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|featuring = [[Vienna Salvatori|Vienna]] | |featuring = [[Vienna Salvatori|Vienna]] | ||
|enemy = [[Kylo Sorsha | |enemy = [[Kylo Sorsha]] | ||
|setting = {{il|[[Temperance VII]]|The marsh moon of [[Magros V]]|[[Thagros]]}} | |setting = {{il|[[Temperance VII]]|The marsh moon of [[Magros V]]|[[Thagros]]|[[Shadow Heart]]}} | ||
|writer = Jonathan Morris | |writer = Jonathan Morris | ||
|director = [[Ken Bentley]] | |director = [[Ken Bentley]] | ||
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'''''The Shadow Heart''''' was the one hundred and sixty-seventh story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Jonathan Morris]] and featured [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the [[Seventh Doctor]] and introduced [[Chase Masterson]] as [[Vienna Salvatori]]. | '''''The Shadow Heart''''' was the one hundred and sixty-seventh story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Jonathan Morris]] and featured [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the [[Seventh Doctor]] and introduced [[Chase Masterson]] as [[Vienna Salvatori]]. | ||
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[[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] materialises [[the TARDIS]] in [[Starbaff's]] on [[Temperance VII]] in search of [[snailer]]s [[Talbar]] and [[Horval]] and collapses from a [[laser]] blast injury in front of them. Reasoning that he must be wealthy, they take him in their [[transit pod]] and heal him with a [[medibot]]. He tells them that he needs their help in tracking down [[assassin]] [[Vienna Salvatori]], who has received a call from an informant about the TARDIS's appearance and [[murder]]ed Starbaff after asking about the Doctor's whereabouts. | [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] materialises [[the TARDIS]] in [[Starbaff's]] on [[Temperance VII]] in search of [[snailer]]s [[Talbar]] and [[Horval]] and collapses from a [[laser]] blast injury in front of them. Reasoning that he must be wealthy, they take him in their [[transit pod]] and heal him with a [[medibot]]. He tells them that he needs their help in tracking down [[assassin]] [[Vienna Salvatori]], who has received a call from an informant about the TARDIS's appearance and [[murder]]ed Starbaff after asking about the Doctor's whereabouts. | ||
At the [[ | At the [[Spotel Alendra]], the Doctor learns about how Talbar and Horval use the [[Stellar Ammonite]] [[Hercules (The Shadow Heart)|Hercules]] to collect [[galdrium]] and how the [[Wrath]] invade [[planet]]s they deem unjust and take captives to their homeworld, the [[Shadow Heart]]. Vienna floods the [[motel]] room with [[sleeping gas]], leading the Doctor to send Talbar and Horval away for their own safety and to surrender to her [[hovercopter]]'s [[grappling arm]]. He falls unconscious and wakes up strapped to a table and subject to a [[memory sifter]] which Vienna uses to confirm his identity. | ||
Vienna receives the coordinates of her employer, [[Kylo Sorsha]], and the Doctor shows her a [[memory]] of him meeting her in the future, but refuses to elaborate upon it. She awaits the [[Wrath Justice Fleet]] to sell them | Vienna receives the coordinates of her employer, [[Kylo Sorsha]], and the Doctor shows her a [[memory]] of him meeting her in the future, but refuses to elaborate upon it. She awaits the [[Wrath Justice Fleet]] to sell them Kylo's location and Talbar and Horval manage to rescue the Doctor whilst she is gone, having slipped him a [[tracking bug]] which he was actually aware of. When the Justice Fleet arrive, they declare jurisdiction over the planet and attack, demanding delivery of the Doctor. He returns to Starbaff's and is confronted by Vienna. A [[gun]] is fired. | ||
=== Part two === | === Part two === | ||
