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|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | |main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | ||
|featuring = Jason Kane | |featuring = Irving Braxiatel | ||
| | |featuring2 = Jason Kane | ||
| | |featuring3 = Adrian Wall | ||
|enemy = [[ | |featuring4 = Joseph (Steal from the World) | ||
|featuring5 = Wolsey | |||
|enemy = [[Mirror creature]] | |||
|setting = [[Grid 4 Mining Station]], [[2600s]] | |setting = [[Grid 4 Mining Station]], [[2600s]] | ||
|writer = [[Stewart Sheargold]] | |writer = [[Stewart Sheargold]] | ||
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|next2 = Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bellotron Incident (audio story) | |next2 = Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bellotron Incident (audio story) | ||
|epcount = 1 | |epcount = 1 | ||
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'''''Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect''''', or simply '''''The Mirror Effect''''', was the fifteenth ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio story produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. This was writer [[Stewart Sheargold]]'s first audio story for Big Finish. It begins a very long character arc for [[Irving Braxiatel]] whose motivations are questioned throughout the course of this story and continue to develop through the Benny stories. | '''''Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect''''', or simply '''''The Mirror Effect''''', was the fifteenth ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio story produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. This was writer [[Stewart Sheargold]]'s first audio story for Big Finish. It begins a very long character arc for [[Irving Braxiatel]] whose motivations are questioned throughout the course of this story and continue to develop through the Benny stories. | ||
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Carnivel shows the mirror to Benny and Jason, who recognise it as the one that they passed through on the [[Braxiatel Collection]] to arrive here. Braxiatel makes contact with Benny and Jason through Carnivel's [[communicator]] and Adrian starts working on the lift so that they can regroup. Benny appears to Braxiatel at the base camp, but he soon realises that she is a reflection; she accuses him of engineering [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]]'s conception so that he could collect a [[human]]-[[Killoran]] hybrid and attacks him, but Adrian comes to his rescue and smashes her. Braxiatel suspects that she was created from his mind. | Carnivel shows the mirror to Benny and Jason, who recognise it as the one that they passed through on the [[Braxiatel Collection]] to arrive here. Braxiatel makes contact with Benny and Jason through Carnivel's [[communicator]] and Adrian starts working on the lift so that they can regroup. Benny appears to Braxiatel at the base camp, but he soon realises that she is a reflection; she accuses him of engineering [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]]'s conception so that he could collect a [[human]]-[[Killoran]] hybrid and attacks him, but Adrian comes to his rescue and smashes her. Braxiatel suspects that she was created from his mind. | ||
Believing that the mirror might lead back to the Collection, Benny prepares to pass through it before realising that Carnivel has been through it before and is actually a reflection, but Carnivel pushes her in and Adrian follows. Benny and Adrian arrive back in the mining station, which looks older, and they head back to the mirror chamber, uncertain as to whether they will go further into the trap or get closer to returning home. They find Braxiatel and Jason's bodies and Adrian feels something in his mind, so Benny runs and finds | Believing that the mirror might lead back to the Collection, Benny prepares to pass through it before realising that Carnivel has been through it before and is actually a reflection, but Carnivel pushes her in and Adrian follows. Benny and Adrian arrive back in the mining station, which looks older, and they head back to the mirror chamber, uncertain as to whether they will go further into the trap or get closer to returning home. They find Braxiatel and Jason's bodies and Adrian feels something in his mind, so Benny runs and finds four more mirrors, one with Jason in and one with Adrian. They ask her to choose which of them is Peter's father, but Benny denies their existence. She is pulled through a mirror and her [[memory]] becomes hazy. | ||
Braxiatel tells Jason that he believes that the mirror at the Collection is a reflection of the real one and forbids him from following Benny and Adrian so as to avoid them all entering an endless loop. When Jason deduces that Braxiatel has been through the mirror before, Braxiatel does not give an answer nor tell him what is on the other side. Jason sees Benny, who [[kiss]]es him and says that Peter is half him. She then transforms into Adrian, who reminds him that he is not Peter's father and claims that Benny's love for Peter will lead her to fall in love with him and not Jason. They fight and Adrian, a reflection, is shattered. Jason goes to destroy the mirror with [[explosive]]s, but Carnivel punches a hole in the lift's casing and leaves him to die in freezing [[water]]. | Braxiatel tells Jason that he believes that the mirror at the Collection is a reflection of the real one and forbids him from following Benny and Adrian so as to avoid them all entering an endless loop. When Jason deduces that Braxiatel has been through the mirror before, Braxiatel does not give an answer nor tell him what is on the other side. Jason sees Benny, who [[kiss]]es him and says that Peter is half him. She then transforms into Adrian, who reminds him that he is not Peter's father and claims that Benny's love for Peter will lead her to fall in love with him and not Jason. They fight and Adrian, a reflection, is shattered. Jason goes to destroy the mirror with [[explosive]]s, but Carnivel punches a hole in the lift's casing and leaves him to die in freezing [[water]]. | ||
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Braxiatel confronts Carnivel. He tells her that he does not care for Jason or Adrian and is only interested in Benny, shooting Carnivel as she muses on the true purpose of the Braxiatel Collection. He then rescues Jason, telling him that the water is in his mind and opening the door. Jason accuses him of being so twisted already that the mirror is unable to create a reflection of him and that he had to manipulate him, Benny and Adrian so that they could enter the mirror on the Collection. Braxiatel [[hypnosis|hypnotises]] him into forgetting these thoughts and experiencing a [[migraine]] whenever he questions his motives or actions in the future. | Braxiatel confronts Carnivel. He tells her that he does not care for Jason or Adrian and is only interested in Benny, shooting Carnivel as she muses on the true purpose of the Braxiatel Collection. He then rescues Jason, telling him that the water is in his mind and opening the door. Jason accuses him of being so twisted already that the mirror is unable to create a reflection of him and that he had to manipulate him, Benny and Adrian so that they could enter the mirror on the Collection. Braxiatel [[hypnosis|hypnotises]] him into forgetting these thoughts and experiencing a [[migraine]] whenever he questions his motives or actions in the future. | ||
After facing his own reflection, Adrian four mirrors and Braxiatel gets him to pull the being, which is now in the form of a baby, from the real mirror. Benny is pulled through with it and accuses Braxiatel and Adrian of using her and trying to kill her child, but Braxiatel snaps her out of it by reminding her of Peter. Jason, despairing, has set up the explosives to destroy the mining station and Braxiatel has Benny and Adrian join him in creating a mirror to the Collection with their imagination before they explode. They emerge with Jason and the explosion destroys the mirror. | |||
Jason is left in a [[coma]] because of his migraines and Braxiatel suggests that they have him sent off the Collection to a [[Calfadoria]]n medical satellites. [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]] claims that he will have to start charging to babysit Peter because of his behaviour, but Benny believes that he enjoys it. After Benny updates [[Wolsey]], Peter says his first word: daddies. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Marcus Devris|Professor Marcus Devris]] was an authority on the planet. | * [[Marcus Devris|Professor Marcus Devris]] was an authority on the planet. | ||
* [[Demeter (Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect)|Demeter]] was a guide and [[robot]]ic excavator. | * [[Demeter (Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect)|Demeter]] was a guide and [[robot]]ic excavator. | ||
* Braxiatel gets [[Clarissa Jones|Ms Jones]] to call a doctor for Jason. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
