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|number = 211 | |number = 211 | ||
|doctor = Fifth Doctor | |doctor = Fifth Doctor | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = The [[Reborn Master]] | ||
|setting = [[Hexford]], [[2016]] and [[1984]] | |setting = [[Hexford]], [[2016]] and [[1984]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Alan Barnes | ||
|director = [[Jamie Anderson]] | |director = [[Jamie Anderson]] | ||
|producer = [[David Richardson]] | |producer = [[David Richardson]] | ||
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|epcount = 4 | |epcount = 4 | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 12 April 2016 | ||
|format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | |format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | ||
|production code = BFPDWCD211 | |production code = BFPDWCD211 | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-883-7 (physical) | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-883-7 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-78178-884-4 (digital) | ||
|trailer = Doctor Who And You Will Obey Me | |trailer = Doctor Who And You Will Obey Me | ||
|prev = The Peterloo Massacre (audio story) | |prev = The Peterloo Massacre (audio story) | ||
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|soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-and-you-will-obey-me-trailer | |soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-and-you-will-obey-me-trailer | ||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the two hundred and eleventh story in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Alan Barnes]] and featured [[Peter Davison]] as the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Geoffrey Beevers]] as [[the Master]]. However, as revealed in the subsequent | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the two hundred and eleventh story in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Alan Barnes]] and featured [[Peter Davison]] as the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Geoffrey Beevers]] as [[the Master]]. However, as revealed in the subsequent instalments of the "Multi-Master Trilogy" (''[[Vampire of the Mind (audio story)|Vampire of the Mind]]'' and ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]''), the Master in the story is not actually {{Pratt}}, but [[Alex Macqueen]]'s [[Reborn Master]] occupying the body of his earlier incarnation. | ||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
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The mercenaries, led by [[Grigor (And You Will Obey Me)|Grigor]], hold the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Annie (And You Will Obey Me)|Annie]] at gunpoint. As they sound each other out for information, it becomes clear that the mercenaries are not, or, in any event, do not believe that they are, working for {{Pratt}}, with Grigori revealing that his "master" is in fact female. The Doctor and Annie are serendipitously saved by the arrival of [[Gomphus]] and [[Jade Nymph]], whom the Doctor recognises as [[Dragonhunter]]s, with Nymph rendering Grigor unconscious with her stinger to neutralise the threat of his [[staser]]. | The mercenaries, led by [[Grigor (And You Will Obey Me)|Grigor]], hold the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Annie (And You Will Obey Me)|Annie]] at gunpoint. As they sound each other out for information, it becomes clear that the mercenaries are not, or, in any event, do not believe that they are, working for {{Pratt}}, with Grigori revealing that his "master" is in fact female. The Doctor and Annie are serendipitously saved by the arrival of [[Gomphus]] and [[Jade Nymph]], whom the Doctor recognises as [[Dragonhunter]]s, with Nymph rendering Grigor unconscious with her stinger to neutralise the threat of his [[staser]]. | ||
The Doctor discourages the Dragonhunters from liquefying the unconscious Grigor's brain for information by showing them the Master's [[TARDIS key]] and telling them he will help take them to the Master's TARDIS so long as they refrain from killing. Though mistrustful of [[Time Lord]]s, and not yet convinced that the Doctor and Annie are not [[bounty hunter]]s seeking the Master for self-serving reasons, the giant alien dragonflies accept the bargain. The Dragonhunters abruptly pick up the Doctor and all three fly off. Left on solid ground, Annie tells [[Colin (And You Will Obey Me)|Colin]] and [[Helen (And You Will Obey Me)|Helen]], whom the Doctor also convinced the Dragonhunters to leave alone, to come out of hiding. She voices her intention to wake up and interrogate Grigor. As he wakes up, Grigor can only repeat the word "strekozy" ("[[dragonfly]]" in [[Russian language|Russian]]) over and over; Helen suggests to Annie that Colin tie him to a chair. | The Doctor discourages the Dragonhunters from liquefying the unconscious Grigor's brain for information by showing them the Master's [[TARDIS key]] and telling them he will help take them to the Master's TARDIS so long as they refrain from killing. Though mistrustful of [[Time Lord]]s, and not yet convinced that the Doctor and Annie are not [[bounty hunter]]s seeking the Master for self-serving reasons, the giant alien dragonflies accept the bargain. The Dragonhunters abruptly pick up the Doctor and all three fly off. Left on solid ground, Annie tells [[Colin (And You Will Obey Me)|Colin]] and [[Helen (And You Will Obey Me)|Helen]], whom the Doctor also convinced the Dragonhunters to leave alone, to come out of hiding. She voices her intention to wake up and interrogate Grigor. As he wakes up, Grigor can only repeat the word "strekozy" ("[[dragonfly]]" in [[Russian language|Russian]]) over and over; Helen suggests to Annie that Colin tie him to a chair. | ||
Meanwhile, the Doctor has succeeded in convincing the Dragonhunters to land near [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] instead of continuing the journey through flight. He invites them in and explain to them that he is using the [[telepathic circuits]] to home in on [[Goth's TARDIS|the Master's TARDIS]] on the basis of the key. However, the [[short-wave transmission]]s, [[long-wave transmission]]s, [[frequency modulated transmission]]s and [[microwave transmission]]s at "ground level" drown out the signal, forcing the Doctor to take the TARDIS up vertically "a few thousand feet up" in the hope of being able to home in on the "whisper" of the other TARDIS. | Meanwhile, the Doctor has succeeded in convincing the Dragonhunters to land near [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] instead of continuing the journey through flight. He invites them in and explain to them that he is using the [[telepathic circuits]] to home in on [[Goth's TARDIS|the Master's TARDIS]] on the basis of the key. However, the [[short-wave transmission]]s, [[long-wave transmission]]s, [[frequency modulated transmission]]s and [[microwave transmission]]s at "ground level" drown out the signal, forcing the Doctor to take the TARDIS up vertically "a few thousand feet up" in the hope of being able to home in on the "whisper" of the other TARDIS. | ||
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=== Part three === | === Part three === | ||
The Doctor gets Mikey to recount the story how it all started, prompting a flashback. After getting off the bus, the four teenagers — [[Colin (And You Will Obey Me)|Colin]], [[Helen (And You Will Obey Me)|Helen]], and [[Janine (And You Will Obey Me)|Janine]] and [[Michael Masterson|Mikey]] themselves — bicker about whether Mikey knows the way back as he claimed. Before things can get too far, however, they see [[Goth's TARDIS|the Master's TARDIS]] plummeting to the ground, causing tremors as though a bomb just dropped. | The Doctor gets Mikey to recount the story how it all started, prompting a flashback. After getting off the bus, the four teenagers — [[Colin (And You Will Obey Me)|Colin]], [[Helen (And You Will Obey Me)|Helen]], and [[Janine (And You Will Obey Me)|Janine]] and [[Michael Masterson|Mikey]] themselves — bicker about whether Mikey knows the way back as he claimed. Before things can get too far, however, they see [[Goth's TARDIS|the Master's TARDIS]] plummeting to the ground, causing tremors as though a bomb just dropped. | ||
Making their way to the flaming barn into which the timeship crashed, they hesitate with coming closer until the Master emerges from the "capsule", asking for help. He grouches and complains as they help him up, however, and threatens them with a [[staser gun]] when they try to call for medical assistance. After they recant, he tells them that his facial disfiguration is nothing new, and that what ails him as the result of his crash is trauma to his genetic structure. Not realising when and where he is, he asks for directions to a genetic therapy clinic; when Janine tries to have a joke at his expense, he drops any | Making their way to the flaming barn into which the timeship crashed, they hesitate with coming closer until the Master emerges from the "capsule", asking for help. He grouches and complains as they help him up, however, and threatens them with a [[staser gun]] when they try to call for medical assistance. After they recant, he tells them that his facial disfiguration is nothing new, and that what ails him as the result of his crash is trauma to his genetic structure. Not realising when and where he is, he asks for directions to a genetic therapy clinic; when Janine tries to have a joke at his expense, he drops any pretence of affability and demonstrates his hypnotic control over her, spooking the others into obedience. He then reads Mike's mind to see his greatest desire (that his wounded brother be healed) and promises it to him in exchange for total submission to his will. He soon repeats the same offer to the other three. | ||
