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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the third story in the audio anthology ''[[Objective: Earth (audio anthology)|Objective: Earth]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Katharine Armitage]] and featured [[Jemma Redgrave]] as [[Kate Stewart]], [[Ingrid Oliver]] as [[Petronella Osgood]], [[James Joyce (actor)|James Joyce]] as [[Josh Carter]], [[Chris Lew Kum Hoi]] as [[Jimmy Tan]], [[Eleanor Crooks]] as [[Naomi Cross]] and [[Mark Bonnar]] as [[The Eleven]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the third story in the audio anthology ''[[Objective: Earth (audio anthology)|Objective: Earth]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Katharine Armitage]] and featured [[Jemma Redgrave]] as [[Kate Stewart]], [[Ingrid Oliver]] as [[Petronella Osgood]], [[James Joyce (actor)|James Joyce]] as [[Josh Carter]], [[Chris Lew Kum Hoi]] as [[Jimmy Tan]], [[Eleanor Crooks]] as [[Naomi Cross]] and [[Mark Bonnar]] as [[The Eleven]]. | ||
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Inside Axos, Kate and Jimmy are kept alive. Kate remembers [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|her father]]'s story about how [[Bill Filer|a US agent]] escaped from Axos and uses her heel to damage Axos's nerve centre, allowing her and Jimmy to get free from their restraints. They find an inactive arch and Jimmy realises that he and Osgood have been here before. Axos tells her that they made a deal with the [[Vulpreen]] for their release and that they will feed on enough of [[Earth]] to leave the humans vulnerable to enslavement. | Inside Axos, Kate and Jimmy are kept alive. Kate remembers [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|her father]]'s story about how [[Bill Filer|a US agent]] escaped from Axos and uses her heel to damage Axos's nerve centre, allowing her and Jimmy to get free from their restraints. They find an inactive arch and Jimmy realises that he and Osgood have been here before. Axos tells her that they made a deal with the [[Vulpreen]] for their release and that they will feed on enough of [[Earth]] to leave the humans vulnerable to enslavement. | ||
Assisted by Li, Osgood analyses the trees and confirms that they have been contaminated with [[Axonite]] as part of Axos's nutrition cycle. The arch, guarded by Axons, activates and Axos drains [[Burgess (Axos Unleashed)|Private Burgess]] of energy. [[UNIT HQ]] reports that further arches have landed near [[Lake Maracaibo]] in [[Venezuela]] and [[Ahvaz]] in [[Iran]]; Li realises that, with the exception of [[Beijing]], the arches are landing in [[oil field]]s, the perfect conduit for Axonite. According to [[Harry Sullivan|Harry]]'s analysis at [[Porton Down]], Axonite is | Assisted by Li, Osgood analyses the trees and confirms that they have been contaminated with [[Axonite]] as part of Axos's nutrition cycle. The arch, guarded by Axons, activates and Axos drains [[Burgess (Axos Unleashed)|Private Burgess]] of energy. [[UNIT HQ]] reports that further arches have landed near [[Lake Maracaibo]] in [[Venezuela]] and [[Ahvaz]] in [[Iran]]; Li realises that, with the exception of [[Beijing]], the arches are landing in [[oil field]]s, the perfect conduit for Axonite. According to [[Harry Sullivan|Harry]]'s analysis at [[Porton Down]], Axonite is all around the world. | ||
Naomi puts [[Faraday cuffs]] | Naomi puts [[Faraday cuffs]] and he claims that he can only set up another [[time loop]] from inside Axos. She and the Eleven pass through the arch to Axos whilst Josh and his soldiers fight the Axons in Norway, but the Eleven soon tricks her and pushes her back through before offering to make a deal with Axos. Li passes through the Norwegian arch and meets Kate, giving her the [[hologram projector]] and allowing her to communicate with Osgood. Osgood has found that Axos is unable to absorb [[hydrogen]] and plans to poison it by feeding liquid hydrogen into the soil near the arches at the same moment that the feeding cycle begins. Kate goes after the Eleven and sends Li to look after the injured Jimmy. | ||
' | Axos refuses to make a deal with the Eleven and, told by Kate that he is a [[Time Lord]], begins the feeding cycle to absorb his knowledge of [[time travel]]. They replicate the Eleven and unwittingly create copies of him for each of his [[incarnation]]s and struggles to reabsorb them, recalling the Axons through the arch. Li finds Jimmy and they return to Norway, followed by the Eleven, where Josh and his team have released liquid hydrogen at the same time as other UNIT operatives around the world. Osgood travels through the arch and saves Kate with [[bleach]]. | ||
The Eleven is returned to UNIT custody, Li returns home to [[Yang Li's mother|her mother]] and, after seventy-two hours, the Axonite rapidly decays. At least part of Axos survived, however, and escaped Earth. After a small [[memorial]] for Jacqui, Kate shows Osgood a message that they have received from [[Varliss|Lord Varliss]]; he says that humanity would have been killed quickly by Axos but will not be wiped out in war with the [[Vulpreen]] instead. Hundreds of arches descend to Earth and Kate says that the [[Vulpreen invasion of Earth]] has begun. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Yang Li's father|Li's father]] is a [[geologist]]. He often works at [[oil field]]s and has taken her to several. | * [[Yang Li's father|Li's father]] is a [[geologist]]. He often works at [[oil field]]s and has taken her to several. | ||
* [[Harry Sullivan|Harry]] is at [[Porton Down]], helping map the spread of Axonite. It is present in the [[soil]] in [[Houston]], in [[Rio de Janeiro]], the [[water]]s of the [[River Thames|Thames]], the trees in [[Paris]] and in [[Singapore]]. | * [[Harry Sullivan|Harry]] is at [[Porton Down]], helping map the spread of Axonite. It is present in the [[soil]] in [[Houston]], in [[Rio de Janeiro]], the [[water]]s of the [[River Thames|Thames]], the trees in [[Paris]] and in [[Singapore]]. | ||
* | * Li gives Josh the [[hologram projector]]. | ||
* Osgood once thought that [[Postman Pat]]'s [[cat]] was called Stanley. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