The masked [[Jandor]] stuns Vienna to save the Doctor and they leave in the TARDIS to escape the Wrath, materialising inside Hercules. After Jandor collects Talbar and Horval, the Doctor puts an [[invisibility bubble]] around Hercules and they find themselves having to race away from a [[battle]] between the Wrath and the [[Earth Empire]]. Vienna detects Hercules entering warp and informs the Wrath of the group's destination, but she refuses to tell the Wrath of | The masked [[Jandor]] stuns Vienna to save the Doctor and they leave in the TARDIS to escape the Wrath, materialising inside Hercules. After Jandor collects Talbar and Horval, the Doctor puts an [[invisibility bubble]] around Hercules and they find themselves having to race away from a [[battle]] between the Wrath and the [[Earth Empire]]. Vienna detects Hercules entering warp and informs the Wrath of the group's destination, but she refuses to tell the Wrath of Kylo's location until they agree to her infiltrating his base to neutralise his defences. | ||
Having been hit during the battle, Hercules goes on a collision course with the [[marsh moon of Magros V|marsh moon]] of [[Magros V]] and the Doctor uses the TARDIS's [[vortex drive]] to slow him down. The group are captured by [[monkey bat]]s to be [[sacrifice]]d to their [[tree]] [[god]] and the Doctor has Jandor fire his gun into the air to signal for help, but the Wrath arrive, followed by the [[HMS Trafalgar|HMS ''Trafalgar'']]. [[Webster (The Shadow Heart)|Captain Webster]] defeats the Wrath and [[Dervish (The Shadow Heart)|Lt Dervish]] has the Doctor, Jandor, Talbar and Horval brought to him. | Having been hit during the battle, Hercules goes on a collision course with the [[marsh moon of Magros V|marsh moon]] of [[Magros V]] and the Doctor uses the TARDIS's [[vortex drive]] to slow him down. The group are captured by [[monkey bat]]s to be [[sacrifice]]d to their [[tree]] [[god]] and the Doctor has Jandor fire his gun into the air to signal for help, but the Wrath arrive, followed by the [[HMS Trafalgar|HMS ''Trafalgar'']]. [[Webster (The Shadow Heart)|Captain Webster]] defeats the Wrath and [[Dervish (The Shadow Heart)|Lt Dervish]] has the Doctor, Jandor, Talbar and Horval brought to him. | ||
The Doctor reveals that he has met Webster and Dervish in the future, explaining how he knew that they would be there to rescue them and giving Webster the coordinates of [[Thagros]] so that they can have said meeting. He then departs in the TARDIS to hand himself over, asking Jondar to stay aboard the ''Trafalgar'' and not to reveal his identity to the earlier Doctor until the right moment, a request which surprises him. On Thagros, | The Doctor reveals that he has met Webster and Dervish in the future, explaining how he knew that they would be there to rescue them and giving Webster the coordinates of [[Thagros]] so that they can have said meeting. He then departs in the TARDIS to hand himself over, asking Jondar to stay aboard the ''Trafalgar'' and not to reveal his identity to the earlier Doctor until the right moment, a request which surprises him. On Thagros, Kylo threatens to kill Vienna unless she gives up the Doctor's location, but before he can do so Princess Aliona informs him that the TARDIS is materialising. | ||
=== Part three === | === Part three === | ||
The Doctor, earlier in his [[timeline]], is positively identified by the Wrath thanks to his future self allowing the memory sifter to identify himself to Vienna and flees from them, arriving in | The Doctor, earlier in his [[timeline]], is positively identified by the Wrath thanks to his future self allowing the memory sifter to identify himself to Vienna and flees from them, arriving in Kylo's [[castle]] on Thagros fifty years after their last meeting. Vienna takes him to Kylo, who dismisses her and Aliona and explains how the Wrath destroyed the [[Drashani Empire]] because of the Doctor's reprogramming. They have since been searching for the Doctor and Kylo. As they talk, Vienna lowers and destroys the castle's defences and contacts the Wrath Justice Fleet to capture the two of them. | ||
The Doctor runs to the TARDIS and | The Doctor runs to the TARDIS and Kylo sends Aliona, whom the Doctor has deduced is a [[clone]], to an [[escape capsule]]. Vienna tries to stop the Doctor and shoots him, but he manages to get away and she heads to her ship, finding a later Doctor aboard who left her earlier self at Starbaff's five minutes ago. The ship is pulled to safety in Hercules's slipstream by Talbar and Horval, following an even later Doctor's instructions, and Vienna is taken prisoner once Hercules arrives at HMS ''Trafalgar''. There, the Doctor meets Webster, who has also been acting as the future Doctor instructed. | ||
