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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the third story in the [[Series 8 (4DA)|eighth series]] of ''[[The Fourth Doctor Adventures]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Simon Barnard]] and [[Paul Morris]] and featured [[Tom Baker]] as the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Jane Slavin]] as [[Ann Kelso]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the third story in the [[Series 8 (4DA)|eighth series]] of ''[[The Fourth Doctor Adventures]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Simon Barnard]] and [[Paul Morris]] and featured [[Tom Baker]] as the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Jane Slavin]] as [[Ann Kelso]]. | ||
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The Doctor and Ann are locked up whilst Wildman has Hobhouse fetch the [[constabulary]] and explain to Ada that they travelled to London to meet [[Charles Wheatstone]]. However, they found that his house and entire [[street]]s had vanished after sightings of plague doctors and their investigations led them to Newstead Abbey. Ada does not believe them and departs, but Hobhouse releases them and points them towards [[Edvard Scheutz]], a [[Sweden|Swedish]] rival of [[Charles Babbage]] who has been paying Hettie to steal Ada's notebooks for him to gain the upper hand since Ada refused to assist him. The Doctor recognises the content of Ada's notebooks as [[Block Transfer Computation]]s and Scheutz reads out one of them, summoning a horde of plague doctors to the building. | The Doctor and Ann are locked up whilst Wildman has Hobhouse fetch the [[constabulary]] and explain to Ada that they travelled to London to meet [[Charles Wheatstone]]. However, they found that his house and entire [[street]]s had vanished after sightings of plague doctors and their investigations led them to Newstead Abbey. Ada does not believe them and departs, but Hobhouse releases them and points them towards [[Edvard Scheutz]], a [[Sweden|Swedish]] rival of [[Charles Babbage]] who has been paying Hettie to steal Ada's notebooks for him to gain the upper hand since Ada refused to assist him. The Doctor recognises the content of Ada's notebooks as [[Block Transfer Computation]]s and Scheutz reads out one of them, summoning a horde of plague doctors to the building. | ||
The plague doctors explain that they have come from the [[Block Transfer Wars]] between [[human]]ity and computers in [[7073]] to cure the [[Finlar contagion]], which the Doctor deduces has been sent back to change history by corrupting Ada's code. Escaping from the plague doctors after they make Scheutz disappear, the Doctor, Ann and Hobhouse join Ada, Hettie and Wildman at the races and find everybody fleeing from Lord Byron, who leaves once the plague doctors arrive to cauterise what he, the contagion, has damaged. The plague doctors make Hettie vanish and the Doctor gets Ada to use the Block Transfer Computation placed in her mind by the contagion to create a doorway, allowing them to escape from the plague doctors to the maze which she has inadvertently been altering in her sleep. | The plague doctors explain that they have come from the [[Block Transfer Wars]] between [[human]]ity and computers in [[7073]] to cure the [[Finlar contagion]], which the Doctor deduces has been sent back to change history by corrupting Ada's code. Escaping from the plague doctors after they make Scheutz disappear, the Doctor, Ann and Hobhouse join Ada, Hettie and Wildman at the races and find everybody fleeing from Lord Byron, who leaves once the plague doctors arrive to cauterise what he, the contagion, has damaged. The plague doctors make Hettie vanish and the Doctor gets Ada to use the Block Transfer Computation placed in her mind by the contagion to create a doorway, allowing them to escape from the plague doctors to the maze which she has inadvertently been altering in her sleep to resemble the atomic structure of the contagion. | ||
' | When Lord Byron appears, the Doctor sets fire to the maze with [[Third Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]] and leaves Lord Byron to the plague doctors, correcting the [[timeline]]. Everything that the plague doctors took away returns, including Hettie, and Ada and her acquaintances all forget about everything that has happened as a result of the contagion's presence. They watch the TARDIS dematerialise from the maze and discuss what they should have as a centrepiece, with Ada dismissing the idea of a [[statue]] of her father as she does not need any more reminders of him. | ||
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