Mikey and Janine go on to chronicle how the Master transferred parts of his essence and thus hypnotic powers to them, so that they could "steal" various electronic components on his behalf by simply walking into shops and demanding to be given them. The Doctor notes that it only makes sense that he would have "infected" those close to him with parts of his being, if his "[[biodata|genetic structure]]" had been damaged. | Mikey and Janine go on to chronicle how the Master transferred parts of his essence and thus hypnotic powers to them, so that they could "steal" various electronic components on his behalf by simply walking into shops and demanding to be given them. The Doctor notes that it only makes sense that he would have "infected" those close to him with parts of his being, if his "[[biodata|genetic structure]]" had been damaged. | ||
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Still in Mike's telling, the Master grows increasingly desperate over weeks living in the Hexford house, with the machine he is putting together not working properly and his unstable form "dissipating day by day". Mike helps him somewhat by using anti-burn cream to help his charred skin heal a little, confessing that his own brother sustained heavy burns from his experience in war. Mike comes to see the Master as an adopted father, to the Master's mild bemusement. Eventually, the Master learns that there is a nuclear-armed air base close by. | Still in Mike's telling, the Master grows increasingly desperate over weeks living in the Hexford house, with the machine he is putting together not working properly and his unstable form "dissipating day by day". Mike helps him somewhat by using anti-burn cream to help his charred skin heal a little, confessing that his own brother sustained heavy burns from his experience in war. Mike comes to see the Master as an adopted father, to the Master's mild bemusement. Eventually, the Master learns that there is a nuclear-armed air base close by. | ||
While Mike is telling the story, the present-day [[Colin (And You Will Obey Me)|Colin]] and [[Helen (And You Will Obey Me)|Helen]] make their way to the old air base in question, even as Mike's story reveals how, back in the day, they used their hypnotic powers to sneak into it and steal a [[uranium]] core. After they hypnotised one soldier to drive them out, the Master demanded that Michael shoot him with his staser, so that he would go missing and the authorities would blame him for the theft. Mike suggests that the shock of seeing the dying man's face shocked him out of his hypnosis-aided faith in the Master, "breaking the spell". | While Mike is telling the story, the present-day [[Colin (And You Will Obey Me)|Colin]] and [[Helen (And You Will Obey Me)|Helen]] make their way to the old air base in question, even as Mike's story reveals how, back in the day, they used their hypnotic powers to sneak into it and steal a [[uranium]] core. After they hypnotised one soldier to drive them out, the Master demanded that Michael shoot him with his staser, so that he would go missing and the authorities would blame him for the theft. Mike suggests that the shock of seeing the dying man's face shocked him out of his hypnosis-aided faith in the Master, "breaking the spell". | ||
He tried to tell the one person he trusted, his favourite teacher, about the Master. However, when he visited her house, she was away, and he saw none other than the [[Fifth Doctor]] himself. Not daring to tell him anything, he claimed that he wanted to see Miss Hampden about his exams and was on his way, meekly returning to the meeting point of the Master and his other "children", who are still completely under his hypnotic control. His story sees the Master reveal that he directed his crashing TARDIS to 1984V Hexford in the first place looking for the Doctor, wanting to use him as a "donor" to repair his own failing body, but was unable to locate him after the crash (since he'd, unbeknownst to the Master, left for [[2016]]), forcing him to "improvise" by letting some of his nucleii take root inside the children, who served as "incubators". The machine he has built is meant to extract them (killing the children in the process) and transplant them into him, restoring him to