The Eternal Summer (audio story): Difference between revisions

The Doctor meets Lizzie and tries to stabilise the breach to buy them more time. Viridios explains the plan to the Lord and Lady, saying that the Doctor and Nyssa's future is their past and that their circle is complete. Outside, Maxwell is delighted to meet Lizzie, PIG and a group of people who believe in the paranormal as he does. The Doctor reveals to Nyssa that they may need to go back inside, explaining the time bubble is about to expand, freezing all life on Earth, making it the same as the Stockbridge residents and swallowing the Doctor and Nyssa to maintain the future of the Lord and Lady. Maxwell and Lizzie get along; she offers him a place on the team of PIG and the two awkwardly, sweetly manage to set up a date when the current predicament ends. The Doctor interrupts them and explains that he and Nyssa need to go back in; as they prepare to enter, the Doctor warns Lizzie that the machine they use to penetrate the bubble must be shut off once they are inside to not cause further damage to the bubble; when they get inside the bubble they notice that time has sped up dramatically. Maxwell believes they have gone to sacrifice themselves; saddened, he thinks he is useless and can't do anything to save them. He asks Lizzie for a badge but his trick is revealed when he reactivates the machine to go back inside himself, much to Lizzie's horror when she returns. He kisses her and goes inside.

The Doctor and Nyssa are found by the villagers, who beg him to let them die as they can't stand going through the absolution cycle again and help the Doctor enter the Manor. He discovers the only option they have to avert this timeline and stop the time bubble's expansion is to blow the core, sacrificing themselves and everyone inside the bubble, but they are found by the Lord of the manor. Maxwell, trying to find the Doctor, answers the ringing phone in the the police box; Viridios, on the other end, threateningly tells Maxwell he cannot escape his past- he had died in a car accident earlier that year; Maxwell replies that it doesn't matter and hangs up.

The Doctor asks the Lord of the Manor how he came to be but they are interrupted by the Lady becoming hungry and enacting absolution on some of the villagers, killing them, to Nyssa's shock. The Lady continues to devour and kill the rest, then attempts to feast on Nyssa, causing the Lady to have flashbacks of past adventures; the Lady realizes that she is really Nyssa, recollecting how they were saved by Viridios, who reveals himself to the two before the Lord devours the Lady. The manor begins to fall apart and Nyssa and the Doctor flee.

== References ==

* This audio drama was recorded on [[11 June (production)|11]] and [[12 June (production)|12 June]] [[2009 (production)|2009]] at [[The Moat Studios|the Moat Studios]].