar]] as [[Bliss (The Starship of Theseus)|Bliss]], [[Adèle Anderson]] as [[Sixth Tamasan|Major Tamasan]] and [[Michael Jayston]] as [[the Valeyard]]. | ||
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The Doctor and Tamasan are introduced to Shonnath, whom they are to help build the transmat. The Doctor determines that the transmat, not having a destination, must be intended to hook into the [[Garlad]]s' already-established transmat system. Tamasan does not care, however, only wanting to find out how Shonnath survived. At the point of Dransino's gun, the Doctor is ordered to operate the transmat's controls. | The Doctor and Tamasan are introduced to Shonnath, whom they are to help build the transmat. The Doctor determines that the transmat, not having a destination, must be intended to hook into the [[Garlad]]s' already-established transmat system. Tamasan does not care, however, only wanting to find out how Shonnath survived. At the point of Dransino's gun, the Doctor is ordered to operate the transmat's controls. | ||
Vashko finds that the Argodian pod is almost entirely useless aside from a [[medical scanner]] and a device which detects | Vashko finds that the Argodian pod is almost entirely useless aside from a [[medical scanner]] and a device which detects the Dalek spacecraft above. Whilst the riders return, he shows Bliss a [[waterfall]] which she is unable to name, outing her as a non-Thellian; when she claims to be an Argodian, Vashko asks where her two companions are. | ||
The Doctor shuts down the transmat, refusing to send a man to his death, but Dransino activates it himself and kills the volunteer. Vashko contacts Shonnath and outs the Doctor and Tamasan as off-worlders, which leads her to put the Doctor to work with the circuits whilst Tamasan is imprisoned with Bliss to ensure his cooperation. Using an antenna, Bliss fashions a skeleton key to allow her and Tamasan to escape their cell. | The Doctor shuts down the transmat, refusing to send a man to his death, but Dransino activates it himself and kills the volunteer. Vashko contacts Shonnath and outs the Doctor and Tamasan as off-worlders, which leads her to put the Doctor to work with the circuits whilst Tamasan is imprisoned with Bliss to ensure his cooperation. Using an antenna, Bliss fashions a skeleton key to allow her and Tamasan to escape their cell. | ||
''to be | The Time Strategist is informed by his agent that the three volunteers are allegedly Argodian and commands them to exterminate them if they attempt to [[sabotage]] the transmat. | ||
Shonnath tells the Doctor that she survived time deletion by distorting her [[genetics|genetic code]] before falling into the [[Time Vortex]] and being transported to Thellian. To get her the help that she needs, the Doctor promises to do his bets to make the transmat work. He expresses his suspicion of Dransino, who seems to have technical knowledge beyond what a Thellian should, and tells Shonnath that he suspects that there is a Dalek agent nearby. Shonnath has never heard of the Daleks but trusts Dransino and has the Doctor continue his work. | |||
Bliss manages to unlock the cell door just before Tamasan is contacted by the Doctor; he tells them to search for Shonnath's genetic distortion tool and says that Dransino might be a Dalek agent. | |||
Having realised that the Doctor knows about the Helixara despite them having been erased from time, Shonnath suspects that he is a Time Lord and identifies him as such with medical technology before having him placed on a [[torture rack]]. The Doctor confesses that he came for the genetic modifier and Shonnath reveals that she only wants to leave Thellian to get revenge against the Time Lords for erasing [[Franx|her husband]] and [[Shonnath's son|son]]. However, the Doctor reminds her that she can only leave Thellian with his help and completes the transmat, asking her not to pursue vengeance. | |||
Bliss finds the genetic modifier hidden in the Great Tapestry before she and Tamasan are taken prisoner by Vashko, revealing himself to be a Dalek duplicate. | |||
The Doctor promises Shonnath that the Time Lords will not harm her if she hands over the genetic modifier, something which she should do to keep the Daleks from winning the Time War. When Bliss and Tamasan are brought in with it, there is a scuffle and Shonnath takes it. Daleks emerge through the transmat before the Doctor is able to return them, but not before Shonnath is wounded. A second wave of Daleks arrive and exterminate the now-superfluous Vashko. They offer to bring back the Helixara in return for Shonnath's device, but she gives it to the Doctor. | |||
Tamasan tells the Doctor that she will help Shonnath whilst he and Bliss work on the transmat and rejoins them shortly after, telling them that Shonnath had died from her injuries. The Doctor operates the transmat, threatening Tamasan if he finds out that she killed Shonnath, and commands Dransino to smash the machine once he has departed. The Time Strategist has the transmat intercepted and brings the Doctor to his ship, but he is reunited with Bliss and Tamasan at a waystation when Dransino destroys the machine. | |||
A transmat activates and [[the Valeyard]] appears, uncertain of what has happened to him. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* The [[Argodian medical scanner]] can [[diagnosis|diagnose]] [[illness]], as well as assess [[physiology]]. Shonnath uses it to confirm that the Doctor is a [[Time Lord]]. | * The [[Argodian medical scanner]] can [[diagnosis|diagnose]] [[illness]], as well as assess [[physiology]]. Shonnath uses it to confirm that the Doctor is a [[Time Lord]]. | ||
* Shonnath uses a [[torture rack]] to interrogate the Doctor. | * Shonnath uses a [[torture rack]] to interrogate the Doctor. | ||
* Shonnath had a [[ | * Shonnath had a [[Franx|husband]] and [[Shonnath's son|child]] before her species, the [[Helixara]], was [[temporal erasure|deleted from time]]. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