health. | He tried to tell the one person he trusted, his favourite teacher, about the Master. However, when he visited her house, she was away, and he saw none other than the [[Fifth Doctor]] himself. Not daring to tell him anything, he claimed that he wanted to see Miss Hampden about his exams and was on his way, meekly returning to the meeting point of the Master and his other "children", who are still completely under his hypnotic control. His story sees the Master reveal that he directed his crashing TARDIS to 1984V Hexford in the first place looking for the Doctor, wanting to use him as a "donor" to repair his own failing body, but was unable to locate him after the crash (since he'd, unbeknownst to the Master, left for [[2016]]), forcing him to "improvise" by letting some of his nucleii take root inside the children, who served as "incubators". The machine he has built is meant to extract them (killing the children in the process) and transplant them into him, restoring him to health. | ||
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However, while the nuclei are flowing into him, the Master is invulnerable, but immobilised. Resisting his control, Mike uses his father's old gun to shoot the machine, causing the machine to explode. The Master then finally dissipated into nothingness. The Doctor and Mike's conversation fills in the gaps of what happened thereafter: having kept the Master's TARDIS, it was Michael who put it up for auction as bait when he suspected that the Master had returned and killed his brother. Janine, Colin and Helen, still looking sixteen because the [[Time Lord]] nuclei in their system kept them young, are also trying to lay a trap for the Master, as they believe he is returning to life due to having had increasingly frequent visions of him in the past few years. | However, while the nuclei are flowing into him, the Master is invulnerable, but immobilised. Resisting his control, Mike uses his father's old gun to shoot the machine, causing the machine to explode. The Master then finally dissipated into nothingness. The Doctor and Mike's conversation fills in the gaps of what happened thereafter: having kept the Master's TARDIS, it was Michael who put it up for auction as bait when he suspected that the Master had returned and killed his brother. Janine, Colin and Helen, still looking sixteen because the [[Time Lord]] nuclei in their system kept them young, are also trying to lay a trap for the Master, as they believe he is returning to life due to having had increasingly frequent visions of him in the past few years. | ||
However, the Doctor points out that something still doesn't make sense: if the Master killed Mikey's brother, why did he not take back his TARDIS right there and then? Just as alarms begin blaring, | However, the Doctor points out that something still doesn't make sense: if the Master killed Mikey's brother, why did he not take back his TARDIS right there and then? Just as alarms begin blaring, signalling that Janine's house's protections have been breached, the Doctor, Michael and Janine realise that it was the Master who was really using the clock as a lure — for ''them'', to draw his "children" together again. | ||
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Unable to get to the TARDIS without getting shot down, Colin, Helen, Michael and Janine commandeer one of the helicopters, wagering that the Transhuman Sisters won't shoot it down with the Master's TARDIS inside. However, they simply use a tractor beam to draw the helicopter into their own spaceship. The Doctor, however, makes them an offer: as a Time Lord, he can draw the Master's stray nuclei back into himself, becoming the Master by the Transhuman Sisters' standards. As their strict utilitarian calculations consider it better to have one host to kill to get to the Master rather than three, they accept the offer. | Unable to get to the TARDIS without getting shot down, Colin, Helen, Michael and Janine commandeer one of the helicopters, wagering that the Transhuman Sisters won't shoot it down with the Master's TARDIS inside. However, they simply use a tractor beam to draw the helicopter into their own spaceship. The Doctor, however, makes them an offer: as a Time Lord, he can draw the Master's stray nuclei back into himself, becoming the Master by the Transhuman Sisters' standards. As their strict utilitarian calculations consider it better to have one host to kill to get to the Master rather than three, they accept the offer. | ||
