The Crimes of Thomas Brewster (audio story): Difference between revisions

The [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Evelyn Smythe|Evelyn]] find themselves in the middle of a disaster taking place in [[London]] involving [[Terravore|robotic mosquitoes]], later identified as "Terravores". They jump onto a [[boat]] and make a break for it. The Doctor manages to take one out, but it explodes, ruining [[Sixth Doctor's blue coat|his coat]] in the process. Luckily, they are rescued by [[Detective Inspector|DI]] [[Patricia Menzies]]. While holding them at the station, she explains privately to Evelyn that she has already met the Doctor, however, she explains that she can't reveal that she knows him due to being warned. Menzies goes home to sleep and the two are placed in [[Prison cell|cells]] for the night. After being held at the station, they are released in the morning into custody but end up getting kidnapped by someone under the employ of a man named [[Raymond Gallagher|Mr Gallagher]].  

They are brought to a place that the Doctor suspects is [[Bermondsey]], and speak with Mr Gallagher, who reveals that the Doctor is not the Doctor he's after, however, he can't let them go in case they inform the [[Metropolitan Police Service|police]]. He also explains that he's looking for this "other" Doctor because he keeps intercepting and stealing all of Gallagher's [[illegal]] weapon [[smuggling]] and [[Import|imports]]. Meanwhile, Menzies returns to the station only to find that the officer who released the Doctor and Evelyn into custody made a huge error and failed to check the legitimacy of the authorization, and didn't realise the squad car that picked them up was the same one as one that had been reported as stolen that very morning. They commence a search, while Mr Gallagher, under threatening pretences, has Evelyn go find and meet the other Doctor who is threatening Gallagher's criminal business, and has the Doctor held hostage to ensure her cooperation. Just then, the Doctor and Gallagher and company are attacked by the Terravores. Evelyn finds the other person claiming to be the "Doctor" in an abandoned building, surrounded by the robotic mosquitoes and dressed in Edwardian clothes...

The [[Sixth Doctor]] manages to escape [[Raymond Gallagher|Gallagher]] and the [[Terravore]]s and is rescued by [[Patricia Menzies|Menzies]]. Meanwhile, Gallagher makes a deal with the Terravores to help them, who are also looking for the Doctor, once he discovers they can convert [[organic matter]] into [[diamond]]s. [[Evelyn Smythe|Evelyn]] and [[Thomas Brewster]] have a chat and once she discerns his real identity, he tries to kidnap her but she manages to escape and gets onto the [[London Underground|tube]], where she bumps into [[Flip Jackson|Flip]] and [[Jared Ramon|Jared]], although is not aware of their identity. Suddenly, Evelyn notices her pursuers managed to board the other car and suddenly the [[train]] is transported to the planet [[Symbios]], as revealed by Brewster, who has caught up with her.  

[[Evelyn Smythe|Evelyn]], [[Jared Ramon|Jared]] and [[Flip Jackson|Flip]] are trapped in the [[quicksand]]. The [[Sixth Doctor]] and DI [[Patricia Menzies|Menzies]], inside [[the TARDIS]], locate the source of the signal sending the [[Terravore]] its instructions coming from just outside [[London]]. Evelyn, Jared and Flip fall through into a cavern and [[Thomas Brewster]] gives them further instructions. Meanwhile DI Menzies and the Doctor arrive at the signal's location.  

The Doctor and Menzies find [[Neville Perkins]]' [[voice recording]]s, which he used to log his construction of the Terravores after receiving [[email]] instructions under threat and warns anyone listening to his message that the Terravores will do anything to protect the signal source. Thomas Brewster, after explaining to everyone that he brought them here so the native species could take over their [[Body|bodies]] and [[fight]] an invasion, separates Evelyn from the group and brings her to [[the Locus]] so that it can take her over. The Doctor and Menzies follow the trail where he lands them in a maintenance tunnel near [[Great Portland Street tube station]] and they investigate, trying to find the [[time breach]] that Brewster, unbeknownst to the Doctor, is using to transport everyone by abandoned train. The Doctor mentions he is getting a familiar feeling and could have been here before, and warns DI Menzies that if they encounter a young man in Edwardian garb, she is not to reveal that he is the Doctor or that she a policewoman at any point. Sure enough, they are found by Thomas Brewster who claims that he is the Doctor and he then locks them in a store cupboard, not recognizing the Doctor's new face. The Doctor explains his history with Brewster to DI Menzies. He manages to pick the lock and they find Brewster's [[time machine]] which the Doctor thought had been destroyed, and Brewster reveals he knew the truth all along. However, DI Menzies explains that she is the Doctor and "Norman" (the Doctor) is her assistant. Brewster buys this lie and explains what happened. Six months ago, the Locus, the life-form and embodiment of planet [[Symbios]], found Brewster, looking for the Doctor to help them as he had done before (but in the Doctor's future). and Brewster tries to help them instead but lies and says he is the Doctor, explaining that he thought they wouldn't have trusted them otherwise. He then takes them by train to Symbios.    

