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|main character = [[Kate Stewart|Kate]], [[Petronella Osgood|Osgood]] | |main character = [[Kate Stewart|Kate]], [[Petronella Osgood|Osgood]] | ||
|featuring = [[Vikram Shindi|Shindi]] | |featuring = [[Vikram Shindi|Shindi]] | ||
|enemy = [[ | |enemy = [[John Torrance|Torrance]], [[Christine Colley|Colley]] | ||
|setting = [[Ardennes Forest]] and [[ | |setting = [[Ardennes Forest]] and [[Kent]], [[2010s]] | ||
|writer = [[Andrew Smith (writer)|Andrew Smith]] | |writer = [[Andrew Smith (writer)|Andrew Smith]] | ||
|director = [[Ken Bentley]] | |director = [[Ken Bentley]] | ||
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|prev = Invocation (audio story) | |prev = Invocation (audio story) | ||
|next = False Negative (audio story) | |next = False Negative (audio story) | ||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the third story in the audio anthology, ''[[Encounters (audio anthology)|Encounters]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Andrew Smith (writer)|Andrew Smith]] and featured [[Jemma Redgrave]] as [[Kate Stewart]], [[Ingrid Oliver]] as [[Petronella Osgood]] and [[Ramon Tikaram]] as [[Vikram Shindi]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the third story in the audio anthology, ''[[Encounters (audio anthology)|Encounters]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Andrew Smith (writer)|Andrew Smith]] and featured [[Jemma Redgrave]] as [[Kate Stewart]], [[Ingrid Oliver]] as [[Petronella Osgood]] and [[Ramon Tikaram]] as [[Vikram Shindi]]. | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
[[Sontaran escapee|A Sontaran]] escapes from his confinement and is cornered by [[John Torrance|Professor John Torrance]] and [[Christine Colley]]. He refuses to return with them and, deemed too resistant, Torrance [[execution|executes]] him. | [[Sontaran escapee|A Sontaran]] escapes from his confinement and is cornered by [[John Torrance|Professor John Torrance]] and [[Christine Colley]]. He refuses to return with them and, deemed too resistant, Torrance [[execution|executes]] him. Colley decides that it is time to go ahead with Torrance's suggestion and bring in his former colleague and protégée, [[Petronella Osgood]]. | ||
With [[Sam Bishop|Sam]] still missing and [[Vikram Shindi|Shindi]] being in [[Brussels]], [[Kate Stewart|Kate]] asks the Colonel to visit the [[Ardennes Forest]] following reports of lights in the [[sky]] almost three months ago. He finds residual ionising radiation, indicating the presence of [[alien]] technology, and lets her know by [[hologram projector]] before going in search of its source. Meanwhile, Kate is informed that [[Madley Tracking Station]] has detected a [[spacecraft]] heading for the Ardennes Forest and has [[UNIT Brussels]] to get a team to the area. | With [[Sam Bishop|Sam]] still missing and [[Vikram Shindi|Shindi]] being in [[Brussels]], [[Kate Stewart|Kate]] asks the Colonel to visit the [[Ardennes Forest]] following reports of lights in the [[sky]] almost three months ago. He finds residual ionising radiation, indicating the presence of [[alien]] technology, and lets her know by [[hologram projector]] before going in search of its source. Meanwhile, Kate is informed that [[Madley Tracking Station]] has detected a [[spacecraft]] heading for the Ardennes Forest and has [[UNIT Brussels]] to get a team to the area. | ||
[[Petronella Osgood|Osgood]] is at the [[New Science Conference]] as [[UNIT]]'s delegate and is approached by Torrance, who tells her about his work in [[gene]] [[cloning]] and invites her to his facility. He introduces her to | [[Petronella Osgood|Osgood]] is at the [[New Science Conference]] as [[UNIT]]'s delegate and is approached by Torrance, who tells her about his work in [[gene]] [[cloning]] and invites her to his facility. He introduces her to Colley and [[Max (The Sontaran Project)|Max]], a cloned [[monkey]], before showing her the body of a Sontaran. Osgood examines him and, realising that it is a clone that Torrance and Colley have made, she tries to leave. Torrance holds her at [[gun]]point and shows her the faulty Sontaran clones growing in [[amniotic fluid]], telling her that she will help them create viable ones before sedating her. | ||
Appearing to Shindi via the projector, Kate helps him uncover a [[Sontaran scout ship]] sending out a [[distress call]]. [[Skar (The Sontaran Project)|Marshal Skar]] of the [[Eighth Sontaran Battle Fleet]] arrives and, after | Appearing to Shindi via the projector, Kate helps him uncover a [[Sontaran scout ship]] sending out a [[distress call]]. [[Skar (The Sontaran Project)|Marshal Skar]] of the [[Eighth Sontaran Battle Fleet]] arrives and, after detecting [[Merx|Commander Merx]]'s [[biotracker]], sets the ship to self-destruct. The explosion damages the hologram projector and Kate tries to contact Shindi, but he is unconscious and taken away by the Sontarans into low [[orbit]]. Skar [[torture]]s him for information on Merx's whereabouts before accepting that he has no knowledge of him. He shows Vindi where Merx has been located: the Ardennes, Brussels, [[Leipzig]], [[Vienna]] and near [[Sevenoaks]] in [[Kent]]. | ||
Osgood pretends to be unconscious until Torrance and Colley go to speak with the [[Overseer (The Sontaran Project)|Overseer]], having been [[immunisation|immunised]] against [[Veralium truth serum]] thanks to [[Malcolm Taylor|Malcolm]], and records a report for the [[UNIT Cloud]]. She finds the [[morgue]] and meets Merx, who was captured whilst doing [[reconnaissance]] and moved around the world before coming to Torrance and having his [[DNA]] used in his cloning experiments. Torrance and Colley find them and confirm that they are working for [[the Auctioneers]] and intend on selling clones of Merx as [[mercenary|mercenaries]], soldiers and [[assassin]]s. | |||
Shindi and Skar go to Kent and are joined by Kate, who tracked the hologram projector and whose soldiers outnumber the Sontarans. They form an alliance and fight Torrance's Sontarans outside of the facility. Kate captures Colley and, after wounding Merx, Torrance takes Osgood as a [[hostage]]. When Torrance runs, one of his clones remembers [[Sontar]] and kills him. Kate and Shindi interrogate Colley for information on the Auctioneers, promising that she is safe, and learn that their base is in [[Floridsdorf]]. Following her capture, however, the Auctioneers will have closed that bureau and every safe house that she knows about. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
