Ascension (Torchwood Soho audio story): Difference between revisions

Norton is staying with his father, [[Edward Folgate|Reverend Edward Folgate]], whose church has seen a rapid drop in attendance recently, since being kicked off of the Ascension project. Lizbeth returns to London and is excluded from [[Operation Catapult]] by de Souza until she threatens to leak information, upon which she learns that de Souza's plan is to send [[nuclear missile]]s into the [[sky]] in the hopes of hitting a spaceship and feigns support. Lyme, meanwhile, visits several [[newspaper]]s in the hopes of writing and publishing a story on a religious group's failure to Ascend and is eventually hired by [[Borage]] at ''[[The Gazette]]''.  

Borage gives him access to the paper's classified department and proceeds to call de Souza, reaching Lizbeth and being told to afford him every access rather than keeping him ignorant as he had previously been ordered. Lizbeth passes on a message to Lyme to investigate Ascension camps and keeps in touch with Andy, who has discovered a secret [[listening station]] in [[Cornwall]] in the [[Torchwood One|Torchwood]] files and is looking for signals like those Aleksandr detected in Moscow. Upon learning that the government are inviting people to cheap and free [[pilgrimage]]s to religious sites to get people to Ascend and provide them with fuel, Lyme gets drunk and takes the [[train]] to Norton to inform him and get his help.  

De Souza gets cold feet about the project as do several others at the Ascension Action Group and Lizbeth intrudes upon a meeting after Armitage assures everybody that what they are doing is right for the country. When de Souza changes his mind, Armitage continues discussion of which of society's undesirables they are to Ascend. Lyme, meanwhile, joins Father Dinsdale's Ascension camp after losing [[faith]] in Norton, who did not answer when Lyme asked in front of Edward whether or not he had ever loved him.