The [[Terravore Queen]] gravely [[Injury|injures]] DI [[Patricia Menzies|Menzies]] and the Doctor is forced to reveal himself to [[Thomas Brewster|Brewster]] in order to save her. The Doctor demands to know why Brewster reactivated his time machine and he explains that he wanted to save his girlfriend [[Connie Winter|Connie]] after she was hit by a [[car]] and left in a [[coma]], and it was through that that [[the Locus]] contacted him. The Doctor, disappointed by Brewster's methods, is at least slightly sympathetic. Meanwhile the Locus reveals its real intention to the humans and that was to give the [[Terravore]]s access to Earth through the [[wormhole]] they arrived in by Thomas Brewster's subway train travel so it would leave [[Symbios]] alone. At the same time, the Terravore contact [[Raymond Gallagher|Gallagher]] and have him show them a way to invade Earth through the tube subway. On Symbios, the Locus explains that it has spared their lives and that they are welcome to stay on Symbios, since no one ever dies on the planet and heals DI Menzies as a gesture of gratitude. DI Menzies inexplicably gets a call from [[Bradshaw|Sergeant Bradshaw]] on her [[cell phone]] telling her that more of the robot creatures they saw yesterday night have appeared near Great Portland Street and they are trying to fight them off. The group go back to London  

After Gallagher's usefulness is fulfilled, he is killed by the Terravores despite begging for mercy. The Doctor, however, seemingly in a change of heart, says that he is locking the wormhole, believing that Symbios deserves to live and that the Earth can fall to the Terravores and when he is resisted by the others, the Locus-controlled [[Evelyn Smythe|Evelyn]] appears behind them with a weapon, ready to kill those who disagree with the terms. The others opt to stay on Earth and die for their planet while the Doctor and Locus-controlled Evelyn go back to [[the TARDIS]] to return to Symbios. Once there, the Doctor, who had swiped [[Jared Ramon|Jared]]'s phone, calls them and reveals his ploy, and explains to Brewster just how to shut down the wormhole. The Doctor is caught by the Locus but he explains that now that all the Terravore drones are gone from Symbios and only the Queen is left, since the wormhole is being closed the connection between the queen and the drones is lost and since they are a [[hive mind]] and depend on each other, both will lose their power and die from having the connection cut. The queen descends on them but loses power just as the Doctor explains. He then gives a stern warning to the Locus that this is the last time he'll be helping them and heads back to Earth after having Evelyn liberated from their control.  

== References ==

* The Doctor says "[[Geronimo]]" when he jumps out a [[window]].  

* The Doctor mentions being over [[900 (number)|900]] years old.

* The Doctor uses the name [[Norman Deplume]] to disguise himself when he first meets Thomas Brewster who is unaware that he has [[Regeneration|regenerated]] since they last met.

* The Doctor takes out a Terravore by confusing it with his coat. However, his coat is implied to be the [[Sixth Doctor's coat|multi-coloured coat]], despite him being depicted in his [[Sixth Doctor's blue coat|blue coat]] on the cover of the audio.  

* DI Menzies comments that there are no [[Chair|chairs]] in the TARDIS. There was a chair in the console room of the [[First Doctor|First Doctor's]] TARDIS ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]'') and [[Second Doctor|Second Doctor's]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Black Hole (audio story)|The Black Hole]]'') but one would not reappear in a console-room until the Seventh Doctor, at some point in his travels, changed the [[desktop theme]] and added one. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')

* The Doctor [[Sword|sword fights]] with a Terravore. The [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Robin Hood]] have a sword-fight as well ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'') while the [[Third Doctor]] and the [[Master]] [[Fencing|fence]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'')

* Evelyn complains that every time the Doctor says he'll take her somewhere nice for a vacation it usually ends up being dangerous or a disaster. He replies "Oh yee of little faith", something similar he told [[Peri Brown]] when she expressed a similar sentiment. ([[TV]]:[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)| ''Attack of the Cybermen'']])