In their cells, the three immortal friends and Mike catch up on how they've spent the last decades. It transpires that, although she is not entirely comfortable with her frozen age, Janine is the only one to have actually made something of the time she had, while the other two simply did their best to stay under the radar and lived mundane, repetitive lives. Finally, the Doctor, the Transhuman Sisters and the "children" are reunited. The Doctor asks to have access to the Master's TARDIS so that he can switch off its telepathic circuits and thus draw out the Master's nuclei. | In their cells, the three immortal friends and Mike catch up on how they've spent the last decades. It transpires that, although she is not entirely comfortable with her frozen age, Janine is the only one to have actually made something of the time she had, while the other two simply did their best to stay under the radar and lived mundane, repetitive lives. Finally, the Doctor, the Transhuman Sisters and the "children" are reunited. The Doctor asks to have access to the Master's TARDIS so that he can switch off its telepathic circuits and thus draw out the Master's nuclei. | ||
In the control room, they begin to hear the Master's chuckles around them, coming from everywhere at once. The Doctor realises that another fragment of the Master's consciousness has been residing inside his TARDIS itself, a "ghost in the machine", and he goads him into showing himself on the scanner. Outside the TARDIS, meanwhile, the Transhuman Sisters' ship is attacked by the Dragonhunters. They absorb the robots' knowledge and decide to rip off the "three Masters"'s heads rather than risk absorbing the Master's consciousness, which they suspect might be toxic to them. Before they can do so, however, Annie kills both of them. | In the control room, they begin to hear the Master's chuckles around them, coming from everywhere at once. The Doctor realises that another fragment of the Master's consciousness has been residing inside his TARDIS itself, a "ghost in the machine", and he goads him into showing himself on the scanner. Outside the TARDIS, meanwhile, the Transhuman Sisters' ship is attacked by the Dragonhunters. They absorb the robots' knowledge and decide to rip off the "three Masters"'s heads rather than risk absorbing the Master's consciousness, which they suspect might be toxic to them. Before they can do so, however, Annie kills both of them. | ||
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* [[Gomphus]] / [[Auctioneer (And You Will Obey Me)|Auctioneer]] - [[Nick Ellsworth]] | * [[Gomphus]] / [[Auctioneer (And You Will Obey Me)|Auctioneer]] - [[Nick Ellsworth]] | ||
== | == Crew == | ||
* Cover Art - [[Simon Holub]] | |||
* Director - [[Jamie Anderson]] | |||
* Executive Producers - [[Nicholas Briggs]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] | |||
* Music and Sound Design - [[Richard Fox]] and [[Lauren Yason]] @ [[FoxYason Studios]] | |||
* Producer - [[David Richardson]] | |||
* Writer & Script Editor - [[Alan Barnes]] | |||
== Worldbuilding == | |||
=== Geography === | === Geography === | ||
* [[Hexford]] is near [[Little Hodcombe]]. | * [[Hexford]] is near [[Little Hodcombe]]. | ||
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* The "children of the Master" absorb his [[Symbiotic nucleus|symbiotic nuclei]]. | * The "children of the Master" absorb his [[Symbiotic nucleus|symbiotic nuclei]]. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This story was recorded on [[29 October (production)|29]] and [[30 October (production)|30 October]] [[2015 (production)|2015]] at [[The Moat Studios]]. | * This story was recorded on [[29 October (production)|29]] and [[30 October (production)|30 October]] [[2015 (production)|2015]] at [[The Moat Studios]].<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-and-you-will-obey-me-1050</ref> | ||
* During recording, [[Ian Atkins (writer)|Ian Atkins]] approached Geoffrey Beevers about writing ''[[I Am The Master (audio story)|I Am The Master]]''.<ref>[https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/i-am-the-master-out-now I Am The Master - out now]</ref> | |||
* The image of the Doctor on the cover is flipped, meaning that his [[celery]] is on the opposite side of his body than normal. | * The image of the Doctor on the cover is flipped, meaning that his [[celery]] is on the opposite side of his body than normal. | ||
* The audio story ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'' revealed that the Master in this story is actually the [[Alex Macqueen]] incarnation in the body of {{Pratt|n=his cadaverous past incarnation}}. | * The audio story ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'' revealed that the Master in this story is actually the [[Alex Macqueen]] incarnation in the body of {{Pratt|n=his cadaverous past incarnation}}. | ||
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