Learning that he will be saved by Webster on Magros V and that he will tell Jandor to keep his identity secret, the Doctor devises a plan for the group to reach the Wrath homeworld without being detected. Vienna escapes to the Wrath fleet in Hercules and Webster prepares for battle, refusing to hand the Doctor over to the [[Wrath Leader]] when he calls. However, the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS and travels to the Wrath fleet to hand himself over. | Learning that he will be saved by Webster on Magros V and that he will tell Jandor to keep his identity secret, the Doctor devises a plan for the group to reach the Wrath homeworld without being detected. Vienna escapes to the Wrath fleet in Hercules and Webster prepares for battle, refusing to hand the Doctor over to the [[Wrath Leader]] when he calls. However, the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS and travels to the Wrath fleet to hand himself over. | ||
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''to | The Wrath Leader imprisons the Doctor with Kylo, who is mourning the death of the last Aliona clone in the destruction of her escape pod, and Vienna to await judgment on the Shadow Heart, ends the assault on HMS ''Trafalgar'' and has Hercules released into space. The three prisoners are taken to the [[Imperial Engine]], the leader of the [[Wrath Empire]], and find that those taken by the Wrath have had their minds enslaved to help the engine resolve the contradictions in the [[morality]] programmed into it by the Doctor. The true reason that it wanted the Doctor and Kylo is to finally solve this, which the Doctor agrees to so long as those enslaved are given back their [[free will]]. | ||
The Doctor lowers the Shadow Heart's defences to allow Talbar and Horval to arrive in Hercules and Kylo throws [[fireball]]s to destroy the Wrath guards, after which he threatens the Doctor into reprogramming the Imperial Engine to serve him as has been his plan the whole time. After Kylo threatens Vienna, the Doctor connects him to the Imperial Engine and stops his [[heart]]s when he summons the Wrath to kill him and Vienna. This stops the tracking bug and serves as a signal to Talbar and Horval to call the HMS ''Trafalgar'' to fire upon the [[Imperial Fortress]]. Before Kylo can attack the ship, the Doctor awakens and tells Jandor to unmask; Jandor is actually the Aliona clone, saved from the pod by the Doctor after he left the HMS ''Trafalgar''. | |||
Kylo is angered to learn that the Doctor told Aliona that she was a clone and has used her to put him in the position of having to choose between killing her and sacrificing himself. He chooses the latter and tells Webster to fire upon the fortress, but he allows the Doctor and Vienna time to escape in the TARDIS. Kylo and the Wrath are destroyed with the Shadow Heart. The Doctor hands Vienna over to Webster, alerts Talbar and Horval to the fact that the Shadow Heart's [[galdrium]] which they intend to collect and sell will now be worthless and learns that Aliona intends to broker peace with the Earth Empire with whatever life she has left. He wishes her [[luck]], although he does not believe that she needs it. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Starbaff's]] is on [[Grip Street]]. | * [[Starbaff's]] is on [[Grip Street]]. | ||
* Talbar uses a [[medibot]] to graft the Doctor's wound. | * Talbar uses a [[medibot]] to graft the Doctor's wound. | ||
* Talbar and Horval stay at the [[ | * Talbar and Horval stay at the [[Spotel Alendra]] on [[Outer Fifth Street]]. | ||
* Talbar sarcastically asks the Doctor if he was expecting the [[Palladium Rosa]]. | * Talbar sarcastically asks the Doctor if he was expecting the [[Palladium Rosa]]. | ||
* Talbar tells Horval that he will be as "snug as a [[Snortis]] on [[Vortis]]". | * Talbar tells Horval that he will be as "snug as a [[Snortis]] on [[Vortis]]". | ||
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